skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Many of the old blue check mark accounts routinely posted inaccurate information or outright lies.

There are always going to be misinformation. It's crazy to think a company or any committee can determine these for us though. It's not even logical yet alone practical. then you need to determine whether said entity made any judgment errors in assessing a person or claim. Those who demand centralized 'truth' authorities are useful idiots for power seeking authoritarians.
The physics of cold water may have jump-started complex life
Need to create an account to see the prices of the stuff they're selling.

I guess if you "have to ask"...
(Crowdstrike?)

imho this is was caused by horrible change/patch management from the clients/businesses. Any company that has the mentality to test it's critical updates (Adobe Acrobat v2025-July - not critical, AV, sec-patches, and other stuff that run as "System" - super critical).

And/or/but/so yes, if you blindly push updates that could cripple your machines, you are doing a coin-toss, and sometimes it lands on the wrong side.
Do You Want the Customer?
I found the docs: https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/7.2/production/mobile-push-n...
At this point in “modern” finance driven society, the ultimate goal of any organization beyond a certain size is to become a hedge fund with full operational control of its investments, with a veneer of focus and product excellence.
> The Apple App Store protects users from myriad abuses by myriad bad companies.

Does it? Are the $50/month subscription flashlight apps gone?

This is just a form of 'think of the children'. Think of all those evil hackers waiting around the corner for the poor unsuspecting iPhone users.
> There are a thousand great things to say about Genshin before you even get anywhere near talking about the nonintrusive and ignorable monetization model

> everything "fun" is time gated and restricted arbitrarily by a currency. The game is very much structured around pushing the user to log in for 15-20 minutes every day and anything more or less than that is painful

I suppose both of those things might be true. But #2 sounds like the primary issue that always prevents me from enjoying f2p games.
CUDA being viewed as anticompetitive by French regulators (source: the article).
Yeah that article is better. I'm the author and I wrote this only for me as I studied it, it's not great as a way to describe it to others

I wanted to start from the very beginning and as far as I know Lab and OKLab didn't come later. Studying the 1931 studies and such was a start, and I wanted to later bring up all the other things we've learned since then, but haven't had time to write more about it
Make Good Stubs with Stateful Property Testing
Always hilarious reading big tech propaganda. They're trying oh so hard to convince people that, no, us harvesting every single iota of information and selling it to data brokers is progress, actually!!!

The best part, for me, is while they flail and scream about the big bad EU, Japan and India are following suit with similar laws and regulations. It's only a matter of time until more and more countries start adopting these laws, and the tears from the techbros is going to be delicious.

The website the "article" (aka paid propaganda piece) is hosted on has over 700 partners that they'd like me to consent to having my data shared with. It also completely shits itself thanks to uBlock, meaning it's made so terribly that blocking the privacy-invasive trackers they have breaks the whole site.

If this is their idea of innovation, they can keep it and shove it where the sun don't shine.
Right: So this trick probably doesn’t help much. You only need prefetch when there isn’t enough fetch otherwise.
> They’re demanding that Meta provide free full services without personalized ads or a monthly fee for users

Where are they demanding that? Reading https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_24_..., their complaints seem to be that Facebook

- cannot call the ‘with adverts’ version ‘free’

- makes it too difficult for consumers to find out what exactly they give to facebook in exchange for this ‘free’ service

- is not clear enough about the fact that paying will not remove all ads

- forces existing users to choose between paid and ‘free’ versions before they can use the service again.

Nowhere do they say on that page that Meta "provide free full services without personalized ads or a monthly fee for users”. Am I reading the wrong page?
That space has seen major improvements over the past few years, but this method would be a great addition to the toolkits and games out there.
> Apple is free to refuse to do that and not offer their non-competitive gatekeeping products in the EU.

Currently Apple has been complying with the letter of EU law (opening their devices to alternative app stores, etc) but not the spirit of the law (leaving the EU market).
>You can transpose a plot and/or create something based on another work with the freedom to do anything you want

Lol. That is exactly what they're doing. You just don't like a black Macbeth, but others do and are fine with it. For the record, there have been black, green, orange, purple, yellow Macbeths since the dawn of time, ever since Shakespeare became a global cultural touchstone performed all over the world. I'm pretty sure whoever he is, wherever he is now, he must be pretty pleased to see his work continue to have cultural relevance through adaptation and appealing to audiences he could not have imagined rather than limited by the lack of imagination of hidebound tradition.
PipeWire is starting to get AES67 support, which seems to be the audio and/or video streaming standard the industry is rallying around. PTPv2 vs DANTE's PTPv1, and just a much clearer protocol. I'm so excited for it! https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/wikis/AES...

