skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is a sad loss that webrings are not popular anymore. They were amazing for things like these
These still exist and don't make a dent in the big cos balance sheets. They may be growing the pie though.
There was a famous list that a guy once nailed to a church door. That was a few hundred years ago.
You are missing a lot of stuff Microsoft is doing. Azure, .NET, server tools, databases, VS Code, TypeScript, GitHub, (yes, OpenAI), gaming, XBox, desktop, business tools, Surface, Microsoft 365, Teams and lots more. I'd say much of the things they are doing is quite "fresh" and it's more relevant as it has ever been.

There is a reason it's market cap is bigger than Google's and Amazon's, and its downfall has been long overturned.

>with a overwhelming marketshare of Windows & Office installations

It's interesting that you mention it, as none of these are very important on their own to today's Microsoft if you check their latest quarterly reports.
Yes, most wars aren’t between countries with similar military capabilities.

Even in a hypothetical war between US and China being limited to moving fuel, food, bullets etc by aircraft alone is a major logistical issue. Military conflict is potentially millions of people and within an order of magnitude that many vehicles.

Guarding such slow moving cargo vessels by air alone is again impractical, thus surface ships and subs. Every minute a drone or jet is in the air has an associated cost, an aircraft carrier a few 100’s of miles offshore is still a lot closer than mainland USA.
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It's idle fantasy speculation...like reading Popular Science and Popular Mechanics as a kid (with a similar hit rate on speculative future stuff...)
"you notice that he only removed the T from LGBT"

for now... it won't stop there
Libertarians love certain regulations - mostly the ones where the government allocates some stuff as "theirs" and uses violence to prevent other people from using it without paying them a fee.
You have to realize that’s not how it works right? First of all “idiots” aka voters don’t need to be convinced because these people are hired not elected. You mention them being “unelected arbiters” already. However while unelected they are not arbiters. They report to the president who is the arbiter and was elected. Lastly, the president can decide how to implement lanes until his control. If the govt was buying a hammer for $100,000 instead of Home Depot for $10 then yes it can buy the hammer at Home Depot instead.
https://acoup.blog

https://www.construction-physics.com

https://fs.blog

https://metafilter.com

https://polymerist.substack.com

https://ribbonfarm.com

https://science.org/blogs/pipeline

https://what-if.xkcd.com
VR/AR gets attention as despite the investment levels, adoption has been mixed. Provided a bug tech co has a “next” offering, this is fine for startups. It pays to be a risk taker on a new platform.

If big tech decides that VR/AR is not worth the investment any longer, then its tough to be a startup in this space. Hence tracking apple rumors is a way to get a read on where the market is heading.
Yes, US has at-will firing, and healthcare tied to the employer, and so forth. Basically the US has made sure that the corporations have all the power, and the people have none of it. Does this make it easier to make companies? Well of course it does, just like slave trade made it easier to collect crops.

Unlike the US however, we in EU really like having basic human rights - such as mandatory minimum vacation time, healthcare that won't immediately disappear if you lose your job, or depend on the job, as well as not getting fired without cause, and without multiple warnings beforehand.

If the result of this means that we won't be successful in the AI tech scene, or that all the Musk-like slave owners migrate to US or China where they can abuse people however much they like, I'm pretty sure Europeans are not going to shed a tear over that.

I realize more and more that the main difference between Americans and Europeans is that Americans think from the perspective of a corporation, whereas Europeans think from the perspective of themselves, as human beings. We're not compatible, clearly, so there's no need to force us to be the same.
> What will happen when tiny startups of 3-8 people get 5-20x more productive and can ship new stuff daily?

The answer is in the comment you just wrote.

If those tiny startups are successful, they will become the next bloated large companies where things take forever because of "intra team conflicts, legal hurdles and processes", which are categories of things LLMs will never solve because LLMs can't solve problems of human consensus.

If those startups aren't successful, they will run out of money and die.

Big companies take forever to do things because they have lots of paying customers to keep happy, a bunch of people who are ready to sue them at the slightest misstep, thousands of employees with families who want job stability and therefore don't want to be betting the farm every 6 months, etc.

