skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Community Notes existed before Elon took over and it's being used for spreading misinformation/misunderstandings, including on Elon's own tweets.

I've never seen Grok AI being used for anything on Twitter and long-form messages is a downgrade of the entire platform, not an upgrade.

Open-sourcing the algorithms has also not really done anything to actually improve the platform. What he should open-source instead is the way they pay out to creators, since Mr. Beast seems to be earning way more for impressions than anyone else on the platform. His videos also seem to be served as non-disclosed ads on the platform (https://twitter.com/SHL0MS/status/1748337607694574045), which also seems like a thing that would be better laid out in the open.

Audio calls were also a feature before Elon took over since Twitter Spaces has existed for years.

And here's waiting for money transmissions and payments. Elon says that it'll be out by 2024, much like your Tesla could operate independently as a robo-taxi by 2020.
I love go. It's just so simple.
EU has the ultimate regulatory leverage in EU. Hence I feel like I'm missing something with Apple giving EU the fuck you. It feels so brazen. Apple capitulating in US/home market is one thing, but no telling what geopolitics goes behind the scenes for US to protect their monopoly / ecosystem capture abroad while weakly regulating at home. It's HN/US centric reaction to EU bureaucrats that suggests this could be more than EU vs Apple affair. Real money is on the line, not charging cable money.
In node there is EJS which is basically PHP templating with JS.
Old ideas for an OS from scratch [pdf]
A document written for Martin Fink (HP CTO) on how to write an OS from scratch for The Machine, the memristor-based design that ultimately never was.
In my country, we have first to stop heating like crazy and commuting from/to work (and heating that many offices). Compared to that, everything is a drop in the ocean.
If employable skills and meta-skills need to be learned (as they do), it seems like apprenticeships and the like are a far more efficient and effective way to pass those along.
It's the same in any other industry where cheap plastic overtakes all, except and average user can't tell the difference, other than on "my PC is slow" level.

It is everyone's responsibility to not make shit software.
Hurray I've solved the problem, Here's what I did I figured that since my external hard drive activity light was continuously blinking probably a process that was utilizing the drive, my guess was Spotlight search was indexing my drive so I added it to the exclusion list by going to system settings, then Siri & spotlight and at the bottom selecting spotlight privacy I then dragged and dropped my external drive to the exclusion list then selected done, now every drive I add to the exclusion list works fine
> creating something strongly influenced by the past, but in a modern way, and in a sort of a high fidelity way with 2020 hindsight

This is a great take on retrocomputing and tech nostalgia.

Thank you Andreas for always being a shining reminder of that innocent love for personal computing I almost lost.
America has 2x the German per capita CO2 and 3x the UK per capita.

All have reduced this stat over the last few decades so the US might have reduced more absolutely, because they were so high in the first place, but the EU appears to be outpacing them and extending their lead.

So it's weird, but unsurprising to see this painted as a triumph for fracked gas, and used to attack Germany's progress.
> What is consciousness? The firing of a gazillion synapses you will never fully understand.

But then you realize that transcripton factors (genes that activate or inhibit other genes) form networks with feedback loops that are conceptually equivalent to neural networks, and some cells grow camera-like eyes complete with a retina and a lens [1].

It isn't about neurons per se, more about the way information is treated by these systems.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocelloid
The application I develop for work has its own, horrible, home-brew solution to update log/audit log, you cannot really call it system-versioned, so I read each of these posts with interest.

One thing that nearly all of them gloss over that logging the "who did it" isn't as simple as they make it out to be.

In most cases, there's a web application or an API gateway or so that connects to the database and does most of the modifications, and only logging the database user of that application makes this piece of information really useless.

What we (and I imagine many others, though clearly not OP) would need is a "do-business-as" user that maps not to the database users, but to in-application users, and then a mechanism to pass this user to the DB, and log it in addition to the database user.

