skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I consume the news via "eselect news". Interestingly, the list of items is kept around separately from the state of the metadata/news/ folder but the contents are not. How annoying. I keep a gentoo box from 2009 around for a few things, it has 130 news items listed, oldest from 2009-04-18, though in the listing most of them say "removed?" at the end. Goes to show how often I pay attention to the old items if I never really noticed this before, they removed a bunch of them in 2019. I think it's a dumb thing to do, and probably encouraged by their own unforced change in 2015 that put everything top-level instead of organized by year subdirectories.

Python I'll give you, I forgot about 3.12 becoming the default this month, I have an explicit version set in a package.use file that I'll change when I'm ready because I've been burned before. Part of this I blame on Python; overall I've been pretty happy with python on gentoo though, it still lets me have python 2 around for some things. On a Mint laptop I had to install tauthon outside of its package manager.

I read the dracut news item, determined there were no actions required for me (zfs-kmod has the initframfs flag on), and nothing broke. Rereading it again, yeah, it's kind of a sucky change in defaults, but it's clear in what people who might be affected should do.

The profile 23 upgrade is part of the same split/merged usr upgrade, it's clear about the potential scenarios to be worried about (CHOST not being one for most users, a newer gentoo system never set it in the make.conf and my old one's had it commented out for however long.) Note that you could always ignore the profile update for about a year, it's not something that has to be dealt with right away.

For the initramfs thing, it's important to note that it's only required if you have / and /usr on separate filesystems. My old box has them on one filesystem and even after moving it to the un-merged profile 23 I still don't use an initramfs for it. There was originally a news item in 2013, referenced by the item in January of this year, about having them on separate filesystems being unsupported without initramfs. I think 11 years for end-users that could have been impacted by this to deal with it is more than reasonable.

Glancing through the news list, the one on 2024-02-01 about grub updates resulted in a broken boot for me, I think I should have just ignored it. The item last December about CUPS didn't break anything but I can see how it easily could if ignored. I'm still annoyed that they've dropped layman but layman still works as-is. Overall, I do think things have been somewhat less stable in the last 4 years. Even just on news items (that could have impacted my old box, anyway) there's been 49 since 2020, while in the 10 years of April '09 to 2019 there were 81, though 2023 only had 3 items.

There is of course some fighting, and sometimes some turbulent periods of more frequent fighting, but it's still not every few weeks or even months and a lot of the time the fight is yours to accept/decline at your choosing.
Firefox has extensive sandboxing. See https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Sandbox for some info, to although I'm not sure that page is up to date
This doesn’t really make sense,
Local resources exist in abundance because transportation cost is not zero.

Iceland has more geothermal power than it knows what to do with, north of Canada has abundance of fresh water but it’s uneconomical to move it to California, etc.
(or one of the five fingers of the first hand)
> Well, only being as efficient as existing nitrogen fixing plants (or rather their microbes) would already be quite interesting.

My point is that you can't have corn that is as nitrogen-fixing as a legume and still produce nearly as much corn - the plant (or its microbes) will need the majority of the available photosynthesis products to fix nitrogen. This directly makes the cobs smaller.

> Btw, I don't think plants are close to optimal efficiency in terms of using sunlight. See eg C3 vs C4 plants.

That's true, even photovoltaic panels (which are still far away from their theoretical maximal efficiency) are an order of magnitude more efficient at pulling energy from the sun than plants are. But significantly improving photosynthesis in crop plants is far beyond our current genetic engineering ability.

And I'm not aware of any way to organically fix nitrogen that uses energy outside what is provided by photosynthesis - or gets its energy from digesting dead organic matter, which also doesn't beat the limits of photosynthetic efficiency on a per-acre basis.
Odd to see that in a press release like this. Perhaps they were going for “crack team”. Cracked makes it sound like they’re looking for twitch streamers.
This would be utterly horrible.
AGI/automation is a valuable thing while being forced to toil working the land sucks hard.
> If so, then node can take exactly the same strategy.

