skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Calling big endian "commonly used by modern processor types" when s390x is really the only one left is a bit of a stretch ;D

POWER is bi-endian. In recent versions, Linux on POWER is little-endian (big-endian Linux on POWER used to be popular, until all the distros switched some years back), while AIX and IBM i are big-endian.

AIX and IBM i are probably not quite as alive as IBM mainframes are, but AIX is still arguably more alive than Solaris or HP/UX are, to say nothing of the dozens of other commercial Unix systems that once existed. Likewise, IBM i is just hanging on, yet still much more alive than most competing legacy midrange platforms (e.g. HP MPE which has been officially desupported by the vendor, although you can still get third party support for it.)
The CPU being overwhelmed with physics sounds sus to me. CS has a few mechanics more than Q1, but not that many. It's a few collisions and should be possible to check in a tiny fraction of today's CPUs capabilities. Even with some advanced movement physics, it's just a handful of entities - Marbles does hundreds more per frame. Am I completely missing something significant here?
Given the wide variety of views expressed in this HN discussion, it's clear there isn't consensus on how this is being interpreted, so I think you're wrong in claiming that there is only one type of behaviour being discouraged.

That said, I'm just as a casual observer lying in bed with the flu, I probably should just shut up until I know more the situation.
My prior response to you was completely neutral and meant to be helpful.

Given that, I feel like you complaining that it made you feel as if you are "walking on eggshells" is meant to be manipulative toward getting me to concede your desires for the culture.

Good luck with that, anywhere. Believe what I say or not, I couldn't care less care how you feel in regard to my good faith sincerity. For Pete's sake. This is a stranger on the internet. I'm not your mother.

You're more than welcome to ignore what I say. I am not invested in you believing me, and this is not whatsoever a debate. I'm informing you of the reality on the ground as I know it to be. You seem to think that you are debating with the culture through me, somehow. My word.

As for the rest: I wrote a long response and then deleted it because of how crazy your response is on multiple assertions. From the reversal of your prior core complaint (to what, try to marginalize the common etiquette by now saying that you never come across it when it was the subject of your prior complaint?), to the hostile label, to the supposed and pointless correction of my phrasing that requires ignoring that it was in the context of your initial complaint. You are being argumentative just to be so, predicated on a false premise to boot. Your post isn't worth responding to more specifically. It's not hard at all to see why you might have some cultural trouble. Though, given what I now see, perhaps it isn't cultural trouble exactly. Perhaps it has more to due with your specific personality. As I have known many more perfectly polite and conversationally skilled foreigners than not.

If this quality of response is typical of your conversational skill, and refraining from it is "walking on eggshells", then I'd suggest you get used to that in order to get by.

Or maybe taking a communication class would help. A lot of people have stumbling blocks of various types, and not only with the specific issue under discussion. Even those who were born here. Conversation is an artform.
Iranian hackers act as brokers selling critical infrastructure access
Yeah, my 2011 Kindle 3G needed a new battery, but otherwise, it's still as good as new.

Were the quality standards just different back then?
I've been trying to wrap my head around why this feels so wrong. If the project had been run like this from the beginning, in an opinionated way that prioritizes what the few creators of the project think are important, then that's one thing. But it seems like Wordpress has generally been the stable, boring, slow-moving project that isn't run like a personal fiefdom, and Mullenweg is trying to force it from the one model to the other. I haven't used Wordpress in years, and this drama makes me never want to use it again.
Rocks and dirt have been used forever - adobe!

Another option is water. Water is cheap, and you can pile up gallon jugs of it. Or use your pond/swimming pool.

Geothermal HVAC makes use of the thermal mass of rocks and dirt, too.
My take is that Python won by having a complete ecosystem centralizing many tools that were dispersed in different languages:
- Numpy/Scipy/Matplotlib enabled scientists to do data analysis with Panda similar to what was available in R
- PySpark enabled big data scripts in Python instead of Scala
- PyTorch made Torch available for non-Lua users

Bit by bit, more people got used to doing data analysis and AI research in Python. Some projects were even written for Python first (e.g. Tensorflow or Keras). Eventually, Python had so many high-quality packages that it became the de facto for modern AI.

Is it the _best_ language for AI, though? I doubt. However, it is good enough for most use cases.
I very much found it to be a cage.
The distinction you're drawing is called being intellectually honest about the subject. For people predisposed to the fox news cinematic universe, this is not something they will want to substantively engage with.
Cringe emo girls are trendy now because the nostalgia cycle is hitting the early 2000s. Your kid would be impressed if you told them you were a goth gf. It's not hard to imagine the same will happen with primitive AIs in the 40s.
would be great to add a couple features if this goes:
- user ranking/votes for the most important items
- horizon scanning for emerging hot topics or trends (unknown unknowns)
- best of all... curated "clean news" that is AI & human recommendations for the topics I care about at a price
How to Work for a Boss Who Always Changes Their Mind
Py2many: Python to many CLike languages transpiler
If you live in another country, you couldn't care less of your Orwellian "credit score" being affected. Using a virtual debit card really pays off in this case.
It appears to have that mode they call "Body Anchor" - limits the device to 72Hz with "minimal latency".

https://www.xreal.com/air2/
In my opinion, what's missing in these "image GenAI" tech is the ability to generate subsequent images consistently.

