skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Intelligence Age
I really wish such journalists (or their editors) would have to spend a day using that stuff. Any professional who moves stuff around will have their prefered helping technology, be it wagons or a hand cart or whatever, but that stuff?

Unless your usecase is to deliver a sixpack of beer across a minefield any other solution will work better and that includes putting your stuff on a tablecloth and dragging it across the floor
It does have overlap though.

The article is about an anti-trust body researching whether that moat is not too much of a monopoly:

> In a summary of evidence given to UK watchdog, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), AWS denies that customers face any difficulty in switching from its platform.
It's actually very easy because it just pops out. It's the same thing as pressing down, you're just pressing down from the side. (I had both)
The manual is for the experimental Manchester Mark II, which is very similar to the commercial product derived from it, Ferranti Mark I.

So both the handwritten title about Ferranti Mark I and the typed title about Manchester Mark II are right. Only the name of the PDF file is wrong.

Manchester Mark I had been an earlier and simpler experimental computer, while Ferranti Mark I was a commercial product. It actually was the first commercial electronic computer, with its first delivery a little before UNIVAC I.
No, it's not. This year I still had to upgrade all my projects (I do this yearly) and they still broke in a myriad of different ways. Most of them fortunately and perhaps ironically the solution was one Google search away.

I actually _like_ Java, so it's not that I hate Android, but frankly, I have no idea what it is even doing downloading and generating gigabytes of crap with inscrutable huge log files. Most of my applications' Java/GUI parts are no more complex than a hello world -- many times I find it easier to just rewrite them from scratch than even try "upgrading" them using Android Studio.

The Android tooling is basically a textbook definition of oversized enterprisey software. I really wish there was just a frigging (resource) compiler, linker and maybe packer that I could invoke from the command line in simple steps.
Dragging a power cable up and down stairs? Cables are heavy and they snag on stuff. If you ever do a mobile robot project with a tether you quickly discover these are their primary properties.
Sure, but that is because there's a lot of context that is tucked away inside the formalism and corresponding syntax.
But you're happy living in a country built on the bones of ??? run by warmongering ???
FYI, this happened to the original yt-dl :C

> Access denied. Due to a ruling of the Hamburg Regional Court, access to this website is blocked.

https://youtube-dl.org

https://openjur.de/u/2466945.html

If you'd just get API access with the paid plan, man...
I think Day One probably fits the bill for you there. E2E encrypted. I’ve been using it for about a decade
> Additionally, it’s also ironic (hypocritical, I’d say) for him to complain about the lack of post revisions as something that undermines WordPress, while Automattic offers WordPress without access to plugins and all themes in its basic hosting plans, and makes Jetpack, a Trojan horse to upsell features (even the basics, like… stats), mandatory for all users.

It's absurd that they gate so many features behind their higher tiers.

Early this year I wanted to blog about something and was tired of my Ghost self-hosted blog. I decided that I was just going to pay someone else to host it and since I get like 100 visitors/week (if that) I really was put off by the pricing from so many blog providers that want to charge you based on visitors. Especially since my blog is read by normally either very few (<100) or it hits on somewhere like HN (rare but it's happened) and I have thousands of visitors for a day or two.

I finally settled on wordpress.com, I've used Wordpress in some form or fashion for 15+ years and so I thought it would be a good choice. I went ahead and paid for 3 years at once for the savings (bad idea) but then started running into issues. Want to see analytics? You need to pay for Premium or above. Want to upload video? Need to pay for premium or above. Want plugins (you know, a /massive/ aspect of wordpress)? You need to pay for business or above (Starting at $25/mo). Yes, I could have worked around some of the issues but in the end I paid for Premium so I could get my stupid little blog up and running. I'm still bitter to be paying that much for a rounding error of traffic blog and still not have plugins but whatever.

