skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sednaya wasn’t a regular civilian prison. It was run by the military to house and torture political prisoners and anyone the government considered a “rebel.” Its notoriety long predates the civil war.
How the weirdest store at the mall survived the retail apocalypse
I see more projects switch to PIXI, another Rust-written piece of software. RERUN was the one I follow the most https://github.com/rerun-io/rerun

It looks like much more than just command runner, but my projects happen to be needing much more than that too.
"I don't want to learn. I don't want to drive. The more you drive, the less intelligent you are."
This is why this isn't the plan. Instead there will be some amount of over capacity at abundant times such as summer for solar which means power will be very cheap or free during some months of the year and batteries will simply be used to match power usage through the day and across a few days.

If batteries were very much cheaper than having just enough power across the year would be the right strategy but we don't so it's not and in a lot of countries the overproduction is only +50% and the much cheaper option.
The GPT Era Is Already Ending
> XYZ just had to go

Yes, this worked out so well in the past. You people will definitely never learn. I honestly dread the times when your diplomats turn their gazes on my country.
Not sure I see a problem here. Certainly for Chinese individuals there was a huge downside impact.

Geopolitically being overt you want to reduce the impact of Chinese applications and .. I dunno maintain access for other communities? That would have been very confronting and invited overt Chinese state action. This way... they made the Chinese state apply back pressure for them.

Maybe it's short sighted, engagement is the best path to changing oppositional views in the long term.
At best under Assad Syria is stuck in a shitty stasis. Sometimes a risky roll is better than things being stuck at terrible until the end of time - even if it’s “stable” which it clearly wasn’t
> could this be bad for Ukraine?

No, this is how an overstretched (Russia) empire collapses. First the edges collapses.
I remember Sega Channel. In 6th grade, my friend had it. I didn't grow up with BBSes and had only learned about the Internet the year before (from the same friend), so the idea of downloading games was pretty wild. The service was way ahead of its time.

IIRC, it was $15/mo. There was a monthly or weekly rotation of games, including some pre-releases. I think at one point we played Vectorman when it was still new in stores or possibly just prior to its official launch.
Syria wasn’t a particularly shitty place before all this began in 2013.
> with an extra spire and a few other things

With a different spire. Notre Dame used to have a spire until it was removed early in the 19th century.

> Notre Dame has been restored. Not to how it was in 2018, prior the fire ... but to how it was intended when built, with a bit of sympathetic interpretation.

This is quite important. It was difficult to reconcile texts talking about how gothic cathedrals were full of light and colours with the aspect of a lot of these cathedrals, which felt dark and dull with their walls and windows blackened and covered in grime. The renovated interior is properly breathtaking.

> Well done!

Indeed.
Pretty wise comment about web extension support by the main dev here: https://github.com/atlas-engineer/nyxt/issues/2875#issuecomm...
A) in the open

B) they released all prisoners now. And at least some of them were part of ISIS.
Sorry for unclarity. I wasn't comparing the weight if the total car in EV or ICE scenario. It's more like 2x for a similar range I would think, because EV drivetrain is so much lighter than ICE one.
No. Assad has a cheering section. I'd like to hear its pitch. If you're just uneasy about what's happening, I'm not asking anything of you. That just makes sense. Boring! I want to hear from the people who think the Ba'athists were a good thing. That's interesting.
Best thing I ever did was to quit twitter, even before all the changes. Because everybody, good or bad, was concerned by things and they posted or shared them. A million voices talking is a million problems voiced

The real secret to life is...

You really don't need to know.
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines

Amazing how quick the general sentiment transformed from

"Fully reusable rockets can never work (and/or won't be profitable), SpaceX is dumb and will fail"

to

"How can anyone possibly compete with SpaceX fully reusable rockets? Why didn't anyone warn us???"
It was my experience too that it's better to commit to using Emacs like Emacs. `C-x SPC` is the Emacs way to select a rectangle of characters.
Rockstar will fall behind if GTA6 isn’t fun, not because they failed to adopt C++17 or higher. This article is bordering on ridiculous and almost reads like a subversive ad for Unreal Engine or Unity (moreover Unreal).

