skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apologies for the long quote but this goes some way in covering it;

>As fan communities now have endless forums and formats to debate and discuss, there’s been a shift from simply being a fan of something to somehow assuming ownership of it. The combination of Reddit boards and social media means internet die-hards begun viewing their roles not as passive viewers, but as active policers. Some critic doesn’t like the latest Marvel film that you’re pretty sure you’ll love? Get ’em.

>And this curious urge – worse in the sci-fi and superhero genres and infinitely worse in young male fans – has reached its nadir in the young, male sci-fi fandom of Rick And Morty.

>Even mentioning the show my colleagues at GQ provoked a response of mild disgust. They hadn’t seen it, one said, but had always been put off because of the fans. I know exactly what they mean. And it has only gotten worse.

>When, in a joke in the third-series premiere, Rick says his whole motivation isn’t to avenge anyone’s death, but was instead “driven by finding that McNugget sauce. That’s my series arc”, referring to a promotional Szechuan dipping sauce that McDonald’s used to sell in the late 1990s for a promotional tie-in with the movie Mulan, the fans took him at his word and the very next day began online petitions to demand its return. McDonald’s, never one to bypass free PR, announced a few months later the sauce would come back for a limited time. But it didn’t have enough for the demand, so the fans then protested – online and in person – and, in some cases, the police were called. To repeat: McDonald’s dipping sauce.

>If sauce entitlement is one thing, the fans took it to a whole new level by the end of the third series. The Rick And Morty writing room had always been a bro club and so creator Harmon had hired some new female comedy writers to even out the imbalance. The fans, convinced they were the cause of what they saw as a dip in quality in the third series, went after the new female writers online individually, abusing, threatening and slandering them on Twitter and creating Reddit threads just to smear them. They even doxed them, publishing their personal information online.

>And don’t just take my word for it. Even Harmon despises this sector of his own fandom.

>They want, he told Entertainment Weekly, “to protect the content they think they own – and somehow combine that with their need to be proud of something they have, which is often only their race or gender… I’ve made no bones about the fact that I loathe these people. It fucking sucks.”

The full article: https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/rick-and-morty...
"I will honestly prefer to just ban all tech from schools."

But can one really hope, to prepare students for life then?
ZX Spectrum Bubble Bobble: graphics routines
In Czechia, the track (much like the highways) is managed by a state corporation, while the trains themselves are partly state-owned, partly private.

From my 25 years of commuting experience, the results are decidedly mixed:

* the track-managing state corporation, Správa železnic, is a shitshow that causes a lot of unnecessary delays by just ignoring needs of passengers and cargo companies alike; true bureaucrats,

* the highway-managing state corporation, Ředitelství silnic a dálnic, is very well managed by the latest director (Mátl) and really kicked off many projects in last years, which is notable in a very NIMBY-friendly country like Czechia,

* the state-owned railway company, České dráhy, used to be terrible, but competition forced it into providing quite decent services within last 10 years or so.

* the two main private competitors, Leo Express and Regiojet, are now visibly cash-strapped (esp. Regiojet), so the overall level of service has stagnated for several years. High costs of traction electricity don't help either. As of today, there isn't really a qualitative difference between boarding state-owned or privately-owned trains.
The CPython API is the main source of overhead in FFI. It is why using numpy to multiply lots of small matricies is so much slower than one large one. This has prompted people to support the simpler and faster HPy API.
https://docs.hpyproject.org/en/latest/overview.html
>Residents can trivially grind any project to a halt because controlled burns are practically impossible, given California's pollution standards, without these permits and exceptions from the state Air Resources Board.

Do they realize how much pollution is produced in the California's uncontrolled forest fires? Laws should not be that stupid.
Maybe some EU country would like to step in and offer this as a basic service to all their citizens? (I'm sure Mozilla would be happy to give a discount.)
Do ads on YouTube go away if you sponsor a channel? Patreon, etc? (Serious question)
It's definitely a reasonable trade-off given the circumstances. Do you know whether Supabase teams who use this extension simply avoid using any non-JSON Postgres types? Or do they lean on workarounds (e.g. JSON-LD encoding)?
This mindset is why we now have countless new browsers that all run on Chromium. What's the motivation for those?

