skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On two occasions I have been asked, — “Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?” In one case a member of the Upper, and in the other a member of the Lower, House put this question. I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

— Charles Babbage, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher (1864), chapter 5, Difference Engine No. 1
It’s illuminating to try to use a late-era Core 2 Duo (or even Core 2 Quad) machine for all web browsing for a day. Given a cheap SSD upgrade, these systems can handle Windows 10 or a modern Linux distro perfectly well, but the web can bring them to their knees pretty easily. You quickly learn which sites to avoid, but even nominally “good” sites are still sluggish.
> This seems like a long way to go for “we know that this device is an Xbox and Xbox doesn’t support printing, let’s tell the user”

You're missing the fact that Xbox can run apps developed for (desktop) Windows, and that the scenario in the article is about the platform <-> end user relationship and does not involve the app developer at all.
I think its a PWM issue.
I mean, mine's about the same startup, but that's ... like a hundred times worse than a Vim startup.
Why would I donate to open source? The company work for and my Country’s government spend amounts of money I can barely comprehend. Yet, they use an absurd amount of open source tech.

A better question would be how can I convince the company I work for or my government to spend money on open source?
Besides being unreadable, it is well known that Win32 API code is unwritable. It is only copy/paste-able.
UX/UI design is an entirely different job than coding. In mature development places there are UX designers that design the UI layout and user interaction and developers that implement the UI and the backend.
When am I getting my check from reddit for my content?
Took me a while to read through so I could come back and comment.

I've got to say, this is probably the best single explainer of the basics of systemd I've read.

I've only recently started fiddling with systemd extensively since I had my Linux-coming-of-age prior to its widespread adoption. I've got to be honest. I've found the experience very confusing and disorientating. The man pages feel really terse, even by manpage standards, and all the information is heavily split up so it's quite difficult to build a mental model of the full system IMO.

Somethint like this would have been magic before, but it was still really helpful to me now with the way it explained things, I feel like it took me most of the way from cargo culting, into more understanding.

Great write-up!
I bring my milk bottle to a farm. They wash it, fill with milk and sell again.
No one ITT mentions that the constitution can be ammeneded. Instead of arcane arguments we could try to make new compromises with each other.
It's the name of the network/group, the links are to articles about their previous activities. The article reads fine to me.
I'm so sorry to hear it, it's honestly so hard to imagine what that's like
It absolutely is not a western concept. China takes the spirit you describe, but not the gloves or food example, and ramps it up to 10. There was no such thing as a cloth mask in China, for instance. There is also no market for used goods. If its not new its dirty.

And just talking plastic waste in general, East Asia is far and away the biggest polluter.
Apple disables iPhone web apps in EU, says it's too hard to comply with rules
It's horrible that a lot of web development tools and libraries keep the discussions only on discord.
You might want to check out Exercises in Programming Style (2nd Edition)
by Cristina Videira Lopes.

It's a little known book that explores different ways of solving the same problem under different constraints.
If you enjoy your job, you’re lucky. If you don’t enjoy retirement, you’re not trying.

Human psychology is dominated by getting stuck in emotion-behavior cycles, and those cycles wind up in local maxima.

Change is scary. Self-actualization is hard.

I highly, highly, highly doubt what you’re saying would be true for most people. Regardless of social class. I think most people would view retirement as freedom.

Would they immediately feel secure, content, and know their next direction to take? Probably the fuck not, but hey that’s just being human.

I would feel sad though to see someone give up on retirement and personal development to go back to working on business web apps. You have so much potential, don’t be afraid
Python's module importing / $PYTHONPATH lookup/traversal is incredibly inefficient, especially with cold FS caches...

I've worked at places where we've significantly patched the logic (in a way which breaks compatibility in some cases, so couldn't be up-streamed) which makes Python startup / module loading with hundreds of paths in $PYTHONPATH orders of magnitude faster...
Too much money on the line to bother with due diligence
I've often wondered how different things would be if producers and manufacturers were required to pay for any waste they generated from their products, at no additional cost to the consumer.

