skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I operated an unattended 87.9 for ten years in two OK towns and one OK city, 30' mast with distinctive circularly polarized FM element. I think the greatest dangers are to shuffle music you like that happens to be popular, pull political talk crap from the web of uncertain content. Talking yourself is fine if you want and try to maintain a reliable weekly schedule. But be aware of curiosity, a human voice increases the chance you might some day have an FCC CE3k (Close Encounter of the 3rd Kind). Never happened to me.

87.9 is great because it is the default freq of a lot of small plug in transmitters, so tiny signals are ubiquitous and it's the low edge of the band. Never sell anything or rebroadcast Internet sources that sell things (exception is Old Time Radio shows with ancient commercials). Find a playlist of older things that aren't 'hits'. Don't let any broadcast FM salesman conclude, "they're taking listeners from our market." Stay away on the band from Public Radio Stations, they are likely complainers and if there's one at 88.1 then bump to a few slots above it. No 'fake' IDs with letters of course, and I'd suggest no jingles or station cute names. Psychologically this gives some busybody an entity in their mind to oppose. Be nothing but a signal.

I did week long marathons of CBS Radio Theater, old Prairie Home Companions from the time before Keilor was savagely MeToo'd, and long form rock like ELP and reggae and classics and whatnot shuffled from a big eclectic list of older everything (but not 'hits'). Once I did a solid week of one long ~40 minute seamless loop of wave after wave of crowd laughter. Nothing but laughter, crowds and individuals with distinctive laughs. As the week progressed I felt the average quality of the FM Band increasing.
Where can I play these games?

> We prove RE-completeness (and thus undecidability) of [generalizations of] several 2D games in the Super Mario Bros. platform video game series. These results hold even when we restrict to constant-size levels and screens, but they do require generalizing to allow arbitrarily many enemies at each location and onscreen, as well as allowing for exponentially large (or no) timer. Our New Super Mario Bros. constructions fit within one standard screen size. In our Super Mario Maker reductions, we work within the standard screen size and use the property that the game engine remembers offscreen objects that are global because they are supported by "global ground". To prove these Mario results, we build a new theory of counter gadgets in the motion-planning-through-gadgets framework, and provide a suite of simple gadgets for which reachability is RE-complete.

Yes, TFA headline is intentionally misleading to make the result seem more interesting.
Point. IANAL, nor familiar with UK family law, but the phrasing - "P revealed the truth about her encounter with their donor, and secured a court declaration earlier this year that F was the child’s legal parent." - does not claim F's consent to that legal tactic.

OTOH, phrases such as "F was at that time no more than a means to an end", and "after a separate welfare hearing a judge had given all three adults parental responsibility" would suggest that F has changed his position - actively wishing for a serious parenting role, and also looking (to the judge) like plausibly-good parent material.
That's not required. So long as it's not falling apart (which it currently is, by the way).
Looks good. Gemini Rue is good if you're looking for something adventure gamey. Return of the Obra Dinn is good if you're looking for something related but different.
> Reading is about an order of magnitude faster than writing

not a native speaker, what does it mean?
I wrote this one, I tested with PostgresDB and Oracle , at time:

https://github.com/gbonacini/dbfs
Isn’t Khan one of the more liked appointments by both parties? Excluding the people who reflexively dislike anyone on the other team, she’s been trying to do fairly popular things.

Or maybe my bubble is too small?
Nobody is arguing their quality is bad, but that amps die long before speakers die. Do passive speakers even die?

Also, online services built into these will die before the speakers do.
The foundation of MacOS is a fully-compliant Unix:

https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/apple.htm

The GUI is built on top of the Unix foundation and does not stand alone or work without it.

The 'FoxTrot' comic made a big deal about this not long after Mac OS X was released:

https://www.gocomics.com/foxtrot/2002/02/25
I’d add to this that there’s a good reason the testing culture is so strong in ruby: you absolutely need to write tests for every last little 2-line method to make sure you did it right. With no compilation or type checking step, there’s no other way to know if your code is even valid.

