skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>1200 innocent civilians is ok

Please cite the sources for this maybe? The ITF personnel won't be counted as Civilians, correct? Even before adding the Hannibal directive death's, by ITF's own people, these figures are not correct.
It seems some localizations are not available yet in the new app (for example Japanese language), and my old messages would not decode (but I solved it using the backup key).

Otherwise looks great, it seems the app loads much faster.
Europe failed to keep its bureaucracy at bay.

There were times in the 1990s when people like the Dutch commissioner Frits Bolkenstein sincerely tried to liberalize and open the internal market.

But at least since Brexit, possibly earlier, the EU has made a turn towards protectionism and closedness (at least economically; as you mention, it is way, way easier to ship people from Africa into the EU than bananas), a French attitude so to say.

Frankly, we the Czechs are missing Britain in the fold. It was a balancing power against the Franco-German attempts to micromanage and regulate absolutely anything. Together with NL and DK, they were a force for economic freedom within the Union.

BTW other nations are threatened by the very same development, see the shenanigans around FAA and their überlengthy process of licensing of space launches. But I am more optimistic about the US being able to cut red tape than the EU.
No for tech anyway i think it just all the VC money dried up after they raised interest rates. No free money anymore so now that they are starting to lower interest rates, I expect it to improve in about a year.
Well, if that isn't a problem for a future me, I don't know what is.
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This makes me think: If JPEG-XL needs more computing power to decompress, does that out weigh the ecological benefit benefit of the smaller file size?
I've been to my GP half a dozen times in the last year, always same day.

Last time I went I was sent for a chest x-ray, which wasn't done at the GP, I had to drive to the place and wait 40 minutes for that, bit of a pain.

Main problem I see is housing. It drags the entire economy -- people are living in overcrowded, people in their 30s living with parents etc.

Anyone living on their own sees all their income drained by landlords, who then pump it into ever increasing housing costs as they out-bid each other. Anyone else never becomes an adult and pumps their money into things like onlyfans and coke.
> 800,000 British families have second homes compared to 3.4 million French families.

Why the focus on second homes? I would care more about utilisation of homes by home-owners: walk around London at night, so many apartments are dark. The locals say investors own them.
Yeah, I think the barrier to get people to just click on a link (outside of e-mail as well) is very low, so that would be easy to affect anyone.
It really depends on the project. For a CRUD application? Sure. For an application that processes hundreds of events per second, stores them, and makes them wueryable using various filters? Can get tough real quick.
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But like... why? What does an indoor airship get us which we couldn't do before "for cave exploration"? It sounds like they needed to map out the cave in detail before they could even design the airship. So there aren't even any pretence of "exploration". The airship is not big enough to carry people, nor does it have manipulators to take samples.

That leaves us with the "an artistic manifestation". Which is cool. It is a neat art project I guess. But then that is not "cave exploration". It is a temporary inflatable art installation inside a cave.

Am I missing something here?
The current war began with a surprise attack that included airlanding into a music festival, murdering as many as they could and kidnapping people like Shani Louk, a 22-year-old tattoo artist, who were brought into Gaza from the festival, tortured and murdered. She was last recorded on a pickup truck, lifeless, legs visibly broken, as local men spit on her and record that with their phones. A still from the video: https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AA1i...

I don't think scenes like these did any favors to the people of Gaza when it comes to international sympathy. Such behavior doesn't leave many options either. I have little doubt most countries would've responded the same way as Israel did.
Stronger property rights tend to backfire in the 2020s as NIMBYs have emerged everywhere and do their best to block anything around them, usually by weaponizing environmental laws.

The remedy will probably consist of a combination of legal changes and a change in attitude; YIMBY must become a thing. People respond to social pressures.
This and you can allocate prefix for services. Also you can do layer 3 access control because there is no NAT. Also NAT can get messy when chained. One very practical example is that if I am connected with SSH to a server, and connection is interrupted with a network gear config change for example, when it is back up, SSH will be still connected and might not even notice. With NAT, states can be dropped.
Diesel has support for MySQL, Sqlite and Postgres which can easily execute raw queries but is likely overkill for what you need?

https://github.com/diesel-rs/diesel
Linux/4004: booting Linux on Intel 4004 for fun, art, and no profit
Does anyone know if this will let you search your messages? This is one of the lacking features I've noticed on the Android version of Element is that you can neither bookmark messages nor search throughout the (encrypted?) chat, making it difficult to find messages you want to refer back to.

