skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought Bluesky was way more complicated to setup than Mastodon. It's a different concept and it's just like Twitter.

I still prefer Mastodon over all the extra features it has and it runs on ActivityPub. Bluesky is reinventing the wheel with a protocol only used by them. They could've built ontop of ActivityPub.
Yes, I should have been more precise (this is HN after all): tmux does everything I need. I don't use things like floating panes, nor do I intend to.
Punitive fines, that is, those which are meant to create a change in behavior rather than compensate for a loss, should be destroyed. If an entity is fined $10 million, collect the money and "destroy" it. The money supply decreases by $10 million and everyone is ever so slightly wealthier at the expense of the offending party. Note that this is separate from fines meant to compensate a victim for their loss and suffering. It's only for the punitive function of a fine.
>>> It's that cloud providers are now often seen as the only responsible way to operate infrastructure

23 billion.

Thats the profit for AWS in 2023.

23 billon that AWS users pissed away.

AWS is NOT cheap. I have quite a few clients who, could save lots of money dumping their cloud provider and setting up their own racks, hiring SA's. I have others who, if they optimized any of their stack could cut their AWS bills by half.

Having survived the 2000 bubble the lessons are going to have to be re-learned. Everything has cost and value and managing that is going to become an engineering task in the near future.
Tolerance kicks in. I can drink a double espresso after a dinner and still sleep like an angel.
It's simple, there are two currents on this aspect on HN, one are those who find it an issue and others who think see universities as cheap labour and thus are the target of rags like the economist here. I'm not sure how the latter find the incessant postings of articles about academic problems, they probably tune it out perhaps or don't make the connection.
> people with both a fairly strong quantitative background and a strong software engineering background.

In my experience this intersection is a null set. And not just that it's an extremely rare feat to pull off IMO, the mental bandwidth and time needed to be good at one of those two alone would consume one person fully. This is why quant/stat specialists were paired with ETL/data-pipeline specialists to build end to end solution.

One reason Data Science became such a hot role back in the day was that it was amorphously defined; because no one knew what exactly it entailed folks across a broad range of skill sets (stats, data engineers, NoSQL folks, visualisation and so on) jumped into the fray. But now companies have burnt their hands, they have learnt to call out exactly what's needed; even when they advertise for DS role they specify what's required of them. For example, this page on Coursera[1] is clear about emphasis on Quant, which is a welcome development IMO.

[1] https://www.coursera.org/articles/what-is-a-data-scientist
Apple has shown with China that they're perfectly okay with localized rules in their systems. If you think they wouldn't make a few EU-only changes to preserve a whopping 7% of the revenue I don't know what to tell you. 7% is much more than you make it seem, and actually as someone else pointed out the real number is higher because without App Store the iPhones are worthless.
Xiaomi does sell in the EU with a EEA specific rom.
What the hell is an "activist" science?
> - manually copy-paste the handles of people I want to follow back on my server, since there is no native single-click way to just follow an account I am looking at on my own server

> - do the same on mobile, because all Mastodon apps can't possibly be associated with all server URLs on iOS and Android

these are all possible with the official app on Android and the web interface. You don't need to copy the handle, you can just open their profile page on your server's interface and click to follow.
> Some things are improving, some things are getting worse.

Are there any global measures that are worse than they were a century ago? Or are you just saying that progress is uneven, with some areas seeing local setbacks despite the overall global gains?
>Python is still the easiest way to write software

Try dotnet then
> Shipping of raw resources is cheap

Cheap in terms of money, maybe.

Less so in terms of emissions:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1291468/international-sh...
I've been working in what might be called "UX" for some time, although mostly in technical and scientific environments, which are quite different compared to the garden variety consumer applications designed for retention and profit, and I wouldn't want to be thrown into the same pot as the usability crowd with their 90% business of self important shit that's just useless dribble for the incompetent middle management caste. The whole UX specialty can be summarized perfectly by the linked uxmag.com article which disqualifies itself automatically by having the most annoying, anti-usability "AI" bullshit modal over the article that's pathetically begging for the attention of gullible morons - of which there are plenty in UX, of course. It's a bullshit-job profession, and it shows. In reality you can boil down most questions of usability to using simple heuristics: Who are you dealing with and what's the useful interaction in this context? E.g. the useful interaction with UX people in any context is to let them know how little worth their professions actually has.
They can't make money like they do in the US, but I'd argue that good innovation
- that increases the welfare of the people and is meant to bring universal progress - still is more abundant in Europe than in SV.
Musk is a great CEO because he is free marketing. Tesla would be a fraction of its size without musk, not because of technical merits, but because the general public loves (or atleast loved) his wacky personality and his links with high tech. The "elon musk is a real-life iron man" statement was a thing before tesla's rise during covid. Personally I think he got trapped with self-bullshit and that allowed cracks to peel through. Had he been less open about politics and stuck with generic memes, tesla would have still been on the rise.
>You probably wouldn't get labeled a gentrifier, or really even get push back, if you wanted to clean plastic waste, put up garbage cans, recycle etc...

