skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, you know how to R/W data with a normal filesystem. You can chdir() to the location you want to be, look around there with readdir(), open() and read() or write() files in there, and all that.

You could also have a SQL-like API where could "select count(1) from all_files where path_root = '/usr' and owner_uid = 0 and world_readable = true" that allowed you to query files, or maybe kernel calls that looked a lot like the Amazon S3 API (PutObject, ListObjects, ListBuckets, etc.) if that turns out to be more efficient for certain usecases.

The normal POSIX filesystem calls are obviously enormously useful. I mean, they've been used to implement SQLite and PostgreSQL, so you can* implement those other kinds of APIs on top of it. I can also imagine it being the case where there might be a much more efficient way to implement specific workflows if you didn't care about all the conventions that POSIX brings along.
Two scenarios for testing experimental cancer therapies for dogs. Either you use the experimental therapy to treat cancers when they naturally occur in dogs, or you somehow give cancer to otherwise healthy dogs and then use the therapies to treat the cancer.
> largest egocentric multimodal labeled dataset collection platform

I'm not in the field, can you explain what you mean by this?
and how much do you know about the internal workings of that community? how much do you know about it's "future"? how transparent is it about how much time top level management and leadership are investing and how they are compensated for it? how much do you know about the financial sponsors of the members of your community?
Yeah I feel like it should reallocate if the size difference is great.
(CR study co-author here)

The tricky part, though, is that even with your client-side settings and privacy tools set up 100% right, any company that has your info can still send it to Facebook server-to-server, with "Conversions API."

https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2023/08/02/help-us-investig...
Ah Germany, where everything is precisely regulated, even the use of kitchen knives, which are of course unlawful to use outside of the kitchen. Nur in der Küchen schneiden mit dem Küchenmesser!
Here's a good article on the problem. Seriously, given how excellent most other qualities of life are in Germany, and how smart/educated Germans are, the Internet situation is jarringly bad (for anyone who visits or emigrates, and isn't used to it).

I think there's even a bit of pride about it, I hate to say. Germans are pretty proud of their outdoor activities and general physical health, and "device obsession" works directly against that... and is still not as much of a thing there as in the US for example. You could make an argument for it...

https://www.settle-in-berlin.com/why-is-internet-so-bad-in-g...

tl;dr Blame Helmut Kohl. Helmut was clearly the type of guy who would have printed out his emails (if he even had to email, if perhaps only by necessity) until the day he died.
So you can delete it? Cool. So there's no problem, then.
the genie that is the Fediverse (based on interoperable and open web protocols) is impossible to place back into its bottle.
> economic upside of cheap energy isn't being accounted for

It is: we anticipate companies to operate “indefinitely,” which turns to a high market value. Banks sell that stock, pension funds store it, and their activity is accounted for.

What we don’t consider (in the GDP, company valuations, bank transactions, or any metric) is how the millions of people who will survive the first mass wet-bulb death event will react.
Not infrequently, you'll get messages that then end up disappearing because enough people report the account. Also, there's your primary/general "inbox" for Messenger, and then there's "other" where people you "probably" don't know usually end up (that's an algorithmic "probably").

Not-so-interesting anecdote, but the missus was orphaned in the early '00s, but didn't realize she'd had blood relatives trying to contact her through Facebook since the late '00s until about 2015 due to the "other" non-primary inbox on Messenger that she couldn't access via the app, and only via the website (quirk of the phone she was using for several years as I don't think it was Android-based).
I'd push that it isn't just statistics. It is finding a way to overcome any learned experience and expectations. I remember people having a hard time understanding that the reason things fall behind the car when you toss them out the window is 100% air friction. To the point that many in my college classes would get that basic question wrong. Or, for fun, show an image of someone spinning a rock on a string overhead, ask what happens when they let go of the string with an arrow for where the rock will go.

