skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was younger, hands on felt like a good thing (we kinda had no options) and it let to learning a lot.

But, for desktop and being productive, specially now a days, the least I want is to be hands on with my system.

I kinda want something that’s mostly out of the way. Heck, when looking at platforms, depending on scale, I prefer something opinionated to something that lets me shoot myself on the foot 30k different ways.

It’s not that I don’t want to be able to tune it. It’s just that if I need to spend hours on that tweaking vs using it, there’s eventually a loss. I’m also not saying something that can’t be tweaked, just that if it has a set of best practices, let’s start with those vs trying to rewrite it all.
> Weren't they used in Java Cards?

Not sure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_processor doesn't seem to mention any in current use. I am ignorant of the actual correct answer: I had simply presumed it is simpler to write the virtual machine using a commercial ISA than to develop a custom ISA.

Java Card bytecode run by the Java Card Virtual Machine is a functional subset of Java 2 bytecode run by a standard Java Virtual Machine but with a different encoding to optimize for size.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Card_OpenPlatform has some history but nothing jumped out to answer your question.
READY (2004) - AGS point-and-click about buying duct tape
From the author: George Bush was President, America was still kind of hyped up about a terror attack, and the relatively newly formed Department of Homeland Security wanted us to feel prepared for another at any time. They recommended the purchase of duct tape and plastic sheeting to protect ourselves from unexpected chemical or biological warfare, and offered further advice in the form of a website, Ready dot gov, illustrated with awkward generic pictograms that the internet quickly found new captions for, such as "If you see a terrorist arrow, pin it to the wall with your shoulder." The art in this game is mostly made of these images.
Quietly disappearing into the night
> Oof. Not only is it "possible" you're not actually innocent, your attitude is "it doesn't even make sense to assume that". Screw it, why do we need a justice system? You were arrested, let's just take you straight to prison.

Of course it's possible. But if someone is charged with 5 crimes and convicted of 4, why should we reimburse their legal fees? That is what GP proposed, and it would be nuts. If the prosecution struck out and went 0 for 5, that might make sense. But requiring them to run the table makes no sense.
Those don’t have utility, either.

I don’t know why web devs feel like they need to tell users when they’ve succeeded at something like clicking a button.

People understand when they’ve accomplished something. We don’t need rituals around this, even simple ones like this.
6.5 million for a 16-story building in SF? Holy crap, that's actually an amazing price - 5 times the median price of a home in SF.

You can split it up with 4 friends and have 3 floors each... plus a commercial front street level.
100% of all name brands and uncommon brands and bs brands I’ve tried have sold me LED bulbs that buzz annoyingly or fail within 1 year. Literally no one is willing to make an LED bulb that lasts as long as the tech is capable of.

The least shit brand is Philips.
Let the hoarding of light bulbs begin.
They offer a huge catalog of low cost equipment. Some of it is very popular and much of it is pretty niche. Quality is occasionally an issue: you buy their stuff with expectations commensurate to the price or you risk being disappointed. That is a feasible business model with hams, however. Then again, maybe not?

I can't think of any one thing they make that isn't available elsewhere. Some of their bread and butter tools, like their classic antenna analyzers, are completely out classed by newer alternatives today. For a long time, however, MFJ was the only affordable source for things like that.

One of the niche MFJ products I bought is a 20 meter telescoping vertical antenna element. That's like an old fashioned car radio antenna but 5.2 meters long. Even that is made by competitors today.
> But with time, it's now obvious he was right about a lot of things.

I've gone through the same evolution. Stallman was fundamentally right about the notion of rights for users--to look at, to understand, to change, and to redistribute software. As more of the world is driven by software I think those rights are merging with other fundamental human rights like the right to free speech. They make the world a better place.
And the argument still works. Even in that hypothetical scenario the USA would still reasonably not allow Canada to join that military alliance. In addition, saying Russia occupied Ukraine for 300 years is like saying France occupied Occitanie, or Germany occupied Prussia, or even Spain occupied Catalonia. There's so many of these occasions in recent history that its basically not an argument. On that note, thinking the same way did also the US maybe occupy Utah?
Done but just + - not a difference.
How is this kind of software developed without becoming a massive pile of spaghetti code?
When I think of GQL I think of GraphQL, but this seems to be an entirely different thing with the same name.

