skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If's of the future don't change the present situation either, but now that they've restored power using their nuclear power plants, the question for the future of the planet is what's going to happen. Ukraine is currently signatory to the NPT and follows the IAEA rules about not making nukes, but Russia broke the Budapest Memorandum, so the alternative to mass conscription, is for them to develop nukes. If the US chooses to withdraw support, is Ukraine going to manage to hang on for 5 years to develop their own nuclear weapons and delivery systems?
On a related note, has anyone read Cory Doctorow's book Radicalized?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radicalized_(Doctorow_book)

It's a collection of 4 novellas, one of which is about:

A man becomes embroiled in a dark web network targeting insurance
companies after his wife's cancer coverage was declined by their
health insurer.

Sounds pretty on point, in a "life imitating fiction" kind of way.
Pretty sure the incoming president is going to add more regulation against glyphosate, almost guaranteed with RFK in there.
Yep, if you have in one hand "Inside Windows NT" by Helen Custer (or one of its successors, "Windows Internals"[0]) and on the other "VMS Internals and Data Structures"[1]...

[0]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/resources/win...

[1]: https://bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/vax/vms/training/
Would you? If you knew your actions would kill a billion people, you’d still do it for $1T?
I'd be (relatively) fine with a "no tracking and no selling of your data" tier, even if it had ads.
I like the re-design. Maybe including the actual date instead of 'Tuesday', 'Monday' in the header might be clearer. Just a thought.
In my experience Teams is mostly used for video conferencing (i.e. as a Zoom alternative), and for chats a different tool is used. Most places already had chat systems set up (Slack, Mattermost, whatever) (or standardize on email anyway), before video conferencing became ubiquitous due to the pandemic.
From the piece:

> More electricity was generated in Germany in the third quarter than in the previous year. Renewable energies alone are responsible for this growth.

> While the increase in electricity production from solar energy and wind power is also attributed by the Federal Statistical Office to favorable weather conditions, conventional energy sources continue to lose importance. With a share of 21.4 percent, coal is now only in third place, having been overtaken by photovoltaics. Electricity generation from natural gas has also fallen, with a combined total of 31.7 billion kilowatt hours of electricity generated from both energy sources, compared to 34 billion kWh in the third quarter of 2023.

> Finally, the statistics authority also states that Germany imported 2.2 percent more electricity in this period than in the previous year. Meanwhile, the amount of electricity exported rose by more than 19% to almost 12 billion kilowatt hours. This reduced the import surplus by 1.5 billion kilowatt hours. Overall, however, twice as much electricity was imported abroad as was exported. However, experts have repeatedly stated that this is merely a sign of a functioning European internal market and does not indicate dependency or a shortage.

Keeping legacy nuclear around would've been nice, but we're passed the need for it. French interconnector is also at capacity [1] and it doesn't appear it's feasible to upgrade it within the next ~5 years, so soaking up more nuclear from France isn't really an option. Onward with the renewables ramp.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40720682
I don't totally agree with you but I see where you are coming from. The article states "Eventually, the linguistic evidence was strong enough to issue a search warrant..." which could be referring to the brother pointing out the similar writing style or the FBI's assessment pointing to someone from Chicago. It's not clear.
I began responding to this announcement with something along the lines of what I could achieve with $200/mo in platform services, training and managing my own agents, and it occurred to me that maybe that's exactly what I ought to do. Has anyone else come to this conclusion? It's not a question of whether the $2400/yr is ridiculous but that maybe if someone can afford to spend that much right now and knows how to achieve the goal (or can figure it out), this is the time to do so.
Building Product Analytics with ClickHouse
These kinds of unplanned impacts are one reason why I think most jobs need to have a certain amount of "slack" built in so that the workers aren't only spending all their time working, but can spend some time pondering ways that they could be doing it better or even just relaxing and reading a book etc.

