skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes - Ruby Toolbox is handy, one of the discovery and currency assessment tools I use too, and is good at surfacing projects that are actively developed, but it takes a metric driven approach that's intrinsically weak at distinguishing between abandoned code and stable code. It won't reveal when a decaying gem will cause other dependencies to be held back, and Ruby Toolbox suffers from the same fundamental blindness to compatibility with specific language editions that RubyGems has. Since it’s not a part of RubyGems, it ultimately can't offer a reliable barrier to inadvertently installing bitrotted code.

None of this is meant as a criticism of Ruby Toolbox, because it never claimed to do all that, nor can we expect it to. All said & done, and to reframe things more constructively, I think there's a missing piece in the community infrastructure puzzle that someone could fill if they had the time, inclination, and build farm to do it.
> Godel's theorem shows that that context has to be stronger than T. This isn't some kind of obstruction, it is reality.

What distinction are you drawing? I see no contradiction between something being reality and something being an obstruction to be worked around.
They're using flutter under the hood so worst case for them they could pivot off hardware and into an app based agent.
If configuring a router into bridge mode is too burdensome of a step, then Comcast is actually providing that person a service by forcibly managing equipment for them at that point. If only the stalking component of it could be made illegal with proper privacy laws instead of piecemeal app bans.
It is easy to profile someone in a ski mask and nobody is going to win that lawsuit.

Same for someone who wants to pick up $500 tool, can't produce a wallet, cash, or credit card.
I believe that VR/AR will become popular after the popularization of general use BCI's.

To me, it's just a gaming console with mediocre games in the form of an awkward hat, and I don't like hats. The UI is definitely a place I could be won over. Maybe someone will do something undeniably revolutionary without drilling diodes into my head. Who knows? Until then, my wallet will certainly override any peaked interest, so it better be cheap enough to not have buyer's remorse like described.
Not sure how your argument refutes mine but okay.
Clunk, clunk, clunk, bzt-urg, clunk, clunk, clunk, clunk... :)

While hole punchers and opaque tape worked for notching and denotching, there were also floppy notchers. It turns out these bits of accessories are rarely found on secondary markets or go for something like $80 USD. There are still quite a few 5.25" drive cleaning kits still for sale.

I don't miss floppies because they were slow, fragile, and prone to developing unrecoverable errors. I did discover through experimentation that 3.5" floppies were fairly resistant to crude direct magenetic attack. I had to open the window and touch the media surface to a small speaker's magnet to induce errors. Praise be to the greaseweazle and the Copy II PC Deluxe Option Board 2.0 (the 1.0 doesn't support 3.5" 1.44 MB).

2.88 MB drives are worth a small fortune because they are still used for industrial purposes. Also, SCSI floppy drives exist.
Self-promo or not, it's all about value. If you are sharing something that adds value to the community it really shouldn't matter.
I mean Kia and Hyundai have had an ongoing theft fiasco for the last couple years..

My Tesla seems to have a lot of creaks and rattles since <5k miles in, which they describe as 'normal'.
Why was this post’s original title changed? It provided important context:

“Portugal Overthrew its Fascist Regime 50 Years Ago Today to Become a Democracy”.
It seems you’re implying these signals are accurate, that this increased thought leads to actually more useful phrases. We’ve then adapted to remember these phrases more easily.

I don’t think that’s the case. It’s easier to remember all sorts of rhyming things besides advice. The article explains the semantic narrowing that accounts for it. “Blue shoe, red bed” is going to be easier to remember than “Green shoe, white bed”.

I actually take rhyming advice as a strong indicator of low quality. It is much, much easier to come up with a rhyme than to accurately find the effect, if any, between drink order and hangover. But, the rhyming sticks in people’s heads. This gives it a free pass. Non-rhyming phrases, non-beautiful phrases, have to survive on their own merit.
Won't China just move the ownership to a paper company (like an offshore one) though?
Nice work. Funny how even simple/clean UI designs can require so much CSS.

