skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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War financing is incredibly complex and even more so when your only source is some paper notes from several hundred years ago. Whether you believe that or not basically boils down to how you want to see it. Would you for example say that George Washington would have owned more than 30,000 slaves in today's world? A straightforward extrapolation of the population size might suggest so. But then again that is also grossly overlooking many other aspects. So you would also be right to doubt it. Either way, you would still be missing the point of the discussion.
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I don't agree. What if the LLM takes a two-step approach, where it first determines a global architecture, and then it fills in the code? (Where it hallucinates in the first step).
You can understand why they would want to encourage donors to come back to donate again. It's not a bad thing they're getting you to do, it's harder to get someone who's never donated to do it than someone who is currently donating.
Thinking that funding forks, like LibreWolf, would save said forks from dying if Mozilla goes under, is naive.

The development of Firefox costs around half a billion $ per year. Estimates for Chrome range from 1 to 2 billion $ per year. In other words, take the donations of something like Wikimedia, which is arguably very successful in asking for donations, and you'd still be very short on the money needed to fund a web browser. And if you bring those costs down to something more manageable, like say, 100 million $, and assuming you can convince people to donate (IMO, when pigs will fly), then you'll have a browser that may be completely unable to compete with Chromium.

All the browser “forks” survive because Google and Mozilla are doing the hard work.
Magpie, just because it’s common doesn’t mean it’s boring. Just watching a common magie come in to land is awesome inspiring.
You need to click through to the actual investigation

https://securelist.com/gitvenom-campaign/115694/
You tell it there's an error, and to fix the code (/s)
Every small town deserves someone like this. And also someone moderating local Facebook groups to tamp down the scams. For every elderly victim of scams, there’s a honest hard-working young person who discovers that the corresponding economic opportunity moved elsewhere.
Wyden to FTC: Stop digital "bait-and-switch" sales
I had “agtech” in HS. Learning how to use a cutting torch and weld was the most memorable. Heh our welding unit was pretty much all about working on our teacher’s horse trailer. We also did hunter’s education which spent a lot of time on gun safety and was very useful. (Yes, I went to HS out in the sticks)
Show HN: BingeCraft – Infinite Craft for Movies and Shows
I love Infinite Craft and bingeing on Netflix, so I built BingeCraft.

Feedback is welcome.
what was it like going back to tech after 5-6 years?
Was it a new stack?
Were you doing some personal projects along the way to keep skills up?
Git is a good tool for tracking changes if your primary job is tracking changes. It is terrible tool if you care about tracking changes because you need your work done. There is no encapsulation and the cognitive load and amount of moving parts you need to keep track of mentally is hugely distracting.
Isn't it time-consuming to build a scraper for every website you want to get updates from? What if the HTML is a mess and full of dynamic front-end-framework classes etc?
Have you seen this discussed in the news? I haven't.
Hummingbirds just fill me with anxiety. Miserable fate to devolve into an insect.
I think people are specifically referring to the movie not looking technically impressive, not that Blender isn't capable of technically impressive renders at all.
If you believe current models exist at the limit of possible persuasiveness, there obviously isn't any cause for concern.

For various reasons, I don't believe that, which is why my argument is predicated on them improving over time. Obviously current models aren't overly hazardous in the sense I posit - it's a concern for future models that are stronger, or explicitly trained to be more engaging and/or convincing.

The load bearing element is the answer to: "are models becoming more convincing over time?" not "are they very convincing now?"

> [..] I have a hard time imagining any sort of overly verbose, clause and condition-ridden chatbot [..]

Then you're not engaging with the premise at all, and are attacking a point I haven't made. The tautological assurance that non-convincing AI is not convincing is not relevant to a concern predicated on the eventual existence of highly convincing AI: that sufficiently convincing AI is hazardous due to induced loss of control, and that as capabilities increase the loss of control becomes more difficult to resist.
... no, you're still not understanding the nature of the W3C.

The W3C is descriptive, not prescriptive. It doesn't have any regulatory power, so it can't make design decisions or value judgements of any kind. It isn't even a separate group from the browser vendors; while individuals may join, the vast majority of active members are the developers working on the browsers.

The teeth come from the other browser vendors. They make pledges to each other to implement each other's features. They collaborate through the W3C to come to a consensus on feature designs, because a feature can't get standardized if it's not implemented by more than one vendor and it won't get implemented if the vendors can't come to a consensus.

Anything the W3C says is not how browsers should work, it's how they already work.
For calls check this:
https://alternativestoskype.com/features/international-calls
> Screws are visible from the outside though.

