skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree there are idealogical differences even though they’re very similar in important ways too. I just meant behavior, no ideas, were very similar
Uncle Sam blew up Nord Steam 2 pipeline so that Germany won't hesitate in its support against Russia.

Imagine Germans believing lies that hurt themselves.
That piece is as much a victim of western magical thinking as the people who it criticizes. The issues that we're seeing in Ukraine are purely material - offensives are no longer possible due to technological advances and the defensive position always wins. The fact that every Russian advance is also being ground down by a country with a quarter it's population is proof enough of this.

That we found this out in a small scale conflict is a blessing - our forefathers found it out in 1914 in a very unpleasant way across 1000km of trenches.

This is not a permanent state of affairs - a tank will be invented and it will break the stale mate in months.
Not joking: I'm surprised this isn't a campaign issue (in the USA). It would be an easy way to get attention, support, etc. And it wouldn't be a fluff issue. There are real tangible benefits to getting rid of daylight savings.

That said we're talking about an organization that can't balance its own budget; that there's a dedt ceiling crisis every few months. Why address something that's easy to fix and the people want?
to see yourself as a "cunt" is definitely rather unhelpful for just about anything.
Sometimes INTACH Hyderabad has good heritage walks. Might wanna check with them.

Try the tea there - The Hyderabadi/Irani chai (will be very sweet but goodness it's tasty!) - Cafe Niloufer. The cafe is named after the Turkish daughter in law of the erstwhile Nizam. She was/is really loved there.
“Everyone I don’t agree with is a Nazi”
>What will content creators gain from this platform? Nothing.

Honestly, that seems like a feature, not a bug. We already have commercially focused content platforms, not every platform needs to be engineered to maximize engagement, addiction and revenue.
Programming language as config is bad because it makes it easy to do the wrong thing (too much power). Friction can be good.

Ideally, the less power, the better:

- .env :: simple flat untyped key/value pairs. In practice, something like Pydantic can introduce hierarchy and type validation for the config
- json :: simple, few data types. Can be read/written by humans
- toml :: easier to edit by humans
- json5 :: not in Python stdlib
- yaml :: may require discipline, to avoid turing tarpit

As an intermediate between pure config and programming languages, jsonnet language can be used to generate json.

Turing complete: Ruby, Python, Lua, Lisp, etc — avoid for simple configs. They can be used as extension languages/ DSL
But I can also achieve the same (act of redrafting) by refactoring my source code, working on a math formula or you know just sit there and think in my mind.

All of those are related to language, because our thinking (and also math and logic) is based on language.

But just because we think in language, does not imply that writing is the only form of reasoning. It is ok when it is your preference and certainly has a value - like other thinks.
DuckDuckGo has an AI chat (beta)
Just saw that the duck has an AI chat (duck.ai). The best feature in my opinion is that you can select different chat models such as Llama and Claude to generate answers.

The UX itself reminds me of Bing Chat/Copilot.
Does anyone know if it is powered by MSFT? Or does duckduckgo run its own AI stack?
Yeah it's the author pathologizing that the influence of LOTR is somehow a major factor, if a factor at all in influencing NATO/Ukranian military strategy with no real proof?

It looks more a leftist who is mad that their realist socialist fiction didn't become popular and influential and instead the "conservative" fantasy of good and evil somehow came to define Western Liberal thinking, nevermind the sheer diversity of works that do confront moral grayness, or that cultures outside of the West (including Russia) do very much enjoy Fantasy as well.
I get the same feeling with increasingly many games as I get older.

It started with games that are basically engineering work. But now it's anything with resource management or long-term strategic thinking (basically whenever I think "hmm, I need to note down my thoughts so I can pick up my strategy where I left of next time I play").
As it should be. If people want more light in certain time of day, let's do it by moving schedules. It is not actually that big of an deal.
Ask HN: If the NSA offered free backups, would you use them?
>* 100% of your writing is worth your time.

Just curious, but do you think my collective 20 years of random posts across 10+ social media platforms, often with thousands of posts per platform, has been worth my time?
> Are these rules same in all software or knob behaves slightly different everywhere?

They're different everywhere.

My own opinion is that on-screen knobs for audio-type work can be fine as long as one can grab any part of the knob with the mouse and adjust it by moving the mouse up and down (er...well, physically forward and back).

But things are not always this way so it seems that opinions vary.
I did the California Zephyr and it was the most amazing any type of ride I have ever done. It was surreal. Do recommend.
People look at me funny when I say this, but it's true.