That's bun in a nutshell. Node could be faster, but they are not.
Bun is essentially using the same architecture as Node, just implemented in a more efficient way.

Therefore, the hopes that Bun would herald a breakthrough in JS performance are ill informed. However, best case-scenario Node gets a good nudge to become more efficient.
Foxes have discovered how to get to the garden above the Canary Wharf Underground station in the London Docklands, which is not an easy thing to do with water surrounding the Isle of Dogs from three sides and heavy traffic from the North.
Also: controlled opposition.
As mentioned, people have an incentive to lie. Who's going to write "I just fake being online the first and last 2 hours every day, so don't bother" or "I never understood our database" or "I get emotional all the time" or "I reverse manage"?

People will say they welcome direct feedback and would love to have focus time, what else?
Thing is, targeting Linux on x86 will target high value users. Either servers, developers, sysadmins and the like. Yes you will hit less people, but the value of each hit is magnitude higher. It’s the same reasons apps first target iOS rather than android: apple users have an easier wallet.
5. Eventually get bludgeoned to death in a moist alleyway.
This is one reason I really enjoyed reading Prometheus Rising. A significant part of the book is dedicated to show you just how little you actually know about reality when you discount beliefs you acquired either extrapolating experiences or simply adopting some dogma (even if it’s simply believing Positivism in science). In the end it’s impossible for us to even assess whether there is a reality out there.
That is not a 21MW giant wind farm, that is a single giant 21MW wind turbine.

Giant wind farms are planned to have up to 20000MW of capacity [0]. The real question is: how do you propose nuclear to replace solar and wind?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gansu_Wind_Farm
> Compared to aurochs, the cows are thriving

This depends on the level of empathy you have for cows.

If you empathise with them as you would with humans, imagine making the same argument to justify slavery

One could argue industrial farms are fate worse than death
> don't have the flight instict developed yet

They specifically have the opposite instinct, because fawns usually lack coordination to flee like an adult. So they have the instinct to still.
Now the BBC reports this was an accident, without substantiation.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd110nl7dppo
Is that an strong argument in this particular case?

This is after all cp and ls we are talking about. For me personally compatibility would be a much bigger issue
Being in the same Zoom call all day long sounds exhausting…
I had no idea revisions were made to this but the title about the West and corn was a bit of a tipoff.

Unless Pliny got a little sneak preview of Miller Lite back then.
Retuning the data as a json object vs sending it back with the relevant html really isn’t that much more data in the grand scheme of things. It’s more data but not very much, it’s not like you don’t need to sync with the backend with a json driven SPA.
From the zdnet interview with Johnathan Nightingale someone else linked:

"All of this is stuff you're allowed to do to compete, of course. But we were still a search partner, so we'd say 'hey what gives?' And every time, they'd say, 'oops. That was accidental. We'll fix it in the next push in 2 weeks."

"Over and over. Oops. Another accident. We'll fix it soon. We want the same things. We're on the same team. There were dozens of oopses. Hundreds maybe?"

"I'm all for 'don't attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence' but I don't believe Google is that incompetent. I think they were running out the clock. We lost users during every oops. And we spent effort and frustration every clock tick on that instead of improving our product. We got outfoxed for a while and by the time we started calling it what it was, a lot of damage had been done,"

When exactly should we shift our framing of an issue from "conspiracy theory" to "actual concern"?
not sure, but maybe it's possible only to update the model in a specific time?
are there other uses to the data apart from learning and validation?
then why can firefox do containers so well (which is why i use it) and chrome can't sandbox this?
If we accept subpar nutrition we could propably plant GMO potatoes and things like that all over the place
See the following excerpt of a longer paper. Generally the lambda calculus is a specific mathematical formalism, LISP is quite a bit more and an actual programming language (it has more than just functions) and implementations don't follow the rules of lambda calculus for evaluation. We also need to see differences between formal models for some of Lisp and actual implementations of a "real" Lisp with numbers, etc. We don't need to model numbers with functions, like with "church numerals".

