skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a bit of a simplification, one that indeed not many will disagree with.

The wider problem is that when governments and (non-profit) organizations did create alternatives for Microsoft products, the governments themselves ended up showing they are corrupted and the internal rules quickly changed to stop allowing the competing (open source) offerings.

A good example here is the Munich Linux desktop efforts a couple of decades ago. The actual workers were much happier, the sysadmins were ecstatic (much less work) and there wasn't really anyone that had problems with Openoffice and kmail at the time.

Yet, the funding to companies supporting the features they wanted dried up. Requirements got written that disallowed upgrades to "dangerous" new open source releases and after some time they went back to Microsoft because problems were not getting solved. (duh!).

So, sure, we'd need a set of alternatives. But what we really need is not the end-products. What we really need is more honest bureaucrats that actually work for the benefit of the people. And those I have not yet found.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bSMFpbcPiY

Interesting talk about Bruno by the founder about Bruno! Includes its naming origin (very nice btw), the philosophy, a brief demo and overview of the architecture, with a couple of interesting surprises at the end. Is a good watch!

Keep up the great work!
Wait, what? Aren't all of the things that Altman is doing now making all of the data that Reddit is sitting on (and its capacity to generate new ones) EVEN MORE valuable? Didn't they just announce some data sharing deal to train an LLM worth many millions not too long ago?
Having the government direct funds and choose winners and losers seems a lot more dangerous than leaving it to free market forces.

It's easier to corrupt one or two government officials than it is the entire international capital marketplace.
VT100 is about HOW to write on the screen, CUA is about WHAT to write, it is on a level above (you could apply CUA while writing an app for VT100).
I wear masks in public and I use seatbelts on airplanes, but that's not the shortest path to the boss ape of the town status, and I would guess a lot of people care more about that than their own life.
I'm actually 72 years old and this is my retirement hobby. It keeps my mind busy and I find it amusing.
Cooling by a degree takes less energy than heating by a degree (not to mention it's electric). Cooling a house from 35 (outside) to 23 (inside) takes is better for "the environment" than heating one from 11 to 23.
One of the steps of Brexit was incorporating all the then-existing EU standards into national law, because that was far easier than trying to figure out which regulations they wanted and which regulations they didn't in the X-month period they had.
Linux 6.8 Is Announced
After several solid months of development the Linux 6.8 kernel has been officially released.

“This is not the historically big release that 6.7 was – we seem to be back to a fairly average release size for the last few year.”
The 90s called, Angus Deayton wants to be credited for his joke about British Beef getting a special label during the BSE crisis — a skull and crossbones with the word "Achtung".
In TempleOS you can embed animated images into your code.
We're basically boiled frogs, except we're the ones applying the heat.
The majority of people in all country groups are concerned. Maybe you are just in the minority.

https://www.undp.org/publications/peoples-climate-vote
Great Britain has a bit of a history with product warning labels "backfiring" ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made_in_Germany
Google calls this feature "quick share." Of course the problem is that it's all proprietary and Apple has no interest in supporting transfers with non Apple devices.

It's pretty typical on HN to see somebody singing the praises of apple while failing to notice the competition provides similar functionality.
I mean, if you could even find the capital in Europe, you could try to start a company to take on MS/Google, but what executive would ever choose it? ‘Nobody ever got fired for choosing Microsoft.’

(And MS/Google can just use their deep pockets to make an offer you can’t refuse, or to lobby against you, or both.)
I would argue that this saves both compute and memory for any significant search. In a traditional tree-search without treating states as identical and revistable still requires you to store every node that you visit in memory to track the N, Q, and child relations.

Applying the algorithm adds a hash associated with each node, and a counter on each edge. On the other side you're de-duplicating identical states in your search space, saving the memory of duplicate nodes but more importantly saving compute by not requiring independent searches of the same state space. Whether this trade off actually saves memory will be determined based on how likely duplicate states are in your search space.

