skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In other words, failure to conform to some expectations leave them well off. Not begging on the streets.

Failure to deliver parcels to Tesla won't leave any Swedish postal workers on the street. A tut-tut from the manager, yes, serious consequences no. If the manager has read Tesla's recent job posting for a lobbyist to help subvert Swedish democracy, the tut-tut may well be delivered with a smile and a wink.
I've appended `; tput bel` to the end of long-running scripts to get the same effect.

Fun fact: the `bell` control character is part of the ascii standard (and before that the baudot telegraph encoding!) and was originally there to ring a literal bell on a recipient's telegraph or teletype machine, presumably to get their attention that they had an incoming message.

To keep backwards compatibility today's terminal emulators trigger the system alert sound instead.
It's way more complicated in the USA. You forgot U21 teams at European pro clubs. American Division 1 college sports is roughly equivalent to those but affiliated with colleges rather than professional sports club.

Division 3, intramural leagues, and physical education classes at colleges are a totally different thing. These are more in line with college/university sports in Europe.
The port is rated for 1Gbps, but the connection speed shown on the client's Windows Machine network status is only 10Mbps.

What do you do to resolve?
It's 25 years old!
I have been working as a database consultant for a few years. I am, of course, in my bubble, but there are a few things I really don't enjoy reading.

> No single data model can support all use cases. This is a major reason why so many different databases exist with differing data models. So it’s common for companies to use multiple databases in order to handle their varying use cases.

I hate that this is a common way of communicating this nowadays. Relational has been the mother of all data models for decades. In my opinion, you need a good reason to use something different. And this is also not an XOR. In the relational world, you can do K/V tables, store and query documents, and use graph functions for some DBs. And relational has so many safety tools to enforce data quality (e.g. ref. integrity, constraints, transactions, and unique keys). Data quality is always important in the long run.

> Every programmer using relational databases eventually runs into the normalization versus denormalization problem. [...] Oftentimes, that extra work is so much you’re forced to denormalize the database to improve performance.

I was never forced to denormalize something. Almost always, poor SQL queries are a problem. I guess this can be true for web hyperscalers, but these are exceptions.
I built something similar a few years ago: https://link.horse
Also fun random fact, but at a lot of major US public universities, the highest paid employee would be the men's football or basketball coach.
A lot of how we conceive of computation today is based on observation of nature. It's the a logical conclusion to the study of logic, which is a line of inquiry that dates back to antiquity when sophistry was becoming a real institution and there was yet no real systematic way of determining if something was true other than whether it sounded true.
There’s very little doubt that social media is hard to use in a positive way these days, and very little doubt that a race to the bottom on all our worst impulses is a big part of that. But the causal arrow is trickier.

The exact time period over which social media has become front and center in daily life is the same period of time in which we’ve watched financial crisis (massive net wealth transfer to the richest) move into loony ZIRP stuff / asset bubbles and attendant massive net wealth transfer to the richest, explode into a cultural war that seems pretty clearly about wealth inequality and social mobility underneath the tribalism paint job (the tribalism stuff is real but people living great don’t go in for populism in insane numbers) slide into a disastrously mishandled pandemic (during which we blew through all previous notional and discounted measures for what rich means), and now everyone is being told that inflation and unemployment are good (they’ve been cooking the CPI forever, that was going on in the 90s that I’ve seen, this made up stuff about abundant good jobs is new).

So whether it’s teens or Gen Z or whatever the case: they have parents and older siblings and can guess about their prospects. Your parents going crazy from economic stress or your adult sibling moving back home has got to be at least up there with unhealthy kinds or amounts of screen time as a stressor.

Now AI is looking like nothing but the biggest lever for hockeystick inequality in history and is overwhelmingly controlled by a few people who give many the creeps.

Is an unhealthy retreat into screen time (and fentanyl) the cause of social collapse? Or are people embracing escapism, tribalism, and substances while eschewing social activities and even sex because the donor class is going for the jugular and they’re looking to pull it off?

So yeah, I think you’re on to something looking a little further back, but it at a minimum very correlated with mortgage meltdown to the present.
Good point. I buy it when I see it in the supermarket, but a subscription makes more sense. Ordered!
I recommend this book a lot, but 'Cats’ Paws and Catapults: Mechanical Worlds of Nature and People' (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/223609.Cats_Paws_and_Cat...) is a great look at how biology inspires human design.

One idea that is important (IIRC from this book) is that many examples are really inspiration, and not direct copying of design. Biology works very differently to human machines, with very different constraints, so when engineers and designers try to stick too closely to the biological original, it may not work out very well!
"We announced Rama on August 15th with the tagline “the 100x development platform”."

Alternative to database company peddling their ware with misinformed rant.
1500$ MRR (or ~1000$ after taxes and operating costs) with a (native) Plex audiobook player for iOS and Android.

