skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can ignore my phone indefinitely. Leave it uncharged for a weekend, or even a week.

My spouse obsesses about it, to the point of badgering me to check out some notification that I'm ignoring. Can't rest until I've looked at it. If I ask her to stop, she gets upset, I'm picking on her. Gotta be addiction.
patio11 has a huge and well known bias here, which is that he wants to claim, not necessarily with evidence, that all inefficiency is caused by governments and not by the private sector.

A comparison of tax filing in the United States with other countries, including those where governments are much bigger and more interventionist, leads to a different conclusion.
>If requested I will create a Firefox version.

Please create a Firefox version.
Thanks, had credits that needed burning so picked up an Audible version of that.
> The actual distribution used to _run_ all Meta backend services is completely separate and built from source (it does share the kernel).

That does not seem to be true. The hosts I'm looking at have systemd and glibc RPMs that were built on centos.org hosts, with coreutils from redhat.com. The kernel was built on a Facebook host, but that's it (of the handful of components I've spot-checked).
I often run into these sorts of issues when upgrading Ubuntu. A couple times, with major upgrades, it decided to rename network interfaces, resulting in various systemd services taking minutes to time out and continue. It would be nice if I could at least control-c it from the console. Super annoying when you're debugging things and have to wait minutes between cycles.
How will I know what B1FF is up to?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIFF_(Usenet)
Copyleft in no way prevents users from choosing to use alternative software. It merely prevents them from stripping away the associated freedoms for other users.
It seems appropriate to share an article of Ray Peat's here.

https://raypeat.com/articles/articles/dark-side-of-stress-le...
> We estimate that we'll complete the whole process by the end of November.

is this a mistake? 11-month long recruitment process?
Jack Welch is (in)famous for his management style and the impact that his style has had on American business.

I won't opine too much on it, but the most concise way to put it is an extreme concentration on producing shareholder value as quickly as possible at the expense of basically everything else.
Sounds like a great way to create an airplane company that no competent people will want to run. Might want to think through the game-theoretic consequences a bit further.

For example, instead of ranting and howling about prisons and guillotines, you could point to some successful examples of other companies or orgs that have operated in a similar fashion. That might provide more productive grounds for further discussion. Any good examples?

... Yeah, I thought so.
Recent and related:

'everything' blocks devs from removing their own NPM packages - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38873944 - Jan 2024 (102 comments)
What do you mean? Belgrade is not even in Kosovo.
I have met some of them. And I can say for certain I find using a dishwasher more fun than washing by hands. Even if it's family time etc. etc.
I agree, it's not a point mass falling in a vacuum. But they'll have a ballpark idea (probably within a few square miles) of where it is.
"just had a framebuffer" != Using fbdev. fbdev is a specific outdated API, which drivers only emulate for compatibility with e.g. fbcon (the kernel's terminal emulator).

KMS is how you control the display hardware formally on FreeBSD and Linux. Other platforms will have their own APIs for doing this, but you are writing all the bits of a display server for that platform.

And, well, a small kiosk Wayland server is basically just KMS + libinput + a tiny IPC layer. All you save by doing this yourself is the last bit, but at the cost of having to deal with e.g. display modesetting and GPU buffer management.
The two lost air frames from the MCAS issue were 8's I'm sorry to tell you. But its been two hours so hopefully you're in the air and/or landed safely already :)
Here’s an idea for how it could work while preserving your privacy.

1. User verifies their age with a trusted party (which may or may not be a government body)

2. User requests a token from the trusted party. The token is signed so 3rd parties can verify it. The token also includes the public key of the user so 3rd parties can verify whom it is for

3. The user shares this token with the 3rd party site, who is now able to verify the user’s age. Note, the 3rd party site never has to contact the issuer of the token other than to get their public key.

With this model, the token issuer is not able to connect the user to the 3rd party site directly.

We can, of course, think about possible attacks but this is just a basic illustration of the possibilities.
I agree with this comment 100%. I stopped drinking and lost 20kg by changing my diet and taking up exercise.

There is one caveat:

You can make it easier by making better decisions sooner. I stopped buying shit food. I started making better food more often. I planned my day around exercise.

No temptation from being at the pub. No temptation from snacks and sweets at home. Not temptation to skip a day because I had already exercised and would exercise further.

We are powerful and building structures in our life is arbitrage from when we have excess power to when we need our power most.
Try shopping just the exterior.

The head of UI at Homegrocer was a friend of a friend when they were at their peak, and I was in the middle of my second affair with UX, so we occasionally talked.

He told me he was getting pressure to incorporate dark patterns (though that phrase hadn’t made the rounds at the time) into the site design to get people to do more impulse buying.

