skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"In the US, iOS has no search engine choice at all, in europe DDG quietly pays Apple a fee to be one of the choices. Android is the only reason anyone outside of europe can use DDG on the phone at all."

Wait, what? Where does this information comes from? When I was in the USA I bought an iPhone and could choose DDG. Isn't it like that for all phones bought in the US? Did they somehow "knew" I was from Europe and showed me an extra option? It is the same for my relatives who live in South America and friends in Asia.

In fact CNET claims that the choice was added because of the USA's DOJ: https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/in-ios-17-apple-adds-abilit...

Also, is it confirmed anyehere that DDG pays Apple, or is this just conjecture? The only thing I can find about this is DDG's CEO criticizing Google/Apple for exchanging money so Google is the default.
So you'd be happy working at a place that required all code to be in brainfuck? That choice of computer language is "just an implementation detail" and you can still solve your interesting abstract problems in it so you should be happy with it.
Dare can merge multiple task-specific LLMs
The article seems to be more interested in being outraged in principle than demonstrating anything objectionable specifically. The law in question seems to require cars to implement a way to detect dangerous driving and be able to respond to this (presumably by forcing the driver to stop). There is nothing suggesting a need (or permission) for data collection beyond the specific incident or for law enforcement involvement at any point. It's worth mentioning that cars with "autonomous" driving modes or intelligent assistance already record similar data so the data generation itself does not seem to be the issue here.

The far more troubling question is a) how the car is supposed to determine you're driving dangerously (and how likely false positives are) and b) how the car is supposed to safely come to a stop in a way that does not endanger other people (hopefully not by just turning on the hazards after coming to a full step on the left lane of a highway). Given that I recently had a car blare at me because it wouldn't believe that I was looking at the road no matter how I turned my head, where I looked and how much I opened my eyes, the prospect of a car deciding its driver is drunk and doing something dangerous seems like a much bigger concern than law enforcement or eco terrorists hacking my car to prevent me from driving to Starbucks.
Archipelago: Multiworld Multi-Game Randomizer
Something I've never understood about combinators, perhaps you can help. Are they of any practical use, or really of mathematical interest only?

I realise there are probably different kinds of combinatorsand the above are, I assume the SKI combinators, so are the SKI combinators of practical use? In fact, what are 'combinators' anyway? TIA
I have many specific arguments against AI:

1. It will take away jobs from creatives

2. It will reduce the need for other human beings

3. It will be used by criminals for identity theft...
This sort of thing trips me up all the time when I'm collecting screen grabs.
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Sadly, Urbit is forever tarred by one of its contributors. I'm not saying it's not worth investigating. It is. But why put your energies in a software project which already has a cultural strike against it? It's sort of like maintaining RieserFS: technically interesting but upsetting the social nature of programming humans.
Just pay cops $1000 (a fee taken from the drunkard) and cops will gladly do the paperwork and will use any opportunity to campout at parking lots nearest to pubs.
I don't know how this can even be estimated. There are no statistics on it.

Just because something is hard to measure, doesn't mean it's not significant.
"We need more attention for our <insert thing here>"

"Mh.. let's add AI to it!"

"Great! But hey, let's call it 'AI-ready'. That sounds even better!"

"Consider it done."
On modern systems, crashes happen maybe once a year, while outright disk failures or undetected memory errors corrupting disk blocks happen maybe every 100 years. So if the chance of corruption from a crash is 1%, the overall risks are comparable.

Given that, I’d probably choose performance over guaranteed crash recovery for most systems.
There will always be a labor shortage as long as labor costs are greater than zero. /s
Interestingly, the privacy policy only says they collect name, email and user ID. It also states that no data is shared with third-parties.

I find this suspicious considering the absence of any mention of privacy on its page.
A number of Linux distros and software have automated bug reporting tools, they just tend to require an explicit confirmation before submittingn anything.

E.g. there's Ubuntu's Apport, Fedora's ABRT, KDE's Dr. Konqi.
I agree with the OP, that it is a form of gaslighting. I haven't read the fact checking websites in a while, but seeing them now it's clear that they exhibit political bias just like most news organizations these days while having the veneer of being unbiased; such a shame. For example, here is the article headline on PolitiFact:

The 2021 infrastructure bill requires all new vehicles to have kill switches that will stop vehicle operation and alert law enforcement when drivers are impaired.

