skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Blink is also open and free enough. The wide usage of it, and the manifold companies pushing successfully against Google, is proof enough. Firefox on the other side is not free from hostile behavior itself. The manifold bullshit that Mozilla did over the years telling.

And in general, your requirement is not matching the demand of the majority of users. I don't give a f** if something is open or liberated, I'm a user, I care firstly whether it's doing what I need, and being open&free are just tools to balance the powerplay of the creators.

But if not enough people are using the browser, they have no power anyway. And if there is only one developer, then we as the users have not way to balance our power against them. Mozilla has shown over the last decade that the user has no power in their game, which shows that free and open software in itself has little meaning.

The multiple blink-browsers are showing better how this is supposed to work, then the one project who always claims this as one of their main goals.
I have a cunning plan...
HR Cheats Their Employees Out of Overtime, Due Process and Dignity
Not too long ago I discovered itty-router and since then it's the only thing I need for my APIs.

It's extremely minimalist, I just create a context object and implement in it any functionality I need such as headers, error handling, anything.

I even use it for "CLIs" that I then call with curlie.
Bard is a difficult word to pronounce in East asian countries (korean, japanese) compared to Gemini. I'm thinking the renaming is a globalist move.
Technological innovation allows the same amount of consumption with far less collateral impact. For example, before AC, electrification required 1000x more wire than it does now. Streets were covered in poles and electrical wire. Cars produced far more and worse pollution. Every technological innovation in the aim of efficiency reduces the negative collateral impact of human civilization. Likewise, more recently, the lowered cost of solar, EV's, etc are all made possible through forward-thinking innovation.
It's also fairly doable to spoof GPS if you care to. And I'm talking about the earlier satellite communicators, not Starlink, which can indeed easily triangulate.
>>Some of the stuff is possibly wrong, like this

>There's a lot of nonsense floating around regarding exercise and weight control. The only way to lose weight is to eat less than your body burns. Period. Exercising causes your body to burn more, but few people have the time or inclination to exercise enough to make a big difference. An hour of jogging is worth about one Cheese Whopper. Now, are you going to really spend an hour on the road every day just to burn off that extra burger?

He is wrong and very wrong at that, while stating something that is factually correct. This is like telling a man that he is poor because he earns too little and spends too much - "see it's simple arithmetic" is the stand take by someone who does not know all the variable.

Most geeky types personalities are like that - they completely fail to realize or appreciate the enormous complexities of biological systems and think that they can model a biological system in their spreadsheets or formulas.
If you yearn for the void, try floating naked in a dark tank
I can't say I disagree with anything here, it is well reasoned. I do have a knee-jerk reaction when I see any outright refusal to provide known information. I see this kind of thing as a sort of war of attrition, whereby 10 years down the line the pool of knowledgeable engineers on the topics that are banned by those-that-be dwindles to nearly nothing, and the concentration of them moves to the organisations that can begin to gatekeep the knowledge.
Perhaps for small orgs. We’ve got thousands upon thousands of people so little chance of grabbing the entire AD or leveraging some outlook dropdown.

Is be surprised if any competently run large org allows that anyway. Just takes one rogue dude trying to make a quick buck by selling the info to spammers and you’re dealing with that for the next decade
> Just like bankers - always funding both sides of the war.

Ferengi Rule of Acquisition 34: War is good for business.

Ferengi Rule of Acquisition 35: Peace is good for business.

* https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Rules_of_Acquisition
The SpaceX cells are small enough. All they need is a whitelist of nearly 100k devices.

They'd rather antagonize the cheapest satcom supplier
It will deliver great shareholder value.
Really good list, very comprehensive. Can thoroughly recommend all of those and you've got a good mixture of art/culture and news/current affairs.
There's a difference between weather and climate.
I will definitely pay money for this. What a depressing pain wind down is. And if you do it wrong it’s easy to owe someone money.
Congress says: "Hey agency! You're the experts. Figure out and enforce the policy details."

The agency: we have determined that this action by company X is against our policies.

The courts: Congress said that the agency decides the policy. Even if we think an action is inside policy, the agency has Congressional authority to change the policy to put the contested action firmly outside policy.

The company should therefore lobby Congress to regulate the agency. Maybe you could make a case about retroactive or post-facto laws, but I suspect the company is not usually claiming that they abide by the letter of the policy, but that the policy is outside the agency's powers.
I meant "nobody influential". Employees (current and previous) and users of products, sure. But you never hear this from bankers or business pundits. I wasn't tuned in enough back then to say whether there was a similar phenomenon with Steve Ballmer at Microsoft.
$5k each?
Been asking myself the same question for months.

So Egan's stories are basically a mathy whodunit -- start from first (fictional) principles and eventually solve some universe-scale question or crisis. His characters are basically walking textbooks meant for info dumping / FAQing the derivations.

