skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
not just in France

most(all?) EU have laws which limit how much you can opt out of liability _no matter what you write into a contract_

while I'm not sure about the exact boundaries per country but I'm pretty sure that at least all hospitals, emergency call services etc. can sue for a non-negligible part of the damages that outage caused directly

private people which where harmed by not getting operations done in time most likely can also sue them for the full damages caused to them (through it's hard to assess the damages and it might need to be indirectly by suing the hospital and the hospital sues for more damages)

what you likely will not be able to sue for is the lost opportunity cost, the man power needed to fix it etc.

also my guess is that for a lot of cases which are not as sever as human damages or as indirect as lost opportunity cost a huge factor will depend on the degree of negligence judges believe happened. And here "negligence" isn't limited to the specific change which caused the bug but also if they kept they due diligence in choices of tooling, approaches, business processes etc. to reasonable minimize the risk. (like e.g. was their way of parsing configs inadequate/did it follow industry best practices (IMHO it doesn't seem so), or was it adequate to mark the driver as required to allow boot (else windows would have auto disabled it and then restarted) etc.)
This idea works for well funded open source projects - typically funded by Big Tech. But for a given country to do this it seems more likely the functionality is just missed until Big Tech decides they need it.

For example let’s take apiece if software everyone on HN hates, Sharepoint. I’ve yet to find any open source alternative that comes close. And while you may hate it, it provides tons of value to local governments I’ve worked with.
But what are you suggesting?

We forcibly allocate capital less efficiently; make markets less efficient and less responsive to innovation; with the sole aim of achieving a utopian worker-cooperative owned world?

Hrmmm, where have I heard that before...
It won’t be because landlords will raise the rent accordingly. Besides the hate for the poor is at a all time high
It's a myth that spending money causes inflation. Printing money causes inflation. If the government can run a basic income program without increasing the monetary supply then no, there will be no impact on inflation. In fact it will be the best economic stimulus in history.
as an outsider, it is fascinating how much of a broad consensus there is in the US for "socialism for the old" - especially government funded/run healthcare and 'u'bi, vs doing anything at all help to the young and/or poor.
Order in advance, keep it in your fridge?
Love the initiative but it has failed so often (Munich anyone?) because of stupid choices like:

- let’s make our own distro.

- Let’s use OpenOffice (0 knowledge of FOSS at the start)

- let’s ban anything proprietary from day one

I hope someone wise is in charge (that Sturmer seems to be a good one, let’s just hope he is not too dogmatic/RMS about FOSS) and they set themselves up for success. Which, to me means: take it slow, ask for feedback, guide; don’t force.

… basically apply standard change management techniques.
This -- Apple highlights rail lines in their appropriate colors, which is an amazing way to visualize how lines are routed. Google's is kind of half-baked in comparison, IMO.
Facebook never gave Flow enough resources, whereas Microsoft has had 10+ devs on TypeScript for a long time.
Wake me up when this can run two stages: TF/OT/Pulumi/etc to provision infrastructure, and then Ansible/Salt/etc to configure them.

Glibness aside, this looks promising, I would love an orchestrator for both infrastructure and configuration management though. From the readme, I'm guessing that's somewhat doable with the `Toolbox` feature; be cool to have native integration for more tools though.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding the scope/intention of the tool though.
If a business closed down because of the OVH incident, how were the damages calculated? 1x annual revenue? Profit? 5x?
> As AI produces most of the world’s basic goods and services, people will be freed up to spend more time with people they care about, care for people, appreciate art and nature, or work toward social good

No, it won’t, and no, they won’t. I’m sure this view helps Sam sleep at night but based on all of human history, the rich and powerful will use AI to suck as much life out of the poor and powerless as possible.
The UK is the old west (but not the Old West).

London is in the global west, except for the whole thing with the Greenwich Meridian going through… Greenwich, east London. Not to be confused with East London, which is in South Africa, which fortunately is also in south Africa.

