skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All you have to do to circumvent this new pending EU rule is to apply muLaw encoding of your data stream into the audio file, or something.

Terrible Shannon's Limit although.
Something extremely interesting is looking at life expectancy in the past. I assume you, like most people, think people probably just tended to start dropping dead around 40, if not earlier. In reality, people tended to live comparably long to modern times, if they made it to adulthood. It's just that infant mortality was way higher. If one guy dies in childbirth, and another dies at 80 - you have a life expectancy of 40.

You can find evidence for this in numerous ways. For instance studies looking at classical Greeks 'of renown', found a median life expectancy was 70, and average life expectancy was 71.3. [1] Even in the Bible one finds numbers that match up basically exactly, 'Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures; yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.' You can also find things like the minimum age for Roman Consuls being 42 years, and so on endlessly.

And all of this was in an era when there were no vaccines, no knowledge of germs or how disease spread, and when cutting edge medical science had to do with balancing the 4 humors (blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile) with some sort of an elemental association of air/water/fire/earth with each. Eating well and exercising can indeed take you extremely far, because it damn sure wasn't their healthcare doing it. That said modern medicine has basically been a miracle worker for childhood survival, but once you make it to adulthood - your body is strong enough, or can be made strong enough, to get you most of the way to your expiration date.

[1] - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18359748/
The same people who say they can’t take Signal seriously as a canary for anything because they did something with crypto are total cheerleaders for OpenAI even after it disbanded its ethics and alignment boards and did a lot of shady stuf. “Because crypto sucks in every way possible” and “because AI is awesome”. What about nuance and substance? This is HN.

If you ask the average person, they’d say that people on HN and their snarky attitudes are far more unlikable than the people building decentralized networks that empower people.

Vitalik Buterin. Tim Berners-Lee. Ian Clarke. The teams at IPFS, MaidSAFE, Freenet. I have interviewed many of them and spoken w them. They are humble, good people trying to make the world a better place. You just enjoy shitting on anything that has the word “web3”. Actually that keyword attracts automatic downvotes on HN since 2021, as in 3 seconds after you post.

Try visiting, say, https://forum.autonomi.community/ or https://ethereum-magicians.org/ and see now nice, courteous and constructive nearly every participant and post is. They are solving hard problems. Not shooting down snarkily anything in a cargo-cult fashion.

Here is an interview I made with Ian Clarke for instance. Unlikeable? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWrRqUkJpMQ
My experience with Lua is only writing Redis scripts.

Maybe I'm pampered, but I found its lack of editor support is off-putting. I juggle between different languages (I'm writing a "full stack" book about building mobile apps, https://opinionatedlaunch.com), so I always need auto-complete when coding.

Edit: FYI I use IntelliJ with Lua support, and I'm comparing it relative to other languages that I also use (Java/Scala, Dart, Python, JS)
That is ridiculous.

Both the commission and the parliament are controlled by socialists (of various kinds).
I suppose you could use stenography or something to embed chats in pictures that are client-side scanned.

I use grapheneos and can create storage scopes so that the scanning app would only have access to files I deliberately allow.

Doesn't solve traffic analysis. Maybe some more advanced methods that encrypt over https could work.
I don't have to kid myself that it's logical because I know it's logical. That's cold comfort, however, because we're not going to create a more just future by winning a debate, especially against individuals. "Logical" is no more a conversation-ending mic-drop than "illogical" is. If we want a more just future with a more environmentally-sane economy, we'll have to threaten policymakers to change policy. No amount of moral grandstanding with individuals is going to help matters.
Also conflating and confusing "crypto" as in cryptocurrency and web3 bullshit with cryptography, which was arguably done on purpose by the "crypto" side, is making the problem worse. A niche but very important domain is, in general consciousness, mixed up with the scammers, and tarnished by association.
Sorry, but I seem to have lived in a fundamentally different universe than you. I remember that my 386 took longer to boot to DOS (which is not even an operating system by today's standards) than my current laptop to come up.

When Windows 95 was introduced it took so long to boot that it wasn't even worth it for me. I remember that a popular magazine did an aprils fools joke that the new Intel CPU was so fast it could boot Windows within few seconds.
I expect applies to any app on a phone that is registered in the EU. If you wanted to and were able to buy a Swiss phone with Swiss number you might be okay.

Developers could start to employ software activism and dis-allow licenses for software they develop by European governments citing the reasons.

Perhaps Signal can deploy a version for Europe that is licensed for use only by governments and scans the hell out of them looking for corruption using AI.
I would have to trust Meta on top of Apple for that (and there is no way that you do not have to trust the manufacturers of your devices anyways, imo).
I read it use push based approach and assume the receivers are online when there is new messages.

