skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, backend is our precious server resources and front end resources belong to the lowly user. It's a matter of scale though, frontend is optinized for one concurrent user. Plenty of small websites using slow and bloated frameworks on the backend because it's easy.
Ah I've seen this before but then with JSON https://github.com/Jasonette
This seems about the perfect energy technology: affordable, self install, clear ROI, no permits necessary, no distorting subsidies.
First Tricorder wins.
is reddit down this morning?
On the other hand, I'm really not sure if that's a step up or down from pharmacists doing load-bearing handwriting recognition of doctors' prescriptions.
Ah. We use June.so ; I'm assuming they might have a similar mechanism. We'll try and log login attempts so we can track this. Thank you!
I think the definition of a “casual user” has changed drastically over the last 10 years.

This very much used to be true. But most gamers (i.e. the group we’re talking about here) are more than technically savvy enough to run Linux. Most gamers have seen a terminal once or twice and know how to google the solution to common fixes.

And yes, I do believe most motivated users (those unhappy with windows) can install Linux. It’s SO easy these days requiring nothing more than a USB and an hour or two of time.
It hasn't fully delivered on that part just yet, so it's still in the "maybe it might happen" zone. The moment it happens, I'll change my mind.

In addition, every round of VC funding also requires them explaning their VCs how implementing an open protocol and decentralization is going to help them pay their investment back - I do not expect such talks to go well the moment the VCs realize that both of those make it possible for the platform to effectively resist enshittification attempts.
Linux desktop, android phone.
> the giveaway is the decline in sexual experience among young people

Do we have statistics on sex from the age of opium? (Gen Z is the first smartphone-with-unregulated-social generation.)
That doesn't work - the numbers change every 3 or 4 entries, i.e. ~log2(10), not 10. (and the precise point of change is important too)
5x Slower Than Go? How to Optimize Rust Protobuf Decoding Performance
this one explains why certain libraries perform better and offers practical advice for choosing the right tool for your use case
This is fantastic. Thank you so much for writing this.
Here's the report from 2023 that eventually triggered this lawsuit:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QDczBduZorG4dxZiW/sam-altman...

Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38311509

I believe everything Annie says here.
When using deniable authentication (e.g. Diffie-Hellman plus a MAC), the recipient can verify that the email came from the sender. But they can't prove to a third party that the email came from the sender, and wasn't forged by the recipient.
Apple has a market cap of $3.7 trillion at the moment I’m writing this comment. I wouldn’t say that they’re incompetent.

You may not like the products they currently put out or the direction they are heading, but there is no doubt that Tim Cook and the rest of the leadership team at Apple are very competent business people. In fact, they’re probably the best that Apple has ever had as a whole.

The reality is that a lot of people are clamoring for AI. Microsoft and Google are completely on board the AI hype train. If Apple doesn’t offer a solution they will be seen as being left behind.
Actually, this is not the case in Germany, as we do not have net metering (feeding into the grid does not give you as much money as consuming from the grid costs).
Off topic but I always wanted a fridge that uses cold outside air to cool in the winter.
My brother in Christ, we must be using different versions of Windows.

I have to uninstall crap all the time. :’)
Meanwhile in the real world, screenshots of emails without any cryptographic authentication at all are good enough to send people to prison.
On my android phone, if I hold the power button I get the option to "lockdown", which immediately locks the phone and disables biometrics for the next unlock, requiring the PIN/password.

I assume that would work for the situations you have in mind.
In the EU all is possible.
"without impacting paying customers"
> the decline in sexual experience among young people

Can I push back just a bit. I'm the parent of a teenager and we've had the talk. The kids are alright. When I was a teen I felt everyone felt pressure to be sexually active. While the boys carried the brunt of peer pressure it was the girls who had to deal with the actual fallout. Todays teens are dealing with a lot right now. And my impression is they have a healthier relationship with sex then our generation ever did. Girls have agency, and outside of the social media chucklefucks it's taboo to be serial sexual harasser and be treated with any sort of respect.
Minimal? Again you are just objectively wrong. The antivax movement had been growing since the 90s, RFK Jr didn't exist in a vacuum. The entire reason why there was push back against the COVID vaccine in the first place was because this movement was there already, much like the movement against abortion.

You are rewriting history to fit your viewpoint which is wrong. The reality is that you are wrong. And those silos that people moved to were equally sinful of censoring voices and banning people not aligned with their beliefs. Even now Musk has no problem censoring and banning people off Twitter for being too mean to him.
Here in rural Canada people with generators would often plug into a home outlet just a regular plug during a power outage. Not a good idea and depends on the circuit path if fuse or breakers. It's 120V AC to AC 60Hz anyway. Hey if it keeps power on, allows you to start the furnace, and not freeze, or keep pipes from bursting it will work.
> We got a Garmin watch for our daughter when she started walking to school on her own.

