skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The risk isn't that much that your employer gaining access to your email (though you may potentially be risking the contents of emails that you view from that machine getting saved and accessed by someone at the company). It's more that you've legally entangled things. If your employer is sued or investigated, a judge can issue a subpoena for them to turn over records. If those records show that employees accessed external accounts from work systems, now they can get a subpoena to access those accounts and any other devices that have accessed those. I've seen this happen to friends. Employer gets sued and as part of discovery, they had to hand over all of their personal devices because they hadn't kept church and state separate. Took them many months and significant legal expenses to get their stuff back. If you never access personal stuff from your work devices and never access work stuff from your personal devices, you'll never be in that position.
You can use video players from Flathub which support patent-protected codecs.

It's much easier than having to try and gather packages from RPMFusion.
The normal way is to use dpkg to rebuild and patch, and use dch to increase the patch version with a .1 or something similar, so that the OS version always takes precedence, and then rebuild.
Choose your evil:

Elect a dynasty to rule forever

Limit voting rights of group X,Y and Z to get "better" votes

Remain with the rule of the majority system

Elect ChatGPT to rule forever with a "be nice pls" prompt
DingusPPC – An experimental PPC Macintosh emulator
I thought RHEL kernel live-patching was restricted to just RHEL with certain subscriptions.
Yeah like connecting with people you'd like to reach (which Facebook doesn't do a terribly good job of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6090712) but people here seem to think email/calling is the only acceptable form of social media (but what if you don't have someone's contact info? well, that gets justified as "nobody needs to connect with long lost contacts")
It’s nice to see folks in the YC community actually care about genocide for sure :)
> it's obviously they're not talking Computational non-Human agents.

I don't follow your meaning?

> you should specify that specific variable, and not generalize that b/c they're somewhat rational at one thing, they will be rational at all other things.

You are being overly pedantic, although you might not realize it. The meaning in that example is the differentiation between someone with a nuanced goal who can be reasoned with versus someone who has lost all reason and only desires to lash out at others. The latter is a distinct possibility when it comes to violent acts.
Some may even be oblivious to the fact that the article is from 2004 ;)

Deepfakes weren't even a fever dream yet.
Bell Labs' Unsung Heros in the History of Computing (2012)
Having a docked ship is not enough. There must be a docked ship on station at all times for evacuations. The thing that was needed was another ship to take some people back and not everyone (well, all but any Russians, since they have their own ships).
Yes it is in fact difficult and nuanced. The act of pressing the shutter button does not create copyright. The creative work done to make the photograph possible does.
It just breaks the transaction guarantee. In most cases, you don't want it. In other cases, like logging, pipeline mode may be better suited.
Accelerating Large-Scale Test Migration with LLMs
Surveillance Disguised as Protection: Parental Control Apps [pdf]
A stabilized approach to systems orchestration (2020)
> Eh, the whole space race has its origins in a propaganda war with the USSR staffed by ex-Nazi engineers. It's not more deserving of sacred purity than anything else.

I certainly agree with this, but at the same time I think it's a red herring. So much good tech comes from war, but the nice thing (imho) is that it's "path independent". I'm no more going to scorn the work of Werner von Braun than I would John von Neumann.
True...but to be a long-term successful asshole, you need incredibly good judgement and self-control. Otherwise, "tiny" lapses can derail your career. Consider: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_S._Patton#Slapping_inci...
Firstly, I understand people will disagree with me on this and that's fine – if you disagree please just explain why.

Based on what I've read on this, I can see why Trump and Elon MIGHT feel like the return flight was held back for political reasons... But I'm not really able to take either side of this argument as it stands, so I'll give my thoughts for why that is in the hope someone might be able to convince me one way or the other...

Firstly, the assumption that NASA is apolitical should be questioned. This might just be my ignorance, but I still haven't seen any good reasoning for why NASA would delay the return flight. As others have noted the capsule was already there, but NASA seemingly just decided to randomly keep them up there months longer than necessary? Why?

And while it's not fair to blame the Biden administration for this directly, ultimately the actions of any government agency would be the responsibility of the current administration to some extent, so if there was any suspicion that the return flight was being pushed back for political reasons the Biden administration should have intervened.

I imagine if Elon did push for an earlier return and was denied this without a good reason he might have questioned why, and I could imagine someone in that position might assume a political motive – perhaps reasonably depending on those private conversations had.

I also think there's an argument to be made that if the Biden administration was friendlier with Elon and didn't go out of their way to alienate him that this return flight would have happened earlier too. Perhaps because Elon could have spoke to Biden directly as he did with Trump, or because NASA would have changed their calculation on the PR of the return.