Why? Did the ISO GQL come first before GraphQL did?
That's the stated goal. The actual goal is more likely complete knowledge of any person using IaaS service whether domestic or foreign and what they're up to.
Exploiting embedded Mitel phones for unauthenticated RCE
It seems as the decision of the owner. He's got old and wants to spend time with the family. Would not it be worth to try to transfer to the workers in exchange for some share of profits?
> "the needs of the society/family are more important than those of the individual"

That's Spock from The Wrath of Khan, right?
Heh, as long as you're not talking about UX...
The US government has shown over and over that these dragnet types of regulations are used to gobble up any information the TLAs want and hand wave it away as meta or "incidental" information "found in pursuit of foreign {$INVESTIGATION}"
It is. Don’t look.

One of my favorites.
But only OpenDOS 7.01, not older(DR DOS 3.30-7.00) or newer(7.02-8.0/8.1) versions.
MIT is the standard OSS license for Microsoft stuff that is open source. You also see Apache for some projects that predate standardization on MIT, and GPL where there's no way to avoid it (i.e. when you have to build on code that is itself GPL).

That said, peak OSS at Microsoft is already past. These days, it's all about advertising products as OSS while quietly close-sourcing parts of it (e.g. just about the only thing in VSCode that's fully open source is JS support, every other language extension is closed to some extent).
Can we make petty crime illegal again?
No, the Tangled NF you suggest would be inconsistent.
The binary thinking around "uses AI" or doesn't is going to burn down indie gaming if it continues. Review-bombing games for having 0.1% AI-generated content doesn't benefit anyone but it's the kind of pointless crusade that gamers love.
Not the person you replied to, but minimum wage was $5.15/hr when I started working, which is like $10K/yr.

If you live in a high tax and high CoL place now, 80K/year might not be enough to save anything
> All of this stems from religion, yet our system is supposed to have a separation of church and state.

That phrase appears nowhere in the U.S. constitution. The first amendment guarantees the free exercise of religion (which includes voters having religious motivations for supporting otherwise permissible laws). It also precludes regulating state established churches, which were a thing at the time. (The more expansive modern interpretation favored by some was created out of thin air in the 1940s by a former KKK member: https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?params... (pp. 588-589) It’s one of the shoddier Supreme Court opinions, basing its understanding of the First Amendment on the comments of Thomas Jefferson, who was in France when the amendment was drafted. Jefferson was always a Francophile and favored the revolutionary French view of religion—which does embrace a separation of church and state—but that has little to do with what the constitution says.)

All that being said, even the more expensive view of the Establishment Clause doesn’t prohibit legislators from having religious motivations for laws otherwise within their power to enact. In that context, religion is no different than any other ideology (socialism, capitalism, etc) that might motivate legislative behavior. “Sex is shameful” isn’t any more of an improper basis for legislation than “free markets are good” or “society a an obligation to support poor people.”
I mean, that's dedication I suppose.
fuck censorship
I imagine Japanese is probably the "last mile" for machine translation given the nuance compared to other languages.
I’m sure we’re going to see plenty of that but from the perspective of a person who isn’t rich enough to laugh off unemployment, how does that help? If speaking up got you fired, you won’t get your old job back or compensation for the stress of looking in a bad market. If you stick around, you’re under more pressure to bail out the business from the added stress of those bad calls and you’re far more likely to see retribution than thanks for having disagreed with your CEO: it takes a very rare person to appreciate criticism and the people who don’t aren’t going to get in the situation of making such a huge bet on a fad to begin with – they’d have been more careful to find something it’s actually good for.
> Ham radio's time has come and gone, but I still treasure the memories of listening to him talk to people all over the world.

Those people all over the world are still there. Every day. The airwaves are full. Yesterday I was handed off between a dozen Italians working contacts in the US.

