skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course - the point is not to get the home folder owned.

There is no reason why Evince/Okular or mpv (to name a few apps which handle files with complex formats from untrusted sources) should have the right to access anything beside their ~/.config/<application_name> and the file they are currently viewing/playing, or maybe read-only ~/Music. If you want to do a "Save as", you will do this through a OS-controlled file dialog, or save it to /tmp and copy it.

This can be achieved with AppArmor, with a caveat that in X, applications can steal each other's windows, but unfortunately this is not the default and easy configuration on most distros.
Absolutely nothing that happens anywhere, to anyone, is paid for without selling or burning fossil fuels. Even solar plants reduce the price of electricity, which gives people buying fossil fuel energy the ability to buy more of it.
Make that six! I’m in!
Will the c64 version ever be ooen sourced or released?
>Do you equate freedom of speech with "abuse, harassment, and harm"?

Almost anything in CURRENT_YEAR can be interpreted as "abuse, harassment, and harm" by someone. Is saying "fuck Christianity and fuck White men" abusive, harassing, or harmful? What if Christians and White men interpret that as harmful? Will they take that down?

>Were these activities you wanted to perform in order to sign up?

Again, something as benign as "men cannot get pregnant" was a non-issue fifteen years ago. Now, that makes you a transphobic neo-Nazi.
They're orthogonal; regular income that's been taxed is subject to an estate tax.
It's not an effective heuristic. Overly online cynical people are just obsessed with the idea that everything is a conspiracy that can be undone by "following the money".

Bad science reporting is common, but it's more common for the reporters to just misread what a study says.

Besides, this is nutrition science, where what's actually happening is scientists are conspiring against big ice cream by refusing to tell you that it's good for you. (https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/05/ice-cre...)
https://news.ycombinator.com/logout
Those who are under the pump are more likely to be stressed, sleep poorly, AND work longer hours. Zounds!
YUP. Plus, the points at the end of your post, abt how much faster and cheaper it is getting to train new models indicates that Mistral may have hit a real sweet-spot. They are getting funding at a moment where the expectations are that huge capital is needed to build these models, just when those costs are declining, so the same investment will buy them a lot more runway than it did for previous competitors...
4chan, 8chan, Kiwifarms, et al. are about as close to that as you can get. Probably full free speech on some boards of 4chan and 8chan.
Yeah, Pentium was for Quake.
For me the interest in retro computing is that the computer is so much simpler that it is indeed possible to understand. The set of assembly instructions is small enough that a person can understand every opcode fairly easily, the amount of memory is limited, and the list of things that that your installed ROM can do is relatively accessible. Contrast that to modern machines and operating systems, and no mere mortal can understand everything that is happening in the machine.

Another thing to love about retro computers is how transferrable the knowledge is to modern machines. Once you know the essence of assembly language on a retro computer, you have a good basis for learning RISC-V or something else modern.

Depending on where your son is at, he might enjoy this video where I explain the essence of assembly language-- it's the video I wished someone had shown to me when I was a kid and thought I wasn't smart enough to learn it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep7gcyrbutA
Well the good news is it should be straightforward to customize the old behavior back for people who don't like the trade-off.
How does it affect the overall long term productivity of the team, I think is the real question.
That would be a great litmus test for these programs. Dump gigabytes of manuals and ask "how many pins does the 74LS04 have?" "What size bolts hold the oil pan on a 73 Porsche?"
So on one hand there is the prospect of "complete narrative freedom for players" and on the other hand there is a fake information dystopia right ahead of us. Well, I would suspect, that the more dystopia we are going to have, the more people will want to flee that reality for a while into ever getting better role playing games. Is that, what people once called progress?

"a world where the only thing you can trust is people sitting right in front of you"

Oh and I think real people can be a source of missinformation as well. Also holograms(or brain implants) might have a breakthrough soon, as well. So all in all I think we are living in interesting times.
Reproducible… but unsupported. Nice.

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/108964#issu...
Yeah, but what do you do when most of your neighbors have flamethrowers, and enjoy running around the neighborhood shooting flames at things, and then insist that it's their right to do so when you try to tell them to stop?
This article is from 2005. For the record, Mizuho Securities Co. is still around, although there was some reorganization in 2009 where Mizuho merged with Shinko Securities, and the latter firm took the name Mizuho Securities.
"Edge lords" are those that for whatever reason like to make uncomfortable contraversial remarks .. not for the genuine sake of discussing things that should be discussed in a measured way but for the goal of provoking drama, over reaction, chaos, confusion and distraction.

The appearence of multiple relatively new users all pushing extreme takes that are on the edge or well over gets shorthanded as an edge lord raid - it's coordinated and can have multiple root causes from simple social drama to actual distraction with an ulterior motive (eg: prompting moderators into rushed counter reaction can expose passwords | permissions | inter operator side channel communications, etc).

