skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My university had something similar, but with ID numbers correlated to each person in a database that recorded how many credits they had left.

Tapping the vending machine with your card sends the ID in plaintext over the wire to the upstream server, which responds in plaintext for the machine to either accept or reject the transaction.

Tomfoolery may or may not have been performed by a bunch of bored, hungry college students at 1AM one night...
Wages in America must be truly incredible for this to seem normal. I know so many full time developers on a tenth of that.
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> While there's no doubt that React and virtual DOM offer advantages, it's essential to clearly demonstrate where and how these benefits manifest in real-world applications.

Definitely; it's a struggle to find precise, concrete arguments in this direction. And there are many good reasons to be conservative: e.g. inheritance-based OO was sold with "VW inherits Car"; looks great on paper, but not as much in front of real-world issues.

> Apparently, that is what it ultimately boils down to:

If so, I'd be left wondering how much of this is actually caused by a lack of discipline, as seems to be for example indicated by the "dumb reflows" issues.
I was shocked to discover the Hazard3 cores doesn't do floating point. It would have been quite nice to have that.
There are more Steam gamers on Linux than there are on MacOS (2.08% Linux vs. 1.37% Mac)[0]. Gaming is pretty dead on Macs.

[0] https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...
Unlimited paid vacation days are for the employers benefit not employee.
This isn't a good faith argument.

When considering competition for X, the alternative should do at least most of the things that X does. It's not realistic to expect a drop-in alternative, but the user, I think, can't be expected to turn their life around, just to use the alternative, either. If this would be the case, then a SIM-enabled Windows notebook would also be competition for the iPhone.

If the offerings differ too much, then they are not competition. They are different products.
What does "claim unemployment" mean in this context?
The first commercially available Acorn RISC processor was released as a co-processor for the BBC Micro. Acorn always had processors on the mind it seems as the Tube interface and protocol [1] is solely for co-processors.

There's an excellent Rasperry Pi based project, PiTubeDirect, which emulates the ARM and many other co-processors on original Acorn 6502 based hardware; Atom, Electron, Micro and Master [2]. The original expansion hardware is, as expected, incredibly rare and valuable.

[1] https://mdfs.net/Info/Comp/Acorn/AppNotes/004.pdf
[2] https://github.com/hoglet67/PiTubeDirect
I think it's pretty easy, he's obviously a far-right libertarian that rejoices at the riots in England, posts antisemitic tropes on the social network he bought for some dozens of billions of dollars so that he could keep other far-right bigots online for reasons of "free speech", he's a rich, dangerous racist with a deep coffer.
You can't run the divide-and-choose algorithm from the original position, because you can't have one person design society and the other put them into it. Might make a good short story though.
In Russia's War on Ukraine, Effective Satellites Are Few and Far Between (2022)
Early U.S. and Nato intelligence on Russia's intent and mobilisations leading up to the 2022 invasion of Ukraine made clear the overwhelming effectiveness of these capabilities. I've commented on this previously: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31480538>

The flat-footedness of Russia's response to the nearly two-week-long incursion of Ukrainian forces into the Kursk region of Russia speaks to exceedingly poor capabilities or utilisation of remote-sensing, signals, and human intelligence by Russia.

From a discussion elsewhere, apparently Russia's surveillance satellite resources are limited and highly aged, which may explain at least part of its poor showing here.
> are you nuts?

There's a new law still in committee:

https://www.scstatehouse.gov/billsearch.php?billnumbers=4226...

> What? Why is it called vacation then

Having more than two weeks off in a year is pretty strange. I worked at a place with "unlimited vacation" once, and you weren't allowed to take off more than two weeks at a time until someone took off two weeks every three weeks ... and that ended that policy. They made it about 4 months before getting fired though.
The basic principle is --- you work, you get paid. If you're not working, you're not getting paid. Anything additional is a bonus at the discretion of the employer.
The problem is, as always, that the value people take out of these systems is not inherent to the system itself but rather to the people on it.

Moving 100s of people out of a certain Slack server to a different chat system may prove untenable or outright impossible.

Doing that for a few Slack servers, especially ones where you're just another regular user, would likely be a full-time job, and a fool's errand at that.
I consider the news to be like an infinite TV show with rich, unpredictable plots, no agenda, and, as an added bonus, kinda realistic. Apart from being good entertainment, I owe all my capital to following the news, and it has also saved my ass a couple of times when situations were about to get dangerous.
So if multi-backend is doomed, is tinygrad then doomed, too?
Without any solutions or even problems to begin with and without having a teacher by your side, I found that LLMs can be a good-enough learning assistant. Of course, you cannot rely on their answers and they sometimes lead you astray, but what works for me is to:

- throughout the text, use the LLM to ask questions, generate problems (I haven’t tried this yet, so it might not work very well) and give you hints on how to close the gaps in your understanding

- reduce a given problem to the simplest possible case and ask how to solve that (if you want to check if your solution seems plausible) or if it can give you hints on how to approach the problem (when you are stuck)

- vary the problem description to see if different approaches are suggested

- critically ask questions about the (steps to the) solution or any provided hints (does something seem odd or logically inconsistent?)

