skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a big difference between reading and understanding. Looks like this person is doing this so they can burn through a whole bunch of books within time frame. Which is fine for a hobby, but while working I don't see the value. Slowing down and reading a coworker's hastily put together email and attempting to interpret their message is where I find value. Speed reading in those situations would probably result in negative outcomes.
The algorithm's novelty and recommendation accuracy is so far beyond what other competitors like Google, Snapchat, and Meta have that this seems like a coordinated effort by the private sector to push forth their mediocre products and centralize social media service which I absolutely DETEST. The saddest thing is that it seems like the U.S citizens, (i.e ANY of tiktoks 160 MILLION US users) have absolutely no say in the operations, yet we actually interact with the app not these old people in Congress. The fact that Biden so swiftly signed the bill too makes me frustrated as I want to vote for him, but he keeps doing or okaying things that are counter to my values.
> Are these because the bad guys are in there or just because of the population size?

Yes
Calling something "baseless speculation" is just kind of meaningless lawyer-talk that sounds impressive, without having to actually provide any specifics.

I interpret Google's response as "you're not 100% correct in every way, but we don't want to tell you which 95% you're right about".
IIRC, the system didn't exchange plaintext to nodes on other campuses. It passed signatures and each institution maintained their own collections for definitive comparison because the most common case was submitting someone else's work from another year. It was the era of barely high speed internet.

Perhaps with the advent of generative LLMs, this will assist in the generation of entirely personalized university assignments and exams making "replay attack" cheating impossible. Hopefully, LLMs will also semi-automate correctness verification of exams and correct answers.
Coincidentally I started playing around with CouchDB today. I wonder if this will have much of an impact on its performance.
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Besides, who knows how long theonion.com will stay up. Or keeps giving access to all old articles?

After all, they've just been bought. Usually this results in changes, despite new owner's loud promises that nothing will change.
Well, The Onion is not there to write about meaningful ways to help the homeless. Their job is to satirize the dumb views that people push.
It's not just the European powers .. Dutch colonialism in the East Indies was replaced with Indonesian colonialism.

For anybody unfamiliar the many many islands in the East Indies historically have had easily distinguishable cultures and largely seperate rule until the Dutch consolidation.

The Dutch were replaced as "rulers" by a small group, the most overtly colonial act being the invasion of West Papua following the west largely shrugging their shoulders when independance was sought and "free elections" were rigged via torture.

I'm sure there's good writing on the subject, a cursory search turned up

https://www.e-ir.info/2015/12/17/neo-orientalism-indonesias-...

which seems adequate as a starting point.
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS has been released
Practice and measures.

Solve ambitious problems. The best thing about being a hobbyist is that you are not beholden to populist stupidity. Do what works best for you, minimizes future effort, and most directly solves your target problem. You will get better and faster over time.
If you are worried about users holding the DAO hostage by not signing cooperatively, you might want to check out ROAST which is basically FROST done in rounds in such a way that you can withstand some malicious participants.
The algorithm's novelty and recommendation accuracy is so far beyond what other competitors like Google, Snapchat, and Meta have that this seems like a coordinated effort by the private sector to push forth their mediocre products and centralize social media service which I absolutely DETEST. Mark Zuckerberg has publicly announced how far behind Tiktok Meta was. Many years later they are still playing catchup.

Though, the saddest thing is that it seems like the U.S citizens, (i.e ANY of tiktoks 160 MILLION US users) have absolutely no say in the operations,a yet we actually interact with the app not these old people in Congress. The fact that Biden so swiftly signed the bill too makes me frustrated as I want to vote for him, but he keeps doing or okaying things that are counter to my values.
> Maybe they’re desperate for money.

I wonder if some of it may be related to the opiate epidemic.

Interesting that CVS and Walgreens are both victims of retail theft and (former?) opioid suppliers:

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/cvs-walgreens-to-p...
But isn't that exactly the problem with Google?

