skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this sort of thing is going to become more commonplace, but I'm not sure I or anyone else can think of a better solution for now.

Western-aligned powers have been dealing with this prickly aspect of unconventional warfare for some time now: opposing powers intruding into the collective consciousness of their populace to introduce well-designed, self propagating ideas that are harmful to their power base. This basic idea is nothing new, with propaganda being invented somewhere between communication and warfare on the human timeline. However, humanity has never been this connected to so many sources and proxies of information, each being a vector for malicious ideas to spread.

The harmful ideas are best described as a meme in the Richard Dawkins sense. They are harmful to western-aligned powers because these ideas can be things like "democracy doesn't work", or "the government is conspiring against us", or "capitalism is failing". I'm especially fond of the last one, because I don't think it's necessarily untrue - but it's harmful to the powers that be nonetheless. These ideas are not presented so simply: there's usually several layers of indirection, and some sort of built in way of defending against opposing ideas that would cause the harmful idea to be abandoned - this can exploit fear, pride or the need for group identity to do so, for example.

When dealing with unconventional warfare such as this, you have a couple of options as far as I'm aware: innoculate your own populace against harmful ideas; retaliate against opposing powers with your own harmful ideas; or mitigate and remove sources of harmful ideas. That's where events like these start unfolding.

The EU is facing massive disinformation efforts and political interference from external actors, and its fundamentally threatening those in power and their power structures. They are attempting to do number 3 here, and they are running into opposition in the form of free speech absolutism. Whether this is part of a smarter defense built into this web of harmful ideas or just convenient cover, it still results into the survival of those harmful ideas. As the world continues on a trajectory of polarisation socially, politically and economically, I fear we may see more and more of this sort of thing, and it will definitely be abused to suppress good ideas, not just harmful ones. I'm sure it's happening already.
Lambda is servers like kubernetes is servers
Been thirty years since I lived there, but when I lived where there was a coop electric they had data showing underground was overall less reliable. Maybe things are diffarant now.
No, nonsense. What he wanted was to "not sellout". He just didn't understand that meant C&H would slide into obscurity.
That’s the first I’ve heard of the S III Neo. What an odd product. Came out 2 years after the original S III, in practically the same chassis, but with a few parts swapped.

I wonder why it was made.
I can see the advantage from the manufacturer side but I don't think this will be good for longevity of these devices.

In my experience DDR3/4 on laptops is a common component to fail and will often fail before even discs or a CPU. DDR5 is not old enough yet but I would wager this pattern will continue.

One can hope their integrated RAM is more durable. It would be a shame to see soldered CPUs being unusable because of RAM failures. This would make repair for old devices even more financially unviable.
Been quietly wondering something similar to you for a year: I've ended up 95% confident that phenomena is due to people evaluating it in terms of "does it replace me?"

Cosign prompt engineering. My startup is tl;dr "what if i made a on-every-platform app that can sync and let you choose whatever ai provider, and you pay at cost. and then give you a simple UI for piecing together steps like dialogue / ai chat / search / retrieve / use files"

Seems to me the bigs are completely off the mark, lets cede the idea there's an omniscient AI available. Literally right now.

Cool.

It still has no idea how you work.

you could see 42, in hitchhiker's guide the galaxy, as a deep parody of this category error
Ideally, some RAM on a tight and close bus with high bandwidth is a good thing to have in the CPU package. Xeons have HBM since the Phi alongside motherboard based memory.
Here's a list of most follow-ups: https://github.com/lyoshenka/awesome-motherfucking-website

