skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are in Sydney at sunrise and you look towards the rising sun and keep looking in the same direction, after a while the sun will be to your left.

If you are looking North, the sun moves from right to left. If you are looking South, the sun is behind you, so you're not looking at it. There is no direction you can look at, that lets you observe the sun moving from left to right. [1][2]

If you are between the tropics, for example in Cairns, which is in Northern Queensland, then yes as you said depending on the time of the year, you could be looking South at the sun moving from left to right. But, only a small minority of the Australian population live North of the Tropic of Capricorn, and the above is true only during a certain period of the year. So I think that's beyond the point the OP is making...

[1]: unless you place yourself upside down.

[2]: I found another exception: if you are looking at the sun through a mirror
I've gotten some useful stuff out of 7B param LLMs, and that should fit on a Pi quantized.
I saw a man get hassled by Swedish police on a train just after crossing the Øresund Bridge. "The dog is very interested in your bag", they said. The man admitted that maybe he had smoked marijuana in Copenhagen and they left him alone.

I'm sure selective enforcement is at play, but at least in my experience they didn't care.
Or the fact that a big portion of the population is not in favor of legalization. The new law in Germany is controversial, too, and chances are high that the next government (to be elected late 2025, which is most probably shifting towards the right) is going to change/revoke this law, as they have already announced.
RIP to all those FOSS projects that thought it was good to build their communities solely on proprietary chat. I don’t expect the average folk to understand the ethical, privacy, or ownership issues, but in the software community, I do. Now your members get ads, & those ads are almost certainly expecting to siphon user data (as if Discord isn’t doing enough of that as is & not buying “seem minimally intrusive”).

The home base server should be free or otherwise ethical software the community can own, ideally decentralized (in practice, not theoretically decentralized)… & then use bridge/gateways if you want to support these proprietary, privacy-sapping platforms.
I often find myself wanting a way to easily see which variables are local to a closure body versus those that are captured.

(I use VSCode in case anyone knows a way to do it in any language)
When I was in Uni, we tested air quality at bus stops (where most people complain about smoke smell) and then a few meters away. Turned out that most of the pollution came not from cigarette smoke but from cars, tires and whatnot.

I also don't see how it would stay in the air longer than tabaco. That just seems your subjective thinking that's not based on anything at all.
> we don’t have to waste hours anymore managing Teamspeak servers.

I'm on old fogey who still hosts a teamspeak server and I have to say, teamspeak is one of the simplest and easiest things I've ever hosted. In the 6 or so years I've been running it on my VPS I can count on one hand the amount of times I've had to do anything with it, and all of those were simply required updates.

It's seriously rock solid software, never once let me down.
Great explanation with beautiful visuals
This kind of restriction could be illegal, I think. Landlords have limited control over how tenants use and decorate their living spaces, I think.
> Funny how greens are against nuclear energy but don't mind if the air smells horribly from smoking.

I don‘t see what those things have to do with each other?

But besides that, smoking cannabis is prohibited in most public places, even when smoking tobacco would be allowed.
it was also essentially unusable without a crapload of third party patches that DJB would not include into the master release, but yes it was quite secure :-)
downside is, that people seem to think it's not smoking and start vaping inside. disgusting.
> Over-18s can now to carry up to 25 grams of dried cannabis and cultivate up to three marijuana plants at home
Thanks for sharing.

This presentation is pretty inspiring to me, but at the same time there is just no obvious way to leverage the claim. How can any management allow subordinates to do things without any objectives to justify?

Generally I buy the reasoning, but maybe that's just I cannot identify any fundamental flaws now.
> As of 1 April, adults in Germany are allowed to carry up to 25g of dried cannabis on them and cultivate up to three marijuana plants at home.
> We demonstrate
in the following text the meaninglessness of the never-ending
co-doping of graphene. We decided to follow the hyperbole of
ever multiplying dopants; however, instead of using expensive
and toxic chemicals such as ammonia, fluorine, chlorine,
boranes, etc., we took a page from the pre-Haber−Bosch era
and sought natural materials for the fertilization of graphene
and used guano as a dopant.

What a wonderfully bat-shit paper.

> In summary, we demonstrated that bird dropping-treated
graphenes indeed make graphene more electrocatalytic than
nondoped graphene.

Oh, never mind, just bird-shit, dang.
Projects like Redis that are only popular because they've always been free and open source need to take a hint from the Linux Foundation and understand that maximizing profit is not compatible with what makes Redis successful. I have zero sympathy for Redis and gladly embrace a more free and open fork.
I don't think this test is adequate. By that standard I would have aphantasia as well.

This seems to use the same misguided approach as dream researchers who thought that dreams were in black and white, even though it is trivial to find someone who reports dreaming in or about color. People can perfectly well remember a dream without coloring it in.

