skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t know what or who you think you’re arguing against, but it ain’t me.

First your response to “the non-human environment is an astoundingly efficient circular system” was “nuh uh, nature makes things that smell bad and are ugly too!”

Now your response to “nature doesn’t produce refuse of the same type or scale as humans” (clearly referring to the massive amounts of obscenely stable and probably-toxic-to-most-creatures plastic that we produce) is “MALARIA EXISTS, rich guy!”

Take a breath. Try to find where I said “nature works on smaller scales than humans.” When you find a line that looks similar but says something quite different, get curious about that difference! That’s where you’ll find what I’m actually saying.
If you get to see some of the details, defense (US) is expensive but there is very little profit compared to other industry. There is epic amount of inefficiencies which is where all that cost is eaten.
> It is already the case that for the most part whatever we do online is known by some third party entity. Online privacy is essentially dead and has been for many years. I’m not implying this is good or desirable but that it is just the reality of things.

This is a very defeatist point of view. It is still possible to choose not to share the majority of your online activity with third parties.

Online privacy is essentially dead for people who don't bother maintaining it.

My online privacy is still largely intact, and I will do my best to keep it that way.
i should have said, "the cost of nuclear in any conversation". because the moment you give a cost for nuclear, some very smart person will slam their hand on the table and start talking about the cost of waste disposal (which is pretty small), but they never seem to even try to quantify how much it'll cost to remove carbon from the atmosphere for the coal that's getting burnt instead (e.g. Germany).
Which they could easily solve if they invested in training new hires on their own internal tech, but I suspect that’s long been cut to the bone. So if you can only rely on what skills people have when they join, you’re going to dilute any proprietary tech you have.
Let's face it, who has benefitted the most from how the carbon dioxide got into the air in the first place...
There is a great bias against failure, even for seasoned academics. I always liked this quote from Feynman

"If you’ve made up your mind to test a theory, or you want to explain some idea, you should always decide to publish it whichever way it comes out. If we only publish results of a certain kind, we can make the argument look good. We must publish both kinds of result."
I agree with you in terms of how it feels. I haven't yet made up my mind about the balance of benefits and drawbacks. When I get cross about them I try to remember that I've never really minded airplanes crossing my path when stargazing and they're a lot brighter and more distracting. And I think I'd like to keep my righteous anger powder dry for when some gigantic asshole tries to show adverts in the night sky.

It requires active investment to maintain the contsellation, so at least the null case is that they'll all burn up within a few years if SpaceX fails. (And that's something that I think even many fervent Elon-haters don't particularly want to see: given the choice between betting the next 50 years of access to space on Starliner or Falcon and Starship, I know which I'd pick.)
It's sad to see the decline of civilization, and how far back basic principles were not understood, and turned into a cargo cult. The point why somebody had to sign something to approve it was exactly that he had the option to not sign it in case that there was a problem. But even then, it was seen as a job to be done, that you either do, or fail to do.
Verifiable Credentials can be used in place of OpenID to allow a user to make verifiable attestations about themselves without the authority having to be present.

It would still have many of the same flaws as OpenID, but at least you accessing a site wouldnt notify the authority.
Which should include at minimum

How to test backups
Unidirectional networks, and how to use them
Microkernels, multilevel security and capabilities
Along with the popular answers
Not only that, but the optimal solution may involve packing at an angle, the most obvious being fitting a candy bar that is too long across the package, in diagonal. If you look at some of the best square packings, the results can be surprisingly messy[1], and few of them have been proven.

It is clear that optimal algorithms are out of the question, which is the conclusion of the article, even with the constraints of orthogonal placement of simple boxes. In fact, in real life, when taking into account packages that are not simple boxes, items that can be squished a little and those that shouldn't be, etc... I wouldn't be surprised if humans were actually better than computers.

[1] https://kingbird.myphotos.cc/packing/squares_in_squares.html
This new DRM functionality is terrifying indeed, I am really sad this is happening, it's the end of general purpose computers.
Indeed, one run by corporate lobbying is much better.
I’ve been gaslit, I ended up walking away from my company. It was extremely painful.

> Doing a little damage might be cathartic.

Please avoid the regret. Do something kind instead. Take the high road. Take care of yourself.
We do have such sites though, like Tom's Hardware or Consumer Reports or Wirecutter or what have you. Consumers pay money for these ads to reduce the conflict of interest, but companies still need to get their products chosen for these review pipelines.
Same to you, apparently.

Edit: oh, but you had to change your comment completely once you actually read things.

What a ridiculous person.

Swamps naturally breed malaria, among other diseases, similar to how dumps breed Rats. Swamps are where rivers and the like end up washing all the detritus. Malaria (estimated) has killed more humans than any other cause.

Living anywhere near a swamp is the natural equivalent of living near a dump burning tires constantly, but provably more lethal than the dump. Without massive effort to control the vector anyway.

