skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That has been used to justify a lot of atrocities throughout history.

Yes, it has. Because it is basically true. Thing is, there is a huge difference between what separates you from your enemy from the things you may have in common, but totalitarian governments tend to point to the differences (that are few) instead of the points in common (that are many).

So, if your government, your fellow men, mistreat a woman in Africa in some military operation, is that acceptable? Does that make the news? No. If your government, your fellow men, take decisions to invade/bomb/starve a country, is that acceptable for you?

Lets just say it isn't, because if it is, you're just an ahole.

Do you benefit* from the prosperity bestowed upon you by such government - such as using roads, having healthcare or basically being a productive member of the society? Lets assume you do. What is the difference between the government you tolerate for yourself and the government that mistreats a woman in Africa, or that bombs a syrian family, or that kills by -just being absent - thousands in Sudan?

None.

Isn't it the same government? How aren't YOU against of that?

> you'd better take a dozen steps back and take a couple months to think about what you're doing

American? Either that or a bot. Either way if you can't tie your own shoelaces OR you're living for the first time the fear of a 3rd world war, please refrain yourself.
>claiming you have to obey Libyan laws and regulations to operate them

It being a CCTLD, this is a true claim. At a basic level, these tlds belong to the country, and that country sets the rules. Libya reclaiming from ICANN was a jerk move but their claims are absolutely right. (Most cctlds already have this requirement.)
I think chickens can have different combinations of behaviors, but I don't think they are complex enough to have personalities. For example, I don't think they are capable of reason, which is a requirement for personality according to the APA definition [0].

[0] https://dictionary.apa.org/personality
Interesting how that was achieved. Most popular Linux distributions are very hard to install without python3 an perl5. LSB https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/lsb.shtml defines them as standard.
Or even worse, they're CTO.

Ask me how I know.

Or even worse, that pile of indecipherable mess runs a good solid business.

Ask me how I know.

Edit: They were CTO, not CEO.
I’ll let other people try that out, then in 20 years we’ll do the classic “well sh/t, messing with this actually* also messes that up. Whoops!”
Rad thanks for the info. I did know about the SQL capabilities, at least. :)
I normally love the Pudding (getting a pitch accepted would be a high point in my career) but this one is hard to read. So many of the screens give you different colored groups whose sizes are hard to compare.
The point is that even though meta “conducted extensive red teaming exercises with external and internal experts to stress test the models” a simple attack like this is still possible.
Well, firstly, stow existed long before git, so some of it might just be "don't break what isn't broken".

In the 90's, I worked at a place that had DEC Alphas with OSF/1, Sun UltraSPARCs with Solaris, x86 Linux boxes, and a few random SGI, HP, *BSD boxes and so on. The commercial Unix variants come with a fairly limited set of programs. So that we had a useful environment, no matter what machine was being used, we had a large tree of FOSS NFS-mounted onto each box.

That tree used a shared source tree, build trees for each machine-os platform, and then we stowed the built stuff.

Stow was mostly useful when uninstalling (because not everything had a reliable `make uninstall` option), or to quickly switch between active versions.

I don't think I'd attempt to put that whole thing into git today: stow is the right tool for the job.
Most clients allow you to pick which font your plain text email is rendered in.

Plain text gives the recipient control over how the content is rendered - as opposed to HTML which forces your choices on the reader.
I seriously doubt this will change anything for malicious actors. The bottle neck was never "coming up with the attack".
There’s a lot to do with the general idea. I’ve enjoyed thinking about a garage door opener that uses 4G to open your garage door from anywhere in the world. Technically correct but worse than before!
"claiming you have to obey Libyan laws and regulations"

I always smile when bosses want everything to be GDPR compliant. I am not sure why these laws are more important than the laws from the Chilean Navy. Why are we clicking on cookie popups? We think the EU is smarter than the PII laws from Cameroon? Elitism I say. My websites follow strict guidelines set by proper Constitution of Cameroon doctrines. Every fourth visit to my site we dump all contents in html form (obviously).
And the ever popular A55FACE.
The big question would be at what voltage? Most simple electronics want low voltage, but things like stoves and water heaters would want high voltage. To keep cable costs and resistive losses down, you'd want to keep the voltage as high as possible until just before it gets to the device. I doesn't generally make much sense to have one +5v power supply for a whole house, because that power would have to traverse a lot of cables before it gets where it's going.