The simple resolution is: dreams and internal images are not necessarily associated with color. Memories most likely have (or even are) strong associations with other parts of the brain. For some, it is impossible to separate one part from the other. So some people hear sounds when they remember something, some people have visual images, others have emotions, yet others have fear and anxiety, all associated with a trigger or memory.

This differs from memory to memory, from person to person, and even over time in the same individual.

Yes, there probably are some people with aphantasia, but it is most definitely not the 50% of Hacker News who self-reports it every time this comes up.

Edit: anecdotal evidence that may require people who think they have aphantasia to reconsider: I once had a dream about a close friend. When I woke up, I remember seeing the friend in my dream, standing. However, I could not remember from the dream whether I could see my friend's face, or whether I viewed him from the back. Those specific details were simply not filled in at dream-time.

My hypothesis is: dreams fire concepts, not actual pixel imagery. Makes perfect sense from a neurological point of view. Same probably goes for internal phantasia.
Is there somewhere an overview of the progress we made on the software side for training and inference of LLMs? It feels like we squeezed 10-100x more out of the hardware since llama appeared. This crazy progress will probably saturate though as we reach theoretical limits, no?
Okay, but in that reality you're morally perfectly fine by just not telling your landlord. Landlords cannot legally visit you in the apartment unless they give you proper notice in advance and they must not keep any keys while the apartment is rented.

Just saying.
Built in sponsor block, not a addon. So it works on mobile
buying, selling, production and possession (there are still regulations, but these things are now legal in some form)
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I am living in Germany and am planning to grow some.

I do not see 1) at all, laws are pretty reasonable all around
Are we ever going to figure out who Jia Tan is?
How would my landlord know what I do in my home?
Bro comparing oranges to uranium
I didn't claim that Vim was easy to learn, it certainly has a learning curve. But once you go through `vimtutor` and keep some cheatsheets handy during the adjustment, the actual command composition becomes rather intuitive and discoverable.

This is much more user friendly than remembering a list of Ctrl+Alt+<something> key combinations found in non-modal UIs.
Are there any laws against enshittification / unsustainable business practices?

Sounds like an overreaction on my part, given the news is about something as small as ads.

At the same time it’s an intentional worsening of the UX to increase profits. It’s possible because the provider has control over user data/community. And it’s likely not the last time this is happening.

Perhaps we need more laws like in EU, so that the users could seamlessly switch between apps and communicate across platforms.
> If a GPL-ed project requires copyright transfers and then spins a proprietary version, it makes sense for people to be upset.

Yes you're right, I thought it was a copyleft license.

But now it is source-available with a CLA. Which in my opinion is a good reason to fork. I would definitely not contribute for free to such a project.
I don't. Science already has a credibility problem, and click-baity titles only make it worse.
The problem is most developers and companies simply don't care, or are even hostile to improvements ("this is not the Unix way"). We had SELinux for over two decades. We dan do even more powerful isolation than qmail could at the time, yet nobody outside Red Hat and Google (Android/ChromeOS) seems to be interested. Virtually all Linux distributions largely rely on a security model of the 70ies and a packaging model of the 90ies. This is compounded by one of the major distributions providing only 'community-supported security updates' for their largest package set (which most users don't seem to know), which unfortunately means that a lot of CVEs are not fixed. A weak security model plus outdated packages makes our infrastructure very vulnerable to nation state-funded attacks. The problem is much bigger than this compromise of xz. Hostile states probably have tens if not hundreds of backdoors and vulnerabilities that they can use in special cases (war, etc.).

It's endemic not just to open source. macOS has supported app sandboxing since Snow Leopard (2009), yet virtually no application outside the App Store (where sandboxing is mandatory) sandboxes itself. App sandboxing could stop both backdoors from supply chain compromises and vulnerabilities in applications in their tracks. Yet, developers put their users at risk and we as users cheer when a developer moves their application out of the App Store.

It's time for, not only better funding, but significantly better security than the 70ies/80ies Unix/Windows models.
Oh, it was allowed to consume it, but not carry it? That's a bit odd.
Essentially:

Production and trade under very strict restriction in so-called cannabis clubs.

Trade as a non-narcotic medication in pharmacies, restricted to prescriptions.

Production at home, with very strict limits towards quantity of plants and size of harvest.

Possession of limited amounts of cannabis and thus public consumption with restrictions regarding proximity to institutions for children.
> …measure twice/cut once, waterfall. All QC was after the fact…

Doesn’t “measure twice” imply some QC is being done before the “cutting”?
I would think pattern matching as coming from string processing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COMIT , SNOBOL, ...) and pattern-directed programming coming from rule-based & logic programming (PLANNER, Prolog, ...).
"...each company needs to take some amount of responsibility for the stack that they use. A company that I worked for, sponsored upstream maintainers, sometimes for implementing specific functionality, sometimes without any specific goal. If more companies did this for their open source stacks, open source development would be much better funded."

