skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok but UK is not an oppresive regime, so that we talk about "dissidents" in UK. As anywhere, the freedom of speech is regulated. But even if you spout racist or other nonsense, you are not a dissident, you are just breaking the law, to which I agree, hate speech, racism should not be openly promoted.
> IBM were so eager (understandably so) to gain market share

I got Warp 4 easily, but sadly, in the era of Warp 2 and Warp 3, even in charge of a 6-digit IT budget, I couldn't get eval copies -- nor later as a journalist at a UK national PC magazine.

It got the message way too late.
> but somehow that kind of mindset seems a bit outdated today

It's hard to understand today because Windows isn't by far the overlord it was in the late 90s and early 2000s. Alternatives like Amiga, Atari, SGI, Sun and even the Mac were dead or on their deathbed, and it looked like there would only be one operating system in the future, and one that wasn't exactly a triumph of engineering.

Thankfully that future didn't happen and Windows is essentially only relevant for running PC games today.
I was looking into air-fryers recently and found that they all use a non-stick coating (which makes sense, given how they work) and almost all of them use PTFE.

Now, with an air-fryer, I guess, the overheating risk is much lower than with a non-stick pan but there is still the issue that the surface will likely get scratched over time.

I am curious if others consider this a problem and if there are alternatives I missed during my search?
Effect is far weaker. For me, other reason was it gave me crazy hives. Entire body red post hot shower. Religious experience when the hot water hit.
The man who disowned his baby daughter being outed as an asshole. What next.
Hello, I recently made a new release on chess tui a rust written TUI chess game now allowing you to do online games with other players ! Would love to have your feedbacks on that
It depends on how you construct the synthetic data and how the model is trained on that data.

For diffusion-based image generators training only on synthetic data over repeated model training can cause model collapse as errors in the output can amplify in the trained model. It's usually the 2nd or 3rd model created this way (with output of the previous used as input for the first) for it to collapse.

It was found that using primary data along side synthetic data avoided the model collapse. Likewise, if you also have some sort of human scoring/evaluation you can help avoid artefacts.
This is true, in most of these things you can document your way around the problem, though sometimes you also have a third-party to convince who may or may not be reasonable. But either way, MISRA is a collection of stating the obvious ("don't do things the language says you shouldn't do" is like fully half of the list) and arbitrary restrictions that have little justification, so the fact that you can document your way around it still basically means you're doing extra work for no real benefit (because it's real difficult within such a conservative field to say "hey, that industry standard? It's crap, has always been crap, and we're going to ignore it").
No sorry, that causes me too much psychological harm, amounting to at least serious distress.
Would killing .ipa/.apk distribution not suffice? PWA still sucks, no one knows how to deal with .apk let alone invalid signed .ipa, I think it'll effectively prevent any app from going mainstream. Which is crazy but I suppose okay just this one time?
Where do you want to go, I’m curious?! I wonder what panacea you see out there that’s less authoritarian and where you could keep your “high earner” social status.

It’s a shame that Britain gave one of its “high earner” jobs to someone who’d enjoy seeing it collapse.
Americans discovering the constitution is interpreted and reinterpreted whenever it needs to be is the best thing on the internet. B-bu-but muh free speech!
This is why I don't think model collapse actually matters: people have been deliberately training LLMs on synthetic data for over a year at this point.

As far as I can tell model collapse happens when you deliberately train LLMs on low quality LLM-generated data so that you can write a paper about it.
Hypothalamic–Pituitary–Adrenal Axis
It's not just asking for troubly, it's malicious. Intentionally confusing people is not cool.
I was a keen OS/2 2.x user.

I reviewed ArcaOS:

https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/04/arcaos_51/

... and interviewed one of the project leads:

https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/19/retro_tech_week_arca_...

So when I read this:

> dual booting OS/2 Warp 4.51 and Arca OS 5.1

... I laughed, bitterly.

