skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They were indeed. At that time I was installing and setting the things up.

99% of them ran plain unaugmented PC DOS 3.3 and DOS apps, and the customers didn't give a fig about OS/2.

IBM lost a $multi-billion market through its short-sightedness, and if it had more vision, it could have couriered a 386 planar to every 286 PS/2 owner who wanted OS/2 and sent an engineer to install the board and then the OS... and still made more money overall.
Brother I don't disagree with you nor claim anything that I cannot claim since I don't know the domain. You wrote one thing that was incorrect (that they don't exist) and I shared a link that might inform you otherwise.

Cheers.
I keep hearing people crow about how Africa is going to get re-colonized by China, but I just don't see it.

It already happened[0] through massive predatory loans that Africans were never realistically going to be able to pay back. Of course, you could also frame those loans as China believing in Africa and investing heavily in stalwart people who had long been exploited by other countries. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative
The ability to run ethernet and power over the same usb port is handy for static reuse of phones, not sure there's a list of who supports it though
If you're "conspiracy theory"-ometer is asking you for evidence for the proposition that "countries do not simply lie back and fervently hope for things to go their way but take concrete actions to advance their interests", your meter is tuned waaaaaaaay too sensitively. Whether that's a conspiracy is up to your definition, but that it's a theory that somehow needs substantiation is absurd. It's a plain and obvious fact of the world. Organizations of any size in general do not generally just sort of sit back and hope things go their way, but take action. "People take actions to advance their own goals" is not a "conspiracy theory".
That accusation has been leveled at a lot of politicians, often Republicans. But I'm not sure it's true in this case.

I think Donald Trump is a stupid person's idea of a mean person, who's mean to the people they want to be mean to.

We had something similar in George W. Bush. Nobody thought he was smart. People often said that he was preferable to have a beer with. That hardly seems like a good reason to be President, but it was remarkably popular. Like Trump, he did eventually win an election by popular vote, not just the Electoral College.

I have a dark suspicion that for a great many of his voters, they think he's in fact quite stupid. And that's what they want.
https://kno.wled.ge/

Many 'effects' already prepackaged. Plus the ability to schedule time based changes (on/off/change pattern/etc.). Includes a web server to provide "app like" control over a phone or PC. Also includes integrations for several "home control" systems and a http API for programmatic control from another system. Can even synchronize plural controllers into a whole 'net' (note, I've not used this feature yet).

Small ESP32 boards (with wifi capability) such as this example (no affiliation, just an example that works):

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09Y8X1GK7

WS2811 LED strings [1] (of which there are an infinite variety) suitable for outdoor use. One example (no affiliation):

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CYZF1WCR

Suitable power supplies, outdoor weather sealed boxes, and wiring (all left to you to locate).

Willingness to assemble the pieces and some time to do so. Having a soldering iron is helpful here, although one could possibly get by with screw terminal blocks inside weatherproof boxes if need be for many of the 'connections'.

[1] Or other 'programmable LED' strings for which WLED is compatible (it works with numerous different programmable LED standards, browse the WLED website for details).
Not all of Europe. The immediate neighbors were always wary of Russia's game, but attempts to bring that up only got them labeled as rusophobic.
While the world would be slightly better off having a useless thing gone, does it cost anything to have it exist? It's a small number of bytes in a library. It shouldn't have any runtime cost. I doubt we'd want to re-use those class names.

It would almost certainly break something for somebody somewhere -- probably in places where the original source code has vaporized. Probably not all that many, but the ones that do exist are probably kind of important (since they'd have been retired by now if they weren't).

That code is gonna break one of these days anyway, so I guess you might as well rip the band-aid off for them. At least this way they'll get plenty of warning, and maybe tools will even materialize to help. (Perhaps class files can be patched to fix common patterns.)
Here's the paper on researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/362634845_Leader_In...

I posted it below, but there's a fundamental misunderstanding in the comments here. The authors are not tying to Myers-Briggs / MBTI: They are engaging with a scientific literature around intuition and introversion and while it is not part of OCEAN, it is establishing its own merits. It is also identified along a spectrum and as far more nuanced than our colloquial understandings.

However, the paper itself is more limited in its conclusions (which is good for a paper!) - It's going to take me a day or two (I'm pretty good with social science research but this is outside research I know well) to see what practical implications I/we can take from this.
YMMV wrt your experience and luck.

I’m a pretty experienced developer and I struggle to get any useful information out of LLMs for any non-trivial task.

At my job (at an LLM-based search company) our CTO uses it on occasion (I can tell by the contortions in his AI code that isn’t present in his handwritten code. I rarely need to fix the former)

And I think our interns used it for a demo one week, but I don’t think it’s very common at my company.
You're not explaining how the Sarasvati river evidence, which is radiocarbon dated, does not fully contradict your position.

