skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>western democracies jails "political opposition" all the time

No they don't. There are some complete nutters in Western politics who have never been jailed and are not likely to be. They are more likely to face the consequences of any law breaking where the "ruling classes" wouldn't and are also far more likely to be under scrutiny by someone looking for a reason to justify the prosecution but they do need to actually commit the crime.

Absolute Monarchies seem to be much better at getting things done because they can avoid the committees but Western Democracicies overall are much more reasonable and tolerant of dissent, even if not by as much as is claimed.
You could've asked them to add this option. They are very responsive and reasonable.
AFAIK it's only web purchases initiated through the app.

If you use a normal browser to buy stuff and it activates in the app, they get zilch.
> Parties don't really pick candidates any more.

But that was specifically because of changes in how the primaries worked, correct? I'm not sure exactly what went into that, but there's a pretty good argument that the current primary system has contributed to polarization.
> Microsoft’s storage reduction is driven by security risks [...]

> Sustainability is an important consideration that drove Microsoft to make that decision.

Why is a university IT's announcement written as if by Microsoft's PR office? The style of the announcement is very weird. Has McGill outsourced all IT support services to Microsoft, thus it is written essentially by them?
Realtime Avatars with Retrieval Augmented Generation
If you don't have an HOA, consider not leaf blowing or raking at all. There's not much point and local insect populations probably need them to weather winter.
> many people with autism consider the condition an 'identity' rather than a 'diagnosis'

To many people with autism, it’s the people without autism which seem in need of a diagnosis.
> Nobody (at the top) wants to reduce bloat because it would likely reduce rather than increase profit on short time frames.

And also because they were probably "the first guy", chances are that they don't even know about bloat at all.
> So then what? The answer probably should be that Google should buy up startups that have figured out product-market fit and just need to scale. They can’t do that though because the FTC is already breathing down their neck with anti-trust suits.

And for damn good reason. That kind of behavior quashes competition and encourages that ZIRP era thinking of growth at all costs so you can get acquired before everyone realizes your business model sucks. Maybe they should just focus on their core business so they don’t get buried in the shift to AI.
Probably waiting to see if enough people will tolerate a sweaty headset for long hours. Not to mention the weight.

Steve Jobs had approved several dumb Apple products, but I don't think he'd have sold Vision Pro to the general public.
IL-76 Candid [pdf]
Wow, that's such a long time. Different places have different rules, etc, and I don't want to criticise how Thailand functions, but this seems so excessive.

A young person has just lost their life over a Facebook post. It's dystopian as hell, and scary. It's stuff like this which makes me so happy I deleted Facebook. You never know when your 'footprint' might be used against you.
You're right; I somehow missed that part, and it makes me more skeptical about the overall article now.
Unbelievable! You would think that Hamas, which has ruled Gaza since Israel withdrew a decade and a half ago (as demanded by the US and without getting anything in return for the lost territory and uprooting its citizens), has just demonstrated with its October 7th mass murder, rape, torture and kidnapping campaign, supported by 75% of the Arab population of Gaza and the West Bank, that the time is just right for the 2-state solution to finally bring peace to the region!
I check HN whenever I pretend not taking breaks.
There is actually evidence that the market doesn't demand growth - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=JpB4 suggests that the market is chasing the base rate of monetary creation.

If a company isn't "growing" at ~5% p.a nominal, it isn't tapping into the money hose. What would be the point of owning it?
You pay $120 per year, not $10 per month.
They do that, this is what their various Labs and subsidiaries and internal accelerators are there for. The issue is that people figure out it's associated with Google and then expect it to be maintained as such.
Han characters are of course much larger than Latin characters, but the resulting space usage is more nuanced AFAIK. My data about the relative compactness of languages mostly comes from localization researches [1], and I believe CJK is generally more compact even when such differences are accounted for (but the actual expansion ratio can greatly vary).

[1] Search for "text expansion translation" to get the general idea. I've mainly referred to the guideline from https://eriksen.com/language/text-expansion/ but many other guidelines agree. See https://www.w3.org/International/articles/article-text-size.... about the general phenomenon.
Here in California, the gardeners show up en mass on Monday morning. Rise and shine, ringinginginginginging .... =)
Not likely. Large companies do not make these sorts of decisions based on fear of bugs. They make them based on revenue, strategic advantage, etc.

Can you imagine any hard-charging SV CEO saying "actually it might be a bit buggy or muck up our analytics data, best leave it for now folks, enjoy your weekend, take it easy"
This is good to know, because I think I already use those everywhere (except on my latest machine; I should fix that).

