skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In case of, say, fire at a chemical plant, it may be important that people downwind get notified right away, there might not be very much time to get inside, close windows etc. Same for collapsed dams, radiological accidents, that sort of thing. Sirens can do that very well. Other channels are much less reliable (people might not have a news website open on their computer, might not be looking at their phone to catch that notification, etc.)

Radio is important because it's so widespread and low-tech. Pretty much every car has a receiver that can run for ages, there are inexpensive emergency ones that can be powered by crank and solar, so even in prolonged power outages, as long as the stations remain powered, and someone in your neighbourhood has a working receiver, it's still useful and pretty low-cost, since the infrastructure is already there.
As I previously said, those cases are about whether reverse engineering constitutes copyright infringement, which the courts have ruled it does not.

But it doesn't mean those platforms are "open", otherwise under that definition the iOS platform is "open" too because you can legally jailbreak your phone and distribute jailbroken apps. I don't think that's what people mean when they say a platform is "open".

> This is how GameSharks/ActionReplays/etc were legally sold

I was more curious if any actual games had been sold this way.
Work Lessons from the Pandemic
I'll shill for Florida here. I think a lot of tech companies looking for an alternative to SV would do well to put it on the shortlist.

It has an extremely business friendly environment, a pro-immigrant attitude, no state income tax, one of the top educational systems in the country, a fairly blue-state ish culture, and (given the exodus from NJ/NY) a high concentration of skilled professionals.

Similar to Silicon Valley, there's very little prejudice towards old money or pre-conceived notions of what elites "should look like". Unlike Silicon Valley, there's hardly any aversion to growth or gentrification. Job and wealth creators are celebrated.

Living costs are pretty cheap, especially for idyllic locations. The housing stock is newer and more modern. One can easily afford to live in walking distance of world-class beaches on a FAANG salary.

The biggest downside is the humid summers, flat landscape, and mosquitoes. On the other hand, the air pollution is markedly better than California or the Northeast. There's more hours of sunshine per year. Also, unlike San Francisco, human defecation on the street is virtually unheard of.
> This is so completely wrong I can't believe I'm responding to it.

And yet you provide no logical refutation.

> We are not past carrying capacity.

Because... you say so?

> Population control is some ecofascist bullshit.

Because... you say so?

"Fascist" doesn't mean "someone told me what to do." Not everything you don't like is "fascist". The environmental movement even at its worse doesn't encourage nationalism, or venerate the military or industry, promote sexism, have an obsession with national security. - it simply has zero connection to fascism.

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Population increases exponentially, and individual consumption increases exponentially. No one wants to stop having kids. No one wants to stop consumption. No one wants people to tell them what to do. So how is society going to survive?

The answer: it won't. The exponential growth will never stop until it all collapses. People will scream "fascism" at any attempt to stop any of this exponential growth... and we will devastate the ecosystem for all time to come.
#S(HASH-TABLE :TEST FASTHASH-EQL (ORANGES . 2) (APPLES . 6) (PEARS . 5))

Could have been an ALIST:

((ORANGES . 2) (APPLES . 6) (PEARS . 5))

or even a PLIST:

(ORANGES 2 APPLES 6 PEARS 5)

Those allow for ordered, and even duplicate keys unlike the hashtable approach. No idea if that's applicable to JSON reading though...
That was unexpected.

Heard about it on slack and also got the email.
Apologies if I'm misreading your comment but capital gains (or losses) only apply when the asset is sold.
The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore, so it eats it! It's rather like getting tenure.

Daniel Dennett
Agreed. My family has actually looked at moving away from Denver, with all the influx of people. The cost of living is no longer as attractive, and the politics that are coming in from out-of-state are much more slanted. I moved away from California 10+ years ago - now it seems like a lot more are doing the same thing, but bringing the same things with them that has made California less attractive.

That being said, as someone else mentioned, if your goal is to escape high taxes and the super-expensive housing costs of SF, all while living in an area that supports your life outside the office, Denver is a good place to look at. Even if its cost of living is rising.
Hey HN - I'm excited to share what I've been working on!

I believe that the web is eating the software world and if you don't already spend most of your work day in a web app it's only a matter of time before all of your work apps live on the web. While I was working at Google, I only ever had to use Chrome to get stuff done and many of my coworkers used Chromebooks full-time. However, the browsers we have today are not great productivity tools. Too many tabs, a lackluster bookmarking system, missing collaborative tooling: are just a few of the complaints I've heard about Chrome, Firefox, Safari, etc.

Aspen is designed make you more efficient by cutting down the time you spend poking through tabs, fumbling through links, or endlessly Googling for something that you found once but forgot to bookmark.

