skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a classic English-language solution in the so called ⁶⁶round quotes⁹⁹, like the accursed SmartQuotes MS Word feature inflicts. There is more than one pair, and they look visually indistinct in some situations so I used superscript numbers above, rather than “this”.

I like the «guillemot» (French) solution, and also the similar ‹chevrons›. Like all similar holy wars there are issues with familiarity and input methods etc. and I don't think it will be solved through mere elegance.

Honorable mention to the classic ``unix quotes'' that are still seen in typesetting software.
That’s a natural way to speak in American English anyway. You wouldn’t say “there is”. But “there’s” is fine.
isn't it? when I see an AI-generated image of something that can cause public outrage (or any other sort of virality), the first thing in my mind is: what's the source? and, is it authentic?

If the image comes from John Doe, I probably couldn't care less about it. But if it is from a reputable source, then I definitely want to make sure it is authentic.

keys are hard to manage and use just because they never reached mainstream. A solution like this would have easy-to-use tools to verify such images, perhaps even online tools to do so. I don't expect my mom to know anything about private/public key pairs, but she should be able to run a simple verification on an image
South Korea and Taiwan reformed from authoritarianism into prosperous democracies without violence.
Serving two masters—Business and Engineering?
> none of the GNU codebase was hosted in any sort of revision control.

That isn't true, RCS was already in heavy use by 1991 in the GNU project.
I recently set up one of these: https://www.lincplustech.com/products/lincstation-n1-network...

and it seems to strike a pretty excellent balance. 4x NVME + 2x 2.5" can get you a lot of storage, but it's still using just a 15W CPU. Build quality is quite good as well.

> E.g. a 4TB Samsung NVMe drive is >2.5 times more expensive than a same capacity NAS-grade HDD

Samsung is far from the only player in the NVMe space. DRAM-less NVMe drives are quite a bit cheaper (~$50/TB), which if you only want 1-2TB is a great option - ie, if you're just looking for a personal dropbox equivalent. Which was exactly my use case for the lincstation - I just wanted to own my own documents, I didn't need to backup blurays or whatever.
That’s The Guardian. Their coverage of anything technical is always garbage. They also have an article on how the Boeing Starliner is actually only suffering from communication mistakes and not an utter failure today (they hate SpaceX because Musk).

It’s a bit sad. The online edition of The Guardian has been a sorry shell of what the newspaper used to be since Viner took the helm and brought with her the practice of the US edition. I guess it’s what happens when you put too many people who genuinely believe in post-structuralist theories together.
So 99ml of novičok or sarin, properly prepared with an industrial machine can came alone in the cabin. Good to know.
Using Open Groups to Escalate Privileges in Google Cloud
>> Git[‘s] UI is atrocious. […] Over time, I taught non-computer people who used Windows all of CVS, Subversion, and Mercurial.

> Well, that’s in the eye of the beholder. […]

I would say it is not.

Usability testing is a thing, and products can get better and worse scores when trying to do the same task / reach the same result. I'm not aware of any published studies on the topic, but I would not be surprised if Git got lower scores than Hg on UI/UX, even though they can basically do the same thing (distributed development).

Given the GP trained people on multiple version control systems, including another distributed one (hg), and people mostly had a problem with Git, I would say Git is the problem.
What kind of software are the masses being denied? What is the malware risk associated with said software?
I've spent hours debugging a memory alignment issues. Its not fun. The problem is that you don't know (at first) the full space of UB. So you spend the first 10 years of programming suffering through all kinds of weird UBs and then at the end of the pipeline claims "pftt, just git gud at it. C is perfect!".
That's great to know, I consider an Apple device every few years when I upgrade my current devices. Osascript sounds compelling.
> They are not "hostage" they can leave.

I can "leave" Subaru. I can't "leave" a mobile operating system without pain.
Eating in front of the TV is good for me, especially if i have company. Other people always like to talk during meals; the TV cuts that down a lot.

