skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who funds public libraries? That’s who I will get video from when google dies. They have already solved the last mile problem.
It absolutely, positively, 100% was added due to issues with systemd.

Both Redhat and Debian and others applied this patch as a result. People didn't do it "just cause".

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1381997

Jakub Jelen 2016-10-12 08:40:44 UTC

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> Why do you want to avoid sd_notify()?

Why to avoid this? Well, it is adding more systemd-specific bits and new build dependency to something that always worked well under other inits without any problems for years.
Yep, my car (a Mazda) has that feature as well. Of course, this is the same car that has physical buttons that were specifically designed to be recognizable via feel so that you can use them without looking at them. It seems like Mazda actually cares about UX!
Also: While Leno seems to be very interested in restoration, he also is clearly very interested in staying alive. He's got a ton of old cars that have been modified to have very good, modern disc brakes.

The EcoJet is just one of many examples of his cars that have been improved in this way.
> when a democracy runs into a crisis it can't handle, it usually ceases to be a democracy

Democracies, it turns out, are more stable in part because they have peaceful transitions of power. When the UK government gets into a crisis it can't handle, it gets voted out and a new government is put in its place; it's a normal process. When dictators get into such situations, there is war and destruction and death; dictatorships are far more brittle and fragile.

The idea that democracies are somehow fragile is a fantasy of dictators and wannabe dictators.

Not every democratic transition works out - it doesn't solve problems magically, and dictators try to find a way to undermine the will and freedom of the people. Sometimes, unfortunately, they succeed.
This looks great. I wish I could switch my entire MacOS ui to that.
If you're running in the binary you can call mprotect(2), and even if that is blocked you can cause all kinds of mischief. The original motivation for rings of protection on i286 was so that libraries could run in a different ring from the binary (usually library in ring 2 and program in ring 3), using a call gate (a very controlled type of call) to dispatch calls from the binary to the library, which stops the binary from modifying the library and IIRC libraries from touching each other. But x86-64 got rid of the middle rings.
> Yes all of that stuff you posted was sure objective.

That Emmanuel Goldstein...er..Elon Musk is the richest man in the world?
That Elon Musk could wipe his butt with $40 billion and still be incredibly rich?

That people have been predicting the immanent death of Twitter ever since Musk took over, and it's still there a year and a half later?

(Actually, it looks like Musk is down a bit today ($195B), and Bezos is (at least for today) slightly wealthier ($198B). But the point remains: if he lost every penny he put into Twitter, he'd still be wealthy far beyond his ability to spend it.)

It is utterly irrelevant whether or not Musk "made a mistake". I'm saying that it doesn't matter.

All of those are objective facts. If you have evidence otherwise, I'd be delighted to hear it.
However your feedback is still useful. Noted!
Here's a bunch of interesting deep dives: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL7QpTxsA4se-mAKKoVOs...
Since reactivity is not baked into Javascript. Adding reactivity is going to add abstraction overhead. It's meant to be used if it's needed. Not necessarily a default way to work with state.

In my experience, the big benefit is the ability to make reactive state modular. In an imperative style, additional state is needed to track changes. Modularity is achieved using abstraction. Only use when needed.

> Sounds like they want premature memoization

It's a balance to present a simple example that is applicable. Cases where reactivity have a clear benefit tend to be more complex examples. Which is more difficult to demonstrate than a simple, less applicable example.
There’s no “through” a wormhole in the sense that you might immediately assume. The entrances are event horizons just as with a black hole; in fact it may be useful to think of a wormhole as more or less a black hole that appears in more than one place in the universe. To the extent that black holes and wormholes have an “exit” it would always be though another event horizon into another new causally disconnected space. As to if you could come “back” presumably no, or at least we lack the math to describe how going “through the looking glass” so to speak is anything other than a one way trip.
I think there is room for improvement in how we explain this. The problems aren’t really visible in this small sample and comes up more for bigger things. PRs welcome.
I met and worked with alot of the early internet pioneers and they were some of the most clever and insightful people that I've ever met. I assure you that barring a serious medical condition they all maintain at least a basic awareness about the state of computing.
let's add passport (and visa) checks to github
This is so cute. The webpage could be fully static, served from a raspberry as it is hiding behind a CDN anyway and the DDOS is not even trying.

Anyhow, doing the same with a high traffic application would be a very very different animal, specially when the app has 100k+ active daily users and is doing actual stuff. The advice is not bad, but it sounds so silly. From experience every time a commercial web application was build as a monolith it became very hard or even unmaintainable in a few years, specially when 15+ Teams are constantly contribution. So pick the right hammer for the problem you have, but pretending a simple marketing webpage + payment/subscription is a good example for architecture is just a bit much.
It's pretty clear that what's going on is they are violating YouTube's terms of service and so if she were to be honest that would be grounds for a lawsuit.