You can search on the Desktop app, but not sure why you can't on mobile...
Matrix is the protocol, Element X is one of many clients for the Matrix protocol.
Most of the difference in GDP was because Dollar was a lot cheaper compared to Euro pre Recession.
Also EU just stagnate from 1990 until now it is yearly losing global share of GDP.
The death of weak social connections has been the worst thing about the 2020s for me.

Lockdowns were the catalyst, but still not sure if it was that, social media, work from home, or just moving from my 20s to 30s.

Certainly wasn’t the Sars-CoV2 virus itself
Revolutionary France never made it across the channel... On the other hand, this significantly dismiss the UK contributions to the world on global trade and during the industrial revolution.
It definitely took forever, though I’m given to understand the training finished a while ago and they’ve been stuck due to lack of hardware.

Coincidentally however, just yesterday they announced that it arrived this week. The newest model, based on Llama 3.1, should be available for use next week.
Video Was Uploaded Through a Fishing Line (Tin Can Phone)
I'm probably biased by the fact that the first time I got Synapse running it was the release where it'd endlessly try and fail to join a room with more than 10 people.

But, every time I've looked at Matrix Chat it's been a disaster. That it tries, at all, to authenticate every personal(?home?) server as soon as you join #matrix is... Bad, from a lot of perspectives.

Privacy? Just put up your own DNS and find out what new servers are joining.

Security? Easy slowloris type attacks at several layers- DNS, http, etc.

Performance- eagerly enumerating all federated servers before joining a channel places a hard cap on channel and overall network size. And it provides a terrible experience.

The more I look, the less I like what I see. As a potential user, a software dev, and an admin it leaves me with two impressions: sloppy at best, braindead at worst.
And then when you imagine the legitimate uses you have to imagine how allowing those legitimate uses could be misused. You always need to think red and blue.
These days, I would, yeah, but this was a long time ago and I was a lot more invested in not letting nonsense go past without a fight.
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That opening comics is such an intellectual turn-off... let's reword the position of those endorsing this to show its absurdity: protracted decline can't be real, the present is always roughly the same or better than the past.
I am not surprised that comma is still around.

Minimal VC funding, less than 100 employees, not outrageously increasing headcount each month, profitable and sells a product with good margins.

Not many startups do this anymore, they are just chasing funding every 3 months using OpenAI’s API, comma has their own models before the AI hype.
Germany Shuts 47 Crypto Exchanges
>> if I knew the material so well that I could write a program that didn't just solve it, but showed the work, then clearly I knew the material so well that I'd ace the test even without the program

Lol. So naïve. Half the point of programing and testing the software is so that you can then forget how to do the task yourself. I'd say that 90+% of the task-specific code I've written was for that I no longer remember how to do myself. Once upon a time I wrote a thing to calculate some of the specifics re water hammer effects in pipes. I still have the code but, for the life of me, I have totally forgotten the actual math.
Quack medicine products used to be sold (and sometimes still are) by asking in adverts "do you feel vaguely unwell?" and promising to vaguely cure the condition. Similarly, it's easy to sell the public on a vague sense of national decline, and this is a long-standing key part of populist politics.
Seems pretty reasonable actually. Final reports contain -everything- and I really do mean everything.

Design docs and drawings obviously (easily 1k pages more if you fit it on a4), since each trade needs it's own views. Specifications are included, as a legal document that calls out which regulations every possible system will follow and calls out exceptions (proof they apply). All possible testing from receiving it (and documentation including pictures), proof of setup, proof of commissioning (IE construction essentially needs to do what a tech bro would do with automated testing, by hand with with each step documented and signed for, and each possible state the system could be in). Any other type of test report NETA/material quality/thermography/whatever (a single breaker easily comes to two pages of test report, a voltage/current meter easily comes to three pages per phase). Pictures are likely kept to only two per A4 page.

Basically it's a "declaration from ignorance", since big numbers sound scary and wasteful to others who haven't worked in the field.
> GIANT Enormous Huge Red Flag #2: captcha asks you to types command in shell. I have no comment on how naive one must be to do this.

I guess critical thinking of devs and wannabee devs has been softened by all the `curl <script> | bash` installation instructions.
"But it remains doubtful that [Labour] will be any better at delivering on those ambitions than the Conservatives were."

This one sentence in the introduction belies an article not entirely based on factual evidence.
You can have British citizenship whilst holding another citizenship, unless that second citizenship prevents you from holding another one.

The treaties the UK has with Ireland even gift anyone born in Northern Ireland with dual citizenship off the bat.
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People also underestimate how financially predictable this setup is - you purchase a VPS or bare metal box on DigitalOcean/Hetzner/OVH for e.g. $50/mo, and that price will likely stay the same for the next 5 years. Try that with any of the cloud providers.

