skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not with all the barriers we put up, making people pay tax, making people treat employees fairly, mashing people treat consumers fairly.

If you meant they couldn't create Amazon the product, then there are lots of bookshops in Europe, thanks for asking.
What if somebody posts a dangerous lie on a centralized platform and blocks everybody who criticizes it? Even if it doesn't allow deleting comments, you can effectively the same result with just block.

A mute-only social media platform would be doable technically but it would likely involve tons of spammers replying to large accounts. Think about how unusable the replies to an American politician's tweets are on Twitter because the US courts have ruled that it is unconstitutional for politicians to block people on social media.

The best solution to this problem I've seen so far is Community Notes on Twitter where a crowdsourced fact check is directly pinned to the tweet allowing users to challenge liars without directly calling them out and getting blocked. More centralized approaches to fact checking don't work particularly well because you end up with biased fact checkers who clearly have an agenda and thus aren't trusted at all by the liar's audience.
Foundation was near-unadaptable as-is, given that it spans eras and wants the user to emotionally attach to the structure, rather than the individuals. For TV shows, audiences generally attach to characters (and the actors and actresses that play them), and the kind of story that allows a single cast to span eras would need to engage with some degree of time travel, cycles of life and/or abuse, or immortality, none of which fit in with Foundation.

That said, Neuromancer is a book that's more "cool" than good; Gibson is very good at painting pictures with words, but story itself is something of a convoluted mess. Hopefully an adaptation can give the writers a chance to smooth out the elements that don't work.
TIL Yosemite Sam was the rootinest, tootinest computer geek this side of the Pecos.
> The library has the nasty habit of assuming it’s running on a host machine and nothing else docker related is running

To be honest given that most tests run as part of an isolated CI/CD pipeline this is a very reasonable assumption to make.
you don't need a CDN or even a DNS to host your blog (though most probably you'd use them). you will still be at the mercy of registries to have an IP address other people can find, but I think practically speaking it is not far fetched to consider this a "distributed system" (for most use-cases anyways).
Speaking for myself, I’ve met three or four people on BlueSky I’d like to have a private communication channel for. I didn’t know them previously.
ive also heard using the question "who was mickey's old girlfriend?" referring to Mickey and Minnie Mouse.
It is rather baffling that there are no zillionaires flying airborne yachts yet, you'd have thought that one of 'm would have gotten others to build him a modern Graf Zeppelin or similar.

Apart from that, yes. Do they not realise that their hypocrisy makes their supposed engagement for the 'climate' and 'planet' null and void? Probably not or possibly they imagine they'll have enough money and power to force their ideology down the throats of the general population.
Now you are changing the subject. You are inventing the term energy safety to try to have my eyes glaze over by having something in your view of the world only nuclear can solve.

This is not true, the alternative to nuclear power is being built today without subsidies or government involvement.

There is a transferring of the risk. For the alternative the government is not on the hook. I.e. there is no unrealized cost.

We can put it into concrete terms:

Who pays when something like Nukegate [1] or Hanhikivi [2] happens if the government finances the plant?

The taxpayers.

Who pays when Ørsted realizes that the contracts signed during ZIRP [3] no longer make business sense to pursue?

Ørsted.

If Ørsted were to go bankrupt due to the project, like Areva and Olkiluoto 3, who pays?

The banks.

The difference between the market rate and the government rate is who pays when the project goes belly up. Trying to fudge the numbers like you are doing is only a ploy to politically sell a project which does not economically make sense.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nukegate_scandal

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanhikivi_Nuclear_Power_Plant

[3]: https://us.orsted.com/news-archive/2023/10/orsted-ceases-dev...
Researchers 3D-print functional human brain tissue
The source for that is the "Ministry of Defence’s Main Directorate of Intelligence (GUR)" so I would take that with a huge grain of salt.

They are a bit upset that Musk refused to allow them an offensive use of Starlink which would have, in his opinion, escalated the war.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/musk-says-he-refused-ky...
Coming soon hopefully, says one of the lead devs:

https://bsky.app/profile/pauljessup.com/post/3kmkrhnupd726
Drop the /s and tell us an example?
The NYT isn't consistently anti-Chinese (by which I mean anti-PRC). They refuse, for example, to refer to the ROC as a country even though the NYC could of course do so (and which it obviously is). They play games and refer to it as an "island Democracy" or use other terminology to avoid stating the truth. I've always presumed this is a purposeful policy to make the PRC happy (or at least avoid its wrath when it comes to preserving advertising dollars and access). I've left many short comments on NYT's articles asking why they refuse to refer to the ROC as a country given, but they simply never publish it.

That said, sure in broad strokes I think the NYT tends to promote fairly mainstream American imperial interests.
That sounds like survivorship bias though? Everyone else already left it and jumped ship to GNOME (including pretty much all of the distros).