If I try to talk while eating it doesn't work; I no longer have the lung capacity. I have to do one or the other. Others cannot understand this.

the TV serves as a "please shut up" distraction for them.
11 layers is plausible.

you think your job to be harder than management?

sufficiently harder to make you irreplaceable?

are you sure?
I believe the prevalent advice at this time in fact is to go with UUIDs. They don't leak much information, prevent enumeration attacks and give you flexibility to generate anywhere. UUIDv7 even provides time ordering if index locality matters to you, but of course with the trade off of leaking time information. I would argue there is no good reason to use database sequences any more.
Send me an email and in a few days/weeks I might make it open source, I am considering it. In the meantime maybe you'll get a peek. It's nothing interesting, though. Fast to replicate for an intermediate programmer.
OS for home NAS I highly recommend Unraid. I have enough trouble at work dealing with OS upgrades, commands, configurations, etc. I am happy that Unraid just works and is worth every penny, huge community of plugins, etc.
This is that meme when the pizza guy walks into a burning room. Also, this comment is worthy of The Daily WTF.
To be fair to other styles, we generally learned already that shared state is bad. It's avoided in basically every language/service these days. It may be enforced more strictly with functional programming. But "With other programming paradigms, you can't just knock out all the little pieces without thinking about the other pieces" is taking it too far. For example, you want to add email sending to your app? The library for it is a little piece of software independent of the rest.
Getting a person a room is, indeed, cheaper than running the whole criminal justice system if there had been such a person, giving a room to whom would stop all the homeless crime I'd be first to pay for their room my own personal money. What you meant, I believe, was running a free housing program for everyone, not a room for one person, right? And then the one-time cost is not one-time anymore, as people will be constantly demanding free housing, and modest upkeep is not so modest especially with larger build. And you still need to run the criminal justice system.

I am shooting in the dark here, but are you even aware of the various free housing programs that the US already had tried in the past[1]? Those did not solve the issues and the proponents blame them being too cheap on the failure.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidized_housing_in_the_Unit...
Of course. You send your email to an internal MTA that relays it (it likely has internet access). Segregation of access from terminals is a good thing, why would you want the terminal to be able to relay to an internet MTA itself?
You could name them, but you don’t.
The brain is responsible for about 1/5 of the total energy expenditure (and therefore food requirement)of a human body. So yes, on a biological level, there is significant resource constraints on a human brain. What is less clear is whether this actually holds for the “computing” part (as contrasted with the “sustainment”, think cell replacement, part)
I'm afraid it's not simply a matter of wasted money but one of profound institutional rot that drives away large numbers of the best and brightest. The article outlines this by focusing on the proto-scientist archetype and the spiritual, uncompromising pursuit of Truth. Today's academic culture is for the most part completely antithetical to a person possessing these attributes.

That some can endure the suffering and keep working in this sort of environment does not reflect well on today's institutions and doesn't inspire much optimism for the future of academia.
The vanilla bean, source of world's favorite scent, is in danger of disappearing
> At some point, china would also be able to convince the global south to start trading in the chinese yuan.

It’s a pipe dream to convince people to trade in a currency controlled by an authoritarian and corrupt government.

The global south can yap all they wish, but they still prefer to trade in dollars and euros, the currencies of countries with rule of law.
There have been many exaggerated claims surfacing across Twitter and the blogosphere. What I found to resonate best with my own experience is that Copilot is okay on simple tasks, but actually misguides, confuses, and in fact breaks your flow of thought on anything beyond that. I like that sort of smart autocompletion and snippet retrieval for boilerplate, templates code, but for the business logic proper it’s just awful. It either doesn’t get it at all but wants to insert some crap and the IDE isn’t always helpful to recognize that it’s distracting you, or it hallucinates something that seems to fit at first sight but once you accept the suggestion moments later you have to undo it because you realize how far off that is, how it misrepresents the domain entities or logic, as if a junior dev suddenly injected that code into your shared file buffer in a pair programming session, while you were focusing. So while Copilot autocomplete is on, you always have to analyze what a gung-ho quasi junior dev knee-jerks into your file buffer.