You'd be surprised haha
I dunno, he's pretty committed to his positive utlook on things. Mastodon seems to be the far angrier place in comparison to Twitter. Twitter used to be a lot more like that, but it seems like most of the angriest people on twitter moved ot mastodon when Elon took over.

It's (IMO) very pronounced and hard to avoid on Mastodon.
Great to see some competition still alive in browser engine development. See also Servo (previously part of Mozilla) https://servo.org/ - that and Ladybird are still very underdeveloped compared to every day browsers.

It's a huge shame that there are no nightly builds of ladybird to try out but I assume that's because they just don't want the bug reports (if everything doesn't work it's pointless getting random bugs filed).
It's only patterns and textures for 8x8 images, so I guess it could make sense, you're not going to need every conceivable pattern of 8x8 pixels in normal images..

If you quantize those 4 floats per 8x8 block, is that encoding better than say the old venerable JPG 8x8 DCT + quant?
AFAIK, LCOE are known to be misleading when comparing electricity sources with different power characteristics and applications.

https://www.wri.org/technical-perspectives/insider-not-all-e...
Didn't try Kira but tried zuva.ai, which is a spin off from them. We found that the standard LLM performed at the same level for classification for what we needed. We didn't try everything though. They let you train their model on specific contracts and we didn't do that.

For rewriting contracts keep in mind that you don't have to actually use the LLM to generate the text completely. It is helpful if you can feed all the contracts of that law firm into a vector db and help them find the right clause from previous contracts. Then you can add the LLM to rewrite the template based on what was found in the vector db.

Many lawyers still just use folders to organize their files.
The details of the error weren't the point of my example. And being that terse sounds like you're barking orders at the user. Once again, shortness is fine for programmer communication, but personally for an end user just going about their day I would avoid such an impertinent tone.
Not a health suggestion, but I would get the power of attorney and advanced care directives done while they are sentient. Dealing with a dementia/Alzheimer's parent would be 100x worse on my sister and I without those instruments already in place.
Americans drink very watered coffee though compared to most of the rest of the world. For us that came from abroad, it is basically tea.
Sell something. Some people mix up bank account and credit card number, especially in countries where paying with credit card is more rare.
I don't feel sad at all, I feel my competition is slacking and that is my benefit.
That's a strong selection bias because you'll never meet people who stay in Europe because they like running a business there.
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> According to an article in the Las Vegas Sun, “Some of the steel, known as rebar, was so badly positioned that it stuck out of the concrete floor and was sawed off to conceal the mistake.” In addition, “Harmon workers reportedly moved rebar without first getting an OK from the structural engineer . . . .which is a major no-no in the construction chain of command.

WTF! How was there no punishment for everyone involved in this?
I know a good Greg Egan story about that

https://www.gregegan.net/MISC/CRYSTAL/Crystal.html

“What created the only example of consciousness we know of?” Daniel asked.

“Evolution.”

“Exactly. But I don’t want to wait three billion years, so I need to make the selection process a great deal more refined, and the sources of variation more targeted.”

Julie digested this. “You want to try to evolve true AI? Conscious, human-level AI?”

“Yes.” Daniel saw her mouth tightening, saw her struggling to measure her words before speaking.

“With respect,” she said, “I don’t think you’ve thought that through.”

“On the contrary,” Daniel assured her. “I’ve been planning this for twenty years.”

“Evolution,” she said, “is about failure and death. Do you have any idea how many sentient creatures lived and died along the way to Homo sapiens? How much suffering was involved?”

“Part of your job would be to minimise the suffering.”

“Minimise it?” She seemed genuinely shocked, as if this proposal was even worse than blithely assuming that the process would raise no ethical concerns. “What right do we have to inflict it at all?”

Daniel said, “You’re grateful to exist, aren’t you? Notwithstanding the tribulations of your ancestors.”

“I’m grateful to exist,” she agreed, “but in the human case the suffering wasn’t deliberately inflicted by anyone, and nor was there any alternative way we could have come into existence. If there really had been a just creator, I don’t doubt that he would have followed Genesis literally; he sure as hell would not have used evolution.”
> You can open a terminal and come back in a month and it will still be there. Unlikely kunernetes where containers regularly go down.

