skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue isn't our species.

It's our billionaires; the people who own our media and our politicians.

The overwhelming majority of scientists agree we need action.

Even with billions spent on propaganda, the majority of citizens believe we need action.

A tiny minority of our corporate media and politicians believe we need action, and their bosses/owners are happy to fire them if they speak up too well. Look what happened to Greta once she started talking about capitalism - instant blackout on coverage.

So again, this isn't a species problem. It's very much a billionaire problem, and they are not like us. Billionaires realize this, and we need to realize it as well.
Why not use your own characters or companies to trade?

Would be way more fun having some mascots to trade instead of common cards
Garbage collect module (cfr. Neuköllner for the past 12 years)
Pathfinder 1: The airship that could usher in a new age
> No one who claims this ever posts a benchmark

I have a Mac with a lot of RAM for running models. I haven’t done it in a month because I can tell that it’s not only slow, but the output also doesn’t come close to what I can get from the latest from Claude or ChatGPT.

It’s actually amazing that I can run LLMs locally and get the quality of output that they give me, but it’s just a different level of experience than the state of the art.

I’m becoming convinced that the people who sing the praises of running locally are just operating differently. For them, slow and lower quality output aren’t a problem because they’re having fun doing it themselves. When I want to get work done, the hosted frontier models are barely fast enough and have hit or miss quality for me, so stepping down to the locally hosted options is even more frustrating.
Yes, I find it disapointing how much they're pushing developers who might not know better that React is NextJS, which is not true. They're pushing people into the complex option first without understanding the tech along the way.
Across the Atlantic, for people of a certain age at least, it evokes memories of Rowan Atkinson's classic comedy series "The Thin Blue Line" about inept British police officers.
I think that is an exaggeration. The maintainers and Linus T. simply didn't care about the things that Kolivas cared about.

However, it is much easier to talk about these things if there is actual data you can point to and that did not seem to be available.
Sounds like an incentive for the departments and unions to push out bad cops.

Teachers buy school supplies, tradesmen buy their own tools, police can buy insurance.
Of course you cannot use these machines "for confidential workflows for enterprise use", at least with AWS you know whose computer you're working with, but also keep in mind that it's really hard to steal your data as long as your data stays in memory, and you use something like mTLS to actually get it in and out of memory via E2EE. You can figure out the rest of your security model along the way, but anything sensitive (i.e. confidential) would surely fall way out of this model.
Point 1 is maybe a downside.

Point 2 is neither here nor there. If all those people were playing tennis instead, the courts would be equally inaccessible.

Point 3 could be a positive!
> That's exactly the point. 99% of websites don't need to be "highly interactive apps" like Figma or Google Docs.

That's what I said n comments ago. If you don't need a highly interactive app, you can do with HTML and CSS only.

> People write Java frameworks in Java. It's still programming in Java. You're still expected to understand the Java language to use Java frameworks.

I hate to break it to you, but React is 100% written in javascript and you interact with it writing javascript. It's a library, not even a framework.
China China China

https://e360.yale.edu/features/china-renewable-energy
I would call Rust comparable to C when it comes to giving you the ability to have control over memory management and machine code. Which is to say, if you have a problem with how C does it, then I doubt that Rust will make you any happier in this regard. What pain points in C is this referring to specifically?
It's partly technical (BSD Sockets being bad API that hard does low level proto ok details in applications) and partially business - vendors didn't want to do the work to upgrade software and hardware - especially with advent of CEF and similar hardware routing options. And by 1990s the government-led standardisation efforts that gave us widespread ethernet and IPv4 got axed, and efforts to make vendors update if only for federal contracts died in waiver hell.

The others kinds of problems are from there over time.
Valorant and the like use kernel modules. They run along side the most critical portions of the OS, just like many hardware drivers. This allows them to detect anything happening on the system.

Kernel modules need to be written for the operating system, so this means there would need to be a userbase present on Linux/macOS to justify writing such a driver (writing kext for macOS is even more difficult as Apple has more or less banned them).

You don't want these types of anti-cheat. I would encourage anyone looking into games that use kernel modules for anti-cheat to avoid them.

Unfortunately user-mode anti-cheat has been defeated time and time again.
Then science and education must adapt to the times and do better to educate and convey their message to a wider audience, everyone must do their part, including scientists and educators. If you exclude half the population from your plans before you even start, you will very probably fail.
Also the move semantics of rust completely change how you reason about variables.
Deterministic signatures are not your friends
Maybe not "uniquely" - there are literally several of us
The whole choosing games thing is strange.

Give me one button and throw me into a live game.

Or let me practice against bots before going live.

Also the notice that my username was taken wasn’t clear (was in white) so i thought the app didn’t work until i learned my username was already taken by scrolling up and seeing the notice that didn’t stand out
Actually, no, not all major distributions have caved and adopted systemd: Other than Gentoo, there is also SlackWare.