That would be useful for e.g. book illustration, comic strips, icon sets. Otherwise, people would think you pick those images all over the internet and not from one source/theme.
Like it or not it's been a definitive example of a classic riddle since before it appeared in Oedipus Rex, an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed c. 429 BC.

~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oedipus_Rex

( spoiler: he loved his mother )
> even that response to DHH

Can you link to what you're referring?
US Army announces survivability and communications upgrades for rotorcraft fleet
Finally! But what I'd really like is the last page read is the screen saver.
I always find Kindle's "minutes left" too low for some reason, so I have to ignore it. I'd find it simpler - and easier to make progress - if it just showed pages read/remaining within the chapter. Absent that, I am often having to go through the distraction of using the overview feature to figure out where I am in the chapter.
You should try it before claiming ”not relational”, as it can totally store and use relational data, and also be very useful.

Even though it says ”graph” you don’t need to write graph traversal queries - just describe in GraphQL the nested data model you want to get out of the database and that’s what you will get.

Community edition is open source.
Sadly I am still at very early stages of this idea. However I will save this thread and contact you if I make progress!
There are several genocides happening in the world, hearing that people die during genocides shouldn't be particularly surprising, right?

Given the magnitudes of those involved, it seems likely they'd fill the headlines.

That said, perhaps you meant, "I would prefer to not know" or "I would prefer to not be reminded" about these genocides?
https://ma.tt/2024/10/on-dhh/
My mother has a WordPress site talking about hedgehogs and at this point it seems like it's only a matter of time before Matt's vendetta shows up in her site footer.
That is guaranteed to happen. Not a matter of if but when. So will nVidia. ASML and TSMC will also feel the shock wave.
It's hard to say what have they added afresh (except an inbuilt hearing test) in the newly annointed "hearing aid" mode yet, but features for hearing impaired have been available in airpods pro for a long time. Even before iOS 18, one can take any of the available hearing tests in appstore like Mimi and attach its results with iOS settings and your phone will adjust the sound frequencies accordingly, enabling you to listen to the sounds you were not able to listen to earlier. Music sounded much better, you can hear people better if you are in transparency mode etc. Of course I am excited to see what changes have they actually done once that update arrives since I have medium-severe hearing impairment.
The question I have about this, if a spammer calls you while spoofing a number for an organisation that is set up to show you their details, will it be highlighted as such, or will it appear as a legitimate call? What about SMS as well?

If this actually certifies that the person contacting you is who they say they are, then that's awesome and I love it. There's a huge issue of trusting calls-to-action in all forms of communications(Phone, SMS, Email) from organisations.

I've laughed at & hung up on the ATO(Aussie Tax Office) before, thinking it was a spam call. They called back and said "We really are the ATO. Call our number on our email address, ask for me by name and then provide this reference number". I felt really bad haha.
On the off-chance that Matt is doing the irresponsible thing here and still getting involved in social media discussions on this topic:

People don't like being involved in drama, and as we saw with the Freenode debacle, when it starts up, the usual first reaction is to try to chart a path that lets them avoid the drama as much as possible. But when you demand that those people take sides, and pursue a scorched earth policy against those who don't take your side... the side that's going to be picked isn't your side. There's just too much risk to taking your side.
Btw if you have a second leave a review/comment on the itch.io page!
We can use solar sail for initial acceleration, then we can attract surrounding ion/particles/dust using long wires with negative charge, to have more mass for further acceleration.
> People don't like being involved in drama,

Which is kind of a weird thing, as people sure do love to sit back with their popcorn and watch the drama. There's entire TV networks dedicated to banality just like this.
the point here is to solve the problem of linking to an LGPL licensed library, to comply you can:

a) release the code of the original LPGL licensed library

b) release it with a patch of any modifications, ie the small change here

c) nothing else. zero. No license changes. No other code of the app affected. No app code needs to be released.

And you are compliant with the LGPL license and can get on with life. So this is not a big deal the way GPL code in the app would be which would require the app code to be re-licensed and released to comply, which is a huge deal and difficult to accomplish.
Scale beyond CI/CD and deliver your product
He appears to have replaced the original post, which was a lot more ad hominem: https://archive.ph/UZZit
I have been thinking about the alignment offer that Automattic has offered its employees. It’s hard for me to imagine any scenario at any company where I would not take the money and go. Six months of salary is a lot of money for just simply walking away.