Android accounts for 85% of the userbase and has been the focus last year with a 2.0 release so it's in much better shape than the iOS version, which is still in 1.0 today. MRR is growing 5-10% per month, not sure how big the niche is yet. It's a lot of efforts to maintain both platforms as native apps with a high level of quality, but trully convinced crossplatform solution are not worth it either.

-> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.bookcamp.a...
Why does an appeal require government support?

There's no way reasonable doubt remains, what is the legal barrier that an appeal court is trying to deal with?

> But these would be largely symbolic acts because the government can't, at the stroke of a pen, quash a conviction

This is untrue. Judges may not like it but I don't really care. The parliament is legally soverign and the courts are subservient to interpret and apply the laws as written in the legislation. If they write a law that says these convictions mean nothing, then they mean nothing.

Common law constitutionalism is based on the fact that individual rights exist - not the right of a judiciary to have separate powers.
Enshittification.

Nag screens reminding you to top up your credits when using Notepad for its neo-autocomplete.
At 15:55 the two screens de-sync. He's telling it that the schedule is too intense and on one screen he lifts his finger off before he ends and the other is still on the button. It was definitely shot as a single take. But hey, I guess if Google can do it you can pitch LLM WeChat. At $200, I'm tempted to buy one, they could be as famous as Theranos.
Because many people are not great at entering their email addresses correctly and many sites don't require any sort of address verification/confirmation.

If you have a common word or common name email address at a big email provider then you almost certainly are getting: password reset emails, billing invoices/order confirmations, tax info, childcare/education notices, medical appointment confirmations, local government notices, business conversations, wedding invitations, etc.

All legitimate and not spam but intended for a different recipient.
> 1. If someone steals my laptop & breaks in, can they get access to all my history

Yes, but this is the case anyway with current shell history. I think if someone breaks into your laptop you have bigger problems than your shell history. It's best to get into the habit of not pasting secrets into your shell

> 2. After breaking, if they run `atuin key` will get them the key for my history which they can use from any device (if they know the userid)

They would need your username, your password, _and_ your encryption key

> 3. If you are running servers passing passwords as command line arguments in that device, they have all that.

Yes. If you're doing this, then all of your passwords are currently stored as plaintext in your home directory - with or without Atuin. I'd consider them no longer secure if this is the case, as any program you run could read .bash_history

Atuin by default comes with a set of filters to ignore secrets and not record them to history - AWS creds, slack creds, GitHub tokens, etc etc. So it may well reduce the impact of this
X-Rays Reveal a New Phase of Matter
That does not get combustion appliances to over unity of heat output. Condensing operation can get them to 96-ish%.
What about length prefixed strings? There's obviously "byte" terminated strings (start and stop codons) but there's probably situations where it makes sense for biological systems to store the length (or likely reading different lengths produces different molecules, as a form of compression) at the beginning and count it out.
I won't read it. I've been around for some time. Feel free to read clickbaits.
Are things like marriage licenses, driving licenses, registering land ownership, passports all free-gratis to acquire then? Which country?

You can't in general attend government offices in the UK. You can't rock up with your tax return, or apply for a passport, say. You can get paper forms from the Post Office, or sent out from the gov service itself (sometimes, some are digital only) and most libraries (and some other community centres) offer help to access online services.
If anyone wants to see a good example of the enquiry questioning, here's an excerpt.

Software bugs ruin lives, but corruption allows it to happen.

People, normal people, small postmasters, killed themselves after being wrongly disgraced for financial fraud while the C-suite of the Post Office falsified their accounting to award themselves bonuses.

https://youtu.be/CQzrB3kuqck?si=8tE2DGhKdGXLFxsy
If you have time to fix it, you have time to say thanks.
Estonia will be the European Silicon Valley. It allows companies to incorporate there without residency and has low taxes. It's the only EU member that allows that. By incorporating there, companies get access to EU economic mechanisms and the ability to form distributed teams around Europe. This kind of remote-first distribution will be the future. Workers that start with residency there can get a schengen visa which allows low-friction travel to most other European countries.
Ian hislop mentioned yesterday that computer weekly ran it in 2009. He implied private eye picked it up after that. I've been reading about probably once every two years in the guardian.

The thing that is so upsetting about all of this is that it's been pretty much ignored by government since 2009, the post office systematically lied and covered this up while knowing it was destroying innocent people. And the only reason they got traction was due to a docu drama last week. I don't normally feel like this, but I really hope people from the post office go to prison and lose their pensions over this. They deserve worse.
Incompatible ABI for Numpy is even worse. Damn you Tensorflow!
They are registered in England and Wales and they write about millimeters. I guess that they don't have 2x4 and 2x6 frames. Maybe houses there are built in a totally different way.
> You left out female good enough at sport.

