skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s obviously better being ruled by someone who lives closer to you, looks like you, speaks like you, and shares your values. That is basically how participants in a representative democracy think. Even if my local ruler is a corrupt incompetent PoS, I’d rather have him than some alien calling the shots. I acknowledge that perspectives can be biased.

I’m a native of a former colony so I absolutely hate colonialism and don’t see any good coming out of it. Even though it I try to detach myself from that situation, I can see some good things have been done. But I think it’s fair to reason that we could have done those things ourselves given enough time and interaction with the outside world.

At the same time it appears to me that people who are natives of former coloniser powers who want to keep apologising for and even glorifying the imperial times do so by minimising the extremely harmful effects of settler imperialism. Maybe they are compensating for the rise of a section of their culture which is too apologetic of their own history.

So even though the actual events of history and their consequences are complex, in the current time I’d rather have a king/queen who has all their eggs in my basket than have a backup option somewhere else.
Reading posts like this make just wonder: how can one be so off? I mean in the “missing forest for the trees” sense of off.

What exactly was this guy doing? Was he accessing secrets to sell them to north korea or was he exposing crimes against humanity, conspiracies against the public interest, and violations of international law?

I wonder something. Let’s say the mafia spent on Hollywood and mainstream news enough to develop mainstream culture to the point where the mafia is legitimized in the eyes of enough of the public. You would defend mob punishment of someone who steals documents from them wouldn’t you?

I wonder what is it that makes you ready to side with authority and blame the (potential) victim? Do you always side with authority because it’s more comfortable to pretend they are noble than to admit to yourself that you ignore the tyranny of an evil, abusive authority? Do you blame the Gazans for Israel dropping bombs on their apartment buildings or burning their children alive in the refugee tent camps (that Israel declared as safe) because nearly two decades ago Hamas won the election in Gaza? Do you blame the millions Vietnamese for getting agent orange dropped on them because they dared to tolerate deviations from what the Americans desired in terms of Vietnamese economic/civic management?

It’s an interesting thing to see people jump to defend an authority when they lash out from a position which is so clearly not the moral high ground. Why is that? The American Government destroyed this mans life because he exposed their crimes. You can’t ignore the Governments crimes — which stretch far back —- while being fixated on his violations of some social contract that has been long trampled upon by the government itself.
Not sure how you worked that out from the most terrible map I've seen where everything is a "slightly greener shade of green" to disambiguate it from the other green bits, but kudos!

When your internet speed map looks like a topographical map, you need to adjust your colours.
They are also losing a hell of a lot of money - 1 billion in the last year. On a bit more than 50k shipped vehicles, that is around USD 20K loss per vehicle.

And it is a 15 year old company, not a new startup.
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That is incorrect there are quite large Jewish orthodox cities inside Palestinian territories Like Elad and Beitar Elit. They are quite big. However they are relatively close to the Israeli border and not 'in your face' settlements.
100%. I get better internet here in a small town in the third world at the bottom of Africa than I did in Salamis (very short boat ride from Athens for non-Greek readers).

Of course, my experience has a 10+ year gap now, things have definitely grown in Greece as OP has highlighted in the post, but I remember still having 100+ ping while connecting to European servers. Nowadays from Cape Town I "only" hit 150.
Please elaborate on how "maybe they don't need good infrastructure" can be taken positively. It is, at best, deeply patronizing.
Macs only had a free version of Hypercard for a few years in the late '80s / early '90s, before it became a commercial product again (first under Claris then back to Apple). By the Mac OS 8 / 9 era it was a moribund product on life support, not something bundled with new systems.
Sure, but that protection (that doesn't fully exist in practice but should) would still go to Manning rather than Assange.

Assange is to Manning as Glenn Greenwald is to Snowden. (Except for all the differences which make the legal issues in this case a thing in the first place).
What I hear is that similar techniques should/could be used by explicitly modeling it not as an interval (6.9, 7.1) but as a gaussian distribution of 7±0.1, and a computer can do the arithmetic to see what the final distribution is after a set of calculations.
>Can someone explain this more simply?