Slow trolls like the drama but dislike the boot .. they'll wheedle their way into communities and build a support network then pivot into being "that uncle at thanksgiving" .. you know the one.

These are very rough descriptions, it's very much the case that you might not be able to pin particular behavious down but you'll know 'em when you see 'em.
A massive tech company exodus occurring in Austin, Texas
It's an ad bro
Wealth inequality, by definition, does not create poverty, unless your definition of poverty is "having less money than other people", which would be an absurd definition.
If you have $150m of Amazon stock and you want to buy a mansion, you have to either sell the stock and pay taxes, or you can take out a loan and use the Amazon stock as collateral to get super favorable terms.

A $50k loan won't buy you your mansion, nor will it help you avoid any taxes when you do try to realize some of the value of your Amazon stock.

The point is that if you and a bank jointly agree the asset has appreciated in value, and you give the bank a claim on that asset in order to be approved for a big loan, this collateralization activity should be treated as a taxable event in the same way that a sale is, because both activities are different ways of realizing the gains.
In a world where we have 9 nuclear powers, I struggle to see how your system would keep them in check; nuclear fallout effects all of humanity and quite literally could make the planet inhabitable.

I bring this up because any system that replaces the current world order needs to be able to keep these nuclear powers in check.
Actually money is money.
> Yet not something the general public can be a judge for. Given that the Czech authorities and courts did not pursue it, the rest of us can't either

No come on. We're not a court of law and have no obligation to act within the constraints of one. There is enough information that people can reasonably believe one way or the other based on it, and judge accordingly.
There are many more files that will need this protection:

- autorun and keyboard shortcuts of your window manager -- one can hook an evil command to Ctrl+C

- ~/.mozilla -- you can add arbitrary javascript to your profile or extensions

- any application which does not expect to have its config externally tampered with and this may result in various errors including RCE

- ~/work/FooProject/Makefile, configuration of your IDE (which contains list of commands that shall be executed to compile)

etc.

An explicit allowlist would be a better option, IMHO perfectly manageable - with a popup window "the app wants to access <file>, allow once | allow permanently | deny".
Your truth is that people are broke[0] because there's too much money[1] and that you don't have a girlfriend because rich people on Tinder stole the women?

[0] they aren't https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DSPIC96

[1] even if that made sense, it's going down again https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL
> when a Palestian says "Free Palestine", what do you think they mean by that? What does Free mean there? Let's also just agree that "end the occupation" is a synonym for "Free Palestine". What does "end the occupation" actually mean?

The two territories that are currently nominally under palestinian "control" are the strip of Gaza and the West Bank.
However, they are both controlled by Israel in various ways.
I will briefly list just a few of those ways below (simple googling will reveal far more), with citations, focusing primarily on the West Bank which does not have any recent history of violent resistance against Israel's occupation, and which is pursuing a peaceful resolution.

Under this context, Palestine being free would involve not being subject to the occupation and having the ability to self-govern, instead of about 50% of the population of the entire territory (Israel + occupied Palestinian territories together) living under what Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch call apartheid [5, 6].
It is not difficult at all to understand that absolutely no group of living humans would want to willingly live under such conditions, and would want to be free from it.
Those who oppose their freedom will often jump to interpreting their call for freedom in the worst possible way, arguing that it implies violence against those occupying them, and thus cannot be allowed.
It is the responsibility of the occupier, the party holding overwhelming military strength and currently enforcing the occupation, to figure out a way to a peaceful resolution that allows the occupied party to live with dignity.
That they might be afraid of lifting the occupation, in many ways speaks about their conduct and perhaps justified fear of possible revenge; and that is still absolutely not a valid argument to maintain the occupation and keep denying liberty to about 50% of the population of that land.

- Funding for both territories [1]

- Strict control of the borders of both territories and an actual military occupation. Even Joe Biden who has proved himself strongly on the side of Israel calls this what it is [2]

- Regular night raids and arrests in West Bank [3], arresting and holding minors prisoners under military law, many prisoners being held without being charged with any crime at all

- To add to the previous two points, Israel even exercises the ability to forbid Palestinians of West Bank to celebrate when their family members are released [4]

[1] https://www.axios.com/2023/10/31/israel-hamas-war-tax-palest...

[2] https://www.timesofisrael.com/state-dept-confirms-us-views-i...

[3] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/7/israel-intensifies-...

[4] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ahead-of-slated-palesti...

[5] https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2022/02/israels-...

[6] https://www.hrw.org/report/2021/04/27/threshold-crossed/isra...
That’s exactly what it does.