(There is also Devuan, which is "Debian without systemd", i.e. minimal changes to allow for systemd not to be used, but of course that doesn't change the default for everything depending directly on Debian.)

There are all sorts of complaints against systemd, some may or may not be overblown - I certainly have not investigated many use cases - but the problem is with the core of it: A single software project gradually taking over more and more of the OS userland. That is simply not a good thing to stick on your system.

No less importantly, I don't believe systemd solves any significant problems vis-a-vis its alternatives.
I think any smart strategist would have to consider that value, yes. Also Arctic mineral rights / maritime boundaries.

The current administration definitely has some smart strategists inside it. This is not new or unique of course, but the willingness to consider such ideas publicly is unusual.

And in a different expansionist colonial age, both Greenland and Canada would be easy and valuable wins, justified by Manifest Destiny or American Exceptionalist Prosperity Gospel or somesuch garbage mythology.

Going back to that age would have winners and losers.

I cringe to say this, but there's a defensible argument that in a time of shrinking resources, it is logical and appropriate to go back to that kind of world order. It's even net-beneficial, as a really strong argument can be made that Canada and Greenland and the Arctic zones are not being utilized to their current or future potentials.

The minor problems of sovereignty etc, are very minor problems if the stakes are high enough to accept global trade disruption.

The only reason the US hasn't rolled over Canada, Greenland, Mexico, and all the Central American countries including Panama and the Canal Zone already is, well, the politeness of our age. And the corresponding stability advantages of preferential trade over conquest. The US is bursting at the seams of economic dominance in the North American zone.

The age of politeness and free-ish trade might be ending.

I'm personally opposed to living in that kind of new (old) age, but certain ground truths feel uncomfortably obvious.
Pretty sure CRA was dead a long time ago already and it's very upsetting how little the React team cares about its users. The unwillingness to act on the CRA being broken, the forceful promotion of a pretty locked-in framework Next.js (which is crap without Vercel, so clearly against the open source spirit) as the de-facto way of doing React (is it really? according to stats I've seen, most uses of React are for SPA's).

I think at work when the next project comes along I'll try and see if we can not do React anymore. I hear good things about Vue.
s/colbalt/COBOL/

However, that error took me to the Wikipedia page and I learnt that cobalt was named in relation to kobolds (goblins/gnomes) as cobalt ore was a hazard to silver miners - it gives off arsenic fumes when smelted.
> who would pay to preach to the choir?

humans pay for things that make us feel better.
You don't have to verify the upload if you whitelist your email address. Then it just goes straight through.

Also, the epub conversion worked for years before Amazon officially supported it! You just had to rename the .epub to .png and then it would convert it. Very weird, they probably had some kind of block on .epub .
Aren’t those examples deterministic? That’s the most interesting aspect of chaotic systems to me, they’re deterministic but still not predictable
I remember games which had extra features if you had a Gravis UltraSound.
a late tl;dr (more background for the above quote):

"...A couple of weeks before she died, Rebecca informed us that she was about to be a big girl of six years old, and Becca was a baby name. Once she turned six, she wanted everyone (not just me) to call her Rebecca, not Becca."
Indeed, and those positions have had semi-legitimate purposes in the past but have now become a treadmill. For instance, they often served as "academic spouse" jobs. I have a friend who had an English degree, and his wife was a high level science professor. Teaching classes wasn't hopelessly taxing, and they kept re-upping his contract year after year. The flexible schedule allowed him to manage their kids.

I used an adjunct job as a stopgap when I was an "academic spouse" too. It was in the EE department at a Big Ten university. I spent my time networking, and one of the other teachers helped me get a permanent job in local industry.
>my country will basically turn into Siberia,

I assume you are in NW Europe.

It will not, it will be a bit or more warmer on average then now and you may get regular snow in the winter. Winters will probably be similar to New Brunswick now. But no, not Siberia.
An American Retiree Was Lost Off the Coast of Venezuela. Then Things Went Bad
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/american-prisoner-venezue...
Namespaces allow to fake filesystems, processes, users, devices.
selinux, apparmor, ... can deny access for the anticheat.
Why is Next.js crap without Vercel? My devs have been using it in a non-Vercel context for a few years, but I just run the web servers.
Reforming the tax code and eliminating loopholes is orthogonal to making it easier to file. Closing loopholes doesn't hurt Intuit and H&R Block.
News about our teammate, Sasha Troufanov
'Ne Zha 2' Tops $1.37B in China to Become No. 3 Animated Movie Ever Worldwide
Because CSI is just a way to connect a volume to a pod.