There's a bunch of neat hardware listed in a ticket thread that folks have been playing with. Bluetooth to AES67 adapters, analog to AES67, whole huge video wall streamers. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/32...
Isn’t that the same case for Robert Martin? I’m not going to be the one defending Uncle Bob, but most of the people out there giving advice about “clean code/architecture” come from the consulting world without any work that can be analysed.
Quote from Knuth:

"If I'm designing a Research Institute, would the ideal design be something where you have babies screaming, and people are sleep-deprived, and you know, and are bombarded with responsibilities, and then they would produce better research?"

https://github.com/kragen/knuth-interview-2006
The great thing about them selling you something made to be as crappy as you will stand, is that then you'll then have to refund it all the time, making their re-targeting ads even more "effective" :)) What a virtuous cycle!
> Why would it benefit society to get less targeted ads as opposed to more targeted ones?

Because more targeted ads require a dangerous and abusive system of pervasive surveillance while less targeted ads can still be targeted without hurting as many people in the process.
Ads would be less effective at convincing people to be unhappy.
My work has adopted DOD for roughly the last 3 years. Compared to OOP/FP[0], I would say DOD is generally more performant, more work to set up initially, harder to adapt to small changes, and easier to adapt to big changes.

DOD is generally going to have less in the way of user-defined classes/types. This can sometimes make it harder to convey the intent of the code, but in term it means there's a lot less to do if there's a big change in the problem domain – e.g. you don't have to refactor a whole class hierarchy.

Jonathan Blow has mentioned some ideas in his language Jai that would let you write code that can easily switch between OOP and DOD ideas, e.g. Array of Structs vs. Struct of Arrays, and I've seen that in some languages like Julia as well. I'm hoping it becomes more common place so that there's less of a tradeoff to make.
Are they connected to Apex Jr? A lot of overlap between them, have sort of suspected Jr runs off of the trash of surplus but have never known for certain. Apex Jr helped make my electronics habbit possible back when I was young and poor.
It's not that most people hate risk. It's that individuals whom are harmed by sociopathic individuals that exploit methodologies, techniques, and products to enrich, steal, and harm the population. (When I say that I mean financially, emotionally, socially, physically, etc). To add further insult to injury, defending ones self against these individuals is disproportionately impossible.

Socially: Creating and cultivating a culture that screws up dating.

Emotionally: Filter bubbles, and data analyitics to push proganda and motivate people in directions (cambridge). Additionally subjecting people to material to manipulate.

Stealing: Scooter companies are actively stealing the public space to operate their business (sidewalks), endorsing their users to run over people on the sidewalk (also making it difficult to identify the individual), etc.

Privacy wise: Companies are forcing you to give up your private info to live. (Retail tracking to individuals.. even accross multiple companies [see "The Retail Equation"])
I really want to know what the optimizations might have looked like had they used a profiler like scalene [0] to find where the unnecessary copying was happening.

[0] https://github.com/plasma-umass/scalene
Great news from the wonderful Restic!

I have it set up taking snapshots of my laptop every hour. It has always ended up in “successfully backed up and pruned“.

It’s feature rich, with nice and clean command line syntax, and a single static binary for long term storage. It’s stable and reliable in my experience, I don’t know why the version number doesn’t advance to 1.0.
The way I see it, pricing for market demand is fine, pricing for individual demand is not, particularly when the pricing is blind to the user.

It's already a bit strange when I'm on a plane and know the person sitting next to me paid 1/2 what I did, and they're aggressively stealing the arm-rest.

It's different when the airline says "we know you were looking for a flight on this day and time because you checked twice before buying a ticket, so each time you checked, we increased the price, because we figured you were more likely to buy.

This example has nothing to do with the market, it's strictly targeting me as an individual.

I had an experience with Uber where I cut myself and had to get stitches, so put my destination as a local hospital. Instant 3x surge pricing, but what am I going to do, bleed out? I got in the car and the driver said "I was about to switch off because it's been completely dead all night."
It was immediately obvious to me that Uber would go "oh, you need to go to the hospital, you'll pay more", preying on the need.
Interesting as maybe a side project to learn about how the ecosystem works and I like the idea of upload it’s a torrent, not sure I’ve seen that before.

I have to ask though, how are you supporting such large file sizes for free?
> Apple's walled garden produces a lot of real benefits for its customers that are part of what make it successful, and dismantling their walled garden is going to harm consumers.

What are those benefits, and why would they evaporate if Apple adds an "Install from other sources" toggle? If you want to exclusively benefit from Apple's discernment, keep that toggle off and stay in the walled garden.If the benefits are so great, then surely everyone will choose to stay in the walled garden.
The rise of the analytics pretendgineer
It's on-topic when the author said:

> Funtoo started as a philosophy to create a fun community of contributors building something great together. For me, it's no longer that so I need to move on to other things.