Even so, I will also be using this as a reminder to move my stuff away from Google.
oh interesting, i had the opposite experience. my handwriting has always been barely legible and after i started experimenting with gregg it became so much worse!
Of course, because very few projects need every feature of Kubernetes. But most projects need three or four of them, and many projects need something from the long tail too.

I’ve been running my personal cluster happily on k8s for years.
1. It gets worse. Often in aspdotnet we have programmers who will only remove loader on success so you could get a 500 internal server error response and the loader never goes away.

2. I think it makes it easier to get to your website without having to use search and it is easy to share like are we web yet dot org
It's 100% dependent on copyrighted material at least, even though you can't access an exact copy of it without access to the material it wouldn't exist. It's a messy issue, I have no idea how it will be solved since it's a rather new development for humanity, in the past when humans would collect knowledge from different sources to use them in a novel way there would be at least some kind of attribution, recognition of the sources, either being cited or acknowledged in a preface. With GenAI there's nothing, and probably not even a way for GenAI to tell us where it got "inspired" from to generate something.

It's going to be a very messy landscape for copyrights and intellectual property in the next years.
> By what metric?

I've never seen a chat app taking gigabytes of RAM before Electron, for example.

I've extremely rarely seen applications going nuts, eating several CPU cores and draining my battery in 20 minutes before Electron, for example. Now it's a weekly occurence.

It's improved only for developers who only know web development. And we users pay for it in hardware costs, electricity costs etc.
In fairness... The military bought it in a fire sale after it failed.

Totally agree on No Man's Sky.

Minidisc was questionable because it definitely found a few niches, of which I knew a bunch of people in college:

- Music Fans / Bootleggers

- Radio station DJ's

- People who thought portable CD players were too big (before MP3 players)

- Audiophiles(?)

It had some good use cases, it just didn't live up to Sony's Dream of becoming the new standard. Sony, for its part, had a few huge successes, but their past is littered with failed formats they hoped would be the Next Big Thing.
Yeah, I agree. Anecdotes like the GP's just show that big companies aren't immune to these problems (and some big companies are better-run than others). These problems can happen at any company. My experience, at both big and small and also medium-size companies, is that smaller companies usually have much less process and procedures, and can vary greatly from one to another. Big companies have evolved procedures and processes to try to mitigate these human problems. So, for instance, you're much more likely to see sexual harassment and discrimination in a smaller company: if the guy who owns the place is cool with it, it'll be the norm there. Huge companies don't get to be huge these days by tolerating that stuff, and they have a lot of money to lose in a lawsuit, so they put a lot of effort into insulating themselves: anti-harassment training for employees, etc.
> We need better tooling

It's not always that we need better tooling. Here I think we need better developers, as in "developers who care about this issue".

Developers are the ones including the bloat, right? If all the developers started working slower but including less bloat, what would the managers do? Probably the managers have no clue about the complexity of what their devs do: they just compare the tasks with t-shirt sizes (with estimations that are generally completely wrong, but they still use them).

The problem is that if one developer works slowly writing less bloated code, and their 3 coworkers keep adding bloat, then not only it's still getting bloated, but the first dev appears to be less productive.

It's a kind of competition between developers, where those who do the better job lose.
No, that's why I asked. Where are they? What are they doing?
Even if they did, based on past performance of VR headsets, I don't envision this being an iPhone like jackpot for Apple.

It will outsell during the first years due to people with deep pockets eager to own one, and then it will wither and die, like most of the other attempts.
I don't live through this misery, but I have to deal with occasional loud leaf blowers during my morning walks. Quality noise cancelling headphones do a really good job at mitigating this problem, bringing the noise level from unbearable to just "annoying".
This might sound rough but the lesson should be "don't be an idiot".

Time for shouting "king's naked!" comes eventually but people who ignore timing will end up losing this game. The secret to this is to understand how other decision-makers see the status quo. Who made a bet on this person? Who understands that he is THE problem? Is right now the best time for a direct opposition?

And sometimes it's just easier to accept that it may make sense to work elsewhere.
In Poland it's also socially unacceptable to be making noise on Sunday. I don't think there are any actual laws against it, but no one ever cuts the grass on a Sunday for instance. And yes, I also live in the UK now and it's really annoying that people don't keep Sunday noise free, with all the cutting drilling and what have you. Oh well, different society, different expectations.
Hopefully he does better at this than Chinese.
The fanboys spilled over to HN as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=176098

They were even at it after Reiser led police to his wife's body: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=240814

Best comment on that thread, calling out their ridiculous takes:

> I gotta say it: the guy was a f-cking murderer and yet you guys are arguing about whether he got a fair trial, even after he led the cops to the strangled, decomposing corpse. And then complaining about the sheer brass neck of a journo who fails to show appropriate respect to this f-cking murderer. What, just because he hacked on Linux once upon a time? Jeez, you really couldn't make this stuff up.
If Microsoft cutting cost by limiting storage capacity can be construed to be done for environmental reasons, then why can't Google lay-offs be construed similarly? This is not changing the mix of energy production, it is not changing the supply of energy, it just changes the demand.

