skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I wanted to like the nokia, but it was such a cheap plastic-y build.
Nokia refusing to repair it did leave a bad taste also.

Funny enough the software on the nokia and the M8 was very similar.

I also had the CAT S22 flip, but I couldn't warm to it.
It's really heavy and bulky, runs android so can be a bit sluggish, not amazing battery. I even rooted it and removed some of the bloatware it comes with, but it just isn't a great phone.

I had no issues with the M8 Flip, I got the normal version, not the security plus. Even though the camera is not great, sometimes it can be useful to be able to send an image over MMS.
It's nice and light but still feels quality. Good loud speaker etc.

It has call recording, optionally automatic, which is important for me.
It takes an SD card and I was able to transfer contacts as a vcf file, podcasts, and even exercise videos after some conversion. Not that the screen was amazing for watching things, but for following an exercise video would work in a pinch.

I think something like this worked.

ffmpeg -i "$INPUT" -c:v libx264 -profile:v baseline -vf setdar=dar=0,setsar=sar=0 -c:a copy "$OUTPUT"

Another thing I found cool is the ability to selectively lock the screen.
It's kind of painful to have to type a pin if you just want to use the calculator or something.
It has the option to choose which menu items are protected by the pin. So for example, things like call recordings, media, sms I would have locked, but not some other things.

I'm actually not using it at the moment, I moved to a jelly star by unihertz, which I love, but it's a very different offering. Though I am considering going back to the M8 for a few months.
Ah yes, you're right of course, and I haven't really thought about it in this way before - that either you're based on "real world" geometry, in which case things are a bit harder to prove but make sense, or you're more abstract, in which case you can define things to be easier to prove e.g. Pythagoras, but the complexity is in the mapping between your definitions and the "real world".

> In fact my masters thesis was about Hilbert spaces. And I find it pretty interesting that you can prove something like Pythagoras on the inner product form I mentioned at the end of my last comment.

That's pretty cool, you're definitely more knowledgeable than I am, I'm just a math amateur :)
I was decent at the simple ones, where I could essentially map them logically. As long as it was simple enough to keep every step in my brain kinda "as text", I could solve them. Those in school were simple like that.

But IQ tests have more complicated ones, and there I’d not manage to keep everything in mind.
What I mean is they really believe it, not just for market selling

For example, I know a boss add AI as a factor in performance reviews, where someone was evaluated as 'not AI-capable' for not using ChatGPT.
He also asked for 3x output from the teams and said, 'If you feel it's too hard to complete, go learn how to work with AI.'
It's also possible to make synthetic ruby yourself.
The French started their main managed oak forest for their Navy in the 1660s. The Forest of Bercé (among many others) recently supplied the restoration of Notre Dame including some trees that were 300+ years old.

It’s pretty common in European coastal nations and since the transition to metal coincided with increased environmental awareness, many of them still survive. This project just wanted to use British wood but can’t afford commercial rates.
Welcome The Future!

Yes, son, the Future is the new F-word. And you'll be living in it. You're welcome.
There are three groups of people on HN:

- kids who just graduated and realize that they've been told lies and need some life advice

- midlife crisis

- retirees who can see the death slowly approaching and reevaluate their lives in panic
> Google and Microsoft have publicly committed to those projects you’re mentioning

Google and Microsoft, or their current CEOs, today?

Amazon's CEO committed to their office employees having flexibility regarding their workplace, only about 2 years ago, yet here we are now, with said employees soon having the flexibility to be 5 days in the office, or quit the company.

CEO promises are not worth the screen time they're provided.

