skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
E' du go eller? I am 100% Swedish. Men absolut inte en 08 / Tjockhultare, har i princip bara varit i Stockholm när jag gick högvakten.

Again, reading your comments it looks like you're translating Swedish words directly to English ("Sydsverige" -> "Southern Sweden"). But they are not the same, right?

And I didn't just ask ChatGPT for a number.

I used ChatGPT Python data analysis to process official SCB datafiles with the population count and geographical locations for the 290 municipalities ("kommuner") in Sweden.

They were sorted in increasing latitude (south -> north). The population count for each municipality was accumulated until it reached 80% of the total Swedish population.

The municipality where the 80% threshold was crossed turned out to be Västerås.

That means that my claim "Southern Sweden with 80% of the Swedish population" is correct. You don't have to go that far north (32%) before you've covered 80% of the Swedish population.

Where do you think the 80% threshold lies?

Source data:

https://www.scb.se/hitta-statistik/regional-statistik-och-kartor/regionala-indelningar/digitala-granser/

https://www.statistikdatabasen.scb.se/pxweb/sv/ssd/START__BE__BE0101__BE0101A/BefolkningNy/
Thanks for your reply. It's great to have one, even if to confirm these record types are not widespread yet. I don't really want to self-host DNS, and will eagerly and patiently wait for options to propagate around registrars and more independent DNS providers.

Thanks again.
Geforce Now existed before Steam Deck. It has it's niche but it's not same. I used it for a bit, too. Real competition is Windows handhelds.
Please release your anger alone and without hurting others. There are several options available to you
How do unilateral TOS changes like this work in practice? If the previous TOS didn't force binding arbitration, can they unilaterally impose this change on existing users? Basically forcing existing users to "agree" to this? What recourse do existing users have?

I don't use / won't use 23andMe, because of issues like this (the nature of the relationship changing unilaterally). I don't like sharing private data, nothing is more private than my DNA.
The problem as I see it is that the internet gives businesses the ability to operate globally, but having to be in specific compliance with different laws from every single country (or group like EU) is really challenging and in some cases the regulations are misguided (I think the rise of cookie consent banners is one of the crappiest things to happen to the internet as a user)

And that does make it hard, especially if you want to start an internet based business without a ton of money. It adds a huge barrier to entry. Whereas existing players can take on the burden of complying etc... further solidifying the position of very large tech companies.

I do agree that basic consumer protection laws are needed, but one overzealous piece of regulation really can cause a lot of problems.
Well yeah of course. Even the article didn't think story telling is appropriate for technical interviews; its the behavior ones you tell stories in.
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING?
its the "right" thing to do only by a small population of tech workers. Most people do not care, and ad customers would be very upset if this degrades targeting.
Nearly 75% of water-resistant products contain toxic PFAS, study finds (2022)
A lot of the stuff they were making that didn't make a splash was pretty good though. I honestly think The Dragon Knight Saga was incredibly slept on, in part it seems due to a bungled release.
Fair enough. But it is needed to point out that there's a catch in that in order to use dynamic dispatch (subclasses, interfaces, ...) you'd still need to use pointers in C++.

Deep down the problem could be rephrased as "there are no structs in Java". In C# for example you could have a vector of structs and enjoy linear memory access.
Come to the nerd side, we have cookies...

Source data:

https://www.scb.se/hitta-statistik/regional-statistik-och-kartor/regionala-indelningar/digitala-granser/

https://www.statistikdatabasen.scb.se/pxweb/sv/ssd/START__BE__BE0101__BE0101A/BefolkningNy/
I suspect you'd need your compression to "understand" the object relationships and camera movement to do better than frame sequences, and it'd probably still be incredibly hard because you then add a lot of extra information first in the hope they let you discard more pixel data...

But the more you understand the scene, the more you can potentially outright reconstruct, and in some contexts more loss would be entirely fine if the artifacts are plausible.
How can it be unexpected behaviour when it is the behaviour you want!

You must not qualify a boolean question for a sgbd like Schroedinger's cat.

