skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
100% agree. I'm all for reporting what people in Ukraine (and Palestine/Lebanon) are suffering now, but making a show out of that is not the way. That is not a movie, people are actually dying there.
I love snaps, but I'm getting a bit worried now that I'm seeing more and more Flatpak only apps not in the snap store. Snaps were way ahead at first, now it's becoming a real fragmentation issue.
The whole reason why I use paypal for some purchases is to keep the vendor from knowing my PII.

Paypal Enshitification level = 11
The cool thing about the various verions of UUID is that they're all compatible. The differences almost all come down to database locality (and therefore performance.)

The exception is if you're extracting the time portion of a time-based UUID and using it for purposes other than as a unique key, but in my experience this is typically considered bad practice and time is usually stored in a separate column for cases where it matters for business purposes.
Was trying to gauge whether you are underpaid because you only accept remote work.

Economy will be the one that will determines the ultimate outcome, especially for tech companies, as they compete globally
The DB app? Definitely was not an option for the people who did that. Granted, we are europeans, not Germans living in Germany.

Paying before just isn't always practical, but I understand that such limitations are often a non-issue for locals.
CSI Starbase seems to think that Raptor v3 might stop using oxygen pre-burner gas for oxygen tank autogenous pressurization and use oxygen gas generated by using liquid oxygen as a coolant, like is already done on the methane side. That would reduce a lot of weight for filtering that they have had to add to prevent dry ice clogging of engine oxygen intakes.
>Prove how useful LLMs are by doing something useful or value-generating with them. Then people will believe you. Talk is cheap.

You after chat GPT2 was released.
I've tried typsit and Ive really been enjoying it. It's very easy to learn and easy to use. It's a new project so it can't as of yet replace the functionality of LaTeX's many packages. However it is good for quick and easy texts, it's replaced markdown and office for me for writing simple documents on a computer.
That's what I meant but I accidentally used the term virus, thanks.
If that's true, I'm confused how this is a "double-blind, randomized, controlled trial"?

Also, what's up with drug studies always having such a low sample size? Is it really that hard to find people who'd volunteer to get free drugs?
> he used the word "class", let me find Marxism in my dialogue tree.

If you were unaware of the term "bureaucratic class", it's not a pro-marxist shibboleth. It refers to the population of aging white collar workers without useful skills, usually in management positions. They can be found parasitizing most large companies. If their incompetence could be reliably detected, it would trigger a massive unemployment crisis. They are often unwilling or unable to learn new skills; the productive skills that originally got them in the door have atrophied or become irrelevant.

Any organization as dysfunctional as you describe isn't going to be meaningfully affected by choice of managers. If politics are that prevalent, then the company is coasting on laurels, and it's not really about getting anything done to expand the pie. It's about in-fighting over the predictable, fixed-sized pie that comes in every quarter.
> static duck typing

What do you mean by this? Macros? C++ templates?
The 32 bit support nuking was in fact the source of my macOS concerns too, and why I was looking over the fence to see if Windows offered me some shelter from the tech treadmill.

Current plan is to see if I can run 10.14 in a VM for 32 bit apps and finally ditch the hardware I’m keeping for them.
The inclusion of the nosebleed is not to make fun of Matt, it is to highlight something relevant to the medical issues that people have speculated about. The motivation is to bring to light Matt's wide-ranging exploits in one place, given it is abnormal for someone involved in high-profile litigation to spend their time arguing on Hacker News, Reddit, Twitter and live streams.
Punctuality of local trains is much higher than the long distance ones whose stats you’re quoting here. For rapid transit, punctuality is less of an issue, compared to frequency.
One of the best math communicators out there!
The obvious answer is to do more with it. This will actually be a positive as soon as science is done by AI. As soon as the economy is done by AI. As soon as wars are fought by AI.
“Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.” - Peter Ustinov.
>catching the transit often involves a walk

Tell me you're American without telling me you're American.
Setting a process as the reaper means descendent processes are reparented to the reaper, which has to call wait like pid 1 does in order to collect the process's info and remove the zombie. This changes the default behavior where they are reparented to pid 1.

You don't set this on pid 1 because, as you point out, pid 1 is already the reaper of last resort.

