skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
RethinkDB was actually pretty good from memory, a little underbaked but expected for a new DB. I think they also kind of just lost out on the marketing war with MongoDB at the time.
check out John Mearshimer's recent content about the Ukraine / Russia conflict.

In my view: Putin is a patient, reasonable strategist who is trying to defend his country against significant aggression by US Neocons. US Neocons do not respect the maturity and sacrifice that led to the de-escalation of the cold war, and they want to incite conflict with Russia both out of ignorance of history and payments from Ukrainian oligarchs -- don't forget much of the wealth of the USSR was captured by a small number of oligarchs -- arguably including Putin -- and they don't all want Putin having all the power.

To be clear, the payments are not always direct, but across the US political spectrum there are many people who have set up shop as gatekeepers. Rudy Giulliani, Hunter Biden, and many many more are able to easily make millions a year doing the bidding of various eastern bloc billionaires. We are seeing the policy impact of their work at play in Ukraine now.
Discussion (721 points, 20 hours ago, 257 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40791829
It's not running in Canada either.
> The problems happened because rebasing changes the identity of commits. When merging that result, commits that have previously been merged create conflicts as they now need to be re-merged under the alias of a different commit hash.

And this literally cannot happen in the standard rebase workflow where you have one development branch and then rebase your feature branches on top of that development branch before (fast-forward) merging.
One of these days we're going to learn our lesson and just write our own damned code.
It's from an account that literally has a post complaining about "The Jews" ending with "Heil Hitler". I quote: "I cannot wait for the 30s again. I'm so glad I'm here and still young enough to be actively involved in what's to come. H[eil] H[itler]" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40768048

So I think it's pretty clear who they mean with (((spiteful hegemonic elite)))...
That is incorrect, those are not government monopolies, those spaces have private options.

FedEx, DHL, UPS and government USPS

Parks - there’s a ton of types with equivalent public and private versions

Police - private security

Firefighters - there are private fire fighters who protect houses threatened by wildfire - they just don’t need to respond when it comes to responding to stuff like traffic accidents and health incidents

Etc etc
I follow marginal revolution, astral codex ten, rob k henderson, and a number of others who put out links roundups. Those links roundups are very good and useful.

A number of useful blogs show up on HN as well.
The survey covered multiple countries, shockingly even India, 11k responses.
Everyone, by default, knows how they feel.
Burnout is something that happens to you no matter what you care about.
The GDPR says my personal data is not for sale without my consent.

The only people objecting to this are some US companies who haven't yet understood that unnecessary personal data is now a liability & trading it without the owners consent is not just unethical, it is illegal. As it should be.

EDIT: This downvoting is getting silly. If you object to what I have written, explain why in the comments. Downvoting a well made argument simply because you disagree with it leads to groupthink and a lack of discourse. It is disappointing see this on NH. Downvoting should be reserved for text that detracts from the conversation.
Researcher extracts DRM key from Microsoft and downloads Netflix movies
From the researcher's site [1]:

> On Jun 11, 2024 Microsoft engineer posted on a public forum information about a crash experienced with Apple TV service on a Surface Pro 9 device.

Ouch. This should not be too bad for hardware-based DRM levels since keys are better protected there (and properly done hardware-based DRM doesn't need to lean on security through obscurity), but I'm not sure if PlayReady also has any software-only levels.

[1] https://security-explorations.com/microsoft-warbird-pmp.html
Sure and while we both wait for visual studio to be installed, I will have solved the problem in Ruby already.

Edit - No Rails, I never said rails.
Yeah because ICE cars are entirely silent.

