skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, this is really far from accurate, which is absolutely not to justify Sheikh Hasina's antics. GDP has shot up in the 21st century and the trend growth appears to be accelerating. Bangladesh was a very poor country, but it is getting rich fast.
https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/NGDP_RPCH@WEO/BGD?zo...
https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/bangladesh-is-the-new-asian-ti...
I don’t know, seems like a bad place. But you get to take advantage of it: they pay you for doing nothing. I would even go further and say tell your tech lead in advance what you are gonna work on, so perhaps he goes ahead and implements it. Or even, write buggy code, add only your tech lead as reviewer and wait for him to copy paste it and merge it with his name.

In any case, spend your working hours looking for a job.
In Austria a big reason are old rural rail lines. It’s not trivial to install automated gates without having to remove some stops or keeping the gates down for very extended periods of time.

They are also not entirely safe because people are idiots and get stuck without understanding that they can actually push through the barrier.
Ask HN: Looking for a Short Story
A while ago I remember seeing a thread in which a sort story was linked too. I can't remember it only what the story was roughly about:

A being (baby god) lives through every life on earth to learn how to be a decent god. After each death they remember themselves and are greeted by their parent/teacher.

Moral is, at least what I took away, to treat people with respect and understanding because they are actually you.

Either way if someone could link to that short story I would appreciate it, my googlefoo is coming up short.

Feel free to post your favourite short stories too.

Thanks.
quick question for advice - we have been evaluating minio for a in-house deployed storage for ML data. this is financial data which we have to comply on a crap ton of regulations.

so we wanted lots of compliance features - like access logs, access approvals, short lived (time bound) accesses, etc etc.

how would you compare garage vs minio on that front ?
In this economy? I don't know anymore.
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I think that part of it is central management, specifically Microsoft Active Directory.

The whole thing of pushing out software, software updates, central control of user accounts and password resets, logging and more.

"Joe Bloggs is fired, turn off his account on every computer"

"The marketing VP wants this new logo on every desktop background today"

"Security breach! make everyone change their passwords!"

Central management for linux boxes is nowhere near as "point and click".
I got my nvidia 1060 back then during the crypto crysis when the price of AMD GPUs were inflated due to miners. Hesitant and scepital about Linux support, I upgraded the same machine with that GPU since 2016 von Ubuntu 14.04, to 18.04 and now 24.04 - without any nvidia driver issues anytime whatsoever. When I read about issues with nvidias drivers, it is mostly people with rare distro or rolling release ones, with changing kernel versions very frequently and failure to recompile with the binary drivers. For LTS distros you will likely have no issues.
This comment reminds me of my 10 years old sister. She finds pointless arguments hilarious too.
Show HN is for things you've made people can try so you can post this as a Show HN when you get to that point. https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
I am immensely curious about everything AA is doing but I guess all my questions better remain unanswered for the sake of the project. But perhaps, if you are interested, you might chose to answer some of them.

How are you holding up? Do you notice the persecutocutorial pressure on a day to day basis?

How is the Project being financed? How is the financing being protected from the legal pressures? Just having one petabyte of data somewhere is expensive. Are KYC an issue for you?

I would think that any large enough law enforcement would be able to take down not just your domains but also your servers. Why is it that enforcement seems to focus on domains not on server seizures?

What protective measures and backup plans do you have in place? Any Opsec tips to share for small time pirates?
The emissions, not the level. The level is increasing at the level of emissions (minus absorptions). We are accelerating as fast as 2019 towards the wall.
Web UI Testing with Go
This thread is the definition of people who want features that most people don't care about.

Headphone jack? Bluetooth.

Audiophile? DAC.

microSD slot? Cloud storage.

User-removable battery? Power bank.

FM radio? Internet.

Degoogled phone? Really?
Ask a lawyer (4 answers):tell me about the sections in the constitution
Making Meaning – Sara Wachter-Boettcher – Nice Work
If you don't care about freedom then step out and just use MacOS with Macports.
For actual freedom, Linux-Libre it's a must.

May I remind anyone the disaster of Mediatek and most SOCs with propietary drivers which are bound to old kernel releases and they became useless bricks over time, even with PostMarketOS? Or the infamous GMA500/Poulsbo, where even 2D acceleration it's missing. IDK it even supports modesettings thru KMS/DRM.

