skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> At least production got fixed and money kept flowing.

You were denied the tools to get your job done. You've put yourself at risk by applying an unapproved workaround.

Never ever do this (unless you hold substantial shares). Let the company's bottom line take the fall. If that's the only thing they care about, that's your only way to make the problem visible.
I use libreoffice call to open stuff on my Linux box, but the default formula behavior turns me off.

If I type “=“ into D2 then left arrow to C2 then type “*” I would expect when I next press up arrow it to bring me to D1. But in Calc it brings me to C1. In other words it doesn’t reset to the starting cell after each operation.

I guess I can change it somehow, but that’s been enough of an annoyance that I haven’t switched wholly for on google sheets, though I’d like to.
That's how you use them in Germany. N-dash with spaces around, instead of an m-dash, as Americans do.
I do not hate religion at all - but I do not like state-sponsored religion, for the reasons I mentioned. If a religion relies on the the state, then the state gets to decide the practices of that religion and who may practice that religion, if it's allowed at all.

Likewise, if a state relies on a religion for its legitimacy, then the religion chooses who is valid to serve in government and governs the practice of those outside it's congregation.

The church should be a refuge from the state, not necessarily in opposition, but in a protective sense. It should provide a way to live, but not be the only way to live. If needs be, then the state should be a refuge from the church.

As for these dogmas, if they exist, it's that they allow the things you speak of to exist and provide a framework for those things to be safely practiced. None of those things are crimes when practiced within a framework of law, but instead are the choices of free individuals and should always remain so. They are not religious functions, but secular ones. Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's; even Jesus was OK with that.

Your mistake is equating the belief they should exist with hatred - I they should be allowed to exist for all and any restrictions in their use or practice by an individual should be governed by that that individual's conscience.

Per my religion, God gave us Free Will. The State doesn't get to take that away.
Removepaywall.com Redirecting to RussiaToday
I recently discovered an odd issue where removepaywall.com is redirecting to RussiaToday when trying to remove the paywall of an article. Removepaywall.com is using archive.today.

After further investigation, it appears that when making requests to archive.today, they are redirected to RT only when the referer header is set to removepaywall.com (429 response). If the referer header is absent, the request resolves normally.

Could archive.today be compromised? Or is it a networking issue?

All previously posted links using removepaywall.com (i.e. on X) are now directing to russia today.

To reproduce, you can use this curl command:

curl -v -e "https://www.removepaywall.com/" https://archive.is/newest/removepaywall.com

This will return a 429 status code and a redirect to RT. Without the referer header, the usual response is returned.
it isn't the chicken tax, rather CAFE standards driving up dimensions versus emissions outputs.

Somehow, this is "best case scenario" for greenhouse gas emissions. (what it really is ensuring profitability for corp manufacturers.

https://me.engin.umich.edu/news-events/news/cafe-standards-c...
Yep, that's exactly how Microsoft is operating as a company recently: Copilot is a hammer—it needs to be used EVERYWHERE.

Forget bug fixes and new feature rollouts, every department and product team at Microsoft needs to add Copilot. Microsoft customers MUST jump on the AI-bandwagon!
I'm a professor at a small college. I teach intro programming most semesters and we're now moving to using tools like Cursor with no restrictions in upper-level courses.

"How do students learn to code nowadays?" - I think about this pretty much all the time.

In my intro class, the two main goals are to learn about structured programming (using loops, functions, etc.) and build a mental model of how programs execute. Students should be able to look at a piece of code and reason through what it does. I've moved most of the traditional homework problems into class and lab time, so I can observe the students coding without using AI. The out-of-class projects are now bigger and more creative and include specific steps to teach students how to use AI collaboratively.

