skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can just run Docker containers as `--u $UID:$GID`, presuming the docker container isn't set up in such a way that it's hostile to its contents being executed by a non-root user. Usually this just means ensuring that you don't have read/execute permissions locked down to just root and that any in-container directories which need writes have the global write bit set. Once you do that, you can run your containers as whatever user/group you'd like, and things generally just work, and you don't have to worry about building custom images.

$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=24.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=noble
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS"
$ mkdir tmp
$ docker run --rm -v $(pwd)/tmp:/tmp alpine:latest sh -c 'echo "ok" > /tmp/test.txt'
$ ll tmp
.rw-r--r-- root root 3 B Sat Nov 16 14:53:51 2024 test.txt
$ docker run -u $UID:$GID --rm -v $(pwd)/tmp:/tmp alpine:latest sh -c 'echo "ok" > /tmp/test2.txt'
$ ll tmp
.rw-r--r-- root root 3 B Sat Nov 16 14:53:51 2024 test.txt
.rw-r--r-- chris chris 3 B Sat Nov 16 14:54:16 2024 test2.txt
Now you've confused me. How is Mercurial easier to self-host than git? I've been doing both trivially over SSH to a server I have, but I was under the impression that they both had a good enough HTTP server built in as well?
Above Ukraine, a Sky Full of Drones Is Changing the War
Any Python program fits in 30 characters
In 9 years in the Palo Alto house, the only things I ever upgraded were GPU and RAM, and things seemed to work out fine. So I'm not too worried about it, no.

That said, I do regret the motherboard choice, and I suppose if I ever resort to replacing them then it's a fine time to upgrade everything else. Hope it doesn't come to that though.
For me, I think it has to do with ..just having done more, experienced more.

When I built blanket forts as a child it was something new, my first attempt at building something. It was exiting to figure out how to do it, and enjoy the end product. After a few of those it became a bit more usual, and I started doing other things - play with model cars, build lego sets, etc.

I recently tried welding and I felt that same tinge of excitement - I'm gluing metal together! It's basically magic, I'm taking separate parts and turning them into one. I'm not welding purposefully or to build something, I just really like the act of welding.

Welding was new to me, I never experienced it. I think as a child I everything was new to me, the way welding is. I approached the world with a curiosity that drove me to play with it, to figure it out.

But now I've figured a lot of it out. It's not as fun to play with anymore, because I've exhausted all the angles of play I could come up with (and I did that a long time ago).

I still find that curiosity that drives me to play with something, to figure it out - but I have to look for it, find aspects of life I haven't experienced yet.
Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day
The Gutmann algorithm used to destroy data has gained great popularity, although from the very beginning it was unjustified and pointless. The first pass of overwriting irrevocably destroys the data and it is impossible to recover data destroyed in this way by any means, because the laws of physics do not allow it.
Gutmann's article contains many factual errors, and his proposed overwriting patterns are in no way better or worse than any others. The essence of overwriting is to replace the data we want to destroy with other content. Any other.
There are no grounds to claim that the proposed patterns have any connection with the coding used in hard drives, but there are solid grounds to claim that Gutmann does not understand the data coding process at all. The RLL encoding is still used and, contrary to Gutmann's suggestion, has not been replaced by PRML. PRML is not a data encoding method, but a signal detection method. There are many publications on this subject.

