skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very nice! I talked (~10y ago) at a Nix meetup to a company that did over the air updates of bicycle shed usage signs in NL that ran on embedded linux systems. One of their bigger challenges was that their downlink quota was very limited. I suggested them to peek at bsdiff, not sure if they ever got to it (or maybe would have gotten a better downlink ;))

I might give this idea another go myself with this nice rust library. With some heuristics one could partition the recursive closure of dependencies in a way optimizes for reuse (e.g. try to compute shared subtrees). Probably more efficient than a random tar of e.g. the entire root file system of a buildroot android system.
If you are seriously injured and/or disabled then your fellow taxpayers will be paying for your health care either through Medicare or the NDIS.

In a society it's not fair for your selfish actions to have a negative effect on everyone else.
You can't put the diskette into the device by pushing it in. Instead, you have to hold it at a position that makes an arrow appear and when you release it, it will push itself magically.
That's good, but that still produces friction AND reduces the sense of the ownership of the owning team.

> I just don't want there to be a no-man's-land.

A different model I've seen is that the ownership of the whole system is shared across the trusted senior members (every team has one, but you need to get an approval from an external one). One thing this avoids is the bottleneck on specific teams (only team X can approve the PR, but they're now super busy with their own features).
The problem with dictatorships is that you often don’t realize you’re in one until it’s too late.
This is seriously cool!
declarative does not equate to config files

the property that equates to config files is "being static", which modern deployments are not.
To be fair every single law in the world is an attack on freedom if you're a 5 IQ freedom absolutist.

You can't drive a car without headlights, you can't drive a car without seatbelts, you can't kill your neighbours if he fucks your wife, you can't open a shop selling BBQ dog ribs... life is so unfair =(
I think the OP is correct, though probably not in the way they mean.

I love living in Japan, but I’ll never be able to adopt that mindset, or be able to eat all those disgusting fishes they love.

That’s fine. A lot of Japanese people think it’s valuable to have different perspectives too, even if they could never convince themselves that it’s ok to just walk up to someone and ask them what their problem is.
With the computational efficiency of Gaussian splatters, this could be ground-breaking for photorealistic avatars, possible driven by LLMs and generative audio.
https://archive.is/HFlx1 is one example of the lengths they are going to - third parties running entire Google cloud software stack (i.e. the GCP stuff we all know, and the underlying infrastructure too) in their own data center that is entirely air-gapped from Google itself. This is a huge undertaking.
Social Rejection
This was exactly what I thought. Not sure why you're being downvoted. Granted it's not very useful if you're just an average citizen.
Any information about the architecture config of the model?
>> In the 2024 UK general election, they got 14.3% of the vote. I don't think that's a "tiny minority". And if that's a "tiny minority", then the 12.2% of the vote Lib Dems got is an even tinier minority.

I don't disagree. I argued that the Labour win was a landslide, not that the Lib Dems' result was one. Me and the OP were disagreeing about where the Tories' voters went: Reform, or Labour. I argued they mostly went to Labour and my reasoning is that Labour are now the party that best represents socially conservative voters.

I agree that FPTP is skewing results and Reform might have fared better in a more representative system. Then again, the Lib Dems may also have got more votes. There was a lot of discussion in the elections about "voting strategically" to oust the Tories and avoid splitting the "liberal" vote. Maybe with a more representative system that wouldn't be an issue anymore.

FPTP is an embarrassment certainly. I don't vote in the UK, I'm a bloody foreigner, but if the system was more balanced I might even consider becoming a citizen. It's stupid that I've lived in this country for so long and I don't get to say where it goes politically. Although that would require me to swear an oath of allegiance to the king and I'm a republican. It's a tough call.
It's literally automatic by configuring your workflows by file changes.

> If you make your deployment fast and seamless, who cares?

It still costs CI/CD time and depending on the target platform, there are foundational limitations on how fast you can deploy. Fixing a button in a React SPA and deploying that to S3 and CloudFront if fast. Building and deploying a Go backend container -- that didn't even change -- to ECS is at least a 4-5 minute affair.
>an article making the claim that perhaps it shouldn't even be called a democracy at all anymore.

some of those people here who haven't seen real non-democracies make all sort of such unfounded claims. To anybody making such claim i suggest to visit my old country - Russia - and try to use any rights supposedly guaranteed by Russian "democracy".

>you have to accept that all these other places which don't guarantee freedom of speech to hateful people have just as much, if not more, claim to being democracies

as long as they deliver on their guarantees of rights they are good democracies too. I just personally like US style more. Including how for example Congress is elected - individual elections instead of parties lists (like say in Germany).