Have these companies signed contracts with major penalties if they back out? Those would basically be the only "close to" unbreakable bonds for them.
Oh yes sure, but you had at least some of them who were both successful and caring for the long term state of their country. Today wherever you look, at least in France, you see the same self serving behaviours

Ironically they all call themselves "Gaullists", even though none of them are, but since it is the benchmark of what a leader should be they all defaults to that term. I think de Gaulle's legacy explains why France hasn't completely collapsed yet (only country in EU with the atom bomb, country with the highest % of nuclear in its energy mix, a decent army), all of it is slowly crumbling away of course
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> What happens in practice is, parties do control the government. There are these things called "whips". Also, voters watch national media and mostly vote based on the leadership, stated manifesto etc of each party at the national level.

Don't patronise me. I'm fully aware of all of these things.

But it doesn't actually change who we vote for. If you want Reform to have more MPs, they have to have locally electable MPs. Because we vote for MPs.

If you change the system in any way that means people get candidates that parties choose on some proportional basis, you break this crucial link with the local area. We vote, locally, and we choose a person who is best for us. Time and time again this has proved to be valuable and to have generally selected quite good candidates and very good parliamentarians.

As soon as you have any other system than, locally, "I choose this person to be my representative", important things break, IMO.

But, again, this only upsets right-wingers now because they are on the losing side of it. Hasn't bothered them in the slightest before.

The idea that parliament has shifted "hard to the left", as you said earlier, is absolutely delusional, given the Centrist Dad government we now have.
I feel like taking Google’s commitment to something seriously is one of this things that I can very uncontroversially respond to with “is this your first day?”

All but the biggest Google fanboys know that Google is incredibly indecisive and will cut plans at a moment’s notice.
De Gaulle was a cool guy. He was afraid of no one.

"After Washington rebuffed his proposal to overhaul the Western alliance and once he ended the war in Algeria, de Gaulle launched a forceful attack on what he called the "American protectorate." The West's nuclear strategy, the structure of NATO, and West German dependence on Washington were only some of the issues that fell subject to Gaullist revisionism"

https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft4w10...
In biology is much much muuuuch more about physics as chemistry. Is all about the shapes of very big molecules.
Don't fall on the trap of self-driving cars will make our lives better. They won't. Building cities for people first is what will improve our lives.

Watch: How Self-Driving Cars will Destroy Cities (and what to do about it)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=040ejWnFkj0
I'm happy the article calls these molecular machines and not simply proteins or enzymes.

Generic words like proteins and enzymes don't accurately describe how these molecules function.

Calling them machines is much more apt.
I'm tired, boss
24/7 news certainly plays a role, as well as independent media, it's much easier to control your image when you have a few newspapers and a few tv stations that are public or owned by friends.

I still believe people like Macron, Scholz, Trump or Biden look like absolute buffoons, for different reasons, compared to the average leaders of the last 50 years
.Net has both QUIC and HTTP/3 support.
I'd tell that person that they are an idiot.
Yes, that is called a punishment. And parents have to pick up if a kid misbehaves like that. That is a parental responsibility not a childs.

No, these rules are needed like all rules in life. Don't just chop change and choose because 'you know better'. Society doesn't fundamentally function that way at your whym be you on top or the bottom. Obviously the real world bends to huge piles of cash but I doubt your kids are bribing the teachers here in this example...

So the low income family needs free travel via app. That's nonsense, no council in the UK is running something that increases the digital divide. They may offer it as a convenience via app but it's that. A CONVENIENCE. Especially where kids travel is involved, it's almost always a photographic travel id. Although there are a few that issue ones without photos.

Again if you break a rule you have your convenience taken away from you.
Not sure what your point is bit Labour, LibDems, Greens, SNP, Plaid combined got way more votes than Tories + Reform
io_uring isn't supported on cloud providers for now, but it may not be the case in future. Which is fine, because Limbo won't be ready for a few years at least.
My company happens to be active in this neck of the woods and I assure you, the acceleration is significant. It is just that things are still running on time-scales that are still incomprehensible for the general population. We are talking about slicing off 50% time but in the end this means cutting projects down from 10 to 5 years.

I'm, however, with you in the matter of public investment. The Schuldenbremse needs to go.
Ok, not maybe instead of calling it "induced", call it "latent demand" if you prefer.