Here follows an excerpt from a paper "Some History of Functional Programming Languages" by D. A. Turner. It talks about LISP, as invent/discovered by John McCarthy:

https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/dat/tfp12/tfp12.pdf

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Some Myths about LISP

Something called “Pure LISP” never existed — McCarthy (1978) records that LISP had assignment and goto before it had conditional expressions and recursion — it started as a version of FORTRAN I to which these latter were added. LISP 1.5 programmers made frequent use of setq which updates a variable and rplaca, rplacd which update the fields of a CONS cell.

LISP was not based on the lambda calculus, despite using the word “LAMBDA” to denote functions. At the time he invented LISP, McCarthy was aware of (Church 1941) but had not studied it. The theoretical model behind LISP was Kleene’s theory of first order recursive functions.

The M-language was first order, as already noted, but you could pass a function as a parameter by quotation, i.e. as the S-expression which encodes it. Unfortunately, this gives the wrong binding rules for free variables (dynamic instead of lexicographic).

If a function has a free variable, e.g y in

f = λx.x + y

y should be bound to the value in scope for y where f is defined, not where f is called.

McCarthy (1978) reports that this problem (wrong binding for free variables) showed up very early in a program of James Slagle. At first McCarthy assumed it was a bug and expected it to be fixed, but it actually springs from something fundamental — that meta-programming is not the same as higher order programming. Various devices were invented to get round this FUNARG problem, as it became known.

Not until SCHEME (Sussman 1975) did versions of LISP with default static binding appear. Today all versions of LISP are lambda calculus based.

-----

A remark from me:

"Today all versions of LISP are lambda calculus based.", except where they are not, like evaluation rules, dynamic binding, data types, etc.

What we have now in most Lisps since the mid 80s is lexical binding and closures, but not exclusively. Scheme earlier called dynamic bound variables "fluids". CL has it, for example by default for global variables.
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I am using all of those with YT Premium and I do have issues. I was recently offered their redesign and it made it a lot worse. It's hard to watch a video uninterrupted now.
Note that I also chose not to allow DRM videos, so no Netflix on Firefox for me. This might actually influence the codecs used by Youtube and these issues might only appear on "fallback" codecs when you refuse DRM ones.
`/usr/local/bin` is where manually installed packages go, and I've never seen it merged to `/bin` or `/usr/bin` on any *NIX system I've ever used.

I use it all the time for custom scripts/programs I don't want the package manager to interfere with.

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/4186/what-is-usr-lo...
Oh yes, I forgot how much of a pain that is. It’s so frustrating.

I’ve been using this for the last couple of years and forgot it was even an issue:

https://cordlessdog.com/stay/
Hey, thanks for sharing this, I made the video. Any questions do ask away. It's a great new feature in ElevenLabs for sure!
Java string interpolation feature has been cancelled
I live in farm country. I know a great many farmers. They know and love their land. They are also susceptible to propaganda and misinformation, and bad ideas spread virulently in a small and isolated population.

Where I live, for instance, poor practices (up and down ploughing, use of pesticides, exclusive monocultures and no crop rotation) have resulted in awful topsoil depletion and dwindling yields - which is universally accepted to be the fault of Spain, as they “keep all of the water from the river behind dams” - never mind that a cursory inspection of the watercourse from space reveals precisely zero dams in Spain.

They aren’t stupid people - but a general low level of education and a barren media sphere allows odd ideas to take hold, unchallenged.
If a person is a full-time homemaker, they don't have income so a tax deduction doesn't do much. A credit might, depending on how much it is. I'm curious, do you know how much they receive?

