skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think some abstraction will need to occur, or it's just too much information for us to ever take in and hold all at once... I think this goes past my problem of "I can't eval long outputs" and your quest of pick-and-edit style. Code assistants are in the same boat right now too.

It looks like all these knowledge fields are converging into the same problem
in fqct, iirc, it might be even illegal to know what wiretaps are running on the system unless you are the one who process warrant or implement the wiretap.
and in case wiretap falls under fisa, than this is classified information and a whole different can of worms
Eh, I think this scrutiny, skepticism, and even disdain towards the tech industry in general is highly welcome.

Long gone are the days when optimism and naivety was warranted. Those large companies abused it to become the ruthless behemoths of today.
Someone is trying to: https://brainmade.org/
Awesome project!

fyi on latest Chrome the navigation items blog, releases, roadmap are aligned top/start instead of center for me
> Nobody is responsible for the software

Sounds like the accountability sink[0].

0. https://www.ft.com/content/2e1042d5-5e89-4fb6-bbee-de605a534...
https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&d...
This topic seems to have triggered the organic US crazies, or a whole ton of agitprop bots.
DARPA 'quantum skeptic' challenges industry: Prove me wrong
The updates wouldn’t be in place anyway because of the Postgres mvcc approach, right?

I can see the advantage in terms of just needing a single tuple for a reads. So a timestamp + value model would likely take twice as much heap space than your approach?

Given that you’re probably always just inserting new data you could use a brin index to get fast reads on the date ranges. Would be interesting to see it in action and play around to see the tradeoffs. The model you’ve settled on sounds like it would be a pain to query.
AI-generated youtube videos are here too, although they're fairly easy to spot for now. The general formula seems to be a bunch of stock images / AI-generated images / stock footage relevant to the video title, with a LLM-generated script read out by an elevenlabs-style voice.
thanks for the clarification, I didn't realize they split them into two different buckets of users / usages
Love that. Well-done marketing* can orient a consumer into a preferred "local optimum territory" , leading to satisfiction(?) and sales

* For example, the limited selection of candy at the checkout aisle. All you have to do is get your brand in there. (Placement on the 4P's)

* Or, "best credit card for travelers." By offering travel rewards, you can acquire a group of cardmembers even if, e.g. a more valuable cashback card could have gotten them even greater benefits (Promotion on the 4P's)
You can try voluntary work. Working in animal shelters, or as you mentioned red cross / caritas could offer such opportunities.
See, whatever you do, it will teach you required skills for any job and build up reputation.
And it changes your perspective: jobs are not there to help you, it’s the other way around - what can you do to help the employer, the society, etc.?
When you understand this, you will develop self esteem and find a direction in which you can go and develop yourself and a career.
AFAIC, reflashing BIOS won't give you anything, you need to sign it first with proper private key which is checked by the CPU hardware before execution begins. This EMI trick fools CPU itself and I cannot see how it can be fixed, unless new paging algorithm is invented.
This is a feature of capitalism, nothing to see here.
It's not a perfectly reliable tell, but people who write LISP instead of Lisp generally give themselves away as knowing nothing about the language. Why not kick the tires with Common Lisp, or even Clojure, and see if you can then understand for yourself why it sparks joy in people? I'm not saying it'll spark joy in you, just that you might understand. (Do you understand Haskell's draw to certain people? Rust's?) At the very least, perhaps you'll lose your notion that it primarily appeals to academic types. Common Lisp is and always has been an industrial language.

"Please don't assume Lisp is only useful for Animation and Graphics, AI, Bioinformatics, B2B and E-Commerce, Data Mining, EDA/Semiconductor applications, Expert Systems, Finance, Intelligent Agents, Knowledge Management, Mechanical CAD, Modeling and Simulation, Natural Language, Optimization, Research, Risk Analysis, Scheduling, Telecom, and Web Authoring just because these are the only things they happened to list."
--Kent Pitman
What is "founder mode"?
Besides the hypocrisy noticed by other posters, there is a problem with the so-called sanctions of USA against China: they are not sanctions.

