skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My mother died when I was in college, before social media was a thing. I told a few closer friends about it, and asked them to spread the news and to tell others that I didn't really want to talk about it. I was missing a few weeks of the semester because of it, and knew that people would ask me where I'd been once I was back, and knew I wouldn't have the emotional bandwidth to tell everyone the story over and over and over, and accept their condolences gracefully.

It makes me really sad if it's true that people assume that when they post big, difficult stuff like that on social media, anyone who doesn't see it doesn't care about them. Even for people who are active on social media, the feed and post promotion algorithms make it fairly likely that a decent chunk of people who really should see that post might not see it.
And instead, you vote for billionaires chilling on their yachts, paid for by your labor?
Future generations will be dumbfounded why didn't everyone just ask the computer to get what they need.
Techno-solutionism. Grasping at straws of a "quick fix". Bandwagoning the latest fad. Rather than doing the detailed work needed to get the services working.

It's very disappointing. It's the kind of gimmick that PM Johnson used to suggest, but we expected better from the new administration. It's embarrassing. It won't age well.
Likely so, and one wonders whether the EU has the intestinal fortitude and resilience to stand up to such US imperialism. If it hasn't then that'd be a bad sign and quickly noted by Russia and China.

Capitulating to the US bully would be very bad for the EU in the long run.
It’s a motte and bailey thing, where “it costs nothing to be nice” is the motte and “you’re a nazi” is the bailey. The people in the motte aren’t necessarily the same as those in the bailey, but this is roughly what has been happening for the last 15 years. It’s like jaywalking. You keep pushing new offenses down the treadmill, so you can selectively persecute anyone, because nobody is gonna keep up with all of them.

It’s nice to be educated about common misconceptions and potentially hurtful language, but unfortunately society doesn’t have enough slack right now to be a sufficiently chill about it and not devolve into tribal bullshit over it. At least that’s the concern.
They are not, ofc. But the DEI policies group them in the "black and brown" group, to try to up their presence in the mix. But it's silly, me and an Indian raised in the same circumstances will have the same world views and him or me offer no more diversity.

A french guy raised in struggle will have as interesting a perspective as a brown guy raised the same way. They are both interesting and diverse hires regardless of their color.

See my point ? Diversity should be circumstance based and Im afraid sometimes, it's just sun-strength-on-the-skin-based. Maybe Im wrong there too ?
Almost, it panics because we didn't handle the error case. Of course this won't pass review because we explicitly just said "I won't handle this" and the reviewer can see that - whereas the C++ programmer wordlessly allowed this. Subtle, isn't it.

"But I can write correct C++" is trivially true because it's a Turing Complete language, and at the same time entirely useless unless you're playing "Um, actually".
Staying in that theme, remove social media apps from your homepage. It's an extra step to have to look for it through your apps
I don't think this discussion is about professional networking. It's about personal and social connections. If quitting Facebook makes you un-/under-employed then I think you're Doing Life Wrong.

GP mentions "severing" those connections, but I think that's even too strong a phrasing. There wasn't really anything there in the first place, so there wasn't anything to sever. Simply not reading someone else's social media posts anymore, when you didn't really interact with them outside Facebook (or for some people even inside Facebook) isn't really severing anything.
You're probably thinking about memory and caching. There are no advantages to keeping the CPU at 100% when no workload needs to be done.
Thanks. I spent a bit of time looking at otel integrations and added support!

https://loglayer.dev/transports/opentelemetry.html

https://loglayer.dev/plugins/opentelemetry.html
I said "might" for this reason. I can tolerate the argument while I agree with you ofc. Still, they've been wronged, and the debt is hard to repay.

I feel we misbehaved in Africa, us French, for instance, and owe something, smaller and smaller every decade that passes sure, to these people we exploited.
Did you even check if this is a thing already before asking "if there could be a way" ?

I did, and:

https://www.fixmystreet.com/

https://www.gov.uk/report-pothole

https://www.fillthathole.org.uk/
Super impressive ! Thanks for sharing.

Similar (albeit a bit heavier from the all paperwork) explosive bolts are user for stage separation in launch vehicles (rockets).
tl;dr; JavaScript DOM nodes are just handles to Blink DOM nodes. The article doesn't peek under the hood tbh. If you want to look under the hood you should analyze the Blink implementation.
Only when your computer actually has work to do. Otherwise your CPU is just a really expensive heater.

