skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was just saying how it came across to me. It really sounds like something made-up in the times for political gain like the secret baby-eating clubs of Qanon :)

But I do see some corpses have actually been found and it was corroborated by multiple sources. I wouldn't consider Kruchchev a reliable source either though for the reasons mentioned. But some other one syes.

Like I said it was just my personal feelings on the subject and this is not an encyclopedia but a discussion forum. We don't always have the ability to do a full study on each subject. And I never said I was an authority on it.
I work in company with 100+ PWA users where we had to buy cheap android phones because iOS PWA support is non-existing and every update makes PWAs worse.

Native app is not possible, app stores rules do now allow to publish our app.

We had "the most powerful and advanced smartphones" (TM) iPhones first, but Safari is always running out of memory.

But now with 150 eur Android phones, there are no more memory issues...
That's a misconception. Prices are not the same across stores.

I live in Los Angeles. Many times I've shopped at the TJ's in Silver Lake and one of the TJ's in Pasadena on the same day. Most prices are the same, but on many items the Silver Lake store is consistently 5-10% higher.

I've also shopped in midwestern TJ's and noted that the prices were generally lower than LA.

Products differ significantly, too. Items with the exact same name and packaging can be totally different regionally. For example, "Sonoma Chicken Salad" used to be a favorite of mine here in California. The Iowa version was disgusting, with roughly twice the mayonnaise, fewer nuts and grapes, and 3x the sugar.
I think the disctintion should be:

Is the person (their face, their personality) more important, or the content of what they say is more important?

HN falls much closer to the "content" end of the spectrum.
On the one hand, maybe. On the other hand you lose democracy “bragging rights” when you have to protect the soft skulls of your subjects.
The erlang thing has bitten me in the past.

On my laptop, RabbitMQ would get into a state where it was unavailable and taking 100% CPU. I think it happened when I switched networks (moved laptop home) and the spinning was from repeatedly crashing. I never sorted the root cause, just wrote a script to kill and restart rabbitMQ. (The script to kill rabbit was named 'fudd'.)
Maybe it‘s linked to streaming resolution and bitrate.
I've been wondering for a while about when country-sponsored, network-base attacks be considered an act of war.
How do you know that 'we are too many' is the truth? How do you tell others what to do (or not to do) and bind others to such an obligation without that which you repudiate? How do we 'naturally' overcome the individual's natural instinct to reproduce? What do you think is happening in the current middle east conflict? We are seeing this logic play out in horror and tragedy.

You elevate standard-of-living to the sacrosanct. The addict's standard of living was never so high as during the rush. Some will always pine for the good old days when their backs didn't ache and their burden of knowledge weighed less great. Parts of society are addicted to convenience and ease, but the standard of living is not singular, this preference is not total. Technocratic institutions require democratic feedback.

Premising our solution with 'the maintenance of standards' ignores the truth that change is hard and many will bear the weight of the necessary adaptations. If the distribution of weights seem fair, we will bear it. Seemliness is a difficult problem in a chaotic world full of untrustworthy actors speaking at a distance, words of disguised self interest. We cannot transfer the burden of responsible living to 'other people' while not committing to appropriate action ourselves.

Irresponsible reproduction does risk diseases of society and the individual, and none of this argument should construe a preference for unrestrained growth.
Were you aware of, or tempted by https://datasette.io/ for creating your solution?
I can see your point. For me personally, though, the progression was:

1. Like the look & feel of Apple hardware

2. Feel like the iPod/iTunes scene is shiny bullshit, but whatever

3. Buy a laptop & figure I'll give OS X a shot, if not install Linux

4. Fall in love with the ability to really get some work done rather than have to futz with my system all the time (despite loving to futz with my system)

5. Eventually, become an Apple platform developer
FCC bans AI-generated voices in robocalls that can deceive voters
How many companies and products called Gemini are there?
Good call out, mistake on my end. Thank you.