It’s an Elo scoring system, like chess. By definition the difference between two entries represents how often it beats the other entry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system
Thats exactly what we will be doing initially! Our tablets taste much better than Bite! They put too much abrasives in their formula and the texture is not great since it leaves powder clumps as it dissolves.

They're really overcharging... We aim to keep it at > $5 for a monthly pack, and we'll also do 2 in 1 mouthwash toothpaste tabs since the formula is pretty much the same for both products with the only difference being the quantity of the foaming agent.

Also, the lids on their jars actually have plastic lining, which goes directly against with their zero plastic marketing! We are only using aluminium packaging and paper/cardboard.

I youre interested I can ship you a few packs for free once we have the first batch done!
anyone out there generating fediverse feeds for their static site?
> How do you compile a Java library that uses native code? Python/Node/Ruby worlds know how, but OpenJDK ignores the question.

Because you compile it like any other Java library.

> How do you ship a Java library that uses native code? Python/Node/Ruby worlds know, but OpenJDK ignores the question.

It doesn't. jmod files and the jmod tool were added in JDK 9 precisely for that (and other things, too).

> If even the well funded OpenJDK developers working in Java can't outcompete the poorly funded OpenSSL devs working in an unproductive language, then what chance do other Java library devs have? None at all!

People aren't really rewriting OpenSSL in Python or JS, either, but high-level languages are many times more popular than low-level ones [1], and you're misreading the normal behaviour of a fragmented market, when it's worth it to compete and over what. I don't think any language today has a healthier library ecosystem than Java. That's not to say it's as good as wish it would be, but no one seems to do it better.

There is, however, a problem with build tools not supporting newer JDK features (that are coming faster now than before) and we'll need to do something about that.

[1]: https://www.devjobsscanner.com/blog/top-8-most-demanded-prog...
Textualize and BubbleTea are both things I look to for inspiration in what Ratatui could be. Eventually, I'd like to make widgets look great with sensible defaults and support themes that allow for customization.

We use Charm's VHS for scripting the generation of images for all our examples, so definitely some thanks to distribute there in addition to the inspo.
Nils just wanted to say I love your work. I have your C compiler book and one of your lisp compiler ones as well. I’ve learned a lot and your work has helped me appreciate compilers a lot more, so thanks!
I think it's definitely possible to create a better CLI than git, however I think the majority of what unhappy users of git are imagining when they ask for a better UI would oversimplify things and end up removing a lot of valuable capabilities. These capabilities may not be suitable for a non-technical audience, but I believe should be table stakes for professional software developers as they are very sharp tools for managing the software development lifecycle that transcend specific languages or domains one may be working in.

To take your example of moving commits between branches, the git rebase parameters and --onto flag are definitely confusing, but each of them is clear and necessary when understood. The CLI could be refactored to be clearer, but the hard part is understanding what each one means, which you would need to do anyway even with a better CLI. Obviously one can work around these knowledge gaps, but once you understand them they are useful for an entire career and the warts tend to fade in importance relative to the value of a tool with the insane power-to-weight and rock solid architectural tradeoffs of git.
My own experience is that hours worked are irrelevant. It can vary. Deal with it. To believe otherwise is to think management fully understands the work ahead of time. This is not usually the case. To a lesser extent, even the devs might not know. Overscheduling and underscheduling happen all the time. Things catch on fire. You have to work accordingly. Some days you can stop early. It's not entirely in the hands of the workers. You won't know until you start.

What matters more is a reliable result done on time and everyone is happy with the effort required to achieve that. That's a complex balance to achieve across the whole team. You need everyone recognizing the long term benefits of a job well done and they need to feel comfortable with their part of it.

Working slowly after hours with no promise of getting much if anything concrete done is a deep joy for some of us. I sometimes need to play with my work to know what I'm doing tomorrow. It's often outside the scope of what I'm being asked to do, yet vital to a successful project instead of a mediocre one full of garbage decisions smoothed over by management lies and stress
on the whole team to maintain.

What world does one want to live in? Build it and enjoy. That's where productivity, happiness, and ease come from. There are so many heroes out there casually looking at work while eating cereal in their underwear at 1am. They're no more stressed than anyone else.
To what extent does this affect the design decisions of electric trucks?
I'm not saying that there aren't people out there motivated by government distrust--I'm sure there are, maybe more in Russia--I don't know, I'm not Russian.

I'm saying that's not the common case. If you pick 100 random people out there who are disobeying some safety rule, where the outcome is greater convenience for themselves, I'd be willing to bet money that at least 90 of them are doing it out of selfishness and not some principled distrust of the government.
I’ve noticed more “network errors” when answers are being generated.