Do you really believe, in good faith, that the most parsimonious explanation is that a small group of IE-speaking nomads entered India 500+ years after the Sarasvati was drying and population centers had been abandoned, then re-purposed the entire history of the "native" population, wrote themselves completely out of this re-purposing with no memory of where the nomads themselves came from, and then at least hundreds of years after that re-wrote the story of the desiccation of the river (in significantly evolved, non-Rig Vedic Sanskrit) to read as if it was occurring then, ~1000+ years after it actually occurred?

Occam's razor here is clear.

The Rig Vedic speakers were in India when the Sarasvati was a fully flowing river pre-3000 BCE, they documented the drying of the river in later Sanskrit texts, and the Rig Vedic IE corpus was created by at least 3000 BCE based on the radiocarbon dating of the Sarasvati's paleochannel.
Humans aren't computers.
Additional citation:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42342203 ("HN: Tokyo government gives workers 4-day workweek to boost fertility, family time")

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/06/asia/tokyo-government-4-day-w... ("CNN: Tokyo government gives workers 4-day workweek to boost fertility, family time")
Disinformation is bad from any source, but it is much worse if it comes from a foreign adversary govt.

Also, the US acts against misinformation from with US too.

https://www.npr.org/2024/06/26/nx-s1-5003970/supreme-court-s...

Honestly, I never understood arguments like this. What next?

1. Why should only the US govt tax Americans, we should also let CCP tax Americans.

2. Why should only the US govt police Americans, we should also let CCP police Americans.

> You can't make people in the US believe anything. We had the full force of US government pulling every lever they had access to get people to get vaccinated and wear a mask and it still didn't work. Even when (arguably) they had the truth on their side. There's no way we're admitting China outclassed us.

You are conflating many things.

CCP doesn't have to sway the average American. It only has to sway fringe groups at critical moments/places. That is much more easy.
Right, but they are not the official defaults. If you are changing the official defaults, then you might as well do it in a more principled way.

If you are going to need to optimise with performance metrics anyway, then why not stick to just the official defaults (unless the official defaults are non-functional, is that the case?)

I think anyone who is reading a blog post on “better defaults” is front loading some of the optimisation, so you could let them make a principled choice straight away for marginal extra cost.
That's exactly how React changes pushed by Vercel broke it and had the tipping point for the react fatigue we are discussing now
...that pitch is a mess. The majority of it is nonsense and it doesn't sound like a good story to me (I think. I can hardly parse it.)
Obviously there's no way to avoid everything?

Obviously, there is no way to avoid anything with this. It just adds one simple, easily traceable layer of indirection without any assurance of anonymity. It's not much different than using a free public proxy server in Mozambique.

https://www.proxynova.com/proxy-server-list/

They can promise no logs yet turn on logging if authorities request it.

Which most contractually agree not to do without a valid court order. In which case, authorities have to at least put forth the time, effort and money to submit a legally valid court order --- which can be substantial based on the jurisdiction.
Go -> JVM bytecode with a Clojure-facing API and a Clojure-based compiler as a Clojure package wouldn’t be so bad. It’d just be another JVM frontend, hosted in Clojure. Clojure is also just a JVM frontend. I’m not quite understanding this “JVM->Clojure” bit of your equation; Clojure is a JVM frontend and stdlib API.
What if a rich supporter prints flyers and buys ads without telling the candidate? If that automatically disqualifies a candidate, his enemies have a strong incentive to do the same.
The base model is Llama 3.1 70B
They had to make a quick call, in my book they acted boldly, the risks of the alternative were greater. Everyone has time to cool down and think about it, and the candidate can win if he is good. In the last few days all new information has pointed in the opposite direction.
The BunkerNet feature is completely optional. You can disable it at any time, however, you will not be able to take advantage of crowdsourcing on threats if you do so. More information here : https://docs.bunkerweb.io/latest/security-tuning/#bunkernet
Sort of?

Then there’s trust that it won’t make up information.

It probably won’t be used for any HR/legal work for fear of false info being generated.
What do you mean by "connection" in the context of SQLite?
Not at the moment but we plan to work on it. Thanks for your feedback.
The devil you know
From the actual paper:

"Our sample consisted of 3108 Captains in the United States Air Force who participated in a five-week leadership development course. They were randomly assigned to a 14-person MTS (there were 222 systems in our sample) for the duration of the course, such that each was comparable in terms of leadership experience (all were at the same rank and tenure), age, gender, occupation, and scores on a comprehensive military aptitude test. They participated in the same task – a three-hour computer-based simulation – for which they received the same training and time restrictions. These similarities help to ensure comparability and that no one had any performance advantage."

The paper looks interesting. The blurb does not do it justice.
This is a contemporary discussion, today, concerning hundreds perhaps thousands of lines of code. That's it.

