skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As always, this depends on what type of information you're looking for. If it's inherently subjective like "what is the best X for Y?" Good luck, but that has always been the case. If it's something objectively measurable but highly individual, like what diet should you eat for a particular goal or how should you train for some sport or just optimal health, I would advise you to cut through anyone trying to sell you anything and look at widely available examples of what people have actually done who achieved what you're looking to achieve. It won't always work because your genetics and life situation are unique, but you can see the variety of approaches available and try them until you find something that works for you. There is no universal answer that the Internet can give you and there never has been. If you're looking for what is the ground-level situation in some part of the world today or as close to today as possible, then well, I would say that has also never been something you could rely on to have factually accurate accounts widely available, at least in any form you could verify yourself. If this is something you care about, you'll learn over time what sources are more reputable than others and some ways to spot outright obvious misinformation, but if you have any kind of ideological bent to you, it's going to be very hard because purveyors of misinformation will be targeting people exactly like you in ways proven to grease the wheels of your desire to be told you're right.

On the other hand, if you're simply looking to learn about topics, this is easily the best time ever to be alive. MIT has had OCW for two decades now. I think Stanford has put much of their class material online. University of Illinois, Georgia Tech, and probably others at this point have put entire degree programs on MOOC platforms for a way more affordable than in-person schooling price. The current best known body of knowledge for any particular science is always changing, but stick to the fundamentals and even old textbooks are not going to mislead you. This is especially true of mathematics, in which everything you ever learn or are shown you can independently verify.

Finally, if you're looking for basic state of the world information and don't require a narrative, US government bodies collect and publish enormous amounts of statistics. The BLS, FRED, Census Bureau, CIA world factbook all put out tons of data, often with APIs. If you want the ground level truth of what some organization is doing, government budgets are all publicly available, though not always easy to find. The financial statements of publicly traded private companies are all publicly available. The tax returns of any qualified non-profit other than churches are publicly available. Stop relying on news organizations to do the research for you and definitely don't rely on LLMs. The data itself is there and it is factually accurate.
Regardless of what one thinks about deflation in general, deflation TODAY in the United States would be extremely bad(due to the debt load). That said, you should obviously want the "cost per unit of X" to be deflating. dollars per teraflop should always be falling. dollars per kilowatt hour should always be falling.
Birds Aren't Real: A Fake Conspiracy Theorist's Second Act
This, to me, is the worst kind of censorship. You are forbidden of creating something that the toolmaker deems inappropriate.
It's not that your concerns about FOIA are invalid as such, it's just that the data any ISP, as we understand the term in the West, can collect is quite limited. On-device history, browser telemetry, leaks from websites themselves, etc are all richer targets for monitoring and deanonymization.
Would you recommend a surface over a standard laptop for couch work? Why or why not?
I have always found neural network diagrams like the RNN one here to be very vague and even slightly misleading. What does it mean that h_t loops onto itself? While I know that it means "take as input h_{t-1} also", the diagram itself does not illustrate the concept to the primary person looking at such a diagram, i.e. someone wanting to learn about the architecture.
Just NBSP instead.

It makes sense, you would never want your variable to be line wrapped anyway, right?

The challenge is that _some_ languages define the space to be unicode whitespace, not the space character.
You're not wrong! However, your original proposal was to only allow sorting by time; which forbids aggregation into threads.
Pure oxygen will kill you at >2 atmospheres of pressure. (That's roughly 30 feet underwater.)
> The nostalgia for the beautiful “film look” is a blessing to Fuji because of their heritage in the film industry

I'm not so sure it's actually helping their film business much. They've discontinued Superia and 400H, their two mainstay color negative films. The "Fuji 200" and "Fuji 400" sold today are known to be repackaged Kodak Gold and UltraMax, respectively. Fuji's slide films soldier on, but supply is extremely limited. To get a new 35mm roll of Velvia in the US, you're looking at a multi-week backorder through an online retailer, or you're going to a local shop and praying they have some in stock.

Neopan seems to be doing fine, but that's not saying much. If the only film they can make in-house at a volume commensurate with demand is a single black-and-white stock, that's a dire situation for such a huge operation.
> 10Gbps is absolutely great, but then the city might create an entire bureaucratic structure around it and in 30 years when it's not great anymore the apparatus won't die or be displaced like a company eventually would

I would fully agree with you if there was actual competition. As it is, I have no faith that terrible internet companies - especially monopolies - are guaranteed to be replaced by better ones (see Ma Bells offsprings/reconstitution).

