skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> However, after the war started, I lost all interest in reading anything Russian. I know it's irrational, but these lost their luster instantly.

Russian here, living in Russia. Not surprised about this at all. Actually, I predicted that this would happen. By starting the war, Putin has wiped out multiple perceived notions about Russia (the myth of the defender nation, the second-strongest army, and the "Tolstoyesvsky"-centered culture among them).

Paraphrasing Anton Chigurh: "If your culture brought you to this, of what use was the culture?"
If you like C over Python, you'll like P&V.
Sites typically want to give the full article to web crawlers because they want it to show up in search results for anything that might be in the article.

It's also a mechanism of price discrimination. Using some third party site is an inconvenience, so anyone who can afford it or wants to support the site is going to subscribe. Having a slightly inconvenient but available path to reading the articles for free is a form of advertising (people who might subscribe can sample articles first), and most of the people who will always use the workaround were never going to subscribe anyway. Also, they may want the story to actually be archived -- who else is going to maintain a copy of it for the historical record when the company goes bust?

On net it probably gets them more subscribers to let it happen. But then their traffic declines anyway for other and industry-wide reasons and some shortsighted tightwad concludes that allowing it is costing them rather than making them money.
🬼🭈🭆🭑🬽🭋🭎🭆🬹🭑🭄🭎🬭🭆🬿🭊

Teletext in Unicode - each character is three pixels tall, two pixels wide, with separate characters for inverse as well, and diagonals to get you from one set to another.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletext_character_set#Graphic...

Intended for use with teletext graphics, but hey, do a sparkline with them, why not? Sure, it'll only do you four levels, but do you really need more than that in this use case?

Previously on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40269606
Some context here: https://logos.substack.com/p/cellar-door
Depends heavily on your application. I feel currently 16 GB is on the low side but sufficient for most tasks

Thus having this as the base line for a laptop is sufficient, too

I personally would hate buying an expensive product I don't know much about being crippled by not selecting an option I did not understand.

Having 16 GB for those customers is a win
I just switched from sway to KDE + Kröhnkite script for the exact same reasons. So far I like it, though it is slightly different.
> Market forces trump everything

Unless a certain company interferes with market forces — aka the whole purpose of this lawsuit.

If you need a place to live, what’re you going to do, be homeless? They have enough of the market in some cities to impact the market in a way that distorts the prices for everyone. Market forces cannot operate when companies act anticompetitively
I was unpleasantly surprised by but thankful to have found eclecticlight.co’s findings about PAR2. When I learned about PAR2 I immediately wanted to make par files for everything because bit rot scares me. But, from https://eclecticlight.co/2020/04/20/file-integrity-5-how-wel... :

> This has serious implications for the use of Par2 with files much larger than 20 MB, and probably rules it out as a method of ECC for those larger than 1 GB.

I assumed 10% PAR file size == resistance to 10% of the input file being corrupted, but that’s not how it works. The article shows some nonlinear and non-obvious relationships between input file size, par file size, and maximum number of recoverable errors.
It's not generosity, it's investment in infrastructure.
And, almost to demonstrate the digital divide, almost every MOOC there is lacking true Accessibility, therefore making it even harder for blind and visually impaired people to piggy-back on existing education infrastructure.
Fine-tuning is expensive and slow compared to prompt engineering, for making changes to a production system.

You can develop validate and push a new prompt in hours.
> Soon, he moved WVRN to the internet. But a live feed proved prohibitively expensive.“It was like $3,000 per month to have a stream that could handle 10 listeners. I saw it as the future and I wanted to be a part of it. But I was too far ahead of that wave and it crashed on me,” Louvis said. “I couldn’t sell enough ads to recoup the cost.”

Can anyone explain why this was so expensive back then?
I have fond memories playing with Finale 3 on Win3.11. After that it seemed everyone I knew musically was on Sibelius. What I found most remarkable about that old release is that it came in a huge cardboard box with printed manuals describing how to use every function.
You are repeatedly begging the question so what follows is falsehood. The premise is to reconstruct the intuition behind the parallel postulate. You can look at Euclid's Elements to get a better understanding of constructivism.
They mess a lot with your sleep in general, altering your lucid state, to the point that what might otherwise have just be a dream becomes something closer to a trip.
"Peak", from the same author, is probably the book I've read that has had the biggest influence on my life.

The most important idea I got from it is something like: You gotta practice to get good at things. People that are better than you at things very likely practiced _more_ and/or _better_ than you. Other factors matter very little in comparison.

The book goes deeper into what "more" and the "better" mean here.