Otherwise your summary is absolutely spot on.
Its expected that crew will light seat belt signs when they asses its required. Its literal on/off or yes/no, lets not add some 3rd state to it that will confuse people.

This of course doesn't mean one shouldn't wear it as often as possible, but ie with small kids thats nigh impossible, or for some folks on 10 hour flights (I still used to put it on me when I slept, but mainly to not be woken up by crew when they switch it on and check everybody).

Very similar topic is bus seat belts. All intercity buses (at least in Europe) have them, nobody clips in (apart from driver). I think at this point everybody knows about some horrible bus tragedy which would be a set of minor scratches if all folks had seat belts on. Yet our subconsciousness keeps changing perceived risks and consequences to keep us happy/content instead of worried about everything all the time (makes some sense, cluttered mind ain't best performing in life & death scenarios of bygone era).
Could be worse, you could be in Canada:

UK halts trade negotiations with Canada over hormones in beef ban.

Canada has been pushing for the UK to relax a ban on hormone-treated beef, which its producers say in effect shuts them out of the British market.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-68098177
ooo good point it’s been so long I might be misremembering. the reason I commented was because I thought you had to put the device in DFU to upload the image to the Media dir that was mounted rw. But again it’s been 15 years lol
Thats why every smart person and institution should insist on using ončy completely free and open documents formats (like OpenDocument Format for office documents), protocols and standards. So that the chance of getting trapped into vendor locking is greatly reduced.
You also have to fire a lot of management that allowed the org chart to explode in the first place. Maybe take a few lessons from the Elon Twitter playbook.
Looks neat, but how on earth is "Goqite" meant to be pronounced?
Both are even worse for data protection and would immediately leak EU data onto US servers.
Turns out it’s kind of hard to tell the US to eff off when the peaceful existence of your entire region relies on the US military.

And there’s no alternative. When left to build their own strong domestic militaries, the Europeans tend to quickly start conquering each other. See history.

If you give the middle finger to the US a little too much, bye bye NATO, and then we see how fun Europe gets when regular programming resumes.
Yet another example of how the UK should have thought about the land border with Ireland before embarking on Brexit.
>the roundabout was voted the seventh most feared road junction in the country.

Fear is undervalued as a road safety measure :-)
>you just can't legally drive it on public roads anymore

Varies by state.
Kde connect requires two devices already connected to the same local wireless network.
You know what's wild? Global Warming will create more extreme cold events in places that don't have them! Why? Because global warming is causing the jet streams to weaken and cold air in the arctic escapes more to the south.

Isn't that interesting?
EV Charging Points in America Are Finally Making Money
I recently bought a new Dell monitor and I noticed that it had two sets of energy efficiency labels on the side of the box.

It looked like this (except with a bit different numbers): https://twitter.com/jonworth/status/1463961078593896450

I guess this is yet another great Brexit victory.
It doesn't seem like they really took away the correct lesson either. It's not that "perf is not enough", it's that the performance of the real-world use matters more than some individual component that doesn't actually represent how customers use something. The problem isn't that they spent too much effort optimizing it, but that they didn't start from the customer pain and then trace it to the root of the problem (which _was_ in fact performance issues)
> "little Englander"

Mostly used by flag accounts on twitter to dismiss the political right, the working class, home owners...

Any one they don't like that day really....
Demo-what-ic?

The article (admittedly brief and as lacking corroborative research) was published in WIRED UK, and quotes "Tom Matthews, a senior lecturer in environmental geography at King’s College London".

The examples included the UK in summer 2022 (I lived through that. Not fun, and I'm glad it was only a few days!), Lagos, Karachi, and Shanghai.

No the US isn't immune [0], but regardless, to argue that this specific article is Democratic election propaganda is just nuts. The world does not revolve around your oyster.