I'll take the low-speed EV sounds over how loud most ICE cars are pretty much any day.
I can see some click wars currently ongoing :-)
I just consider it lesser of two evils, never said it's better or should be that way ¯\_(:/)_/¯
But, the fact that Nvidia cards command higher margins also reflects their better software stack, right? Nvidia “lets them” trade blows in the midrange, or, equivalently, Nvidia is receiving the reward of their software investments: even their midrange hardware commands a premium.
My comment was out of disappointment: how much HN traffic generates the condom of Assange in comparison with how the justice handled the leaks case. It's almost like, sex would be more important to chat than freedom? Or are we all already in agreement over WikiLeaks and banter here only about the dropped rape case? If yes, it wasn't obvious to me, sorry. I do trust the justice to be served to proven rapists and if not, by all means let's raise our voices. And by the way, the case of Weinstein is by no means comparable with Assange's, in scope or implications - which cases again were not the topic here but look at me, getting dragged into the very out-of-topic discussions I complained about.
> Even well into the PPC era Classic Mac OS carried that culture of fun third party software.

Apple knew it lived and died by third party developer adoption.-

(Now is all "app stores", walled gardens and "where is our 30%", first and foremost ...)
If you want something more general purpose, Canonical Multipass has a good sample docker setup. Annoyingly, This is the only Canonical product I can recommend at this point.

I use it with MacOS. I assume WSL is a better choice for Windows laptops, and there’s no reason to add a VM to get docker on Linux.

https://multipass.run/docs/docker-how-to
Harvesting that efficiently is still a problem and requires comparatively large tracts of land. More importantly time shifting that daytime solar is a huge problem and you can’t handwave it away; this article is talking about how we’ve grossly underestimated the amount of resources needed for vehicle EV while grid batteries would shift that even more. We might get lucky with a totally new battery chemistry, but battery chemistry moves relatively slowly.
In the Commodore Amiga you can turn off and on the power light. Weird for these times.
Illuminate with Precision: The Importance of Shadowless Surgical Lights
For those who may be wondering what became of the erstwhile Free & Open Source LiveCode Community Edition (LCCE), check out OpenXTalk:

https://openxtalk.org/

and Forum:

https://www.openxtalk.org/forum/

and Downloads:

https://openxtalk.org/OXTDownloads.html

Some of the download links are for RCs of the OpenXTalk DON'T PANIC! Edition (DPE) IDE , which is a fork of LCCE

GitHub of OXT DPE:

https://github.com/OpenXTalk-org/OpenXtalk-IDE-DontPanicEdit...

Other download links are to another fork, OpenXTalk Lite Edition (OXT Lite), which seems to have recently been rebranded to "tIDE."

tIDE Homepage:

https://www.tsites.co.uk/sites/other/other.php

EDIT: LiveCode, not Live Code.
While I agree with some of this post, I am confused this by this part:

> The state is full of moral decay

What do you mean? And can you provide some clear examples?

I do think many people here are not aware of the political situation in Singapore. On the surface, it is a multi-party democracy. However, looking deeper, you will see the majority party has always been the same since independence from Malaysia: The People's Action Party (PAP). (Man, that party name has such a distopian vibe to it, like a political party name from the original Blade Runner film!) Also, freedom of speech (and media) is incredibly weak -- in name only, similar to Mainland China (and now Hongkong). And, they have very strong libel laws that the gov't frequently uses against critics.
Metal recycling is critical for both the metal resources themselves and the carbon reduction. Secondary aluminum production is much less carbon intense than primary.

New sorting technologies have been developed which enable fine separation of aluminum alloys. LIBS and XRF backscattering should enable the industry to take a step forward and get low quality Twitch products into higher quality fast and wrought products.

The industry has been slow to adopt these technologies because it’s hard! Sorting is difficult work and sensor based sorting opens up massive decision spaces.
What we did was compare it to the previous peak, and then 1.1x that or so. That works well for trading breakthrough patterns.

If you're going long term, then it's quite different because there may never really be a peak. There might be corrections or something every now and then, but they whole idea behind long term is that these don't matter.

I would actually tie it to the other two - you'd have to detect when a stock is overpriced, and you'd have to detect catalysts.