Individually wrapped candies in a plastic sleeve? Landfills will send you a invoice based on the volume that enters their site.

Phones designed to be replaced every two-years? You might be able to save money by making the original container a prepaid shipping box to cut back on sending out new ones for proper disposal.

Fruits and vegetables? That's bio-degradable and people will pay to have it in their soil. Make a deal with some local group to set up compost bins charging $1/scoop, and its like a built-in subsidy for farmers.

Have a novel solution that's 100% re-useable/recyclable? Enjoy the good times while entrepreneurs offer to pick that up for you to sell back to recyclers themselves.

EPA discovers that by "recycle" you meant "throw it in the ocean when no one's looking"? If you can't pivot quickly enough to cover both the new disposal fees and clean-up fines you'll be a good case-study for others who want to take shortcuts.

Sure, companies would absolutely pass the cost straight into the purchase price, but a company that wraps your sandwich in plastic and adds a $5 disposal markup won't last long when someone starts wrapping theirs in paper and only charging $1 more.

I know it's not that simple, but a man can dream, eh?
Grow a bit of spine and name them. If your experience was bad enough to do an entire write-up on it, what are you so timid about? You're "not trying to bash them"? Why not? A bad experience is worth a naming and there's nothing wrong with doing so.
Add a parallel step there, somewhere, for DNS. My raspberry pi runs pihole but the hardware is failing somehow so the server crashes so DNS lookups fail. All existing connections are fine, direct IPs are fine, locally cached results are fine, but new lookups fail. It is somewhat fun to watch it happen.
Also, eho is eating a hotdog with a fork and knife? At a baseball game.
ChatGPT but It's in 2006
Although I agree, notice that the only act the GPL compels someone to do is to hand over the source code with the program.

MIT doesn't give people a freedom to restrict because that isn't a freedom. The restriction is always done by the legal system. The GPL is just an attempt to stop the legal system from interfering in the market to restrict user freedom. So both licenses are actually communicating to a 3rd party (a judge) under what circumstances they should restrict the freedom of others. GPL says to stay out of it as long as people are sharing their source code and MIT says get involved sometimes/its complicated.

It isn't a practical difference, but it is philosophically important. The amount of personal freedom both licenses give is technically quite similar.
Here are the definitions offered by clicking on 'spamouflage':

"Cross-Platform Spam Network Targeted Hong Kong Protests"
"used hijacked and fake accounts to amplify video content"
> Instead they've got a precedent-setting ruling that makes the chatbot a huge liability.

Good.
We need a standard platform for benchmarking, they don't even tell us their hardware. I vote rPi 5. It's easy to get, it's the same everywhere, and you can't just blast out whatever numbers you pull from your ass.
Off the top of my head:

1. karabakh war (at least the first one)

2. six day war

3. turkey's invasion of cyprus

4. some yugoslav wars
NLRB was set up by Congress to enforce the National Labor Relations ACT! So it's basically a court that's set up to adjudicate Labor Disputes and enforce Labor Laws/Regulations and promote negotiated solutions rather than Strikes and Walkouts. And in fact if there's a strike planned then the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service has to be notified in advance of any Strike Vote! Go on strike without notifying the FMCS and the strike is not legal and can result in a Union losing their case there in Labor Court(NLRB).

So if one wants to go back to the old days of the Pinkerton Thugs and wildcat strikes and outright social conflict then just try and get rid of the NLRB and related Laws and Courts.
If I am trying to interact with a company and they direct me to their chatbot, I expect that chatbot to provide me with accurate answers 100% of the time (or to say it can't help me in the event that I ask a question that it's not meant to solve, and connect me to a representative who can).

