skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Historically and in most modern media, wizards are strongly associated with either good or evil. Just look at the Arthurian legend, and at Star Wars Back then, there were Merlin and Morgana, and now, there are Darth Vader and Obi-Wan.

I don't think this is accurate. Merlin does good and bad things (I believe some bad being when he served Arthur's father), and Morgan does good and bad things. The Wikipedia article on Morgan le Fey even says "A significant aspect in many of Morgan's medieval and later iterations is the unpredictable duality of her nature, with potential for both good and evil."

Edited to add, also see this bit from the Wikipedia article on Lady of the Lake:

"In Le Morte d'Arthur, on the other hand, Nimue is still the one to trap Merlin, but Malory gives her a sympathetic reason: Merlin falls in love with her and will not leave her alone; Malory gives no indication that Nimue loves him back. Eventually, since she cannot free herself of him otherwise, she decides to trap him under rock and makes sure he cannot escape. She is tired of his sexual advances, and afraid of his power as "a devil's son", so she does not have much of a choice but to ultimately get rid of him."

Also Obi-wan and Vader may have supernatural powers but they act more like knights than wizards. Comparing them to Merlin and Morgan seems a bit of a stretch to me.
David Soul: Starsky andamp; Hutch actor dies aged 80
You’re going to get shocked when you find the Windows key on most keyboards.
I have mixed feelings about unions overall. But, pilots' unions seem to be an important "check and balance" to maintain safety in a capitalist aviation world.

Pilots are not machines, and can't be expected to have a 0% error rate.
They'll become straw-buyers for drone parts.
Really? Have not been using anything other than FF last 5 years
> I do not want what I'm doing interrupted by moving the cursor with arrows keys

Why exactly? That's just pressing a button, like any vim command.
I don't think I misunderstood you, I was suggesting that if 70bpm is already "cardio fitness", shouldn't that be sufficient for most individuals to prevent the majority of health issues?
Thanks! Can we see who updated the wiki? If it’s some random person, then I’m not sure it’s quite the smoking gun I’m looking for. If they are someone more closely associated with the project you’d expect to made decisions about this stuff, then that is very useful to know. Thank you!
It opens the context menu of the currently focused item. It's very useful for keyboard-centric Windows users (and probably works in KDE etc, though I haven't verified that).
Article is awful but linters are amazing and default linting is beautiful.

If you’ve coded as long as I have you’ll remember the endless bike shedding about style and random garbage that ended up in code bases. 2 spaces in a tab or 4? Who gives a shit.

My opinion is I don’t care what the style is so long as it’s consistent.
Distance is a limiting factor for memory bandwidth and other long circuits, but I'm not sure a speed up of 2x is feasible?
New iX error – Component Protection (2022)
That's effectively what "happens" but it's reversed; Microsoft gives a 'discount' if you're OEMing with the key ...

Perverse incentives all the way down. I remember having to work a bit to find "Apple" keyboards that would have the correct words because the Windows key was confusing (and in the wrong place until OS X easily supported remapping).
Since you talk from this angle, here’s an example from a different perspective of how this is still a problem (though I maintain it’s almost always a terrible idea for development/maintenance reasons where people think to use it, too—few components actually want what Shadow DOM gets them):

I’m a user. I want to write user scripts to tweak things to my liking and to support my specific use cases. If you use shadow roots (especially closed ones), you may fundamentally prevent me from doing so, removing the agency of my user agent. I don’t like that.
Scott Adams does not know enough about programming to understand that joke.
An equivalent statement would be “I bought some pills from the guy on the street corner and they didn’t contain what he said they would, so I’m never going to the pharmacy ever again.”
Unless it's a driver. Windows wants those signed by Microsoft. There are ways to get around that, but they're not wonderful.

This bit me a month or so ago at work. I don't use Windows at home.
Children are capable of understanding the difference between pretense and reality.

My 4 year old loves playacting scenes and games from Bluey but he also understands that I'm not an anthropomorphic dog. Or, for that matter that our dog can't do most of the things the dogs on Bluey can.
I mean start a new publishing house which does all of that. Not use existing publishers.
Remarkably prescient. Any public knowledge whether Musk has cited this as an inspiration? This arstechnica article feels like a direct descendent:
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/01/elon-musk-spacex-needs...
When these algorithms get it wrong, it completely sucks. And since no tech company has any semblance of customer support, you're completely hosed.

With respect to Facebook: I posted a shop vac last April for $50. I got a message that I was banned from using marketplace for "violating community guidelines."

However, if you believe this happened in error, you could request a review.

So I did! And was denied. I did this process a few more times and each time was denied. Once I requested a review for the third (or fourth?) time, I received a message that said "Unfortunately, your account cannot be reinstated due to violating community guidelines. The review is final."

I have no idea what happened.