My upper-level students are now doing more ambitious and challenging projects. What we've seen is that AI moves the difficulty of programming away from remembering details of languages or frameworks, but rewards having a careful, structured development process:

- Thinking hard and chatting about the problem and the changes you need to implement before doing anything

- Keeping components encapsulated and thinking about interfaces

- Controlling the scope of your changes; current AIs work best at the function or class level

- Testing and validation

- Good manual debugging skills; you can't rely on AI to fix everything for you

- General system knowledge: networking, OS, data formats, databases

One of my key theories is that AI might lower the value of "computer science" as a standalone major, but will lead to a lot more coding across fields that currently don't use it. The intersection of "not a traditional engineer" and "can work with AI to solve problems with code" is going to be an emerging skill set that will change a lot of disciplines.
On the bépo layout that I use, extremely well, as it sits between ’ (U+2019 ’ RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK) and ‑ (U+2011 ‑ NON-BREAKING HYPHEN), each being generated by altgr+shift and x . and k (which are all on the opposite side of the keyboard compared to altgr key).

At least from the point of view of digital gymnastic, it’s not really any worst than camel or snake cases, though direct access to dash could be said to give a small facilitation for input in kebab case.

So it really depends on the keyboard layout used (or whatever input device facility is used). What’s you favorite input method lately? Does it really doesn’t provide a convenient way to input more than ASCII visible glyphs?

Plus, let’s be honest, identifiers are generally written in full expanse only once, then autocompletion is going to do it for us. And we all know we spend more time reading identifiers than declaring new ones.
>What was wrong with the existing app?

It didn't work on Windows and Linux desktops.
How many actual humans are useful in your niche scientific domain?

And how many actual humans, with a fair bit of training, can become a little bit less than useless?

I mean, my parents used to have this dog that would just look at you like "go get you own damn ball, stupid human" if you threw a ball around him.

--edit--

and, yes, the dog also made grammatical mistakes.
As a sufferer it does need to be a 2-way street. We cannot expect perfection from others, but we can ask people close to us to be mindful and do their best, whatever their best is. On the flip side, sufferers do need to seek out therapy, help, treatment, coping strategies, and anything else to attenuate the issue. Even taking the stress/impact from a 10/10 down to a 6/10 can do wonders for everyone involved.
It depends on the hardware. The laptop I use for DJ doesn't have a dedicated GPU.

I also use open source, preferring demucs over spleeter.

In my experience spleeter requires huge amounts of memory, my DJ laptop only has 16GB of RAM, and I need to close the browser to be able to successfully stem a 5 minutes song.

Demucs takes a bit longer, but it uses just 2GB of RAM. And the sound quality of the stems separation is much better with demucs, which is a more important factor than the runtime, IMO.
I believe both versions of the game support realms, although I haven't tried it.
Well, yes, that's what's going to happen .. because that churn increases the GDP number.
I don't even know what these big flashy features are anymore. Every year I get asked by staff "Can I upgrade to <latest major Mac OS>" and every time I tell them they can, but they won't see anything different. There's not even big architectural changes under the hood to improve stability or performance.

Short of it being a requirement to use the latest version of Xcode (once they bump the minimum in the following Feburary), and security updates stopping, there's been very little reason to actually upgrade.
> But truthfully 90% of work related programming is not problem solving, it's implementing business logic. And dealing with poor, ever changing customer specs. Which an llm will not help with.

Au contraire, these are exactly things LLMs are super helpful at - most of business logic in any company is just doing the same thing every other company is doing; there's not that many unique challenges in day-to-day programming (or business in general). And then, more than half of the work of "implementing business logic" is feeding data in and out, presenting it to the user, and a bunch of other things that boil down to gluing together preexisting components and frameworks - again, a kind of work that LLMs are quite a big time-saver for, if you use them right.
What you're impressed with is 40% human skill in creating an LLM, 0.5% value created by the model. And 59.5% the skills of all the people it ate and is now trying to destroy the livelihood of
Justice Department Launches Anticompetitive Regulations Task Force
For what reasons? I've used both and never seen such a thing. In fact I'd argue the simplicity and collaboration features of Google Docs gives it an edge.
Ask HN: Is anyone experiencing "AI brain rot?"
I’ve noticed that the more often I ask for AI assistance or “vibe code” things, the less sharp I am at solving difficult challenges of a similar nature the next time.

