skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you find yourself engaging in carpet bombing, carrying out large-scale terrorist attacks, destroying vital civilian infrastructure, de facto maintaining an open air prison (or if you want a more ironic term, "ghetto"), and creating a track record of "double-tapping" to kill first responders, deliberately killing clearly marked unaffiliated aid workers and journalists, deliberately and directly firing at unarmed civilians with live ammunition to "disperse" them, killing your own citizens held as hostages by bombing their captors, deny any possibility of a ceasefire or peace deal that is not an unconditional surrender, and protecting citizens who engage in illegal occupations, expulsions and vandalism in a way that effectively results in an ethnic cleansing in direct violations of UN resolutions and then call every critic "Hamas", "IS" or "Iran" while simultaneously stating that your military campaign will not stop before "Hamas" is eliminated permanently...

... then maybe, just maybe, you've become as much of a monster as the ones you claim to be fighting.

The ends don't justify the means. The means define what ends you can achieve. If your ends are "living in relative peace and safety" (and for the sake of realism we take that to mean equivalent to a country in Western Europe as neither of those things can be guaranteed nor permanent) and your means involve deliberately killing 10x as many people as your enemies while also killing more women and children and not stopping before the enemy is guaranteed to never pose a threat again, then your ends are only achievable if you completely exterminate not only every single militant sided against you but also all of their friends and family who might be motivated by your actions to take revenge. Or more likely, you'll end up outnumbered, outgunned and at the mercy of those who had to endure unspeakable suffering because of you.
When a small hardware company is not only making it's own full hardware and software stack but brings that all the way down to the telemetry query language, I get a lot of NIH vibes and question if any of these elements will get the attention they deserve.
Gotta love that.
I gave it a spin with Podman on Windows and it did indeed work out of box. NO nee

It listed containers, volumes and networks and started & stopped a container. The Terminal item expects the container to have bash, so would need some tweaking to use /bin/sh.

I didn't need to set DOCKER_HOST, but I assume I have the Docker compatibility mode enabled.
I love a neat short and powerful blogpost!
The cost of developing and maintaining Proton, Linux driver improvements, and their own Arch-based OS has probably exceeded the amount they saved by not shipping Windows on Steam Deck.

But what they got in return is a much more usable gaming operating system that doesn't constantly pester you about switching to Edge, using Copilot or draining all your battery for an update while you game

What they got in return is freedom from Microsoft's arbitrary OEM hardware requirements like having a front camera for Windows Hello, or having a TPM

What they got in return ultimately is leverage. As sibling comment mentioned, they were in fear that they could be kicked off of Windows by Microsoft. Now, Microsoft is the one in fear that if they ever kick Steam off, gamers now have a perfectly functioning alternative operating system to switch to.
Good luck running a >20 year old native Linux game on a modern Linux distro without recompiling.

A Proton like layer would also totally make sense on Windows, assuming that support for older Windows APIs is better in Proton than on Windows itself (which isn't a far fetched assumption).
Gen Z and younger millennials are financially and mentally apathetic today, and I don't blame them.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/28/young-adults-are-unhappy-tha...

When they see their house prices and rent going up yet their salaries don't go up in line with inflation and even no promotions, it is no wonder they instead prioritise spending rather than saving up 40 years to buy a house which has probably gone up 20x in price since then.

All this when the previous generation bought houses under $50K-$80K.
from a 'young person' in the us of a i say hello fellow teenagers. skateboard as much as you can, hip replacement is coming anyway might as well doom shred
These are all media outlets.

"Think Tanks" "agencies" etc place articles in media outlets by a variety of means (if in fact this is what is taking place).

Media outlets in general are starved for income compared to yester years and are increasingly easy to place material with.

The first link is Euro-centric, the second is Forbes with a contributed piece by an outside writer ( Julian Hayes II ) who has written a number of articles across a number of media outlets that are pro return to the office.

Is this a truly independant free opinion he is spruiking?