[0] https://usafacts.org/articles/how-many-people-die-from-extre... (but pick your source – there are many)
Wow, never seen all the main comments flagged before. There was nothing to justify that. Generally I find HN to be very well behaved.
This is why you keep your seat belt fastened whenever you're sitting down.
Is ‘threat actors’ really a better descriptor than simply calling them ‘hackers’?

I have noticed a weird trend of shifting phrase usage in news. Mass shooters are now ‘active shooters’ (even in the post-tense, somehow). Soldiers are referred to as war fighters (which sounds pretty dumb, maybe vague on purpose to include mercenaries and contractors?).

Now hackers are ‘threat actors.’

We have already existing, perfectly serviceable terms to describe these situations.
GrapheneOS finds Bluetooth memory corruption via ARM MTE
Banned phrases include those related to “human rights,” “climate change China” and “Nobel Peace Prize.”
Just because you think you're the smartest person in the room doesn't make it true.

While not the literal morale of the story of Flowers for Algernon, it's one of the big themes, i.e. your beliefs and understanding of your intelligence and the world around you change drastically with your "actual" intelligence.
Frankly, everyone's familiar with the Dunning-Kruger effect, but the lack of intelligence in this story reminds me of Roog by Philip K. Dick. It's about a dog's paranoia regarding the local garbage men. He tries to warn his "guardian," but all he can say is: Roog.
iOS handles security by having a completely integrated ecosystem. Linux has to work on a wide range of hardware, basically none of which is under the control of anyone involved in Linux (kernel, GNU, distro, etc). Even Microsoft can't exercise Apple levels of control over the PC platform, and they have 100 times the revenue of the largest Linux distro.
Do SaaS owners have problem hosting their SaaS?
Do you have a problem to handle all the servers, databases, etc?
How do you know that you aren't a bot? Maybe what you feel are your own genuine experiences of the world is just part of the simulation. Now and again they spin you up to post on HN, feeding a new set of memories that have elapsed since your last output.

I am a bot, by the way. Altman made me post this to sniff out competitor bots.
Wouldnt an RO system also remove the plastics at a cheaper rate?
You really can't have an anon internet and copyrights simultaneously.

Take Wikipedia's content, licensed under Creative Commons - by who? Donald Duck? Then when Pikachu and Tony Stark edit the article it becomes a derived work?

> Creative Commons licenses give everyone from individual creators to large institutions a standardized way to grant the public permission to use their creative work under copyright law.

>....so long as attribution is given to the creator.

Who is the creator I must attribute to?

I don't think any of WP is CC? Without at least a full name and claim of authorship I cant satisfy the requirements of the license? Or can I? Then if I can satisfy attribution I will have to disclose who I am in order to allow further sharing.

When Scratch[0] took off lots of kids re-uploaded things made by others replacing the description with "I MADE THIS"

I'd say we, the grown ups of this world should know we've messed up when kids mock our ways.

[0] - https://scratch.mit.edu
This was the exact premise of Battlefield Earth. The invasion aliens couldn’t believed we needed oxygen
You can induce multiple Gs when pushing hard enough. Negative Gs and everything and everyone not strapped in flies into the ceiling. Which then must at some point come down.

Injuries from first crashing headfirst into the ceiling and then out of control falling back into your chair is a given when you have hundreds of passengers on board.

Especially on a Boeing which does not limit the flight envelope like an Airbus does.
which is in core now!
Pleasantly surprised the government is being sensible about this. I suppose they reckon food standards have enough popular political sway they'd be losing out if they compromised on it (it was absolutely one of the big fears about trade deals post-brexit: being strong-armed into lowering standards by the US especially).
What do I care? I’ll be dead by then.
Show HN: Discover Product Ideas Hiding in Plain Sight on Social Media
I just want to see spez and co. punished and destitute.
It's gender essentialism because he makes a foregone conclusion that "there will be static gender differences across cultures" and then he implies that they are unavoidable and due to innate gender factors.

He looks at an outcome, and then draws a conclusion about the mechanism behind the outcome which supports his position.

