skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Author here. I know how the sausage is made.

The thing is that when you set up Jetpack and authenticate, you sync your self-hosted site with a clone that resides on the WordPress.com infrastructure. This is to facilitate the backend services that Jetpack provides.

This is needed for things like the Elasticsearch index and all sorts of things.

So, say you do your best to make your site compatible with your local privacy regs because you may be taking medical appointments or if you are selling adult toys on your WooCommerce site and some genius installs Jetpack, personally identifiable information makes to non-EU controlled and hosted infrastructure.

We may go as far as saying that Automattic is pushing the liability from themselves to you as a site owner. (In other words, you are responsible for your own customers' data but not them.)

There are certain requirements for GDPR compliance that I still have a hard time seeing as being fulfilled. (And I did work in GDPR compliance projects before moving over to Automattic and have discussed this with people in the data privacy and security scene that have raised their eyebrows over the whole thing.)

It is very strange to go from being proud of working on this and then not being able to recommend using it for much other than the CDN that doesn't require the sync process.
The author links to https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.10343, which seems like a good place to start on normalizing flows for Bayes
I use the Random User-Agent Switcher[1] extension on Firefox. It does pick real agents, but some of them might show a really outdated browser (eg. Firefox 5X), which I assume is the reason I'm getting blocked.

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/random_user_a...
The basic proportion matching formula which is just a linear equation in disguise.

a/b = c/d, we know a, b and c, solve for d, which is cb / a.

As I said, every grandma did that to guess some percentages.
Thus, if anyone can grasp that, he/she is ready for Algebra.
Bacteria implanted in fungi helped cells evolve
Excellent essay, thanks for sharing. Several Lapham essays have made their way to HN over the years, which I am grateful for. I don't think I had ever come across a writer with such consistently interesting ideas and so strong a voice. And it seems that he remained curious and playful until the end:

> For Lewis, the greatest game was running a magazine. He played with words and ideas like a beautiful set of hand-hewn stone blocks. He loved the Dutch historian Johan Huizinga’s book Homo Ludens, about the formative role of play in human culture, its five defining characteristics: “1. Play is free, is in fact freedom. 2. Play is not ‘ordinary’ or ‘real’ life. 3. Play is distinct from ‘ordinary’ life both as to locality and duration. 4. Play creates order, is order. Play demands order absolute and supreme. 5. Play is connected with no material interest, and no profit can be gained from it.” Lewis discovered and disseminated a way of life and work that was essentially play. So I guess, in the end, he tossed rules 2 and 3 into the trash.

If you enjoyed TFA, the obit from Lapham's Quarterly [0] is similar in tone and also well worth reading.

0: https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/lewis-h-lapham-1...
Finally. I hope Intel and AMD allows a clean, may be slightly backward incompatible subset of x86-64 that is open for all to implement.

Lets call the new institutions set AE86. It is old, but fast around corners.
Farm waste can filter microplastics in surface runoff, prevent pollution
Doesn't matter how common, the feature is there, and although we aren't yet that far, might even differ across implementations.

Also trait inheritance exists, enforced via trait bounds, what Rust doesn't support is class inheritance.
Quantum research paves way toward ultra-high-density optical memory storage
This is cool but I don't find it natural and a bit creepy to keep the gaze fixed at the camera at all times. Maybe they should add a threshold of variability and allow the gaze to look away from the camera from time to time.
UK's Alan Turing Institute launches redundancy consultation process
Create stunning quotes and deliver them via email to your clients. Convert those quotes into professional invoices to bill your customers for the work you do. Our professional invoices provide links for your customers to pay online via PayPal or Stripe so you get paid faster.
megacorp set an arbitrary price for this, and you think the consumer is at fault?
In 2012 I was at a conference in Montreal for CS students that had Maciej Ceglowski (Pinboard, bed bug registry) do the closing talk, and he was giving advice to students about what to work on. He said it out loud, "or if you want to work for evil go into the hallway and talk to the Palentir booth". It was a great moment of one man speaking truth to power in a packed room of their target audience.
I'm not sure an open web can exist under this kind of assumption...

