skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Such immigrants would still face other headwinds, such as being deported if arrested or caught, being unable to work most jobs, denied access to many social services, etc. ICE orders against them can also close doors in the future. Border guards found to have immigrated illegally as unknowing children have been stripped of their jobs and faced deportation.

While not an iron curtain of 5m+ cement walls and machine guns, that's hardly what I'd call undefended. Also, being a nation of (almost exclusively recent) immigrants I find this 'replacement' retoric hypocritical and ironic.
This is an argument to improve our education and social safety nets so that our citizens develop into the people who do the most important jobs in our country, not an argument to keep immigrants out.
Now you're shifting the goal posts to semantics. You implied Wikipedia and encyclopedias used the same methods, which is incorrect. Britannica is written by field domain experts, many of them world leading. Wikipedia is instead, as you described, a collection of citations of other work, written by random people, and which relies heavily on the US media as a source for any sort of cultural, social, or political topic.

There was a pretty interesting paper written looking at the biases in Wiki vs Britannica. [1] You might find it interesting.

[1] - https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/do-experts-or-collective-intellig...
I'm picking up on a lot of undertones in these comments and elsewhere something like an argument that while it may not technically be copyright infringement in 2024 onward, it will remain de facto off-limits simply from the threat of having to deal with lawsuits from Disney, no matter whether they're actually well-founded. What's missing from that argument is an acknowledgement that there are organizations for the public good that are more than willing to litigate over this (and happen to be bigger targets, too). Wikimedia, for example.
I also have a bunch of SBCs lying around waiting to be used, and also an ODROID HC2 which has been in use for years. I only dislike that it's not powerful enough for encryption--LUKS + samba could not read/write at disk speeds and was unreliable in my testing.

Really wish there would be an upgrade to the HC2 with about three to four times the performance.
I've learned a great deal from him over this time. Thanks Tom!
Ninjin gives a shoutout to the Japan Meteorological Agency for their on-the-ball response to the quake - it's like they've got a sixth sense for these things. Dalewyn points out that NHK's no-nonsense evacuation warnings are pretty standard, showing they've learned a lot from past emergencies. And krispyfi? They caught the intensity on NHK, with announcers practically telling people to both run and keep watching. Talk about a high-stress broadcast!
End of an era. I knew this was coming and it still was a shock to see it hit my feed today.

Best of luck on everything Tom Scott!
You can be sure YouTube will make BrandID, this time to satisfy jurisdictions without nominative use of trademarks, such as Turkey.
However in many ways freedom and having a job is better than having kids, we can't really propagandize that away. What we need to do is make child birth compatible with freedom and having a job. For example free child care provision, social expectation on fathers to take a greater role in child care, less wealth inequality so that working provides more free time.

Artificial wombs are straight out of Huxley's 'Brave New World' - scary how prescient that work is.
Both GPU support and SIMD CPU support are being worked on in OpenJDK projects, there are talks on them from last year's JVM language summit - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX8CzqL3ArzW90jKUCf4H6xCK...
This is neat. See also https://brickelo.com for the same thing but with LEGO minifigures
I keep a USB condom, or data-only female-to-male adapter, in my tech bag for this reason. The adapter is also transparent to make it "clear" that data wires don't exist on it.
it is the easiest line item to spend on .

Wikipedia has one of the best SRE teams, they were pretty transparent too, a lot of the communication was on IRC channels you could see, at least that was the case few years back.

Running the top 5 website in the world is no joke especially as a non-profit and they do it well. They haven’t had any down time or major incident in the last decade which is pretty impressive.

I would think their SRE team is not just good but also very motivated in the mission otherwise they would leave for much higher paying jobs, infra jobs are very lucrative if you have prior experience at more scale not much more scale than Wikipedia .
You'll be missed. Each video was interesting, fun and well made.

