skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be nice if HN took advantage of the fast Algolia search as the person is typing in the "Submit URL Field" to show the last time(s) it has been submitted in chronological order to help make a better informed decision as to whether something is worth submitting in the first place.
When it is over the cup, pull the plunger back out and add more water.

Put the plunger back let sit for a minute and plunge again.
Honestly this post makes Google sound like the new IBM. Very corporate.

"Hear from our CEO first, and then our other CEO in charge of this domain and CTO will tell you the actual news."

I haven't seen other tech companies write like that.
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Yeah, I think that's a bit weird too. Note that this is my article but none of those submissions were by me.

Maybe Hacker News needs to extend the time period during which it checks for duplicate URLs?
And a question for you, as one who has language translation experience:

Any recommended forum or group for Q&A on language translation / interpreters / parsing topics?

Very recently, I came across langdev.stackexchange.com; I have only browsed it briefly, so far. Do you think it is good?

I know about the Usenet group comp.compilers, and have interacted with a moderator of it, John Levine, back in the day, on email, regarding a book that he wrote. But for sometime now, Usenet groups have been full of spam, so I am not sure that will be a good resource.

I am asking because, although this is a learning and fun project for me, not a work or money making project (I do have those, on the side ;), and because of that, I do plan to try to work out a lot of things myself, from first principles (but of course with the help of prior reading that I have absorbed - I am not going to ignore that), because I think that will help me to learn more, and also give me more of a sense of satisfaction / achievement, I also do plan to intermittently look at prior art, and learn and apply it as makes sense to me.
If you enter your searches as a question all you get are Quora and WikiHow links, which are two of the worst websites in existence when it comes to finding useful information.

Besides that's not how search term indexing works.
Where does Mullvad get all this money? I've seen physical ads in different places in the world, audits, etc.

I'm not suggesting a conspiracy, but is the VPN business that good? Are they funded by a privacy group?
Is this still the case? Afaik you can use web Whatsapp without phone now
Usually, when one marks an argument as nonnull via a function attribute, one wants NULL checks to be removed.
Isn't the entire point of appointing Kennedy to be contrary to the mainstream views of science? Presumably, this would increase his value in the position, rather than decrease it.
Are we training our kids for authoritarianism through belief in Santa?

No, we are teaching them that even those close to them can not be trusted so certainly do not trust strangers. They must investigate everything themselves. That email or website headline stating they can make millions by clicking that link and depositing some money is most likely a scam. That politician promising to improve the city by adding this one simple tax is most likely a grifter.
The article is dated today. But IIR, the switch from sendmail to DMA was actually done in FreeBSD 14.0 - released back in Nov. 2023.

(From a quick skim, the article makes no mention of that "missing year".)
The "winning" offer was formulated such that its cash value depended upon the next best offer. I.e., when you strip away the complexity it was of the form "next best offer + $". That this bid "won" indicates the "auction" was not a sealed-bid auction of the kind you are thinking of.
All parties were not happy with the bid, which is why this went to a judge.
I think their facetious point was "windows does nothing more for the user than Linux" which I tend to agree with, care to share some examples of what windows does better than Linux besides forcing you to update, forcing you to use edge browser and showing ads on your start menu?

Windows has market share because they got a contract in the late 90s and 2000s with the department of education to put it on school computers when school computers were just becoming a thing. That is the only reason.
You don't have to use the word promise to make a promise. It's inferred.
To be fair, I believe this is reserved for things like fighting fraud.
The announcement has links, maybe they will add those to the homepage later.
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Interestingly, the actual ADHD tests didn't find any issues, my main issue was my mind wandering in social situations, listening, understanding, keeping track of conversations and my own input. But whatever the tests were they were stimulating enough that I had no problem focusing. It's also repetitive, routineus actions that I have trouble focusing on, so it's almost like untestable issues. I did get the diagnosis though, I don't remember with what justification since the tests didn't allow for that.
My understanding is that the other (minor) creditors would get more cash in the Onion offer because the Sandy hook reps weren’t going to take their huge cut in the event their preferred bid was accepted. That means in any other deal, the other creditors would be strictly worse off. The families would be financially worse off but they were the ones driving the decision, so they clearly felt holistically better off.

I don’t see how they shouldn’t be able to take less money themselves as long as the other creditors also got more money.
Alex Jones shuffles assets moments before a legal proceeding (or perhaps during it), goes bankrupt, and his shuffled assets can buy the assets he "lost". I don't have enough legal knowledge to call it fraud, but it sure sounds like what I'd call as a layman "pure bullshit".

>How exactly is Alex Jones supposed to pay $1 billion dollars to anyone?

That sounds like the job of a bankruptcy court now, doesn't it?