Once you start chasing views, it's going to come at the detriment of everything else.
> Still we make fun of westerners cause they have poopy butts.

Bidets are becoming more common in the US, so laugh while you can. We seem to be shedding the unsavory cultural connections the US made with them after WW2.
Thank you for showing up here and being open to feedback. But I have to ask: shouldn't Cloudflare be running and reviewing reports to catch this before it became such a problem? It's three clicks in Tableau for anyone who cares, and clearly nobody does. And this isn't the first time something like this has slipped through the cracks.

I tried reaching out to Cloudflare with issues like this in the past. The response is dozens of employees hitting my LinkedIn page yet no responses to basic, reproduceable technical issues.

You need to fix this internally as it's a reputational problem now. Less screwing around using Salesforce as your private Twitter, more leadership in triage. Your devs obviously aren't motivated to fix this stuff independently and for whatever reason they keep breaking the web.
Years ago, with the help of eBay, I built a "dream" small collection of Matchbox cars that I would've liked in childhood, and that would've practically been impossible to find amongst brick&mortar stores then.

Sorry, I'll admit I unboxed the ones still boxed, since I think toys are meant to be out and played with, not pumped collectible investments.

(I no longer have them, though. I was selling my Concept 2 erg, in preparation for moving house, and the buyer noticed my Matchbox dream collection in a tray on the table, and remarked that her nephew/grandson would love those. She'd just given me several hundred dollars for the rowing machine, and I was moving, so I threw in the Matchbox cars.)
Some stats. Solar install 2024 593GW, nuclear install per year about 8GW.

Solar growing about 30% a year, nukes about 0%.

Storage is coming along too.

(some source stuff https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41601621)
How would you implement objects and inheritance in C without function casts? CPython certainly uses these casts.

dlysm() even relies on a (void *) cast that is not C standard compliant.

C is useless for certain applications with this "undefined behavior".
I Uploaded 50 TB of Ubuntu ISOs to China
This is horrifying. What happened to simply displaying a "Your browser is outdated, consider upgrading" banner on the website?
> Somehow other animals don't need toilet paper.

In fairness, other animals very often could use some cleaning in that area.
Is it a tough problem, though? Fonts have hinting built in, executing those bytecode instructions should be something even low-powered chips should do just fine. Text flow algorithms have been solved well since Knuth's TeX work in the 1970s, as I understand it.

Obviously, publishers also need to make a better efforts in producing ebooks, but I'm not super familiar with EPUB and don't know where the technology is lacking.
Each individual has to balance between working for the corrupt system in order to extract benefits from it (otherwise the system simply kills you through starvation), and working in ways that benefit society even though the system punishes them for it. The best individual outcome results from working with the system at all times, so the problem will never be solved.
No need to live there to know its reality. This type of violence is normalized there.

https://heyjackass.com/
I had two legs of the die-cast Voltron that my rich, snotty cousin gave me when he lost the other pieces. They were so big and heavy and just so cool. That, combined with my thundercats dagger (that came free with my sweet thundercats underwear) made me the coolest kid on my schoolbus for like three weeks.
not so - they will fight you on the ad removal most of the time
I'm pretty sure @vitejs/plugin-react allows you to leave off the file extension for imports. (I say this because I'm looking at a working Vite project with no file extensions, and that's one of the few differences with an out-of-the-box setup.)
Where exactly in parent's post are cave paintings mentioned, instead of explicitly just books and screens, whose specific relationship is what the tongue-in-cheek comment is about? Your post makes no sense, other than trying to be a "gotcha!" one and failing at it.
There's a clear cut between selling it to Google and selling it to black hats. White hats mostly have a career in cyber security and they will not disclose a vulnerability to a compromised party regardless of the price. Cyber security researchers will like having their name attached to a CVE or a fix in a well known open source project which is arguably worth more than 20K to them. If someone finds out you sold a vulnerability, or exploit, to a hostile party, your career is over.
I think it is telling that they don't mention any efficiency numbers. Hopefully I'm wrong.
are you sure you don’t mean,
“redundancy consultation process consultation“?
> easily prevent mass-scraping due to sheer processing costs.

