skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the UK (and other places like NZ/AU), public servants are permanent. They're not elected in any way.

So they are employees of their departments and don't change when a minister changes. Ministers are almost always a member of Parliament and appointed by the Prime Minister, so they can change at any time.

Usually a government will have some changes at the top of departments (the "Permanent Secretary") and high level executives, but that's also a "change of government to another party" event.
Texas' uneven population boom is creating ghost towns in many rural counties
Thank you for capably providing a successful demonstration of the point you replied to:

it’s difficult to know the overall biases of the greater community based on what any one person sees.
I don't have an account and all I see on the front page is posts about how bluesky is better than Twitter and how trump is Satan. There was one digital art piece of the moon over a lake.
Would combine quite well with `text-wrap` actually! [0] That way, the renderer knows the area it needs to fill (the implicit `max-content`, defined width/height, or flex/grid size of the container) and it knows how to best split up the text amongst the lines. Feels like the renderer would be capable of finding the optimal font size to satisfy those two constraints.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/text-wrap
Yeah, I remember wanting to work there. It was _the_ place to be for top engineering talent. But now I feel like I dodged a bullet failing their little leetcode puzzles.
> Eszter Czovek, 45, and her husband are moving from Hungary to Austria

Title is about talent heading north; first and only actual migration anecdote goes west. Vienna is only 0.7° more north than Budapest. Depending on the exact places of origin and destination, Eszter could be going to a lower latitude.

:)
From all the variants mentioned across the comments, the PS2Linux was the best one, being officially supported by Sony.

Originally they had though as a means to foster indie development, instead people got to use it for emulation, thus PS3 Linux Other OS no longer supported graphics acceleration, and then was completly dropped in a firmware upgrade.

On the PS2, we had official Linux CDs from Sony, a hard drive, connection cables, and a whole development environment, a GL like API, another more low level console like, both with hardware acceleration (although the actual one used on the devkit wasn't exposed).
Blot.im - you can write your posts in Markdown, Microsoft Word, Pages, Google Docs, OpenOffice. Your documents can be stored in Git, or a folder in Dropbox, or a folder in Google Drive, and the service publishes them from there. $5/month

(not affiliated, just used and liked it back when I had a public facing blog)

https://blot.im/
Qantas personnel in Sydney even requested removal of the report as it was causing problems – in response, the tool's status was downgraded.

Remind me never to fly Qantas.
Yes, probably there is more going on here, e.g. it is cheating.
Do you want to be:

- Rich and respected -> doctor

- Rich but not respected -> lawyer, software

- Not rich but respected -> professor
Leuven. It's a Dutch speaking town. The university is KU Leuven. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KU_Leuven
Would applying https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banach_fixed-point_theorem yield interesting convergence (and uniqueness) guarantees ?
And the compliance-industrial complex that incentivizes/forces that behavior.
The cheap stereomicroscopes don't have "indirect reflected light" but it's not hard at all to add a ring illuminator or just arrange a flashlight or other led light that comes in from the side. I emulate darkfield using a side illuminator all the time. You can also replace the installed LED with an LED matrix (like the tiny one adafruit sells) and just illuminate the outermost ring of pixels, this will emulate dark field mask.
This looks good! We do something similar. No links, just a call now button on your wordpress site. https://www.connect-ez.com/click-to-call-service/
Seems pretty easy to avoid those situations to me? I've never had a Twitter or Facebook account, tend to participate in the modern economy at least as much as the average person if not a lot more, and never once have wished I could tweet at a company for some reason or the other.

I'm sure I'm missing something - but I'm also equally as sure that it's a net gain in my life vs. a loss.

