skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of the handy Excel functions (like XLOOKUP, LET, LAMBDA) are only available in the newer versions. Sure, they aren't universally used because of the inertia, but in my opinion useful enough to justify the upgrade.
In that regard, the presence of this type of evidence isn't worth much either, a malicious rumor or an accusation is plenty sufficient to stoke the flames of an angry and terrified mob, nobody's going to pause the proceedings and wait for a fair and cool-headed judgement of evidence. This is after all a phenomenon that is far older than the smartphone.
If you can't decide which model to choose, go for open-source and contribute whatever you want.
This is a brilliantly written rant. 2017 seems quite early to have formed this opinion so vehemently, but what's astonishing is how fringe it is even now.

>> What you describe here reminds me of the prolefeed-generating machines in "1984", generating an constant stream of pulp novels from the same passages endlessly permuted.

I've thought quite a bit about those popular songwriting machines in 1984 recently, and I think I've witnessed our approach toward something like that as a culture, in movies and music.

Another great much-too-early vision of LLM havoc is contained in the first few pages of P.K. Dick's "The Penultimate Truth". It'll make you laugh out loud, how close he got to describing the job of a politician who has to write LLM prompts and is frustrated at it spitting out nonsense because he's too lazy to write thoughtful ones.
Wait, so you can now set up a hard cap on your spending and they guarantee they won't charge you more? It would be exciting but I don't believe they actually allow that especially as their competition also refused to implement that, in spite of it being no #1 requested feature for many years.
Fyi Robert Henke's new album came out a few weeks ago: https://roberthenke.bandcamp.com/album/studio
Support via UI, will also be something interesting.How did you come up with this idea in general(I am curious)?
A development process is not either Agile or “waterfall” anyway.
alright, but i will still transpile to both cjs and esm
Well, no. This argument might be correct if this policy wouldn't very strongly incentive people to use (possibly paid!) iCloud instead and if Apple would just allow any app onto the app store (or effortless sideloading like on Android). Instead, they heavily scrutinize everything that gets submitted. They could just have special permissions for apps like Nextcloud that would only be enabled if the app behaves correctly regarding this background sync functionality.
It’s more of the artifact of ticket centric development, so I would blame Jira and the like before “programming self help” methodologies.
Seven Secular Sermons – Poetic introductions to science
It’s worse than that. People will start claiming that real, incriminating voice recordings of them are fakes as well.

I think this matters more in the court of public opinion than in real court in both cases though.
I agree with the author I think. Or this is what I would use for the semantics:

- A soft hyphen is meant to represent a line-break opportunity

- When transforming text for layout, the soft hyphen can be removed or inserted depending on where it would appear

- Ignore when searching text

- It is similar to single linebreaks in MarkDown: they will be stripped in some output formats

- Language-specific concerns (see Swedish) are not considered

The list above is incomplete.

I feel that all the links are too abstract. Here is a concrete example:

A program for inserting linebreaks in a paragraph. The soft hyphen can be used at the end of line to indicate: if you rerun this program you may remove this soft hyphen because it’s not part of the word.

Now you have a character which covers one of the following:

- Hyphen that is a linebreak opportunity

- Hyphen that is not a linebreak opportunity (e.g. in “word- and paragraph-boundaries”: “word-” should not be a linebreak opportunity because you don’t want to put that back as “word-and”)

- Hyphen at the end of the line which was not in the original word (soft hyphen)
> AWS has slightly improved with their "budgets" and "budget actions", but it’s far from something I’d call a "spending limit".

Yeah they had to do something so they came up with a half-solution that basically informs you with a delay, doesn't prevent any quick damage and - if you decide to use budget actions - requires you to know what is actually causing the problem. Better than nothing I guess.
You do not speak for me. I think but can't prove that you don't even speak for most programmers.
Idk the state of the art for forensic stylometrics or the precedents but I would be surprised if this hasn’t already been presented as evidence in many (most?) notable jurisdictions. Not definitive evidence but supporting evidence. So far from being declared illegal, it’s probably mostly established as a tool for law enforcement.