Has anyone else felt the boost brings weakness at times when you need to show strength?
Um. Yes. It must be, or it would not work.
I'd guess that it is actually the other way around than you might expect. First there was an affordability problem so everyone was pushed into rentals, then the renters were a big enough political block to soft-seize the houses from the landlords.

So I'd anticipate places with tenants rights laws to associate with huge amounts of housing inventory while the incentives really catch up. Then the tenants get pushed to move somewhere else and the laws go away as the renting bloc loses numbers.
Going to kill someone… the messages said there was a spy there, someone who watched a target go into a building (and not leave). Is that spy still alive?
> instead of opening my mouth to parrot the "Orange Man Evil" party line to farm upvotes.

Or, you know, Europeans and Canadians might actually see the Orange Man for what he is, and express their opinions.
If the US takes Greenland, expect countries worldwide to start a land grab race.

If the so called world police (USA) is annexing a country, why shouldn't others do it?
Changed compared to when? Back in 1939 Nazism and Fascism were different doctrines, which were soon put in the same bag of "fascism" for the purpose of war propaganda from the allies. Bizarrely the equally insane Japanese racism wasn't called fascist.

Nowadays fascism has become synonymous with right extremists in popular culture, I guess because it's an easy way to discredit a political opponent.

I believe that scholars who study political science have a different and more consistent definition of fascism, though it too likely evolved to capture the essential characteristics of related ideologies.

A significant difference between Jim Crow's America and fascist regimes is the concentration of power into the hands of one man (or a small group). That means that separation of power (executive, judiciary, legislative) that existed through American history did not exist in Fascist Italy or Nazi Germany. Another one is nationalism. There are likely others.
Sure, that makes sense, make the tax big enough to really hurt if they try to eat it.

I guess if IP is off the table as well, nothing to stop someone from pirating every movie on netflix and launching a clone for EU!

Im curious for some more details around this. I hope it turns out to be a nice big stick to smack some sense into the US tech oligarchs, and also their orange subordinate
Really hope Europe etc. sees the opportunity for a massive win here and invests in bringing these people over
A dangerous epidemic in boxing: the tragic, cautionary tale of Paul Bamba
York doesn't have an active airport
http://homepage.math.uiowa.edu/~jorgen/heavisidequotesource....

Seems it was Oliver Heaviside.

Do you have a pointer to the poincare publication?
Why couldn’t a sufficiently smart REPL have those things as well? Anything can happen after the read and around the execute stage!
Repository pattern is useful if you really feel like you're going to need to switch out your database layer for something else at some point in the future, but I've literally never seen this happen in my career ever. Otherwise, it's just duplicate code you have to write.
So we have:

Unimaginably large no of plants, odds of life are rare, but life is common because of the no of planets.

Unimaginably large no of planets, odds of life are such that it only emerged once in billions of years over 10^25 planets, so odds of life emerging are something insane like 10^30:1.

Your conclusion that life is probably unique on Earth is possible, but seems highly unlikely, and in the absence of other information, I'm going to assume the most likely outcome, which is that we are not alone, we don't yet know how alone, but the outlier is to say life emerged but once.

Feel free to make whatever assumptions you like, but stating the obvious about assumptions doesn't change my argument at all or invalidate it - obviously you have to make assumptions when information is incomplete. Nobody is saying with certainty there is or is not life (clearly we don't yet know), we're talking about the most likely outcome given what we know.

We have found the building blocks of life on asteroids already, if we do find extra-terrestrial life in our neighbourhood it would mean life is extremely common in the universe due to the no of planets and time, if not, it doesn't mean much, it just means it is not extremely common, the outcome you posit is way on the other extreme of the scale.

https://eos.org/articles/lifes-building-blocks-found-in-benn...
Yeah basically this. If I look at how it helps me as an individual, I can totally see how AI can sometimes be useful. If I take a look at what societal effect of AI, it becomes apparent that AI just is a net negative. Some examples:

- AI is great for disinformation

- AI is great at generating porn of women without their consent.