I have tried repeatedly to find a reason why the return flight might have been delayed, but haven't been able to find any good reason for this so I'm on the fence about why this might have happened. If someone can give me a reasonable explanation for why they weren't returned earlier (especially if it's a reason Elon would have been aware of) I'd likely conclude Elon is most likely lying.

Either way the argument, "Elon is wrong because the capsule was up there the whole time so they could have been brought back whenever, but NASA just decided to push it back" is not a convincing explanation that there was no political calculation here.
Do not use ad networks, none of them, they are the source of all this Internet scummery. The spam, the low quality ads for fraud products, and the ads themselves are virus delivery networks. If you really need advertising to support your product, do you really have a product? Or are ya just gossip, er "social media". Social media is just gossip, monetized, what was before recognized as the lowest form of communication now monetized and washed from that dirty name "gossip", now it's "media", "social media"... what fools mass culture is composed.
If my car breaks down and I have to wait a few hours for somebody to pick me up, I'm stranded.
People want something that feels as much like Twitter as possible, without the enshittification. Both in terms of stupid UX features and stupid political features.

Having been interested in how people use social communication systems since the BBS era, I'm pretty confident that most people don't really want fully distributed systems, they want a single system with good governance. Because governance is hard work and anarcholibertarianism makes it everyone's problem. However, "Exit, Voice, And Loyalty" applies here: by providing a theoretical Exit option in some sort of decentralization, even if someone never takes that option, they feel a benefit from having the option.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit,_Voice,_and_Loyalty
Game demo linked from Steam contained malware, raising more security concerns
> The Australia law caused a bunch of trouble in the last 10 years

It has, although the case you mention isn't really my main worry.

In theory some random rogue state (Hello North Korea!), can just grant all of the Australian parliament citizenship. Suddenly they're all ineligible under the constitution.

That said, I assume modern scholars would make the definition more robust than the 19th C definitions used in Australia (which was an attempt to take the best of the UK and USA models, particularly following the US with regards to being a Federation of States, while still maintaining a proper Westminster system without a "King"/Executive branch like in the USA).
If a considerable number of people hated 'VS Code users' enough to kill them, which surprisingly is not the case, then, yes, rhetoric about 'the evil programmers' would raise legitimate concerns. This would especially be true if it were taboo to complain openly about 'VS Code users'
And does it check its "mirrors"?
I mostly agree but I have interpret it differently. There are three reasons for "keep going" no matter what. First extreme adversity, second extreme expectations, third extreme few dimensional discipline due to childhood reasons.

Burn out, depression, emptiness come out due to perceiving unfairness with respect to the outcomes. Even if someone ends up overcoming adversity or overachieving, the serotonin response just isn't there, because that is not how it worked in the first place.

If you look at a static point in there will always be grievances, if you look at an imaginary future there will always be grievances but if you have been mentored to look this as a movie, see where you started, and you see what you have ended up achieving it will be a lot brighter. Most of the people do good with their lives.
Multi-Image 3D Generation
now most of the new models are concentrating on text-to-3D or single image-to-3D generation, meaning they do generate not exact object that people want. to fix this we use as input images from the main views of the object and generate exact 3D models.
"I wish it need not have happened in my time" said Frodo.

"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
> We’ve seen Germany turning to lignite to heat homes due to the Russia Ukraine conflict.

Coal is used mainly for electricity, not heating homes directly. And shutting down nuclear plants is the main reason for the increasing demand of dirtier energy sources even if Russia is a convenient scapegoat.
They were introduced as a mob in minecraft in 2020.
The Lost Art of Research as Leisure
Why Your Brain Blinds You for 2 Hours Every Day [video]
The United States of Fascism
Why don't companies try making autonomous trains, trams, etc - things attached to rails and with strict schedule - that would be several orders of magnitude easier to implement. Then move to self-driving cars - which are obviously not good enough atm.
> Being stuck in space doesn't make any country look good

They were not stuck in space

> But the only people that can actually say this was bad or good are the astronauts themselves

Multiple people that actually ran this mission have said multiple times that they were not stuck, and explained all the reasons for the extension. And yet you keep ignoring everything except the narrative of "stuck" and "stranded".
Does that justify blatant lies?
Military service in Israel is mandatory and the conscription rate in the core "educated" areas is ~90%. Each year, the intelligence corps then gets what is practically* first pick of the best minds of that year (typically kids who are already skilled in programing). They then get to have them for 4-6 years meaning unlike modern employers, they have time and motivation to invest in training them. Then you get the most apt programming minds of a generation spending six years together learning and building connections with each other in core programming and security skills.

Imagine if all the ivy league graduates in the US would be forced to work together for the same company, for free, for 4-6 years. Would you be surprised if suddenly former employees of that company found ways to become very successful in business?

