skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stupid question: why don't they just offer to let Alumni pay for their content storage?
Can somebody post content in a readable format, please? I’m curious what he has to say.
There were a lot of aspects of this talk that I thought were really great. The willingness to try something unscripted, diving into the code repo live (e.g. to show where fuzzing is used), and the discussions of the reasoning behind the design choices. Great job @xiaq. This really makes me want to try elvish out, and I usually am quite skeptical of new shells.
It's a 43SQ700S. And yes. If it were ever so slightly curved it would be more amazing. But it's a great display.
> X and its former incarnation, Twitter, have been banned in several countries — mostly authoritarian regimes such as Russia, China, Iran, Myanmar, North Korea, Venezuela and Turkmenistan. Other countries, such as Pakistan, Turkey and Egypt, have also temporarily suspended X before, usually to quell dissent and unrest.
You're getting too far into the weeds with the IOT and smartphones. TFA talks about mics in the cable boxes and smart tvs. I wouldn't put it past them to monitor mics in cable boxes.
The problem lies with shells extensive usage of barewords. If you could eliminate the requirement for any bareword to be treated as a string then parsing shell code would then become much simpler...but also few people would want to use it because nobody wants to write the following in their interactive shell:

git "commit" "-am" "message"

ls "-l"

etc
Sure, if you are allowed to change the signature, makes it look more ugly than just returning Bytes though
Because typography is _hard_ --- Dr. Donald E. Knuth thought he would write a typesetting system while on sabbatical --- 10 years later we had TeX.

Storage was also an issue --- back in the early days of personal computers, they took up so much space that I would often set up a networked CD-drive with the BitStream 500 font CD-ROM which fonts could then be copied from to be used.
Just read email wiki -- didnt realize Eric Schmidt (goog) was the creater of berknet in 1978

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berknet
Hadrius (YC W23) Is Hiring a Customer Success Engineer
'Catastrophic' SpaceX Starship explosion tore a hole in the atmosphere last year
The world changes, and we update definitions. There's nothing magical about a group of people in the 90s defining a thing one way because they disliked the politics of another definition.

It's all just people making the best decisions they could. It's clear to me at least that there are existential threats presented by tech megacorps that aren't present awhile ago. Maybe it's time to rethink our definitions.
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Self hosted on a single machine. Probably not ready, but oh well…

Instructions for free trial:

(create account -> confirm email -> request free trial from profile page).

Or download ios app: https://apps.apple.com/in/app/hacker-read/id6479697844
Awesome and yeah I had to put some limiters in place to make it work with the visitors. It’s not a performant website yet, got some multiplexing that needs to happen I think first.
That is a myth. From a recent HN comment:

Previous studies have revealed some differences between canine and feline scavenging. Dogs tend to eat the face and throats of humans, then break the ribs and chew on bones. Cats, on the other hand, often strip skin from the nose, upper lip, and fingers (the same places, Rando notes, that they nip at when playing with a living owner). Scavenging is more common with dogs than cats, Byard adds, “but I don’t trust either of them.”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41182102
I wonder what interesting fossils were buried by this mudslide, and are waiting discovery if we ever become able to do large-scale seafloor archeology/excavations.
The guy got sick with a mystery illness didn't he? This was about 20 years ago. He blogged about the saga of having doctors try to figure out what was wrong with him, and I think was self-administering various treatments. Must look up how he's doing.
Kudos from my 2003 self, when Anandtech helped me build my first PC for university.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/1094

Uni had fiber to the dorm room, so I was interested in maximizing available bandwidth through the rest of the system. Which in P4 / PCI days wasn't trivial!

Ironically enough, I still have that motherboard downstairs in a backup system, humming away... with a Pentium M via adapter. :)

Couldn't bring myself to put it out to pasture, and thought it was an interesting inflection point as "the last of the Netburst" era.