Meanwhile gangsters or nation states are probably already working on automated deanonymization and blackmail at scale, but will target the dark web before the public one. Not sure any of this stuff is that changed by the advent of deep fakes and llms tho, probably just boring classical statistics does ok?
In case some people don't know using NextCloud + floccus = great bookmark sync (I self hosting it but setup one on a cheap cloud VM is also fine)

Not using NextCloud for anything else yet though
> You seem to put reading/writing on a pedestal

No, I put my personal time on a pedestal. Videos are slow, and I'd rather spend my life in other ways.
But mob formation and mass social shaming on little evidence already happens without AI and it isn't clear why AI would make it worse. If it gets so easy to create fake videos that'll just muddy the waters and people would trust rumour less, not form mobs more.

It happens once, then some wag creates videos of all the mob leaders blaspheming or whatever. Undermines the idea that the videos are the root cause.
I don't doubt that a big chunk of Ukraine wanted to join up with the West. After all, we are more prosperous. The question is to what extent that is possible when one considers geopolitical constraints. I think what some people are saying is, Ukrainians would probably not have been for the current situation if they had known in advance. I don't think they would have been for war with Russia, to break away from them. I don't think that's what maidan was about. I think what some people are also saying is that the US knew this would lead to war and pushed Ukraine into it, anyway. And that is also the reason why France and Germany were more reluctant on the matter, because this is not good for us here in Europe.

I personally don't know what to think. I think the US framing of the situation is childish: "the Ukrainians wanted to leave and Russia doesn't want them to". As if they wouldn't do exactly the same thing, where they in that situation. Seems to me that you cannot ignore the geopolitics. At the same time, a people have sovereignty over their land and a right to do with it what they please, but that is only an ideal and not true in practice. Well, there is nobody enforcing such ideals so you need to go to war...

Even way back before Ukraine, people question why Russia has been kept as an enemy after the fall of the Soviet Union. Because they don't submit to the US hegemony? But they could be allies. India doesn't submit either, for that matter, but they are semi-allies. But not Russia. Because? We wouldn't be in the current situation if Russia wasn't antagonized so hard way back then.

I think it is very hard to parse objectively what is happening because there is so much propaganda and heated opinions on the topic. And not everyone has the same objectives, and people can always contort themselves to blame everything on those they despise.
I propose that by prioritizing profits and productivity we were already globally dependent on tools to find meaning in the world before generative AI. This seems to be the society we already have.
Please get an air purifier with a HEPA filter...

Ikea sells a reasonable air purifier AND seperate sensors nowadays!
Photoprisim

Check it out, I've been very happy with that instead of Google photos.
I don’t think it’s the case even on a paid tier, if it is I can’t find any reference to it. There are a lot of posts on their community support form where the recommendation is to use another registrar. https://community.cloudflare.com/t/use-cloudflare-registrar-...
I think there was also a lot of misunderstanding in the West how things could go. Having easily accessible strong rights systems outside of Russia but a weak one inside combined certainly in expected ways - derailing ideas of how these things would form inside Russia as a necessity.
> this is about proprietary software that will not be ported to new platforms

Software being proprietary is entirely a choice of the vendor. There's nothing inherent in MS software that means it has to be proprietary. It's a pretty essential part of planned obsolescence.

As for new platforms, what new platforms? I can still buy a complete system that can execute x86 code that was written decades ago. And, in any case, we've been able to write platform agnostic code since before many programmers were born.

Not all software needs to care about the "rest of the world". There is a ton of software that doesn't need any kind of network support at all to deliver value. The only real reason for software to become less valuable is if the problem it solves goes away. This can happen, of course, but I don't think it happens as much as MS and other want us to believe.