To be completely honest, after seeing everything that has transpired, I would be worried that the offer is just a lie, a way to out the detractors. I’m wondering if that’s the reason less than 10% accepted the first offer.
Every news outlet is a biased source. You cannot have a news outlet that is unbiased. Being an editor necessarily implies making choices about what gets published and what does not -- it's fundamentally a human judgement call.

Human judgement calls cannot be free from biases.
Probably; look at https://kdeconnect.kde.org/ (note that in spite of the branding, you can run it on a non-KDE desktop if desired)
> Meanwhile Signal, WhatsApp, Snapchat, and FB Messenger amongst other US based apps all exist in opposition to your belief.

I can't really speak to snapchat. I mostly forgot that they even exist (although i did notice this: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68056421.amp) but I'm pretty sure the government is balls deep in everything facebook and I strongly suspect that signal has been compromised for a long time now. At least ever since they started collecting and permanently keeping user's data in the cloud. I take the fact that the very first line of their privacy policy is a lie to be a giant dead canary. There have been multiple requests for them to update their privacy policy to reflect the data they are collecting but they refuse.

Instead, signal seems to have done everything they could to warn people away without saying as much directly. They introduced crypto features nobody asked for, killed off the single most popular feature they had (the ability to get secure and unsecured messages in a single application) and then of course insisted on collecting data on users and storing it insecure ways which drew criticism from experts (https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkyzek/signal-new-pin-featur...) and users (https://community.signalusers.org/t/proper-secure-value-secu...) all while being extremely misleading and evasive in their communication to the public (https://old.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/htmzrr/psa_disablin...). Maybe they've done the best they can do to warn people while under a gag order.

If signal hasn't been compromised we'd have to accept that they're marketing their service to protestors, whistleblowers, and civil rights activists - people whose freedom and/or lives are often at risk - while also lying to them about the risks of using their product by not disclosing the data collection in their policies and by their misleading communication. I'm constantly running into signal users who have no idea at all that signal is keeping any data in the cloud. Until it was pointed out to them, they believed the lie that that no data is ever collected, and that's pretty damning. Any secure communications tool that advertises itself to such vulnerable people should, at a minimum, be making it extremely clear exactly what data is being collected and how so that users can make informed choices.
2078 easily and then Intel might go for ten to twenty year patent extension periods multiple times.
i think the original got taken down but you can find it on archive or just searching around
Oh yeah, this is a fantastic thing to sit back and munch popcorn to. It's when the people involved are demanding that you stop munching the popcorn and start throwing knives at someone that the fun stops.
At the part were he writes about the human analysis of game data, I thought the article would end up with training an AI or just statistical analysis on that data to identify players. That would have been a little more interesting (but harder to do) than exploiting the game.
I bought a Kindle Paperwhite in 2020, it's been doing that since day 1 of my purchase without jailbreaking or anything.

It's not a new thing that journalists cover old features as if they've just been added, because they just found out about it and feel they're newsworthy
Using static websites for tiny archives
> I feel like Automattic is willing to burn the community to the ground or fracture it as long as they get their cut or become the the biggest player.

Just taking a page out of the app store playbooks. I guess Matt hasn't been keeping up with courts starting to rule against those stores.
Two accused of DDoSing some of the biggest tech companies
> I've heard NixOS is good, but I guess I still need a GUI os because of browser and some apps I use regularly.

What? NixOS runs GUIs just fine. (This comment sent from a browser on NixOS)
> Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says X

> a senior Ukrainian intelligence official says Y and Z

Do you doubt the veracity of these two claims? The headline there actually reads as very clear statements of fact -- two people made several claims. The headline, notably, does NOT make any claims about the veracity of what Zelenskyy or the intelligence official said.
Perhaps I missed something, but I wonder why WP didn't just include ACF functionality in WP Core from the very beginning?

Why fight in public when you can just commoditize your dependant competitor?
There are ways to watermark the output, by slightly altering the choice of tokens in a recognizable pattern.
It reminds me of Reddit cracking down on 3rd party apps or Twitter changing that policy and a whole lot more once Musk took over. The problem isn't necessarily the actions or policies in a vacuum. There are legitimate benefits to these approaches. The problem is it feels like these communities were built up around certain practices and there was no reason to expect those practices to change. So when there is a big change that only happens after a platform has already reached near monopoly status, it feels like a bait and switch to users because many people would have never signed up for a platform with those policies in the first place.
The term open-source was coined with an express purpose closely aligned with the definition maintained by the OSI. The OSI also traces its lineage to the coinage of the term; all of the coiners endorse the OSD.

Anyone can read about this here: https://opensource.org/history

But it's well-documented elsewhere, too.