Many game engines eschew the C++ STL and latest language features in favor of rolling their own performance optimized platform, data structure and algorithms libraries.

I work at a large player in the video hardware industry and we roll all our own performance-sensitive video processing code in C99 or C++98 (we only recently adopted C++11 because, why fix what ain’t broken?). It doesn’t seem to be holding us back.
I do not have a say in it.

But I would prefer a democratic development to Salafist terrorism.

I fear the worst, but it doesn't always have to be like this.
ah, only your opinion is valid?
Yes, it's possible. In regular mode, you can switch between different models while staying within a single conversation thread. For example, you can first ask Claude to create something and then switch to Gemini to get its opinion on the previous message.
Externally, yes, we obtain knowledge from the world around us. We’re not brains in vats conjuring knowledge from the void of our isolated minds.
it is not end to end encrypted, so that's a hard no for me.
Maybe but our Putin loving president might do everything he can to help Russia once he’s in power this January.
They're basically stand ins for family doctors. About 17% of Canadians no longer have access to primary care physicians and have to rely on either walk ins, urgent care, or the emergency room.

COVID was a big one; lot of doctors decided to just retire at once. But primary care physicians are facing issues of the workforce aging out. I think about 18,000 of the 48,000 primary care physicians are set to retire by 2030, but we only add in about 1600 new primary care physicians a year. So by we'll be down by 8400 primary care physicians by 2030 and then however many years it takes to back fill to 2024 levels.

Meanwhile Canada's increased it's population from 37 million in 2019 to 41 million in 2024, with projections of us hitting around 43 to 44 million by 2030.

Most of it stems from the fact that lot of doctors don't want to be primary care physicians. The hours aren't terrible but the pay is low good compared to their specialist care counterparts, and they have far more administrative overhead then any other specialty. And often the work is miserable and thankless. I can't remember who said it but IIRC family doctors have the highest burn out rate out of all physicians.

This is all third hand information so take it for what it's worth, and I'm assuming that I've got an overly simplified view of the issue. Someone in the medical field could probably answer better then me.
I never got that deep into it. It mostly caught my attention because it was distinct variant of meta-gaming that I hadn't seen before.
Golf is THE family car. SUVs are not as common and often driven by boomers who don't live with their children anymore.
A little bit exaggerated. Nothing really happened yet.
Information is useful if it's re-usable
I am the OP of the post.

I'm not entirely satisfied with the result and can't decide whether it's a case of ‘writer's perfectionism’ (=overthinking it).

That said, I decided to publish it anyway because I believe it contains useful information ( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°).
Otherwise, I might have fallen into an endless loop of trying to perfect it and never actually posting it.

BTW: I prefer harsh (but constructive) criticism over encouragement.
Orcas have notoriously selective taste preferences that tend toward nutrient dense fatty foods. They can eat anything and different pods will narrowly specialize in different types of prey, but it is quite apparently a choice based on regional preferences. These food preferences are passed down over generations. Not terribly unlike human cultures.

Orcas are very smart. Humans, even if we met their taste profile, are not a repeatable food source they can specialize in hunting. They may also recognize that eating humans comes with unknown risks because they are pretty observant of what humans are capable of.
define political violence acts? Taking pictures of someone doing something that might be awful to expose that they are doing something awful is what I imagine these people do. That doesn't feel like what I'd call political violence. P.V. would be trying to shoot someone, maybe bringing up a crowd to chase someone away because you don't like what they are saying. You know, threatening.

Trespassing is what they are doing if they come in and take pictures when they are supposed to be there on private property. Can you explain what you mean here?
Stripe’s paid incorporation service only works for Delaware incorporation. Stripe will do payment processing for businesses from any state.

