skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did they stop? I know they stopped selling their books directly, but I'm pretty sure their stuff has been DRM free on places like Kobo the entire time.
> He also attempted suicide multiple times in his life while not being "bullied".

Citation?
Your own article notes that it is “it’s highly unlikely that British authorities will go after U.S.-based social media posters like Musk for violating British laws in an online space.”

Similarly, the links again show that you are whitewashing the events: those people jailed weren’t “disagreeing with the extreme left” (every leftist would be in jail since they disagree with each other constantly) but for things like saying they were going to a violent protest and advocating burning down hotels where refugees were living. Going to a highly plausible specific threat is quite far beyond disagreement.
Related:

Ask HN: Is maintaining a personal blog still worth it?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42685534

Why I still blog after 15 years

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41646531

Advice for a friend who wants to start a blog

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42872276
Spain and Portugal become engine of eurozone economy
Some of the comments are detailed here:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/jd-vance/bring-back-vance-s...

And they're indefensibly off-color and disgusting, and it's even more insane the VP of the USA is defending Elez.

https://x.com/JDVance/status/1887900880143343633

> We shouldn't reward journalists who try to destroy people. Ever.

Step 1. Discredit the media and stop the flow of information.

Step 2. Divert public funds to only your friends and allies.

Pretty straightforward.
Agreed. I do a lot of Monte Carlo simulations of physical systems (radars, scientific models) in which same or close seeds will cause trouble.

You do want a deterministic PRNG (for repeatability of the simulation). But if you seed with time alone, and spawn 100 parallel jobs, you will see repeats or near-repeats which will bias the Monte Carlo averages resulting from your simulation ensemble.

In ancient times, you could xor in the PID and the IP address of the host to ensure no seed overlap. Nowadays there are other ways to introduce entropy to the seed, e.g. with dedicated system calls or /dev/random.
Which is more probable:

Photo retouching

r/disscussanything as a reliable source

Time travel
I put my wife's work location and my own in it and it correctly showed me that where we actually live would be a good location. When we moved to our house she worked at a different place, but I can see how this would be useful.

The "only show best matches" criterion is a little bit too aggressive in this case, though - it basically says "have you tried living in the middle of the highway"?
The article interviews a family with kids and a car-free area is a great location for an elderly person who can still take care of themselves other than driving (many elderly people end up driving well after it is no longer safe.)
They just need to delay until after the elections and then pay the fine.
True, but his article (https://degoes.net/articles/splendid-scala-journey) states it is also for Scala new syntax breaking a lot of things (if I remember correctly, been a a while since I read it) and for other reasons. I also thought it was for political reasons before until I read that article back in time.
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> Big corporations are too big, they should just not exist.

Nor should big governments.

Nor should big countries, for that matter.
Ireland doesn't have a single apple store in it. The closest thing that exists are stores in their authorised reseller program.
The federal government isn't just "an employer", it's an extension of the public will funded with public money and should work toward the public good.
sigh- I wish we could go back to the heady days of the Biden presidency when everyone knew who had their hands on the wheel
I think we fixed it. Let me know if you think we can still do better.
I gave a talk at DataEngConf many years ago: https://www.datacouncil.ai/talks/zip-codes-and-other-lies-yo...
True, I never implied otherwise. When I commented, I was referring to things he said in his article: https://degoes.net/articles/splendid-scala-journey
He's not subject to your laws, the EU isn't a state of your union.
The decision wouldn't involve just market size, but their Irish tax haven as well. They're not going to pull out of the UK entirely.
I'm not imagining toy sizes. Quite the opposite. I'm saying that layers are so big that splitting per neuron already gives you a ton of individual calculations to schedule and that's plenty to get full usage out of the hardware.

You can do very wide calculations on a single neuron if you want; throwing an entire SM (64 or 128 CUDA cores) at a single neuron is trivial to do in a deterministic way. And if you have a calculation so big you benefit from splitting it across SMs, doing a deterministic sum at the end will use an unmeasurably small fraction of your runtime.

And I'll remind you that I wasn't even talking about determinism across architectures, just within an architecture, so go ahead and optimize your memory layouts and block sizes to your exact card.
I don't know what the deal is in the relevant jurisdictions, but in Swedish copyright law, the provenance of the original matters ("lovlig förlaga").