I have to hand it to European hams. They don't leave anything on the table at all. Some of the gear they fabricate is world class stuff. I just bought this amazingly well made feedline choke from a French ham on Ebay. I've made these myself and know exactly how hard it is to make them that well. RigExpert out of Ukraine is something as well: they just took over the higher end portable analyzer market.
Ben Collins, the guy who got suspended from MSNBC for criticizing Elon Musk too hard? Upset Nate Silver because he criticized him too hard? Upset Matt Taibbi for making fun of him for doing PR work for a billionaire? I think he’s perfect for the job honestly.
Yeah, but that's doens't make for an april 1st way to get arrays.[1]

[1] : https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/344360/collect-exit...
> "Am I talking to Twilio founder Jeff Lawson or am I just taking crazy pills today?" Business Insider's reporter replied. Lawson did not respond.

This article is absolute gold, thanks for sharing haha
> In fact, we could have used Datalog to achieve our data goals — but that would mean we have to build our own Datalog implementation, backing data store, etc. We don’t want to do that.

Surprising that creating a whole new language made more sense then a backend. I wonder if they did a proof of concept with an existing logic system like Souffle¹ or Rel² first.

¹ https://github.com/souffle-lang/souffle

² https://relational.ai/blog/rel
'Parasite' Actor Found Dead After 2 Women Blackmailed Him [video]
https://archive.ph/zfLpy
typically residential real estate trails commercial

but this does not seem like the bottom

i do wonder if you can turn this into a residential unit?

if not could you create a company and just live inside it?
> I can't comprehend why you think ISPs would feel compelled to be so altruistic without any government intervention.

Price discrimination. No altruism necessary. Kind of like my isp offering me different speeds.

Meta tried to offer free limited internet to poor rural Indians but idealistic tech workers from wealthy neighborhoods opposed it on moral grounds since it was against net neutrality so then they got no internet

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-india-rejected-facebooks-...
You can't talk about LFP without longevity and affordability. I can't help noticing that there is no mention of price or cycle rating, can someone fill the gap?
Oh also to add, regarding literacy rates, even before WW1 because Croatia and Slovenia were Austro-hungarian, and the rest was Ottoman, the literacy rates were way different, with the former being much much higher. Currently, its probably about the same with Croatia and Serbia.
I'm a big fan of LIFX bulbs.

I have a large installation of them in my home and have custom programming for circadian rhythms.

Works great technically speaking. Subjectively I think it organically works great too. Definitely when waking up at 4am for the bathroom having a 5% dim 6500k light to aim by instead of a super bright 2500k light is way better.
Respectfully, this isn't true at all. We just do different stuff these days. We experiment with meshes, lora, digital modes (sometimes with internet backhaul, sometimes not), and other things like that. I just built a 5w 440 repeater small enough to mount in my VTOL and fly overhead for two hours.

Ham isn't dead, it just looks different than it did for our grandfathers.
Was there a python language team product? Can't wait to see this on the obituary if killed by Google.
Mario can have a gun in the Smash Bros franchise.
If the US wants to do something about energy they should stop the perverse tax incentives driving the proliferation of oversized vehicles which also happen to be unsafe for pedestrians due to the huge front ends. YouTuber FortNine even managed to fit his body inside the engine bay of one of these things.
But nope, light bulbs it is! Straight out of the CIA field sabotage manual: "Insist on perfect work in relatively unimportant products; send back for refinishing those which have the least flaw." Think about that next time you're waiting for your restricted faucet to fill a bucket.
GenAI will continue to be used. People will just learn to hide it better. Eventually it will all be GenAI and you’ll be none the wiser.
LAP: Lua Async Protocol
Skim the CS50x course?

https://cs50.harvard.edu/x/2024/
possibly reachable on reddit: https://old.reddit.com/message/compose/?to=readyourSICP
I’ve been using Home Assistant for about 3 years now, and talk about it to pretty much anyone who will listen. Thanks for keeping home automation open and focused on the users!
There's a lot of old Hams retiring out of the game in their 80s and 90s now.

