skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> we might never need to change that statement with changing social context.

cf https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40005067

(or compare https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40228056 )
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No it doesn't, as you'd know if you had read it. The linked content is about a KDE program (Kate) having been broken by the negligent (malicious?) actions of Gnome developers. This is self-evidently not something "using KDE and avoiding Gnome" can help with (or has anything to do with).

Feel free to read it for more details!
Can someone provide some more context on this?
I’m not sure if it’s wise for Tesla to play chicken with the government. It hasn’t had the best track record with policies around new technology.

If they’re betting on the government to pick up the torch and carry it forward, they better be right.

They have more to lose than anyone else if they’re wrong.
>> And the lasers in these old machines are losing power over time as their physical components (e.g. caps) decay

> That should be pretty easy to fix with a soldering iron.

Depends. Some of those caps are extremely small, surface mounted and placed very near other components.

I've done it, but it ain't easy.
I remember when IBM had Intel license the 8088/8086 to AMD in case Intel could not keep up with the demand for the IBM PC.
If using callbacks is what makes it a Web framework then you can call anything a Web framework.

React is a library not even specifically for Web. Angular, however, is a Web framework. It’s up to you if you want to compare the two, but you will not be comparing Web frameworks.
Come to Tokyo if you want to see a city full of radically-different buildings right next to each other.

But ask any normal American, and they'll tell you the city is "ugly" because all the buildings don't look the same.
I feel like you. Relatively simple formant models gets "close enough" that it feels like you should be able to do well with very little.

One of the things I've long wanted to do but not found time for, is to take a few different variants of formant synths, and try to train a simple TTS model to control one instead of producing "raw" output. It's amazing what TTS models can do with "raw" output, but we know our brains aren't producing raw, unconstrained digital audio, and so I think there's a lot of potential to understanding more and simplifying if you train models constrained to produce outputs we know ought to be sufficient, and push their size as far down as we can.
I could be wrong, but it might be able to host native components or draw your own.
That "hack" uses reptyr to attach to the existing pty, which requires ptrace permissions.

The same "hack" can be done against sudo if you ptrace attach to the shell that started sudo.

This isn't a new issue. It's well known that if 'user1' has ptrace permissions, they can ptrace other processes for 'user1', and thus 'user1' can compromise 'user1'. If 'use1r' is also running sudo or run0 or anything else sensitive, it follows that the thing in the tweet is possible.

This would be an issue if 'user2' could take over 'user1's pty or such.
While on the subject of inventions to aid with childbirth, I'll leave this here:

https://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/everyday-m...
I hear you on the Leetcode. I’m so busy working and balancing that with caring for a sick family member that I have no time to grind.
These are copies of the NSA’s KRYPTOS Society Newsletter, “Tales of the Krypt,” from 1994 to 2003. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/04/declassified-...
So just a thought I had reading this. Can't you do arbitrary metaprogramming in basically any language by just adding a single keyword...

STOPPARSE

It would be defined as causing the normal parser to stop, and any text / bytes after that keyword is fed as input to the program.
> I’m not convinced Zhao will be a pest on release

He will, as long as he believes that he can do something without getting caught. He probably just decided that giving himself up and pleading guilty was the more rational choice the time and would allow him to get back to being a fulltime grifter much sooner
get him a shell account on an open access Unix box. Just learning how those tools work (start with “more” and “man” “ls” and “cd”) teaches a lot about what programming really is: creating abstractions to solve problems. A shell account also gives you access to other people doing interesting things in that space. And maybe play rogue, as a treat :-)
> This is something impossible in other languages, being able to program your own tokenizer for some foreign language from within cognition, and have future code be tokenized exactly like how you want it to be. [Emphases in original]

Doesn't that sound like TeX \catcode? In fact, I think you can bootstrap Cognition from TeX as well.
While I do think the Tesla / 'NACS' plug is a lot nicer/smaller/easier to use than CCS1, what really is the big win here? It's all based on CCS protocol anyway and hence will have the exact same interoperability issues than before.
Tesla no longer effectively donating EV charging infrastructure to competitors.

Except even that isn't true, they still are sharing their EV charging infrastructure with all competitors and are still building it out just at a slower pace with more focus on charger uptime. And a pace which is still faster than all other US EV competitors.
I installed Ubuntu 22 into an Hyper-V VM using quick create and it still shows one or two errors on first boot. I'm not sure what's crashing but it's rather weird.