This means that it's not legal to download a rip of e.g. a CD that was uploaded without consent, even if you own a copy.

(This exception to the general right to make copies for private use was added in 2005 to make downloading illegal -- previously, only uploading was infringing.)

I would assume just the act of downloading this content was illegal in the relevant US jurisdictions as well.
The article itself vacillates.

> we've seen this phenomenon before

> I said, 'Wow, this is something really new'

> it's unsurprising

> Even so [...] what they saw surprised them.

I mean that's nerdy scientists for you, they get so into their thing it's kind of disgusting. I watched a documentary about volcanos once, it had a husband and wife team, they were just enthusing endlessly about their particular volcano that they were studying and it really turned me off. This was about 20 years ago and as a result I still hate vulcanologists, they totally overdid the sales pitch.
> there's no contract for someone to do this.

There's no contract to be a Devil's advocate. It used to be a specific job assigned by the Catholic Church during the canonization process, but it wasn't something that random people would volunteer to do. To me, it's very suspicious that so many people on social media positively relish the role that was once considered a somewhat distasteful but "necessary evil", as it were.

Some people are paid to do PR for Google. The corporation doesn't need unpaid volunteers. If you sincerely agree with Google, then so be it, but that's not a Devil's advocate.
Why would I say something is better without a point of comparison?

I was born in the 90s. So definitely alive before YouTube and Spotify albeit as a teenager rather than an adult. I guess you're right I'm not familiar with the world of Sony Walkman, Blockbuster, and IBM PC. But I definitely remember dial-up modems, CDs, Windows 95 and XP. Technology has improved most aspect of my life better since then. (maybe minus all the ads + dopamine slot machines part...)
Tokyo burned to the ground 80 years ago and got to be rebuilt from scratch then.
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Under no circumstances.
I mean, I don't find that working with IntelliJ makes it any "heavier" than other languages in terms of prototyping. I use PHP Storm for Laravel development and I never say to my self, "if only I wasn't using an IDE, maybe I could get this site put together faster". Quite the opposite, Intellij makes me super productive.

I think all of these frameworks - Laravel, Rails, Django, Next.js, Spring - require deep familiarity to get the best out of them.

> Honestly I struggle to see how they could've done it without making the compiler and build tool much faster

Well, Lightbend literally was the owner of Play, SBT, and Scalac. They were in a perfect position to make the build tool and compiler much faster. Or even if SBT can't be made much faster, ditch it and make integration with gradle and/or maven really great.
In place replacing the text while parsing is very powerful approach. Fingers crosses this flies.

This, combined with probabilistic approach can be even more interesting. Probabilistic approaches regexes exist since 70s if memory serves right.
https://oehha.ca.gov/sites/default/files/media/downloads/crn...

> The Act prohibits any person in the course of doing business from knowingly discharging or releasing a chemical known to the state to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity into water or onto or into land where it passes or probably will pass into a source of drinking water.

And you can't dump any of that stuff into a river to dispose of it anymore. I'm not sure why you seem to be in favor of a company dumping coffee cups into a river.
That's a horrifying suggestion.
This is a tangent, but addresses are also way more complicated than most people realize - especially if you’re relying on a user to input a correct address or if you need to support multiple countries, somewhere with unique addresses like Queens[0], or you need to differentiate between units of a specific street address that uses something other than unit numbers for a unit designation.

At that point you need something like Smarty[1] to validate and parse addresses.

[0]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2783155/how-to-distingui...

[1]: https://www.smarty.com/
It's not really that surprising when the cities are passing laws to try to turn Uber back into the taxi cartel by e.g. making it harder for them to use part-time and on-demand contract drivers. The way you get the price down is by reducing friction, increasing flexibility and supply and taking advantage of efficiencies like people willing to do a dozen rides a week during surge pricing without making it a full-time job. Pass bad laws that make things more rigid and they get more expensive.
I don't think that was mandated to be used for every device though. It was also shown to perform key escrow in secret and had its security defeated before it launched.
That actually is possible

Heatmaps are split into criteria, and each of those criteria can contain multiple places.