I don't know what I'll do in 2 years but I know it won't be wordpress.com. I'd rather deal with self-hosting again than give them another penny.
The missing mass – What is causing a geoid low in the Indian Ocean? (2017)
> Those "keep clicking until we stop fading in more results" challenges mean they're fairly confident you're a bot

Those ones are the fucking worst. I've noticed that if I try to succeed in these captchas too quickly, it'll just say "Sorry, try again" even when every click was correct, so instead, I've started going in slow motion and faking "misclicking" which makes it much more likely to accept me as human.

I cannot stand the idea that I have to pretend to be slower than I am, in order for a computer to not think I'm a computer. Thanks CloudFlare and Google.
What is "inaka or not"? A google search just pulls up an athletic clothing brand.
The bit about servicing the Fed debt being the 4th largest line in the budget should have been a wake-up call for *everyone*. And that's just paying the interests, we're not even making a dent in lowering it. Those interest payments are services NOT being provided to taxpayers. But we're being told don't worry about it (i.e., the debt)? And everything is ok (with the economy)? That level of gaslighting is hard to stomach.

Honestly, I didn't think Ballmer and Stewart disagreed all that much. Ballmer said, "I've got this data thing" and Jon's attitude was, "Great! But then how do we get off this crazy emotional-based cycle we're on now? Why is the media so shite?"

The idea that the UK should be looking to the USA to envy its (faux) prosperity is a sad sick joke.
> That's one of the reasons. Others include, but are not limited to:

These probably also apply to Vogtle 3 in the US; IIRC, Vogtle 4 was less expensive.

Economies of scale applies to large nuclear plants as much as it does to small widgets: the more you build the easier it becomes to build them.
Some of the control codes we use in ttys today came from teletype machines that were already around for five to ten years in 1950. Also when the 132 character wide terminal standard was born. Thats’s another valid interpretation of desktop.
Heuristics that almost always work (2022)
Modern GIS Using DuckDB
Possible, yes. But enormously worse than a mule or two men.
Out of curiosity why WhatsApp vs regular SMS (via Twilio)?
"Grand Deception"–Winnebago Muzzles Outcry over Problems That Make RVs Dangerous
Even 4 stick-built reactors in a row is pretty good; look at Barakah in UAE, South Korea, China and Canada (Darlington, Pickering, Bruce).
Lack of trust in institutions caused by repeated failures of said institutions in recent decades leads to lack of trust in anyone credentialed.
The good people always have other options. The bad ones don't.

Immediate supervisors usually know who is good and should be empowered to decide who can WFH. And who they don't want to lose.

Diktats from god are a sign of a disfunctional org.
"this is my cheeseburger"

is different from

"all 100 people in my village need a cheeseburger very badly; this piece of paper says that if any of them lay a finger on it, they get carted off to jail"

they're more referring to the latter
While this seems counterintuitive Mac makes it very convoluted to release on their platform. To the point that the low sales really don't justify. Here's a video from a game dev driving this home

https://youtube.com/shorts/qRQX9fgrI4s?si=Wg2NkJlo8r0kd9NC
> If AI results haven't started affecting our search traffic they will start to soon. Up until now we've had two choices: block AI-based crawlers and fall completely out of that market, or continue to let AI companies train off of our hard-won content and take it as a loss that still generates a little bit of traffic

You have another option, one that iFixit chose: poison[1] the data sent to AI crawlers, you may even use GenAI to generate the fake content for maximum efficiency.

1. https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Data+Connector++Replacement/147...
Private property is a legal designation for the ownership of property by non-governmental legal entities.

I think maybe you're referring to personal property.
If these were for sale I would buy one
If your Home Assistant has Bluetooth, and the Aranet4 has the "smart home" integration enabled (via the app settings), then HA will pick up ambient broadcasts of the sensors out of the box. You don't need Zigbee or explicit pairing.
This is fascinating to me because I once tried to take a (vaguely) similar approach to generate a procedural city layout, taking a voronoi diagram, and then doing some modified flood fills to create buildings within the city while leavings streets.

It feels to me like their approach could be used for this as well, since there's of course nothing that requires it to only be used for generating floor plans.
My friends who studied for the Pakistan Civil Service exam told me you can get questions like:

When did Gen Musharraf visit India on so-and-so trip?