Software that is designed well is able to be adapted and re-used for new purposes. TeX didn't have good support for separating style from content. But we didn't say "TeX isn't valuable any more", people simply built further tools on top of it like LaTeX and ConTeX etc. This is also why Unix remains just as valuable as it always has been. Unix surely delivers more value to more people today than it ever has done. It turns out the world really doesn't change as much as we sometimes think it does.
In quite a few places I saw, it would be either that or sheer incompetence (which was obvious to me at the time, and become obvious to people who came after me and finally decided to migrate away, with more losses on the way that could have been easily avoided).
Isn't this where "NPUs" are going now?
I would say Project Chicago was maybe one of most consistent UI projects ever executed. Too bad they kept reinventing parts of it, so now we have a mishmash of different UX paradigms, some better, some worse, but certainly inconsistent. At least it’s not macOS though.
What kind olive branch would you have wanted to see? There was a lot going on at the time.
The solution shouldn’t be to forbid anyone but apple from doing stuff in the background but to make permissions very clear, allow for stuff like scheduling background tasks and/or limiting background resources and, for power users, to outright allow specified apps to run in the background. So no, apple isn’t right here
Hi, we are evaluating at work. Could you shed some light on these questions ?

Do you have one NC instance or do you federate (or plan to) ?

Do you use the mail app ?

Which applications do you use to replace sharepoint features ?

Do you use the business version of NC ?
I think the most obvious examples of this are the Apple and Android app stores.

We know exactly how much money the end user is paying for these, and so unlike the tik-tok video with 800k views we can easily understand their value. We also know Apple/Google are taking is 30% of that value.

It's not just individual creators on social media that are suffering from this but also large companies.
A newbie question: How does Nextcloud compare to Dropbox and Syncthing? Can it serve as a replacement / alternative to them?
The US equivalent is much less labour intensive than a lynch mob: it's mass shooters radicalized by things they've read on the internet.

Or https://www.npr.org/2024/09/19/nx-s1-5114047/springfield-ohi... , where repeating racial libel causes a public safety problem.

While this kind of incitement in no way requires AI, it's certainly something that's easier to do when you can fake evidence. See also https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y87l6rx5wo
Would like to highlight that this webpage, interactive 'screenshots' and all, is 31kb
Files are files so you can download them to your computer and upload them to the new provider. Unfortunately I am not aware of any direct provider-to-provider sync.

Application data depends on the app. For example, Notes [0] save your notes as Markdown files so you can move them (along with your files) wherever you want. However, News [1] don't and don't have export/import features at the moment either [2].

Nextcloud as a file storage solution and a non-collaborative office suite is great, but I cannot recommend its apps the same way. They are very convenient to install, but the quality varies a lot in my opinion so evaluate before you adopt.

[0] https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/notes

[1] https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/news

[2] https://github.com/nextcloud/news/issues/2503#issuecomment-2...
Did you read the article? I don't think it says what you think it does.
Here is the official Google writeup of the UniSuper incident. A lot more details than a news media summary.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/detail...
> It’s like if someone said “I’m scared of someone bringing a semi-automatic weapon to my school and doing a mass shooting. My country has lax laws about guns and their proper use”. And then you said “in your case the problem is not guns, it’s your country”.

The US has both problems: widespread availability of weapons and a high level of freedom to incite violence through spreading lies about groups. Which is why it sees much more of these incidents than countries which have similar levels of gun ownership.

The non-gun version of the problem is mass stabbings, which are less lethal.
From what I understand, if one person in a Census block has Fibre, FCC considers they all have fiber. (please correct me if i am wrong, but that's what I understand from various articles on this topic)

So if a census block is a dozen houses big, there could be 1 house just on the edge of a previous run, which has fiber, but 11 houses
down the street where the Comcast or whichever has no interest in digging/trenching for whatever reason and thus they are stuck in dial-up land.

