skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, people are talking about expanding what is covered by the law. Right now politicians and media outlets are mostly free to lie without repercussion.

Twitter, being a media organization, is knowingly spreading and promoting false information. Elon has on several occasions done this himself and removed community notes correcting him. That later part is more concerning to me. A notable example of late was his retweet of the false info about Arizona voter registration. Fortunately, Maricopa country has a great county recorder who shares the actual data: https://twitter.com/stephen_richer

Stephen's correction of Elon: https://twitter.com/stephen_richer/status/177564477582965559...
> Is there a reason people had not thought of this for the last several decades?

I'm guessing because it's not simple.
no it doesn't, at least not in my case. Any settings to do?
The first rule of distributed systems is "Don't distribute your system"
Same experience in Sweden. It took me 1.5 years to get to full European healthcare (i.e European Health Insurance Card). Only to learn that moving within the country, they basically lose all your health records. Seems digitalization is not quite implemented for any non-totally-daily processes and as soon as a single human is needed in the line, there are not enough people.
My problem with network-level adblockers, also PiHole is that they break a lot of services (yeah it's mostly sloppy or malicious intent from service provider but still). On a browser you can quickly disable uBlock for that site, it is much more tedious for these services - also because it's not even clear that the filtering is causing the problem, also because it maybe someone else on the network experiencing the problem.
There is no guarantee workers rights will keep getting better, but I hope they do! As long as unions etc. keep fighting for them and getting that written in law.

I think WFH is going to be more of a supply demand thing than a right though. Allow WFH and you have access to wider talent pool. Don’t allow it and you may limit your hiring rate.
which software?
"Folks, you can travel outside of Germany for sure, just avoid the police, the border authorities and don't get caught."
Employees hire goons to assault manager for pressuring them to work harder
I've had this conversation with quite a few people recently. As I say to them, once the genie is out of the bottle it's hard to put it back in again. People will simply go to companies who allow them to be remote or more flexible.
I guess you missed it when everyone was leaving joke reviews on this product? https://www.amazon.com/Images-SI-Uranium-Ore/product-reviews...
Lionels stuff always makes me wish I was a better reader of French.
WFH won't go away. It's not suitable for every company and not good for everyone, but it's ideal for many of us.

I'm a heavy proponent of WFH, but I have the experience to understand that it's not suitable for all occasions (and especially for middle management ;-) )
A Neuro-Inspired Topological Sparse Training Algorithm for Large Language Models
> Unrelated? Japanese derived from Turk languages, sorry.

Yes, unrelated. Please don't perpetuate the now widely discredited Altaic hypothesis. If you must bring it up, at least acknowledge that it's highly controversial.
Where does the 120B figure come from? In aggregate it seems low. Atlassian would be almost half that alone.
In an article(book maybe) about George Washington Carver [0], they mentioned how how recommended planting cowpeas as they are able to extract nitrogen from the air and put it back into the soil. This helped increase cotton yields when the cotton was planted in the same field after the cowpeas had been harvested.

As a side note, the Haber Process [1] was the industrial version of this and all of the preceding points, if not phytomining per se, feel very similar.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Carver

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process
Your website is very informative. Please build something equivalent for Munich.
https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job (See resources listed)

https://basecamp.com/books/remote
WHF amplifies all incompetence, especially around comms. Managers are particularly bad at that but in my experience everyone is at least a little bad at it...
> von Neumann's fear was that nuclear war was inevitable

Ethics is messy, but in this case he made an actual, verifiable prediction: that the USSR would use their nuclear arsenal and unleash nuclear war. He said "With the Russians it is not a question of whether but of when." Not that we would come close to nuclear war, or that it would have a high probability that it would happen. He stated that it definitely would happen. And he stated this very confidently.

This prediction turned out to be false: the USSR collapsed before it used its nuclear arsenal aggressively, and modern Russia still has not used its nuclear arsenal in any other capacity than as a vague threat.

We can state unequivocally that he was wrong about this. Reality disproved his game-theoretic argument.
> Uses random upstream resolvers from the configuration - increases your privacy through the distribution of your DNS traffic over multiple provider

Is that the consensus? I thought this would just increase the amount of parties that have insight. eg if today it sends my CNN news reading to cloudflare and tomorrow it sends it to 9999 resolver then that seems worse than sending both to cloudflare.
I still have my Visor with its VisorPhone module, the very first touch-only smartphone in existence, 5 years before the iPhone :) It was big, clunkly and relatively impractical (the Visor ran on 2 AA batteries, while the phone module had its own rechargeable battery) but the complete integration with Palm Desktop (later jPilot on Linux) was a breeze.
Hungary had and still has a state sponsored "elite" education for gifted children. From a relatively early age kids are regularly tested (both materially and curiosity wise) if they are interested in "better" Maths. So they are prepared to a STEM trajectory.