If someone is objecting to changes because of things like "bob;>/hacked". That is laughable, and I will continue to point and laugh. Imagine limiting URL encoding because of SQL injection.

We can fix this, then fix the things that break - and then we can improve.

Or we can ossify into stone. Your choice.
None of us were laughing in derision. If we were laughing its because we knew we were fucked.
Would anyone be willing to compress this down to maybe 14b-20b for us on peasant 16gb rigs?
> In fact, I'm going to build a toy one in python!

I suggest building it as a normal python logging handler instead of totally custom, that way you don't need a "text" toggle and it can be used without changing any existing standard python logging code. Only requires one tweak to the idea: Rather than a template table at the start of the file, have two types of log entries and add each template the first time it's used.

Drawback is having to parse the whole file to find all the templates, but you could also do something like putting the templates into a separate file to avoid that...
I think you know that many creative individuals and organizations are not necessarily objecting to writing from their property being used. They are objecting to it being used to power a multi-billion dollar (multi-trillion if we’re honest) industry without compensation or credit.
why is cache size negative?
> Earlier this year, Singapore introduced new guidelines requiring all firms to consider requests by employees for flexible-working arrangements. That could include four-day weeks or flexible hours.

https://www.mom.gov.sg/-/media/mom/documents/press-releases/...

from https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/06/asia/tokyo-government-4-day-w...
Except it is 25x cheaper, available offline, can be uncensored / unaligned, fine-tuneable and backupable.

Sad day for OpenAI.
Great for humanity.
You can download it here if you're nostalgic. ;-)

https://winworldpc.com/product/os-2-1x/10

No, I get your point, and in that position I'd have wished I kept a set, too, but it was not lost to history.

FWIW a beta of Microsoft OS/2 2.0 was found earlier this year and I wrote about it.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/11/trying_ms_prerelease_...

Yes, Microsoft 32-bit OS/2 two, not a typo.
You'll also lose the opportunity to use the MCP integration of Claude Desktop. It's still early on but this has huge potential
I've started enjoying older printed books again. There's solace knowing that it was at least made by a person.
This argument suggests that the Chinese government is already using Tiktok to control the narrative on US foreign policy, doesn't it?
The supposed campaign on tiktok ran days before the election. It is remarkable for state organs to be able to act within a week or so. Annulling the election in this situation seems the right thing to do. A similar cancellation of results happened in Austria in 2016. A year later it indeed would have been too late.
As much as I want to trust "Kyiv Insider" for being nonpartisan, I unfortunately wasn't born yesterday. How does this low quality propaganda not get flagged as such? Why is this even on HN rather than an in-depth article proving the points against TikTok? This is literally out of the playbook from US Presidental election in 2016 when the Democrats claimed it was Russian interference that caused Trump to win due to Russian bots, and unless there's a thorough explanation (not from a corrupt, biased government), you would have to be a fool to believe the claims of 1M+ TikTok accounts fooling Romanians to vote one way or another. It's an insult against everyone's intelligence, and most especially against the voters themselves.
Dividing by zero is undefined not infinity.
This. Not to mention deplaning and more expense time screening for security.
Isn't it democracy when a candidate gets more votes than the rest? The only way to undermine democracy is to reject the results of the elections.

If propaganda from the "enemy" really is that effective, then either it's rooted in truth and resonates with the electors, or we have to admit that the general public is so easily influenceable that allowing them to vote is a danger for democracy, which means democracy isn't really worth much in the first place.
In the event I'm ever truly stranded, I do have a Level 1 charger I keep in my car so that all I need is a 110v outlet. Since my car (EV6) supports V2L and has an internal 110v outlet, I could also use it to help another stranded EV. Not fast, but it is a lifeline.
OK, just checking.

My point is, Letwin was wrong: it was not the apps that sank OS/2.

The 16-bit version killed its changes, and that did have some big-name native apps.

And it didn't need 8MB -- although it would not have objected.
I prefer the density of the original, but your addition of "Today", "Yesterday", "Wednesday"... buttons is excellent. That is much more useful than the infinite scroll on the vanilla homepage.
Isn't that an important difference for enterprise?
Indeed, we use NGINX as the base web server. NGINX + LUA to be precise.
It's like this: now that full-genome sequencing is getting pretty cheap and common, you can tell how string the selection pressure is on a chunk of DNA just by looking at frequencies of variants. If it turns out there are very few variants, you can be confident the chunk is doing something, even if you don't know what. If the variation looks like random drift, you can be pretty confident it is.
The process seems to be whoever takes them on the most luxurious vacation decides the verdict.
What motivated your choice to make a single-header libc?
I agree with your points but I think that the attributes of gambling you described can also be applied to bitcoin pretty well:

- The most skilled wins: btc participants probably believe they're appying skill (with a heavy dose of luck) to know when to get in and get out of bitcoin. after all $1 million in btc is only useful if at some future time you can do something with it ("cash out").

