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They are legal but most airports don’t actually accept them. Gotta start somewhere though!
I tried cursor recently. It has potential but as it is is very alpha feeling and clunky. Better than copilot but maybe less productive.

And probably worse than the copilot, aider and vscode combo
> FP hardware usually special cases them to some slow but correct silicon

This is basically only true on Intel chips. Subnormals are not that slow on modern ARM or AMD hardware.
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Does anyone know what the malware does? I just saw this myself.
First high-resolution images of the North Star's surface
I never heard of OMCB before, but it's the kind of site that I would love for my teenage kids to find and play with the way those teens in the discord channel did--providing opportunity for creativity and engineering.
Free Local Text to Speech?
It seems very odd that so many complex LLM features like image generation
are available and run locally but I can't find one that will do text-to-speech.

I need local because the end-user does not have regular web connectivity.

The idea case is reading PDFs during plane flights.

Even Dragon Systems (anyone remember "Barnburner One..."?) now is cloud connected.
Not like us is pretty new (may 24), not sure any proper llm could have been trained on it. All big openai models know nothing about 2024.
How is this a thing in 2024?
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$0 because this case has not yet gone to court.
> Algorithmic libel detectors don't exist

Automatic libel generators, on the other hand, are mych closer at hand. :p

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4546063
I always thought of the incognito mode as: "I can surf from incognito mode while on a friend's computer and my friend won't get my credentials / history / etc."
:( oh? That’s a shame.
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No the tweet is flatly wrong and xenophobic.

https://www.usa.gov/who-can-vote

> Who cannot vote?
> Non-citizens, including permanent legal residents, cannot vote in federal, state, and most local elections.

But even if it wasn’t wrong, the idea behind it is un-American. A country founded on the principle of no taxation without representation which taxes people within its borders while allowing them no voice in that taxation.
Begging the military to enact a coup does not actually amount to a coup. As far as I'm concerned, that's just free speech. People may disagree but that must be tolerated right up to the point they pick up weapons. Only past that point could repression possibly be warranted.

Showing up at the capital with flags and bibles is not an attempt to take power by force. So the "attempted murder" analogy is not convincing either. To take power by force, you actually need force.

Every day on the internet people publicly wish fates worse than death on others. This does not amount to attempted murder or anything of the sort. So logically, wishing for coups doesn't amount to an actual coup either.
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Things are called AI only until they can be done well by a computer, and then they become just an algorithm.

There was a time when winning in Chess was a proof of humans' superior intellect, and then it became just an algorithm. Then Go.
Which is partly why the Motorola(?) Droid phones got so popular.

Verizon couldn’t have the iPhone, so they pushed that as their equivalent with a huge marketing campaign. Always felt to me like that single-handedly pushed Android into the public consciousness.

Like without that maybe Android would be huge, but we updated have gotten the name recognition. Or at least not so fast, and instead would have been more of an implementation detail in most people’s minds.

Sprint tried to compete with the Palm Pre which was neat but had issues. Then Verizon got the Pre and Sprint’s last shot at relevance died.
As a related proxy for market awareness, DB-Engines.com's ranking is a composite index of a number of factors:

• Google search volume and quantity of search result pages (blogs, recipes, etc.)

• Mentions in LinkedIn profiles as a skill

• Number of job post listings as a requisite skill

• Social media mentions

It is a measure of "mindshare" or "share of voice." Not one of market share ($$$) or utilization (TBs under management, etc.).

With that said, in the August 2024 listing:

• Elasticsearch is ranked #8 (of 423 systems tracked), with an index score of 129.83

• OpenSearch is ranked #35, with an index score of 16.47

This would make OpenSearch about an eighth as prevalent.
The world changed so fast. It was the norm when I went to college in the mid 00's to forge your birthday on your drivers license to get into bars. Kids will have a less interesting and unpredictable future I fear.
The last eight or so years has proven that the vast majority of the American system of governance is based on the idea that people have basic amounts of shame and are willing to not do something if they can't do it in good faith, and that such things would be enough to deter malignant parties from being involved in government without the need for explicit laws.

Now you have a bunch of sociopaths realizing that, oh, wait, there isn't any reason, legally or technically speaking, that I cannot be involved in government.
It's not necessarily preferred in the sense that those who think a lot about programming language think of language preference (i.e. like the preference of a connoisseur), but it is, nevertheless preferred because most programmers don't think of programming languages like programming language fans do (or, indeed, as much). A language can be preferred because it happens to be what you know and you're interested in writing programs rather than learning more languages, and it is the language you know because it's the language you've been taught, and it's the language you've been taught because it appeals to those who choose what languages to teach.