Is this an opinion he gets addition income from a third party for supporting?

I personally have no idea, but this is a hint of how to backtrace content sourcing.

It's not unlike working back through subsidiary shell corporations, etc.
Actually went through fullgenomes.com - they apparently don't offer exome sequencing any more but for under $1200 getting your genome sequenced is interesting.

If you ask anyone who works in genetics, though, they'll advise you never to do it. It can be bad news, but there's virtually no good news there.
Rockstar and the GTA5Gate with Steam Deck Players
To be fair, working with audio is great in a way that you usually know the exact size of the buffer you need, so it is easy to either stackalloc it or NativeMemory.Alloc the pointer and wrap it in a span, completely bypassing GC. The downside is there aren’t that many libraries that are up-to-date, but working with system APIs directly or e.g. PortAudio bindings is also an option.
Surely a company that in their own docs suggests using "dangerouslySetInnerHTML" knows how important it is to be transparent about their downtime? This is shocking, thanks for sharing!
The closure of the aging Hammersmith Bridge, redirecting traffic to Putney Bridge probably didn't help.
Any reason to believe they don't use one of the standard industrial protocols like the poorly named EtherNet/IP?
Would it be possible to clip the ground and red wire in reverse to glue the same battery back again?
Intelligent Design, Eames-Style (2007)
Maybe someone from the company behind the API got in contact with him.
>Because the bicycle network is so developed they have underpasses for bikes that us pedestrians can use.

Underpasses are usually a detour for pedestrians. IMO they're hostile car-centric design.
I've used Android devices for over a decade now, including two tablets which were largely daily drivers.

Android makes a lousy desktop, and the issues go far deeper than windowing.

The single application which Does Not Precisely Suck on Android is Termux. It, the wealth of directly-packaged software, and the wider universe available through other packaging tools (e.g., pip, npn, rpm, ppm, etc.), scripting and programming tools, etc., are what turns Android from a toy to a Real Operating System.

But even Termux is horribly handicapped by Android:

- Filesystem permissions are generally not available, nor is most of the filesystem.

- Keyboard support within and between apps is horrible and inconsistent. Three specific examples: 1) Firefox/Android (a/k/a Fennic Fox) lacks the keyboard shortcuts of desktop Firefox, a longstanding bug Mozilla seem to have no interest in addressing. 2) In Readability, when editing tags, the backspace/delete key does not work, rather one must select and replace text to correct misspellings. 3) In Neoreader (the Onyx BOOX ebook reader) typing text into the search dialogue is wonky in ways I don't specifically recall though it simply shouldn't break that way.

- Android memory management (courtesy the JVM AFAIU) will reap apps without warning. Some manage this reasonably well, many do not.

- There's absolutely abysmal inter-app exchange through copy/paste.

Free-form windowing is good and fine so far as it goes, but Android needs one hell of a lot more done to it before it's a reasonable desktop / laptop replacement.

I still see tablets as most useful for reading text (and perhaps watching videos), and best suited at little else. I'd still recommend a full-featured laptop or notebook for Real Work.
Clickbait. They don't show the actual process.

"Revolutionary battery"
Completely agree. And it also allows opportunities for customization. Custom paper, cutting, presentation etc. Whereas on the phone, it's usually just a PDF or some responsive website.

A real waiter also allows for a human connection to be created. Experienced waiters (rather than part timers) can really help you make an order, give you recommendations etc. which makes the experience of dining out much nicer.
Where are LLMs used in this workflow? For creating embeddings?
Please link to the "Randomly sampled comment", there's an ellipsis but no way to actually read the comment?

I searched "apache" and the "randomly sampled comment" was a mystery:

> I think the author has a point with one-way doors slowing down the adoption of distributed systems. ...

I had to search google with that phrase to get the actual context. ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41363836 )

Which turned out to be about "Apache Beam" not the Http server.
Swappie is a popular service that refurbishes and sells used iPhones. They are doing very well, and expanding. They have sold over a million phones so far. Apple do not prevent this.