Are the current users the full target market or just leftovers?
I used it for a silly credits screen in football trivia game - summer 2002 I could knock on the screen of a many pub trivia machine to make it show my name :)
This is nothing to do with the philosophy of the people working at big tech companies. Firstly, that ethical ship sailed long ago when Google repeatedly and publicly shafted the ethical parts of its team - whether that's the AI ethicists getting the boot, Google walkout organisers getting the boot, or Google pursuing new contracts with the military. And Google is arguably the most woke of the big tech. Apple and Microsoft have never pretended to care what their employees think, and Facebook love to be the bad guys.

Big Tech's approach to AI is nothing to do with AI. It's to do with the same thing that killed Kodak and Nokia. Large existing technology businesses have an existing business with a reputation to protect and it's almost impossible for them to value the possible future revenue of what is currently a money sink vs the very real actual revenue they could lose by burning their reputations.

It's the same reason BMW won't put a death trap self-driving car on the road. They aren't woke, they're making justifiable strategic decisions.

Now: Here's the good news- that totally opens up the market to start ups and new entrants! Which is how silicon valley has always worked, and the real thing putting that in danger is the pipeline of emerging companies like OpenAI and Figma being snapped up by the older less competitive establihsed companies.
Apple has been really hit and miss. Slow Horses and Masters Of The Air are great, but For All Mankind focussed too much on the relationship drama rather than exciting missions.
I don't doubt something like that will come along, but I don't think it will help.

There will be more subtle ways to get the answer. Ask for a refund, ask if that's the highest refunded they can give, ask if that's really the highest it can go, etc.

Once someone finds a way to trigger a response like that, it will spread like wildfire on the internet.

I fundamentally don't think it's a good idea to make an LLM an agent of the company. They lack logical reasoning skills necessary to determine whether actions are a good idea or not.
As someone who has worked in video games both at the hobbyist and AAA level, this is a demo meant to fool non-experts. There are a million tutorials to get a really shitty version of mario running in unity or godot or unreal. And they openly say that they used these shitty mario clones to train this model.

This will not scale in the near term because

a) There aren't that many types of games that get cloned over and over again with small variations that they can train their data on. Mario games, card games, toy 2d strategy games, etc. Even something as basic as the rougelike genre has so much variation between games in style, feel, gameplay loop, system design, online play, etc that I don't think you can mix them up in an algorithmic slurry and get anything legible out on the other end.

b) The output of this so far looks ... really bad to be frank. It's unacceptably low res, no anti aliasing, you immediately see that this is just a sprite superimposed over the provided images. It looks so terrible that they are not getting buzz from word of mouth (the tweet thread has very much not gone viral despite being up for 3 days now).

c) Getting a character to move left or right and jump in a 2d scene with some collision detection is the only thing this has done and that is the easiest part of making a game. I have seen average 13 year olds manage it. There is so much technical depth in games and game engines beyond getting a sprite to render and move. They don't even have a walk animation in this demo. Good luck ever getting this to create a double buffer for rendering. The game industry very jealously keeps its code internal and its gonna take more than the payouts reddit and tumblr have been getting for ATVI/EA/Ubisoft to give up their source to Google. If Google had kept Stadia around, that actually could have provided them with so much free training data from the images being passed back and forth, but since Google is a non-functional company we don't have to worry about that :)

d) Bugginess in a game, once over a certain threshold, causes players to drop the game really quickly. I cannot even begin to imagine the amount of bugs or what the process would be to fix them in this mess.

You could create the same thing back in the day with a webpage where users can submit a set of background tiles and then run a flash mario game superimposed over those images.
> 3 party political system.

Wonder if having 3 senators per state would help this along.
> KDE is what GNOME wanted to be

Lol, from a historical perspective this is quite literally true: GNOME was born to be a GPL clone of KDE, back when QT had a gnarly license.
The novice and the master: 5 programming jokes
Firstly, Starlink cables are 1 Gbps ethernet with PoE [1].
This means 53V DC power over thin twisted pair cables, after a few meters the voltage drops below 48V DC and the cables start showing up in infrared because they are heated by the electrical resistance. Standard Starlink cables can't reach further than +/- 30 meters reliably. Those 30 meters run to the wifi router where your power supply must be.

You certainly can't be mobile anymore with this setup.

We use optical fiber instead but this requires a very large, heavy and warm battery to stay very close to the Starlink dish while the operator can now be kilometers away. You can now disable the Starlink Wifi router but only if you patch the encrypted firmware and spoof the account credentials. SpaceX calls that illegal and will disable and brick your hardware as soon as they find out.
Doing this extensive conversion is only for very capable hackers and has been done by only three people on our planet, as far as I am aware [2][3].
If you need similar patching and optical wireing, we will be happy to eductate you, for a small fee.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_over_Ethernet

[2] https://hackaday.com/2023/08/31/diving-into-starlinks-user-t...