I'm looking forward to your hearing your thoughts and happy to answer any questions!
This is a core feature of every ad platform I've seen and is absolutely not a violation of the GPDR since users are giving consent when they signup.

You've signed up for a web service and never seen ads on other sites for it ? Very strange.
30hz Brain Stimulation Reduces Dyslexia Deficits
Right, just like there's no legitimate use for gdb or ghidra, which only exist to crack software for piracy. /s
"Markets" (locations or brokers designated for trade) represent a very small fraction of all human economic activity. Conflating the rules of NYSE with the rules of the market is a mistake.

> There is no Platonic ideal "markets" independent of the human structures

You need to understand that there absolutely is a single "the market" and it's not platonic at all. It refers to the sum behavior of all human economic interaction, which is absolutely a physical reality.
Love the snake graphic!
> If that is the case, my condolences.

As a software engineer working on IOS-XR, that gave me a chuckle :p

In the case of enterprise- and SP-grade routers, the data-plane - i.e., where the actual forwarding and lookups take place - runs entirely on a dedicated network processor (NP), mainly for performance reasons. Information on the NP is populated by the router's operating system in response to user configuration, network topology changes, or protocol state updates. On the other hand, the control plane runs mainly on the CPU(s). This is required so that the protocols running on the router OS (e.g., BGP) can receive and send out updates based on their state machines.
It's also very difficult to cheat w.r.t. wealth taxes vs. income taxes, which for any appreciable amount of money are trivial to trace.
> Our company was founded in Silicon Valley. But we seem to share fewer and fewer of the technology sector’s values and commitments.

I mean, looking at their line of work and what they're doing with technologies such as image-recognition, and the contracts they seem to be getting, I agree. Anecdotally, whenever they come up in conversation here in the Bay people seem to not like them very much.
> Is that extra latency an inherent limitation of how Wayland is designed

No, most Wayland compositors can already skip composition and pass the window contents directly to the screen in case of displaying just a single fullscreen window. There is also work ongoing on utilizing hardware planes when possible, to skip composition and improve performance in other cases as well - going beyond what was ever possible on X. Grandparent comment is simply wrong.
Well, my experience [1] has been nearly perfect, certainly much better than what I've had with AMD. Nvidia has been pretty much plug&play for me for a long time, with very few issues.

For Wayland yes, Nvidia is using a different approach than AMD/Intel so most desktop environments don't support the Nvidia way, resulting in a poor experience. That said, Wayland desktops as a whole are still quite some time away from reaching feature parity with X, so I'm not too worried just yet.

[1] For reference, I've been using Linux (and only Linux) on the desktop for ~18 years.
Wow did I really forget to put the link in there? Oh boy.

You can find it here: https://jakeprins.com/
Who would buy $90B of Amazon shares at market price? The Chinese CCP?

I’d actually like see how they would run Amazon. I’m guessing we might complain even more about their data collection processes.
A one-off sub-$200k payment isn't going to move a fulfillment center worker to upper middle class.
The only out-of-box thing I sometimes miss, is "try-files-first" -- but I'll also say it probably is a bit of an anti-pattern (just have static files under another path/sub-domain - etc).

But it is something that nginx does have. That, and maybe some kind of "x-send-file" acelleration/support.

Ed: this is odd, I could've sworn it wasn't that long ago I looked for and even discussed try-files-first for v2 - but apparently it exists?

https://caddy.community/t/v2-try-file-server-first/6440/3

https://caddyserver.com/docs/caddyfile/directives/try_files#...

Ed2: I guess I was confusing it with x-send-file acelleration - which still appear to be a bit wip? :

https://caddy.community/t/caddy-2-x-sendfile-x-accel-support...

https://caddy.community/t/sendfile-x-accel-redirect-v1s-inte...
The headline evoked my twisted like a Monty Python youth. Or the Haggis Poem aka Horace

