skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What did they threaten the Netherlands with, I wonder?

Explicitly? Probably nothing.

Implicitly? Nukes.

That's where the buck stops in geopolitics.

Ultimately, all international interaction is backed by implicit threat of war - and, for past couple decades, nukes are the trump card. The world is divided between the "haves", and the "have nots", and the "have nots" can't do anything if the "haves" put the nuclear option onto the table.

Of course, in polite company, nothing ever gets to that stage; the jobs of the leaders, diplomats, advisers, etc. is to keep everything low-key enough to not escalate beyond horse trading and strongly-worded letters. But everyone is acutely aware that the threat of violence is implicitly always there, and who can credibly threaten whom.
> his stubbornness in defense of wrong ideas is why he had his name removed from the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology and elsewhere.

It strikes me that nowadays that would result in outrage about "wokeness and cancel culture".
You might be able to do that with built-in git functionality called gitmailmap. It is basically a file where you can map multiple names and emails to the same one.
well, you use a remote shutter release or a timer, and remove all ambiguity by removing the friend.

there's a scene in one of those Matthew McConaughey romcoms where he plays a photog. The crew has a scene completely setup up and ready to go so that he just walks in, hits the shutter release one time, and then walks away with little care as job is done. He's now credited for that photo, yet did the least effort possible. (that scene isn't too far off while only slightly hyperbolic)
It benefits companies who broke the rules more.
I got the sense that Lina Kahn was a thorn to Harris as well, otherwise she would've committed to Kahn's FTC instead of leaving it ambiguous and not campaigning on her successes.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/24/kamala-harris-lina-...
> And Apple probably has done the market research to confirm most of their customers are like me and not like Pebble users.

I'm sure. The customers they do not have are like Pebble users, and they don't want customers like Pebble users. They want customers like Apple Watch users.

It is a bit 'masque of the red death' to defend anti-competitive practices, is all I'm saying.
https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/canon-tdd isn't particularly new; Beck has been consistent about "write tests before the code, one test at a time" for about 25 years now.

Same idea, different spelling: do you really think TDD should get credit for your good results, when you aren't actually shackling yourself to the practices that the thought leaders in that community promote?
This is a great example of how simplicity often wins in practice. Too many systems overcomplicate storage and retrieval, assuming every use case needs full indexing or ultra-low latency. In reality, for many workloads, treating S3 like a raw table and letting the engine handle the heavy lifting makes a lot of sense. Curious to see how it performs under high concurrency—any benchmarks on that yet?
Yes, that key is screwed because it's lost, stolen, at the bottom of the river, etc. But this is when you generate a new key and store that pubkey at your PDS so the Appview can find and index your new posts from your new phone. It's the same thing that happens when I reinstall Debian on my Thinkpad and upload a new ed25519 pubkey to Github so I can push again.

Edit: or we could backup the key.
It can never be the AI. The AI is NOT a person. Why are we belaboring this?
Chinese market BYDs are much cheaper because, allegedly, they don’t comply with EuroNCAP (European safety standards).

European spec BYDs tend to have 5-star (max) crash ratings.
I don't understand this in the slightest. There's no advantage whatsoever to a round screen, but tons of disadvantages. Why not make your phone screen round? Why not make your computer screen round? Your TV?

Please, Core, resist the temptation to enshittify yourself with another useless round screen.
What if the article was titled __FTC Removes Posts Critical of Kroger, Albertsons__? That is an alternative that is as accurate as the current one and sends a very different message. Telling a selective subset of the truth is just a barely clever form of lying.
And how does that change anything?
Correct, and a great example of this is "Greenspan's Bait and Switch" back in the Reagan years - basically a bunch of measures put in place to increase how much was being paid into FICA (which notably has a cap on how much income it applies to, so it's regressive) and slow outgo.

