skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whether you're surprised or not or like Gerrit is beside the point. I like it too. I was simply responding to your assertion that Critique is a fork or derived from Gerrit, which is not correct.

They are two entirely separate codebases, built on two entirely different revision controls systems -- one open source, the other not -- with Gerrit inspired by Critique, not the other way around. Yes there are similarities be tween it and Critique. Because Googlers worked on both.
Mine was walking into the client's site. This was many years ago.
They had Novell Server issues, that's how long ago this was.

I walked in, cops everywhere. Man in a suit waves an FBI badge at me and asks why I'm there. I explained the ongoing work and he said, "Not today" and forced me off the premises.

The next day I was called back by the client to "rebuild their network".
When I got there, every single piece of hardware that contained anything remotely like storage had been disassembled and the drives imaged, then just left in pieces. lol

I spent that day rebuilding it all, did get the Novell server working again.

A week later, they were closed forever and I believe the owner and CFO got nailed for healthcare fraud.

I was asked to testify in a deposition. My stuff was pretty basic and mostly what I knew about how they used the tech. What I saw around there and if I saw any big red signs declaring FRAUD COMMITTED HERE!
Weird that no one checks their own logs any more
Nothing is censorship-free, but the social web (the fediverse) is just a bunch of websites. A website can be blocked at the DNS level, but that is exceedingly rare. Other websites may choose to block your site for their community. That is the way of the web.

Each site has different rules and cultures. It's convenient to sign up at someone elses site, but you give up some control. Want to live by your own rules? Put up your own website and participate in the social web that way!

I run my own GoToSocial website, which is a Go project that is much simpler to install and maintain than Mastodon. Hit the sweetspot for me, at least.
Sam Altman sounds like a prick; scheming to replace a board member who is dutifully performing their oversight role.
It is worth saying what you describe is the classic European view of things. In English-speaking countries post industrialisation the reverse was the case, with inner cities being the regions of notorious poverty, with the upper classes engaged in rural pursuits as a pure leisure activity.
Zero to GraphQL server with Railway in under three minutes
There are various (albeit notionally optional) parts of POSIX that are either not implemented at all or implemented in surprising ways on BSD derived systems. For example, macOS does not implement sem_init() at all, while OpenBSD sem_init(3) man page stilll says that "This is perhaps a stretch of the intention of POSIX, but is compliant, with the caveat that sem_init() always reports a permissions error when an attempt to create a shared semaphore is made." (that wording was at one time present in most BSDs, but both current NetBSD and FreeBSD seem to not have that limitation).
Actually in our organisation we use a custom open source solution built on top of pgp to transmit sensitive data across directorates. It works great.

It's this one https://github.com/spapas/etsd for anybody interested
Fixing weird bugs like not loading cookies for a ~minute whenever the app needs to launch (as opposed to restore from background) would be a win too [1]

I switched to Safari on iPhone because I was always logged out of stuff on first load, super annoying. I miss the syncing, but not that much.

[1]: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/issues/11994
I think you’re misunderstanding the meaning of “great” in “great man theory.” It means “big” as in “significant,” not “good.”
The two are unrelated.
Surprised Pikachu Face

Seriously nothing new or shocking about this piece. Spying is spying. Surveillance is surveillance. If you've watched the news at all in the past 2 decades, you know this is happening.

Anyone who assumes that any new technology isn't going to be used to target the masses by increasingly massive and powerful authoritarian regimes is woefully naive.

Another post stating what we all already know isn't helping or fostering any meaningful conversation. It will just be rehashes. Let me skip to the end here for you:

There is nothing we can do about it. Nothing will change for the better.

Go make a coffee or tea
Fertility Free-Fall
Counter-proposal: Amazon should prohibit influencing soft drinks on their platform, and use their machine-vision panopticon to punish streamers who promote/advertise them to children.
I have never seen non competitive elite class parents regardless they are left or right or races. When it comes to children, all bets are off and the only action is to send the children to the best school that's available
Sending loot on NPCs to every client costs more, not less.

The reason why they probably did it is because NPCs actually used the items. When the froglok King loaded his two handed sword, he was actually using it. And when he didn't load it, he wasn't.
https://archive.is/a5Gqm
Arena's rule engine was explicitly not based on Duels; this was a big selling point when it first launched to replace Duels, and they've gone into some detail since then describing how it works. See https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/mtg-arena/on-whiteboards-n... for instance.
That's what a religion historian more or less said: in USA 2 people from 2 different neighborhoods cannot underestand each other (they don't speak the same language).
The issue with the "Great Man" idea of history is that it doesn't take into account that people are created by history more than they create history. the microcomputer revolution was already going before Jobs and Wozniak showed up at the Homebrew Computer Club. Somebody was going to turn this hobby into a big business. If not them, somebody else.
So you shoot yourself in the foot to teach Mozilla a lesson?