Interestingly enough, one of my favorite uni classes was on microprocessor design, taught by someone who apparently taught Anand at NC (Tom Conte).

RIP. But better to call it quits when they're playing the send-off music.
That's hilarious. Isn't this the same "Berkeley" that runs a sustained 20 petaflop distributed supercomputer from freely-donated volunteer machines?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Open_Infrastructure_f... ("Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing")

They are Kropotkin when you are volunteering for them, and neutron-bomb Jack Welch when you expect something of them.
That's what Reactant.jl is aiming to do: Take the LLVM code from Julia and pipe to to XLA, where it can benefit from all the investment which make Jax fast.

Same author as the more mature Enzyme.jl, which is AD done at the LLVM level.

Julia's flexibility makes it easy to write a simple AD system, but perhaps we're learning that it's the wrong level to write the program transformations needed for really efficient AD. Perhaps the same is true of "run this on a GPU, or 10" transformations.
It's the same ratio as 28 3/4 tsp to a cup.
> Let's ban Instagram, Youtube and all other foreign platforms, let's ban the Internet and have a country-wide intranet, let's ban all foreign NGOs and think tanks, let's ban Soros (talking about politically active billionaires), let's ban foreign news agencies and journalists, bye bye CNN, DW, BBC, etc.

Of course we should have laws for all of them to follow.

Isn’t that obvious? No-one gives CNN a free pass to broadcast whatever they want on the sovereign territory of any state.

The same applies to other entities from your list: there should be no difference between Soros, Musk, Zuckerberg or some NGO in terms of following state rules.
> In what way? Musk decides what's OK and not OK on twitter.

Before Musk, others were doing the same, but on the other side of the political spectrum from where Musk is now. Nothing new.
I use a Beelink N100 as a local Docker Compose host for various doodads, inc. and esp. smart home software. I am blown away by what a high-quality value it is. My only complaint is that it defaults to stay off after a power loss, and the setting to reverse that is confusing in the BIOS - quite the nit pick.
JC - "I wonder if, instead of being a Steam Game, there could be more potential in web games of this type (and others!), where people are playing the game before they even realize it.

Running all of Unreal inside a browser is impressive, but lightweight bespoke web game solutions should be quite effective today, even on mobile.

I feel a little ill when I consider all the layers of inefficiency in a web app versus bare metal programming, but the majority of gaming hasn’t been efficiency limited for a long time."
And one should have that right, but whether one should exercise that right is another matter. A thought experiment: If you could pick any point in history and make it so all people expressing socially unpopular views were permanently cast out from society, and all other people never spoke or traded or dealt with them ever again, when would you choose to freeze social opinion? Which modern day group of normal every day people, who we consider unobjectionable now, would be cast into the dustbin of history if societal opinion was frozen at your chosen moment of time?
I'm surprised nobody's mentioned the Regex Crossword game site [0], it's shown up on HN several times [1][2] and has a fantastic user-submitted puzzle section (that includes the MIT Mystery Hunt puzzle [3]) and a puzzle builder.

0: https://regexcrossword.com/

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=regexcrossword.com

2: Most discussed posting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8674039

3: https://regexcrossword.com/playerpuzzles/8cbea27f-c4c5-4d11-...
You could also spin it the other way, the only countries that have banned twitter so far are very authoritarian or dictatorships. Why does "Brazil being run by Silva" want to be part of the club?
Thanks for your thoughts! The competition is tough, but the key lies in the quality of the services provided. Right now, very few options can deliver human-level accuracy in transcripts and meeting minutes, and most apps are clumsy and overly complex. We're determined to change that for our users.
University of South Florida did it for security reasons. I'm guessing after they switched from google accounts to Microsoft ones. :(
farewell*
Also people value. I'm guessing lots of people will, through being exposed to apple, Microsoft, and Nvidia colleagues will somehow find themselves with a job offer.
Whats the goog.framework.of.choice these days ? For those who haven't written closure code - whats the framework of choice at google these days?
I mean the one they put directly in front of a tunnel, with the tunnel picture inside a red triangle. I live quite near Blackwall tunnel and haven’t seen it any of those on the approach. The ones you’re talking about are, I believe, red circles containing the actual restrictions which are, of course, fine.