Any overage beyond current needs is put into a "trust fund" which is required by law to be kept in US Treasury Bonds, aka loaned to the US Government. For the truly cynical, think about it as years of loaning a bunch of money to your uncle, and around the time that money starts needing to be paid back your uncle starts looking for contract assassins (aka "privatization"). If Social Security can be killed then oh my! Guess all that money owed to it just doesn't need to be paid back.

If the money "borrowed" in that way had been spent in ways that would make providing the services it's for easier and more cost effective that would be one thing, but that's not how it works out because the best ROI for private capital is purchasing politicians and policy.
O wow, I have forgotten all about it, but I used it too! That and pavuk with it's regular expressions on the commandline.
https://tenmax.wordpress.com/
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You are arguing for despotism; the patronage model outlined in The Dictator's Handbook and detailed in The Logic of Political Survival (both by Alistair Smith and Bruce Bueno de Mesquita). This is incompatible with a functioning republic.
Disagree, with the following reasoning:

1. IIRC the first Pebble was $99, and the one after it was $149. We're a decade on, inflation is rampant, and the new devices are evidently intended as lower volume products. $149 seems OK to me in 2025. $225 seems OK as well for the color unit, but I don't feel like waiting until December, and can't justify buying two watches. I put my money down for the $149 unit. We'll see how much it ends up being by the time it's on my wrist in Ireland. My current "smart" watch is a Mi Band 6. I'm on screen no.2, strap no.3, and shortly battery no.2: all told, I certainly have $100 invested in it by now, even though it cost me 42 Swiss Francs ($45?) to buy initially.

2. There are other hacking-friendly watches out there, but they do not have the depth of app ecosystem that Pebble did/does. I think those thousands of watchfaces and applications ready to fire on day1 are worth something. This is not a net-new smartwatch environment, it is an established if a bit aged standard that is being polished back up for the modern world.

3. I'm the target market, but I definitely don't have an Apple watch because it doesn't work with Android devices, and I absolutely detest iOS (and am increasingly frustrated with Apple's blatant cash grab-ism vis-a-vis RAM and flash prices on their computers to the point that I've pivoted back to Linux devices).
It always felt to me like the photographer was trying to have it both ways there:

"Whoa! Isn't this sooo trippy! A monkey showing self-awareness to take a picture of itself!"

Courts: "Okay, the monkey took it, so no copyright for you."

"No, you don't get it! I put in a ton of work to stage that to the point that the monkey just had to be in the right place at the right time. Hell, a worm could have triggered it!"
They don't have a plan to conquer the world, a business plan, or anything else. They're just FOSS developers doing stuff that interests them. The majority of framasoft developers are French and European teachers and academics.

Framasoft is the antithesis of y-combinator.

Sometimes they reach a wide audience, like framapad and framadate, which are quite popular in France and Western Europe. Partly because they just work and don't require you to create an account.

Sometimes nobody really knows who it's for.

Most of the time people often mistakenly think it's an isofunctional 1:1 alternative to another product. When it's not.
The idea that if the people had the will they would see it through assumes efficient markets with negligible startup costs and informed and rational consumers, which is not the way the real world works.

Microsoft - a multi-trillion dollar company, number 2 in the world by market cap, second to AAPL and several positions above Google - tried really hard for several years to wedge their way into the mobile phone OS game with Windows Phone, adding a third entrant to the market. They had name recognition, an easy win for integration with user PCs, several compelling features, partnerships with huge, vertically integrated hardware manufacturers, and an enormous base of IP for programming. But, in the end, they failed.

Just because people have a desire for a thing to exist does not make that thing exist.

I'd love it if there were another company - call it Pear or something - that was just like Apple but allowed my Garmin watch to reply to encrypted messages, integrated smoothly with my Windows and Linux PCs, allowed sideloading apps, alternative browsers, adblock, and which gave me a whole lot more customization options. I've got the will. Now where's my phone?
No idea. The cheapest they have for sale in the UK is the dolphin for about £26k ("On The Road", so all tax and delivery and registration etc included), but for that you get 250+ miles range and 7s 0-60mph, which not so long ago was Tesla-only territory, and is fairly competitive with what "traditional" brands (ford, VW, etc) are offering in terms of specs and price in the UK.