* - Technically they get something like 3rd pick and there's negotiations and it depends on what sort of roles are involved etc. In practice, conscripts have some influence on where they'll go and if you have a choice in any role in the military, you are going to pick "write code in an air-conditioned office" over any other available option.
Typescript evolved from an internal project at Microsoft where they were trying to do their own GWT, but with .NET instead of Java, the browser was definitly first.

Just like VSCode started as the Web IDE Monaco, written in this new Typescript thingie, before pivoting into Electron.
Do you happen to have more reading material on said law?

In Germany, you can't even transfer copyright. So yeah, anything you create that reaches the threshold of having a copyright, you own the copyright. Even as an employee.

At the same time, you might not own the usage rights (Nutzungsrechte/Verwertungsrechte).
I'll just state for the record that these particular use cases make up something like 90% of what my employer uses Office 365 for, and it's absolutely impossible to do our business without it right now. If we had to solve document storage by plain old file-server storage, we wouldn't even be compliant with local laws.
Until we completely replace human labor there is no such thing as everyone getting rich because wealth is ultimately relative.
Ethernal September is actually a thing, so he isn't that wrong. I get the aversion towards elitism... But those of us who used the Internet in the 90s still know what happened when the "masses" started to flood it.
Does anyone have experience using Apache Iceberg, Hudi or DeltaLake for storing logs instead of Loki?
> They are making devices for people that just want something that works pretty well and has reasonable security

This statement doesn't make sense except if you are implying that Android doesn't have reasonable security despite not being a walled garden like iOS, and allowing e.g. interactions with smartwatches.
> I don't follow your meaning?

sorry, bad edit, should be:

... so it's obvious they're (AWS) not talking about Human agents.
Are sites that currently try to enforce real name usage, like Facebook, noticeably better for it than mostly-pseudonymous sites like HN/Reddit?

It doesn't really fix people being gullible (so will spread spam/scams or fall for phishing) or angry about some polarizing topic. Conceivably it could encourage civility, but if anything I feel I've seen arguments turn ugly far more often due to the personal nature.
This makes a lot of sense and it was an expected side effect of any decentralized currency from the very beginning.
Bad actors/fraudsters/tax evasionists etc are going to eventually become the biggest users and end up owning a big chunk of it.

Without a shred or actual evidence, I'd be ready to bet that many terrorist groups are buying their equipment/weapons in crypto. Arms, drugs, laundering, etc, it's just so convenient..
And in time it will become worse.

That being said, I also understand that crypto is unavoidable - eg the concept of the blockchain would have been discovered sooner or later and now it can't be stopped.
Random anecdote: 15 years ago I was starting an online community for computer science students, and needed to come up with a name. I made a survey for the community members to vote on options, with some boring ones like "CS Hub" and stuff; one of the options was "Karatsuba": I had just learned about the Karatsuba multiplication algorithm, and somehow got this idea into my head that his last name sounds cool and unique, and my online community (later grown into a ed-tech startup) should be named after this Russian mathematician.

Anatoly Karatsuba himself was already dead (he died in 2008). I emailed his daughter Yekaterina (who is also a mathematician, btw) asking for a permission to use their last name. She agreed, but asked to be extra careful about potential implicit affiliations, i.e. to be clear that the content has nothing to do with her father's research.

She also expressed an opinion that in the field of mathematics and computation, at least in Russia, actual researchers are rarely involved in writing textbooks, and the textbooks used in universities often contain conflicting or even wrong information about the authorship of research.

In the end a different name was chosen for the project.
This is not something I want.

I want social media to disappear.

The main issue with social media are the recommendation algorithms, and I don't want the government or private companies to be in control of them. In fact, I don't want anyone except myself to be in control of them.
>Practical in my opinion would have been, "yeah sure, as a just released hostage we can sort it all out tomorrow in your case"

Which is what happened, after they got in contact with the judge who had the authority to do so.
Not sure if you’ll see this but I’l love to understand - why the slightly weird (to me) differentiation between the two models’ sensors? One has heart rate (which might be considered almost fundamental for smart watches today), the other has magnetic/barometric sensors (which are very nice to have when out and moving)… but neither has both? Is the core 2 duo a “geeky” watch and the other one a “premium” product? I assume the latter also doesn’t support JTAG fiddling around, is that a philosophical choice or more of an engineering time/resource constraint? Thanks in any case, these devices are definitely quite tempting!
I can tell this is a polarizing comment because it's been bouncing back and forth from -1 to +5 repeatedlt, but I don't really understand why...

Maybe one of the downvoters can explain?
More and more banks have put their money on smartphone apps to implement the 2FA requirement that PSD2 mandates. Turns out that European banks really like that walled-garden thing. Some banks still allow you to use SMS but pressure is mounting to do away with SMS-based 2FA. Other 2FA solutions (e.g. national CAP schemes [0]) are on their way out, too. So are call centers, which used to let you do banking on the phone.