Which is a positive in my book, it means I know where to start if I need to get into the thing.
Soooo cool and funny. I love it when good ideas are expanded to different domains.

The developer of this has to be the most honorwble geilomat of all time!
They probably could exist, they’d simply be more expensive than putting a human on a boat.

The relative costs are flipped for putting a human on Mars/moon - the robot is cheaper.
Would be cool if you could play one sided pong with the scrollbar and bounce a ball around the window.
The thing is, 10 means "I'm a fan"
It doesn't tell anything about if I've liked it or even if I've watched it
Main problem is not language, but that AI models still not creators but imitators (I mean only deep AI, like LLM, will explain).

Yet I read about very simple test - just ask AI to draw glass of wine - it could draw only half-filled glass if trained on half-filled glass and could not grow to higher abstraction, abstract glass from fullness.

I don't know, what we really need to overcome this limitation, but while it exist it will limit all AI usage.

To be more constructive, I think, most practical languages for AI could be something like SQL, mean fully declarative, without any imperative part, so AI will just translate human text to language.

So may be solution, some hybrid approach, where human define limits on solution; deep AI is just translator; and some classic optimization technique will generate solution (on HN appeared link on query compiler book, where you could see huge list in contents, and later I'll check, before I seen link with list of just all existing optimization approaches).

Other possible solution I see, may be some hybrid of deep AI and semantic AI. For semantic AI exists problem that it need to define any possible way, it cannot even hallucinate to create something new.
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> Nice write up, however personally I'd take ERB over Phlex a million times.

Agreed.

This has been tried so many times, and non of them really "stuck". HAML, slim, liquid and now phlex. All "DSLs" to some extent that solve the problem of "not having to write HTML".

Is that a problem, really? People writing Rails apps are developing web-apps. Writing HTML is part of the skillset, and of all the things in a Rails app, really not the most difficult, boring or inefficient ones.

I've found the opposite to be true: another layer of abstraction that new hires need to understand. Another DSL to learn. Another syntax/LSP/docs to add to the IDE, or editor. Another leaky abstraction that has to be debugged, monitored, performance-tested. And a very strongly and tightly coupled dependency: it's almost undoable to just move from, say, HAML back to erb in a 10k+LoC rails app: you're effectively married to HAML, and truly in trouble when (not if) the gem gets abandoned.

Now, like Cells[1], Phlex main "problem it solves" isn't "HTML is hard" but "Rails' templates are too simple/poorly designed". Rails templates push a lot of magic (global) state around, is bidirectional (you can update the database from within a template just fine. Both intentional and accidental), it's not isolated, and because of all this, very hard to test. All this becomes worse if you want to re-use components.

But, like Cells, Phlex solves this problem by introducing some DSL to abstract the HTML. Which then makes up the largest part of the gem. Why? Really. OOP templates can be classes that have a "render" and that then use (scoped) "erb" files just fine. This pattern is both easy and available - no gems needed even.

So, yes. My opinionated, advice, fed by decades of struggling with numerous rails projects, is to stay away from such gems: KISS.

¹ edit : https://trailblazer.to/2.1/docs/cells/
I'm not sure that holds true in a local sense. I have an all electric 8 unit apartment building.
I have been tracking the electric usage and it is currently growing but only because of the addition of 2 EVs.
I believe the the usage of actual electricity for the building to level off after EVs become the norm.
I expect my electric usage to drop after adding a solar thermal collector to replace a portion of the electricity used for heating.
Ah, completely missed jitsi. Adding it.

Anything else missing?
You can’t do compound interest without basic arithmetic.
If only it were that easy. Only a small amount of government data is in a database, if even electronic at all. A lot of it is on paper, in Microsoft word, in emails, in a voicemail, etc.

Nobody is going to write a DB schema or call a DBA before taking notes in a notebook… but that’s government data too.

Example: https://home.nps.gov/katm/blogs/images/IMG_3229.jpg
The word unless is unfortunately superfluous in your statement. David Fincher just went through a grueling restoration process for Seven, and he talked about the process and basically said: Eastman Kodak has spent a lot of money to convince Hollywood that if your shoot on film and keep it in a vault that it will never degrade. It’s false.
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Battery capacity for how long?

You are talking about a statistical value not a deterministic one.

So it is solar+battery which is sufficient for n% of typical years.
Real reason shop was ended: cost and safety.

Materials are expensive, tools are expensive. $0 for a math class, $100 for a shop class. PER CLASS.