The web frameworks and ORMs I've worked with in the past don't seem to have any built-in support for something like this, which somehow annoys me much more than it probably should. Sorry for the rant :-)
The current dispute between the EU and Apple has nothing to do with Safari though and is about the Apple store, not sure how that's relevant?
Some of the issues can be improved "hackily" by for instance giving a database software exclusive access to two discrete disks - one for the db file, one for the journal.
I think it's really cool that Python has a healthy third-party interpreter community. PyPy, IronPython, Jython, and now RustPython expand Python's accessibility. It's very cool to see how many people are working on this, and I wonder what kind of problems with CPython this has exposed also.
Mozilla has definitely a management problem. But the product is good. very good even.
I agree with most of the article, but I'll argue that there are some genes that do have a 1:1 relationship with diseases. I work investigating them.

There's a spectrum of genetic variants. Most (like 99% might be an underestimate) are completely benign and have no effect. Some affect traits that you have, like your height, intelligence, or susceptibility to schizophrenia or diabetes (lots contribute to these), or eye colour (fewer contribute to this). But there are also mutations that single-handedly will cause a disastrous child-onset disease.

One of the first things I learnt when starting studying genetics more than 20 years ago was that living things will break almost every rule you make up for them. So we say that genes are to make proteins - the information flows from DNA to RNA to protein. That rule gets broken in various ways - retroviruses flow the information back from RNA to DNA, some genes never get converted to protein but the RNA they produce is active instead.

So the message is absolutely that most times we try and say things about genetics, and every single time it will be an over-simplification. And this applies to the article too.
Yep, its a very bizarre argument that we should focus on the good as if there will be some terminal state where things get better of and only if we believe.

There is no end, it's tradeoffs all the way down. And the good things that are happening are hard won victories from people not accepting the status quo.
Debian's Linux-image package went from 474 MB to 99.4 MB thanks to XZ
Are you saying that organizations like the Mayo Clinic or Cleveland Clinic are ideologically captured and are suppressing information about the risks of puberty blockers?

Do you have a source for this claim? What is this secular cult and how is it trapping people?
Not exactly sure what a GAU is.

If an event has never happened, and the risks have been adequately mitigated, no, I don’t see the need to worry.
I think it's a "just for fun" project that is getting a bit serious, and sponsored.

And that having expectations as a end user is still a bit premature.

You can expect the project to move somewhat fast.
Back of envelope calculstion for my Rpi Zero 2W: 1W * 24h * 365 = 8.76kWh, which when rounded to the nearest dollar is $1 per year on electricity - so I guess I won't get the fancy Sheetz sandwiches, but it's not exactly breaking the bank compared to the $20 SaaS subscription
"right" is typically for:

- less regulation

- less government spending

- more privatisation
What a great article. Thanks for posting!
It is my understanding that Apple losing here would prevent them from enforcing WebKit as the sole iOS browser engine. I may be mistaken.
are you now aware that the server's means of sustenance comes out of those tips?
I wonder if anyone actually uses those third-party interpreters for anything serious. I've never come across anyone that did.
I switched last year from NextDNS to ControlD and highly recommend it. NextDNS continually gave me issues and the support is non-existent (not "oh, support is slow" but more "there is no support"). May be less of an issue for the HN crowd, but it got to be too much of a hassle.

The product seems to be pretty stagnant as well, whereas ControlD has been improving on a regular clip. I _think_ it's more expensive than NextDNS, but I don't remember it being extremely so. (Not so expensive that I know the price offhand, after all.)
What's the difference between Rocky and AlmaLinux? Why would one choose one over the other?
As I hinted, for an app that wants to be an "accelerant to the everything app" (Musks's words) we're sitting incredibly still yet. A major feature would be anything that the Chinese WeChat has, which inspired Musk for his "everything app" vision.

Twitter has been quite idle, even for just a "short text post" app in the past year+.

Bookmarks, BTW, were introduced in February 2018. So what's that supposed to be an example of?

The Premium features you list are also unimpressive, and even without considering that Premium users are less than 1% of all Twitter users.