Lay-offs similarly also reduce the demand on energy since people have less money to buy things that are energy intensive to produce, and have less money to pay their electricity bills and fuel.

Sure, in the long term this move by MSFT may reduce new energy producing capacity coming online, but so will lay-offs, and pay cuts, and recessions, depressions, famine and war.

I don't think it's bad that MSFT is cutting cost in this way, it makes them a more efficient business, but this is being done for cost-cutting, not because MSFT cares deeply about the environment, it just so happens that money is a proxy for energy (i.e. the ability to generate entropy) and most cost-cutting will also reduce energy demand regardless of the nature of that cost-cutting.
Normalizing flows and neural ODEs are becoming a bigger thing, and they do involve some more heavy maths.
They are primarily talking about VFX workflows, but they make it quite clear that their opinions of PNG extend to all other use cases too
A fun site indeed, but I felt that the entries were quite random. Many were successes that eventually failed (as many do) and others were failures that became successes, and everything in between. What's the real criteria for inclusion?
It would be great if Google supported rfc8414 and rfc7591. Right now most MUAs hardcode credentials instead of auto-discovering/registering/configuring them and decline to implement those standards "because the big boys don't support them". The practical result is that one cannot use oauth2 on their domain easily: the MUA needs to be told about which set of oAuth2 creds to use.

See https://searchfox.org/comm-central/source/mailnews/base/src/... , https://github.com/thunderbird/autoconfig/tree/master/ispdb and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1602166
Yes, it's very good.

Math Academy is much more dense and on-point that Khan's. You don't have to sit through 15 minutes of video when 2 minutes worth of text explanation does it.

It uses spaced repetition for topics that you aren't good at, and for recently learned subjects.

The topic dependency tree and automatic progressing to "unlocked" topics is obvious in retrospect, but here it's done very cleanly and unobtrusively.

The initial evaluation test is worth its weight in gold. It eliminates the need to grind through things that you already know, but still covers any gaps.

I had kids on Khan for few weeks and it was a hassle. The pace was too slow, too much time sunk into trivialities and they were bored most of the time. With Math Academy they sit down, they do their 20-30 min of focused hands-on effort and they are done for the day.
25TB would be $750 monthly if I read it right.

Compare that to datacenter NAS with RAID and with replica NAS redundancy and operating overhead (space, power, people), you're looking at a 9 months to 18 months price tradeoff before factoring in how to maintain a rotating set of users/accounts' storage. Storage is an area it's not difficult to do better than cloud if you are single user just storing one user's content, but it's much harder to do better than cloud if you have user management at scale to add in.
sgdt/sidt/sldt are some of these instructions. Don't know if there are others.

They give linear adresses of the processor's descriptor tables. Code running with paging enabled can't even read these locations, so they are pretty useless for user mode. But they allow user mode to get forbidden info from the kernel, and virtualizing lgdt/lidt/lldt becomes impossible because non-privileged code can see the values given to the cpu changed, and a save state/restore state is impossible under virtualization.

Under newer processors, flag CR4.umip makes them trap, so virtualization becomes possible.
> How do you go from good to great Programmer

You learn go for that.

Sorry.

I think a great way to improve your codebase is to write unit tests, integration tests and by using languages with more types than say, JavaScript or PHP.

If the language has a lot of conventions for types, you can add satisfiability resolvers (SAT resolvers) and what kind of assumed safety/security comes with that.

Also, do capture the flag events online (e.g. picoCTF is a great start) which teaches you a lot about naive assumptions and programming mistakes and the reasons _why_ you should never use C++ for anything critical, and why memory ownership always fails when humans do not agree on conventions.
>But also how do app specific passwords protect you if you have malicious software on your computer rifling through your files?

It minimizes the blast radius if it is compromised. A Google account provides access to much more than just email.
Fulltime employees at Google are basically the same as any other employee. They get the same benefits, can eat the free food, and generally I haven't seen any serious discrimination against them for being "not engineers". However, some of the things you've mentioned (e.g. building maintenance) are often done by contractors or outside firms, and for them things are often very different.
Looks.