As many have witnesses, the Copilot Chat has been just terrible. I give up on my hopes for the current wave of the AI evolution.

What is uniform across all LLM is the lack of nuance. Even when they manage to generate some domain specific characters that do make sense, there’s always lack of detail and nuance to the domain, regardless how you try to trick your prompts to retrieve something from a very specific context. I’m impressed by how much easier it’s become for me to get a digest of longer texts, but at the same time I’m disappointed by the quality of the results. It is very rare that I get what I actually ask for. It’s like talking to a mid level consultant who pretends to know everything but the output is rather questionable, and you just give up and seek to end the meeting.
> Nothing in the AppStore will install on it

Odd, because my old Apple devices still let me sign in and offer me the last compatible versions of a lot of software, something Google doesn't do.
https://archive.ph/RRxqf
Both articles lack consideration of the Kundalini Chakra in tantric context, and how that relates to the nerves and their interconnections in the region of the fornices of the vagina.

BAM! There are your buttons :)
I am guessing there would be a LOT of false negatives of compilers removing dead code for good reason. For example, if you only use a portion of a library's enum then it seems reasonable to me that the compilers optimizes away all the if-else that uses those enums that will never manifest.
This reads like a strategy for creating filler content. If you have to write a school essay an outline helps you churn through all the BS. By contrast, when you try to write something meaningful almost all effort goes into two things (a) figuring out what you actually have to say and (b) finding the right words to express it. School essays are written by people who don't have anything to say. Intro fluff. Chapter one fluff. Conclusion fluff. It's not real writing. You can speedrun it because no thinking is involved.

The same applies to fluff software, but only to fluff software. If you have to create a page with a dozen buttons with a bunch of click handlers, hook those up to basic AJAX calls, then yes, you can speedrun that as well. Because it's extremely easy work that involves no thinking.

Many things in life are kind of mundane and tedious. Fake school work, taxes, cleaning, ironing, to give just a few examples. And having strategies to blast through that kind of work effectively is useful. But these strategies absolutely unhelpful when you're trying to do anything creative or difficult.

You can't write a great spy novel with an outline like: 'introduce spy character', 'successful mission 1 in present time', 'flash back to failed earlier mission', 'introduction of big bad guy', 'flash back to tragic backstory', 'spy gets assigned special mission only his handler knows about'. Filling out an outline like this produces an uninspired, boring, formulaic trash. You end up with bad airport reading, the equivalent of AI slop.

To give another example: PG spends MONTHS on a single essay. He is not bottlenecked by a missing outline. Speedrunning the wiring process doesn't help. Figuring out exactly what you want to say is the hard part. Putting words on paper is trivial in comparison.
T Coronae Borealis
Reducing Folium Map Sizes
The mushroom that puffs life into forests around the world
That would be the point of spinning it out. They could have an IPO, raise as much capital as there is in the observable Universe, and build enough fabs to satisfy all the demand.
Who recorded it and how long did it take? Weeks?
Is the design flaw that the previous ones are selling too well?
It’s fairly unpleasant in Go (opinion). Especially for e.g. custom options. YMMV
Choice?

Can you book slots with TSMC for 3nm chips to put in another device?

Do you have hardware and software patents on obvious design patterns that users like?

There is no choice.
Neat Defer Macro for C++
Leonard Hayflick (1928–2024)
I heard crowdstrike also makes some great anti virus software…
Why always this obsession with emissions?

People don't want poisoned food from pesticides etc... primarly.
Hmm... if I pick an infinite number of random natural numbers between 0 and 9 and all of them are 0, can you prove they aren’t random?

https://www.americanscientist.org/sites/americanscientist.or...