Everyone wants their shares to go up, more growth, which can then lead to questionable actions on their part. Did you see the recent article about search enshittification (tldr; to make key metrics go up, make search worse so that users have to make more queries to get what they want)?
“Ringo Next” after George Harrison died.
> it did disrupt our day-to-day operations more than we anticipated.

Sounds like he's sharing responsibility with the rest of "we".
Since it's simple, the question of whether it is intuitive or not depends on how well you learn it. It's such a core part of algorithm design that you should make it intuitive to yourself in order to be a better programmer.
But the centralised L2 means your transaction may not make it to the slow L1.
According to https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/0001652044/0... their stock-based compensation expense was $15.539b in 2023 (and actual repurchases were $2.324b).
Wow, shows very good performance on my wikipedia dataset. Incredible that companies are open sourcing so much good stuff. Hope this trend continues.
I find it follows wherever you lead it, but if I know what kind of advice I need, what information is the bot adding?
That's not a narrow definition.
It was also pretty cool how they included the original versions of all the built-in PIM apps as sample code in their SDK. It meant that there was a huge amount of "Datebook+" or "Memos+" type apps that was just the built-in app plus some handy features the developer wanted themselves, without the developer having to re-invent the wheel (culminating in some fantastic advanced apps like Datebk4)
Large discussion [0] (135 points, 15 hours ago, 112 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40157111
> But unfortunately those behind the projects and the project's treasury itself has become quite rich from the increase in price and can support bizdev and grants (bribes).

I don’t think Stripe chose to demo Solana because of a grant.
>Ham radio's time has come and gone,

To me this is more a sign that western manufacturing's time has come and gone.

The ham world is buzzing as of late with how cheap, Chinese manufacturers are taking the market by storm from incumbent manufacturers on both sides (US and Japan) of the pacific. It's both grim and bittersweet because the hams admit their quality is good enough while being so much cheaper and easier to acquire.

Source: Dad is ham, overhear conversations of such from his comms and in radio shops; catalogs from HRO and the like are now half Chinese.
Yes, thank you for pointing this out – but they do tend to report the facts correctly.
Personally, I only really got into working at the shell once I started exploring all of the wonderful new programs that people have been writing to make it easy as pie to work with. I ended up collecting them all together into scripts I can `curl | bash` on any new Ubuntu machine: https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/shell-bling-ubuntu

Obviously these scripts won't work on Mac. But I do list the programs I install in it right in the README, including what I consider the "Holy Trinity": `rg` (really fast line searching), `fd` (really fast file finding), and `fzf` (best described with examples: see https://andrew-quinn.me/fzf). These all work on my wife's Mac identically to how they work on my own Linux box, and they make the experience of working at a shell much more pleasant.

Second rec: Install fish! https://mmazzarolo.com/blog/2023-11-16-my-fish-shell-setup-o... You can get back to Bash once you've gotten used to using the shell and find a reason to. Fish is much more pleasant, IMO, and I try to use it wherever I can these days.

And final rec: If you really want to learn the command line, you will be very well served by investing a few weeks into Vim - vanilla Vim, not the LazyVim Shell Bling Ubuntu installs. Athletes talk about mind-body connection; devs should be aware of terminal-editor connection. When you can confidently open up, make a small edit, and close a text file right in the same terminal you're doing other things in, your fluency will improve greatly, and `vim` is probably the most portable set of keyboard shortcuts you will ever learn for doing just that.
I would like to shitcan our front end team, and replace the app with a stupid-simple MPA with some sprinklings of HTMX that even a “backend” dev won’t have too much trouble with, but I can’t - we’re in too deep at this point.