I recommend to anyone to have a look at the backlog, especially the series about linguistics inspired by the "lingthusiasm" podcast.
One of the examples is scraping rei.com. The URLs extracted by the tool look like this:

https://rei.comhttps://www.rei.com/product/207125/asolo-eldo-gv-approach-shoes-mens
This seems to be somehow broken for me. It auto-skips everything in about one second. If there's some point about a time limit being required it should be 5 seconds at the very minimum.
Yeah, the whole top down vs bottom up quandary. Top down is more boring but easier to support at scale. Bottom up is more dynamic but cross cutting changes end up taking inordinate effort.
The only thing that gives it away for me is that I can’t imagine how the lips would be done, and I’m not 100% sure it is impossible (I don’t know anything about crocheting).
Trying to rank the IT Crowd right now and the episodes keep refreshing before I click anything - https://tvsort.com/show/2490/matrix_01hk2y2csmeg1tdczs12wbz6...

Am using Firefox with uBlock Origin if that affects anything
Lol. Are you serious?

First, you conveniently ignore COL which matters a lot. Doesn't matter how much money you make if you spend most of it on rent and food.

Second, I don't think you really appreciate the cognitive toll software engineering takes on you. It's not simple OOP and leetcode that is complicated. It's understanding and enhancing legacy code, it's dealing with unrealistic expectations, it's having to continuously pretend that the emperor has clothes and brag about bullshit things like productivity.

Third, I am going to let you in on a secret: if blue collar workers could do what sw engineers do they would go for it. Who wouldn't want to be paid more? Writing code is hard. Try explaining basic shit to someone who is not a software developer and let me know how it goes.
A lot of people on HN are very against JavaScript and I often get the feeling they’re academics or don’t work in the part of IT with web software. The reality is huge swathes of the web benefit from it whether people like it or not, this project is just one example.
In bigger teams, scanning every diff instead of just the commit subject lines is significantly more time-consuming (a frequent activity in my experience).

I often decline proposed commits that lack concise, informative subject lines, and I hope other larger teams also do for efficiency and clarity. If that's considered gatekeeping, then I'm content to be one.
Yes indeed, "Passive documents and active programs now widely comingle", but they commingle more widely in ways that this article does not even mention, let alone discuss.

It's interesting to see a discussion of the "boundary of content and computation" but surprising that there is no mention of computational notebooks such as Org Mode and Jupyter where that comingling takes on another level of interaction between the text of program code and its inputs and outputs.

Perhaps it goes beyond the scope of the article but there is a whole level of documents that its taxonomy does not (yet) consider.
There will be a certain percentage of the population, though, which fails to distinguish artifice from reality and essentially drives themselves insane by obsessively consuming lies. See the millions of women on Instagram posting photos that are very obviously doctored and filtered beyond all credibility and yet somehow inflicting depression and eating disorders upon each other anyway.
MySQL Adds JavaScript Support
Only available for enterprise customers so far, custom functions in JavaScript via GraalVM provide ahead-of-time compilation for the newly added language. Plv8 for PostgreSQL provides comparable functionality as the two database engines continue to compete in features and performance for developer marketshare.
In the words of a past employer..

We ran out of space, and then we realized we are a storage company.
Aurornis really hit the nail on the head about how a toxic boss can twist your work habits into a loop of perfectionism and procrastination. It's wild how avoiding criticism can lead to playing it safe in the land of hypotheticals, instead of actually getting stuff done. And hats off to the_cat_kittles and neon_electro for recognizing the struggle and the learning curve that comes with such experiences.
Generic term GPT for LLM I suppose.

As for the type of interface, having a screen requires eyeball attention that I rather have on the task at hand. This would remove the "device in hand" that a commpad/smartphone/tablet requires.

Me @ Kitchen: tap earbud & speak "read my favorite apple pie recipe list of ingredients" as I inventory the pantry.
Hmm, the dumbest human can never lose any game of chess, against the smartest machine. The smartest human can never win against the smartest machine. So if the humans can never win against machines, and machines can never win against humans, that means we are of equal strength, no?