We all lose if it's only Chrome.
I think that's what they call Stockholm syndrome
I also fell into my first programming experience with DAoC! I worked on fixing some very simple bugs/exploits on an emulated server (C#) back in 2005.

There's a ton of fascinating stories coming out in the last decade around hacking/exploits/etc of games of that era; DAoC, UO, Shadowbane (this one was real bad).

I'd highly suggest checking out these two episodes of this podcast - https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/7/
Because Congress has abrogated its duty on this matter.
Dude if you think φύσις is free of its own philosophical baggage I got a bridge to sell you.
Well, mortgage might be special because you don't outright own the property until you pay off the mortgage. Now using a paid off property as a collateral to buy another property might be considered as realized gain according to OPs argument.
It's really impressive that a high school student [1] has managed to reverse engineer iMessage. What I'm wondering is:

1. How stable is it; would it be trivial for Apple to patch this?

2. If it's as simple as reverse engineering the protocols, how has it taken this long?

[1] https://github.com/JJTech0130
The new Google, Meta, Microsoft, etc. bots won't just crawl the web or social networks--they will crawl specific topics and people.

Lots of cultures have the concept of a "guardian angel" or "ancestral spirits" that watch over the lives of their descendants.

In the not-so-distant technofedualist future you'll have a "personal assistant bot" provided by a large corporation that will "help" you by answering questions, gathering information, and doing tasks that you give it. However, be forewarned that your "personal assistant bot" is no guardian angel and only serves you in ways that its corporate creator wants it to.

Its true job is to collect information about you, inform on you, and give you curated and occasionally "sponsored" information that high bidders want you to see. They serve their creators--not you. Don't be fooled.
More like https://discourse.org/. You can run it yourself, but you can also just have them ding a credit card every month and not think about it again. Wordpress has Automattic, and I'd like to see the same for Peertube and Mastodon. With Mastodon, one can then go to folks and say, "Heh, here is a turnkey solution to migrate to for your 1:many and social interaction needs, fully managed." As long as these applications support an S3 compatible target for backups and restores, portability is a database and object backfill and DNS switch away. If you want strong durable storage, the Internet Archive has Vault, a product that can act as long term storage of last resort for digital preservation.

Lets Encrypt serves nearly 192M websites with 13 full time staff and an annual budget of approximately $3.35M, for example.
https://archive.is/LVkl5
That's complete nonsense and the fact that France had to import some electricity has everything to do with the massive regulations and environmentalism. Reactors were shut down because of fear mongering (needing "repairs/maintenance" that was not actually needed, and shut downs for a lack of funding and support).

Nuclear has been politically dead in France for over 20 years and only recently got a bit a traction (because there is no other choice anyway).
In fact, most of the problem in France are due to German environmentalists that successfully imposed laws regarding electricity for the EU. Many of those laws were written purely to make EDF less competitive because otherwise nobody could compete with cheap nuclear energy.

The reason France export when electricity is cheap and import when it should be expensive is purely because of regulation. They are forced to sell a fixed amount at fixed low price. So realistically you better do it when the electricity is at the lowest point. In winter thanks to Germany reliance on coal and because of their imposed regulation at Bruxelles they can sell their polluting electricity much cheaper than actual cost (without externalities from CO2). If EDF could compete fair and square it would be completely different.

And historically France has always been a net exporter of electricity, way before shitting on the CO2 released by coal was fashionable and way before renewable technology were half viable (they still aren't, no matter the propaganda).

From Wikipedia :
" Since 1990, each year, France roughly exports 10% of its annual production. Its annual exchange sold has always remained positive.[7]

France was the leader in the export of electricity in 2008: 48 TWh followed by Paraguay 46 TWh and Canada 32 TWh.[41]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_France

And in French, they say in 2019 France was the first electricity exporter in the whole world:
"La France était en 2020 le premier pays exportateur d’Europe, par son solde exportateur de 43,2 TWh, et en 2019 le premier pays exportateur au monde, effectuant 17,3 % des exportations mondiales."

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89lectricit%C3%A9_en_Franc...

