skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nazi might be a bit much, but he’s pretty clearly guilty of treason.

He blocked a US funded military strike that would have sunk Russia’s navy a while back.

(The definition of treason in the US is extremely clear, and he obviously crossed the line.)
This power is quite obvious when you consider that a lot of answers that you get from AI these days is from Reddit.
Cause it is trolling, pure hatred. Hermaphroditism exists, simple scientifically backed up fact.
Most middle-class people, especially parents of small children, aren't going straight back and forth between home and work. They're making other stops for day care, school, shopping, after-school activities, gym, etc. Often there are tight time constraints which make public transit unusable. Like it would be impossible to use transit to pick my daughter up from school and get her to practice on time. It's a constant juggle and the childless young urbanites who dominate HN seem to be ignorant of how regular people live.
> Why would it be transliterated with an Л?

Because it _used_ to be pronounced this way in Polish! "Ł" pronounced as "L" sounds "theatrical" these days, but it was more common in the past.
So the EU is bad because you can't learn to screw on a bottle cap that's different than before?
Article H1: To understand Nvidia, take a look at its CEO and culture

.. although this is just an ad for the book The Nvidia Way
Relax, folks, entities have plenty of other options, there still won't be support for Do-Not-Shoot, Do-Not-Rape, Do-Not-Stone, fun for the whole family.
Computing Industry Doesn't Care about Performance: how I made things faster
I know I really shouldn’t take this bait, but…no one has proof either way. That said, we have a massive amount of scientific evidence that shows it could have naturally evolved and zero evidence that something created us. Finding something that we don’t understand doesn’t mean we have evidence of creation. Ancient civilizations believed that rain came from the gods because they were unaware of how weather combines with the phases of matter and creates atmospheric condensation.

That being the state of things at the moment, I lean towards the evidence. Also, this is a scientific oriented discussion forum, so you must expect that many people here are going to disagree with you. Could you be correct? Sure, but we just don’t have reason to believe that at this point.
Wait until you hear what Chinese or Japanese languages do with loanwords...
>For example: Mitutoyo seems to have a monopoly on producing accurate digital calipers that have battery life measured in years (using one dainty little LR44 alkaline cell). They use approximately fuck-all for power whether switched on or off.

metrology is vast. I am a fan of Mitutoyo too, but this is a poor example of a monopoly.

I have literally 3 different brands , including Mitutoyo, on my desk, and the Mitutoyo unit offers the worst value-to-dollar ratio and it's the hardest to read at a glance; it's only there because it's the coolant-proof unit I have on hand at the moment.

i'd gladly give up a bit of battery life for a backlight and some bigger character display; thankfully the market responded by offering this from about numerous other manufacturers..

>So here we are today, wherein: The free market has decided that Mitutoyo has a defacto monopoly on tools of this capability.

well, no.

Mitutoyo is great, but American shops, especially any DoD affiliated ones, push American made Starett like crazy. All of my less-discerning maker friends use Amazon/Harbor Freight/Chicago no-name Alibaba glass scale calipers and they're perfectly happy with them. My German friends often use Vogel/Hoffman/Mahr.

But anyway, whatever. I love my Mitus, and I even have a pair of their very first electronic scale calipers in a drawer somewhere ; the battery life was great even then.
What's an example? I'm just a hobbyist when it comes to c++
I think they were suggesting the opposite order - do an automatic transliteration and offer you the choice to approve or correct it.

But even if the user is entering both, warning them that the transliteration doesn't match and letting them continue if they want is something that pays for itself in support costs.
The Indian Cyber-Security Giant Silencing Media Outlets Worldwide
Whether a material is opaque to it. Buildings are transparent to lower frequency radio. Imagine that the satellites transmitted in visible light, doesnt really matter how powerful it is if you're in a room with no windows.
Cliques will certainly differ from one another and are likely to be unequal, much like “soft cliques” already exist today in larger cities. The question is more about how much power a clique should have and how exclusive and encompassing its membership should be, e.g., whether a person can belong to multiple cliques.
There’s multiple feeds, which is one of its main features. There’s user created feeds, which are just aggregates of tags and keywords. These are alright, but prone to issues with cross domain terminology. ie, say you want a football/soccer feed and use the word “spurs”, you’ll end up having it filled with basketball and rodeo posts.