You mixing apples and oranges there, by comparing kubernetes workloads to mainframes. Kubernetes isn't really designed to serve long-persistent workloads of that fashion. Although tbf I've had VM's that last for years and real hardware (albeit Sun) that's had over a decade of uptime, so I'm not sure what all the fluff is about.
> "I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it further" -D. Vader

Yeah, that's the motto of modern techno-fascists as well
How the commercial surveillance industry works and what can be done about it
Show HN: Bluesky Hacker News Bot
Hello there! After Bluesky opened its doors to everyone, I jumped straight into the API to build something. Here is a bot that posts top stories from HN.
I do recommend David Byrne's Reasons to be Cheerful https://reasonstobecheerful.world/ a project that 'aims to inspire us all to be curious about how the world can be better, and to ask ourselves how we can be part of that change'.
I don't have the source at hand but I remember seeing that they wouldn't support it until it had progressed as a JavaScript proposal. Their reasoning was that the decorations API is really weak, and it will likely be changed meaning a complete rewrite of the TypeScript decorator implementations.
Depends, if the EU wants to set an example that corporations trying to skirt the law by malicious compliance will be heavily penalised we might see Apple's products being barred from commercialisation in the entire EU until they comply.

Will it suck for consumers? Yup, some people will be screaming out loud about how the non-democratic EU bureaucrats are stifling innovation (as we usually see in HN comments about EU regulations against huge corporations), at the same time Apple will capitulate if a ban on the sale of their products in the EU goes on for more than a few weeks. They capitulated on the Apple Watch sales ban in the US and the US is much more pro-business.

I can't see what's the case where they end being a relative winner though, if there's one thing the EU is good at is on enforcing commercial regulations since it's still its main raison d'être.
From you own quote: not merely. So it is in part responsible.

And I can also point to many dozens of article that agree with my statement.

But for the sake of argument, let's assume that you are completely correct, that doesn't change anything about deforestation, soil depletion, over-fishing and many other issues that have not been addressed.

All of these issues have nothing to do with CO2. So my original point stands. You are focusing on the CO2 part when OP was talking about resource depletion in the first place.

You can choose to bury your head in the sand and think that everything is fine, but that doesn't make it true.

On that note, considering that you did not address the point in my original comment, I can honestly say that you are arguing in bad faith and I don't have time for that so feel free to not respond.
The original move was also related to lobbying potential.

But the CEO who started the moves etc. was a Boeing lifer.
It certainly helps the IT sector to stay globally competitive, also attracting foreign talent (hence plenty of programmers from eg. Ukraine, particularly these days).

Being self-employed has its own downsides - if anything goes south (as in, you did something terribly wrong, there's graphite on the ground, and you're held financially responsible for the outcome), you are liable down to your very last penny, in theory at least.

By comparison, if you're on a contract of employment, you're only liable up to the equivalent of your three salaries, even if your negligence has caused damages in the millions.

You are not protected by the labor law (by contrast, getting fired on an employment contract runs into plenty of legal protections should you choose to dispute it).

It makes sense to me that accepting greater responsibility - as a one-man company - gets compensated somehow, like in the form of lesser tax burdens.
Germany's energy policy is the best example in Europe of ideology over pragmatism. The most glaring example is how they decided to exit nuclear with no clean alternative for ideological reasons.

Ban of fracking is not pragmatic, either.

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.
My experiment in phonelessness was a failure, and it also changed my life
Yet another Rocky post that craftfully manages not to mention Red Hat or RHEL by name.

[added]

And CentOS, but not CentOS Stream.
Inside OpenAI's Plan to Make AI More 'Democratic'
>Genes, proteins and processes such as evolution don’t have goals, but a person certainly does. So, too, do plants and bacteria, on more-simple levels

If we're expanding the scope of what we consider to have agency and goal directedness why stop there? Evolution is analogous to a hill climbing algorithm which also has the same properties.
At work, we upgrade when there's a compelling reason (structured logging in 1.21 came close; we haven't finished migrating from our old logger yet). Before deploying that version, we typically bump versions in all our Go repos and run the tests in those repos. Having the same version across apps gives some people on our team a bit of comfort (with Go, it's not as important as some other runtimes).
True. But still, dualism is the only other way out of that conundrum

edit: ok you're quite right there are other ways out of the conundrum like idealism
And the source repo for the (Unity) viewer app: https://github.com/LluisV/Z-Anatomy
Swimming Against the Tide: Far-Right Argentine President Begins Israel Visit
https://archive.is/JnlE4
If you have other, less technical family members on your network, this becomes a bigger problem, especially if you work from an office or take business trips.