It comes down to the fact that not every set can be reasonably assigned a volume. Once you restrict yourself to sets where volume is meaningfully defined, the paradox immediately disappears and your reasoning becomes completely valid.
Finally more Android extensions, than previously only being possible with Fennec
Yes, they really are.

https://airwars.org/
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He does quite a lot of dates and some are pretty accurate. Computers winning chess he predicted one year later than it happened.
Turing test he predicted 2029 and while not very clearly defined I'd say that is happening about now.
A proper archive deals solely in storing and preserving works thereof.

Note that redistribution isn't among them, and as such copyright doesn't apply because there is no copying for copyright to be concerned with. Aside from copying that must occur as a practical matter of archiving, of course, which are protected by the exceptions I cited.

This is why I said archives may not be directly available to the public, because once you start redistributing you are beholden to copyright regulations and otherwise the demands of rightsholders thereof. The very fact we can access that page freely is proof that the Internet Archive is not an archive.

Libraries, specifically those that aren't private libraries which are a form of archive, such as public libraries and institutions like the Library of Congress operate abiding copyright. Either by signing contracts with rightsholders permitting such redistribution or by adhering to the exceptions provided by copyright laws.

In other words: No, the Internet Archive is not an archive; they either don't know what an archive is, or more likely they are disingenuously calling themselves an archive to try and skirt the law which is unacceptable particularly if someone is proposing funding them with public monies.

For the record, I have no personal qualms with the Internet Archive dealing in pirated goods if they are honest about it. They will still reap the books thrown at them anyway, but honesty is a virtue. I do have a problem with them claiming to be an archive or even a library and serving a public good: Hell no they are not, fucking liars they are.
https://airwars.org/
Finally, some good news! Now if every other website would drop this horrible "feature".
The insult is in thinking that they somehow don't "need" material things just because they have so many other good things going in their life.
As other commentators have pointed out - the fact that we can do something technically, at the highest levels of competence - does not mean we usually do, or can do such a thing at scale. If you look through the enormous majority of publicly available scans, from Google Books to Project Gutenberg, you'll find low resolution scans with alignment issues, colour issues even missing pages. You're also accessing books at the whim of the legal and technical infrastructure you don't control.

Sure you could keep a secret digital archive to pass hand to hand for circumstances when (as has just happened to the internet archive) thousands or millions of books are suddenly banned. But you're relying on access to open computer architectures that don't phone home your reading of those books (like Microsoft's 'Recall'). You're reliant on power. You're reliant on compatibility into the future. With a printed book, you have a physical object, duplicated hundreds of thousands of times and distributed. A physical book can be read by daylight in a refugee camp, a war zone, a desert.

It may seem a silly example, but if the Roman or better yet the Aztec empire had written their manuscripts digitally - we likely wouldn't have a single record from that era. They would have been erased through chaos or deliberate eradication. Don't be so quick to dismiss the physical.
No: https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/greece-popula...
I have all I need right on my desktop. Expedia deals? Check. Candy Crush? Check. The current weather on the other side of the world using units I don't understand? Check. Everything came pre-installed too, so it's just the out of the box apple experience.

Enshitification ensues.
I built a collaboration app using Firebase - it works okay for that sort of thing, where you're highly constraining what each person does to their own comments / cards, and they just have permission to do certain things. For things with a load of backend logic I can't imagine it working that well.
> Exercise sucks. I am overweight. I much prefer Ozempic

There is zero need for exercise if one wants to lose weight.
> requires a ton of data

Not a problem for Google, right?

> constant updating

I guess the cars can and will update the mapping in real time ?

> at best in certain cities

If mapping a city is possible, so it's mapping a highway, even easier.

If cars do update the maps themselves, they require might just a couple of human-driven passes of the standard WWaymo cars on a highway to generate the maps.
Completely wrong. From the Wikipedia article: "Given a solid ball in three-dimensional space, there exists a decomposition of the ball into a finite number of disjoint subsets, which can then be put back together in a different way to yield two identical copies of the original ball."