I guess that most of these are to "people of lower income". I have purchased devices there for my children.

https://swappie.com/us/
As per the Paradox of Tolerance:

> (…) if a society's practice of tolerance is inclusive of the intolerant, intolerance will ultimately dominate, eliminating the tolerant and the practice of tolerance with them. Karl Popper describes the paradox as arising from the fact that, in order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must retain the right to be intolerant of intolerance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
Projects I haven't touched for a long, long time...

XRDPConfigurator : https://github.com/scarygliders/XRDPConfigurator

- This is a GUI application I wrote 10 years ago. It even has a full WYSIWYG emulation of the xrdp login screen, which you can use to customize the look of it! All written in Python and PySide. It was originally meant to be a commercial product that I'd sell. Turns out there was no market for it and no one seems interested in it. Oh well!

X11RDP-o-Matic : https://github.com/scarygliders/X11RDP-o-Matic

- This was a shell script which automatically built and installed the Xrdp server on Debian based systems. Was quite popular back in the day but became kinda obsolete, which was good.

Polkit Explorer : https://github.com/scarygliders/Polkit-Explorer

- reads in a Policykit .policy file, parses its XML contents, and presents the information it contains, on a more human-readable GUI window. This seems to be useful to folks and someone even created an Arch Linux AUR for it, which was nice. I perhaps should try to update it so that it works with more modern versions of Python and PySide.

That last one. Hmmm. It's been a hot minute since I even thought about it, but someone recently created an issue to do with getting it running with python 3.12, so maybe I should have a peek at it once again...

The author of the article, I agree with. It's OK to abandon things. XRDPConfigurator is what I used to learn Python and Qt (with a naive goal of making income from it). That application took a year and bit of my time. I'm particularly proud of the Xrdp emulation, and the WYSIWYG editing of the Xrdp login screen layout! But spending any more time on it was wasted time. I open-sourced it after taking out all the nasty - and self-designed - registration (DRM) stuff I'd also had (which spoke to a central registration server and was Very Clever[tm] With No Chance Of Being Bypassed! ( /s ), and promptly just left it stewing in stasis. And no one was really interested in it, either. I guess Xrdp just isn't sexy enough for folks ;)
Who is the intolerant in your line of thinking?
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37236803
https://web.archive.org/web/20240923081026/https://www.build...

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Additional reading if you haven't read it before, "Nothing like this will be built again" about Torness: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/rants/nothing-l...?

Previously posted several times: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Move over copilots: meet the next generation of AI-powered assistants
I am pretty sure you're wrong. Here's a tweet from 2021: https://x.com/flibitijibibo/status/1416118465442852869

To quote from down the conversation:

> @flibitijibibo (Jul 16, 2021): Don't look at me - I'm just trying to figure out how much time I have left, either way it's pretty clearly finite

Also some anecdata from someone that pretty much bought all native linux releases from Steam since the linux version was released: in the past 2-3 years there were barely any new ones, outside of Valve's own titles maybe.
People develop connections over OnlyFans, how's that not just as shallow? We are suckers for affection and forget easily how easily faked it is.
That's definitely a level of remote-hands intervention I've not had from the handful of places I have racks of colo kit. You're right, it might be something some of them do for other customers though; I've never really asked. They'll certainly push a reset button, swap a drive or rack a server that's shipped to them. (Though hardware's reliable enough nowadays and I have go to data centres so rarely that it's a bit of a fun novelty, and I like doing it myself.)
The i960CA and CF had branch hints. It was bit 1 in the branch and the compare and branch opcodes.
I've heard the number seven before. I did one stint as a technical manager - not my thing, but it was necessary for a short time. I only had 4-5 direct reports, which was ok, because I was busy bailing out a project from a difficult situation. Had I stayed on, I would have had spare capacity.