Gutmann later claimed that his article had been misunderstood. And indeed it was misunderstood - because in general it was not understood at all, and his erroneous theses were quite widely accepted as axioms of information security. The publication, which was weak in terms of content, brought Gutmann great popularity, and perhaps this is what made him not have the courage to admit his mistakes, and prefer to make more, defending himself against the emerging voices of criticism.
The explanation that the probability of finding a small portion of data in a large-capacity disk is lower than in a small-capacity disk is also weak. If we are to talk about the effectiveness of data destruction, the probability of recovering it must be exactly 0. And the weakness of Gutmann's article is not related to the technological progress that has taken place in recent years, but to his lack of understanding of the principles of operation of hard drives. This algorithm did not make sense in 1996 either. Read it carefully, thoroughly and with understanding, trying to find as many errors as possible.
It is also worth noting that data is destroyed in exactly the same way regardless of how it is interpreted on a logical level, the value and significance assigned to it, and the subjective assessment of sensitivity and confidentiality. Therefore, there is no need to use different methods of data destruction depending on the classification of its content.
A somewhat small subset of my net worth is Cloudflare, which has the ticker symbol $NET
Barnes and Noble is making a comeback
Sin City Ruby
Not entirely typical. MOND proponents seem to be trying more and more sell their approach to the public.

It annoys me but I suppose every theory has to do that now, "the mouse trap must go to market now" and all.
Either you live in a very different bubble, or you are building a strawman to demolish.

I never even heard anybody claiming that democracy is perfect form of government. People in democratic countries usually accept that democracy is messy.

The real killer app of democracy is the ability to change leaders without death or bloodshed. Of course it results in fewer big projects being built (though the US was very good in building things like Apollo or the Interstate System, once - it is mostly environmental regulations that get in the way now, and not pure democracy).

But the stereotypical danger of autocracy is that its big projects will be a useless money sink (like this [0]), or even destructive.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrality_Monument
Doing on-device RAG with SQLite and Ollama
Where is the guy duck taped to the ceiling?
Source? Or at least give us some related example.
Oddly enough, some actually do hold out, like my local Lidl. No idea why, but as I never use them anyway, it doesn't impact me (in fact, having them impacts me, because it invariably means slower regular service).

Of course, there are the chains which are now removing self-scan machines again because the attrition rate (i.e., theft by 'accidentally' not scanning items) exceeded the savings for too long. Dutch variety shop Action did this in a number of their stores.
I didn't mean to be mean to you, but in terms of network protocols something can be a new approach for a while, especially if others are still trying out. What is it compared to? TCP/IP is past 50 years old.

Then again, I agree with you: it wasn't created yesterday.
Starlink Trajectory-Based Serving Satellite ID with Terminal's Field-of-View [video]
I don’t think it goes away; it just gets bigger. That being said, what probably kills the joy and fun in anything is monetization, and the internet is a clear example of that. Kids don’t care much about money, so fun is done for pure enjoyment. Adults' fun is ruined by money, greed, status, optics, and other factors. If you try to have pure fun as an adult, you are either seen as childish (and consequently not taken seriously when needed) or advised to turn such a fun hobby into a job or side hustle, eventually ruining the fun part of it.
Use an LLM to rapidly scale the moderation of both text and images (while keeping free speech in mind).
Solder Paste Dispenser [video]
Low-cost, DIY, 3D-printed extruded for automating solder paste deposition on PCBs [I am not the author]
> Note: Not all Model Y vehicles are equipped with a manual release for the rear doors.

Astounding.
Every organization makes mistakes and every organization has outages. Netflix is not different. Instead, of bashing them because they are imperfect, you might want to ask what you can learn from this incident. What would you do if your service received more traffic than expected? How would you test your service so you can be confident it will stay up?

Also, I have never seen any Netflix employees who are arrogant or who think they are superior to other people. What I have seen is Netflix's engineering organization frequently describes the technical challenges they face and discusses how they solve them.
> Folks, belive me, I am not that interesting!

you’d be surprised
> I’m amused how all of your explanations and rebuttals reinforce the path to irrelevancy

As I said, one day certainly. But if you think current tech is up to par, then I'm sorry but you are being delusional. Also, you assume I'm trying to defend the statu quo. That's not the case. I'm all for progress.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tests_of_general_relativity#Pe... is the example I learned in school. You don't need to be around a black hole for GR to suddenly switch on.

