skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah it’s called “kick an old can” down the road rather than throw it away.

It’s easier to rewrite some words on paper than do actual planning, and implementation of upgrade work.

A rich nation seeks financial efficiency, circling around tried and true solutions, whittling them down to pointless husks. Costing it self reliability and resiliency.

With big projects like nuclear plants and nation states, only so much whittling of resiliency can happen before ... poor. The structural support fails and the systems is no more.
She wouldn't consider herself a gamer. I wouldn't in the sense that it's not an identity for her (I wouldn't say "gamer" = player just like a film buff isn't "someone that watches a lot of TV").

Like she wouldn't buy a "gaming chair" or any other gamer-branded/oriented merch nor are the games something she talks about much.
I think the price of mobile data in Australia well and truly puts to rest the "US is big" argument.

Also I'd say puts to rest arguments about wages/regulation being the issue.
Plastic waste is a major ecological problem.

https://youtu.be/c8aVYb-a7Uw
It's the friends, family and fools round.
Cerebras 1.2T Chip Integrated with LLNL’s Lassen System for AI Research
That may be the case for some countries but it doesn't really explain the difference between the US/Canada and Europe or Australia.
Google Voice also works if you have internet access, but not mobile network connectivity, and it works while overseas to provide a fully-functional US phone number (you do have to use a standard paid US mobile number to set it up, but do not need to retain it afterward).
Because some of us bought into the ecosystem early on when we believed it was going to be much more open based on what the company said. Switching now would require a large investment, and I think their is some element of wanting Apple to be true to its past promises.
Sharpen a Pencil and Challenge an Opponent
It's more likely to pivot to lead-gen for the VCs that back this play https://www.1517fund.com

Maybe they use it to be first in line for the business that have "it"
I second this. My Jio connection is fast enough for me to VPN in and work, combined with Zoom calls. It's always 20-30Mbps whenever I test it.
None of that affects me negatively, they can have all my info for all I care.

Plus they make our lives easier on a level that was unthinkable not long ago with Best in Slot free products like youtube, maps, search, email, open source browser and accessible smartphones with open source OS.

My only complain to Alphabet is that they like to toy with us by keeping Mozilla alive on a feeding tube. That's just cruel, I expected some mercy.
Out of the box Android will alert you if an application seems to be using a lot of bandwidth on either the cellular connection or a WiFi link marked as costing money.

[Of course an Android modified by your phone company or product manufacturer may not do this]

There's also an overall summary month-by-month for apps.

Long press the mobile connection, pick App data usage and you get a chart and a list, ordered by amount used and with a warning that your operator might count things differently†

Mine says Pokemon Go uses a lot of bandwidth, which makes sense, also one of the free games I play made some requests while I was away from home and I unblocked it, after that comes Chrome looking at web sites.

†e.g. New Zealand zero rated all their COVID-19 related government services, and as a free bonus they get to find out how much the providers think that's worth and decide if in fact they'd prefer all government services were zero rated forever)
lol, HN melodrama-purists downvoting

No, Excel is not relevant to the conversation. Excel is a standalone desktop application. No, Excel is not an example of a "no-code" webapp. Do you seriously need another adult to tell you these things?
The Sun was in a relative quiet period for most of those 15 years. Intel removed ECC from the consumer products to keep businesses from buying them --they didn't count on an entire generation of Computer Scientists being wiped out in the dot-com crash and the replacements getting lucky while not knowing any better. All of the great masters (cough) know better, such as the architects of AWS (it is 100% ECC), Microsoft, Apple and other environments that were less affected by the loss of key personnel to the Crash. But keep down votin' --love it!
> The argument is that GPT3 has no understanding of the world, just superficial understanding of words and their relationships.

We don't really know what "understanding of the world" means in humans.
We just "see it when it's there".

We might be radically different from GPT-3, or we might not.
Our way of learning is different in any way.

Something that came to my mind: Various GPT-3 answers resemble answers given by children: Mostly correct, but having misunderstood some crucial point.