The two default feeds are your followed accounts in chronological order, the other is an algorithmic feed. The algorithmic feed is pretty good to be honest. I “disliked” around 20 political posts the first day, and it has seemed to responded fairly quick to that feedback.
another article with some other details https://www.enca.com/opinion/wildlife-monitoring-tech-used-h...

seems like they developed a set of principles a while back https://wildlabs.net/sites/default/files/principles_for_the_...

But my guess is without strict enforcement of the rules with consequences this will carry on.
I downvoted before I read the end of the comment and realized this was satire.
Big names like Lichtman announced he was leaving X for Bluesky and came back on X in less than 24 hours.

What makes social media work is the echo effect, you just won't be able to get it on a heavily censored platform like Bluesky and Reddit and a big reason why X is overtaking even mainstream media as much as people who lean left.

Its a huge problem to be imposing political leanings of the moderator on a public square because you end up creating an echo chamber which people inevitably abandon because you just won't reach enough people.
The license-less submissions have really ramped up recently :-(

Also https://github.com/neomacs-project/neomacs#:~:text=Neomacs%2...
My guess is the margins were really bad for a PaaS. It's expensive to build on top of other people's clouds.
Where was this? Members of my family have three different remote cabins surrounded by trees in Montana, Idaho, and Oregon, and all work perfectly. The early days were a little more glitchy, but with the constellation they have today, you don’t even need to aim.
"Regarding genocide, here is zero evidence of that."

The actual section of the WP article you're referring to comes to no conclusions on the matter.

It's just a giant hatchet job, a mishmash of conflicting opinions.
RFC 5841 – TCP Option to Denote Packet Mood
The point is if the standard were to enter it like in the MRZ, it would be easy to validate.
> they taking something that should be just another lesson as disciplinary action.

Remember the "disciplinary action" here is giving the student a bad grade, with the opportunity to redo the assignment.

Are you seriously asserting they should've gotten a good grade for a paper that cites sources that don't exist? In an advanced placement class no less?

If anything they're getting of lighter than students who did a bad job on their own without using AI. I know I was never given a chance to redo a paper I phoned in.
Hell, I’m a fan of k8s even for sub-planetary scale (assuming that scale is ultimately a goal of your business, it’s nice to build for success). But I agree that saying “well, it’s either k8s or you will build k8s yourself” is just ignorant. There are a lot of options between the two poles that can be both cheap and easy and offload the ugly bits of server management for the right price and complexity that your business needs.
South African anti-apartheid writer Breytenbach dies
https://web.archive.org/web/20241123080059/https://rsf.org/e...

https://archive.is/xedDN
Monitor replacement – using a projector for a home office setup
Absolutely beautiful minimalist tool, deserves to be in any multi-timezone firm's wiki if not right on a dynamic desktop!
I’m writing this from starlink ten minutes from Silicon Valley.

Until recently, most of what you wrote applied to us too (our previous options were 128kbit theoretical dsl, 1 sec latency, or extremely flaky cellular).

Now that a double digit percentage of people on our street have starlink, the phone company finally ran fiber to the home.

Being able to make emergency calls from the many dead spots around here would be nice.
I think you are factually wrong: Skype, Spotify, Revolut, Zendesk, Transferwise... There are quite many European unicorns too (less though than US and Chinese companies) which are operating as SaaS. Some of them got acquired or re-based to other countries though
That same forest without the cameras didn't exhibit that particular kind of conflict. I suppose the problem is in behavior of particular humans here, not of tigers, the forest, or even the cameras.
Wouldn’t put it past him? Can you offer even a single example?
Right, and what's more the charge of echo chamber has always been intellectually lazy.