(From the articles, it seemed this wasn't a fake scenario but common place)

They all buy starlink and create a congestion, but they have no real alternative.
I don’t understand what you’re arguing, could you be more specific? I know about #MeToo, but what exactly are you saying worked, and what are you claiming people default to not believing?
> The easy approach would be to run a string replacement over the build output, but this is far too destructive and error-prone. It would also stop me from writing this post!

Tell me you refuse to learn awk/sed (even Windows compatible versions such as from Git Bash, WSL, or Cygwin) without telling me you refuse to learn awk/sed.
2024 Olympics cauldron inspired by the first hydrogen balloon flight (1783)
The article mentions that the 2024 Olympics cauldron pays homage to the Montgolfier Brothers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgolfier_brothers). However, I chose to reference the Robert Brothers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_brothers) because their historic hydrogen balloon flight took place in the Tuileries Gardens (an iconic location in Paris) where the Olympics cauldron was also unveiled.

Here are some historical artworks of the event:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_brothers#/media/File:Ea...

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Summer_Olympics_and_Paral...
One doesn't have to expose it to malicious actors. It is most-useful that way, sure. Mine is at 10.27.0.68. Have fun, hackers!

Also, I lol at most CVEs. Butterfly farted outside, oh uh.

Take the top one:
In Nextcloud Desktop Client 3.13.1 through 3.13.3 on Linux, synchronized files (between the server and client) may become world writable or world readable. This is fixed in 3.13.4.

You mean to tell me a few minor point releases imitated umask, making world-readable [and possibly added writable]? Oh no! The tragedy! Keep in mind most clients are single user systems anyway.

Judge them on their facts, there are vulns and then there are vulns. CVEs are a sign of attention on a project. No more or less.
I would have expected to see some examples of how the GUIs look. Clicked around for a bit and didn't see one single example. This doesn't look serious at all.
There's people who'd want it at $25,000 per dish and $10,000 per month.

All the people who waited for months to get one show there's a market

You forget all the traditional users of satellite Internet. Islands, Planes, Antarctica, regular ships, rockets, drones etc.

Right now it's priced cheap enough for some GA uses.
I mostly always use the same libraries and have them forked. And as little as possible. We have our own substantial tooling built on top of those libraries built up over the last 15 years. The only modern thing we use (now for everything) is CLOG.

I wish someone would write something better, but on the other hand; we can quickly build anything we need with the tooling we have without the need for libraries. Basically; set up what you need and consider it 'your responsibility' now. I think that's the healthy way to handle libraries anyway, in any ecosystem; bad actors are everywhere and 'just updating/upgrading' stuff is such a bad idea usually.

Don't get me wrong; I do feel your pain when you want to try out something; you have to have some understanding or how to work with CL and the tooling to get up projects that have rotted over time, but it's not hard. I recently added a library that is 12 years old to our project and it took a few minutes to fix some of the deps; now it's in our repos and works perfectly.

For other work, I have to work in the nextjs / npm ecosystem and good lord am I happy CL doesn't have that; almost every library is terrible; I became a contributor to 100s of npms over the years because they almost all truly suck. Just 'quickly do this and that, npm publish, alright works for me kthnxbye'. Massively (over-invested some of them with millions of VC$) used projects in NPM contain seriously painful bugs that remain open for months or years (or wontfix... it's a bug mate, not a feature). Most major ones take me more time to debug and fix than I would write them from scratch in our CL tooling.

Sorry for the rant.
The Gutenberg museum itself has an exhibition of Korean movable type. See also https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/culture/2021/06/145_311325.... : both Hanzi and Hangeul.
Shizuku: App that lets you use system APIs with higher privileges without root
> Now stupidity—that's something that really sets us apart from animals

Having seen e.g. a small dog angrily bark at a flat steel silhouette of a wolf 10 cm from its nose, while other dogs manage to drive cars*, I'm not so sure about that.