In real human learning and conversation these points are easily corrected by feedback by explanation: "You see, the point is no one wears bathing suites to work".

Which would then be incorporated as new wisdom.

Maybe this feedback-mechanism is what GPT-3 is missing. Maybe we should talk to it.
Apples Ads aren’t included. You have to pay for them separately.
That’s standard - credit card companies have similar agreements with merchants.
Just a UI feedback - I think you can make this more readable by not using a pure black background and pure white text. Right now it's harsh on eyes imo and therefore hard to read. Try using the gray and white combo which YouTube dark mode uses.

https://www.codewithrepl.it
This is also famous from Orwell's Animal Farm. I wonder where it originated.
Did you start the process of permanently forwarding your mail at the USPS yet? Even if you haven't pulled the trigger on it yet, did you start? This happened to me when I started (but never actually moved).

I figured they were tied into the marketing feed that gets updates when people register for "all in" forwarding.
Only functions that are defined in your codebase will be rendered in the graph. Thus framework functions are excluded.
More effective?
> Apple demand that app developers price their apps in the app store similar to the same service in other stores

Where did you read that? I don't think that's true; for example YouTube Premium costs more through iOS IAP compared to the website. And Spotify did the same for years too.
You got some pretty great discounts according to https://www.fido.ca/nac/choose-plan?type=byod

Isn't Fido Toronto only or have they changed that? (it's been a while since I checked)

Also worth mentioning is this marketing thing where each of the major carriers own several cheap carriers. E.g. Roger's has: Fido, Chatr, Cityfone, Primus, Zoomer, and SimplyConnect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Canadian_mobile_phone_...
This is not advocating for md5. :/
I bet there are a lot of web apps that could be mobile apps too but it ain’t worth it to take the risk. That’s the BATNA.
That’s what got them in this mess in the first place, fifty pie in the sky projects to be relevant instead of focusing on Firefox or just saving revenue aggressively.
If the 8086 uses microcode to implement its ISA using simpler operations, could a CPU that does away with the translation layer theoretically be made & if so what would the simpler underlying language or microcode look like?

What portion of the chip handled the translation?
You bought your iPhone before 2008 and are still using it? If so, I'm impressed. Otherwise, Apple has been clear since the very beginning of the App Store that third-party apps require approval and can only be installed via the App Store. Why did you believe otherwise?

Third party iPhone and iPod touch applications must be approved by Apple and will be available exclusively through the App Store.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2008/03/06Apple-Announces-iPh...
Really? They discovered quarks at my university (I wrote the kernel mode code to handle the data bursts from our Cyclotron on sub-MIPS processors) and I have four decades of systems experience. So, what are your qualifications? Hmm?
There's a little more to wsl2 than just a VM. It's lighter and partially integrated. More like a VM running alongside windows instead of on top of windows.
I was missing a segment on when they armed the bomb. Given it's absolutely massive explosive power I would assume they wanted to avoid a crash at the airport to detonate it. But perhaps it was armed already when attached to the plane?
Full self driving with a robo taxi network promised to make your car appreciate in value 7 fold. They couldn't just pump the stock, they also pump the car itself as a rocketing investment. It is supposed to launch by the end of 2020.
I think what matters is whether you trust them or not. I do care about privacy, so I don't leak information that I care about on random websites, only trust entities. For me, Google is one of the company I trust, just like some people trust DDG, Mozilla, Fastmail...
So what’s the true value of those cool Carlton dance moves I can get on Fortnite? How much less would the coins and loot boxes cost? Just imagine the overhead that Epic has to charge to reproduce the $18 billion of virtual goods it sales.
Q: What if this bomb was exploded below the ground, and not above?
This has been posted multiple times already.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24241488

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24246212

3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24243496
I think we must be careful to remember that correlation is not causation. I remember reading a website back 10 years ago where someone made the same case except it was the wearing of shoes, not the lack of sunlight that caused all the problems. In sure there have been other hypothesis in the past and there will be more in the future.
that’s not supposed to be interesting for you, but for a kid. and belive me it is, you can see it in their eyes. how they shine after you get the first paper printed clue (that is hidden before one of the layers), how they can’t wait for you to help them remove the others and the final joy when they find a new toy (and there are many different dolls, you will find new ones pretty often).

do i like it? yes and no, all i’m thinking of while unboxing is of how much plastic is wasted, but this in not for the kid to worry
That could be survivor bias, but you're probably right.
After quite a few decades' experience with style guides, I have determined that they are vastly over-valued, and often very actively harmful.

