skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't the German policy tracking down NeoNazis on AfD? IIRC there is even a movement on closing down a specific party. I remember hearing a news about it.

Btw I love DW news, such a great channel.
Birds have accents, or at least their calls and songs vary by region. They're generally recognisable as being similar but sometimes it can be confusing. Throw in species like starlings or bluethroats (Luscinia svecica) which are accomplished mimics and life gets complicated.

Still, it's a great idea. Just listening to a blackbird (Turdus merula) or song thrush (Turdus philomelos) singing on a nice Spring evening is life-affirming all by itself.
Well put. I face a lot of emotional push back when people claim "this is perfectly safe because I don't see how it could be breached".

There's probably a component of pride in that people assessed the situation and decided to put trust in what they believe to be sound reasoning.

In adversarial dynamics, sound reasoning, as perfect as one can make it, is never enough. Defense takes trade-offs in convenience and imposes costs that people are more then willing to forego by depositing trust in an entity they can hold liable in court later.
Think Bayes by Allen Downey is an amazing and free course teaching Bayesian statistics in Python. Save yourself the $50 and try it first:
https://allendowney.github.io/ThinkBayes2/
It is older than non long lived people’s blood.

Saved you a read.
Your link is from 2023.. Current numbers:

Steam users with VR Headsets: 2.24% (vs 2.07% last feb)

See https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey (VR section)
Xiaomi Unveils the Redmi G Pro Mini-LED Gaming Monitor: 27″ with DisplayPort 2.1
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> This one was actually heard by a sizable audience?

So, the content is the same? An aggressor trying to justify his aggression by his version of history?

> The Russian take is: look, Crimea changes hands once every 100 or so years, and this is just the latest iteration.

Putin was not going after Crimea, he was going to "free" the whole Ukraine in a few days (the "special operation") and then beyond. That's what he sold the Russian people. Too bad, his troops were defeated while on their way to Kiev. Now his troops are fighting a bloody war and Russia is isolated in Europe. Countries are joining NATO instead. Putin has achieved to unite most of Europe, unfortunately without and against him.

The Russia public lives in the propaganda bubble of an aggressive regime. There are no flights to much of Europe, few trains, borders are closed, ...

There Russian take is that the evil West is responsible and the reason why its now hard to get all the good things..., but is it worth for them to die for an outdated version of an imperialistic history, where Putin is a czar?

Putin, the emperor with no clothes.
Most businesses could probably know server needs 6-12 months out. There's a small number of businesses in the world that actually need dynamic scaling.
Very few people understand the extent of how many bad actors there are until they experience it firsthand.

That said, Google and Microsoft essentially have monopolies in their respective areas of the market (Gmail in consumer, Outlook in B2B), and if you think they aren't slowly letting these products decline while cranking up the revenue extraction...you're dead wrong.

With LLMs they could eliminate spam in a much more reliable way without killing off small senders, tomorrow. Yet, they will never devote any real resources to these products, since they don't have to. Nobody wants to go through the hassle of changing their email.

Outlook still uses the Microsoft Word HTML rendering engine, completely unchanged, from 20 years ago. That's all you need to know about the incentives for innovation after you've successfully captured a network.
I've seen that happen for non-Fox News URLs. Google probably added a filter to Gemini that removes URLs that no longer work or are 'hallucinated'.
"joining" implements the merging of two things. When you toss one of those things out, it's called absorbing.
I also used those windows managers around 1990, iconify to desktop and no task bar. I use a heavily customized GNOME 3 desktop now, with an autohiding task bar that appears when I move the pointer to the bottom edge. My desktop is an empty solid color image that sometimes appears between windows. I don't keep anything there, even when it was still possible by default. Too much clicking but I don't like that defaults get more and more opinionated. Let people do whatever they want.
eBird offers a good sound or image quiz. You can choose the location, time of year, and rarity of the birds it presents you in the game.
https://ebird.org/quiz/
"old-fashioned"... oof
Same here, and I am disappointed to not see much discussion here about the article.