I recently attended the funeral of the wife of an Australian Ham ~ 90 who relayed Space Shuttle communications to NASA for astronauts and their families including some sensitive "possible farewell" type calls.

This was the same person who lead me into fun projects reverse engineering the early Navstar GPS packets before they were public, and tapping into Cold War VLF transmissions out of Naval Communication Station Harold E. Holt.

Someone who spent their early teens defusing live bombs in England during and post WWII, and present during the Mau Mau rebellion.
Unfortunately the cost of IPv4 space at auction alone is prohibitively expensive.
Are they allowed to circulate these student assignments under FERPA?
Thanks a lot!

Now the numbers are much more in line with what is expected from startup cost sensitive benchmarks: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/... and supposedly certain AVX-dependent (AVX1 that is, the only kind supported by ivy bridge) implementations no longer fail.

If only there was an option to add side-by-side arbitrary options (e.g. Go vs C# AOT), but I suppose that's what contributions are for :)
Because copyright monopolists have trillions of dollars which they use to pay lobbyists and essentially buy laws such as the DMCA which says that you can issue a take down and it's up to poor sap on the receiving end to either submit or fight a costly legal battle to prove not just their innocence but their bad faith.
It's probably because none of the hysterics or doomsday propaganda actually came to pass.
This isn't psuedoscience because it's not trying to be science. It's theoretical analysis - entirely different tradition.
Drink Me: (Ab)Using a LLM to Compress Text
Indeed, and is à less than b? Not in Unicode!
It seems far more likely that Nintendo strives to be like Disney instead of covering up decades of rape within Nintendo.

Especially now that Japanese company leaders are realizing their IP is valuable outside of Japan and don't just treat translation and marketing outside of Japan as a complete after thought.
This takedown is not based on trademark, but copyright (you can tell because the article mentions the Digital Millennium Copyright Act).

It's true that you have to defend a trademark, but that doesn't actually mean you're required to go after anybody using your trademarks without authorization.
I really like the T. Herman Zweibel signature at the bottom. He was by far my favorite recurring character.

Not the Onion, but a list of H. T. Zweibel articles:
https://muckrack.com/t-herman-zweibel/articles
What is “let mpre”?
I'm a ham and I've used some of their products over the years. It is indeed a sad day. I am surprised that someone didn't want to buy them. It is a niche but a handful of small companies (and divisions of large ones) do quite well servicing the amateur radio market.
An Engineer's Guide to Integrating ARI into Existing Acme Clients
Yes, you’ll get something sorted based on the bytes in the string but it won’t be lexicographically correct - for example, à will be sorted after b.
The US and states have very active labor trafficking investigations, raids, busts, outreach, you name it. There are deep investigations many into outfits quite regularly, involving the FBI and other agencies. If it feels the opposite, it turns out we just have a large labor trafficking problem, which includes adult services/entertainment.
It's definitely one of those ridiculous cases, that's for sure. The feds seem to bring a lot of those.
> we face false positives

> enough to shut down a case

... It boggles my mind that this could ever be considered an acceptable defense in any court.
Chipotle tells employees not to eat chicken on the job
Pen.el – Emacs-based operating system designed with holiness in mind
I can't believe a lightbulb costs $50 now, and it doesn't even come with the power spectrum (the information that would be necessary to determine, as per the linked article, if it would mess up your sleep cycle if used in a night lamp).
So green LEDs do 235 lm/W and red LEDs in a reasonable mix do 150 lm/W (all theoretical limits) so the reds have to put out 1.5x the power to match.

https://donklipstein.com/led.html (this website is pretty fantastic)

The new limits are 120 lm/W. So it's going to be quite tough. Perhaps those 150 lm/W LEDs are not yet in commercial production. Definitely an interesting thing. I wonder what this means for things like the Phillips Hue line etc. Those have to be consuming way more power.