> freedom of speech for all possible minorities is not actually a fundamental part of being a democracy.

it is fundamental part of the US democracy because it is guaranteed as such a right here.
In general just pausing without saying eeuuh will make you smarter.
There's a company that does HVAC proposals for technicians who want to generate sales. Knowing residential buildings footprint and layout can be helpful to estimate job size.
> X because they didn't jump to immediately remove stuff the government wanted taken down

Yes they did. X has always capitulated to the whims of governments.
a box of monkeys
There is zero willingness by Meta and others to even follow through on their own guidelines or government requirements. I think it's time a hard decision was made about the harms spread by these networks.

I am definitely not alone in submitting a report about a fake profile only for the system to nearly automatically deny it. Even when the real person being impersonated is literally sitting next to me asking me to help them submit the report. Even illegal drug dealers operate in the open on Meta properties with no recourse whatsoever.

The process of eliminating a huge swath of fake and harmful content could be implemented trivially, we have so many ways of muting or limiting the spread of information which is unvetted, dubious origin, has outlier qualities and so on - yet nothing of the type is engaged by these networks to obvious harmful consequences.
> this ban is as stupid as Australia's laws enforcing bicycle helmets.

You're damn right, same as the law enforcing seatbelts, cars head and brake lights, ABS, testing of tap water quality, testing of food quality, &c.

I want absolute freedom to get utterly fucked by the first mega corp or dumbass who want to do it !!!
> Do you struggle to not break your code? To me it's like the main responsibility of any developer, isn't it?

Yes, but my time is limited and there's the opportunity cost.

It also means more code, more tests for future. More code, ceteris paribus, represents more maintenance costs for the future.

> Because you clearly aren't in control, if you feel compelled to dump anything and everything in the same repository to try to prevent things from breaking.

I can prevent things from breaking in multi-repo, multi-versioned architecture, it's just more expensive to do so.
Instead of being a god in the sky, you sit in a hover craft on the ground.
CudaText is a wonderful software. I found it after a few years of using SublimeText (and after my current employer doesn't allow me to use it). CudaText is fast and has many plugins to manage every need as Notepad++, despite some roughness in some parts of the user interface compared to ST.
Explainability towards users is essential if there is any sort of responsibility for what the model produces.

But explainability at a deeper level is also critical towards developers, to close the feedback loop and iterate towards better models.
It's a little sad, but you're right of course that many books no longer make business sense now that everything they offer is online and free. Well, when the AIs put us all out of business and we're home all day in our rabbit hutches, we'll have plenty of time and free content to read.
May I ask what felt wrong with Linux on the Framework ?
I've seen a few "female plumber" companies advertising on this basis, with the implied promise of not being rude or patronizing to female customers.
5-eyes and then 9-eyes and then 12-eyes say "whaaaa?"

I think the kinetic testing is done all over the middle east. The mind-control stuff is pretty successfully deployed down under, though.
You have it backwards. I'm saying that the standard operating procedures and the normal "computer operator" like way of performing a landing or go-around caused perfectly qualified pilots to botch what should have been a simple go-around that either of them likely could have pulled off drunk and blindfolded.

I think if they had kicked everything off and flown it rawdog from the instant they were told to go around everyone would be alive but they remained too dedicated to doing things "by the book" until it was too late and they had been too confused by the system behavior and didn't have the situational awareness to fly it manually.

Sure, the stress of the situation, the poor communication, etc, aren't ideal and surely contributed to lining up the dominoes here but the final straw was the go-around process.
> This program will hang indefinitely if TSO is in use, and will crash almost
immediately if it is not in use.

So now we just need to solve the halting problem, and we'll have our answer...
What is an edge case, what is an accepted outage window, failure rate etc. depends on the specific case.

On one end you have Netflix-like architectures, on the other end you have intranet apps used twice monthly by two users. There's a wide range of needs and expectations in between.
> Let's remember that this ecosystem is a mistake that no party would willing recreate again.

The human species is not known from learning from its mistakes. /s
Good Point;

Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codependency The description talks about negative aspects but we need to understand the essence and apply it constructively to caregiving where both are codependent on each other though it is imbalanced.

Codependency: Are You Caretaking or Caregiving? - https://www.simplypsychology.org/caretaking-vs-caregiving.ht...

Finally, note that there is always a overlap between caregiving and caretaking and things are never clearcut as the textbook definitions may imply.
Hi all! I'm one of the co-authors. Honestly it's a dream to end up on HN with my research. As mentioned in the video we made, it has been a long road (6-7 years) to achieve this absolute moonshot of a project. I think we'll look back on this demonstration as the first experiment that truly made a distributed and real-world deployed quantum network. Not only did we use a (quantum) hardware platform capable of quantum processing, we also generated the entanglement in a way that it can be used in further quantum computations. In order for all this to work on a distributed network, we had to fully design and build the architecture to support that, both hard- and software. And we did it successfully!