Is there design to recall accumulated messages when restore from offline?
This reminds me of recently going to a hospital and there was a guy, probably around 20 years old, who had broken leg casted from heel to thigh. He has his friend cruising him around on just the back wheels of his wheel chair, running at full speed in circles on the minimal area there was. It's really a wonder how this kid broke his leg to begin with. The mysteries of life.
In particular, embedded stuff (with tight resource constraints) is where you're likely to find this and other "specialised" data structures in use.
Coming from a reliable local source, so it's not a scam, a tornado warning will come in 10-15 minutes before it hits. This is enough time to go to the basement/storm cellar/shelter. If you live in tornado alley it's just how you live your life.
This RTO propaganda is really getting out of hand.
This is absolutely the case - in software, accessibility features are in many cases identical to power user and engineering quality features. Color-theme support is necessary functionality for color vision deficiency modes, labels and tags on UI elements enable screen-readers just as much as they enable automated testing suites, configurable keybindings make it easier to get your app working with assistive input devices. It's such a strong relationship that even bigcorps know it's a thing; I got talks about it during Google employee trainings.
Australia has fair use copyright provisions, as well as parody. They are not protected via the same mechanism or via the same wording as the US.

Now this said, no, this is not another chink in the armour. There is little to no fair use or parody that would withstand prosecution when it comes to deep fake pornography. One could try to make the argument that, for example, a media company may create a deep fake pornographic video for a skit. However, this is both in bad taste, flies afoul of content deceny laws, and the 'artwork' can readily be taken out of context and distributed as pornography in its own right.

Australia has been quite good, if a bit slow, at enacting considered legislation to protect against exploitation of the individual. Our conservative facebook and sov cit crowd constantly bellyache about freedom of speech, forgetting that Australia does not have freedom of speech provisions, but rather a set of legal precedents, case law and various legal interpretations which provide similar, but with an ability for interpretation to enact various protections. They're very difficult to circumvent, but are actively used for things like this by governments of the day. Also, unlike the US, our justices are not elected by politicians, and they must not be aligned to a political party. So parliament could go rogue, but the laws would be challenged and shot down if in the opinion of the court they were illegal or eroded other legally decided precedent or interpretations.
dude... where do the imports of petroleum and fixed nitrogen which are critical for Ag come from? hint: look at the US ports and see what surrounds them.

farming and suburbia are subsidized out the wazoo. and a lot of Ag doesn't go to feed people... you're bark is much, much worst than your bite.
It's a hack cludge, not an extra body part.
I feel like a lot of the tweaking features popularized by Abit are now available on any "gamer" board from one of the major manufacturers, Intel and AMD now even make chipsets targeted at that segment, and there are a lot more bins for CPUs these days, most of which come "pre-overclocked" even dynamically so with turbo-boost and the like.

The Athlons and Durons of this era had exposed dies, just a few SKUs, no built-in thermal throttling or speed boosting at all, and oversized high-cfm heatsinks and fans felt like a new thing.
Yes, everyone wanting to serve clients in the eu (even if they are on vacation in non eu) must comply with the gdpr; this article however is not related to the gdpr though.
Skiing? That's how I broke mine at that age.
Also, gas giant sizes don’t grow proportionately to their mass! Mass is a linear measure but diameter is measuring the cube root of volume. Also, heavier gas giants are denser because the added mass compresses the inner layers more.
Yes, at this point I see no way forward except with the
EU. Unless each individual country wants to go at it alone and eventually end up working as a Vasal state to either USA, Russia, or China.

The cost of products and manufacturing is so low that a significant part of the final price is made up of overhead costs such as tax, tariffs, and transport. All of these will go up by stepping out of the EU due to increased friction.

If anything, we should go a lot further into embracing the EU. In the current political landscape we are committed.
great to hear, thanks a lot!

Thanks a lot for the correction regarding castling. I did look up this page a fair bit when implementing this, and I swear I had seen the rule that castling wasn't possible if the kind had been in check. But looks like I was dreaming. So I'll fix that shortly.

For the three-same-position draw, yes, it's on my list. It was really low priority, but your comment makes me move this up the list. I had improved the bot so that it would be better during the end game, thinking that would avoid the need for this rule, but it looks like that doesn't work all the time (which shouldn't be surprising). So yes, I'll work on that as well,

That's great feedback, thanks a ton.
All of these layouts are a waste of time. I have yet to see anyone make a convincing quantitative argument for learning one. If it's fun for you, great. If buying things makes you feel like you're progressing in a hobby, good luck.

I have 99th percentile typing speed on QWERTY thanks to using PCs when too young for traditional touch typing to work. My arms fly around the keyboard and I have never gotten RSI _from typing_. Using the mouse precisely for a summer where vim was forbidden (thanks big banks) did yield almost instant RSI. Trying traditional touch typing (with no movement) also agitates my arms. But imo folks should learn speedtyping techniques for qwerty to avoid RSI and skip the rabbit hole of alternate layouts and keyboards. Lot of inconvenience and more wasted time than will likely ever be saved.