A) Oct 10th 2004
B) Oct 8th 2004
...

(I made the answers up, but I distinctly remember the days being 2 days apart)
Brainfuck is largely a joke for most developers, but in certain kinds of research it is taken very seriously due to its ease of implementation.

I think this is probably the most interesting paper involving it:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.19108

> In this paper we take a step towards understanding how self-replicators arise by studying several computational substrates based on various simple programming languages and machine instruction sets.
I lived without a TV for a couple of years, around Katrina time -- I experienced that disaster only through radio broadcasts.

Later, I had a Blu-ray player and a combo monitor-TV where I watched OTA broadcasts after the Digital Transition. About 9 years ago, the TV broke, and was deemed unrepairable.

I chose not to replace any TV and I decided I was way better off without Jay Leno in my ear every night, and trash like Degrassi in my eyes every week. For a while, I was. I didn't play discs anymore, either, so my consumption of video content went down, and I was really immersed in interactive computer stuff.

Gradually I found myself to be a YouTube addict, and I've gone all-in with it. Over the years, the stuff they've added has made it a one-stop shop where I never miss TV programming.

At this point, YT has free films (just watch ads or pay Premium), it has on-demand streaming for rent or purchase, just about any major film you can name. They have TV-style packages offered. They are a gateway to other streaming services like Paramount+. There are even silly little minigames now. Mostly, though, I love music videos, and I curate dozens upon dozens of playlists for my tastes and moods. (Beware: user playlists are a legacy feature, and seem to get more inconvenient over time.)

YT has worked hard to become a hub for all things streaming, even as Netflix and competitors splintered into every studio's balkanized app. For someone like me, it's really a relief to just be loyal in one service, and not go chasing content over a dozen paid services or something. Being a low-income cheapskate, I mostly put up with a deluge of ads, because that's how folks get paid these days.
> Tesla is setting a new standard in the automotive industry regarding data accessibility and transparency.

Well, at least they're doing that.

That level of data collection by Tesla (or any other manufacturer) is absolutely terrifying, though. I personally consider it entirely unacceptable.

If it were kept on the car itself and never shared with any other entity without my permission (or a court order), that would change the equation a bit. But sharing directly with the manufacturer? Just no.
If you mean "inscrutable to mere mortals and drives one to madness when heard aloud", then yes. Yes it is.
At least they're honest about it.

This is currently the state of much modern documentation from huge tech companies.
> I'd never buy a new [car brand] car knowing that kind of issue existed before.

There's some severe information bias here. If you actually believe this, then you're basically restricted from buying most vehicles. Toyota is out [1] along with, BMW [2], Ford [3], Chevy [4], Honda [5], Volvo [6], Mercedes [7] and more. The cars affected in those are similar to orders of magnitude more. These were all first results, one vehicle, but I'm sure there are many more examples for each.

The odd tribalism is what I find most interesting about the Cybertruck. And no, I'm not interested in buying a Cybertruck.

[1] https://www.cars.com/articles/toyota-recalls-2-3-million-veh...

[2] https://repairpal.com/recall/04V409000

[3] https://repairpal.com/recall/99V265000

[4] https://www.asburyauto.com/gmc-accelerator-pedal-recall

[5] https://www.asburyauto.com/honda-accelerator-pedal-recall

[6] https://www.motorsafety.org/volvo-recalls-xc40-bev-suvs-that....

[7] https://www.panish.law/2012/08/stuck-gas-pedal-risk-prompts-...
Given how HN always freaks out about microplastics, I'm surprised that people feel like this is a bad law. Personally, I want a Rwanda-style ban on plastic.
You are right - but AI as we know it is wildly unfit for almost any mission profile. It makes 100x more sense from an accountability, logistics, oversight, idempotency and safety perspective to just scuttle any weaponized drones you cannot control. Relying on automated procedure is how Iran got a free RQ-170 a few years back - it's not smart to fully rely on a process that can be fooled.

