skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I learned to code games in QuickBASIC, and pico 8 to me is the closest experience I ever had to that. The tools for putting something on the screen are immediately available with no infrastructure work required. You don't need to create a window, load files, choose a screen mode or anything. You just draw a sprite in the sprite editor and call `spr`
California Governor Vetoes Requiring Global Privacy Opt-Out in Browsers and OS
Here’s another thought experiment. We have ample evidence that the death penalty hasn’t made America safe from murder. But we don’t know if it has deterrence value for lesser crimes.

I propose death by hanging for repeat littering and speeding near a school. I bet that’d be effective.
I stopped organizing files, and I just use everything search all the time (https://www.voidtools.com/)
Still not clear what’s actually happening.

1. DT no longer peers with Facebook for free, and Facebook isn’t willing to pay? A bit more latency for Facebook users using DT, probably a small drop in Facebook visits from DT due to that, but overall, big whoop.

2. That + DT throttles Facebook traffic aggressively in retaliation? That would count as “undermining net neutrality principles” and bad in general. But it’s the kind of thing that already happens in a lot of places generally speaking (don’t know about Germany specifically), and we should push telecom and/or antitrust regulators to prohibit it, but I’d say there’s no urgency here.

3. That + DT sells customers some sort of “Internet except without Facebook, pay more to get Facebook” or “Internet except with slow Facebook, pay more to get fast Facebook”? That would officially be a Very Bad Thing, worth boycotts and other kinds of shouting from the rooftops.

The post is very very unclear about what’s actually happened. The actual court decision is about something like 1, but the talk of a “de facto paywall” would imply 3. Overall, I feel trampled by a Gish-galloping cavalry regiment here.
But that is the general case. Most web apps are written in interpreted languages like JavaScript which benefit from a reverse proxy. If I remember correctly, NGINX became popular because of Rails.

Maybe in Java-land it’s overused, but everywhere else it makes sense.
Under the BIMI scheme you don't pay Google, but a Certification Authority (only Digicert and Entrust for now) to get a certificate for your company logo, so that Google and other mail providers will display your company logo.
I bought an external keyboard for my phone so that when I'm outside somewhere and bored out of my mind I can code on something in TIC-80
From CNN:

“Other evidence that helped convict Williams ‘remains intact,’ the attorney general said.

‘The victim’s personal items were found in Williams’s car after the murder. A witness testified that Williams had sold the victim’s laptop to him. Williams confessed to his girlfriend and an inmate in the St. Louis City Jail, and William’s girlfriend saw him dispose of the bloody clothes worn during the murder,’ the attorney general’s office said.”

https://lite.cnn.com/2024/09/24/us/marcellus-williams-schedu...
I think the uncanny valley feeling is going to be there no matter what they come up with. I, and therefore my brain, knows the voice is coming from a soulless machine[1] so it'll always feel a little off.

My perfect voice assistant would sound like Auto from Wall-E, which is supposedly a blend of MacOS' Ralph and Zarvox voices. Along the lines of (bear in mind I just wrote this directly into the terminal and didn't spend any time actually blending them lol)

say -v ralph -r 180 "I'm sorry Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that" & ; say -v zarvox -r 180 "I'm sorry Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that"

And yeah I'm almost convinced that the whole voice interaction thing came about because they interact with the computer in Star Trek using voice commands.. which is probably just because watching someone type everything into a keyboard would be some boring telly.

I assume there are folks that do use it and do like it, but do they like it more than just pressing buttons to do things? No worries of being misinterpreted or having to speak like a robot at Alexa because it's failed to turn the lights off 3 voice commands in a row now. It's awesome for accessibility, don't get me wrong, I'm talking in the sense of the primary and most commonly used interface.