A boolean condition in Sql has 3 values :
- true
- false
- unknown ( aka NULL)

For every "unknown" value, the sgbd will NOT decide for you if it's true or false, you have to decide, because it trust you to know what you're doing.
If I don't solve some problems in a day, my brain creates problems for me to solve.
Not least for the sake of power management, the central push provider needs to authenticate (and e.g. rate limit) notifications to a particular device. The identities of apps communicating with a particular device therefore seem to need to be known

This still seems like something that could be fixed with smarter design without losing functionality.. e.g. decoupling device registrations from push channels, and treating the push channel ID a particular device is using as toxic for sharing and intermingling as other kinds of personal identifiers like phone numbers, including with the OS provider itself, or creating a unique push channel ID for every app registration, etc.
Work to Advance Remediation of PFAS at U.S. Defense Installations
Why did you turn on the font aliasing, when you enabled fractional scaling?

Aliasing is intended for low-dpi displays. If you are using HiDPI, it is between useless and counterproductive.
Show HN: Cujobay – A Modern Alternative to Crunchbase
I’m often asking myself What was the name of that startup doing X?

So I decided to build a directory of startups, but group them by the space(s) they operate in.

- Every day new startups and spaces are featured

- Use the search bar to search for specific startups or search for spaces semantically

- Future plans include allowing contributions from users, more detailed startup profiles, and tracking of events (fundraise, product launch, etc.) of listed startups.
What always surprises me is the small sums involved in corruptions in EU.
> Their suspected paymasters in Qatar, Morocco and Mauritania spent around €4 million for the work

A lot of people or companies could afford that...
Man for what it is worth, I also have had a terrible time with the Aeron. Pretty sure it is giving me sciatica. I don't blame the chair necessarily, seems to work for a lot of people, but the intersection of the chair and my sitting style is maybe a no go? I don't know.
The title made me think of the three body problem, and I anticipated something along those lines. And there are some early references to that in the article but ultimately the most interesting content seemed to be around trying to define a definition of what is life.
Show HN: GptCrawler- Crawl a site to generate knowledge files to create a GPT
Retrieve information from a website to build customized GPT knowledge Files.
I still dont think its normal to resort to violence just because someone will only make $400,000 this year instead of $4 million as a result of whistleblowing. Or even no change to their income but their company will make less profit as a result of whistleblowing. Or they’ll “be embarassed” as in the case of eBay.

That’s not a “threat” - they’re in no danger.
I guess even ~500 year old books can be wrong :-)

I'm just joking. This is just a pet peeve of mine. Thank you for the fun lesson in etymology.
> Here in Austria they are mandatory between November and April even if you live in places that don't see much snow.

That does not seem to be correct:

"Die Winterreifenpflicht gilt für Pkw und Lkw bis 3,5 t nur bei winterlichen Fahrbahnverhältnissen und nur dann, wenn auch gefahren wird."

https://www.oesterreich.gv.at/themen/freizeit_und_strassenve...

That wording looks to be the same as for Denmark and Sweden?
Agreed, should have phrased this more carefully!
That was completely mind blowing.
> I'm from Europe

> in both places

> so maybe it even varies within.

Definitely Europe is not as homogenous as that. I do also live in Europe, people do use iMessage (or just text messages in general) where I am (to a much smaller extent than the FB messenger for instance which is much bigger than WhatsApp here).

And any meaningful number of people changing their phone number every few months is certainly not my experience whatsoever. Pretty much everyone I know have had the same number of years or over a decade or even longer.
Pretty simple actually, it either decrypts successfully or it's not implemented correctly. Same way push notifications work.
What are the most serious secure messengers?
The flaw in regulation was not to respect the Do Not Track signal from the browser, that would have killed off a lot of cookie banners (and is an option that users).

