skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You used the wrong term. In Germany, they call it "Unsere Demokratie (tm)", which may be tranlated to "Our Democracy (tm)".

You know, it's not a democracy for everyone, it's just a democracy for a small group op people in power with correct opinions and a monopoly on state media.

And indeed, social media, free speech, even elections, not all elections, but elections where people vote for a wrong party, are a threat to Our Democracy(tm).
I agree with you that it's usually true, I just don't agree that it has to be true. When a company is well funded and focusing on userbase, that's great. When they need more money, it might not be. I know they are totally different types of companies, but look at social networks - when they are expanding they are good for everyone, once they decide it's time to earn more money from their exist users (focusing on the user) that's when it gets worse.

In Ecosia's case it's different I think - without accounts and nothing keeping you there, every customer today is a customer that needs enticing again tomorrow.
How is Fastmaol? Is it inconvenient to not use Gmail?
LLMs have looked at everything that exists so far. If all you're creating is yet another "Uber for Dogs", LLMs will do fine.

But if you want to create a paradigm shift, you need to do something new. Something LLMs don't yet know about.
Fastmail and Kagi. The former is amazing – Gmail UX and speed is atrocious in comparison, and the latter is amazing to find reliable, to-the-point results.
If the OP is anything like me, then they have no trust in number theory researchers and deliberately choose passwords like "141592" so they can be sure
https://archive.ph/ieN0h
Does FP4 support really matter if local inferencing is RAM bandwidth limited anyways?

I think we should put more effort into compressing the models well to be able to use local GPUs better.
I've been lucky so far to have banks that don't block my rooted phone, but that is not the case for everyone. With an increasing number of "modern" banks that rely on an app instead of a website as primary interface this could get worse in the future.
I live in Calgary, overheat protection is only needed in one month in summer ;) I also installed the sun screen, the glass roof had a stress fracture and I didn't want to pay the $2k to fix it.
mh... it might be good, but having a generated image in your ReadMe is a red flag. Why not provide some more insightful graphic, like a flow chart that actually helps to explain the concept at a glance ?

Also: benchmarks.
Many people in the "Western Civilization" seem to agree with that stance. Sad but true.
One of the things about Tim Cook, that people don’t really talk about (which, IMO, is appropriate), is that he’s openly gay.

Most times, this doesn’t mean anything, but there’s very few demographics that understand the need for privacy and data protection, better than gay folks.

Of course, he’s still at the whim of the Board, and he’s no spring chicken, so there’s no guarantee that his successor would feel the same, but I do believe that he, himself, is legitimately serious about privacy.
Colonel Redl: The Spy Who Destroyed the Austro-Hungarian Empire
I don't know if many Apple II users realized that you could use Jet (another Sublogic flight sim, but with F-16 and F-18 fighters) and use the Flight Sim disk for the scenery.

It took me a long, long time to master flying an F-16 (could be the 18) through the Golden Gate.
https://archive.md/DvdcV

I cannot tell you how infuriating it is as a UK tax payer on a UK-based ISP, that pays for this content to be made, to be blocked from viewing it.

Worse still, if I view the article in 'Private' browser mode then I can see it all.
At least part of their servers. They used to have a status page (https://status.twitterstat.us/), but not anymore.
I was talking to some colleagues about this recently, and I think the reason non-coders and amateur coders seem to be so much more impressed by the current state of AI code gen is that they don't fully understand what actually goes into the average software project.

Setting up a simple game on your local machine really isn't that hard. For example, you can probably take an open-source project and with some minor alterations have something working pretty quickly.

But most software development doesn't work like this. You are typically given very explicit requirements and when you're working for a corporate with real customers you have high quality standards that need to be met. Often this is going to require a lot of bespoke code and high-level solutionising which you're not going to get out of some open source project (at least not without significant changes).