So now, I can't use Facebook Marketplace because of some stupid error in their algorithm that can't be ever appealed. Which is a bummer, because I've legitimately found some good electronic finds on there (and have been able to offload things I don't have use for).

Meanwhile, their algorithms for advertising and marketing useless stuff to us are just perfect. A passage from Yuval Noah Harari's book, "Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow" highlights this:

> A recent study commissioned by Google’s nemesis – Facebook – has indicated that already today the Facebook algorithm is a better judge of human personalities and dispositions than even people’s friends, parents and spouses. The study was conducted on 86,220 volunteers who have a Facebook account and who completed a hundred-item personality questionnaire.

> The Facebook algorithm predicted the volunteers’ answers based on monitoring their Facebook Likes – which webpages, images and clips they tagged with the Like button. The more Likes, the more accurate the predictions. The algorithm’s predictions were compared with those of work colleagues, friends, family members and spouses.

> Amazingly, the algorithm needed a set of only ten Likes in order to outperform the predictions of work colleagues. It needed seventy Likes to outperform friends, 150 Likes to outperform family members and 300 Likes to outperform spouses. In other words, if you happen to have clicked 300 Likes on your Facebook account, the Facebook algorithm can predict your opinions and desires better than your husband or wife!
Editor updated the article with a note saying it does exist, just wasn't as easy to find.
hmm, maybe not so different from American "what's up?" or "how's it going?" as a non-sequitur
I've been using a version of this for Unraid for over a year. Downloads everything from my iCloud storage to my home server.

You need to re-authenticate every 90 days due to 2fa restrictions but it works great.
I see a lot of apps shipped with Flatpak these days on the PopOS store. They seemed to have worked out having the publisher of the app declaring access to certain things/capabilities on the hosts it will require, however, I somewhat remember Snap and Flatpak being sold as security layers rather than the packaging layers that they are now.

If Snap and Flatpak are both packaging layers I'd prefer Canonical embrace Flatpak.
Already been done by other posters in the thread so you can stop your snarky comments.
Yeah Gelles holds up Boeing as the poster child of Welch’s legacy. A place where engineers ruled, and then accountants…

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/02/books/review/the-man-who-...
tl;dr: BMW intentionally bricks functionality if an independent repair shop installs a used part.
Never seen Daniel Tiger, but Peppa Pig makes the Dad the butt of the joke and portrays him as the overconfident idiot in pretty much every story, while all moms are always infallible.

It's not something that kids might consciously notice, but it's grating and not what I'd exactly call a positive message.
Agree with all of that, and will add one more -- the power to weight ratio of muscles is truly remarkable. Really comes into focus when you compare to even current SOTA actuators.
I'm not seeing your examples like the one about furniture on that page.
Not everyone on the internet is trying to get customers though.
I flipped back to FF about a year ago, performs flawlessly and all the extensions I used on Chrome are available too.
OK MS. The first thing I'll do is rebind it to run llamafile.exe
Not only this, but the musical works contained within the video may not be public domain. I can’t tell whether he has replaced all of the audio or dubbed his version on top of existing music.
regexps, html, and css2 are also dsls despite not providing functions allowing you to construct a computational graph, but i agree that at the point where you have a graph of computations you have accidentally a programming language
I think there's a lot of stuff that's really hard to defend against once it's deployed, launched, or implanted. Think about small arms, artillery rounds, dumb bombs, land mines, or improvised roadside bombs. You have deception, concealment, cover, armor, reactive armor, jamming, and some close-in weapon systems but the best defense is probably more active attacks against earlier links in the kill chain. I think what we (US military, intelligence community, and law enforcement) learned during the "Global War on Terror" (specifically about improvised explosive devices) was to analyze the networks and target the planning, recruiting, training, financing, manufacturing, and distribution components.
That's not my experience at all using that in Postgres. A few concurrent users is absolutely fine.
This is a thing of the past.

From the firmware wiki at debian.org:

"The Debian project took the decision in October 2022 to create a new repository component non-free-firmware, and include its content on installation media for the upcoming Debian 12 release (bookworm) to make things easier for our users. This change was implemented in time for the bookworm alpha 2 release of debian-installer in February 2023, and all d-i releases and daily and weekly images since then all include firmware."

Previously one had to either download the needed firmware separately, or a bootable image containing it so that it was accessible during install.
Many users having problems with proprietary hardware didn't know they could just grab the install image with included firmware at https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-in...
But I blame Debian for this because their site historically has been excellent at hiding stuff.
Bit difference between magic mushrooms and fentanyl though.
I see the word "clickbait" on HN so often it's lost all meaning. The headline is fine, not 11/10, and not wild.

"Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards" - true, descriptive.

"for the first time since 1994" - provides context to the weight of the decision of adding a new key, absolutely fine.