We humans think from first principles. When a disadvantage is found in the enemy's computational process, one person tells all about it to the person beside him. The second person, doesn't need retraining his brain from scratch to incorporate the new knowledge. He uses that nugget of information, just that nugget and nothing else to gain an advantage in chess, in the stock market or anything else.

One obvious example are script kiddies in computers who just download an exploit and gain an advantage, despite knowing nothing about computer security. Or a janitor who listens by chance some important investment information and can 10x some money by pure luck.

We think from first principles because we are born on the planet with a purpose. Machines are not born, they do not care to ever being given birth, and they do not care if they die because they were never alive. They have no purpose, and no first principles to think anything about.
I mostly agree, though if I could only have “what” or “why” I would choose “why” every time. To me this is similar to describing the problem in product design. I wish the “why” was more often concise enough to be the prominent feature in a commit, because commits are difficult/annoying to amend (I’d be surprised if more than a couple people where I work knew how) and if something is going to be left out, it is the “why”.
it feels like we are all walled off from anything but our own echo chambers :(
Well deserved. The amount of travel he's done was crazy. I'll still listen to the Lateral podcast and whatever he'll come up with in the future.
and reddit too , thank you for your feedback
I've come across jp2a in the past for converting jpeg-to-ascii:

https://github.com/cslarsen/jp2a

and there is also this image and video-to-ascii tool in case it might be of use:

https://gist.github.com/motiondesignstudio/9374326
Ask HN: CarryOv3r or CarryOver? What Name Should I Use?
What name would you rather prefer? The name is for my app that I launched but I have received feedback from people to lose the 3 as it comes off unprofessional. What do you think?
Somewhat related but I consider it a poor design on many levels.
It is open, just not by your definition. You can view, use and modify the code to your hearts content. Sounds pretty open to me!
> 3. Leaving my phone downstairs at night

I was on this train until my garage was broken into at 3am and we needed to call the police. Luckily the thieves spooked and ran, but if they had tried to get into the house I would want my phone near my bed.
Exactly, it's like a little push to start the day
Some people have friends or family that does this. But not everyone
OP posted a nitter link, which already does everything you want, no?
I love places like this because I can thrive quite happily on doing fuck all and getting paid for it.

Edit: I made some logical comment about doing something useful with half that time but deleted it because it would be hypocritical.
> However, I would value as well a person who would use an already made tool for doing the job (such as yt-dlp).

Agree, but I think this is the easier of the two skills to teach. So for a junior, I would hire the former if the company has the capacity to mentor them.
No need to spoof the GPS signal, pop open the lid and replace the GPS chip with one that outputs an attacker-controlled time signal. I suppose it could encrypt this signal with some certificate burned into the silicon, but that could still (slowly and painfully) be reverse-engineered.

GP’s point stands, you can’t enforce a time lock with cryptography primitives. That’s the fundamental issue with DRM - you’re trying to restrict someone from getting your ciphertext, while at the same time allowing them to get to it if they meet certain (non-cryptographic) conditions, which standard cryptography just can’t do.
I published a couple of books for the project during a sabbatical in 2021 (The Devil's Dictionary [0] and a cheesy, small H. Beam Piper book named Four-Day Planet).

The process and tools are quite nice and it's very rewarding to see your work in ebook form. It takes a _long_ time to proof and re-read a book, but it's surprising how many times you can do this and how differently you need to read to catch errors versus just enjoying the damn book.

The fascinating part of the project is a _strong_ editorial opinion, which IMO makes the project successful. There is a core group of people that upholds the standards for the project, and the resulting consistency of quality of output derives from that. The team clearly cares about the quality, and has demonstrably maintained that over the huge number of releases.

I even went to the archives of the "San Francisco Newletter and California Advertiser" to collect some of Bierce's original work, making it the most complete, and most corrected open-source version of the book. [1] The one previously hosted by Project Gutenburg was quite old and, frankly, quite riddled with transcription errors.