In that light, some similar stories I've found are...

- Dragon's Egg (Robert Forward)
- Of Ants and Dinosaurs (Liu Cixin, 3 body problem author)
- The Andromeda Strain (Crichton, more medsci than math)
- Schilds Ladder, Diaspora (other Egan stuff)

The first two are especially similar to Egan's stuff in that the only real character is the civilization / setting not the people.

I've also tried some of the more common hard scifi recommendations like Reynolds and Stephenson, but I personally don't enjoy the dialogue / scenes meant for character development. I guess it's because the stories usually take a human-scale perspective instead of taking a what-if to its reality-bending extreme like Egan does.
Responsive image gallery in three lines of bash
RIP John Walker
I met him only once in Neuchâtel Autodesk Office back in 2006 or so, since then I wanted to visit him as he lived only a few miles from my swiss village, but tool late... RIP John we never knew each other well but you definitly had a positif impact on my life... From early evening AutoLISP programming with friends, beers and pizza to my Autodesk years...
Keep the spirtit alive !
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> I really do not want to work with the person(s) who downvoted this. These sort of 'jokes' are part of what makes a hostile work environment.

So does oversensitivity and overreactions.
There is this extension which gives you some flexibility: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide...
More discussion on the sponges and ocean warming: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39275272
Starlink can operate in a degraded manner without GPS now
Celery workers default to acknowledging messages messages as soon as they've been recieved, leading to them failing to be processed if the worker crashes. Dramatiq, by contrast, will only acknowledge a message once a worker has finished processing it. As a result each message may be processed multiple times (if the previous worker handling it crashes), but there's a guarantee that each message will be processed to completion at least once.

They also call more attention in their docs to how to make the broker confirm message delivery than Celery does. Overall Dramatiq seems more concerned with robustness and reliability than most other Python task queue frameworks.
You could try his other writings, such as The Curators, which I just finished and can recommend. It has some sex in it but much more normal, and the violence is mostly abstract (like destroying a planet by teleporting it into its star). Available at his website http://localroger.com/ .
Since the file is sorted you can binary-search it: https://annas-software.org/AnnaArchivist/annas-archive/-/blo...
This is a really interesting system, and I'm excited to give this a try!

Without knowing whether the following cases would actually be useful/relevant, I'm curious if these things apply to Unison:

- Is there a way to "pin" a symbol to a specific hash/version so it won't automatically update when the referred function gets a change? I.e. I could write:
A = B@ ++ "world"
and when I store and retrieve it, it becomes (example syntax):
A = B@a3yx ++ "world"

- Is there a way to refer to a function/symbol by name rather than by hash? I.e. a call site which uses B by looking up which hash is currently associated with the name "B", such that if I do two simultaneous renames, B->D and C->B, the code would now refer to the function previously known as C?

- Are there ways in which the way function updates "bubble up" through the codebase (I assume updating a function means updating every function that calls it, recursively) could become a problem? It would seem that changing one little function could have a knock-on effect that requires re-hashing most of the codebase.
> Contains compositions made from AI-generated images
Yes it is common when the employee is being terminated. It may depend on the industry, but it's always been like that at the 10+ companies I worked at.

Honestly, I much prefer it to the long notice (sometimes 3 months!) you get in say some European countries. Just rip the band aid and move on. Most likely you'll have a way to connect with former coworkers easily on LI and such.
About transparency and blending: Please use premultiplied alpha for the arithmetic (and a linear colorspace, but hopefully that already happens).
Look at the starlink coverage map
lol, put the meth pipe down
Like this one:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:31...
Your website traffic does not result in conversions? Most likely, your conversion funnel needs optimization.
When all else fails, add a code comment
Thanks for that idea, I use Ollama as my main LLM driver, but I still use OpenAI, Anthropic, and Mistral commercial API plans. I access Ollama via a REST API and my own client code, but I will try their UI.

re: cancelling ChatGPT subscription: I am tempted to do this also except I suspect that when they release GPT-5 there may be a waiting list, and I don’t want any delays in trying it out.
Egan is the only great Australian science fiction writer I’m aware of. I principally recommend Diaspora for far future post-human history with a strong focus on physics and maths, and Quarantine which is a sort of heist thriller with a unique quantum physics hook in a relatively near future Northern Australia setting where First Nations people have gained independence and positioned themselves as an Asian financial / biotech hub.

Egan’s prose, characterisation and plotting are often weak, but almost every page has a new creative concept.
The IPCC models require both, so use a lot less energy to get to get to net zero by 2050 and then a period of some decades where we emit net negative CO2 through tech, to keep the planet somewhat liveable.

Tech alone takes too long to develop, if it is feasible at all.
It's quite clear from the article that the 99% is the model's predicted win rate for a position, not its evaluation by Stockfish (which doesn't return evaluations in those terms).