The problem is that big companies promote people, and promotion past a certain point always means management. Which is stupid. Some of us dislike managing. Others simply cannot be decent managers, even if they were great at tech work. So you end up with a pile of middle managers who are either bad at their jobs, or who have been sidelined and would never be missed.

Targeting the number 7 would dramatically slim down a lot of organizations, and likely improve their productivity.
Sorry I don't know how I made that mistake.
Does Iceberg Lettuce Have Nutritional Value? (2022)
It 404ed with the two biggest swiss websites: digitec.ch and 20min.ch
FWIW "Paying for Chrome extension is unheard of" - um, no.

This is a really great extension, and it does stuff that isn't just "learn how to use dev tools". Maybe take a look before being so dismissive.

A large part of HN is about recognising great software and giving devs the recognition (and financial compensation) that they deserve. Not sure how this is any different.
Going back to the initial cause of this, Matt decries a competitor for not giving back. Yet Matt is doing the very same.

Two years ago, WordPress plugin creators lost access to their stats for downloads from wordpress.org [1]. Despite the pleas and the spurious reasons stats remain hidden. Matt, the CEO of Automattic, can see them though.

Surely Matt would want to give back to the people who made WordPress what it is?

[1] https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6511
Mastering Monorepos – Creating a Monorepo Using NPM, Yarn, Pnpm, and Bun
https://hype.replicate.dev/

Let me know if that’s a good fit.
Very interesting. In the decades I have developed such solutions, I've never heard it referred to as "feature flag." I have always called it "configuration over code".

Tbh, the habit for so long now I wonder why config over code isn't the naturally intuitive style.

Do you not initialize variables first, with passed config options? Do you not first overload these from the config chain? Isn't a simple config object which preloads the config stack for seamless dict access (fs,db,cache;global,domain,user,session) the first thing you write? You do write your own wrapper for config and dstore don't you? (Speaking to the air)

You don't need a product for everything, if you just do it right the first time ...
Funny, 20 years ago we had hard cased batteries in our cell phones and we could just pull them out.

I fully expect Apple to release a phone in the future with a removable battery and claim it is some incredible invention of theirs when it was Apple that pushed everyone to the non removable battery in the first place.
Not right now but we are seeing the accelerated trends of generated code. How long would it take for regular use cases to be completely AI generated on the go. Edge cases exists everywhere.
Forced in by the Tory government of the time as part of a deal to providing funding for TfL during covid times
>children included as this is how they learn to socialise

Ummm... When was the last time you were out in public? I hate to break it to you but this doesn't happen, ever; if I see a kid in a restaurant they are pretty much always watching iPads. If they aren't watching an iPad they certainly aren't learning to socialize, because iPad-less kids in restaurants are almost always allowed to misbehave and be disruptive or even destructive.
international community acknowledges that they are a terrorist organization
Changes in memory and cognition during the SARS-CoV-2 human challenge study
This reeks of spinning a story by AWS in the hopes to avoid measures from anti-monopoly authorities.

Off course a company will deny that they are a monopoly (or cartel etc). They'll keep pointing out their competition to these authorities. Ironically, the investor relations of such companies often point at the same data, to tell their investors how big their moat is and how insignificant their competion.

I'll believe this change is really happening when AMZN starts reporting decline in their AWS gross returns. Is this declining?
I'm not saying that, I'm saying newspapers often treat every breakthrough as though it's the last one we need, irregardless of the quality of the study, the magnitude of the effect, if it was only in mice (or worse, in a cell culture), if it already existed, if it was reproducible, if it has side effects, etc. — sometimes you can even turn a few pages in the same edition and find the same paper saying some common item both causes and cures cancer.

But to answer your question, when I was 10 it was 1993/4 and the news was "particle beams to target tumours without surgery" or similar, even though Therac-25 predates my birth.
> “enter through either the front or the back” design

Not having watched The Office in a while, this immediately made me imagine Michael Scott's response, and made my morning a bit brighter.
Habeas corpus allows you to challenge the legality of detention. If a writ were sought in this case the prison governor would present the original order of the court authorising imprisonment and the application for habeas corpus would be dismissed.