Which is rated "Mostly False." Why isn't it rated "Half True?" Literally one half of the statement is true and the other false according to their own article. Their first section is titled:

In-vehicle technology is coming to stop impaired drivers, but it does not involve law enforcement

and the TL;DR is:

* The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 mandated that within three years, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration must create in-vehicle technology to hinder people who are under the influence from driving. But third parties, including law enforcement, will not have access to the in-vehicle systems or be able to see drivers’ results.

* The administration partnered with the Automotive Coalition for Traffic Safety to create the technology that is expected to monitor drivers’ alcohol levels using sensors and infrared lights in vehicles. If the system detects a blood alcohol level above 0.08%, the vehicle will not move.
I feel genuinely sorry for you and send you the warmest wishes for a joyous holiday season and a happy New Year!
> mimir because of scale & self-host options

Have you looked at VictoriaMetrics [0] before opting for Mimir?

[0] https://victoriametrics.com/blog/mimir-benchmark/
do you have any good resources on that? Since I am interested in those topics I read a book on interieur design a few years ago, but it really wasnt that good, and I am still looking for more practical guides.
1. Przybylski again. He continues to generalize from studies focussing on screentime that everything digital is harmless, including social media. I don't trust his work.

2. [Children's brains shaped by their time on tech devices, review shows](https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-11-children-brains-tech-...) and [Does screen use really impact thinking skills? Recent analysis suggests it could](https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-11-screen-impact-skills-...)

> The evidence review, published today in Early Education and Development, is an analysis of 33 studies which use neuroimaging technology to measure the impact of digital technology on the brains of children under the age of 12. In total, more than 30,000 participants are included.

> In particular, the research finds screen time leads to changes in the pre-frontal cortex of the brain, which is the base of executive functions such as working memory and the ability to plan or to respond flexibly to situations. It also finds impacts on the parietal lobe, which helps us to process touch, pressure, heat, cold, and pain; the temporal lobe, which is important for memory, hearing and language; and the occipital lobe, which helps us to interpret visual information.

> "It should be recognized by both educators and caregivers that children's cognitive development may be influenced by their digital experiences," says the study's corresponding author, Chair Professor Hui Li, from the Faculty of Education and Human Development Faculty of Education and Human Development, at The Education University of Hong Kong.
Several years ago I worked on an interop project with Quercus, not sure if that project is still alive and tracking the changes.
You're confusing trading volume with market cap. These are different things.
An interesting feature of car marketing is that - in general - it only targets new car buyers. These people are a relatively small segment of the driving population.

I wonder whether those groups you describe disproportionately purchase mass market new cars.
People tend to forget to include a pissed off pedestrian with a door key in their illegal parking risk cost calculations.
Reaction: Try getting a short-but-truthful answers from human experts, to a non-trivial question. Humans really love simplistic worldviews, but reality ~never cooperates.
> Android is the only reason anyone outside of europe can use DDG on the phone at all

Huh?

First, as dwighttk noted already, DDG is one of the search engines available in the search engine setting for iOS.

Second, even if it wasn't one of the options in the search engine settings you could simply manually visit duckduckgo.com in Safari, and then save that as a bookmark or favorite or to your home screen.

Third, DDG has an app on the Apple App Store.
ATM was a dead issue before the first spec was released. Everybody knew except AT&T management.

Not arguing against its inclusion on the list, just wondering if there should be another list of "incredibly stupid ideas taken to full deployment"
Nah, WordPerfect and wordstar had mail merge way before word did.
Your analogy is typical for anti-piracy talk and it's bogus.
If you pick out flowers from public park, the park is left without flowers. End of story.
OK, just democracy then. Try me.

(I won't call you an employee of Putin unless you're proposing to replace democracy with feudalism, and even then I wouldn't do it, I'd rather ask why you would think a political system based on dominance hierarchies in barnyard animals could still be suitable for collections of millions to billions of wrinkled-cortex apes...)
> in 2023 I have jump through hoops to access files on my computer from my phone and vice versa yet both are in the same network

Syncthing is pretty good unless you use iOS. Apple products tend to only have interoperability and user freedom because they're forced to.
"Red Barchetta" coming closer to reality.
Interlisp-D is quite fascinating even without the full environment.

The spaghetti stack implementation makes continuation type things comfortably implementable and also runtime introspection of program state.