Swamps are as natural as it gets.

How many hundreds of thousands of people are killed by plastic waste in dumps per year again? Zero? Except for maybe some rando who chokes on something?

And again, that is without discussing natural arsenic and uranium water contamination.

Oh, and I forgot about Radon [https://images.app.goo.gl/frMD3KoKXdssTgtM9].

We get worked up about human hazards because humans ‘should know better’, and are at least nominally within our control.

Nature just DGAF, and works at scales we can barely comprehend most of the time. And is often completely outside of our control. So apparently some people seem to think the hazards don’t exist or aren’t clearly far worse in many cases?

After all, how much man made radioactive gas do you need to check if you are breathing in at home?

And yes, all of this is very pertinent to the ‘kumbaya nature is self sustaining and all loving and takes care of everything’ comment.

Nature is, of that there is no question, at least. The rest is up for debate/interpretation. I love nature - but let’s not pretend it can be pretty stabby sometimes.
> Babies absolutely will still communicate by utterance, gaze, reach, and body language what they want.

Oh, I totally get that. But SL makes it that much easier.

> Don’t feel like you have to follow this advice.

I wasn't commanding anyone to do something. Good Grief.
Don't forget the Xbox/gaming parts, seemingly completely divorced from the rest of MS, and flailing about for years now, buying up every game company they can afford.
I got to hear him recount the story, and yeah the article is weird.

The form he talked about was one that, if not signed, would mean that the launch would not happen. I can't remember if it was an internal form or not, but it doesn't really matter in that context.

Since NASA needed that form signed, he was under intense pressure to actually sign it both by NASA and his company. Someone else from the company not on site signed it.
Lmao. Didn't watch Dunki (it looked stupid) but it's common sense.

The people who would get the most advantages for being undocumented immigrants (the rural poor and working class) cannot afford either any immigration route to the west.

The only people who can afford it are the subset of the rural elite (ie. Those with land) who are ignorant.
yep!

https://www.npr.org/2019/03/22/705729699/the-atlantic-if-lib...
Some many people these days seems to have a coin with Russia and China on each side, they flip it and then comment.
>It's ironic that low quality slop like those and ads ship by default with the OS... it convinces people to GTFO to Linux ASAP.

It certainly convinced me. Steam Proton runs pretty much all the games I enjoy (mainly indies), and I can quarantine Windows in a VM for MS Office, as well as keep a full Windows installation on a separate disk if I really need it (rarely).

The crap that's made its way into mainline Windows makes me feel like my computer isn't serving me anymore.
Sutherland with Jane Fonda helped bring the anti-militarist anti-authoritarianism to actual soldiers in 1971....

> F.T.A. is a 1972 American documentary film starring Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland and directed by Francine Parker, which follows a 1971 anti-Vietnam War road show for G.I.s, the FTA Show, as it stops in Hawaii, The Philippines, Okinawa, and Japan.[1][2]: p.143 It includes highlights from the show, behind the scenes footage, local performers from the countries visited, and interviews and conversations with GIs "as they discuss what they saw in battle, their anger with the military bureaucracy, and their opposition to America's presence in Indochina."[3] Called by Fonda "a spit and a prayer production" it was far from a big budget Hollywood movie, or even a well-funded documentary. While the movie "is raw," it "underscores how infectious the movement of the 60s and 70s was", and chronicles both the Tour itself as well as the soldiers who came to see it and "the local talent of organizers, labor unions and artist/activists" in the countries visited

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.T.A.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWAbhonmCOg
You are really underestimating the motivation some people have.

I mean legally immigrating to UK can easily cost £30,000 for a family just in direct fees to government, lawyers and in various surcharges.
Do beginners find these type of big list of resources and roadmaps helpful? As someone who's been in the industry for a long time and with several years of FE experience, if someone had shown me this when I was trying to get into FE, I would have found it overwhelming, and anxiety-inducing. I can see how resources like this can give you a lay of the land and give you an idea for how a particular technology fits into the big picture, but beyond that I don't know how useful they are in guiding your learning path. I can also say that not only is it not necessary to know everything in those roadmaps to reach an advanced level of proficiency, just because you are familiar with a bunch of different technologies doesn't mean you're an expert.

When I'm studying a new subject I need guidance rather than a fire-hose of links to resources, but that may just be me.
Is that really an annual salary in the countries some migrants are leaving? The average US household income is around $76k, I wouldn't have expected that income level to be a salary in those countries.
Products (and particularly ideas) can be explored in a pull pattern too. Pushing things—physical items, concepts of identity, or political ideology—in the fashion endemic to the ad industry is a pretty surefire way to end up with an extremely bland society, or one that segments increasingly depending on targeting profile.
The immigration to the US is the collateral damage of the bad US foreign policies towards those countries. Those "banana republics" are poor because the big companies own the banana business. The poor people flee to the US.