What do you pay before 9pm?
There was the JOHNNIAC named after John von Neumann. Several things are named after Elvis Presley, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_operator

Not an eponym per se, but Guy Fawkes comes to mind.

Edit (no I'm not reading through the Wikipedia list of eponyms why would you think that):

Gerrit for Gerrit Rietveld (though a fork of Rietveld for svn)

Linux for Linus Torvalds, Debian for two people, TOML (all self-named)

Aldus corp for Aldus Manutius
I haven’t followed the link - but why not put it all in one place?
TIL iTunes is still a thing, even on Windows
Genuinely very curious what you (and more generally other Poles) think
of that? Also is it effective (of course you have no control case for
comparison)? Thanks.
AI-generated voices in robocalls can deceive voters; FCC just made them illegal
What good do you suppose would come of that?
> Mitchell was a great community leader. That doesn't always translate to being a good CEO or leader of a business

I think this statement from the parent addresses your point. Perhaps them stepping down as CEO will result in more focus? Time will tell.
It wouldn't fly, but I bet people would just obscure their true intent with a plausible story - "I wanted to make a language more beautiful than Ada, so I called it 'Linda', which means beautiful in Spanish"
If the comment history is considered sacrosanct, it could be nice to be able to go back and retroactively change the username for an account, at least.
I changed the URL from https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/111886558855943676 to https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/111892646485958733, as suggested here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39297612. Readers should probably look at both.

I have no idea why https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/111886558855943676 doesn't lead to that later post in the thread. Is there a way to guarantee that readers get the entire thread in these things? If people can only see the start, that's not much better than what Twitter does.
Java was re-named from Oak/Green by its product manager, Kim Polese.
From that statement, it's not clear to me what is going to change. I'm still in the "I'd love to donate camp". They mention corporate strategy and AI, and somewhere I read they are going to refocus on "privacy" so maybe this means their VPN product...

I'd actually donate if they'd completely focus on Firefox. Maybe even better if Mozilla would spin out Firefox as a separate nonprofit or foundation.
Nvidia releases hotfix driver to address stuttering problems with some GPUs/PCs
That reminds me of https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Edsger_W._Dijkstra#nano-D...
If you have something to say, say it. This hinting and assuming everyone knows what you're talking about is unhelpful.
I think most non-perishable goods are the same across stores. There are regional differences between some perishable goods based on where they come from.
https://archive.ph/koD6M

> suspicions of an attempted coup

> attacks on Brazil’s election systems

> attacks on Covid-19 vaccines

> falsifying vaccination records

> stealing government funds and foreign gifts to the president.

Welp. I don't even know what to say anymore.

> Mr. Bolsonaro has already been ruled ineligible to run for office until 2030 over his attempts to undermine Brazil’s voting systems.

I submitted that bit of news here when it happened in case anyone's interested:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36542634

> Forget about me. There is already someone else running the country.

Yeah I know. I'm trying. They won't let me. This guy lives rent free in their minds 24/7. You'd think they'd make fixing this country's shitty economy a priority.
They leave oxygen tanks littered up there.

They leave human bodies up there, too, but those are usually moved out of view.
Hammer2 might be more suitable to storing billions of files efficiently: it supports online and batched deduplication, snapshots, directory entry indexing, multiple mountable filesystem roots, mountable snapshots, a low memory footprint, compression, encryption, zero-detection, data and metadata checksumming, and synchronization to other filesystems or nodes.
wow I never knew that. Is there an official source stating that somewhere or it's common knowledge somehow or something people at the stores repeat to customers? I never noticed this before since I don't think I've ever gone to two different locations on the same day.
Only partly thanks to overall budget inaction in Congress. The bigger cause in my opinion is Congress proposing huge reductions in Mars Sample Return program funding or outright cancellation [1], which is currently supporting a lot of people at JPL. This coincides with a scathing review of the program [2]. I think the vitriol is justified, especially after the two-decade-long shitshow that was JWST.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/07/the-senate-just-lobbed...
[2] https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/mars-sample-...
Like I said, it is one plausible interpretation of events. It started almost a year ago, and it's been reaching a crescendo roughly last week. And since this is Pakistan, civil unrest is quite common anyway. Heck, there's an entire article on the start of this election cycle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022%E2%80%932023_Pakistan_pol...