Relevant part of the TOS

"""
Permissions and Restrictions
You may access and use the Service as made available to you, as long as you comply with this Agreement and applicable law. You may view or listen to Content for your personal, non-commercial use. You may also show YouTube videos through the embeddable YouTube player.

The following restrictions apply to your use of the Service. You are not allowed to:
...
access the Service using any automated means (such as robots, botnets or scrapers) except (a) in the case of public search engines, in accordance with YouTube’s robots.txt file; or (b) with YouTube’s prior written permission;
...
"""

Sora is not a public search engine, and pretty sure they didn't get YouTube's permission to scrape.

Full TOS
https://www.youtube.com/static?template=terms
Fastmail is great for email. That said, I find degoogling manageable unless you also want to de-applyify in which case it's IMHO too fussy.
it's almost as if there wasn’t an ethics class in the CS majors’ required courses!
if you've parked a manual on a steep enough grade to overcome a worn engine's compression in 1st gear, you're supposed to leave the steering cocked towards the nearest downhill obstacle, preferably against the obstacle before you even exit the vehicle. (usually it's the curb)

When I first moved to CA people would get tickets for failing to do so... but that was when police still bothered doing things. Nowadays I see more cars parked incorrectly than correctly on hills in the bay area.
Graph of Wikipedia
A very fascinating video to watch.
I was a rockstar at each of my previous employers except the last one, and consider myself lucky to have had the opportunity to quit before being fired. So naturally, during my exit interview I had only positive things to say about the experience but it was by far the most restrictive and toxic workplace I've worked at. How was it toxic? A general lack of respect, or interest, for people's time and ability/talent which was made clear through various policies and the behavior of a few assholes.

You won't find the answers you need by doing a post-mortem.
I think you don't fully understand how the attack works.

Had sshd been written in go or rust, the attack would have still been possible.
Not an improvement

Tabs still have syntactical meaning and are still invisible

Python will never be a success, I predict, because of this

Trust me
LGTM! Smells like Redux (in a good way). But then ultimately at the root you probably want the event to update your “model”, and then that leads to an update of the “view”. This is the part where signals can be useful.
You’d actually want to think a bit more. Where is your paper decryption key? Is it off premises? Test a, some or all of the files in the archive. Boot into an ISO. Try it again. And that for all of your backups. It’s not a backup until it is tested.
I didn’t know that about pypi but github has seemed ok to me. I’ve also implemented my own scoped authentication systems so even if they’re not perfect I know it can be done
You’ve touched on something profound here—our interaction with knowledge is dynamic, not static. A book that speaks to us today might whisper different wisdom 5 years from now, as we grow and our perspectives shift.
wow! thats a memory lane i hope never revisit!
Yes, I too read the article, though that was really only one part of the overall theory. The other parts being that poor gangsters engage in more risky behaviour because they don't have as much to lose, and that the overall economic reality of widespread poverty, along with relative incorruptibility of the police and the youth of the average gang member made it harder for them to get organized and accumulate wealth.

Overall, it seems like the gangs are victim of the same cycle that poor people everywhere are a victim of: Being poor makes it harder to make better decisions to not be poor. In other latin american countries which were perhaps somewhat wealthier (while still poor by the standards of developed countries), the gangs were better able to accumulate capital which allowed them to improve their organization and eventually get into higher-margin activities that required that organization. In El Salvadore, the gangs were never able to "pick themselves up by their bootstrap" so to speak.

While new entrants to gangs in other latin american countries may also be poor, the ones who survive and avoid imprisonment long enough to move up in the ranks have the opportunity to accumulate a relatively considerable amount of wealth (with real compensation being very top-heavy, like any other organization), and the overall higher wealth of those gangs allows for better organization.

The profit/honor dichotomy being reflected on isn't unrelated to the other issues.. the gangs which have nothing to lose in terms of wealth have only their honor (which is perhaps a type of perceived or coerced power, even it is primarily over their also-poor neighbours). The theory presented by the author is that the gangs couldn't move towards the profit-focused side of the dichotomy, because they were too poor to have those opportunities in the first place.

The fact that they were extorting their poor neighbours is a reflection of the gangs themselves being poor and poorly organized, but the point I was making above is that being in extortion isn't intrinsically the cause of them being less wealthy, the cause was targeting other poor El Salvadorans due to disorganization, rather than extracting money from wealthier pockets (whether that be from drugs, or yes, also extortion)
Not really. Planes can't fly without pilots. Even flying a large jet with a single pilot instead of two would be very hard. It can be landed in an emergency (e.g. one pilot incapacitated), but it is hard work for the remaining pilot and requires some cooperation from ATC. Can't really do that with multiple aircraft at the same time.