It's true that this is a relatively large deficiency in practice: how strong would a player be if he played the middlegame at grandmaster strength but couldn't reliably mate with king and rook?

The authors overcame the practical problem by just punting to Stockfish in these few cases. However, I think it's clearly solvable with LLM methods too. Their model performs poorly because of an artifact in the training process where mate-in-one is valued as highly as mate-in- fifteen. Train another instance of the model purely on checkmate patterns - it can probably be done with many fewer parameters - and punt to that instead.
He didn't say anything that many, many people weren't already thinking. I too love electric vehicles but they just aren't there yet. I'm very happy driving a hybrid. One day the battery technology, range, and charging infrastructure and speed will be there but it simply is not today.
how, be specific & based in objective reality, without VC hype words & cultist like language
Greg Egan is an acquired taste of hard SF. I would highly recommend someone who wants to get in to start here - it is short stories and some of his very best. Also one of my best cover of sci fi books

https://www.amazon.com/Best-Greg-Egan-Stories-Science/dp/194...
At one role our GitHub access was mediated by a CI job that would export users and groups from Google Workspaces and apply them to GitHub. The script would helpfully print a list of actions taken, and we had a general policy of CI logs being world-readable - and this job was no exception.

It was a useful way to keep tabs on any skulduggery that was going on.

Unrelated, but Confluence has very powerful support for email alerts on changes. These include notifications of deletions, and the email includes the diff of the deleted content. One thing I do at any org that uses confluence heavily is set up notification rules on some interesting spaces and check in from time to time.
Glad to see Ubik mentioned. While far from unknown, it typically takes a back seat to other works by Dick, and IMHO it's the absolute best. It is unsettling in a way comparable, although different, to Kafka.
This was immediately debunked by the source himself?

> Following the publication of this article, Walter Isaacson retracted the claim. Walter Isaacson said his biography’s claim about Starlink and Crimea was based on “mistaken” information.
Combining materials may support unique superconductivity for quantum computing
We need better batteries before EV are viable
Mining Lithium is expensive, polluting and batteries don't last enough.

I refuse to believe governments and scientists of the world are so clueless to not understand this, so I assume they just want everyone to buy a lot of EV and throw them away in 10 years for the next green technology, whether that's better, green batteries or hydrogen.

The sad thing is that converting a petrol car to hydrogen is pretty doable so we could reuse our existing cars and save tons of money if hydrogen were the focus now.

But of course, car makers will lose billions as most people could just run with their existing cars instead of buying a new car.

I'm sure they've been lobbying the EU heavily.
Rust in Production: Interview with Fossa
Related:

World surpasses key warming threshold across an entire year

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39313646

And earlier posting:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39297490
Yes we all know when a frontline moves from day to day a satcom supplier can figure out who is in possession of what equipment without disclosure of the user.
Great article! Had no idea he has a Master in electrical engineering!
[Deleted the comment. Seems like I unwittingly answered a rhetorical question.]
But what would prevent someone from "downloading files" BEFORE they send the notice?
Does anyone here want to like electric cars, but simply can’t?
Why would they use star link given away their position to US and EU intel?
This doesn't track with my experience.

We scaled an org with both Ruby and Elixir (later, 1 of the 2 blessed languages) and there was no tangible difference in that way.

You could also scale in other ways like microservice. Elixir plays great in that world, as pretty much every language does.

Regarding one man armies. Usual way I've seen to scale is to find those one man armies and put less expensive Jr + mid engineers on their team and have them work together. I don't think that's an Elixir thing though.

I'm not trying to sell Elixir here. I think it has benefits in smaller org size that mellow out and equalize as a company grows. Also, startups should always work in whatever language is most comfortable to founding team.
That's No Moon; It's an Ocean World – Eos
Angular Mastery: Mastering Inject() for Dependency
Starlink satellites are in a very, very low orbit - which means they "see" a fairly small patch of land. So if you're in eastern Ukraine, currently satellites #32581 and #44197 are above you, with #17994 coming soon over the horizon (numbers invented).

Additionally, they have phased antenna arrays able to narrow-beam your data pretty much to you (this is very useful as you can, among other things, recycle the exact same frequency for another user a short distance away).

Spoof GPS all you want, but Starlink knows you're not actually somewhere else, simply because of which satellites are able to talk to you right now.
Ukrainians buy equipment on sale in western Europe and activate in Ukraine
There was no subtone in my question, I just wanted to know if this is a paid only feature.
Technology won't save us.

Hoping that someday soon^tm someone will come up with something that makes all the current mess go away is a dangerous path.