Last year I was working on a multiplayer web game for the first time and I found it very difficult to devise a solution accounting for the fact that player 1 has different state to player 2, which has different state to the backend. I arrived at a solution which entailed sending sequenced commands, but having read this article I now realize that it was the explicit notion of intent that I was searching for.
"Crap docs aren't always the fault of the guys implementing though, sometimes there are time constraints that prevent proper docs being written."

I can always guarantee a stream of consciousness one note that should have most of the important data, and a few docs about the most important parts. It's up to management if they want me to spend time turning that one note into actual robust documentation that is easily read.
Do failed startups pay back the VCs? Subsidies are investments.
That falling on the face is irrelevant, as it's just a byproduct of some pre-determined programming that is not learned. Surely if this was a learned experience the deer after failing on its face would quickly learn it's best to not try and stand up. Why am I standing when I just keep hitting my face into the ground?
The reality is the drive programmed into the brain is to stand up at all costs, even if that means landing flat on your face once in a while.
You still need to get mysql installed and configured though. On AWS, it's 30 lines of terraform for RDS on an internal subnet with a security group only allowing access from your cluster.

For that, you get automated backups, very simple read proxies, managed updates of you ever need them. You can vertically scale down, or uo to the point of "it's cheaper to hire a DBA to fix this".
I don't think it's that prompt specifically, just it's too long.
Are you talking about travelling to the UK via Ireland?

If so, the only time passports are typically checked is when you're about to board the plane. Even then it's just used for id purposes, it's not done by passport control. You don't even need a passport, just photo id, but it seems most people use their passport anyway.

It's not unheard of that when landing in the UK from Ireland, there's no passport control at all. That may depend on the airport though.
Decline? What decline?

https://www.smmt.co.uk/vehicle-data/car-registrations/

January data: BEV share +20% YoY
My point is that forcing these arbitrary decisions is poor product management.
I did this to myself 15 or 20 years ago, and ever since have put a collection area for iconified windows on a panel.

In XFCE, it's easy to create a completely transparent panel running Window Buttons with "show minimized windows only" ticked, which emulates putting the icons on the desktop but corrals them to always show up in one location. Typically, if I have more than one minimized window, I've made a mistake -- but that's what the corral is for, saving me from mistakes.
SIM swapping absolutely does not require vulnerable insiders.

It is exceedingly easy to impersonate people to corporate employees who are neither trained nor willing to be strict about identity documentation lest a legitimate client get angry and result in their termination.
Something isn't that right. It is using 1/5 to 1/10 of memory compared to Chrome while still supporting 95% of what WebKit supports.
No, I am talking about entering the Common Travel Area (CTA) through Ireland. Suppose I am a Canadian citizen and a UK resident, and I live in Belfast. I've been to Nova Scotia and I am travelling back through Dublin. Will Dublin's passport control be available to determine my visa given my Canadian passport?
Ultralight: Display Web-Content Everywhere
Unless we get these standardized I think this is a really had move. What at lot of politicians forget is that these cards have utility in countries other than their own. For instance these cards are commonly used all over Europe right now for foreigners to open bank accounts, benefit from visa simplification regimes etc.

Taking away that portability of a basic document is going to be to the disadvantage of many.
>Assuming they have even something to switch for.

This one hits the nail on the head, and the reason why not just Microsoft, but a lot of large software players are not incentivized to create better software.

At the end of the day, people like power, to make money, and the people at Microsoft are no exception. And businesses are businesses, enterprises to make money, not altruistic benefactors of humanity, or optimizers of a specific domain, like software. So what business will do are their original thing AND business tactics, and the larger the business, the more tactics they have to employ, otherwise they won't be as large, or even simply won't be, at all. So, on the top, it's all ruthless business tactics. As Microsoft is a large player for a long time, they have quite the rep sheet[0], but they are not unique in doing this. It's the name of the game.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Microsoft
I'm doing no such thing.