- other LLMs sometimes give you better answers (or contradict each other), so, if possible, try asking different LLMs the same questions

Having this “conversation” with the LLM where you need to critically check everything it says has the added benefit of being more actively engaged with the material as opposed to simply looking up the solution. It may be a huge waste of time if you’re not careful, but I think if you use it intelligently to guide your own thinking, it can be very helpful.
Those and mental hospitals are the exception to the rule(/law)
Why does Google communicate like this? Anyone reviewing OraganicMaps will instantly judge it not to be some scam or malicious app. So why the completely useless message? Nowhere do they actually say what OrganicMaps is doing wrong.

I'm sure the answer is 'automated review process, humans are expensive', but it's really fucked up to see a huge corporation like Google just removing one of the two most well-known OpenStreetMap apps like that (the other being OsmAnd).

If you use Android: get free software apps like these from F-Droid.
I have a hard time making NixOS work on my Rockpro64s. Installer ISO boots fine through TOW-boot UEFI but installed system never boots. The github projects to produce images don’t actually work for current version (something related to what’s available in hydra aparently) and even if I use the old versions as soon as I update the kernel it breaks. It simply doesn’t boot.

Meanwhile Fedora 40 installs like a champ from the default aarch64 iso with just a warning about EFI variables (which is expected since tow-boot is not really providing a complete uefi environment).

I suspect it’s probably some voodoo formula to manage the device trees. Those github flakes to generate imsges are pulling an entire root tarball from hydra so I’m assuming there is something done there that is not obvious.
Pricing?

Availability?

Specs?
Harnessing the power of AI to uncover patterns of violence (2023)
https://fortune.com/europe/2024/08/14/x-ordered-to-pay-55000...
I take a pretty dim view of the stuff you’re alluding to, I hope I was clear that he’s coming off as kind of an asshole from where I’m sitting. It’s got kind of a Tech Kanye vibe and it’s a bad look in 2024.

But certainly I’ve posted some stuff online I wish I could take back, I suspect most have, and given the cool stuff around renewable energy and rockets I’m rooting for a good outcome.
Yes. The general education thing is a weird American thing noone else does
Considering the fact that OrganicMaps shows a map of the world, it might be something as daft as allowing children to look up where the nearest brothel is…

(https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dbrothel)
I have "unlimited" vacation here in the states. If you go over three weeks, they still require special paperwork, but they allow it if you are tenured enough.

What unlimited means is "as long as your manager is decent, you will maybe get your days off" vs accrued vacation where you may be forced to take vacation to not lose it.
Isn't Google offering funding for this exact topic?
Let me generalize this thread because it was archetypical.

#1: Much used, leading service went down the enshittification route. If we did this extremely convoluted geeky hack everything would be back to normal (it wouldn't).

#2: Let's use another service.

#3 and on: yes, here are other services which no one aside from statistical error uses.

Sigh.

Remember when people suggested to use Lemmy instead of Reddit?

You might ask, what's the point of this comment. Well, it's to get people to read https://pluralistic.net/ more and for the geeks to start unionizing before it's too late (it already is).
Homebound: The Long-Term Rise in Time Spent at Home Among U.S. Adults
A big section of this is the petrodollar creating an perversly stong USD.

As that dies off and the USD rebalances to a post American empire equilibrium, housing priced in USD will be far more similar everywhere, exactly the same way it did post British and French empires. (back when 1gbp would buy you 10usd)
China's Youth Unemployment Climbs for First Time Since February
> I've never had an easier time building very complex UI functionality than with React.

How many frameworks did you have experience with?

> Without a VDOM, one way data flow, and diffing

you wanted to write "or" not "and", didn't you?
> can learn to drive cars safely in novel neighborhoods

we dont call that "prediction" in common language. thats just pattern matching based on driving experience and training.
Strawberry is alleged to be a codename for some secret openai technology. A twitter account/s that keeps spamming strawberries and making cryptic prophesies was shared by openai and sama. Lots of openai staff and connected people also spammed twitter with strawberries, making it look like an official campaign, or like something was really about to be announced. The same account co-hosted a chat with someone called lily who some claimed was an ai.

worldcoin is a private company owned by sama that verifies identity by scanning the eyeball. He's been rolling out the technology in places like South Africa, where they also recruited people to train openai models by RLHF etc.