You can have a fruitful exchanges of ideas and information and debates on a foundation of similar values in a way that amounts to more than just repeating ideas back and forth. Using the term as a catch-all for a shared desire for conversations to have certain ground rules or certain community values, or subjects that spark your intellectual curiosity, calling those echo chambers is shallow and is not going to inform you about the real cultural dynamics that drive those kinds of communities.

It's just a lazy way to try absence of critical thought by looking for the wrong thing. If people labeling things as echo chambers cared about the things they said they cared about, they would look at entirely different criteria, such as epistemic closure, the quality of relationships, propensity for trolling, and so on.
While they temporarily silenced some outlets (17 points, 1 year ago, 4 comments)[0], this article is out of date since it's been undone, and the posts are once again live (11 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42122871

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38548569
Unexpected Benefits of Being Vulnerable on the Internet
On the one hand you’re arguing that SpaceX is awesome for breaking monopolies. On the other you’re saying it’s awesome that “it’s over” and they own the market now.

Perhaps you missed the irony.
Hong Kong was leased from China. No invasion necessary.

They've squashed the democracy movement there, though.
The head of instagram/threads (Mosseri) appears to have no idea how the algorithm on these platforms work. He is shocked to see how many people are talking about threads in his feed. It may explain how threads has managed to waste such a large captured audience.
China is building more renewable energy than the rest of the world combined. At this point there is no “let’s just reduce our emissions by 30% or so and hope things work out” plan that’s compatible with stopping worst-case outcomes, there is only a “let’s replace every single energy and fuel source with non-emitting ones on a ridiculously short timescale” plan. Insofar as we have a chance of doing that, it’s because of what China is doing right now.

To the extent that they’re using fossil fuels to build the infrastructure for this renewable tech, I’m completely fine with that. That’s much better than using it to build iPhones or consumer nonsense. Insofar as they’re building a renewable grid backed by modern dispatchable coal and they’re also building out massive storage manufacturing capability and their emissions are on track to decline, I’m also fine with that.

ETA: China’s emissions appear to be peaking and entering a structural decline. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2453703-clean-energy-ro...
The main reason for the invasion is that Putin believes independent Ukraine shouldn't exist, and that it all belongs to Russia for historical reasons. It's obvious if you actually listen Putin's speeches.

Synder goes further, and suggests that Putin's view that Ukraine never "really" existed, and was in essence basically a fake country (society, culture, identity) all along.

Which explains a lot of things; like how he seemed so confident that he could just plough in there, and grab pretty much as much of the country as he wanted in a few weeks. Because how could such a "non-society" possibly come together and mount an organized defense?

In any case -- it's definitely not hard to figure out. The man is practically an open book, at least in terms of his core motivations and his basic attitude toward Ukraine -- and many of his choice phrases are quite revealing. One just needs to be able to read between the lines, in certain places (and not simply take everything he says at face value).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breyten_Breytenbach
Im hoping that most of the infra costs get amortized by people bringing on their PDS’s, while some of the core stuff (app layer, iOS app etc.) is maintained by a small team funded by donations/subscriptions.
Right, this is one of the games that trolls play which is kind of to search for normalizing language, create a provocation, and then relish in the attention derived from the provocation.
Good to know HN will be the same in 100 years. /s
There are no ads so that is one aspect that could prevent enshitification. Businesses can't just spend money to force their way into peoples feeds. At least not in a traditional advertising kind of way.
How Every Computer Is a Chinese Computer
c) and d) could interact better if we replace smartphones with erm, ASICs, as yeomen farmers who nerd out on postindustrial commodities number in the ... thousands (it's hard to snare them even on HN/reddit?)

(Of course an even better substitution would be purity level 9-n quartz sand but such farmers number in the zero to one)
> Free speech is the upside of X.