Same with Syria. But in the case the immigration went to Europe, not the US. Again Europe f-ed up.
The point was the use case is better for people who are not traveling by foot
After reading through, that link does the opposite of what you intend, I now have no issue with Pluton.
Open AI when they gave press access to gpt said that you must not publish the raw output for AI safety reasons. So naturally people self selected the best outputs to share.
glibc is backwards-compatible as well.
LangChain approach struck me as interesting, but I never really saw much inherent utility in it. For our production code we went with direct use of LLM runtime libraries and it was more than enough.
The ID voting requirements are about keeping marginalized American citizens from voting (seniors, poor people who are bad at managing their documents, etc). Studies have been done of before/after ID requirements have been added in various states and there’s no indication that illegal aliens were taking advantage. Maybe a few anecdotes of people with a green card who were confused about the requirements - the illegally present usually try to stay as far from the government as they can.
Electronics, machining and manufacturing

Knowing how to actually apply computers directly to solve problems quickly is always quite valuable outside silicon valley
Allan McDonald is a new name for me. Thanks for posting this. See also other engineers who objected to the launch, like Bob Ebeling [0], who suffered with overwhelming guilt nearly until his death in 2016, and Roger Boisjoly [1], who never worked again as an engineer after Challenger.

[0] https://archive.ph/kGMYG

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Boisjoly
What makes you think citizenship is inevitable just because mass deportation is impossible? It seems more likely that people will just be in an irregular state forever (as has always been the case for a lot of illegal immigrants in the U.S. even before the present wave).
I can't find definitive proof in open sources, but yes, Russia smuggles migrants to Poland, to Finland, establishes control for the migration routes via Sahel to Southern Europe (https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/africa-file-ma...), why wouldn't they do the same for the US southern border? The presence of Russian-speaking smugglers on the Mexican border is well documented (https://globalinitiative.net/analysis/russian-migrant-smuggl... their link to the Russian government is yet to be clearly established, but I have little doubt.
I wonder if the pilgrim fathers took time to discover the immigration laws from the native Americans.
Fair enough. I hadn't personally encountered knapsack/bin packing problems before, so it wasn't immediately obvious this fell into such a category. Just thought I'd blog my practical encounter with the problem as I was exploring it.
https://oldlawnmowerclub.co.uk/forum/history-and-technical/m...
Why doesn't the government simply offer legal immigration for anyone for $70k?

Minimal paperwork - just wire over $70k and we send you a passport with your name on and a complimentary welcome pack for whichever city you decide to move to.
Totally new to me, thanks! It looks really fun.
I would say mostly no, which is exactly why software gets so much investment and has seen so much growth, especially 15-10 years ago when it suddenly became possible to address the entire world with very few regulations.

The runner up darling child (outside of questionable financial products) seems to be biotech, whose heavy regulation and complex supply chain issues are offset by almost everyone in the world's desire to not die.
Poland, Netherlands, Austria and Luxembourg are against as well: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/council-to-greenlight-chat-... .
The plan-execute pattern
It isn't a matter of "species boundaries," which aren't even really rigidly defined, so much as time, complexity and information compression.

It doesn't seem likely that whatever primitive mammalian ancestor eventually evolved into primates, and then into humans, carried within it a coherent enough visual and behavioral memory of dinosaurs to have survived so many generations of mutation, eventually informing the modern idea of "dragons" as winged reptiles.

And again, it isn't even true that there is a cross-cultural concept of "dragons" to begin with. It's a eurocentric myth, in that it assumes a Western concept of a "dragon" to be the default, and ignores any other cultural context in order to fit their mythologies into that mold.
>IMHO the only viable subset is the empty set. There are some surviving HTML-only browsers that are still usable for e.g. viewing documentation or browsing simple-minded websites (like HN, but they are fewer and fewer every year, unfortunately).

I'm curious if throwing out DOM/js would make the task more approachable. My intuition says yes. But I'm thinking CSS would still make it super difficult. Also I've heard that HTML has some rough areas that make it hard.

That being said I find Netsurf is pretty capable even if I don't really use it very often. Yeah some pages don't render right but it's really fast. So who knows maybe we can get away with a reduced set of features or better yet go back to using separate clients instead of web apps for things like chat, email and forums.
https://archive.today/kuzyQ
To solve the "crisis", you need to fabricate the crisis first. Trump works with his Kremlin friends to create the very "problem" he promises to solve.
I think these are what is used in London. The water treatment plant near me (Coppermill) has dozens of rectangular sand pits
>At that point it’s easier [...]

Hmm ... no?