my 2018 iPad Pro does OCR on images in Safari instantly. People only think OCR is slow because Adobe Acrobat still uses the same single-threaded OCR algo it’s had for decades now; then consider how blazing a GPU-based impl would be…
> Teaching is probably the safer career long-term.

Is it? It feels like it's less scalable.
I imagine one day, we'll have some cliche like "all wiki links eventually end up on the philosophy page" for online platforms and the need for moderation.

Something like "without content moderation, online forums will eventually gravitate to the worst speech"
South West France, Spanish Central Pyrenees or North West Spain.

Very cheap housing in some select areas, mild weather and great food.
I consider a language mature, when it's developers stop feeling the need to list "written in X" in the features section of the repository/main page.
LockedIn: A Motivational Tool to Make Every Week Count
I've been working on LockedIn, a simple yet powerful tool to help you make the most of your time. The idea is to visualize how many weeks you have left until you turn 60 years old, turning each one into a reminder to "lock in" and focus on what truly matters.

The platform allows you to input your birthdate, and it generates a countdown that updates weekly, along with motivational quotes and a clean, minimal UI to keep you inspired. It's about tracking time with purpose and staying accountable to your goals.

I'd love to hear feedback from the HN community, and if you're curious, you can check it out here [link]. Whether you're building, coding, or hustling, I hope LockedIn serves as a reminder to make every week count!

Looking forward to your thoughts and feedback!
You effectively could do so for ages using PredictIt.
Basically the behavior is hardware-dependent, and nobody wants to mandate that C++ compilers generate a ton of extra instructions on hardware which does not behave a particular way.

Of course you can define your own checked integer types, using inline assembly to check the overflow flag where available.
You, too, don't appear to understand what the Faustian is about specifically. Guys, you should read up on something other than Wikipedia, & not embarrass yourself with dimwit attempts at allegory.

Allow me to suggest Faust by Goethe!
That seems like it ought to be straightforward to defeat without OCR. If you know that a particular glyph looks like the letter J, then you just need to parse the WOFF file, find that glyph's data, and find the character that maps to it. It's definitely annoying enough to deter a casual scraper, but there's nothing conceptually difficult about it.

You do need to determine the "correct" character code for each glyph, but there are lots of ways to do that, on a spectrum from manual to automated. And you only need to do it once.
Or any Dillo user, with a PSP User Agent which is legit for small displays.
Dolphins need to come to surface to take air so you may be right. I also remember reading about how dolphins sleep and I remember there were 3 parts of the brain that were alternating sleep to make breathing possible.
Same with Mexico and Spain
From their website, Jank is a dialect of clojure, and strongly compatible, I am not 100% sure what this means, but to me at least, it means it is not clojure and it is not native coljure

That being said, what would be the benefits of a native clojure, you have common-lips and guile if you want native

But again, Jank is not clojure .. just clojure-like, or so it seem
> have yet to have a fraudulent charge

How carefully do you check? I check my statements line by line, and have found fraudulent charges twice in the past 30 or so years.
I'm not dismissing it, just saying that 'being a witness' can very much be a cornerstone of bias. The people working at maternity wards who notice more births at full moons are very much real witnesses to real events, for instance.
> Agents within the bureaucracy have to within rules and policies. And the front door access methods have things like audit trails to prevent internal abuse.

In Western countries, yes - but even there, abuse and evasion of audit trails is quite common. The most infamous scandal here in Germany was around a cop station that more than not resembled a pig sty when it comes to procedures [1] - after the address of a lawyer representing the victims of the far-right NSU terror crew got leaked to another far-right terror cell, the audit trail led to a precinct in Frankfurt but went cold there as supposedly, the cops there all used a shared account of one of them. IMHO, every single one of these cops should have faced a year or two in jail for that stunt.

