skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> a lot of opposition from feminists for obvious reasons

They oppose financial aid to young families, flexible working hours, and the promotion of living in multigenerational/extended family homes, where relatives help care for children, and free schooling/kindergartens? There are many countries, past and present, with above-replacement fertility, so this is nothing but pretend-helplessness. Israel, for example, is a modern economy, yet has a 2.9 fertility rate [1]. France and Ireland are at 1.8 - just a small push away from the 2.1 replacement level.

From the point of view of the native population (and not "the economy"), immigration is the worst option - not only does it introduce a competing group, it allows the system that resulted in their sub-replacement fertility to persist, where otherwise some change would be forced to come about.

[1] And better gender equality than the US, as well as China. The latter has a 1.2 fertility rate, which, together with the high fertility of Islamic countries, shows there is no simple linear link between gender equality and fertility. Sources:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_Inequality_Index
I see; I was not aware that there is a specific connection between Nazis and the "brownshirt" term, though it is obviously a reference to some kind of uniform.
Your description of the use case you wanted matches almost exactly what Google Reader used to be.

Google started dying for me with Reader, then Inbox, and now the last blows were the recent abuses in Chrome, YouTube and the absolute garbage the search frontpage has become.

I will definitely take a look a feedi. You just gave me some hope.
I think Ps point is that the onus for payment is on the distributor when the product is broadcast universily, but the receipt of it is the crime.

And funnily enough, the signals do work like that.[1]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Caroline
You need a lot of speed to go into space really fast.

When you fly your spacecraft really close to a planet and let it get influenced by its gravity, you let the planet transfer some of its massive amounts of kinetic energy into your spacecraft, which can add to its kinetic energy (and also help the spacecraft change direction)

You're essentially stealing some kinetic energy from planets to sling your spacecraft faster.
I'm curious about the revenue from the premium account. I did it for access to Grok, and grok is great! All hail gRoK!!!!
Internal Google tickets have <0 priority unless they get raised in a TGIF or All-Hands or equivalent.

If you know anyone still there, just have a peek at all the internally opened tickets about bricked Android phones. Their processes are...messy.
Always boggled my mind that in the UK there is a tax on owning a television.
You can downvote wrong SO answers, and there is a way to sort that gives new votes more priority.
I have a Dream Machine Pro (UDM-Pro), and disabling remote access is as simple as finding the setting and turning it off. I disabled it on mine a while ago as an extra security measure.
A RISC-V mini laptop with Debian or Android
> - Excellent build quality

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS0SItAzEXg

Keep drinking your kool-aid.
> Yes, it's a tax.

It's is very specifically not a tax, primarily because if you choose not to consume public service broadcasting, you do not have to pay it.
Correct:

The heliopause is the theoretical boundary where the Sun's solar wind is stopped by the interstellar medium; where the solar wind's strength is no longer great enough to push back the stellar winds of the surrounding stars. This is the boundary where the interstellar medium and solar wind pressures balance. The crossing of the heliopause should be signaled by a sharp drop in the temperature of solar wind-charged particles,[30] a change in the direction of the magnetic field, and an increase in the number of galactic cosmic rays.[34]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliosphere#Heliopause
At this point they aren’t projecting, they are just using his own words: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/06/donald-trump...
Fun extension to this idea: enter your username. use vector search to find most similar user to you. Now show comments from them and you, and you have to guess if you made them :-)
9/10; fun game!
That's because CUDA is a clear, well-functioning library and Intel has no equivalent. It makes any "you just have to get Pytorch working" a little less plausible.
Now we know what OpenAI's superalignment team has been up to
> Nor do I want it

> Why does everyone care so much?

You seem to both care about it, and also wonder why other people care about it ?

Otherwise, looking from the sideline it's fascinating seeing Apple fighting this battle that they brought upon themselves and have no chance of winning.
This is the Microsoft of the 1980s, 90s, and 2000s winning out over the 2010s shift to actually building good products. I don’t know what changed at the executive level but it really looks like the old guard is back.
There are many, many unmanned missions happening now making amazing discoveries. Cassini was nothing short of mind blowing.

I'm somewhat sympathetic to your claims, and I wish more people were intellectually curious, but there are very likely more people in absolute numbers performing scientific research now than ever.
To follow up, I made a new release with performance fixes, and here are the new results:
https://github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite-bench/blob/98553a08199b...
You don't have to remove the demodulator. Simply not connecting it to an antenna is enough. This circumstance is specifically covered in the examples of when it's not necessary to pay the license fee.
It doesn't matter how much money USENET makes one company, what matters is what it represents. Surrendering USENET entirely to abuse means we're losing one of the last vestiges of the ARPANET. It brings great shame and dishonor that Google won't fight for it.
> Face it, Zuck is an accidental billionaire who had the advantages of Harvard but is now completely out of his depth and lacks a crystalized vision as to where to go from here. It won't be long before Zuck is shown the door after losing large piles of money and failing to make more of it. I give him 1 year or 2 tops.