Maybe it’s just the system being overloaded.
So, GPT-4 beats the next best LLM. Is GPT-4 twice as good, or a hundred times as good as the next one?
> if I have to click, I might as well just go directly to those websites and skip this HackerNews thing.

You accidentally arrived at the root of the anti-RSS rationale for many HN readers.

They don't want to actually go on the web. They want to participate in the comments section, where it's safe and sanitized; no paywalls, no 'sign up for my email list' popups, no analytics scripts, no strange site layouts.

They feel RSS should deliver exactly what they want: full-text article and images, nothing more.
It's an ad. They have no demo, you have to schedule a demo with them.

Then they mention examples (like how simulated customers would react to price changes), but they don't provide any evidence that such results could be trusted or relied upon, esp. given that LLMs are known to hallucinate.

Flagged.
I saw a sign in a cubicle farm one time: "In every group, someone's the weakest. If you don't know who that is, it's you." Fuck that.
It would make feeling an intrinsic property of the universe rather than an emergent phenomenon.
I agree, my team came to the same realization actually haha!
The fact that RSS was suppressed will never cease to make me angry.
That’s a fun set of features, but I don’t see the connection with the community. You can browse their mastodon feed and it’s just a bunch of vaguely liberal vaguely tech posts? I’d like to see which accounts are using the services for a better community
The subtitle of this piece:

> Slack’s Workforce Index uncovers new findings on how to structure the workday to maximize employee productivity, well-being and satisfaction

The base assumption of the employer structuring and managing the employee's well-being and satisfaction feels so 19th century. I know it's still the prevalent paradigm in HR in most places, but it's crazy how hard that idea persists.
Did you feel it with Quake too?

If you were to find it today, it'd probably have to be an indie game. It's a bit of a jump, but if you like exploring alone you could try Scanner Sombre.
It was intentional. RSS is a way to sidestep advertising.

Guess who makes the most widely used browser today.
The Roses of Heliogabalus
To be fair, the code is there. I agree though that it’s not clear what exactly this is.
I remember the event well, because the download became available the day before finals.

Things did not end well.
Uh, Courant?
Is this different from neocities ?
Postpartum depression is unpredictable. The immune system may hold answers
If the new field is the one that creates feeling than it would indeed be a better explanation. To prove this, you would have to create a physical process that could excite the 'feeling field', use that process to create a region of non zero charge in the feeling field and then determine if humans placed in this area of elevated feeling charge felt different. If they did, then that's proof of some kind of feeling charge.

As for the 'why would n+1 explain it'.. it's the same reason we invented the strong force... To explain things that cannot be explained. Qualia is inexplicable, thus it would seem to be a straightforwards application of the same principle
> Employees who feel obligated to work after-hours register 20% lower productivity scores

Very notably, this excludes people who want to work after-hours. A rare person but they do exist in some fields.
> - A fault management system that only shows you 1 or 2 at a time when you have 40.

As long as the system prioritizes the warnings/cautions with the most pressing ones shown first, this is a very good thing. In a high-stress situation, you don't want the pilots to have to deal with figuring out which of the 40 warnings need to be taken care of first.
> gee there sure are a lot of stubborn people on emacs-[%]

I have been watching Emacs vs Vi wars for decades. People take this stuff seriously.

In my case, I tend to use GUI editors, whenever possible (or Nano/Pico, if absolutely forced to). I know, I know, I'm a wimp. Guilty as charged.
If you're talking about my personal site https://benovermyer.com, no, I have not heard of problems rendering the RSS for it.

If you are having issues I would like as much detail as you can provide.
It forces them to structure their work so they don't need constant realtime questions from teammates generating constant interruptions.
I was thinking a Stephen King horror story about a serial killer terrorizing his quaint Alpine hometown because he prefers younger, fresher cheese.

Either way, it does indeed seem an odd-yet-poetic practice.
The topic is the software, not how the hosting deployment performs under HNHoD.
Look at whats happened, populations around the world have been squeezed into a tighter box, war, sanctions, lockdowns, mandates, environmental regulations, inflation, pitting people against eachother. Not a single thing there about our inability to produce commodities due to resource constraints, some nimrod cited oil prices like some oil producing nations couldnt flood the market with $60/barrel tomorrow if they wanted; no, the oil price is high because of a rapidly deteriorating geopolitical order. I see no decline in future prospects as quickly as internet infrastructure is being built (breakneck), nor for the innovation in cars, energy, housing, the only thing that holds a lot of it back is, a rapidly degenerating government.
The GP was talking about Linux desktop, you seem to be talking about Linux server.
> “I want to learn something just to learn something” isn’t the best reason,

Why?
Linux kernel maintainer pain points
The community vibe. The energy. The reason for something technologically commonplace to be exceptional and worth interest.
Medical microrobots are (still) on their way (MIT)