Regarding non-profits, most people have jobs with the non-profit, meaning they give services in direct exchange for money. If people are volunteering their services, they must receive money from somewhere else to live, and that often seems to come from a job, a family member, investment, or inheritance. I don't know of many ways we enable people to do communal work, besides maybe those listed above and maybe the tax credits.

Actually, if the tax credit equals $750 and is given to everyone, isn't it the same as the proposal above?
As someone who taught meditation, this is very common. It’s kind of being like addicted to action (to put it bluntly , sorry for that)

Boredom is just one perspective of the mind. For you it might be more beneficial to approach meditation in other ways before sitting still or lie down. For example : when I do indoor climbing I almost get into this meditative state where only the next step matters. Some friends report surfing does this for them.

Observation is the key word, or experience of mind as it goes through different processes (say boredom, sleep, happiness, concentration, building something)
> If anything, corporations seem to use Linux despite the GPL, because it has collected the best hardware support of any of the Free / Libre OS options.

Well, yes, that's my point: It didn't get the best hardware support by allowing vendors to close of every single driver.[1]

It's collected the best hardware support because those hardware manufacturers who write drivers contributed those drivers back to mainline, hence the reason for Linux's dominance over the competing FLOSS OSes.

Compare to the BSDs, who collected NO hardware support from Apple.

> I can only say that the folks I've worked with don't bat an eye at MIT or BSD or Apache licensed dependencies, but know to ask about the GPL and avoid.

Maybe they ask, and maybe they avoid. My experience with those (very rare) clients who avoid is that they want to take a 99.99% complete solution, add their 0.01% contribution, and lock the resulting product up.

> I think one has to be careful about grand narratives. They often leave out crucial details while painting a version of things as we want them to have happened, as opposed to the messy haphazard way things tend to happen. Hindsight is 20:20, but rose colored glasses can still throw it off.

I agree, but note that I did not come to this opinion quickly nor rashly. It was carefully considered, while taking into account the behaviour of corporations and communities over the history of my involvement as a professional developer (i.e. mid-90s).

IOW, this is not an opinion that I have held for 30 years, it's an opinion that I have formed after watching the industry for 29 years. It'd be quite hard to claim that my opinion is an uninformed or rose-tinted one.

[1] Nvidia shows that, with enough effort, vendors could have closed off the drivers anyway. But there's less friction in simply throwing the driver to the community and letting it get maintained, as opposed to writing shims and binary blobs which the vendor still has to maintain.
It's a 3% sale tax on corporations. It's more complicated, but corporations will just increase prices 3% and the consumers will pay it. If you are earning more than 25.000 anualy, you will get a negative total.
PO scandal: BBC makes unsubstantiated claim that the data leak was an accident
Basically, functional AI interactions are prohibitively resource intensive and expensive. Microsoft's non-coding Copilots are shit due to resource constraints.
I have never seen an example where it didn’t basically just rehash some answer already found in its training data. Where it excels is language tasks, and retrieving knowledge can be looked at as a language task - it has some internal representation of some textual form of the repeating parts of its training data set, and it can translate it into an answer appropriate for a question.

It fundamentally can’t come up with a novel reply, unlike a human. It breaks spectacularly the instant you go off its training set, which is very easy to notice if you ask it about a topic you are knowledgeable about.
> It's a valid concern that AI technology could potentially exacerbate inequality, it's not a foregone conclusion.

No, but looking at how most technological advance throughout history as at least initially (and here I mean not "for the first few weeks", but "for the first few centutries") exacerbated inequality rather massively, it seems not far off.

> In fact, the widespread adoption of AI might actually help reduce inequality in several ways: ...

The whole tone of the rest your post feels frighteningly Pollyanna-ish.
Regional restrictions are always a bit terrifying to navigate because there are so many one-way streets. Change your Spotify credit card 2 years after you moved, realize you now can’t access a bunch of music you previously could. Same with a bunch of cross-region stuff.