I haven't tried reading the Devil's Dictionary back-to-back since I published it, but I might one day. There's a lot of detail in this work that I never saw until I had it under a microscope.

[0] https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/ambrose-bierce/the-devils-...

[1] https://archive.org/details/san-francisco-newletter-dec-11-1...
yep AI will not return a listing.
What's the value prop of Digicert over LE these days?
> If a judge could just decide whether a law was good or not solely based on their beliefs and judgments, you are basically having a philosopher king who rules solely based on his wisdom.

I mean, it doesn’t sound great, but I’ll take the “wisdom” of a group of people who are aware of a couple centuries worth of context over the “wisdom” of a group of people without that awareness.
Simple. Token sequences are "fact checked" and the training data is annotated to update the accuracy value of the tokens in context. Then the sequences "Donald Trump is the new Jesus" and "Donald Trump is the new Hitler" would have different accuracy scores (probably represented as mean/deviation to encapsulate uncertainty/divisiveness).

When I say solving the language switch issue, I mean something akin to adding a translation layer to transformers, so you're learning a translation to a meta-language and meta-language token transition probabilities simultaneously.
DMCA doesn't require automation for copyright takedown requests. You can use a PO box in Guam if you like.
Tom Scott has been one of the best YouTube creators ever. He deserves a break.
No! Absolutely not! This is war now: either YouTube goes ad-free for free or YouTube goes bust!
The NSLU2 was pretty slow as a NAS, but the community that grew around it turned it into a really interesting platform for hacking, and I just love that Linksys back them didn't try to prevent hackers from repurposing it with alternate OSes etc.

Here's an archived copy of the then hacking page devoted to the NSLU2.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160320041744/http://www.nslu2-...
It depends if your work must start by the clock. If you can have more flexible schedule then it is possible.
A programming language is a pointless obstacle in the way of writing the compiler IR directly. And the compiler IR is a pointless obstacle in the way of writing the machine code directly.

Low code GUIs are a weird code generator, just the same as all the other programming languages.

Whether it's an obfuscation or an enabler depends on your perspective and what you're trying to do with it.

In particular, programming languages are pretty much a library (called the compiler runtime) with a text user interface on top.
The two parts below means different things. Just thought about it.

> I wonder how much longer until we have a military device that doesn't work killing people...

And

> I wonder how much longer until we have a medical device that doesn't work, killing people...
I spent $100 to learn how to build and run RAG application in production
This post is about learnings by running a RAG application in production.

Here are the learnings:

• Always customise your prompt.
• Set soft & hard limit on your LLM cost before launching any project.
• Choose the LLM model wisely.
• Context length matters a lot.
• Cache your queries.
• Have a router to choose LLM model wisely.
• Have a UI to see all queries, answers, context & metrics like response time.
• Memory management in chat is painful.
Some Notes on NixOS
Any Context? Why was this submitted now ?
This could be a cool monetization strategy. I don't really read physical books, but the "classics" on Amazon are often complete ripoffs. Here's Crime and Punishment for $10 just to get the Kindle version: https://www.amazon.com/Punishment-Penguin-Classics-Fyodor-Do...

I feel like these open domain novels published by big publishing houses have the veneer of legitimacy, but projects like the one this thread is about I think could accomplish much more. Especially for authors where the work is translated into English. Plus the cover designs are much cooler.

I will say, the search on their website is kind of slow and could use some work.
> This becomes complicated because anxiety is most typically concerned with high measures of neuroticism but a person can score extremely low in neuroticism and yet still suffer symptoms of anxiety from too high of consciousness when their concerns for orderliness prevents timely accomplishment of a task. That specific set of personalities defines obsessive-compulsive disorder in contrast to anxiety in general.