Inb4 'these are old machines, nearly useless', my n270 atom netbook still runs Luakit like a champ and it supports GL 2.1, enough for tons of tasks.
On top of that, with ZRAM the GB of RAM now holds far more data than it did back in the day.
AI bot, set to verbose and slightly pretentious
The other side of that argument is the German navy searching for 8"floppy emulation
They were living a comfortable life in a cheap country, and found themselves looking for a way to do the same job in a way more expensive city when their country was attacked and at war. I found their targeting strategy and "product" extremely creepy, but I am willing to give them a pass given the circumstances.
Not the parent poster. But the people who built the French nuclear fleet are not the same as the people pushing nuclear power in the media. Just because an energy source is technically positive does not mean that the people supporting it are actually having a useful or positive effect.
The trunk was distinctively elephantine.
You wouldn't want your "interactive" user filesystem on S3, no, but as the storage backend for a server application it makes sense. In those cases you very often are just storing everything in a single flat folder with all the associated metadata in your application's DB instead

By reducing the API surface (to essentially just GET, PUT, DELETE), it increases the flexibility of the backend. It's almost trivial to do a union mount with object storage, where half the files go to one server and half go to another (based on a hash of the name). This can and is done with POSIX filesystems too, but it requires more work to fully satisfy the semantics. One of the biggest complications is having to support file modification and mmap. With S3 you can instead only modify a file by fully replacing it with PUT. Which again might be unacceptable for a desktop OS filesystem, but many server applications already satisfy this constraint by default
It used to be the original reason why automatic updates were accepted and it was valid.

But since then it has been abused for all sorts of things that really are nothing more than consolidation of power, including an entire shift in mentality of what "ownership" even means: Tech companies today seem to think it's the standard that they keep effective ownership of a product for its entire life cycle, no matter how much money a customer has paid for it, and no matter deeply the customer relies on that product.

(Politicians mostly seem fine with that development or even encourage it)

I agree that an average nontechnical person can't be expected to keep track of all the security patches manually to keep their devices secure.

What I would expect would be an easy way to opt-out of automatic updates if you know what you're doing. The fact that many companies go to absurd lengths to stop you from e.g. replacing the firmware or unlocking the bootloader, even if you're the owner of the device is a pretty clear sign to me they are not doing this out of a desire to protect the end-user.

Also, I'm a bit baffled that there is no vetting at all of the contents of updates. A vendor can write absolutely whatever they want into a patch for some product of theirs and arbitrarily change the behaviour of software and devices that belong to other people. As a society, we're just trusting the tech companies to do the right thing.

I think a better system would be if updates would at the very least have to be vetted by an independent third party before being applied and a device would only accept an update if it's signed by the vendor and the third-party.

The third-party cold then do the following things:

- run tests and check for bugs

- check for malicious and rights-infringing changes deliberately introduced by the vendor (e.g. taking away functionality that was there at time of purchase)

- publicly document the contents of an update, beyond "bug fixes and performance improvements".
Allowing the construction of mixed-use medium density buildings reduces the distance of the average trip, which allows more people to choose walking and cycling.

At the end of the day, the more you design a neighborhood to facilitate driving, the more car traffic it will suffer. And the more convenient you make it to any other form of transportation, the less car traffic there will be.
USA has 12.9 traffic deaths per 100 000 people yearly with 330 million people.

Europe as a whole has 7.4 with 746.4 million people, and developed EU countries are around or under 5. Surface area is actually quite similar 9.3 million vs 10 million km2.

There are countries with population densities higher and lower than US in there, and ALL BUT ONE OF THEM have less traffic deaths than US. It's Bosnia and Herzegovina by the way. And it's at 13.5.

USA is crazy unsafe for a developed country, and it barely matters if you compare with sparsely populated Canada (5.2) or Sweden (2.0), or densely populated Germany (3.7) or Japan (2.1).

It's not about population nor population density. It's not about wealth. It's not about population distribution.

It's about car-centrism and insane design.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...
Renewables does not need to provide a 100% solution in order to aid decarbonisation.
You are missing the point of tabs. Sheet music people always do. I will explain it below:

- Tabs are meant for music you have the recordings of (so additional details can be obtained by listening to the song)

- Tabs are meant to be an easy way to play a song for people that might not be interested or have the resources to invest the time to learn sheet music
> Saying that a human activity (regulation) makes a non-zero amount of mistakes hardly seems an extraordinary claim

That was not the claim however. The claim was that "all regulation contain bad regulation", which is a broad unqualified statement aimed at throwing a shadow upon regulation. The kind of bullshit regurgitated by libertarian types that think any regulation is icky.

As for financial regulation, all regulation to ensure that banks have enough liquidity to add robustness to the system are good. Things such as KYC and AML are also generally good (which was my statement by the way). They may over time be improved, but anyone would be hard pressed to argue they should be removed for being bad.
That would be the (oddly named) green open access model.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access#Colour_naming_syst...
I always find it funny when people say "you can't put a price on a human life" because this is exactly what traffic engineers do on a daily basis.

I don't know what the exact figure is but there's a number where below that improvements won't be made.

It sounds bad but at the end of the day resources aren't unlimited - $1 spent on road safety improvements is $1 that can't go healthcare, law enforcement, schools, military etc.