If I have to double-triple check elsewhere to make sure that the chatbot is correct, or if anything the chatbot tells me is non-binding, then what's the point of using the chat bot in the first place? If you can't trust it 99% of the time, or if the company says "use this, but nothing it says should be taken as fact", then why would i waste my time?

If a company is going to provide a tool, they should take responsibility for that tool.
They don't even say what hardware they're using. It could be impressive, or slow and bloated but just massively parallel.
Two rare Q1 computers discovered in London house clearance
Related:

Universal Basic Income Has Been Tried over and over Again. It Works Every Time

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39401071
In that case there's a huge incentive to create bots to click on ads!

It could be easily solved if twitter can distinguish between bot and human clicks, and only share revenue on the latter.
Now compare to paper bags.

And account for microplastics.
I think you need to have ARR(annual recurring revenue) to have a multiplier like this. I think the company makes money when somebody buys the device, but that's it.

It would also help to know the TAM(total market area). How big is the remote KVM market? That gives you an idea on how many devices it's possible to sell in a given year.

Looks like the device sells for about $400.
I could not assess the validity of this paper if my life depended on it.

But this is what I do know: Given that the University of Florida is a public institution and the governor of the state is anti-science and promotes anti-science policies and practices, my immediate reaction to this paper’s news is negative. Reasonable? Probably not. I can’t be the only one who would react in this way.

This matters for two reasons. First, each of us has limited time and capacity to care about things, to investigate them more. Second, if we don’t recognize our biases, we may ignore important and useful information.
There’s a bit more background in this Hackaday article from 2022

https://hackaday.com/2022/09/28/the-first-microcomputer-the-...
> you're not going to change any minds

I am repeatedly accused of this. Consider what I have written:

> then by all means - VSCode is the superior tool.

> No one's arguing using only one tool.

> As I write this, I have both VSCode and Emacs windows open.

> We're not enforcing a dichotomy. You can use both.

> I don't have any desire to convince someone to leave VSCode for Emacs. What for?

I certainly won't change any minds, because I'm not trying to.

> To nearly everyone reading this thread, the bulk of whom are under 35, emacs is just a programmer's editor, and will be judged on its program editing.

While I can agree they are the majority, this is a strange take. Do HN readers come to the site to reinforce their problematic views?

And do you think Emacs submissions often hit the front page because those upvoting view Emacs as "just a programmer's editor"? Quite a lot of these top voted submissions (the majority?) are not about programming.

> Yeah no. The first is email, the latter three are directly relevant to program editing.

You are welcome to whatever hierarchy you wish. From an objective architectural standpoint, all are extras on equal footing. I suppose perhaps some of these may have extended support in the C code, but otherwise they are just elisp libraries on top of the core.
Several of my family members too - mostly normal people who through terrible cable news and social media are utterly brainwashed about Q, pedophile rings, “illegals” voting for Biden, communist plots to indoctrinate their grandkids… none of their actual kids talk to them any more, they’re just hateful mean-spirited unhappy jerks now.

I wish nothing but pain and misery on anyone who knows better but willingly purveys this shit to score political points.
> I wrote this story [publisher December 2023] using only my own human cogitation, with no computational input, except for the excerpts of Good Stories’ machine-formed fictions, which were generated by ChatGPT 3.5 (May 3, 2023 version). Why did I do this? Because it seems perverse for me to pretend to write like a machine when machines are already capable of doing so. Modern life does enough to make us feel like machines; I don’t want to cosplay as one. As well, if we’re going to speculate about the future of machine-generated art, we should be as transparent, honest, and open-minded as possible.

It's worth remembering that ChatGPT-3.5/4 are terrible for creative writing, far worse than they need to be, due to the safety-tuning like the RLHF, with their now notorious 'chatGPTspeak' style (eg. writing only rhyming poetry and no other kind of poetry); and the stunt of including some GPT-written text is no longer novel at this point the way it was 3 years before in 2020. (If you're going to do so, you should at least use the best GPT available; ChatGPT-4 was available for ages by December 2023.)