Just to clarify, you're still referring specifically to "perfectionist" personality types? Because last time I checked anxiety is _not_ correlated specifically with any personality traits but rather spans a broad spectrum of personality types.
> There’s nothing particularly scary about having an older population curve, it just means that society has to adjust by having higher savings rates for individuals and government retirement programs.

Savings are meaningless if the saved money can't buy the work of young, able workers. Elderly people would just waste their savings outbidding each other for the services of the few younger people left. Numbers in your bank account can't do a hip replacement and change your saline solution. People do.
HN doesn't really dislike it, looking at the past threads. There are usually a few people quickly jumping to comment negatively, but in most cases they do not have enough experience with it or have not touched it since Java 8 or earlier version. Also, it is not a small thing to learn and it seems to be unpopular among the bootcamps - I have seen a lot of Python course ads, but hardly a single one on Java.
Noble cause corruption
Measuring gas emissions in data centres (2022)
I agree with his self assesment. I liked many of his videos but many I also found disagreable and opinionated without much of a sound argument. Sounds like he doesn't like those videos either. All in all, his videos are heads and shoulders above most of YouTube and I wish him well.
> We need to remove as many impediments as we can to child birth and rearing

For example, overturning Roe v Wade

I'm kind of curious what the Clarence Thomas has cooking next
I used to be that person, but the problem is that you’re creating an incentive structure that doesn’t enable the management chain to identify and correct problems. A company should not be standing on the shoulders of a single engineer doing thankless work to prevent catastrophe.
even with php you need to use caching, the deal it s to provide bot quickly with content :)
It could be AI, but content farm garbage has been around for a long time. I remember seeing one that was on how calculate total addressable market, and the whole post was "find out the total market, and determine what percentage you can address." It was back in 2018 or so, so someone had to put in the effort to write it.
Good point, but I guess the real issue with video games vs shows - shows are passive, games are active - so your experience with a game is going to be way different than a show - you dont have to have had eye coordination for Seinfeld.

:-)
Conception - if you want to follow what is going on with the possible remaster, feel free to follow the Secret Universe socials at drawsquad.carrd.co

YouTube and X (Twitter) are probably the most important right now. If you reach out there someone can let you know how to join the reissue/remaster official mailing list.
Love the way you framed the demo TUI screen at the bottom of the page. Great touch.
> Being fired at that time was the best thing that could happen both to Apple and Jobs.

Easy to say in hindsight. Canion, who was worshipped by the GP, also got fired by Compaq but never bounced back.
Or may be that’s a testament to Jobs’s ability to learn and adapt.

> the lose cannon that destroyed apple with his megalomanic and narcissistic ego.

I doubt it. Apple was Jobs’s number one priority, even to the detriment of its employees, including himself. He literally worked until his death. He has been labeled many things. Apple destroyer wouldn’t be one.
What would your ideal copyright regime look like?

Mine would be different than what we have now, it'd be 20 years or artists lifetime, whichever is shorter - then 10 year long renewals are possible after that, but the cost of the renewal would ratchet up with each renewal.

I've also considered using a percentage of revenue for the work - basically a tax on the revenue from that work, as a condition for the right of monopoly on it - which would also ratchet upwards with each renewal.

I'd also consider a use it or lose it strategy for copyright like trademark, meaning if you are not making the work available for purchase/license within the copyright renewal period, for reasonable terms, you lose the ability to renew it.

Mine is mostly designed to deal with orphaned works, ensuring they enter public domain in a predictable way, I think the biggest issue with our existing copyright system isn't enriching Disney - they're still putting those works out there, making them available - its all the works being lost to the sands of time.
The legal metagame around intellectual property has little to do with law as written and much to do with burying your opponent in spurious motions until they run out of money to defend. Odds are good Disney wins that fight against most comers.
I don’t think they’re saying anyone is forgetting anything. Rather they’re saying if they turn it in for some specific reason they just don’t bother to turn it off once that reason is past. Which seems insane to me but to each their own.