Longer posts are a very trivial patch, which doesn't consider the history of Twitter which intentionally limited posts to create a timeline of quick updates. Twitter could've ALWAYS had longer posts. But they knew they SHOULDN'T. And even today, few Premium users write long posts.

Similarly with longer videos. Who watches longer videos on Twitter? I know Tucker Carlson posts long videos, and that's the only example I can think of. I know of no one else who posts long videos. It's there on paper, but it's literally "longer/bigger {existing thing}". That's not a major new feature.

What else am I supposed to consider a "major feature" in your link, I don't know. "Less ads"? That's not a major feature. X Pro is rebranded TweetDeck, also not a new feature.

We really got nothing. Nothing.

There's supposed to be a payment feature, a banking feature, a dating site, a job search and so on. The last one is supposedly introduced. It's very hard to find, because it's nowhere in the apps, so for all intents and purposes it's not even part of X at all. It's just some rando job subdomain on the site that no one knows about or uses.

The closest thing to a major feature was "one to one videocalls". Something oddly not in the link you posted, despite it's a Premium feature, imagine the lack of internal coordination not to list their biggest feature on that page!

But even that feature is basically "unlisted Twitter Space". That's all it is. Spaces is also a pre-existing feature. Not listing it is not a major feature, but I'll let it slide somewhat, because it's a trivial patch, but a new use case.

I can't count Grok, because Grok is at best a pilot program. Only accessible to Premium+ users (even less than Premium users), only in a short list of specific countries and in a low volume "waiting list" manner. It's also not an X asset, it's developed by a separate company (xAI is only tangential to X) meaning Twitter devs weren't the ones who made it, X is not the one who owns it, and on the X side it requires no new major features, because you basically text DMs to Grok and it texts DMs back at you. It's a Twitter bot. There's nothing new there for X to add, except a few setting buttons. But Grok never scaled up, maybe it can't scale up, and no one is talking about it.

Musk can't innovate with Twitter. He's stuck. All resources seem focused on maintaining Twitter to exist. Twitter will never be more than it ever was. In fact it's less than it ever was in the past year.
God forbid people simplify complex issues.

Your cognitive dissonance is real. He proposed what the parent comment said. Either Trump and the parent comment were both wrong or they were both right.
thank you, you are indeed right. To wit (for people like me) -
3.8 x 10^26 W
3.8 x 10^23 kW
3.8 x 10^20 MW
3.8 x 10^17 GW
3.8 x 10^14 TW
And that's where the security holes potentially are.
> Can you imagine working on a complicated Excel document when you run into a 2038 bug and you lose all your work instead of just having one of your future dates calculated as being in the 1970s?

if your program loses data on a crash it is not worth using. What is this, 1970?

> Or flying a plane and the system has to reboot midair instead of saying you're at -32768 feet of altitude?

I'm pretty sure that's exactly what happens in fact: a quick reboot temporarily handling control to lower level or redundant controls is better than feeding wrong information to a sophisticated flight control system. I think this is generally true for all high reliability control systems.
Nobody argued that people came to Android because it's easier to use though, that's why the argument works for me but not for you. Nice try though ;).
Don't forget WebKit. It leads to project such as https://surf.suckless.org
You Don't Hate Polyamory, You Hate People Who Write Books
Even if the current INT_MIN were redefined to be a NaN or a trap, that would do almost nothing to prevent signed integer overflow bugs. Sure, INT_MAX + 1 would be an error, but INT_MAX+2, INT_MAX+100 and so on would still be equal to INT_MIN + 1, INT_MIN + 99 etc.

Besides, -fwrapv was basically the default in most C compilers (and probably C++ as well) before the last 10 years or so. Many large systems thus use it today as well (e.g. the Linux kernel, I believe).
Yeah, right, but gppp’s degrowth means “not producing more humans than needed followed by food reduction”, not “starving the excess to death”. You’re seeing what isn’t there (and are all over the place in general, which makes it hard to reason).
Update from 2021:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01676...