There is absolutely no issue with uncountability here. The issue is with the particular shape of the parts, where V is not reasonably definable.
"Exercise sucks. I am overweight." - to beat the weight problem exercise will do little. It's mostly what you eat. Exercise is for muscles, shape, health, blood pressure and many other great stuff and sometimes for weight loss, but generally exercise is not a good way to lose weight, in fact it can boost the hunger feeling and you could eat more calories without noticing. Ozempic is good for weight loss (with some risks but it's a great tool) and if combined with shaping good food habits - eventually you can drop the ozempic and keep the weight, and when weight is good, exercise is much easier (but still sucks for many). Some do prefer to bike as a form of exercise that's both healthy and greatly improves leg muscles which can help if joints were destroyed when the person was overweight. But ozempic will not help with health problems related to lack of exercise and sedentary life, it'll help just for weight(and sometimes addiction) loss. Use the right tools for right puroses to reach your goals
If "always a way" implies anything about difficulty, it implies that there are challenges to overcome, not ease.
Just continuing the "lazy" thread, I'm annoyed at OP, not you, throwaway.
Yeah, this kind of automatism turns nullary functions into brittle things where you never know when or how often they get evaluated. Even if you have no side-effects, a potentially expensive computation is in itself a side-effect that you want to control when it happens.

A nullary function is a different type from its return type, and should better be handled as such.
Fire! I have been using in for a few days - also helps me in understanding difficult content better!
High Court ruling shows behind the scene boardroom battle at failed UK startup
Original printings and original manuscripts are different types of originals, and contain different types of data for scholars. They are not fungible.

Do you presume that nobody is bothering to try to preserve natively digital culture? Because I assure you people do. Do you presume nobody will care in the future? Why would that be the case?

What a strange, smugly uninformed angle.
The author is considering streaming the electrical measurement experiments in a day, according to the Zhihu answers.

Since this thread is down from the top, I'm also considering posting another one as soon as the stream link comes out. I'm not sure if this violates the "duplicate" rule of HN, but I think broadcasting such a major physics breakthrough is worth a try.
1) depends, I find ML much more interesting than software engineering.

2) Not me

3) With difficulty, but through courses like fast.ai

If you’re not into maths and problem solving this is probably the wrong path. The main value add you bring is being able to transform a business problem into solvable maths.

Read Introduction to statistical learning and look at the fast.ai courses. I also recommend the paper attention is all you need. If you find all of those things interesting and not too mathsy then I’d say go for the switch. Else, maybe look at options in data engineering or as a software engineer in a ML team.
Oh, Apple is way more forceful than that. I keep finding myself in the situation where I pause YouTube on my headphones, speak for a while with someone, click to unpause and instead of resuming on YouTube that starts Apple Music playing the same U2 album. I'm still refusing to set that damn thing up, much less have it be the default recipient of the play button.
LikeC4 – a modeling language for describing software architecture
It was Vista!! I remember the cpu, ram and fan speed all goes 100% when hovering on one.
A momentous occasion, which the free people of the world should be celebrating with a great deal of relief.

Lets hope he continues the mission in a fashion that prevents his further capture by the criminals whose heinous acts he sought to expose to the free world.
There is no solution. The problem is not in the lack of funding or interest from investors. The public itself is not interested in preventing. They think the probability of something bad happening for them is low (for example heart attack) thus they are not willing to put in the effort and proactively try to prevent it (for example by exercising). This can be either from a lack of accurate data or even when the data is accurate and available someone might still interpret it differently. For me a 3 percent chance might be insignificant for someone else 1 percent is still high.
Snowden next?
That's exactly what I meant by suffering from the market yeah. That's another reason why I'm not working on windows. I'm enjoying higher salaries and better working conditions thanks to that.

Also development is a global market nowadays so that makes it even worse for this kind of jobs since they don't usually offer a remote option. It's telling that you say "where I live", where I live there's just no development job at all actually.
No. Prices are that low in Italy.
In India, credit cards and even debit cards (which have much lower transaction fee) were never a hit. UPI changed everything, it is easy, convenient and has zero cost for either party.