There are three major problems with typical style guides (including yours):

1. Triviality

They legislate behaviors that are easy to express and police, but don't actually result in better code. This is a big evil because it distracts from hard-learned behaviors that do make better code.

Programmer attention is the scarcest resource any of us have. Almost all bugs trace to a lapse somewhere. Hence, anything that squanders attention actively generates bugs. Lining up columns generates bugs.

How often have you got review notes that mentioned nothing but style trivialities? Did the reviewer have attention to spare for things that will matter?

2. Obsolescence

Style guides are invariably obsolete on their first day, and only get worse. Updating a style guide is always contentious, rightly recognized as a waste of senior engineers' time, yet not to be trusted to their juniors. So, the guide is for a language as it might have been used (somewhere) five, ten, 20 years ago. Current best practices are not mentioned at all.

Worse, if it ever is updated, none of the existing code conforms anymore. Nobody is so foolish as to try to bring all old code up to new requirements. Automated updates can only address trivial changes. So, you have an official style that is either badly out of date, or at best doesn't match the code you have.

3. More obsolescence

Besides the style guide's own obsolescence, it legislates code constructs that are obsolete. "This is why we can't have nice things." Each bit of new code that conforms to the old guide for bad or trivial reasons amounts to more tech debt.

Ultimately, there is no substitute for competence. Good engineers will not write hard-to-read code. Somebody who does will, despite the best guide. Your only hope is to demand competence.

Instead

What can we do, then, to avoid chaos?

First, instead of mandating trivialities, identify principles and goals. Refer to concrete benefits to code quality. Good principles will address very different topics than your style guide did. Structs should have not too many members, functions limited size, names be (only) long enough to be readily distinguished from others, whitespace draw attention to places that need it, not wasted on highlighting nothings. The principles are based on psychology and the limits of attention, not typography.

Consistency is good in small amounts, and harmful in the large. When there are old ways and a new way of doing things, people reading code can easily adjust to each where it appears, recognizing that old code is that way because it is old. Changing habits become a useful marker of code origin.

The useful range for consistency is not a project, or folder, or file. It is at most 20 lines.
While this only works with instances, I usually just cron the shutdown command with a future time. Nice thing is, if working late I give myself a couple hour window to cancel shutdown on any nodes I'm still using.

echo "0 22,0,2,4,6,8,10 * * * /sbin/shutdown +115" > /etc/cron.d/autoshutdown

I'm all for a better tool, just wanted to point out a builtin alternative.
PPP is used to talk about money. For example, I could compare salaries in different countries to each other and using PPP might give me a better representation than the exchange. If we try and use it to compare goods not in a basket, it's problematic. Everything in the basket is the same price, but stuff out of the basket is now a different price. It doesn't make logical sense with assumptions PPP has. If you used PPP in that way, you're basically saying that the law of one price holds for only the things in the basket, and not for stuff out of the basket. This fundamental distinction between the things in the basket and out of the basket is artificial and doesn't make sense. After all, we could then drastically change the price of something by just adding or removing it from the basket.