How'd you like working with HTMX? First time?
The README offers a whole bunch of different installation options, but none of them are the one I was looking for!

I ended up inspecting "curl -fsSL https://get.statusnook.com | sudo bash" and extracting the script so I could see what it did:

https://gist.github.com/simonw/09b8817b4010cf32e4bfcbe929dcd...

It downloads either the arm64 or amd64 built binaries, both of which are also available from the GitHub releases page: https://github.com/goksan/Statusnook/releases/tag/v0.0.0

Feature request: add those to the README too!
"My last post": Edward Perez, ex-director for civic integrity at Twitter
Visualizing malicious IP addresses
Point still stands. Better yet, imagine Texas leaves the union and joins military alliance with Russia. That would be more similar than the scenario with Canada.
Yeah so idea is you can easily integrate with lots of bookkeeping software with just one api. A zapier integration is often also not ideal or existing and a pain to set up for users
"Things used to work in this country. This is the stock complaint of the Baby Boomers, and if you are lucky enough to inherit a piece of their technology, you may find yourself agreeing"

This point is key, I could name many devices that I own that are faulty or buggy when they left the factory, and or have short operational lives, and or whose ergonomic design is just terrible—unacceptably bad. This stuff isn't engineered, rather it's just thrown together. From my perspective the problem is of epidemic proportions.

Take software for instance, manufacturers have even trained the population at large to not expect it to work as specified when first out of the box, and that bugs a just a normal condition of the product.

But why is it that no one bothers to complain?

Perhaps after all we—the lay public—are really dumb and stupid in that we've actually let ourselves be so manipulated in recent decades.

Before we can fix the problem we need to know exactly how we were manipulated into this mess in the first instance.
Same here - I want my configs for EVERYTHING in version control at all times. That way I can see exactly why things are working / not working, when things were changed, who changed them etc.
> keeping the government away from internet is a good thing

See, I would have agreed more with this if most of our internet infrastructures were not controlled by three megacorps with more power than many small to medium sized economies in the world. As it stands, the only valid option is to fight fire with fire.
that cap is based on the number of satellites, which is not fixed.
Yep, I meant my question as whether there are any typical human tasks that are easy for humans to understand in terms of recursion.

I understand that there are lots of algorithmic tasks that are best understood that way, and that those aren't what you were talking about.
Yeah, I struggle some days to get my AI assistant to produce useful code for medium to hard problems. On the other hand, if I say “Write a Python program to recursively search through our code files and find or change something,” it will work 95% of the time.

My favorite AI success story was a module of c# code that did text overlays on photos. It was written by hand. When we started encountering some issues with the graphics package it was using, I asked the AI (JetBrains in this case) to rewrite the module using a different package. Tedious but relatively straightforward and the results were correct first try. That was what convinced me that (eventually) these type of tools will be great.

Meanwhile, I’m so sick of seeing “my apologies, I misunderstood your request…” after it generates suggestions with non-existent methods, bad logic, or missing parameters.
Maybe, but I can't remeber an add I've seen, much less clicked on in the last week. You?
Except somebody needs to pay at the end.
Stock buybacks are done when a company think either 1. they are massively under valued, or 2. when there isn't a better investment for their cash.
Maybe it could be done round-robin?
I think all views that are not illegal should be permitted on these online platforms. Your Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama examples might be defamatory if they are not opinion or speculation, and so they might be illegal - not sure. But I think all of these are valid to discuss and debate. Just as we have a right to discuss things in person, I think that should be true on big online platforms.
This is almost completely unrelated to your comment, but it sparked a fun memory. At one point I had a system set up that would boot dos via ipxe with iscsi drives. I thought it was almost magical how dos had no clue it was using a network drive. I still don't know exactly how it worked. but I suspect ipxe was patching the bios.
Not necessarily, if you have automation and AI.

> less workforce over time

Manual workforce can be replaced by robots.
We don’t need 4M+ uber drivers if we have 4M Waymos.