There are routes to challenge 'wrongful' detention authorised by a court, but not via habeas. Some IPP prisoners have been released by the Court of Appeal criminal division on a (very late) appeal against sentence where other factors appeared after the original sentencing. You can also challenge the refusal of the Parole Board to release you by judicial review, though this is a fairly high bar to clear.
Gaming and Porn are the main reason for lot of advancements in tech actually. They are always on cutting edge and always need more resources
IPMI/BMC is a must if plan to keep the server running longer than a release cycle of your Linux distribution.

Also remember ask your provider to assign you a private vlan and vpn to it for your own access only.
Agree with you, but another way to say it is cloud to drop it's prices to 1/6th of its current rates. It's not going to happen while enough chumps will pay 6/6th.

Saying 'no' to cloud is very possible, but you have to deal with various kinds of self-sufficiency and low level physical management.
Want Some Creativity? Crank-Up the Constraints (2016)
I use my knuckle for that, because I'm much less likely to touch my food or face with it later. Same goes for e.g. elevator buttons.
I think it is about the idiotic old mentality of control, sense of 'ownership' and distrust.
Never have a problem getting a GP appointment, for me, or the kids, either where I live now or where I lived 5 years ago.

I assume it depends where you live if there really are shortages rather than just complaints. Or you can do like America does and pay £80 (or a £15/month subscription) for a private one through BUPA
GP here. I agree. By "lack of precedent" I meant lack of precedent specific to the implications of gen AI's use of data scraped indiscriminately, without attribution or consideration. As far as I can tell, the various cases in progress will (eventually) set some precedent about fair use in this specific context. LLM-owning companies are already hedging future liability by paying for content and/or doing the usual terms of use bait-and-switch (oh yeah, and when you click "okay", you agree to let us use all your data to train our AI models).
I can get a GP appt for 840am on the day if I call at 830am. Every time. It's a postcode lottery.
Did you also dangle your next headquarter location in front of them? No? Might be a connection. Or rather, no connection.

You don't have the same economic development incentives. That much is obvious. I could be more rude and press the 'so you think you're part of the elite?' angle, but I don't want to belittle your success.
> As the cost of Hinkley Point has increased, the backers have had to provide more funding. The souring of relations between Britain and China saw CGN stop providing any more money, leaving EDF to fund the shortfall. EDF has called upon the UK government to help out with the escalating cost but it has refused. EDF was fully nationalised in 2023, leaving the French taxpayer to pick up the tab for the cost overruns.

That paragraph might be the high point of the article.
Since iOS 18 they added a software lock to parts previously linked to another iCloud Account. Currently you have to authenticate to the previous iCloud or you can "skip" this and the part will show as "third party" but I bet they'll lock usage soon.
> Why the fuck do you need a cloud connection?

So we can show you ads, depending on your car position. /s

Also it is much easier for law enforcement to locate you.
Decoupling time spent from value provided as a software developer
Most people I know who have had a phone stolen only bothered reporting it if they had an insurance.

Otherwise making a report seems to take about half a day anyway and achieves precisely fuck all.
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I faced the same problem, until I found a non-profit community-operated housing provider (a registered computer club/society that has been operating since at least the early 2000 who is also a LIR (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_Internet_registry#Loc...), and they give shelter, bandwidth and IP address space to anyone who participates in covering their operational costs.

I gladly do, and it's the best hosting experience I've had so far, and I used to have rented dedicated iron from Server4You, Hetzner, Webtropia and the like from 2005 on. Maybe there's a similar hidden gem in the area you live in, and you just do not know about it? :) Mine flew under my radar for nearly 20 years, and even though I knew they existed, I was not aware they'd colo other peoples' boxen at very fair rates.
Given the activation lock on phones most stolen iphones are now used for parts.