Tiny companies can iterate really fast because they have none of this.

LLMs don't change anything about this fundamental reality.
Hence the emphasis on cyber and (US) dollar attack vectors. War without the bullets.
Not much. I've encountered a handful of esoteric file conversion tools, though I couldn't say whether any of those are still for sale/available now that you can hide the secret sauce behind a web front end.

It doesn't seem impossible in principle, but anything viable has to be better than any open source tools that might be out there but also able to command an audience with enough money and inclination to pay for it despite whatever level of license infringement takes place. It sounds like quite a narrow scope!
Since substack came out with their alternative to tweets, the website looks a lot less interesting.

How does one find new, interesting authors these days (not just people with lots of activity on their short form notes)?
I lived in New Orleans for a bit and a dynamic you have there is that you have streets that were the historically nice homes and you have nearby--even adjacent--streets that were where the slaves lived and remnants of that dichotomy can still be seen in a lot of the housing quality.
GeoCities, webrings, and the cozy connectedness of the '90s internet
Wasn't there a version of Wine for Windows that allowed you to run old programs in new Windows versions?
Good luck! My brother is a Merchant Mariner, I think he is a First Mate now...he gets way better pay than I do but the working hours sound terrible. The shit that you guys went through with COVID with the extended rotations was hell.
just a sampling of my rss reader this morning:

marginalia's blog for interesting tech problems building a search engine "specifically" for indie/small/old-web sites. (the search engine itself is a gold mine for exactly what you're looking for). https://www.marginalia.nu/log/

feuilleton for thoughtful posts on recent niche art history - http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/feed/

the spatial heritage review for advances in 3D models from an educational context https://nebulousflynn.substack.com/
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I did. And took it further and read the docs.. :-)

"Unlike human identities, NHIs are not controlled or directly owned by a human. Their identity object and authentication often work differently to human, and common human user security measures do not apply to them."

So this is about identities who are not human as they use those service accounts. Some would go as far as to say: AIs masquerading as humans.
This account used to document all the reasons to avoid anything calling itself smart or IoT https://xcancel.com/internetofshit
Many (maybe most) humans are not even aware of their own biases, though they are supposed to have "general" intelligence. When they are aware, sometimes they use various psychological strategies to live with them or justify them instead of trying to overcome them. So the AGI in question must be "better" than most humans in this sense.

Plus, there's the question about who would control that AGI. If it's a black box in the hands of a company, how can I know for sure that the AGI has no secret plan implanted by the company or by some government?
B2 is a separate product (presumably sharing the same underlying storage) from backblaze's original backup product.
Windows 11 is horribly slow at everything it does. It's borderline unusable. Just hitting the windows key and typing "notepad" and hitting enter has gone from something that was near instant in windows XP to something that takes 30 seconds and only sometimes might be successful. I'm assuming it's waiting for network requests to send off what I'm typing to bing/cortana/etc before giving me the result I want.

Yes it could also be trying to then virus-check all the data it's sending and receiving without my informed consent.

I'm not trying to say windows 11 is good, just that it's an odd thing to first remove the one product that is still better than the alternatives. Because as horrible as defender is, have you experienced commercial AV products?
https://astrobites.org/ is great for astronomy and astrophysics. You'll be thrown out in the deep end but if you stick to it for a few weeks you'll get a good idea of where astronomy/astrophysics research is at.
>intentionally have an inefficient economy

Yes, but the economy should serve the people. The people do not serve the economy. Or at least that's the way it should work. Wall Street tends to disagree with this sentiment.
> This is NOT because I hate Rust. While not my favourite language it's definitively one of the best new ones and I encourage people to use it for new projects where it fits. I do not want it anywhere near a huge C code base that I need to maintain.

Seems pretty clear cut to me.

Why do rust developers demand everything be re-written in their language? Especially one of the longest running, largest and most successful C projects of all time? It was never going to work out.