What you're after is relative cost of a good, normalized by the wealth of an average buyer. This is a fair point, but PPP doesn't do that for your. PPP gives you relative value of money, using the market price and the law of one price.
All: could you please not post to threads like this if you're hot under the collar and have passionate feelings for or against $BigCo? It leads to tedious flamewars with people snarking at each other, flaming each other, making generalizations about the other side, and making up accusations of astroturfing (for or against). All of that is against the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

The idea here is: if you have a substantive point to make, make it thoughtfully; if you don't, please don't comment until you do. "Boo $BigCo", "yay $BigCo" fan-v.-antifan cage matches are not curious conversation. We want curious conversation.
I get 8gb capped 4g and unlimited 3g with page plus for 39$ a month. (unlimited text+calling)
Oh yeah, I have experienced that for a lot of my life. I didn't realize that that wasn't normal, though. I haven't experienced Canadian internet for long enough.

However, I can definitely say that I have had to solve a lot of captchas and can recall at least one incident where I could only have been banned because I was from Pakistan.
We should have a GNU like alternative for the mobile. Mobiles are the primary computing devices now, and we should give liberty to the developers to distribute their products as they wish.
I tell yah there is nothing sadder than some poor CPA who has lost all of his client files and some of his baby's pictures when the Fusion Drive in his iMac failed (what a horrible piece of technology) only to discover that their backups are all bad because whenever the program kicked-in, it caused a failure mode on their cheap-azz third-party RAM DIMM that was otherwise unnoticed due to lack of ECC support. So when you say "pretty much no one" are you missing an /s at the end?
> but in Brave New World we're shown exactly one person (out of how many billions?)

So you're saying that if Demons outnumbered humans billion to one, Hell would be a utopia.

Also from my recollection it wasn't just one. Several characters were deeply unhappy about their status. There is no reason to believe these characters are outliers, there could be others.

Although to be honest, most Brave New World people don't qualify as humans. They don't mourn their losses, create anything or believe in anything. They just consume. Most of them don't even procreate, since they are sterile.
We can just build a ship to chase down Oumuamua and end this debate. If it is no longer where a natural object with a passive trajectory should be well we have our answer. If it is there we can take a close look.

THe fact that another interstellar object was discovered so quickly made me lose hope in the artifact or ship idea though. Part of the appeal was the idea that interstellar meteors were not really a thing, but apparently they are.
This article is about WordPress, not Fortnite. For WordPress.com to cancel out Apple's 30% fee, its monthly prices for its paid plans would need to increase from $4 to $5.71, from $8 to $11.43, from $25 to $35.71, and from $45 to $64.29.

https://wordpress.com/pricing/
They can legislate for example against app store exclusivity instead of legislating technical app store rules.
you are right, but of all the shit we use the plastic for (like bottles of water, or beads in a shower gel), you decided to start with toys?
Not exactly GNU like, but you could use LineageOS without the Google apps installed. There are other open app stores like FDroid, and you can sideload as well.
At the end of the video, he tried it with his friend who's not using the apparatus. Yet, her eyes seem to be looking at him too. What do you think?
Guidance systems were (and are) presumably worse, if one has to judge by officially released data.
Propulsion systems were much more difficult to keep in a ready to launch state, and much more fragile.
In general, USSR preferred less sophisticated solutions, instead making sure they could be easily replicated.
Microsoft’s case was about parlaying their monopoly in Windows to the browser space by making Internet Explorer an intrinsic part of Windows.

This is completely different from the #1 and #2 smart phone marketshare players charging a 30% cut as the exclusive software reseller to their own platform.

The original At&T was allowed to be a monopoly for 80+ years because it was in the public interest. The 1982 breakup was 8 years in the making due to poor management decisions in the 1960s and eroded that trust. Unfortunately the breakup was a failure. The Baby Bells maintained their regional monopolies, grew massively, and got their restrictions removed in the 1996 communications act, and now we have Verizon (2 of the 7 baby bells), AT&T (which is the original monopoly plus 4 of the 7 baby bells) and CenturyLink (the remnants of US West and other independents). The only real competition has come from foreign entrants like T-Mobile.