Similarly, productionising products requires a lot of work and consideration which spinning something up locally doesn't. You need to think about security, data persistence, hosting, deployment, development environments, documentation, etc, etc, etc...

I think this partly explains why people have such widely different opinions on these tools at the moment. I acknowledge they write pretty good code, but for me they're almost useless in 90% of the things I do and think about as a software engineer.
It hasn't got anything to do with parsing algorithms, which is the closest connection between this topic and the Chomsky hierarchy.

Rather, it is due to the history of C. In the 1960s, a team in the UK (based at the University of Cambridge and the University of London) were developing a programming language called CPL–CPL was an evolution of ALGOL 60, by many accounts it suffered from the second system effect and was so complicated it is unclear if it was ever fully implemented. Like ALGOL, CPL had several different data types – integers, floating point, etc.

CPL was being developed using itself, to run on indigenous British mainframes (initially the EDSAC 2 and then Ferranti Atlas). In order to do so, they developed a simplified version of it, which came to be known as BCPL (for "Bootstrap CPL"). The designers of BCPL decided upon a rather radical simplification – only a single signed integer data type, with memory treated as one big array of that data type.

Martin Richards (of Cambridge) visited MIT in 1966, and brought BCPL with him to the US. (I think he may have actually been the first person to call it "BCPL"–prior to his visit to MIT, it wasn't really viewed as a language in its own right, just as a simplified form of CPL used as an implementation detail.) Richards wrote a BCPL implementation to run under CTSS on IBM 7094 mainframes.

At MIT, BCPL spread to the Multics project, who used it for various purposes – although they ended up choosing IBM's PL/I over BCPL as their main implementation language. From there, it in turn spread to MIT's Multics partners, GE (who sold their computing business to Honeywell in 1970) and Bell Labs.

At Bell Labs, Ken Thompson began working on his own programming language B, for DEC PDP minicomputers and GE/Honeywell mainframes. Thompson liked BCPL's semantics (the simplification of having only a single data type), but didn't like its syntax – hence, B was essentially BCPL with syntax changed to be more to Thompson's liking. Dennis Ritchie then joined Thompson in further developing B and porting it to more machines.

At some point, Ritchie began to view BCPL/B's "only one data type" approach as overly limiting, so he developed his own language, C – which started out as essentially B but with multiple data types added back in.

The thing was, early versions of C still relied heavily on BCPL/B's "everything is an int" philosophy. From what I understand, although variables could be declared to be something other than an int, at first the innards of expression compilation still assumed "int" was the only data type. So essentially, when the compiler went to compile "X.Y", by the time it processed the "." it had already forgotten what actual type X had and just saw it as an "int"

Later versions of C developed a more advanced type system, where less of BCPL/B's "everything is an int" philosophy survived. But there are still some remnants of it even in the latest C and C++ standards, in particular the "implicit promotion" rules.
maybe they can add them to guard against copying large binaries too much
>you’d very quickly have complete dependency on the AI

That's a feature, not a bug. At least from OAI/Anthropic's point of view.
What I don't understand about this GPS spamming: we don't need to rely on GPS. We have Galileo, (GLONASS) and BAIDU. That is the reason we its now called GNSS.

Most of the chips and as such the receivers are supoorting all of these systems in parallel. While I understand that the Chinese use their own coordinate system, I don't if BAIDU is based on that or not. Galileo is available. Galileo is able to use authenticated signals. Galileo has much improved over GPS. I assume in (important) comercial applications like aircrafts, you could use the better Galileo service for which you have to pay for.

So how important is GPS spaming really?
> known for being brutally blunt, rude, honest, and pushing back.