The danger of kids with tools getting stabby (and cutty).

Those remain unsolved. Shop will not be revived until they are.
The Busy Beaver game is finite in space, but infinite in time. If you restrict the execution to a finite amount of runtime, it becomes computable.

An immortal human might be able to produce incomputable reasoning, but I would say it's more reasonable to talk about humans with finite runtime.
> e.g. with [...] pumped hydro

That's done a lot in France, but there's a limited amount of pumped hydro available in the end.

Until recently, countries with lots of available nuclear energy didn't really need to produce fresh water, and non-gas-produced hydrogen is still a WIP.
- Developers: Ask for something for decades

- Google: It's implemented

- People: Screw Google and their monopolistic tactics

> If web developers would just focus on making simple

That boat is long gone. The people with money don't want that, they want a platform on which to shove ads down your throat. It's successful.
Cycle's renders are beautiful, but 10 minutes per frame can be a hard sell... I wonder, if anybody tried rendering in cycles to output eevee's primitves. I remember that was one of the tricks that architecture rendering community used - just paint with lights in places that a full blown global rendering/path tracing would do.
What a strange name.
Exactly. In my case, Calcilus didn’t really “click” until undergraduate economics. Before that “why the heck do I care about the area under the curve?!?!”

Of course, I then went into software and haven’t used calculus since.
> Can't you just [store the power]

If you find a cheap solution to power storage, you can make a lot of money. This is the key enabler for a 100% renewable grid.
The parent comment is talking about distractions, not ads. YouTube has plenty of those, even embedded YouTube videos, unless you pause the video before it ends. uBlock Origin Lite cannot block elements except through packaged rulesets, and while there are some ad-blocker lists that are meant to block annoyances on pages in addition to ads, everybody has a different idea on what is an annoyance on a webpage.
Interesting idea but math educators put a LOT of thought into what should be taught and how to help students understand. If you don't understand polynomials then you're going to be extremely limited in terms of what kinds of probability problems you can solve. Calculus is also used in statistics very heavily. "I will NEVER need to do that!" you say? Well, how sure can you be, and how many people say that and change their minds? Teachers can't just take everything at face value. They try to educate you up to a level that won't leave you in a bad spot if you want to continue some day. Learning about polynomial factoring never hurt anyone. There are lots of basic problems you can't solve without knowing how to do that stuff. You can self-study less difficult things on your own, as well.
Once I created the structure to support lots of different kinds of scraping-to-feed conversions, it’s usually fast to add a new target site in to the mix. There are definitely exceptions, and definitely the occasional maintenance when someone updates their CSS.
>But, we also expect leaders to consider the best interests of their charges, as a function of good leadership.

I see. It would be nice, but leadership like that are few and far between, and they probably get it beaten out of them. I don't think that's even taught at MBA school. When I started all this, someone told me, "they show appreciation through your paycheck." Not very satisfying, but there it is. If you're productive, they certainly miss you when you are gone.
I meant any variation of `git log --graph`.
There is literally a "enable DRM" setting (might also need disable resist fingerprint). Also librewolf is almost 1:1 with arkenfox.
There are several data labeling products on the market such as Label Studio.

I’ve resorted to building my own annotation apps.
Isn’t that provided by satoshi, the dead and those who lost their hard drives?
I'm not sure how many "knowledgeable citizens who are not afraid to act" existed in USSR towards the end.

I don't get it. What do you prefer? The inverse?
No, I mean why can't you select commits in the graph and copy/paste them. I wasn't talking about copy/pasting the lines of text in the `git rebase -i` file.
You have to raise taxes on the wealthy so heavily that they begin to sell their assets. This brings asset prices down. Meanwhile, lower taxes on normal people, who will have more money and be able to buy those assets. This reverses the wealth transfer. It doesn’t matter how much tax you raise. It just matters that it is enough to reverse the transfer of wealth back to the working class.

How specifically doesn’t matter as long as it’s enough. The way I see it, the best ideas, other than all out socialism, is to have progressive taxes that start low and have extremely steep curves.

Just one example, we could have a progressive property tax. For people who own a single reasonably sized home that they actually live in, the property tax would be very low and reasonable. However, if people own multiple properties, properties they don’t live in, or extremely large properties, the tax rate would increase and then skyrocket to the point where a wealthy person has no choice but to sell those properties or lose money. All that selling will bring down the price of real estate. At the same time, nobody will be in a position to buy that real estate except for those who don’t already have much, because for anyone else the tax will be too high for it to work out. If they don’t sell, they pay enormous tax, which is also acceptable. Either way we reverse the transfer of wealth.

