skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm not clear on how this works if the transport over which the kill command is issued is degraded or interrupted.

Perhaps if the system doesn’t receive a signal after a period of time it will disable itself or there are agents sufficiently close to send a signal through jamming, or who have a secret hard line in. If I were ASML, TSMC, the CIA, and definitely Taiwan itself I’d have many layers to this.
>Tasmania was already the site of the modern Western worlds first genocide

Why not specify it was the British Empire and instead move the guilt to some vague collective "west", which is a relatively modern concept from the cold war, which didn't exist back then?
IIRC there is a flag in MacOS settings to toggle it. It’s always been disabled by default for me.
I think the key idea here is that Alexander like many contemporary 'greats' in tech share some characteristics:

- He was set up to succeed.

- He executed well because of his nature.

- He had at least some very heavy moral failings.

Our view of history continues to be reshaped by contemporary values. The author goes into detail on how Alexander has changed in this way but all history seems to change in this way. I'm glad the author highlights these view changes.

There's a common style of thought now that can be summarized as 'the environment made the person so why praise/revere/punish them?'. In history terms, that means Great Man theory is dead.

My view is that environment should be acknowledged but we, ultimately, must place blame or praise on the person somewhere as, at least, a myth of society. With a value system that does not see individuals to blame or praise, we lack in ourselves the will to try to be better.

The myth seems to be key to the orderly continuation of civilization.
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Mail-In-a-Box (MIAB)[1] comes with a built in nameserver. I think you may use it as a standalone DNS even for the domain names whose email is not managed by MIAB. Not sure about any benefit of doing it this way though.

[1] https://mailinabox.email
What a weird Git repo structure. One branch for each language, instead of a directory for each language.
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For the US to engage in acts of war against countries that make their choices as to how to apply treaties with the force of law in their territory is pretty extreme, yes. Most countries do accept that if their citizens are held in foreign territory for violation of laws enforceable in that territory, that is an issue for diplomacy, not invasion.
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If human beings were even marginally rational most of the time it would look a lot different!
(AI)tman tries to be, (Bank)man fried to be, who is letting Kojima name all these villians?
Another frustrating behavior form Apple is:

* My macbook will leave bluetooth on while it's closed and asleep.

* My BT headphones will connect to my phone and laptop if they're both on me. (It supports 2 simultanous connections)

* If I play music or podcasts I can pause through the headphones

* If I try to play it again it the "Play" action goes the macbook. (Which is effectively off so nothing happens)

* I now cant play anything on my phone. Hitting play on the app will fail.

* If I open the macbook now it will open Apple Music

* Otherwise I can hit the play/pause on my headphones then hit play on my phone it will work again.

What a bizarre useless behaviour. Why not just turn bluetooth OFF when my laptop is asleep. (It will also remain connected to wifi hotspot prevent my phone from auto-disabling wifi hotspot which has caught me a few times)
All I can figure is some send a “play” command automatically when they connect, and some don’t.
I wonder what route existing Windows power users should take after Windows 10 support ends next year.. I don't care about these features at all, I just need a Windows OS, bare, where I can install the tools I need, not what Microsoft thinks I need, and so it also serves as a decent, performant gaming PC. I know for the first point Linux is my obvious choice, which is totally fine, but gaming support on Linux never likely will be on par with Windows... though now that they are ruining even that with Windows 11 and likely 12, I have no idea what to do.
Many years ago, as a fresh out of college young coder, I had to come up with a way to check types on an text input file in C++ -- long before C++ had even a standard String type let alone regex libraries like pcre. The standard conversion functions at the time expected you to have done some type detection beforehand.

Each field in the file could contain a string, an int, or a float. In particular to figure out the floats, I remember sitting down for a few hours and coming up with a regular expression, testing it in Perl on a bunch of test cases, and then went about the hard work of slowly converting the regex into an NFA to a DFA and then finally to an adjacency graph in a 2d matrix. A little bit of code to read in things a byte at a time and some simple arithmetic and I had a stupid fast

bool isFloat(char *)

Nobody at my work understood the code, they just sort of knew that if they submitted a character array with a field value into it, something happened with a big matrix, and it you let them know if it was a float or not and then they could call the appropriate conversion function -- I think stof() or whatever was in fashion back then.

I had to make one revision to it for an edge case I missed and then it found its way into pretty much all code for the company after that.

The tuition for the class that taught me how to do that payed for itself with that one function.
Funny how when they're proposing these things they never address FOI issues like this :-)
I adore this movie as well as his other movie "Watermark"! Any anecdotes you are willing to share from the set?
Halfway through the Gridfinity intro video and I've come back to thank you.