You don't need to be a genius just reasonably good and interested. I would think 10% of all kids take part.

Check out UKMT for the equivalent in the UK or Kangaroo competitions.

Secondary schools has a 130! year old journal (KOMAL) for competition Maths (again various difficulties) but those who go on to become mathematicians (an extremely selective subject in Hungary) pass the hardest tests as well.

So Hungary has various levels of gifted children support programs and has it for the last 100+ years (across 3-4 different government structures)
> Uses random upstream resolvers from the configuration - increases your privacy through the distribution of your DNS traffic over multiple provider

The whole project is really interesting but this line caught my eye.

For spreading DNS providers, would randomly routing to different ones be more or less private than rotating providers every X minutes? It feels like so many sites request so many different resources that if you make DNS resolution distributed across providers, you might be exposing your "trail" to multiple companies at the same time, compared to an alternative approach of switching every X minutes so that any individual company only sees a snapshot of your queries in time rather than your whole journey.
A Google Sheet I lazily keep updated. I encourage someone to put something public and up to date if they have the time.
Twitter let you put an embedded interactive website as a tweet
A minimalist MP3 player for my grandmother.

The whole user interface is a single physical button on her desk :

- ON : indefinitely play all MP3 files randomly

- OFF : stop playing

The longest task was to find her favourite pieces of music from my aunts and uncles.

https://github.com/remipch/radio_colette
I've worked for two types of WFH company - the kind where everybody is kind of just left to their own devices and the highly collaborative kind.

I think a lot of people really like the former but I don't think it works very well. There's a marked tendency of many people to drift apart and communication breaks down within and across teams and the fallout it quite ugly - a lot of people individually doing their jobs (and perhaps doing them well), but nothing really fits together very well. I personally found working in this environment to be torture because my work felt performative and meaningless.

I find that the highly collaborative kind works about as well as working in person - possibly better. However, I think it's only really possible with a lot of camera-on video calls which many people find quite draining.
The same processes that led to Eastern Europe in 80-90s ending up as a nightmare where everything took ages to be handled happened to Finland with the same outcome. Bad algorithms basically. Maybe PL/EST still remember how bad it was back then and make sure they are running better algorithms, whereas Finland has no clue how bad it can get due to a lack of experience?
Or count votes at Russian elections
Lamentably, those were discontinued in 2006

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMac
It's all down to the approach. I work for a company which has been remote right from the start (10 years ago) and if it's done right then it's great. A lot of it comes down to treating your employees as adults and trusting that they are doing their jobs. A good company culture is key to making it work.
why would I use this over something like Adguard Home?
You're not making an argument that makes Facebook look non-malicious here.
I think my favourite weekend project I've built was an image transformer plugin for Craft CMS. The popular (and only) free image plugin had been deprecated and the author was only going to continue supporting their paid version so I hacked together an Imgix-inspired plugin called Jitter[0] over the weekend. It's not very popular but I like it and use it frequently.

While it's not a very interesting project it's my favourite because of what happened after I published it. While I was at work I noticed the plugin was installed on one of our new client's websites. I went to my boss and asked him if he installed the plugin and what he thought about it. He said he did and it was better than <old plugin>. AFAIK they're still using it years later and I don't think they ever realized it's my plugin.

[0]: https://github.com/codewithkyle/craft-jitter
Fortran returns to top 10 Tiobe index
Thank you!

I often think about starting a community that functions like /r/berlin, but with a professional moderator like dang to maintain decorum, deduplicate threads, and generally keep the place tidy.

With Toytown Germany simply vanishing, there's both a need and a market for it. I just never want to be a moderator again.
It does in some circumstances. See apple's app store lawsuit in the EU. However this seems fundamentally different. It's more like youtube (which actually pays far less per stream $.1 - $1 per 1000 streams)
That might be the difference between the types of visa.

The standard spouse visa was around 4 months (during covid as well) when it should have been pretty quick according to the clerk receiving it. Tried PR at two different times, first time I moved abroad after half a year, before it finished, second time was a year and half from now and it's still pending with no update.

On any of the visa I applied for I'm meeting the criteria on multiple standards (e.g. I'm both a spouse and father of a national, and employed locally) and never got a rejection, so it's just plainly taking a huge amount of time. I got used to it though.

PS: also it's hilarious to write about your romance with your partner, detailing your dates, attach Disneyland photos etc. and imagine officers in their suits reading all of that with straight faces.
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Glad to see Dropshare (my app) as an example for data ownership here. :)

While we had our own cloud storage provider for a while, Dropshare was always about "bring your own storage", because I sincerely believe in the importance of "owning your data". The first supported storage provider in the app 10 years ago was SCP over SSH (basically "bring your own server").
https://archive.ph/27tnr
Most important? The idea that not every token needs the full context window should be an obvious optimization.
I get that people just want to save money but I absolutely cannot understand how we keep screwing over artists like this.