Apple should be completely free to charge as they like for their toolchain.

But other toolchains will arise. And Apple's doesn't half stand on the shoulder of others.
I knew from just the first line that this was English schooling experience. My dad is, unfortunately, left handed and went through a very similar experience. He got caned so much.

Thankfully by the time I went to school everything was completely different. No fountain pens at all, very patient teachers, no caning. Complete reversal from the experience of school in my dad's time (he was born in '59), which honestly sounds more like prison than anything.

He left with no O-levels too. This was back when if you were struggling the teachers just decided to abandon you.
The monthly meter rental/connection fee/whatever your local utility calls it. Mine calls it "customer charge".
I am doing that. I am part of a research group, and don’t have the $$ or ability to pay so much for all these services.

So we got a $90k server with 184TB of raw storage (SAS SSD), 64 cores, and 1TB of memory. Put it on a 10GB line at our university and it is rock solid. We probably have less downtime than Github, even with reboots every few months.

Have some large (multi-TB) databases on it and web APIs for accessing the data. Would be hugely expensive in the cloud with, especially with egress costs.

You have to be comfortable sys-admining though. Fortunately I am.
But the migration stuff is a horrible joke. No way to just rollback a broken migration. https://www.prisma.io/docs/orm/prisma-migrate/workflows/gene...
Wow, what an astute comment! Thank you!

P.S. to the original person concerned about this though… for your own sake and your successors, please keep trying.
Fountain pens and Emacs, a chewed stubby dull pencil and vi. A Bic and VS Code.

It's all good.
> Is Irish passport control expected to look up UK residents' residency through the UK's website?

Yes they probably can and will do that if the need arises
Thankfully Valve is doing the good work to keep game developers targeting Windows and DirectX without caring about alternatives on the PC space.
Lots of companies, like Grinding Gear Games and Square Enix, just rent whole servers for a tiny fraction of the price compared to what the price gouging cloud providers would charge for the same resources. They get the best of both worlds. They can scale up their infrastructure in hours or even minutes and they can move to any other commodity hardware in any other datacenter at the drop of a hat if they get screwed on pricing. Migrating from one server provider (such as IBM) to another (such as Hetzner) can take an experienced team 1-2 weeks at most. Given that pricing updates are usually given 1-3 quarters ahead at a minimum, they have massive leverage over their providers because they an so easily switch. Meanwhile, if AWS decides to jack up their prices, well you're pretty much screwed in the short-term if you designed around their cloud services.
"That's what they want you to think"
If you feel like you are doing the same things over and over again, it's time to automate, and this article is all about how to do it!
Not just about the raw number of people. When your hear "the population is aging," it means the median age is increasing over time. It puts a lot of strain on an economy when the ratio of retirees to working age people gets too high. Retirees are expensive.
Use the average age of forced retirement decided by fortune 50 companies.
Sounds like a whole lot of stuff for a startup. Maybe start with a simple stack until there's market fit. Even Amazon didn't start this way.
Yeah 40% seems like a pipedream. I was at a Fortune 500 defense firm and we couldn't get any cloud provider to even offer us anything close to that discount if we agreed to move to them for 3-4 years minimum. That org ended up not migrating because it was significantly cheaper to buy land and build datacenters from scratch than to rent in the cloud.
Your comment does not seem to apply to the parent article.

It contains the link to the actual research paper:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11357-023-00936-w

The research appears to be legit and the results are interesting, because while some correlations between blood markers and health were as expected, for instance those indicating that the kidneys work fine, other correlations were somewhat surprising, e.g. that lower total cholesterol is associated with diminished chances of reaching 100 years (there is a correction to the article, the original version seemed to imply that it is better to have cholesterol more than average, but the correction is that it is good to have average cholesterol, and higher than average does not hurt, while lower cholesterol than average is bad).