Specific sources to back up my claims:

- "So it used the court system to declare an entire opposite party (B) as in-eligible to run the country" and "And this isn't done 2 years in advance, but mere days/weeks from the election"

https://time.com/6556335/pakistan-election-imran-khan-nawaz-sharif-military-pti/:

> On Monday [Jan 15, 2024], Khan’s PTI party was banned from using its iconic cricket bat logo on ballot papers, significantly hampering its chances amongst an electorate which is up to 40% illiterate. Most crucially, it effectively bans the PTI as a party and means its candidates will likely have to stand as independents, who will reportedly use a range of symbols ranging from a rollercoaster to a goat. “The election symbol is an integral component of fair elections,” Raoof Hasan, PTI’s principal spokesman and a former special assistant to Khan, tells TIME. “It’s rendering the party toothless.”

And similarly, a previously-disqulified party leader (think Trump/Biden) was suddenly eligible to run again. https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-elections-timeline-36ed1d7bc77e78e630044d33ef624454:

> Jan. 8, 2024 — The Supreme Court scraps a lifetime ban on politicians with criminal convictions from contesting elections, clearing the way for Nawaz Sharif to seek a fourth term in office

- "The members decide to run as Independents. How do you communicate this to the voters quickly? When Charlie goes in to vote for someone from B, how does he find out who to vote for?"

https://twitter.com/PTIofficial/status/1748893680084111408?lang=en:

> Following website will provide you information about Elections 2024: https://insaf.pk/election2024
>
> Type in your Halqa/Constituency Number to find:
> - Name of Imran Khan’s designated candidate
> - Electoral symbol name & picture
> - A WhatsApp channel link for the respective Halqa/Constituency, to get timely information
Not exactly what you asked for, but you should look up Chef (not the devops tool). It was part of an MIT Mystery Hunt one year. You could certainly write the recipes with a royal style.
> Please show me the excerpt from the Constitution that gives the Federal government any power to implicitly or explicitly identify anybody.

Are you aware that not all rights granted to the government are in the constitution?

I can tell you are going to want to dispute that, but doing so would only be a display of ignorance.

Plenty of rights the government has are are a result of later caselaw or legislation, and not outlined in the constitution. If you want to say those don't count, then you're probably a 'sovereign citizen' type.
> people think I’m saying ‘asian-hub’ pretty often

Lots of variations on the theme of english pronounciation tend to elide or at least soften trailing consonants.

(I just read that last sentence out to myself twice, once normally, once making a point of pronouncing them fully, and it makes a sufficient example)

My father told me many years ago that it tended to help being heard at a distance so was very useful for public speaking (in the days before everybody was miked up for the livestream/recording).

I started trying it, and not only did it work for that, I discovered that if presenting to a european audience it helped a -lot- for the second language speakers.

Later I discovered it also worked rather well making my brit accent more comprehensible to americans, and later still that I'm easier to lip read too.

If I say AgentHub out loud to myself normally, I end up softening the 't' enough that I can absolutely see people hearing 'asian-hub' from me as well, but if I make a point of turning on my 'better enunciation' mode the 't' becomes crisp to the point where it's almost a 'tuh' sound and I think the result is much harder to mishear.

So ... I think you may find that whether you keep the name or not, experimenting with the trailing consonant thing may be useful to you as well (I speak pretty quickly) for similar reasons.

Free thought, worth exactly what you paid, but hopefully it'll turn out helpful to somebody reading this :D
Why is this relevant to the performance of a computer program? It makes sense to me that computer programs & humans should continue to be judged by different standards.
>com.google.android.apps.bard

is it though...

Also, no availability outside of the US?