Historically, AC has been a lot easier to step up and down as needed, but maybe these days buck/boost converters are cheaper and just as good as a transformer.

One advantage of DC is it doesn't have a "skin effect" where the current tends to just flow on the surface of the conductor. So, you can move more power over a solid DC cable than you can with AC at equivalent voltage. That might mean you can save on cabling costs with DC, but I don't know if it actually matters for household wiring.
I wasn't being snarky and I read the HN guidelines nearly two decades before you joined HN.
The most popular targets for Visicalc at the beginning were 6502 and z80 machines, where really no C compiler was ever good for those targets.
Uncle Bob on automating programming (2020)
they can get jobs
Well I've been having so much muscle soreness and difficulty sleeping the last couple months, when I've also been 23/1 fasting.

My back felt like I was having a constant tension headache. I'd wake up uncomfortable.

I just went and got some magnesium glysinate and after taking 66% daily amount I fell asleep taking a nap and woke up without a headache! All my upper back, shoulder, and neck stiffness just melted away! Thanks for writing this!
Those were, a decade later on a 386+. Understandably, 1983 with a 8080 and compiler version 0.9 was probably a lot dicier.

It's hard to remember now, but the original PC was downright primitive, and most didn't have even the full 640k RAM installed!

I assumed a decent lightweight compiler existed, but sounds like not.
> with friends and companions from the same culture, with the same spiritual beliefs

What does this have to do with anything? I grew up in a multicultural, multireligious and multilingual part of the third world, and no one ever said or thought that we would be happier if the 'other people' were somehow disappeared. Is this coming from some sections of the modern western society blaming PoC immigrants for their unhappiness?
The post just got flagged and taken down from public view.
Chip bans were intended to kill Chinese chipmakers. They're killing ours instead [video]
> Exchange support for Thunderbird is the entire second half of the article.

Sure, for Thunderbird developers. Regular users don't care about any of that, if they even understand what it says.
We are coming full circle here. You have rightly acknowledged the link between heroin addicts and food addicts. We don’t expect anyone to hire heroin addicts, they need to find treatment and therapy before they would be considered employable. These are very risky, potentially dangerous people. However we as a society look around and see obese people everywhere, suffering from the same addictive tendencies. I think the crossover in personality traits is high between drug addicts and obese people. Physically fit people have a lot of positive characteristics and self discipline that lead them to being in shape. Therefore I will wait for the obese to get treatment for their addiction before I associate with them.
You seem to have confused conservation of energy with conservation of momentum? Electric energy is being spent to generate thrust. What is unclear is being "pushed against" to transfer momentum.

Someone wtih this level of credentials and reputation presenting an effect that they have spent years trying to explain with a competent team and failing is absolutely interesting, even if it isn't caused by a new force and is more akin to a 'perpetual' motion machine created by an obscure interaction of existing forces.