What’s a 60 second side quest for us is a “wifi’s down” for them. (Any outage at my house is reported as a WiFi problem.)
Boeing: Bolts were missing from blowout door
Improvement towards what? To what end?

There are a million "self improvement" cults out there all of which
are dangerous rabbit holes to fall down. If it's got a website, a
newsletter, a charismatic leader, and a few million outspoken
supporters that's probably a sign to steer clear.

In my opinion there's some practices that help:

Seek out and talk to people you respect. Better if you can do this
face to face, in real life. Having respected mentors should not stop
where parents and school teachers leave off. If you're really stuck
socially at this (as so many young people are today), try paying
someone like a therapist of coach to get you unstuck.

Read old books. Actual paper books from before 2000 at least. Build up
a good knowledge of human psychology, philosophy, politics, the arts
and classic literature. Philosophy of human values is a good place to
start.
They mean that X the social media platform, formerly known as Twitter, is now discouraged, since Nitter is no longer a viable method for accessing it.
> The only person who is paying money for a blog platform is someone who is making money from that blog.

I disagree and I’m someone who has paid for a blog platform and/or hosting for well over a decade. I don’t make a penny from my blog and I don’t even blog regularly. Some people just want a place to store their thoughts online for others even if it costs a little bit of money.
When you open sites on other "new" browser engines you typically get a really butchered visual result, with layouts completely broken, elements missing, wrong colors, etc. For example, Servo didn't support floats until recently, and IIRC even simple sites like Hacker News look "wrong".

Ladybird's approach has been to start with a somewhat naive implementation of features, then choose popular websites and apps and just continuously iterate to make them gradually look better, by fixing the parts that stand out. This pragmatic approach means that their supported feature set, while nowhere near 100%, can decently render 90% of websites due to being aligned with the most commonly used features.
For something nobody wants it costs several hundred dollars per ton to buy
My default Linux for stuff. Just installed it as a VM on my Proxmox box for an SFTPgo instance. I think it is the best choice today for RPM based distro.
And energy! Maybe you can even recover some of the energy from your new warm seawater.
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland: "Interest Rate Risk at US Credit Unions"
Janice Raymond: the original Terf
> do not expect novices with no prior SQL experience to be able to learn from them

Please suggest this entry level thing.

SQL is enduring because it is logical and understandable. But there is still an initial vertical learning curve.

I am trying to teach a friend of mine SQL but I’m not sure how to construct a lesson plan.

Is there a canonical SQL 101?
> Because they need to keep some gaps in the tax law to allow their friends to pay less taxes than normal people.

The self-employed in Poland provide almost 30% of total budget revenue from income tax [1]. (This statistic is somewhat dated, but I don't believe it's changed drastically since). That's a lot of "friends" and "wealthy expats".

[1] https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/259268/1/1777969808....
Last I tried Ladybird didn't take very long to build. This was admittedly sometime last year and it's likely slower now, but still. It's very far from a 9 hour chromium build.
What about "It seems you do not have permission" or "It appears ...". Other option is "Unfortunately you do not..."

They are like in the middle between formal and informal, or maybe I feel that way because in not native English.
What should have they done? Thank them and IBM for setting the landscape ablaze, and dropping a couple of napalms on top by stopping white-box SRPM distributions?
Yeah, this completely piss me off nowadays, the current crop of Apple cultist has insane history revisionism built-in to fit their narrative on how Apple will prevail in the end, because history says so (yet in the recent past history has proved Apple is lost in the woods...).

But yes the original iPhone was way beyond anything on the market, no matter how much money you wanted to spend and it's shortcoming where very easy "fixes" that anyone could see coming rather shortly.

The reason iPhone succeeded was because it was a much better product than anything else in its category and anyone who used it for a few minutes could see that right away, the only objection was the price...

In contrast, for the AVP even tech enthusiasts will object to the price before even trying and after they will object to many things because it's not that useful and it's not even that good, at any price...
> We’re not getting too hung up on the “malicious developer inserts evil code in the binary” case because Flathub already works on the model of verifying the developer and the user makes a decision to trust that app.

Not sure I agree, it's the difference between being able to review the code (not saying everyone) and having absolutely no idea what's packaged.
Unless you are sqlite, they might actually credibly have 100% coverage.
Interview with Andreas Kling of Serenity OS (2022)
The issue to me is less about the existence of a tech scene and more about reliance.
A European app running on locked down hardware with permission of a megacorporation (US or not) doesn't make you much less dependent.
Pretty much any CPU made after 2018.