I don't know if they sell the exact same model (same range, same speed, same tech trim etc) for $10k but I would not be that surprised that they'd be making a huge huge outrageous profit just because they can in the UK, because that is what the competitors are charging so why not?

FWIW there are cheaper things on sale in the UK but they are much lower spec. E.g. £15K OTR gets you a 45bhp (yes, 45!) Dacia Spring that will get you from 0 to 60 in 19s (19!!!) and only go 100 miles between charges. Suddenly that BYD dolphin looks amazing. There is the Citroen AMI for £7.5k OTR, but that is legally not even classified as a car (it's a "quadricycle") has a range of 46 miles, a top speed of 28mph, and has not been crash tested by EuroNCAP ... It would likely be a total shit show if it were though. The BYD looks like a decent option by comparison, but I'd personally not pick one because they are such an unknown in this country and the price needs to be even lower for me to take a punt :)
I'd like some concrete examples of that happening in the Clinton, Obama, or Biden administrations.

I wish Obama acted like he had a mandate and just pushed through his agenda...

Instead we had BS like the parliamentarian saying "no you can't do that", and the Democrats would simply drop it.

Last time the Republicans had pushback from the parliamentarian they just replaced him with somebody that would do what they wanted.

Stop pretending this is a "both sides" issue.
Apple did not design the USB-C connector, Intel did.
Very cool, I'm working on something similar as part of a bigger project (not TUI related). I'm interested in how you did blame caching, will take a look at the implementation. I am trying to do a "forward blame" so that the blame of new commits can be created very quickly. Happy to exchange some thoughts around this!
Hierarchy of dissavings (a.k.a. retirement withdrawal sequencing)
Revisiting the Google / Wiz deal
Framasoft is really an amazing team. They are basically the reason I discovered FOSS when I was younger.

The fact they are still here and supporting so many free services is a miracle.
$('video').playbackRate = 4.0; // or a higher number

makes the preachy stuff go way way fast and forgettable. I guess I'd be classed as a "car guy", I don't have a hatred of EVs or bikes, but I can't stand the chip on this channel's shoulder.
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That might be good advice for arrogant actors, but it's not a good definition.

Charisma is not just about relationship, or how they interact with people.

Charisma means having hidden information that lets you operate in the world more efficiently. It lets you maintain your self where others cave to external pressure. It's excellence demonstrated through poise and resilience. It means being worth watching.
Apple and iPhone are a gravitational singularity distorting every single market in the world.

Software companies bend the knee to Apple.

Global payments companies bend the knee to Apple.

Entertainment companies bend the knee to Apple.

On and on and on...

You cannot find a corner of the world that iPhone does not distort, tax, shape, or control in some shape or fashion. Some companies and industries to such an extreme that Apple becomes not just their landlord, but their master.

Desktop computing could never do this. Microsoft never had such draconian rules.

The automotive market doesn't resemble this. Dozens of countries have five or six major automakers. There's something for every budget and niche.

Gaming could never do this. There are three major consoles, six major PC distribution channels, mobile gaming, indie gaming, web gaming, tabletop/physical gaming - that market is huge. Honestly, this is what mobile computing should look like.

Only mobile computing and the web have become so perverted and encumbered. These markets are beyond Standard Oil levels of distortion. And the worst part is how massive, important, and all-encompassing these markets are. Everything in life is touched by these markets.
They do benefit a lot. They may have a smaller amount of money relative to what they could have had, but they have a LOT more power than they had before.
> Core 2 Duo

Well that's a name I've not heard in a long, long time...
How would it be aware of everything else I have and do online? Calendar, emails, YouTube history, current audiobook, etc?
half of Fortune 100 use Wiz

gonna need a citation on that. All I could find was their own quotes.
Your comment represents a common oversight that people seem to have in this debate.