That said, I have a suspicion the same crashes also happen on other distros, Ubuntu just offers the ability to send a crash report.
These days even 3/x, 6/x, 9/x seem to be getting pretty unusual?
https://archive.is/8AbMI
That would be really cool and quite simple to implement because ssh supports command execution
This feels like a very fake listicle, no one in their right mind is recommending reactOS as a daily driver, it’s fun project but it’s just not anywhere close to ready for prime time.
I see "I made X that does Y" as self promotion. You're not prmmoting X, your prmoting the fact that "I" made it. You're smart. People should take you seriously. They should offer you jobs and/or praise. Of course you're secondarily promoting X but only in the cause of promoting yourself

I see "X, an app that does Y" as promoting X and sayuhg "reader, you might find X useful if you want to do Y"

The purpose of the posts are entirely different.

Your observation on "We" is interesting though I suspect that teams are more likely to write "X, and app that does Y" because "We made X" doesn't achieve the self promotion goals in the same way as "I made X"
Sorry to hear that. My experiences haven't been very different. I really can't tell if the current review process is the least bad among alternatives or is there something better (if so, what is it?).
Ralph Baric, Whose Techniques Were Used in Wuhan, Testified LabLeak Was Possible
> So who uses XMPP today, and what’s it used instead of?

https://xmpp.org/uses/instant-messaging/

But besides this group, there's many using XMPP in their local groups who take advantage of the federation XMPP can still provide.
No worries! Yeah, the GPL isn't necessarily as strong as it could be, but that's deliberate: the GPL has a very specific and somewhat limited purpose, and is designed for that purpose only.

The principle beyond "Free Software" (in the FSF/GPL style) is that if you as a consumer receive a bundle of GPL'd software, you as the consumer will also receive the source code to that software. In addition, the GPL as a license is also designed so that if you receive software that partially contains some GPL code, you are given enough additional source code that you can make changes to that code and run your own version of it. For example, if you had a C application and included a single file that you obtained under the GPL, then compile it and distribute it to users, you can't just provide that one GPL file, because the user can't make changes to that file and run it - that's not how compiled C allocations work. You therefore need to provide the source code of the entire application - this is the basis of the viral aspect of the license.

The different versions and variants of the GPL affect how exactly that latter point works, and what forms of including GPL software in non-GPL software is allowed, but generally these are the relevant principles for GPL: if you distribute free software, you distribute its source code as well, and you distribute that source code well enough that the end-user could replace that source code if necessary.

The big difference between GPL and more permissive licenses is really only with the second point - the MIT license already ensures that if you distribute software using MIT-licensed code, you must provide the source code alongside it.

And importantly, all of these ideas apply to the people distributing software - the people running software are fundamentally free to do whatever they want with it. This is why "this code can't be run by ICE" or "this code can only be used for peaceful applications" are not considered free or open source - they aren't about the right to modify code you have obtained, but instead they restrict the right to run that code in the first place. And that's what makes things difficult with these questions around how services like Redis get licensed. If you download an application and its source code, make changes to it, and run it on your servers without distributing it to others, the ideas behind free/open source software say that you should be able to do that. But if you let other people access that running application on your servers, are you distributing that software to them? That's the big open question right now.
If I read this right - They can also change to pulling objects towards the leafblower by varying its orientation without its position.
I was also surprised when I noticed all my dreamcast backups were completely rotten - I thought discs were meant to last forever...

Instead now I have an active 50TB NAS with disk swapping once in a while... but it's not at all "durable" the way I thought things should be when I was younger... it's actively monitored instead.
In the Luna series they discuss this, they basically have a central axis where you enter and then can 'step' up higher to faster spin rates/more gravity (basically a tapered cone)
Heck, I'm not convinced that this is a better idea than Common Lisp readtable[1], and I think Racket's #lang is more ergonomic than the CL readtable.

1: Which is powerful enough to implement a C compiler in: https://github.com/vsedach/Vacietis
Of course not, and the relevant xkcd, etc. Not our first rodeo here. It's going to take a long time to get gold standard proof that survival is augmented.

It's still exciting news. They're ramping up through phase 1 to phase 2 in humans, and already have evidence of similar immune response in human patients.
Another one damn
My first question was at what distance, and looks like it’s 100ft. Which isn’t bad, but then they say it’s used high frequency spectrum that is even more susceptible to interference than 5G, so not that interesting.
Made me look…. lol. While virtually over the top I do like the site.
It’s very much like how islands in the sea are colonized by life. Some event causes a blob of living creatures to enter the sea on a raft and they drift until they make landfall somewhere else. Sometimes they survive long enough in the new place to reproduce.
> We’re already seeing sales for EVs decline, and I think one of the main reasons — if not the main reason — is the lack of charging infrastructure.

