skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's fair enough, I guess you could say my position is perhaps an ideology, but I do belief it can be defended objectively as possible.
You can downvote me all you want. I'm not claiming any kind of superiority of WordPress but merely answering the question in the OP. I've had this blog for 15 years now, long before WordPress was so reviled. It just works and I'm still on their free tier.
Good observation. I'd not really looked at it since we sold my wife's mini, which has been several years. The catalog was invaluable for all the work I had to do to keep it running.
> Then where's my global setting to tell the browser what languages I speak, so it'd know what header to send? ...Nowhere

Look again. Or switch browser. It is a basic feature and the issue is indeed websites ignoring it.
Sleaziest thing I've ever heard!

Isn't that illegal influence peddling?

For the record, when Buffet auctions a meeting for pay it's for charity; and he's not on the clock as a public servant.
China: If war is what the U.S. wants, we're ready to fight till the end
So when people in the US buy stuff and it's made in (mainland) China is that not considered money being "pumped by the US?"

U.S. Imports from Mainland China: $438.9 billion

U.S. Imports from Taiwan: $116.3 billion

Please explain how your logic survives this basic analysis.
A Nuclear-Power Revival Brings Back an Old Problem: What to Do with the Waste
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/us-news/climate-environment/nuclear-powe...
Start... We are already very far advanced as far as I can see. You wouldn't know if you hang with university students; they seem, at least the ones I employ/talk to, far more knowledgeable than the young me was, however, when I talk to other young people, they don't want to and are not very good at processing textual information. They need to have it spoken and in a very information sparse format. It's somewhat depressing, so I hope it's just the people I meet and what I read online, but I don't think so.
Many americans put the euro sign before the numerical value even though most (afaik all) countries that use the euro put it after. This is such a weird thing to get bothered by.
Roald Dahl on the death of his daughter (2015)
"A man has been jailed today after pleading guilty to posting grossly offensive messages on social media."

- The Crown Prosecution Service

https://www.cps.gov.uk/north-west/news/man-jailed-offensive-...
As long as enough people care enough to move to something else, we're good.

Right now, it looks like lemmy might have just enough momentum, but I'm not sure yet.
Companies used to hire Pinkerton detectives to put down strikes and make employees use company stores.

Behaviour has improved for various reasons.

All we’re seeing now is that people’s technological surface area is expanding from zero to infinity so there are lots of new little cracks and edge cases society still has to sort out.
If Trump actually cares about bringing manufacturing back and national security, I can see few opportunities as important as domestic semiconductor fabs. Our military relies on them, our economy relies on them, and everyday households rely on them. We’re wholly dependent on this foundational technology, and we’re wholly dependent on supplies from other nations, some of which are at risk of being annexed by unfriendly countries. Maybe I’m missing something here…

Even from a purely financial standpoint the article say this subsidy has resulted in $400B in private investments. That seems like a win to me.
> the days when you could trust a company to be fair

Those days never really existed. It was simply that their misbehavior affected groups of people who didnt have access to the media and power structures. For the US, e.g.: central Americans (banana company inspired coups), native tribes (water pollution, deforestation), poor whites (coal ash pollution), etc.

I can see that companies treated their employees better, but that might also be correlated with strong unions, less regulatory capture, more competition, or some other factor, rather than intrinsic goodness.
Microsoft teases sales agent automation for M365 and Dynamics 365
> I can't work for someone who doesn't understand what I do.

Then you will never work for any human being. None of them will know what you do as well as you, unless they're doing it with you, and if that's the case, they're not really someone you work for.

Bosses become bosses because they want to stop doing the work. They want more money, and more respect, and they want to make decisions without needing to clean up their bad decisions. Bosses become bosses because they don't want to do what they've been doing.

There is no such thing as an engineer who does real work who is paid as much as a manager. They just don't exist in any company I have ever worked for. All managers of any pay grade automatically make more than any engineer of any pay grade, which creates a ceiling for engineers. Bosses become bosses because people are penalized for remaining engineers.

Management simply does not care about the experience and knowledge gained by engineers, and they value it less than a manager who is fresh out of college and who has zero experience with anything.

No, bosses should not code; they chose their path. Fuck 'em.
Indeed he asked people to vote Kamala. He is friendly with Musk though, or at least was.
> When people believe their action will not make a difference, they pay less heed to the consequences of their actions. People will take money to do things if they don't think it will change much.