It's quite possible to interact with nearly every company out there without using social media.
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You Can't Build Interactive Web Apps Except as Spas and Other Myths
I see, no worries btw. we do not take an insult in you talking about this. On the contrary you raise a valid point which we need to improve.
The kicker for me was hearing that the NTSB - and NASA - rejected Boeing's fault tree.
my thought was that if you get an alert that a key system is flapping in production, your first thought shouldn't be to squelch the alert.
Interesting that they felt their content added to right wing conspiracies. Good on them for realizing and backing away, I guess, but won't they still feed other platforms? It does not appear that they are willing to halt production on that realization. Not to mention that this encourages others to still share their content on X, defeating the whole intent of no longer posting... The story doesn't add up.

On second thought, this is clearly an advertisement disguised as news trying to latch onto searches for Twitter/X. They are no doubt backing away, but only because nobody wants to read widely published news on X in the first place. X's niche is in providing a place for everyday people to get their own personal news out, like the aforementioned industry practitioners sharing what they are doing in industry.
Totally agree, but only if those taxes go to the entity that creates the money. From the federal government's point of view, who prints money, there is zero difference between collecting money and throwing it in a furnace. Both do the same thing. Money is just a piece of paper that says "the government owes you a debt of one buck". So if it is returned to them, they no longer owe it to you, and if it gets destroyed, the same thing is true.

But if those taxes go to the State of California, it's different. They don't print money, so it becomes a real debt to them. Destroying it in that case would cancel that debt and free the debtor (the Treasury) from that obligation.
> You cannot have an informed case-by-case decision without spending time.

No, that's bullshit. Nobody is after case-by-case decisions.

People are under DoS attacks from corporations throwing single-sided contracts into them until they make a mistake and accept something.

Those boxes are just that, harassment, done in the hope people will pay them to go away.
Would love for you to try our WebRTC service!
It depends on the code as much as anything. I wrote a regex engine in Zig, and the instant I get a bug report I set breakpoints on a failing test and step through.

On the other hand, I'm working on an interactive application, and when I see a problem with it, I add more logging statements until I figure out what the problem is. Any time the logs have excessive detail as a consequence, I gate them behind an 'extra' flag on a per-unit basis, only removing the ones which amount to "got here".

If I had to pick one technique, it would be logs. I naturally think in terms of a trace through the execution pathway, rather than a step-by-step examination of the state of a small window into the code. It clearly works the other way around for some people.

One thing that makes this approach better for me is that debug logging is literally free, Zig uses a lazy compilation model so logging code which doesn't apply to a release compilation isn't even analyzed, let alone compiled, let alone included. In a language which doesn't work that way, there's motive to use printf-only debugging, and clean up after yourself afterwards, and that's extra work compared to firing up a debugger. So it shifts the balance.
Most notably there was this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_2022_Twitter_suspensi...

But it has been ongoing, eg https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/04/elon-musk-twitter-st..., https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/15/elon-musk-led-twitter-suspen..., https://www.forbes.com/sites/markjoyella/2024/01/09/elon-mus...
What I'm seeing here is lots of echo chambers getting created as we speak. Threads, bluesky, etc... I don't use Threads because I don't use Instagram that much. Everyone will have their safe space and the world will continue without any issues whatsoever. Heck, there are countries where Facebook is the "internet". Other than the left (US, UK, Canada?) posting on any of those platforms, nothing will change for the rest of the world and each one will capture what the other side said and post it on the platform.
What are these ICE vehicles that require so much maintenance? I have three from 10 to 25 years old and the amount of maintenance they require is negligible, at best.
That was the norm in the US in the 1970s.
Obviously my example was for someone that grew up speaking Chinese and American English natively, as in a person of Chinese descent that grew up in America. There are millions of such people.

I think you're missing the point entirely.
I honestly believe it's a cultural thing. I don't think there's any rational reason to not want to use a debugger, but I've met many people who swear it's useless. I think people in web tend not to use debugger, and a lot of Linux people as well. Everybgame developer I've met and most windows programmers use them
Please stop the coding challenges
A Diver Found a Ring Lost 50 Years Ago Near Barbados
If you can, watch the (very) old TV series called "Yes Minister" from UK television (it's from the 70s/80s).