Pure bullshit #2: all creditors and debtors agreed on something and suddenly Jones himself says "no not that way!" Why does the debtor get to decide where and how he sells the assets he no longer owns?

>What is the purpose of this entire spectacle?

in case you forgot, a "major news network" tried to play off a tragic school shooting that isn't even 15 years old as a hoax. The family sued and he lost a defamation case over it. In the US (it's REALLY hard to claim defamation in the US, so you really screw up if you lose here).

On top of all of that all, Jones did all his darndest to drag out and overall disrespect the legal system though a mix of shuffling assets, missing court dates, and so many other pieces of foul play that would get any normal citizen charged with perjury (he may have been charged that). That is surely why his ruling costs ran so high.

So the purpose of this entire spectacle runs on 2 major points:

1. don't try to play off a modern, highly televised and recorded event in modern history as a "hoax", especially on a topic as serious as school shootings

2. Don't be a legal asshole and piss off judges in a court case.

That latter one shouldn't even need to be said, but between this and the Gawker trial we clearly have a lot of children who treat the judicial system like it's some casual date on Tinder. Judges don't like being ghosted.
Thanks! I've used that, reordered just a bit.
I don't really know, but Elon Musk has been known to buy media companies that don't give him a good ROI, and he was making noise about putting a bid together on this one.
Despite the focus difference, do you think it's unlikely that automating baggage handlers will replace their jobs?

The regulator focus seems like it'd reduce the max allowed weight of a checked bag, not automate the baggage handler handing the checked bag. So, I don't see the similarity between the regulatory push and your product? Edit - to clarify, beyond what Dutch regulators say about Dutch markets, which are a very small subset of "regulator focus" internationally.
You had me until "Please support HTTP basic auth for client authentication".

OAuth 2.1 draft spec emphasizes that basic auth is no longer preferred. I read that to mean: MAY, or perhaps even SHOULD NOT.
In general it's probably wise to be skeptical of new technology. However, I would imagine back then people would have been skeptical because computers were annoying to deal with and of questionable utility all things considered, not because they weren't sure if the computers were even doing anything at all. Imagine having a 20 ton machine that takes up half a room and gobbles up power and people's time, and all it's able to do is print out numbers that relate to nothing other than its internal state.
Yeah tricky part of the word.

We tried to ship banking 2FA devices to india and customs took them too.

200% useless to anyone but us, but confiscated anyway
There are many more options than the Play store for Android. F-droid, Obtainium, etc. Could you list in some of those?

EDIT: Oh, you do, nice!
> We cannot stress enough how their stores are not ready for independent solidarity-oriented networks. For exemple, a small "support us" donation link in our website footer or even on one of the allowed platforms triggered a "nope" from Apple.

Ugh, wow.
This isn't a leveraged buyout. Also this structure is not at all like a leveraged buyout.
Ah. I think lots of other people would like to keep their refrigerator and freezer and appliances running in the event of multi-day power outages when they are at home, even when it is not freezing (like in Florida, for example).
Or put differently, few of the fairly wealthy non-home-owners buy homes (which would bring the gap down from four thousand per cent). That's odd, isn't it? Why not?
> The child, J.F., is autistic

This always sticks out to me in these lawsuits. As someone on the spectrum, I'd bet that the worst C.AI victims (the ones that spur these lawsuits) are nearly always autistic.

One of the worst parts about being on the deeper parts of the spectrum is that you actively crave social interaction while also completely missing the "internal tooling" to actually get it from the real world. The end result of this in the post-smartphone age is this repeated scenario of some autistic teen being pulled away from their real-life connections (Family, Friends (if any), School, Church) into some internet micro-community that is easier to engage with socially due to various reasons, usually low-context communication and general "like-mindedness" (shared interests, personalities, also mostly autistic). A lot of the time this ends up being some technical discipline that is really helpful long-term, but often it winds up being catastrophic mentally as they forsake reality for whatever fandom they wound up in.

I've taken a look at r/CharacterAI out of morbid curiosity, and these models seem to turn this phenomenon up to 11, retaining the simplified communication but now capable of aligning with the personality and interests of the chatter to a creepy extent. The psychological hole you can dig yourself with these chatbots is so much deeper than just a typical fandom, especially when you're predisposed to finding it appealing.

I'm not saying that C.AI is completely blameless here, but I think the same category of people getting addicted to these models is the same one that would also be called "terminally online" in today's slang. It's the same mechanisms at work internally, it just turns out C.AI is way better at exploiting it than old school social media/web2 has.
People have been arguing the same bogus free speech point in the UK recently because people have been arrested for saying things that are anti-immigration and offensive online.

People have free speech, but obviously that doesn't mean you are free to say things that could be considered hateful or factually untrue. If you go around tweeting hateful things about the Royal family and the courts find you guilty, don't be surprised if that costs you your freedom. It's pretty simple.