It is still _extremely_ fussy about installation and across 4 test machines I never got ArcaOS to dual-boot with anything except a single basic IBM PC DOS 7.1 setup.

Anything more than a single bootable primary partition in BIOS config is highly unlikely to work, in my experience. In UEFI mode it's even fussier and of course actual IBM OS/2 won't run then.

Forget dual booting, except maybe with DOS.

Trying to dual boot two OS/2 instances sounds like a recipe for hair loss or a cardiovascular incident. I don't think I'd try to do that if you paid me. Paid me a lot.
Might also be dependent on your location.

I have a EU model (LG) and I was able to decline some privacy popups which gives me a functional but dumbed-down version of the OS.
>any speech being made on TikTok can instead be made on other platforms.

That's the arguments right wingers make about why flag burning should be a crime as there are other ways to express displeasure with the country it represents. IIRC, Robert Bork was a proponent of this line of thinking.
What are the regulations about exactly?
If there is one political change I could make to the UK it'd be the adoption of the single transferable vote. There's massive amounts of political alienation in the UK which have complicated causes (often related to the 'managed decline' policies of governments past) but a big contributing factor in my opinion is how many votes are completely wasted under first past the post, if you're in a safe seat voting often feels completely futile. FPTP means there's a lot of seats where a donkey with the appropriate rosette would win easily and there's not a lot of competition to win these seats, and so these seats get taken for granted by politicians.

A move to STV wouldn't be a silver bullet but at the very least it'd eliminate the phenomenon of wasted votes and make safe seats less safe, forcing politicians to care about all the seats rather than just currently competitive ones. The problem is there's no incentive for either major party to end their duopoly in the national interest, it's the same sort of problem the 'rotten boroughs' of old faced in that the people who benefitted from them were the only people with the power to deal with them. Labour in particular are notorious on this subject, they'll promise electoral reform in opposition and change their tune instantly once in power.
> In a decade, man landing on the moon will be closer to the first flight by the Wright Brothers than it is to today.

That's not a technology issue, so much as a "there is no pressing need to spend the money on this anymore". At the peak of the moon race, NASA was getting 5% of US government spending. In modern terms, that would be like spending 340 billion per year; it's just a _tremendous_ amount of money.

(That said, both the US and China do plan to make manned landings on the moon in the next decade, though the timelines may be... optimistic, as neither is indulging in crazy space-race-esque spending on it.)
If China develops a medical technique better than ours and ban ours, will we ban that technique here? We must do what is right for our nation. If TikTok harms us we must ban it, reciprocal or not. If it does not harm or does benefit us, we must not ban it, reciprocal or not. The question is only whether it harms or benefits our people.
how is it not popular support? or your point is that plurality is not enough? or that in a different voting system (alternate voting, ranked choice, etc..) the winner would be completely different?
I'm hoping that nobody has deliberately trained on SVG images of pelicans riding bicycles yet.
Similar story here in Germany. New energy standards require a ventilation concept. Some people choose to rely on daily ventilation to save some money, but most people nowadays opt for an ERV. At least here in Germany, for some reason there are quite a lot of people who are super against the idea of having an ERV. Personally, I wouldn't want to miss is for having fresh air alone, not having to deal with pollen is an added bonus
It's always been that way. Americans love to get hysterical about whatever the current thing is.
I think a big contributor that made this a much bigger and messier problem was allowing or enabling or not-forbidding the non-enforcement of laws. As it stands, this occurs in far more instances than is necessary for practical reasons. From policemen personally ignoring crimes and police departments issuing directives to ignore certain offenses, to prosecutors choosing which crimes to prosecute, to judges 'interpreting' laws and case law, and finally to the president who decides to pardon whomever he pleases for unknown reasons.
Yeah, this should be the link - not the repo.
1. There may be users who think I’m going on a flamewar tangent. I may think so myself about similar comments on a variety of topics, but IMO top-down censorship of pro-Palestinian content is something you can’t get around when discussing the TikTok ban.