I think cost and rage is the real problem. Electric motors are super fun to drive but the best among them can barley crack a 200 mile range under typical driving conditions whereas the best hybrids can triple that comfortably. The EV math just doesn't add up for most people.
Tech giant to make top bosses work 6 days a week, per report
Poland here, we still do the thing with Nutella glasses. Not because we can't afford glassware, but rather because why on Earth would you throw away a perfectly good glass?

What GP described might have been first and foremost the signs of a poor society, but then this only gives credence to the whole "decadent rich" line. Single-use plastics are a sign of a lazy and wasteful society.
SAM is awful but at the same time tantalisingly close (one of the demos of it apparently draws on a great reverse engineered version by Sebastian Macke and refactoring efforts by a couple of others including me - I spent too many hours listening to SAM output...) - especially when comparing to the still awful Festival/Flite models -, that I keep wanting to see what a better generic formant synth used as constraint on an ML model would produce.

That is, instead of allowing a generic machine learning model to output unconstrained audio, train it on the basis of letting it produce low bitrate input/control values for a formant synth instead, and see just how small you can push the model.
Everything, when it comes down to using Electron crap for developing desktop and mobile GUI applications, including having a designer with drag and drop support.
this requires individualized treatment based on the description which will make the implementation costly and impractical. They need to extract a piece of the tumor from the brain.
> something weird/unlikely happened

This is already an error.

Warning is supposed to be before anything weird takes place.
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Apparently people can't read, as I explicitly mentioned 8 bit home computers were the ones responsible for people thinking BASIC was originally interpreted.
One can grieve for the loss of a persons life while grieve for the impact of that loss on your own. The person who died is literally dead and as such entirely insensate to such things. However the people who depended on them - their family, as they also noted, as well as people whose livelihood depended on them, are all also affected by their death in a profound way. The impact on their life cascades on indefinitely, perhaps even generationally. The person who died is surely missed - but when someone upon whom many people depend dies that dependency can cause grief well beyond the loss of a loved one or friend.
> Plus YC itself is one giant 'who wants to be funded' operation.

Yea, that’s kinda what I thought when I saw this question, YC is basically all about getting startups funded, hn is basically in service of that goal, creating a thread specifically to compete with yc doesn’t seem like something hn would do.
"You judged someone on a separate occasion, so you can't object to judging people now" would be tu quoque. What I actually did was point out the internal contradiction in your stated position.
Wikipedia is a rabbit hole. It seems too wide.

I want someone that has already done comprehensive research to guide me on what I should be paying attention to.
Samsung discussion [0] (60 points, 13 days ago, 68 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40083470
Let's ignore the lack of evidence for the extreme claims (the fact that they are commonplace claims doesn't make them true).

> I didn't realize I need to be hacked or knifed myself in order to "not be threatened".

Did someone say that?

> And if someone says something or God forbid reacts to stopping bad behavior as we have seen, mobs of these people show up and harass people who want to live in a good society.

My question was, has anyone been attacked for expressing those views. This sentence seems to say they have - is there evidence of it happening?
Garmin Communicator Plugin for Linux and Ubuntu
this is what they say on their website:

> But can’t I make a backup copy if I own the video game?

> You may be thinking of the backup/archival exception under the U.S. Copyright Act. There is some misinformation on the Internet regarding this backup/archival exception. This is a very narrow limitation that extends to computer software. Video games are comprised of numerous types of copyrighted works and should not be categorized as software only. Therefore, provisions that pertain to backup copies would not apply to copyrighted video game works and specifically ROM downloads, that are typically unauthorized and infringing.
Kids playing outside are committing crimes? And they don't commit crimes because they aren't outside - as if that would stop someone from robbing a store?
If you're using KDE, you aren't likely to end up using Adwaita as your icon theme. The primary users affected seem to be users of the GNOME and XFCE flavors of Fedora where it's the default theme.
https://www.cargill.com/story/happy-50th-50-things-you-might...

> In ‘88, Cargill enters mainland China with a joint venture with Shandong Supply and Marketing Cooperative, and China International Trust and Investment Corporation. Together, they build a cottonseed crushing plant in Shandong, which begins operations in April 1990.

Related to Tesla. It's been overtaken by BYD, electric vehicle sales numbers are dropping. China is taking it's tech, seems to get their FSD tech relatively soon ( at least in license).