The UK is definitely in the west of Europe though.
> On other side basically nearly all of UBI will be spend, thus generate economic activity and come back in taxes in various ways such as sale or income or corporate.

By that rationale, can the government hire $2-3 trillion of teachers, cops and college professors for only $539 billion?
Which I believe is very dire financial state - I don't count on it supporting me much in the future.
Shortcuts is a cool app that seems underused. I have a few automations that I use regularly:

- open a specific web page every day at 5:00

- an icon on the Home Screen that enables low power mode (otherwise you have to dig into the settings for it)

- custom icon images for various apps, just to make it more visually appealing
So how would we go about switching the entire software industry to use LISP more? I've been struggling with this idea for awhile. It seems that the best languages don't get adopted.

The only consistent explanation I've seen that it is about 'easy'. The other languages have tools to make them easy, easy IDE's, the languages 'solve' one 'thing' and using them for that 'one thing' is easier to than building your own in LISP.

You can do anything with LISP, sure, but there is a learning curve, lot of 'ways of thinking' to adopt the brain to in order to solve problems.

Personally, I do wish we could somehow re-vamp the CS Education system to focus on LISP and other ML languages, and train more for the thinking process, not just how to connect up some Java Libraries.
The marketplace stuff is the killer and downfall of any online shopping experience. Right now Walmart is easy enough to search and target and Home Depot are pretty good too, but once they start really focusing on the marketplace where they just make money with no expenses then it all goes to hell.
To expand on it: they converted the recovery codes to barcodes, and used the fact that the scanner works as a keyboard, to scan the codes off the screen and input it to the correct machine (the machine where the scanner is plugged into)

Reminds me of someone experimenting with a public transport vending machine that had a barcode scanner (IIRC because you can scan an old ticket to purchase the same type of ticket, e.g. weekly ticket, etc), he made barcodes which encoded control keys to see how the computer behind it would react.
They to promise addtional browser support though:

> To start, Maps on the web is available only in English. Maps on the web will be available for additional browsers, platforms, and languages soon.
Published Date: July 24, 2024
h264 is video codec and has nothing to do with audio codec. aac is old proprietary codec while opus is modern license-free codec with wide support anywhere. certainly these days. as for vp9.. i have already mentioned my reasoning.
Isn't the Linux/GNU philosophy "Use the best tool for the job". Making OSS always a choice is good, but it is definitely not always the best tool for the job.
assuming apple maps was written in Swift or objective-C. you would think with the resources Apple have - it would have ported majority of their apps to the browser.

since the languages they use easily compile to wasm. just like how google earth uses c++ etc.
Does the current government seem to be the one its voter base voted for? I'm acutely aware of the backlash it's getting but I'm interested to know.

And anti meritocracy seems to be a very effective idea to push, I was more considering shattering faith in the future and changing policy personally.

Also account created 2 hours ago and only comment is on this israel post^
The first steps I took to improve my self-worth
We will all end up having to walk around with an AI shopping assistant that can do all these pricing calculations and comparisons for us.-

(Other than biases, them AI's being "mindless" might be an advantage here ...)

PS. Until we go so so multimodal that they start to be influenced by packaging size, bright colors, rounding, and big breasts.-

PSS. Heh. Perhaps the ultimate Turing test is when them AI's start to be influenced by marketing, and shady practices thereof.-
It seems like maybe you’re assuming that state employees would be the ones building the required features, but I would guess these are simply going to be makework contracts going to (hopefully) local engineering firms.
It’s not only Instacart. The first target that I ever went to that had a grocery store had turkeys that had been labeled at $.25. Not $.25 a pound. I pointed it out to the cashier multiple times and she couldn’t understand what I was complaining about so eventually, I went home with my $.25 turkey.
okay how do we suggest/add
Fun fact: Starbucks baristas do get RSUs [1]. It was a core principle of the company under Howard Schultz and one of the big things he credits for Starbucks's success specifically because owning even a small part of the company increases employee sense of responsibility and pride. I highly recommend the recent in-depth interview that Acquired did with him [2].