- Believing that simply getting on the bandwagon of gambling will make you money is outright delusional: this sounds like a pretty accurate description of crypto "investing" as a whole.

> The premise that Bitcoin, one day, replaces money

If that happens, how many btc will it take to buy a toyota? Nobody knows. Sure, USD may be worthless one day, or it may take $1 billion USD to buy a pencil. But (most) crypto investors weren't "investing" in USD before, the were using it as a stand-in for things of real value.
If you're in Europe, just take a scaleway stardust for €4/month with unlimited traffic :)
At least everyone has some time to cool down and think and absorb all the information that came out in the last few days.
People in the culture that they live in have a vested interest in it.
I think people should be able to configure systems to handle a broad range of text from popular encoding standards like UTF-8.

Limiting text-space because of communcation is a strange objection that I don't think will hold up over time.
But Ukrainians aren't part of any "We", from my perspective. We prudently formed no alliances with them.
Normally I'd be cautious about a witch hunt, but I think the point here is that there isn't much ability to ask for evidence, which is exactly why it's been able to progress through court so quickly.
I'm really glad that recognition of acoustics in airport design is gradually gaining steam. As a Seattle resident I'm pretty jealous of people who fly through SFO regularly, because that airport is a joy to wait in because of how quiet it is. Now apparently I get to be jealous of PDX as well.
The dilettante who cares more about the equipment than the work is a well worn cliche, but on the other hand lots of "real" painters love the smell of paint.

Lots of photographers, good and bad, like how finicky and mechanical cameras are.
People are always going to be influenced, that's the whole point of political campaigns, to influence you to vote for them. If they claim Russia tried to influence the Romanian people, and that they did it successfully enough to have their chosen candidate win, I think that shows more a failure of the other candidates than anything. You can't just tell every country in the world: please don't interfere with our opinions!!! We want our people to only be influenced by ourselves!!!
I would love to see exactly what they claim Russia did to influence so many people to affect the result of the elections.
Last time they claimed this in the USA, it has been shown that the influence was actually widely blown out of proportion. The 2024 results seem to show that people would've voted the way they did anyway, and maybe even in larger numbers. There's very little evidence to the contrary.
Malicious Maven Package Impersonating 'XZ for Java' Library Introduces Backdoor
PNL & PSD are establishment parties in Romania. We are a young democracy, since the end of 1989 when we ended communism with people rising up to fight in the streets for a better tomorrow, so the aforementioned parties do have roots in communism, but they are by no means communist parties.

The Social Democrats haven't won the presidency in decades and their current candidate sunk them in this election process even though he was sure to win, but some missteps he took associating himself with people connected to a huge real estate scam sunk his campaign.

Whether this move helps Social Democrats (PSD) is unlikely, as their current candidate is still just as unpopular and would most likely not win.

You are correct that because of this Russophile candidate the runoff turned into a pro-EU vs pro-Russia fight.
That's not sufficient evidence.
According to the pricing page, 32K context is for Plus users and 128K context is for Pro users. Not disagreeing with you, just adding context for readers that while you are explaining that the 4o API has 128K window, the 4o ChatGPT agent appears to have varying context depending on account type.
No, this is about common rules for everyone. Campaign material had to be marked as such and campaign finances had to be declared. One candidate blatantly failed to do so and won the first round. The court took a bold decision.
Regarding Linux and printers, I use Fedora as my daily driver, and I have a cheap HP OfficeJet printer from 2016, and I'm amazed by how well it "just works" with both printing from any application and scanning with the GNOME Document Scanner application. My wife actually has more issues printing from her Windows 10 machine (e.g. we periodically have to go through the Windows settings to "add printer" again) and scanning with the actual HP software.

I've used Linux on and off since 2005, and every time I've come back to Linux I've been impressed with the progress made on things like this.
Theres been a lot of kurfuffle about it and apparently even the other politicians think this court decision was too much.

Im not sure why and how this works, just saying that having Russia create 10 million fake accounts (that we know of) in a country of 19 million is clearly foreign interference.
The issue I have with this is that it treats the US government as one entity that has a singular view. I don't think the US government works like that, instead it has contradictory views within itself and especially over time as the party in power changes. For example, the two political parties that passed this bill have wildly differing views on foreign policy. Thus how can you say its to regain control over narratives, if thy don't even agree on which narrative to promote?
That's interesting. I've never had a law firm be straightforward about the (obvious) fact they'll be using a boilerplate.

I've even found that when lawyers send a document for one of my companies, and I give them a list of things to fix, including e.g. typos, the same typos will be in there if we need a similar document a year later for another company (because, well, nobody updated the boilerplate)

Do you ask about the boilerplate before or after you ask for a quote?
Replace Starfleet Captains with The Borg and suddenly your simulation is perfect.