Modern computers are designed to idle at 0% then temporarily boost up when you have work to do. Then once the task is done, they can drop back to idle and cool down again.
Testing in simulations and testing in reality are radically different. I hadn't actually heard anything about this until now but I'd be surprised if they're giving themselves more than a 10% chance of success, assuming it's an orbital test. Looking things up, it turns out that the booster is named "So You're Telling Me There's a Chance", and that is probably not entirely tongue in cheek!
It’s a matter of perspective and trade offs. If you are a person who experiences anxiety from missing things (FOMO) you are much more likely to notice this. I know since deleting my social media accounts I have missed out on a lot, only because my wife keeps up with stuff, but I cannot say how much I have missed because I really don’t care.

The other side to this is how aggressively a person is willing to take deliberate action to maintain personal relationships in the absence of social media automation. If you are that social butterfly who really owns that aspect of life you are likely to never miss any aspect of social media. Most people aren’t that good at taking dedicated action regularly reach out to people outside their most immediate circle though.
Next up: Acrobat in a PDF!
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Aren't some models deterministic with temperature set to 0?
I really thought this would mention uv script deps (standardized by some PEP) together with a `#!/usr/bin/env -S uv run` shebang line which automatically install the deps on execution.

Has been super useful to write single-file tools/scripts which LLMs can understand and run easily.
Couldn't agree more. I haven't deleted my Facebook account, but I no longer sign into it (I kept it because of event invitations, but at this point no one I know uses it for that anymore either). I have a little over 1,000 "friends" there. Back when I scrolled my feed multiple times per day, I read so many things about so many people who I hadn't interacted with outside of Facebook posts for years and years and years. I read so many things about so many people who I didn't even interact with on Facebook, let alone outside of it.

I don't miss any of that. Those connections were beyond shallow, and weren't adding anything positive or useful to my life.
Well, that and reddit mods banning "uncomfortable" (to them) discussions and opinions. A few years ago reddit made an active decision to purge communities around topics that they decided were not good for the platform. The result was that a lot of nuanced communities and places for discussion disappeared from the internet because some people outside these communities decided that they were too "unfriendly" and offensive. They were not perfect, but there was a place for nuance to be expressed there that nowadays internet lacks.
I also wondered about this, but there's a crucial differnce, no idea if it matters: in that loop it reads the register, so the register is read at least 4 times.
You have to trust the vendor. You have no choice.

You cannot personally tell whether it is trustworthy or not.
It was added by David Plummer, who explains how and why he did it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXHu9OmLd8Y
Sounds like “virtue signalling” has the same definition as “hipster” did in the early 00s - a proxy for “something or someone I don’t like”
Do you currently employ any measures to evaluate how well the model(s) perform? If yes, how? If no, what are the challenges that keep you from doing so?
> Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't smartphones go the "upstarts unseat giants" way?

I think "upstarts" is being used uphthread to mean "startups" and "giants" is being used in a general, not market-specific, sense; that is, it isn't referring to entities that are mere new entrants in a particular market but still potentially quite large and established firms displacing incumbents in the particular market, but new, small-starting firms taking over a newly-opened market segment, beating out the large, established firms (from other markets) that are also trying to compete in it.
Sorry didnt see this earlier. If you're interested reach out to me (Kosta Welke) on linkedin. Or write me an email, you can find me on Octominds About page.
Fwiw, I'm white and I don't like being called Caucasian. As far as I can tell none of my ancestors did so much as visit the Caucasus, and the fine people of Georgia and nearby areas hardly benefit from being associated with me.

If you had to group into Caucasoid, Negroid or Mongoloid your likely choose the first one, but I'd say it's better not to work on the basis of 18th century "racial theory".

However, I don't usually make a fuss about the term, because I know a great many people use the term to mean "white" and aren't thinking about the relative merits of the three races of man. It's just a word to many people and it serves well enough in that context.
>we should not teach something just because it's a useful skill, we should teach our favorite dogma that we believe is totally more useful than a system built up through decades of practical experience, guys really.

At least "Racket" is aptly named.
Not that I disagree, but when exactly in modern operating systems are there moments where there are zero instructions being executed? Surely there are always processes doing background things?
Hope they paid for the work.
This is a very blurry line, so I'll try to not make it sound crazy, but I I'm not sure I can express in clear way, so sorry for the length.

I'm in agreement on all of your points regarding Facebook and other platforms fighting hard to maintain their policies, and feeling stuck between a rock and a hard place with all the bullshit flying around while half of the population was looking very severly at their fact checking and moderation stance.

At the same time, these platforms were also essential in Trump's ascension [0] and the amount of discourse happening because of the controversies was also fundamentally beneficial to them. They ended up suspending Trump's account, but countless of other accounts were left to fill that gap in a more policy friendly way. Trump supporters were never faced with a situation where they've nowhere to go (one of the reason IMHO why Truth social and others never really took off).