That was intentional, the only movie including girls team I remember is “Whipe It”. The main character is in college and she fight to make sport instead of beauty contests.
Dan Ingalls – The Live Web. Drag 'n drop in the cloud (2012) [video]
And you still ignored the rest of my point. Today in 2024, most of the world is paying full price for their phones up front. Apple is competing in a market where you can buy an Android for tenth of the price . Yet, Apple is selling enough iPhones to make it one of the most valuable companies in the world
Wired enables a wider choice of higher-end headphones/IEMs, as well as avoiding bluetooth lossiness.
Did you read the article and code examples at all?
I wish Ian Hislop would drop his opposition to doing a sensible online version - I'd happily subscribe for access to the same content posted online, but when I get it posted through my door I find I don't read it.
Google probably tracks all clicks on links in mail. It is easy to see that unsubscribe was clicked, and then more mail that you mark as spam came.
US, UK forces shoot down 21 drones and missiles fired by Houthis
#!/usr/bin/env zsh

(mpg123 /path/to/processing3.mp3 > /dev/null 2>&1)

processing3.mp3 is the "task completed" sound from star trek,

then it's just `./foobar.sh && boc` or `./foobar.sh; boc` as appropriate.
These are definitely problems, but here are some positive points to balance the negative:

The price of renewable energy has fallen 99.8% since 1975 [1] and power generation from renewables has increased 800% since 1965 and doubled since 2010 [2]

GDP per capita is 5-20 times higher than in 1820 [3]

Life expectancy has more than doubled since 1770 [4]

Armed conflict causes just 0.2% of global deaths [5] and relations between nations have become more peaceful since 1945 [6]

5 billion people own smartphones [7], which are orders of magnitude more powerful than a supercomputer of 50 years ago, and which they can use to access the entirety of human knowledge in the form of books, articles, and free lectures from top universities, plus instant communication and collaboration with people across the globe. These are all things that the richest people in the world didn't have access to for most of human history.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/solar-pv-prices

[2] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/modern-renewable-energy-c...

[3] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-per-capita-maddison?t...

[4] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy

[5] https://ourworldindata.org/war-and-peace?insight=armed-confl...

[6] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/peaceful-and-hostile-rela...

[7] https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2019/02/05/smartphone-own...
For fun. Fun is a valid reason to do this.
Seriously? Do I come across as one?

I'm reporting what I see. That's all.
Not to be dramatic but atuin is life-changing. I can resume my working context from any project, no matter how far in the past (e.g. what docker or cmake or make commands I run). I don't need a personal wiki of cli tricks like an "ffmpeg cheatsheet" or whatever, I just access my own personal ffmpeg history.

Oh, also, I use tmux to split my terminal and do separate things in each one, so I like that atuin consolidates all the histories from my separate panes.
Specifically inspired by the human brain.

https://www.ibm.com/topics/neural-networks#:~:text=Their%20n...
Convolutional Networks made easy [pdf]
Quick summary on the basics of convolutional networks, taken from my Machine Learning and Deep Learning university notes.
That’s how I approach open source in the first place. And the part that others can help you along your way, while you allow them to use your code as well.
> the barrier to rolling my own is lower for me than introducing a Java dependency.

Really? I never had problems using some JVM base image and deploying via a Docker image, which is what I would be doing anyway.
In Division 1, it's rare but happens. Rather an exception. In Division 3, check out MIT, Caltech, or CMU teams. For these athletics is not a priority.
I setup Raindrop.io [1] to feed into Archivebox, mostly as an overcomplicated way to automatically submit the page to archive.org [2].

Raindrop is nice since it works in browser and as a phone app - so it truly is a single bookmarking tool. I mostly use it for search purposes, bookmarking things I may want to find again in a few years.

I rarely look at my Archivebox, but it's nice to know it's there with offline copies if I ever want them.

1. https://raindrop.io/

2. https://ecliptik.com/bookmarking-with-raindrop/
But still better than the alternatives that have been attempted so far.
From a European perspective, I would not say it's antidemocratic if parties who are pro-austerity get elected while being transparent about their policies.

However in my opinion, there is a great lack of "class consciousness" from the people who vote for these parties, in a sort of Stockholm syndrome, or because people easily fall prey to the sensationalist idea that you can apply household economics to macro-economics.
I would say there are two problems here that are different: intervention as it stands can regulate in favor of a few groups of people. More intervention can easily lead to more corruption.

As for austerity: reasonable people do not spend beyond what they have and if they do they do it in reasonable ways: things with an expected return on investment and with limited, calculated risk.

Yet what I see is increasing intervention and out of control debt.

Starting from these two premises...

I do not think austerity is antidemocratic in itself. What I see is that a high degree of intervention ends up doing a cost transfer to normal people.