My ideal scenario is that cities lay down the last-mile fiber and handle physical layer connectivity issues between homes/offices and an exchange (for a fee). ISPs would provide Internet connectivity, that way, you get actual competition, and the cities stick to their core competency: infrastructure.
Dot stuffing required

SMTP https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5321#section-4.5.2

Also in POP3 https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1939#page-8
I can't recall the time when the Internet was a fountain of Truth, and I've been around a while.

So many seem to think that there was a Golden Age when the Ancients issued nothing but Gospel, and its is only modern Sin that has stained the purity of the collective intellect. I think Spafford's Usenet quote [1] has been applicable, in spriti at least, to most publishers. since long before the internet became extant.

[1] https://publicquotes.com/quote/448/usenet-is-like-a-herd-of-...
that's not happening here
But unlike oxygen, having more money allows you to do more stuff. Once your oxygen needs are satisfied, any more is basically wasted. You could make the argument that money has diminishing utility as well, but it's totally incomparable to the utility curve for oxygen.
Defamation is false speech published to others without requisite care for the truth.

Libel is written defamation. Slander is spoken defamation.
So I loaded a design on this into PrusaSlicer and it informed me the partition STL had a ton of open edges that needed some fixing. The fixed result appears fine but I am wondering about that.
I tried it and sometimes it worked, other times it complained an existing artists name was in the description and wouldn't allow generation.
Advice: When saying stuff like this, you'll get more engagement if you provide concrete examples.

Personally for me, it got really bad years before GPT - because of SEO crap on Google. Trying to get accurate information on anything related to nutrition or health became, and still is, really hard.
Just Germany is fine, like every other country. Historical Germany name is Germany or Reich not Nazi Germany. Germany had German soldiers speaking German language, not Nazi soldiers speaking Nazi language.
> A portion of this code implemented a SMTP client.

If I wanted to root cause this, the real problem is right there. Implementing protocols correctly is hard and bugs like in the post are common. A properly implemented SMTP client library, like one you would pull off the shelf, would accept text and encode it properly per the SMTP protocol, regardless of where the periods were in the input. The templating layer shouldn't be worrying about SMTP.
The Surface Pro flex keyboard weighs 340 g including pen. The Magic Keyboard for iPad 13 M4 weights over 670 g. That's quite heavy. Nearly double without added weight from the Pencil Pro.
First thing I noticed in the demo is the lasers casting shadows on the ground. Which doesn’t make any sense
The 1930s show the consequences of inflation, speculation and credit expansion, and then bungled government response that dragged out economic contraction which is needed to clear out malinvestment.

Any common person realizes their ability to lead a dignified life is being squeezed out by monetary expansion gone amok, with those closest to the govt spigot getting the benefits and none of the costs (cantillon effect).

And it brings up a good point which no one answers satisfyingly: why shouldn't the average person just enjoy price savings produced by technology?
Cobalt – Free and Open Source yt-dlp front end with no ads
I am not sure I understand what you mean... can you elaborate?
This is not true though? Japan had interest rates around zero for decades and likewise inflation which bounced around the zero mark, sometimes over, sometimes under. It is both possible and feasible, it's simply a matter of policy. See [0] and [1], choose "max" as the date range to see what I mean.

[0] https://tradingeconomics.com/japan/interest-rate

[1] https://tradingeconomics.com/japan/inflation-cpi
Somewhat related story: https://www.wired.com/story/99-phones-fake-google-maps-traff...
Alaska's rusting waters: Pristine rivers and streams turning orange
Heat waves in north Pacific may be due to China reducing aerosols
You give them money. It's not a very heavy lift except for the wallet.
Korean Airlines Flight 007
List those places please...
And where resources can be afforded to do it, there's a lot to be said for allowing complexity to be added, even if that is done on only one axis (a simple slider to go from "basic" to "advanced" display mode).

Customization is also useful for power users, but even one axis of scaling up information density can be super useful for "easing in" to an unfamiliar tool.
This link should lead you to whatever backups you might desire...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download

I was able to quickly find some 2007/08 dumps, but it looks like there is a whole ecosystem of backups out there.
It's common to someone. If $THING happens once every day then it's common even if it's also avoided millions of times a day. If $THING needs to be dealt with by the same person every time, they're going to think it happens commonly since they have to deal with it every day.
Harsh and unmeasured criticism comes from ego, insecurity, and emotional immaturity. Something everyone has to deal with at times. We could all work on being less harsh.

I leave you with a fun quote:

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."

P.S. I agree with others that "overwhelmingly" is a bit strong :)
When you measure the flow of electrical power along a cable, the energy travels close to the speed of light, yet the electrons drift very, very slowly in comparison.

Electrical power is transported as a fast-moving density wave in the electromagnetic force between many electrons and protons, the former drifting slowly.

Not by the electrons themselves, as if energy were attached to them.