It seems it has since been confirmed a scam by some of the participants.

This chap looks to have more details on it https://twitter.com/BenjaminDEKR/status/1824676550379192324
Taking untested drugs is risky because self-testing is unreliable, can lead to serious health problems, and lacks the expert guidance needed to safely assess their effects. Anyone who does this deserves the Darwin award and science CATEGORICALLY advises you to do something else. Those who find medical breakthroughs did not take shortcuts. They are trained and experienced and painstaking.

Do something well tested and proven to work instead and reap the benefits of all of these proven trained professionals. One idea: Acute Sprint Interval Exercise Increases Both Cognitive Functions and Peripheral Neurotrophic Factors in Humans.
> At a surface level he’s acting a real asshole in a bunch of ways, but he’s surprised us with some seriously useful stuff on a number of occasions

These aren't mutually exclusive.
That's not true.

The higher wages in the US are not related to labour protections. They are related to vastly higher wages in tech because of big corps pushing up those wages to have the best of the best working for them.

Proof is simple: Since a lot of low paying jobs in the US have no labour protections.

Or look at what Tesla does in Texas, with the "unprotected" third party companies that don't have labour protections. They are vastly worse off than those that work for Tesla ( since the country required minimum protections and Tesla didn't apply that to contractors)
Google play review process is tough because you can’t have conversation with them.

Apple lets you
For those who may not yet know why: US companies must pay out vacation time when employment terminates, meaning unpaid vacation affects liabilities and thus the balance sheet and thus stock price.
it's surprising how often saying nothing works out well.
I like Linux phones but it's hard to justify spending $700 on any portable computer, especially one with only 3gb of ram.

I think for most people there really isn't any competition, especially with the lock in from icloud. It was painful for me when I switched to a pinephone (I just use cheogram on a laptop with a 4g modem now, I don't think most people will do that) and I'm generally very careful about using online services like that. Most people just switching between Android and iOS will turn their whole lives upside down.
I used to not understand this as well. Then I switched to Android after some 8 years and can't really remember why I "needed" iOS. Everything works and I am happy. really just choose the better product (for you). Regulation may not happen in time or at all but declining sales will make any business do an about turn at record pace. And even if it doesn't, why do I care?
You're imagining that the formatter's top priority is to make markdown look similar to its rendered HTML. But that's not a goal of markdown (literally TFA), nor of Prettier, and it's not relevant too what I and some other people use markdown for.

If it's relevant for you, great! This thread is me saying it ought to be configurable either way.

> so why does it matter?

Readability, per the whole thread.
And the money is not the only problem, Europe is CHEAP compared to America, it's fascinating.

I heard that wges are less than 50% but you end up saving more
Of course you'd want to put those terms in the employment contract, not just a verbal promise. Surely you wouldn't get exactly the same protection as in another country with a completely different legal system, but at least you could get part of it.

And yeah, they could terminate the contract, but they would still be bound by its terms that say how they can do that, with how much notice, for what reasons, and how much they will owe you.
The biggest offender being "zero values should be usable" but then it doesn't work that way for a lot of built in types
The question wasn't "is it dead" but "will it recover"? And sadly I think not.

I'm certainly not going to buy ports of years old games on the app store where they're expensive and mac exclusive when i can get them multiplatform and for much less on Steam - if I haven't already finished them years ago. <cough> Death Stranding lol. I preordered that on launch.

And I use one x86 box, one PS5 and two Macs. I'm just not uninformed enough to overpay Cook for games.

Does that 2.08% Linux include the Deck btw? I couldn't figure it out by expanding.
Lol, you can find these with Google Maps.
Tested in Melbourne, Australia in an incognito Google Maps web session. Brothels are legal here.
PyPI Leaked GitHub Personal Access Token
Yeah, I get new bot followers nearly every day, this rarely happened in pre-Musk Twitter.
>Wages in America must be truly incredible for this to seem normal

They indeed are for a very small subset of people, who are overrepresented on this website.

I really don't think you can generalize that wages o/a are incredible in the US.
So I'll just say it: you lack the knowledge foundations for an informed opinion on this topic.

We know that DNA is "just" a sequence of nucleotides, yet life emerges. How does that happen, going from the world of nonliving to the living? We don't know. There are theories, but abiogenesis remains one of the most profound mysteries of science. But at the core of these theories, it is that the process of abiogenesis is informational.

Computer code is information. So from an information theoretic perspective, it's quite incoherent to say something can't happen because "computer code". As in fact information may well be the entire reason we can reason, or have the complexities of life.