Ceph is its own cluster of kettles filled with fishes
> good enough result (…) sounds plausible

It’s paramount to not conflate the two. LLM answers are almost always the latter with no guarantee of being the former. That is a tremendous flaw with real consequences.

> it’s a general weakness in human cognition, and has little to do with AI in and of itself.

A distinction without merit. Like blaming people for addictive behaviour while simultaneously exploiting human psychology to sell them the very same addiction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJT0NMYHeGw

This “technically correct” approach to arguing where the fault lies precludes productive discussion on fixing the problem. You cannot in good faith shout from the rooftops LLMs are going to solve all our problems and then excuse its numerous failures with “but we added a note you should always verify the answer. It’s down in the cellar, with no lights and stairs, in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard’”.

It has become norm for people to “settle” disputes by quoting or showing a screenshot of an LLM answer. Often wrong. It is irrelevant to argue people should do better; they don’t, and that’s the reality you have to address.
AI is a net positive for climate change
Block AI bots crawlers on Nginx
I've been tinkering with a combined solution to block AI bots from crawling my website, it's a robots.txt file (I know, they don't care about it) and a Nginx directive (it works for Ngnix web servers, not if you are on Apache).
This looks neat. Thanks.

Is there a place I can suggest new podcasts? I listen to some French podcasts the old fashioned way, for exactly this purpose.
What that really implies is that media controls legislation.
kubelet isn't, but CNI technically is (or can be abstracted to minimum, I think old network support might have been removed from kubelet nowadays)
Notably, the DOS environment under Windows is running in a hardware mode called "virtual 8086 mode" which allows it to be isolated from the other DOS environments and, even more importantly, from full BIOS access. These limitations kept the whole system safer and more stable than DOS in "real mode" but made some DOS programs unusable under Windows.
It just happens that a few days ago I found that I had kept nearly every P60 I ever got in over 40 years. P60 is a UK tax summary for a year with "do not destroy" on it. I think I did pretty well.

Obviously, as anyone would, I stuck the income figures into a spreadsheet with cost of living figures [1] and got a chart. What came out was a chaotic mess of ups and downs.

Good luck predicting that.

[1] My first annual salary was just over £1,000 a year. Without cost of living it would have made no sense.
An Algorithm for Computing Links
I have the same feelings. When I start to wonder, I instantly have teary eyes and have to stop myself from thinking about it. I just can’t. It must be hell.
Person 1 made every deck exactly the same way though.

I guess Person 2 could run some simple validations of what Person 1 initially did.

Then again, Person 2 could have also replaced all of Person 1s decks with their own.
Never experienced pain? Never experienced physically slamming into something? Are you like a toddler who doesn’t yet understand basic physics and object permanence? Then you certainly don’t know what a car crash is.
Dying thing displays yet another symptom of dying.

Did they not lose a satisfactory number of users with the API changes?

Why not add more advertising?

Edited to add: I'm wondering if these paid subreddits are going to be to compete with OnlyFans type content. I'm not a target market for much, but I can't think of a forum topic that I'd be happy to pay a subscription for. Useful information tends to find it's way to the open internet.
I haven't seen a convincing explaination why Norton's dome is non-deterministic other than people wanting it.
Most people don't expect modern government records to be so chaotic. If so many incomplete and even erroneous entries are allowed (they are, as the social security numbers are in fact reused or else entered wrong) then there will be some significant fraud to be uncovered. That fraud might be harder to find than simply looking for people who are too old. But it's there, no doubt, and more fraud happens every single day. If you look into this stuff you'll find dead people getting payments, and children paying social security taxes as their data is stolen.
Satire more damaging to reputations than direct criticism
A complete implementation would quickly get huge, bloated, and slow. Any "forumchain" that requires it retain its entire activity history forever will fail.

That said, Mastodon is sort of like that... It's a sort of partial implementation of a fundamentally similar idea.
He thinks it’s okay to annex Canada and Greenland. That’s tacit compliance with Russia’s ambition to retake the Soviet satellites.
Big 8 (Usenet)
I still use Midnight Commander in Linux, as it reminds me of the DOS times with Volkov and Norton.

Volkov was much faster on older machines...
I think they expected the sample to be sent free of charge, especially as it's such a low value product.

That it came with a bill implied the producer wasn't interested in the business.
Technically, anti-cheat requires control over the system (computer being used, room and network where the test happens).

An open source operating system could be used to block or circumvent the control check points of said spyware. So installing it on your Linux workstation may not provide enough guarantees.

But... the unasked question, but important one is: why install one on _your_ computer? If someone (school, org, whatever) needs you to pass a test, they can provide the whole package if they want to exert control over the whole context of the test.

But submitting in advance to their own requirement (it's not _your_ requirement), by compromising your own computer?