Evolving the design of very successful languages requires a different kind of thinking about programming languages than that of programming language fans, who don't usually think of maximising economic utility in a certain market environment when they think about what they like in a language.
the issue with nuclear power is that the humans don't yet have the technology to exploit it economically; at their current primitive level it's uncompetitive with other sources of energy. like printing 1000 years ago or heron's aeolipile
Hurting kids, hurting kids, hurting kids -- but, of course, there is zero chance any of this makes it to the top 30 causes of child mortality. Much to complain about with big tech, but children hanging themselves is just an outlier.
It says more about the consumers. You could run Doom in 1997, but there were more more interesting things to play. Latest GTA is still interestong enough to surive the console generations.
31.5M invoices, contracts, patient consent forms, and more exposed to internet
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So it's categorically impossible for the government to make any non-coercive request or report for anything because it's the government?

I don't think that's settled law.

For example, suppose the US Postal Service opens a new location, and Google Maps has the pushpin on the wrong place or the hours are incorrect. A USPS employee submits a report/correction through normal channels. How is that trampling on Google's first-amendment rights?
I think the market for website builders needs a shot in the arm. I would like to have a layout and design system for Web pages and sites that enabled me to build layouts by squishing, dragging, destroying, warping, randomizing, grungifying, etc with finger gestures on a touch screen... a more tactile and fun experience for building websites.
Ask HN: Hiring Situation in Canada?
Several friends and myself have a really hard time finding a new job Canada (experience, and degree). What's your situation like?
Brain Scientists Discover Glue That Makes Memories Stick for Lifetime
Right, but they aren't naming their business "Bob's $BRAND" which is kinda the point.
I would never have done that!

Having spent a lot of time around today's kids, particularly the ones who grew up in my house, I have the utmost faith in their ability to create new kinds of mischief. They'll be alright.
- "Cozy atmosphere with like-minded people sharing the same passion and vision."

- "You gained a dozen of cool people here, forget about opinions in the internet."

That's what I expected from my channel. Thank you!
> I wonder how many people are using the default b key binding in tmux

I do not use C-b as the tmux prefix key because it interferes with my muscle memory for Emacs where C-b invokes backward-char (i.e., move the cursor back by character(s)).

So I use C-j instead as the prefix key. While C-j also happens to be a useful Emacs key-binding, I use it quite rarely in Emacs. As a result, I do not have strong muscle memory for C-j and I can use it as the prefix key in tmux quite comfortably.

Here is my tiny .tmux.conf: https://github.com/susam/dotfiles/blob/main/.tmux.conf
One of the YC companies is doing robotics for solar panels installation

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/charge-robotics
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SQL replacements is like not understanding the magnitude of the success of something so old.

SQL is fine.

SQL has been the state of the art for db queries for 40 years.

And it will continue to be when we all retire.
That statistic always gets used but it hides a lot of other macro trends and context. In North Irland you will see a grath that look the same without privatization.

Also lots of things that came together by privatization had been developed at BritishRail.

And anyway, it was only really private in the slights way. After just a few years networkrail had to be created. This was hugely costly and the infrastructure during the private time degraded.

After that the government had even more diect control over routes and timetables then they had under BritishRail.

Having the services themselves being run by private companies isnt all that interesting. The can only really innovate on underpaying employes and some user experiance.

And to get this part to be private, you have to have a whole army of lawyer on both sides. And then again between the service companies and the train rental companies.

The user experiance gain is completly negated by having a system that is so much harder to use in general. Every company with their own branding. Changing all the time when provider change.

Harder to do proper ticket integration and so on and so on.

Not to mention that during that period almost no new fleets were ordered so the majority of UK train manufacturing is gone. And the one that still there makes subpar trains that don't compte with the trains from France, Germany and Switzerland.

In summation, I would say privatisation didnt really save the UK much money, arguebly it cost them money.

And now privatisation is done anyway because all the franchises are simply controlled by the government anyway.

Allowing BritishRail to continue to develop into something like the Swiss SBB would have been much better for Britain.

Comming from Switzerland travling by train in Britain felt like time travling to an earlier age. There is some fancy knew stuff on the most important routes. But travling the country side in 40 year old trains and stopping at stations that look like nature was in the process of consuming them.

In Switzerland is expensive, but you get something for money. In England its expensive and so much worse in so many dimensions.
The 3G was also released with the App Store, which we all know quickly became a huge hit.

The iPhone 2G was an interesting phone. But there were no 3rd party apps until the software update that came out at the same time as the 3G.