I'm pretty sure people have been saying exactly that for 15 years now. Maybe someday it will come true...
> Anybody have insights into the advantages and disadvantages from both sides from that perspective?

Do either of them have the volume to supply the server market? At the end of the day that's why Intel is still relevant.
Because Apple embraced texting by supporting SMS, then extended it by forcing all the text conversations that they could into their own proprietary infrastructure, and is extinguishing it by using punitive product design to create pressure on communities of people to all use their products so that everything goes over their proprietary network.

I don't want an over the top chat app, I just want to text people.
I think the Octocat use is still fair-use https://octodex.github.com/faq/ but I'd also prefer if they'd add a "not affiliated".
Not sure which quote best captures the absurdity of the article:

'“The Cybertruck is an over-6,000-pound piece of steel that has no business going a quarter mile in under 11 seconds,” National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy told me. “Why do we need that?”'

OR

'To summarize, we don’t yet know how dangerous the Cybertruck really is, but some of its design choices are disturbing, particularly when factoring in the vehicle’s massive weight and overpowered engine. Given Tesla’s myopic interest in its vehicles’ occupants (“If you’re ever in an argument with another car, you will win,” Musk has promised), the potential danger to other street users is real.'

I dunno, but it just seems like they have redoubled efforts to bash Elon in the press after he let Alex Jones back on Twitter followed by impromptu 2 hour interview with him.
I am literally stating what he literally stated.

And I don't think the surprise win of 2016 with no GOP machinery backing him out of the gate is going to be a good analog to the preparations that are ongoing right now. He will have far, far more capable people around him, a sense of revenge, and nothing to lose.

The correct answer to "Will you be a dictator?" when asked to a US presidential candidate, is "No." The fact that ridiculous question even had to be asked, and came from someone throwing him a softball (Hannity), and he still couldn't answer it correctly are all serious alarm bells.
These two wikipedia articles are a start:

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

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

As for "why pay separate provider" -- that would be because circa 2000 most ISP's dropped offering Usenet access for their customers as part of the deal, which created a market for the paid providers.

But, you don't /have/ to pay:

https://greycoder.com/best-free-usenet-servers/
so wage tax is also not actually a tax, because if you dont have a wage you do not have to pay it?

Hmmmm, not convinced that logic works tbh.
Urban Warfare Experts' Christmas Wish List
A New Way of Conceptualizing Urban Operations. Militaries must stop thinking of cities as a special environment. Urban operations are pervasive precisely because the terrain is universal.

A US DoD Line Item for the Urban Operations Planners Course. For three years, the 40th Infantry Division has conducted a weeklong Urban Operations Planners Course to teach division and brigade staff members how to conduct large-scale urban operations (offense and defense) in dense urban areas. The course does not have a consistent or dependable funding source.

More Urban Operations Courses. The 40th Infantry Division’s Urban Operations Planners Course includes non-US students, but it does not have the capacity to meet the needs of all allied and partner nations. There must be an equivalent course available to each of these militaries.

A NATO Urban Operations Center of Excellence. There are twenty-nine NATO centers of excellence for topics such as countering improvised explosive devices, mountain warfare, and security force assistance, and a further thirty-three partnership training and education centers covering topics such as chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear weapons, peacekeeping, and special operations, and more. However, none is dedicated to urban operations.

Fit-for-Purpose Equipment. Urban operations should be the driver for equipment requirements. The challenges of operating in urban environments is almost always treated as an afterthought for equipment design and procurement, with negative results. Basic urban-specific equipment such as ladders and breaching tools are seen as specialist items rather than standard equipment and are consequently less commonly available for training.

Cheap, Expendable Drones for All Squads. Urban environments can be full of unknown threats and challenges to military forces operating there, hidden across a labyrinth of three-dimensional terrain. Drones are needed at the lowest level of fighting formations for reconnaissance, security, strike, and even protecting civilians that, no matter the evacuation measures taken, are always present.

A Heavy-Duty, Remote, Armored Bulldozer. Historically, the bulldozer is a vital tool when attacking an enemy-held city.

More Subterranean Training Areas. Current events are demonstrating the need to have more and better subterranean training areas. Existing subterranean training areas are few and far between and are also severely lacking in variety.