[1] Not a criticism, fellow soulless machines.
American ex-pat in Copenhagen here. Yes, very similar experiences with regard to quality of life. That said, my salary (partner/cto in Venture Fund/Studio) is probably a third of what it might be in the Bay Area. Worth it for me and my situation, but just be aware!
Subpixel antialiasing is kind of overrated anyway. On screens that are low enough DPI to benefit from it, it can cause color fringing (especially for people with astigmatism) that is worse than the blur from grayscale antialiasing.
DragonRuby https://dragonruby.org/

I had so much fun with this with my 7 year old. Was super easy to take their art and make games with it. You can start by editing one of the many example games it comes with.
We've been able to send probes to other planets for many decades. Cost of the actual rocket doesn't appear to be the obstacle.
IMO the root cause under so much western strife is the increasing loss of social cohesion.

Is your neighbour someone you trust? How would you feel about leaving your door unlocked? Do you think the guys in the neighboring town are taking advantage of you somehow?

Are the voters in the next state completely insane at a philosophical level and are going to elect someone who's going to harm you?

I think globalism is largely to blame for this, and as much as we want multiculturalism to succeed it often does not. (Rich and poor are essentially different cultures even if ethnicity & religion are the same).

Which is to say, if you move somewhere aligned with your culture, which also happens to be one of the oldest and richest countries around, then no shit it's better.

The article doesn't mention the system of Cantons or direct democracy that might be the reason for this success, or how Switzerland has been navigating the challenges of low skilled immigration, or culturally isolated immigration. That's what we should be discussing, not blowhards hanging around Sachs.
Elaboration, type of oil used and time to curation counts. I assume that cheap Pizzas use cheaper lower quality versions of this product that can be disappointing. There are fake products or products that use third grade anchovies (with fishes smaller or crushed that are much more cheap).

When you buy the correct size fishes, in the right season, with the correct firm of the meat, and then curate it at a barrel at home for many months, the difference is spectacular.
> In my depths-of-despair blue state, the lockdowns were brutal and the outcomes on kids here have been tragic. Adults I know are just now processing the pain, many marriages wrecked. I lay those terrible Covid politics and ruination at the Democrats' feet.

This sounds hard and I'm sorry to hear you were going through that. I don't think it is a fair assessment of the situation. The lockdowns and quarantine started under Trump for instance. To spare his side of any blame and lay everything at the feet of the Dems is having a selective memory.

> Health science will continue to advance and the abortion racket will eventually end.

You are going to have to explain this statement because I don't see how abortion is a racket. Unless you mean saber rattling over abortion.

> Regulations around pollution is something everyone can get behind. I remember smog in Los Angeles in the 70's and it is so much better now.

Smog in better now because of the EPA and restrictions around fossil fuels. The GOP explicitly states in their platform that they want more fossil fuels and to gut the EPA. As far as your comment on corruption, this is not a "Dem" issue, politics at the local level is incredibly corrupt. I live in a red state and the same thing happens here. Tons of grant money disappearing into pockets of contractors that are friends of the local republicans. There needs to be more oversight at the local level.

> none of the fear porn hath come to pass.

For you it hasn't. Parts of the country reaching wet bulb temperatures and other countries seeing record high temperatures every year. More fires in the western US that burn longer and cause more damage.

> Under Biden, we got the huge spike in deaths of despair.
And Deaths of despair have been rising since the 90s and took a sharp rise in the mid 2010s.
https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/republicans/2019...

> I can't understand Democratic voters!

Don't take this the wrong way but you just lack empathy. A lot of what you are saying is that "Dems say it will get bad and it hasn't gotten bad FOR ME" and this isn't 100% your fault. Media works hard to "other" people so you won't feel empathic. I think Trump is a moron but I understand why people feel angry and fall for the rhetoric he pushes. However, I've read all of Agenda 47 and the GOP 2024 platform and I'll pass on it thanks.
I used to work on the Construct 3 game engine. It’s great for doing small games. You can do a lot by just dropping images in and adding “behaviours” like “platformer movement” and “solid”. Which is enough to build a simple platform game without any coding.

It scales pretty well from that, allowing you to build logic trees in a scratch like environment or go full code with JS.