I think you need to take a closer look at the history of antitrust cases. It hasn’t been particularly successful.
You know, with the amount of data some companies and governments are slurping up it might almost be justified... of course as a 5 eyes nation it's also pretty damn hypocritical.
Charliebrownau Recommended Alt tech List - 15/Aug/2020
======================================================

* Fakebook >> Minds + Mumblit

* Twatter >> Gab

* Youtube >> Bitchute + Hoshpod

* Streaming >> JoshwhoTV + Mumblit

* Google E-Mail >> Tutanota + Protonmail

* Google & DDG Search >> swisscows/SearX/Qwant

* Google Maps >> OpenStreetMap

* Medium >> Publish0x

* Skype/video chat >> Jitsi Meet

* Whatsapp/fb/etc >> Matrix/Session/Delta.chat/Self hosted XMPP

* Discord >> Mumble or Matrix

* Reddit >> Poal.co + Voat

* Wiki >> infogalactic

* Free image site >> pic8.co or imgtc or tineye

* meetup.com >> @GetTogether

* Instagram >> pixiv.net

* Streaming chat/superchat >> Entropy

* Xsplit >> OBS

* Pateron >> Subscribestar

* Spreadshirt + teespring >> TBA

* MS Win 8/8.1/10 >> Linux OS (PC)

* MS Office >> Libreoffice

* MacOSX >> Elementary OS (PC)

* Android >> Lineage OS

* Playstore/fdroid >> Aptoide/Apkpure

* VPN (home PC) >> Mullvad VPN

* DNS (home PC) >> DNS.Watch

* Domain >> Epik & Unstoppable Domains

* Hosting >> Vultr

* Maillist/mailchimp >> Mailcow

* view Youtube anon+Privacy - https://instances.invidio.us/
* View twatter anon+privacy - https://nitter.net/

============================================================================
Okay the point is you won't wait to mobilize against alien life. Assuming that technology increases exponentially it will be prudent to launch as soon as you detect the alien life even if it takes you a hundred years to reach the destination.
Isn't this gambling?
Google is your Friend -> Google is your Enemy
Define "solution"
The Cannikin test was 5MT and still pretty mindblowing:

https://www.military.com/video/nuclear-bombs/nuclear-weapons...
WindTerm 1.5: A Free Professional SSH/SFTP/Shell/Telnet/Serial Client for DevOps
Those pricing tactics are standard retail practices when dealing with large chains (“we will not be undersold”). This is why most items have an MSRP: to provide transparency across all retailers.

With software it’s of course easy to say that it’s a different product in different platforms. Which is why Apple used legal licensing to make Apps feel more like traditional products.

Arguably this makes easier for consumers to compare platforms and make a buying decision based on the underlying platform and not transitory deals on top of it. We can assume that all smartphone platforms are equal for their 3rd party software prices. Competition therefore isn’t on partner discounts or formations of cartels, it’s on the strengths of the underlying platform itself.

This does stop a form of competition, but I’m not sure price opacity is a form that has traditionally been viewed as a net positive.

Perhaps this leads to a legislative regime similar to US auto sales where dealers/shops and manufacturers must have separate ownership. To me Apple’s policies aren’t directly trying to emulate some aspects of this to avoid having to give up running the store.
I don't think everyone will like markdown or any html-free subsets of it. It'd be better to have a low level format for documents which could be a text or a binary format.

If I think about a text format, the first thing that comes up in my mind is something like Scribe or Texinfo.

Like this:

This is what you write...

---
title = Title here
---
# Heading here
Blah **blah** _meh_ duh @haha.

which is transformed into something like this...

@document[type=lwdml,version=1.1]
@meta[
generator="lwdml-md 0.2.7";
time='iso8601#2021-12-31T23:57:34Z#';
docversion=0.1;
]
@title|Title here|
@main
@heading(Heading here)
@start{text}
Blah @bold(blah) @emph(meh) duh @@haha.
@end{text}
@eof.

...which is then served.
This is at least human readable, clean and less repetation and clutter (than html (I think)).

In this system, you'd be writing in your favourite markup language (markdown, reST, ...) and compiling it to be served :).
Uber : Taxis :: cloud/hyperscaling : bare metal
What level of math does one need to understand to take this course?
Is he the new Carl Sagan?