But that would be a problem of hyperregulation, not from austerity itself IMHO. After all, I would say the correct philosophy is to spend what you have and measure the risk every time you go beyond that. Sometimes you have less, sometimes you have more, but I would not advice any person, business or state to go out of control about this. However, a state incentive is different from the former two, since they continuosly transfer costs by the force of law to unrelated people. Namely, I do and you pay, be it by friends regulation or by direct expenses and taxes increases.
Agree, that would be delicious.
If you're interested you could look to the lists of Rhodes Scholar's worldwide- the entry qualification (before selection for award) is to be triple top tier - reputable sporting positon and good academic marks and reputable public facing involvement.

Typically, in Australia say, an annual Rhodes Scholar might be a captain in a state cricket team and a viola player in the state orchestra and studying one of the STEM lines.

I could point to a Physics Prof who occassionally lectures at the Royal Institute with good sports and band camp cred from their youth .. or another teaching music in the US at a prestiguous school - but that starts to pinpoint my origins :)

https://www.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk/scholarships/the-rhodes-sch...
Private prosecutions like this are specific to England & Wales (Scotland has a separate legal system where I believe they are extremely rare; Northern Ireland is also a separate legal system).

While the incentives are not to reveal evidence the law is absolutely clear that all evidence identified must be revealed. The difficulty is that forcing and unlimited discovery to identify the evidence would break the whole legal system, and this is what parties can hide behind (for a while at least). We'll have to see when and how anybody will face the consequences of any failures to reveal the evidence.

I very much recommend reading the Judgements in Bates vs Post Office. As litigation progressed you can notice how it becomes apparent to the judge how Post Office legal tactics and behaviour undermined the prosecutions.
> I think there's are huge risk that we are about to realize that either social media cannot be made safe, at all, or that it has been made dangerous in order to make a profit.

People have been screaming that at the top of their lungs for years.
>very little doubt that social media is hard to use in a positive way these days

Horseshit. I use Facebook and Instagram and love both. When I see something I don't like, I click the 'Don't show me stuff like this' option. I have an endless feed of old european castles, guitars and a couple other obscure hobbies & interests. I have learned things about my hobbies I never would have otherwise and practice them at a higher level.
Agreed. It's like dining out versus having a healthy home cooked meal. Restaurants will sell you delicious food loaded with sodium, sugar, and fat because they want you to crave their food. Likewise, when you outsource your family values, entertainment, news to social media, you meet a similar problem.

Relatedly, beware of the hidden ads in social media. It takes much less money to astroturf a community like reddit than to advertise through conventional means (e.g. commercials, product placements, banner ads). You may be aware of ads on youtube, but you may not be aware of the ads in the comment section. I've seen youtube comments as follows:

Ed: Christ! My stock portfolio has gone down so much since the pandemic... it hurts.
Bob: Mine did too, however in the past year I've been able to recover financially.
Ed: Really? Please help me, how did you recover your losses?
Bob: I'd hate to share my secret, but Jonathon Harris provided me with amazing investment tips.
Sal: Mr. Jonathon Harris helped 10X our portfolio! You can reach him at jonharris@gmail.com

</ad scam>

That was my re-enactment of their discussion. Sure, that was an example of an obvious ad. But think of all the times you read a conversation about a product or service and became convinced to try something just based on a conversation between two supposed strangers online? I've never bought anything from a conventional ad, but I've purchased plenty of things after reading what the socials say about a product, and that makes me ashamed of myself. Word of mouth is effective for a reason, but it's insidious online. And that's where they get you. Steel your mind, when online.
I once toyed with the idea of viewing all the available compute and storage in the world as one big decentralized computer, with multi-tenancy and auth baked into the OS.
Looming Groupocalypse: The Google Groupsspaggheddon Cometh
Tuesday, September 11088, 1993

Usenet is dead.
Usenet has always been dead.
Usenet is dying.
Usenet is always dying.
Live with it.

Long live Usenet!

Google Groups is pulling the plug on Usenet. But the Eternal September will not end ...
Why is stdout faster than stderr?
I recommend reading https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/post-office-horizon-it-scand...

Private Eye definitely did a lot of work, but they were not the only ones, and multiple freelancers and journalists worked on it "in the shadows" for years.

The Post Office tactics of calling editors to make threats and play down the stories were also quite influential.
Its the best source of investigative journalism in the Uk, generally you'll hear about a story in Private Eye years before it gets to the national press or the BBC.

Its a great souce for stories of wrong doing in national and local government, business, schools, the NHS, transport, farming and the Media. They regularly report on miscarriages of justice which you'll never usually hear about and get to the root of certain stories that are only very superficially reported on nationally.

Its also a fantastic source of scurrilous gossip and rumour about politics and media which is usually accurate. They've been doing it for years now, since the early 1960's.

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