It also has NLAMBDA as well as LAMBDA - the former is operative rather than applicative, i.e. it passes the argument expressions rather than evaluating them and passing the resulting values.

Means you can do macro-like things at runtime if you have the need, though unlike e.g. Kernel Lisp and other fexpr-based lisps you don't get an environment object passed - because Interlisp is dynamically rather than lexically scoped a plain eval will DTRT so long as you haven't shadowed any of the relevant symbols.

(I have a couple of Interlisp docs, plus a couple Kernel docs, plus some other stuff archived under https://trout.me.uk/lisp/ if anybody's interested - there's probably better links elsewhere in the thread for the Interlisp things but I have a habit of keeping copies of stuff I know I'll want to refer back to)
in the overview page they mention something (deployment to embedded devices) https://mirage.io/docs/overview-of-mirage

EDIT: here as well: https://mirage.io/docs/install
maybe you need a Solo5 backend that can run on ARM; and finally: https://github.com/Solo5/solo5/blob/v0.6.3/docs/building.md#...
This is a matter of what you are used to more than anything else. Personally, I'm much happier with debugging tools on Linux.
True that A* would later go on to be used in computer game bots (as LLMs may eventually be) where "an AI" doesn't necessarily correspond to the field of AI, but A* was still within what was understood to be the field of AI at the time it was published.

The meaning shifting over time, and the reason for which it shifts, is the AI effect. Heuristic-guided pathfinding is no longer what's meant by AI, IBM Deep Blue's alpha–beta search is no longer what's meant by AI, and I'd claim it's even shifting away from earlier image classifiers in favor of only generative models like GPT4.
Under the impression that a lot of climate scientists are quick to disregard the effect variations in solar activity has on climate. To be clear, I'm not denying the effects of CO2, but it still seems possible that the role of CO2 has been exaggerated to some extent. The rise in global temperatures in the past century has coincided with increases in both CO2 and solar activity. And it's probably not a coincidence that last time we had a long period with a quiet sun (the Maunder minimum) was also a very cold period here on earth.
>The UK was the EU country that saw the highest number of immigrants from Eastern Europe after those countries joined the EU.

Ah yes, those evil eastern European coming to take the poor jobs nobody wants and pay taxes, while the unemployed Brits sleep in late in council houses living on benefits. Check out the series 'Benefits Street' on YouTube.

>Ironically that is in big part because the UK (along with Ireland) was the only EU country not to restrict it although there was a special provision that allowed it temporarily.

That's some major bullshit. The UK had the maximum possible 7 year restriction in place on Romanians and Bulgarians. They joined in 2007 but we're only allowed to work in the UK all the way 2014. I remember the British media made a huge scaremongering about that back then waiting in the airports in January 2014 for the "invasion" that failed to materialize.

>It is that influx of migrants that really changed the country's mood on free movement, which indeed the government could do nothing about

And now they have a lot more immigrants except not from the EU, while loosing all the EU membership privileges.

It's massively hypocritical of brexiters to bitch about the EU free movement when they themselves massively made use of it for work, travel and study.

So what did they gain with this anti-Eastern European movement? They now have even more migration but without the EU benefits.
I don't disagree that AAC is better, but other than iTunes most people buying from the stores mentioned on this subthread are buying MP3 (if not lossless).
Don't confuse extremely large telescope[0] with Extremely Large Telescope[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremely_large_telescope

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremely_Large_Telescope
The sea can’t be fooled by BS, unlike a lot of white collar jobs, mariners that don’t know what they are doing don’t survive. So I doubt The Office style situations are happening much at sea.
I think you’re attempting to play with words to skirt around the question, despite the fact you know exactly what I’m saying. But let’s phrase it a different way.

Are you saying it’s more important for people to have the ability to drive road-legal cars dangerously on private property, than it is to prevent fatal accidents caused by drunk drivers?
We've been playing God since we invented language and decided to make a religion that starts the universe with "In the beginning was the Word".

(That this new origin story was added to the religion somewhere between two centuries and a few millennia (and at least one radical theological split) after the oldest part was written down, doesn't change much).

As for "will understanding how minds work endanger everyone?" sure, in million ways to Sunday both by our own hands and the hands we make, and yet at the same time it might also solve all our problems and create a synthetic mortal heaven that lasts for 10^32 subjective years before the fusion fuel from the disassembled galaxies finally runs out.