The criteria are OR clauses between any of the places, and the heatmap is an AND clause over all the criteria

So to do what you'd like, you'd place the libraries in the same criteria
Didn’t these leaks precisely show that the agencies were effectively above the law? I mean, they tried to make it look like they were abiding by the regulations, but effectively tried every work around they could come up with. Including subcontracting domestic spying to foreign intelligence agencies, using the exact mechanism the parent mentioned? It seems you’re contradicting them by making their point.
this has nothing to do with privacy

this isn't about private messages send on X

It's about being able to factually analyses and judge how various entities try to __publicly__ infer with elections through various means like propaganda posts and or ads.

Giving that there are a lot of indices that X did infer with US elections due to how it tuned itself to maximize the reach and effectiveness of right wing propaganda this is quite an important analysis.

And in difference to the US systematically spreading misinformation and hate speech to rile up people, or enabling/not preventing it as a platform, is illegal. Even highly so (on a constitutional level). Because you know last times it did end with WW2. Also as a fun fact: This and various other aspects of our constitution have been pretty much put in place by the US as a condition to give west Germany independence again after WW2. In general a lot of the German constitution is "lets start with the ideas behind the US constitution but then consider what didn't work out well and make it more prone against hostile somewhat elected governments undermining democracy".

Anyway if X insist in not helping to prevent or even detect/analyze people trying to infer with German elections it's probably time to kick them out of German. Like imagine some German company being suspected to be involved in election inference in the US and refuses to work with the US government to resolve any suspicions and doesn't even bother to pretend to cooperate, especially with the current government they would be banned in a matter of days. So it would be very dump to not do the same when the situation is the other way around.
It's one of the best tools to troubleshoot packetloss on the internet and generally routed networks. It gives you way more information than ping or traceroute could potentially give.

If you run it in TCP or UDP mode you can even nail down the physical interface that's erroring in a LAG/LACP bundle due to being able to manipulate the 5 tuples very well.

I'm also curious about the flags you used for ping and mtr that showed you this discrapancy.
I had a couple of hobbies (lucid dreaming and shamanic trance drumming) that enabled me to experience big disconnects between the subjective experience of time passing and objective measurable wall-clock time. Some dreams and trances subjectively appeared to be much longer than the wall-clock time recorded by clocks and human helpers.

I don't have any definite knowledge of what's going on with that, but I suspect some part of it is my brain retroactively manufacturing the memory of lots of time passing, and some part of it is my brain confabulating episodic memory about the dream or trance as I wake up and write it down.

Human memory is well known to be generally unreliable and full of confabulated details, so I think the most parsimonious explanation for differences between the time experienced in dreams and the objectively-measurable time that passes is that our brains are just making shit up.

Of course, the idea that your brain just lies to you about the past might be just as creepy as any other explanation.
I have a v2 of that algorithm coming this weekend!
I expect it to make it MUCH faster :)
PG&E already went bankrupt recently, and taking over the whole state wouldn't really help very much. The problem is largely liability rules that make it very expensive to provide power to wildfire zones and rural areas. PG&E and the state have decided to pay for that by charging people who live in cities very high rates for electricity.

It's perverse that people who live in safe, urban areas are subsidizing people who live in wildfire zones. The savings come largely from not doing that anymore.
> The GFF and Democracy Reporting International had argued that X had a duty under European law to provide easily researchable, collated access to information such as post reach, shares and likes - information theoretically available by laboriously clicking through thousands of posts but in practice impossible to access.

What law requires this? That data seems interesting, but it also seems odd to require a private platform to provide it. Is this directly legislated in the EU, or is this some kind of technicality?
Do thank your colleagues in the retail arm over on .co.uk for me.

On launch, they very briefly mislisted the updated TAOCP 1-4B box set at £33 (~ $40), and to my surprise and delight, honoured it!
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I'm not saying to use the current time in seconds. I'm saying that the need for "actual randomness" and being "completely unpredictable" in the comment I responded to is largely overblown. Seeds that aren't drawn from true randomness can be totally fine. Seeds that have a handful of highly biased bits can be fine.

There are some cases in crypto where a secret that has even a single bit biased more than epsilon will break a whole scheme. CSPRNGs don't tend to work that way.
> Because in practice, it seems to me that DEI is almost always used to justify some kind of grift or other uselessness (renaming master to main, for example).

I would never have thought of this as DEI. I normally only think of DEI in terms of jobs, hiring, and similar. Though I can see how someone might try and fit it under Inclusion.