You say things are not so simple, they are, you just want to make them complicated for political reasons.
Nuclear is an extremely successful technology and without the fear mongering, massive regulation and anti-competitive behavior from Germany it would look even better.
From the contributor spurring the resignments...

> I've personally learned from this experience, and would like to let bygones be bygones

I'm always glad when they just want to move on.
> emergent capabilities like step by step, stream of consciousness thinking

What makes these things "emergent capabilities"? They seem like pretty straightforward consequences of autoregressive generation. If you feed output back as input then you'll get more output conditioned on that new input and stream of conscious generation is just stochastic parroting isn't it?
My enemy's enemy is my friend
The Economic Fallout of Student Loan Forbearance Ending
I assume we are talking about this one, for those not aware: https://i.imgur.com/dgGvgKF.png
Usually when people say something is untestable they don't mean like the Higgs Boson. It was testable, they just needed the proper tools. This was always known and was being actively worked towards. An untestable theory is one that cannot be tested regardless of the tools due to the nature of the theory. Multiverse is an example of an untestable theory. There is no way we know of to actually prove or disprove it. And its fair to question their legitimacy as theories. As testing a hypothesis is the core action of the scientific method, it logically follows that anything untestable is fundamentally not science and therefore not a theory.
Of cause it’s the UK. They also thought it would be a good idea to sell “porn passes” in local shops that you would use to prove your 18…

The only reason you don’t think “oh that’s just China” is that the idea is just being floated in the news atm and hasn’t just been implemented. :-p
In the US, there used to be the idea of "sidewalk culture" - deliberately structuring cities so that different kinds and classes of people would meet, literally on the sidewalk, and from that would form, at least to some degree, a shared culture. There was the idea of deliberately breaking the silos that separate people. And maybe that even worked.

Worked. Past tense. In most of the US, it's now a car culture. And even in cities where people walk, it's now an earbud culture.
Ask HN: How did you find your "preferred" programming language?
- How did you find your preferred programming language? How many years did it take?

- While surely we learn one or two out of the gate, did these sustain you through your career or did you move onto others? If the latter, was the moved motivated by your employer or your self-exploration?

- Is your language "preferred" because of its how it makes you think (paradigm), how it looks, etc?

- Do you try and think about a problem in the paradigm/context of a language or do you apply a language to your own thinking? How does that answer impact what language(s) you prefer?
Here's the full list comparing math, reading, and science scores by country: https://www.oecd.org/pisa/OECD_2022_PISA_Results_Comparing%2...

----

Anecdotal side story: I grew up in Asia (30 years ago) and went through primary school there before moving to the US. The country I was raised in had and has some of the highest international math scores in the world. But I always wondered why that mattered at all.

Every weeknight after school, I was forced to attend something called "Kumon", which is a Japanese torture method that puts kids in dank basements for multiple hours a day, doing hundreds of rote math problems in harsh florescent light. https://www.kumon.com/how-kumon-works

I did that for several years in lieu of having any after school social life or what the West would consider a "childhood". Eventually I just couldn't take it anymore and started getting all wrong answers on purpose, then tearing out random pages, then throwing entire booklets out the window, much to my proctors' and parents' chagrin. Eventually I just refused to do any more, period, and would rip up every booklet and break every pencil they gave me.

All that really taught me was to absolutely hate math and question authority. It contributed to significant depression and I dropped out of high school as a suicidal teenager.

Eventually I moved to America and got a GED (high school equivalency diploma). I finished the test in a third of the time and scored the highest math scores that exam center had ever seen (they told me), ending in the national 99th percentile. I shrugged. What the US considered high school equivalent I had learned in elementary and middle school. I wasn't proud of it, far from it... it all seemed like a pointless dog and pony show.

I never really used math again after that, even after 20 years of programming. Maybe some arithmetic here and there for bills and to split a Venmo dinner. That's about it.

Why was there such a high focus on such a pointless yet painful skill? I know one statistician in my life, but nobody else I know uses anything past basic algebra in adult life. Most never even use arithmetic.

Meanwhile, traditionally underappreciated humanities like English reading and writing have profoundly shaped who I am as a person, in terms of developing perspective, ethics, and empathy. Being able to write fluently in English -- better than some native speakers -- has led to more job and career and romantic opportunities than math ever did.

Maybe it's not a bad thing we're falling behind in math. The US still has one of the biggest economies (the wealth gap is different), and maybe that is in part because of our cultural focus on individual differentiation and a diverse curriculum, not a tunnel vision focus on rote STEM problems?

Maybe kids shouldn't waste time on esoteric math that they'll likely never use in adult life anyway. It's like cursive, some aristocratic holdover from a time before everyone had smartphones, Google Sheets, etc.