(I'm also already exhausted from the level of manic energy from Zach but I'll try drinking two cups of coffee and hope that gets me to the end)
I'm neither defending nor maligning DOs, just stating there's less difference today and they should abandon the old, stigma-filled name.
If he's not worried about making more money why are the "approve Elon's compensation package" ads the only ads that Tesla has ever run?
I meant pandemonium in the wake of the Snowden revelations :)
They do now. At least on desktop. But it is a more recent feature (within the last few years, I can’t remember when exactly).

MP4 with H.264 is still king for compatibility, but WebM with VP9 isn’t as bespoke as it once was.
Thanks for the clarification; I genuinely wasn't sure which you meant.
lol i'm always spell checking with google, course probably a small percentage of alternative spellings will probably be hallucinated by google's chatbot but thats just the cost of doing business nowadays. my poor grammar is all me tho.
I don't see how this is the case. We still have neither an F-1 capable engine not a Saturn V capable ticket, both statements are correct.
Loved this game on the Sega Master System. It was so addictive but frustrating at times.
That sounds like a bug. Mine autoplays tidal, overcast or nothing, depending on what I was listening to last.

I even trained siri to use tidal by saying “play artist on tidal” a few times. (Siri is completely useless for this use case, but it does not open apple music.)
While GPT4-o tried hard to sound like the movie Her, there's no way the voice is a "clone" of SJ. It's only similar. We shouldn't be able to own the rights to similar sounding voices to our own.

Their efforts to copy the Her character mannerisms is still annoying. They were aiming for the Her-like personality. But it's a stretch to say it's a copy of Johansson's voice. The haze in her real voice isn't there in GPT. Maybe they decided to pull the voice because it's not good publicity to have Scarlett Johansson pissed off with you.

Nevertheless these tech companies should hire professional film writers and artists to help with difficult concepts such as original ideas and not copying other's work.
History is written by the winners. 100% of that "he led the flank himself and commanded while the other men just watched" is suspect.

Do you think, if it were true, that he was an entitled brat who just did what his commanders told him to do, that they would have written that?

We have a mythical commander who did everything right. And it's likely just that: a myth.
Even in slow Ruby, querying to fulfill the request from MySQL is an order of magnitude slower than parsing it, making a speed jump not worth much effort. I'd love to have it backed by a db so fast that parsing time matters.
I wonder if a kind of Seti@Home approach could work - although I'm guessing the limited VRAM in most consumer cards compared to an H100, as well as the much slower "virtual WAN interconnect" versus the mellanox goodies that nVidia clusters enjoy would be too big an obstacle?
I think there's some pretty sublime shots of shipbreaking in Burtynsky's manufactured landscapes. Reminds of that scene of Kirk riding his motorcycle in Star Trek 2009 with the foggy silhouette of a titanic starship in the background of middle America ship yard. I love the vibes of seeing the absurd scale of human construction.
I think that using a secure layer on top of the insecure layer undermines this argument, similar to how HTTPS is secure while using HTTP with a twist, and using every underlying system in the same way. Or how GPS functionality is regulated for civilians.

So especially "1)" won't be true. Yes, right now they may be using same or similar things, but then after the new regulation they would be using superior stuff, problem solved.

"3)" is considerable because that's true, whatever difference there is in comms security, adversaries will have the same power over the civilian comms as their own government. Right now of course this is the case already, but especially after regulating it, will it become prevalent. I think governments are fine with this in general, though, which I deduct from the lack of countermeasures to it.

In reality, encryption is power, and the more power individuals have, the less power those have who want to control individuals. Everything else is smoke and mirrors, like the classic "think of the children" argument.
And radio! We use lots of radio as well.

I wonder what the longest information carrying electric wire is? They used to cross oceans, but not anymore. There are loads of DSL twisted pairs and co-ax cables in the "last mile" that maybe go 5km max. In rural areas maybe up to 50km with repeaters?

Is there something in between? Some old buried copper trunk cable between two university campuses or something like that?
Maybe their value system is different to yours.
I live in Flanders, Belgium. Half of households here have a digital meter by now, which makes such contracts technically possible. And the government has made it mandatory for the large energy companies to offer such a "dynamisch elektriciteitscontract".

The reason for all that is to encourage more efficient usage of the grid and renewables.
Sad to see more and more country giving up on recognizing Taiwan as a state.
Interesting idea. I generally don’t run tests at all (hobbyist) so even mediocre llm tests may actually be a win
I wish WebM could be the standard. GIFs shouldn't even be used in 2024. It's a format of the past, with no upsides.

I usually only need GIFs for GitHub readmes. GitHub doesn't support WebM autoplay videos.

In texting, Telegram has introduced WebM stickers so there's at least a choice there.
The law affects organizations which are funded, in whole or in part, by the Israeli government.