Alex is legally free to saying whatever he wants, but he had the wrong views on Sandy Hook and his wrong views hurt the families affected, therefore he deserves to lose his business.
I'm taking bets matt will just do a "I bet you my ego is bigger" and end up going to jail for contempt of court for 10 years.

And then the day he gets out he'll continue the feud.
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Odin has a builtin heap allocator that works the same way you would expect any other high-level language to do memory allocation–it's just that you have to free the memory yourself. Plus, Odin's built in `context` system makes it really easy to change what kind of allocator is used for different sections of code. For my use cases, I've never needed any more than a heap and an arena, detailed in this talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZNd5FjSquk

Personally, my large Odin project uses a series of arrays to store specific data, and then everything else is stored in a temporary allocator, which is wiped between frames. Besides some graphics initialization & path resolution at initialization time, the heap allocator is never used. I never really have to worry about memory. That's similar to the design detailed in this talk by Ryan Fluery:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ5a3gCCZYo

Odin also has a tracking allocator which can be used to check for leaks or double frees. In debug mode, my program will print out all un-freed memory left after shutdown. If you're working outside of Odin, I've heard good things about Valgrind for C/C++:

https://valgrind.org/
Meanwhile, the Hackernews proceeds to spend the rest of his day taking amphetamines and mindlessly scrolling like the dopamine junkie he is, all while feeling smugly superior to the lowly nicotine addict, which he compares to an insect that was infested by a parasitic fungus and turned into a mindless zombie. The microplastics in both users' brains and testes breathe a sigh of relief.
What do you mean if? That's what happens now. Nobody on the internet, meat or machine, is qualified to give you relationship advice.
Thanks for the feedback!

John B was obviously aware from previous experience what a manual and injury prone process this was, but I've also been really surprised as I've dived deeper into airport operations myself.

Bagroom is definitely what we're targeting first - being indoors (usually) is a huge plus, and lets us focus on the manipulation part of the problem without going fully mobile yet.

That said, we're definitely targeting tarmac/ramp operations, particularly between a TUG/PowerStow and narrow-body bag carts. Inside the bin is much trickier but we agree it's the least ergonomic part of the job, you just can't move a massive industrial arm in and out of a plane very easily. We have it on our longer-term roadmap, though, and intend to leverage the baggage dynamics data we collect everywhere else to give us a head start on the packing and manipulation problems there, just with a different mechanism.

Cargo packing is a huge area of interest for us! Particularly around optimizing weight distribution in loaded planes, or just optimizing packing efficiency in general.
Port forwarding was removed a year ago which handicapped P2P.

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2023/5/29/removing-the-support-f...
>it is about time for an Ayahuasca retreat

There's a non-zero chance he might have got one-shotted by Ayahuasca setting all this off.

https://x.com/danielmerja/status/1845904144663503098
There's nothing funny about this tragic story of ignorance, greed,
insanity and neglect. But after whipping readers up into a torch and
scythe wielding frenzied mob of hate at AI.....

Related:

" AI cancer diagnosis 'might have saved my life' "

Because. Balance. Right?

Hmmm, demonic murderous AI... but hold on, on the other hand...

Related? really? So gauche and jarring. Just let me enjoy my righteous
indignation for one damn minute BBC!
That was before he made tons of horrible angel investments - https://pitchbook.com/profiles/investor/106035-94#exits you can see how many of his portfolio are out of business or near death.
I agree. They'll probably reduce the number of claims they deny until the cost to prevent the next CEO from getting murdered is perfectly balanced with the increased profits caused by unethically denied claims. If you're a true believer in the markets, your CEOs live is just another line item to be optimised.
Thank you for the thoughtful response. I tried to limit my writing while keeping the core ideas true as I’m not going to write a multi page paper for a HN comment. I agree, automation alone will not bring equality to the masses. As I see it, it should go something like this: automation scales to the point where it’s pushing people out of jobs. This scares the working class. It gives them a real reason to go out and force change (hint: the working class can force change. They just have to want the change so much that it overcomes the many roadblocks in place to prevent them from making change. Partisan politics, big corporation lobbying, big media outlets all stand in the way of this, but I believe all of them can fall to the pressure of the core change making machine that is the American democratic system). Now this is far out there but here is what I think: My hope is this ‘movement’ will have deep enough considerations to the future of civilization to be able to overturn the outdated capitalist system and replace it with a neo capitalist system that should essentially rob large companies of systems essential to the country. There should be an upper limit to the net worth one can obtain. Think like this: Amazon slashes 80 percent of its workforce through automation. Then it is clear that they have created a system largely self sustaining that will suck up many more times wealth than it will give back to the population, and this wealth will condense into the owners of Amazon. Then the government should essentially strip the owners of their share of profits the company makes. They can keep their power within the company. They can keep their roles and they still manage the company for a hefty, hefty salary. But every dollar of profit over what it takes to keep the company running and pay the owners well will be evenly distributed to the American people because otherwise society will collapse. I know this reads more like a fiction novel than anything but I think the scale of problems that we face today require such thinking. I appreciate your willingness to comment and think critically about the future of society because this is something we need more of. We need more people to a. Believe in a vision of a future where we progress as a people - b. Believe they have the power to advance our society toward such a lofty goal. Because if enough of us believe so, it becomes attainable.