Newtonian gravity is an approximation. A perfectly acceptable one in many contexts, but still measurably incorrect.
> when the current operators of InfoWars went back to operating as a business, they used that to falsely say the auction had been overturned

So this is just NR engaging in a proxy infowar, nothing to see here.
And what if "Majestic 12" was not a hoax...?
Thinking about it, that is fine because Taler is meant to be a payment system, not a store of value
Pardon: https://youtu.be/WEutxc9RBng?si=JXB0sMQx3rvGg9lN
> Which field would that be?

Database theory papers and books have used Prolog/Datalog-like syntax throughout the years, such as those by Serge Abiteboul, just to give a single example of a researcher and prolific author over the decades.
Nah, it's common everywhere. Kids can be cruel and some will be given the opportunity of access to someone not fitting in.
Something like 70% of the store has some kind of coupon available and all that is needed is the UPC to scan. This site aggregates and provides a database of known coupons. Harbor Freight tools is a discount tool and hardware store based out of California, with stores nationwide. It does not price with regional discounts and the coupons will work at any store.
don't confuse your ISP breaking with every other provider or the rest of the Internet. It was more than fine here.
The mond theories that add a factor that behaves like dark matter do a rather good job of matching observational data.
It’s someone who owns shares in Cloudflare (their market ticker being ‘NET’), but everyone here thinks they’re a financial wonk when talking about big tech and finance so they insist on making it opaque like that. It’s a dumb and cringey trend. Just say “as a Cloudflare shareholder”, I promise you the six bytes you save won’t be missed!
> I can see this happening if Kennedy is allowed into this position.

Kennedy has already caused damage:

> Appearing in Shot in the Arm, a 2023 documentary about vaccine opposition, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was asked about the deadly measles outbreak that occurred in Samoa in 2019 and claimed the lives of 83 people, mostly children. Kennedy, a leading anti-vaxxer who had visited the Pacific island nation a few months before the outbreak, replied, “I’m aware there was a measles outbreak…I had nothing to do with people not vaccinating in Samoa. I never told anybody not to vaccinate. I didn’t go there with any reason to do with that.”

> Kennedy was being disingenuous, sidestepping his connection to that tragedy. Children’s Health Defense, the nonprofit anti-vax outfit he led until becoming a presidential candidate, had helped spread misinformation that contributed to the decline in measles vaccination that preceded the lethal eruption. And during his trip to Samoa, Kennedy had publicly supported leading vaccination opponents there, lending credibility to anti-vaxxers who were succeeding in increasing vaccine hesitation among Samoans. Moreover, in early 2021, Kennedy, in a little-noticed blog post, hailed one of those vaccination foes as a “hero.”

* https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/07/how-rfk-jr-fals...
It would be a great way to show a few calls as an example of the API, then have a link to the auto-generated doc.
WTF?! Seriously...

It doesn't sound like the individual writing this article has actually grown at all.

Why are the millennial generations so lost in make believe?

The reason the "majic" went away, is because it never existed! It was a figment of your childhood imagination.

The real failure of those lost in make believe is that actual reality is about a billion times more enganging and offers about a trillion times the opportunity to see expanded horizons. But wasn't the huffulump so much better? 8-/

But the photo at the beginning tells it all: modern kiddults want a realaity as complex as green eggs and ham.

No wonder we're fucked...
A simpler answer is just what happens if you look thru a telescope or binoculars "the wrong way" (backwards). The correct way shows a "zoomed in" view of that you're viewing, but looking the wrong way shows a "zoomed out" view.