Even more so in case of adverse weather or any systems failures. It quickly becomes too much for one pilot, that's why only small jets are certified for single pilot operations.
Rude is subjective and words are not violence.

I think the OSS worked as intended.
Mental Health in Software Engineering
I would really appreciate it if my clock actually ticked at one second per second.

In fact, I shouldn't even have to question that.
> they lack the proper mindset and culture of maintaining one.

What is your basis for saying why they failed? Maybe they were just overwhelmed by violent dictators (and, like people in the US now, by anti-democratic propaganda).

Democracy works across cultures; the examples are overwhelming from Latin America to the US to S Asia to E Asia (including the most prosperous part of China, and the most prosperous city in China until the CPC took away its democracy), W Europe, E Europe, etc.

The biggest obstacle to democracy is people quitting and undermining it. Our ancestors sacrificed for many generations. What are we doing to promote it, to make it work, to spread freedom to all?
Which one are you using, and how's it treating you? I've been thinking about biting the bullet and going this route for a while.
Shitfest indeed.

"back when you could configure stuff and have it not break early the following week"

Exactly, but this was true on every GUI EXCEPT the vaunted Mac. For what, two decades, you could set up your own system-wide color scheme under Windows, which would be inherited by all competent apps. I set up a nice, non-inverse (today's trendy "dark") scheme in 1991 and used it into the 2000s. Then, just before everyone finally realized that staring at black text on a glaring white screen all day sucks... Microsoft removed the scheme editor from Windows entirely.

The Windows shitshow has only gotten more rank from there. Not knowledgable enough to weigh in on Linux and Unix GUIs.
“Lets make my random UI state tracking framework part of the JavaScript spec”
The entire state of Illinois is going to be crawling with cicadas
I have a 2022 Telluride which I recently parked on a steep hill, and I did not set the parking brake. Fortunately nothing happened, but now I feel pretty dumb.

I will say it’s the best car I’ve ever owned, and it’s been the top rated 3 row SUV for awhile now. Great features for a great price. Though we did get gouged having to buy in 2022 (old car totaled).

It’s only “features” I don’t like seem to be on all new cars, like the engine turn off at a light always defaulting to on, and a too sensitive crash alert function (if the car in front you is turning, it will often think you’re going to crash when you’re not).
There’s three negatives in the sentence you quoted.
So we can expect another round of layoffs?
Thanks! Ya the music off feature doesn't seem to consistently work with that port. Sometimes it does work.
> In the 'example' folder, the playground demo copies it to an X11 window via a XCB 'shared' pixmap, so works great even via remote X11. The library is 'smart', like the old OSes, it keeps track of 'invalid' regions, and only redraws what is needed, so theres very very little overdraw.

So it actually is technically superior to most (all?) "modern toolkits. Nice:)
Meta Platforms and Namecheap settle trademark lawsuit
the parking brake is what gets engaged when you put a vehicle with an automatic transmission into park.

the emergency brake is separate. usually a handle in the centre console or a small pedal on the left side of the driver side footwell.
> How can the value of work ever approach zero? Human work is value.

It would never reach zero, it would keep approaching zero though (relative to the amount of money of people who earnt it before you).

Basically, someone could just hoard the cash they have at 0% risk and still get richer than you over time even if you manage to save 100% of your salary. How is that a reasonable system that encourages growth in productivity?

Of course we have bonds but when real interest rates are close to zero than doesn't work that well like in a deflationary system e.g. throughout much of the 1800s yields were 4-5% and deflation was basically the standard outside of major wars since the economy was growing faster than the supply of money was, so basically you could just not do anything productive with your wealth and still do fine, that's basically how British aristocrats from all the novels (and similar parasitical classes) sustained their lifestyles while not providing anything useful in return to the working classes whose taxes and severely depressed incomes made this whole thing possible).
Tremendous weekend post. We need more of this
From the article:

> Elon Musk on Thursday acknowledged turning off internet access from his Starlink satellites during a Ukrainian raid last year on a Russian naval fleet, saying he did so to prevent SpaceX from being “complicit in a major act of war and conflict escalation.”
Getters and setters work pretty well.

addEventListener("foo", () => {...}, {once: true})

Is a pretty easy way of handling one-shot events.