It's clear that his intention was to build a community around his vision and it's always sad to see when that doesn't work out.
If godbolt.org had a fax number…
In a series of books by David Brin [0] there is a galaxy-wide institution known as the library, and civilizations regularly mine its millions of years of data for suddenly-relevant-again techniques and technologies.

I remember one bit where a species had launched some tricky fleet-destroying weapon to surprise their enemies with esoteric physics, only to have it reversed against them, possibly because the Librarian that once helped their research-agent wasn't entirely unbiased.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uplift_Universe
It doesn't sound at all like the workers owning the means of production.

>I suggest re-reading "Atlas Shrugged" for this topic.

Ah yes, that's the problem. We all need to read and subscribe to the ideology of Ayn Rand, then we'd understand and everything would be better!
I've seen partitions in Postgres clusters where a node gets overloaded to the point it's not responding to health checks and the cluster management software performs a failover. Since the previous master can't be reached but is still running, it accepts writes even after a new replica is promoted.

I've seen similar things happen in other software under load as well (which can easily cause cascading failures, too)
AI is approaching an open-source inflection point
The links to your Terraform / Kubernetes / GitHub support in the Open Source tab don't work.
>Given the natural built-in introspection capabilities of the language, I never understood why something like that wasn't also a built-in part Python.

Somthing like that does exist, and has, from Python 2.x; the inspect module, apart from help() and dir():

It is somewhat lower-level than wat, which builds upon it. But it is powerful.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41072878

Or did you mean the inspect module itself?
https://archive.ph/nxOsB
For what I understood, Funtoo is a bit less "in your hands" than Gentoo. Like if they were programming languages, Gentoo would be like C and Funtoo would be like Python (I know it's not a fair comparison, I'm just trying to be understood by a silly example).

Gentoo lets you customize just about everything, but it seems like with Funtoo they take a bit of that control ability out of your hands so you can have a functional system without needing to think so much about the minutia of installation and the like as you do with Gentoo.
I read that as saying there's nothing to be done, monopolies are natural, we can't stop the order of things without making everything worse, we must just acquiesce and learn to live with them.

Is that correct? I have a hard time thinking that is true.
Quite frankly I would prefer no tech industry over today's large, unregulated, monopolistic and aggressive tech industry. I feel like my life has not significantly improved at all relative to the enormous growth of the US tech industry in the last ten years, I'm no happier today than I was back then. Almost all of the gains have gone to a concentrated elite that I am not part of. Lately I've been looking at my phone and devices and other tech toys and asking "was any of this worth it?".
Going out of your way on the internet to defend apples right to take 30% of every sale on the app store is insane to me.

Just how can you not see there's probably 20% of every purchase sitting on the table if competition was ever allowed to occur.

Not to mention the simple freedom of choosing what you want to install yourself, and not just what Apple allows you to...
Certain memorisation techniques leverage innate human abilities. For example, if you want to memorise a shopping list, mentally picture the items as waypoints on a route you know well, then when you want to recall the list, mentally walk the route in your head, visualising the items. Our ability to recall routes taken is probably as good as our music recollection. If I said to you to mentally walk the route from the front door of your childhood house to the nearest shop (or significant location) then you could do it easily.

This clearly taps into our ability to find our way back to the cave after going out hunting for food. Our ability to memorise the route home was necessary to survive.

I read somewhere that early language was more tonal. Closer to singing than the defined words we use now. So, perhaps our ability to memorise music was actually an innate ability to remember early stories or facts shared with the group? Again, leading to increased survival chances.
The new internet, an overlay network on top of the existing internet. Cool?
Wavelength (or frequency) is linear but light, in general, is made up of many wavelengths -- an entire spectrum.
I used Gentoo on the Desktop from 2002-2007. It was very popular back then. Daniel Robbins created the project, and later left for personal reasons (IIRC). He tried to return to the project, but some of the leadership was not welcoming, so he forked and created the Funtoo project. I think most people who never used Gentoo would not know about Funtoo.
I remember an article--I think from Gitlab--about random latency and out of order packet issues they were seeing on GCP. Turns out it only happened under a certain amount of load since GCP's routing algorithm uses a different network if traffic is under a certain amount and switches to a more distributed mode when it crosses a threshold.

In addition, sometimes you land on a bad piece of hardware but it's not bad enough to trigger the provider's monitoring. Few months ago we had a bad EC2 instance whose network would drop every 2 hours causing a bunch of random errors before recovering for a little while.
What is the value that OpenAI is bringing to the US right now?

Mostly its being used to generate text that fit a query.
Falcon 9 Returns to Flight
That sounds like the right default then. If you're doing a home install, you get that extra little bit of protection. If you're doing a professional remote server deployment, you should be a responsible adult understanding the choices - and run with scrubbing, smart and monitoring for failures.
Manic behavior by the founder, specifically going in 100% on a deal, product feature, or partnership, then abandoning it all a few weeks later for the next idea.
This would kill the free internet tomorrow, and the one billion YouTube viewers would likely be quite upset about it.