I work in performance - a space where we're thinking about threading, parallelism and the like a lot - and I often say "I want to hire who play with trains". What I mean is "I want people who play Factorio", because the concepts and problems are very very similar. But fewer people know Factorio, so I say trains instead.

I think I know why it's enjoyable even though it's so close to work, too. It's the _feedback_. Factorio shows you visually where you screwed up, and what's moving slowly. In actual work the time and frustration is usually in finding it.
Is that "fibre" or "full fibre".

They lied a lot for a good few years saying "OMG fibre broadband!" When in reality is was still copper for the last mile so that "fibre" connection in reality was some ADSL variant and limited to 80/20mpbs.

Actual full fibre all the way from your home to the internet is I think still quite a way behind. Even in London (London! The capital city with high density) there are places where there are no full fibre options.
You can also click on the post and then favorite them, but favorites are public.
Who says you have to use an analog PLL decoder? FM audio tape is clearly capable of storing DC because you can store a constant sine wave at a different frequency to your carrier frequency. Maybe you'll decode it with software defined radio software.
When I visited New York (from the UK) last year I took trains up to Connecticut and Rhode Island. I was surprised at how regular and comfortable the trains were given the US's reputation for passenger rail. I saw that you could go south as well. Is it just that the each coast is particularly well connected compared to the rest of the country?
Well yes.. I don't agree with antisemitism, homophobia and white supremacy, and I would categorize someone who espouses such values as a Nazi. Further I would categorize any platform that caters to Nazis and considers the presence of Nazis on the platform a feature as a "Nazi bar." I'm glad you understand.
AM is a type of modulation which is widely used by many different services (eg Shortwave broadcasting, CB radio, Aircraft VHF, etc).

However "Longwave and Mediumwave Broadcast" unambiguously refers to that service.
The Zero Click Internet
Fair enough, although the Hispanic Latinos also predate the Scots-Irish and WASPs in California, so they've got to have at least some impact...
Yes there are policy differences. My point is that the behavior is similar. They all lie, they all obstruct, they all gerrymander, they all have giant corporate and financial influence, they all drag their feet and fail to get anything meaningful passed, none of them care about real healthcare reform, they all push problematic overly capitalist ideals.

Yes there are differences. But dems have had plenty of chances to pass meaningful changes in the past decade and we still have broken healthcare, broken education, broke electorate systems, broken civil rights. If they were really that different we’d see different results based on who is in power, and we really barely do
Decomplexifying Curl
> The russian soldiers also largely don't think they represent evil, they think they defend russia

This is a very bold claim, can you back this up?

Because we won't see massive lines of Russian men trying to join the army to defend the homeland. In fact, the moment a general mobilization was announced you had hundreds of thousands (if not million+?) fleeing Russia.

The main motivations we've seen for the Russians joining are:

- entrepreneurship - going to war became an entrepreneurial endeavor to get paid a large sum of money (if I recall correctly Russians are now being paid more than US soldiers if you factor in their sign-in bonus);

- getting out of jail - to the point of seeing violent criminals commit crimes again;

I'm not saying they see themselves as representations of evil; I'm saying they don't seem to care whether they represent it or not.
The question is why they don't develop it for people as well. Instead of just "let's add another lane" for cars
But it is trivial to allow js per website using ublock. My default is no-js, and if there is some website I really want to use that requires js, then I enable it. If I find myself using that website regularly, then I make the permission permanent. It is literally zero burden.

I am not some no-js evangelist or javascript hater or anything, but a huge amount of the web really does work fine (sometimes better even!) without js enabled by default. I don't think it has to be strictly either-or.
Do we need big tech? The only thing I need is a search engine.

I prefer privately hosted web and mail servers. Before "the cloud", the economy worked just fine and companies had enough money for in-house IT.

By using the nextcloud example, the author of the article is asking the wrong question.
It's a US approach not considered the same in Europe/internationally.

A good example is the GIS industry where ESRI (ArcGIS) dominates. In Europe the open source qGIS is generally an acceptable alternative despite less 'support'. In America its hard to find anyone using qGIS and ESRI is basically a monopoly.
Which is obvious because they are different countries? And, also tourists select specific countries to visit so your "use case" is very rare.