You can’t possibly believe that, can you? Have you not noticed the vast gulf between what Musk says and what Musk does?
Yeah, why can't the EU just leave the stabtech industry stab in peace?...
What? How does that make sense?

Is that genuinely what you think sharing means? Everyone everywhere has everything? Obviously that’s not the case. And even if it was, why can’t independent inventors create thing in the meantime?

Have you heard anyone genuinely espouse this view? Is this what you think socialized healthcare means too? Everyone gets the exact same medical procedure at the same time too?

Just be clear, that’s not even what “communism” is. This feels like a misinformed understanding of “sharing” based on American propaganda. That’s just American propaganda derived from Soviet era rationing. Read the story this thread is about first.
Do EV Road Trips Still Suck Without a Tesla? [video]
In the 90’s, libertarians were against any consolidation of power (including corporations) that could infringe on individual rights. (This was roughly in Ron Paul’s time.)

That’s been replaced with corporate libertarians, which are against any government power that could infringe on the rights of corporations. See also Rand Paul, and the corporatist movement (which is sadly mainstream in the US, an offshoot of fascism, and essentially indistinguishable from modern libertarianism).

Anyway, they are many things, but I wouldn’t say they’re hypocritical.
> they have a right to have their name spelled correctly

IMO, having the law consider this as an unconditional right is the root of the problem. What happens when people start making up their own characters that aren't in Unicode to put in their names?

> Also it's not nice and bad for business to be like this.

What about having a validated "legal name" for everything official and an unvalidated "display name" that's only ever parroted back to the person who entered it?
This strategy or something like it legitimately wins the challenge.

The challenge (based on expected value) is not to find some compression scheme that will compress 100% or even 50% of files to less than their original size. Instead it's to find any (set of) compression schemes that will compress more than 1/50 = 2% of arbitrary random files to less than their original size. You can construct such a program essentially as they described by asking for a large file size and then searching for a valid decompression program within that file. With standard tools you can make some valid decompression program quite short, which will allow you a reasonable probability that it will appear within a large randomly-generated file.

The cost that you pay for using a compression scheme like this is that where the compression scheme works you'll win some bytes, but in the more common case where it doesn't you'll lose some, even for the simple `cat $1 > original` default decompressor.

Now, a clever contest creator might arbitrarily choose files that win against such decompressors that they can think of, but Mike appears to have not have done so.
I think Carole Cadwalladr was the first with that:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/20/tech... (20 Jul 2024)
> it’s fucking depressing when even the fucking bare minimum form of regulation is followed to the letter and no more

For Microsoft this also rings true from the opposite direction. Any specification that Microsoft technically abides is implemented in an egregiously dark way (at least for anything consumable at an enterprise level).

They go to great lengths to exercise every bit of leeway permitted by the spec, even when it doesn't make economical sense, because what are you gonna do about it? Vote with your wallet? Against the vendor that runs all your workstations and manages your directories and databases and deployments and authentication and authorization and business intelligence and and and?

No, you're gonna accommodate their absurd counter-requirements because what other choice do you have? The decision then becomes:

1. branch your code to shit with `vendor == microsoft` clauses

2. branch your project/architecture to shit and effectively maintain a Microsoft version alongside the "normal" core version

3. use Microsoft's bespoke library that solves the problem they created

A project that selects option 3 will face the least resistance integrating with Microsoft products, but will also become beholden to arbitrary rules that complicate integration with every other vendor who benevolently implements the standard.
Maybe UI
People may value the online aspect of GSuite, but the big brand name recognition along with being associated with Gmail (which was already beloved by then) probably did a lot of heavy lifting in its rise to prominence. Most cross platform MS Office competitors were made by companies that were comparatively nobodies and had no successes on the scale of Gmail under their belt.
It can't exist.