The 3G had (insert app here). And boy did that drive sales.
Also, OpenSearch is Apache-2 licensed so much more usable.
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> I didn't apply for the Sony PS3 Linux class action because I never installed Linux so I never lost anything when they took Linux away.

I'd argue that you lost the ability to install linux on your device. You may have never made the choice to install it, but the option was yours, Sony advertised that it was an option you'd have if you gave them your money and then they took that from you after they got your cash.

That said, I would agree that the people most harmed should be the most compensated.
Also 50% tariffs are going to hit Chinese battery manufacturers soon. The Biden admin considers it a national security priority to have energy done onshore.
Go ahead and type that search query into google and see what happens.

Also the alt-right is a giant threat, if you categorize everyone right of you as alt-right, which seems to be the standard definition.

That's not how I've chosen to live, and I find that it's peaceful to choose something more reasonable. The body politic is cancer on the individual, and on the list of things that are important in life, it's not truly important. With enough introspection you'll find that the tendency to latch onto politics, or anything politics-adjacent, comes from an overall lack of agency over the other aspects of life you truly care about. It's a vicious cycle. You have a finite amount of mental energy, and the more you spend on worthless things, the less you have to spend on things that matter, which leads to you latching further on to the worthless things, and having even less to spend on things that matter.

It's a race to the bottom that has only losers. If you're looking for genocide, that's the genocide of the modern mind, and you're one foot in the grave already. You can choose to step out now and probably be ok, but it's going to be uncomfortable to do so.

That's all not to say there aren't horrid, problem-causing individuals out in the world, there certainly are, it's just that the less you fixate on them, the more you realize that they're such an extreme minority that you feel silly fixating on them in the first place. That goes for anyone that anyone deems 'horrid and problem-causing' mind you, not just whatever idea you have of that class of person.
We're now going in circles. This has already been covered. Jump to parent comment #2 in the hierarchy.
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I'm a unionised engineer, albeit in Australia where unionising is simply a case of finding a union and joining it.
It just proves that no matter what you make and how innovative a product it is someone will come along a decade later and claim it was nothing but marketing fluff.
> I don’t think you are equipped to discuss design so I will leave it here.

Please don't be insulting. I could just as easily say the same about you -- I can't imagine anyone talking about Shannon's contributions as falling in the category of design -- but please let's not make things personal.
Plus the App Store was a massive driver of demand, but wasn’t there until year 2 and the release of the 3G.
I was prescribed duloxetine for about a year to treat chronic back pain and neuropathy from a congenital spinal disorder, sort of like carpal tunnel for my spinal nerves. It worked well and has given long lasting relief, with side effects.

I'm currently exploring treatment for PSSD. The pleasure center of my brain just... doesn't work anymore. I've played with controlled stimulation using some common recreational/therapeutic compounds, with some mild, temporary success. I feel like I'm a ghost, unaffected by a world I'm no longer firmly connected to. It's been a challenging adjustment.

To treat the bouts of (milder) neuropathy, I now take Tiger Milk mushroom. I wonder if I'd discovered it first, or whether opiates had been available, whether I could have avoided this.
Assuming TikTok collect age, and the minimum possible age is 13 (ToS) and a parent lets their child access the app despite that, I don’t see how TikTok is liable.

Also, I’m not sure how TikTok would know that the videos are viral among the protected demographic if the protected demographic cannot even put in the information to classify them as such?

I don’t think requiring moderation is the answer in all cases. As an adult, I should be allowed to consume unmoderated content. Should people younger than 18 be allowed to? Maybe.

I agree that below age X, all content should be moderated. If you choose not to do this for your platform, then age-restrict the content. However, historically age-restriction on the internet is an unsolved problem. I think what would be useful is tighter legislation on how this is enforced etc.

This case is not a moderation question. It is a liability question, because a minor has been granted access to age-restricted content. I think the key question is whether TikTok should be liable for the child/their parents having bypassed the age restriction (too easily)? Maybe. I’m leaning towards the opinion that a large amount of this responsibility is on the parents. If this is onerous, then the law should legislate stricter guidelines on content targeting the protected demographic as well as the gates blocking them.
Webrings?

There was an attempt to push a return of Webrings I think...

But funnily enough, whilst browsing this thread, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41389642

I commented to my colleagues:

Remember when people would find good websites and share them!
I agree that's it's a good idea to go niche. I did some research about website builders for photographers and concluded that the best one for many photographers is a niche product aimed at their needs - https://www.format.com/website
It was considerably less foolish then, then now. It's not even close. The complexity of the operating system kernels has more then increased 50x over the last 34 years. It's not even remotely comparable.