How does that work? Does the watch have its own SIM card? Does she need to carry a phone for the Garmin watch to work?

Asking for I bought a cheap chinese watch but it's a standalone watch that takes a SIM and, James Bond style, allows to pass and receive phone calls (without needing a lame iPhone in your pocket: the watch is really standalone). The phone feature is really fine but sadly the battery empties quickly (in a day) and the location isn't very accurate.
> There is similar legal stance in Canada, UK, Australia, India, Germany, and Brazil to name a few.

There is not a similar stance in the UK. You can be compelled to provide a password. Section 49 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 200 (RIPA and let that doublespeak sink in a second) allows the police to compel it subject to a warrant from a judge.

The sentence (subject to sentencing guidelines) is up to two years in prison or 5 years for national security / child indecency cases.

You can claim you don't remember/know it as a defence, but in most cases that's not going to be believed by a jury.

In theory once you got out you could be re-served with the notice and face another 2-5 years. Rinse and repeat.
Author here... I edited "around the base" to "at the base." It was indeed a day hike. I originally said "around" as in "putzing around," not "circling around."
Of course XMPP doesn't count... even though it's a standard, allows people to run their own server, have an email-like address of user@server, allows you to communicate from anywhere, and is how I, my family, and many many others chat online? :)
Elon hasn't removed most of the censorship from his platform - in fact, he's increased censorship - and I doubt Zuck will either.

What he's done is loudly proclaim to be removing censorship, while also removing censorship from the group that most loudly complains about censorship (which he also belongs to), and increasing censorship on their enemies, who are not so loud.
How is that different than people having backup generators?
You're making it sound as if the difference in choice between China and western countries is negligible. Surely that's not the case? If every VC company tries to pull you into their walled garden, I can still choose from among a variety of said walled gardens.

I could be wrong of course, since I don't know how many AliPay and WeChat competitors there are.
MotoX riders wear a device which prevents the neck from unnatural extension. I wonder if medical doctors could champion their adoption among MB riders.

Edit: some controversy of the effectiveness of neck braces in motox
The difference is that if you check 'facts' about good things Trump or Musk did, you're an activist with an agenda to push, but if you check 'facts' about bad things Trump or Musk did, you're doing the lord's work.
For a slightly larger, look at the uConsole from ClockworkPi. It is probably double the size and doesn't have the same form factor though.
MNT Reform Next
> The proportion of club nights running beyond 3am fell in 12 of 15 global cities between 2014 and 2024, according to a Financial Times analysis of events on listings website Resident Advisor.

Club nights are not raves. Raves are (usually) not posted on RA. The underground scene is doing just fine.
Steam is the only place I've ever played Rocket League. Did it move off the platform?
this comment reads... a lot like chatgpt
> Unlike the Apple Watch, or Fitbit (Google), the Garmin watches function properly without being tethered to a phone.

How's the outgoing connection established to send the position established then?
> Despite the headline, the article makes it clear that it is talking about legal nightclubs, primarily in large cities.

I guess since they used "rave", people assume they use the commonly understood definition of the word, not just "dancing at a random dance-club in the city", which I don't think many would consider "raving".

> Who's attending these? Is it mainly the old timers or are they attracting a strong following from new generations?

Here in Spain there is a wide range of folks attending dance parties both the ones in/around big cities, and the ones out on the country-side. Obviously, the ones out on the country-side tend to have a crowd that is more "hippie" for the lack of better words, but otherwise I see all types of ranges and people from different walks of life. Mostly skew around my own age I think though, around 30 or so.
Biometrics then need a mix of non-testimonal and testimonial input. ie it only unlocks when it sees it is your face and your face blowing a rasberry. Can you be compelled to blow a raspberry?
> Wine had awful direct x translation

That's not fair. Vulkan didn't exist when the original Steam Machines launched. Wine's Direct3D implementation also had different goals than the DXVK project, such as supporting macOS, older hardware, and non-gaming DirectX uses.
Rewrite Rust in Zig.
They only called out 1 out of the ~1.7k domains they found with keys shorter than 1024bits.

They _did_ call out the 3 of 10 tested major email providers that don't follow the DKIM RFC properly: Yahoo, Tuta, Mailfence (after having notified them).
'Never Too Much'
The interesting point wasn't the timeslots, but their size.