You can't predict what avenues of investigation are going to bear fruit, so a good strategy it to encourage people to investigate things that interest them. Most of the time it won't lead anywhere, but once in a while someone will stumble upon penicillin or a microwave oven.
Then something like DaisyUI/HyperUI + HTMX? And depending on the backend you can do components (eg: For Django there is django-cotton and others that help).
It usually take a few years for the battery to swell, but it will happen. I have a phone as GSM modem to send and recieve SMS for automatic tasks. I've had 3/3 batteries on two different phones swell so far.
Another thing people won’t appreciate is ANY amount of friction when they “just want to log something real quick”. Which has merit, you’re debugging some garbage, and need to log something out in production because it’s dumb, harmless, quick, and will tell you exactly what you need. That’s why I think you need a sort of fallback as well, for something like this to capture enough mindshare.

How did your solution work out in terms of adoption by others? Was it a large team using it? What did those people say? Really curious!
Your link does not support the claim that the Albright quote is apocryphal--it in fact repeats the quote and notes that Albright does not dispute the "half million" figure, and characterizes other attempts to minimize the figure as obsolete and discredited.
How does one even begin to write drivers for nvme, ata, rtl nics, etc? I know mice and keyboards use HID which is a standard, but are there similar standard protocols for all other devices?

Is this how linux manages to avoid needing to "install drivers" in the vast majority of cases? And if there are standard device APIs, why does windows have to go through that whole install driver routine every time I plug something in?
No. No I wouldn't.
I liked the Sci Fi battles in The Culture book series- no armies, no heroics. Just one AI spending milliseconds blasting another AI at extreme distance in space. Victory or defeat comes down solely to tech-tree development and physics, nothing else.
What do you mean by "the" right wing party? Romania has several right wing parties, none of which supported Georgescu. He ran as an independent.
Gosh, how about reverting to pen and paper? This is a solved problem, people have been saying this since the first introduction of voting machines.

I think there is even an XKCD about this.
the globe is not a static image - can be rotated with the arrows in the lower left, and it rotates very slowly by itself
> According to forensic linguists, we all use language in a uniquely identifiable way that can be as incriminating as a fingerprint.

That's a bold and unproven statement, made worse because we can't really see that fingerprint.
AFAIK, the main thing that makes a blockchain a “blockchain” in the cryptocurrency sense, is the handling of consensus in case of double spend (race condition during a transaction), also known as Byzantine fault. Not really something Git has been built for.
I heard Yandex has pretty good search results.
Elon Musk is sending DOGE after high-speed rail
I think so. Along those lines, did the underworld learn the lesson from Bernardo Provenzano (who got caught due to reliance on a Cesar Cipher) and step up their encryption?
Sounds like judicial meddling is the bigger danger in Romania
Everytime someone mentions linux on mobile, I mourn the death of Maemo.
The Nokia N900 was an incredible phone, and having a native linux command line and package manager on it felt like the future to me. Shame the industry went in completely the opposite direction.
how aggressive the OOM killer can be with background apps

This drives me nuts.
When colleagues compete outside the firm
And adapters for the other standard are <$200, and don't take up that much space in a trunk.
I agree with you but the only time execs were held personally responsible that I can remember is Enron and that was on insider trading charges. There is so much plausible deniability and near unlimited appeals built into the system that it would take mountains of evidence and several hundred Lina Khans for an actually responsible executive to be tried for something like this.
> I found the animation informative

Java was so fast it glowed orange!

I wonder if the distraction of the animation actually makes people slower at reading the information that is in the text column.

The animation serves its purpose -- it grabs attention.
I don’t think this was (is? I don’t follow it too closely) the use case for Redis.
The US did just adopt a Federal EV charging connector. [1]

Hint: it’s Tesla’s NACS

1 : https://driveteslacanada.ca/news/teslas-nacs-set-to-become-o...
Perhaps as evidence we need anti-trust because we cannot rely on happy accidents like IBM allowing an upstart frenemy to thrive.
Natural Disasters Expected to Cost Insurers $135B in 2024
Interestingly I did something similar with Claude, asking it to generate tailwind/HTML components instead. And copy/pasting them as Thymeleaf fragments for a java/springboot + htmx project.
I dropped X off at Y. Then X dropped off the face of the map, never to be seen again.