My favourite is https://evenbettermotherfucking.website/ but I'm a sucker for actually nice and readable typography.
Think You Will Live to 100? These Scientists Think You're Wrong
We just published an article introducing gpu.cpp, what it's for, and how it works:

https://www.answer.ai/posts/2024-07-11--gpu-cpp.html
I miss the end of history.
https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/aging-science-life-expec...
You got unlucky with your devices (having unfortunate hardware compatibility) or the ROM maintainers (being inexperienced or just not good). LOS is really great and rarely has any issues coming from the pure source of the OS.
Thanks for posting that - great read. And reading it took me back when I was lucky enough to take Richard Rorty's class (entitled something like Philosopy from Kant to 1900) my freshman year at Princeton. I remember the impact of his lectures about James and pragmaticism - I was a bit of a smart alek - convinced that there was only one right way of looking at the world and I (of course! :) knew what it was. James' Pragmatism and his concept of the cash value of ideas - the idea that you could ask how thinking and believing about the world in some particular way might be valuable to someone (in particular) as a part of measuring its "objective" value (it was a long time ago and I may be not giving a fully accurate report here of what James/Rorty actually said) had a big impact on me.

Rorty left the Philosophy department (for Virginia, I think) pretty soon after that class - due to the kind of disagreement between the analytical philosophers and him rumored to be at the root of the Bernstein/Yale break (Rorty didn't believe that logic was the core of philosophy).

And Rorty was a gifted lecturer with an extremely dry sense of humor. I think I laughed more often in that class than in any other that was to follow.
This team has a pretty active YouTube channel that is worth checking out too.

https://youtube.com/@siderolabs
you used more words but it sounds like your product is a video meeting product. I'm not sure having more meetings with your product will cut down on the number of meetings I have, but I understand why you would rather I have meetings on your platform
There is a trick in truly exclusive references (marked noalias in LLVM). C++ doesn't even have the lesser form of C restrict pointers. However, a truly performance focused C or C++ library would tweak the code to get the desired optimizations one way or another.

A more nebulous Rust perf thing is ability rely on the compiler to check lifetimes and immutability/exclusivity of pointers. This allows using fine-grained multithreading, even with 3rd party code, without the worry it's going to cause heisenbugs. It allows library APIs to work with temporary complex references that would be footguns otherwise (e.g. prefer string_view instead of string. Don't copy inputs defensively, because it's known they can't be mutated or freed even by a broken caller).
Here's one of may favorite anecdotes / fables on the topic.

A young trader joined a financial company. He tried hard to shoe how good and useful he was, and he indeed was, at the rookie level.

One day he made a mistake, directly and undeniably attributable to him, and lost $200k due to that mistake.

Crushed and depressed, he came to his boss and said:

— Sir! I failed so badly. I think I'm not fit for this job. I want to leave the company.

But the boss went furious:

— How dare you, yes, how dare you ask me to let you go right after we've invested $200k in your professional training?!
Never launching the site because of being stuck in the interminable analysis paralysis of choosing a framework kind of says it all.
No
It just comes out as stars
After years of violent rhetoric and attacks like the one on Paul Pelosi, I doubt anyone is surprised.
What an exciting application of AI

...

paid for with revenue from years of predatory sales tactics, exploting defencies in Apple's parental controls by tricking children into buying things without their parents permission then refusing to refund them. Fuck these parasites.
Associative Learning, Books, and Video
I have a little over 6000 books. They are loosely arranged "by subject".
Google has a pile of scanned books (although I can't get access).

The "by subject" classification is a sorta-useful choice but it mixes my book
on invertebrate learning (octopus) with the "biology pile", or the "learning pile",
or other "piles". The question becomes "where does it fit"?

Currently most of my books (after 1970 or so) have an ISBN but that is related
to the publisher, not the subject. The Dewey system helps a little but not all
books seem to have a number. Many people gift me books they no longer want
so they don't come from libraries (great joy!)

I've been toying with the idea of "conceptual distance" but haven't found a way
to express or compute it. I've recently been thinking about asking an AI system
to generate a "classification in a landscape". Thinking about it, I recently pondered
the idea of using an AI to read the table of contents to find and arrange youtube
videos for each chapter. Thus a table of contents creates a "local landscape".