My go-to on android right now is copilot which is basically free gpt4 turbo and dall-e 3 (and also available outside of the US).

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft....
The roots of the conflict go back to attacks on Donetsk and moves by NATO since 1991

All I can tell you is -- just because intellectual-sounding people like Chomsky, Mearsheimer et al; not to mention Putin himself -- whom you are apparently cribbing from, knowingly or otherwise -- say things like this, doesn't make it so. If you actually walk back and look at the event chronology you'll find there's no substantial basis for either of these narratives.

NATO (the US) is using Ukraine to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian,

The implication you are making here is that the Ukrainians at large have no real agency in the situation, and basically have no idea why they're actually fighting.
removing pre-tax retirement contributions really won't do shit to fix American's not saving because the wages are stagnate. You really jumped through some hoops to get there.
My impression is they haven’t focused much on general purpose AI. But Apple actually has a lot of very good AI models sprinkled throughout its products. Just a few that come to mind…

- Tap and hold an object in Photos and it will figure out how to separate it from the background for you

- AirPods noise cancelation

- iOS 17 autocorrect is based on a transformer model and works noticeably better

- Optimized Battery Charging, which learns your charging habits and tries to delay putting a full charge into your battery until just before you unplug, in order to avoid damaging the battery

- Detection Mode is an awesome accessibility feature where you point the camera at something and it will describe what it sees

Apple calls all of these things Machine Learning instead of AI and they are all optional features within an existing product. Seems like a very deliberate strategy. But they are utilizing the latest techniques. CoreML and the M series chips are also very competent at training and using AI models.

Maybe the reason Siri is stuck in the dark ages is because it would be entirely AI dependent. They could have a “no generative AI” mode but nobody would use it. I’m guessing Apple is looking for a breakthrough in how to prevent it from hallucinating / lying.
NLTimes is (in my opinion) a trash site that's just publishing autogenerated translations. Very clickbaity with all the CAPITALS :P I don't know anyone that actually uses them as a news source.

I think it was linked to because all the real media are in Dutch.

https://dutchnews.nl is a way better site for English speakers.
I'm pretty sure you're right. I'm not the intended reader. I'm wishing for a much more technical teardown while iFixit is going for a general pop sci audience.
Real criminals ride bicycles.
I plan to add that shortly. The data collection model supports it though.
I was looking at the phone mainly to use it as a 4G WiFi hotspot.

What is wrong with KaiOS itself?
> In contrast ext3 introduced a hash table to quickly look up file metadata in huge directories.

Ah, but it has its own consequences. ext4 doesn't dynamically reclaim inodes or garbage collect these directory hash tables, so if you create a directory and cycle a bunch of files through it, like millions and billions of files many times over, you can get into a case where you have sizable portions of your drive as free space, but you get ENOSPC errors because adding files to the directory tries to insert them into the hash table, which fails, because the hash table takes up so much space it causes the drive to be actually full. Oh, don't try actually doing directory operations without the index, either. Something like `du -sh` without that index will take upwards of 10+ minutes on a fast virtio SSD to account for like 10 gigabytes of files.

I recently had a 1TB ext4 drive that got into this state where it had 150GB free but the directory hash indexes were fucking massive, because billions of files had gone through the filesystem and it was basically hosed because even turning off the index and then turning it back on does not drop the hash table index, it only literally turns off the index use in the read path and leaves the index as is. I couldn't find a way to drop and clear the hash indicies. Yeah. Apparently you can get into a similar state if you exhaust the inode count because, again, there is no dynamic inode reclamation.

In this case, I had the `gecko-dev` Git repository, which is absolutely massive, and I was extracting many copies of it onto my drive as part of some testing automation. So that added up fast. It was on a separate drive from my main /home mount, at least.