This part is often neglected when running a company, where owners usually hope infra costs will decrease over time or remain proportional to company income. However, I'm still waiting to see that.
Ex-Google employee struggles to find job in Canada: Indian exp being overlooked
TL;DR: you need energy if you want to build/transform/produce/transport things
i havent seen any encryption issues since about q3 2023, notifications are still a thing tho, they are reliable but setting them up the way you want is still a pain

my experience is based on regular old element clients and my own server and will be moving to x and sliding sync probably at the end of the year
I chose the Hyundai Ioniq 5 as my current car specifically because it’s compatible with OpenPilot. It’s been a total game-changer for my driving experience. Just like their tagline says, “make driving chill,” and for me, it truly delivers on that promise.
RDBC would be a great fit, but it looks like it's no longer maintained. Might just be better to create your own adapter pattern

https://github.com/tokio-rs/rdbc
Can someone explain simply how these benchmarks work?

What exactly is a "failure rate" and how is it computed?
The architecture of explaining how open source applications are architected may need a revamping itself?

What might be useful is an approach of live collections that keep evolving / added to. Maybe some sort of extension of the Journal of Open Source Software [1] where authors focus purely on architectural aspects.

Having a classification (by technology, functionality etc.) would also make it easier to make the most out of this wonderful collection.

[1] https://joss.theoj.org/
Not just networking issues, there are plenty of reports with external drives having problems as well.
Element is a client, matrix is a protocol, synapse is a mainline backend server. There are other clients (front-ends) and servers available on top of the matrix protocol. Hope that helps.
The SE is rounded and larger. The 4S’ size and shape made it very secure in my hand.
Can this result in a colmap dataset that can be used by Gaussian Splatting generation?
I literally read someone on Twitter saying they wanted to upgrade from a 13 pro max to be able to have access to JPEG XL.

adityaathalyo, welcome to the club of people who cannot bring up ecological concerns about tech on HN.
Lots of quantitative research uses R. It’s still very popular in the industry.

Insurance is also still using a lot of R. Actuaries I know still use it, and they talk of Python, but I don’t see anyone actually moving to using Python.
I've been wondering for a while if having ElasticSearch as just another function to call might be interesting. If the LLM can just generate queries it's an easy deployment.
I enjoyed Adioso back in the day. Found lots of cheap flights.
What an ugly, impoverished view of the world. Someone sees that the UK is poorer than it would be if economic policy wasn’t a disaster and wants to publicise that so it can be improved and tens of millions of people’s lives improved and you’re looking for an “angle”.

Poverty is bad. There’s the angle.
> incredibly restrictive rules.

Like what?

Are you referring to the self-regulation at Grenfell Tower?
On a tangent, what is astonishing to me as an outsider is the cultural stagnation. Even in times of economic decline Britain was a cultural powerhouse. Modern music, theater, cinema, tv, literature, sports, etc. were permanently shaped by post-war Britain (especially in Europe). Whatever the cultural norm dictated by the behemoth that is the USA, Britain always had something new, something fresh to give. There's no point listing specific examples, they are numerous.

What happened in the last 15 years is a mystery to me. I doubt it's economic stagnation (been there before) and I doubt it collapsed under the weight of US culture (which is still enamored with anything British). Maybe the modern internet and social media diluted everything. I don't know, but I miss it. (sorry for the off-topic)
> It's every so slightly slower

in what way? I'd say responsiveness is more important to the desktop than raw performance and from my experience with nearly 2 decades of using Linux desktops, responsiveness has never been great.

If I'm switching between windows whilst encoding a video in the background, the window manager should have instant priority even if it means starving the background task of some CPU time. on GNOME this is quite bad, run a very heavy task (e.g. AI) in the background and the desktop will start to suffer.
It’s an ongoing tension. Direct bookings are ideal but are only adequate if your brand awareness and loyalty is strong, like AA and Southwest. To whatever extent that’s not the case, you need to be available via partners/agencies and on metasearch sites in order to be found.

Our pitch to airlines when we were trying to establish partnerships with them was that we could find flexible travelers to fill seats that would otherwise be empty, and we had unique ways of doing that (which is why the company was able to pivot to enterprise), but we weren’t strong enough for them to feel the need to partner with us (and they don’t want to help a small player grow into a big player).

Flight revenue optimization is an art and science at least as old as industry deregulation, and funnily enough is now something my old company is providing a lot of help with. If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em as they say.
Neither of these are well supported at all. APNG has a whole history of non-support by major browsers and animated WebP doesn't even have its own mime type so you can't fall back to gif/apng if support is not there - and support for webp does not guarantee support for animated webp. Both are also decidedly mediocre improvements over gif (which is quite the accomplishment considering how shit gif compression is).