The only true advancement is steno / charachorder. The actual charachorder lite isn't quite there imo (chord detection sketchy) but one of these days I will use ZMK to add the most common chords to my qwerty keychron k2 with gateron browns. Not to mention ZMK has far more features (like modtap) that you find yourself wanting once you use something like Charachorder, and Charachorder is still not open source ("someday").

If you're really in need of even faster typing than "faster than anyone you know", first reevaluate your decision-making framework, then voice dictate.
It is not only that. I remember reading some article where someone did actual measurements. Some of the delays are attributed to just how for example keyboards as such work like amount of movement needed before an electrical keypress signal happens and stuff like that, plus the whole processing chain following. And that is where these older computers are much much faster, because USB or worse, Bluetooth, only allow for so much low latency. Plus there are insane amounts of signal processing steps before it even arrives as an interrupt in the CPU, let alone is processed into some actual OS input event, and then it still needs to go through various levels of application software layers. And that is just the input side, the whole thing has to lead to screen updates and this is another level of technocraziness.
Phrases I learned during reading that article and some links from it:

Meme tech

Minions sceptic (referring to a person)

Humane Ai

But I stopped reading at the point where it was being monetised by crypto.
Texas town deploys snow plows after 2 feet of hail
It’s all using cryptography.

Cryptographic signatures are heavily used in these networks. People sign the transactions using elliptic-curve cryptography (or they are moving to some quantum-resistant thing). Then a blockchain or other decentralized network stores the transactions while a programming language is used to make sure that everyone and every node is following the rules.

Being able to finally trust the code instead of a middleman has the potential to be extremely useful despite your insistence that it cannot possibly have any uses because you personally don’t like it. Because trust is costly, and being able to reduce the attack surface enables much larger coordination and larger value to be managed collectively, with far less corruption.
Why do you want to transcribe the journals?
What We've Learned from a Year of Building with LLMs
By virtue of being a private torrent tracker, WhatCD never had that full catalog, itself. The members did and what you consider to be an inability to recover is only because the torrents were never remade. The same thing would happen if the tracker was up and there were no seeds.
Nice to see the high end still in action; at the cheap-and-cheerful end I read a survey chemistry lab book by someone teaching at a small liberal arts college in which he claims many civilisationally-useful reactions can be run in 2L drink bottles.

https://www.cavemanchemistry.com

EDIT: I was once surprised to learn that a glass artist friend knew a great deal about borosilicate, until I figured out that while he was proud of his art glass, he was paying his bills via the craft of glass products intended for consumption of tobacco and legal herbs only.
In their own blog post they say they did test it and "red team" it.

https://blog.google/products/search/ai-overviews-update-may-...

I'd speculate at this point that issues were raised which were ignored and the feature rushed out by pressure from senior leadership to get something "AI related" as soon as possible hurry up please.
I don't agree with this. Encryption is a feature of Signal, but it's not the only reason to use it. The bigger reason to use it is that it is independent from Meta, so you can use it without having Facebook track you.

I don't rely on Signals encryption, since there is no way to verify that it works in the way that it does, and even if, there is no way to know that the recipients are as careful as you are. If there is something I don't want others to find out, I just don't write it down. No encryption is fool proof.
I really like Orion. Comes in really handy on my small 18U home lab rack cabinet when I need to connect to couple of servers and raspberry pis to troubleshoot boot issues. I just connect a 11 inch ipad to a single hdmi cable connected to 4 port hdmi switch.
Solar distillation, solar distillation.
GDPR is about not storing information about people without their consent and has nothing to do with the encryption legislation.
This proposal is coming from the EU council, which has nothing to do with this election (it is made up of PMs or Presidents of the EU countries).

The EU election is important though to ensure that the EU Parliament doesn't enact such a horrid proposal into law.
> If you ask the average person

I don’t know Europe’s polling. But in America, the majority is against [1][2]. (The only ones showing marginal favour ability are industry polls [3] by low-quality pollsters [4].)

> You just enjoy shitting on anything that has the word “web3”

I’ve made a lot of money from investing in companies that do things around crypto. Its users are a population willing to pay high fees for nebulous ideological points, almost uniquely so outside religion and politics.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/07/just-8percent-of-americans-h...

[2] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/10/majority-...