Edit to add sci-hub link to full paper: https://sci-hub.st/10.1016/j.scico.2021.102609

This appears to be a web page where the authors have posted links to their research, data, updates, etc:

https://sites.google.com/view/energy-efficiency-languages/
Blender foundation is an absolute marvel.
no, they're also forcing Apple to allow other browser engines on iOS, which was previously banned. other, third party iOS browsers still used the safari webkit engine.

> In addition, apps that use alternative browser engines — other than Apple’s WebKit — may negatively affect the user experience, including impacts to system performance and battery life.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/01/apple-announces-chang...
Coffee & Tea are both stimulants. So I wouldn't be wrong by coming to the same conclusion about tea drinkers. Guess my cranium has been marinated real good.
> The world's financial system runs on these mainframes

No, it hasn't for a long time
After 30 years or privatization, Deutsche Bahn might be broken beyond repair.

> "Deutsche Bahn is unable to cope with the simplest tasks of daily rail operations,” says a senior European railway official [0]

In this case, however, I think they are doing the right thing in keeping software that has been working reliably for over 30 years.

[0] https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/deutsche-bahn-str...
Interesting, I'll take a look at it. I was thinking specifically about Docker usage and right now you can do like this

$ logdy stdin 'docker logs --follow my_container_name'

I guess writing a logging driver plugin will enable better experience to the user. I'll investigate it, thanks for the nudge!
So my habit of putting in a lot of effort to prepare 1 or 2 cups of coffee per day puts me at the local minima for risk of dementia and stroke?

Excellent.

Now, while gloating about how this study matches up with my own biases, I would like to take a moment to remind everyone:

This is a single study, ignore it, wait for a meta analysis and then ask your local expert in that specific field to interpret it for you. Or, better yet, wait for a book covering a number of meta-analyses.

Single studies are not helpful for general consumption!!!
> Risking downvotes

Do you really care that much? It should not be an obstacle to your opinion!
How do extensions work with interpreters written other languages? Does the interpreter still expose a C API?
Sniper Elite 6 is going to be wild.
The article states it's either Deutsche Bahn or Siemens.
Wonder how difficult it would be to write something akin to PyO3 but with python syntax for writing rust programs, just like a subset
>For example, by not sending the DNT header in all requests?

DNT is all but dead; it never got past the draft specification phase - even though being adopted by the major players in the browser realm. (Most have already removed the feature.)

GPC[1] is supposed to be the new DNT but I doubt it will have as much success.

[1] - https://globalprivacycontrol.org/press-release/20201007.html
It is. A kernel is executed by a set of warps (or waves, AMD), the warps/waves define the SIMD-group that execute an instruction. Memory accesses that feed these SIMD instructions are coalesced into one operation, and therefore the optimal memory layout requires thinking in terms of warps.

Kernels are executed at some blocksize, and each block is executed by a SM. The SM partitions each have a limited set of resources, and therefore the number of warps (or waves, AMD) that execute simultaneously should be tuned according to the resources available (registers, shared memory, etc.).

The keyword to search for here is occupancy, and related topics include register pressure/spilling, shared memory and L1 cache-size.

All extremely relevant.
Besides Jtsummers' great list of citations, I would also suggest [2] as an overview of traditional process algebras and how they formalize and reason about concurrent processes. It focuses a bit more on a specific way of doing these things (namely, by giving processes a structural operational semantics based on labelled transition systems), but other approaches are also introduced and referenced. If you are looking for more thorough, but still undergrad-level treatments, then [1, 3] are safe bets.

[1] Luca Aceto, Anna Ingólfsdóttir, Kim Guldstrand Larsen, and Jiri Srba. 2007. Reactive Systems. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Retrieved from http://ebooks.cambridge.org/ref/id/CBO9780511814105

[1] R De Nicola, A Gentle Introduction to Process Algebras, https://www.pst.ifi.lmu.de/Lehre/fruhere-semester/sose-2013/...