It’s a hassle for most businesses to incorporate in a state where they don’t have any officers. Typically you have to at least hire an in-state agent, which is both additional expense and an additional failure point for particular kinds of notices that don’t always get delivered via email.
This might surprise you, but most Syrian refugees didn't go to Europe. Turkey has 3 million, for example.
It's also a thing, unfortunately.

https://news.uoguelph.ca/2023/04/maple-syrup-fraud-undermine...
Unlikely to be a disgruntled veteran with health issues. Their care is provided by the Veteran's Administration hospital system at no cost. While the VA doesn't have a great reputation, in recent years in has been paying for veterans to see providers outside the VA system also.
From what I hear the showstopper for home wind turbines is the noise. Even the quietest ones produce some sound, which at your house when you're trying to sleep is annoying.

I'd imagine things with moving parts need alot of maintenance too.
I’m shocked that the ruling dynasty fell as quickly as it did, along with the military being ineffective and unwilling to stop the rebels given how long the civil war has been going on for. Incredible.
It seems cockroach got all the love here indeed. We use Yugabyte and we are happy with it; for our usecases it is a lot faster and easier to work with than cockroach.
I mean, unlike another nation south of them, at least for now, they didn't destroy Christian churches (the opposite in fact, rebel-controled territory rebuilt Christian churches), and let Christian orphanage/school stand without expropriation under false pretense.

How it will develop has yet to be seen, but I'm hopeful.
Software entrepreneur + blog post + HN frontpage: call me cynic but there is always self-promotion in that combination.
Libya is pretty much an Islamist and borderline slaver nation now. It’s much, much worse than it was under gaddafi. Tunisia is the only place the Arab spring might have been tentatively “successful”.
First you need to teach people a language of domination
Yes, it must be much better now after all the devastation. Same with Lybia, much better place now, no?
While I'm a firm atheist, Assad jettisoned all pretense of Baathist/secular ideology a decade if not longer ago in favor of simply doing whatever it takes to stay in power. The atrocities perpetrated by Assad's regime were far larger in scale than anything that ISIS ever managed, half a million people (on all sides) have died since 2013.
It is indeed as if the Nazis were overrun by ISIS, but the ISIS people are saying they're reformed and they're not going to do all the crazy shit ISIS did. On the other hand: look what was there before. Right?
> Biased against people who don't perform well under pressure.

I think performance under pressure is a virtue. An important job is never going to be entirely free from stress - you want somebody reliable who will take that in their stride, you don't want someone who will buckle when things get difficult.

I'm all for in-person live collaborative problem solving, be it on a whiteboard or just a discussion. You see first-hand exactly what the person has in their memory, their problem solving techniques, how quickly they get things, their communication skills, and yes, their ability to work under pressure. If done correctly and collaboratively, you get a dry-run of a real design meeting and have some feeling of what it would be like to work with the person.
The only Near East regime that served as a reliable Russian proxy and military base just collapsed. That's not "nothing".

Russian operations in Africa will be seriously complicated by the loss of Syria as a mid-point.
Since the 2022 Russian invasion, the West has provided 200bn in aid to Ukraine [0]. And Russia has been winning on the ground lately. It seems the West is thinking more aid will not change the outcome, but only diplomacy will.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1303432/total-bilateral-...
Looks similar to USA withdrawal from Afghanistan. When big power withdrew support, whoever they were protecting just got run over in a week. Same here.
Just to be clear, you're talking about prisons like Sednaya, the infamous "Human Slaughterhouse?" The one where Assad imprisoned thousands of political opponents, journalists, military deserters, Muslim minorities and civilians, and then systematically tortured and executed those people?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sednaya_Prison
That feels like a claim that might be news to the residents of Madaya, Yarmouk, Douma, and Idlib, right?
Your impression of Russia's war capabilities is vastly mistaken.

"According to Joseph Fitsanakis, professor of intelligence and security studies at Coastal Carolina University, “Russian military production is currently outpacing that of the US and all of NATO member states combined. This may be hard to believe, but Russia is obligated to do it if it is going to outpace the support given to Ukraine."

Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/2/russia-races-ahead-...
I worked with a guy a few years ago, a React dev, who would do this in serious meetings. A bunch of us would find it pretty amusing. It was like that scene from Supertroopers. His Slack avatar was also Nyan Cat.

>One hint some of the accounts belonged to Waifu: He liked to use animated cats as avatars. Other aliases included Meowist, Catist and Scarlet the Meow Cat, according to court filings. “He would say meow all the time. I don’t really know what that’s about,” Krebs said.

I don't think it was Waifu. This was in Austalia after all.
Similar by my vague recollection. You could start driving for farm-related stuff at 12 years old but you needed a some type of paper indicating you were authorized by your parents to be driving around without an adult. You could get a more proper early driver’s license at 14.
We need more people like Dr. Randy Sasich for having the fortitude to resist this story getting swept away
Half of Germany drove to Italy with their VW Beetles back then. It’s a traditional thing. However there are some neighborhoods where with second child family buys their Mercedes V class or VW T6. I prefer those over the ones having Ford Fiesta as a family car.
Are you suggesting that Lybia is better now for the average citizen then before or?
Create videos in the browser which the user then can download and play on their device.
In most cases if you have Comcast, your best option for a DIA is Comcast Business. Which again, is drastically better than Comcast's residential service... but it's still Comcast.
The Islamabad Massacre [video]
Is a secular dictatorship that tortures its opponents any better than a theocracy that tortures its opponents?

If your balls are getting crushed by the secret police, does it really matter if they do so in the name of Allah or Assad?

I am as secular as they come, but I see no difference here. The root problem for me is the tyranny itself, and not its particular ideological flavor.
The Golan is firmly under Israeli control already and has been for half a century, they don't need to "invade" it anymore.
Windows 11 is finally getting a redesigned battery indicator
Itanium was designed to be diferente for difference sake to build a most using patents to prevent competition/commoditization with a pinch of the second-system effect thrown in.

What is needed is a sober look and re-engineering.
It was under a repressive dictatorship with crumbling infrastructure. Sure, it can always be worse, but the people deserve and are capable of so much better.
I would also add that those of us on HM are probably more likely to have good insurance versus what most Americans have access to.

Insurance carriers like low risk and thrive on people not fighting adverse decisions either because of a lack of time and resources or knowledge.

The variables matter. My insurance carrier has also never denied a claim, but I’m in more or less good health for my age, have an HSA (at a bank owned by the insurance company) with a significant annual contribution from the issuing employer, and I don’t have anything going on (at the time I write this) that would end up in medical review. And if I did have to deal with that, theres financial cushion available to me to rely on while I fight it out with insurance.
board was focused on extracting value from the company

From the company? Extract to where?
> The people who just overthrew the Ba'athists are Salafists; their leader has (had?) a $10MM price on his head from the US for leading the al-Nusra front, which was (is?) al-Qaeda in Syria, and was almost a component of ISIS (HTS => IS-Ish).

The Salafists (HTS) sparked this series of events with the November 27 offensive and cut off Hama but the Southern Front and US backed SFA forces were the ones to actually capture Damascus.

Who overthrew Assad is debatable but the former Al Qaeda affiliate isn’t in control of the capitol. Between the SFA and SDF, they’re only one voice at the table.
Why do you insist that it will go the way of Libya? The rebels are calling for a peaceful and democratic transition of the government and the protection of all minorities. They've stopped using Islamist rhetoric for almost 10 years. This is as good of a regime change in Syria as it gets.
Whether or not its paywalled depends on how much you read. You can get around most of the paywalls by going incognito or clearing your cookies.
I miss Vaios.
How Many Autonomous Vehicles Are Required to Stabilize Traffic Flow?
Yeah, it still seems like a reasonable choice if you're going to write a simple game in C.
>Any regime change that involves freeing many thousands of women and children from prisons notorious for torture and mass-executions seems like a decent one!