12.20 billion UPI transactions in a month (January 2024).
> I want widgets on Windows desktop

> Instead what I have is ads

laughs in kde
The issue is simple really. We evolved in an environment where resources are scarce and energy conservation is critical. These instincts applied to the industrialized society lead to overeating and inactivity. Very few possess the willpower to overcome this on their own.
Yeah, returning 500 for a long time now.
dotenvx: A better dotenv–from the creator of dotenv
Worth noting: Carson Gross built _hyperscript[0], a HyperCard-inspired language that gets interpreted in the browser.

Also worth noting: the same Carson Gross built htmx[1].

They are separate projects, but they play together nicely.

[0]https://hyperscript.org/
[1]https://htmx.org/
exercise in most cases will not help you getting fit, you are most likely to have a greater appetite after exercising. Exercise on the other hand can improve health in other ways and ozempic will not help there
This was obviously written by a JS beginner (ex: basic mistake on the "missing" function, the author thinks that `this` refers to the function?, same about the `undefined` implicit global assignment..)
Yes, lack of true competition is a big problem.

Unfortunately, all relevant watchdogs are unable or unwilling to ensure the proper functioning of the market, which is free only on paper for some key industries (banking, internet/mobile services, supermarkets, ferries, energy, etc.).
... from now on, organic search results will appear on page 2
The Open University runs a Master's program in systems thinking (which I'm currently studying). There's a free primer course called 'Mastering systems Thinking in Practice' that gives a good overview and is full of references for further reading in the field: https://www.open.edu/openlearn/science-maths-technology/mast...

There's also a developing community at https://www.systemsinnovation.network/, where there are also many (subscription) resources.

The articles, books, and guides available (free) at https://thesystemsthinker.com/ are also worth a look. This mostly pertains to system dynamics rather than any other traditions, but it's a great resource for understanding complexity.
The cost of diet point is absolutely true. I'm a writer and filmmaker living in Europe - i.e.: poor. I've also got a variety of food intolerances and health issues, which compound over time. To help with stomach and sleep issues I'm currently trying to eat only foods I cook from scratch: mostly fish, meat and veg and a little fruit. It's wildly more expensive (and time consuming) than cooking prepackaged food. Fortunately I'm located in Ireland where there are plentiful sources of good quality fresh veg and meat, but it has literally doubled my weekly shop cost vs say pasta, chips, processed meat and other cheap carbs.
Well, one clear market-based solution would be pricing transportation appropriately. If people were allowed to not pay for car infrastructure (via parking minimums, restrictive zoning, taxpayer-funded highways, etc. et.) and take their bike and train instead there would be a strong price signal to encourage the healthier activity.

I moved to the Netherlands a year ago and have already lost 9kg (about 20 pounds) without really even trying that hard. I just don't have a car.

It's even more baffling we don't do this because this is cheaper AND healthier. If the same organisation is paying for health care and transport (like a national government) than it should be a blindingly obvious solution.
Matthew Garrett: "Quick Assange frequent misconceptions thread"
The 2024 standard is out, but behind a paywall; I don't know when they will update the Open Group website.
I would like to setup some messaging solution for me and my friends and family to avoid spying.

My internet conmection and power have some downtime here on the country side, so ideally I would want something that have redundant server nodes. Dunno if that exists.
There are fun ways to exercise. You should give more things a try!

Ozempic may help with weight loss but there are other health reasons to exercise.
Loose typing and truthy/falsy values are a disaster waiting to happen, not least b/c it obfuscates intention and also because every language that has it at all has slightly different rules. If I had a say I'd want an opt-in for JS that makes it illegal (a runtime error; compilation error for constants) to have anything but a Boolean in the conditional part of an `if` statement.
> Ask a small hotel owner in one of the islands about their plan of turning their property into a "hacker house" in the off-season.

Maybe instead they should look into making their hotels into "doctor house", or "teacher house" or generally "something affordable by public workers" so that people who move to the island to do their job can have a reasonable life without competing with north EU nomads for living space.
Spotify is the "gatekeeper" standing between listeners and musicians, like how OS vendors are "gatekeepers" standing between users and developers.
I'm wanting to find the original source code that Yahoo had.
or some electrodes connected to your muscles to do exercise for you :))) I feel some techbro vibes here
Different people using different languages is a tooling problem now? This is peak HN.