(I kid, I kid)
A Medieval Polymath Who Paved the Way for the Renaissance and Holistic Thinking
An American visiting the Netherlands in the 80's was watching TV and asked if we purchased the (American) movie because of a lack of advertisements. When he learned it was just TV he was furious. It had never occurred to him that it wasn't necessary to constantly interrupt movies.
ROI shouldn't be calculated based on the costs of transportation, because no one goes to the store to buy just vegetables (and not everyone drives to the store, it's a purely suburban american thing). Not to mention 'CO2 costs' that you don't pay at all
UK's elite hardware talent is being wasted
I've written up my experience (going into the 10th year now!) with a DIY home NAS [1],[2]. I recommend a dual setup:

- a software RAID 1 for important data (eg. contracts, receipts, emails, family pictures) paired with par2archive to counter bit rot
- a JBOD with snapraid for large media collections

The posts go into details, eg. properly configuring ext4.

[1] https://blog.georgovassilis.com/2020/04/01/building-the-perf...

[2] https://blog.georgovassilis.com/2022/10/28/my-home-nas-setup...
I think so too. The "democratization" of AI. Hackers/hobbyists rewiring these and experimenting.
Coincidentally, inflation (effectively a hidden tax) is also a way for governments to ignore democratic society and divert wealth into pet projects such as unpopular global wars.

There is a reason war bonds aren't sold any more to fund them.
Some of the diagrams look like “introduction to drafting” assignments from back in the day.
Copilot (that uses GPT 4 underneath)

I'm not sure this is true, Copilot Chat uses GPT4o but I've never seen a clarifying statement that the more immediate inline Copilot uses anything more than a 3 variant.

You would think that if that was the case, it would have been heavily sold.

The thing is, that if people using Copilot are assuming 4 but actually seeing the results of 3, it goes a significant way to explaining why they are sometimes underwhelmed or disappointed.

I'm happy to be corrected with a link that specifically clarifies that inline Copilot uses 4+.
Trump is a centrist -- I think you've spotted this here.

He's an extreme populist authoritarian centrist -- a centrist dictator wannabe.

(I don't think people understand that successful dictators don't need to take a left or right position, and indeed any position they do take will ultimately be sacrificed to whichever policy choice centres power on the executive.)

Trumpism is its own thing, and this is why he beat Hillary (who was a mildly authoritarian, technocratic centrist).

The 2016 presidential election did not take place on the left-right axis. It took place on the populist-libertarian axis of the Political Compass:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Political_Compass

He only had to gesture towards the people he wanted to vote for him, which he did without care for consistency.
Santa Cruz beachfront had one of these back in the mid 90s. Durban beachfront had one in the 70s.
I wonder if this is using the same audio format for the names of the 1997 Talk with me Barbie. There's a pretty good Tech Tangents video on it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zbuol0AJ24A
The promo video - Industrial Farming Bad, Take Back Control, epic movie trailer soundtrack - is a real hoot, given the product it's selling.
> And, most of all, the author doesn't remember how nonobvious Stripe's utility was in its early days, even in the tech scene: there were established ways to take people's money and it wasn't clear why Stripe had an offering worth switching to.

I think you are misremembering. Stripe was a _big deal_. They had a curl call on their home page for a while for how to take a payment IIRC. It was like how Twilio opened the door for anyone to send SMS, Stripe made it stupid-easy to handle payments online. Nothing else at the time compared in terms of simplicity and clearly defined fees.
A ton of writing is done for (sometimes very expensive) paywalled and subscription-only publications--or internal-only at companies. Theoretically all my (pre-blogging) analyst work is in that category. That said, no one reasonable cares much that you display that several year old thing you wrote for someone (absent confidential or classified information). I put "greatest hits" on my website and everything is either from a company that no longer exists or it's years-old material from a news website. The situation isn't ideal but it works better than the letter of the law suggests it should.
CrowdStrike, apparently.
"The rowid is implicit and autoassigned, but we want developer-friendly IDs." maybe

But of course, the obvious solution is to have one table with just ROWID and data, and another table with the friendly IDs! If you time the insertions really well, then the ROWIDs in both tables with match and voilà.
I'm interested in how they handle export restrictions. The RTX 4090 is already banned for export to China (Beijing) but what happens when the mid-range is banned for export because their performance is above the 4090?