Still tough. Meta sunk on their rebranding not so much because of the metaverse but because FB had been dead for a while. But the announcement was the catalyst. If Meta had been underpriced, it would have been a positive catalyst and people would have applauded the metaverse. Which would probably have triggered catalysts on RBLX, MSFT, and other metaverse players.

NVDA had been underpriced for a while, and the multiple catalysts have made it shoot up, though it's possible another one in the future could make it crash.

So IMO it's not just one point, the other detectors also help to filter the noise.
Not directly related to this specific story, but does anyone know of a survey looking at what kind of accuracy / bias we see in long-term predictions from research? Predicting anything 25 years out is naturally challenging, but we also now have a long history of academics / think tanks / etc producing various long-term predictions. Of 25-year predictions made 25 years ago, how badly did most predictions do? Are there attributes of how the research is done which correlates to greater accuracy?
Nice: to be secure on the web, you just need to install an add-on which needs to:

Access browser tabs
Store unlimited amount of client-side data
Access browser activity during navigation
Access your data for all websites
>If we all just did the absolute minimum then society and humanity would never get anywhere because you'd never know who a good worker is.

Maybe that's why it's not getting anywhere compared to how it should be ;)
> Plenty of Tesla owners (and owners of all sorts of other vehicles including high-end sports cars and luxury vehicles) already rent out their vehicles to strangers on Turo. Listing them on Tesla's platform instead won't be a large change. A lot of owners might actually prefer it if it allows more fine-grained options (eg. no rides past 9pm, no rides more than 50 miles from home) instead of renting it out for 24 hour periods.

The entry bar for renting a vehicle on Turo is quite a bit more substantial than hailing an Uber. I looked at making my cars available.

You can restrict the age of the driver (anything vaguely high end I see required you to be 30+), require substantial deposits ($750), proof of your own insurance, mileage and location limitations, and more. Versus "Downloaded the Robotaxi app and put in a credit card number".
I would consider this a massive success!
I think you are speaking of the federal poverty line and they are talking about the ordinary definition of poverty. Nobody making the actual federal poverty line is surviving without help most places.

Plenty of people are living in poverty whilest working full time.
I'm not claiming it is though, only comparing relative degrees of alienation from the outcome of your work.
Article title: Neko: History of a Software Pet

(2022) Discussion on HN (72 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32037254
I think the point is did the city simply evict the poor people and build nice things to attract rich people? Forget all the escape velocity stuff, I assume they’re talking about gentrification. So what is the diversity of Carmel? Were some of the poor people elevated because they lived in a growing city, or they were they simply pushed out because doctors, lawyers, execs, and engineers moved there because they set up pretty parks and good schools for kids?
(I am afraid AIs will do most of the "exploration" for us, this days, sadly ...

... while we gladly just "prompt" - which, in itself, might be an exporatory technique. We'll see.-
Alternative Apple ID / Google account with region set in US. Always useful to have! For Android it's much easier, I have a bunch (for every country I've lived in) set up on my phone simultaneously and I can just switch in the Play Store.
The Fukushima exclusion zone, at its largest, was 807 square km.

Denmark is 42952 square km.

Japan is substantially more densely-populated than Denmark.
A cow delivers around 9000 L milk a year. 100 USD/a/cow will raise the production costs for around a little above 1 USDcent/L. Negligible.
(I made the site)

this was on purpose! I figured there have been enough collaborative internet drawing experiences (with a locked canvas that was easy to draw on) that it'd be interesting to try something a little different and see what emerged.

That said, it might be a dumb idea! But I wanted to try it.
That is not what I mean. I mean that the compiler follows the programmer's intent.
Not necessarily, synthetic fuel is being developed for air transport and could also be used in internal combustion car engines. Not sure anyone is seriously working on it, and I don't know how the economics compare. One advantage would be that we already have the distribution infrastructure in place for liquid motor vehicle fuel. Our electrical infrastructure is going to need significant upgrading at least in places to handle charging if all vehicles are EVs.
I treat my desktop as a temp dir and manually empty it every few days.