Which means that IME a huge number of tests in my ruby code were doing things that a type checker does automatically: make sure that passing nil makes it return nil, making sure that passing an array does the right thing vs a string, etc etc etc.

I have very vivid memories of working in a large rails code base and having no idea whether my change would work until I actually exercised the code and realized I was completely messing up the contract that some method expected, so I had to slow down and write tests to validate my assumptions.

Fast forward to now, I work in a large Rust code base, and it seems like 99% of the time, if my code compiles, it works flawlessly the first time. So I concentrate on writing integration/functional tests, which give me a lot more bang for my buck than having to write hundreds of little unit tests. (I still write some unit tests, but the need for it is much less… the vast majority of things you’d write tests for in Ruby are things the type and borrow checkers handle for you in Rust.)
Big O is upper bound (worst case), big theta is average case, big omega is lower bound (best case).
It sounds like you are talking about some very different thing also abbreviated "UBI"? Here it stands for universal basic income.
It's a good headline, but it's pay walled.
Great. I had not seen bind_zeroblob when reading yesterday. Maybe that’s what I needed to get it moving. Thanks.
A negative is just a reverse of a positive.

In this case, proving (infinite) A is greater than (finite) B is the same as proving A is not less than B. Tada, negative proved.
# zpool history | grep upgrade

Looks like last May.
The price of a satellite phone in 1650 was greater than all the money in the world combined, so that has to be considered expensive in absolute terms, right?
Surely cost of living, expressed as hours of labour, remains the same regardless. Anyone can reduce their cost of living by reducing the standard of living.
There is another reason: the addresses are long and impossible to remember and hard to type.

I always bring this up and it’s always dismissed because tech people continue to dismiss usability concerns.

Even “small” usability differences can have a huge effect on adoption.
Interface Builder was the coolest thing, especially its struts-n-springs-constraints. Xcode is in contrast among the worst visual builder I've used, everything feels so tedious. (AutoLayout is the real thing and Xcode's UI feels 2nd class.) Did they also get rid of those connections between code and widgets? That would make sense as it's such a lone mechanism to be foreign to most now.
Right but people, their nature, hasn't changed.
Please ban Chinese DJI drones from America's skies, senators urged
> I’d listen as I’m really just looking to filter out people who can’t code at all (a surprisingly large number of people).

Do you mean that people are applying to the programming job without knowing how to program?
For anyone as confused as me by the title, "California Forever" is a company that wanted to build an utopian city. Backed by billionaires according to the article.
Reading is about 10 times faster than writing
(Very) approximately 10 times faster
It's also a field where it's practically impossible for a new player to enter. It is just as likely that the airlines will form a cartel, and fix the prices. Then if you are lucky, some kind of regulation will be introduced or the government will crack down on it in some ways after 5-10 years, they will be fined for 10% of the profits, and a promise not to do that again.
An order of magnitude is for example from 10 to 100, or from 1,000 to 10,000, so typically an increase by 10x or similar.
Other estimates suggest that the large scale deployment of AI could help in significant reductions of emissions globally. A recent study by the Boston Consulting Group found that application of AI to corporate and industrial practices could result in a 5-10% reduction in global emissions by 2030, while generating a value worth $1.3 trillion to $2.6 trillion through additional revenues or cost savings.

Prediction, the emissions will only be additive. More things to consume basically. I hope I am wrong.
Order of magnitude usually refers to a 10x difference. Two orders of magnitude would be 100x difference.

(Sometimes the phrase is casually used to just mean "a lot", but here I think they mean 10x).
the current de facto, whatever is considered 'normal' in whichever country you currently reside and work, was not piloted or effectively tested

I understand your point and directly disagree with its main part: the move from a family-run farm to a shift-based employment happened before I was born so I did inherit it but it was in fact piloted, tried on small scale, and organic at first.
Frauds in the Field
UBI is not at all based in Marxism. The idea is older than Marxism and almost entirely unrelated to it. That's probably why you never see it mentioned.
"exorbitant" compared to what modern democracy...?