Trial version is free, and browser based so no install. Loads of examples and demos in the editor to try as well.
Even if we had 100% certainty what crimes are 100% worth death? Not even that is simple.

If you want to consider cost, it costs literal millions to execute someone.
Thanks for posting this, the quoted text smelled like something pulled out of... the air.
If you read the article, the "evidence of guilt" is equally flimsy. And if we take "innocent until proven guilty" seriously, that means he not only should not have been executed, but should never have gone to jail in the first place...
Lack of IP(v4) addresses. HTTP/1.0 sends no Host header, so cannot implement name-based virtual hosts. HTTP/1.1 does.
> If there were a Datomic for Elixir, I'd probably use it.

XTDB may possibly of interest in that case - there's been some recent chatter about adding support for Ecto via Postgres compatibility: https://discuss.xtdb.com/t/elixir-ecto-thread-from-slack/490

(I work on XTDB)
> Hello operator? I'd like to report a Cacodemon.

When you've got a demon-infested rotary phone, you know progress has struck!

Already looking forward to the next improbable device to play Doom on…
an unlawful killing? well that's an uphill battle, but I'll be intrigued to see how far you can get with your claim.
it also inspired e, cheri, a lot of the design of current js, and the security architecture of current implementations of liedtke's l4, including sel4. ann was ceo of agorics
Kaspersky uninstalls itself, installs different company's cybersecurity program
Woah the animations there are clean. It's feeling more like an interactive video editor than a competitor to Excel.
> It seems more cruel to lock someone up for the rest of their life with no chance of parole AND denying them the ability to commit suicide.

It does, but at least it is reversible. I think when the worst case (an innocent being killed) is so wrong, it makes sense to design the system to avoid it, even if this has side effects such as making it worse for the actual criminals.

I would support leaving the opportunity to commit suicide in good conditions rather than strangling themselves with their bedsheets, but doing that properly would be tricky.

> Maybe avoidance of cruelty isn't the point of getting rid of the death penalty, though.

That’s a tricky one. It is hard to want to avoid cruelty in the case of gruesome murders. Nobody wants to say that they want to make the life of jailed terrorists better.

But among the opponents to the death penalty, I don’t think that cruelty is the main point. By keeping them alive, we don’t lower ourselves to their level, we leave them an opportunity to become better, and we avoid the moral cost of killing innocents.

Besides, life in prison is as good or bad as we collectively want it to be. There is a spectrum between Swedish jails and a hole in a dungeon.
I've noticed that myself and attributed it to the site having a large percentage of U.S. readers. It's annoying when there's scientific studies and then a lot of the comments take a particular political stance about the topic.

The submission itself usually disappears from the front page very quickly too which might be because of the low quality comments.
So it seems that the original case rested on the following:

- Williams GF witness testimony, that Williams confessed to her.

- Jailhouse witness testimony, that Williams had confessed to them.

- That Williams had items (purse, laptop, etc.) in his car, on the day or day after the murder.

But no DNA evidence?

A death penalty seems pretty egregious, when you have that kind of evidence. Seems like there's plenty of reasonable doubt in the picture.

(FWIW, I completely oppose the death penalty - on the grounds that innocent people have been executed. One is one too many)
Interesting, do you know whether this can invoke Voice Mode?
There's a portion of the web world that values this sort of tool immensely. Nova (like its predecessor Coda) is focused on a certain subset of web development workflows.

I'm sure VSCode and others can be configured or extended to come close to the experience, but 100$ for something well-made that fits your workflow out of the box is a pretty great deal for a professional.
I just turned that off immediately. It’s not that expensive to have a shop replace the battery and it will eventually need replacing anyway. I’m not living my life at 80% and milking the battery to avoid something that is inevitable anyway. Glad to see this confirm that it didn’t do a lot anyway.
I fully expect that our first alien life will likely be microscopic life on a nearby planet. Followed by some simple organisms and/or plant life.

The likelihood of anything we would consider 'intelligent' being first contact is likely fairly low.