We pay a small amount, the middlemen gets all the money, 0.01% of the artists get more than a few hundred bucks, everyone else gets nothing.

Piracy is entirely justified. We should pay the artists and stop paying these leeches. The only real value created is from the artists themselves.
I had the whole Handspring / Palm smartphone line : Visor + Visor Phone, then Treo 270, then Treo 600, then the Treo 650, and finally the Palm Pré.

They were no iPhone, but they were extremely efficient work tools.
You can just say you made up the number, it’s okay!
They already have the press (plus TV, radio, film, social media censorship) to do exactly that. AI's would be cheaper, but how to get that into people, other than TV, radio and print? Chomsky would have a field day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent
This was 2 and a half year ago, maybe alacritty improved since then.
I’ve been using https://oisd.nl/ on my network for some time (just cronned into an unbound config file) and nothing breaks.

If you report a website breaking to the maintainer, he removes the offending block.

Works well, I can recommend it.

And it reminds my to send them a little money in thanks.
I would not be surprised if "paid by the foot" is correct. But paid by the foot of the cable installed to an external spec, with no ability to choose routing.
That's the beauty of it, people will leave, and it won't be the people desperate enough to commit marriage fraud.

Anyway none of this is about respecting German law.
DEBUG was also able to read/write disk blocks and it could load / save files from memory based on register settings. I had written a batch file and a file of DEBUG commands ( redirected into DEBUG ) that would load the blocks from 1.44M diskettes at about 64K at a time, save each just-under-64k segment with a separate filename, and then zip up the whole collection. I also had written the counterpart scripts to decompress and block-write the data back out to a 1.44M floppy. This allowed us to archive the .zip collections as disk images for some critical boot disks and such.

I had also written a utility in C published in Windows/DOS Developer's Journal (April 1995) before some email clients could UUDECODE or Base64-decode attachments. This utility wrote a short loader as a text file followed by the G command to execute it. Following the G command were lines of UUENCODED data. The assembly language loader code would begin reading lines from the standard input device and would UUDECODE them as it added them into DEBUG's current working buffer starting at 100h. At the tail end of the script, the N command was used to name the output file, the CX register was updated via RCX to set the output length, and the W command was used to save the file. This allowed me to send some encoded binary files embedded in the body of the email to folks that didn't have sophisticated email clients. They could just pipe this portion of the email into DEBUG and it would ultimately write the decoded binary file.
There definitely is a trade-off between memory size and how quickly it can be accessed.

IIRC IBM z/Arch processors (AFAIK they are internally similar to POWER) have clock limited to around 5 GHz or so, so that L1 cache lookup costs only one cycle (a design requirement).

For example, z14 has 5.2 GHz clock rate and 2x128 kB data and instruction L1 caches.
If you're going to risk your future permanent residency, it is very important to know exactly what that 'base rate' is. As someone who travels a fair bit within Schengen, I can tell you that the rate is quite high, much higher than it was a few years ago. And if you happen to look "un-European", the rate is quite a bit higher.
At work there tend to be other inefficiencies. A lot of "spontaneous collaboration" that people claim happens in the office is people talking to pretty/handsome people in other departments, without necessarily adding to the bottom line.

In person collaboration is definitely worth it, but this needs to be planned. It doesn't happen automagically if you are being forced to sit at a desk.

I can see why middle management's hates it thought. You can no longer tap on someone shoulder and pester them in prioritising your work above others. You need to make a business case rather than bullying a poor Engineer.
It's a DNS proxy, like pi-hole, but it seems a lot more powerful than Pi-hole that is basically just a configured dnsmasq server to be user-friendly.

https://docs.pi-hole.net/
Is that your experience? Honest question, because only yesterday, after several years with PiHole and uBlock Origin, I found that a Shopify shop wasn't working for me. But that's probably the only issue I encountered after all those years...
Transformer as a general purpose computer
It's just such a strange narrative that shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how people relate to art.

>"The end game of AI music seems pretty obvious. Soon, you’ll be able to have access to an app like Spotify that generates an endless stream of music "

That's already been the case for a long time, music and media has been fully commodified. There is literally more media being produced every day, in automated fashion, than you can consume in a year. With or without AI. This hasn't devalued human art, just like mass producing T-Shirts hasn't devalued fashion. Because the entire value is exactly in the authentic brands that are, entirely artificially, scarce. It's why personal influencers and streamers have thrived in an era of cheap mass media, it makes original people stand out. Same way chess personalities have thrived in an era of computer play, and so on.