Agreed, 100%. And yet: In a comment on Slashdot one guy said that his company had "thousands" of machines running Linux, and he was "proud" to have never paid a penny for it. I called him a parasite: open-source brings an immense value to his company, and he should support it.

My comment got a lot of hate, which I just don't understand. Sure, OSS licenses say you can do whatever you want. However, there is surely some ethical obligation to support something that your entire business depends on?
> Legal? Maybe not - but here in reality you have little recourse.

The recourse would be to simply not move out. Even if it's in the contract, illegal parts of the contract are void.
Some of his commits were NOT obfuscated, committed in plain sight, yet no one has batted an eye, for reasons. So whatever floats your boat by adding that sentence, regardless, and however you may define "plain sight". It is a binary file to begin with.
Edibles and vapes are all over the Berlin underground weed apps. I sure hope the seltzers also get to Germany from US...
That deters no one in the United States. Cars and porches billow marijuana smoke 24/7.
Geobox: A $700 cybercrime software that runs on a Raspberry Pi
Landlords can't forbid smokingo they certsinly vannot forbid growing Marihuana plants.
The dependency is attributable, in the largest part, to systemd's neoplastic aggrandizement of userland infrastructure and associated plumbing, making this a distinction without much of a difference.
It is already illegal to smoke indoors in most of Germany.
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To be honest, I thought he was running it bare metal.
Aw man, thought this was an april fool's joke with how much they leaned into marketing no ads beforehand.
I'm working on a hobby project language that generates plain C as output, and debugger integration has been one of my big worries. If that works, then this is awesome, thank you!
Yet UK is one of the main destinations for Russian capital to this day. Sanctions were a joke prior to 2022 and even after 2022 they still are.
Maybe, just MAYBE, people will start reconsidering putting their social communities on this awful service and locking their social lives to it.

I'm gonna look into hosting Matrix servers or something.

I expect that soon their policy of banning client modifications (for a web app) will be applied to ban users with adblockers.
My comments were based on the expert opinions given during the legislative process. I personally don't plan to grow.

Good to hear that it's okay for you. :)
Yeah, but you don't know the reasons.
Is that you boss?
Disturbing others with smells is already against the law. There have been cases of renters getting kicked out for bothering nighbors with tobacco smoke. Some amount of smell is just part of life. I also have so smell disgusting (to me) food sometimes.

There are also restrictions where you can and can't smoke, like schools, playgrounds or sports fields.
> Secondly, a core issue here is systemd in Linux. libsystemd is linked to all systemd services, which opens a rich attack surface of third party services to backdoor.

I guarantee you more services link to glibc, and that glibc has a much, much larger attack surface than anything systemd.
I wanna learn more about that. If you need iOS help, count me in.
come on, ruling party, legalised corruption? seriously.
The aim seems not to kill, but to severely damage. The article makes a point that American diplomats feel betrayed that noone takes the attacks seriously, and are intimidated to work on Russian affairs.
You're not a Boeing shill but in one paragraph you use 1) ad hominems about people's panic and "rationality", 2) whataboutisms of the form "but flu killed more people than Covid", 3) straw argumentation about the specific reason for a massive issue with safety in Boeing (not "in the industry", etc).

So, effectively the same level of critical argumentation as a Boeing shill.

Actually, your ideological point is really that "Boeing does some things right, let's learn from them" which is fine but doesn't let Boeing off the hook.
Makes me wonder how many backdoors like this are in the wild, undetected
How is this doctored? It’s hard to find screenshots at an exact size. But if you really can’t see the difference, here are screenshots from clean installs in both languages at two resolutions:

https://i.ibb.co/CByXH82/Vista-Start800.png

https://i.ibb.co/CWLvgn5/Vista-Start1024.png
I think zig fits what you've described. It doesn't try to be a new C++, it only tries to be a modern C.
What Does Stropping Do?
Its quite common for police, authorities even airports to access your phone. So would not be surprising if there is serious charges against this man.
> then use bridge/gateways if you want to support these proprietary, privacy sapping platforms.

These bridges do in fact send a lot of data still to the proprietary, privacy sapping platforms, even of those who are not using them, no?
"We need to get rid of the Windows 98 machine running the CNC machine that can't access the internet, it's a real security risk to the company"
> Okay, but in that reality you're morally perfectly fine by just not telling your landlord.

This is the way :)
On the other hand, the sanitized titles of scientific discourse can mask uncredibility and obscure the actual core thrust of a piece.
I was wondering about this awkward code:

counter.set(counter.get() + 1)

One would think that proper integration into the language also means getting rid of those "noisy" setter/getter calls.
"everyone should just reimplement LZMA!"

What could possibly go wrong. I'm sure there's no history of compression tools having serious vulnerabilities due to implementation errors...
It's not about pollution, it's about smell.
> It's not just anecdotes.