The term 'open-source' is political, as much as it aimed to 'depoliticize' free software. Its definition is and always has been normative rather than merely descriptive. The term and concept exist to serve a movement, and anyone who is invested in that movement's goals is likely to be invested in promoting a historically informed understanding of both.

As for why you, specifically should care about the concept, I think I don't have the patience to make the case right now. But if you're genuinely interested in that question, I'd be happy to provide links to resources if you let me know what sorts of media you enjoy/have energy for.
I use Brave personally but my work machine is locked to Chrome. Guess I may be out of luck soon.
Funnily enough, your archive is already a friendlier version, there is one with even more ad hominem: https://archive.ph/7ZRbY
Your passkey provider will simply refuse to show that it has a credential for Bob's phishing convincing phishing site. RP challenges are bound to a domain for this purpose.
The impression I got from the document is that cells don’t communicate much with each other. They’re effectively multiple copies of the same cluster of services.

Cells could certainly encapsulate multiple microservices, but I don’t see a strong correlation between Smalltalk objects and cells. That may just be a lack of imagination on my part.
> Mullenweg had also asked Automattic employees to pick a side, shortly after banning WP Engine from WordPress.org. He wrote on October 3 that Automattic had extended an ""Alignment Offer"" to its employees. The company provided a buyout package of $30,000 or six months of salary (whichever was higher) to employees who wanted to leave because they disagreed with Mullenweg's actions. Employees who accepted the buyout were immediately terminated and are not eligible for rehire. According to the post, 159 people — 8.4% of the company — accepted the offer.

Hot take: it should be illegal to do these "agree with me or take a silver parachute" deals. This is the CEO blatantly forcing their political views on their workers and purging anyone who has a different opinion and wants to speak it.

And yes, just for completeness sake (and because he's tangentially involved in the Matt drama), that includes DHH's "no politics" rule at 37signals, which (if my fuzzy memory is correct) was also enforced by a similar "agree or parachute" deal. Yes, "no politics" is political, it's stopping the music after claiming a seat in musical chairs.
What is the other solution?

create a separate state for palestine under the control of hamas would only legitimise them, allow them to easily get more weapons and go on another oct 7, which will again lead to the bombings currently happening.

Bombing them to death would lead to deaths of many, many women and children cuz gaza is 75% children.

You cannot have peace with hamas, only ceasefire, and even then they havnt stopped launching homemade missiles.

The most sane solution is defeating hamas, establishing a third party control over it to stabilise the region and then return it to democracy, but israel is too trigger happy to do any progress on this field and hamas wants all of israel.

You cannot have peace on the land without destroying hamas. Not even for moral reasons. Maybe there is another solution in ur mind?
I have a boox note 3, I don't love it. I barely use it. Have a remarkable 2 but spouse stole it when I iddn't use it much. I bought a scribe and used it more. I had 2 sets of classes this spring. I used the crap out of the scribe. I tried the boox for it and went back to the scribe. All I was doing was taking written notes in class and using it as infinte paper for doing homeworks. The boox takes forever to wake up and just is more laggy. It was usable for reading stuff in google docs outside but an umbrella and a laptop worked better.

That said all 3 have amazing battery life, they'd all last all semester on a charge.
Blockchains don't compete with banks, they compete with stock markets and other exchanges.

Basically Bitcoin exists because nerds wanted to play Wolf of Wall Street and thought the government was holding them down.
I certainly know the Lisp information in this article already, but it's still a fun read. Hofstadter just has a charming way with words.

I found this bit extra amusing:

>It would be nice as well as useful if we could create an inverse operation to readers-digest-condensed-version called rejoyce that, given any two words, would create a novel beginning and ending with them, respectively - and such that James Joyce would have written it (had he thought of it). Thus execution of the Lisp statement (rejoyce 'Stately 'Yes) would result in the Lisp genie generating from scratch the entire novel Ulysses. Writing this function is left as an exercise for the reader.

It took a while, but we got there. I don't think 2024's AI is quite what he had in mind in 1983, but you have to admit that reproducing text given a little seeding is a task that quite suits the AI of today.
Re: "because of the logo I can't actually use it in general. For instance I wouldn't be comfortable using it with the church website I help maintain": I don't understand this. Why would the logo appear on the web site? Or do you mean that the mere existence of the logo, even if it is never seen by you or any user of the web site, means you can't use FreeBSD?
This is most likely due to corporate malware.

Even modern macs can be brought to their knees by something that rhymes with FrowdStrike Calcon and interrupts all IO.
You're the one who is mistaken.

I was not talking about i9s, I specifically stated I'm talking about "the highest-end x86 chips", like Threadripper. Nothing Apple has can compete on that scale, M3 and M4 are not even close to the top.

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html
It's called freedom of association, a foundational principle of capitalism and free markets.