Herb Kelleher famously setup Southwest Airlines with very similar principles and stock options for everyone, with pretty amazing results for decades.

[1] https://www.starbucksbenefits.com/en-us/home/stock-savings/b...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0fvX-wV70Y
Plus it can use winamp skins
That only works when the company has full power to set prices unilaterally, i.e. when it has monopoly power. Which is a separate problem that should be prevented separately. If Cisco gets fined a billion dollars, it can't just hike up the price of a router, as it will lose plenty of business to Juniper/Arista/F5/etc.
Get by, yes its often enough. Job search - that limits your choices maybe to 10%, in a job market that is consistently overcrowded (100-500 applicants for any good position, not all are brilliant and with right experience but some always are, whole world tries to get here).

You will regularly hit the language wall in places like shops, post office, neighbors etc. where answer in given language if they speak english is consistently "no". Integration outside big cities is a lot about you becoming like them, not vice versa, better keep the differences compared to locals behind doors of your home. Smaller cities, more rural places - forget english outside tourism, many young speak it but otherwise there isn't much will and often neither skill. French part is worse than German part in this (just like French from France are much, much worse when it comes to will to speak english than Germans from Germany are).
But that stores all elements into memory?
The article calls this the “battering ram” using UBI against existing entitlements.
330 million X $1000/month?

So roughly 4,000,000,000,000 in new spending per year just to start. Obviously none of this would come from existing revenues. Which is incidentally very similar to the 2020 spending; which caused ~6% inflation.

Will that $1000/month be inflation adjusted? If not, in 10 years that will be the equivalent of setting it to $500.

If it is inflation adjusted, then it will be at ~1700/year.

Roughly 5,600,000,000,000is the new price. That's assuming no politicians for 10 years and multiple elections dont say they'll be increasing it.

"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." by Benjamin Franklin
Will this extension be an open standard so that Android users can also benefit? I wouldn't want a scenario where green bubbles have a worse time calling 911.
they don't need to announce it if they are rejects, but if you ship those chips out to customers (which they did), you then need to
IMHO it would send really wrong signals if this doesn't end up with CrowdStrike closing their doors...

like if the largest outage in history was caused by you due to a config parser failing and it looks as far as I can tell that they didn't follow industry best practices when it comes to config/parsing handling and probably also didn't follow some best practices when it comes to kernel module programming then honestly it would be really strange if you didn't had to declare bankruptcy due to damage payments (which doesn't mean the software is now gone/unmaintained, there are a lot of ways to make sure that doesn't happen, e.g. MS anyway had interest in buying Falcon).
Did you know that Amazon has a section that drives to compete with McMastercar? It’s somewhere in Amazon business they have parts and stuff and it’s just a horrible shit show.
> Unions should put their money where their mouth is and invest in cooperatives.

Unions aren't structured for investing, and that's not their reason to exist.

I don't know where you are from so I can't comment on how unions function in your society, where I live they're definitely not in the same realm as a potential investor for cooperatives.

You are also asking for unions to compete against VCs, and banks, let's be realistic that even a large and wealthy union is not even close in terms of wealth management as a small to mid-size bank/investor. On top of that the union has responsibilities to provide benefits to all members, a bank or investor has none of that, tilting the scale even more in disfavor of an union assuming the role of investment.

It's a good thought though, another entity such as a credit union supported by workers in an industry which also takes the role on investing in cooperatives to foment them, would still be an uphill battle but if some good cooperatives came out of it maybe it could be another viable (albeit smaller) model to start companies.
In theory, of course not. But in practice sure. Simple, very accessible example, there’s no Madden open source alternative. And I’ve actually seen people try to do this.