Besides hard-working PhD students, another key ingredient that our research institute QuTech facilitated, was the collaboration with expert hardware and software engineers, allowing us to quickly transform new ideas into (deployable) products. A great show of what's possible when academia mixes with professional engineering.
But of course there was enough hacking and tinkering going on that it warrants to be on HN ;)

You can reply here if you have any questions, I'll be checking throughout the day. Thanks!
>like stripping away LGBT rights

Not even a week ago a new law was signed that enables anyone to legally change there sex yearly while making it a finable offense up to 10.000€ to state reality.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Determination_Act_(Germ...

I think crazy people is very fitting.
It seems like we don't need a technical solution for this and making one would be dystopian as you point out.

Why not just (a) make it illegal so the parents and tech companies see it that way and (b) put some fines on the responsible adult parties if violations are found?

Sure enforcement would be spotty and loose, but tickets for parents and fines for tech companies would go a long way to establish the cultural change without the need for "verification"
> The majority of Canadians share the majority of Americans' view of the Middle East.

Almost 50% of Canadians believes Israel is committing genocide in Gaza:
https://www.readthemaple.com/polls-show-gap-between-canadian...
So Automattic has put together a list for spammers and hackers to use to target a bunch of sites who are no longer doing business with Matt Mullenweg’s nemesis.

That’s… shortsighted. This will surely result in legal action from one or more of these sites?
> they invented the term

Wait! The term incel was already around when GenZ were still busy wetting dipers.
> Given the lack of interest in the industry “self” regulating, and/or taking responsibility of, the content; what other option is there

This is surely an important point. People often make the argument of individual freedom. But at the same time, evidently we are excellent at using those freedoms to screw ourselves over. Globally, we've been speedrunning fucking up society in critical areas for decades now. Could the solution be less freedom? Is there some hidden hook whereby more freedom can solve everything?
These are in the work [0] for a few years already. [1]

[0] https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/news/toilet-camera-uses-a...

[1] https://today.duke.edu/2021/05/smart-toilet-uses-artificial-... (from before the LLM hype cycle, even!)
I believe Heimdal is supposed to provide patch management cross-platform, so similar to what RHN/WSUS/etc provide, but for all your platforms on one system.

Also, Microsoft has been aggressively removing the ability to control what patches you install, I assume because they don't test most combinatorics of possible patches running and people kept picking and choosing, so if you still wanted that level of control despite being told "don't do that", you would use a system like that.
John Watrous's lecture notes on theory of computation, quantum information, etc.
Very well said !
All those incremental changes is what made my research work indeed. As we described in the paper, the margin we had on amount of signal (dependent also on the conversion efficiency!) was small, so every % of loss anywhere in this chain of photon from emission to detection mattered.
or you are looking at this maybe a little rosy colored. the tabacco ban in new zealand, as well as same ideas for england, would affect also grownups. also - what is social media anyway? i don't think this can be as easily defined as a molecule. and it's supervision would require surveillance. and that's not a good thing. sure kiddies need boundaries and guidance but the broader picture shows that such ideas are usually connected to extending the same thinking to adults. and again - my body, my choice. i do not accept the state telling me what not to do when it isn't impacting somebody else on an individual and direct level. end of story.
The biggest problem, is the price point.

it's simply too expensive. and the advantages it CAN provide is not guaranteed for all games anyway
Ahh yes, government knows what is best for you.
>I always figured it's just a force of habit, but they're doing it in maximum power-save mode, and are way past giving a fuck about how gross it looks to everyone around them.

That's the other thing about it, when it was being done in the past: people weren't so appealed by having bodies, or frightened of life and anything that's not sterile.

So they weren't as grossed out by everything - including a person merely licking their fingers to count some pages or notes...
I may be completely wrong, but I see a lot of talk in terms of how the Dems failed to be elected.

I'm thinking more about how the Reps succeeded in being elected.

That, far as I can tell, is through Trump lying through his teeth in the most incredible manner every time he speaks, and people who are ill-equipped to see through it being deceived.

I have to think it's hard to compete with that, if you're not lying yourself.
It's offending because it's complicit with the dystopian mass surveillance. Encouraging of it even. "I can find my keys when I lose them, so it's fine that a single corporation knows where billions of people are and what they are doing"
Finally. Some long time ago I filed a ticket for UTM and QEMU if TSO (and Rosetta) could be used for VMs because x86 VMs on ARM CPUs are dog slow at the moment, but back then this wasn't on the horizon. Good to see Apple themselves are working on it.
Our family (my daughters, wife) has had Find My paired on our phones since, well 2010 when it was introduced. We like it.

