skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At Strange Loop this year during the keynote the organizer said he was usually signing the contract for the hosting venue 2 years in advance. I'm not saying a first year 200 person conference has to plan as far out as an established X,000 person conference, but 4 months out is cutting it close. I'd suspect all first year conferences are very chaotic as the organizers learn to go from 0 to 1 so good for them for pulling it off.

It's time to start working on next year's conference and grant proposal.
How to Effortlessly Manage Different Node.js Versions with NVM
The AirDrop (https://github.com/seemoo-lab/opendrop) is there. We just need an app
Cool! Belgrade is one of the best cities in the world
Not the answer to your question but your question did lead me to something fun:

"The company desperately needed the Macintosh to be a hit. Instead, after an initial flurry of interest, sales of the new computer came in far below expectations. The Macintosh was underpowered, and the lack of software for it kept business customers away. In April 1985, Sculley convinced the Apple board to strip Jobs of his management duties. Sculley put out a statement that Jobs would continue to be a “creator of powerful ideas and the champion of Apple’s spirit,” but in reality Jobs suddenly found himself in a no-man’s land at the company he’d created. He was kicked out of his office and moved to a small building across the street, *which he nicknamed Siberia*. For a couple of months he dragged himself into the office to take the occasional phone call, but with depression setting in, he eventually stopped visiting the Apple campus altogether.

That September, Jobs officially cut his ties to Apple and announced plans to start a new company, NeXT, taking with him a handful of Apple engineers. "
The possibilities for every body else. The cost for you.

From your point of view, you step into a machine, and then you randomly experience one of the interactions with a user. If the image truly lives forever, you have overwhelming chance of interacting with somebody completely alien to you, who will ask you things you don't fully understand, and marvel at your primitiveness. Then you die.

You have some small chance of living for a few years with a user you understand. Probably still much shorter, less rewarding, less free than if (by chance) you are the version of yourself that steps out of the scanner and lives their natural, physical life instead.

It's a Prestige situation [1] except you have been tricked into it, because the image does not get used according to the terms you signed.

"There'll be people just like me forever" is very different from "I live forever", to me.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prestige_(film)
Documenting Your Node.js APIs with Swagger
Shit, I've had the problem of finding presentations for years, I never thought about blackmail! I'll try that now, thanks!
How Good Are Your Types? Evaluating the Effectiveness of Type Annotations (2017)
What strikes me most about this is that, apparently by the timeline described in the open letter, the conference organizers planned the event with the expectation they'd get funding and asked for the funding fewer than five months before the event. That seems like extremely poor planning from my perspective.

Maybe that's normal for events given money by PSF, I dunno, but "we've already decided to do this so hurry up and say yes now or it's your fault" doesn't seem entirely reasonable to me. It is, unfortunately, something I've run into time and again, with community driven events.
WDYM public transportation does not work?
Of course they are. Nearly every advantage is enjoyed by solar farms over terrestrial ones.

Light intensity for one, 9X what we get on the ground.

Control over exposure is another - ever heard of the periodic eclipse we suffer from down here? Half of every day? Called 'night'? You can circumvent that out there.

Structures on the ground cost more than the panels, now. That equation changes in zero gravity. Maybe you don't need any structures at all! Just a tether to generate a moment to control orientation etc.

Lift costs have changed geometrically since the last study - panels an order of magnitude lighter; cost per pound to orbit an order cheaper. That's a no-brainer now.

Not least of all, the cost of land only grows. Especially near cities, in cities. Nobody trying to charge for orbital real estate, not yet anyway.

Previous studies on this were done by folks with an axe to grind - they didn't want solar to be seen as a competitor to traditional energy. Everything was deliberately misrepresented to slant the conclusion.
Concurrency using async function type is dumb. Either make and compose futures/promises with normal language features OR support auto-yielding coroutines/goroutines/fibers (lightweight threads).
> Fast-changing environments - like land getting clearcut, man made climate change, plastic / PFAS / Roundup / etc pollution ...

Or the Chicxulub meteor strike.
Yes, last year something like 1% went to Asia.
> Vibes on the ground are not fact. Actionable law is.

Is the law actionable? Is it enforced? What do the courts do? How does the police act? There's a million factors that radically change what "the law" says.

Weed is illegal in the Netherlands. Always has been. Never been legalized. Going by the "facts" of the law would lead to some views of the country that do not align with any sort of meaningful reality.

> But how is it sensible to expect organizations to act on so-called "facts on the ground"?

If you don't know the reality of the situation then maybe you shouldn't act at all because you're ignorant about the entire thing?

I'm ignorant on this topic too; don't really know anything about Tanzania. But I'm also not claiming things about it, or think I know anything meaningful from ten seconds of scanning a website.
You mean the income tax on income sourced to the U.S. prior to leaving?
There is a notion that pessimist is inactive and only optimist creates desire for change. Hmmm...
Subscribing to their newsletter has worked quite well for me.