It declares that the Minister of Finance is authorized to withhold transfer of state funds, if the primary goal of the funds spent was to do one of the following:

1. Denying the existence of the State of Israel as a Jewish and Democratic State
2. Incitement of racism, violence, or terrorism
3. Supporting armed conflict or acts of terror, of an enemy state or a terror organization, against the State of Israel
4. Referring to the Israeli Independence Day or the founding day of the country as a day of mourning
5. An act of vandalism or physical debasement of the flag or symbols of the state

In 2019, Tel Aviv University cancelled a lecture by the politician Ofer Cassif, citing the law as the reason. This was the first instance of an academic institution heeding this law.

From Wikipedia:

The Nakba (Arabic: النَّكْبَة an-Nakba, lit. 'the catastrophe') was the ethnic cleansing[1] of Palestinians in Mandatory Palestine during the 1948 Palestine war through their violent displacement and dispossession of land, property, and belongings, along with the destruction of their society, and the suppression of their culture, identity, political rights, and national aspirations.[1]

So by definition, no Palestinian who lives in the state of Israel (who views Nakba as what it is) can be funded by the Israeli government for any purpose. That's very double-plus-ungood.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba.

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba_denial
I use an iPhone SE (4.7") with slightly larger default text size (accessibility settings) and have the same experience. Everything more or less "works" though, so it's not as bad as it could be --- the visual issues basically just help me spend less time on my phone.

I don't think I've ever seen a website respect my phone's text size, and frankly I didn't know it was posisble, this Airbnb blog post is cool and makes me want to update my own sites.
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Yea, I get it for driving on track, but not on the highway just managing space between you and the car in front.

Re: your curvy road, I would say at that point you might just be driving too fast for the load in your vehicle. When passengers are onboard, a smooth ride will beat everything 99% of the time. If I have to suddenly break for a sharp corner, then I apologize and slow down so it doesn't happen again.
Artificial Greenhouse Gases as Exoplanet Technosignatures
They are perfectly usefull as Windows shortcuts, they replaced one of them.
I always assumed that Sierra died the same way the majority of great game companies die: simply by being acquired.

It's interesting to hear that there was more to the story here.

Very sad.
Nitpicky, but I admit I stopped there for a second too.. like how did it get past even a half assed editorial review
There are a number of shipbreaking videos and documentaries on YouTube.
I mean it would be harder to knock them if Apple hadn't breached the discussion by charging $350 for their ergo-lift iPad case (or whatever the hell it's called).

I'm not fond of the Surface tablets (or even the keyboards really) but I have no idea what kind of person would balk at this price tag at this point. Nobody knows what anything is worth anymore, of course Microsoft can get away selling a Alcantara accessory for $500. Who among you is willing to bitch about a Microsoft product from your ivory tower of paying a monthly subscription for a git GUI?
I don't really have the same impression that you have had when it comes to discussions about Apple's approach to HN.

This linked comment (which I randomly found on HN's search) summarises what I've seen here:

"The way these discussions usually go is that a bunch of Apple users complain about the restrictions, a bunch of Apple users say they like them, and a few Android users like myself remind the complainers that there are, in fact, other options that don't involve forcing Apple to take away the rules that most iOS users appreciate having."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39574040

I do recall a few users opposing allowing alternative app stores (which is the debate that is freshest in my mind) because they prefer to stick to Apple's, and the common rejoinder from the community that nothing is being taken away from those who prefer to stick to Apple's store but that other users who want something different have more choice.

I'm still curious about what additional nuance you have in mind, since I honestly can't remember seeing it.
For sure, you'd generally want to address the source of the issue rather than band-aid it, but that isn't always possible (or not possible immediately) and you just have to work with what you've got. Most of the time your boss isn't going to let you "grind everything to a halt".

But, more importantly, I think the blog is focused more on the practical "here's how to do x with some code", and less about the theory of data science.
It is not always a practical response, but just not using things that we do not like is also a way to make things change. Too often, as consumers, we accept bad behavior just because we expect it. It just teaches the companies (individuals, politicians, etc.) that they can keep pushing the things they want over what the consumer wants.

Blaming a cog (for something the machine wants anyway) is tantamount to scapegoating. The machine will change out the part for one that more or less serves the same purpose.
Why? 120 usd per 100 WCU per year, 30 usd per 100 RCU, does not sound expensive. 1 RCU reads up to 4Kb, to read 100 MBs you would need 100 000 RCU which would cost 30 000 usd/year, or 2500/year. Unless my math is off I don’t think anything come close in terms of price.
Just can imagine the feeling...
I'd like to see if we can extract the details from their GIFs and reproduce it with Gifski.
> Not an expert, but my understanding is that Soviet education & propaganda idealized Sparta.