At some point spending millions of dollars to probably save one life isn't worth it
* grunts *
Yes, I already said this but you really hammered the point home with the additional analogy of karaoke lyrics. I feel people playing non-popular forms of music live in this ivory tower where they forget other forms of music exist. I wonder why it happens
Yeah, I've had a few HN frontpages with sites running Django and recently Phoenix with essentially no caching or optimization running on a 256MB fly.io free tier instance with barely a noticable increase in load (just big spikes in the network/traffic graphs).
Typst seems like a real contender for LaTeX. I've used and hated LaTeX for over 20 years. That the horror that is LaTeX is still the least worst typesetting system for print is really depressing.

I've been waiting for Typst to get HTML output. It's been under development for quite a while but seems to suffer from some bikeshedding [1].

Glad to see there's Pandoc support for Typst HTML (and LaTeX) export as a workaround. Gotta try it for my next paper!
scummy.

reminds me of seeing unlicensed and unregulated online poker site "america's cardroom" using the Yoda (Lucasfilm) and Venom (Marvel) in their social media marketing ~ 2 years ago.
It probably extends the language less than g++ or msvc do out of the box.
Luckily mint offers 3 DE with different looks. Do you could pick a different one.
For most people using tabs, the additional information is not needed as you are most of the time not aiming for an identical replica of the song. You might play it slower or faster, different key, remove sections, etc
Hidden Variables—How We Know They Don't Exist In Quantum Mechanics, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0GhlCzLmN4
> It has a simple reason, any other device is much worse. All my Lenovo laptop batteries died in 2 years

Pff. I had a macbook battery (2018 model, brand new, issued by my employer at the time) that died in 1.5 years. Died in the sense that I couldn't use that crap unplugged for more than 10 minutes.

Since every place I work issues me a MacBook, I am very experienced with these luxury toys, and I wouldn't ever buy one for myself. I actually think Thinkpads are much better.
So if you’ve never had sex and you spend years watching men with huge penises making women scream and apparently have multiple orgasms and then you finally have sex yourself and the reality is far different to what you’ve been watching…

I have no doubt this affects young men. Erectile dysfunction in younger men isn’t based on something physical, it’s mental. And what mentally is likely to be affecting them? Insecurity is the most obvious cause. These guys are worrying they are “too small” or not making their girlfriend scream or orgasm enough like they’ve seen in porn.

Sure I don’t have data to prove this, but from actually speaking to people and reading so many posts from young man saying what I literally mentioned above, I’m strongly inclined to the above theory.
As briefly mentioned in the reddit comments, there are a lot of ways for this to go wrong for the cafe. Faces disfigured by medical problems or injury, masks worn for medical or religious reasons, those suffering serious depression, etc.
>Adams truly understood that brevity was the soul of wit

Hadn't really twigged that aspect but I think you're correct.

So he combined deep ideas with humour and brevity. He also had to carry his torch post-Hitchhikers, a show which had had creative input from other talented people in addition to his own.

Small wonder he found writing hard. It must have been really really hard.
I've done some compute shaders with Vulkan (and a lot of graphics shaders). It's quite nice and simple, after you have gone through the initial hurdle of setting it up (or used a helper library to do it for you). For compute shaders in particular you should enable buffer device addresses, shader subgroups and timeline semaphores (need to be explicitly enabled at init).

The downside of compute shaders, regardless of graphics API (gl, dx, vk), is that they have an unspecified time limit after which the OS will kill your process. There are ways to disable this in your OS/GPU configuration but there isn't a portable way of doing this programmatically from your code.

Another issue is that if you use the same GPU for compute (or heavy graphics tasks) as your display output, your desktop responsiveness may go down. I had some issue where my desktop got really sluggish when I was drawing some graphics that took 350ms per frame (laptop integrated graphics).
Decarbonisations need to demonstrate it has actual net value.

Currently the largest actual decarbonisation project on the planet is an Oil&Gas boondoogle that stores a great deal less than it promised to and even what it promised was a great deal less carbon put back than the project released.

So far, to date, it's been no more than greenwashing the expansion of gas extraction and hasn't yet been put to anything approaching the scale required in the timeframe demanded.
I am a big fan of local-first design principles. For most enthusiasts, it's the performance benefits. However, for me, it's the potential it has for privacy in web clients.

If you have a web client that only does on-client data storage, you're not dependent on centralized server-side storage for persistence (which is the main privacy-loss hazard).

The problem is that the app host still has all the technological freedom to not honor their privacy agreement, and there don't seem to be backstops to that behavior in browsers.
At 140,000 square kilometres, Bangladesh is about the size of New York State, with 170 million people. Problems are inevitable, there are not so many job opportunities at all, and there will always be people who are dissatisfied
Even if you have evidence against the state, do you think all those in power will just step down peacefully without a fight? No, they'll still send the military and law enforcement out to bash your skull in or arest you.
It would be much more difficult to understand what users are doing with the products and prioritize development.
Or some even older prior art (which I recall a Perkeep dev citing as an influence in a conference talk)

http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/venti/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venti_(software)
Why is this "article" anonymous?