The lesson I have learned from this is to mostly just use XFS instead of ext4, I guess. Which I was already doing on all my servers, so a bit funny I learned that lesson only on my own personal machine.
> how do they actually get hands on experience with it

By designing twitter in a 45 min interview.
I bring up the popular vote because the original claim was:

> Trump is aligned with your average American ... against your average American college professor.

and the popular vote is evidence that in fact the other candidate in both 2016 and 2020 was aligned with your average American.

(as to college professors, although there are only <600k American college professors, which would make them "elite", in recent generations over half of Americans have had at least some college education, which means that the average American knows at least one college professor, which is not so elite.

On the other hand, although I've had after-work beers with billionaires, and I'm sure you have too, I'm willing to bet that the average [modal or median, maybe even mean] American has not shared beers with any billionaires.

Therefore I would find it more statistically defensible to claim:

Trump's opponents in 2016 and 2020 were aligned with your average American ... against your average American billionaire.)

see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professors_in_the_United_State...
Does a human scream when you shoot it in the face?

I can name lots of animals that scream when you step on them. Is this related to the thread?
How 23andMe Went from $6B Valuation to Penny Stock [video]
> Could neurotypical be framed as a disability?

No. What is it with so many autists trying to turn things around and act as though they are better in some way and NTs are the 'problem'. It's bizarre and seems like some sort of denial.
Wow you just unlocked a weird memory. Back when I was in High School Jesuits actually taught me the principles of microeconomics.
AVs aren't doing near enough calculus to make a decision like that; they have obstacles and they avoid them. Their avoidance can allow for lane departure (that 360 situational awareness is handy), but they aren't going to solve a trolley problem in realtime if boxed in.

The thing is... Neither are people. A kid darts out on front of you and you won't have time to make a conscious decision. The maneuver you make will be too fast for rational thought, and your brain will explain to itself why it did that later.

... Incidentally, this is one of the things that scares me about human drivers. Put a human on the stand to testify and most will say they never saw that kid, no matter what physical process happened to their eyes and neurons. I think most even actually believe it.

In any case, I'm glad that in this incident they'll be able to do a full NHTSA workup, pull logs, and reprogram the machine to avoid an accident like this in the future. Can't do that to a human driver.
What do y'all find issue with in Discord? Compared to literally everything else in a vaguely related space (whether on the org management side of things, Slack, Teams, etc., or on the broader video/voip/messaging side of things), Discord has pretty fantastic user experience, at least to my tastes.
Ask HN: Does anyone care about OpenPOWER?
I see a lot of energy around RISC-V but I never see anything similar for OpenPOWER, on paper it seems like the dream machine with actual performance like the Talos Workstations albeit a bit expensive but this sounds incredible
https://www.raptorcs.com/content/TL2PA1/intro.html
>Designed with a fully owner-controlled CPU domain, you can audit and modify any portion of the open source firmware on the Talos™ II mainboard, all the way down to the CPU microcode.

is there something I'm missing? why does no one seem to care about OpenPOWER
I think the "squirrel!" behavior has to do with getting revenue in the door.

I'm not following extremely close, but it seems like Mozilla is chasing what can be turned into a product. Things that involve setting up a monthly subscription, whether it's VPNs, keeping your name out of certain tracking databases, etc.

I wonder how Mozilla used to be funded vs how it's now funded?

The web is a better place with a non-profit-driven group like Mozilla in it... but is Mozilla Corporation becoming more money-driven than it used to be, even if it can't turn a profit? Or can it turn a profit, because it's not the Mozilla Foundation [1]?

1. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/moco/
Does this also ban generated voices when they self identify as such? IMHO, if someone is not trying to deceive, it should be allowed. E.g. if the call starts out as "this is ai generated voice from xyz, ____". There are likely useful use cases for that.
This sort of issue holds with all kinds of prompts, on both platforms. I most recently (to test Bard's image generation capabilities) was asking Bard/Gemini to generate home designs using highly specific prompts -- layout of the house, materials for the facade, window placement and style, etc -- and it was shocking how frequently it would just ignore critical pieces of the prompt, and then continue to ignore when corrected.