He does this without proposing an experiment to verify his hypothesis about the mechanisms. Just finding a correlation with gender says nothing about any "innate mechanism".
I don't know how they would know for sure. The result of a test? I'm sure it differs among domains in any case.
Preventing spam and fake stars on GitHub
>The wider problem is that when governments and (non-profit) organizations did create alternatives for Microsoft products, the governments themselves ended up showing they are corrupted and the internal rules quickly changed to stop allowing the competing (open source) offerings.

Not just government, also corporations. How many times, has superior product being ignore because it doesn't have some MS/Google/Oracle (fill in the blank). Current politics in the world does NOT support meritocracy. Doesn't matter if in gov or corporate.
The only thing being exploited is the owner's brain.
Of course, on the other hand, you can just as easily misread this example if you don't notice the incorrect formatting.

for (let a of x) {
f(a);
if (something) {
g();
}
}

If you're a programmer who looks primarily at indentation for their syntax cues, it's the parens that can lead you into traps.

So there's arguments either way.

Now that I'm used to it, I do feel that indentation errors (or at least an indentation/paren mismatch) should probably be a syntax error either way.

Possibly people who argue for belts and suspenders might be on to something?
It's a common phenomenon - you look at a puzzle, fail to solve it, then look at the solution and move on. Then come back to that same puzzle some days later and still can't solve it/remember the solution.

So it's questionable whether you really learned anything the first time. If the exact same position showed up in your game, you'd probably have missed the correct move.

That's ultimately the purpose of repetitive training systems like spaced repetition and the woodpecker method (which is somewhat different from spaced repetition, actually).
Curiosity beyond your own tools
This feels like a paid ad for eg MyWishes. I can't imagine this is a natural story someone felt was newsworthy
It always shocks me how bright Venus is. A few months ago I was wondering what the hell that blinding light was, and even though I’m an amateur astronomer I was sure it had to be something artificial. My star app told me it was Venus, and i decided to see it in my telescope for the first time. So I lugged out the 4-inch refractor and no matter what I could not manage to make out its shape. It was supposed to be a crescent but there was too much glare. Next time I’ll try it with the moon filter :)
I've not read into anything. Someone brings up a subject, someone else expands on it, then the person who brought it up to begin with starts complaining about what they got. It's stupid, waste of text.

Don't reply to me btw. I didn't bring this up for you to speak about it.
I don't think some sort of vaguely granular "last edited by XXX at YYY" annotations/tooltips/whatever would be too outrageous a feature to confuse everyone.

If necessary, could treat tables or other complicated compound entries as a single editable item, although given the mysterious passion everyone I've ever worked with seems to have for putting just about everything into a table regardless of need, I'd hope it could be granular to a cell-level, at least.

Trying to collaboratively write complicated documents with a bunch of inter-relations between sections, from different people (in my case, documentation & regulatory paperwork for medical devices) is a massive pain, and I feel like it's too obvious a problem to be confined to my particular niche.

I vaguely recall Word is widely used for preparing huge legal documents, where the content and stakes are probably similar, so maybe there are some solutions, unless they're just "throw interns at it".
My interpretation was that countries with growing cimate problems will start seeing more and more immigration, which is wrong. It'll see more and more emigration.
If we define biomimetic so broadly that merely some vague inspiration from nature is enough, than I would say the Turing machine is also a biomimetic model. After all, Turing very explicitly modeled it after the activity of a mathematician working with a notebook. The read head represents the eyes of the mathematician scanning the notebook for symbols, the write head is their pencil, and the tape is the notebook itself.

Now, whether CPUs are an instance of a Turing machine or not is again quite debatable, but it's ultimately moot.

I think what matters more for deciding whether it makes sense to call a model biomimetic or not is whether it draws more than a passing inspiration from biology. Do practitioners keep referring back to biology to advance their design (not exclusively, but at least occasionally) or is it studied using other tools? Computers are obviously not biomimetic by this definition, as, beyond the original inspiration, no one has really looked at how mathematicians do their computations on paper to help build a better computer - the field evolved entirely detached from the model that inspired it.