Training a model on data is a different thing to scraping data. Generating output from a model is a different thing to training a model.

Each aspect of these things can and should be evaluated individually, furthermore, each relationship between them should be evaluated individually.

Make an argument for what things are good or bad and then make an argument for how the relationships between them influence each aspect.
Compromised tj-actions/changed-files GitHub Action: A look at leaked secrets
If search engines were invented today they wouldn't stand a chance. People would complain that they can return immoral results. Different sets of people would complain that they can return links to various isms that offend them. The owners would be worried that they return results critical of themselves or their friends. Copyright owners would sue them for linking to piracy. Website owners would block them for reading their precious content.
i'll give you one better for free. Behold the Sea Otters of the Monterey Bay Aquarium: https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals/live-cams/sea-ot...
They left out one important travel method: walking.

In Utrecht, if you don't bike, you walk usually.
Okay, so from the one you linked:

>Respondents who are the most highly educated, have the highest number of daily posts on social media, and spend the most time on social media, appear to self censor criticisms of the government on social media more than they self censor praise of the government on social media. Other respondents do not appear to self-censor criticism of the government on social media. However, my findings are severely limited by my small sample size.

I was actually asking for accounts of firsthand experience, not ideological slop.
That’s actually a new feature.
I have a spare laptop I could ship, it's running Linux now and cannot "officially" run Win11. It's a little older, Lenovo X1 Carbon with a chipped case & wonky touch bar for the Fn keys, but it works perfectly fine.

If you're interested and want to drop a way to contact you, I'll figure out a way to ship it to you. Otherwise, as much as I loathe sending you to Facebook, the local "buy nothing" groups another commentor recommended sounds like a good place to start.

Good luck!
Swarms of satellites are harming astronomy. Researchers are fighting back
Big thing know is that depending on your gpu, a vm will want to reserve it, making it unavailable to your lxc’s. But lxc’s can share a gpu. There might be some setup you can do with certain cards to create a vgpu to allow vim share, but that’s a headache I didn’t want to go down after getting my nvidia drivers setup on host and shared to lxc. Use the tools that regular jack posted and /r/selfhosted and r/proxmox are good resources. ChatGPT is pretty well versed on this stuff as well.
Do Pebble watches have GPS, cellular, and almost medical-grade sleep analysis? Are they rated for 50m underwater?
I had an original Kickstarter Pebble, a Pebble Time, and am probably ordering this new Pebble, but I have to say you have it the other way around. Apple Watch has 10x the functionality in this comparison, but they're both delightful devices and I'm excited to have a Pebble back in my rotation!
>unlike phones where just about all of them have just about all the features

I knew my preferences were niche, but I didn't think they were that niche. There hasn't been a phone with even half my ideal feature list (that works in the US) in probably close to a decade, and even if I abandon my more niche "nice to haves", there are essentially no new phones, and that's even before I add in that I'd really like it to be relatively repairable. And yes, there _used_ to be phones that had my entire feature list, so it's not a completely crazy list. It's just that phone makers have converged a pretty standard feature list with not too many companies coloring outside the lines. If you want that particular feature list, then sure, everyone has "all the features", but there is a whole universe of additional features that phones could (and some did) have, that they no longer do.
The article mentions other similar Ambystoma salamanders, it sounds like the others are less studied. I've come across old mexican recipes for Axolotls, probably something I'll never eat. The floating gardens were an environment that is likely hard to replicate in other places, though certainly not impossible. Looking at an early spanish map and comparing it to google maps makes it clear how much changed as the Spanish drained the lakes. The article also mentions that axolotls are significant predators so they may not be great to introduce to other places.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Patzcuaro_salamander
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plateau_tiger_salamander
For operations with floating-point numbers, big integer numbers or arrays, a Cortex-X925 matches 3/4 Zen 5 full cores at the same clock frequency, while Cortex-A725 matches 1/4 Zen 5 full cores.

So DGX Spark is equivalent with at most 10 * 3/4 + 10 * 1/4 = 10 Zen 5 cores versus 16 Zen 5 cores of Strix Halo.