You may think this takeaway is obvious, but the extent of it certainly wasn't for me, and I can tell it isn't for a lot of the people I talk to.
I studied Russian for only a year in college, but it was incredibly clear that P&V was the most literal translation that followed russian patterns of speech. In my russian lit class (in english, but taught by a russian) we only used their translations.
Power grid and roads
If that's the case, sounds like he should have never collected the data in the first place :) Data is a toxic asset, as Schneier explained in 2016 https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/03/data_is_a_tox...
Something I anticipate is smarter storage that can do some filtering on push down predicates. There's compute on the storage nodes that is being wasted today.

I was kinda expecting BigQuery to do this under the hood, but it seems like they don't, which is a shame. BigQuery isn't faster than, say, trino on gcs, even though Google could do some major optimisations here.
Maybe "lucid dream" would be a better description than "hallucination"? Were they technically awake or asleep?

Something that feels like a few minutes but lasts 13 hours certainly sounds like induced sleep.
>Catholic Church has no official teaching on the age of earth.

Interesting. That may be one reason why a Catholic priest came up with the Big Bang.[0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lema%C3%AEtre
Meh - personally I see copilot as a mild boost/auto complete++ - helps me type out stuff that's obvious in context but needs to be typed out anyway.

I've had it disabled when switching between environments and sometimes not notice for a day - depending on what I'm doing.
VPS (even with a super basic CMS ready set up) and managed web hosting with integrated editor are completely different products. If you want to make comparisons,
look at WordPress.com, 1mb.site, Wix, etc.
Telegram has secret chats, but only for mobile 1:1 chats.

You want secret chat for groups? Sorry, can't do. (Signal can.)

You want secret chats for desktop messages? Sorry, can't do. (Signal can.)

You want everything end-to-end encrypted by default? Sorry, can't do. (Signal. Can.)
The pattern of digital technology development seems to be decades-long stagnation under olipolistic dominance followed by bursts of change when the stranglehold is briefly broken.

It does feel as the current stagnating adtech era is drawing to a slow and ignominious end but which of the many collective challenges we are facing will be at the epicenter of the next transition is not clear.
Sure, some people might like living in a huge apartment that takes up a whole commercial floor, but how many can afford it? The landlord isn't going to rent out that much floorspace cheaply, and even if they did, can you imagine what the electricity cost for HVAC would be?

We've seen this kind of living arrangement in the Blade Runner movies (J.F. Sebastian lived in some old hotel I think, and Deckard in the newer movie lived in a casino I think), but they presumably didn't have to pay rent, and they probably didn't have any heat either. They also lived alone and didn't have families complaining about it being too cold inside.

I suppose you could put up some insulated walls (if they aren't already there) and make a smaller apartment within the space where you keep the HVAC on, to keep your energy costs manageable, but then you're back to the previous issue about the cost of rent, because of the sheer amount of floorspace. If the location is desirable, it's going to be too valuable to rent out at the price of a normal apartment.
Seeing this post on the the of the most massive combined missiles + drones attack on Ukrainian power grid, resulting in millions of people having no electricity and water...
And "kinda" is an understatement. It understands you very well, perhaps even better than the average human would. (Average humans often don't understand jargon.)
This is obviously not so.
I'd argue that a lot of people are moving from Kafka to NATS. NATS and Kafka serve different purposes and for many use cases related to APIs, NATS has a lot more to offer, like like wildcard topic topologies.
Unpaid school is a different problem because it's society subsidizing their hobbies.
It seems to me Germans in general like to use English phrases, but on the contrary from other European places I know, they like to use the original pronunciation and spelling. Us, Poles, like to make it sound like Polish, add our own declension and so on.
Just checked: her compiler was called A-0. If I remember well, she did it when she was teaching mathematics to help her students.

(As a part of my English language exam when I was a student, I had to write a text about a subject of my choice. I wrote about the history of programming languages: that's where I discovered Grace Hopper and mentioned her work in my essay).
I agree that realpage is the villain here, but let's not distract from the real problem.

even if realpage disappears overnight, rent prices wont fall because the new construction is outlawed by the NIMBYs.

fix new construction via zoning reform if you want to actually help people
https://www.politico.eu/article/telegram-ceo-arrest-pavel-du...

“They practically detained the head of communication of the Russian army,”
It's certainly used on its own codebase indirectly, phpstan - the static analysis tool they use - uses PHP-Parser internally:
https://github.com/phpstan/phpstan-src/blob/4f7beffdf4c30c49...
This project is over 5 years old.
"Azure Timesharing OS" now gets all the goodies, also apparently they getting many new people versed on the ways of Windows, seeing how the whole WinRT mess went down, and is still ongoing.
„A turbo-charged 10 mins on Telegram as an instrument of US statecraft, why the US State Dept selectively promotes Telegram as a free speech tool in some countries but pressures gov'ts to censor Telegram in other countries, and Who Dunnit behind Pavel's arrest.“

https://x.com/mikebenzcyber/status/1828267107353583869
It all depends when you started using computers. To me, Win95 was the high point for Windows UI.
It crashes the app on runtime.
You're not mature enough to release your first version as v1
Squaring and Cubing should be geometric ideas - not just another way to do 1D multiplication. We need new operators for transforming a number into a higher dimention.
> And yet the Germans seem to have genuinely changed, and all of the other European powers gave up their hyperfixations with their respective colonialist adventures.