I’d love to see an open source football/basketball/sports engine. But it’s hard to do, even without dealing with the licensing aspects.

I think a big part of the reason is that Big Tech really helps push along FOSS, but the licensing aspects make the ROI poor for Big Tech to invest in FOSS here.
Will this not be quite chaotic for the guys in the callcenter.

Has utility no doubt but Can’t imagine a bunch of livestream like scene are good for their focus and wellbeing
Wikipedia page on worker's self-management:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workers%27_self-management
> That would mean it's possible to sort N random 64-bit integers in O(N+M) which is just O(N) with a constant factor of 9 (if taking the length in bytes) or 65 (if taking the length in bits), so sort billions of random integers in linear time, is that truly right?

Yes. You can sort just about anything in linear time.

> EDIT: I think it does make sense, M is length*N, and in scenarios where this matters this length will be in the order of log(N) anyway so it's still NlogN-sh.

I mainly wrote N+M rather than M to be pedantically correct for degenerate inputs that consist of mostly empty strings. Regardless, if you consider the size of the whole input, it's linear in that.
There is bund.de for the federal government, with e.g. the interior ministry (Bundesministerium des Innern) at bmi.bund.de. But personenstandsrecht.de has nothing in the domain name or even the whois to indicate that it really is part of the interior ministry as it claims. There are links to it from bmi.bund.de so presumably...
Unfortunately, CrowdStrike decides when it's time to upgrade CrowdStrike software, not the admins.
Mammals were the startups of the Jurassic era ( just survive and you might end up being huge later )
Yes I pay for it. Not sure what your point is. I didn't say no one in the world pays for it.

Are you not aware of flatlining user growth? or are you under the impression that coders paying for these apps are enough to make them profitable?

https://www.thewrap.com/chatgpt-growth-2024/
You will see 10 X but it’s in places where it’s considered emergency go to the 24 hour gas station and look at the price of diapers or butt wipes compared to Walmart.
SEO already ruined it.

Looking for the best product? You have to go through top 10 or top 30 lists that only provide items with affiliate links. If it doesn’t have that ability it won’t be on the list. And auto sites will make a category for every brand of truck so each manufacturer is listed so they don’t get mad. Want to know the best truck w extended cab/removable tailgate and gas cap on the drivers side, there’s a special category so we can include that manufacturer. Having to go through 10+ items when honestly all you need is the top 1 or 2 is ridiculous.
imo, in the current landscape we will not see any largely popular P2P services/platforms. Mastodon is largely a flop (it has a few deeply ingrained issues and a lot of usability problems), Web3 is a scam (nobody wants to pay money to visit websites), cryptocurrencies have too many usability & legislative problems to be widely useful, etc. etc.

One of the massive advantages that centralized platforms has is that they are almost always more convenient than a P2P alternative (think PayPal v.s. BTC, for example of a "send someone money" system), and newer P2P systems don't seem to be moving towards being more convenient. Until the convenience catches up, the masses will stick with centralized services.
I'm quite happy to see this, since a long time ago I worked with various mapping providers (back when telcos had their own map and driving apps). One of the folk I worked with went to Apple, and I suspect this is their work :)
I don’t think the “in mice” torpedo is as effective in this case. As long as the human tau protein they are modified to express is the same protein targeted in humans then the action of this antibody should be equivalent. We’re talking about extracellular processes here so it should be very similar to how it would work in any animal. ie we don’t have to worry as much about the other differences normally present inside cells of genetically modified mice. Yes there could be confounding variables present in the space between the cells but if this interaction works both in vitro and in vivo it should be generally the same anywhere. All that’s left is safety which should be determinable in the usual ways eg more animal trials.
Sounds like a positive one for insurance industry.
I don't think the benefits of defining your system config in this way are immediately visible after one month. I kind of loathed reinstalling Linux before NixOS because I knew I'd have to spend a lot of time remembering how to reinstall and configure my desktop environment, reconfiguring sshd, fixing font rendering and setting a fallback I liked, reinstalling all my terminal utilities and copying their config files over, setting caps lock to esc, and all those little changes I made to my previous installation that I'd inevitably forgot to record.