As much as saying that does make me sad, evidence of alien life is honestly the one big thing that I am sad about living when I am living since I would love that to be a reality before I die.
Video clips don't seem to be loading (not sure if that's an HN hug of death issue or an iOS issue)
It's over for fossil fuels: IPCC chalks what's needed to avert climate disaster
European Telcos Wave a Slow Goodbye to Huawei and ZTE
Curious, is there any update to the original list? I didn't notice in the article if there was any update after 2020. The conclusion links to some other summaries, but doesn't directly call out any sources after 2020.

Almost everything is still from 2017. Which might be correct, I'm asking if there is any reading list like this from someone like Ilya for changes since 2017. The AI field has gotten so crowded with papers and articles, it is hard to find some trusted list. Maybe why a list from Ilya is so popular.
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Nevermind, I deleted and re-installed the app on iOS while on VPN and now it works!
https://github.com/lightpohl/podcast-dl
Lost Mozart Composition Hasn't Been Heard for Centuries
Who is Leon? Twitter was from the beginning a "micro-publishing platform", more akin to a newspapper with subscribers than to other social networks like Facebook.
I run many server programs on my homelab.

Each is running on a different port, but I want them all accessible publicly from different URLs and I only want to expose port 443 to the internet.

I also want to have TLS autorefresh for each domain.

I need a reverse proxy for the former and caddy does both.

If you’re running a single server and that server does TLS termination then you don’t really need a reverse proxy.
I won't connect my TV to the network. This seems like it should be illegal.
I shudder to think of the side effects if the test were positive.
BBC Sound Effects Archive
I get your point and I am not arguing for his innocence, but both courts are highly suspect these days.
I feel like we don't give kids enough credit. Game devs who started in the 70s and 80s learned BASIC and all the technicalities of their platforms back then, some eventually moving to Pascal, C, or Assembly. The platforms had fewer variables back then (code running in real mode, your machine was identical to others of the same platform), but kids were still able to learn the minutiae of the Apple II or Commodore 64.
I suspect it was conceived for Apple to prevent having to replace batteries under warranty.
I wasn’t really expecting this to be people’s first exposer to the drama. Should have added the backstory, but yeah there is a whole drama revolving around the WPConf.
Giving non-zero bits of information to advertisers is the opposite of private. They won’t stop using other methods of tracking, they’ll just use these bits as a part of your fingerprint.
In Redis, the data is a sorted-set that we forced into being lexicographically ordered by setting all the scores to 0. We went through a lot of iterations of it and to be clear it's not _slow_ it's just not as fast as essentially `fopen`

1 - Redis sorted sets - https://redis.io/docs/latest/develop/data-types/sorted-sets/
A cycle is just a full charge/discharge. If you use 50% today, charge to 100%, use 50% again, charge to 100%, then that's one cycle, not two.

A battery is just a bag of chemicals. Starting to charge it doesn't have any kind of startup cost.
You’re right, the billing is hourly (until you reach the monthly cap) but you also have this cancellation period. That’s weird?
I do this only for specific fonts at specific sizes.
I am also interested in Zed!

(Although I think the program still needs a bit of time to smooth out the edges, plus not everyone may be a fan of the AI and collaborative features, which get a lot of care in the GUI. You can turn all of it off, but still.)

But I don't like the implication that Nova is abandoned or less modern compared to Zed. Nova is arguably one of the sexiest apps on the Mac right now – it looks gorgeous and it's far more "Mac-assed" than any of Apple's software, for starters. And in terms of development / maintenance, it should be in VERY good hands at Panic.

You're 100% right on open-source vs closed-source, though.
In that case, would a civilised country have a military? Any military operations is state sanctioned killings.
How is it open access? I can see nothing about libre or open licensing. Would very much assume that the database if fully covered by copyright.
Tripling renewable energy capacity is 'within reach,' report says
New Windows Malware Locks Computer in Kiosk Mode
Getting the legacy automakers to transition is an existential priority for the US. They represent hundreds of thousands of jobs throughout the US, and a huge fraction of our industrial capacity (which is our ability to support national defense.) This isn't about doing people a nice favor, it's about saving the US auto industry (which seems determined to self-immolate.) Also, Tesla has already received vast government subsidies in the form of direct tax credits and EV purchase credits from other manufacturers.
> Curious to know if your views would change?