2. I believe there are a substantial number of users prowling HN flagging anything perceived as anti-Israel. (Same can be said about anything perceived as pro-Israel, btw. Among other things.)
Ask HN: AWS Lambda Credible Alternatives?
Hello,

I am a developer with few skills in DevOps and I am looking for a solution to run small APIs on docker containers. My goal is to have the least amount of infrastructure to manage as I am short on time and I am relatively new to it so I see the "severless" abstraction a good thing for my current situation/

I think that Lambda is cool for that but I found the AWS UI quite overwhelming. I checked Digital Ocean functions but you can't use a container. Do you know other similar products ?
Hehe dutch people feel very superior to everyone else because their budget isn't as negative as the other european countries, due to their country being a tax haven.

I ONCE met a dutch person who admitted that being a tax haven is nothing of great merit and it was so refreshing :D

I remember arguing with a (racist and violent) dutch guy who claimed portugal is a mediterranean country. I kept saying that you need to be ON the mediterranean to be a mediterranean country. :D
> You end up needing trigonometric angle formulae that are at least as hard to prove as Pythagoras's theorem.

(emphasis mine)

Well that's not wrong (because proving Pythagoras' theorem is pretty straightforward anyway) but at the same time the one trigonometric formula you need (cos(a-b) = cos(a)cos(b)+sin(a)sin(b)) “follows from a (b+c) = ab + ac” if you start from Euler's formula.
It reads to me like they're saying the side that consistently lies about something is slightly worse because at least the other guys are honest.

I think the bigger point may be that GP considers it a choice between two evils - hence being an Independent!
are there term limits for these seats?
I like OpenSCAD for what it is good for: limited, geometrically simple parts and geometry demos.

I think CadQuery/Build123D are fine tools with much better abstractions than OpenSCAD. The latter is not, IMO, really a CAD tool at all; at no point does the Computer Aid the Design, in the CAD sense, whereas you can argue that the various OpenCascade code-CAD environments can at least expose generated geometry to code.

But the post is right: parametric GUI CAD is pretty much a visual analogue of functional programming. Once you get your head around the ways sketches or their equivalents can map onto existing geometry, a lot of the ways programmers think are very applicable to CAD.

You're basically working with a directed graph, which means you can do things like drive designs from parameter sets, or spreadsheets, and e.g. in FreeCA drive some variables from configuration tables (rows in a spreadsheet with different parameter sets) so you can make variations of objects.

As much as I think code-CAD has uses, especially perhaps for analysing and post-processing STEP files for download customisers, at this point someone with parametric CAD requirements should at least try a GUI CAD package like FreeCAD or any of the free/low-cost tiers of the commercial packages. FreeCAD can do OpenSCAD, and has a (verbose) Python layer, so it's accessible to code CAD.

The tools may initially be a little frustrating for programmers used to writing code, athough IMO less frustrating than the many quirks and significant limitations of OpenSCAD. But CAD methodology is logical and scaleable, and with a little learning you will be able to do things much more quickly and much less repetitively than OpenSCAD, which admittedly is a counterintuitive claim to a programmer.

I think programmers tend to think that GUI CAD must be to code-CAD what visual programming tools are to text IDEs: unnecessary fuss keeping you from the truth. But it's really not like that.
Giving it a fancy name don't make it equivalent to the murder charges it should have been.
And if we instruct the police to ignore white collar crimes, then suddenly the only criminals are immigrants! Isn't that wonderful? /s
Infamously the Nazi dog salute case: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-43478925
Very fun to be able to find my own project there (mapbox-gl-utils):

https://anvaka.github.io/map-of-github/#12/24.78947/18.85186
Positive Input Ventilation (PIV) units seem to be a new thing for landlords to battle this problem.

I think it basically trickles in cold (and therefore drier) air into a central space to reduce humidity, like an (slower, quieter) extractor fan in reverse.