Presume this compressor guarantees the output will always be at least one byte smaller (with the exception of the impossible to find input)

So just keep running your data in a loop through the compressor. If you start with a 1MB file, it will take a maximum of a million iterations until the output shrinks down to zero bytes, which is the smallest possible file. Record how many iterations it too.

You can now extract your file by feeding a zero byte file into the decompressor and running the same number of iterations. Which You can now store every 1MB (or smaller) file in the world in just 20 bits.... But that would means there are only 1 million possible 1MB files?

Even if you put some minimum output size limitation on the compressor, say it can't produce any file less than 512 bits, the same argument applies. It's just that the numbers get bigger.
It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Super Cassette Vision
They are treasured employees for sure, though I'd call it abused.
Not sure where my worth comes into this.
Also seems relatively clear that he started his first company in the US while on a visa that did not allow that, thus breaking immigration law as well.
> Moderation should apply to humans and AIs equally.

Unless you’re trying to create a social network to promote human voices and not bots.
I'd rephrase it as "Europe has already quietly started a (world) war".

Apparently you would, even though there's absolutely no reason to believe the line of causality ("Europe did X, which started the war") that you're implying.

Starting a war from scratch like this (as Putin did) requires agency, and it's very obvious what the source of agency was in this case.

"Ukraine not annexed by the EU".

That's just hyperbole and nonsense.

It was never being "annexed" by anyone (until Russia started invading in 2014).
When you put it this way, personas might be a better term than factions.
But we don’t have the option of opting out of trains of satellites in the sky ruining the view.
:shocked_pikachu:

Renegadry aside, for those who are more interested in the Information Theory perspective on this:

Kolmogorov complexity is a good teaching tool, but hardly used in engineering practice because it contains serious foot-guns.

One example of defining K complexity(S, M) is the length of the shortest initial tape contents P for a given abstract machine M such that, when M is started on this tape, the machine halts with final tape contents P+S. Obviously, one must be very careful to define things like “initial state”, “input”, “halt”, and “length”, since not all universal machines look like Turing machines at first glance, and the alphabet size must either be consistent for all strings or else appear as an explicit log factor.

Mike’s intuitive understanding was incorrect in two subtle ways:

1. Without specifying the abstract machine M, the K complexity of a string S is not meaningful. For instance, given any S, one may define an abstract machine with a single instruction that prints S, plus other instructions to make M Turing complete. That is, for any string S, there is an M_S such that complexity(S, M_S) = 1 bit. Alternatively, it would be possible to define an abstract machine M_FS that supports filesystem operations. Then the complexity using Patrick’s solution could be made well-defined by measuring the length of the concatenation of the decompressor P with a string describing the initial filesystem state.

2. Even without adversarial examples, and with a particular M specified, uniform random strings’ K complexity is only _tightly concentrated around_ the strings’ length plus a machine-dependent constant. As Patrick points out, for any given string length, some individual string exemplars may have much smaller K complexity; for instance, due to repetition.
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By spending more money in absolute terms to achieve objectives, without a necessitative need of immediate profit?
If you're interested in the whole game catalog available from the Super Cassette Vision, the RndStranger youtube channel plays a bit of every game on the system in chronological release order: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1sb8k4ZPagbvyrcU13KR...
How does this compare with https://sqlitebrowser.org/ ?
But CFCs are banned!
This obviously has negative implications for Intel.
> For all the talk of leaving Twitter, Twitter has 30x the daily visits of its rivals.

Over the whole world maybe, but perhaps not among the HN crowd.
Hi Yes I am ModSetter. I forgot my old account password so here we are. TBH I am just trying to get at least one feedback from HN Community. Sorry if it looks spammy I am also trying to learn how to effectively use HN Platform.
It does. If all you do is tap on a post then immediately hit back you’re not really engaging with the platform. But I’m sure they’ll still count you as an active user.

The meaningful stats would be number of posts seen, engaged with, and number of posts the user made themselves.