We had a 2 two-week sprints where they couldn’t decide on a date selector and had to build our own. Then there’s this huge GraphQL monstrosity we have to support the front end - but it’s better than REST, I think?? Ah I could rant..
Tether is USDT not USDC. Different organisations with different degrees of capitalisation and different degrees of transparency.
I'll certainly get one, or two, if this goes through.
I love giving users a library of lambdas. We did something similar almost a decade ago at PagerDuty, we'll map the fields & headers for you and provide examples, but you can munge up the json however you want: https://www.pagerduty.com/docs/guides/custom-event-transform...
No, it starts earlier in outputs-manifestation when it comes to the outliers in some creative pursuits like those mentioned.

Most people won't experience it in effect (in the end products of their creative output) as most people aren't outliers producing brilliant work.
I tried out (US) T-Mobile's small business internet, and while it wasn't useful for me, if I was a little more normal or had worked a little harder with sales to get what I needed, it would be fine. The v6 connectivity was pretty good, v4 is CGNAT, unless you sign up for a static IP, which needs an EIN business account; the sales rep can sign you up for a static IP with a SSN business account, but it will be deleted and they won't add it back.

Also, I forgot which equipment they gave me, but it had terrible buffer bloat, and did some nasty nasty arp spoofing when I placed it on my network and made everything bad, and it wouldn't let me put it on XX.2.0/24 and have a static route for XX.0.0/24 so maybe I could keep it roughly contained. Maaaaybe I could have done something with VLANs, but I was done at that point. I'm still grumpy because it took 3 months and contacting the CEO email address to get the bill settled, but they did settle it. Not exactly a risk free trial in my book.

Speed and latency was good though, as long as you didn't hit bufferbloat. I don't remember exactly, but 500M+ down, 200M+ up, < 25 ms ping; CGNAT brought the speeds down to about 100M, but most CDNs are v6 capable now, and most people aren't that bothered by CGNAT. Obviously you and I and a lot of others here have reasons to want their own v4 address, but a lot of people in a lot of places can't get one on any home internet, so. Of course, speed and latency vary a lot by your reception, but I live on a heavily forested and very hilly island; I am at a high point, but surrounded by trees so eh?
…what exactly do you think heavy metal is?
Model Y makes the IIHS “Top Safety Pick” list but the 3, X, and S don’t.

https://www.iihs.org/ratings/top-safety-picks/2024/
I read it as "don't bleed the artwork", thinking that some artists purposefully bleed their art for framing purposes (ala print bleeding).
> I spent the day drilling forty holes, installing forty screws, twisting forty wires

Sounds like someone needs to make a jig if it takes all day to pilot and install 2 screws each on 20 premade frames.
This is the most accurate description of wisp information handoff I've ever seen.
I was there too and I remember thinking that lots of universities must have humor newspapers as funny as The Onion. Nope!

BTW Dan Vebber also wrote a strip for the Daily Cardinal and wrote for The Onion. He went on to write for Buffy and a lot of other shows, currently exec. producer of The Simpsons. He’s also the genius behind The Two Felipes https://www.mkepunk.com/releases/the-two-felipes-eat-your-fi...
It's going to be sad yet funny to see the same agency repeal it again once (and if) Donald Trump wins the coming elections.
This is my personal favorite.
Dividends started in 1602 with the Dutch East India company. However corporations with shares predate that somewhat. So it wasn’t technically the original point.
I agree. Got into it during COVID - it was really fun learning about radios, RF, building antennas and stuff. But when it actually came to using it....there's not much to do unless you really get a kick out of making contact with random people who are far away and getting points for that to win contests. It is nice to know that I can communicate thousands of miles with no infrastructure but currently I don't have a need for that.
How can I leave Seattle without screwing my career?
I grew up in eastern wa, BS EE, MS CS, first 3 years teaching CS at a state school and currently a patent examiner. I'm mid excited about the job b/c I expect to learn cool stuff, and because I realize my resume isn't competitive, especially in this job market.

That said, I'm also self-aware that I can't afford to live in Seattle with this job. I'm still applying and hoping to get a better role, and trying to build users for a consumer web startup. We're default alive on AWS credits, MVP built&passed first 20 users test, the challenge is the chicken//egg problem of all online communities.