People will do whatever's more convenient, so if you make driving far more convenient than everything else ("cheaper"/"more available"), they will drive.

However convenience should not be the only factor for social decisions. To take this to extremes, it would be much more convenient for J. Doe to steal a car than to buy it, so we definitely do not want to make theft convenient.
Yeah that's what I was thinking. I'm using Fastspring so that wouldn't be a problem. However, a paying subscriber will still be able to invite someone from the UK and I don't have any mechanism to prevent that.
The one I worked with had a C compiler as well, though it was K&R and not ANSI. The instruction set supported operations on 8-bit values by op codes which selected the lower or higher 8 bits of a word, so the compiler itself worked transparently as you would expect (the architecture was big endian so that had to be taken into account sometimes, but that's true of byte-addressable systems too).
You can check with this support article; you need to be logged in to a Facebook account.

https://www.facebook.com/help/1873665312923476
Certainly. But on top of the hard problem, I don't like to be distracted by unreadable code ..
Posted it below, but the link is https://www.facebook.com/help/1873665312923476
> The electorate lurched from the Conservatives farther right, and the result of that was a centrist government.

The electorate didn’t lurch further right… some went right others went left
Two more important notes:

- Use an MicroSD card that can handle multiple read/write like the purple MicroSD cards. Can also be a benefit with too big card to save some writes, to make the card last longer. Talking about <1year vs +50 in how long they last.

-It’s just Python, Jinja and Sqlite3 at the core. For custom programs I find it easier to write the Python program and then just convert to Jinja syntax.
> Without that App Store revenue, those $999 iPhones would simply see a price increase.

Why would that happen instead of Apple taking less profit overall?

I suspect that Apple's pricing for phones is based on primarily on what the customer is willing to pay rather than on the amount needed to be profitable.
https://github.com/OpenPuppetProject/planning/discussions provides a little context.

I imagine the people involved here would be the initial governance board of a FLOSS foundation for the "not-puppet" fork.
Fond memories of running a nascent Gentoo on my X21 (old one!). I still yearn for how snappy that machine was, even 20 years later. That had a bit more grunt to it, however. PIII 700.
the single man has the whole ml libraries on his shoulders :)
4gb of ram to marshal 3rd party API calls
(Just to add - I also don't use an inner voice when I read, unless I decide to. And when I do, reading slows down to a crawl, obviously. So in general I don't)
It's funny having looked forward to Sora for a while and then seeing it be superseded so shortly after access to it is finally made public.
The idea that competition alone solves this problem ignores that this is an incomplete information system.

I really, really want to buy products that work well, hassle-free and last a very long time, and I'm willing to pay premium for it. But how? Where do you even get that information? All you get is anecdotal experiences "buy this brand, I have a washing machine from them for 20 years going fine" that just don't apply to your problem.

Sometimes I get lucky. I have a Mazda 2 with 16 years now. Very, very little issues, extremely reliable. But if I went to buy a new Mazda 2 model, other than my past good experience, would I even get something similar?

You can't trust online reviews. 1st because they are played by the companies, and 2nd, I've noticed that people came to expect so little that they give 5 stars to something even when they specifically write that something was a little off. It's like the all society has accepted that you will only be able to use what you bought for 2 years, and even so, you are expected to face some problems with it.
How a young Dutch woman's life began when she was allowed to die
Congo files criminal complaints against Apple in Europe over conflict minerals
Original title which was too long:

Exclusive: Congo files criminal complaints against Apple in Europe over conflict minerals
Back in his time, it used to be the norm though. Douglas MacArthur and Eisenhower come to mind.