Not really, the Spartakiad was named after Spartacus, not Sparta.
Games are boring and unoriginal because it's incredibly hard to make original, engaging content no matter who you are.
That isn't what I said.
What app on my phone could delete the OS? It isn't even possible. It can't even delete normal user files without explicit file access permission.
Kinda. My guess is that they are very narrowly focused and miss th bigger picture. They worry about organized crime and the war on drugs while forgetting the bigger picture.
A /t/ from the back of your throat and not the tongue against the teeth I think?
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> defined as funds raised for the purpose of influencing elections by nonprofit organizations that are not required to disclose the identities of their donor

"Dark money" is the alternate term most of the beltway prefers as it keeps them safe from RICO indictments and uncomfortable attention to the hypocritic duality of a country that practically river-dances to democracy.

This is just political bribery with more steps and ceremony.
First major law for artificial intelligence gets final EU green light
With all the mismanagement around WinRT, only the Windows team themselves and companies with sunken cost into UWP looking into a migration path, still care about WinUI 3.

Look no further than the Github repos for the general sentiment.
Interesting, yeah I guess that makes sense.

I always thought those strategy games were missing a competitive community and better PvP experience but I could also see how more replayability would make them more popular.
> Do you think, if it were true, that he was an entitled brat who just did what his commanders told him to do, that they would have written that?

I think if it were true, he would not have been king for long.
I strongly agree with 2) and 3), but sadly I think 1) is overplaying our collective hand.

I would guess that the largest deployments of end-to-end-encryption today is Whatsapp and iMessage by a quite large margin. E2EE for "real people" is provided by the grace of two massive publicly traded companies who have to follow local regulation. If Apple complies [1] with dubious requirements in China, I wouldn't bet against them doing it elsewhere either.

Sure, we have Signal, but how many normal users would start delving into side loading if the application simply was banned and not allowed on the marketplaces? We can always use PGP-over-whatever, but that's an argument for 3) - not 1).

I think politicians / police (and honestly many normal people) believe that the government have the right to do lawful interception of private communication and see E2EE as a step to far. The US has been wiretapping phones for a century already.

We as privacy arguers have a pedagogical challenge of explaining why regulation like this is bad and not equivalent to 1930's style phone wiretapping.

[1]: Chinese iOS users have their iCloud data (that for the vast majority includes the decryption keys) on Chinese servers, subject to the Chinese legal system. For the rest of the world the situation is the same, but s/China/U.S, which is arguably problematic as well.
Assuming $30k GPU with 3yr deprecation, it's additionally $1.14/h. Much more than energy.
Fix this with bluesnooze: https://github.com/odlp/bluesnooze
I'd never heard of this approach before and I can't think of any downsides. I'll probably start using this with my new work.
> They're doing their job/s. They're not responsible for the giant evil megacorp that employs them.

That sounds an awful lot like "I was just following orders" :/
Or with the $999 monitor stand
It was a joke. I just wanted a function with f(0)=0 and a nice vertical asymptote at f(24). Sorry for the headache!
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Or $700 for wheels for the Mac Pro. I just bought wheels for my car for less than that.
Advance Wars Returns [1] is allegedly good and on my list of things to play.

[1]: https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/6012
This is why with my personal companies, I've always avoided issuing shares or giving equity to employees. It handcuffs you.

Note that I'm not saying that others who don't avoid those things are wrong -- they're not at all. They just have different business goals and priorities than I.
My nomination for that would go to AltTab.
It is dismaying that so many people who should know better have fallen deep for the anti-Section 230 propaganda after years of bullshit peddling. Meanwhile the whole time I thought "Who would be stupid enough to fall for it?".
> Sure, but the inability to do that when needed is also a bad thing.

When and why would BTC or ETH need to print unlimited money and devalue themselves?
> The law affects organizations which are funded, in whole or in part, by the Israeli government.

So it's a formalization of an older law: He who pays the piper calls the tune.
Looking at the NoGovInternet site [1] mentioned in the article, their arguments against municipal broadband seem to mostly revolve around financial sustainability. They cite a paper that claims that 90% of such efforts fail to generate enough revenue to be self-sustaining.

To me that seems like a strange argument against a municipal service. Surely no one expects other things like road maintenance to be financially self-sustaining?

[1] https://www.nogovinternet.com/
closing issue as [fixed in m4]
Years ago, I texted the engineer guy telling him his videos were good and he took time out of his busy day to reply to good old college kid me. It's still a vivid memory to this day and I'm super happy he's back on Youtube again.
It's a pity that sometimes preferences and comfort are being overlooked in favor of corporate interests(
Naturally there is the whole CS point of what is reference counting in the context of automatic memory management algorithms.

We are way beyond C# 1.0 nowadays, and Valhala is still not here.
A one time purchase, but they update it quite frequently, and each time we are required to open browser, log into Synergy account, find the download page, get the .dmg, install… to remove the UI nag - on each computer using Synergy. Please PLEASE make an auto-updater :) I think I had to do this twice in one week recently on three computers, with a strong password I had to write on a post-it