They are, almost by definition.

> Many planes were parked for 2 years and suffered unexpected issues as they were rushed back into service with minimal oversight, after many experienced personnel retired.

I haven't heard of any, care to give examples? I did hear of a few runway incursion incidents due to ATC staff shortage and overwork, but these seem to have subsided (though there was a really bad one in Japan just a couple of days into 2024 that killed some people).

> or the spectacular accidents lately with wheels and doors literally falling off of aircraft.

Incidents, not accidents. There is a difference.

> You can google all the stats you want but in the current environment I don't trust any recent stats. They are at best cherry-picked, like making dubious claims about "deaths in 2023" vs. serious accidents which indicate systemic problems.

How can you not trust a simple stat like number of deaths / number of miles flown? Do you think there were accidents with deaths that were hidden?

Not to say that there aren't reasons to worry about the slippages at Boeing, though. They betray a negligent eating into the safety margins the industry has built into design and operation of aircraft. The point is that last year, these margins held.
One can get paid with cash. That’s the point of cash. No need for a bank. But don’t worry, the bureaucrat comes for that too.
There is no such thing as emotional intelligence. What people mean when they use this term is "be nice to me, I am a snowflake"
The Reason Behind "Why Amazon forces its developers to write press releases"

https://www.businessinsider.com/heres-the-surprising-way-ama...
I think the 'easy' answer is liability, same as it is for any other complex human engineering achievement. Liability though would mean at the very least allowing commit access to only identified individuals and companies that are willing to pay for insurance coverage (to gain commit access).

This would probably ruffle too many feathers from the GNU old-timers, but I really dont see any other option. We are way past the tinkering-in-the-basement days of Linux/BSD hackers when most of us just wanted a cheap Unix box to play around with or to avoid Windows. A massive percentage of the civilian (and other) infrastructure is built on the shoulders of unpaid hobbyists. There is already massive liability at the social and corporate level. Time to deal with it.

EDIT: Ok, sounds like I have to describe this better: 1) you (governments) force commercial providers to assume liability for security issues and exploits and force disclosure, etc, 2) their insurance premiums go up, 3) to reduce premiums they only use checked/secured software, 4) that means maintainers of at least the critical pieces of software get paid via the (new) channel of risk reduction. Doesnt apply to all OSS, doesnt even apply to all distros. But it creates an audit trail and potentially actual compensation for maintainers.
Maybe they are not allowed to compete...
>Nearly any amount of intoxication is vaguely illegal under disorderly conduct.

Isn't that limited to public spaces? If you're getting high in private you should be fine?
I think it's reasonable to impose restrictions on "smell pollution", as much as it's reasonable to limit neighbors from playing loud music at night.

The good news is that vaporization doesn't smell as much (or linger as long) while being nearly equivalent in effects, and edibles don't smell at all. I think users and non-users should be able to coexist peacefully by making a couple of compromises.
It sounds to me like that person was at least helping to legitimize and popularize the software they use. Open source needs users just as bad as it needs contributors to be successful. Linux would have died if it never had large scale adoption by "parasites".
You sue the landlord immediately after signing the contract and get thousands of euros in a few years... Just be a member of Mieterverein, pay them that 70€ a year and you pay nothing else for the lawyer.

I know a few people who took way too expensive rental contract, sued and got the money back in court. It is annoying that you need to do this, but there is a way and it only costs your time.
I know you're actually asking him what he thinks of himself, but you're not going to get a coherent or rational answer. I personally think he's acting like an irrational star-struck fan-boy who imagines conspiracy theories and organized persecution against his poor helpless billionaire idol, when it's actually justifiable disgust at Musk's pathologically disingenuous self-promotion and provably false lies and fraud, blatant racism and Apartheid ideology, mentatious and bullying transphobia, his neglectful failure as a parent and divorced deadbeat dad, his off-the-rails sociopathic attention-starved narcissistic misbehavior, his promotion of hate speech and Nazis and right wing trolls and ridiculous racist conspiracy theories on Twitter, and Musk's sycophantic Trump worship and political meddling and populist pandering, all of which DustinBrett apparently has absolutely no problem with even though he's fully aware of it all, and which actually seems to appeal to him at a deep personal level that he would sacrifice his own credibility by gullibly carrying Musk's water in public, because that's just the kind of dystopian "future" he wants Musk to build. But that's all pretty obvious, and goes without saying.
I wonder how commercial software would compare in such a situation. Assuming you have a bad actor among the employees or a breach in the security. Not a lot of eyes watching that sourcecode i'd assume.
Oh, that sounds terrible. I thought the whole point of handbreak is that it's directly mechanical and works independently of everything else.
Needs to be fixed to go to
https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/afternoon-project-jpeg-dct-te...