There are a few brand new operating systems being developed in rust, why not contribute to them instead?
One of the oldest representations of human face.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_Brassempouy

This Wikipedia article gives an example of a similar ivory figurine from Upper Paleolite, dated 26,000 - 24,000 BC.
Debian is an organization with an opinion on free software. Debian might also reasonably have an opinion about the centralized nature of X and similar platforms. They may even have opinions on the nature of proper discourse on its own discussion forums and similar venues they themselves control. But for Debian to have an opinion about political issues like this is a bit beyond their purview. People don’t, or should not be made to, sign up to support an organization with a definite position about everything under the sun. This would seem to me to be the opposite of diversity, a value they claim to support.
Any idea how many channels this is? Just says multi-channel...
This is all democrats have done my entire politically aware life. It’s like clockwork. Republicans majorly screw things up. Democrats get elected in a wave and start doing the hard work of cleaning up the mess and making tiny steps of progress and then the next election comes around and Republicans win on some culture war nonsense that they created themselves and they get fuck up the system once again. Every single time. Democrats have no opportunity or willingness to enact the agenda of the people who vote for them. They are in perpetual cleanup and maintain the status quo cycle.

The Democratic Party is the conservative one.
https://github.com/microsoft/autothrottle
Serious history - mostly Ancient Rome, Ancient Greece, and related:

https://acoup.blog/

Prof. Devereaux's day job is as an (untenured) ancient & military historian. With a taste for history- and fantasy-based TV/movies and games. A passable fraction of his older stuff is "how close is this to historical reality?" reviews.
> I think the nuance is between you and your wife and it is truly a pity if you feel you can't tell her that you need a rest

Realistically, male weakness is repugnant to a lot of women. It is a huge gamble for anyone to show any whatsoever, as it is often construed as laziness. Feminism does a great job of understanding and articulating women's problems, but hasn't got much to say about how heterosexual women can often perpetuate some of the worst elements of masculinity.
>I don't see much distinction between, for example, Catholicism and Scientology.

If someone leave Scientology, they're shunned by the rest of their friends and family who are still in Scientology. Not the same for Catholocism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disconnection_(Scientology)

Also see these schemes:

>Under this program, Scientology operatives committed infiltration, wiretapping, and theft of documents in government offices, most notably those of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Snow_White

>Operation Freakout, also known as Operation PC Freakout, was a Church of Scientology covert plan intended to have the U.S. author and journalist Paulette Cooper imprisoned or committed to a psychiatric hospital.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Freakout
The nine dash line is objectively and hilariously bad.

If China wants to seize territory internationally recognized as part of other countries... why lie about it so poorly?
"Hang in there" implies that the situation is going to improve. It won't. You end up ratcheting your title and pay upwards until you find yourself in the position of doing nothing useful all day for an amount of money that precludes switching to another career without a drastic pay cut. And you're probably hitting your mid-life crisis zenith right around this time too.

"Boo hoo" I know, but it is its own little Dante's Inferno.
I collected some of the best essays I read: https://www.jjude.com/best-essays/

I also listed the blogs and newsletters I visit often (OPML available): https://www.jjude.com/consume-list/
> 4. daily.dev - using it for 450+ days, its fresh and aggregates various format contents

Strange signup form they have. Never been asked for "Original Language" before, not sure what it means. Shouldn't it be just "Language"? Why does the first language you spoke matter?

The form validation is also broken, saying there is a incorrect character in the username when the actual error is that it's too short. The error messages aren't clearly errors (looks like normal text) and finally if you have a form validation error and already passed the Cloudflare captcha, you can never pass the form and need to reload to be able to submit again.

I get that forms are hard, I've struggled with them myself a lot as well. But a little more care could have gone into it, or at least reacting to seeing people struggling at that page, if it now been running for more than a year. It gives kind of a poor impression when it's a community specifically for engineers/developers, that they don't really have any attention to details.
The media, largely already kissed the ring. Even Putin didn't have it so easy.
They'll build a billion middle of the road bland messes?
That's the form factor I want and that's the reliance on a PC that I want. I want VR glasses that are driven by my setup, not yet another account and yet another app store.