A desktop hygiene tip I read years ago (but can't remember where) is to increase the size of your desktop icons almost to the point of being ridiculously large, like 96x96. This way your desktop will "fill up" faster, forcing you to clear it more regularly.
I’ve checked out quite a few RAG projects now and what I haven’t seen really solved is ingestion, it’s usually like “this is an endpoint or some connectors, have fun!”.

How do I do a bulk/batch ingest of say, 10k html documents into this system?
The art market is a very interesting one - in both that it's driven in large part by human factors ( psychological ), and it's quite open to manipulations of various sorts.

If you want to study pathologies markets can accrue then in my view the art market is a very good area to study.
Your friend is probably a retard if he invites you for a coffee and tells you to engineer a plant to terraform Mars.
Broken Toilet? There's a Plumber on FaceTime for That.
https://archive.ph/En9SO
Just the latest attempt at fascism from the right wing. Apparently, the only real purpose they see for government is mandating their ideology.

Support this at your own peril.
Yes people always complain but I personally have no problem with consuming 'content marketing' as long as a) the content is legitimately interesting and not low effort and b) the creator is legit, not some shady company.
I’m not sure how this puts things now to shame. Yes it’s very playful and neat, but it’s wildly impractical. It doesn’t really “do” anything by itself. Instead you’ve to build up all interactions, most of which are physical, and know how to do so. And what’s the result? Some spring interactions and markers on a bitmap?

Compare this to how the web or apps are used today. They’re task/purpose driven, and all of the UX has already been thought out. It’s a far more simple and straightforward approach to build the functionality you want which you refine over time than to give a blank canvas that does everything and nothing and tell people to go figure it out themselves.

It seems to me this is really just wanting to take the underpinnings of small talk and turn it into a physical UI representation. That’s fun… but now what? I’m zero percent surprised this hasn’t lasted.
Great post with lots of good links.

Yeah, no kidding. PM Lee's wife, HO Ching is head of Temasek. It is ridiculous. That place is run like an Asian family business -- so much nepotism.

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Ching
If you're running uBlock Origin, you can also add it to your filters.

discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40792322

I wonder if it would just better to edit your /etc/hosts file and add something like to this to it:

127.0.0.1 polyfill.io
127.0.0.1 www.polyfill.io
127.0.0.1 cdn.polyfill.io

I use both FF and Chrome, and I use multiple profiles on Chrome, so I have to go in an add the filter for each profile and browser. At least for my personal laptop where I can do this. Not sure about my work one.

edit: looks like uBlock is already blocking it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40796938
I doesn't make sense because they can market to both at the same time.
What is special about the red checkboxes?
black and purple hair, face piercings, green eyes, 2000s emo inspired
There's a chicken and the egg problem with this fear and approach to OSS. More permissive licenses (Apache, BSD) encourage adoption since it's hard to go afoul with them. At the same time, they allow someone like AWS to sell the DB as a hosted service.

People are trying to have their cake and eat it too with open-source DBs (and it's mostly DBs). Historically, OSS was either for anyone for anything, or it was a viral license trying to build a GNU ecosystem. The DBs playing licensing games have been using OSS as a growth hack, they doing a bait-and-switch once they're popular.

At least starting with the AGPL up-front is honest, but considering the client-server nature of this DB, it makes it a non-starter for me.
Circular economy can mitigate rising mining demand from global EV production
Google does not give a damn, I reported multiple fake sites posing as famous brands on youtube ads they didn't do anything and rejected the reports.

Contact the registrar and hosting services.
Thanks a lot for your kind words!

Really like your thoughts!

Indeed, lack of time-series observability makes it harder for us to find general patterns or causal events.

Definitely agree that biology is the pinnacle of all complexity - IMO something like macroeconomics or human behavior within set systems (society, politics, etc.) is fairly reducible to a very small and finite set of incentives that agents optimise for (food, shelter, status, acceptance, etc.).