Sir Humphrey Appelby often explains to the Minister Jim Hacker how the Minister sets "policy" and it is the "humble public servants" that carry out that policy, having attended to the details that are required when dealing with the heavy business of government across departments, while leaving the Minister to concentrate on the "big picture", and doing his job, which is:

1. Defend the Ministry in Parliament

2. Make sure that the Ministry's budget is defended in Cabinet
Sometimes I have had much better results with adding logs especially if an issue doesn't occur always and I am not so sure about the steps either because breakpoints take a lot of time as well. Also, in some cases (esp. mobile UI) breakpoints might actually break the flow and you might not get a proper flow. But yeah mastering the debugger is indeed a must and a GUI debugger is better than a CLI debugger. It's just that at least for me personally logging is first line of debugging :|
I went through this not long ago too. As an Obsidian user though, I really wanted to be able to combine my saved pages with other notes though. There wasn't a good option that I could see though.

In the end I wrote an Obsidian plugin (https://github.com/inhumantsar/slurp) to simplify and save pages as markdown.
That appears to be your "following" feed
But self driving has almost nothing to do with EVs. One could build all interconnected self-driving cars without all of them being EVs...
Many people believe that a debugger won't work in their specific scenario, but often they are wrong; debugger can connect across network boundaries or into other processes that weren't launched by the IDE
It shouldn't be too much extra state. I assume that 2 bits should be enough to cover castling rights (one for each player), whatever is necessary to store the last 3 moves should cover legal en passant captures and threefold repetition, and 12 bits to store two non-overflowing 6 bit counters (time since last capture, and time since last pawn move) should cover the 50 move rule.

So... unless I'm understanding something incorrectly, something like "the three last moves plus 17 bits of state" (plus the current board state) should be enough to treat chess as a memoryless process. Doesn't seem like too much to track.
That's why WW3 with China will have to be held in Overwatch.
Oh sweet. I didn't know about that. I will be adding that to my toolbox.
> You have to remember that humans tend to not enjoy accomplishing thievery and the scammers most often do this out of necessity.

There are endless ways to earn an honest living. Nobody stealing from vulnerable people and the mentally degraded is forced to. I fully believe that people can survive without scamming seniors for a paycheck.
Ah, I didn't see the ilegal move discarding.
I had the EXACT same experience as a kid. Found a GW-BASIC book on my parent's bookshelf, found out that QBASIC was bundled with Windows and it ran most sample code that were in that book and it went downhill from there.

When I was bored I loved reading the MS-DOS 6 manual cover to cover.

Back when Internet access wasn't readily available the quality of documentation and sample codes were impressive.
People who think that case X cannot be debugged without printf often don't know the features of their debugger. I.e. look at several of the comments which seem to miss that you can:

- Remote debug.

- Use conditional breakpoints.

- Use breakpoints to trigger commands, e.g. log values, enable other breakpoints, etc. instead of stopping. execution.

- Debug multi-threaded code.

- Disassemble a fragment.
> I would add that the domain verification is very straightforward for anyone who's touched nameservers before.

This kind of feels like a bit of an example of this: https://xkcd.com/2501/ :)

Perhaps one in a thousand people on earth have ever even _heard_ of a nameserver. I'd agree that if you've done anything with one before, the domain verification is fairly trivial, but most people have not.
What's the user case here?

I'm my various travels in I/O landed in windows meory mapped files have never been worth the hassle for my (fairly typical) workloads.

Would love to know when this approach is actually "better" for some definition of better.
For comparison Twitter has 586 million MAUs. So Bluesky is at 3% assuming all those are active. In terms of HN posts over the last 3 days (excluding posts about itself) it's 47-2 in favor of Twitter. Which sounds bad but it's a whole lot better than the ghost town that is Threads which has 0 and way more "users." So definitely on a better than the last "Twitter killer" but I'm still not betting on it.
you're either too poor or not well connected.

the "accessible" way is to enter a real time "header" biding agreement. but chances are you don't know about it either and is just making noise.
Forums. Back to forums. Heavily administered/modded, stay on topic, small communities. No, not (sub)Reddit.
Well yeah, but I didn't know I wanted i = 100 until I had examined the fprintf output.
You should be able to stay on Following, they made that change a while back. I.e., once you choose Following, you will keep going there till you change it.
gdb has a skip function and you can exclude STL headers and functions named in special ways so that reduces the noise quite a bit.
Yes, I too read the article.