True sanctions are associated with some political conditions. For instance one can apply some sanctions against Russia until it stops its war against Ukraine.

In the case of the so-called sanctions against China no valid reason is provided for them and there is no "until".

Real sanctions against China would be tied to some explicit requests, for example one could request from China to recognize Taiwan as an independent country, or to provide guarantees that they will not attempt to extend their territorial waters, or to guarantee certain rights for minorities, or whatever other changes in their current behaviors that are criticized by USA would be deemed as appropriate.

Instead of this, USA has not requested anything from China, and the official motivations for the sanctions are ridiculous. Many Chinese companies have been blacklisted because they provide products or services for the Chinese military forces. This is a normal behavior for any company in any country. Plenty of the most important US companies provide products or services for the US military. If all these US companies would be blacklisted by other countries, it is likely that the participation of USA in the international commerce would disappear almost completely.

While some of the less important US sanctions have at least this claimed purpose of weakening the Chinese military, even if no explicit rationale is given for why this is a legitimate goal, the most important US sanctions do not have any other goal than to eliminate the competitors of some US companies.

For instance the war against Huawei has begun exactly in the moment when Huawei was on the verge of surpassing Qualcomm in the production of chipsets for smartphones and they were clearly demonstrating a superior capacity of innovation over Qualcomm.

The second great wave of sanctions against SMIC and other important semiconductor device manufacturers has begun exactly when the Chinese were close to take a significant market share for flash memories from Micron.

In both cases the US sanctions have succeeded to remove from the market for consumer products the Chinese competitors of the US companies, preventing thus a drop in the prices of smartphones and SSDs, which would have been beneficial for everybody in the world except for the shareholders of a few
US and Korean companies, but their effect against the Chinese military is likely to have been close to null.
> if one views anyone that supports the continued existence of the state of israel to be a zionist

I don’t think that’s the correct definition of Zionism. Zionism is Jewish nationalism, the belief that Jews are a nation and that as a nation they ought (at least in principle) to have their own state. A person can reject that belief, yet nonetheless support the continued existence of Israel as a practical matter, on the grounds that now that it exists, its destruction would cause greater overall human suffering than its continuation in existence in some form.

To give a parallel - a person doesn’t have to be a Czech nationalist to support the continued existence of Czechia. They may simply believe that allowing Czechia to remain in existence is pragmatically going to result in less human suffering than destroying it. That doesn’t require one to believe that Czechia has some abstract “right to exist”.

A consistent anti-nationalist opposes all forms of nationalism, including Zionism. But at the same time they may support the maintenance of the existence of many or all current states, even if those states were originally founded out of nationalism, so long as their reason for that support is pragmatic/utilitarian rather than based on nationalist principle.

And even a person who is a nationalist, isn’t required to be a nationalist of every nation - a person might be an Irish nationalist but not a Czech nationalist or a Zionist. An Irish nationalist might favour the continued independence of Ireland on nationalist grounds, while taking the same position with respect to Israel or Czechia on purely utilitarian/pragmatic non-nationalist grounds

Also, Haredi religious anti-Zionists aren’t opposed to a Jewish state in the land of Israel in principle, they just believe it was wrong to seek to establish it secularly, as opposed to waiting for the Messiah to do so. And yet, most of them, despite being opposed to the current State of Israel’s existence in principle, also oppose active attempts to harm its existence in practice. Yes, there are the extremists of Neturei Karta (NK) who will openly consort with Israel’s enemies, infamously attended the Tehran Holocaust denial conference, regularly support pro-Palestine protests - but most Haredi anti-Zionists aren’t like that. Satmar and its allies (Edah HaChareidis in Israel, the Central Rabbinical Conference in the US), who vastly outnumber NK, reject Zionism as an ideology, but simultaneously reject all cooperation with non-Jewish groups that threaten Israel’s physical safety-indeed, they’ve put NK under a cherem (excommunication) for doing so. They oppose the contemporary State of Israel’s existence in principle, but they also oppose any active efforts to harm its existence in practice, because they put high value on Jewish lives, and they see the latter as a threat to Jewish lives
And old version of Bionic Puppy I had lying around on a USB saved my butt on Friday when the Azure admin nuked my computer out of existence for not having a serial number.
The technical solution is the only practical solution. People aren't gonna give up a large percentage of their lifestyle for the sake of some greater 'good', especially not if their leaders and influencers seem to have zero interest in doing the same.