Sadly if he had they might still be around.
At least let me cancel it from the console easily: control-c and continue. Waiting on retries that are never going to succeed is incredibly annoying.
That lower trade in is also often worth it to avoid having to deal with selling a computer on eBay/Facebook Marketplace or whatever.
Several reasons firstly Universities arent mortal individuals that live a 80 to at most 110 years, these are institutions that many of which predate the countries they are in.

Secondly they are receiving endowments from many individuals and organizations on top of tuitions and cuts off the top of grants researcher working there receive.

Thirdly they arent just getting simple compound intrest from money setting in a savings account instead they run private equity funds and hedge funds, which are themselves morally suspect
> Any kind of law that mentions a company by name should be automatically rejected, unless

No "unless". No law should target a specific company or individual by name, ever, whether to give them special exceptions or special permissions or special restrictions or anything else.

(They also shouldn't target specific companies by sufficiently-specific-description-it-only-applies-to-one-or-two-companies, either.)
He wasn't going to win any electors in Colorado anyway. The only reason it matters at all is that it affects down ballot races.
Is tank turn common terminology? I’ve seen skid steer used for this kind of thing on the digger vehicles.
>Instead, we must find strategies that don’t require us to be strong.

Similar to the title, is is again framing it as an either/or situation.

Reality is that strategy+ willpower is the winning approach. Making change will almost always require strength, but strategy can make that requirement lower.

Throwing out your cigarettes/beer/ junk food makes abstinence easier, but it doesnt make abstinence easier than buying more.
The premise that MCAS makes pilot type training unnecessary, then under some circumstances the pilot should override MCAS, is dangerously flawed.
Canada Blocks Citizenship for Russian Conviction for Criticizing Ukrainian War
This thread is 4 hours old and the BBC article pretends to be an hour old. Did a moderator change the link or is BBC displaying wrong timestamp / redirecting to a newer article?
I cannot speak to other areas but in Detroit cameras have made a huge difference. In Gilbert's case he wants the area around his buildings safe. Detroit police are understaffed but Gilbert's cops augment the force and work closely with them. It matters to them if someone gets mugged or assaulted and they have the manpower to keep up. I've left bars at 2 am and walked to my car feeling very safe. I cannot say that about SF or Chicago anymore.

Detroit police have launched Operation Greenlight and placed cameras with cooperating merchants mostly gas stations where a high levels of crimes occur. Part of the agreement with the merchant is they promise a high level of response when there's a crime in progress. Detroit dropping down the national list on carjackings I believe is a direct result of Operation Greenlight.
They've sold nearly 6000 Max's. Seems like the market accepts that behaviour.
You raise a good point, and there definitely exists a pile of related jurisprudence on the subject of "attainder"[0]. Afaik that only applies to negative consequences though.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_attainder
They're two different things from two different eras of storytelling, technology and production values. I would suggest trying to enjoy them separately, because it's really hard to compare them. It was cool to watch and look for inspiration in to the show, but at best those are homages, not threads.
Yeah, me too! Been using FFF for about 8 years now.
It is interesting that a forum filled with a disproportionate amount of techies still fall for such biases
there used to be a quicker (9 or 11 km/h depending on sources) walkway in Paris metro, but apparently too frequently broken https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trottoir_roulant_rapide
Your going to hate distrowatch.org then.
> So they angled it, changing flight characteristics. Thus, MCAS, because the entire point of keeping the 737 - a 55 year old design - alive is pilots not having to do an entirely new type certificate.

Holy hell, anyone who does computer modelling can tell you how insane this is. The model, or instrument, will never be able to cover the entire domain space of the real world conditions. You can’t do this an expect nothing to go wrong.
I worked for a guy who said he would take up smoking at age 75 because he'd calculated the impact on his remaining life span at that point would be minimal.
Allegedly, some of it can be attributed to the extensive use of carbon fiber in the A350s fuselage and wings.
Thank you! I haven’t implemented search yet but that’s the next big feature on my list. Filtering should work on the home page based on software type, and if you click on a post you can then filter on related tags. I hope that helps!
Text rendering is almost always mediocre in screenshots, because the subpixel geometry can't be matched.
Again the article already says all of this. The issue is people judging the entire thing by the title.
It doesn't work, until it does. But perhaps some other thing actually did the working.
It's not super easy. You need to allocate a buffer, modeset the display and commit the buffer.

But if you're doing that, then you've implemented a big portion of a display server. So... Just use one.
> I would assume more Androids are sold and in use with GMS than iPhones.

As of 2023, Android has approximately a 70% global market share (iPhone has almost 60% in the US), but we don't know exactly how many of those run GMS. There's a list of supported devices [0], but it'd take forever to sort through it, and we don't know:

- how many devices there are not on that list

- how many devices have hacked/"pirated" GMS anyway

If Google were to pursue something like AirTag, it could probably work okay enough, except:

- It'd likely have worse/coarser coverage than Apple AirTags, simply due to the variety of Android phones out there, and the fact that most of them will never be fully updated

- It'd likely take a while to introduce because of the need to wait until enough phones are updated for the tags will work properly

- It'd likely not have the same quality of user experience, and Google is not particularly known for privacy

Re coarser coverage, there are also likely to be huge dead zones where e.g. the dominant phone manufacturer is Huawei, which is hated by Google and no longer allowed to manufacture phones running GMS. Xiaomi doesn't have Google Play, but they still have GMS.