Seems a bit of a conflict of interest still, especially if the tenant is paying for heating.
I agree with this take. It also has the unique property of causing a lot of drama and sound-bites in the media on both sides of the left/right spectrum. One side applauds it for getting things done finally, while the other bemoans the end of democracy due to "collusion" between the president and non-elected private-sector rich billionaires that supposedly seek to make a profit out of all this.
> So… if China mistreats their citizens, reciprocity says we must mistreat ours?

Reciprocity means that we are not required to allow Chinese propaganda into our children's bedrooms.

We are at war with China and Russia, and we are fighting it with both hands tied behind our backs.
> This will make it much easier to go after anyone that is a dissident in the UK.

No need to go there. What about commenting anonymously on your work place?
Thanks for the link, I hadn't seen it before. I guess it focuses more on teaching scales and chords, and the main difference this game has is teaching how to put chords after each other and also common progressions.
I haven't maintained my Ender3 since setting it up first, then tuning it. It just keeps printing good prints forblike 4 years now. I don't even think about it, pop in the file and walk away. I don't even level the bed. Sometimes it's months between prints and it still just works.

I print mostly practical parts so perfection isn't really needed but the finish has been great regardless. The only issues I have had is the bed eventually peeled up after enough PETG prints with no bed prep.
Using the app won't be illegal, you just can't get it from US app stores anymore (e.g. the personal freedom of users is preserved, only the freedom of some companies to do business in the US is restricted - e.g. a regular tradewar scenario).
Marc Andreessen Warns Against 'Government-Protected Cartel' of Major AI
The people who don’t get to vote might disagree.

In any case, the UK parliament has existed since 1705, which predates the American revolution.
>The Cold War seemed to set humanity back by a many decades

Landing men on the Moon was just one of many battles fought in the Cold War.

If anything, the conclusion of the Cold War combined with all subsequent wars America was involved in just being some form of laundering money to the Military Industrial Complex has by far done the most damage with regards to technological regressions and stagnations.

Like it or not, wars are the best drivers of technology.
The biggest manipulation seems to be people thinking that TikTok is brainwashing the youths.
> The past few days wind has been pretty bad.

Except... it was not.

Here.

And somewhere, the sun is shining.

People need to _stop_ thinking energy production is hyperlocal when, in reality, it is not.

And never has been.

Now, swedes are complaining, germans (i.e. me) are buying energy and raising prices. There will be a time, when they will import energy from us. Just as much as we exported energy to France when half their atomic powerplants have been shutdown due to no cooling water available.

Is it helpful to beancount each and any time more energy has been exported than imported or the other way around? No, i don't think so.

And yes, the next big challenge is to build grid-level energy storage.

Yes, with batteries. No, hydrogen is not the answer. Batteries it is. Get moving, stop complaining.
Censorship... zzzZZZzz

They're banning app/news delivery app managed by enemy government

It is not like they're blocking internet, wikipedia

they're banning stupid, memes/brainrot app
Wonder if this would be possible for my Kindle DX 3G? It has no Wi-Fi but I still hold onto it.
VarSet has an incomplete GUI but you're right it's a better fit; it has fewer massive recalculation bombs than the Spreadsheet approach (and it can still AFAIK work as an interface to a configuration table sheet).

The Spreadsheet module is awesome (particularly configuration tables, which I used even in one of my first serious designs) but I still don't really know why my model has to recalculate because I changed the background colour in a cell. That seems to me to be unnecessarily deep integration.
> You're incredibly defensive when all I have done is point out that saying "the greens aren't responsible for it" is a blatant lie

And I didn’t say that. Who is defensive?

> Aside from the fact that they have been on the offensive not just in 2024, but for close to a decade now (the Fessenheim closure has been demanded since 2016, green taxonomy started in 2020)

2016-2020 - Merkel government.