Edit

Rare = majority of tourists in Europe go to specific cities and countries. There are trips between countries but it is rare to go around ALL Europe by train. Trains are significantly more expensive that flights.
Do you by any chance work with Python? If i recall correctly, the default Python library for VSCode doesnt work out of the box in VSCodium, as its pulled from MS servers, which VSCodium does not allow. I think you need to enable this connectivity on your own. So my understanding is that by “crippling” the maket, its more convenient for people to just use VSCode.
I've seen a lot of politicised "reasons". I rarely see resource based reasons .. which are more than likely the undercurrent.

Putin et al truly believe in a "Greater Russia" and that Ukraine is part of that.

First (2014) they wanted agricultural resources, better sea access, etc. and they took Crimea.

That provided some reason for a more recent invasion, after almost a decade of blocked water supply Russia needed a land corridor and a secure water supply o/wise Crimea was a hollow gain.

Still not going well with that: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-dam-blast-could...

Next to grain and water the other complaints seem small petty namecalling with little justification.
Ok, I had no other idea, had to do it yesterday, I’ll try to find a better sharing server.
I do. I have a Muji one.

I don’t allow anything more complicated than that, a light and a book in the bedroom.
I read an interesting remark once, that current growth of bureaucracy, NIMBYism et al. was greatly assisted by Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V.

During the typewriter era, anyone's ability to produce pages and pages of text was limited by their ability to type. Nowadays, you can copy/paste large blocks of code and thus inflate documents to enormous sizes. Which works just like sand in a gearbox of the decision-making process.

I wonder if the future of ESG, DEI and such is that one AI will produce endless reports and another AI will check if the correct buzzwords are used in correct frequency. And instead of yearly reports, they could easily become daily or hourly reports...

It would be a way to tout "allyship" on the social networks without actually doing anything substantial.
I’m not American. You should stop assuming everything happens and only happen in the us.
And, since when was Xenix open source?
Easy real-time collision detection
Possibly. Can I be certain that

1. They will protect them so only I can access them?

2. Not secretly modify them?

3. I can receive a copy whenever I need one?
Efficient Hierarchical 3D Generation with Multi-Plane Reconstruction Model
Large Corps arent exactly well known to handle the Explore part of the Explore-Exploit Tradeoff.

On the flip side lot of open source devs are going to get 100x more productive in the Exploit part than the avg coder monkey at large corp.

Nothing is obvious and predictable about where that story goes in an ever growing ever changing system.

Large corps will keep funding whoever gets the job done. While AI might replace lot of Large Corps activity which is basically on the Exploit side of the Tradeoff.
Installing was okay, but it was not running on any of the sample files I had. This is the output I got:

UserWarning: You are using a softmax over axis 3 of a tensor of shape (1, 8, 1, 1). This axis has size 1. The softmax operation will always return the value 1, which is likely not what you intended. Did you mean to use a sigmoid instead?
warnings.warn(

I know this isn't the right place for this, the right place is raising within github, but because you asked I posted...
I don't think you can compare the most advanced and rich country to other first world countries.

Someone can definitely do worst, that's out of discussion. We are looking at the upside potential.

The picture of this post show interstate trains that are old, slow and dirty. I'm sure standards can improve.
The Internet used plenty of closed source UNIX back then, and did just fine.
tell us more :)
I agree with Paul. Our creative and intellectual abilities are so powerful, yet there’s a real danger in handing them over to AI. That said, I think AI is still extremely useful for writing, if it complements one’s skills.

I recently published a [major philosophical work][1] that is the result of decades of thinking and three months of writing. I’m not a native English speaker, and although I know what I want to say, I often don’t know how to write it. I may not know or can’t find the right terms or phrasing, or I might make grammar mistakes. Sometimes, I can describe my ideas in a clumsy way, and I need help refining my sentences.

So, I use AI. I think, write my thoughts in my own way, and then work with AI to bring them closer to what I want. It’s hard work. Although AI can be an amazingly good writing partner, it often alters my text in ways that change the meaning completely. Even replacing a single word word with a synonym or adding a comma can turn a sentence into something totally unintended. It can be a lot of back-and-forth work to find the right paragraphs. Still, AI is a tremendous
help, and my work would have been more immature and unpolished without it, even if it sometimes feels a little artificial.

Of course, it’s much more ideal to master English fully and to practice writing until it feels natural. But AI helps with that, too.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41954302
There was plenty of research at my university without OSS.
That's quite a trick to dive into a fantasy that the problem with your opponents it that they are living in fantasy.
Yeah, it stings. I did buy 2 copies on launch day for myself and my son (8) though. We have spent a lot of time on Factorio together though and I prefer it much more than Minecraft (although we have probably clocked up many many more hours on that).
Shrunken, shrunked ain't no language I ever heard of.
We keep a postit list next to the breadmaker and write stuff down when we need to get something. Then when it is time to go shopping, we simply peel off the list and away we go.