I'd buy that in an instant except last time I checked they thought they'd be scanning my face as part of the purchase.
Curious what are your use cases?

I was reading a thread where a bunch of people complained about their iPad not having use cases while for me, it is a dream device. Curious about your experience with vision pro.
How do you combine roo code with aider?
Russian and Uzbek Charged with Filing False Voter Registration Applications
Because I need to buy food, clothes, pay rent, and replace my laptop that just died.

And I need to do this today or i’ll starve on the street.

I could delay buying a new laptop, but that’s a personal preference. I still need one at some point.

That’s why I would spend my money, because there are things I need or want.
I'm not sure what the other commenter's point is. If you're checking if the error is nil, or pattern matching on the result of a call, it feels like exactly the same.

In your CrabLang example, you don't have warnings on (I assume they exist) for completion or whatever. There's still the Err case that should at least throw a warning for not being caught.
First Steps in Game Development with Rust and Bevy
Unfortunately its not a mirror. Some extensions have licensing issues that prevent them from being on open-vsx. For example PlatformIO. I ran into this issue earlier this week when trying to set up Windsurf which uses open-vsx.
to answer somehow 'heretically':
reduce reading of internetsites of any kind at all, but focus more on real books.
in the long term you'll enjoy it way more. for several reasons i don't want to stress all here.
You just have to go into the preferences on the Backblaze client and adjust the exclusions.

Mac: https://www.backblaze.com/computer-backup/docs/configure-exc...

Windows: https://www.backblaze.com/computer-backup/docs/configure-exc...
We counteract this but not letting bureaucrats make rules in the first place. Overturning Chevron was a step in this direction, but we need to go much, much further.
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Someone has never encountered bureaucracy I see. Human chains of responsibility manage to dissolve blame into nothingness all the time.
Love the proposal so I gave it a try. 10% completion after 6/7 minutes :/.
Hey OP.

bearblog.dev has a great discover page IMO, it consist of people w their own blog, it could be anything tbh.

https://www.bearblog.dev
Is the spam resulting from this leak a class-action suit waiting to happen?
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Writing as "Something Humans Do"
It seems like an Ask HN prefix in the title would be appropriate.
I hate where Microsoft is going, but there is no obvious alternative. I am not go to be paying hundreds of dollars markup for RAM/SSDs and limiting myself to a single GPU vendor by switching to Apple. I am very hesitant to deal with desktop linux bullshit, but Windows 11 may just be the thing to push me over the edge. I know there are great people at Microsoft who know what “the right thing” is for the people who actually care about the platform, but it seems that nowadays they do not have the required ownership.
Be careful. That 6x performance boost can be easily used with metrics to detect which Developers are using AI...
What I'm reading then is that it's not about actually about workforce spending or federal debt at all. That's sort of what I expected.

Curious if you have thoughts on Elon Musk's conflicts of interest? Both as a large federal contractor, and as someone with business dependence on China. Also the breaking of federal records laws (e.g. using signal and not retaining any other records).
The medium is the message, as it were. Changing vocabulary changes the essence, since the minds and souls that would provide consistency across shifting intonation aren't still here to speak/bare them, respectively.

I think you overestimate my interest in soil-testing when I'm removed enough from the scene to see the mountain for myself. I suppose it could be a mirage; that's the best you can hope for.
The best history blog on the web: https://acoup.blog/
There are panics that aren't greppable that way. For instance `some_array[past_bounds]` causes a panic.
How about Stratechery?
That's not how our government works. The executive branch does not get to pick and choose what parts of the budget approved by Congress it wants to execute. [0]

Also, a later act of Congress (The Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998, 22 U.S.C. 6501 et seq.) established USAID as its own agency.[1]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impoundment_of_appropriated_...

[1] https://www.justsecurity.org/107267/can-president-dissolve-u...
> Does the US government not use version control? Do they not have mechanisms I place to prevent an intern from destroying the universe?

When you were working on a COBOL codebase that stretched back decades and intended to run on specific mainframe hardware, what version control were you using?

Also, part of the point of the article is that the intern was given admin access to circumvent the controls that *are* in place.