Also strictly speaking, the restrictions, even if those red circles were combined with the tunnel warning, the tunnel warning is still irrelevant - you’d have to follow those restrictions whether or not there was a tunnel.
I think they were sarcastically referring to Musk’s claim to support free speech, all while suing his critics and his advertisers for using theirs.
In this case was X not explicitly asked to remove the illegal content? They could have simply complied with the local law and avoided this outcome. With their hardcore engineers I’m sure they could have come up with a region-locked solution.
Brazil judge orders suspension of X amid standoff with Musk
Swapping one free email for another might be kicking the can down the road.

If you have the resources, would encourage you to pay for email so your provider has less flexibility to boot you the moment your account is an inconvenience.
sure then people should stop crying and pooping their pants when someone tries to introduce a license that's not technically OSS but tries to address ethical concerns.

"It's not OSS" is a not a value judgement unless you think that the four freedoms were written by god. But it is treated exactly as religiously.
I was hoping for it to be an HTTP status code.
Musk's X banned in Brazil after disinformation row
> I felt like by 40 I needed to move on from engineering because if I didn’t, I’d be like the few older workers I’d dealt with in my career. I felt like they moved too slow, were stuck in their ways, and unable to change - even when faced with evidence to the contrary.

There are always people who have a lot of "soft power" just on account of years on the job. This probably happens everywhere, in all types of jobs. I've also seen this in sales departments and warehouses. This is compounded by the fact that incompetency tends to chase away the competent (not even "talented", just "competent") once the incompetency reaches a critical mass.

I do feel that lack of older programmers saying "steady on there kiddo" is a problem. "Stuck in your ways"? Maybe. But there's a lot of value in both "proven to work" and "knowing the devil you're dealing with".
> Moraes' order claimed they were part of an "economic group" due to Musk's ownership.

The problem is that this is not true, the two companies are not part of the same economic group. They are two completely different organizations and even if they were, this type of decision is only made when there is fraud of the type: you owe the government and it is known that you are the owner of a company despite there being no legal connection (i.e., it is in the name of third parties).

It is an absurd decision that shows the world how unsafe it is to invest in Brazil.
The tl;dr is that we've demanded things with such enormous production costs that were basically almost entirely subsidized on a socialized model, where the big appeal of the big ones subsidized the costs of the less successful ones, in a way that would make them not reliably financially viable in isolation.

But the content that is so specific it only appeals to 1-10% of people is both the most memorable and also often the content that is basically guaranteed to not hit for 90% of people. So your math on who's going to pay to consume it changes drastically when the ceiling is so much lower, especially when the effective price required is so much higher that it's going to drive even more people away.

So it's a much larger risk pool to hope you'll make your money back with the error bars so much narrower, and businesses being businesses, they go for the bland thing with a lower risk pool 99% of the time, and then wonder why their returns keep shrinking.
I find the conflation of democracy and freedom of speech strange. They are entirely different things.
Recently, I've been using HN RSS (https://hnrss.github.io/) to get alerts when specific keywords get mentioned on HN. Really useful tool! The underlying data comes from Algolia's HN search engine (https://hn.algolia.com), which is neat to run some searches and understand which keywords can be interesting to follow.

Thinking about following Subreddits with filters on keywords through RSS, instead of regularly checking into Reddit, to save time and cut through the noise.
"the idea that markets balance everything to the advantage of everybody then seems to be just an excuse to be egoistic and without any care for others."