AI in combat is scary on the face of it, but when you consider the diminished lethality compared to our "classical" smart weapons, it doesn't seem to have much fit in the first place.
Daily use of ChatGPT as a scientist and programmer
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They also handle and store users backup unencrypted by default so they have access to all messages in plaintext in multiple opportunities.
No? My impression of US (and by extension) global finance state of things is, pension funds are holding the society hostage, preventing positive changes in some sectors of the economy, real estate being particularly blatant case. "Propping up those real estate values", in general, works for the benefits of "haves" at the expense of hoping to have when they get older - i.e. it works against the interest of younger generations.
Honey, YouTubers are poisoning the kids
Yup, a must read. Made me wish I'd studied archeology as a pup.

That guy Harari in his best seller Sapiens compares humans to bonobos and chimps, without choice. A comparison rooted in modern day racism. Contrast this with anthropologists of today, like Levi-Strauss whose study of Nambikwara society found no fixed roles but seasonally adjusted politics and material economies, not some lockstep progression of discreet phases from gathering to hunting to farming as presumed by Turgot. Studies of Eskimo changing their names, swapping partners seasonally or of Lakhota buffalo police, or Cheyenne shifts from coercion to dispersion seasonally refute such a progression as does the enduring shift of Stonehenge druids away from grain farming to hazlenut gathering as primary food staple. Human social adaptability and innovation is nonlinear.

Migratory neolithic society was porous, people flowed in and out of various societal groups at different seasons, ranging across huge distances.
Public healthcare systems are funded by taxes. There are also private nonprofit hospitals that are ironically profitable:

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/10/15/769792903/how-...
Using uppercase is for writing (more formal).

using lowercase is for chat (less formal)
The linked Norman Rockwell Museum is in Stockbridge, MA, which is also home to (formerly) the Alice's Restaurant[0] of Arlo Guthrie fame.

[0] For today's lucky 10,000: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m57gzA2JCcM
Freenet / Hyphanet Build 1498 Released: Debian, Optimized Networking, UX, Safety
Fable 3 killed Lionhead.

The reboot has already passed the point of teaser trailers. The new studio is Playground Games best known for the Forza Horizon games. (The alternating "silly" open world titles between Forza Motorsport "serious" racing titles.) Given the success of Forza Horizon and their cadence at regularly delivering it, this Fable reboot probably won't kill the studio, but might push them back into the "only do Horizon games, please" box.

The Saints Row reboot had some writing on the wall that it might be the last one from the developer anyway, and it was reflected in the design. The Chicago-based Volition (for several decades under several publishers, and even through a messy divorce/remerger) was forced to move to Austin, TX to be closer physically to other teams under the same publisher (notably Gearbox). The reboot attempted to be a love letter to their new forced home, but a lot of "their creative heart wasn't exactly in it" was visible on too many levels, and it was easy enough to guess that when a publisher forces a move like that they may be looking for easy layoffs and eventual team mergers.
One example is the core Temporal.io client, which is implemented in Rust, and wrapped by (most of) the other SDKs including .NET.

I imagine this pattern will become more common for fat clients where it is desirable have a single implementation with idiomatic language bindings.
Personally, I don’t use a case on my iPhone 14. I pay Apple every month for Apple Care +. If I break it Apple fixes or replaces it for free
Anyone remember J#?
The Shifting Vocabulary of AI
Archaeologists Solved the Mystery of a Coffin Discovered Beneath Notre-Dame
New research suggests the sarcophagus’ occupant, previously known only as “the horseman,” is Joachim du Bellay, a French Renaissance poet who died in 1560.
> So much so that once I got Youtube Premium, I cancelled two streaming services after realizing how much we watch it.

That's exactly my point. For YouTube-type, independent creators and instructional content, there is no substitute. If you want to watch a drama or comedy, you have a lot of options. This is not scientific, but I know an increasing number of people who don't watch "traditional" media at all and look entirely to YouTube for something to watch, especially if they prefer non-fiction.
> Is there a way to just download an Android SDK?