Even today, a not-insignificant number of US reps and congressmen are people who have served in the military. Same goes for Singapore, India and Indonesia (if we're going by stable democracies). I think Europe is an exception to the norm, even if there are some cases (like the current Czech President).
I think certain timings are more likely to get a post to the top and if the mods deem the content valuable, and the submissions aren’t all by a single user, they allow it.
Ablet: An EASY way to create TUIs in Rust
Of course; but this is the current society, and attempts to reform it, e.g. communism, failed abjectly, so by evolution pressure, the capitalist society dominated by market forces is the best that we have
>are referring to all their taxes,

Thanks. Certainly put some preoperative into it.
I was in Tesco, buying a orange juce

The standard version was 100% orange pressed

The "healthy" low cal version was 50% orange 50% water and sweetener addictives
Same brand/price

The British Heart Foundation also recommends cola zero as healthier than 100% juice
I don't think the reason for zero values has anything to do with "avoiding null panics". If you want to inline the types, that is avoid using most of your runtime on pointer chasing, you can't universally encode a null value. If I'm unclear, ask yourself: What would a null int look like?

If what you wanted was to avoid null-panics, you can define the elementary operations on null. Generally null has always been defined as aggressively erroring, but there's nothing stopping a language definition from defining propagation rules like for float NaN.
Yeah, I suspect so!

To be honest, I wouldn't notice this issue at all, if it wasn't for FreeBSD which refused to boot right off the bat. It has a more advanced bootloader though, so perhaps it does some extra sanity checks.
> That's one of the two things Windows always did better

Someone replied about cgroups on Linux and how it is bog standard stuff (that ClosedAI just didn't know how to use apparently?)
I disagree with the premise of the article. We absolutely do not know how to teach programming both pedagogically and andragogically, you can see that 80% of the students after getting their masters in CS absolutely can not program, do not understand computation, or the computer, not to mention higher order abstractions and their interactions.

There are university students now in their 3rd year that paste chatgpt's javascript program into their c# code (also written by chatgpt) and ask me why is everything red and its not "working".

I think it is a problem of designing for the 'average' student, which of course does not exist.

The academia focuses too much on the abstract languages and constructs, but the reality is, the code will run on a man-made digital computer, which has certain properties, it uses memory in a certain way, has a clock, and is discrete, certain things are possible, and others are not. No matter how much we pretend, the equal sign (=) leaks through, and that in itself creates infinite confusion in people who pretend to get it.

I think hyper individualistic approach is the solution. My daughter for example really dislikes scratch and various graphical languages, but she does really well with machine code and assembly and c. When we were working on a chess game, and she said: "WAIT! the queen is just rook + bishop", we went into how can we actually structure our code to express that. The journey is completely non linear. Sometimes we go back, sometimes forward.

Hopefully AI + teacher can help with that. But the truth is, some kids get various concepts, like recursion or references and values, naturally, some never get it. And we are trying to teach them the same thing at the same time for the same duration, and just move on.

SICP is best for some, PDP11 machine code for others, godot or roblox lua for third, and so on. The problem is we don't know which is which :)

PS: Some of the things I made to teach my daughter: https://punkx.org/
Better or worse than OpenBSD and its ridiculous baker's dozen partitions and mount points? You know __for your protection__ meanwhile they fill up if you install more than a few packages or heaven forbid build a custom kernel when 80% of /home and /var is free and you realize you're screwed and have to start all over.
It's funny to hear someone describe my daily driver personal laptop in the same way as a 380Z. I use Slackware with Xfce4 and except for the lower screen resolution (1360x768) I have never noticed that it's not "modern." I even have a new battery so it gets 6-9 hours of use again.

Like you said, the giveaway is the poor performance, but if you're a systems developer that usually isn't a problem anyway. Emacs, C, assembly, some Chisel and Forth are all that I write on it.
In my basement are quite some old but for the time powerful unix machines. SGI Indigo2, Sun Fire, a Pentium II with Knoppix Linux or my Samsung Laptop from 2010 with Ubuntu 16.04.
They all boot up quite fast into a nice looking and snappy X Window system. Fantastic machines. Until.. You try to open a web browser, if there is even a modern one available. If you try to open a modern web browser on those machines, you suddenly get a feel how bloated our modern software and web is!
Although the SGI has the original Netscape Navigator installed, that is quite some fun in terms of historic reasons.
That must make it dangerous. If anything in your "old style reproduction" happens to resemble the newer version, even by chance, say he happens to wear a blue sweater one day. Or whatever they could claim in court was from the newer work.