Overall most of what you say here can and should be attributed to conservative/socialist parties which were in charge and use green agenda opportunistically rather than strategically. Making greens as a root source of all problems is a lie, simply because they did not make most of those harmful decisions. Regulation is mostly not on them too. I am not big fan of German greens myself, but things should be made straight on this matter: German problem are not greens, German problem are boomers which do not care about change. Most of mainstream politics in Germany is captured by special interests groups, old dudes from some Verein, Kammer or other medieval guild, lobbying to preserve their moats and privileges. Nuclear power has lost the game to Fukushima fears and Chernobyl fallout, but it is a secondary matter. It could have been useful or not, that’s a matter of calculations deep in strategic documents. Last document I saw considered them unpractical. You are right, we do need energy strategy, but honestly I think Germany is incapable of producing it. EU should take it over, it has more momentum and political diversity to figure this out. And it makes sense anyway, not just to regulate the market, but to build.

Regarding the uranium production, yes, there are some expensive deposits in Europe. We have high population density so even if environmental concerns are addressed, they will cost a lot. Post-processing of the waste is going to cost a lot. It is by no means the same price as 20-40 years ago. Can it fully replace gas? I doubt so. Is it the only alternative? I doubt so. We are talking about 20-30 years, the horizon on which we may really see the effects of nuclear scale-up. The renewables will be much more advanced by then, grids more robust and efficient. We may not have the same problems as we have now to be solved by nuclear. So the question is really, does it make sense to commit to fossil fuel for another 50-70 years again?
> They never heard of making a UI, and just slapped buttons.

I suspect that floor numbering predates lifts (elevators) by centuries.

Stairs are ancient.

I mean, zero itself is a non-obvious concept. Its invention is a matter of historical record:

https://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/MathEd/index.php/2022/08/25/the...

... and we still use counting systems which predate the invention of zero, such as Roman numerals.
> show more direct involvement and support

> immediately deflected to their security team

> basic protocols for incident response

The normal protocol for incident response is to immediately refer you to the security team or police. This is normal behavior. Were you expecting the staff to run out of the building, chase down the street and tackle some man they've never seen before to pull your MacBook out of his backpack? Were there certain words they were supposed to say to you? Was there some particular emotional response they were supposed to give you? Were they supposed to be surprised and shocked that a car thief stole something? Was Apple supposed to prevent thieves from entering the parking area? Was a white glove VIP concierge supposed to deal with the police, bring you a new rental car, and replace the MacBook?

If an employee inside the building had stolen it, they would have interrogated everyone, tried to find it, and possibly taken responsibility for replacing the MacBook, but this was vehicle theft in an unsecured public-access location in a city known for smash-and-grab vehicle thefts. Please tell us specifically what ownership, direct involvement and support you were expecting.
"If you really give people what they want, and give them ability to communicate what they want, bad things happen"
The problem as it stands now is that she is experiencing something (“it is blowing cold air”) and your claims (“no it’s not”) run counter to that direct experience.

Place and leave a thermometer in front of it and give her the information that you are using to make your own claims.

You went through a process to learn that moving air feels colder than still air at the same temperature. It seems that perhaps she has not. Surfacing the ground truth of the air temperature may help the situation.
Nice post, let me build up on the software engineering analogy.

I've had a 3D printer for a while, and I have to say that Bambu has completely changed my perspective on the whole experience.

Before, I treated it mostly as a time-consuming hobby - setting up my own Octopi for remote printing, tinkering with different settings and parts on my Prusa. It was all trial and error, with most prints turning out below average.

Now it feels more like a continuous integration system. It runs mostly unattended, always ready to execute my next batch of prints.

I recently traveled for a week and only needed my wife to refill the filament and remove finished prints, allowing my workflow to continue uninterrupted.

I don't regret my initial experience since I learned a lot, but I really appreciate having a more streamlined process now.
Looks like it's mostly stored in Oracle Cloud.
The fed follows the market rates - their control is an illusion.

https://www.elliottwave.com/articles/fed-rate-cut-interest-r...
China is not my enemy hence everything china does is good and everything my government does against any chinese action is bad

Sheesh, I'll never understand people smart enough to see their local government as bad but dumb enough to idolise every other foreign power
I misread this as 25 Years of Dildo