Given the apparent openess towards reproduction and collaboration, I would the chances this is a hoax/fraud as very low, the chance that this is at least the result of an interesting mistake as high and the chances that this is a new discovery as excitingly non-zero.
TL866 are cheap if sourced in China. (e.g. aliexpress)
are you nuts? TLS 1.2 is not supported at all
Good enough. The comparison is silly though: time series data is not anything like tokenized text data.
I have tried many alternatives, even including large Go binaries such as gron. None of them appealed to me. I use a comparatively simple C program that is 45.9 KiB when statically-compiled. Of the alternatives I have tried, this one was the most interesting:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31166956
It wasn't supposed to be representative. The assumed goal is to "challenge stereotypical preconceptions".
Please be aware that Bob Martin has a history of misogynistic and racist views.
Wow, it's amazing to me how much anki eventually caught on with medical students. Back in 2008 I introduced my med school classmates to Anki via a web app front end that I scrapped together. Basically it allowed us to crowdsource a shared flashcard corpus but with individual accounts each with their own state for Anki's SRS, allowing us to practice from any web browser without having to have Anki installed locally. Though it had some success among some of my fellow students, the vast majority of the class did not want to engage with a web app for studying back then, so I'm surprised by how much penetration it has now.
The inner Van Allen donut is some 8,000 km thick (from ~1,000km above ground surface stretching out to ~8,500 km or so) and denser than the much much larger outer donut that (IIRC) stretches from 3 earth radii to 10 earth radii.

Low density but a lot of particles, many with high energy, sourced mostly from solar ejection, with cosmic particle and cosmic gamma strikes on the upper atmosphere sourcing a significant chunk of additional charged particles for the inner belt, and both receiving decay particles from cosmic high energy gamma and cosmic charged particles strikes on particles already within the belts (at a proportionatly lower rate than those from upper atmosphere interaction).

It's a Pachinko game, the density is low but the strikes do happen.

The effect I refer to is studied on again | off again (eg: iirc, Robert Forward looked at "draining the Van Allen belts" to remove charged particles and there were papers looking at the sheilding factor for cosmic that would be lost) but largely tossed in as an "and also" .. eg:

https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/earth-science/eart...

our magnetosphere shields us from erosion of our atmosphere by the solar wind (charged particles our Sun continually spews at us), erosion and particle radiation from coronal mass ejections (massive clouds of energetic and magnetized solar plasma and radiation), and cosmic rays from deep space.

Most of the focus tends to be on the cosmic charged particles with mass rather than the massless photons.

I admit I've largely only concerned myself with the fall off of the gamma spectrum through the atmosphere, but I've had past discussions with some on the fall off of the (cosmic) gamma spectrum as it approaches Earth and figure there must be papers on this about.

The Chandra X-ray Observatory calibration procedure papers would likely be our best bet for a good source, the satellite has an eccentric obit ( Perigee altitude 14,307.9 km, Apogee altitude 134,527.6 km ) which puts it fully outside the denser high energy inner belt but half in | half out the less dense outer belt.

There would have to be a procedure to factor out the variation in "local" X-Ray events as it moves about the planet in order to sharpen the data from the two Grating Spectrometers
The continental congress itself was entirely secret with no notes taken and no existing journal, diary, or any other record of the proceedings - and this was a bunch of folks who obsessively recorded their lives and thoughts for posterity. They also thought pretty hard about the side effects of such things and congressional and senate votes were private until modern times.

I’m not one who believes the constitution is sacred or that the founding fathers were infallible, but I do think the chance for a person to vote their conscience vs their politics is an important feature. While the grapevine might be a route to learn, it’s also a route that doesn’t have to be accurate. I can tell my lobbyist whatever I want about my vote, but only I know what my vote was in private voting. This feels like a feature not a flaw.

The point of representative democracy is selecting a person whose judgement you believe in. Public voting records lead to populist and party strangleholds on outcomes with consequences for breaking dogma. Practically speaking it also gives lobbyists proof positive of whether their money was well spent.
I am looking at the graphs, and all I see is a substantial influx of new funds into cloud services. Non-cloud investments remain steady but are not experiencing significant growth. What does the volume indicate? Is the cost of on-premises infrastructure rising, or are people simply facing increased computing demands? I wish.