- Open source projects massively struggle as AI scrapers DDOS them.

- AI uses massive amounts of energy and water, most importantly the expectation is that energy usage will rise when we drastically in a world where we need to lower it. If Sam Altman gets his way, we're toast.

- AI makes us intellectually lazy and worse thinkers. We were already learning less and less in school because of our impoverished attention span. This is even worse now with AI.

- AI makes us even more dependent on cloud vendors and third-parties, further creating a fragile supply chain.

Like AI ostensibly empowers us as individuals, but in reality I think it's a disservice, and the ones it truly empowers are the tech giants, as citizens become dumber and even more dependent on them and tech giants amass more and more power.
Previous administrations were wary of Signal: Trumpworld has embraced it
Future Proofing Inference Servers with PCI-Express Switches
https://www.palladiummag.com/2023/06/01/complex-systems-wont...
Perhaps not surprising given what we know about how e.g. satnav usage affects our navigational competence. Feels like outsourcing our reasoning and problem solving would have an analagous effect.

"Habitual use of GPS negatively impacts spatial memory during self-guided navigation":
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-62877-0
Absolutely baffling how this entire interview feels like a sales pitch. Fox News consistently fails to ask though questions - even tries to steer the conversation to another of Elons strong points, AI. I cant understand how anyone with a trace of critical thinking falls for this.
> But for skilled craftsmen, these machines became force multipliers, dramatically increasing productivity

Until they eventually and inevitably got injured themselves. Factories were just dangerous (and still are in many many places around the world).
In my country they do. You have 2 weeks delinquency and that's it.
iPad OS is one of the worst operating systems in widespread use.
She should try Perplexity.

I hope she is aware of the limited context window and ability to retrieve older tokens from conversations.

I have used llms for the exact same purpose she has, summerize chapters or whole books and find the source from e quote, both with success.

I think they key to a successful output lies in the way you prompt it.

Hallucinations should be expected though, as we all hopefully know, llms are more of a autocomplete than intelligence, we should stick to that mindset.
Treaties, International law and international institutions.

People occasionally break the law in countries too, doesn't mean it's a free for all when there is one crime committed.
Great insight—thanks for sharing. It strikes me that bureaucracy is inherently self-perpetuating- once established, it rewards compliance over creativity, steadily shifting the culture until innovation becomes the exception rather than the rule.

Perhaps the real challenge isn't balancing innovation and marketing—it's creating a culture that genuinely rewards bold ideas and meaningful risk-taking.
It's in the documentation for Spotlight:

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mchlp1008/mac

I agree that discoverability could be better, but macOS has pretty consistently had hidden power user shortcuts and modifiers, to keep the basic workflow streamlined/simple for those who don't need it.
Problem is what kind of moat does that SaaS have? The flip side of 'we replaced our dev team with vibe coders look how fast we print shitware' is now shitware value falls close to 0, as anyone can make it.

Though you suggest he's non-technical... "writing down exactly what he wants" is just coding!
Kinda-sorta agree with your point, it's the HN headline that has been editorialized. The actual article mentions services as a whole, not big tech specifically, which makes it seem that the GP focused more on the headline, but even their comment is talking about services as a whole.

In terms of your comment, they didn't say Starlink is big tech. The paragraph in question separates them with the word "another example":

> A fightback could include restrictions on the intellectual property of Big Tech companies. Another example would be banning Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite network from winning government contracts.