You don't set this on the service process either; it is set on a process manager that isn't pid 1, so that process can monitor and collect info about its subtree of processes.
While we’re at it, let’s also ban cars because terrorists can use them to carry bombs, just like they could use drones. Drones are not the problem here, the bombs are. And in States, any lunatic can buy an assault rifle and shoot up a school, no drones required:)
> Framed differently

Framed in an insane way by someone looking to denigrate someone they don't like. I have no idea who you're targeting but you obviously have a chip on your shoulder.
When you say “carbon abatement” do you mean carbon credits/cleanup or other ways of emitting less of it in the first place?
Oh of course, I just meant to emphasize that it isn't HIV that causes immune system deficiency, therefore, transplant rejection can still occur.
The density is not that great, its not good enough if you don't have a car.
Ive been working on for like 4 years now :[
Official Unix certification may matter at workplaces and institutions where such certifications are required for meeting some type of compliance criteria. For example, if I remember correctly, early versions of Windows NT had a POSIX compatibility layer, which was crucial for getting Windows NT accepted by some US government agencies.
I’d love to see an in-depth analysis of the overall production costs for paper and ink vs electronic. Tree to processing to ticket vs smartphone, grid, network, software, and so on. I imagine the paper process is exceptionally cheaper but I could very well be wrong.
Not totally random, but yeah it's kind of a crap shoot. But to be fair it's no different than a lot of other pharmaceuticals where it's just trial and error until you figure out what works for you.

So like pharmaceuticals, you figure out your goals, go with something in the range that works for most people. It doesn't hurt to start very small (0.25g), which some people do every day. There's a lot of variables including strains and even when/what you ate last, where you are in any kind of hormone swing (men have them too), so trial and error is about as best we can get for now (recreationally). This is why I'm really excited by these new pharmaceuticals.
There are many different vendors with different apps.
I just do not want to be tracked in random databases. We should not resign on basic decency. This nagware must be stopped either by public pressure or by more regulation.

There was time when spyware was not tolerated. We need to bring that back. This article is doing the opposite. Normalizing spyware while blaming the regulation.

If this nagware is on site that I consider valuable I try to email them about this immoral behaviour. But most of the time it is just reminder that I actually do not need to see the site and close the tab.

Most people do not care they just want to procrastinate effectively without clicking on banner.
This is all good, but I think packaging Woo into core is not a good idea. WordPress is so large; I don't know how the plugin community will react to a fork. It is going to cause a lot of problems.
I laughed at "GPL condom". Well done.
Does transit not always involve a walk, even a small one? It's not like everyone lives next to a subway station, and most destinations aren't right next to a subway station either.
A lot of the comments seem to call out Matt (right or wrong). But that’s the easy thing to do.

No one dares address the systemic issue of for profit corporations exploitatively (ab)using open source software.

There is a social contract that people should contribute back, and while it’s largely unenforceable, as it should be, when it’s happening on a systemic level something has to be done. And we are all complicit if we don’t at least say that much and spare some good will towards the guy actively in that fight at least superficially
(According to wikipedia: All versions of macOS from Mac OS X Leopard to macOS 10.15 Catalina, except for OS X Lion,[68] have been registered on Intel-based systems, and all versions from macOS 11 Big Sur, the successor to macOS Catalina, to macOS 14 Sonoma have been registered on both x86-64 and ARM64 systems.)
I have. Really enjoyed my time there. But obviously, there are no roads to the places where the endangered species live.
When we get to the end of the hype cycle, they will be. The only question is if people will be interested in footing the power bill for any of the ocean of obsolete data center GPUs that companies will be dumping.
I think that's specifically what they refer to by open source "having become" "a caricature of its ideas".
Love to hear some informed opinions on typst versus quarto.
Well, yes, but "desynced" warps don't use shared memory - because writes to it require some synchronization for other warps to be able to read the information.
12 years ago, Nvidia cared more about gamers than GPGPU, and 8bit floats were definitely not something anyone optimized for.
A old friend used to make the same argument for doubling the price of gasoline (in Germany)… something like “it will keep the rabble off the road”.
i think we kind of agree with each other. doctors based on experience found things that worked better at treating patients. and they also had completely wrong theoretical models to rationalize these things.

i don't really see monotonic progress: e.g. going from Avicenna to Paracelsus seems like a lateral move at best as far as scientific knowledge (and both theoretical systems stuck around competing for hundreds more years), even though Paracelsus and his followers did make some important contributions to medicine in practice and medicine improved over that period.

so you had practical progress for a long time but scientific knowledge, meaning theories of nature, stayed equally bad.
> The DB Navigator is so terrible that I try to book the German leg of my international travels from one of the other countries apps whenever possible.

While DB Navigator does leave something to be desired the sheer width/breadth of the DB booking system makes it my go-to choice for international train travel. They're also quite forthcoming in paying back 25% to 50% of the ticket price when delayed more than 1 or 2 hours which is a frequent occurrence on the longer trips - from Sweden to the Netherlands - which I make about every other month. I can get prices directly without having to go through some silly booking agency, I can book tickets, reserve seats and sometimes actually choose which seats I want (something which doesn't always work). They did have some problems about a year ago when they moved to the 'new' DB Navigator and the price I was quoted suddenly quadrupled, this turned out to be an omission in the booking system which I submitted a bug report for. They fixed the problem and prices returned to where they should be (about 5% higher than before the change, they used the opportunity to raise prices...).