In 2018 we saw the Cambride Analitica scandal, and while the FTC fined Facebook and there was all the "we're reviewing all our policies" theater, at its core facebook didn't have to do anything radical and we didn't see Trump's government actually doing anything to Facebook, when it could effectively have done whatever it wanted. And it sure didn't hurt that CA was laundering facebook data to political parties, so while a strong stance needed to be shown, I don't think any of the leaders on either side saw facebook as a problematic entity.

Twitter was I think another story, but at this point it's also dead.

Perhaps what I'm saying is there was a public stance of fighting back, but on the business side media platforms still embraced the incoming money and attention, while also being in enough good terms with the government to not get shut down the way TikTok for instance has been hit during last administration.

[0] https://www.wired.com/2016/11/facebook-won-trump-election-no...
Jupiter's clouds are not made of ammonia ice
Can you wake him up after he falls asleep in the day time?
I remember when IE actually warned you when you went to HTTPS!
The entire point of the internet is connecting small communities into one large community - this allows the sharing of information at literal light speed across huge distances.

> If psychologists and anthropologists were techies and influencers of early Internet, we wouldn't have built such experiences in the first place.

How would they have done anything differently? The social part of the internet also started out as (very) small communities. They still exist, too, but are relatively niche and certainly less active then they were before.
It's also an atypical videogame in that there's no significant combat mechanics (combat is as rare and exceptional as in real life), and the setting is far from your usual videogame setting (it feels like like alternate history mid-to-late 20th century Eastern block, but it's entirely fictional) and themes (ostensibly a detective game, but leans heavily into political commentary, morality, nostalgia). Despite the bleak setting, it's also super funny at times in both subtle and unsubtle ways.
Nothing teaches you to swim like being thrown in the middle of the atlantic.
it has auto-save?!
Internet is a proper noun, with a capital I. The Internet was a better place, would it only be for the fact that kids didn't have access to it. And less offendable people.
This is not Doom in a PDF, this is Doom in Chromium which uses a hack with its PDF import engine.
For the people who you care about, you can contact them directly and set up a time to meet to catch up. Or catch up over text or email. Or start a messaging group with mutual friends and keep each other up to date that way.

My feeling is that if you only get updates about someone's life via their blasts on social media, you're not really friends. So why do you need to hear about all that stuff?
Corporate Social Responsibility
What is your point? It's just one last post.
Unfortunately we need this for Discord a lot more. Really should be a default thing instead of extra steps and on by default with the possibility to export to something else (static html with some search engine) so it doesn't depend on the discord server running.
"obviously?" I've seen Georgia in US embargo list, although it's hard to comprehend what's actually embargoed https://www.bis.gov/ear/title-15/subtitle-b/chapter-vii/subc...
The average customer only exists in marketing people's heads.
It does create an interesting choice, though. For example, certain apps will enforce attestation based on the bootloader status. Even if the user wipes their device and relocks their bootloader with their own keys, this doesn't count as fully secure per the bootloader status. Only Google's keys count. Of course, it is also almost prohibitively difficult to deliver yourself OTA updates after this point. I worry that one day I will have to keep two mobile phones; one for bank apps, which has not been altered from the vendor's security defaults, and one for everything else, that I am actually allowed to modify.

At the moment, I just run GrapheneOS and don't bother with any modification. It is not worth the hassle. I've already had my bank account locked out because a Google Store-bought Pixel phone was flagged as "stolen", probably due to some attestation measure (they could not tell me why). They recommended that I purchase a new phone.
This feels like the often-repeated "argument" that Electron applications are fine because "unused memory is wasted memory". What Linus meant by that is that the operating system should strive to use as much of the free RAM as possible for things like file and dentry caches. Not that memory should be wasted on millions of layers of abstraction and too-high resolution images. But it's often misunderstood that way.
> It works fine until you upgrade to a new version of python, in which case you install the package again.

Or you install a second global tool that depends on an incompatible version of a library.
> 2) They should have surrendered on day 1. That would have gotten them a bad deal but not so many people dying.

Well, guess what, they DID surrender on day one. This was back in early 2014. The result? Two more invasions.
To add to the irony you might call the languages with terms related to the Polish "Niemcy" by another etymologically rich word like German "Slawisch" or in English "Slavic".
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There is this collection of 1980's internal design documents from Flying Buffalo that you can buy:

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/296847/t-t-solo-desi...