The headline is not wrong, this is the first key added that will be required as part of the standard keyboard layout since 1994. No shaming needed.
I hope one day engineering students will study the MAX 7 and learn from the Boeing culture that has killed at least 346 people so far. So many issues (and related cover-ups) stem from the massive compromises made so Boeing could quickly launch a flawed modified plane instead of a new design because Airbus scared their management.
> mephedrone

For a moment I wondered if this was a pun on the content matter.
80s in California... there was a sizable but not exactly large group. No one cared. We all knew "old people" were supposed to care, but it was more likely just a thing everyone had to pretend to care about on TV. None of the old people I knew cared either.

Future "not evenly distributed" and all that.
Sideloading is still blocked in the US in their new releases. Only allowed where mandated (EU)
Thanks for sharing. More of an animation than a proper video
The question I’m trying to answer is who promised what, where was that published, and when was it published. If a squirrel promised me 10 years of support, that’s different than a CentOS maintainer making that same promise on the wiki.
My guess would be MSPs or other cheap tech work - still a million small businesses that need it, and it doesn’t really scale that well so there’s a good amount of competition.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas
I think it can be done far cheaper than you are imagining. The way LLMs are evolving now, I think they are great for exactly this thing.

Given text X = Create derivates of X.

The way people are using LLMs now is -> given limited number of words -> generate more words, which creates garbage.

But the compression idea is where LLMs really shine and should be explored to disrupt the industry.

And other pricing models can also be explored such as a netflix like subscription etc.

edit:

Just to further play with that idea, I think a big reason why https://standardebooks.org/ are quite popular is because they are simply making these books readable on devices. Just that much value is enough for the market.
You are aware that restaurants clean their food before cooking them? It's a major part of food safety.

Indeed, because restaurants generally source their food from better sources than a regular consumer can (many times, straight from the farm), restaurant food is arguably safer than "raw" food you can cook at home.

Thus, french fries from a restaurant would be at least as safe as french fries you eat at home.

Another paradox that would violate your heuristic: frozen fruits and vegetables are more nutritious, and cleaner, than "fresh" fruits and vegetables in the grocery store.
How obvious is it that the plane has entered non-icing conditions?
You're right, though a "high bar" in itself is not a bad thing! Hopefully not too many people struggle with pressure to behave like cartoon dogs. On the other hand, we might all take some inspiration from them here and there.

I think you can also see a shift to "lower the bar," though, especially in the third season. Bandit also seems to take a less prominent role. This was disappointing to my family; it seemed like some of the show's "purity" was lost to social pressure or something.
It's hugely relevant to me and has been one of my all-time most appreciated pieces of software.
Facebook is primarily at fault, although I would also blame DigitalOcean for having unreasonable minimum enforcement time limits.

DigitalOcean should reach out to Netcraft and decide on a more reasonable minimum enforcement time that is based on Netcraft's actual support throughput capabilities.

This arbitrary choice of a 24 hour time limit hurts their customers. I plan to switch my hosting provider away from DigitalOcean due to this incident.
I think you asking for “boring”, but meaning less-techie then using “hackers” is confusing here.

Are you just asking for easy, low-tech (or lower/simpler tech) biz ideas or what?
I think at this point MS is really representing the enterprise/corporate Office suite as well as being exceptionally annoying with their Browser strategy.

But that's just my IMHO.
That looks incredibly unpleasant (to me), makes positioning the cursor like slipping over oil. I prefer the discrete jumps that the cursor makes :)
volvo reliability is atrocious

bmw's seem to have been improving
We need a new word for a "fascinated yet discussed" state of being.
> 737 MAX 7 — the still-uncertified smallest member of its newest jet family

The first would be reasonable if there were hundreds of such planes already flying and grounding them would result in huge disruptions. But this plane is not yet certified. How can you go to the FAA with a half-baked product and tell them that you'll get it right eventually? Considering the whole MAX history?
Satellite communications also has the issue of bigger form factor and larger power requirements. Not an issue for a predator drone, but your DJI isn't going to be using satellite comms any time soon.

The more promising areas are optical communications (but this has issues with fog and atmospheric attenuation), or directional antennas. Like, a yagi on a gimbal constantly pointed at the control station.
They have some 'splainin to do then, on their home page. Not to mention, I don't even want my local apps to have the potential to do it.
I can't wait until the windows in our homes plaster ads over everything every time we look outside.

It'll sure be distracting when it's the windshields of our cars, but I do look forward to the legal drama when companies get sued for painting their "holographic" ads on top of the adspace other people already paid to pollute with their own advertisements.
> it cost literally nothing to tow the line

BTW, it's "toe" the line, in the sense that someone is concerned about the position of their feet relative to a line carved or painted onto the ground.
Yup, correct. And interestingly the article says it was in fact blocked from view in some territories.

Which makes me think that the copyright claim is not actually about the video content but likely audio.