But he did run a shell
I have not finished rewriting my Python `learning CMS' in Go.

But that's OK, I'm on the way to learning Go.
Benefits of Remote Work (and Why We Chose Co-Location)
I would recommend relative symlinks (ln -rs). Makes it easier to rename the homedir for example.

On a copy-on-write filesystem, linking may not have much utility vs. copying.
It's a very common way of justifying poor behavior or criminal activity. It's basically "if they didn't sell the drugs someone else would" or "if they didnt steal someone else would" etc.
Is it not usually? I've never had to compile gdb myself to get TUI
Tariffs against foreign EVs plus dropping the EV credit means Elon is trying to corner the US EV market through cronyism. You'll pay whatever Tesla is charging, or you won't be able to get an EV.
As I mentioned above, I have 0 following and followers, so it takes the discover tab content to show on the following tab, even though the correct behavior would be to show nothing. Therefore, since Bluesky deliberately does this, I don't see it as being better than Twitter at all, engagement chasing wise. After all, it is VC backed and will need to make money somehow.
TL;DR.

All of the LLM models tested playing chess performed terribly bad against Stockfish engine except gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct, which is a closed OpenAI model.
Digging around the site it appears that graphics and games are the use case.
The Dark, Unspoken Promise of Trump's Return
While a hot take, you're not wrong.

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/368528/us-military-army-n...

> Should a true national security emergency arise, America lacks the ability to mobilize as Israel and Russia have done. The Individual Ready Reserve (IRR) — comprising former active duty or selected reserve personnel who could be reactivated by the Secretary of Defense during wartime or a national emergency — is designed to act as a bridge from the AVF to a revived draft. Almost forgotten even by servicemembers, the IRR earned brief notoriety when some servicemembers were “stop-lossed” during the Iraq War — pulled from the IRR and returned to active duty involuntarily, usually to deploy again.

> Today, there are just over 264,000 servicemembers in the entire IRR. The Army’s IRR pool has shrunk from 700,000 in 1973 to 76,000 in 2023. Forget building new units in wartime: the IRR is now incapable of even providing sufficient casualty replacements for losses from the first battles of a high-intensity war.

> And even if more Americans could be encouraged to sign up, they may not be able to serve. Before Covid, fewer than three in 10 Americans in the prime recruiting demographic — ages 17 to 24 — were eligible to serve in uniform. Those numbers have shrunk further since the pandemic began. Only 23 percent of young Americans are qualified to enlist without a waiver, based on the most recent data. Endemic youth obesity, record levels of physical unfitness, mental health issues exacerbated by the Covid pandemic, and drug use have rendered the vast majority of young Americans ineligible for military service. Scores on the ASVAB — the military’s standardized exam for recruits, which tests aptitude for service — plummeted during the pandemic.

Turns out, if you don't build a system for your human pipeline to thrive, it comes back to bite. You can only neglect it for so long until the system goes from hobbling along to system failure.
That doesn't say you can opt out. It says sometimes legitimate interests aren't enough. For example, as a hypothetical service provider I have a legitimate interest in tracking your GPS location everywhere you go, because it helps me predict what kind of service my customers like based on where they live and work. However, your right to not be tracked is more important, so I can't use my legitimate interest to justify the tracking in this case.
This is just a profit calculation though. Do they earn more by keeping and mining this information or by selling it, or both? For now they might not be selling it (I don't know), but that can change before you say "but GDPR...".
The Guardian Will Stop Posting on "Toxic Media Platform" X
Most U.S. adults have PFAS, microplastics and other assorted contaminants in their blood. Some of which are known to mimic natural hormones in the body.