Nevermind how many of us (myself included) have a hard time with the idea that .9999.. equals 1. Even more amusing when you consider few have trouble with .3333... * 3 doing so.

Yes, statistics can be particularly difficult to really internalize. I'm not entirely convinced it is uniquely difficult.
That, mixed with "there's a sucker born every minute".
my muscle memory says ":%s/foo/bar/g" but honestly, I wish it didn't.
I don't understand how slashdot can still troll me, I never even made an account on that site. I'll let this go, the hour is getting late.
I'm pretty sure the Soviet context is actually the correct one. The robotics tie in isn't far off though, as some of the earliest autonomous mobile robots spawned from cybernetics research.
Arguably, this logic should live in another place that monitors the service.

Especially that service startup failure is usually not something that gets fixed on its own, like a network connection (where exponential backoff is (in)famous). A bad config file, or a failed disk won’t recover in 10 minutes on its own, so systemd’s default makes sense here, I believe.
Perhaps the primary barrier between a person’s desire and their ability to do harm to the world is their need to bring other people in on the scheme. These other people have their own moral systems, incentives, preferences, and priorities. But through most of history, to do massive scale harm you had to convince a large number of people to your evil purpose. Technology in general reduces the number of people an individual needs to “get onboard” to affect the world, both for good and evil. Want to dig a big ass hole? The excavator lets one person with enough capital dig as many big ass holes as s/he wants.

AI is the ultimate “exercise your will without having to convince other people of it.” This is both the promise and the risk. So the relevant question is not whether one person of average intelligence is dangerous, it’s whether one person (or a few people) who can enlist the work of millions of average intelligences — without having to convince them of anything — is dangerous.
Humans are mostly harmless [citation needed]. We don’t know that about nonhuman general intelligences.
Pharlap's TNT was way more exciting to be honest.

I'm still trying to find the first early extenders though from 1987/88 no leads though.
Some people really thrive in the cage and would prefer to not acknowledge it's existence. That's what this entire thing really boils down to.

No one's saying she did something immoral. Instead the implication is that she broke some social code. Because of course we're all operating on the assumption that corporations hold the power and we should be grateful that they take pity on us to exploit us at all.
I find that Parquet works great for time series data in general. We use it a bunch for datasets of some millions of rows for each of 10-1000 devices, with typically 10 ish columns per device.
What I am missing is good support for delta encdoing, which often leads to the best compression for time series data. The format specifies delta encoding for all integer types however I find it to be poorly supported in most Python-friendly libraries (fastpaquet/polars/duckdb).
But he had no right to examine the app, or enter the database outside the app. Even if that is a simple task for an expert, it's still an obvious difference between legitimate usage of the app, and illegitimate usage of the database.

Wouldn't that account as reverse-engineering, which is often also illegal?
> Carbon capture is being successfully used all around the world.

[Citation needed]
This is the strategy famously identified as "commoditize your complement" by Joel Spolsky 22 years ago.
When I was much younger, I actually wanted to end up in a Norwegian prison for the free food and so that I did not have to risk unemployment/starvation after hearing about how great it was.

But no internet? Definitely motivation for me to work hard in life and not end up imprisoned.
I think this "high council of crypto wizards" is academia, at the end of the day we are talking about advanced math and i think there are many experts on that field eager to prove and correct each other.
That just got a lot easier for them.
> I'm suggesting the 5,000km^2 that currently exists as barren nuclear wasteland

Aren't you exaggerating by quite a bit?
Where do you think Germany is, in Missouri?

https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/31/22861188/missouri-govern...
Yes, Facebook Conversions API is server-to-server, so it circumvents the privacy settings and tools on mobile platform or browser.

https://www.facebook.com/business/help/2041148702652965?id=8...

Research using a browser extension or web proxy can't see CAPI tracking.
"Just build more" would work better if the production wasn't so unbalanced. 70% of the production is done during 6 months and it's 3% in December and January. Being mere 4 times cheaper than nuclear (in the short term) isn't nearly enough to counterbalance that. If it would be 20 times cheaper it would start to make more sense for a winter load.