Then I gradually follow them over other socials.
I actually wonder what is the balance between maybe a small team of software engineers finding way to block adblock vs generate revenue for periods when they are successful.

In the end it really is question that when they manage to block adblock do they make more money than they spend in effort.
Yeah he's awesome. /s

In May 2017, Wyden co-sponsored the Israel Anti-Boycott Act, Senate Bill 720, which made it a federal crime, punishable by a maximum sentence of 20 years imprisonment,[88] for Americans to encourage or participate in boycotts against Israel and Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories if protesting actions by the Israeli government. The bill would make it legal for U.S. states to refuse to do business with contractors that engage in boycotts against Israel.[89]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Wyden#Israel
I wouldn't be surprised if there is a chicken-and-egg problem where the funding application also has to contain a planned date and venue.

As it reads from the letter, it does seem like they handed in their application 3 months before the event. That seems like quite short notice and I would have expected ~6 months before the event, especially if there is no certainty/pre-commitment that the grant will go through.
iMessage reported to not be targeted by EU Digital Markets Act
The election campaign is in full swing, and I don't doubt the government wanted to trumpet this as much as possible.

By the way, Wozniak mentioned that he and his wife were on vacation in cities along the Danube, so I guess that's the reason he's in Belgrade.
FWIW southern unions are a lot weaker than the german and Nordic ones. So while they may or may not declare solitary, it would have a significantly smaller effect.
A friend of mine was supposed to move from Berlin to München for a job during last Saturday. He can't, trains were fucked, airport was closed, flight canceled and you can't trust DB during the best of days and weather, no way to be sure you will get there unless you have a car.

Seems to be a complete clusterfuck, as someone living in the Nordics it's pretty funny to think that a bit of snow can simply grind to a halt the richest area of Germany.
That's actually what they used to do in the old days. All the saints, kings, politicians, etc would be localized, eg croatian count Josip Jelačić is József Jelasics in hungarian or Joseph Jellachich in german, Franz Ferdinand is Franjo Ferdinand in croatian, etc
To be fair, lack of labor regulations and "bending over to foreign investors", including German and EU ones, is what got Eastern Europe out if the grim post communism poverty.

You can't have strong unions and labor regulations when you don't have your own captive world leading domestic industry like IKEA, Siemens, SAAB, Novo Nordisk, Bosch, Airbus, etc. Nobody would invest in your country.
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The content of almost every messaging app push notification is already encrypted. So I think it's mainly for knowing when someone receives a notification.
An experiment comparing information retrieval performance between Open AI's Assistants API's RAG, GPT-4 Turbo (with context window stuffing) and Llama Index with GPT4.

Pretty striking results, especially when it comes to how the Assistants API beats Llama Index and how useless context-window stuffing is.
Does Sqlite support Sqlite database format in tables
Huh? Why would it be immoral? I'm producing free content myself, e.g. my open source repositories have permissive licenses like MIT, I run a blog, have put some of my music online, etc. Seriously, chances are almost 100% percent that you are massively benefiting right now from completely free of charge software that some guys developed for free in their spare time (perhaps even decades ago) - how immoral of you!
Under current trajectory it would be a Russian-friendly Trojan horse inside the EU. Doubt it’s goanna happen.
Nvidia could invest in 'iconic' AI site in Singapore: CEO Jensen Huang
https://github.com/ChaoningZhang/MobileSAM was the previous attempt at reducing the size of the large image encoder used by SAM.
For Serbia to collect taxes, one must live in the country for more than 180 days per year, so I doubt Woz should be worried.
Such an effective trick when you experience it in person.

I remember visiting Goonhilly Earth Station as a boy (a collection of huge satellite dishes at the very tip of Cornwall, UK) and they had two small (~2 or 3m diameter) dishes facing each other on either side of the visitor centre. Completely blew my mind to hear someone whispering from all the way across the room!
Push notifications can leak information from secure or encrypted apps. Its easier to get around E2E encryption than breaking the encryption itself
no conference organizer can provide a safe space from the law. the only really safe option is to not go there.
Video as a format seems drastically overused to me. When I go to the internet to find some information, I either get ai generated essays of great length and no substance, or a link to YouTube. I'm not wasting my time watching a video even if it is sped up, just to learn something that could have been cleanly represented as a short document. If more people start using documents instead of videos where they stare at you and speak, I am in favor of this series of events.
Isn't Woz of Polish origin? http://www.woz.org/letters/about-your-last-name/

It's customary for us here in EU to grant citizenship/titles/university degrees to various important people who have contributed to a specific field. Some countries do it out of recognition others for country/political gains, but it doesn't hurt to have a collection of passports :-)
I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic. How is that acceptable and democratic?
No thanks, I'd prefer to keep my name the way I identify with it. I'd only do it when a name's original script is not legible to the populace of the residing culture.
"creator of the global IT industry" might have been a miss-translation of "founder of largest global IT company"?