Overthrowing Gaddafi didn't make Libya a better place. Now it has open air slave markets, amongst other loveliness.
The best case is that northern parts of Syria end up like Iraqi Kurdistan, where they will de facto control a slice of the country.

However, Turkey to the north is really not keen on the Kurds having any territory, so they'll do whatever they can to frustrate this.
> Inconsistencies between implementations?

That's actually not too much of a problem in practice: almost everyone just uses Gnu Make.

> Easy to write, easy to debug [...]

Alas, Make becomes hard to write and really hard to debug past a certain complexity threshold. And you reach that complexity threshold very quickly.

> Is it the syntax?

Yes, the syntax of Make is awful, and I'm not even talking about ergonomics. Thanks to Make's abysmal syntax, special characters in your files make it barf completely. And by 'special' I mean something as mundane as spaces.

But everything you mentioned is far from the worst. See eg https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17088328 for a more comprehensive overview of Make's sins.
Musk has proven himself to be an incredible industry disruptor. Whilst many people will object to his politics - particularly his embrace of the cultural right - it is undeniable that he has moved the needle in terms of US national power. He's an asset. Maybe even a living embodiment of Great Man theory
I would love to hear what the Syrian hacker news community has to say about this. I’m reading so many comments here but not sure how many are from actual Syrians who probably have a deeper understanding and hope/fears about what comes next.
Freedom to study and modify the software you are using.
The majority of them (at the Saydenia) are political imprisoned citizens.
> That's why you get tools like ninja where they decided not to allow any logic at all.

Or you get shake, where your logic is the logic of a real programming language.
"Was Assad particularly stable?"

Looking at the speed with which the Syrian military now unraveled, the government was an empty shell of its former self.

Russia was in no position to intervene. First, the development was too quick. Second, the best units are on the Ukrainian front and redeploying them would certainly inspire the Ukrainian General Staff to probe the Russian defenses. Third, the Russian general (Kisel) tasked with leading the Syrian detachment was/is an incapable commander, sent there as a punishment.

Russia cannot fight two wars at once.
spacex has a nice lead, for sure - and they're a lot cheaper than most of the competition - but where there's profit there will always be competition.
especially as the tech base matures and folks in the industry job hop and start their own companies (much like how silicon valley was, back in the day).

nice little teaser there about gutting nasa, not sure where that came from. nasa has a hell of a legacy and they do a lot of good science but nasa needs to let go of the leo and earth/luna part of the space program because they cant compete with spacex (and neither can boeing) - they need to focus on telescopes, interplanetary probes, and the next upgrade to the deep space network.

man in space is doable, it's been doable for 50+ years, but it's never been cost effective and it still isnt - we're close, but we arent there yet. hell, there's still pushback when a probe launches with an RTG - Mars will need fission reactors and so will anything past the Jovian system (until fusion becomes a thing and then gets miniaturized enough).
Evil (VIM emulation mode in Emacs) does not in any way behave like a second-class citizen. I use evil every single day and it's fantastic.

Emacs is a text editor, yes, among other things.

If anyone is reading this who hasn't tried Emacs, don't let takes like this spoil you giving Emacs a try. Doom Emacs is a fantastic experience to get started but there are more minimal starter kits that give you just evil-mode to start.
Took a while to find this (windows user, me - always looking for something new):

For which operating systems is Nyxt available?

Linux
BSD (unofficial)
macOS (experimental)
Windows (unofficial (via WSL))

Official ports for Windows and macOS are in development.
Yes, the conversion is fairly straightforward and not worse than medical people using mmHg. Still a weird unit.
LangWatch: A UI for DSPy
We use proxysql (https://proxysql.com) which works very well. We have not seen any downtime for years. We wrote our own master promotion code a very long time ago; it has proven to be very robust.
With the official doc. The react doc is well written. You have a quick start section, a good tutorial and the API is fully covered.