There are two problems here:
1. You misstate and mischaracterize free-market ideology as having the pretense of being to the "advantage of everybody". It's potentially a byproduct but definitely not a first principle.
2. You cast a judgment of value on egotism and selfishness as being the true motivators behind free market proponents. Selfishness and egotism are human characteristics expressed across all ideological spectrums.

"Don't get me wrong, nobody has to care for others and I am not going to be the person to force you, but if you don't care about others please stop pretending you are doing it for the greater good." - Here is where you conflate utilitarian with libertarian ideology, especially as you label those who disagree with your view as pretenders and posers for the greater good, again misstating the position of your ideological opponent and then proceeding to cast a judgment of value on the positions they don't actually hold.

Not trying to be mean here, but have you thought about getting some reading comprehension lessons? It could really help you understand the things that you read as well as give you a more well rounded view things.
John Rawls and the Death of Western Marxism
Starlink ceased operations in brazil and doesnt have a bank account. Musk tweeted that he will keep it for free in brazil because some remote schools use it.
Prudent!
You know I'm not an economist, and I'm just going off of nerding out on AskEconomics and BadEconomics (and bookmarks from when this was a live issue a couple years ago). But mostly my argument would be built around how burnt the Biden administration was by the run-up in inflation (which I'm sure is a mix of supply chain and fiscal stuff). Conservative opponents of MMT predict hyperinflation, but I think we've learned that making a 12-pack of Diet Coke $1 more expensive is enough to trigger regime change; that's what we'll get instead of hyperinflation, but either of those outcomes breaks MMT as a policy tool.

Which has implications --- beyond political/policy --- for MMT, in that MMT is (if I understand this bit) built in part on the premise that increased government spending won't increase expectations of future inflation (which needs to be the case in order to use control of the money supply to cover debt service).

Mostly though I'd just make two dumb arguments:

* Economists do not seem to like MMT ("not even a theory; what does it predict?")

* MMT was for a time part of the branding behind Biden's proposed and actual spending, which did not go well politically.

I hope I'm wrong in some lurid fun way you're going to spell out for me. :)
I understand from other comments that this was started as a learning project, but I gotta say I can't imagine a case where ripgrep wouldn't be fast enough for my use case. Maybe I'm not enough of a power user. Totally fine to have multiple players in the pattern matching CLI space of course, but performance alone would not convince me to switch
Then you will find out when your power goes out?
Stronglifts 5×5
> Twitter got taken over by an international ideologue

Twitter was bought from ideologues by someone who opened it up to other ideologies. While this may have increased the absolute ideological load on the platform it actually decreased the effective ideological charge since opposite sides cancel out each other, pulling the balance towards the centre where it used to tilt heavily towards a single side.
I distinctly remember a PC magazine article about a later release of GeoWorks. It gushed about how it could play full motion video (probably only 256 pixels wide, if that) while running other applications. The screenshot showed a clip from Star Trek IV. Kind of laughable by modern standards, but it was an impressive technical feat at the time.
They already have regional blocking, they have been blocking political tweets and accounts in Turkey upon the request of the Turkish government since years now.
Doesn't mention a cost or trial period in your post or the website

After installing it, it doesn't even let you see the first thing without signing up for a trial period and even then doesn't mention a cost.

I understand you just launched it, but I look at the free trial and think "what else am I going to find out...", uninstalled for now but hope you find traction.
It probably still holds on the level of the whole society. Modern society and division of labour means it doesn't have to be specifically your kids who care for your, but it still need to be somebody's kids. If nobody had kids any more, nobody would be left to provide any care, paid or not.

Plus it's not just about really literal full-on elderly care, but also simply keeping society running even when you're old enough that you can no longer actively contribute your share as much.
F-droid might be a solution.
ProtonVPN, possibly others can be installed.
SDL2 added floating point versions of most rendering functions
It's art. It's possibly not very useful (who knows, though?), but some will find beauty, joy, entertainment, surprise, amazement, incredulity, anger, disdain, indignation, fear, nostalgia in this. Others will feel the deepest and purest indifference.
It turns out what people want is everything in one place for free

No, it doesn't "turn out" that way at all. But if the pirates provide better service for free than the proprietors offer at any price, that can hardly be seen as my problem as a consumer.