> There is a narrative in the Democratic party that DEI policy is good and must not be questioned, which is stupid as hell because it basically is guaranteed to burn out any goodwill that folks might have had to the concept.

I agree there is too much of people not being able to communicate and talk things out. Any sort of patience and willingness to talk things out can be exploited by bad actors to waste your time energy and effort, especially online conversations, and that results in people shutting down conversations as a defense mechanism. The end result is some amount of tribalism where people talk to protect and promote their tribe instead of communicating. Community standards need to improve for that to get better though and that takes time.

The above communication issue as far as I can tell is not directly connected to DEI and would still exist if everyone was focusing on some other topic.

The approach that I thinks works with one on one conversation, but may not scale well to groups, is to take on topics individually. DEI, is to big and too broad and means different things to different people. Cheating on an FAA test, corruption, failure of leadership, those are easier to get broad agreement on topic by topic.
Laravel and Django didn't bring fundamentally new ideas above and beyond Rails.
its a term used to describe "corporate criminal acts" yes
I'll be explicit: russia is a terrorist state. Majority of russian population supports the unprovoked genocidal war it currently wages on Ukraine.
I'll disagree on this one. The goal here is to pair capital with talent (either via employment or funding), and almost nobody has deployed more capital into AI than Satya.
I always assumed it's because 60 is a highly composite number (superior, in fact!). It's kinda the best number if you're ever going to need to divide. 50 is kinda garbage in that regard. :/
UK government wants a backdoor access to all users, worldwide, irrespective of their nationality.
Since your later comment is dead, here is a timely news update to help you remain informed.

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-polit...
That doesn't mean they care about the law, it just means that they care about maintaining the public perception that they care about the law. They're perfectly happy to keep up the pretense as long as they can still get what they want anyway, even if they have to add a couple extra inconvenient steps to the process. What they won't do is allow the law to stop them from getting what they want.
You're assuming people's actual motivations match up with their stated motivations. If your motivation is to be re-elected to a government post by appearing to be tough on terrorism and drugs, every possible outcome of this course of action benefits you. Apple leaves? They were terrorist enablers and you're better off without them. Apple acquiesces? You're the David who took on Apple's goliath and won safety for everyone (again, regardless of whether this actually improves safety for anyone). Apple ignores you? You have an ongoing feud with Dangerous Big Tech that you can campaign and fundraise on for as long as it lasts.
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No, the government is always exempt. Citizens shouldn't be allowed e2e, the government, that's ok.
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I don't have to use the web or apps for any of that stuff. They're a convenience, but are not actually necessary for any of that.
That's what I was thinking of earlier, the succinct version is "your address is where mail needs to go, the zip code is how to get it there". Or in other words, the zip code is the address(es) of the sorting centers and post offices to the destination.
How could anyone feel positively about any changes to a codebase that are not allowed to be reviewed by anyone else?
I live with my 5 adult sons. Here are the reasons they have ~no realistic options to start their own families.

1) In 2024, four typical incomes were needed to make basic bills and maybe have a minimal cushion. The 2025 trends seem ominous.

2) Parenting time has risen from a few hours per week (my parents' gen) to 24/7 adulting (my gen). Kids' free-range area shrunk from sq mi (my gen) to sq ft (my kids gen), primarily due to the rise of car culture, trespassing culture and relentless false stranger-danger messaging.

3) My parents gen (silent) grew up in a many-adults-available community. My wife and I became parents with no support at all; we were on our own. Some families have a g-parent or two - still a tiny percent of the support humans historically grew up with.

4) Due to 2 & 3: Two (or less) modern parents have to perform the roles of many diverse adults, every moment of every day/week/year. It's an impossibility; it consumes all our personal resources and gives comparatively little in return.

I am a far more skilled and attentive parent than my mother was (I had no choice), yet my kids had far, far, less growth opportunity than I did.

For modern young adults, having children is increasingly absurd proposition. The expectation that they should - that seems to be a farce.
Possible, yes. Probable?
Exactly. This is an apartment complex with some so-so on-site retail situated on a light rail trunk line, just outside of a university and eventually downtown Phoenix. Reduced parking but still accessible to delivery drivers. In most other cities this would be just a 5-over-1.
You don't have to have a sound legal theory that will hold up in court. You just have to have a sound bite that you can vomit up when someone says "Wait a minute, isn't that blatantly illegal?"