[3] https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/pollster-ratings/ Harris

[4] https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240507551232/en/DCG...
Could there be a way to do everything in JavaScript? I imagine the problem would be in the anchors of trust.
If those users aren't reading the error dialogs anyways, why do the error dialogs need to pander to those users? I wonder if the "make it dumb enough for every user to understand" approach leads to user comprehension plateauing prematurely.
teable?

www.teable.io

nocodb could be another
How is it "hard to use"? It's really as simple as WhatsApp or Telegram.
Damn straight. This came up in an earlier discussion about languages that rely heavily on exceptions - they sensibly don't want to expose backtraces so you get this `try: response_handler() except: print("oops!")` nonsense because the programmer literally doesn't know what went wrong and they're sure as hell not going to give you the details.

I find it as infuriating as you.
You're totally right, I'm in my own HPC bubble. The organizations I work with create their own models and it's easy for me to forget that's the exception more than the rule. I apologize for making too many assumptions in my previous comment.
Seems they will reconsider this after the elections. So there is time, depressing as it is. As has been said here before : every country will eat away at privacy every few years with similar proposals that failed a few years before. Until they succeed.
so who controls Gaza now?

According to the maps I've seen, Hamas controls about 80% of the ground. the IDF about 20%. And that's after 7-8 months of war.

https://southfront.press/military-situation-in-palestine-on-...

I've seen a good dozen or more Hamas videos where they attack both tanks and other armoured vehicles. You should get out more, the videos are out on the Web for you to find. And the most salient point is that you can see that those ambushes are coming from semi-destroyed buildings. As in point (b) above.
No.

Until the culture changes and merchants start building service costs into their prices and paying service personnel living wages, tip them. Tip them generously. 20% is table stakes for restaurant service; for things like hairstyling you want to tip around 50%.
I'm actually a big fan of certain alpha spending approaches. In one of them (I forget the name), you basically peek along the way, only looking for massive signs, then at the end you get to do a nearly-ordinary analysis. Like, you have to turn p=0.05 into p=0.045 at the end but it's pretty negligible so you don't have to treat the data too carefully in general. You just get to promise nagging partners that yes if it's wildly good (or bad), we've accounted for that and will stop early.
Your constraint should be that if the board is the special case of regular chess, the game should play exactly the same. Allowing the pawn to move towards any side is too much because it would violate this principle.

Perhaps define forward as the direction(s) which, when extrapolated as a rook, would reach the opponent's backrank. If it doesn't exist, the direction(s) which, when extrapolated, terminate on the opponent's half. This would allow extra freedom to pawns in some funky topologies that can occur in your game, but generally follows the principle of least surprisal.
I got exposure to Lua with Cyberpunk 2077 mods and neovim plugins. Some stuff is indeed strange (like array indexes starting from 1 by default), but overall it's easy to use.

Not sure I'd want to use it for something big though.
Now show me what the majority thinks of “tech bros” commodifying everything and taking away everyone’s jobs, including and especially with OpenAI.

Oh wait that part is awesome and people should just atop worrying and learn to love the bomb…

I just don’t like the selective double standard of these arguments. Far less people are worried about blockchain than about AI, and the public is CORRECT. Because with Web3 even with the shittiest of shitcoins people only stand to risk what they voluntarily put at risk. While AI can harm millions of people who never opted in, and wanted nothing to do with it, across the entire world, their lives are going to change kicking and screaming, and you say “they should get used to it”.

It is the politicians and banks looking to ban things because they are worried about competition to, say, CBDCs. And if you cheer them on then don’t get upset when they ban end to end encryption by the same reasoning. People actually want the freedom to choose their own digital assets. They aren’t sneaking around, they just want choice and the Republican party has come around to supporting crypto for instance. Even DT.
So what? Most users will understand this or at least get the gist. My mum can ask me what it means and then I can tell her. That's a much better outcome than the original message.
'Vice' Went from a $6B Media Empire to Bankruptcy
I did not say the features were bugs.

I said it could be considered a bug (in the distribution) to have included those features by default.
The beginning of the end came in 2017.
[…]
The walls of Vice’s sprawling Brooklyn headquarters were lined with magazine covers charting the company’s transformation from insouciant Canadian post-punk magazine to money-printing media colossus. In early 2018, long before college students discovered that dispatching problematic statues into canals would be reliably met with institutional approval, a group of employees demanded that the covers be removed from the walls.
Not a specific cover. All of them.
Capitalism constraints wont even allow adequate bug fixing. There sure as hell isn't time or money to optimize things
Mine is we need to stop pandering to weirdos when it comes to public infrastructure projects. There is a political process for approving them. And we shouldn't let weirdos get endless do overs in the courts when they lose.
If you leave the EU who are people in your country going to vote for? Most likely, either the right or the left.

Leaving the EU doesn't automatically make a country not right/left/whatever. Even before the EU most countries had the same thing. The UK left and still have left/right/whatever. You need to change a lot more than EU membership status to avoid the whole left/right issue.
Thanks man, really appreciate it. Hope you can join us, more good recommendations coming every week :)