Better Urban Representation in Professional Reading. Individual professional development matters. In an ideal world, a military service could make reading one urban-focused book a year mandatory.
How does that make it not a tax? You can choose not to buy goods and not pay sales tax, choose not to own a home and pay real estate taxes, choose to not have a job and pay income tax, etc...
Billions of people.
I’d find this surprising! I’m probably the only person I know who frequently messages (via iMessage nonetheless) with foreign contacts. In addition I’m pretty sure cross-state comms in the USA are treated like international comms are in Europe but I could well be wrong on this point (and as per xkcd[1] I’m sure we’ll find out soon if I am)!

[1] https://xkcd.com/386/
> Then that language itself, learned from outputs, becomes the cognitive apparatus that enables the child to imagine, to reason symbolically and abstractly. Humans bootstrap intelligence on top of language, which itself is learned by mimicking outputs.

This isn't an uncommon claim, but it's certainly far from settled science. Complex language is an impressive capability of human cognition. But I think the claim that cognition itself is a byproduct of language proves too much. Obviously the products of cognition that are easiest for us to understand are linguistic, because language is the primary standardized means by which we communicate. To me, this is just more legibility bias, though. There are plenty of cognitive processes that people find impossible to explain in words, but still nonetheless exist
> I'm sure if Ford dictated how and where you drove your car you'd be outraged, but we should kowtow to the likes of Apple?

I just wouldn't buy a Ford.
While I fully support more craft being sent out of the solar system, we are making some mind blowing discoveries in the solar system itself. I recommend watching a good video (or article with images) about what we discovered with Cassini.
it's exactly the same awful company it's always been?

apparently putting out some "<3 Linux" ads, a somewhat usable terminal and a free IDE is enough to make people forget 40 years of abusive control

(not to mention their mostly unreliable software)
Usenet? No. Google Groups, sure.
> You can't "dump" a TPM.

> unrecoverable without an electron microscope and nation-state level resources (and even then, it would be extremely difficult if not impossible on modern process nodes).

Oh, so you can. It's only a matter of time.
Ask HN: How to get our money back from client
We are career coaches specializing in programming, and we typically charge our fees after services are finished. Unfortunately, we've encountered an issue where a client, who enrolled in our course, became unresponsive six months into the program. We have his full name, contact details, employer's information, and his resume. However, since he is from Taiwan, his information isn't adequate for us to file a legal claim in the United States. We've attempted to reach out to his employer with a formal complaint but have not received any acknowledgment or reply. I don’t know if anyone has similar experience in getting back the money.
> without any real practical implementation

Don't you know that billions of people are using his work on a daily basis on their smartphone? CV: https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/cv.html
Same experience with signal, but SMS phishing is a very large issue, at least in my country. Maybe your phone number was just never leaked and you're not present in the spammers databases?
Very cool idea. Next step: do in hyperbolic space (you need to change the view as you move around that space)
I wonder if CarPlay and Android Auto is not safe on GM cars because they are just bad at implementing it. I had my share of issues with Android Auto on my last car - initial setup was not easy and just for Android they were blocking touch screen unless car was in "parking" mode. All of that was entirely on car manufacturer and it was one of the reasons I got a different car without such issues.
do they willingly use it?

having IT provide Windows, Edge and Outlook installed on some awful underspecced HP box doesn't count
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
Remote: Prefer in-office but open to remote
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Rust, Postgres, Typescript, React, Angular, GCP
Résumé/CV: https://irreducible.io/cv
Email: taylor@irreducible.io
The UK license fee is the biggest bargain in the history of public service broadcasting and entertainment.

For £13 a month you get seven commercial-free TV channels, 12 commercial free national radio stations, at least one local station depending on where you live, and the amazing BBC website, which includes news, sport, weather, and, of course, the iPlayer, which offers almost all of the above on-demand, commercial free, and not even encrypted.

As an ex-pat I only wish that there was a mechanism for me to pay it from outside the UK. I miss the BBC more than anything else in the UK.
Looks like they got it sorted now
https://community.ui.com/questions/Bug-Fix-Cloud-Access-Misc...
Apple Music is privileged when it comes to Siri. I currently have both a Spotify and Apple Music subscription, and one of the main reasons I prefer Apple Music, aside from shuffle not playing the same 20 songs in a 2000 song playlist, is the great hands free functionality. I can add songs to playlist, play a song next instead of adding it to the end of the queue (which is more of Spotify STILL not having deque support), and I know there are other things I've run into Spotify can't do on Siri, but I'm blanking at the moment.
I’ve only glanced quickly at the article, but I think the author’s understanding of private in Ruby is wrong.

class Parent
attr_accessor :x
private :x

def initialize(x)
self.x = x
# └── (1) allowed
end

def ==(other)
self.x == other.x
# │ └── (2) not allowed
# └── (1) allowed
end
end

This is not doing what the author thinks it is doing. Or, it is, but I don’t think the authors understand why. `private :x` only marks the x method as private, but `x=` is a different method.