[1] https://taz.de/Ermittlungen-zu-NSU-20-eingestellt/!5989941/
The person you are replying to clearly stated that every grandma knows this, and yet you seem to have given up without even trying to ask a grandma.
is your wifi on when you add your calibre books? if so, thats why.
For Reddit I just use it r/o under gopher://gopherddit.com

A good client it's either Lagrange (multiplatform), the old Lynx or Dillo with the Gopher plugin.
If you own a Kobo e-reader, check out the Plato reader [0], an unofficial document reader of Kobo devices. I find it interesting that it's written by the same person that wrote the bspwm window manager.

It is one of my favorite pieces of software. The UI is beautiful and, to be honest, inspirational. It frequently reminds me that the best UI should not be noticed. Humbling.

[0] https://github.com/baskerville/plato
> But I'm sure you will find a reason while health is an exception.

Pretty easy to find an exception when you start with a false premise.

> Given that prices for health in the US are exorbitant because they are based on the free market
"wireless transmitter" is a weird phrasing for a rotary transformer. It's going millimeters, not miles. This is a valid way to energize the rotor.
Thanks, should be fixed now. Stupid me forgot to set the repo to public.
If you're somewhere with no breathable air, and control the access to Oxygen, everyone else who was dumb enough to sign up to this trip is now under your complete control. That's what it's about.
No, that's not right - you can anchor the screen in space with their app. Source: NReal/XReal v2 user.
You can do [model based testing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-based_testing) (e.g., https://mbt.informal.systems/)

But this exact problem is why I am more interested in approaches that integrate specification and implementation into a single (dialectical) process (e.g., via type-theoretic methods).
Additionally:

Google (and the rest of big tech) used Ireland as a tax haven just like Apple: https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/google-used-d...

Apple has already been required to open the App Store up in the EU: https://developer.apple.com/support/dma-and-apps-in-the-eu/#...

(They did it as maliciously-compliant as possible, which is still being fought over and likely will be for a while.)
It's up to the store owner to actually default to "agrees to marketing". I'm not sure if Shopify is to blame when it's the owner that used an illegitimate opt-out for that setting instead of an opt-in.

And of course, follow-up mails for abandoned carts are an optional setting too.
Oh, WoW
Apple celebrates 10 years of Apple Pay
The AI Boom Has an Expiration Date
The benchmark is matrix multiplcation with the shapes `(6, 1500, 256) X (6, 256, 1500)`, which just aren't that big in the AI world. I think the gap would be larger with much larger matrices.

E.g. Llama 3.1 8B which is one of the smaller models has matrix multiplications like `(batch, 14336, 4096) x (batch, 4096, 14336)`.

I just don't think this benchmark is realistic enough.
This book is indeed very beautiful to read and look at, it has a lot of fascinating illustrations.
> would then be fed to bacteria

Note that the idea is not to eat the "rocks" directly, but to eat the bacterias that are feed with the "rocks". (I'm not sure to call it "rocks", I think it's more similar to dirty coal than marble or iron ore.)
yeah just dont turn on the wifi, you can even update the kindle via usb to get some new features if you like.
What a wonderful, touching essay. Lewis Lapham was one of the best stylists in American letters in the last century. If I could write like him, or even close to it, I'd feel like a God. I subscribed to Harpers a long time ago just to read his pieces. What a magazine! I'm just glad to know that as good as he was as a writer and editor, he was also a good, funny, generous and interesting human being.
Many words to say nothing, overall pretty difficult to follow, not bringing anything interesting other than vague claims, all that bringing to "but we have a solution for you".

Feels like AI is good at generating that kind of noise.
Modern sleep also drains your battery and heats up your laptop on Windows too (but not most of the other problems). I miss the days when you could put a sleeping laptop in a bag, but now, on Windows, you have to either re-enable hibernation (for however long they allow that), or fully shut down. Modern sleep was a mistake.
> I don't understand what you are smoking.