Certainly not exorbitant compared to what they were here in the US in, say, the period post-WWII. Y'know, one of the biggest boom times in our nation's history, when we had massive innovation and growth of the middle class.
Show HN: SaaS marketing that's out of this world
In 77 (way before me) Maine also did this and yes it really makes the state much more beautiful especially in the fall.
The arrogance of someone from another field telling someone else how they should write their units. Just get used to differences. Hahaha! :)
You can't have windows laptop without running a ton of Antivirus and other crapware .e.g MS store, HP/Dell diagnostics and MS Teams. If you factor that in, Linux will win everytime.
`watch -n 5 sqlite3 logs.db "select log from logs" | grep whatever`
> when ontologists stop bickering about it

When does the LLM think that will happen, please ask it I'm curious
If the current spending on safety nets is spread evenly over the whole society, won't the current recipients not have enough to live?
Low price to pay for our AI-generated theme backgrounds in Chrome. /s
I'd argue that the labor required for growing food and building houses is highly dependent on the scale you are trying to achieve.

Raising enough food for a small family is very doable when you don't spend 40+ hours per week working for the paycheck. Building a small house is definitely a big project, but very doable as long as you aren't attempting to wind the clock all the way back and milling your own lumber. It can be done with a surprisingly small set of tools if the house is reasonably sized and designed with your tools and skills in mind from the beginning.

Is the average person going to build their own 2,500 square foot two-story house and grow enough food to feed everyone? Obviously not. But could a person build a 900 sq ft ranch, have a garden feeding their family, and raise animals for their own meat, dairy, and eggs? They absolutely can, I'm doing it today, and if climate change concerns you the reduced impact on the environment is huge.
> The problem we learned in COVID payouts is that people would rather watch Netflix and smoke weed all day than do any amount of low skilled work at a job they hate.

We've uh, we've known this for millennia. "When no longer required to do something that they hate, people will often choose to stop doing that hated thing." is not even a little bit surprising.

> ...and have to connect meaning for the employee to the work they need done.

Nah. Most folks don't give a shit about whether or not their work has "meaning". They work to fund their hobbies and fun, they don't work to find "meaning". Terminally-management-brained middle managers sure THINK that it's important for rank-and-file people to understand that their work has "meaning", though. They can't fuckin seem to shut up about it.
Ok but why not just use a memory drive directly? What is gained by adding SQLite as a layer?
Your argument seems to be to never implement anything, because eventually it will become old and it will be hard to move away from it? This seems to be an argument against anything new, and it is therefore hard to take seriously.
You may have been working in a SwiftUI project which does things differently from the older IB ways
I note this because they're constantly lying that their goals are for the protection of users, when their actions send a different message.

Here's the direct Twitter quote from Thierry Breton regarding the charge against Meta:

The #DMA is here to give back users the power to decide over their #data #Meta has forced millions of users across EU into a binary choice : “pay or consent”. In our preliminary conclusion this is a breach of the DMA. Today we take an important step to ensure Meta complies.

https://x.com/ThierryBreton/status/1807715743129043342

Meanwhile Spotify, all data brokers and any other non-DMA'd companies can take and exchange private user data. I believe the rule should apply to all companies because I don't see the point of "protecting" users from a handful of companies when that is a drop in the ocean of data collectors.