> Still cheaper, and getting cheaper. Don’t ignore wind power too.

Wind is even worse than solar in this aspect, it can be down unpredictability and unlike solar, is closed to the maximum theoretical efficiency already anyways which means the only thing you can do is count on the economy of scale.

And before people tell me that it usually produces more in winter, yes it does, until it doesn't like the 3 weeks wind anomaly we had two years ago in the EU with close to no production.

I'm not predicting future tech of course, it's possible that "just build more" will work in the future, for now it doesn't though and from a large margin.
Pharlap 386 is mentioned on Links386, although its flies on by, and special->about
Sure, but we all have subscription fatigue. Say I subscribe to the New York Times and the Atlantic. But sometimes I like to read articles in the Washington Post or the New Yorker. How many subscriptions are enough? It's just like streaming fragmentation with Netflix, Apple+, Amazon Prime, Hulu, ad infinitum.
"Viewing" private data for purposes of verification of the issue. How about you just don't ship passwords in the application like some negligent troglodyte?
Well done WebGPU team!
Looking forward to the announcement one day that this has landed: https://github.com/gpuweb/gpuweb/issues/4195
Proxmox? (I appreciate that this is a significant change)
Aren't they removing that?
For me, they cut out most of a giant tumor, but couldn't get all of it without risking some vital organs. Then I got chemo for the rest. Interesting process.

Usually the cancer cells are concentrated where the tumor is. One of the first things they may do upon diagnosis of cancer is a PET scan (which shows you where cancerous stuff is throughout your body).

Life advice for all the young folks: don't get cancer.
You're damn straight I do!
200x is correct. What's happening is that he makes a vector with tons of capacity and only a few elements, so lots of wasted space. Then he turns that vector into another vector using an operation that used to allocate a new vector (thus releasing the wasted space) but now reuses the previous vector's allocation (retaining the wasted space).

It's definitely a sneaky bug. Not a "memory leak" in the normal sense since the memory will still be freed eventually. I'd call it an unexpected waste of memory.
That's a really great point. General Artificial Intelligence doesn't look like human intelligence. I guess that's the fear: we have never met another general intelligence before. We may as well be about to meet alien intelligence. One that is not constrained by a moral or social framework, and can copy itself at will.
Spotify Dominates Audio Streaming, but Where Are the Profits?
It isnt the choice that I would make, but what other people do with their money is their own business, and the science may prove useful.

However, those that call for state funded animal insurance, or mandates truly strike me as unhinged.
It looks great! I had the same problem while traveling by train during my time at university, so I created an app for that, including features for trains, buses, and even car trips.

It was called Sunny Boy - https://github.com/taranntell/SunnyBoy

I didn't succeed in generating revenue, but building it was a lot of fun!
Kudos and best of luck
Yes but wind turbines can’t melt down in that way. Even in a worst case scenario the literal blast radius is smaller. This has to factor in to the possible locations.
I don't think this is a concern of theirs - the new owners don't appear to have any plans for it to be around long enough to need another generation of people to run it.

It's likely that for whatever products remain after this purge, there will be no more major releases, only security patches and ever-more-expensive extended support contracts.
That's crazy cool. What financial incentive do they have to do this?
Yes, PDF is for consistent presentation, anywhere, any time, forever. Other formats are for content and other needs, including editing.

It's a question of the user's needs in that situation; to dismiss one or the other format or needs is just embracing ignorance as an easy solution.

However, if EPUB could get the precise formatting (maybe they already do), annotation, and long-term preservation correct, they could be all - or many - things to many people.
A colleague had a valid German driver license with a photo stapled on, way into the 21st century. Nice.
(What test environment?)