[0]: https://storage.googleapis.com/play_public/supported_devices...

> Also it's a very interesting point about China and AirTags. How come it's not forbidden by the CCP?

Probably because it's invisible. Consumers have no visibility or say in how their iPhone tracks nearby AirTags.
Drug storks will soon start traveling in couples or under surveillance by a high flying drone. It has been proven in the last months that a drone can easily follow other drones home and kill the drone operator (or the drug receiver) if needed
How would you gather evidence of such incidents?
Maybe they just don’t trust you enough and all of the machines you think are physical hosts that you ssh into are in fact nothing but containers, and there is a whole other team of people at said company controlling the real servers :thinking_face:
Technical ability and knowledge just doesn't correlate with critical thinking at all. At worst, it makes you more likely to fall into that common trap of believing you're "smart" and therefore know everything about everything.
Also, people claiming such wins and calling others weak for not doing the same come across as a bit... not self-aware? If your will power is so great why did you end up with these bad addictions in the first place?
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Google Groups ending support for Usenet - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38649554 - Dec 2023 (198 comments)
> Exceptions are raised _before_ a process enters an undefined state.

There is no exception to raise if the state is defined. Why bother? If you know how to divide by zero, just do it! Except you probably don't know how to divide by zero, so you have found yourself in an undefined state and need to bail.

> If it's an external API, there is a layer on top that converts some useful exceptions into error codes for the JSON response.

So you have an exception, that you convert into an error, that you then (on the Java client) handle as if you were writing Go to turn it back into an exception...? I take that you didn't take a moment to read what you wrote? You must have misspoke as that would be the dumbest idea ever.
If you had failed at losing 40lbs of weight and quitting alcohol dependence, would you be here writing that the only reason you failed was lack of willpower?

Rich people always think they worked hard to be rich, while poor people rarely think they deserve being poor.

Attributing success to internal factors while externalizing failure is actually psychologically healthy, at least much more than the reverse, but it still leads to certain cognitive biases. Yes, some level of magical thinking, "You just need to want it" is actually sometimes helpful on the PERSONAL level but it is just a convenient lie we tell ourselves to keep pushing on. It is a very harmful lie when people try to understand society in general with this.

The truth is that we can only break habits when external and internal circumstances align to allow us to do so.
Well I wouldn't worry much about inanimate objects (especially looking at how we treat animals already).

But then consider higher order systems like a forest or human society itself. Can those have consciousness or at least some sense of experience?
Interactive SQLite Playground in the Browser
They have updated the article. All the other reports are from 10:44am PST. BBC story is showing 13 hours ago on google news, which doesn't seem correct either, and 1:51pm PST when you click on it.
I told you it depends. There are AAA games for console and gaming computers and there are casual mobile games for example. Very different markets.
This was 2004 through 2005.

This was the site:

https://web.archive.org/web/20040925205401/http://txtstar.co...
Use ldd on any service binary to see that it's linked against a separate distro.
(It's best to use the ldd from the corresponding platform).

There are actually three distros on each host. Current runtime platform, previous runtime platform, centos platform.
Why would techies be less susceptible to bias compared to the general population?

That statement itself seems like it would be a cognitive bias.
That's why serial exaggerators are corrosive to a community. Yeah, did phones with a video camera exist? Yup. You would have had to be there, know the 8-step fermi estimate chain for the likelihood for a multitude of reasons. (ex. these were slow, terrible beasts extremely difficult to use, they'd very rarely be a heat of the moment option, and if you were preparing, there were a multitude of 100x quality options that anyone who had a video shooting phone then would have had)

Even then you have no defense for taking them too literally, there could be 1000 reasons you're actually just angry and taking it out on them, have a personal dislike, etc.

Another way to talk about why it's clear: inter-alia, multiple rich "bored housewives" throwing themselves at computer repairmen is about as likely as obtaining multiple smart phones with video capabilities and videos and selfshot porn videos on them in the early 2000s. Much less when you start throwing stuff in like "actually I was warned of [the housewives x computer repairman problem] before I took the job!" Lmao.

Usually you wanna be thinking about the cumulative probability of what they say, not the one-off probability.
Thanks! We merged that thread hither since the current article seems to have a bit more background.
Now I added a README.md file, which links to the Specification file, and a few brief other things too. (It can be changed in future if necessary. Issues can be added to the GitHub in case anyone has suggestions, I suppose)
Well, I had personal contact with several large-scale pirates, and AFAIK, they were not involved with organized crime, they were merely well-placed to do high volume transactions.