Given this, Non-linearity and stochasticness still adds up to a general nature of non-determinism for the entire system.

With Biology on the other hand is extremely more complicated to study as - correct me if I'm wrong - it's still hard to realise what agents in systems are optimising for. reduction of free energy? reproduction? general homeostasis? etc. and then all these play varying roles in diff contexts, and then we'll still have to figure out how/why self-assembly and "wholes" emerging from smaller "wholes" (... ad infinitum) actually happens.

Really fuzzy thoughts but I believe There is some merit in exploring reducibility and observability from a time series perspective while considering effects of synchronity/asynchronity of observability and later how much we can desirably steer systems. Really fuzzy but I hope to work on this a bit more.

Thanks a lot for your very interesting comments! Not discouraged at all, love your view on systems theory being a "routine analysis" like statistics, i.e. a very generally applicable layer or meta-science that's an entirely new way to see things, which I should've articulated better in my post.
Structural mechanism of bridge RNA-guided recombination
It's true. While we're complaining about his sister, we could easily be complaining about someone who came into power of a well-endowed foundation with an agenda we don't like. It doesn't take too much imagination to, say, imagine a climate extremist who blames all computers and cyberspace for consuming so much energy and destroying the planet.

One friend who toured Montechello recently said that there's so much emphasis on slavery that the house has been turned into a monument to the bad things that Thomas Jefferson did in his life. I'm not saying this is incorrect or bad. Only that I don't think this is how Thomas Jefferson imagined his house would be used after his death.
>>" all states are authoritarian"

If you believe that, you believe in rendering language meaningless

Authoritarianism is on a spectrum, and there is a MASSIVE difference between very authoritarian states like Russia and China vs the USA.

If the USA operated like Russia or China, Julian Assange would have disappeared or been executed decades ago, and not be set free today.

Under more democratic societies, the institutions of government and society are all independent. In govt, the executive, legislative, judicial branches, and in society the institutions of press, academy, industry, religion, commerce, sport, community, etc. all operate largely independently of each other. Under absolute or relative authoritarianism, they are coerced to varying degrees to serve the benefit and/or whim of the executive.

Again, there is a massive difference, and I'm afraid it is you who are failing to bring thought to the conversation. Good day.
The page with my name in the HyperCard 10th Anniversary Stack is a stack I made that was added to that project. It does a bunch of weird things to simulate the Mac Finder, none of which seem to work in the simulator (which makes sense, it's possible that it even uses Apple Script, I don't remember the details).

After finding out that this stack still exists, I also found it on archive.org. It works correctly (although slowly) on the Archive.org emulator:
https://archive.org/details/hypercard_hc_10th_anniversary
I would argue that it's still much better to run "real" jobs in a daemon or in a multiplexer like screen or tmux. But for picking stuff up, agreed, mosh is amazing.
Good point, teams video calls seems better;
Slack video was a late addition.

The Slack-using employer also used Zoom. MS is the all-in-one in this regard too.
>some major problems we’ve had with it. First is that it runs primarily on your own hardware

that's a feature not a bug
> "If you own a website, loading a script implies an incredible relationship of trust with that third party," he Xeeted at the time.

Are people actually calling Tweets "Xeets" now?
Why do you need a benefit of doubt? The audio of the helicopter gunners is recorded.

And my general judgement of the war was quite clear I think.

So if you come to a different conclusion about the facts, then I am interested in your arguments.
My first thought as well. There's a strong argument against prohibition of the sale of human organs.
I don't know what's the use case, but it like it already
Bet we won’t.
>The GDPR says my personal data is not for sale without my consent.

Which is something totally different from saying that it is never for sale. It is also totally different from saying that a company can never make use of that data.

The analogy to human organs is just ridiculous. The GDPR definitely doesn't treat your data like they were your organs.
The Dragon Book for Compilers
Darn. I wanted to brag to my boss that all of my work was "on the front page of Google!"