I came across a recent article
https://thelastwave.substack.com/p/associative-data-structures

This person queries Claude (Anthropic) about concept associations
and builds a network of concepts. As expected, there are "clusters" that show
up in such a network of concepts (which I call "clades").

So it seems that it would be possible to create a "position number" for a book
(or video, or idea, or ...) in a "landscape". So information sources have a
"conceptual distance" from many other related concepts. This is essentially
exposing the "concept map of the internet".

A useful side-effect of such a landscape is that it highlights "clades" (or "clusters").
Such a landscape is a guide to select future "interdisciplinary research".

How to "number" such a concept graph so it could be used to "compute distance"
is still beyond me. My book on graph theory calls me :-)

Google has that pile of scanned books. It would be possible to have an AI look
at all of the table of contents and create a "concept landscape". This would be
a "first cut" at knowledge organization. It can't be too hard to train an AI on the
scanned book data. The AI could probably invent a "distance metric".

Tim (axiomcas@gmail.com)
Interesting. I figured all their AI efforts were motivated by FOMO rather than actual returns. Why is AI stuff making so much money? Wouldn’t a new area like AI be a loss leader as they try to get market share?
This is an actual attack on democracy. The left are extremists.
It is ALWAYS the fault of management when the databases are lost.

Engineers must never feel guilty if the company was run in such a way as to make that possible.
Very much possible
I'm not commenting on the usage of ac in Houston (albeit it's nonsense to raise a city in such a place) but in Rome.
Relatively true in that they all became relatives.

"One guy I know got the title for filing a patent that hasn't even been commercially used"

Make him sing the song for you. Also, who do you think would win in a cage-match? The Colonel or Ray Croc?
He should. His work has political and cultural significance, and only that: no literary value. I say that as someone who put too much time into reading Bloom County when I was younger.
I keep this in my bag with a prepaid SIM for emergencies
Would rather wait for the Tiq Mini M5 to be back in stock. [0] as the small Android device you should be waiting for.

[0] https://www.tiqphone.com/
When I have a new place, I'm building a nice blu ray collection. Can't go wrong with physical media.
Brain-imaging study reveals curiosity as it emerges
Hadn't heard of Pelican. Looks pretty good. I'm also looking to move away from WP. I use Obsidian as well so your blog post is really helpful. Do you have examples of what Pelican sites look like out of the box? I can't seem to find any examples to get an idea of what things will look like...or is that entirely up to me?
lol. no. besides which all of these hacks would have been prevented by simple, well established controls (eg. MFA everywhere, not hoarding every scrap of customer data and internal comms).

so all of those basics are going to magically happen when you move your data on-prem?
It sounds like they know they fucked up, but blamed their employee to avoid taking responsibility. Whether or not they chose to terminate the scapegoat is irrelevant to determining that they're bad leaders.
I meant it as in having a CI system that relies on Docker or whatever container image system. You submit a build via some config files, the build farm builds the image and extracts the built binaries into a repo/binhost/S3, and you get your binary from there. Or you can now use that image for another build, in a pipeline.

There’s zillions of options for doing this nowadays, many of them self-hostable, which is pretty cool.
From the satire section:

"I'm not actually saying your shitty site should look like this. What I'm saying is that all the problems we have with websites are ones we create ourselves. Websites aren't broken by default, they are functional, high-performing, and accessible."

I.e. the site is explicitly saying it's not trying to argue every site should actually taste like chicken and broccoli, rather it shouldn't lose so many of the good things a chicken and broccoli site already accomplishes out of the box in being different.

I've never really liked the delivery of that message but at the end of the day it's a good message and can't be boiled down to "make your site bland".
I don’t envy the Secret Service at all. Thousands of events and interactions that all have to be choreographed to protect politicians who by definition are not universally liked, in a country with more guns than people. Thankfully most people are not homicidal lunatics.
Relax. Version 0.27.1 is out. Problem solved.
Yeah, this is the lesson learned, why are they working in production?? This is rule one, even in small startups. This is the real mistake and the head of development (or who ever allowed this to happen) should have been fired.
But humans build those systems and are interested in the results. It’s still a human endeavour.
Sure. It's coming with GPT-5.
It’s pretty easy to launch the remote function on my iPhone to control my Apple TV. I still almost never do it.