That will make you introduce error handling, but not necessary "correct" handling. "Retry after errors" is a great way to overload a system.
It was my favorite job I've ever had. It was intense in the best way. I didn't have much contact with Budnitz, but the other 6 founders showed such a strong passion for the community, it was impossible for me to not to come to work excited.

I'd say most of the negative stress I felt was from knowing that the user base was growing faster than we could fill in feature gaps that would keep folks engaged. I felt like we couldn't quite catch up, and by the time the money started running out and interest started to wane, it was too late.

A few learnings:

- 7 founders is a lot. I don't want that to sound like a criticism, it just means the company is going to feel a bit different vs a more classic 2 or 3 founder setup.

- Positive feedback loops within a tight team of highly skilled people has a huge impact on getting more stuff done. That's how I would characterize the engineering team, and it was one of the highest-performing teams I've ever been a part of.

- Don't build a startup on a custom, in-house UI framework ;)
Realistically these products aren't being killed; they'll still be available in subscription bundles just not as perpetual licenses.
What’s the problem with Apple including another app as part of iOS?
Programming in K
"I estimate, conservatively, that about 90% of papers published outside the STEM fields can be categorized as Cargo Cult Science."

Pot, meet kettle.

How many times have we had room temperature semiconductors and cold fusion breakthroughs again?
Human intelligence is not the limit of intelligence (or likely even close to it) - even if just considering the speed alone.

Humans are also more aligned by default given our shared evolutionary history, but even that doesn't mean we're perfectly aligned and some humans have been able to get others to participate in mass killing or death throughout history.
Nutanix
I get what you mean, and agree with the idea of Just Building Things, but, I also want to make sure that I'm building things "the right way" if that makes sense.

For example, I'm not new to programming, but am new to Go and have been struggling to figure out how to model messages as structs using composition rather than inheritance.

As one of, if not the most senior developer in the team that I work on, I have nobody to ask questions to, and even though the answers are out there, on the Internet, I'm still confused by them, which, IMO isn't super anomalous, but, still leaves me in a place where I'm yearning for feedback.
Not quite. GNU Taler's reference implementation requires explicit user consent for payment. But as GNU Taler is Free Software, you are free to modify the code on your system (and share your with others) to not require an explicit confirmation if you prefer that. Or even better, to add an option to do that on some "trusted" sites which you make configurable for each user via settings. I don't know if the risk is worth the UX improvement, but a key contribution of GNU Taler is that it is a Free Software payment system where you actually have the full four freedoms. Use them!
Yes it is illegal, wont stop someone. Fools.
Everyone coder in Germany should unionize and go on a password strike. Refuse to do any part of your job that requires authentication unless you have a signed written statement verified by a lawyer as to the scope and use of the access. And then only use that level of access.

Can you fix this bug? Sure, I'll be chilling on this sofa while you get me my access.
They weren't not allowed either, though.
OIDC/oAuth seems like the solution: make it somebody else's problem. But OIDC tokens can be stolen, they can change domains because of misconfiguration or bad redirect urls.
It is. I switched away from Gmail; many have.
They probably need a therapist at this point. They've been through a lot over the years.
Yes indeed they mention how to opt out of quantization directly in Chrome if you'd like (at your own risk) using the Devtools.
Does anyone have a link to an intro level/ELI5 document on phage v. bacteria and how that could help humans?
Sure, they built those things. But is this the place to extract value? Do they not extract value for their work at many other stages in their relationship with both users of their devices and developers of software for their devices? They already make money: 1. Selling the hardware. 2. Subscription for their own software/storage systems. 3. Yearly developer fees. 4. Apple Pay Transaction fees.

Also, a lot of these developers are suggesting they do everything that Apple allows them to do themselves by themselves, and Apple still wants to take a huge cut? If Apple were to say, have the exact same policy but only take a 5% cut, maybe people would balk less?

Some of the largest apps on the platform are free. These companies are using these resources more than smaller developers, but Apple has no way to extract money from these large companies. In that sense, these smaller developers that are subsidizing the platform for these large companies. I'd argue that this isn't the correct structure for the platform to have the apps using the most resources paying their cost.