Yes, 2G has fixed time slots, but a slot is used for a lot longer than a single (half?) sample.
Exposing the botting mafia in World of Warcraft
this is just not true. even the worst offenders (looking at you, react-router) do not require to "rebuild and relearn everything". What an unnecessary hyperbole.
MDMA being the substance, Ecstacy being the delivery, you could simplify it as. Ecstacy always have MDMA in it, but typically also other stuff. MDMA is just MDMA, and in itself have different purity depending on how it was made.
What's the problem with verifiable email? You can just delete old emails (if gmail or whoever archives them that's another problem). Most people probably operate under the assumption that email is verifiable in some way anyway. If you receive malicious email, isn't it a good thing to be able to verify where it came from? Doesn't that benefit senders and receivers alike? Or is this a case of "I want to verify you, but I don't want you to verify me"?
Yes, this is probably the beginning of the end for Bluesky.

Luckily none of the vultures are circling Mastodon yet.
Don't. Computer keyboards are inexpressive. You'll be giving up the ability to modulate note velocity/volume, for starters. Get a cheap MIDI keyboard for a few hundred bucks.

If instead of playing you're more interested in making cool sounds, I'd skip the keyboard completely and download a free DAW like Reaper, Ableton, or FL Studio.

Whichever route you take, the secret is practice. It always is...
Dijkstra famously said that programmers who started with BASIC are "mentally mutilated". But I think this applies a lot more to C and UNIX.

Most of them don't seem to understand how anything substantially different could exist in the world of computing - every other language and operating system is seen as either an inferior copy, or as another layer of abstraction building on top of C and UNIX.
Chinese airlines rush into Europe as western carriers retreat
X25519 has seen broad adoption (in the key exchange). Ed25519 has not, you can't actually use an Ed25519 certificate on the web. It's in a deadlock between CAs, browsers and TPM manufacturers (and to some extent NIST, because Ed25519 has not been approved by them).

It's not being blocked per se, you can use it mostly (98%) without any issues. Though things like Amazon SES incorrectly reject letters with multiple signatures. Google and Microsoft can't validate them when receiving. It's more that a few common implementations lack the support for them so you can't use _just_ Ed25519.
I was involved with a big rewrite. Our manager had on his desk the old system with a sign "[managers name]'s product owner". Nearly every time someone wanted to know how to do something the answer was load that old thing up and figure out what it did.

Eventually we did retire the old system - while the new code base is much cleaner I'm convinced it would have been cheaper to just clean that code up in place. It still wouldn't be as clean as the current is - but the current as been around long enough to get some cruft of its own. Much of the old cruft was in places nobody really touched anymore anyway so there was no reason to care.
Huh, yeah you might be right... I guess the comment was great as a Rorschach test but not much else.
I mean, you can avoid going over the bars by riding a recumbent, but that's not going to be a viable solution for riding singletrack. The real trick is teaching people how to fall. I had a coach back in the 90's who was big on that, and it's become instinctual enough where the last time I went over the bars (mid-2023), I was able to manage my landing where I hobbled away with a massive bruise on my thigh, and not much else. I don't know that I've ever seen an MTB skills class that teaches you how to fall properly.
Could you port this to riscv64 please?
Steam can install and run the blizzard launcher. Add the blizzard-setup.exe using "add a non-steam game to my library". Set the compatibility mode to Proton. On first run, it will launch the blizzard client installation. The next runs will just open the launcher.

I was able to play Overwatch on an AMD ubuntu laptop flawlessly.
I think that’s because Apple has been playing the long game on AI. They introduced the neural engine with the A11 processor on the iPhone 8. They can do a lot of things on device that their competitors have to do in the cloud.

Many of their AI features focus on practical everyday use cases instead of big flashy demos and constantly in your face things like Microsoft Copilot.
Only after filling the proper form /s
You're right, but on the other hand, are we really expecting "Financial Times" get even get "raving" right, or knowing about the underground scene?

The article seems to be written for people who reads a newspaper with their breakfast, not for people who had yet to gone asleep while that person reads their paper.
Good point. Natural fruit is different from sugar drinks in a few ways: takes effort to collect and consume, contains fiber that increases satiety, and is much less sweet (even when compared to the extra sweet varieties humans have bred).
More than half of recruiters will ghost me after I've jumped through the hoops (phone call, CV, filling grid, security clearance forms, etc).
I stopped reading the news a long time ago. After reading this, I haven’t really put much thought into what would make me return to having a regular habit again. Or what would even signal to me that I suddenly have something to gain from it?

I there’s something to be said about keeping one foot in the public sphere while also having a degree of skepticism. The difference between Gary Numan and David Bowie.
It's not like your work was going to look good on a 9 dots per inch matrix printer. Fonts were a feature printers had. Computers didn't have fonts then. They had a single, highly pixelated font built into the firmware. Which wasn't the same font your printer had. No bold. No Italic. No different sizes. Definitely no wysiwyg. Some printers had some of those features. Some even had more than one font.