I remember watching my sister and her husband calling each other frequently with, "How far are you away from home?" and just kind of scratched my head. (I think I have sinced talked them into enabling Find My.)

When my wife or I want to call a daughter we can see immediately if they are at work or at home... things like that are nice. There's also an indescribable sweetness to just looking longingly in on a daughter who is far away and wondering how her day is going. Empty nest blues? (Or maybe Miner at the Dial-A-View.)
You don't need "classical encryption" for quantum key distribution. With QKD you can provably detect if a MITM attack happened. With classical methods you can never be 100% sure, although how much of that matters in practice is another question.
Minecraft, Foundry etc would probably be the closest.

Arma. God I hate that game. You need tryhard larpers or that game is fundamentaly broken.

In the Battlezone analogy all but one player who is commander have the role of NPCs
I wouldn't go that far, as there are already a bunch of people using it. As always, there's a spectrum between mass consumption and purely individual environments. It's just that as an industry, we've never been that much oriented towards the "mass" end since personal computing started. You basically pick one of two or three IDEs, and as a prize get to customize your color scheme…

There's still a not-quite-niche amount of e.g. (neo-)vim or Emacs users who have highly customized environments, and often not just by composing various third party elements, but also writing a lot of extension and glue code.

And of course on the other end, you've got people who wrote their own editors and other daily apps, often encouraged by constraints - forth environments in embedded situations (Chuck Moore's ColorForth being a good example), or Windows without "POSIX escape hatches", where there's a lot of handwritten tools in C/C++. I'm a bit saddened about how little one knows of this, which brings us back to art: Just like we're never getting to see the unique paintings some Belgrad plumber is doing in their attic, we're also never getting to see the dozens of Rexx scripts that work for some IBM mainframe programmer for decades.

A lot of the "alternative" environments are less practical. But they are joyful to their users, which is a part of user experience (or, well, human experience) we shouldn't neglect. Performative minimalism is probably one of the bigger ones amongst the readers of this forum.
> You need to be able to gradually roll out a change to prevent problems from escalating and causing downtime.

From my perspective I prefer it to rolling updates, it just costs a lot of resources. It gives you a chance to verify all the parts of your system together during release.

You deploy an entire new parallel copy of your system and test it. This can be manual or automated. Once you have confidence, you can flip traffic. Alternatively you can siphon off a slice of production traffic and monitor metrics as you gradually shift traffic over to the new release. Note that you can also nearly "instantly" roll back at any point, unlike with a rolling update. Again, this is only "sort of" a mixed fleet situation because you can maintain the invariant that service A at v1.23 only talks to service B at v1.23. This means you can atomically refactor the interface between two services and deploy them without thinking too hard about what happens when versions are mixed.

Distributed transactions I'm not so sure about, we would have to talk specific situations.

> And this is being done just because someone thinks it's a good idea to keep all code in a single repo?

It's more like, if you have a monorepo this is one option that becomes simpler for you to do, should you happen to want to do it.
The art of good topology and retopology: a conference and a free guide
I was. My install, my setup. Linux Engineer was my job. We are talking about 15-20 developers all using pirated Windows 10 for workstations.
A comic uses fluid dynamics to explain how groups of people move
The problem is that I don’t know what’s happening behind the scenes at American tech companies or how secure their systems truly are from their own state agencies. Can I safely upload furry porn and torrented anime to my (by Apple encrypted) iCloud Drive without worrying that it might be used against me in the future? How much does the Trump administration seek to tighten control over people compared to the Biden administration? At what point is it wiser to sacrifice convenience, time, and appealing design for (presumably) safer but more labor-intensive software?

Also, thank you for complimenting my blog. I love hearing (or in this case reading) comments like that because it’s exactly what I aim for: writing as a human for other humans who might find something of interest in my thoughts on both important and (mostly) less important things.
The obvious example being minimum wage earners.
Maybe Google doesn't want people to reach businesses from search results and they want businesses to pay for ads so people can reach them.
On one of my sites I received a million requests from Googlebot before lunchtime today. Those requests were spread over hundreds of IPs. I get similar traffic from them and other hyper scalers daily. I'm just one guy. I don't have load balancers and endless engineering budget. I'm sick of this.
Also the perceived need of (not) being useful. I don't feel the need to have all my stuff out there. That's as true for many of my unpublished blog posts as it is for many of my unreleased projects.

The world doesn't need another sudoku solver, and I don't think mine is any better than the thousands already out there. The same is true for my unpublished rants or my unpublished howtos.
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Have you read this book ? : https://www.fnac.com/a12617239/Sarah-Kaminsky-Adolfo-Kaminsk...