Share price doesn't reflect a successful business decision or not.

Not taking away the wonder of creating a car company on your own, that's nuts what he did there though.
That ceasefire offer is for 40 days, not a permanent one, like they—as well as the UN—have been asking for. And Netanyahu is on record stating that he will invade Rafah regardless of whether this ceasefire offer is signed or not. You can’t really blame them for being skeptical here.
You posted this 8 hours ago[0] and it's still the same blank page

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40229535
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Calling people "the chimp troupe" with "3 inch brains" is not a good way to communicate your ideas. For sure not to the people you're calling chimps, but also not to anyone else except people who both agree with you and have similar contempt for others as you do.
LLMs have already demonstrated their ability to generally apply abstract rules of logical reasoning to problems outside of their training set. Those are instances of reasoning.

The models are learned from data, and they infer logical reasoning methods implied in the data, but they are not explicitly rules driven and so they produce output which may be logically inconsistent.

Solving natural language processing tasks requires an understanding of the context of words, and this contextual understanding is constructed through a form of reasoning. You can choose to ignore all of the reasoning that they are demonstrably capable of, and narrowly focus on their imperfections, then declare they are capable of "0 reasoning", but that conclusion is an oversimplification. With actual "0 reasoning" ability they wouldn't be able to perform standard NLP tasks such as translation or summarization anywhere close to their current level of accuracy.

The Wikipedia definition refers to consciousness, so that excludes machines. That informal definition is not useful in the context of AI. We need to use technical definitions. Otherwise it is subjective and we end up wasting time squabbling about semantics.
> Consider the non-technical reader who stumbles across this.

My experience of geminispace was that it was far less technical (more LJ-like) than I had been expecting.

Looking like ass can be advantageous, if it gets rid of the mundanes.
I believe the issue is that the dye that is used to burn the disc starts to degrade, especially on cheaper discs. I think pressed CDs can last a lot longer because of this fact, since that's actual physical pits and grooves.

I am pretty convinced that there simply doesn't really exist consumer-writable data that you don't have to babysit.
You don’t get it through NuGet. You get it by specifying the sdk type in the project.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/project-sdk/ov...
This is where the conflict between Elon's politics and Tesla becomes interesting. It's little surprise that based on what he has said publicly, Elon wants Trump back in power, but I don't think that bodes well for government investment in EVs.
Concrete-making sand on the other hand...
(1994) Notes on the layoff: "In particular, the drawdown of the effort against the
Soviet problem and the reallocation of· resources to other problems left
a number of people.uncerain about their future. Many were moved to
new jobs, some requiring new skills."

There's a review of "Applied Cryptography", by Bruce Schneier.

This is over-censored. Compare "Cryptolog", NSA's internal newsletter.[1]

[1] https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/cyber-vault/2018-12-...
> UCLA renting the lawn next to the protesting students to some outside pro Israeli proterstors

What does that mean, 'renting the lawn', and where can I read about that?

> The part about police just watching the students being beaten is also a nice reminder that police have no legal duty to protect anyone in the US. You can be beaten to a pulp in front of an officer of law and he can just watch and enjoy.

That's something that I've wondered about, and which seems to attract little attention. Wouldn't that depend on local law? And wouldn't it at least create liability for the city, just like not inspecting a building that collapses would create liability?
Important Update Node.js to 18.20.1, 20.12.1, 21.7.2 or newer
twitter also down?
>F.B.I. officials ended up looking at information 43 times that came up in response to a search for information about Americans while scrutinizing ordinary crimes.

For the entire FBI for a year, that seems... implausible.
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I understood you the first time, though thanks for clarifying. My questions are based on that understanding.
What the hell.. :DD
The book "Imperial Earth" by Arthur Clark featured a circular cycle track on a low-gravity spaceship.

The main protagonist was trying to train for earth gravity so he cycled around it very fast until he felt 1G
Strange. It should be this:

https://adiesner.github.io/GarminPlugin/index.html

Note: It seems to work with modern devices.Tested with a 965.

Couldn't edit or delete the old submission.
If he ran in the same direction as the station was rotating then he would feel extra force pushing him into the ground, whereas running the other way would cancel some of the centrifugal force. I wonder if the directions would feel like 'uphill' and 'downhill'. I assume for training purposes you would probably want uphill. I don't know if the movie gives you enough information to work out which way the spinning section is going.
Terraform and Ansible were already Terrible (Not) in 2016