It is old, but I do not know of any other books really on this topic. I enjoyed reading it anyway. One of the documents in it describes a simple manual algorithm for how to number the sections in a reasonable way (just randomly assigning numbers is not very reasonable, as anyone will learn from reading a book where the author did that). I implemented that in a simple pandoc filter:

https://github.com/lifelike/pangamebook
> I would have more important stuff on my mind. I might post it on social media and then the onus is on other people to reach out to me.

That seems so bizarre. Just 20+ years ago this sort of sympathy seeking broadcasting action was associated with mental health illness, like Munchausen Biproxy. Yes, back in the day if tragedy happened people would take deliberate effort to call each other.
Here is the stunt where he broke his neck: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOo_ZUVU_O8&t=187s
I disagree? The point of a CS degree isn't to prepare you for the 20 years of stale J2EE code your first job is going to throw at you, and object-oriented design is pretty out of fashion.
> at which point I suddenly became a fan of ditching it. I do wonder if there's not some better way to factor that functionality out...

Just use backslash escaping like we do practically everywhere else in the Unix world?
I've been programming some CAD algorithms during the last two months and found myself buying cheap pens for a cheap plotter (a Silhouette machine), to make geometric diagrams. Can't say that the process is more efficient than a color printer[^1], but it is way cheaper than those damn color toners and the profit-maximizing ways the printer accounts for its consumption. And the pen strokes on paper look cool, and one can chose different pens to draw different layers in the diagrams.

[^1]: Though, in truth, the plotter is extremely reliable and fast. Inkjet printers on the other hand have a lengthy warmup and drivers are finicky to the point one imagines they constantly are on the lookout for new ways to botch a job.
That is a tortured interpretation of what is happening here, though. Cargo cults did happen. And some of them did in fact operate in the way explained in the stories.

The point of the story is not to gloat and say "hahaha these stupid islanders are so dumb and we're so smart". The point is to illustrate a particular type of error and to make people aware that we, too, can make that very same error. That we are not, in fact, better and smarter, but rather the same and just as susceptible to the same errors.

The reason we use the story with the cargo cults is because the error is much easier to see from the other side, where you understand how the system actually works and you know why the things the islanders are doing won't actually result in any planes arriving. The point is that sometimes you are on the side the islanders are on where you are not understanding how the system works and you need to recognize that and work on understanding it and not just mindlessly imitating something.

This is obvious to anyone who is not walking around desperately searching for something to feel offended about.
But how will other people know about this after a while ? If only there was some tech platform where you get to pretend you're better than other people to people that don't care about you. This is the problem we set out to solve with Bluesky.
Britain wants to become global AI leader, build domestic OpenAI rival
> I found that fine-tuning and RAG can be replaced with tool calling for some specialized domains

RAG is just a single-purpose instance of the more general process of tool calling, so, that's not surprising.
Stands for Corporate Social Responsibility. It was popular in the 90s/2000s. https://www.thomasnet.com/insights/history-of-corporate-soci...
I use LLMs for coding and writing
What you are probably thinking of is "race to idle". A CPU should process everything it can, as quickly it can (using all the power), and then go to an idle state, instead of processing everything slowly (potentially consuming less energy at that time) but take more time.
Why do we all love the emoji so much?
If your CS degree never requires you to write a program complex enough to warrant version control you should get your money back. I agree that the theory is more important and tools should not be focused on, but exercising the theory you have learnt is extremely rewarding.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dejobaan_Games

Played so much AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! back in the day, still never 5 starred everything. Holds up IMO.
Their other games are cool too
You're not alone. From the description it should have been right up my alley — avid reader, including Philip K. Dick, can appreciate weird stuff — but something about the way the protagonist was interacting with other characters sat wrong with me. Perhaps it was the pretending everything was alright whilst suffering from (something induced) amnesia? I'm not sure what exactly irked me. I didn't feel like I wanted to dive into this world. The UX felt underwhelming too.

Perhaps I'll look into it again in a few years time, when I finally finish Factorio.
Right, becomes that is how capitalism work. Governments known for their high efficiency and market cunning step in to copy successes from overseas.

Oh, and the UK government is going to train on a terabyte of pirated books and movies. Nah, don't think so.
See sibling comment lol
Why did a frozen Earth coincide with an evolutionary spurt?
The chances of the rocket reaching orbit on the first attempt are not too bad. Ariane 6 did it and only failed on the third engine relight.

Nailing the landing is a lot trickier, but if they have any early problems they would ditch it in the sea. They would have to have a problem just before landing for the rocket to take out the barge. If you want to count tipping over as a crash, that would make it more likely, but still less than SpaceX because of the soft landing and more legs.