But I'm guessing that it was lobbied against. Similarly, it has generated a large industry in cookie compliance services.
The end user expects some connection between “buying a Lego” and buying digital content. We use metaphors such as “a cart” or “add to your library” that make a user think this is just like buying from a store bringing something home — it is in my library. If we aren’t going to keep these metaphors true, we should stop using them. It’s not in “my library”, it’s more like an amusement park I have perpetual access to until it one day closes.
Alcohol evaporates when the bread cooks
PaperMate LOGO was a great mechanical pencil. Large white eraser. Retracting metal nib (when not in use). Why they killed this pencil is beyond me.
Piracy Is Back: Piracy Statistics for 2023
Exactly, as we know computer science knowledge completely precludes people of learning any other idea. Our RAM fills out and whoops - no space left :) .
> but I have seen some C++ implementation where `std::vector<T>` is an alias to `std::deque<T>`, so

I have a hard time believing that because std::vector guarantees that the memory is contiguous.
Refresh rate issues maybe?
State of Community Onboarding
I got stuck at level 5 (define your print function), I'm not a Python expert..
Famed Halley's Comet Passes Aphelion This Weekend
Russia is not alone on this: https://www.ft.com/content/76bddb74-4ddb-4e36-b70c-c0e26d8bf...
The problem with printf and C++ is that you can't do this in general:

printf("%d %s", i, obj.convert_to_string())

because the const char* you get from obj.convert_to_string() might be deleted from the heap before printf() is called. And similar issues.
A bold move. I like it.
Make Bots Identifiable (2018)
I'm pretty sure those awful recipe stories are just there so an advertiser thinks you saw their ad when you click 'skip to recipe'. Or maybe that's just a story I tell myself to make sense of things.
It seems likely that, like us, intelligent life invents AGI prior to leaving their primary planet.

Organic life is then merged/exterminated/controlled in favor of AGI.

AGI would not have the biological instinct to grow/spread/reproduce, and thus the cosmos should be populated with a handful of individual billion year old super advanced AGIs, perhaps only one or two per galaxy, sitting quietly in orbit around some stable star or perhaps even in the great voids outside the galaxy somewhere.

Finding one is likely near impossible as they may not want to be found.
The quoted bit specifies small beer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_beer#History
Space Force's secretive space plane is making its highest flight yet
EU-skeptic politicians are regularly accused of being antidemocratic… I suppose that is true if you define the demos as Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani?
> Also, every time I see a 2D image library, I assume it almost certainly has vulnerabilities. There's something magical about the task of coding 2D image libraries, such that it really calls out how bad we are at writing correct code (especially in C).

If image libraries are magical, then font rendering libraries are a transcendental nexus of cosmic power...
But the result of near-absolute free speech also includes how people were riled up in the Rittenhouse case or the hit pieces that show up in the NYT every other month. Societal discourse should be better than that. Edit: Alternatively, find ways to have people not rile up like that

You are right that its impossible to determine if your speech will offend others. But you can use other criteria, like your statements being intentionally untrue and causing damage to the victim, like lost contracts or unemployment.

I'm somewhat fine with the current situation in Germany where the court decides what is off-limit. Maybe it could even be stricter like in JP.
According to the article, had you spun an interesting enough yarn full of half truths, you might've been able to skip all that stuff as you lulled your audience into a false sense of security.
Germany's budget crisis throws deeptech and climate tech into uncertainty
Looks fine to me. (It should be redirecting http to https)

GET / HTTP/1.0
User-Agent: -
Host: makemeepic.app
Accept: /

HTTP/1.0 308 Permanent Redirect
Content-Type: text/plain
Location: https://makemeepic.app/
Refresh: 0;url=https://makemeepic.app/
server: Vercel
The typical person with a geeky interest in security will dig their heels in quite a bit when faced with the reality that most effort does, and should, go toward boring operational opsec.
Ha, good one
"Because Apple and Google deliver push notification data, they can be secretly compelled by governments to hand over this information"

What I don't understand is this: If the government wants to search your house, they show up at the door and show you a warrant. You can inspect the warrant - it's not secret. Granted, they're going to search your house anyway, but at least you know about it.