This may as well be a hidden purpose test, where refusing to install said software is the "good" answer. And if the employer doesn't accept/understand that, that's... problematic for them on a whole other level.
isn't the point of the chaos that as time progresses the predictability of outcomes severely deteriorates?

or maybe a better frame:

any simulation the seed would still result in the same answer, since the computation is deterministic, but the system being simulated is not likely to behave the same at that time under the same initial conditions.
Yes, AI is going to solve all of our problems. /s
There was nothing stopping bookshop.org from not sending any money from readers buying directly from their website to local bookstores for the past 5 years either.

So they have a track record.

But more importantly for the cynic, their CEO has publicly answered this question as well.

Basically, if they’re not sending money to local bookstores, there’s no reason for them to exist. There’s no reason for anyone to buy a book from them instead of Amazon if they stop fulfilling their purpose of supporting local bookstores.
Trade Wars and How Nations Fight Them [video]
So you don't use it because of the drama, you only repost the drama?
Interestingly, YouTube also lends itself for this sort of thing for movies. You can watch scenes from movies and get the gist, while only spending ~30min on a movie. It's a great way to watch mediocre movies - they're not so horrible (1), and you do get the entertainment value without being exposed to the shlocky-est parts.

(1) Eg, if you skip the beach scene, Terminator Dark Fate is... palatable! But yeah, the reasons for mediocrity typically still shine through a bit.
It was mind blowing at that time because it felt solid and you can even watch movies on it. Too bad Sony abandoned it. The form factor was amazing even Nintendo and Steam copied it.
that goes faster than you think. Also, diminishing attention/memory of facts in context also goes down together with its length. Which might hurt when you just want to dump everything at once.
This is such a big deal. Trying to get stuff done with geospatial data in native formats in big companies has been somewhat painful for a while, because a lot of them tend to default to using DataBricks and Delta format.

At least now there's a great open source tech stack combo with Trino as your query engine (which is decidedly a lot less annoying to run at scale than OSS Spark) and Iceberg as your storage format that a lot of your "Enterprise Architecture" types can be comfortable enough with.
The CEO has answered this question.

The local bookstore doesn’t add anything to this process.

But if bookshop.org doesn’t support the local bookstore then bookshop.org doesn’t have any value to the reader either. They’d might as well go to Amazon at that point.
I don't understand anything about this sport except for that it's "controlled" by that a Texas billionaire and now I finally comprehend how sports are businesses.

https://archive.is/vcraM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Dundon#Pickleball
I struggle with this recommendation. I am anything but non avoidant. I’ve gone vegan, I rarely drive, I know that mass famine, immigration and war are highly likely before I die.

Realistically people like me cannot make change. I question the value of continuing to soak myself in the understanding that there is a strong chance the future will be shit.

I recently abandoned a reread of Parable of the Sower. I don’t need a reminder of what’s possible.

Would a better catastrophe cause people to take things seriously? Honestly after covid I doubt it.
This project is incredible and the author is an exceptional talent. So much complexity spanning multiple disciplines.

The radar PCB is incredibly complex and dense, and worked on the first revision with only one minor issue. That's remarkable. Imagine writing an entire software application and the first time you build it runs as intended with only a couple compiler warnings.
Show HN: Instantly Create and Engage in AI-Generated Debates
In my work in EdTech, I see AI enhancing efficiency — speeding up grading or generating lesson plans. While useful, these applications don't fundamentally change how we learn.

To explore new possibilities, I've hacked together debdeb.io.

It allows users to create debates on any topic and immediately access both sides in text and audio formats. You can vote on debates and, if you sign-in, see what you've created.

I wanted to try introducing different modes (text and audio) into learning whilst having a fun way to learn critical thinking.

Try it out and share your thoughts.
Wow. Talk about zero situational awareness.
So how do they know the age of someone who has incomplete records like that? Take their word for it? That sounds like trouble.

What would invalidate the benefits is death. This 150 year old business is a corner case obviously, so finding those dead people is not so easy. I'd assume there are more checks issued to dead people who were never reported than dead people who were properly recorded as dead. I don't know the frequency of fraud in either case but one is easier to get away with than the other.
I've set up and run my own physical Linux server as well as cloud ones and it may be easier to get a Linux box up and running with an application but to get it into a state I consider production ready it's much harder. With ECS (or similar offerings, I agree kubernetes can be overkill) you get logging, blue green deployments, permissions, secret management, scaling, and more built in. You don't need to worry about upgrading your server and there's a whole category of security issues you don't really need to worry about. I work in a space with some compliance requirements and I do not think we could meet them at the size that we are without offerings like this.
No, my point is that even if I had the idea (abstract art) I wouldn't be taken seriously as an artist because my art would never make it into galleries. I'm not in the art world, so it doesn't matter what my ideas are.