Germans suffered TWO humiliating defeats in world wars and had to go through painful transformation processes for decades. On top of that they’ve had support of western world.

Russians revel in numbers they’ve lost.
20 millions dead across Soviet Union? Who gives a shit? Можем повторить! (We can do it again!).

So long as kleptocracy is alive in Russia - it will never change. And this won’t happen in our lifetime.

US had to withdraw from Vietnam after humiliating defeat against Vietcong and Chinese/Soviet supplied Vietnam army after huge backlash from general population, as far as I know.
I just switched from sway to KDE + Kröhnkite. That might be an option.

According to the reddit comments I've seen, there aren't any plans to expand tiling functionality much beyond what it currently is in KDE.
So Russia is controlled by lizardpeople of Mars and Ukraine by lizardpeople of Venus?
Actually... they're not meant to have gaps between these lines, so: (never mind, Hacker News stripped some characters, probably because of non-BMP things, it looks like, but imagine the above on subsequent lines without a gap)
The Relationship of the US State Dept with Telegram
This person is selling "rigor"...
Obligatory mention of Piku as a Dockerless alternative: http://piku.github.io/
It's interesting that they're in the 3rd person - "Claude is", "Claude responds", instead of "you are", "you respond".
Love buttondown. Have been using it for 3-4 months now and it’s everything I need without all the bullshit. Also thanks for your prompt problem solving whenever I find a bug!
Elizabeth Holmes (in coarse voice): “Hold my beer”
IMO it's mainly because of management decisions, like shutting down Stack Overflow Jobs, focusing too much on AI, not listening enough to the needs of the community, ...
What's it even mean to use Imaginary Numbers or Quaternions "rigorously"? It's Geometry. The point is points, lines, applying transformations. If anything the field needs less rigor and more friendly intuition.
I started well before Win95. I can still see that Aero was MS's peak UI, even though I never seriously used the OS myself (my workplaces all seemed to skip Vista).
> Cities are often cheaper to live in than suburban lifestyles

Never heard of that ever being the case, especially if you take into account living space, which is at a premium in cities.

Recent example from a friend of mine: he's selling his 62m2, two bedroom apartment in a city of 650k to buy an absolute castle of 200m2 in the suburbs that also has a separate garage.

He's got two children, but could give each one a room even if he had five.
>> I find it extremely hard to read. Even small snippets, say line 56 to 74 which define this "color”

I think you make a great point, a point that once someone has gotten used to lisp, is harder to fully appreciate. I’m at the stage now in my lisp journey that i didn’t find those hard to read but it wasn’t that long ago that i felt almost nerd sniped by this weird language. I think it’s worth pointing out that in a more advanced example, I’d still have been comfortable because of the repl - I could navigate between each sub expression with a keystroke and I can send each to the repl with a keystroke and see what they do. Lisp really makes it easy to do this kind of bottom-up assembly - both when you’re writing and when you’re understanding someone else’s code.

A corollary to that, and which was key to me falling in love with lisps, is that the signal-to-noise ratio is off the charts. Whatever you want to implement, probably doesn’t require a lot of code. Wordle in 189 lines is pretty decent. There’s just less to fit in your head and what’s there tends to be solving the problem at hand, not boiler plate.
Like someone once said, "Pidgin is a flock of zero-days flying in formation". It had serious issues with leaking messages to other applications via dbus, I know this because I used that feature to stab in the earliest version of my work TFC.

You always forgot to enable OTR even if it was right there in front of you. You couldn't use it cross-device, and its 1536-bit DH got outdated without fixes. There's stuff like lurch that offer OMEMO but still, I really prefer that I don't have to think about key management anymore. With Signal things just work, and it's magical.
>Why?

because undervolting usually results in lower power draw/higher power efficiency
Check out the Open University then. It’s the real thing and online. It costs and there are time constraints but they are the experts in remote teaching
>Do they count against my tokens for each conversation?

This is for the Claude app, which is not billed in tokens, not the API.
There definitely are state schools that work hard to drive costs down for in-state students.

Florida is weirdly enough a good example as the sunshine state scholars program provides a reasonably approachable way for any student in the state to enter high school with the intent on going to university and graduate with the criteria to get 50%, 75%, or 100% tuition and fees covered under the sunshine state scholars program.