No one wants to replace substantial parts of the linux project with Rust. This is a straw man, and the same bad faith argument the set in their ways kernel greybeards are making. People just want to be able to write green field drivers in Rust.
If this really happened, on both sides - author, and haxor, well, ... there is still hope for this world. Amen.
RIM famously thought they faked the keynote and what they showed was impossible.
C-o here. And C-x or C-p on a few rare nested screens in one particular screen session that I always have open. Those are identified by differently colored tabs in the hardstatus bar which is always visible.
Indeed, I haven't updated it since well before I left
An older version of their README says:

> Closure Library is a powerful, low-level JavaScript library designed for building complex and scalable web applications. It is used by many Google web applications, such as Google Search, Gmail, Google Docs, Google+, Google Maps, and others.

I wonder if they still use it in all those services, or if they migrated to something else.
shrug maybe our communication protocols should be distributed and not owned by billionaires. That would solve this problem neatly.
Being flexible is kinda the point of an elastic.
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If risk is a factor, you won't port it to VMS x86, either. You'll leave it running in an Alpha or VAX emulator.
Japan has a very different culture and a very different way to organize and finance everything. If you want yo copy their system you cant just cherry pick a single aspect and just assume it gone work the same way.
Not yet, but this is a capability that we are actively investigating.
Thanks for sharing, this makes me happy as someone from there
Because that worked so well for Elastic here.
We regulate the sale of all sorts of things that can do damage but also have other uses. You can't buy large amounts of certain cold medicines, and you need to be an adult to do so. You can't buy fireworks if you are a minor in most places. In some countries they won't even sell you a set of steak knives if you are underage.

Someone else's response was that a 10 year old should not be on ticktoc. Well then how did they get past the age restrictions?(I'm guessing its a check box at best). So its inadequately gated. But really, I don't think its the sort of thing that needs an age gate.

They are responsible for a product that is actively targeting harmful behavior at children and adults. It's not ok in either situation. You cannot allow your platform to be hijacked for content like this. Full stop.

These 'services' need better ways to moderate content. If that is more controls that allow them to delete certain posts and videos or some other method to contain videos like this. You cannot just allow users to upload and share whatever they want. And further, have your own systems promote these videos.

Everyone who makes a product(especially for mass consumption), has a responsibility to make sure their product is safe. If your product is so complicated that you can't control it, then you need to step back and re-evaluate how it's functioning. Not just plow ahead, making money, letting it harm people.
> It's absolutely absurd to argue that the labor movement was at its peak in the US in the 1890s. This was the era of the Pullman strike--which the government infamously ended by force--

This wasn't just the era of the Pullman strike. This was during the Pullman strike. The federal government specifically tried to push through a labor day federal holiday as a concession to ease tensions during the Pullman strike. They would not push forward May Day as a federal holiday because they saw memorialising the Haymarket Massacre as inflammatory both in general and at that moment in particular given the volatile situation (even though in practice acknowledging the labor struggle's marred history would have been a better bridge towards peace than a concession and a following violent strike break).

> and the Sherman Antitrust Act being used against unions under the theory that they were an illegal monopoly on labor. Labor in the US probably reached its peak after WWII. The 1890s were extremely business friendly.

Yeah the establishment was extremely anti-union. That's why it was the peak of the labor movement at the time. This is exactly the same reason why the late 50s and the 60s were the peak of the civil rights movement at the time. Things were very bad and it was a painful bloody period where the people were rallying with all their might to try and force progress in the right direction. This is the exact time when everyone was out throwing themselves into the gears to try and make the powers that be listen.

> If you are aware of any country that made May day a public holiday before that time please tell me

I don't know of specific countries however the call for May Day to be made a public holiday in all countries was in 1904 and even before that there were demonstrations on May Day in the US and across Europe in the 1890s (in 1890 in particular).

However that's not the important part. The important part is that in the US, even before legal observance, May Day was being observed by unions and those unions would strike on May Day if they weren't willingly given the day off to observe it. Hell the year that Labor day was made a federal holiday, that May Day (before the Pullman Strike had started) there were the May Day riots of 1894 in Cleveland.

And it's not like I'm claiming that May Day was already established outside the US at that point. It grew outside the US later but it was very much an American labor movement holiday and had at that point replaced labor day as the holiday of the worker. Labor day started as a holiday of the worker but the events of the era quickly shifted that date to May Day and Labor day instead became a minor concession from the government and businesses so as to appease workers without giving them the thing they were actively asking for.