That's a different perspective. Dutch people don't see themselves as rude. A Dutch could say that Americans are known for being dishonest and not truly conveying what they mean. Yet Americans won't see themselves this way. You can replace Dutch and American for any other nationality
I’m also a data point for excellent Toyota service from the dealership where we bought our Prius. From the concierge who holds your hand throughout the visit, to the free lunch voucher in their pleasant little cafeteria (sadly, closed after covid), to the couple of years of free oil changes, I actually looked forward to bringing the car in. And they cleaned it as well, a quick interior vacuum at least.
See also, this large external repo for fdroid: https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/
Is there any program to run text-to-speech (for reading text files)
that runs locally?
first you have to define what is propaganda.
Real Chilling Effects
Yes, I haven't used Qwant though. I'd say it's pretty equal to DuckDuckGo, maybe a little better after they started mixing in Google results. Generally speaking I do think that the Bing powered search engines does much better than Google, but Ecosia had a few specific searches where it's would fail me, that's gone now.
This is an excellent pattern in C. The Dovecot mail server has many fine examples of the style as well e.g.

struct dict dict_driver_ldap = {
.name = "ldap",
.v = {
.init = ldap_dict_init,
.deinit = ldap_dict_deinit,
.wait = ldap_dict_wait,
.lookup = ldap_dict_lookup,
.lookup_async = ldap_dict_lookup_async,
.switch_ioloop = ldap_dict_switch_ioloop,
}
};

defines the virtual function table for the LDAP module, and any other subsystem that looks things up via the abstract dict interface can consequently be configured to use the ldap service without concrete knowledge of it.

(those interested in a deeper dive might start at https://github.com/dovecot/core/blob/main/src/lib-dict/dict-...)
With Ecosia I always have to think about the actual impact of planting trees. Imo there are better options to help the climate. And I have zero trust that tracking progress in some countries is really possible. But better than nothing.
I'm not an art person by any measure, but I have a hunch it's really difficult to paint convincing looking environments under such low-light conditions. The one that really caught my eye is "The Old Piano": look at the subtle texture and shading on the walls. The painting seems to be set on a murky morning or late afternoon - very few shades of colors to work with, and yet the artist was able to add an amazing amount of detail! Under such lighting, one would struggle to pick up details even with the naked eye, and yet looking at the artwork one feels that everything to see is there and can be studied.

The same with "Interior with a Marble Niche".

Amazing!
One often doesn't.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91227786/teslas-latest-tragic-fi...

Four friends died on October 24 in a Tesla Model Y that caught fire after crashing into a safety barrier on Lake Shore Boulevard in Toronto. After the crash, it appears the car’s electronic opening mechanism stopped working, preventing the occupants and others from opening the doors.
hiding stack traces is a bad practice and should be avoided unless you're in the last layer of the application (i.e. presentation to the user).
>it's in no way magical and it will need a complete rethinking of how military vessels operate

"designing a seaframe from the ground up with no provision, allowance, or expectation for humans on board"

I think the thousands of engineers that made this crewless seaframe possible thought about it being crewless and all of which that entails.
There's a misconception that passing is worth 1 and flunking is worth 0.

There's shitty ways to pass and good ways to pass
Forth might be a better competition for 'portable assembly', though.
> they still require your address

Provide a random one if this matters to you? It's not like they have any way to check.
> I've never seen 1,000 dependencies in my life. Sure maybe you have 50. That's entirely manageable.

50 immediate dependencies add up to much more than 1000 total dependencies.

If you install a linux OS you are already at 1k. Check your packages
> You could just use what's on your license or ID.

Not only could that not match your real gender, there are places where IDs allow for more than those two options.

https://www.bustle.com/p/12-states-with-a-third-gender-optio...
Not parent, but: The primary inconvenience I see with de-googling is just the sheer number of things that become just slightly harder. For one, Login with Google. Now, I know people de-googling will probably want to have separate accounts rather than SSO anyways, but it is an important consideration. You also lose GDrive and the GSuite in general, which alternatives exist, yes, but IMO not as good. Also, most people who work online on GDocs will now find it inconvenient to collaborate with you.
The reality of driving in Germany is that a lot of federal states have maximum speeds on the highway now. And thanks to years of neglect there is a lot of road construction everywhere in the country which means reduced speeds. Speeds are also reduced around cities, around major junctions. And that's usually also where the traffic jams are.