Coincidence? My guess is no.
As the hearing brother of a deaf sister with hearing parents, what I usually tell people is to learn sign language and get the cochlear. Forcing only cochlear on the child means that the family does not live in the deaf world with their child, while only speaking SL might distance them and cause them to miss out on a lot in the hearing world.

It reminds me of basque spain, where everyone speaks catalan and some people continue to speak euskera at home or with friends they know can speak.
I hear this concern a lot; but never could quite grasp it.

If the premise is that the mindset of citizens is so easily controllable that a foreign entity can do it, then why is a foreign entity's control of citizens' mindset any worse than domestic entity's control of the same? If people have no protection against the control of their mindset, then does it not follow that their minds will be controlled by _some_ entity? Isn't the game already lost at that point? And are we really discussing whom we would rather surrender our minds to?
Fuzzing the PHP Interpreter via Dataflow Fusion
It is much better now.
> Experts recommend that adults sleep between 7 and 9 hours a night.

https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/sleep/how-much-sleep

Absolutely nothing wrong with sleeping between 8 and 9 hours, you're actually exactly in the healthy range.

I have the same profile : no caffeine or other stimulants, good volume of physical activity; I don't need any reminder to go to bed, I get the obvious the call by being quite tired.

Discussing sleep with people, I found two types that are dominants:

- people who heard "between 7 and 9 hours" and remember "8 hours" (can't say they're wrong here!)
- people who heard "between 7 and 9 hours" and remember "the goal is 7 hours", and actually sleep between 5 and 7 hours
https://youtu.be/6C4ZV4TW86g?si=6CR7eiHKjd0ygIzc
Russia Halts Export of Enriched Uranium to United States
I will try to explain this guy to my son as a "basically a militant Amish guy"
yes and people (or maybe the industry in secret) promotes this as "Its good to be overweight and obese. celebrate it"
Just hold out for a few more months. Then the US is going to stop supporting Ukraine and will drop its sanctions against Russian goods, especially fossil fuels.

Meantime, just remember the Great Patriotic War, which was so much worse. Glory awaits.
The message from these antagonistic companies is clearly: "Look at what they made me do to you!" And users (even here in the HN comment section) fall for it. Like a beaten spouse. Yessssssss, it's the evil EU.... Why do they force you to beat me up?
Life is not a movie. People are boring, want to avoid trouble as much as possible and don't even seriously consider the use of violence even when they are deeply hurt. The father who kills his kids' rapist? Very very rare.
Show HN: I built a Vimeo alternative for small content creators
Hey everyone,

I have been recently experimenting with video content as part of a Video challenge.

I have ADHD One of the things I struggle with is memorizing scripts when recording videos.

Free apps didn't help much. I didn't wanna pay just to get the teleprompter feature so I took matters in my own hands and built an online recording studio with Ai.

My tech stack is: Vite, react and bolt.new

I can script, record, download my video from one place.

And the best thing? I don't need worry about file storage fees.

All feedback is welcome. Thanks!
But it was not this nuclear sub - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Halibut_(SSGN-587) - which would have been a far more interesting tail.
Fedora Stakeholders Debate Concerns over "Karma" Term for Their Updates System
Yes, he is guilty. But he's guilty of defamation, not incitement. It is an important distinction because "I thought that was true" is a defense in a defamation case, but not in incitement- you can't say "the pope is catholic, go kill him now", regardless of whether he is actually catholic.

"He didn't present a defense therefore it has been determined for a fact that he is guilty" is not especially sound. You'd have to concede the existence of witches on the absurd end, and that everyone who makes a plea deal is guilty on the more rational end. He's guilty because he publicly made harmful defamatory statements that he privately did not believe, both of which are made clear by evidence.
It’s not that strange?

The words are homophones and both express a reticent emotional state.