>Q: Why does C3 require that types start with upper case but functions with lower case?

Hard pass.
The data shows that one sector grows faster than the other. To conclude from this that they care about the climate is wishful thinking.

Also even you yourself claim

> they need economic growth first

Which weakens your point even further.

Moreover your claim of

> only some countries do not build coal plants anymore

is completely unsubstantiated.
Strangely O365 handles most spam pretty well. I don't know why they can't do the same for outlook/hotmail/live accounts.
The thing is it doesn't have to be that way. Well, Steve Jobs showed that it didn't have to be that way for Apple. He was able to command authority and weave a narrative that stakeholders could believe in, so bigger long-term outcomes could be pursued. Google was meant to be this kind of company too. So why did Larry and Sergey and other senior Googlers, who had the Steve Jobs example right there to follow, succumb to quarterly earnings servitude?
The Vision Pro is definitely for early adopters, they've priced it so high that "normal" consumers won't even consider it.

Unless this flops completely and developers/Apple can't figure out actual use cases, there _will_ be a Vision Regular with all the stuff removed that's not 100% necessary for the main use cases (like the stupid "see your eyes from the outside screen :D) and it will be a lot more affordable.

Not Quest 3 prices, but still cheaper.
Some of those definitely stayed on Mastodon. Mastodon had a semi-successful transition. Small but stable in the medium term.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/25-suspected-members-ge...

3000 security personnel arrested members of a fringe German monarchist group, because of their cough credible threat to overthrow the federal republic.

This "political opposition", no matter what you think of them.
Not sure if you're sarcastic or not, so I'll answer your question anyway

EXEsc: a typo by the HN poster, meant to be EXEs, a plural of EXE, the Windows executable format

32-bit EXEs: Windows executables complied for a 32-bit architecture such as x86

xNix: a general way to refer to Unix like systems (Linux, BSDs, MacOS, etc.)

64-bit xNix: most modern operating systems and PCs use a 64-bit architecture, which require additional dependencies to be installed to run applications compiled for 32-bit architectures

So to sum up, this is about running Windows-only software, such as games, on modern Linux and Unix like systems
First Steps with Nix
Some of the runaway gaming companies were like this as well. Zynga comes to mind. That changed quite quickly.
An open source stack for real-time multimodal AI
I hate to break it to you, but electric ones are loud too. It's the blower that is loud. Not the motor. I have a big ass backpack one and it's not any louder than the little handheld electric one I have.
The point is to pile up the leaves so they can be manually collected, put in bags etc. The "suck" solution makes sense if you don't have a lot of leaves, but people with large yards or lot of trees need large bins or even trucks to collect the leaves after blowing.
That aspect could be leaner, indeed, although all those processes put together can easily consume fewer resources than a single bloated program or a web page, especially if they do not include a particularly large DE. The systems I have in mind as references are Debian with Xfce (runs on an old Atom-based netbook, taking 600 MB of main memory altogether), or Debian on a server with a bunch of common services (web, email with related services, XMPP, Gopher, IRC bouncer, authoritative and caching DNS servers, etc), also consuming under 600 MB (under 400 without DNS cache), with CPU load coming mostly from fail2ban, but being pretty close to zero. On the other hand, there are KDE and GNOME, which would probably at least double that resource usage.

To be clear, I brought up GNU/Linux distributions as examples of container-free packaging, and as notable collections of relatively lean programs, but not necessarily as an example of the combined systems being particularly lean themselves. Though then again, compared to something like recent Windows versions, perhaps even the Linux-based systems with larger DEs would seem lean.
> Because a lot of people nowadays just use a browser. That’s 99% of what a computer is to them.

Doesn't mean they could not learn that it is not. I think that developers underestimating users is a problem. "They are too dumb to run a desktop app, so let's put everything in the browser" is a weak argument to me.
I’m not sure you understand what advertising cares about. They care about reach and brand value, both of which have dropped for Twitter. “Politics” is a component of brand value, but it’s got nothing to do with reach, which is falling through the floor.

But equally “politics” doesn’t explain the drip in brand value, either. The FIFA World Cup has _dreadful_ politics, advertisers don’t care because it’s still a great brand with a huge reach.

Musk is rich and connected enough to be able to ignore commercial reality for a basically unlimited amount of time, but I seem to recall you were arguing elsewhere on this thread that company owners should only care about the money a company makes.
The specific report they are referencing is here: https://chasesantacruz.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Econom...

The cost includes a (now) roughly 1300usd pre-tax battery backpack.