Many words and phrases in English are self-antonyms.
Reminds me of

"Eats, shoots, and leaves"

Or is it

"Eats shoots and leaves"?

;)

Book "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eats,_Shoots_&_Leaves
The underlaying news is the same, but my link focuses more on the technical reason (IT system breach), while the link you posted emphasizes the political reasons
That doesn't sound right. Microsoft is obsessed with backwards compatibility, going so far as to accommodate programs that were writing to Windows' private memory just to preserve it. Deliberately breaking programs isn't in their ethos at all.
It's a global company right? What if they just don't respond. How does it get banned.
> There are other large sections where it can disappear and nothing of consequence seems to happen.

So then we don't know for sure? I thought surely we must have some more rigorous means of identifying junk for OP's comment to be true, but trial and error removal seems really weak.
Russians paid tiktokers, let’s nullify the election - Democracy ROCKS
There are two things that I'm pretty sure are true:

- People think that messages are a timeline and are in chronological order. For non distributed messages (Teams, WhatsApp) that's the reality, and people don't read message timestamps. Old messages being put at the bottom is confusing.

- Matrix is distributed so message can arrive out of order (sometimes with quite a delay)

Those two things together means that the client HAS to solve this display problem.
This is a lot of fun! (Just like the original Space Invaders.) It felt like there were more missiles coming down (than in the arcade version) - but maybe it's better that way. More action, more challenge...

The only thing that could make it better is if you had the sounds. The "pew pew" of the missiles, and the music...
"the law would require app store companies, like Apple and Google, and internet hosting providers to stop supporting TikTok, effectively banning the app."
I'm using Librem 5 as a daily driver. The most limiting is the battery life (4-5 hours of screen time), otherwise it works sufficiently well for me. Fortunately I can take another battery with me just in case.
10 years ago I worked at a company which had a fleet of phones to test mobile browser games we were making and the batteries were in noticeably worse shape after a few months of near constant use.

Nowadays in most phones you can limit charging to e.g. 80%, which is much lighter on the battery.

Additionally, the battery works as a heat sink (or heat store really considering it's just a solid slab of dense material) so expect more throttling when it's not there.
Waymo, south American and Caribbean drivers. South American and Caribbean drivers, Waymo.

If there's any stress test for auotmated cars it's driving in Miami
I have done this and was told that the driver gets a safe driving certificate. (I was specifically calling because I had watched a semi prevent an accident by turning on their flashers and blocking lanes)
1. Apps stores remove them.
2. Any transactions paying the creators are banned. Any Tiktok shopping stuff banned.
3. ISPs?
It's benign in the tested environment. You can't really test every possible environment (diet, climate, etc), so it seems roughly comparable to the halting problem; Does there exist a micro-deletion that in some environment causes this life to halt? It's unsolvable at DNA scale.
There have been breaches of vote counting systems.
Anything you want to write in JS. After all we are comparing Trailbase to Pocketbase, both of which allow you to write application logic in JS.
For people using NSS modules like winbind, most of those scripts are already broken
The hypothetical risks of a Chinese owned TikTok seem a smaller concern than the Chinese having hacked into and still having access(!) to US telecom networks:
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/03/chinese-hack-global...
My work machine uses my complete email address as a user machine (this was a done by someone in the IT department). Vim gets confused when I use the `gf` command to open a path that contains an '@' character in it.
Can’t tell if this is satire but I most certainly would not, and I would hope that society would hold someone responsible for doing that.
Viral origin says nothing of how important its function is.
Show HN: MilkDropLM – generate presets for the MilkDrop music visualizer
If that’s your treat model: fair, but not processing payments if a user is on a VPN is very understandable. You don’t want users to use you as a credit card validation service.
We can have it both ways. In ~50 years in the US, 99% of cars will be electric and 99% of electricity generation will be carbon negative. We can keep our comforts of modern life, like cars, while not damaging the planet.