So I disagree with Liu about his incorporation: it's neither an accurate reflection of the SOTA which enhances the realism of the story, nor is it an interesting gimmick in its own right, and he should have instead tried to write his own 'AI text' which reflects his best estimate of where AI text is going.

(Or, better yet, get his hands dirty and find the best model for creative writing, which might entail dabbling in open-source models or evaluating multiple services; although I think this is unrealistic to expect of Liu, even if he was a programmer back in the '90s.)
The problem with reusable glass is that it's heavy and transporting it back to the factory to be washed and refilled takes a lot of effort and energy on it's own.
Yeah I just checked out a few others, so I definitely appreciate your work!

Starred, will try out soon!
If I ran their large multi-page website I could search over it for every occurence of "bereavement fare" to find out exactly what we are telling people and check it for accuracy. I can't do that with a LLM afaik. I can't ask it "tell me every thing you can say about "bereavement fare". LLM's are not inspectable like that. LLMs are tuned and output filtered, but can this catch all errors?
Design lifetimes for nuclear reactors are typically 30 to 40 years. Solar panels are often guaranteed to produce about 80% of their capacity after 20 years (and often exceed that) IIRC
Foldable iPhone Development Allegedly Paused Due to Failing Screens
Who the hell paid 60M for their garbage data? This can't be real. Also another reason why scraping content to use for models has to be free for everyone or incumbents are gonna pull stuff like this.
Australian consumer law basically already does this (for employees) esp. in the context of e.g. assuring fitness for purpose etc.
It is somewhat of an humorous thing. For decades the US has interfered with other countries' election trying to have the person the US felt was better for them to be in charge. Now, other countries are saavy enough to do it back, but the effort is much more effective because of the 24/7 firehose of information that is the internet. The lock-in echo chamber effect of social platforms took that effectiveness knob and turned it to 11.

The US used to fly planes to drop leaflets over population centers, so there was the expense of creating/printing the leaflets, the expense of flying them into place, the risk of invading foreign airspace, blah blah. Now, it's some keyboard warriors sitting in an office using a exponentially more efficient delivery system.

What goes around, comes around
A lot of this is because of news media though.

News media is in direct competition with big tech companies for advertising. The more eyeballs go towards big tech and not news companies, the less market share and relevancy they have.

Even worse for them, when people want news now they generally go to aggregators, search for it on Google, or get it served up by a Meta property. It used to be that instead people would read the newspaper or go to a news channel on TV. So news media is furious that big tech controls their top of funnel and distribution channels, as consumers typically prefer it that way vs directly seeking out news by going to cnn.com. In some places they’ve pushed link taxes which tech companies strongly criticized for entirely legit reasons/threatened to pull services, which upped the animosity.

Also, because news is monetized through advertising they need stories and narratives that capture people’s interests and attention. Nobody would care about a story like “Google Scholar revolutionized research discovery and accessibility and improved geographical collaboration a billion %” or “Waymo actually works pretty well no complaints” or “most SF residents actually like Waymo”. But controversy like “Waymo ran into something” is more attention grabbing the more they spin it as evil. Additionally, “good thing continues to be good” is not news but “good thing is actually bad” and “recognizable company X did a bad thing” are news. Similarly “fall from grace” “David vs Goliath” and “these people made a lot of money so you should blame them for not having money” are consistently popular narratives people like.

So news media have literally every reason to drag big tech through the mud and pretty much no reason to ever say anything good about them. For sure these companies have problems but you don’t hear about the good things (IMO Meta has made huge improvements in organizational/data security, and their products drive a lot of commerce in developing countries; Amazon warehouses are usually in places where $15-20/hr is actually a huge step up for local inhabitants; big tech is much better than Microsoft and other old school players at fighting unreasonable law enforcement requests) and the bad things are often overplayed/slanted.
This talk on concurrency in Python by Ray Hettinger is quite good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zinZmE3Ogk
Hacking into Kernel Anti-Cheats: How cheaters bypass Vanguard anti-cheat [video]
The letters form words, and the words form statements, but the statements express gibberish... however, that is com-meme-place online.
> no human driver is going to drive into something just because it moved in a way they didn't expect.