Also calling the project a "waste of effort" seems a bit out of touch. Effort doesn't have to pay off in any way to be worthwhile. If the act of building is part of the motivation then taking shortcuts at building it defeats the purpose.
Ghidra uses Jython not sure if that counts as serious.
> Schools + laptops

Are there any believable success story for this from involved people (= students+teachers+parents)?
What the fuck am I reading.
If they are going to redact her tail number then I would appreciate them redacting mine as well.
The infamous MMO game EVE uses Stackless Python.. and the players certainly seem to take it very seriously.
This is probably for working on Siemens' Sibas 32 family of products. This ia a large product range for their rail portfolio. You're not going to change the break control driver system on a high speed train unless absolutely required. The oldest OS that qualifies for interacting with these systems seems to be Windows 3.11, so it seems knowledge of such a system would be part of the requirements of a field engineer, just like knowledge of first aid is a requirement even though in theory you are only going to touch a keyboard, but interfacing with high-power electrical systems can have serious physical consequences.

For a taste you can read through https://www.scribd.com/document/442402647/5A-Monitor-prog-Si...
Why not just delay updating data by a few days? It provides the same amount of value in tracking carbon emissions and eliminates the safety risk.

Like I fully support transparency, and the data is already public, but are we really going to pretend that if in the one out of a million chances something happens to her, and it comes to light that the perpatrator in some form used this app, that it wouldn't sour people's views? It just seems like an unnecessary trouble to go through.
3b. Uninstall Rewind?
Chromebooks are very well done technically. The "only" thing you would need to do, is un-google them. But then they don't work anymore ...
What makes you think that a machine any less complex than the entire organism is capable of "grokking what is actually going on"?

I agree with you that humans may never be able to understand most of what's going on in biology. But I'm even less enthusiastic about gradient descent. The interesting results in machine learning for biology all seem to amount to better ways of indexing the data we already have (like crystallographically-discovered protein shapes) and interpolating between the existing matches nearest to a query term.

I don't claim to know what "understanding" really truly is, but I do know what it isn't.
Quite like pilpul
"Niksen": The art of doing nothing
Manage your calendars and address books with the CalDAV/CardDAV standard (2020)
Probably joking but if not, don't want to, it's too useful.
That's fine, I'm sure they weren't targeting only you when they developed it. So it will still have utility for the developers of the project and other users.
I did this and started to wonder why every web page opened reeaaallly slowly.

Turns out the Pi-Hole Raspberry Pi had borked and wasn't answering at all, my computer was waiting for the primary DNS _every_time_ for multiple seconds before trying the secondary one.

What it should've done (IMO) is query both and pick the fastest.

Swapped to NextDNS and haven't looked back, I set it on my router and mobile devices once and that's it.
sounds like a Torment Nexus waiting for being created ;)
While I strongly oppose the tactic of threatening legal action against someone aggregating legally acquired information, I don't think it'd be unreasonable for Swift and others to lobby for an aircraft registration system that improved owner privacy without compromising safety, and would even support such measures, so long as implementation costs are borne by the owners in question.
Hi, Author here. Thanks for the feedback. I'm happy to correct any mistakes.

Sorry you don't think this is useful. However, as the post clearly points out it's not intended to make you a GPGPU programmer. That really isn't possible in a single blog post. Rather, it tries to give a general overview of how the GP part of GPUs works for the general reader, and to try to relate terminology used by AMD and Nvidia. I'm not aware of another source that tries to do this succinctly.

The end of the post gives lots of links for further reading for readers who want more.