Then you have states like Virginia who have some of the fastest rising costs of attendance in the country and where cost of attendance at state schools (which are generally supposed to be cheaper) actually ends up being comparable or even more than cost of attendance at private universities.
They certainly did have kids in cities: you think people living in European cities in the 1700s or 1800s somehow all managed to stay childfree? They didn't have birth control back then, nor did they have transportation allowing them to commute.
@dang this should be the link
Pioneer, an older board.

Note that, today, one of the recent options with several, faster cores implementing RVA22 and RVV 1.0 is the better idea.
"Storage of waste" is also a farce. All of the components of "nuclear waste" are commercially valuable, especially the exotic and hazardous ones. The issue is that we don't reprocess most of the spent fuel for political reasons.
> Programming Models

If you read this section, the author gets a lot of things right, but clearly doesn't know the space that well since there have been people building things along these lines for years. And making vague commentary instead of describing the nitty-gritty doesn't evoke much confidence.

I work on one such language/tool called mgmt config, but I have had virtually no interest and/or skill in marketing it. TBQH, I'm disenchanted by the fact that it seems to get any recognition you need to have VC's and a three-year timeline, short-term goals, and a plan to be done by then or move on.

If you're serious about future infra, then it's all here:

https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/

Looking for coding help for some of the harder bits that people might wish to add, and for people to take it into production and find issues that we've missed.
Been a while since I've seen a misconfigured encoding on a website.

“For those who arenâ€™t familiar with the term, itâ€™s become popular in the US political lexicon as a â€œpractice intended to establish a political advantage for a particular party or group by manipulating district boundaries.â€”

The nostalgia :)
Here you go

https://www.fordservicecontent.com/ford_content/catalog/moto...
It reminds me of when in the early 2000's I had bought an sgi off ebay and was scouring the local computer repair shops for cheap 80-pin scsi drives. which were understandably a bit rare in my rural area. I I took a chance on one cheap drive, I think he said it came out of some sort of ibm array, but it ended up having 510 byte sectors, Which is persona non grata in any reasonable system. And after a lot of reading the docs(sgi had some great docs) I determined the only thing to try was a low-level format. By this point ide drives had lost the ability to low level format but scsi drives were still able to do it. And after a few tense hours, the docs warn that if it failed or the parameters were wrong the drive would probably be bricked. it worked! and served quite a few happy years in my O2.

One my favorite things I found in the SGI docs was instructions on how, for the highest speed xfs array you should set it up, one drive per scsi controller then stripe it. An arrangement I found exotically extravagant.
> Yeah it sucks to have a bad wlb work culture, but the alternative is losing what makes America so awesome.

You're not reaping the benefits of that “hard work”, executives do.
"What can we do with the black-on-white paper construction to extract information from the system?"

I will need to leave this discussion with you here. I only mean to hold open the door for you and to give you two more variations of the tools that were used to define this long tradition of rational inquiry.
The customers paid for a lifetime license, why is a year reasonable to revoke this with no compensation?
The promise of local / alternative currencies has never been really fulfilled despite many valiant efforts over decades.

The comparison with speculative crypto that has become a major trend while coming out of nowhere and being basically empty of any economic substance is sobering.

Somehow we need monetary tools that can both survive the dominance of official currency, create real value for depressed parts of the economy and not be intrinsically ponzi schemes...
It is like my mind right. It just goes on incessantly and uncontrollably without ever stopping.
10 seconds of additional trouble, a lifetime of root access to a 3rd party :)
The claim that geometric algebra is not rigorous made me confused. But the lack of proper references is much more confusing to me. Back in the days when I was doing research in Chevalley groups the definitive and most cited source was (and still is) Geometric algebra by E. Artin. And there are some more recent treatments recognized in math community, e.g. classical groups and geometric algebra by L. Groove and the geometry of the classical groups by D. Taylor. At least this books made everything rigorous and clear. But may be there is some other field with the same title?

I've heard about book by Doran and always thought that it's more about applications.
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=nlnet ?
Would you mind mirroring to a repo, with a license, so others might view?
Some of these warrants and subpoenas are senseless and come from deliberate political prosecution though. This seems to be the case in France, not a good look at all, especially with these accusations.

But Signal did get it right too, this is basically malicious compliance. But making a state make a fuss is another.
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Not really and I use it all day, I tend to have a lot of short chats and don't paste ton of context in
This was also my first experience was vim, so maybe it's just realistic.
Pot. Kettles. Not-cracked but Blackened by hellfire.
I agree. But there are parts of the US where you are allowed to do those things fwiw.
Leave. If you live in such an area it would be a way of life. You probably have a spare toothbrush at someone else's house already. Unless you have a bunker or something that is considered safe.