Can anyone see author information that I am missing?
Not sure what is your point. You've mentioned USSR and it was wrong, as Soviet System has never been like that - "hot water only during the winter". Ergo, you should not have brought up USSR.
Capabilities and Filesystems in WASI
In many places, due to collusion and Microsoft kickback schemes. See for example:

https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/25/22995144/microsoft-foreig...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_licensing_corrupti...
Chess: Year Old Trick Strikes Again [video]
Same! I can’t understand anything with just icons. I want 1 icon with text per open windows.

> Why is the icon dock so popular with designers?

Maybe because they don’t actually use computers on daily basis to get the job done but just design how they look?
> When your entire system is optimized for green threads, the question of "it still needs to map onto OS threads" loses its significance

How's that? What about parallelism?
> You are correct that people driving too fast make the road dangerous, but so does people driving too slow.

It's accurate to say that people driving too fast are extra dangerous when there are slower vehicles in the road. The danger is still caused by the people driving too fast, not by those driving slowly, though. Speed kills.
It’s possible to loot and burn a country without creating much net economic value.

William Jardine’s subjugation of China made him a lot of personal profit, but it’s dubious his enterprise ever paid enough tax to cover the cost of the opium war. Sending navies across the world is expensive.
There can be big, fast roads between places of interest but we build them right through our towns
9¢ per kilowatt hour is insanely expensive

typical wholesale prices are 2½¢ per kilowatt hour

solar panels are 8¢/peak watt https://www.solarserver.de/photovoltaik-preis-pv-modul-preis... which works out to 40¢ per average watt assuming a 20% capacity factor. at 7% yearly interest, that's 2.8 cents per watt, and since a year has 8.766 kilohours, it's 0.3¢ per kilowatt hour. for ac inverter systems, balance of system costs typically triple this, and in the us, import tariffs double it again to 1.8¢ per kilowatt hour

the future is already here; it just isn't widely distributed. and that's why you're getting scammed
My point was that the original poster was wrong saying that Soviet and Post-soviet cities had and have hot water only during winters. This is idiocy; you know that, I know that. Right now, while I am writing, my relative is using hot water to wash her head.

What is your point?
They are 100% better for classification at a given compute budget. They can account for information before and after e.g. a token for token classification and use that information to classify.
Progressive enshittification.

I’ve noticed similar and assumed that they are taking a Starbucks-esque approach of adding more and more ad time until they start to see an overall drop in earning.
I think the question this raises is why critical systems like that have unrestricted 3rd party access and are open to being bricked remotely. And furthermore, why safety critical gear has literally zero backup options to use in case of an e.g. EMP, power loss, or any other disruption. If you are in charge of a system where it crashing means that people will die, you are a complete moron to not provide multiple alternatives in such a case and should be held criminally liable for your negligence.
When I was at FB there were a load of SEVs caused by config changes, such that the repo itself would print out a huge warning about updating configs and show you how to do a canary to avoid this problem.
And this is just the start.

LLMs are very good at mixing information to produce bullshit.
Also super shameful, probably because you're famous here, that your comment is <<upvoted>>.
Apple can disallow kernel extensions because it fully controls the entire hardware and software stack. Everything that would need to be an extension is already in the kernel and Apple knows all of those things.
> Cars now have sensors all over and automatic braking to prevent collisions.

Yet pedestrian deaths in the US have kept climbing over the past ten years or so.

I can tell you that as a lifelong pedestrian I do not feel remotely safe walking in North America compared to Western Europe, where I used to live, or Japan, which I've visited a few times.
Do we really want ads that suggest the wrong product or make up imaginary products and prices ?

I 'd rather be exploited by google
My hypothesis: There was a period from roughly the industrial revolution (you can pick which one) to roughly 2000 where we were rich enough that significant parts of the population lived in environments rich enough where nudity was not common and most everyone could afford privacy.

This led to the kind of weird you describe.

Prior to 1500:

- Homes would typically consist of one room.

- Clothing was expensive and somewhat limited.

- Bathrooms were the side of the path or anywhere else.

There simply weren't the economic resources for real privacy. Most of our accounts are from the upper class, who did have privacy (but who could -- and did -- also sexually exploit the lower classes as they saw fit).

I'd love to learn more about the typical life of people before, but there simply aren't resources. In a context like this one, you can read about e.g. rich Americans being concerned about unrest due to their inability to properly clothe their servants, but there are far fewer accounts from the servants (although, in American times, some). However, once you go before 1500, there is precious little from the illiterate classes constituting most of the population.