And FWIW I have done quite a bit of GPGPU programming.
I understand the loss of being stuck with a single platform, but that's not quite right. You can have multiple devices, just as you can shop at multiple supermarkets. It's just that the price for doing so is higher (syncing multiple devices, carrying them around, the initial outlay), so most people don't. Nobody forces you to buy either Apple or Android. But the services they provide are indeed valuable: the walled garden protects me from certain kinds of harmful software, for example.

The duopoly in smartphones is an outcome of the underlying technologies. That doesn't mean it is efficient in the economic sense, compared to an ideal world, but the comparison has to be what we can actually implement.
"JCL: even YAML is better"
The other problem with a "rewrite in a modern JS framework" is that when it's finally done it'll only be a few more years until it needs another "rewrite in a modern JS framework". And that's worse, because at least with JQuery it just stays the same whereas with anything in the NPM ecosystem using anything older than, say, 6 months is kind of a nightmare in terms of dependencies and tooling.

Not broke? Don't fix!
I just wonder how much of the truly exceptional engineering in today's software was done by people on drugs (yes, 'ADHD' medication counts).

I fully expect it to be a significant chunk, but I hope it's not the majority.
GOOGLE?! So... left hand cleaning up the mess created by the right hand? Isn't that called a Ponzi scheme, or something?
This mimics Perl's "use 5.x", although the latter is scoped per module. Perl's backward compatibility track record validates the soundness of this approach.

Perl can also selectively enable features, in a way not dissimilar to Python's "from _future_ import X", except the latter is about forward compatibility with a future default, whereas Perl is all about backwards compatibility as a sane default.

I guess Go does it at the mod consistent level because it needs a global view of features whereas Perl can dynamically alter itself (including its parser) live.
Sure, if you’re accessing it in your web browser. But when it’s an app on someone else’s phone that’s misbehaving, that’s where I throw in the towel. It’s not worth the effort at that point.
FWIW, it's actually the same guy doing the tracking (jack sweeney).
Just on a tangent here I'm just wondering about the accounting process and mental gymnastics required to "destroy" money in the modern world with digital transfers, etc.

Can you have a process where a bank balance is decreased without transferring the money somewhere else? Do you have to buy cash and then burn it?
I have been rather loud about this and while I don't think my voice has meant much I think I have been part of a growing group of people who - together - are making a dent in this monopoly.

Becoming part of it isn't hard either, if you test software either as a SW engineer on a team or as a full time tester it might actually save you some time :

- If you use Mac, test in Safari first. On any other platform, install Firefox (or the Debian version, or Librewolf) and use it as the first tool to test applications.

- If it doesn't work (and the customer hasn't very explicitly said they absolutely only care about Chrome or IE^CEdge) report it as a bug.

I mean, seriously, who would have accepted a feature that only worked in IE 6?

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OK, some people might say: but IE 6 was an old and outdated browser, you cannot compare IE 6, or any version of IE for that matter to Chrome.

Or one might say: Chrome has already won, your idealism is appreciated, but you are too late.

Well, here is the thing: IE was at one point in almost the exact same postition as Chrome is now:

- biggest browser by far

- endorsed (or even enforced) by IT

- lots of features only worked in IE. (I remember one particular customer who seemed to be obsessed with security to the point were we had to keep a VM with Windows XP and IE 8 around with both Active X and Java Applets enabled to sign into them. This was around 2014..! Yes, if you find this notion of security absolutely ridiculous then we agree.)

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OK, one key difference:

Back in 2006 when I started fighting IE we had Mozilla on our side. Firefox was innovating like crazy. We had extensions that let us embed IE in a tab to render certain web sites. We could automatically archive a full website for offline access (full rewrite of links so they worked on our copy was included). Full developer tools that everyone knows from every browser these days started out as just an extension to Firefox, named Firebug IIRC.

Today, while I understand that the extension API had to be reigned in before a disaster happened, it went way to far and today we cannot even get a function in the API to programmatically remove the top tab bar when we add a tab bar on the side. And not only that, but if someone asks about that particular issue, someone will come and hush and hide the comment.