Untargeted ads pay less than 5% what targeted ones do.
> rider with remote assistance operator

Do you mean like, remote driver? Or a specialist had to help a fleet vehicle out of a weird hangup? Because based on my experience, it's probably nearly all of them minus some nominal percentage during events like navigating downtown Phoenix during Comicon.

If I remember reading, they can't remotely drive the vehicles.
roads often were until the Eisenhower administration pushed for free national highways, since he was part of a military test convoy that only made it across the country after 62 days on poor, or nonexistent roads. https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/research/online-documents/...

The highways that are present from before that time in the US are tolled, like the turnpikes found in the Northeast.
The headline isn't clear, but the claim so far is that the microcode update will fix any CPUs that haven't begun exhibiting instability. Nothing can fix the ones that are already broken. For those that are somewhere in between, hope it fails within the warranty period I guess.
The "screenshot" is interactive - I initially missed that.
“SpaceX engineering teams have performed a comprehensive and thorough review of all SpaceX vehicles and ground systems to ensure we are putting our best foot forward as we return to flight. For near term Falcon launches, the failed sense line and sensor on the second stage engine will be removed. The sensor is not used by the flight safety system and can be covered by alternate sensors already present on the engine. The design change has been tested at SpaceX’s rocket development facility in McGregor, Texas, with enhanced qualification analysis and oversight by the FAA and involvement from the SpaceX investigation team. An additional qualification review, inspection, and scrub of all sense lines and clamps on the active booster fleet led to a proactive replacement in select locations”
Never heard of it. The tone in the announcement makes me guess that I did not miss anything

> nor am I interested in trying to find one, or hand the project off to someone else.

Of course if it's all open source anyone can take over the code base. But why saying "not interested to hand it off"?
I don't think starting with XYZ and color matching functions is a good idea. LMS and cone response functions are a more fundamental and intuitive description of human color response, so if you're going to bother with XYZ at all, you should arrive there from first principles, via LMS.
although there the financial argument does apply. Nassau County has eye-wateringly high property taxes and the highest median income of any county in NY state, and has been under state fiscal supervision since the year 2000. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassau_Interim_Finance_Authori...
Being from Whistler, this was a contentious point of view. However, the outdoors are to be enjoyed by everyone.

The danger is that assisted bikes (and possibly legs) can get people far enough out in the wilderness, that a dead battery can lead them into significant trouble.

Sure, this can happen without the assistance, but it's more difficult to get out of your depths.
And as it turns out, the winning answer is “10 days”, given the launch scheduled for tomorrow and the press release saying they've finished the investigation and have already implemented and tested the fix.

https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=sl-10-9

https://www.spacex.com/updates/#falcon-9-returns-to-flight
Given that some reports put failure rates as high as 50% for some models/conditions this may as well be a recall.
Pretty sure they already did that. Isn’t their flagship SAP? Lol
Those are the same person
I like Tailscale, but this reads as too self-aggrandizing.

You have a mesh VPN product with some value-added services on top of it. That's great, but this idea isn't novel or unique. Why should your solution be the "new internet" instead of any of the alternatives?

I wouldn't want to rely on a single company for all my internet infrastructure, anyway. So I'll stick with the traditional internet with all its complexity. Its major problems aren't technical but social, and no new technology will solve those.
I don't understand. What makes you say that?
There's this new book called The Grapes of Wrath that might interest you.
Once it gets bad, it's everything. I've got about a 1/4 chance of my grandmother calling me the correct name at this point. She knows I'm one of her grandkids, but isn't really sure which is which.
> If Google or Facebook is in your country, they do not share your country's interest and instead pushing their own American ideologies.

> More and more countries should reject American tech companies that seek to interfere and spread their fcked up ideologies in the host country.

I'd go father: even in America they don't share their country's interest and instead are pushing their own Silicon Valley ideologies (e.g. they're all for solving problems, only so long as the solution means using more of their products, making them even more money, etc.).
Execution by Elephant, or Gunga Rao
EU didn't go into an uncontrolled spree investing every company that had .com in its name and ruined thousands of lives and wasted billions of dollars.

EU usually doesn't let companies to grow uncontrollable sizes that the government is completely controlled by them not the citizens.

The existence of Big Tech means that the government did a very poor job in protecting the consumers and the free and fair market
Right up there with LED cop lights.

Fucking blinding.

I got stopped at a roadblock even before LED's, the highway patrol officer said "I wasn't sure you were going to stop, you nearly ran over [X] over there" and my reply was, "Your lights are so bright, and blue, and right here on the road, that I can't see a thing. I'm glad I didn't."