I accept there is not a story for air travel, yet.
Any reason you can’t dump an air gapped archive and put it on a physical device in a deposit box?

Best of both worlds should you truly need to access it. Or are depositions also a concern?

Funny enough I just did a business law presentation on Comcast Corp v FCC (2010). Thanks for doing what you could for Net Neutrality
there was this that unmasked alt HN users identity 2 years back using stylometric analysis from a previous comment dump

AFAIU the more people know of it the better expectations are set about real account privacy

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33755016
Pinecone Local: a self-hosted, in-memory emulator of the vector database
I've been obsessed with MilkDrop for a long time. Several years ago I curated through all 52,000 presets, selected the very best presets, and then organized them into categories and subcategories. So I've been curious if an LLM could be fine-tuned on this dataset and then generate new presets. When the Qwen-Coder-7b-Instuct model was released, it seemed like the open-source models have matured to the point that it's worth trying out. So I teamed up a InferenceIllusionist and started doing some fine-tuning experiments of the model. The results have been exciting to play with and so we've released the model for anyone to experiment with.

What is MilkDrop? It’s a music visualization engine which reacts in real time to the music. MilkDrop has a long 23 year history, has been ported to numerous systems, and a robust community of users that have made tons of original presets. Today, there is a new generation of artists using the NestDrop app within their live concert performances. I'm one of the developers of NestDrop.

Feel free to ask me any questions.
It does make more sense to me though: of course I can have my cake and then eat it. But I can't eat it and still have it afterwards.

So the order implies the temporality of the actions.
How Flox is helping developers create, share, and manage consistent environments
Every single example that you gave, had visionaries behind the long-term pushes.

Steve Jobs had a lot of failures. It's just that his successes were so successful, that people forget about the duds.

These visionaries don't just have plans, they have fiendish plots, that would make a Grand Vizier hang his head in shame.

But they move on, and that's when the "quarter-miners" inevitably move in.
In the first paragraph:

> I want to be clear that I am generally limiting my scope here to rigid non-powered armor. Power (or powered) armor – that is, armor that moves with built-in servos and motors, rather than purely under muscle power – is its own topic that we’ll leave for another day.
I'm guessing they meant Portland Maine, but yeah confusing given the article being discussed. :)
Two spaces always put me off typographically in monospace. The sentence-ending dot plus a single space already create a much larger gap visually in monospace than in proportional fonts, and with an additional space it just becomes ridiculous. It would be fine in proportional font I guess.
Do you know something I don’t? Lightbox Jewelry is definitely still around and AFAIK it’s owned by De Beers. My understanding is this exists as an attempt to deflate the cost of lab growns.

https://lightboxjewelry.com/
This is "only" from an appeals court. I expect TikTok will take it to the Supreme Court and they may well reach different conclusions there.
I think it's just a mater of time before TikTok starts seeing bans (or threats of bans) all over in the west.

Countries are starting to view it as a _serious_ national threat, due to the disinformation risk.

Just look at the Romanian election: A couple of hours ago they annulled the first election round, after a coordinated Russian campaign managed to propel a rather unknown pro-Russian candidate to the top, where they used platforms like TikTok to influence voters.

Not that platforms like Facebook, Snap, etc. are much better, but this comes down to having some control.
Or someone got tired of typing long paths.
How did we get from a situation where you could just pay with cash/card for fuel to having monopolized single-brand car fueling stations?
I'm daily driving a Sony Xperia 10 III with SailfishOS. It works as a phone, has a small selection of native apps available and runs many Android apps using LXC based solution called Android AppSupport. It's really not bad at all.
Yeah I feel pretty incredulous about this too. Surely you would want to see a few hundred generations reproducing with the change before you could begin to say with any confidence that it might not have an effect.
Different kinds of risks.
This was in the 90s, other than the AV issue, they got high marks from me. I even had a linux and freebsd machine running attached to the corp net with no issues, they did not touch MS infra. The average is indeed terrible.
Shouldn't election be organized such that it cannot be disrupted by Internet attacks from abroad? At least not so easily.