Much to his dad and mum's dismay
Horace ate himself one day
He didn't stop to say his grace
He just sat down and ate his face
"We can't have this!" his dad declared
"If that lad's ate he should be shared"
But even as he spoke they saw
Horace eating more and more:
First his legs and then his thighs,
His arms, his nose, his hair, his eyes
"Stop him someone!" Mother cried
"Those eyeballs would be better fried!"
But all too late for they were gone,
And he had started on his dong...
"Oh foolish child!" the father mourned
"You could have deep-fried those with prawns,
Some parsely and some tartar sauce..."
But H was on his second course;
His liver and his lights and lung,
His ears, his neck, his chin, his tongue
"To think I raised himn from the cot
And now he's gone to scoff the lot!"
His mother cried what shall we do?
What's left won't even make a stew..."
And as she wept her son was seen
To eat his head his heart his spleen
And there he lay, a boy no more
Just a stomach on the floor...
None the less since it was his
They ate it - and that's what haggis is
It is not. They should use cell broadcast, it's privacy-friendly, efficient and as reliable as anything else involving a mobile phone.
Thank you! Can't believe I forgot to mention the link
Among the Norse Tribes: The Remarkable Account of Ibn Fadlan (1999)
So, wait, your offended sense of fashion is worth killing people over?
Recently I've been playing Warhammer Gladius, which is the bare essentials with a heavy focus on combat. With the right settings, matches will last 1-3 hours, which I think is perfect. I no longer have the time or the patience for 10-20 hour Civ matches, and honestly, I feel more drained and empty when a long match ends than satisfied. Whereas a finished match in Gladius is satisfying and leaves me wanting to start a new match (maybe not today, but the next day).

The combat design coupled with the relatively short matches also means that it's nowhere as micro-heavy as any Civ game past the early game, which I generally would find very tiring.
Don't worry, there won't be any solution at all, so you can rest easy.

Everyone will resist any attempt to limit their God-given right to reproduce as much as they want, to consume as much as they can afford, and to discard the waste wherever they please.

By the time humans figure out that this attitude is not compatible with a functioning biosphere, it will be far too late.
Is it really an extraordinary claim? In your own experience have you never settled for a poorer model of something, a lower resolution because you feel either you didn't have the cognitive resources to get there or you felt unmotivated? When the topic becomes more complex - this happens to more and more people.

If you have a compelling story you may be motivated to sip on the subject. After a time you probably shrug off the old understanding and get to something more robust and probably more scientific.

I acknowledge some people will head into annoying dead ends - but you have to respond to the question of whether you prefer some people to be wrong and some people get to better places - or if you want most of those people to have checked out altogether. After all it seems to me that longer people ponder on it the more it is they converge on something - often something true or useful. Those are your choices. If you want to call me a liar then I suggest taking this seriously means getting a whole lot better at telling stories that go in the direction you approve of instead of what to the inside looks like doubling down on accuracy but to the outside looks like obfuscation.

Practical test - A lot of scientists are concerned about CO2 emissions and climate change. A lot of the population thinks they're full of shit because of politics. Some people have noticed though - that there doesn't exist a conflict of interests in getting improved technologies that happen to reduce CO2 emissions. Just as many right wingers are going to buy passive houses, closed loop energy, solar panels, Teslas as left wingers. Instead of perusing this thought a lot of people veer off into sermonizing on the topic - but I have to wonder why anybody gives a shit about the means when it seems like pushing on one lever gets instant blowback and pushing on the technology lever wins friends every time. It's almost as if all these groups have ulterior motives different to the public facing ones.
SoFi Money accounts gone from website
If you have a SoFi money account and log in now it will greet you with 'Open a Money account' - all money disappeared. Support says it is a temp outage but man that is concerning. Shouldn't it at least say 'down for maintenance'?
I think it's been ongoing for years - the high cost of living, prohibitive zoning practices, traffic due to overcongestion, higher taxes have all been contributing to general unhappiness for not only businesses but people in the bay. With the increase in remote working even before the pandemic, and now with it becoming the norm in the industry, I'm pretty certain SV is past its prime in terms of talent centralization. So yeah I'm thinking we'll continue to see more of an exit out of California in general.
> I don't know why this is such a frequent screw up in comparisons by people complaining about security.

I have a suspicion that many, many engineers don't conceive of networked systems as participants in a human-driven adversarial environment. Many conceive of their software systems as little artifacts that function mostly independent of the outside world. When complete and functional, they should require no touching at all to continue doing so.

In other words, many people regard their computer systems as mechanistic and discrete things that can be declared "done" and treated as such. Many engineers work in shops where this is indeed how they work - ship a package and someone else does all the touching to keep it going.

I'm sympathetic. It took me a long time to make the jump to understanding software as operating services that always require maintenance, monitoring, and other forms of operation. Modern computers on modern networks simply cannot be treated as toasters if we want that level of reliability.

The paradigm shift isn't always easy or fun.
The point of charging for plastic bags is not the money, it is to force store employees to ask people how many bags they need (since they are required by law to charge for it).