Except in truly extraordinary circumstances, you should be informed if your government has requested access to any of your private information.

This apparently goes even farther: not only have companies not been allowed to inform their customers, they haven't even been allowed to generally say that such information has ever been requested about anyone. That is seriously into dystopian territory.
Not op but as i have experience in software i can see the high frequency of errors it generates and it’s actually a hindrance. I can tell why inexperienced users find gpts useful as it sounds convincing but overall not that useful.
Playstation games being in the $15 bin while desirable N64 games never seemed to go on sale was a big reason kid me had a ton of games compared to my friends with N64s.

I still see this with my kids and their Switch. PS2 and GameCube seemed to follow the same pattern.
I think it's actually fairly hard (or at least non-trivial) to come up with a non-constructive proof of the infinity of primes?

For example, Euclid's classic proof (the one that goes 'multiply all the primes you know, add 1') is at least implicitly constructive, because you can factor that new number with a well-known algorithm to get at least one new prime.
It is coming: https://lwn.net/ml/linux-fsdevel/cover.1701468305.git.josef@...

The kernel fscrypt layer just needed a lot of refactoring first to support cow filesystems.
Indeed, and I did a lot of Lego when young.

Apparently a distinction has been found between first starting building with Lego, and first starting with Meccano - Mecaano is rather more dependent by the physical properties of the components, whereas Lego is just plugging stuff together almost without constraint, so much more abstract.
Thankfully in the US Academia's case there's not even an attempt to hide it:

"The numbers are staggering. According to a 2022 study from the National Association of Scholars, Qatar today is the largest foreign donor to American universities. The study found that between 2001 and 2021, the petrostate donated a whopping $4.7 billion to U.S. colleges."

https://www.thefp.com/p/qatars-war-for-young-american-minds
Do you not live in your house? The way I read their comment was 'If you own a house then you have high tax. If live in house 1 allotment of rebates if you also own the house equal to 1 house of extra tax.'

If the "vagrants" dont own the house then they get nothing. If you don't live in the house you get no extra. Probably means that small 1-4 family rented dwellings will be come impossible but larger apartment complexes should still be viable.
Given Reddit's history with fake accounts, I'm not sure that many posts aren't just fever-dreamed LLMs on corporately created bulk accounts.

Reddit has burned a lot of credibility with the power user and creator types. I know plenty who've moved to Mastodon, Blue Sky, Threads, etc. And by doing so, leaves bottom feeders there. And how else do you get engagement? You fake it, naturally.
> I never experienced an interview where somebody wanted to do something else than assess my technical skills.

I don’t understand why interviews in the software I industry are so different compared to other industries. I also get the impression that during many interviews what you’re about and what you’ve done matters very little. All that matters is if you can solve two Leetcode hards in an hour multiple times.
The most important thing

> The authoring agencies urge executives of software manufacturers to prioritize using MSLs in their products and to demonstrate that commitment by writing and publishing memory safe roadmaps.

MSLs = Memory Safe Languages
Same with Orion browser on iOS
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2 and 3 seem plausibly correct to me (although 3 is a mixed bag - the hugeness increases the number of dice rolls on 1 and 2 - not only the difficulty of connecting after the fact), but what is the basis for 1?

As far as I know, we have observed complex (and extremely robust) life on every temperate, wet planet that we know about. Batting a thousand.
I'm sorry this is irrelevant to the current discussion, but you replied to one of my comments a couple weeks ago, and I can't reply there, so I'm leaving a response here.

Regarding Sam Altman's Long-con at Reddit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3cs78i/comment/c...

Click "Single Comment Thread" to get the context of his comment.
Very true, nothing obscure about S-G. Every time you ask "What time is it?", the question is ultimately answered by a cesium beam in an S-G apparatus.

At least for now, before the optical clocks take over...
So Bard is running Gemini at the moment?
> I don't see all the millions of very, very bad games killing the PC or mobile platforms.

It's because platforms (Steam, stores, etc.) hide them from users.