My first job I had a peer, a low-level contracting employee. We worked in the NOC of a regional ISP. Therefore our backbone was a powerful T1-T3 in the early 90s, and we had comparatively massive storage capacity. This fellow was basically college-age, and he amassed a gigantic repository of pirated software which he termed "AHAB". Most of the other staff in the office knew about his AHAB repository, and he distributed the stuff via anonymous FTP. Often we would partake in such AHAB hauls, but I tried to stay away and stay ignorant of the inner machinations of this stuff. I was ostensibly a legit employee for a legit ISP.

Then not too much later, still mid-90s, I went to work for a VAR of SPARCstation clones. The IT boss guy was a prolific pornographer. He was well-known on the relevant Usenet groups by a pseudonym. I had no trouble figuring out his identity, and his office was obviously set up so coworkers couldn't find out about all the porn he viewed on the job. His big Sauder desk was facing the door and the monitor was not visible by anyone in the room except him. So he also took advantage of the employer's decent Internet connection and our sizeable Novell storage network, to store his porn and trade it, I guess for free, with other Usenet posters.
Oh, login here specially to reply.
Not really, pkp site is an old slow garbage with bugs, it makes everyone cry.
So, you can buy, just do not expect it would be a good experience buying.

Apparently, railway companies cannot make sites.
An emergency divert due to serious in-air fire could last far longer than 20 minutes.
subpixel rendering is a hack for people with low resolutions
The reason Boeing had to buy them was that nobody was willing to do so otherwise.

Now whether doing a full blown merger vs an asset deal would have been more advisable can be debated.
Not to be the “have you tried AI?” guy, but I feel like this could be a GREAT use case for some kind of LLM-powered search! “Show me good options for displaying dense data” or something would be sooooo cool.
This is just undirected cynicism. It doesn't even engage with anything in the article, which is considerably more in-depth than your comment implies.

While social sciences and behavioural research as a field has its share of issues, to claim it's "all just nonsense and bullshit" is far more nonsense and bullshit. And what's the alternative? "Common sense"? "What my dad told me"? Because that's always on point...
Grim for whom?

The 300 employees currently on the job market, it's not that grim for them. It's better to have some clarity, rather than live a half life. They can now focus on getting another job. My guess is that most of them won't have problems landing a new, and potentially better paying job. They participated in a project that resulted in the first NRC reactor certification in a very, very long time. Literally nobody else can put this on their resume. There are lots of nuclear startups out there, and they probably have troubles finding qualified people. They'll jump at the opportunity to get some ex-NuScale engineers.

As for NuScale itself, they'll be fine. Their most important asset is their reactor certification. They don't have experience actually delivering even a single operating reactor. But that certification is gold. For many other companies that want to get into the SMR game, it would probably be much easier to license the NuScale design than to go through the decade long process of getting their own design certified.
>Ethical considerations. In this work, we only used data publicly available on the Web and did not interact with online users in any way. We study and make several deplatforming events available.
Yet, each event was covered in news pieces and widely discussed on Reddit, leading us to believe that we are not infringing on reasonable privacy expectations

This is the ethical consideration of the mentioned paper in its entirety. As far as i could see not one word about about the risks of deplatforming or its safe use. I would call it negligent if malice wasnt an equally likely explanation. You apparently dont need safeguards if you just believe hard enough to have good intentions.
Most people use automatic indentation in Lisp, though.

Thing is: Lisp is different, it's more fluid in its shape than a language, where the code only lives in one source file. My own code and data gets reprinted in the development process on many places. I have a source file, I may look at a pretty printed macro expansion, I'll see a code fragment in the debugger, I'll re-flow some code in the Listener. Sometimes I use this IDE, then I use another one, then the code looks slightly different. But it always follows a set of rules.
Have you heard of Newton, Pascal, Maxwell, Leibniz, Pythagoras, Einstein, Aristotle, Curie, and Turing? Do you know what they did and a little about their lives?

They were likely all dead before you were born.

Do you know some things about the Manhattan Project, Bell Labs, Bletchley Park, the Apollo Project, the Gutenberg press, the invention of carbon steel?

That’s history.
Namespaces, for one.
These titles are so... manipulative, it hurts my brain now. "How do we really hit home that its a chinese made missile? Make sure nobody confuses it for one we made or something? I know, lets bastardize the entire english language and shove in "china missiles" into the middle of a sentence
So you think that the failure of industry regulation is not due to capitalism as it actually exists? What then causes regulatory failure over time?
> but from a flyer-safety standpoint the statistics show most Boeing aircraft in operation today are extremely safe.

it's the ones being delivered right now I'm particularly worried about

such as the two month old one here where the side fell off