For servers that's even more relevant: I usually logged into my home raspberry pi every once in a while because I needed to fix something and I didn't even know what services were running on it!

With NixOS it's all comparatively simple: I switched my gaming PC to NixOS a few months ago and while I had to reconfigure some things like display settings, everything else just immediately worked exactly the same as on my laptop after installing.

I set up nix-darwin on my work macbook and share all my dev environment's configuration with my other computers. Now if I change some Helix settings on the macbook, I just have to commit them to my flake (which is just a git repo) and to get those changes on my desktop as well I just have to pull and rebuild.

If I want to install some new service on my home server I just open the relevant configuration.nix file in my config, enable an option, build it locally to check that everything's working, and push the changes to my server.

I don't ever feel the need to do a clean reinstall of my system because everything is already as clean as can be, and if I really wanted to it'd just be a matter of backing up /var and /home, putting the nixos installer on a usb stick, and running nixos-rebuild from there.

I think the benefits of NixOS come into play months down the line, when a problem comes up and all the specific knowledge about what you did with your setup has faded from memory, but all the operational knowledge on how to use Nix is still there.

Edit: I'd recommend trying out NixOS a server or VPS and installing Nix with home-manager on your usual distro for a while. That might give you a taste of what you can do with NixOS without having to fully commit to having it as your main OS and doing everything the "nix way".
Sure, but if you let most people choose, they don't choose the best IT tool. They choose what they know. Or they choose the tool with the best marketing team.

Either way, you can't make a rule for people to choose the best tool for the job. A rule like this may come closer to the GNU Linux philosophy.
It seems the simplest form of code for software that says the last time you ordered tide pods it was $10 for 1 pound now it is $10 for 1/10 of a pound. Do you want to continue?
Because casual barbarism or threats of how companies do business is not compatible with civil society
Capital markets has mostly two* components : Stocks and Bonds

Investors don't need to own part of a company to buy a Bond, they just want to see good credit rating and yield.

*VC is also part of capital markets but mostly private and such a small % of global investment.
There's got to be a word for these kinds of ridiculous arguments which use personal responsibility as a cudgel against a systematic fix.

I agree generally that interfaces have been dumbing down too far, but "private is actually not private and it's on you for not knowing that, idiot B)" is a weird place to be planting that flag.
Google Maps in incognito says my position couldn't be determined. Apple Maps seems certain I'm where I'm not. Looks like a bug to me.
The one I’ve seen a couple of times recently is where the bigger item is more expensive per unit volume unit weight.

This is sneaky as hell.
I only saw DateTime.Now where StopWatch should be used and serialization inconsistency due to discrepancy in time zone database.
Apple's Emergency SOS Live Video calls coming to 911 centers this fall
Why is it okay to drop not-full chunks? The article doesn't explain that and I'm stupid.

Edit: I just realized that the function where non-full chunks are dropped is just the one for finding the pivot, not the one for finding the median. I understand now.
The problem here is that "the company" is liable for the negligence of the person in charge. The person in charge is not liable for anything. And like you said, if the company has to pay, then the money obviously comes from its customers, not from the person in charge.
How is it someone other than CrowdStrike's fault that the systems failed again at every reboot until someone with physical access and know-how deleted the crashing driver manually from recovery mode? What should a company operating, say, an MRI machine protected by CrowdStrike have done to recover access in a reasonable amount of time?
Maybe arterial plaque or even prion disease? Seems very promising.
No. I’m not assuming that. I assume the governments will have to fund the work, but they will contract it out. But even then governments have struggled to deliver on this.

And even when governments have the funding they tend to be horrible at specifying and getting delivery of technology - at least that’s been the case for the US.