The only way to even guess at the odds of these outcomes is to learn more.
there is a Terrain layer if you want to see the relief
Not sure about Java, but PHP does support FFI and can interface with C applications.
I can confirm that it's not a paid promotion. Just my reflections on what I see as being exemplary community work.

Sorry to hear you found reading the article difficult. It's an aesthetic choice I've received only positive comments about before this, but I'll look into providing some option to disable it - perhaps I could hook into the
prefers-reduced-motion option or similar.
> I disagree. I think the trade-off is very reasonable. At some point you need to retry (even if the trigger is user manually pressing F5 in the browser/clicking a button again/running a program again). Because they actually have some goal to accomplish.

I don't think your belief holds water if you think about your example. The goal of a retry from a client standpoint is to introduce an acceptable delay in order to pretend the original request was successful. This strategy is only valid if the number of retries are enough to not penalize perceived performance or the normal operational state of a service. Consequently, all retry strategies involve sending multiple requests per second. The link to Retry Budgets posted in this discussion explicitly mentions "a minimum of 10 retries per second."

A user pressing F5 will never generate this volume of requests.

> Some failures really are random, let's say 0.1% of requests fail.

That's why failing fast and not retry is the best strategy for most if not all applications. Retry strategies introduce high levels of complexity to a task that only rarely happens, and in the rare case that it happens it can be trivially fixed by the user triggering a refresh.

If it's an applications that already outputs a high volume of requests, once your first request fails then it will simply post again a request as part of their happy path.

Some developers like retries because they use it to patch their broken code path to pretend that they do not have to deal with scenarios where a network is not 100% reliable. They onboard a retry library, they update their requests to transparently appear to be a single request, and they proceed as if their application doesn't have a failure mode. Except it does, but now they also decide to tradeoff their wishful thinking with higher risk of causing a cascading DDoS attack on their own infrastructure.
It makes no sense for a microservice that does one simple thing to run on top of 10 million lines of 90s C code. Especially since a lot of that code has to do with hardware quirks that don’t exist in a hypervised environment.
I agree that the full commodification of technical work is a bad idea and will, hopefully, continue to fail.

However, having read the Phoenix Project twice and hating most of Scrum, I disagree that’s what the Phoenix Project is advocating for.

My main takeaways from the PP are:

1. Have clear systems in place to carry out and manage your repeatable work, automate where possible

2. Minimise the time work is in progress for so people aren’t bogged down with a million tasks

3. Share information widely and have multiple members of the team able to carry out the same task

4. Make sure the work being done is what the business actually needs doing

5. Reduce noise and unplanned work so staff can get on with the higher value work they actually enjoy rather than wading through a quagmire of disorganised chaos

The point of PP isn’t to turn people into interchangeable automatons - it is to put a system in place to allow people the headspace and time to do the really valuable work that can’t be automated or systematised.

I’ve run a factory and been a dev so I see it from both sides and making devs production factory workers isn’t sensible but likewise where work looks like factory work (known work, repeatable steps etc) it should be treated in a similar way.
Some discussion on reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/182516r/go_bindings...
In theory, it sounds pretty interesting. PHP's ethos is quite different though - e.g. PHP's "arrays for everything" vs Java's "specific types for every case". Also, the absence of generics in PHP is a huge difference.
you’re right, sex workers take deposits for this specific reasons and have autonomy and agency, it’s weird and outdated to deny [probably] women that

thanks for pointing that out it’s a big plot hole and very much unlike the energy market. although maybe deposits would be an improvement to the energy market
Am I reading correctly that non-destructive editing, advanced colourspace support, and reliable hidpi display support are all unlikey to make it into 3.0…? Does anybody know what is expected to make it into 3.0? (IIRC the switch to gtk3 is happening at last, which is nice… even though gtk4 was released in 2020)
TIL there are real blue bananas. I thought the image was generated by AI.

About conclusions, I guess it's the standard high school soulless esay that must have a conclusion at the bottom. I think it's better to remove the conclusions so it looks like Wikipedia, but if you like it you (obviously) can keep it.
Your question is simply not relevant, that isn't the choice being made here.
Well.. yes but don't re-encode audio from Youtube to MP3, that's adding further quality loss to already not-great quality files. Download AAC or OPUS or whatever it's serving now.
It does not have to be zero. It just has to be less than the marginal profitability of a new hire. Those can converge at a number higher than zero.
See also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sourcegraph