Those have been "good enough" for me to build large, complex healthcare applications.
Most new vehicles from all major manufacturers have electrically actuated push button parking brakes rather than handbrakes.
Upscayl – Free and Open Source AI Image Upscaler
Thank you! I've been working on it for years. It's mostly using the DOM with various ports and other things contained within windows which are also just DOM elements.
I suspect the watcher is needed by the implementation of effect
Maybe, but do the outcomes differ or not?
The GP might not be exclusively talking about copyright. They might also be talking about how Air Canada lost a lawsuit about whether or not they needed to honor their chatbot's hallucinations.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/16/air-canada-cha...
This is the first time i witnessed, that every single instance doesen't work. Did that happen before?
Or likening addon AI capabilities to a supervillain's anti-power: "When everybody is super (artistic, whatever), then no one will be!" - Syndrome, Incredibles.
The very specific figures from that comment are obviously not really correct. e.g. Pfizer's profit margin in 2023 was ~3.5% which isn't that great (and that's the largest pharma company by revenue).
Pretty awesome article -- rock on
How are you using it? If you come across a youtube link, do you run yt-dlp on the command line and then watch the downloaded file in a media player? Asking because I'm too lazy for that, and interested to know if there is some fancier way.
yt-dlp and NewPipe still work though.
> There are levels of skull duggery.

Like shooting a whistle blower?
512 adds lots of new instructions
It can play YouTube playlists? Curious how this works and if it requires the browser extension?
I can’t speak to what the GP is talking about here, but Correct The Record was a SuperPAC whose purpose was to “…fight online harassment aimed at Clinton and her supporters by staying positive.”

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/05/correct...
I totally agree with this. I have been arguing with folks that current Reactflow based agent workflow tools are destined to fail, and more importantly, missing the point. Stop forcing AI into structured work.

I do think AI "agents" (or blocks as I like to think of them) unlock the potential for solving unstructured but well-scoped tasks. But it is a block of unstructured work that is very unique to a problem, and you are very likely to not find another problem where that block fits. So, trying to productize these AI blocks as re-usable agents is not that great of a value prop. And building a node based workflow tool is even less of a value prop.

However, if you can flip it inside out and build an AI agent that takes a question and outputs a node based workflow. But the blocks in the workflow are structured pre-defined blocks with deterministic inputs and outputs, or a custom AI block that you yourself built, then that is something I can find value in. This is almost like the function calling capabilities of GPT.

Building these block reminds me of the early days of cloud computing. Back then the patterns for high availability were not well-established and people that were sold on the scalability aspects of cloud computing and got onboard without accounting for service failure/availability scenarios and the ephemeral nature of EC2 instances were left burned, complaining about the unfeasibility of cloud computing.
Haiti maybe?
I used to work for a startup that did very similar kind of thing. We paid people to install our app and our root cert. We had our own VPN server through which all traffic of the panelists (people who participate in a panel) went and we were able to decrypt all traffic that used the PKI that the operating system provided. Some apps used some other kind of encryption (banking apps eg.) so that could not be decrypted. Then we also collected additional data, for example we took screenshots of whatever was currently on the screen and tried to map those to applications for which we recorded screenshots. This was done to know what app the user was running at what time.

I didn't work with the data collection, so my info is a bit limited. Facebook was our customer even though they had already bought Onavo.

I can answer some questions if you have any.

The company did go bankrupt and the technology was sold.
I would be all for it if it was done in equal terms for everyone who owns a property. Which is how taxes should work here.

You should build beneficial infrastructure for the society, but then you should also compensate for the unlucky ones whose property values would get hit by thay, instead of blaming them for something that any rational actor would opt for.
It was appraised at $2150 USD. I'm not sure how that translates to the listing price but a 40x markup seems a bit extreme.
I think the criticisms of systemd are valid but also tangential. I think Poettering himself is on one of the HN threads saying they didn't need to link to his library to accomplish what they sought to do. Lzma is also linked into a bunch of other critical stuff, including but not limited to distro package managers and the kernel itself, so if they didn't have sshd to compromise, they could have chosen another target.
Wanted narco boss exposes whereabouts by posting Google reviews
> Anything wrong with that?

It only works in browser environments.
These things are all over my town and surrounding area. I remember two of my neighbors buying them and paying $10k+ dealer markup and I just couldn’t understand why.

Kia’s and Hyundais are made in and around the area I live so you see them everywhere but I could never imagine owning one or paying a $10k+ markup.

I used to work for a Korean company that supplied parts for Kia/Hyundai. That experience combined with my years of managing an import repair shop means that the only brands of automobile that I would feel comfortable purchasing are Toyota/Lexus and Honda/Acura.
Paywall, but it is clear that companies are literally starving for cheap labor. They are willing to do anything, including bringing over workers on potentially inappropriate visas ( I am not a lawyer, just what I have seen).

Honestly I am surprised that they didn’t just hire directly in India.
It can still penalize another writer by forcing its exclusive line into shared. It is not as expensive as a concurrent writes but it is a significant measurable overhead to what would otherwise be a write private line.
I customized Siri COPILOT which I believe I found on HN. I can’t find a link to it anymore. I customized it with my own prompts and my own “tools” which are just Shortcuts that retrieve data from the native apps.

I’m currently reworking the concept with Scriptable as I find it so frustrating to develop anything in Shortcuts.