Absolute minefield!
He is suggesting that there is some link between Robert Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein.

Ghislaine met Jeffrey Epstein the year Robert fell off the Lady Ghislaine. She did so because she was in NY schmoozing socialites because Sir Bob had bought a paper -- NY Post was it?

Robert Maxwell was a strange, multi-faceted bloke, a sort of chaotic-neutral crook and spy, and yet he really most likely just fell off his boat after having a heart attack, because he was a very large (by 90s standards) and very unhealthy old-looking man who didn't listen to advice about diet, exercise, health and risk, and was stressed out by being in unprecedented debt. He would not have committed suicide; not his style.

There's no big story to link the two, apart from the fact that Ghislaine wouldn't have been there at all mingling in the high-end social scene in early 90s New York if she weren't the daughter of a media baron who had just bought a paper.

If anyone did "whack" Robert Maxwell it had nothing to do with Epstein, who was at the beginning of his career as a blackmailer, grifter, influence broker and deviant. It's not even clear they met.

It would have had more to do with all the people Maxwell upset in his long, storied life as a potential triple-agent, spy, fraudster and bully.
There's a line in the Quran that the apocalypse is near when the sons of shepherds compete in building towers that try to reach the sky. A lot of Muslims allude in particular to the current crop of oil rich sheikhs (who are technically born from nomadic shepherding people) vying to build the world's tallest towers.

Except man has been trying to do that since time immemorial :D.
Do we really want a world where we can't trust anything we see, hear, or read? Where people need to be educated to not trust their senses, the things we use to interpret reality and the world around us.

I feel this kind of hypervigilance will be mentally exhausting, and not being able to trust your primary senses will have untold psychological effects
While I agree with your general sentiment I think that there is a possible type of government where we are no-longer forced to vote for individual humans (or indeed groups of humans: political parties) but can instead vote on the actual ideas/policies.

It might even be possible now to combine nuanced perspectives/responses to proposed policies from millions of people together!? I think it's not that unreasonable to suggest that kind of thing nowadays, I think there's precedent for it too even though stuff like how-wikipedia-works isn't really ideal, (even though it's somewhat an example of the main idea!).

This way, the public servants (including politicians) can mainly just take care of making sure the ideas that the people vote-for get implemented! (like all the lower tiers of government currently do - just extend it to the top level too!) I don't think we should give individuals that power any more!
This blew up way more than I expected. Thanks everyone for the comments, I read almost all of them.

For the sake of not repeating myself, I would like to clarify/state some things.

1. I did not intend to signal that SWE will disappear as a profession, but would rather undergo transformation, as well as shrinking in terms of the needed workforce.

2. Some people seem to be hanging up to the idea that they are doing unimaginably complicated things. And sure, some people do, but I doubt they are the majority of the SWE workforce. Can LLM replace a cobol developer in financial industry? No, I don't think so. Can it replace the absurd amount of people whose job description can be distilled to "reading/writing data to a database"? Absolutely.

3. There seems to be a conflicting opinion. Some people say that code quality matters a lot and LLMs are not there yet, while other people seems to focus more on "SWE is more than writing code".

Personally, based on some thinking and reading the comments, I think the best way to future-proof a SWE career is to move to position that requires more people skills. In my opinion, good product managers that are eager to learn coding and combine LLMs for code writing, will be the biggest beneficiaries of the upcoming trend. As for SWEs, it's best to start acquiring people skills.
Sam Altman Is a Dunce
If that were true you wouldn’t need an ai to tell you.