No, the problem with DB is not to be found in their app or the booking system, those are at least on par and often better than their foreign equivalents. The problem lies in the unreliability of the long distance network, especially the ICE service which often sees long delays due to a lack of personnel, defective equipment, maintenance work, etc. Regional services tend to be more reliable, in part due to the higher frequency which makes it less of a problem if a single train does not run. All in all I can live with the problems and have switched over to rail travel whenever I can in Europe. The advantages - more space, more comfort, no security theatre, the ability to hack away while travelling, usually lower prices, I can take as much luggage as I can carry (which is a lot) - outweigh the disadvantages - longer travel times, need to change trains, delays which compound due to missing connections.
What qualifies as a tense or not depends on your definitions of the term. Different linguists and traditions will have different standards and what is taught in school is often not the terminology used in scientific description - it's actually very common for school teachers to teach things that any linguist would think was downright wrong. But terminology is a choice, not something where it really makes sense to say "is" or "is not", the question is how clear does your description end up. (And as always, when you argue about whether or not something is an X, you're not so much talking about the thing as you're talking about the definition of the category X.)

I studied Middle Eastern languages (though mostly Arabic and Persian) and linguistics at a university in northern Europe, and we would treat tense, aspect, and mood as different categories. Often they are distinct and verbs are conjugated both for time and e.g. evidentiality and thus it is fruitful to have two categories. I think this is the case for Turkish, e.g. see how Wikipedia lists the conjugations[0] here as a two-dimensional system. The article uses the term tense (explicitly 'for simplicity'), but I think it makes sense to have different names for the different categories - so tense would refer to the rows in that schema, and mood would refer to the columns.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_language#Verb_tenses
> There needs to be a more professional-sounding, G-rated term that describes the degradation of quality of software services.

It may be. The problem is that enshitification is much more than a simple degradation.
When we do it, its "precision strike" or "human shield penetration".

When the other side does, its "terrorism" no matter how small.

Terror, violence will never stop more bloodshed, you might get the upper hand today but you are borrowing from the future generation's peace.

If a region constantly requires tremendous human sacrifice to exist and constantly at the mercy of spun narratives, should it exist in the first place?

If a region constantly uses terror tactics while calling others terrorist, isn't it a sponsor of terrorism?
> If you were rewriting Emacs from scratch, what would you do differently?

UI: Electron, of course.

Json to represent the edit buffer in RAM. Each utf8 code point base64 encoded, in a json array, it itself, as a blob, base64 encoded. Now, before you complain that that is gonna blow up the data too much, don’t forget that 1. “Ram is cheap” and 2. “gzipped base64 is about the same size as binary”. So, of course, we’ll gzip the data in RAM.

Plugins should be JavaScript, as should be self-evident. And you’ll need a few installations of python (both 2 and 3) and node.js (each in its own docker container, obviously) to glue it all together and provide reproduceability.

With some care and work, it’ll run even on a modest machine taking up merely 60GB of disk, 32GB of RAM, a 4090ti GPU, and 8 CPU cores.

Every key press should be passed through an LLM, to add some intelligence to the editor. The user will, of course, supply a ChatGPT api key when they register for their mandatory myNewEmacs.ai account that they’ll need to subscribe to the editor for only the cost of a few lattes a month.

It is 2024, after all. One must use modern tools and technologies.
Markdown is a very poor language to try and use for anything other than single column typewriter like text.

As evidenced by the fact that every project which uses it for more than that adds arbitrary extensions.

The minimum viable language for non-mathematical technical documentation is reStructuredText.
I’m with DHH. The license is the license. The moment there’s unwritten obligations, the movement will implode - simply because unwritten obligations are always up to interpretation. Don’t like the status quo? Use a different license. This is especially true of WordPress, considering it’s an unlicensed fork of an earlier project itself.
What is the significance of going from GPL v2 to v3 here?
You own a "license" to play the game which they can revoke whenever they want for any or no reason.
I use Lutris for that, a bit clunky (especially updating games) but it does work.
I'm going to find out a way to automatically hide comments referencing "musk". You can't even read about a 3Blue1Brown video without people somehow making it about him. Every thread, every day, it's just people talking about Elon Musk.
Can anyone explain what the point of starship is? It won’t be human rated - are they just keeping launching them for keeping the funding rounds going?
> Put $25M into it...then he’ll realize his bluff has been called

I don't think Matt will be too displeased with WPEngine investing $25 million into a fork. He may even feel vindicated.
Why do you not call out what you specifically consider baseless accusations and FUD in their comment? Reads a bit silly without that.
I feel that here the authors think about mathematics as just the language and not what it talks about. We know at least since Gödel that mathematics is more than just the formal system. I even remember going to a talk by Gromov and he getting "angry" about a question from the public in the lines of "what if we suppose this extra thing and change this other thing on that theorem", and him saying that it's stupid to think of new theorems for the sake of doing it, that the language of mathematics are like metaphors speaking about something else.