Either way it is indisputable that he is a computer genius and it is a worthy boast that he chose to become their citizen.
> You can still make money on the internet without ads.

Now that in and of itself is a fascinating statement that I kind of agree with? What kind of things are you thinking? The only thing I can really think of is trying to get people to pay for physical objects. Or, perhaps, providing a service that can't be copied (i.e. Video tutoring)

Ads? There are ad-blockers. Subscriptions? People will just use archive so that they don't have to pay you. Donations like Pateron? Maybe viable? I don't know exactly how the business models there work.
Indeed. Those who use Postgres are already familiar with the difference.

Rule of thumb: if you are not sure, or do not have time for the nuances, just use JSONB.
When I was learning Clojure, I just sorta dealt with it. Usually you are presented with a trace that contains a line number for the error which was enough. I’m not entirely sure what could be done about the error messages but with experience and more idiomatic usage it’s infrequent for me to get stuck on these (and when I do I just step through it in the debugger).
kind of missing the point, when it's not explicitly about citizens, the entire argument breaks apart especially if you consider west bank residents as potential speakers.

> as inalienable or difficult to hide as [...] biological sex

in case you extrapolated from my comment: i'm me, but other people are other people, and "the cis" can, in fact, not always tell. not even usually.
Appreciate you giving it a go, thanks for the feedback!
There is another despot that does it, Eritrea

US also imposes an unrivaled insane extraterritorial law (FATCA) on foreign banks requiring them to do expensive reporting on US persons, making them worldwide pariahs in the banking system even when they hold dual citizenship.
"The source declined to identify the foreign governments involved in making the requests but described them as democracies allied to the United States"

- why not identify them?
That was definitely on my mind, that uses lightfields though. The file sizes are ludicrous.
Before reading I had imagined this article was going to be about improving fundamental skills rather than configuring text editors and IDEs. At least for me, the former has had a far larger impact on productivity and I consider those my real tools. Daily practice and learning (see Mike Acton's discussion about this) has had a huge impact on my long term productivity. For editors/IDEs I've found the most effective thing is to find something where the defaults do most of what you want, learn the key bindings and then get on with work.

EDIT: also, if I were to concentrate on sharpening these kind of tools, i.e. software, editors are not close to the most important tools I use. More important are version control, debugger, profiler and data transfer tools.
Given the current situation in Serbia (e.g. [0]), it doesn’t exactly shed a good light on Wozniak.

[0] https://intellinews.com/interview-media-expert-says-no-limit...
To anyone for which learning lots of names of things that you use semi-frequently is a bottleneck: you can use spaced repetition (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition) to remember them way more easily. I use Anki (https://apps.ankiweb.net/), SuperMemo is another option (with other features, and lots of interesting articles on their website).

For example, I've been using it to remember shell commands and options. Now whenever I have to search for an option that I think will be useful in the future, for example `-M/--max-columns` for ripgrep, I put it in Anki (question: "Ripgrep: Search for 'clukay' and don't print columns longer than 200 bytes", answer: "rg -M/--max-columns 200 clukay"). Each day I review my cards (~5/10 minutes at most). I used to not be able to remember an option like that that I use once a week, but now I can.

For more info on how to use it effectively, I've found https://borretti.me/article/effective-spaced-repetition to be really helpful.
The only thing keeping me from switching to Firefox is the fact that you can't customize keyboard shortcuts.

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/customizable-hotkeys/id...
Beyond the benefit of never needing to burn something for electricity again, the sheer output of fusion will bring things that have been cost prohibitive due to power/fuel costs into the realm of feasibility. Near unlimited energy for desalination, carbon capture, fully climate controlled farms etc
Are the contents of push notifications not encrypted? Or are we talking about payloads rather than transport?
It prevents some of it, better than nothing
In English "Global Navigation Satellite System" is a generic term for any system like GPS (i.e. also including the Russian, EU, Chinese, etc equivalents) so I would suspect it's a bad translation.
iPhone Eyes
Expressing solidarity is the equivalent of sending "likes" or thoughts and prayers on social media.
Reminds me of this scene from Detroit: Become Human: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKFpjQmItlk
> YouTube is incredibly expensive to run which explains why there's such little competition.

So? That's their problem.

> Google has killed off profitable projects. If you think they'll dump tens of billions every year hosting videos that no one watches, you're kidding yourself.

Can't wait for YouTube to die. Hopefully the replacement will be less centralized and not beholden to a single american company.

> And what we noticed with paying is that people are very unwilling to pay even a small amount for a service.