> less economic activity, less competition

Not if you compensate productivity with automation and AI. Work of 100 people done by one.

> less able-bodied men for your military

Ideally, you should have most of your army be robots and semi-autonomous systems. Military action should only cause equipment loss on your side and not personnel loss.

You still can have growth, just not the population growth, but productivity and quality of life growth instead.
Everytime I read anything about typescript I think of this
> continuing with wholesale access to fiber ( never happens )

* https://mobilesyrup.com/2023/11/06/bell-and-telus-must-offer...

Or you can do what Beanfield did and build out your own fibre infrastructure to customers.
The state of Nevada (10 of 17 counties at least) would like to inform you that it has already happened.
> you seem to say you are apart from js libraries/frameworks

Besides memes I don't see this at all. The htmx project doesn't shy away from what it is: javascript.

Hypermedia has stagnated for 2+ decades. Asserting that hypermedia cannot be more than what current implementations have delivered is stolid and myopic.

htmx represents a vision of: 1. What is the core idea of hypermedia? 2. What would hypermedia look like if the core idea was logically extended to be more useful than the original implementations? and 3. How can you use javascript to fill the gap between the html+http that we have, and this expanded idea of what hypermedia could be?

Obviously it has to do this as a javascript library because that's the only possible path. And it's great that existing web technologies are flexible enough to explore interesting ideas like this. But it's silly to discount a project because it's based on a particular vision of how to add life back to older technology.
How many people actually are paying?
My bad: 110s is 1:50, not 1:10!

also, https://www.slq.qld.gov.au/blog/tag/queensland-black-watch
It looks like "brain damaged" was the developer's go-to insult when frustrated :D

2024-04-25 19:35 ~/sort/dl/MS-DOS % grep -nri 'brain[ -]damage' .

./v4.0/src/DOS/STRIN.ASM:70:; Brain-damaged TP ignored ^F in case his BIOS did not flush the

./v4.0/src/DOS/PATH.ASM:24:; MZ 19 Jan 1983 Brain damaged applications rely on success

./v4.0/src/DOS/FCBIO.ASM:28:; MZ 15 Dec 1983 Brain damaged programs close FCBs multiple

./v4.0/src/DOS/FCBIO2.ASM:28:; MZ 15 Dec 1983 Brain damaged programs close FCBs multiple

./v4.0/src/BIOS/MSBIO1.ASM:82:; REV 2.15 7/13/83 ARR BECAUSE IBM IS FUNDAMENTALY BRAIN DAMAGED, AND

./v4.0/src/CMD/PRINT/PRINT_R.ASM:1772: ; See if brain damaged user entered
Big discussion earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40158183
The post I was replying to was suggesting scanning the bus for any kind of device. That is impossible. I could make a i2c device right now and not tell you how it works. You will have no way to scan for it safely (say I specify that unless the first access to it is a write of 0x55 0xAA, it’ll not talk again, but if it is, the byte sent after 0xAA becomes its i2c address)

I have seen devices that respond to address zero, which is against the spec. Stopped nobody.

I have seen devices that use the bus arbitration meant for multi-master during a READ to allow only one of them to win after responding to a zero-address read.

I’ve used an i2c device that had an additional chip select line for some reason. Unless you lowered that, it would not respond to any traffic on the bus.

You cannot even imagine the fucked up shit that happens over i2c

There is no safe, generic way to scan an i2c bus. If the world of possible devices is limited, it may be possible. But there is no safe generic way.
See my response to a sibling comment:

"Think of it like a riot. What does smashing windows have to do with anything? Yet one follows the other."

Very few people have any idea about the causes of their suffering.
if people find the topic interesting, I recommend the book "Chip War" [1]

It's a great read. very dense in narrative facts.

[1] https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/aw/d/1398504122/ref=ox_sc_act_i...
Your first post in this thread containing partisan flamebait getting flagged into destruction wasn't enough for you? You toned down the cultish political speech about 30% but posted effectively the same comment again. Your posts do not create useful discourse, they just create political flame wars with echo chamber 1 fighting echo chamber 2.