Rent + living expenses + tuition for two years is way more than that. Even in really cheap places in the US. Plus, you have to account that for certain nationalities everything is more complicated, i.e. expensive.
Postgres Indexing: When Does Brin Win?
That’s the thing, with that kind of money, no. Most people do not realise that living standards I. The west aren’t that great any more for an average nobody.
Soviet/Russian invasion of Poland, Finland, and Georgia, respectively. (gee, wonder why they all want to be in NATO) There's also '56, Hungary, and '68, Czechoslovakia.
>but are illegal immigrants able to open bank accounts and thus fall under the supervision of the tax authority?

The typical employee is taxed via withholding tax[1] by their employers, not through their bank accounts.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_withholding
> Rock stars want to rock, not to teach music.

Even rock stars do not do that alone. Somebody has to put the equipment together, sell tickets, record their music, play bass.
// they are prepared for the most part

...and yet the # of deaths is going up. Over 1,000 people! We are not talking about a disaster which might come, maybe, far in the future. The disaster is here, and its about to become a catastrophe!
I've been wanting something like that, like a wrapper that hosts three or four engine, so I can use normal for every-day, upscale to FF for some or Chrome for others - all in one UI.
Related:

Peak Population Projections - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40715520 - June 2024 (62 comments)
Kindness doesn't have any dev openings.
Obviously ClamAV only does what's in it code, but pretty much all proprietary AV software collect samples by default based on rules deployed by developer.

Windows Defender do have automatic sample submission, but according to documentation only automatically submit files that are "safe" to not no contain PII:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/defender-endpoint/specify-...

It might request user approval to submit non-executables, but again we can't know when and why Microsoft might decide to override defaults. Technically data collection pipeline is here.
Is it miles ahead? An engine that ingests a ridiculous amount of data to produce influence? Isn't that just advertising but more efficient and with even less accountability?
> I was fortunate to find an employer that also believed in these values.

Same here, it's not paying well, but it feels refreshing to know that babies won't get thrown into mixers if you stop thinking for 10 minutes.
> But the browser space, Ladybird is viable as a daily driver for people.

From the LWM article:

> Users will need GCC 13+ or Clang 17, and Qt6 development packages to play along at home. Ladybird compiles and runs on, for example, Fedora 40 without a problem, *but it is a long way from being suitable for regular use.*

Seems distributed binaries are missing, but that's easy to "fix"/"workaround". Is there something else that makes you say it is suitable as a daily driver while LWM author does not?
It doesn't read as tongue-in-cheek to me. NixOS does not have an equivalent to Guix's full-source bootstrap mentioned in the next sentence: https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2023/the-full-source-bootstrap-bui...

Nixpkgs also doesn't seem to require that all packages be built from source - which, if you're really looking for reproducibility, is a downside. I recognize that there are practical reasons for this, and it's part of why Nix has so many more packages available than Guix, but IMO it makes Guix a better foundation to build on if you want as much of your system as possible to be reproducible.
Time to retire Notepad++...

This post leaves a lot on the table in terms of background. It seems like a rough draft of a post that should probably be at least a few pages longer, or at the very least, explaining the lead-in with regards to npm and the twoorter whom they blocked.

As for the geopolitical reasons for Docker/GitHub, they have no control over that as long as they're in GI Joe country.
I accept that everyone is vulnerable to ideology and I skeptically read the news.

I am interested in reporting of facts and insight from those with an ideology different from my own.

You still have not answered the question. Advertisers have an ideology and a purpose when they influence news. How is that better?
this article has almost zero content on the bug, the debugging, or the fix. I expect more details
Don't shame the people paying the deprecation on the cars I eventually buy for a far better price.
> "The company’s official help pages steer users who have been hacked toward confusing automated tools that often lead users to dead-end links"

the internet feels more and more a hostile place.

i find myself constantly getting frustrated with bs like this.

like fucking passwords that expire every month and have some voodoo criteria. like don't try and outsource your internal secruity on me bich.
> mac ui is nice but just thinking about the keyboard and mouse (iMac) give me carpal tunnel syndrome.

This seems like an odd complaint in the context of a desktop computer like an iMac where you have effectively infinite choice in input devices. I don't disagree that Apple's stock keyboard is bad and their mouse team seems actively hostile to the idea of making their product not stupid in some way, but it's a desktop computer so....just plug in any other USB keyboard and mouse you prefer, or pair up some Bluetooth ones, whichever way is your jam.

I use a Macbook Air for work so when I'm mobile I'm stuck dealing with this thin squishy thing keyboard (IMO the trackpad is pretty good as they go), but when I'm at my desk I'm typing on a ZSA Moonlander full of Boba U4 switches and mousing with either a Logitech MX Vertical or a G700S, and it all "just works".
Yeah, I'm also really not a fan of this. But as you say, this doesn't require an Internet connection.

Then again, I've also encountered large groups of hikers basically screaming to be able to all hear each other, sometimes while walking on narrow trails (making overtaking hard). It really doesn't take technology for people to be unaware of the space that they're in and be inconsiderate to others.