I get so much of this is downstream of rights agreements and ultimately I don’t have the right to keep everything forever, but it’s annoying!
And the classic which has many memes

“Don’t believe everything you read on the Internet just because there’s a picture with a quote next to it” — Abraham Lincoln
I get that. I think it took me a full semester in uni, and a summer internship, and maybe a few more months after that. It's hard to really break through. But once I did, it got a lot easier.
So, I agree that an awful lot of what passes for research and treatment is chosen based on the comfort zone of the practitioners, more than what is most likely to be found to help the patient. But I think in this case you are attacking one of the ones that is more likely to be useful.
> The public needs to be brought up to speed (technically)

Yeah this is the main thing

I think most people don't realize the value of privacy
The backend is expected to return html. HTMX is not a markup language
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Sad that no one has balls to say "Nah, we are not giving away our superintelligence to military use. You will fuck everything up, as you have done it with nuclear weapons".
>> and all those thousands of full-time employees working on Linux would have created value for the shareholders of their employers, not value for the Linux users (like they currently do now)

> But aren't the biggest Linux users companies? They use Linux for their data centers, for the mobile phones they sell.

Yes, and? I am not seeing the point you are trying to make ... those "biggest Linux users companies" are making large contributions to Linux. That is, in fact, the point of the GPL - that they make their contributions to all linux users, not just to their shareholders.
You've already got the answer, but do you have access to ChatGPT at all? I often forget the names of things like this and LLMs seem to be really good at reminding me of names, words, terminology, etc. I pasted your post into ChatGPT and it got Webmention right away! :)
I don't think Google cares at this point to break Firefox on purpose vs simply not testing changes on it at all.

Whenever I need to use Chrome for whatever reason, I simply open Microsoft Edge - not that Microsoft is any better than Google in general, but at least it doesn't own the Internet.
The 1700-year old Speyer wine bottle is thought to be drinkable.
There is no difference for 99.999% of people.

You are so unlikely to get exploited by a browser vulnerability (if you update) that it's not worth writing about. The people powerful/rich enough have or can acquire an exploit for both.

The choice of browsers is more about what features you want and whether you want a browser engine monopoly or not. Firefox has a few features I like not present in chromium and it's also not part of the monopoly so I use it.
It sounds like it was mostly an issue with releasing so late in the SNES lifecycle more than anything. I bet the original cartridge was quite expensive but how long until you recoup?

Remember, in 1997 you were going to shop anyways. Major stores investing in the writer would be a no-brainer.
>On the other hand, Bob keeps asking for a self-serve reporting tool but in my experience, he doesn't actually want to use it.

Bob can't have it both ways. ;0)

>So why not let engineers use the tools they prefer?

Empowering end-users shouldn't mean forcing engineers to use the same tools, against their will.
Urgh, that's what get trying to write a comment through an app (and sadly edit time window is gone). Anyway, the `local` does. It is a manually managed sub-hierarchy, compared to rest being system managed. So `/bin` and `/usr/bin` will have executables managed through a package manager whereas `/local/bin` is were admin will put executables by themselves to be accessible by all users. Also, it's were `make install` will put its builds by default. Systemd provides a per-user similar hierarchy in `~/.local`, which has a `~/.local/bin` directory.
Corrected link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd110nl7dppo
> The gulf between demo and useful tool is much wider than we thought.

This is _always_ the problem with these things. Voice transcription was a great tech demo in the 1990s (remember DragonDictate?), and there was much hype for a couple of years that, by the early noughties, speech would be the main way that people use computes. In the real world, 30 years on, it has finally reached the point where you might be able to use it for things provided that accuracy doesn't matter at all.
> Is it proven to be massively profitable?

Oh sure, yes. For Nvidia.

Gold rush, shovels...
Fair enough. I've seen many excellent keyboards beaten into unusable states in university labs. The only ones that can resist that kind of environment are the IBM Model M and F's (few universities were rich enough for beam spring ones, even fewer for Hall-effect ones)