So godspeed to Ladybird devs and Orion devs, Librewolf devs and actually even Safari devs and everyone else who challenges the current monopoly!
"Just for fun" is precisely how Linux started:

Hello everybody out there using minix -

I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and
professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.
Wouldn’t rebuilding from the RHEL sources be the easier approach?

Also Alma doesn’t mirror Stream, they pull sources from several unencumbered places including stream.
I am very interested in this tutorial for building an OS for the Raspberry Pi in Rust: https://github.com/rust-embedded/rust-raspberrypi-OS-tutoria...

I'd love to try it out when (if ever) I have the time.
Isn't her concert schedule completely public? People do buy tickets for her shows.
Ah yes, the Rocky Linux attitude in action. Red hat has done and continues to do absolutely nothing deserving of thanks. Not for their work on fedora, not centos stream, not the myriad of projects that they maintain, absolutely nothing.
We didn't have any tech in school and yet we've turned out just fine, now sitting here and typing this on HN. I'm all for banning tech from schools. Allowing Google to enter the school system has been a crime against our children.
> The oldest OS that qualifies for interacting with these systems seems to be Windows 3.11, so it seems knowledge of such a system would be part of the requirements of a field engineer

Working with it, yes. Developing for it? Completely different game, as you'll have almost zero chance to use anything modern, and that includes the tooling.
> I have no idea who contributes to the latter

Probably the people mentioned last in the following extract from https://pdc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsilfaanisch_Deitsch — a few Lutherans and Reform and others who learned the language as children.

> Die Pennsilfaanisch Deitsch Schprooch ..., iss en Schprooch, ass gschwetzt watt bei verleicht 300,000 Leit ... S'menscht vun die Schwetzer sinn heit Amische un Fuhremennischte, wu Deitsch aa heit noch schwetze zu ihre Kinner, awwer's hot aa en latt Luthrische un Reformierte un Leit vun en Wisch annre Gmeeschafte, wu die Mudderschprooch noch gschwetzt henn, dieweil ass sie Kinner waare.
I don't know Dart at all, but I used Java from version 1.0, and watched as it morphed and morphed again - from for-loops, to collections with iterators, then "upwards" to list and map comprehensions, closures, function pointers. My younger colleagues were writing code I could barely understand; having left that world several years ago, I still find idiomatic modern Java difficult to mentally map to intent, as you put it. The feature set is undisciplined.

So I completely agree with you. I think it's unfortunate that some people appear to mistake simplicity of construction with simplicity of thought. Go's ingenious simplicity - its elegance - is a virtue. Unfortunately it also reflects what Dijkstra said: "Why has elegance found so little following? ... Elegance has the disadvantage if that's what it is that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it".
> The most glaring example is how they decided to exit nuclear with no clean alternative for ideological reasons.

I would have said fear rather than ideology, to be honest. It was the times of Chernobyl and later Fukushima gave the last blow. It's a bit unfair to "forget" what happened 40 and 20 years ago - things must be contextualized.

> If gas isn't imported from Russia, it is from the US or Qatar, which is the same in terms of foreign power dependency and balance on foreign payments, when shale gas/fracking provides an alternative.

It's different in the sense that you don't depend entirely on a single country for your gas (like it was before), so that particular country cannot threaten you like they did. The goal of this governement is to drastically reduce energy consumption and use renewables, while at the same time "buying" gas from wherever else.

This was for a political reason, otherwise they would have kept on buying gas from Russia and implemented slowly their green/eco program.

The issue is not fracking yes or no, but the fact that in the previous 10-15 years it wasn't done enough to avoid what happened in 2022.
Why wait?

Taylor Swift threatens legal action against student who tracks her jet

(https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/02/06/taylor-...)