The force responsible for transporting the energy so much faster than the electrons themselves move, is comprised of photons (bosons not fermions)...
Similar to "CRTC bans Russian state-controlled TV channels RT, RT France from Canadian airwaves", but with the addition of Al Jazeera (funded by Qatar) leaking sensitive information to enemies of Israel, during a war.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/crtc-russia-today-broadcast...
Most of what comes out of Russia is performative, and is designed to project strength whether it exists or not. The west has been pretty smart about slowly pushing the red lines -- they've not gone fast enough for Putin to justify any escalation, so this is all just for show and "strong man talk".

The west _used_ to have a fear of Russian aggression, but that appears to have completely evaporated, and it seems unlikely that they are going to get that back without directly engaging the west, which given the continued existence of NATO, is probably Not a Great Idea.

Ironically the Russians came up with "China's Final Warning" which applies to pretty much everything coming out of the Kremlin:

> "China's final warning" (Russian: последнее китайское предупреждение, romanized: posledneye kitayskoye preduprezhdeniye) is a Russian ironic idiom originating from the Soviet Union that refers to a warning that carries no real consequences.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%27s_final_warning
In Romania, Slot Machines Profit from Ex-Miners' Misery
Textareas are so overlooked, they feel really like 1990s, yet there is no real alternative with spellchecking and os integration.
I know that view is popular, but it seems so short-sighted. Most companies can increase profit whenever they want, but driving out innovators and abusing goodwill never works out long-term. Look at IBM, Oracle, Intel, Boeing, US Steel, GE, Commodore, Quiznos, etc. I feel like the Google's stock holders are just getting the wool pulled over their eyes. An increase in profit often means a cannibalization of value.
Thanks for the "tow the line" note. I would've picked "toe the line" as the eggcorn; even after reading the Wikipedia entry, it still looks less natural to me.
Degoogled Android – My Experience
When you roll your own library duplicating something that likely already exists, you own it all. And that doesn't include all of the vendor-specific nonconforming edge-cases.
it's nuts that Backblaze is still around. I used to use them for my backups more than a decade ago.
I would love to try this LLM
What review can any part of the judiciary do of a constitutional amendment? Even if the amendment authors explicitly say "we're doing this to enrich ourselves and screw over everyone else", once it's part of the Constitution...isn't it a done deal?
Tesla shareholder group opposes Musk's $46B pay, slams board "dysfunction"
> This time is different

Actually, it is/was: post-WW2 there was no deflationary period.

And in general, post-WW2, wild swings as illustrated rarely happened. This is because we have monetary flexibility (i.e., no gold standard) and fiscal tools (Keynesian economics).
Ask HN: Socratic LLM?
Anybody tried to train a LLM, or seen a LLM that instead of providing "authoritative" answers to queries, would lead a user to a discovery through a series of questions and hints? Would such thing even be possible?
"The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer."

-- Henry Kissinger
In a free society, particularly the US where mistrust of the government and status quo narrative is baked into the culture, the ability to "sway public opinion" is a feature, not a bug. And on social media that ability is held primarily by the public. Not in the sense of social media being a public forum, but no true public forum does or arguably can exist on the internet anyway. Notwithstanding conspiracies about deepfakes and false flags and fears of "algorithms" and "Chinese mind control," social media is the only real balancing force against corporate and government propaganda that there is. Even with its faults I think it would be throwing the baby out with the bathwater to just have the government regulate it, which in essence would mean severely limiting the free speech rights of both the platforms and the people who use them.

I know people think that government regulating social media means some kind of laissez-faire free for all where all legal speech will be allowed without consequence (which would be even less moderation than you find on 4chan) but that is very much not how it would go.
MS originally included Solitaire in MS 3 to improve peoples computer skills with drag and drop.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Solitaire#History
FWIW I've heard the term "dark fiber" used in both ways as well. Whenever there's ambiguity in jargon, I just avoid that jargon and use more words to describe the actual concept.
Yeah, the developer is a bit eccentric, which seems to be common when it comes to these passion products. At one point I believe some of the really big fans of the game were pushing him for a price reduction to increase the amount of players (it comes with a NWN style module creator, so a bigger community is important). From what I recall the response was something like, “You know, you’re right, I’ll go ahead and make a 10% discount during the next Steam sale.”

Or you have developers like Iron Tower Studios (Age of Decadence, Colony Ship RPG). The lead developer actually seems to have pretty good business acumen, and is pretty open about the studios finances. But he’s also a perfectionist, and the huge amount of time between games means that the studio requires a lot of sales to stay afloat. The last update from them I saw was that the launch of Colony Ship was good, but it’s still unclear if it’s good enough to support them for several more years while they make another passion project.
Because you're not paying enough to get that service?
Israeli soldiers are on video laughing about blowing up schools, staling women's underwear, shooting civilians, there's been massacres of civilians trying to get food aid, Israel has turned off water for all of Gaza as collective punishment, there's been genocidal statements by Israeli officials, targeting of UN vehicles and international aid groups etc. etc..