They would see different behavior with

private :x
private :x=

In general, public, private, and protected do the following. Public methods can be called with any receiver: explicit (x.foo()), self (self.foo()), or implicit (foo()). Protected methods can be invoked on self or with an implicit receiver. Private methods can only be invoked on an implicit receiver. Note that this has nothing to do with the class hierarchy. A private method can be called from a subclass as long as it has an implicit receiver.

The difference between protected and private is not really practically useful, so I personally use them to signal different levels of “private-ness”. I use protected methods to implement a class’ “internal API”, which is the core thing the public API is abstracting and exposing. I use private methods for implementing ancillary details that aren’t really core to what the class does but handle some one-off unrelated data manipulation or munging. But that’s just me.

I’ll also admit that something may have changed with Ruby’s rules around these keywords around 3.0 that I missed, so if that’s the case I apologize.
> If the goal is to design a society where the government is responsible for everything, why does the population need to be responsible?

Those people that want that sort of society shouldn't be allowed to do anything without explicit approval from a government-mandated device that tells them every single action that they should do, even breathing.

They want a government that's responsible for everything, then they get to live that idea: If they even do a single action that wasn't told via their device, straight to jail as a 'deviant'.
For who but the gilded?
for the Windows 10 "upgrade" it was deemed as consent to install
There's plenty that one would be able to do with a device key before it is banned.
What's the deal with the popcorn button? [video]
Yeah, that’s how contacts work. What would you like to happen instead?
Related discussion about the drop in new Github repos: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37935288
The willing transfer of power is the most fundamental aspect of democracy. You can have a partial democracy with flawed voting, etc. But if the loser refuses to step down, it's no longer a democracy.

More dangerous than what he has done is what he has said. He has said that he will be a dictator on day one.
they're part of the PR team, their job is to literally represent the company to the public
Taxes tax something. A purchase, your income, something.

The license fee is just a fee. You pay it. You get the BBC. (And other national broadcast services, which also benefit from it.)

The clue may, perhaps, be in the name. It isn't called the "license tax".
This strikes me as one of those uniquely British oddities.
Testing has always been a huge deal with me. I tend to work alone, so I usually have to test my own stuff[0]. I’m pretty brutal. I learned from the best. I really feel that the level of testing I went through, for most of my career, would have a lot of modern devs, curled up in a fetal position, under their desks, whimpering.

We are currently in a “phase 2” test, of the project we’ve worked on, for the last year or so. It has shown us some issues (nothing major, though). Phase 1 testing showed us some nasties.

I had to force the team to do all this testing. They would have happily released before phase 1. I don’t think it would have ended well.

[0] https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/testing-harness-vs-u...
I'm not surprised. I never believed in the "power corrupts" narrative. It's just a cover for an uglier reality that we are ruled by people who want to do evil and corrupt people are selected for positions of power because they can be controlled into enabling and covering for those evil deeds.
Plenty of European countries do it like Ireland. Note that there were color and black & white licenses for b&w Televisions. You minimally needed a B&W license to listen to the radio.
> have no chance of winning

I think Apple will almost certainly win on a purely technical game of cat and mouse.

I think you need to adjust your definition of winning. Blocking 5% of messages is a 'win' for Apple. I won't use a messaging service with a 95% success rate. I won't migrate from iMessage to Beeper. I will submit, Apple would have liked a more decisive victory.
Do you have a specific reference? I've mostly ignored LLMs until now because it seemed like the violent failure mode (confident + competent + wrong) renders them incapable of being a useful tool[1]. However this application, combined with the dimensionality idea, has me interested.

I do wish the authors of the work referenced here made it more clear what, if anything, the LLM is doing here. It's not clear to me it confers some advantage over a more normal genetic programming approach to these particular problems.

[1] in the sense that useful, safe tools degrade predictably. An airplane which stalls violently and in an unrecoverable manner doesn't get mass-produced. A circular saw which disintegrates when the blade binds throwing shrapnel into its operator's body doesn't pass QA. Etc.
I believe there is a lot of push back in UK. I love the idea personally
People have been searching for this song from X-Files for 25 years. Until now
Mark my words. Some day soon, Microsoft will 'Do An Apple'.

Just as Apple took BSD as the base operating system and then put it's own desktop environment on top of it, I see Microsoft taking Linux as its base operating system and putting the Windows Desktop on top of that.

That will make Windows programmers only required for work on the upper levels of Windows while the world-wide open-source Linux programmers work on the underlying Linux operating system.