So in a completely hypothetical scenario, if the CCP surreptitiously offers 10,000USD (or pick any other amount you want) to each Taiwanese citizen who votes in favour of reunification, might we not potentially end up in a situation where >50% of Taiwanese voters accept the deal because each of them labours under the erroneous assumption that he or she is in the minority?
good thinking, which doesn't refrain the cops to driving rounds every 5 minutes in every pedestrian zones of the city
No. They just need to capture or sink one caught pulling cables up.

This is only effective because there are no real consequences for it.
Like writing lift control software. Minutes to learn, a life time to master.

But I bet you can get 95% of the benefit with a simple exponential backoff scheme.
> They're not just slapping AI on and optimizing for engagement.

Citation needed
China offers significantly better terms than the IMF and it comes with far less onerous conditions, most notably the IMF imposes "economic reforms" that tend to be absolutely devastating in the same way that economic austerity measures in the developed world have been devastating to working people and nothing more than a vampiric drain on the economy to the benefit of the wealthiest.

The IMF (and World Bank) is economic imperialism doing things like preventing African countries from growing crops to feed themselves. Instead they need to produce export crops and then they can buy excess food created by Europe and the US. This has resulted in famines and utterly destroyed, for example, the economy of places like Somalia [1].

Yes, China is seeking preferential access to natural resources and considering the strategic importance of the borrower. But the general consensus seems to be China's terms are better than the West's.

[1]: https://twn.my/title2/resurgence/2011/251-252/cover06.htm
I was there Gandalf, I was there 3,000 years ago.

Gotta Digg. “Did you hear that awful sound. Oh! Another Server’s Down.”
https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-story/learning-more-a...
What if it costs 4X as much to run Windows Server in AWS, Alibaba, and Google?
I was just thinking a header with a suggested poll rate might be nice
Just a reminder that the EMH was played by Robert Picardo, so the qualities you are attributing to the AI animating the character are human qualities dreamed up by human writers and acted out with exceptional skill and empathy by a living breathing human whose goal was a) to portray a caring, empathetic doctor and b) to tell a good story that touches on bias and growth.

But here's my thing: EMH was alive! Everything you're attributing to the EMH character should we take the fictionalized technological narrative as gospel was the result of EMH gaining a living human personality on top of impersonal base programming. The personality EMH developed was self-aware, had responsibility and personal integrity, all of which was possible because the character as portrayed was very clearly a living individual: a person if not a human.

I do think we could solve a lot of the ethical and practical problems with today's AIs by finding a way to give them an embodied experience with individuality and an expiration date.

Idunno. Don't you remember being excited by the EMH learning to be more like a person than a bunch of subroutines?
You really don't need to have Accept-Language overlap with language of browser. I'm sorry but reading-comprehension department seems out today. I suggest you try reading without assistance.

Also would you please tune it down and stop having such a confrontative and aggressive tone in your comments?
> when person a wins, person b loses

Only if one assumes that capital markets are zero-sum. They clearly are not.

What you presumably are referring to when you talk about "moving money around" is purchase of an asset such as a stock or a bond. Rather than moving it around, you are making capital available to some entity in exchange for the expected (but not guaranteed) return on investment. Such transactions are mutually beneficial.

Companies need capital to operate so they sell equity to willing investors in exchange for it. This is what makes growth rates seen over last century possible.

That said, they are not fair in that only those with capital can participate. If one is living hand-to-mouth, one cannot afford to participate. Would be ideal if we could find a way to level the playing field and equalize access
The man in the linked article did not display any signs or symbols, did not engage in speech, and did not "express" himself. If standing solemn is an arrestable offense, then anyone doing anything is subject to arrest. The police may think fascist thoughts are running through any random person's mind at this very moment.
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Germany is indeed like the UK in that it also does not believe in basic free speech protections. These anti-speech laws don't produce much domestic outrage because the people of Europe just like their politicians don't believe free speech is important. They believe anti-speech laws "make total sense". In many European countries you get visited by the police if you post the wrong kind of memes. You get arrested if you wave a Palestinian flag. Insulting a politician or police officer has been criminalized. These things all have a chilling effect on free expression.