As for big tech examples examples, the article did mention revoking of patents, or obstructing revenues on software updates and streaming. But yeah, the article is otherwise thin on details wrt big tech, primarily because it's not focusing on that topic specifically.
Good idea. I’ll add some that have annoyed me for years just in case:

- On iOS, the alarms app breaks down once you get to ~250 alarms. You can try to add/delete alarms and it’ll appear like they changed, but the change wont be saved. I can’t use the alarms app now and can’t fix it as I can’t delete alarms. By the way, would be nice to reuse alarms when creating at the same time as an existing alarm so you don’t end up with 250+ alarms in the first place.

- On iOS, the notes app breaks down in long documents (~10 pages of text with bullet points). When writing beyond that, some text will sometimes disappear only to reappear when you type some more. Other times, the cursor disappears. This only happens in long documents. All English text, mainly bullet points, often with some text pasted in.

It’s shocking to me that my iPhone 11 Pro can play gorgeous 3D video games, but can’t handle 250 alarms or 10 pages of text..
I don't know which utopia you are living in. I'd like to be there as well.
> Kids know what secrets are. But from their point of view, why even talk about it if it is secret? Why can't we go to another place and talk secretly? Why do we need to talk secrets in public using substitution?

Connect this to surprise gifts and birthday invites. Or another thing that resonates with them.

Explaining locks and their purpose ain't any easier. Just yesterday, my daughter asked me why I'm locking the extra set of doors we're normally keeping open, and when I told her about the just-issued warning about burglaries in our area, well, there's a lot of context to explain before a 5yo gets why locking the doors is the right thing to do in this scenario.

I mean, there's always a lot of explaining to do with kids anyway. So far, I've never had trouble giving them real explanations and letting them know when they're simplified.
AMD’s Zen 6 Ryzen CPUs to feature up to 26 cores and clock speeds of over 6 GHz – Leaker claims
I am using an USB-to-PS/2 adapter right now.

My mouse is a Logitech MX-500, which is the last model I have with PS/2 support, the next model MX-510 was USB only.

The motherboard is an MSI B550 TOMAHAWK, the computer was assembled just a few months ago.

The mouse still works and it has proven to be more reliable than modern ones.
The EU's budget is about €190bn. Fines for Big Tech companies last year totalled €8bn.

So that's ~4%. It’s not insignificant, but I wouldn't exactly call it a primary revenue stream. VAT brings in 3x as much money. Import duties bring in about 5x that. And about half of the budget comes directly from the member states.
This is covered in the Pep 723 document, it's not a uv invention.

https://peps.python.org/pep-0723/#why-not-infer-the-requirem...
There’s absolutely no need for async http here. The script does one http request at the top of main. And a trivial one too (just a simple GET).

response = urlopen(url)
return json.load(response)

is what they’re saving themselves from.
Just FYI:

There are two editions, Java and Bedrock. Java is the original, available on PC and Mac, and supports programming-like technical play and mods. Bedrock is Microsoft’s reimplementation, available on all devices except Mac, and supports emotes and microtransactions. Other than that they’re largely the same game, and buying either gives you both versions. Realms supports both, but a server is one or the other, not both. There are also other managed hosting providers for Minecraft (both versions), but Realms is probably easier and cheaper for you. Java version has performance problems, but mostly because Microsoft’s code is inefficient, there are a few mods (also written in Java) that everybody uses to fix performance without affecting gameplay.
CFPB Seeks to Vacate Abusive, Unjust Case Against Townstone
https://www.shipofharkinian.com/
In addition to electronic singalling being completely different, the serial interface used by many 3d printers is not the same as low level serial interface sent over the wire. There is a low level usb protocol for stuff like data packets ,checksums , metadata negotiation, multiple endpoints in single device, basic transfer types(bulk, isochronous, control, interrupt). All common device types and standard drivers including USB to serial, HID, removable storage is built on top of this layer instead of raw serial sent over the wire. That's why you can have stuff like USB hubs which can forward data to and from multiple devices. And also why you can plug in a USB device, and the OS recognize and lookup driver without user manually configuring what device is plugged into which port.
+1 for docuseal, so good.