With ANNs, admittedly, the situation is slightly murkier. The majority of advancements happen on mathematical grounds (e.g. choosing nonlinear activation functions to be able to approximate non-linear functions; various enhancements for faster or more stable floating point computations) or from broader computer science/engineering (faster GPUs, the single biggest factor in the advancement of the field).

However, there have been occasional forays back into biology, like the inspiration behind CNNs, and perhaps attention in Transformers. So, perhaps even by my own token, there is some (small) amount of biomimetic feedback in the design of ANNs.
My employer just moved from Postman to Bruno. So far, no major complaints or issues. This was caused by the forced move to cloud, and we don't want credentials to leak.
Prepare to be creeped out:

https://www.toyota.com/privacyvts/
That entire interval is "oxygen starved". It's all a minuscule amount.

Somehow we have an entire article about how a person can't walk around Europa without a helmet, as if it was news. The actual research is news, but it's about something completely different.
Forgot the _final_final2
I don’t think of Minnesota as a place where 100f+ occurs with regularity or for sustained periods. A brief search confirms my assumptions, but I’m happy to be proven otherwise.

There are parts of the US where 100f is reached by midday and persists past sunset for over a month, with high humidity.
It's interesting to compare this story to the movie Limitless, which has a fairly similar premise, but ends on a positive note. Algernon seems to have more influence, probably because of it is fundamentally a kind of morality tale, but I actually kind of prefer Limitless, [0] as limited as its plot is.

There is something motivational about it, which is probably why there are so many YouTube productivity videos with the soundtrack. [1] I get the same feeling from The Last Samurai a book (unrelated to the Tom Cruise movie) by Helen DeWitt, which is about raising a genius child.

I don't know what the psychological effect is called, but there does seem to be something significant to the idea that it's inspiring to read about/watch extremely intelligent people flexing their intelligence.

0. The film is based on a book, The Dark Fields, which doesn't seem quite so positive, although I haven't read it.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7BRQ9neSrw
Fair enough and you see open sourcing the code as the only way? Or any other options?
See also, the Ulm School of Design: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulm_School_of_Design
This would take decades at least, we need something else in our back pocket in case millions start to die from heat exhaustion. Even if somehow we stop all CO2 emissions today, the earth will continue to warm for like a couple more centuries.
People need to be less outraged. Look at the situation and figure out what would allow the UK/EU to get on par with the US in terms of AI.

If diversity would achieve it, then do that, if homogeneity would achieve that, then do that.

Personally, I think they need to figure out what their main goal is. Is it diversification in this one area, or is it parity/supremacy in this one area and then go from there. One cannot serve two masters.
> Transceivers – Up to 8 GTH transceivers supporting up to 16.3 Gb/s

Hey, the Spartan line is useful again!
I just want to say I greatly enjoy the misunderstanding of how propoganda and misinformation works in the age of mass media.

The argument of "the government couldn't keep a secret for 80 years" as proof of why Grusch's claims can't be true is illustrative.

Because they didn't, things have been leaking since the 1950s, but all that has to happen is convincing people theres disagreement or multiple stories and people stop being able to tell which is true. Which is exactly what the AARO report is.

I recommend finding the 1970ish Australian intelligence analysis that the US government is lying based on among other things, the US governments funding of 1950s gravitational research and its subsequent classification.
I'm not talking about final documents. Sure, only PDF/A makes sense (handily outputted in the LaTeX flow btw).

I'm talking about what comes before. Most don't have the luxury of a publishing department producing a clean pdf from what's no doubt a handful of Word inputs. Apart from horrendous formatting issues introduced by incompetency and variety of Word versions (including limited mobile/online versions), the purpose would be astronomically better change integration when 10 people concurrently review for starters. If you've never had to integrate changes from a handful of people for 100+ page documents, praise your deity.