You say you don't understand the entitlement, and then go on to say 12% is the amount that developers are paying to Apple? Why do you feel the need to use the lowest possible amount rather than the regular going rate?

It's 30%. 30% if you use Apple Pay in your app. 27% + 3% transaction fee when using the web and doing as much as are allowed to do by yourself, by yourself. Please tell me what edge case the 12% applies to, and if we can know how many transactions fall under that slim category.

Apple owns a huge computing platform, and has it locked down so that all commerce must go through them, and takes a huge cut of each transaction. I don't care who else is doing it, but this practice, done to this extent, is damaging to the users and developers for that platform.
I'd disregard people who claims your son doesn't want to code (Unless A. they know him personally and B. they've actually asked him).

I would introduce him to Udemy.com tutorials, such this one, where you learn to build a clone of the game Agar.io (www.agar.io) -- https://www.udemy.com/course/socketio-with-websockets-the-de...

I'd also search Udemy.com for the terms "game" and "3D game" and explore its catalogue of courses in the Skill Category "Game Design": https://www.udemy.com/courses/design/game-design/
Actually, a whole lot.

But that's a story for a different venue...
The current German law says something different currently. Getting access to data by overcoming protection is a crime. It doesn't matter what you wanted to do with this data if anything at all.

I've read current government had some plans to fix it, but they have a lot to do at the moment.
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How can you say that when they are simultaneously radically increasing coal power generation, as highlighted in the article? It appears to me they have an "all of the above" strategy driven by their desire for prosperity.
Microwaving is bad for steak, since steak really benefits from a browned exterior.

It's actually an OK way to prepare many fish, though. Many fish have a delicate flavor that would be overwhelmed by browning, and also a delicate texture that would fall apart in most applications that would brown them.

Poaching is a common way to gently raise the temperature of such fish until just cooked through, and you can emulate that in a microwave. Put them in a glass pan, add some water and flavorings (herbs, lemon, etc), and nuke until cooked through.

That's applied mostly to smaller, whiter fish, and to salmon. The bigger and redder fish like tuna, shark, etc. are more likely to be cooked the way steak is -- often not just rare, but raw in the center.

Anyway... I dunno if a $10,000 fancy microwave would be worth it as a glorified fish poacher.
Thats terrifying, systemd shouldn't pretend to be smarter than manual intervention.

That violates everything I ever enjoyed linux for, I left Windows because it thought it knew better than me.
It’s true that five stories is an economic sweet spot, but the idea is we could get five story point access blocks instead of double loaded corridor layouts.
Yup, the "Everything is an X" link is in the appendix to the second post :)

https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2022/03/backlog-arch.html#wiki...

I call it the Perlis-Thompson Principle, after Perlis:

It's better to have 100 functions on 1 data structure than 10 functions and 10 data structures.

and Thompson:

A program is generally exponentially complicated by the number of notions that it invents for itself. To reduce this complication to a minimum, you have to make the number of notions zero or one, which are two numbers that can be raised to any power without disturbing this concept. Since you cannot achieve much with zero notions, it is my belief that you should base systems on a single notion.

https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2021/08/history-trivia.html
Pre-Pooping Your Pants with Rust (2015)
why? loving aws right now, which products do you think they would keep vs kill
So the Fediverse should blacklist those CAs.
Yeah it is a chilling effect that will make German systems less secure, and other countries who are immune from German prosecution are going to exploit that. This story alone makes me refuse to work in Germany as a developer let alone in security.
> The very idea of having a bunch of files zipped is something that makes sense only for a device where the entire thing wouldn't fit into RAM otherwise, and that otherwise just adds senseless complexity.

Microsoft uses that, of course. Why is it senseless? It seems much easier to work with. The portability of one file, instead of directories, is great.
See also: "2001: A Space Odyssey"