Also, I tried opening the PDF [1] with so called "declassified report" and while I cannot read Romanian, the first header contains "TikTok" and I am left wondering how can one hack an election system using Tiktok? Did they count the votes using TikTok videos? And what about Telegram (mentioned nearby)? It doesn't even have a newsfeed. Oh those powerful hackers!

Judging by "distribuite numeroase imagini" and "blockarea accessului visual" (which almost sounds English), TikTok hacked their elections by simply refusing to block a video (or by blocking it?).

> Access credentials for election websites were stolen by threat actors and leaked on a Russian hacker forum

What a sad state of European cybersecurity. But this threat seems to be real, unlike the TikTok attack.

[1] https://www.presidency.ro/files/userfiles/Documente%20CSAT/D...
More details here: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/aper...
1. Not all ads are pay per click. There are still plenty of old fashion ad slot in podcast, video or even web page. See Darling Fireball, currently running 1Password Ad.

2. This happen a lot more in publishing industry than people would like to admit.

3. I dont disagree here. But most site still dont sell your data. Which is my point about double dipping. Tracking, however is another issue and I dont support it.

4, 5. I think there is where the top / my comment and the opinion of others on HN differs. No one, and even in this case the Verge ever said there will be zero ads.

6. Ads are everywhere. Newsletters, communication from Visa, Master, AMEX, App Store, Promotional material on discount, etc All have Ads. To suggest they have zero information or value to users is simply ignoring how large part of the world works.
The thing they removed was sulfur. It comes up naturally with the oil, so it is not really an additive. It is cheaper to leave the Sulphur in the bunker fuel that the ships burn so that is what they did for many years. Nowadays they extract the extract the Sulphur and it ends up in big piles. Some of the Sulphur is sold to make various products, but often there is too much to sell and so it just piles up. Sometimes you may spot one of these giant yellow piles when traveling.

https://live.staticflickr.com/2786/4448449049_f5da3bbcea_z.j...

Elemental Sulphur is not very toxic, but I would not recommend eating a bowel of it.
Ah, fair, I think. I confess I assume that there is some sort of power source on all of the ones discussed, though? The Dune setups clearly have a power source for the shield stuff. Why wouldn't that power source also work to help move the armor?
Even if the app got banned abruptly today, the damage has already been done in the sense that it leaked a lot of training data and PII data to China
Something like manifold-sql[1] for ts would be awesome.

1. https://github.com/manifold-systems/manifold/blob/master/man...
Yay, I just tried it on my iPad and it works!

When you say "GPT-o1", do you mean the model "o1-preview"? Because I think that is the only o1 I can access via the API.
Eggs are dying out, pointed out by this 2 year old blog post:

https://about.scarf.sh/post/python-wheels-vs-eggs

The metadata problem is related to the problem that pip had an unsound resolution algorithm based on "try to resolve something optimistically and hope it works when you get stuck and try to backtrack".

I did a lot of research along the line that led to uv 5 years ago and came to the conclusion that installing out of wheels you can set up a SMT problem the same way maven does and solve it right the first time. They had a PEP to publish metadata files for wheels in PyPi but I'd built something before that could suck the metadata out of a wheel with just 3 http range requests. I believed that any given project might depend on a legacy egg and in those cases you can build that egg into a wheel via a special process and store it in a private repo (a must for the perfect Python build system)
You have to play by Android rules. If you start your daemons from an app that runs a foreground service, I believe this protection would spread to the app's child processes too. Or if you root your phone, you can bypass the activity manager entirely.