The correction to the research paper:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11357-023-00996-y
It doesn't have to, there are tools to save backups of favorite artists or playlists as well as backup metadata.

I have a setup to discover new music on streaming platforms and backup my liked music onto a plex system
A reasonable approach imo would be to let the RIRs assign it, but only to networks that can demonstrate they are running v6.

As regards to the zeroth address on multipoint L2 networks would it really help that much? I’m not sure many people are really gonna see massive improvement squeezing one more host onto subnets. Maybe at the smaller end of things, /30, /29, /28 etc.

Orgs are finding they can stretch v4 quite a lot, with load-balancers, proxies, NATs etc. The bigger headache in my experience is acquiring enough routable ranges to assign 1 for each site. A couple of extra hosts at each seems less critical.
Yeah I 100% agree. No matter how impressive AVP is, it's still clearly worse than just a normal laptop/TV. You can do all the same things but just more painfully and at lower quality.

Quest games make much more sense because it's a completely different thing to non-VR games. You can't just say "well I'll play beatsabre on my laptop".

That said, they seem to be losing money hand over fist anyway.
The question is whether proportionally more bugs are found, and the indications are yeah, a lot more. There was an academic study of bugs in the Firefox codebase and they found that first time contributors were far more likely to introduce bugs in C++ than Rust proportionally, with the ratio getting tighter as people have more experience with the codebase. If you've got a team of people who've lived with your C++ codebase for a decade, they're perhaps not introducing more bugs than they would in Rust.

You're looking at a list of less than two dozen CVEs over several years across the Rust standard library and tooling. There are no CVEs raised for the analogous C++ behaviour, it's just accepted as normal.
https://149909199.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/uploads/202...

This is the most ironic image I've seen in a while. "Even though I know all growth curves are sigmoid, I'm going to pretend the long term curve is exponential not also sigmoid"
The bar for scientific paper should be far lower than the bar for imprisoning someone for life.
What part of SQlite 3.8.7 are you saying is premature?
Thanks for posting this as it seems very interesting. Did you go through the whole book/course? the preface claims that “You don’t need to know calculus or linear algebra. You don’t need any prior knowledge of statistics”. I am always a bit skeptical when i read these claims as the texts tend ultimately to be a bit superficial; it would be nice to have an informed opinion about it before starting it out :-) thanks in advance.
Is Japan actually in a better place? GDP per capita is worse, work hours are longer, debt is much higher, birth rates are lower. Citation needed.
> We had FB up to 6 figures in servers and a billion MAUs (conservatively) before even tinkering with containers.

that would have been around the time when containers entered the public/developer consciousness, no?
The last new nuclear plant to go online in Germany was Greifswald 5 in November 1989. For 23 days.

Given the massive failure of AVR Jülich, whose design was supposed to be "fail safe" while it's now the most 90Sr-contaminated nuclear facility world-wide, and the corruption around it, there's little trust that even if the technology is safe, operations would be.

That accident in Jülich was 1979, rumors that something happened were struck down with political support, and so the acknowledgement by the operator was 21 years later in 2000 and the government confirmed it only in 2010. The plan for decommissioning is to get it done by the end of this century, after we "develop some procedure during the next 60 years." (that is, we have no f'ing clue what to do with that thing right now). By that time, the incident has been 120 years ago...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVR_reactor (and even more so its German equivalent page) has the gory details of that mess. Germany likes to do things at industrial scale, and so it also messes up at industrial scale.

As a result (and while Chornobyl didn't help the nuclear-power cause, the German anti-nuclear-power movement predates that incident by ~10 years), Germany moving away from nuclear power has been a long time coming.
The problem is that it isn't him making the sacrifice, it's his family.
So the green bright future is in 10 years and it will take a lot of hard work to get there?