In reality DGX Spark will be even slower, because it will have a lower clock frequency (especially the Cortex-A725 cores) and a worse cache memory.

For irregular code that does only operations with pointers and integers, the advantage of AMD Strix Halo will be significantly less, but even in that case the 10+10 cores of DGX Spark are unlikely to match more than 15 Zen 5 cores at the same clock frequency and less than that at the real clock frequencies.

On the other hand, like I have said, DGX Spark should be faster than Intel Arrow Lake H, the best that Intel can offer in a mini-PC of this size.
It was meaning 1, although I understand it was possibly not totally obvious after re-reading my comment.
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Hats off for winning the first battle. Winning back your mind. It's not easy.

Freelance, as you said, might be a pragmatic next step. Sell your desktop PC to buy a laptop or get a cheap Thinkpad. Models from a few years ago are still perfectly good for programming. And then you could work from libraries.

I don't know how the tech market is going to evolve, but if the junior to mid level market stays as it is or worse then it might be prudent to think about acquiring additional skills that can't be automated so easily, i.e. plumbing, electric etc. Something I'm considering.

If you have a Gofundme - I'd be happy to contribute.
The question in my mind is, is violating the constitution a crime and if so will Elon Musk go to prison?
A lot of Harris donors wanted Khan gone.
Only if they're a monopoly.

In the 1990's, Microsoft Windows had over 90% of operating system market share. They were a monopoly.

iPhones are only 58% versus Android in the US right now. That's nowhere close to monopoly. Globally Android has 71%. Android is thriving.

With Windows, you didn't have a choice. With iOS and Android, you have choice.
PeerTube is specifically advertised as a YouTube replacement.
I'm highly skeptical that they will sell 20k units at that price point.
No need, just get some new board members...

"How Joel Kaplan became Mark Zuckerberg’s most trusted political fixer" - https://www.ft.com/content/7a68fd7b-cae3-48ea-83bc-777731013...
The first half of the first season was absolutely great. It went downhill quickly when his sister showed up. By the end of the season, it was awful.

Season 2 is simply forgettable.
I'm not far left, not even close...
I repeatedly encourage everyone to look the network state to see what is unfolding before their eyes.
The author of the article chiming in here...

Charisma is indeed a complex trait. That's why, in the article, I say:

"...it is not a single trait but a broad spectrum of traits that share things in common."

What I'm trying to convey here is that if you try to define charisma, no matter what definition you come up with, you will always leave many things outside its definition. Instead of trying to define it, I think it's better to explore the different traits that make a person charismatic. In the article, I decided to explore three of them: making meaningful connections, empathy, and warmth.

I agree there are many more traits that could describe a charismatic person. I also agree that "presence" might be one of the most important ones that were left out of the article.

Which brings us to an interesting question: What does it mean to be present?

Just as with Charisma, Presence is just another skill that is better not to define but to explore through the behaviors it displays.

"The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao..."
Bluesky appeals to people that don’t wish to meet or interact with anyone from the other side of the aisle - like a left wing version of Truth Social.
I'd rather invest in intelligence and end up a greybeard wizard
Lots of free things require identifying yourself, like healthcare.

Those, just like this free book, are still free.
VW's ID.1 entry-level EV will be here sooner than expected, thanks to Rivian
This reads like a dispatch from an alien who’s spent the past year studying human beings.
And 1999 is just how far the Git history (imported from CVS, the project kinda skipped subversion directly to Git) goes. - The first commit is from April 24 1999 and says: "the very start of a gui frontend for anaconda":

https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda/commit/785d44bf73ccc...

This kinda implies that Anaconda was in existence for some time back then & what was tracked in the newflangled change tracking software was the fancy new graphical UI. :)

I have not really looked further if perhaps the backend was imported later on or just grew from the GUI - but the same codebase, with continous 27 years of history is what installs the Fedora 42 Beta today. :-)