Consider:

1) we know LLMs are universal function approximators

2) suppose the ability to reason, and the degree of reasoning ability, is a functional process that can be represented algorithmically, and can be learned

3) then might LLMs have learned some degree of reasoning ability?

If you insist 3) is impossible, you must also insist 2) is impossible. And since we really don't have a definitive answer for 2) much like we don't have one for abiogenesis, your position is not really defensible. At least not to the degree of conviction you seem to hold.
They also missed the "quality of user experience" argument.
Awakard at first glance I thought it said there's anal
"This works both ways - employee can quit any time too."

I think employees have been allowed to quit at any time since the early 20th century in most western countries. Of course there is a probationary period involved, but it's nothing like earlier times when police would possibly come and take you to your place of work, or it was illegal to be unemployed in several jurisdictions up to 20th century (e.g. USSR) etc.

So discussing this as "feature" rather than tablestakes in any modern society is somewhat misleading IMO.

I don't know if there are some professions where it's a bit more complicated than this and am happy to be corrected.
I think naming ai directories is almost all the same way:

https://github.com/best-of-ai/ai-directories
> we promise

There you go.

Remember folks: a company's interests are directly opposite to yours. If it makes enough money to not hold their promise, they will.

I don't want promises from an actor that is structurally infinitely more powerful than I ever will be. This is why not only must this be on contract and enforceable at any time, but individualistic mindset is always against our interests, because it's easy to promise to one who will be able to defend themselves and plunder another one who can't.

It's not my choice, it's our choice.
It's even worse, he can get out of paying that in a number of ways. If he simply refuses to pay, the employee needs to sue. He can play for time and later declare bankruptcy in the European subsidiaries that have too many legal costs racking up. IANAL, so I might be wrong about some of this, but I did see things play out like this. The employee OTOH has probably had to deplete quite a few savings to afford to go through with this.
tbh many of those "Linux users" are probably Steam Deck users who are unaware that they're running Linux.
If you use a html`` tagged template literal combined with the html-in-template-string vs code extension you get syntax highlighting. A simple html identity literal function is a one-liner: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
> accrued vacation where you may be forced to take vacation to not lose it.

I don't look at it that way. If you have accrued vacation, you "earned" your vacation and they can't take it away from you without compensation. Thus, you are guaranteed your days off. If they fire you, they should even have to pay you your salary for those vacation days.

"Unlimited" vacation just gives all the control to your employer: the right to deny you vacation, the right to dictate how long your vacation is, etc.
>US companies must pay out vacation time when employment terminates

Doesn't that depend on the state?
Exemplary damages are awarded only in exceptional and extremely rare cases in Ireland, and the WRC (which issued this ruling) cannot levy them.
I think the analogy works well but you must understand the reason for flywheels, at least in cars. A flywheel in a manual transmission car acts as an energy storage and output smoothing device. An internal combustion engine delivers non-continuous power impulses, as explosion happens in the cylinder, the force pushes the piston down, which in turn pushes on the crankshaft which results in rotational power impulse. But these impulses happen separately which results in gaps where there is no force applied to the crankshaft. Without a flywheel, your car would vibrate badly, flywheel captures these impulses and delivers continuous output.

Diesel manual transmission cars have heavier flywheels because higher compression in the cylinder results in higher torque applied to the crankshaft, therefore you need more mass to store more energy. Heavier flywheel has more rotational inertia, thus this makes revving a diesel engine seem lethargic compared to a petrol car, the heavier flywheel takes more time to reach desired RPM, thus revving a car with a heavy flywheel results in slow RPM pick up.

A fairly recent trend is putting a bit heavier flywheel to even small petrol cars, this makes them harder to stall at the expense of driver's engagement, this combined with custom fuelling maps make new petrol cars really easy to drive but not really engaging. It is common to put a lighter flywheel to cars being raced, you get faster revs and better engine response at the expense of the engine being easier to stall.

Automatic transmission cars, at least those with a torque converter, also have a flywheel, but since the design of torque converter allows for non-direct engine-transmission coupling, most of the smoothing can happen inside the torque converter itself, thus the flywheel is extremely light.
To claim unemployment is to take advantage of Unemployment Insurance. Companies pay into that and when you are terminated (doesn't count if fired for cause) you get some predefined amount of money for a period of time to help while job searching. The amount is dramatically less than your normal pay.
Most European countries, including Ireland, are not terribly keen on punitive damages as a concept. In this case the 550k was compensation, not punishment; any punishment would be separate, and likely by the regulators and not the courts.
If you're using random ARM boards (even well known ones), the way I've found most useful (since I seldom use them as desktops anyway) is to install a minimal Armbian (or similar, with barely anything besides the networks stack) and use LXC/LXD - https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2024/07/18/0900