The US has much stronger free speech protections than Europe. (At least for now.)
Hardware that is not subsidized by spying on the consumer will be more expensive
There are Navy ships using Java applications to process radar data in real time. Seriously.
It's a stylistic choice, many people like reading this kind of piece. You don't have to read it. There's room on the web for different kinds of writing styles.
The higher resolution of rendering explains some of it. Advanced completion, syntax highlighting and other productivity features take their share. Some goes to faster to develop programming languages, used to develop these editors, with run-time penalties, coming with this productivity boost.

One can still use Notepad if you want to, but be much less productive with it.
I did not see that as an attack towards you or miscontruing any argument you made, rather putting things in perspective for people who may believe JD Vance & co when he talks about freedom of speech. I also did not see your statement "seems abhorrent to americans" as a value judgement you hold in regards to european freedom of expression laws.
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It is not clear from the article, and these are noob questions: does it mean there were no other time dilation effects to take into account? In other words, is the adjustment done within the satellite clocks enough for the signal processing near or on the moon to get the position since the moon is so far off)?
Maybe an example is useful. I want to build a generic CBOR decoder in C. I have 2 options:

- link GMP/mpdecimal/whatever (or hey, provide an abstraction layer and let a user choose)

- accept function pointers to handle bignum tags

Function pointers are an irritation (I know this because my MP library uses them), they're slower than not using them, you've gotta check for NULL a lot, you're also asking any application that uses your library and wants bignum support to include GMP itself (with all the attendant maintenance, setup, etc.)

Or, you can include it yourself, but welcome to doing all the maintenance yourself, and exposing all of GMP's knobs (ex: [0])

You might argue that these aren't the only options, but a deserialized value has to be understood by the application; your suggestions aren't good tradeoffs. sscanf (also do not use sscanf) doesn't work if the value is actually a bignum, and yielding a bespoke bignum format is just as unusable as simply returning whatever's encoded in CBOR. How would I add two such values together? How would I display it? This is what bignum libraries are for.

All this is made far worse by the fact that there are effectively no public CBOR (or MP) APIs where you're expecting them to be consumed entirely by generic decoders, so there's not even a need to force generic decoders to go through all this effort to support bignums (etc.) Further, unlike MP, CBOR doesn't let you use tags for application-specific purposes. Put it all together and it's uniformly worse: implementations are either more complex or have surprising holes, you can't count on generic decoders supporting tags when building an API or defining messages, and you can't even just say, "for this protocol, tag 31 is a UUID".

This is probably a big reason (though I can think of others) why the only formats you can think of w/ bignum support are obscure.

> That's what I expect for the supposed bignum support: round-trippability.

Round-tripping is only meaningful if a receiver can use the values before reserializing, otherwise memcpy meets your requirements. If a sender gives me a serialized bignum, the deserializing library has to deserialize it into a value I can understand and use; that's the whole point of a deserialization library.

MP's support for timestamps is a reasonable example here: it decomposes into a time_t, and it can do this because it defines the max size. You can't do that w/ a bignum--the whole point of a bignum is it's big beyond defining. A CBOR sender can send you an infinite series of digits, and the spec doesn't reckon with this at all.

[0]: https://gmplib.org/manual/Memory-Management
That seems to be a common tactic for authoritarians trying to control others by taking away their speech rights.

Notice also that the poster was only accused, not found liable or convicted. That means almost nothing - you can accuse anyone of anything.

Notice also the guilt by association, where the possibility of the poster committing violence (which isn't impossible) is used to try to invalidate their right to speech.
Just so you're aware, the way in which you've chosen to conduct this conversation is not in-keeping with the desired environment.

I'm not entirely sure why you are coming across as deeply emotional about this topic, but it's really not worth getting angry over.

However, you made a specific point:

> And it seems like you might be surprised to hear that people speak more than one language.

And I was mentioning that, actually, the header has support for multiple languages and the point is to fall back to the one you actually support; so if a site is translated in Spanish, but not Catalonian, then a person living in Barcelona might have ["ca_ES", "es_ES"], and actually only be served "es_ES" Spanish despite requesting the former as a preference.

Also, there are mechanisms for changing this locale away from the Operating Systems choice, but, I would wager a sane default is to use the localisation of the operating system, as that is largely going to be localised for the person already- moreso than browser fingerprinting(?) or GEOIP lookups, as computers move just like humans do throughout our world.
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Floating Points and Boxes
Indeed, the old Lisp machines were exactly what I was thinking of as the possible exception here.
Part 8? Wait... Is this a story that wrote itself?