[3] Jan Friso Groote and Mohammad Reza Mousavi. 2014. Modeling and Analysis of Communicating Systems. MIT Press. Retrieved from https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/modeling-and-analysis-communi...
I think for a store like flathub to be competitive, it should just remove as much friction form the release process as possible. Most upstream developers will likely have their own infrastructure. So, the added value is dubious. And imagine every other store insisted on this, that would add up to a lot of build hassle for developers.

And of course not all applications are open source to begin with and a lot of those have a lot of other stores to worry about as well. There are probably very few exclusive Flathub only applications out there. A lot of them are also in Ubuntu's snap store. And then there's the Apple store, the windows store, etc.

So, I would recommend to focus on growing the application ecosystem instead of putting up a lot of obstacles and bureaucracy. Make it easy for popular (proprietary and OSS) application developers to target Linux via Flathub. Putting up all sorts of requirements on where and how to build is not helpful for that and likely to make people think twice before bothering with a Flathub release.
> But there are no simple building blocks that we can point to and say "yes, I can see how more of these would produce consciousness".

If you are open to have your view on this changed, I urge you to read "Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology" by Valentino Braitenberg (1986).
Why does it make you wince?
As usual, these articles are complete garbage. I can only assume at this point that they wilfully conflate the highest tax brackets with the effective tax rate since that makes for a more dramatic story.

Yes Sweden has a tax bracket that would result in north of 50% tax. For the part of your income that qualifies for that bracket. A significant part of the population doesn’t even qualify for that bracket and for those that do it’s a much smaller part of their total income.

If you earn so much that the dominating tax bracket for you is the highest one, good. System works as intended.
This article feels to me more relevant to hackernews' original target audience than much of the current top-10 marketing crap.
Depraved degenerated decadent debouched and dangling dependencies. Cthullus madness has nothing on this. It may be co-dependent on its future self. Barock pipes, going allthrough the project, knowing no boundaries when it comes to language, platform and versioning. Laakon in cables, these spaghettis of missery, create work from 5 minutes safed work, to build the best problem-accelerator there ever was, flooding it all with exotic particles on collission.
Dependencies you can depend on, like a druggy on his dealer. A spider, excreeting web, made from nutrients, it extracted from itself - which it caught in the web. To be aware of them, is to become aware of mortality, as time decays everything away, even this gordian knot, whos fraying leather belts, whip those who untangle it. God may be all powerfull, but his ability to strike us down, for that unholy abomination of a universal dependcy, implies the universal simulator not having found all modules. It still runs, but once stop it shall never rebuild. Scratch your chin and mumble: "It depends.." cause in the deep ends - it always does.

PS: I got carried away, thinking about my own, sorry.
> I used to work with somebody from Texas who was confused and irritated by the english use of 'sorry' for things they weren't responsible for.

Funerals must be bewildering for them. How do they phrase "I'm sorry for your loss"?
Wouldn’t surprise me if that’s the article where I got it from. :)
Got a bridge to sell to you then. Or if you live at the north pole, a refrigerator?
hooray! your sysadmin botched the migration and your mail is all gone!
> The organisation found that her jet emissions were about 1,185 times more than the average person's total annual emissions.

I haven’t fact checked this but if that’s true then I find that horrifying.
> After 30 years or privatization, Deutsche Bahn might be broken beyond repair.

Well, it's cheaper than state run. And that comes at a cost.
a great place to start is https://wiki.osdev.org/Expanded_Main_Page
I agree partially. Having a loud exhaust could be legal. Driving with a loud exhaust on public spaces should not ever, regardless of the time of the day or if it's a main road or a small neighbourhood. It's always disturbing.

If you have a car with a loud exhaust that can be silenced, keep it silent until you're out of public, like in a race track or your own private property in the middle of nowhere.

That said, self-regulating seldom works and enforcing this at the point of the infraction is very very hard.

The next best solution is to ban loud cars from driving in public spaces.

You're welcome to transport your loud car to the race track and use it there but use a quiet one for that.