[Edit] Looking through your history you seem to often make similar political posts making biased, (in my opinion hate-based), partisan assertions and having people reply to you telling you this. There's Reddit/Twitter/etc for you to do this sort of thing.
Remove the AI bloatware from Logitech's mouse driver
Snipers on the Roof of Ohio Union at Ohio State
You said it was their app correctly?

Have you validated that they didn't take the other bits off your phone?
What would it even mean for a simulation to be imperfect, though, from the perspective within the simulation? You can only observe the simulated phenomena. So it would be perfectly normal, say, if things become non-deterministic at the hardest to observe small scales, or if there were minor inconsistencies between the smallest scale behaviors and the largest. You'd just call it "physics".
I'm liking the standardization in web. I think it's possible that you'll see something in web like you see with C/C++. D is better than C++, but it isn't compelling enough to jump. You need a very compelling set of features to leave the very comfortable, though dangerous, home of C/C++ for the domain that it excels in. With web, you'll need compelling features to leave the comfortable home of Typescript + React.
America is bizarre. Technically prostitution is illegal in my state, Googling “new York city escort” shows thousands of results.
in a sense it goes back to 1966

https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/30/commission-impossible-how-...
How can your income go up 8x and not keep pace? Either you couldn't afford things before or your lifestyle has inflated tremendously
Same reason people pay for Dropbox, which got slammed when it arrived on HN for being something people could create trivially on their own. Billion dollar company now.

We know it is a ChatGPT wrapper. We know how to use ChatGPT generally. But that’s not that broad a group really.
Did he put in a JIRA ticket?
Why halt them with performance this good? Maybe there isn't a useful role for that many people at Google as-is
Even within China, the north (wheat-growing culture) is noticeably more individualistic than the south (rice-growing culture). The south is also significantly more traditional.

Japan and Korea, despite being in North-East Asia, are rice-growing, due to their oceanic climate. Culturally they are also closer to Southern China.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-44770-w

One interesting result of the study is the culture change within one generation.
Money laundering can be defined as concealing either or both the source and destination of the funds.

Channeling legal money into illegal activities qualifies as well. Not clear either is applicable to this case however.
How hard would it be to pop the hood and disconnect the antennas?
they're doing both?
yep imo it's dead in that case:

https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/04/net-neutrality-wont-surviv...
Or Beanfield.
> essentially everyone in my social circle has moved on from going to Google first for information

As you said, you don't know how representative is your social circle. And you may underestimate your Google usage. ChatGPT often isn't a good substitute to Google. Looking at my history, a lot of my Google queries couldn't be answer by ChatGPT. Either because I need precise information, or recent information. Often I use Google just to redirect me to some specific site, typically wikipedia.
Check to see if Biden loses what will most likely cause it.
Speaking as a shareholder here, a 2 trillion dollar valuation warrants extraordinary justification. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. As the AI models get better and better at compressing the world's information, people will be going directly to their model of choice
Wish I could step down as an Atlassian user!
No, the donators gave you the money to use as you see fit. You're not betraying their trust: you're betraying your government, by funding a movement with aims inimical to them.

A relevant statute in the US is the USA PATRIOT Act [0], specifically Title III, which deals with "International money laundering abatement and terrorist financing". It absolutely does restrict transmission of clean money to non-favoured political entities, often in the same breath as it forbids actual money laundering. It does not forbid withdrawing cash from an ATM, but it does forbid a bank from issuing you an ATM card if they should have guessed you would use the money for the wrong purposes.

[0] https://www.congress.gov/107/plaws/publ56/PLAW-107publ56.htm
Nintendo forces Garry's Mod to delete 20 years of content
I've been using fedora for the last year and a half and been enjoying it much more then when I gave it a try 9 years ago.

Not only did it get much needed improvements everywhere, but software availability has improved by a lot. The official repos has more software available than it used to and flatpak helps compliment it a bunch. But what sealed the deal was using distrobox to easily create containers based on any popular distros that integrate almost seamlessly with your user/session. There are gotchas and it's not meant for more casual users, but you can have pretty much any software available from other distros to supplant missing stuff on fedora.