So perhaps they have blocked in territories where the video is not yet public domain and there’s a copyright claim in the territory (USA) where some other copyright controlled element is causing an issue.
I think most users like having their sync setup automatically with their email, and most Chrome users have Gmail so it’s one simple step to sync.

Firefox has a separate profile process that is cumbersome. And switching profiles is even worse, I think you have to use command line switches to get profile manager?
I remember my brother who worked at Intel told me there was a guy in the compiler group who kept saying it didn't all have to be so slow, if you combined the editor, compiler, linker you could shorten the dev cycle tremendously.

Intel ignored him because, I guess they were all raised in the toolchain world and didn't want to change.

Anyway the guy left and started the Turbo line of compilers. Anders Hejlsberg? Didn't Turbo C come first?

Anyway blast from the past.
The article's examples use relatively expensive and human controlled quad-copters. They would be better off with a cardboard plank like the Corvo PPDS running an ArduPilot waypoint mission:

The Corvo Precision Payload Delivery System (PPDS) is a low cost, disposable
UAS that is optimised for the covert delivery of small volume payloads.
The PPDS is designed to be deployed into theatre in a flat pack configuration.

https://corvouas.com.au/corvo-ppds/

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

https://ardupilot.org/plane/docs/common-mission-planning.htm...
Or some sort of VAR.
Apple's market share is only 8.6%. I can remember the click-bait headlines 20 or 30 years ago lamenting the Mac's demise and portraying it as an irrelevant platform doomed for the Information Age scrap heap. (See
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/02/06/19/218246/dvorak-disc... about a 2002 John C. Dvorak column calling for the Macintosh to be discontinued - Dvorak's column is no longer online but the Mac is still around)

Firefox is still used by millions of people every day. It's not going anywhere.
I love all the comments that I'm reading here, but for most of the cases that are being presented, I'm having a hard time imagining myself needing to do the same, because for the most part there is always an app that already covers that need.

For example, your use case sounds like the ideal scenario for Settle Up. Me and my 2 closest friends have a running group where we annotate expenses and there's always a clear picture of who owes what amount and for what reasons.

Of course, tiny customizations like a dog's picture per month, are not possible to do with a 3rd party app :-)
French fries are cooked in a deep fryer, which is made of metal. There is no PFAS in or on a deep fryer.
I am.

These are the consequences of your own rhetoric. You are ignoring them for cheap shots to take the moral high ground. You can’t just say “I’m the side of artists” and conclude that you’re doing good. Your rule set is VERY WEAK and prone to abuse. It will not meaningfully protect artists at all.
This UN vote shows how completely isolated we are from world opinion
Apple got in trouble for this recently: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/11/apple-discrimina...
At least it will have a new purpose once the AI bubble bursts...
if it's Boeing, I ain't flying.
Really cool seeing some old music videos that were originally shot in film get the rescan update. I watched Beat It on YouTube the other day and was amazed by the quality.
while i do like and respect native americans, no one owns the moon and we are NOT going to let any belief or religion come into the field of science and tell us "no, cant do that because we believe X". we don't, with science, intrude in your beliefs, so keep your fsck beliefs out of science and human progress in space exploration
There are substantial differences in the way the site works. It no longer privileges genuine celebrities; the "blue check" is for sale cheap.

And it's heavily used by people with deeply unpleasant opinions, which tend to be more heavily promoted. The network effects of communication mean that your entire experience becomes more filled with that unpleasantness.

People left because Twitter was no longer enjoyable to them. The changes shifted the equilibrium that made the community work, and they left.

Some of that was just exemplified by Musk himself, who is a deliberately abrasive person, and made changes that amplified other abrasive people. He made a big deal about the right to speak, and so he has it. But he seems to have missed that other people have the right to not listen, and people's fear of losing that right drove them off the platform even before their feeds degraded.
A company (sorry “nonprofit”) going from 30% to nothing should be disbanded
they never implemented crypto, they are slipping away very slowly
Implants which modulate and reflect incoming radio signals back to the radar device, especially powered by the radio wave itself, is nothing new in clandestine surveillance.
I'm not a huge fan it has a Windows logo printed on it, but there are good usability reasons for the key, even on non-Windows systems, and there was just a big hunk of empty space between Ctrl and Alt before. So nothing is really lost for non-Windows users. It seems to me there are more pressing matters to get angry about than the logo on a keyboard.

And whether we like or not not, Windows is the dominant desktop OS, so "OS operations key" having the Windows logo i not entirely nonsensical really. Almost every non-technical person uses Windows, and even within the technical crowd Windows is probably the most common system.

Bit less of a case for the "Copilot key", although it remains to be seen if "becomes mandatory over time" will come to pass.
The article body is a decent (though myopic) history, but what a misleading headline. Irrelevance to whom?