I have been reading this board for like a decade. This is all the stuff I think is cool. I don't feel like I've found it in Seattle; this seems like a very 9-5 town where most who still have jobs want to recreate after work. And power to them! If I was making that money, living in this city, and had been since graduating from my BS I would feel the same. That said, I can't afford this, and want to have some dry powder to pursue the theoretical better opportunity that I hope is in my future.

I don't want to fully leave WA because all the people who care about me live here, and I've been close enough to the edge to realize how important it is to be in driving distance of someone who cares about you. Does anyone have a recommendation on how I can lower my cost of living, and ideally find some builders?
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Is it that interesting? How might you expect one to avoid Google's influence in standards? Whereas Firefox is one of the few mainline browsers that isn't directly controlled by Firefox.

In short, taking some of these steps is reasonable for a person, and some... are not. Painting it as some kind of moral hypocrisy isn't helpful.
How I Search in 2024
Gonna be 6 months before mongodb catches up
Apologies for the hijack, but I’ve been looking for a particular kind of monitoring tool lately that I’m not sure exists.

I would like something that allows me to write my own arbitrary monitoring scripts in whatever language I want, and the tool would take care of everything else: scheduling and running the scripts, parsing the output, alerting, authentication, presenting the info on a pretty dashboard with graphs, etc.

I think Monit can do this to some extent, but I haven’t explored it yet — it looks like the dashboard and info presented is a lot simpler than what I’m looking for.

Is there some reason this isn’t a useful concept? For context, I’m looking at this from a homelab/selfhosting/hacking perspective.
Yeah, mass surveillance.
Passkeys: A shattered dream
https://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/environment/article...

or

https://www.hcn.org/articles/nuclear-energy-the-divide-over-...

Seems less paywalled.

> Each day, Diablo Canyon sucks up about 2.5 billion gallons of ocean water to generate steam and cool the reactors, before spitting it — 20 degrees warmer — back into the Pacific. The water intake kills thousands of fish each year and sometimes other sea animals. The warm water discharges are also changing the marine ecosystem in Diablo Cove, driving out the bull kelp and having a detrimental effect on abalone.
British man tests first personalised melanoma vaccine
> In combination with the apparmor package, the Ubuntu kernel now restricts the use of unprivileged user namespaces. This affects all programs on the system that are unprivileged and unconfined. A default AppArmor profile is provided that allows the use of user namespaces for unprivileged and unconfined applications but will deny the subsequent use of any capabilities within the user namespace.

Welp, that kills any chance of namespaces being widely used by anyone outside the likes of Docker and systemd. I'd been using unprivileged mount namespaces as a way to create anonymous temporary directories, but I guess they just weren't so long for this world after all.
It sseems unconstitutional to me. that's just me though.
"I'm from the government, and I'm here to help"
Humanoid Robots Wiki
I've studied crypto currency. I know exactly what KYC means.
Yeah this exactly. How does this kind of thing get published? It's blatant fear mongering.
When I was younger I watched too much sci-fi and Star Trek. I was always prospace exploration. Now that I'm older, my views have changed. We need to be focusing on infrastructure and the meat bags that inhabit this dirt ball. But NASA makes a bunch of cool stuff that eventually gets used everywhere in everyone's daily lives, so I have no objections to letting them work. Just don't be surprised if people don't care about your moon rock haulers.
> Never been clear to me

That sounds you a you problem.

> basically a to-do list app

What is more likely? That you have no idea what you are talking about, or a company with >10k employees and >$50 billion market cap is some kind of fraud and the entire market has it wrong? And all their customers who pay them billions of dollars must all be so mistaken to pay this money for a to-do app.
No upside for the company? Do you not see all the people who are delighted to be able to browse the code?
It's been a couple decades since I adminned servers and firewalls. In my experience, in the early 2000's, Russian IPs were extremely common. I was surprised that OP didn't see even one. Can anyone conjecture on what might account for the apparent change?
Maybe not. But your brain noticed those brand names and when you need a product in that category they are more likely to come to mind.