https://www.energy.gov/articles/doe-finalizes-efficiency-sta....
You’ve still got it backwards :)
I'm amazed that anyone thinks this is surprising. The biggest differentiator in terms of games' perceived quality is the quantity and overall 'slickness' of their content - artwork, characters, backgrounds, copy.... Of course developers are going to take the shortcut to add more high quality content to their games.
It’s easier for me to switch which business I give my money to than it is for me to move or change governments. Most of the services I use are provided by private industry and I have choices. Everything from food, clothing, shelter. All private corporations I choose to buy from. I guess I can go get my food from a government soup kitchen or apply for government housing but my experience is these services are not competitive with private market even at the lower price (or free)
I wonder what is the game plan for OpenAI and Anthropic now. Suddenly their offering looks very bleak, Llama offering almost the same results for a fraction of the cost (for a large subset of tasks in English). Additionally it can be ran on-prem which is a very big plus for many companies that don't like their data leaving premise. To add to that it's constantly getting better being iterated over by the community.

And the 400 billion one is still in the making, extrapolating from what we've seen from the 8 and 70 billion ones it should beat the current commercial SOTA. Whatever OpenAI releases this year will need to be next-level for them to stay in the game as the leader.
What ever happened to that research on incandescents that were more efficient than LED about 5 years ago?

https://inhabitat.com/mit-makes-a-warm-incandescent-light-bu...
At some point, we will have to consider protectionism. There is a lot of downward pressure on wages with ai, offshoring, etc.

If there was a drastic decline in well paying, white collar jobs the tax collected may not be enough considering our debt.
Chiming in as someone who's been doing this. Haven't watched a TV news program since 2020.

The only thing in 4 years that I "missed" (which it turns out actually means "was delayed in finding out about to a degree that other people actively comment on it") was the recent escalations in the middle-east.

And even that I was only about 24 hours behind.

You really miss nothing, particularly with the amount of passive news we ingest via social media. (I also have a fairly minimal social media diet.)
Makefiles are still going strong!
California Achieves Major Clean Energy Victory: 10GW of Battery Storage
They’re shutting down their factories, so they’d have to setup new ones elsewhere. That would have costs too.

Clearly it wasn’t profitable enough anymore, and maybe wouldn’t be after moving overseas or something.
the amount of users of snaps likely exceeds total NixOS deployments
Cree
The source of most jobs (tech or not) are, ultimately, people and their needs.
If this is a big concern, look into aquarium lighting with LEDs, where the color spectrum is a constant subject of discussion. I doubt such specialty lighting will be subject to regulatory restriction, so it should be available indefinitely (if perhaps a bit pricey), e.g.:

> "This combination of LED and phosphor is a proven technology with good performance but not perfect. An obvious disadvantage of this led is the lack of red-related color light components. The color temperature (CCT) of the light emitted by this led is relatively poor and the color rendering index (CRI) is relatively low. Combining YAG phosphors with other materials will increase red luminescence, leading to the availability of “warm” white led plant light, but at the cost of hard-won efficacy. (CRI is a measure of the degree to which an illuminating light source reproduces the color of an object compared to sunlight, whose CRI is 100. Despite the obvious shortcomings, the CRI of an incandescent bulb is about 95. In contrast, cold white led plant lights usually have a CRI of 70 to 80.)"

https://www.mokolight.com/blog/led-grow-light/phosphor-works...
labor trafficking investigations address slavery, coercive situations and forced situations

rape investigations address rape
I feel ya, but I am sympathetic to the argument that Nintendo’s IP is uniquely valuable and their brand is globally very unique. They prize their reputation and the Nintendo authenticity seal has been a thing since forever.
Tesla generally has the safest cars too so there is that
Says a post on Medium sigh.

Go find their Patreon or own site/store.
I would assume real number is much higher.

Games have for decades used generation as source for content, now available methods are just more complex.
That's bullshit. The aggressor is the one who is invading and bombing another country.

The only reason why Ukraine even wants to get into NATO is because Russia has never stopped viewing it as a core part of its Greater Russia imperial restoration project. This is also why the entire Eastern Europe rushed to NATO as soon as they could - because they didn't want to end up like Ukraine did.