Reality.

You just keep producing lots of verbiage and simply no evidence for your claims.

Intermittent renewables are subsidized everywhere. Nuclear power is not.

Electricity prices in countries with nuclear power are generally lower than electricity prices where intermittent renewables are used.

Hydro is a different matter, that is reliable. Sweden has both hydro and renewables and is planning on adding 10 nuclear plants. Norway has hydro, doesn't need nuclear, though they are looking at SMRs for some remote communities. Iceland has plenty of hydro and geothermal they don't need nuclear.

Alas, hydro is something you have or don't have. You can't build it out if you don't have the geography for it. The countries with the lucky geography use it to their advantage, though both Sweden and Finnland happily add nuclear to their hydro.

The just-published report from the US DOE shows that nuclear + renewables solutions are cheaper than renewables alone. which is why the US wants to add around 200 GW of nuclear capacity to their grid, tripling capacity.

https://liftoff.energy.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/LIFTOF...
> The duo has pulled the majority of its video content from YouTube, leaving only 29 videos on the platform.

And this, my friends, is why we download local copies.
> If you can't start riding a bike without stabilisers or someone holding it, then you're never going to learn to ride well.

In German: "es ist noch nie ein Meister vom Himmel gefallen". We all start somewhere, we go to school, we have teachers, we have trainers/coaches, we have mentors, ...

I don't think studying it alone will help, best is with people around. Parents and friends will help us to learn how to ride a bike. They will give an example, they will give feedback on our attempts, they will propose what and how to try to master it. After the initial basic hurdle is done, then comes a lot of practice. But again, best by being embedded in a community. Learning such skills is a social activity.

There is a lot of pedagogical material to learn programming with Lisp, Logo, Scheme. I had courses about software development, using languages like PASCAL, LISP, Scheme and others. We got exercises and feedback. We got access to computers, cpu time and an environment for coding. I looked around and setup my own tools and wrote stuff with it. I discussed this stuff (code, environment, architecture, styles, ...) with a friend.

> perhaps this stuff that's easy for me is hard for others, and I should not blame them for them finding it hard?

Lot's of people are frightened by thinking/hearing that it is hard, while in fact it actually isn't.

For example one of reads that German is very difficult for native English speakers. There are a lot of justifications given for that. The actual data says something different. German is very near to English, English even is a Germanic language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_languages

The actual ranking: https://effectivelanguagelearning.com/language-guide/languag...

Trying to learn Lisp without actually trying to write code, sounds like trying to learn a language without actually trying to speak with people. Possible, but unnecessary hard.

We need to make our brain adapt to the new language by moving into an environment, where the words connect to the real world and thus to meaning.

Maybe just allow yourself to think: Giving feedback is not "blaming". That's an early concept needed for moving forward.
On the other hand, touchscreen page turn has several UX disadvantages.

- You have to move the position of your thumb/hand for every page turn (to the screen, and back off of it). I disagree with "more energy required with the physical button"

- You have to obstruct text with your thumb/hand to turn the page

- It's very easy to accidentally turn the page by grazing the edge of the screen while you're reading
Author here. To clarify, the trademark rights were transferred to the WordPress Foundation 14 years ago and then licenced to Automattic to use for WordPress.com. (The internal verbal story was that it even involved a separate shade of blue to identify .com from .org.)

The foundation was open about the use of the WordPress logo, wordmark and the WP acronym until a couple of weeks ago. (Here's the previous version of the trademark policy (https://web.archive.org/web/20240101165105/https://wordpress...) and here is the current one for comparison (https://wordpressfoundation.org/trademark-policy/))

Just like with attaching a permissive license to your code means that you can't just yank it back when you feel like it, there's a long history of case law proofing that you can't do the same with trademarks, especially when there's a whole economy that has built up around your FOSS project.