Yes, you can just grab the zip files. For example like this: https://www.hanshq.net/command-line-android.html#sdk
LOL The Rust Evangelism Taskforce has entered the chat
> the prize can far exceed such a rate

For all the good it's done them.
Bit of a long game. Gen Z has very high support for unions (which can bargain for rights, like remote work and a shorter work week) at 80%. About 1.8M people over the age of 55 die every year, 5k per day, about half of which are in the labor force. 10k Boomers retire per day, ~3.6M/year. 4M people turn 18 every year, slowly working their way into the labor force. No one big change happens, small wins over time as old people with old ideas exit the labor force, and new people with new ideas enter. For example, all culinary staff on the strip in Vegas are now unionized. The lone hold out was The Venetian under Sheldon Adelson, who was staunchly anti union. He's dead now (2021), and The Venetian is now owned by the Apollo Group, who had no problem with their staff organizing. Progress occurs one funeral at a time (Max Planck).

Think in systems; in this case, demographics are a system.

https://www.generationlab.org/_files/ugd/b2ee84_9fefb7fc260a...

https://www.marketplace.org/2023/01/03/gen-z-is-the-most-pro...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41627763 | https://archive.today/QdUbM ("Gen Z just overtook Baby Boomers U.S. full-time workforce, by generation")
>The higher subscription fee applies to both individual and family YouTube Premium plans. In Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Italy, YouTube's Family plan will cost €26 from November, up from €18 — an increase of €8. The individual plan is also getting expensive by €2 to €14 in these countries.

Two euro!?! I mean... I subscribe because I think it's a better deal than spotify even if the app is suboptimal, because I want the content creators I visit to get paid, but I've been paying about $14 for years. How in the hell were they only charging two euro.
Maintainers swap for Linux-xfs and xfsprogs/xfsdump trees
It varies. Cats are more territorial than dogs for instance.
Sounds like someone could stand to put down the mouse and go read a book.
> At this point, I throw away most plastic bags I get. Otherwise I'd simply be inundated with plastic bags!

I have a dog and an infant, so I seem to have an infinite supply of things best disposed of in plastic bags :-)
> The people that lose ...

are also everyone who makes (literally) any effort in the direction of digital privacy, whose internet experience is degraded and frustrating due to increasingly bad captchas or just outright refusal of service.
> possibly you are thinking of smtp

You're right, I definitely was
This is a really basic blog post and it doesn’t make any kind of convincing argument for the provocative title.

Towards the end it says:

> I really like WordPress, as I’ve stated many times, but Matt has become an irresponsible and damaging actor. He urgently needs to step down from WordPress.org leadership, or he risks undermining WordPress’ popularity and driving the community away.

But it makes at best, a really weak case for how he is “irresponsible” or a “damaging actor”. Sure there may be some minor controversies like this redirection thing it mentions, but that really doesn’t seem like a big deal or anywhere close to requiring anyone to step down. I find the accusation that Matt Mullenweg is doing something wrong by mixing in commercial interests to be ridiculous - he CREATED Wordpress. That was 20 years ago. Given its success and adoption, I think he deserves the commercial spoils of it.

> WP Engine was acquired by a private equity firm, Silver Lake.

It is hilarious that this blog post does not actually talk about Silver Lake or private equity at all. PE is a cancer on society - all they do is acquire assets and financially optimize them to squeeze money out at the expense of everyone else - employees, customers, society. They don’t actually add value to the product or affected people around the product. Silver Lake is one of the worst of them. This is a firm that was literally called evil by Wired magazine (https://www.wired.com/2011/06/skype-silver-lake-evil/), for firing employees right before the Skype sale in a purposeful scheme to rob hard working people who built the company of their equity. Why should anyone trust WP Engine or its leadership? Let’s start there, because it sounds a lot like Matt Mullenweg is right.
“No Wireless. Less Space than a Nomad. Lame.”
You can, however, slap PRQL or KQL on top of Clickhouse.
https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/guides/developer/alternative-...

1.2 doesn't go into nearly enough detail to be convincing, in my opinion.