The loss of the tactile ability to find the buttons, especially without looking, kills it unless you’re in a real bind.
It's not uncommon for B2B software to isolate each customer in their own database.
The government is a well intended representative of the people. The government has a solution to money and currency already. The government makes choices on monetary policy with the best interest of the citizenry in mind. Crypto is not good. The government is good.
Not op, but for me, those things have been finicky and randomly disconnect, and when they do, it's more of a problem because you're removing the whole audio device instead of just the output plug (so like the audio might pause instead of just having some static).

Also, because I use my headphones on other devices with audio jacks, I lose those adapters all the time. Don't really like having a tail on my phone all the time. Vastly prefer having aux on my phones/tablets.
> The data is of course, all Disney IP in the sense that all employee output is the employers intellectual property.

IANAL, but I think this description is overbroad. There is a "work for hire" doctrine in copyright law that assigns copyright to the employer, but I believe by default that only applies to works of authorship within the scope of an employee/contractor's assigned duties, with any broader scope needing to be explicitly assigned by contract. I would expect internal communications in general to be covered by an NDA or some concept of privacy rights, depending on the context.
funnily enough, there's a Roblox meme where people say "go commit die" because "commit suicide" triggers the censorship algorithm.
doesn't work for non english languages
You can't run a public service without moderation, unless you want to end up with a toxic swamp. Definitely not a kids game. Typically it's worked around by not allowing player to player chat at all, or making it extremely limited, but even then you get workarounds (see dark souls with "try finger, but hole")

Moderation is trying to enforce some standards for the whole environment. Even if you got the tools to implement filtering for yourself, you're still sitting there with people who are happy with the abusive environment and will get through one way or another. And you get them everywhere around you. It's not something that each player can deal with separately unless they opt into private groups - but that's not the environment Roblox is encouraging.
Yup, this is when I started to really notice it too.
I had one of their earlier models. It wasn't a great phone and the software had some issues. But I suppose it was plenty small. I think I stopped using it because the carrier I switched to didn't support it.

I wanted to keep it as a backup phone for emergencies but the battery didn't last long enough to be relied upon.
Not really analysis paralysis, just nothing that fits the goal of the site yet.

Alpine.js + htmx, livewire, hotwire, etc maybe. But none of the others really fit well.
Glad it was helpful for you. I honestly chose pelican over other static site generators like Hugo or Jekyll because it's written in python, a language that I'm very comfortable with.

Mordenstar is using a slightly modified version of the octopress theme.

They also have a gallery of some of the themes that you can use:

https://pelicanthemes.com

The creator of pelican is very responsive on GitHub as well.
Agreed, and who allows the devs to work in production, even at small companies? People are fallible, so you're just waiting for a something to blow up.
Yeah that's what I'm always feeling like I need out of my use of the internet, more whimsy. totally dude.
Go experience the joy of becoming a Linux engineer, where you need the permission of no-one to practice your craft.
On their own TV at home: probably not.

In airports, bars, waiting rooms: absolutely.
The broad contours of modern copyright were formulated at a time when only for-profit enterprises (and perhaps sufficiently well-funded religious groups, but I repeat myself) could actually afford to copy things at scale. It may as well have been called "publishright".
I have a python script that fetches a website every few minutes and makes an API call when some conditions are met. I never really figured out all those other AWS or cloud tools and usually just resort to renting a vortual server and running the script via ssh.
I would think this would be difficult to use for most apps.

It’s not 2009 anymore. App developers just assume a certain minimum screen size. While layouts are flexible they often just don’t work on smaller screens.
Is that going to be cheaper than actual immigrant labor?
Ease of login is irrelevant.