[3] https://www.wired.com/story/starlink-internet-dish-hack/
> How do they decide when the server is "used"?

If you turned on the server, it's being used.
Just submit a bug. If they dont accept it submit a bug to NixOS about KDE not accepting NixOS KDE users bugs.
A Spritely distributed-computing library
For All Mankind is great, and there's a fan theory that it's a prequel for The Expanse that really almost works after FAM season 4.
Graham Roland: https://m.imdb.com/name/nm3169366/

Enjoyed LOST and Fringe.

Jack Ryan seasons tended to start off strong, but then lose my interest as they got to the end. To be fair, that's also true of their source: the beginnings of Tom Clancy books are more interesting than their resolution.

We'll see.

Hopefully this doesn't go Altered Carbon and decide "This bit is too complicated for the audience, so we'll rewrite it." (Envoys were UN black ops used for civilian unrest suppression, some of whom defected, which was way more interesting than TV's "they're rebels")

Edit: What happened to Gibson being historically unwilling to sell media rights, after dissatisfaction with previous attempts?

And also, reference to the New Rose Hotel movie that was supposedly Gibson's fave: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0133122/
C# dev here, you can compile applications from any time period very easily as long as you have the correct .NET SDK version, which is specified in the .csproj file.

It's the same with Java, where to compile old applications you also need to use the same JDK version, however with Java it's a bit harder cause there is no file that says which JDK version should be used to compile this. At least I think so, correct me if I'm wrong.
https://www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/incineration-burning-plas...

https://factor.niehs.nih.gov/2022/8/science-highlights/burni...
You may have heard of the digital currency known as Bitcoin, but what exactly is a blockchain address? A blockchain address is a string of letters and numbers used to identify Bitcoin wallets. Wallets are digital aliases that serve as your cash wallet. In other words, an address acts as your signature and is used for receiving payments. Before you can understand how a blockchain address works, it’s important to know the difference between an address and a wallet. An address is simply a digital alias that functions as your signature; it’s like your passport in the world of money. A wallet, on the other hand, is similar to your home or personal bank account; it’s where you keep your cash, credit cards, and other financial assets. Unlike addresses, however, wallets are not limited to just one location. Instead, they can be accessed from different devices in various locations across the world.
It gets worse. After that court case failed I investigate why would a prosecutor want to make a criminal case fail. Usually they are cheating to make cases succeed. In the beginning, we knew that left neighbor was involved in the case but we had long ago put it out of our heads that he was still involved with the justice department. Because anything else would be unthinkable, morally unjustifyable and pointless. And yet it was the case.

What happens if you involve a civilian in illegal activity that civilian can now black mail you. They have you by the balls. If they tried to prosecute him all he would have to do is talk and they all loose their jobs.

Anyway, the first thing I would out was that the prosecutor had lied before, in 2013 (Sorry all paywalled):

https://www.telegraaf.nl/nieuws/1039807/liegende-officieren-...
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2013/10/11/om-niet-ontvankelijk-in...

I thought that was bad enough but when I contacted the NRC Handelsblad they said it was not important because the prosecutor had retired. Huh ????? It turned out that 7 prosecutors had deserted that prosecutors office that year:

https://www.1limburg.nl/nieuws/1357826/leegloop-bij-justitie...

I didn't think too much till I noticed another article about another prosecutor that left that year as well. But this time the date was mentioned. He left the office due to an argument with the head prosecutor. I worked out that this argument must have transpired within the 2-3 weeks after the verdict on my case came out:

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2018/07/19/bestrijder-zware-crimin...
Billionares are also against against any sort of criminal consequences and taxes.

If you don't like that, you better vote in the next election.
This is not what I said, I said roughly, namely as a general trend, not an absolute truth.

An absolute truth, for instance, is c++ and similar being toxic for humanity because of their syntax complexity.
This article is hard to understand, and is all over the place - starts out talking about the inheritance that Millennials may someday get, and ends like this:

"Property, financial investments and cars were among the most significant sources of wealth, the Knight Frank study found.

Among smaller items, the report found that the market for secondhand bags had eased, while the fine wine market grew marginally and sales of watches at the three big auction houses totalled £488m in 2023, a slight increase on the year before.

At the high end, Canadian rapper Drake paid $1m for a ring formerly owned by the late Tupac Shakur at Sotheby’s hip-hop auction last July."

Cars, secondhand bags, fine wine and Tupac Shakur's former ring? What the actual h*ll? Did AI write this entire article and go completely off script?
And in non-scifi department, Ted Lasso and Masters of the Air are quite good indeed! I'd say they've got the best quality shows of any platform right now.
Dude was CEO for less than a month before trying this bullshit. It’s just what MBAs do, and they’re the sole reason behind what we’re starting to call enshittification. He went into that job with that idea, and I can guarantee all his other MBA snakes are thinking about ways to implement this.
> Are schools actually using things like the Pi and Arduino, or are we leaving it to parents to get such things into their hands?