A journey from Berlin to my parents in the Netherlands (525km) would probably take me at least 6 hours normally. That's including stops for lunch, bathroom, fueling, etc. That averages out to about 80-90 km/hour. Only about a fifth or less of the distance allows for driving faster than 130km/h; and usually not for more than 10-20km before you have to slow down for some reason. Driving fast is fun but also stressful because there is always a jerk with a faster car behind you flashing their lights because you are "only" doing 160km/h (100 miles per hour). And high speeds also means accidents are fatal, fairly frequent, and typically result in very long traffic jams.

My experience driving around in different countries in Europe is that you don't get to your destination faster in Germany. Probably France is the most efficient to cover long distances. They have nice, good quality toll roads and you can maintain an average of 120-130 there on long stretches. Spain is pretty decent as well. Roads in Germany are garbage in comparison. There's a reason people are complaining about the state of infrastructure here.

I don't actually own a car and rent cars. Usually, I prefer taking the train, which is not a high speed train even but does that same journey in a bit under four hours. Cheaper, more comfortable, and I can take a nap/relax a bit. Sadly, rail infrastructure is also not in a great state here.
Weird. I've experienced the issue with various apps getting upset when another one is displaying over it. I like to have a little YouTube video playing in a popout and some buttons will refuse to press when this is present. I can't imagine this plays well will magnifiers or other assistive tech, but I understand their worry that a malicious developer could contrive to make you click a wrong button by covering the relevant context.

As for getting upset about sharing a phone with unapproved apps, I think this is a failure of sandboxing. The app should see as much of the phone as I want it to and no more.
I have removed the mention of "Let it crash" from that section, and added a clarification for my original intent. I did not mean it as criticism of Erlang or Joe Armstrong, although I 100% understand how it could've been interpreted as such.

Thanks for the critical feedback.
-O3 does autovectorization: turning your loops into a bunch of SIMD instructions, sometimes even drastically changing performance profile.

If autovectorization is "not that much magic" then idk what else it is.
From my (very basic) understanding of GPS you need at minimum four satellites to calculate the time. If you had a local atomic clock in sync with the GPS satellites, you'd only need three satellites to get a position fix. It would (probably, maybe?) also speed up the time to first fix / time to a precise position fix.
The problem with social networks is that they decide to earn more money from advertisers by selling the users. I don't know how a company can say "I'll only ever want a specific kind of customer", but at least saying "I'll never want to sell" is a step in that direction.
I certainly will, thanks for the plug.
> Ecosia is a non-profit, so being profitable is not their mission.

So was OpenAI, but people develop amazingly flexible morals when someone throws big $$$ at them. Not saying this will happen to Ecosia, I wish them all the best, but at this point I have zero trust in promises and statements like "we'll never do X".

Again, that's not to say they are unscrupulous, they might have the best intentions of "never doing X", but such promises are extremely difficult to keep if they ever become a huge success.
Galileo offers optional cryptographic signatures for their positioning data.

It's a solved problem and free for use.

https://www.gsc-europa.eu/sites/default/files/sites/all/file...
> The failure of the rule of law is going to be hard to law our way out of.

The fact civil servants carried out these orders is itself a good indication the protections are insufficient. Preventing a civil servant from carrying out their function is a criminal offense in some countries and they have authority to arrest the person preventing their exercise on the spot.

Unfortunately, a lot of the layoffs were for servants in probation that don't enjoy the same protections.