So lifeforms on the other end of this cosmic "lens[es]" cannot use it to see us better, because in fact it makes us look further away from them than we are, from their perspective.
"Tesla Has Highest Fatal Accident Rate of All Auto Brands: Study" (2024)

https://autos.yahoo.com/tesla-highest-fatal-accident-rate-16...
These extremes exist, and GR predictions are better than Newton’s in those cases. Closest to home is mercury’s perihelion drift. We have observed black hole mergers, gravitational lensing, and GR is also an essential component in understanding the universe’s expansion(that we know from redshift and the CMB). Likely MOND will address these, but Newtonian mechanics will not get you there.
I know a company that decided against CockroachDB because the CTO had a roach phobia.
Sounds to me like you want to build a platform that nobody uses
Even if it was only 30% of people had a problem that's still millions of unhappy users. Not great for a time sensitive event.

Also, from lurking in various threads on the topic Netflix's in app messages added to people's irritation by suggesting that they check their WiFi/internet was working. Presumably that's the default error message but perhaps that could have been adjusted in advance somehow.
Citation needed? That's ridiculous. The empirical evidence is well over century old at this point. Start with the anomalous precession of Mercury's perihelion. That already can't be accounted for by Newtonian gravity.
It's actually a better example than you think. This exact theory led to long and protracted searches for the planet Vulcan, which would explain Mercury's strange behavior.
Thanks for this

https://domofutu.substack.com/p/skepticism-truth-and-the-pri...

I hope I hear more from you.
You're simply wrong. There's no other way to put it. The GPS system would have been simply impossible to deploy without the general theory of relativity. There's no extreme energy or mass involved, just precision requirements that are influenced by the minuscule differences in time experienced by the surface of the earth and orbiting satellites.

Also Newton's laws famously could not account for Mercury's orbit. Mercury is just an ordinary planet orbiting an ordinary star. Nothing extreme is involved. He knew his laws were incomplete. But they were so dead-on in basically every other scenario that could be physically observed at the time that he figured there was some small tweak missing (or maybe another planetary body that hadn't been spotted yet).
Unpopular opinion, but most people who get bullied are a little "off", a little weird in some way that affects their likability. And this also affects the adults where even they judge the kid being bullied harder. For example if you are autistic and lack verbal skills, that's going to be seen as you lacking social skills. And obviously if someone got hit, who's most probable to have started it? Maybe the kid that "lacks social skills".
It's not an issue of being too hard to understand.

The moment I say "double opt in", marketing will decide I lack the skills to be involved in mail and deliverability will be placed in the hands of someone with a graphics design background that has never heard of dns.

I've seen it in every single place I've tried to help marketing campaigns for over 20 years.
Almost certainly. That's why not doing so is used as a clear example of malpractice and negligence - the standard of care says to check for those kinds of issues given the situation and that's what nearly every doctor will therefore do.
Skepticism, Truth, and the Price of Caring
In this case, they only broke their newest hardware.
I will believe it when I see it happen. Until then, I will hold judgement.
Place&Route is not yet open:

> nextpnr arch planned in 2023

> nextpnr arch planned in 2024

> there will be a beta version around Q4/2024 or Q1/2025. (24.10.2024) [1]

[1] https://www.fpga.ch/index.php/2024/10/24/gatemate-fpgas/
Alternative to Docker/Podman in C?
Yeah I'm not kidding one bit.

After our initial investigation, comparing networking capabilities in Docker and Podman, we invested heavily in Podman and CNI. Just to later find Podman abandoning CNI in favor of Netavark and Aardvark. We're currently running an older version of Podman that still uses CNI, but since none of our other components in the OS need Go or Rust it would be rather useful if there was a project out there with a similar ambition that was written in C. (Yes, I know of the "cocker" project.)

We are willing to pitch in to help. Any suggestions are interesting!
> we were all afraid of him but now we're all best friends

All without addressing the underlying problem that made people afraid of Tom in the first place?

> with excellent outcomes.

Apparently excellent short term outcomes. The real question is does this actually solve the long term problem and is it possible that the strategies used to create this outcome actually aggravate long term outcomes?
I don’t find them useful in the sense of directly applying practical techniques in my day job, but I consider them somewhat necessary background reading to get into the right state of mind. You can very quickly tell when someone never acquired any academic knowledge in this area (or never played with functional languages or similar pastimes) - you can’t explain to those people why modifying global variables all over the place in a large program is a bad idea and other things like that. They just nod along skeptically and then somehow keep stumbling into the same kind of mess over and over.
"The more skilled you are, the less you need advanced tools..."