64 points|exitb|20 hours ago|93 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39274857

and

11 points|EA-3167|9 hours ago|12 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39283800
> overpriced garbage

You have highlighted my issue with this whole DMA situation. Every Android phone I have used has felt like privacy invading garbage (except maybe the nexus 4), yet I don't think they should be off market. I simply use an iPhone instead.

Instead of the DMA being pro-consumer, I read it as anti-business (probably US business). It feels created out of EU jealously of the US tech industry, and secondarily a way to help EU companies. Consumers will likely end up worse off, which I reminded of every time I visit the EU have to dismiss cookie banners on every damn site.
It appears schools are having a difficult enough time learning basic skills like reading, writing, comprehension, and basic math. There’s no reason they need the distraction of laptops in the classroom.
https://devdocs.io
https://www.cpuscout.com/?Socket+Type=Socket%2520TR4

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I'm a native English speaker and it sounds less sophisticated to me. Something a middle management drone somewhere would say.
> What is consciousness? The firing of a gazillion synapses you will never fully understand.

Hmm. How do you know this is the case if you don't understand it? Magical thinking?
I saw an interesting comment about EV mining equipment recently.

The manufacturer initially sold them as reducing CO2 globally, and also reducing harmful emissions in the mine itself, and saving fuel and fuel transport costs to remote mines.

The miners reported that the key benefit was actually that the machine spit out a lot less heat in a confined space undeground. Previously they'd need to spend an hour using AC to reduce the temperature to a level that humans could cope with before sending workers in for the next stage. With the EVs that time was saved and work could begin immediately.
This is wonderful. I think, ultimately it doesn't end up being a game as much as it is a wonderful way of looking at waveforms, simply because there is no goal except minimize. There should be an api so you can write code to pick the optimum changes for each drop.
Yeah, I also wondered how quick would it be to ~~rip off~~ replicate “diskprices.com for X” and took a weekend (ok more) to build https://tvpricesindex.com (Also using HTMX).

TVs are much less of a “commodity” of course, but it’s a nice experiment that I’ll iterate on a bit more with time. Also, first deploy on Railway (was nice enough, definitely compared to Heroku, but they have a way to go), and using other libraries I wanted to learn.

Will probably start grouping models better soon, and offer other filters.

BTW: If you plan to do something like this with PAAPI (Product Advertising API), know that Amazon has the constant axe of banning you if you don’t generate “qualified” sales for 30 days straight.
I completely agree and all that seems obvious if you think about it for more than 30 seconds.
Apple or not the whole product category has a hard limit governed by physics that won't get "solved" anytime soon and it's pretty clear that what can be done with that tech won't change, probably forever...

That considered we are back to the usual niche applications of VR and then the price is just not even close to reasonable, no matter how cutting edge the actual hardware is (only the displays are really worth mentioning in the end, and the reason others don't use them is because they are too expensive to justify).

At 500 bucks, it was already a hard sale, but at least it can be a gift for nerds or something that won't get used very frequently but is ok to splurge on for entertainment; what Apple has made is fashion for fanboys...

All that is before talking about the fact that with today's knowledge none of this will ever be truly mobile. The external battery pack is already a bit of a travesty but even more when you consider that they put the compute (that is already limited) inside the damn thing, even though for serious applications, it would need much more. However, considering how bad the GPU story on Apple Silicon is, it is clear that Apple doesn't even envision proper games on this thing even though it is one major application!

For this price they had to provide a MUCH better computer, not just the compute capabilities of a diminished iPad (because a good amount has to be used for the spatial features). Since efficiency gains are vanishingly small it should have been clear that the compute requirement would only go up and then putting it all inside the thing isn't a viable strategy.

It should have been either an affordable headset that would connect to Mac or iPad or a complete standalone compute platform where instead of connecting to just a battery, it would connect to full computing box (upgradable/swappable at least).

Then again, under Cook's leadership we got the 2013 Mac Pro and saying it was shortsighted is an understatement. It's basically the same thing, but even worse, because at least a Mac Pro has a clearly defined use case for its price, even though it might have long term shortcomings as a platform...