In germany they call it 'Technologieoffen' - and even some political parties have written it on their flags.
'No need to implement changes now - someday God will decent and absolve us from all of our sins - until then party hard! #yolo'

I'm all for accelerating research/tech. But it can't be an excuse to just let sh*t happen.
Yet most people will do this - it's expected human behavior.
Answers it nicely, thank you!
I've only read your link there, but aren't you mischaracterizing it? The Chevron doctrine isn't what allows agencies like the FCC to make rulings like this, it's what protects their decisions from being overruled by the courts. That is, even if all the justices privately agreed the agency's interpretation had issues, they'd still defer to it. But without Chevron, in that case, they could overrule it.

In this case, considering AI-generated voices "artificial" for the purposes of applying a law seems obvious enough to me that I don't think the Chevron doctrine would apply, personally.
I'm seeing all these articles about "slumping" EV sales, when the actual data is saying that growth is slowing (second derivative), not that sales are slowing. Worldwide sales are still increasing 30% year on year!
He has not forgotten the face of his father :)

In a similar vein, my father came from a generation a little after the commenters to where he used HP calculators in college and later got an HP15c when he graduated. I bought one of the re-released ones and learned to use it just to have a better understanding of the engineering culture he came from. Those old calculators were stack based (RPN) and programmable in a day when practically nobody had a personal computer, so you could often do your assignments on it, instead of waiting in line to do it in Fortran. I think he lucked out and fully missed the punch card era to where they had terminals by that point. The manuals on the HP15c were also fantastic and had lots of example problems like a mini textbook.
Flipping the perspective. Isn't it an advantage for the US intelligence? Much information can be extracted from the transmitter.
I grew up in an area with a grid, and NSEW comes easily. OTOH I never cease to be appalled by people who are absolutely clueless about which direction North is. How is it possible to navigate ? Do you need a mapping app fused into your brain ?
The slight incompatibilities of prompt formats and style is a nuisance. I have just been looking an Mistral’s prompt design documentation and I now feel like I have underutilized mistral-7B and mixtral-8-7b https://docs.mistral.ai/guides/prompting-capabilities/
Ukraine has been asking for activation in these areas.
I've used deno + hono and a basic file-based router for a few projects now. The biggest win IMO is avoiding a build step, I hope HonoX and the hono project in general don't start walking down the same path as others, using Vite for a required build and bundle step.

Astro already solves many of the problems HonoX will run into, if a build step with Vite is acceptable for you. What I personally really want is an easy way to deploy exactly what I have locally and keep my dependencies small enough that shipping it unbundled isn't a problem for your project.
Related/Dupe yesterday:

First year-long breach of key 1.5C warming limit

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39297490
Concordia University 'Decolonises' Engineering
Agreed. I've found this setting to be difficult: https://postgresqlco.nf/doc/en/param/default_statistics_targ...

Too low == bad query plan. Oddly, too high == bad query plan.
These kind of conversations are exhausting. I for one don’t know all the details, which I think there are many. I realize it is easy to make a blanket accusation and harder to provide details. Last time I looked this up it was pretty murky. Specifically on your point I believe there was a couple things at play but maybe I am wrong. 1) did not have approval by the state department 2) blanket rule that they could be used but not on weaponry. They were using these with drones to bomb a Russian fleet.

I don’t know what the right answer here is but it would be nice to explore the topic more than “Musk is bad”.
Naive question; but given all the other intel channels of the US, from satellites to EW planes over the Black Sea through on-the-ground info from the UAF, would StarLink teach them something they don't already know?

And if it did, would it be more valuable to the Russians to hide and drop a good 3C tool?
Does StarLink NOC have the ability to listen in on conversations?
Look its all well and good to bring up the objective and obvious fact that Russia isn't a threat to the United States, but have you considered the impact on the families of defence contractors?

Haliburton's share price is correlated with the amount of global conflict, but did you know that same share price determines executive compensation? Do you know how much it costs the producers of child killing weapons to hire a twenty something to cheat on their wives with? A lot, therefore we need to keep the stock high and people very afraid otherwise how will the child murdering members of the professional managerial class be rewarded?
I donated $400M. Smuggling cocaine into Kiev is expensive, you know...
Got a bunch of PRs adding missing terms after the article, nice :) Thanks for the mention!
The UK is too poor for mass EV adoption.

We have an average annual household income of something like £30k, and most electric cars (that you’d actually want) cost much more than that right now.
My primary use case would be to feed large internal codebases into an LLM with a much larger context window than what GPT-4 offers. Curious what the best options here are, in terms of model choice, speed, and ideas for prompt engineering
Do they really need it? I would assume the US already has the capability to track most/all ground activity near real time.
Imagine this.

SpaceX solves this by terminating every dish bought outside of Ukraine due to antagonist comments
… which is accomplished by … building lots of new data centres with each with thousands upon thousands of GPU:s drawing megawatts day and night. The maths checks out.
> WSL is what happened, and when it couldn't do some things they built WSL2.

I always wondered why it wasn't called WslEx.