Really, animated WebP has little reason to exist. At least the lossy version should really just be a video file with no audio track and a convention for the loop metadata. Too bad that browsers decided to create yet another format (with intentionally crippled compression compared to webm) rather than allow silent videos in <img> tags.
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There are A LOT of female-only (or identifies as female) things (free STEM classes/camps, apprenticeships/internships, talks, events at museums, trips etc etc) for girls/young-women in the UK. Even at work there are female-only networking and career development and placement and mentorship things. Boys/men are not invited and are explicitly not welcome to attend.

Is it any wonder that all of this is leading to more opportunities and more success for women? Not sure why people are surprised that positive discrimination is having the intended effect

I am not saying it is wrong, but it was obvious that consistently giving special treatment and opportunities to one group while actively blocking access for another group would lead to outcomes that the other group would not benefit from when this all started a decade or two ago.

I know "equality" is now a banned word and is on the naughty list, but whatever happened to equity for young school-age boys and men? It is not the fault of a 5 year old that historically men have had things better, yet they are now being actively sidelined and actively denied opportunities due to the sins of the historical patriarchy. Somehow I doubt we'll see "boys only" extra-classes and events etc at schools any time soon though.
I find hard to dive into contrived realities. A good story with hints of a larger complicated world in which it happens is in my opinion much more enjoyable than painstakingly describing everything.
It's actually very simple & cheap to be compliant: stop tracking EU citizens.
cnc vendors are still bringing out new machines with new conversational g-code features though
https://www.xkcd.com/2128/
The US has a huge internal market, with free interstate trade and no need for localization.

The US has accumulated colossal scientific and R&D resources, which regularly produce industrial breakthroughs. Lower taxes help, too. (Lower taxes is what a country can afford for general benefit, not a sloppy pro-rich policy.)

But most importantly, USD is effectively the world's reserve currency, so the US can literally print money, and much of the rest of the world would gladly take it; it's like gold, only buttressed by the US's economic and military might.

The UK has none of these advantages. The British Empire had some of these, but it's gone. Another large factor is that the US emerged from WWII relatively unscathed, while Britain was badly hit, and could not grow as fast.

(Edit: typos.)
I think you're right. I super appreciate the feedback!
I tend to agree with this. Why re-invent the wheel by spending engineering effort building a CRUD backend?

If you're trying to bring value to market, focus on your core differentiator and use existing tooling for your boilerplate stuff.
I wonder how much, adjusted for inflation, it cost to buy a TV in 1926.
How about BYD EV's?
which features are the ones that interest you?
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> The UK was, and to some senses still is, a culture that strongly values who your parents are vs what you’ve personally accomplished.

I think this statement's accuracy depends heavily on how you're defining things.

If I go up to the average Brit and tell them my father is the deputy editor-in-chief of some newspaper? They won't be impressed, they'll think I'm a prick.

On the other hand, if I want to pursue a career in journalism? My father will have made sure I've studied the right things, funded me through the right unpaid internships, and will be able to get my job application in front of the right hiring managers.

Does "UK culture strongly value" who my father is, if 99.99 % of brits don't care, but the remaining 0.01 % can have an outsized impact on my career?

(Of course if I've inherited a hundred million quid some people will think I'm important / suck up to me due to the power such wealth confers - but there's nothing uniquely british about that)
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That's where SQLite really shines - used it in a massively scaled facial recognition system, with several hundred simultaneous cameras, a very large FR database with over 10K people, each having dozens of face entries, and all the events that generates from live video viewing large public venues. SQLite was never a bottleneck, not at all.
The back story of this series is Greg Wilson's quest to elevate design thinking in software. Beautiful Code, the book, was also part of this quest.

Back story:

https://corecursive.com/beautiful-code-with-greg-wilson/
In my opinion, these products are nothing but scams. I can’t use any links from work emails on my phone because I can’t see the domain of a link without previewing the page. IT told me I needed to change system-wide settings to disable previewing webpages in every app on my phone. Not happening.

Fortunately, my work email supports IMAP, so I can use a script to scan my inbox for fake phishing emails and delete them.
Are there other sexually explicit scenarios which are federal crimes? I guess all of them will be a problem soon.
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I use it to indicate tone. Proper capitalization and punctuation reads with a formal, cold tone.

lowercase without caps reads with a warmer, informal tone

there’s a Tom Scott Language Files video documenting it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS4X1JfX6_Q
I don't get the question.
I don't know about ESS, but for selfhosting I can recommend Zitadel or Authentik, I've used both and currently I'm using Zitadel.