I am getting disgusted by people who need to have that screen in their hand, all waking hours.
there is also gancio.org for a calendar solution
Until phones get to replace laptops and desktops, it doesn't matter much.
Yeah, the one about the tunnels being dug under the Berlin way was absolutely astonishing.
FLOSS is the personal computer model, where you own the computer and have final say on what data is processed on your machine. If you can't try to make your software or computer lie in on your behalf, it is not FOSS.

The big tech model where trust is in the company, not the person. Business love the big tech model because it's easier to let a few credit card companies deal with the trust issue than establish a trust relationship with everyone directly (or deal with cash), because surveillance capitalism is more profitable, and because it's more profitable to rent than to sell.

The big tech model can profit first on that cost difference, and later on switching costs which would otherwise inhibit abuse.

It has essentially nothing to do with the internet, as mainframes were networked long before personal computers. Even back in the 1980s, POS terminals used dial-up to verify credit card transactions.
I think that culture still exists outside of official IT teams. It is just contained in python scripts, R coding, excel, PowerApps, shadow IT etc.
Who says they don't? Who says I'm not?
Do you have links for some of the latest development/research on this?
I was not sure what this meant either. I know personally I have downloaded and uploaded some very very large files transatlantic (e.g. syncing to cloud storage) with absolutely no issues, so not sure what they are talking about. I guess perhaps there are issues with git cloning such a large amount of data, but that is a problem with git and not the infrastructure.

FWIW every school I've seen (and I recently toured a bunch looking at them for my kids to start at) all had the internet and the kids were using iPads etc for various things.

Anecdotally my secondary school (11-18y in UK) in rural Hertfordshire was online in the 1995 region. It was via I think a 14.4 modem and there actually wasn't that much useful material for kids then to be honest. I remember looking at the "non-professional style" NASA website for instance (the current one is obviously quite fancy in comparison, but it used to be very rustic and at some obscure domain). CD-based encyclopedias we're all the rage instead around that time IIRC - Encarta et al.
No, it’s boring to use cheap personal attacks (like I responded to) instead of actually engaging. If I wanted to read that, I could find it in YouTube comments.
Would be correct if it is "We shrank", but from my poor memory of the terminology that is the transitive form, shrunken is the intransitive form. But once again from my poor memory.
The author is obviously a conservative!

(note the praise for the virtuously conservative Tolkien and Herbert at the beginning)
Probably because most cities are so spaced out you'd still need a car to get from home to the train station and from the train station to your office when taking the train to work, for example. So it's easier to just drive there.
It’s so funny that this all came up today, last night my partner showed me the episode of Sex and the City where Carrie and Sam travel from NYC to San Francisco by train, though it’s mostly depicted as being an annoying hassle (imo their expectations of what train travel would be like were too high).
This is excellent. It's also worth noting we don't need to fund services via supporting private enterprise, either—many services should arguably be operated by zero-profit entities. For the most part, after paying infrastructure bills and salaries, the profit motive is contrary to providing quality service over time (see: enshittification)
> According to the British government, it receives no revenue from the .io domain, which owned by a private equity company

And this company operates out of jurisdiction, I presume. /s
I disbelieve that starting a lawsuit against Oracle because their software didn't work as it was supposed to would ever end well.

Do you know of any examples of that happening?
Top astronomy researchers call on FCC to study satellite mega-constellations
Before the modern age, people were far more accepting of supernatural and/or unproven narratives about our world. Nowadays we demand evidence for anything out of the ordinary and faeries in a purportedly realistic story would feel wrong to us. It seems natural to me that the genre of "fantasy" has emerged, to let us have unrealistic elements in stories without having to admit them into our worldwiew.

It sort of mirrors children's development, with them gradually considering fairy tale elements as less real and relegating them to stories specifically.
I disagree about the desktop not being a success but I guess it depends on how you define success. It's true that it's not as popular as some other OSes.
https://ghuntley.com/fracture/ - "Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture"

> Whilst Visual Studio Code is "open-source" (as per the OSD) the value-add which transforms the editor into anything of value ("what people actually refer to when they talk about using VSCode") is far from open and full of intentionally designed minefields that often makes using Visual Studio Code in any other way than what Microsoft desires legally risky...
> You can't seriously believe this.

You don't need to say that Putin isn't great to get arrested. Holding up a blank piece of paper is enough.