I sincerely hope that owning the entire stack in a private data center won't become exclusive to a select few hyperscalers in the coming years. I am somewhat biased, because I am a Linux admin forna company that has its own datacenters that is migrating to the cloud, but I find it distressing that everyone appears to be migrating to the cloud for reasons that seem dubious, such as "Gartner told me to."
Like mentioned at the end of the article, I predict a great loss of knowledge for everything that is not abput the usage of a proprietary api.
Even okular?
yes, but you are very much mission driven in the military, especially in a small unit. For me, it was the bad mission set and not the sleep deprivation that personally drove me out.
Suing a victim of blackmail with the information the blackmailers released seems like it would destroy client relations across the board.
How will they prevent someone abusing a large number of free-tier accounts though?
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1H2sRRzQHwJX8JAgXUS0vyhZg... I finished writing up my response. Still need to do the video tomorrow.

Like I said, I'm positive this just isn't compelling enough, but hey it was fun answering all the q's :)
Entirely explained by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_Chinese_surname...
The US federal government is already pretty weak compared to other countries. The federal government looks pretty bad at the moment, but I’m not sure further weakening it will help the country.
Readers don't know this. They just know your e-mails always look weird and quote other e-mails weirdly.

I say this as a daily mutt user.
> People don't have problem reading try/catch, are used to it, it's already there, semantics match - why complicate things?

We don't have a problem reading try/catch because it comes from an era when Java was more procedural and less functional. "case throws" makes more sense in the functional-style Java era. (Well, makes more sense to me at least)

EDIT: To clarify "catch" is a verb and contains a block of executable statements. "case throws" maps to an expression (because I assume most people writing new code that uses this will be using switch expressions, not switch statements) In this context, "case throws" is a better choice because you are talking about the _expression_ inside the "switch".
I think calling them a "con artist" is pretty over the top, no? To me, this seems like a clear case of a more junior game dev being very excited about a cool thing they built and optimized. Sure, it may not really be the holy grail they think it is, but they aren't doing any harm by being excited of it and proud of themself!
Los Angeles is using an AI program to predict homelessness
> Nature isn't responsible for the working conditions of scientists.

Yep, that's all nurture.
This is basically what Go PenPoint programming was like. When you read the Go documentation it’s very clear they intended to use Objective-C or an equivalent preprocessor; I suspect they were stymied by NeXT’s acquisition or Stepstone and their own lack of support for GNU C.
Thought experiment.

What if the government mandated a 4 day work week for parents ?

Would companies comply or just avoid hiring parents.

I personally think a 4 day work week is the way to go, even though I don't really see myself having a family.
And the way to challenge stereotypical preconceptions is to show the outliers?
Interesting! Before I read your comment I was not aware that dotfile management is actually a new/niche use of GNU Stow and its original purpose to co-locate/distribute software packages and their data.

https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/
House votes to ban TikTok in the U.S. if it's not sold
if they are a junior gamedev they shouldn't go around making an educational video about shittalking everyone about how theirs is the "world's best algorithm" (not my words) and how everyone else sucks. :)

the problem isn't with the excitement, the problem is being arrogant and being an asshole
but not having the leet skillz to actually justify it....

edit: they are doing harm by creating unrealistic expectations towards new gamedevs and misleading them in what matters for performance. (spoiler alert the bit manipulation looks clever but that isn't the majority of performance optimisation now, this is not 1996)
Would be good to have an index!
Didn't you hear, BBC said half of China is sinking into the ground so we should be good:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40102522
I do. The sad leftovers after everyone else got to pick the good bits. Once a noble pursuit before things diverged into actual fields.
You know how you fix homelessness.

You build houses.

You know why Houston Texas has done better than CA why nordic countries do better than the US. Housing first.

Because investments in homelessness that dont include homes are just perverse incentives to not fix the problem.
>Besides my educational background, at that time Indians weren't particularly considered to be suitable software material. (Amazing how the world turns, eh?)