> But the Atari 2600 somehow was destroyed because it was not sufficiently locked down?

More likely lack of good games. So when all you could find was trash...
Also, modern humanity's light cone is tiny. We've been listening for like 75 years?
Yes, this is called Small Beer or Table Beer in Belgium. It goes as low as 1% and was very normal in schools and at homes before clean water was a common thing.

It still is a very popular beer to drink while you eat but children don't consume it anymore. My father did tell me that when he was younger (1970-1980) they still drank it at the table in his school.
They use Pyodide, a full Python interpreter in WASM:
https://pyodide.org/en/stable/console.html

Pyodide includes manyuseful Python libraries including numpy, pandas, and matplotlib.
Because they only sell them for durations of 10 days, 2 months and 1 year. So if you only need to cross the country for 5 hours, they would lose a lot of money.
Of course they do, if there's a way to get data without it being obviously illegal, it probably going to get collected. And I wouldn't be surprised if plenty of constructions like it either have a gag order or national security letter.

On the other hand, there is no universal one size fits all rule that makes society better. Especially because there are plenty of very different people, both good and bad, and no rule, however well-intentioned will work out great overall. Let's hope someone at some point does come up with a better solution.

In observation on why push messages: the same reason any other real-time communication is interesting, like calls, SMS, MMS, because that's enough bits being transceived, or enough of a cell location to find out where a device is, while not being long enough that you get some 'on the move' smear.
What a refreshing perspective. I also trust them to act altruistically.
“ If you do not notify us within 30 days, you will be
deemed to have agreed to the new terms.” - surely this wouldn’t hold up in court?
According to figures from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38437011 on a per-capita basis the only polity that is predicted to beat the UK for losing High Net Worth Individuals is — Hong Kong.

Although the reason HNWI's might wish to leave HK is obvious even to the casual observewr, reasons why the UK went from net importer to net exporter of HNWI's in 2017 may be murkier?
> Indefinitely blockading the Gaza Strip by sea and air thus not allowing it to trade normally with foreign countries

It should be noted that this didn't just happen, it was in response to threat of violence. Israel wants gaza to stop shooting them with rockets, so they tried to prevent them from importing things that could be used as weapons.

I mean, maybe you could argue the blockade is heavy handed and the military benefit didn't justify the other harm it caused. But its not that different from other forms of ecconomic sanctions used by countries when they want to do something but not actually go to war.

> In the West Bank, applying separate legal systems to Jews (who have Israeli citizenship due to their ethnicity) and Arabs (who have no way to become Israeli citizens)

My understanding is that under the geneva convention it would be a warcrime to apply israeli civilian law to the arabs who live in the west bank. So its not like that is totally in the hands of israel.

(I agree that 3 & 4 are fucked up and pretty impossible to defend)
this archive.is website (and its other domains) has been misconfigured in "I am under attack mode" since 2015 or so. which makes cloudflare's nonsense captcha come up every time you visit it (and / or just the javascript bot check script).
Improving programming language performance
People support Palestinians' right to self-determination, and not being genocided by apartheid Israel. They don't support Hamas. This conflation is all too common and convenient.
Hmm, created account and gave test project a name, but got stuck in a loop of redirects that kept circling back to login. (mobile safari, iOS 17)
Physical Gameboy Games Still Being Released in 2023
They sent out an email saying you can disagree to the TOS. I wonder what would happen if you did.
Try boycotting aws. I dare you. Its damn near impossible.
Maybe you're right, it's as good as it needs to be :)

I think it would be cool to have a better memory, ability to communicate and share ideas telepathically...but maybe it's a case of being careful what I wish for.
What was the authoritative part?
Ironically in Germany there's a notary that reads out every single word of the several pages of such a contract :D
I agree, in fact. An ecosystem this varied is the best protection against the current monoculture. It requires software writers to write against a standard instead of 1 specific implementation that might not be viable next year.

All sign point to windows 11 going insane. Still, you can't leave them. They're a prime example of too big to fail. I'd love to see 700 win32 API implementations.