And anyone trying otherwise will struggle significantly at the polls. Mass carbon removal, renewable energy, recycling and maybe some technological solutions to limit the effects of atmospheric carbon seem like the more practical way to go.
- 3rd party store auto updates (you need to install some stuff as root in order to get this working on f-droid)
Some time ago I wrote pq (https://github.com/prql/prql-query) which aimed to be a simple CLI for PRQL to wrangle data on the command line, much like sq.

Unfortunately I haven't had time to maintain it so it is now archived and out of date. I hope that I might get a chance to update it again. More has happened since then and there are low hanging fruit to make it more usable, for example adding connector_arrow (https://github.com/aljazerzen/connector_arrow) support for other databases, etc...

Quick example of how things looked with pq:

```sh
$ pq --from i=invoices.csv "from i | take 5"
+------------+-------------+-------------------------------+-------------------------+--------------+---------------+-----------------+---------------------+-------+
| invoice_id | customer_id | invoice_date | billing_address | billing_city | billing_state | billing_country | billing_postal_code | total |
+------------+-------------+-------------------------------+-------------------------+--------------+---------------+-----------------+---------------------+-------+
| 1 | 2 | 2009-01-01T00:00:00.000000000 | Theodor-Heuss-Straße 34 | Stuttgart | | Germany | 70174 | 1.98 |
| 2 | 4 | 2009-01-02T00:00:00.000000000 | Ullevålsveien 14 | Oslo | | Norway | 0171 | 3.96 |
| 3 | 8 | 2009-01-03T00:00:00.000000000 | Grétrystraat 63 | Brussels | | Belgium | 1000 | 5.94 |
| 4 | 14 | 2009-01-06T00:00:00.000000000 | 8210 111 ST NW | Edmonton | AB | Canada | T6G 2C7 | 8.91 |
| 5 | 23 | 2009-01-11T00:00:00.000000000 | 69 Salem Street | Boston | MA | USA | 2113 | 13.86 |
+------------+-------------+-------------------------------+-------------------------+--------------+---------------+-----------------+---------------------+-------+
$ # When there is only one input table then this automatically becomes the source relation, i.e. `from i | ` is prepended to the query
$ # so this can be simplified to:
$ pq --from invoices.csv "take 5"
...
```
I hate how numb I have gotten to data breaches due to the incompetence of these companies. All of the major US cellular networks have all been hacked to a certain degree.
It depends where you live and what’s in the closest warehouse. Many things are overnight delivered in the morning for me now, as I have a fulfillment center close by.
dyson doesn't sell third party stuff. If ikea was forced to sell all their chairs at every store, but only for 3 years. are people looking for chairs going to have better options for where to get chairs at the end of the 3 years? I think they'll just be confused and go to their previous buying habits (namely their favorite furniture store or google/epic/samsung app stores). I expect a mess with a lot of unintended consequences, such as conditioning people to think all third party app stores are the exact same, which could harm distribution methods like fdroid (though epic might be happy with that type of outcome)
> Both early Unix and C compilers had simple structures, are easy to port, require few machine resources to run, and provide about 50%-80% of what you want from an operating system and programming language.

> Unix and C are the ultimate computer viruses.

The key argument behind worse-is-better is that an OS which is easy to implement will dominate the market in an ecosystem with many competing hardware standards. Operating systems, programming languages, and software in general have not worked this way in a long time.