Also RPM Fusion helps easily skirt over any copyright restricted software. It's fairly easy to install the full set of hardware accelerated video codecs for your hardware this way.
In Response to Google
Context ("The man who killed Google Search?"): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40133976
>But when I use apt to install something, and the OS silently installs a snap version instead

Does `apt remove` remove the snap?
Except the leader is not a group of leaders. It is just one leader. And he answers the council who can vote to remove him. This is far from a dictatorship
I guess we should start breaking down Asia, not just lump everyone into this demographic. People here are confused between South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia, there may be some overlapping similarities but culturally it is vastly different.
The data-to-code AI inference is inherently nondeterministic. How is that an improvement over performing deterministic coverage analysis? That sounds snarky, but it’s a sincere question.
The Vesuvius Challenge is the gift that keeps on giving.

It still blows my mind that we can now use ML to reveal texts of unopened carbonised scrolls from over 2000 years ago. There was a fascinating HN post on this a couple of months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39261861
I save stuff into SnippetsLab (macOS only)
Isn't there the issue of modifying the state enough through the low-level API such that it breaks the assumptions of the high-level one?
Hell, they let you edit the code samples. Slap the code in a for(let i = 0; i < 100; i++){

and watch the magic. Really impressive how it doesn't slow down the rest of page.
Neural networks are no more like compressed data than a Huffman tree, or frequency counts of letters, or the weights of a linear model, or even a sample average.

You can use them to build a compression algorithm (and people have), but they are not compressed data.
I thought there was a classic statement from the Tor developers that you shouldn't do this, but the closest that I found on the site is the part about not running an exit node from home (as it might make law enforcement more interested in seizing your home computer).

This question

https://support.torproject.org/relay-operators/#relay-operat...

also seems to imply that it might be useful to run a node to provide cover for your own traffic (though not an exit node in your home), but that it isn't known for sure how useful that is.

I think the core argument against your suggestion is (1) having your devices more likely to be seized is just plain harmful to you; (2) if you're personally doing something that law enforcement cares about, having your devices more likely to be seized increases you risk that they could discover that by seizing those devices; and (3) there may be traffic analysis techniques that law enforcement could use to distinguish between your own traffic and your exit traffic, like trying to correlate inbound Tor circuit activity with exit traffic, and attributing the traffic to you if it couldn't be matched up with an inbound circuit.
My dad owned a frame shop for 30+ years. This really captures the feel of working there. And like the place in the article, there was the same cardinal rule. There were lots of towels and the ER was ten minutes away. Bleed on yourself, bleed on the floor, but do not bleed on the artwork.
Sure, but as I explain almost everything can fit that structure. The misunderstanding is the " probably pretty niche" part since related techniques (graph embedding generally) are so widely used.
+1 for Uptime Kuma
Because we know that trying to destroy Backpage was the personal crusade of Cindy McCain and it became very personal.

This has long been written about.
AI #61: Meta Trouble
Interesting to see this come through effectively at the same time as the law granting powers that allows the government to ban TikTok and others in the future.

I can't help but assume there's a connection there. I also don't know why the new law allowing a ban on foreign influenced social media would be necessary if the FCC decides again that it can regulate ISPs as utilities. Weren't the powers there already strong enough to force an ISP-level ban on a service deemed a national security threat?
Beware Your Audience
the neutrality rule would be applying to ISPs. Those would be local to California. Outside of California, we would see the effects of no net neutrality
I feel like Tesla can’t survive in a harsh driving environment like in Asia, based where I’m from.
"Everybody generalizes from one example. Well, at least I do."
Also it greatly helps to not overuse nouns and try to forcefully model verbs with resource entities.
In some libertarian dream the FCC lacks authority...
The irony of this being Arizona we're talking about and the significant contribution of illegal immigrants to the state economy.