He also makes strange bed fellows, such as frequently advocating for Fortnite, the game title which the FTC found to be deliberately tricking children into unwanted purchases, then killing their Fornite accounts in retaliation should they obtain a refund.¹

https://x.com/ThierryBreton/status/1766167580497117464

¹ https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/03/... Note this fine is finalised because Epic didn't challenge the FTC's claims.
Not centrally planned, except the humongous federal government, the central bank, the interstate highway system, even things like corn subsidies. There are a lot of centrally-planned areas.
That's not my experience at all. Most people I know and have worked with care a lot about if their work has meaning. The people who do not are the outliers.
In what way was the US able to keep up with china? The GDP chart google shows has a factor of 3.2 for 2008 and 1.4 for 2022 when comparing the US to china. If you seriously think the EU falling back behind china is a EU problem, I don’t know what to tell you. It might happen at a different speed but it’s only a matter of time before china takes over the US.
Yeah. I don't think we can ascribe harmless benevolent animal motivations to them. Orcas have much larger brains than us. They're apex predators, aggressive physically and sexually. It's likely that this type of behavior is like a hoodlum gang.

I'm all for animals. I just don't think you need to be "animal behaviorist apologists" for anything. People who always blame humans / explain away animal behaviors under some mistaken ideal that animals are always good, humans are at fault.
> Yet now the company that Gates and Allen founded is selling operating systems like Gillette sells razor blades. New releases of operating systems are launched as if they were Hollywood blockbusters, with celebrity endorsements, talk show appearances, and world tours.

I was a kid at the time, but did many people actually buy windows? I know about the ad-thing where the cast of Friends or whatever bought windows 95, but as I recall even back then the OS just came with the device. The only exception was OSX, which was a “Big Deal,” even non-technical people downloaded it.

Anyway, it is funny to see this in retrospect. Nowadays, operating systems have become so commoditized that you can’t even make a business selling them.

I love Linux but his description is quite optimistic.
Well, of course.

It was yet another "Bandera, Bandera" thread.

So nothing emerging from it would have relevance to anything.

As you knew when you started it.
Tabletop RPG books c. 1989 were doing all kinds of stuff with generic pronouns. I believe Vampire (1991) primarily but not exclusively used "she". Other games would use "she" for the GM and "he" for players, stuff like that.
Nice things like nil pointers and a foundation of C.
If you saw something broken that's not your responsibility would you fix it?

I know the answer in your case, but believe me that a lot of people would.
Yes, like Ethernet addresses. Those are impossible to remember, too, so obviously Ethernet is no good. /s

The solution for IPv6 addresses is the same for Ethernet addresses; don’t use them directly. Leave it to the name resolution system, and use host names.
> That's a welfare argument, not really relevant to UBI.

UBI is welfare.
Archive for Goodman & Tenenbaum, since their site is flaky:

https://archive.ph/WKLyM
Let's assume that filesystems are fairly optimized pieces of software. Let's assume that the people building them heard of databases and at some point along the way considered things like the costs of open/close calls.

What is SQLite not doing that filesystems are?
by the same argument the systemd binary logs also follow the unix philosophy
it's not an MS outage, it's a faulty Crowds trike patch
I think it’s difficult for us today to fully grasp the hope that the Russian Revolution brought to the working people.

That hypotheses didn’t workout very well.
If you know Company A is investing profits heavily into obfuscating markets, price discrimination, and building up "all that information" in its pricing strategy past the point of it being legible to you, while Company B is investing profits into homeless shelters and schools in your community, it allows you to make a more informed purchase as a consumer.

Voting happens at the checkout counter more so than the ballot box.

You don't even need to process all of the information. Computer programs can help, AI agents even. Even just the threat of an unusually dedicated pricing wonk combing through a mountain of complicated toxic pricing strategy to blog about it can make a company think twice.
Trilium Transitions into Maintenance Mode
No file system attributes or metadata on records which also means no (xattrs/fattrs) being written or updated, no checks to see if it's a physical file or a pipe/symlink, no permission checks, no block size alignment mismatches, single open command.

Makes sense when you consider you're throwing out functionality and disregarding general purpose design.

If you use a fuse mapping to SQLite, mount that directory and access it, you'd probably be very similar performance (perhaps even slower) and storage use as you'd need to add additional columns in the table to track these attributes.

I have no doubt that you could create a custom tuned file system on a dedicated mount with attributes disabled, minimized file table and correct/optimized block size and get very near to this perf.