Most "services" are not worth the effort needed to pay them, the amount doesn't even come into it. This is also a self-created issue. Google et al have trained people to not pay by dumping money into these "free" services to kill the competition. Now they are upset that people don't want to pay them? I can't find a violin tiny enough to express my compassion for them.

> For instance FB makes around over $50 per user in North America. What percentage of users do you think would pay $50 a year to use Facebook?

So? They make $0 off of me. I don't care how much they can or cannot make with ads, that doesn't make ads acceptable.
I disagree. Email has SPF and DKIM an what have you exactly because client side filtering doesn't work right. Mail gets dropped beforr the clients even get a chance to run filters.

That's not to say that requiring remote attestation or blocking third party clients entirely is proportional, but Apple should (and does) play a role in spam prevention.
In English

https://www-svt-se.translate.goog/nyheter/utrikes/aven-norge...
Siberia != Serbia :) Maybe you misread something, or I'm misunderstanding?
I know free software is not communism, but leftwing do not represent communism, too. maybe I should not use the word "leftwing" here? like "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace", I always think geeks toward to change society with new technologies in past stories.
"3.2mm external radius on external projections" does this translates to "you have to have rounded corners" in plain language?
Statistical Rethinking (2024 Edition)
Sorting, searching, caching. (ducks)
I am being sarcastic ;) the guy is supposed to be a freedom fighter for privacy/security but is trying to ban boycotts, the most basic form of protest, and integral to US democracy.
Yes, if you pick the ad supported discount you see ads. Choosing to get a discount is not the same as the original claim that you’d still get ads even if you paid.
At the Cybertruck launch event, Musk suggested that it’s designed to destroy the other vehicle in a crash situation.

A car like that probably would have a hard time getting certified in Europe.
People are too attached. If you move to Japan of China you will have to transliterate your name or adopt a local name. Unless you’re Japanese or Chinese there is no way around it.

I love localized names. So I like what the Serbians did for Steve here.

In any event it’s his name but it’s their language and they get to spell it according to their transliteration rules.
Android apps can already run native code, so there's no performance benefit.

Also, Java "virtual machines" and native virtual machines are two very different things, they shouldn't be equated.
I find I need to say some names out loud to know what they mean when I read texts from Serbia. In Serbia they take the principle 'speak as you write, write as you speak' to the end. I also think that Croatian is a more pure Slavic language, and that Serbs are more liberal with adopting foreign terms. It is also interesting that all Croats can uderstand someone from Belgrade or Banja Luka without any issues (not including street slang), but some Croats have trouble understanding other Croatian dialects.
I guess you can always consider anyone excluded if you try.

Iranian, North Korean and Cuban speakers, for example, would not be able to travel to America (or any US-allied country) as there are very explicit sanctions placed on those countries.

Unless you're claiming Palestine is part of Israel and thus Palestinian citizens are Israeli ones, which would be a very controversial statement indeed.
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It already in exists in the form of Anti-BDS laws. 35 states already have them
Did he say designed to destroy or would destroy the other vehicle?

Saying designed to destroy denotes intent.
I think it's closer to 1%. If the average Googler drinks 500 lattes per year on campus, this seems to enable about 5 more off campus.
It's perfectly possible if you bend it.
But they can 'write uncovered checks' by insuring risks they can't cover:

No / smaller catastrophes: do the math, cash the premiums, do the payouts.

Big catastrophe: insurer would go under, but as long as it doesn't happen they can still cash the insurance premiums & everything is a-okay.
I saw a breeding facility they have at the zoo in Mexico City when I was there earlier this year and it was amazing.
I noted that Apple says the governments in question are allies of the United States. I wonder if this is a case of American intelligence outsourcing the surveillance of American citizens to foreign intelligence. If that is indeed the case, I’d expect a quid pro quo.
Exactly. You don't want pedestrians and cyclists being impaled or decapitated on the sharp and pointy edges of your car in case of accidents.

This isn't Mad Max or a zombie apocalypse to warrant such design choices on the road.

I'm surprised that it's legal in the US.
Rooftop solar don't work when a single house's worth of roof can generate a whole family, && there are more than one family sharing the land - energy generated from solar is proportional to projected area on the land and not volume or total surface area of buildings on it. I guess buildings are lower-rise in Netherlands(which is good for your psychological health).
Show HN: Listen to Written Content as a Podcast
So Lars Moravy's second quote is wrong?
It doesn’t prevent Google from tracking you in any way. The most you could say is that if YouTube is loading third-party ad network it’ll prevent those services from tracking you, but that’s not especially useful when Google can resell your data to the same company.
They were probably trying to allude to this[0] past controversy around C++ conferences (you can also google "c++ sex offender" and will find more sources around that).

[0]: https://patricia.no/2022/03/08/cppcon.html
Cool, we won’t be seeing these things on the streets.
dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38543155
Peertube is literally just self hosting.
Funny thing I'm actually learning to grow the right mold in my charcuterie.