Gina is going to be busy.
Economist's notebook: How much is a Paris Olympic gold medal worth?
It rarely turns open source. Someone releases it and no one cares enough to try to do anything about it.
This is likely a problem of the differences in your and my mental models - so let’s start with Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) which I think has huge explanatory power.

So starting with MMT - money is a token granting allocation of a portion of future productivity. Over COVID the UK printed 1 trillion dollars of extra furlough-like cash, the USA something like 10 trillion, the western world as a whole something like 25 trillion.

This was necessary and a Good Thing, but when the nurse or the waitress took the cash, stayed home and paid her rent the landlord got the cash, then his bank got the cash then their shareholders got the dividend and the trillions worked their way up to the richest wealthiest 0.1%

So now while productivity is still the same as it was 4 years ago, the amount of tokens representing that productivity is up by 25 trillion.

This has lead to enormous inflation pressure especially
In assets.

So ignoring any other fairness / redistribution issues, MMT says take those tokens out of circulation - the tokens represent the future production of factories and farms - unless those factories got more productive, the amount of money in circulation should not chnage.

So tax the wealth to remove about 25 trillion dollars globally.

Weirdly a stock market crash or a world war would have a similar effect.

But wealth tax seems a much better solution

And then We talk about annual wealth taxes, taxing loans as income, CGT chnages or whatever - the goal is to stop money accumulating in one place for too long - blood circulates around the body - having it stop and gather in the kidneys is bad for the body, and eventually bad for the kidneys
You do need it for e.g. database records that are nullable or anywhere else that null/nil is a valid state that differs from zero value. Your alternative approach requires manual work on your part rather than being built in to the bindings, and allows for invalid states as pointed out by another commenter.
Not really, no. The main issue of ITER is that it’s an international project before being an experimental reactor. Some parts were given to countries which really wanted to build an expertise in a domain instead of giving them to countries with a proven track record/expertise. Japan got a lot of responsibilities they shouldn’t have had if the project was to be delivered on time for example.
Based on my understanding, the goal of kneecapping Huawei goes far beyond hurting the company’s P/L or market share. This is a geopolitics issue—-centered around slowing the advance of China’s technology sector related to chips / compute / etc. The capabilities of the nation as a whole is what both parties are primarily concerned with.

The US wanted China dependent on the west for high end smart phones and chips. The way it’s turned out, China would have been more dependent if the US just left Huawei alone to begin with
When spending money to limit electricity consumption by such trivial amounts it makes sense to have a look at spending the same amount of money to generate electricity. If you already have solar panels on a roof it is probably much more cost effective to just add a panel or two to offset the power consumption of whatever gadgetry you're running than to spend that money on more power-efficient widgets. If you don't have solar panels you can get a balcony solar installation for around €200 which easily offsets the power used by your existing NAS server assuming you're not using an ex-lease rack-mount multi-purpose server like I do. If you do use one of those you'll have to spend a bit more to get a bigger setup but even in that case it probably ends up being more cost-effective to produce your own power - a single 400W panel covers the power use of a rack-mount server after all.
Twisted Fields: https://github.com/Twisted-Fields (open-source precision farming rover)
Palladium magazine is published by The American Governance Foundation. I couldn’t find out much about it by Googling, does anybody know what its deal is?
Starlette: The little ASGI framework that shines
Yes. It's a bracketectomy on Racket that's designed to (unlike previous bracketectomies) retain all the metaprogramming goodness of Lisp.
Thinkpads have a little switch under the bottom cover that will get flipped up when the cover is removed. There is a BIOS setting to require a password whenever this switch is toggled. When combined with signed BIOS updates it seems like it would be hard to bypass on a short term (like an actual "evil maid" attack).