In my experience learning math, their claim that "The central hypothesis is that a desirable body of theorems better summarizes the set of all provable statements, for example by having a small description length" is not true. Short != Better, better is what gets me faster to form the correct intuitive idea about the mathematical statement. For example, several times I have experienced the fact of understanding the formal definitions and proofs of a theory, but it's not until I form the correct intuitions (maybe months later), that I truly understand the theory. And it's not until I have the correct intuitions, that I can successfully apply the theory to create meaningful new theorems.

Anyways, I understand that one has to start from somewhere and the point of view of the article is more tractable and explicit.
Doesn't the vendor get your name and address when paying through PayPal?
If you were an insider deliberately trying to tank WordPress, it is hard for me to imagine anything you could do that would be more effective than this.
I'm hoping this pushes them to finally implement the glaring gaps in Unix compat: specifically pipe2.
I don't know who said this quote but "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter" also rings true
> already substantial subsidies for the rail industry

Though to be fair, there are also substantial subsidies for the whole road network.
The home feed is a poor experience, IMO. Adding a tagline to each product would help me know if I want to learn more, without having to decide to click based on a logo and name alone. I think categories would also help me find what I'm interested in.
It's still early on solid state batteries, but there are some working prototypes now.
Samsung is now shipping prototype solid-state batteries to manufacturers.
500 Wh/kg, 9 minute charging, 20 year life are claimed.

Manufacturing is hard and early versions will be expensive.
BYD management claims that solid state batteries will be for the high end.
They're pushing lithium iron phosphate for now.

Samsung just announced a small solid state battery for wearables. This technology may appear in small devices before it's in cars.
> Providing these €49 tickets requires an annual subsidy of around €3bn

and how was this number actually calculated?
Perhaps; but WP Engine can argue from necessity following Matt’s actions, as well as just saying: After what Matt has done, who gives a darn what he thinks?
Seems like this is a modded NanoGPT not the original.
My regex sensitivities only warned me about the persecution of veggggggggns.
>beard length is gendered

you insensitive clod

https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1986/02/14
Often you’re not allowed on your medication for any of your other health issues.
I'm not a quitter. :)

But seriously, after 25+ years, though some of the taste of meat dishes would be good, the idea of eating meat is personally unappealing. Plus, I don't know that my system would even be able to process it. So, I'd expect to be grossed out, have GI plumbing and nutrition problems, and maybe frequent food poisoning.

I'm neutral on whether other people should go vegetarian, but personally I feel stuck with it.
Execs are paid to change reality, not to be dominated by it. What else should we expect?
It's not the nosebleed in itself, it's the ignoration of the blood streaming down the face during a video interview that is the most curious. And it wouldn't be as relevant if the subject hadn't acted increasingly erratic and self-destructive at the same time period.

It's not "important", it's just deeply weird, because it tracks.
A modern display engine.
AMD was nearly bankrupt for the first half of that. In my opinion it was a herculean feat that they survived at all.
Whoever remembers the (absolutely idiotic and unfounded) media/political scare campaigns of the 90s about video games and their supposed cultivation of violent (possibly psychotic) tendencies in teenagers, their even being blamed for things like the Columbine massacre, should give this new campaign over TikTok a big sniff test.

It's very similar, but with a nice layer of nationalistic/censorship icing on top as a bonus. Just as idiotic and unfounded. All kinds of things may harm teens, if the teens are in any case susceptible to harm for their own reasons. By the logic of blaming tiktok, you could blame TV, video games (again), any American social network and while we're at it, even books! You could indeed blame anything that might, just might, harm the fragile, insecure, self-obsessed mentalities that are a hallmark of adolescence. Why don't we just wrap kids in bubbles of positive thinking while we're at it, make sure no scary thoughts or need to harden their thinking ever need enter.

It's really popular on this site to throw shit on social media. Much of that shit is deserved, but other parts of it veer right over into a derangement syndrome in which, apparently, reasoned thinking, personal freedoms, rights to free expression and thoughtful political considerations can all be discarded as long as it means sticking it to some social media platform. Ridiculous.
Forgot one more:

- An easier way for writing services/daemons with logging! Writing your own rc.d scripts is just so much harder than doing systemd .service files.
I have never figured out how to get a good font and rendering going for text in Urdu/arabic script.
I would change the development platform. Doing everything by mail makes things more difficult for people that are not used to the older mail+patch workflow. Having something like GitLab or sourcehut would be nice, as it would also bring a more modern bug tracker.

Personally I find following email conversations much harder than just a single conversation thread like in a GitHub issue, for example.