If that's the path to success, AfD will be at 50% within 2 years.
Ask HN: What is the best decision you have taken in your life?
Why do you think it's the best decision?[Optional/Just Curious]
That's a large part of the issue: it probably won't. It will reduce the standard of living of future generations, but for people in the prime earning and consuming phase of their life (say 40-65 years old), climate change isn't going to have anywhere near as detectable, let alone large, effect on their life as spending $20K on heat pumps, giving up a car and taking more public transit, taking fewer tropical vacations, or even setting the heating thermostat to 69°F rather than 71°F.
> the case where you controlled the protocol on the machines of a partitioned network (eg., so you release a new version of btc which uses exploitable crytography

Such a change would be treated as a "monopoly money" fork by those wanting to transact, and ignored. "No I don't want your fake money; send me real BTC or GTFO". This is why miners cannot arbitrarily change the protocol in their favour even today.
I disagree here. This falls apart when you zoom out one step. I'm perfectly capable of managing a database. I'm also capable of maintaining load balancers, redis, container orchestrators, Jenkins, perforce, grafana, Loki, Oncall, individually. But each of those has the high chance of being a distraction from what our software actually does.

Its about tradeoffs, and some tradeoffs are often more applicable than others - getting a ping at 7am on a Sunday because your ec2 instance filled it's drive up with logs and your log rotation script failed because it didn't have a long enough retey is a problem I'm happy to outsource when I should be focusing on the actual app.
Caching makes it performant
> creating a recommendation system that is based on concious curation, not statistical metric

That's good, but that's still a recommendation of authors/channels, not articles. It's still who vs what. For me the concept of "subreddits" is the best we've achieved in in terms of social sharing. It was about what over who. You picked a subject, followed a subreddit, and found articles, videos etc... about that subject. Conscious curation on specific subjects.

I still use the old.reddit.com, but few non-tech people do and the primary Reddit interface has pushed people away from the platform and a lot of the smaller subreddits are drying up.

I understand why the changes were made and it brings the question of how can we create social sharing based on subjects that is either distributed (but easy to use by non-tech people) or centralised and profitable?
"Shaders could be authored directly in SPIRV" oh god please no lmao

Also to answer your question, no. The hlsl to dxil translation is basically owned by microsoft. There's been little effort to move away from that
Yes, SPIRV->DXIL does seem tempting and worth exploring. Very recently I learned Mesa has such a tool, spirv2dxil, though unsure how robust/featureful it is compared to HLSL->DXC->DXIL.
I feel like I can never start with fountain pens because of my left-handedness. I've tried learning to write overhand and underhand and neither have stuck. All I want from my writing experience is to do nothing different, _use_ nothing different, than a right handed writer would other than the hand I'm using to write.
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My failed project is your gain.
Learn video generation (remotion), NextJS (app router), Langchain and more.
Nice! I use a Google Sheets doc to track my car maintenance but it's a cool project you've made :)
Factorio Friday Facts #397 – Factoriopedia
It’s not that the TF code in itself is more complex, it’s the resources you spin up using TF that are. They are stateful, expose network interfaces, require backups, updates, cert renewals and all other kinds of operational burden.
(2023)

Press release:

https://aimgroup.com/2023/11/24/nyc-police-to-offer-98-safe-...
Agreed. But then what is the point you were trying to make when asking "You think that there's data on a networked device that is absolutely safe?"?
> end up smelling bad (probably because of the rubber gasket--needed to waterproof the door--that accumulates gunk).

Do you never clean them or something? 2 tablespoons of bleach and run the auto-clean mode, wipe the gasket, and there zero issues. I do this like 4 times a year.

On capacity, do you need much more than 9 kilos?
> Plain old files on the file system

…and accessed over SFTP.

I worked for a company in the health industry and one of the labs we integrated refused to call a HTTPS endpoint whenever a result was ready, so we had to poll every _n_ mins to fetch results. That worked well until covid happened and there were so many test results causing all sorts of issues like reading empty files (because they were about to be written to disk) and things of that nature.
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