This is literally the cause of almost every human accident.

Imagine you're driving. There's a car in front of you, also driving, at the same speed as you. Do you immediately slam on the brakes? No, because you EXPECT them to keep driving. That is how driving works.

If, suddenly, they do something unexpected - like slam on the brakes, that might cause an accident. Because ... they moved in an unexpected way.

I honestly can't even figure out what you meant to say.
This seems self-explanatory. “Camouflage Spam Network”
What's Wrong with This Rental Listing? The Furniture Is AI.
And landfill if it’s lucky. For a long time US “recycled” plastics went to China where they were burned. When they had to clean up the air pollution for the Olympics they stopped doing this, so the plastic was just shipped somewhere else, Malaysia if I remember correctly. (There is an Netflix documentary about it)

A local landfill is dramatically better than shipping it on a giant freighter halfway around the world to be set on fire.

The best option seems to be to reject single use plastics as much as possible. Force companies to make changes if they want to make sales.

Knowing that this whole thing was a scam (which has been known for quite a while) should push governments to take action. Not only against a the plastics industry, but also to push companies to move way from single use plastics.
First iPhone 16 Component Leak Reveals Redesigned Camera Chassis
> If Congress would like to clarify, they are free to do so.

Unfortunately, Congress is, and has been for a long time, nonfunctional. Besides routine reauthorizations and trivialities like renaming post offices, how often in the past 20 years have we seen actual, significant legislative action? What's legal and illegal today is roughly the same as what was legal and illegal back in the '90s, and it will probably be roughly the same in the 2050's. We've totally ossified and are incapable of meaningfully changing outside of judicial interpretations and "legislating from the bench."
It’s because despite what people are afraid of, these systems are very good at not screwing up with just a few minor controls layered on top of them.
Related:

Google is making a map of methane leaks for the whole world to see

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39381977
> Add that you're burying carbon when you dump paper in a landfill.

Thats essentially recycling then isnt it?
Oh boy, where do I start.

First of all, I do donate to multiple projects monthly.

Secondly, why should I (a tech enthusiast) foot the bill for software that benefits all of society?

Thirdly, an organization like NLNet is much more equipped to determine value to the European Union of funding an open source project, than a random European tech enthusiast is.

Lastly, it's pretty amazing what NLNet does with its VERY limited funding. NGI Zero Core, for example, is $11 million euro over 3 years. With that they fund a huge number of open source projects.

https://doi.org/10.3030/101092990
Eagle and Autodesk deserve each other:

"In spring 1991 the dongle protection scheme of EAGLE 2.0 had been cracked causing a decline of 30% in sales, while sales for a reduced demo version with a printed manual saw a significant increase.[4] As a consequence in 1992 CadSoft sent thousands of floppy disks containing a new demo of EAGLE 2.6 to potential users, in particular those who had ordered the former demo but had not subsequently bought the full product.[4] The new demo, however, also contained spy code scanning the user's hard disk for illegal copies of EAGLE.[4] If the program found traces of such, it would show a message indicating that the user was entitled to order a free printed manual using the displayed special order code, which, however, was actually a number encoding the evidence found on the user's machine.[4] Users sending in the filled out form would receive a reply from CadSoft's attorneys.[4][33] The act of spying, however, was illegal as well by German law.[4][33]"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EAGLE_(program)#Controversie...
Since I didn’t know the acronym.. “Pulse Width Modulation”:

https://appleinsider.com/inside/apple-vision-pro/tips/why-ap...
Aluminum can also be recycled an infinite number of times, unlike other materials.