I had the commodore 64 which had a bit more memory than the VIC-20. But still, a few pages of text in ascii was about the max you could manage with that (a few thousand words at best). These things weren't that great for word processing. Also features like "saving" and tapes as the main storage medium made using them slightly risky.
Counter-thought:

We are making brand new things here and not being in an assembly line coming up with the very same thing dozens to million times. We are paid to make new products never existed, having novelty elements in it desired to be a bigger extent than not!

Those pretending knowing exactly what they are doing are lying!

Of course we are speculating here about the size of novelty content to a differing extent, which is never 0% and never 100%, but something inbetween. But those pushing back on those at least trying to revise the work - putting emphasis on it -, deserve no-one coming to them to be pushed back (at least for the inability of allocating resources for this essential activity of development. Development!).

(tried to mimic the atmosphere of the message, sorry if failed)
> Any OS is probably more than 5M lines (Linux - 27.8 lines according to a random Google Search).

Linux is notoriously fragmented/duplicative, and an OS isn't the solution to anyone's actual business problem. A well-factored solution to a specific problem would be much smaller, compare e.g. QNX.

> Facebook is probably more lines of code.

IIRC Facebook is the last non-monorepo holdout among the giants, they genuinely split up their codebase and have parts that operate independently.

Does Facebook have more than 5M lines of code now? I'm sure they do. Does that actually result in a better product than when it was less than 5M lines of code? Ehhhh. Certainly if we're talking about where the revenue is being generated, as the article wants to, then I suspect at least 80% of it is generated by the <5M that were written first.

So I mean yeah, on some level solving the business problem can take as many lines as you want it to, because it's always possible to add some special case enhancement for some edge case that takes more lines. But if you just keep growing the codebase until it's unprofitable then that's not actually particularly valuable code and it's not very nice to work on either.
> I wonder if the ergonomics or geometry of a bicycle could be modified to better protect a rider’s neck.

There has been a huge trend in this direction in recent years! For example in 2000 the head tube angle on a typical “trail bike” was something like 71 degrees, but today it’s more like 65 degrees, meaning the front wheel is a lot farther out in front of you. Bikes have also just gotten longer, especially in the front end which adds to this effect. This all means that (assuming you don’t ride more difficult terrain to compensate) it’s way harder to crash “over the bars” on a modern mountain bike than in the past.
When I last travelled to the USA from the UK, it took weeks to get the ESTA. Might be quicker now, but 10 minutes sounds like lightning to me!
https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.1810/2024/
There are 2 broad classes of financial assets. VC money is almost always the other kind, not a loan.

I would rather you had written something like, "Bluesky has sold part of itself. If the leadership of Bluesky is not committed enough to Bluesky's making a profit, the owners of Bluesky can vote to have the leadership replaced. This sale makes it less likely that the owners will overlooking any laxness on the part of the leadership in pursuit of profit."
"Facebook" is a corporate entity that does not have the ability to "care about" anything.

Employees, board members, shareholders, customers, suppliers and users have the ability to care about things and to influence the actions of the collective. Presumably most of those people care about the same things today they cared about yesterday.

But we're about to have a federal government which is openly corrupt, vindictive and indifferent to the law. People who find themselves as targets of the new regime face existential threats if they don't show fealty, deflect blame or find some other way to survive. Giving a million dollars to inauguration and putting one of the cronies on the 13-person board is probably a rational response to the threats.
Meditation Deconstructs Your Mind
Tracking the 1B row challenge with Node.js
> their reasons for rejecting you are absolutely banal, and you’d have been better off not hearing anything.

If it's banal, I'd like to know. Otherwise you're still left wondering whether it's anything that hinders you in the longrun.
HTML: The Living Standard (Edition for Web Developers)
Places where they happens a lot run into issues since the sun doesn't always shine when people want power. People generally want to have a power bill of zero after installing these, but that cannot work out - they still need to pay for their share of the grid, plus whatever plan the grid as in place for nights. Depending on how many are doing this, it is possible to be in a point where there is more power than needed on the grid.
Interesting, I’ve always wondered if the assignment problem could be solved as continuous optimization. I’m familiar with manifold optimization but didn’t realize the permutation matrix could be expressed as a manifold.

Has this been applied to networks like DETR for object detection? I’ve never been clear on how they made the Hungarian algorithm differentiable (and it seems like their approach has issues).
I agree, I was surprised to read "real raves don't happen in legal venues" - first time I've heard that line of thinking. Been raving for 20 years and here is what a rave means to me: very dancy music, electronic of some type (doesn't need to be pure edm), no judgements, kindness, love, good energy. I'd argue this is unsurprising given where the idea of a rave came from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_Tests

to me, rave is about PLUR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLUR
Youtube playlist for the course:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdPQZLMHRjDK8ZbLIcq1Q...

Materials on Github:

https://github.com/michiganrobotics/rob101