They built a closed ecosystem on the back of a fundamentally open form of content.
It's a great option when the kids lose the remote somewhere
Yeah. And even if this cancellation was to save money, it’s not even an excuse.

What is hard and expansive are easy to restore backups.

Simple backups that may be a pain to restore but that are going to save your company from bankruptcy are only costing you some cheap storage and someone that more or less routinely checks that your data is safe somewhere.

I mean, of course I’m not advocating for flaky backups but even when you are cheap as fuck, you can afford a cron script running rsync and a couple hard disk drives.

Going fully yolo on this topic should not be even remotely acceptable in any business.
I think my earlier comment must have "triggered" some folks.
Except a subset of humans who have been involved in industrial accidents.
Here's a few more that popped up after the original:

https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ (original)

https://web.archive.org/web/20240629092320/http://bettermoth...

https://evenbettermotherfucking.website/

https://bestmotherfucking.website/

https://thebestmotherfucking.website/

https://perfectmotherfuckingwebsite.com/
https://github.com/dgud/wings is still alive!
That's a neat tool, it kind of reminds me of the table diagram/editor for SQL server that visual studio had.
I used to be of the "and things on the web should all support http unless they really need https" crowd but corporations (ISPs, hotels, airports) driven by the ad sales industry really drove me to the "nah, we should really get everything on https" crowd.

<meta charset="utf-8"> means not assuming the default encoding of the client at all, not that ASCII would be invalid given the site's content.

Edit: Forgot <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">, you probably want this even without CSS. What the client ought to do and what the client does do are different stories and neither are guaranteed to be what you want in the end anyways.
Trump injured but ‘fine’ after attempted assassination at rally
Am I right that you as a consumer want to get the memory at the price Apple gets it from the fabs? That's a bit silly.
I can go buy two sticks of 6400MHz DDR5 for $20 per 8GB, to match the bus width and speed. The manufacturer might be paying more than $10 for the chips, but not much more. I don't know if I should expect much price difference between DDR5 and LPDDR5?
LineageOS?
As an owner of a Samsung Galaxy S22, which is not small but seemed to me like the only sane size - feature - price balance on the Android market back then: maybe the reason is battery life?

I'm really underwhelmed by the one of the S22. I barely get a day out of it. When I'm travelling with Google Maps, I have to carry a power bank.

Maybe current android phones are just optimized so bad in comparison to iPhones? And increasing device size allows for a proportionally larger battery size.
To me it’s more like, if I have to carefully craft English language prompts in a conversational back-and-forth to get things done, then I am not really interested in doing that job, which sounds like being a manager or a teacher, and in practice just makes me feel totally dead, sad, and quite frankly bored.

That’s just not an interesting or rewarding way to interact with a computer, and the last thing I want to do is add long wait times and nickel-and-dime cost to the process. Layer on using different LLMs for different tasks or trying them out against each other and cross-checking output and it’s a mind-numbingly indirect way to get anything accomplished that in the end teaches me nothing and develops no useful skill that I enjoy practicing.

If it works for you, great, but even the most honest and genuine fans make it sound like a nightmare to me.
The NSA said: "NSA is not required to find or obtain new technology (outdated or current) in order to process a request" (from https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2024/jul/10/grace-hop...)

That seems reasonable to me. The FOIA is about citizen oversight of government, and spending reasonable amount of taxpayer funds on doing that. This request would exceed that remit. As another commenter said, FOIA is quite rightly not an appropriate approach to demand public funds to be spent here.
If a website uses targeted ads and track users, they won't use the PPA feature Mozilla introduces here. So the setting won't affect user. On the other hand, if a website is not evil and willing to sacrifice revenue for better user privacy, and use non-targeted ads, PPA gives them tool to do so. In contrast, the current adblocking methods are blunt forces. They don't distinguish the nature of specific ads.