Let's not forget the simplicity of being able to use shell commands (like rsync) to browse and manipulate those files without running the application or an SQL client to debug.

Makes sense for developers to use SQLite for this use case though for an appliance-type application or for packaged static assets (this is already commonplace in game development - a cab file is essentially the same concept)
The Best Espresso Machine Is One You Hack Yourself
> Honestly, I don't. First, perhaps it's small minded but I don't really feel responsible for every human on the planet, or even a significant percentage.

Do you expect them to respect your right to have those things? IMO, your line of thought leads to violent revolution.
WE HIRE OUR FIRST COMMON LISP AND EMACS DEVELOPER AND HE KNOWS ABOUT BILLIBILLI :3 (maraca emoji, whale emoji, blocked on hackernews for some reason)
WE AT PIRATE QUEEN ARE SO HAPPY
PERFECT FIT
AND WE PUT HIM ON >EARLY<
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St3aahe1kEk
Honestly, maybe? Would be a fun project to look at at least.
I do not have time now but I intend to read this soon.

Link to paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.10387

It is a nice looking article that about how we use the eual sign in mathematics and computer science. I do not look a popularmechanics much (not really since the early 80s). his one looks good. I would like to know hat others think.
Google’s AI pulled that answer almost word for word from a joke on Reddit.

Nothing about filming food commercials. Why white knight an undercooked product?
Eevdf Scheduler on the Verge of Being "Complete"
I remember those Longhorn betas - yes, it was coming apart under feature creep, but that only gave us more to play with and anticipate in the leaks.

A shame that MS is no longer in the mindset of ambition like this. Instead we get adverts and clickbait in the Start Menu, and the worst filesystem search on any OS I've experienced.
It was the only data point which mattered for the decision that needed to be made.
Israel and Ukraine say thank you
Historical footnote:

'What also surprised me in the biography was the striking difference between Jews in Italy and in Poland. [...] Leopold Infeld’s autobiography [...] describes the Jewish ghettos in Poland as being almost completely isolated from the general population. [...] She was utterly surprised when she first saw the Jewish quarter in Warsaw, remarking: “The Jews in side curls and kaftans made me feel that I was living in two different nations.'

I wonder if she was failing to distinguish between various kinds of Jews. Compare the majority of American Jews today, and the Hasidic Jews of Brooklyn, for example. This, too, was the case in Poland, home to the vast majority of the world's Jews at the time. On the one hand, there were a number of assimilated Jews and Poles of Jewish ancestry (like Tarski, Brzechwa Steinhaus, and so on). On the other, there were plenty of religious Jews of a more orthodox strain. And given that 1/3 of the population of Warsaw was Jewish, it would be difficult to imagine otherwise.
Thanks for that what day was yesterday prompt. I have ran across these situations before but never quite like that.

What is great about that Thursday prompt is how naked the LLM is to the reality that it knows absolutely nothing in the way we think of "to know". The bubble we are in is just awesome to behold.
A discussion in the comments of the cost of opening a file on Windows: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21309852/what-is-the-mem...

Access control is a big cost. Some AV systems (like everyone's favourite Crowdstrike) also hook every open/close.
My claim is based on my personal experience of seeing what women have to go through and risk to bring a child into this world, and total fertility rate dropping to less than slightly above 2 at best in every single country where women achieve education and civil rights, indicating they obtain the ability to say no to sex in situations where they can get pregnant, and/or they obtain the ability to prevent or abort pregnancies.

https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate

All the countries with high total fertility rates have environments where women would not expect quality healthcare or medical interventions should things go wrong. It stands to reason that women are not making a conscious decision to put their quality of life and life itself at risk over and over again to birth human resources.

Outside of outlier cult-ish groups, I see almost no women choosing to have more than 3 children. And the data seems to agree. Everyone I know that had a 3rd child, they had 2 boys or 2 girls first and only had a 3rd to try for the other gender.

So I am deducing that the painful experience of pregnancy/childbirth/breastfeeding/infant rearing is a significant limiting factor.