I wonder how well this claim holds up under strict scrutiny. At a high level, it makes sense: someone who is a master of their craft will understand their tools and how to use them much better than a beginner starting out. However, I think this is a different claim than the one Paolini makes.

One concrete argument against this is the history of technological progress. With each improvement came a step function in the tools available to builders, creators, etc., and those able to master them achieved a new level of ability and progress not seen before.

There is evidence for this everywhere. In sports, athletes today use modern technologies and knowledge to push their bodies and abilites to new levels (low-oxygen training, equipment specialized in each sport, etc.). If you didn't upgrade your golf clubs from wood to titanium, you are going to be left far behind. In other industries, this applies: a specific example might be in welding, where using a multi-process welder will significantly improve your productivity as well as the quality of your work. [1]

In tech, this distinction is also apparent. There are the dual cases of a programmer being completely ineffective with a modern IDE versus Jeff Dean (or insert your favorite programming legend here) with Emacs (or another text editor). However, this does not mean that a great programmer does not require advanced tools. Great toolchains (compilers, linkers, interpreters, debuggers, etc.), advanced computing capabilities (GPUs for LLMs), and high-speed Internet access will dramatically change the quality of your work.

I think that Paolini is more focused on the idea that a master craftsmen, when compared with a beginner, can still handily defeat the beginner using simple tools, as they understand both the tools and what they are trying to accomplish better. I agree with this point, but think that this relative comparison is distinct from the absolute comparison of a master using simple tools vs. the same master using advanced tools.

I appreicate his larger point that you want high-quality (even if simple) tools that you understand and that will last you a lifetime. This is one of the main benefits of mastering free/open source software [2]: freedom 0 of free software is to run a program as you wish, for any purpose, which is not guaranteed when using proprietary software.

[1] https://www.constructionequipment.com/light-equipment/weldin...

[2] https://gwern.net/choosing-software
Moderation is orthogonal to free speech. They are separate concerns.
It's been a while since I read it, so I can't promise it holds up, but I remember quite enjoying this novel with a similar premise (the solar system is quarantined in a giant bubble for unclear reasons, with a side of nanotechnology-driven apps for your brain).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarantine_(Egan_novel)
The Bluesky firehose viewed in the style of a Windows XP screensaver
https://github.com/theosanderson/firehose

I just love that the open nature of Bsky is allowing people to hack things like this.

Now that their growth is crazy, let's hope that the work they did on the protocol and corp structure keeps it this way.
Due to how easy it is to setup accounts and post on Bluesky, it’s likely many of the same operatives behind the propaganda and bot armies on Twitter are now pushing the same vitriolic content, and triggering these reports. If they can negatively impact Bluesky at a critical moment, it’ll reduce the flow of users who will quickly surmise “oh this is just like twitter”
https://archive.is/2024.11.16-143549/https://myelectricspark...

One of the reasons I will never buy an electric car, the batteries are dormant bombs.
It seems to me that the document was pretty demonstrably proven to be a hoax. You can find the arguments and evidence online, I'm not really in a mood to hash it out here.

But anyone will believe anything they like. If you want to believe it isn't a hoax you have to contend with the typographic and other anomalies that seem to show otherwise.
The SSD space is indeed expensive, but:

- top-end SSDs from other vendors are also pricey, though probably less so than Apple

- everything else about that machine is going to be a much better deal than just the drive in isolation
I would recommend to use an TVOC sensor that detects smell very easily and then automatically switch on a fan. Could be a fun project.

Just need:
- TVOC sensor like the SGP41

- ESP32 microcontroller

- Electric Relay