In Europe, you are living in increasingly difficult times if you want to do banking unless you happen to own a smartphone running an OS made by Google or Apple, and to be a customer on their respective app store.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_Authentication_Program
If the alternative is that your kids go cold instead, let me be the first to offer you a match.
As usual, another great write up by Berthub.

A big issue I've noticed is a lot of the players pushing for a new "European cloud" are glorified DC hosters who do not have Product or Development experience with cloud tools or technologies, and continue to underpay their employees.

I saw this at an attempted version of AWS by a major retailer in DACH - they are trying to build their own competitive hyperscaler, but their internal teams still preferred one of the big 3 CSPs (AWS, Azure, GCP) due to reliability and the talent gap in their internal CSP team.

European software only does great when those vendors pay regionally competitive (doesn't have to be SV level) salaries. Look at DIPT in France, Gov.uk in the UK, and Datadog in France as examples of well made European stacks that also paid employees competitively.

European companies will also HAVE to be product first - only selling on "European First" sentiment doesn't close RFPs when the CSPs have created EU staffed and managed landing zones, and companies like Google Cloud and AWS expand EU specific offerings in EU megaoffices like Warsaw and Cluj respectively.

The other issue is most EMEA customers have much smaller budgets, so discounting and bundling becomes critical - and it's hard to beat vendors who can sell in the US (which is what a French vendor like Datadog has done).

Finally, the growth of the cloud software ecosystem in the US, China, and India was also thanks to 5G rollouts, as much of the 5G stack is virtualized and is essentially VOIP. This meant telecom players helped spark a generation of vendors or OSS ecosystems.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgtsBm0IQ1Q

"That is when we present our solution. Mandatory digital identity verification for all humans, at all times."

(This video is a pitch-perfect parody of MGS2 but also prescient commentary on modern trends)
i never said what he says is true, just that it was not "never specified"
They could have left at any time. There was a lifeboat available right there. Had there been a true emergency, they wouldn't have been trapped.

So no, they weren't stranded. They had to wait several months longer for a replacement crew, and the extended stay does indeed have some health impacts, but they never required rescue.
Second that.
Been hit on purpose, twice by cars while biking.
Doored a guy once, but even though he got hurt a bit, could see just how horrified I was, and couldn't quite get angry.
And whole car free zones, meshed in with universitys and entertainment/art districts, staidiums,resturaunts,museiums, etc, major underground parking and access for cars, and above ground, pedestrian and bike routes, and perhaps ultra mini electric "city cars" , but bollards designed to stop a semi truck
on all access routes.
And expliset bans on financial and legal service, insurance,business, mega corp anything.
Financial district is ......(hand waving)....over there....(blank look)....somewhere.
People places, the whole gamut, red light and drug district, etc, but limited by bieng pedestrian and bike access, and untra mini cars/trucks for deliveries, keeps a lid on
heavy crime, as ganksters ain't going for a walk,
now are they!
Again, the topic is "crew returning to Earth." You, Berger, and whoever posted the arstechnica link have brought politics to the party.

I liked how they had a drone circling the recovery activity at the splashdown site. All live-streamed for our informed entertainment. SpaceX is undeniably doing a great job, although the starship explosions in our atmosphere I'm not a fan of, I look forward to that not happening.
The TV show was called Gilligan's Island.
I met my wife at 21, married at 32, I was a hard sceptic about marriage in my 20's after seeing my parents divorce in my late teens, they married too early and I didn't want to make that mistake.

As it was, our pre-marriage relationship was a period of huge growth for both of us until marriage was a natural progression, by which time we were both very different people but better suited to one another. When we had kids our relationship was strong and it got use through some tough times. It's a long road but it's a more stable one.

So no, no regrets.
For those who can, i'd say migrate to firefox-based privacy respecting browsers (librewolf, zen, waterfox, ironfox, ...)
And help those who can't find alternatives to uBlock Origin and keep some of their privacy
Kibana is great, but managing Elasticsearch is pain. Slow ingestion, query performance, takes a lot of space, harder to tune up.

Modern columnar SQL such as ClickHouse are 10+ times more efficient in real-world use cases.

I'm a CEO and founder of Quesma, which, let's use Kibana with ClickHouse: https://quesma.com/

Forever free, source-available license.
The only thing he clearly stated is that he thinks the global average isn't 100. That could imply miscalibration depending on how you think the metric ought to work. He's also implied that he thinks the correlation between internet usage and high IQ is stronger the farther back you go.

Both of those things seem like fairly reasonable hypothesis to me. You are the one inserting race into it.