Has this really changed?
Sheer size of the base (a billion plus each from China and India) distorts and produces massive survivorship bias.
Like soccer or tennis, are there countries that produce ridiculously great programming talent per capita?
Samsung appliances are some of the least reliable. Yet they ask a premium. Same goes for their phones which are known to have no long term support or reliability.

I wonder if this finally caught up to Samsung. The Chinese brands are often just as feature rich, yet cheaper and just as if not slightly better reliability.
Our CEO was musing about gamifying our scheduling software to get more "engagement" - aka. people accepting more open shifts, aka. working more overtime.

It was so disgusting to me I nearly quit over the suggestion.
You're right. In that case you could implement the unzipping and metadata parsing in WASM and just hand the HTML to the browser to be rendered.

It's still useful since browsers don't come with built-in EPUB support.
Wait, aren't emojis explicitly prohibited from being used in IDNA? Or do the implementers just not bother to read the "IDNA Rules and Derived Property Values" table and simply allow anything that's a correct punycode?
Isn’t the placenta an example of this? https://whyy.org/segments/the-placenta-went-viral-and-protom...
Extending credit where credit is due, let's not forget the ubiquity of counterfeit 3M Textool ZIF sockets[1] littered across grey markets; an authentic, active production, functionally equivalent 32-pin ZIF socket as depicted in the video will set you back[2] a lot more than $9.

[1] https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/p/d/b00035241/

[2] https://www.trustedparts.com/en/search/232-1287-00-0602J
Weird thing to say! What do you call slow?

bruce@i9:~$ cat hello.c
#include <stdio.h>
int main(){
printf("Hello world!\n");
return 0;
}

Cross-compiling and running in a local emulator:

bruce@i9:~$ time (riscv64-unknown-elf-gcc hello.c -o hello; qemu-riscv64-static ./hello)
Hello world!
real 0m0.082s
user 0m0.025s
sys 0m0.010s

Cross-compiling, copying to VisionFive 2 board, and running there:

bruce@i9:~$ time (riscv64-unknown-elf-gcc hello.c -o hello; scp hello vf:;ssh vf ./hello)
hello 100% 23KB 1.9MB/s 00:00
Hello world!
real 0m0.812s
user 0m0.086s
sys 0m0.000s

Compiling and running directly on the VisionFive 2:

user@starfive:~$ time gcc hello.c -o hello
real 0m0.193s
user 0m0.149s
sys 0m0.044s
user@starfive:~$ time ./hello
Hello world!
real 0m0.006s
user 0m0.002s
sys 0m0.004s

So cross compile and emulate on i9-13900HX is about twice faster than native compile and native run directly on the $50 RISC-V board ... under 0.1s vs almost exactly 0.2s.

Adding in two invocations of OpenSSH (at ~0.35s each) to cross compile then run on the board does make it slower, but it's still under 1 second. This becomes the preferred method for very large programs.
Previously:

Samsung shifts executives to six-day workweeks to 'inject a sense of crisis'
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40083470
If interested, you may want to glance at https://github.com/luainkernel/lunatik
When teachers are also parents how will schools staff classes on day five?

Work week length might be an all or nothing proposition.
> what does "your distro" mean here? the distro in the container, or the container host, or the client host?

Container host.

> rebuilding containers from scratch is certainly not easier than rebuilding an install via ansible.

How so? The OP is giving an example of ansible scripts breaking because of OS version change, and having to fix them. With containers, the container OS is very slim, so fewer things to break with upgrades, and you can upgrade the host OS easily since docker is quite stable across OS versions.
> GDPR compliant. I am not sure why these laws are more important than the laws from the Chilean Navy.

Purely market size. Europe is a large market. Same reason that just about every product is labelled with 'known to the state of California to cause cancer' - California is a large market.
Awesome! The weird part is that doctors don't know about using magnesium for fixing muscle soreness or sleep issues. No doctor has ever recommended it to me. But no doctor has advised against it either, when I mention I am taking magnesium for this purpose.