It wouldn't. There are cases where we do know someone's guilt with 100% confidence, but in my country we still don't execute them.
Obviously, of course, a client would never _cheat_ or lie about an event. No, no, no. We can totally trust them.
As IBM pushes for automation, its AI simply not up to the job of replacing staff
Way forward. I usually change the DNS resolver in my modem
This is true in a literal sense, but there’s some nuance. They were working on upstreaming them, but there was some strong disagreement about one of the earlier patches and so at least for now they’ve given up. And that patch was pretty small, it’s not like a massive change was required.
Interesting that the release comes a day after Google's new models [1]. Seems a bit like strategical timing :) Maybe they waited until some of the competitors release something so that they can upstage his release with theirs?

____

[1] Which, btw, I think deserve better sentiment. On benchmarks, the new Gemini Pro seems to be better than GPT-4o. It's just not so hyped...
Archive link please, doesn't seem to open.
Compounding the problem is that Reddit-esque online culture rewards surface level correctness and black and white viewpoints so that stuff gets upvoted or otherwise ranked highly and eaten by the next generation of AI content scrapers and humans who are implementing roughly the same workflow.
Speed Brain: helping web pages load 45% faster
Deja vu comes to Arkansas as lithium follows oil
Does anyone find it deeply disturbing that the justice system will just sit on its own hands when presented with new evidence? It seems like prosecutors are more interested in maintaining a hi conviction rate rather than seeking justice. Judges seem totally apathetic.
The record setting Kola Superdeep Borehole is no it Antarctica but close to the northern polar cycle on the northern edge of Asia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_Borehole

They did some drilling to the Ice at the Antarctica Vostok station, going donw to about 3 km:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vostok_Station#Ice_core_drilli...
Hunting for Gems: How Ruby's package management system evolved
NICE!

I have not used Redis myself, but have been using Sqlite more and more over the years.. and found a perfect application I wrote using Sqlite under the hood.

Powerful and convienient database system!
Thanks! I’m aware of most, but not all of that. But that stuff isn’t kernel stuff, though obviously much of it is serious systems work. That’s what I was referring to specifically.
I think he's implying that it's a decent bet when running a business, yes.
No, I'm pretty sure this check was only done when the (root) directory needed to be accessed, which was on the same track as the boot sector, so reading it (which was required for synchronization anyway) was free.

Glancing at https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS/blob/main/v4.0/src/BIOS/... seems to support this...
SpaceX launched 20 of its Starlink satellites including 13 with direct-to-cell
"People who are willing to commit murder are often sociopaths and pathological liars. It isn’t surprising he would maintain his innocence for years."

An innocent person would also maintain his innocence for years. With respect, this reminds me of some commentary at the time of the Central Park Five case. "They did it because they're evil." Well, somebody was evil, but we needed to know a little more than "we found these kids and there is evil". In the end that attitude led to a horrifying miscarriage of justice.

Somebody was a murderer, it sounds like we agree on that.

I'm ignorant about the case, but the abundance of physical evidence at the crime scene, none of it pointing to the executed man, seems much more relevant than anything you cited in your comment. Again, I say this with respect. If you care to respond, I hope I'm open to logic and reason.
It needs to be said, "elseif" statement should not exist at all.

I have fixed a lot of bugs due to "elseif" over the decades in various languages. The person who came up with that construct should endure the Confy Chair.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2ncJ6ciGyM
We send Bruce Willis and a ragtag team of lovable, drilling-expert misfits?
That term appears on all servers, but seems to be in conflict with their billing FAQ: https://docs.hetzner.com/general/others/new-billing-model/

Either way... it's a mess. They added hourly billing for dedicated servers six months ago, there's not much excuse for still having contradictory information hanging around.
How about 11 year old?