* a stunt for a dog shelter, teaching old dogs new ticks
The funny thing is it wasn't even a true shutdown - Cloud Domains continues to be a reasonable registrar with proper IAM management so actually much nicer than Google Domains for larger projects. There were plenty of docs on migrating which was a one command thing (don't think there was a UI). Non-"consumers" had a reasonable out, which they could then drop for another provider if they felt a need, but there was definitely no requirement to end up at Squarespace.

But they never marketed it, among all the backlash over turning down Google Domains there was never any true call-out to this. To this day I suspect many people don't know about Cloud Domains (which still exists and accepts new domains). I can't fathom any user-related reason for this - the contract in selling to Squarespace must have forced Google to be unable to properly market Cloud Domains as a transition option. If not, the Google Domains PM truly didn't know the existence of Cloud Domains?
Despite funding the CIA with many billions of dollars every year there are many surprises.

This isn't because the CIA is incompetent. No politicians don't want want to hear what the CIA has to say. The US intelligence services isn't run by some tinker tailor spy spy master. It's just another Washington bureaucrat playing politics.

They train people who speak the language and absorb the culture and their reports are ignored.
The official statement from google:

“During the initial deployment of a Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) Private Cloud for the customer using an internal tool, there was an inadvertent misconfiguration of the GCVE service by Google operators due to leaving a parameter blank. This had the unintended and then unknown consequence of defaulting the customer’s GCVE Private Cloud to a fixed term, with automatic deletion at the end of that period.”

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/detail...

Are you saying that Google lied about being responsible for it? What would they possibly gain from that?
>A common misconception IMO is that running and owning your own infrastructure is somehow more secure.

If done properly cve-s don't matter that much. You create a headscale install on a pi and the headscale port and your router's ssh (key only) are the only things visible from the outside. Take any other than a home router - aka something with support. And you are done.
Cloudflare and its captchas are the scourge of the modern internet. Especially if you run a VPN on your router. The amount of times I’ve been in seemingly endless click-the traffic-light loops is just ridiculous.

Many of the times I’ll just refuse to use the site, but some things I need to endure.

They clearly have no incentive to be better either. The pain falls entirely on the visitor.

If you can’t tell I’m human then you’re doing it wrong.
Meta-God.
"No plan survives getting punched in the face" -- Helmuth von Tyson
> Do generative interfaces -- replacing creating with searching -- bring a person closer or further from feeling like they have touched the limits of their creative potential and created something truly from their heart? ...

> Why is a machine "discovering" cubism a good thing?

Maybe because creativity in this space was exclusive to a few, but now I get to at least imitate it. A machine doing the creativity part could act like a prosthetic leg for my brain, who was missing it altogether.

Sure, I'll never be Picasso myself, but I don't have to wait for one to be born either. The tool can find new ways for me to express myself.
Funny how HN always find a way to be critical on virtually EVERYTHING. :p

I think it's brilliant site, you visit the site or share it with someone, read the text, it make you feel grounded and even spark something inside you that you forget in the busy day.

Walking is cool, but it's definitely different from be still and doing nothing. Sometimes you go to walk, but your mind still racing from all the things that you want to escape, which doesn't help at all, because the point of all this is doing NOTHING, yes, even daydreaming. Your just lightly aware of your mind and self in the now, and that's all, no thought, just like meditation.
And yes, it's meta-gods all the way up.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job:_A_Comedy_of_Justice
It's even worse translated... Such a mess.
In fact the west was acting as a partner and NS2 was a physical manifestation of that any sane russian could not have ignored.
I agree with most of this on a personal level. On the other hand, since your community owes nobody anything, including even publishing how they want to differentiate insiders vs outsiders, then it is absurd to be annoyed by all the overtures that you’re refusing to say that you don’t want.

To put it in simpler terms.. here is a person who wants everyone to fuck off, but refuses to even explain that’s what he wants? How are we supposed to know? If no one is entitled to an explanation, then don’t be surprised if everyone is confused.