Rust is not worse-is-better, but it's become very popular anyway, because LLVM can cross-compile for anything. Kubernetes is not worse-is-better, but nobody needs to reimplement the k8s control plane. React is not worse-is-better, but it only needs to run on the one web platform, so it's fine.

Worse-is-better only applies to things that require an ecosystem of independent implementers providing compatible front-ends for diverging back-ends, and we've mostly standardized beyond that now.
> - YJIT has made Ruby fast. Like, _FAST_

Curious, I tried to look for some benchmarks, which still seems to show Node often being 3-10x faster

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
yah that may be worth turning on that feature or altering the debug trace during a debug session to see what line comes up, not a bad suggestion. We turn off line traces in general so that the debug logs can be diffed after stripping off variant fields in the log records like object addresses and timestamps. While a project is in development the log line numbers would add a lot of diff noise.
> But it is simple :)

I think you may mean easy. It may be _easy_, but it's not simple. There are so many more moving pieces, failure modes, operational issues now to consider. Websocket connections aren't free.
TLS encryption means absolutely nothing. The very system of using certificate authorities is flawed by design. NSA has no trouble performing MITM. Go search 'NSA FLYING PIG'.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/nsa-disguised-itself...
The title could be generalized to "Private equity firms ruins companies"
Cyberbullying achieves its goals more often than sanctions do, and the ROI is astronomical by comparison.
Hah! Fair enough.

I feel like the rush of developers in the last 5-8 years means a lot of history is just unknown.

People get all weird when I mention I self host all my projects for $10 a month on a machine I administer.

Half a core on a modern cheap VPS is equivalent to the massive server machines of the past!
30% are mixed, 20% non-white in mine results.
No, that was honestly how I interpreted your comment. That may have been the wrong interpretation, but your two word reply didn't leave me with much. I possibly misinterpreted your first comment also, but I wasn't really sure how you were leaning there, whether it be just an absurdity or a question honestly pondered.
Well, and once this kills the web then Google's AI no longer has a data source its AI can tap to answer questions about anything that happens afterward, so it kind of needs the web to at least limp along.
Unreal GitHub Actions
> we haven't even had Amazon for long

Yeah, that's probably why. They get people hooked with actually good service and then drop quality to save money once they've captured the market.
Only very lightly modified to prevent crashes, which seems legit to me.
True, and we can go back to any type of media who always have a bias, but overall it just feels different. On one hand, humans writing and humans communicating, even if they have an agenda, is one thing. On the other hand, machines writing and machines communicating is a different level.

Maybe I am overall in a bad mood regarding all this, but this recent article https://time.com/7026050/chatgpt-quit-teaching-ai-essay/ also struck a chord. Do I really wanna spend my time reading/watching machines talking to each other? How long until browsing Reddit or HN will be worthless?

Do I wanna get old with lower cognitive abilities and become this? https://slate.com/advice/2024/10/grandparents-misinformation...
> getting http/2 and streaming into Rails has been a slow and tedious process

Bringing http/2 all the way to the Rails process doesn't bring anything to the table. You're much better to terminate http2 or 3 with SSL at the LB.

> terminating HTTP connections from clients, then reaching out over a network to database servers, etc. to do work. This is very much IO-bound

It absolutely isn't unless your data access is really messed up (badly indexed queries or tons of N+1).

Even if you are just serializing the data you got from the DB down into JSON with little to no transformation, you'll likely end up spending more than 50% doing CPU work.

Look at all the reports of YJIT speeding up Rails applications by 15 to 30%. If Rails apps were truly IO bound like people claim, YJIT would have nothing to speedup.

Even if your app is 90% IO, you can slap Puma with 10 thread and will already suffer from contention. Async make sense when you'd need more than a dozen threads or so does. Before that it doesn't make a substantial difference. Like it would be great to use for Action Cable, but that's it.
I've seen firsthand how PE ruins startups. I joined a seed co and our founder went with a PE firm rather than a VC for our next round. The VCs were upfront about job cuts but the PE investors did not say anything until they took over.