1. I used America as an example because I am American and that’s just how I think - no doubt the path could be blazed by other countries but I want to see my country survive

2. I’m sure there are many many technical issues with my vision of the future to be solved which would require many great minds to combine forces and analyze history. The question is will such an effort ever materialize, or will humanity be forever chained down by biology and circumstance? I would like to think it’s possible because as an American I see the formation of our government and constitution as possibly the greatest triumph in human history. Democracy was a revolution. But to progress we will soon need another revolution about equal in weight.
Maybe try it out because spammers are regionally targeting you and they have geofences in their software?

Edit: nevermind, I didn't realize I was talking to "cumpiler69"
It is a useful tool, similar to others that accomplish the same task (WATIR and Capybara in Ruby, for example). My point was that the comparison of a wrapper to an underlying library is a bit apples to oranges, as a similar wrapper could be written for Playwright as well. I haven't looked at the code, but I assume Helium's API could be used to support Playwright (which itself was an evolution of Puppeteer).
I have all those things. If it’s truly important they will text or leave a voicemail if I don’t pickup.
You mean "Losely", right...
Not a whole lot of bankruptcy lawyers on the internet that I've seen.

But here's one business law lawyer/professor breakdown of the proceedings that I think is pretty good [1]

[1] https://confrontationality.substack.com/p/bankrupt-alex-jone...
Ask HN: Which IDE with AI integration is the best as of today?
I use both Cursor IDE and vanilla VS Code with GitHub Copilot and imho Cursor (Pro) still works better than VS Code with Copilot. But perhaps you have different experiences? Also, how about other IDEs than these two? Are there better alternatives?
Then the user comes in with DarkReader, Dark Background With Light Text, their browser's integrated reader mode, or some other client-side stylesheet override and erases your effort.

The site is a good example of aesthetics taking precedent over accessibility. No matter what slider position I chose, I couldn't get an eye-friendly hue with good contrast.

Then I toggled on DarkReader and immediately got what I needed.
You're right that vertical resolution is just one factor, but streaming uses radically more efficient codecs than DVD, so at typical broadband speeds, streaming 480P on YouTube will look far better than DVD did.
They provide white label for Mozilla, Tailscale and may be some others I am not aware of. Plus they really sell a lot of subscriptions.
> It's like Microsoft creating an AI tool and calling it Peertube.

How is it like that? Gemini is a much more common word than Peertube. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini
AI is not an entity (yet) that we can defend or hold accountable. I like your question though.

I would write it as, why are we so quick to defend tech companies who endlessly exploit and predate human weakness to sell pharma ads/surveil and censor/train their AI software, etc?
I don't know why, but a search on either Bing or Google for "posix shell" points to the older version.

That's the one that I use.

I also prefer the plain Apache directory list for all the POSIX.2 utilities, so I am definitely sticking with Bing & Google's recommendations.
I think engineers learn this quickly in high-scale/performance production environments. Even without hardware backgrounds. SLAs/costs create constraints you need to optimize against after promising the business line these magical models can enable that cool new feature for a million users.

Traditional AI/ML models (including smaller transformers) can definitely be optimized for mass scale/performance on cpu-optimized infrastructure.
An LLC is absolutely not a form of corporation. Corporations and LLCs are both business entities, but are distinct from one another.
The Wikipedia article would tell you.
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The gist of the post is that optimizations and interpretations thereof must always be made with respect to the underlying hardware.
Wow! That’s all I need to know about Google’s model.
That is not what happened, though.

One group of creditors said they were willing to abandon some of their claims, which means other creditors would have gotten a larger share of the smaller bid, effectively making these other creditors better off.
Yeah, I mean, there's countless of sources even without the AI where you can get questionable suggestions or advice. The kid could've gone to 4chan or even just been talking to actual friends. Parents instead of good parenting are deciding to play opportunistic victims.
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Why are they bragging about something completely unrelated in the middle of a sentence about the impact of a piece of technology?

-Hey, are you done packing?

-Yes, I decided I'll bring all my shoes, including the ones that cost over $10,000.

What, they just couldn't help themselves?