Gen Z here checking in to say almost entirely the latter :/ .

Some schools have an elective that would get things into the hands of kids, but nowhere near 100% and they generally have a pretty low coverage of students at the school.
A few of them exist. I played a bit on the SQL section of HackerRank in the past: https://www.hackerrank.com/domains/sql
The relationship drama added quite a bit of depth to the traitor plot, I don't see it detrimental at all to the exciting missions and social issues arising from those missions.
I really enjoyed the Neuromancer book so hopefully Apple can make something of quality. Unfortunately, I can't say the same for The Peripheral, which was an ok book, but got a strange TV show adaptation (and I wasn't surprised at all to see it get cancelled after one season).
Can confirm CPU part. I once tried to replace a 2d stepwise linear function interpolations (basically, a loop finding the right step, then linear interpolation, on a double; the function's objective is to rescale inputs before they become regression's arguments) by LUTs.

All of this looping was happening in another tight loop, and there were multiple LUTs.

It was a failure with overall decreased performance and increased cache misses. Plus, I could never get the same precision.
The post you linked is not from one of the lead devs, and from what I hear DMs are pretty far down the roadmap but I don't have a reference on-hand.
Please note that you aren't getting downvoted because people disagree with your disagreement, but because your comment adds nothing to the discussion. (currently "I completely disagree.")
Exactly this. The "characters" of foundation was pretty much just men sitting around drinking alcohol, smoking and congratulating each others on how amazingly their plans worked.

There's nothing for people to follow or root for, the characters are just vehicles for the story, they don't grow or have a much of a personality.
Interesting point!

It’s funny, I’m often tempted to fact check data or lookup jargon, etc. and comment to save someone else the trouble. I once did this on the seriouseats subreddit with copy paste from a relatively reliable source and met with an insane heated argument over what amounted to semantics and a flurry of downvotes. I wonder if attribution to ChatGPT increases civility towards the commenter or if HN is just generally more civilized.
To be honest, I don't really think there's much value in social networks for humanity. In theory, they can do something good and some people see only positive effects, but it seems that the combination of pseudo-anonymity with algorithms inevitably brings out the worst in people.
I personally give the space shuttle a little slack on the aerodynamics department when I remember that it enters the atmosphere at nearly Mach 25, and is big enough to produce two separate sonic booms. It was probably a very wasteful design (burdened by the military requirements), but it's like nothing else we've ever built!
While I want autonomous cars to become available if for no other reason than to allow my elderly parents to continue using a car, I have serious doubts that it’s going to come about during their lifetime.

Having said that, I’m fully prepared to become their chauffeur at some point in the future. I’ve started looking at bigger vehicles I previously would not have been interested in so that I can drive them around in comfort and luxury.

Also curious about what are the Chinese EV manufacturers doing in this space? Are they putting much effort into autonomous driving, are they mainly focused on just making a plain old good electric car?
It's missing a Porsche hanging below on ropes. Someone fix the meme.
Of these I've only watched Foundation and I was unhappy with it. Salvor "violence is the last refuge of the incompetent" Hardin solves every problem with punches and guns. The overall plot is the worst kind of mystery box and it totally drops the central themes of lifecycles of empires.
In the US it would still be fairly common for someone to know that "two bits" can mean a quarter, but it's not used much in common conversation.

I don't know if this is just me, but I particularly associate it with a purposely colloquial or "old timey" register of speech. In my head I can envision a carny with a Foghorn Leghorn accent selling me a ticket to the Ferris wheel, "That'll be two bits, son".
Research done by an estate agent? Come on The Guardian. At least put some effort into vetting your sources for bias.
The book's first line really sets up a perfect opening shot for a TV version.
Will this cost more for existing customers?

What they should have made more clear is, for existing customers - will this be cost neutral or cost more.

Ideally, this is cost neutral for existing customer and gives the flexibility of paying partial month for partial usage.
Pardon my ignorance, but is this something that a language with a GC could potentially use to run in a WebAssembly environment?
HN doesn't have DMs either, but we usually figure things out one way or another (e.g. contact info in bio)
> With the advent of good battery chainsaws we’re only a few years away from one having a diagnostics screen

"hear that? that's the sound of.. inevitability." - Agent Smith
Protectionism benefits politicians, but everyone else suffers.
If we started fixing lobbyists (in the pet sense of the term), we would probably get better results even if the game stayed the same.
> The bookmark manager is straight out of Windows 95.

I wish it was! Unfortunately it's not.
Fwiw I think the bigger issue is that existing businesses are overrepresented relative to the businesses that don’t exist yet, or that would exist if rules were changed in a way contrary to the interests of some existing businesses.