Needless to say, the founder got a good paycheck but we were left holding the bag.

It was a bloodbath and they completely ruined the culture, product, morale, and any semblance of growth. It was personally the most stressful period of my working life...

From then on, the moment that I see private equity mentioned anywhere, I know its time to run.
The title and subject sound like they are about smart TVs, but the example problems sound like they are about streaming in general, which might be streamed from my cable box, or on my computer monitor. Are the streaming issues really limited to the smart TVs?
not substack
If you claim the platform you create is open, but use anticompetitive actions to retain control of it, you end up in a worse legal position than you would have by being clear that the platform is closed.

Look at Microsoft. They have been found guilty of anticompetitive conduct related to their open Windows platform in multiple jurisdictions, but not so with XBox.

Either never claim your platform is open, or refrain from anticompetitive behavior in the "open" market you choose to create. .
I liked the absurdity of one of the top comments on the Verge article, which was that under the requirements of this ruling, Apple could open up an app store for Android and Google would be forced to put it on their Play Store.
Tech seems to accelerate the decline though, without the inertia of physical stores or plants to slow things down.
Thanks for the recommendation and free link!

Another book on my reading list!
Gaining information from a video (often just someone talking into their phone) feels like sucking a milkshake through a coffee stirrer compared to reading a forum post written by a human. Worse, you can't see how deep that milkshake is at a glance, so you may end up with just a sip from a melted puddle vs. the big volume of content you wanted.
Standoff weapons stop being cheap when countermeasures come into effect.
It was my first linux too, also at 13. I still have the boot CD I burned, framed on my wall.
This is not really news. The question is, what there is to do? I think that it is logical to sell your company to highest bidder when you want to exit, and often the highest bidder ends up being a PE firm.
This is an aspect of the Wordpress vs WPEngine I hadn’t considered. Does anyone who’s more familiar with WPEngine than me know if the VC ownership has affected its behavior?
Is there a company out there that has survived a gutting by PE?
I can't recommend Contabo, they have terrible support and constant hidden downtime.
I only care about the ability to search/filter by "Informed Sport" or "Informed Choice" testing. After that, I prefer zero artificial sweeteners.

https://sport.wetestyoutrust.com/news/informed-sport-informe...
I wonder how far into generative AI will have people developing "intractable FOMO" where they see a beautiful place but then they find out they can't visit it because it doesn't exist.

Are we seeing it already from people who are getting irrationally angry about generative AI?
> `oe-pkgdata-util find-path`
Thanks for that one. Will keep it in mind.

With buildroot, I can use menuconfig to search for available packages and add them to the rootfs.

Yocto AFAICT you have to get the recipe name and manually add it to the rootfs via IMAGE_INSTALL:append
Not very cool if it breaks under hardly any load.

You'd think they'd test their tech demos on more than a handful of people before launching. This doesn't give much confidence at all in their product.
In my experience Ubuntu is one of the harder distros to get working when it doesn't work ootb.
iOS, to the bane of network admins everywhere, doesn't allow 3rd party apps to request permission to scan for Wi-Fi networks. The closest you can get to a proper scan is downloading the old AirPort utility, enabling a hidden setting in Settings for the app which displays a scan button in the app, and then using that.
Not really, the conclusions are basically the same between both

1. There are no wonder weapons, nor are weapons obsoleted so easily. You cannot look at one in isolation of the larger context. The incidents in one war do not inform the use in all wars or operations.

2. Militaries view these types of things as part of a larger system, the parts of which are combined to create a desired effect. It is situational and Russia C&C is not the same as other countries C&C.

3. War has pro/con evolutions, as the drones progress, so does the anti-drone tech. These same helicopters were allegedly instrumental in preventing Ukraine's counter offensive in Zaporizhzhia, with their standoff anti-tank missiles, popping up above the trees, outside the range of manpads
Solargraph is a Ruby gem that provides intellisense features