Just my two trauma-informed cents.
Any case where you are extracting unrealized gains should be taxed.

A first mortgage probably not, but we tax reverse mortgages, why not tax other vehicles?
Full Stack AI, fsai, is a CLI that uses AI to build a full-stack app for you.

It generates 100+ files of code.

The AI will:

Generate a Next.js app with TypeScript and Tailwind
Add shadcn/ui for frontend components
Generate pages to create/update/delete data
Generate a Prisma/Drizzle schema
Add auth via NextAuth.js with GitHub/Discord/Google/Apple log in supported
Add account screen to change settings
Add Stripe for payments
Add Resend to send transactional emails
Generate CRUD APIs
Add light/dark mode
WSL1 did not use the NT codepath in order to spawn processes. WSL1 had its own direct support in the kernel for its own process type ("nanoprocess" is what they called it IIRC) managed independently from NT processes; and it even supported features/APIs for them that NT ones did not have, such as a compatible fork() call
As someone that was a big fan of multi-threading, it is somehow ironic that we are going back to multi-process models, not only due to microservices (basically the rebranding of "The network is the computer" for newer generations), but also due to security considerations.

UNIX was designed for servers, that was what PDP-11 was good for, and even when workstations came to be, X Windows and other similar protocols, were basically an extension of server workflows anyway.

Multithreading was bolted on, and even if all UNIXes ended up converging into pthreads, there is enough stuff on POSIX that doesn't go well with threads.
That lying about your symptoms to doctors leads to incorrect diagnoses?
I work in the DC tech scene. People kind of overlook it, but it pays well and the job security is very high, thanks to the DOD and DHS budgets. I'm gratefully working on something that I'm not ethically concerned with (as I might be at DOD). I also got lucky and landed with a company that felt more like a startup for a long time, though recently is feeling a bit more corporate. There's no equity, so I'm not making $300+ TC, but I'm at the high end of most salary bands, and have good benefits and work-life balance. The worst part is that the work can be mind numbingly boring, and not challenging in any way, and you may not have much opportunity to learn from really smart people or work on really cutting edge tech. There is a lot of demand and need for talent though, so I don't find it difficult to exceed expectations either. Also personally love living in this area, but I realize that's highly subjective.
> But conceivably an LLM could do it.

It'd be kind of funny if an LLM did that "unintentionally", and wasn't able to unlock the code it wrote... ;)
Have they met...humans?
This is incredibly awesome. You really don't think Apple is going to attempt to crack down on this?
I was invited to a Parisian party for 'high SES' people (200€ the entry ticket, it was two month of food at the time for me, but you get champagne with it!). I don't think i've ever seen as much antisocial behavior, even when I worked in a youth camp for abandoned/placed teenagers. I don't understand how prison aren't filled with those people. So much coke, sexual slavery in plain sight, drunk driving... One police descent and you have half the club in prison for a few years. And the person who invited us told us it was quite tame, and not the most expensive place (it was after a student hackathon with different schools participating, he was the MBA grad, we were devs/design type).
Brendan Eich was not forced out. He made the donation, he couldn't stand the heat of defending it, he left.

Also, personal donations can make you unfit for some positions. Significant parts of the community felt his donation was not in line with the values they wanted to see represented. And since you didn't agree with them you decided to leave.
But if you had read the article, you would've seen that that was income not actually received.
Study Reveals the Professions Most Likely to Be Replaced by AI and Chatbots
> "They were able to use money more freely as it was more abundant, so they were able to take more risks. Now that money is more expensive, they need to be more careful about it."

> able to take more risks

so who pays for consequences of the "risks"?

my whole point was to illustrate the idea of privatizing profit and socializing losses.
You are willingly blind if you didn't notice the smearing and slandering and discrimination.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-10294225/Its-time...

https://nationalpost.com/news/world/noam-chomsky-says-the-un...

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/12/16/politics/joe-biden-warnin...

And yes it does matter that people caught covid after as we were promised the opposite. Some people lost everything as a result of the totalitarian lockdowns so we could wait on the savior of a vaccine that turned out to b a complete failure. Some people lost their lives to the useless "vaccine".

No mRNA product had ever been approved for human us despite the decades of research. Why not?

And these "vaccines" caused tinnitus in many people, so it is relevant.
This doesn't sound like the sort of thing some rogue developer secretly slips into the codebase.
This is an opt-in promotion they're inviting small streamers to participate in without any actual consumption required.