In Brazil civil servants have to go through admission tests (which are VERY hard to pass) and, since they have been validated by the admission test, they skip probation and enjoy full legal protections from day 1. This, for instance, has allowed civil servants to refuse direct presidential orders (in one case, a customs officer refused to hand over a foreign authority gift for improper paperwork - indicating potential corruption) and to investigate and report misconduct at the minister-level (in one case, COVID-19 vaccine procurement) without fear of repercussions. This is one of the many reasons they need protection against tyrants.
Explain who decides what a good media diet is.
Do you mean it is specifically GPS that is getting spammed, or more generally are all of the GNSS systems getting spammed?
Yes, and before PCS Budge made "Raster Blaster" a standalone pinball game for the Apple II. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raster_Blaster

"Night Mission Pinball" wasn't created by Budge but rather Bruce Artwick, the same guy who created the Sublogic Flight Simulator (and early versions of the Microsoft Flight Simulator which descended from it).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Mission_Pinball
No, the only difference I noticed was that it was faster. I still use Maps and have my Google account, but I don't use Gmail (or Google calendar). I made the transition years ago and it was really painless for me.
> Gaining fat or muscle eventually involves gaining new cells and structures like capillaries not just increased the volume of existing cells. This is a really slow process in muscle, but those new cells stick around and can rapidly adapt to stimulus as long as you have a sufficient diet.

It's an open question if hyperplasia even occurs in adult humans, and if so, under what conditions. MSC proliferation and differentiation is a thing, but none of this is actually particularly relevant to the discussion at hand.

> So yes in rapid weight loss your individual muscles cells become smaller and less capable but that’s very quick to recover. Longer term, you’ll hit the exact same homeostasis point based on stimulus and long term diet.

I'm not talking about hypothetical situations where people treat this more like a cut and then turn their lives around when it comes to resistance training and protein intake, because we know that in large part they don't. We know that a good portion of people on GLP-1 medications become sarcopenic and stay that way. And this whole thread basically started because someone was claiming that the muscle loss was good!

I'm not saying GLP-1s are bad or rapid weight loss is bad - I'm just saying you need to take steps to avoid muscle loss. And a huge amount of people on GLP-1s don't know about or understand these risks.
I just published an article on "Your Digital Footprint Will Become Your Most Valuable Asset," and I wanted to share why this mission drives me every day.

We leave digital breadcrumbs everywhere—in the articles we read, videos we watch, products we research, and conversations we have online. This data is incredibly valuable, but right now, its value primarily benefits platforms, not the people who create it.

I'm building Stacks to change that.

Our platform transforms every website into a conversation space where you can engage with others who share your interests - but that's just the beginning.

Your interactions become part of your digital identity, which personalizes your AI experiences across the web.

In our pilot with 5,000 users, we generated 4.5M+ interaction data points, proving that when people own their digital footprint, they discover content they truly care about and connect with others who share their specific interests.

I believe that in the near future, your digital footprint will be your most valuable online asset—and it should belong to you, not platforms.

Would love to hear your thoughts on digital ownership. Are you concerned about how your data is currently used? What would you want from a tool that puts you in control?
Bingo ! Anything considered too politically sensitive in the west (you know what I'm talking about) can easily be researched on Yandex.

Wanna find dirt about the west ? Use Yandex. Wanna find dirt about the kremlin ? Use Google/Bing/Whatever.
OP here. I never intended to "rage bait" or something. With "Chrome-ish" i ment Chromium-based browsers. That's what i ment by "it feels like basically everything is Chrome nowadays".
My question was: Taking FF out of the equation, which browsers except Chromium-Based ones are out there?
Can you give an example of what “politically sensitive stuff” means here? Without context it contains multitudes…
> Galileo

Which has optional cryptographic signatures of its positioning data. It's not spoofable anymore (but still jam'able with strong transmitters).

Free for use.

(https://www.gsc-europa.eu/sites/default/files/sites/all/file...)

Same for the HAS (High Accuracy Service) which offers precision down to 30cm without additional correction data.

Also free for use. But requires a special receiver as it's using an additional band.

Galileo was the ugly duckling for a very long time - but it turned into a shining one after it aged a bit.