For a few brief, shining years, it looked like the media and entertainment industries were starting to understand that. Turned out not to be the case, though.
This really just reads like an idiot misunderstanding and/or bullshitting about what might be theoretically possible, but isn't actually happening.
What can musk do to get a ban in US? Disinformation about sitting president is not enough?
Thanks! Glad that the talk is working as a marketing pitch for Elvish :)
Except it is not a pie but a shovel. So the question how does it differs from ShovelMaster 3000 that is used on all other construction sites is not unreasonable.

And there can be a lot of good answers - it is lighter, it looks cooler, the grip is more ergonomic, it is made of chinesium and cheap and if you are only building a shed - it will get the job done without using the unholy trinity of docker, ansible and terraform, and it will be in your hands in 5 min and not require overnight delivery by amazon.

And you can see this here on hnews - when someone shows us something that is entertaining, no asks how it differs from Heroes 3 or Quake. But we do for the next cloud synced postman clone that is on it's way to becoming as worse as Postman when they get the VC money.
> They can't and won't delete any apps from your phone

Google can definitely install/delete apps from your phone remotely using Play Store.
Right. The issue is not that Musk is putting his finger on the scale for the political right per se--it's his site and he has the right to do that. The issue is that he claims to be supporting "free speech" while doing so. To my knowledge, nobody at Twitter prior to Musk's takeover claimed the site was for "free speech".
Here's why:
https://bconnected.berkeley.edu/projects/google-cost-reducti...

TLDR: Google Workspace for Education rug pulled schools on their "unlimited" plans, and the deadline is coming up to avoid paying extra fees. This was communicated in advance, but maybe still a bit quick for a large institution
Thanks, I appreciate the comment the appreciation :)
Wow. The VPN piece of this ought to be the nut graf. Wild overreach.
Quite the claim and hyperbole. I’m fairly certain the exact opposite will happen because most people are not tech savvy and will not bother to circumvent the blocks in place. Some local alternatives will pop up and they’ll use that instead. Twitter is also no longer the town hall of the internet, or whatever people were calling it.
Slippery slope is a fallacy, they said.
As a FastMail customer, I like simple and clean, but also support them testing innovative features. Products should test the user cohorts to try to better meet users where they are, this effort is continuous and always in tension.
> That is the ONLY purpose of “free speech” - that governments and their institutions cannot prevent you from speaking freely.

I'm not sure I look forward to an America where the social norms, when the "Republican Party becoming Christofascist fundamentalists" is voted into power again, that make it routine for people to be denied employment, banking services or promotions because they aren't sufficiently Christian.

Freedom from governmental intervention is ONE purpose of free speech. But without social norms that encourage private restraint as well, we would be living in the very same Christofascist hell you already fear. Ask anyone who grew up in a small insular town what sort of damage "private" individuals can do when the social norm is punishing you for speech they didn't like.
Florida International University switched to Microsoft too and they deleted all alumni emails in the process.

Alumnis beware of Microsoft
I believe the impetus is just Google cancelling the free unlimited storage for education institutions.
I find it interesting, but I question how practical it is for regular use.

On a recent trip, I was driving in Canada in a car bought in the United States that did not have the metric values on the speedometer. But all of the posted speed limits were in values of 5 kph. Once you get that (roughly) 100 kph = 62 mph and 10 kph = 6 mph, there are some simple quick divisions or subtractions to convert the speed limit to close enough.

- 50 kph = (100 kph) / 2 = 62 mph / 2 = 31 mph

- 80 kph = 100 kph - 2 * 10 kph = 62 mph - 2 * 6 mph = 50 mph
Thanks for sharing the link. The WSJ story is indeed more informative.