There's a hit Israeli song about wiping Gaza making the charts there, there's settlers attacking Palestinian farmers in the West Bank, mobs burning Palestinian vehicles and homes, blocking aid trucks, burning UN property in East Jerusalem etc.

Please can we stop pretending that Israel is somehow a state that can do no wrong and that every criticism of them is simply haters ganging up on them?

Of course every criticism should be targeted at specific individuals, which is exactly what the ICC did.
I think people are amazed and impressed that bugs more than 6 months old aren't just auto-closed with "There's been several new versions since this bug was filed, please check if this still exists on the latest version, and if so file a new bug."
I don't know about "so far in 2024" but Pragmatics of Human Communication by Watzlawick et. al. is great: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393710595.

Its sequel Change is also great: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393707069, though in my copy the opening 20 pages or so are printed at the end (as if the printing machine used a ring buffer). That is a pity because the Preface has one of the great openings of all time. I was paging through the entire book looking for it—I'd read it years ago and remembered it being at the beginning, which it is, except the beginning was at the end in this copy.
chuckle I am soooooo happy I'm not a researcher working on that product!
Briefly, the tradeoff that Erlang and its independent process heaps model make is that garbage collection (and execution in general) occurs per-process. In practical terms, this means you have lots of little garbage collections and much fewer "large" (think "full OS process heap") collections.

This provides value in a few ways:

- conceptually: it is very simple. i.e., the garbage collection of one process is not logically tied to the garbage collection of another.

- practically: it lends itself well to low-latency operations, where the garbage collection of one process is able to happen concurrently to the the normal operation of another process.

Please note that I am not claiming this model is superior to any other. That is of course situational. I am just trying to be informative.

This is a good post with more information, if you're interested: https://hamidreza-s.github.io/erlang%20garbage%20collection%...
On a related note: android devices try to continuously connect to all WiFi networks they have been connected to before, no matter if you are „near“ them or not.
Doesn’t even matter if the access point is broadcasting the SSID or not.

Found this out by just having the personal hot spot of an iOS device enabled and then turning on a android tablet. iOS doesn’t broadcast the SSID unless you have the settings screen of the personal hotspot open.
Scary.
Agreed. Mostly a question of competition for time given so many other projects vs. something that is ready to use.
This does not bode well for my hopes of LibreOffice getting my favorite features from Excel.
tell me more about your hobby?
We don't find that silly at all.
Apple has started with this "Use Emergency SOS via satellite on your iPhone" https://support.apple.com/en-us/101573
Words to live by – An articulation of my ethos
It had one of the best last episodes of any show that I've seen =).
Could they use the smart phone's gps to send out their current location?
Mentour Pilot recently released a video with another sensing method for estimating the last movements of MH370: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5K9HBiJpuk
> I guess part of the issue is "who decides what is 'contentious'?"

You can write "russia is genociding ukrainians". You can write 'china is genociding muslims". That isn't hellish flamewar. Guess what is hellish flamewar?
One book that really resonated with me was "The Deepest Well" about the epidemic of childhood trauma and its deep and measurable impact on health outcomes for adults. I learned that resolving childhood trauma would help on the order of curing cancer in terms of health outcomes in our society

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33413909-the-deepest-wel...
There has been a precipitous drop in overseas university applications for the coming academic year. It was reported today that Cameron has warned Sunak that his visa reforms are likely to lead to university closures. The cabinet is aware of the problem but I don't think there is any limit to the damage Sunak is prepared to do when he believes it will improve Tory election chances.
Careful Technology
You can update dependencies on your own. The model is quite extensible and nuget is great. You can override container image tags, or any settings we default to. That's the great part about using code!
Increase effort/improve in these areas:

- focus on authoring robust CSS

- actually test the UI (different devices, browsers, viewports, scenarios)

- reserve APPROPRIATE time to test UI

- reserve APPRORIATE time to fix the issues

- have designer in tight loop

- have systematic approach to track issues

- test with users

- aim to apply fixes asap so that the fixes gets tested as well

Biggest single factor causing issues is to start late. The time will run out if the styling setup is not robust, it depends on some questionable conventions or libraries, or is simply hacked together.

It is not that complicated, but it is most certainly difficult to do magic tricks late in the development.

React itself is not a root cause. I believe the fundamental cause is a mix of skill issues, lack of knowledge, quality ambitions and time management.
Sort of looks like the weird stuff on the TV in Vivarium
Building a resilient and low-latency service using Kafka and SQLite