Every article of this kind has it the wrong way around. It's exactly abundance that creates a demand for outstanding personalities because that's what people crave.
> Normally, Russia is one of the most important trading partners of Finland.

Partially explains why there is no light in the tunnel of the state budget.

But it does not explain why many authorities are struggling with services for residents which worked better a decade ago. It is not so that authorities would have experienced severe cuts in budgets or headcount during the last 2 years.
> I think WFH is going to be more of a supply demand thing than a right though. Allow WFH and you have access to wider talent pool. Don’t allow it and you may limit your hiring rate.

And that's exactly what is happening. I monitor job listings in my niche and practically all top-paid positions are remote (with the few exceptions that ask for a visit in the office like once a month etc.).
Packages and versions can be deleted from PyPI, which can be a massive pain in the ass for anyone consuming these packages. Can have your whole Python dependency tree pinned => author pulls a package version => builds broken. As part of StableBuild (https://www.stablebuild.com) we create full daily snapshots of the PyPI registry - so figured it would be nice to make an overview of deleted packages/versions and make the wheels available for download.

E.g. jaxlib 0.4.4 was removed a few days back: https://dashboard.stablebuild.com/pypi-deleted-packages/pkg/... => can download the wheels for free w/o registration
Indeed the RGB values don’t lend themselves to manual tweaking so #ABCDEF is acceptable, but the alpha value is often set manually and most people are not good at writing numbers in hex compared to decimal.
it would be ignorant to blame an entire generation, so I am not doing that. I believe younger people are more informed and more capable than we used to be at that age. However, you cannot deny this is not happening. It's not the culprit, but could definitely be a factor.
I've built a first version of Logdy[1] over the weekend. Since then I have been developing it and it's getting traction and attention.

Logdy is a real-time logs browser that is meant to replace viewing logs in a terminal during development stage. I was tired of browsing and searching through infinite stream of non-searchable json whereas having such a great tool as DataDog on production. I've felt that development process lacks this kind of tool and decided to scratch my own itch.

[1] https://logdy.dev
More supply is going to create more demand of course, by unlocking more AI use cases.
What a wonderfully written article. Anyone knows why exactly it's such an easy read? I wish I can write this well and this clearly
Relatedly, the OCR component relies on PyMuPDF, which has a license that requires releasing source code, which isn’t possible for most commercial applications. Is there any plan to move away from PyMuPDF, or is there a way to use an alternative?
Not from a computational perspective. To calculate the attention score you have to calculate every token against every other token. That is quadratic. Every article like one, the, a, etc will have to be calculated against every other word even though they are only revelvant within a short distance of the word they are attached to.
Very interesting project too !

https://adguard.com/adguard-home.html
p3 has been the default for Apple desktop & mobile displays since 2017 (iPhone 7 era). Other device manufacturers are more likely to have lagged on that but I would imagine a fair number would have added support since.

Also, within CSS & browsers at least, the colours gracefully degrade based on the hardware, so using p3 in a supported browser is not going to look terrible on hardware without p3 support.
I helped SUSE put together a custom mini-ISO for the front cover of PC Pro magazine with SUSE 6 and KDE in about 1998. :-)
I've come across a few borking issues, including online banking because card rewards are counted as advertising in the list(s) I use.

Such problems are few and far between, though, and it wasn't that hard to figure out what to whitelist (granted I'm a computer nerd, not everyone is).
I've worked 100% remotely for over 20 years, and plan to continue. There are tradeoffs to everything, but most of the problems I've encountered came from people who aren't suited to working remotely at all, or people/companies operating as if they were a single-location in-office company/team/etc when they aren't.
Google also cancels products and companies change terms and conditions.

Suppose you get issued a replacement credit card number and forget to update all your online accounts?

The cloud provides convenience, but it does not care about your photos as much as you do.

The best way to preserve pictures is printing them out and putting the prints in a box. It has a track record.

CD-R is the best digital format for archiving.
Those are fair points, and I agree.

I think I should have said that Spotify is the same as piracy from an artists POV.

It's definitely not illegal for users, and it definitely helps with "exposure", but it's not really a platform for making real money with your music, except when it's listened to in massive quantities.

For me, it's no different than putting a free album link in Instagram, or when Nine Inch Nails put it on PirateBay as a stunt...
Have you tried switching back? It is often more noticable when latency increases than when it decreases.
I mean, if these CEOs had even one strong argument (apart from the old and dubious "it increases collaboration" whereas everybody knows it's all about control), we could have a normal conversation as adults. Instead, if I want to change a job, I filter by "remote positions only" and that's the end of the story.
Not parent but yes, that's exactly why I stopped using PiHole
I liked KDE 1.

LXQt is vast by comparison, and it can't even do a proper vertical taskbar. :-(