It’s actually shocking if you think about products from your childhood which are no longer advertised and have completely dropped out of public consciousness.
If your flight starts or ends in the EU then it doesn’t matter if it’s an EU carrier. It is the flight operator (I.e Delta) that is liable.
White supremacists? Really?

And something tells me Muslims, practicing Jews, etc. aren’t a fan of prostitution either.

So really you could just say “religious people,” and it’d be far more accurate.
There's an interesting sidestory to Dudayev. In the late 1980s, he was a divisional commander with HQ in Tartu, occupied Estonia. He had good relations with the local population and Estonian independence movement greatly influenced his views on Chechen independence. Five years later, the extremely brutal methods used by Russia to extinguish Chechen independence influenced Estonia (along with Latvia and Lithuania) to seek NATO membership.
I have framed many drawings behind glass, and I can honestly say that it is one of my least favorite jobs. Time and again, no matter how careful I am, specks of dust or smudges appear on the drawing-facing side of the glass. Of course these would appear only after I had taped down the back and installed the hanging cable.
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Strange, he won
This happens naturally with turnover if they freeze hiring.
When will any car manufacturer have the courage to build a utilitarian EV that's not a smartphone on wheels? Never, it seems. Because this would have been the perfect fit for such a design.

At least I'm happy that cargo e-bikes exists.
I haven’t gone through their entire comment history but I immediately saw multiple negative comments about Elon there. The comments are indeed all about Elon though.
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As someone who listens but doesn't transmit, some of the most fun is actually chasing shortwave pirates around 6.950 MHz. There are a lot of fun radio shows that people put on, and I guess the FCC doesn't seem to care too much what happens below 40m. It might take some of the fun out of it, but it would be really cool to see some of that legalized as a form of amateur non-commercial music broadcast.
Historical overview of the rise and downfall: https://youtu.be/67BFdPVKYjk?si=hVJjzAZAk56N6u0B
The greatest concentration of interesting folks are the elderly on the fringes of society. If a writer ever wanted to find an ideal biography subject if they weren't the book, there is a demographic of sane, elderly, rough sleepers on each coast of America who have experienced more than the average person can possibly imagine.
Does King County not have a municipal fiber provider? Kitsap does, but of course, WA law makes it hard for them to do roll outs. Everybody has to pay their own way, whereas commercial providers can do a roll out and wait for customers to return ROI later.

You can cost share, if you can get your neighbors to also sign up... but there's only me and one other crazy person who will do it, because the cost is too high. Not a lot of people are interested in paying $50k to upgrade from 50-100M down to 100m or 1g symmetric. It's better, but not enough better; especially when T-mobile 5G can get you 500m+ down/ 200m+ up with no installation.
Further explanation of how it is impossible for a Patriot missile to intercept a Kinzhal. https://sputnikglobe.com/20230510/fact-check-ukraine-didnt-s...
Yes! If they put it into the entire internet infrastructure, it's considered a general warrant. Hmm... I thought we did away with those in 1789.
I honestly find MySql much simpler to use, create replication architectures, fix problems and use in general.

And its not like you switch to Postgres and your indexes are 10x faster.

Postgres does seems to be marginally faster in some edge cases, but with it you have to learn a whole host of weird slash commands, the tooling just isn’t that great, and setup is unbelievably complicated compared to MySql and heavily heavily intertwined with the host os.

The real advantage Postgres had is some cool party tricks (like pivot functions, super handy for prepping data for Ml) but those being non ansi means you are flirting with disaster if they ever change or go away. Backups on MySql are also not a great affair… xtrabackup is marginally ok but requires some intense scripting. (Honestly I question the usefulness of backups anyway, I think slow replicas are probably the was to go).

It’s certainly not bad, but it’s also not like it isn’t without a myriad of rough spots.
No, you did not.
Mend it, don't end it.
Well yes, so does FISA.