Apply this same progressive scale to capital gains tax and estate tax. Also income tax, but less so. Effectively this puts a cap on wealth. If a person tries to own more than their fair share of things, they won’t make more money. Of course you still allow people to be quite rich. There will be multi-millionaires with fancy cars and mansions. There will still be movie stars, sports team owners, and bankers. They will still live lives of luxury and want for nothing. They just won’t control our entire society.

How do you spend it? You spend it on anything that benefits labor and makes everyone’s lives better. You don’t use it on a fossil fuel subsidy. You don’t use it on defense contracts. You use it on universal health care, social security, education, FEMA, infrastructure. Pretty much you do the exact opposite of whatever DOGE is doing.
Late 40s here. Interestingly, I wasn’t allowed to take home ec - the school considered it beneath me. Latin was thrust upon me as my senior year elective. And I still can’t bake a souflee to save myself.
Same for me, nothing happens.
Yeah obviously, but I never claimed there wasn't interference from both sides since Russia would be stupid not to have interfered, but it's not like CIA, who also would have been stupid not to have interfered, wears high visibility vests with their org's logo while on duty abroad or posts their ops on Wikipedia for everyone to see.

If the public knew everything the CIA was doing, they would be not very good at their job. Stuff like this is usually declassified only 50+ years later or sometimes never. So please, let's not use the "I've only seen Russian agents in the streets but not CIA" as some sort of argument since that insults everyone's intelligence.
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Please allow me to announce the second release candidate preparing for version 1.5.4 targeting the upcoming Debian 13 Trixie.

https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/releases/tag/v1.5.4-r...

Please report if you use it even if there are no new problems.

- EncFS, used for encrypted profiles, has been marked as deprecated and is schedule for removal in 2026.
- The Smart & Auto remove GUI has been reorganized and renamed into "Remove & Retention", with improvements to the user manual section. Its behavior remains unchange.
- An offset minute can now be configured for hourly schedule options.
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- See CHANGELOG for more details.
1Blocker is really good
Winget seems to finally do something similar for Windows: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli

Although the "repo" is a list of manifest files that include third-party download sources. So even if there is an approval process it seems to be quite vulnerable to including malware.

Edit: Example https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/blob/master/manifes...
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A lot of people love jujutsu/jj.
I love this. I miss lighthearted things like this being more of the norm than the exception. Xeyes on 90s Linux, cowsay, whatever that was that made snow gather on top your windows (Xsnow?). Heck, I even have fond memories of Björks website having an animated bee that would follow you around. I think he was named Meesta Bee or something similar.

Everything is so dang serious all the time, I miss the sense of levity and wonder that used to follow tech around.
I wouldn't downvote this because it's interesting to see what an AI can do.
But it's pretty clear a human has to fix it.
I don't care about political labels. These niche arguments are useless - they don't change anyone's mind. Both sides use these debates as examples to portray the other as extreme. I'm tired of discourse that claims to enlighten but only pushes people further apart, regardless of intent.
> big endian is so much easier to read in hex. Not sure why anybody would want little endian, honestly.

Because you don't need to read these files in a hex editor and 99.999% of people aren't working on an IBM mainframe; they're working on a little endian machine.
True, even Microsoft once recommended Rufus in instructions for some of their msdn ISOs. Not sure if they still do though.
I have not been paying attention.
I had no idea they were gone.

It is not one of my favorite classes
when I took it, but what I learned,
has been useful in a lot of situations,
and still is.

So please bring it back.
As a long time Ruby developer the only thing about Ruby that I wish would die is people declaring 'Is Ruby dead?/Ruby is dead/Ruby isn't dead'!
We recently got a bird feeder with an attached camera (wifi-connected). I had always dabbled in bird watching, but this surprisingly took me to another level. I now feel protective of my local birds as if they were a pet like a dog. And I recognize them day after day.

My favorite bird before was the cardinal because of its amazing color and song.

Now, with the camera, I have realized the incredible intelligence and personality of woodpeckers. They are my new favorite.

The Cornell BirdLab app is another essential tool for appreciating how much life is around (at least in my region). It feels like a cheat code and has also helped me fall in love with a visually mild bird, the Brown Cowbird.
> Str substring(Str s, ptrdiff_t i)

The function has quite questionable implementation. It fails miserably for strings with length < i.
Good point and actually the MessagePack Serde library has way more stars than the CBOR one.