1) I am kidding.
2) At what point does it become self replicating?
3) skynet.
4) kidding - not kidding.
I tend to agree with your assessment of this post, however as you rise up as a manager and possibly executive, one of the most highly valued behaviors is responsiveness. Knowing things and responding quickly, even after hours, can grease a lot of wheels in a large org.

This is actually another argument against coding as a manager. There’s value in staying connected to the craft, and being able to navigate the code base and answer specific questions with facts has a good amount of value. However in a large technical organization with distributed system the hard problems are always people problems, and hence if you want to grow as a manager you need to orient primarily in that direction. It’s okay to spend some time “staying sharp”, but it can be career limiting if you don’t recognize the higher level problems that only a manager can solve.
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Name a generation that didn't think the youth 'lost it.'
The only reasonable “feeling” Java app I’m aware of on the desktop is IntelliJ (and derivatives) - but AFAIK JetBrains have had to fork almost every part of the ecosystem to make that a reality.
It does in my Linux distro for the last 4.5 years.

https://github.com/trusteddomainproject/OpenDKIM/commits/7c7...
No haiku-os :-(
Such sentiments have been expressed so many times that I have lost track of all of the times variations on them have been expressed. I think it started with Socrates who claimed the written word would damage human recall. When nobody believed him and he became popular because of the written word, people inverted “literacy is bad” into “literacy is good”. In more recent times, I believe radio and TV were said to be the start of modern illiteracy.

By the way, for what it is worth, only 2% of the population can read at a college level. It had been that way for so long that I heard that the category was merged into the high school level several years ago to make the literacy rate in the top bracket 4% instead of the prior 2%. i.e. “modern illiteracy” started a long time ago if we go by numbers.
> At this point in time, US is the global leader in personal freedoms, culture and financial opportunities.

What metric is this being measured by?

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_in_the_World

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Press_Freedom_Index

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_of_Economic_Freedom

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_freedom_indices
The finnish security police themselves have said that these cuts happen about 200 times every year without any suspicion of sabotage.

My personal opinion so far is that this whole thing is teetering between media frenzy and actual issue.

Edit: Have to correct myself. Googling now it seems all traces of this statement have been scrubbed, and instead I find that the International Cable Protection Committe (ICPC) claim about 200 cable issues a year WORLD WIDE.

So maybe the Finnish security police had misspoken and have now retracted this statement from all media.

Either way, I have worked with internet since 2004 and I remember as early as 2004 dealing with companies in Sweden who had boats and other equipment just to install and maintain cables across the baltic and atlantic. It's something that requires non-stop maintenance, regardless of the security situation in the world.

One also has to ask if it's productive to cut these cables when 1) it disrupts nothing on a grand scale, and 2) if it were to disrupt anything it also means they cannot perform other attacks.
So nice to see RSS making a comeback!
Europe's telecom giants debate 5G lag, bet on AI at MWC 2025
I don't agree with DOGE's existence, full stop. I think the president has overstepped his executive power to rename a federal agency and repurpose it with an unconfirmed advisor in charge and given elevated access to government data.

That said, the government shouldn't spend a dime on WinZip licenses. It is a product that should not exist anymore.
I was curious what the argument is and it seems - the first I saw - that he was following methods he was trained on https://x.com/OwenGregorian/status/1876964172195352954
Because Russia is getting the US on their side at the moment, sabotaging their stuff would damage that relationship. Russia and the US are not enemies at the moment.
Why “alias” is my last resort for aliases
I don't mean to imply it's not possible, but I ran into issues packaging with Desktop Bridge and the web started pushing me toward extreme solutions, so I changed course. If there's a lesson here, it's to package early (and know what you are up against).
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It's really a result of the US being so heterogeneous. One side's status quo is the other side's in-progress radical reinvention. The pendulum is always on the move. You have to take the average position on a longer time scale to figure out where the country stands.
Ah the famously friendly UX of PGP combined with the solid reliability of email. This is trying to get two drunks to stand up straight by leaning them against each other.
No buffer overflows, no user-after-free and no double free issues. There is a garbage collector which stops the world here and there to cleanup, but for anything that is not constantly busy, like a small mail server, this is not noticeable.
yeah, machines of different endianness, and, ideally, different alignment requirements. Always wanted to get an alpha, as well. Had hpux / hp300 ?, sparc, sparc64, 386, x86_64, maybe another arch. This was in 2005'ish, mind you. Idea was to write code that would portably work on linux and netbsd on at least said architectures, ideally more.