Many customers, with the most basic of reminders, will choose to skip the bag, or bring their own.
Legal weed?
To me the older on-device was much more pleasant than the current one. In fact almost every alternative TTS system like the old SVOX and Ivona voices sound better than the current selection of Google ones. It's like someone turned the treble knob up and no matter which voice you pick they sound screechy.
And you want to give the geniuses who signed that deal even more money to spend?
Do you mean eBPF in general or the packet inspection parts specifically?
L1 is the physical layer. L2 is the MAC layer.
Try Saudi Arabia. This Denverite says Palantir can go fuck off.
Your argument is valid, however, when it comes to social media - I really believe that the world would be a better place without social media. Compared to the downsides of Facebook, the upsides are very little. People used to connect to their loved ones through email and other means before Facebook. It has definitely brought some upsides, but the given what it did in 2016 election (cambridge analytica), how it has sucked in a whole generation of people into constant attention seeking behavior, and ofcourse the emergence of fringe groups which had no real voice before social media. Before facebook, these groups did not have a widespread influence - they would have to recruit people in person.

Your argument is totally valid - we can make knives for cooking and they can be used for killing people as well. I just feel like its more like a poison laden dagger that's masquerading as a cooking knife when it comes to social media.
For what it's worth, there has been some work on parsing Voynich words into syllables, which might be a more helpful level to work at.

"Taking into account words which couldn’t be syllabified (2.6%), words with more than three syllables (0.4%) and words with rank errors (1%) we can see that the Body Rank Order theory accounts for 96% of all word types with more than four tokens."

https://agnosticvoynich.wordpress.com/2019/05/06/a-new-word-...
> Isn't the reliance on dynamic linking what got us into this mess in the first place?

Dynamic linking was a terrific solution to code size issues... 30 years ago. Back at the dawn of 32-bit computing, it was typical to see a multi-user machine with 1MB of RAM, for everyone to share.

Also, back then, systems weren't so well connected, and library releases happened once a year or so. Security wasn't as big a concern.

I can't help but think that if we (as an industry) had moved towards a Nix-like package system, we might not have gone down the container route. You just specify which exact versions of which libraries your application depends on, that's it.
Rents are nominally flat but I think landlords are making free N months of rent concessions that are unprecedented. Additionally, Silicon Valley is under an eviction moratorium so many rental units are occupied by delinquent tenants and we should expect those to enter the market and change the equilibrium - presumably towards lower rents.

It is interesting that the landlords are so loathe to drop the rent price (related to rent control incentives?). I moved out of San Mateo county in March and my old apartment is still unoccupied and I don't foresee it renting any time soon, at this point my landlord has let the unit sit empty for nearly 6 months rather than take a price concession. However, with an eviction moratorium, I can imagine they're extra careful about screening prospective tenants.
By being "forced" to use Apple's payment system instead of their own, Epic has already "suffered harm" due to the $300 million in fees they otherwise would not have paid. There was no need to get kicked off the App Store in addition to that. The judge literally recommended Epic undo their "hotfix" and cure the breach of contract while the case continued in court. If for some reason you still do not believe this, I recommend checking with your lawyer.
That's really weird. Only email should be enough. I have changed some settings in Mailchimp, tried it and it now seems to work with just providing the email.

Sorry for that. I hope you will try again and still join :)
“We have been trying to reach you about your car insurance...”
Sequence has interesting applications for longer-term work I'm on, and/but I'm Baader-Meinhoffing [0] re more-immediate small-biz accounting ledger needs: I spent a good chunk of yesterday in gnu-cash and Frappe books [1] working to import/tag/script Chart of Accounts and transaction info from two banks while aiming to avoid (new-to-me) UI, code base, or Generally Accepted Accounting Principles rabbit holes.

Sequence is clearly an API and I ought stick with consumer packages @ immediate needs. I'll spin up the container to check it out in general; Please let me know if I'm mistaken / you recommend specifics it'd be helpful for me to check out and feed back on -

[0] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases#Fre...
[1] - https://github.com/frappe/books
Unnecessary maybe, but also a simple statement of fact.
> people... underestimate the benefits of agglomeration, underestimate the negatives of remote work

Absolutely. If you're trying to solve hard problems and don't have incredibly talented people who have 5 or 10 years of experience working on teams, know how to execute tactically and how to develop high level strategies, etc, etc, 100% remote isn't going to work well. You'll get some things done, but the next company over that can develop a new grad into a highly performing engineer/product person/[insert other position here] in a little over a year is probably going to outperform you in almost every aspect of the business.
I want them to be constrained by a public process with weigh in from the public when they sell off public works.

I also want them to not be so backed into a corner from a funding perspective that something like that looks like a good idea. This is a pretty good example of "it's expensive to be poor". Apparently CDOT wasn't going to have enough money for plows that year without an injection of money, and the investors' negotiators knew they had CDOT over a barrel. For an example of how much that would destroy the city's economy, we already have had several inches of snow this year (even with the wild fires going).

This idea of they're not doing well so cut their money leads to paying 80% on a project that's supposed to last fifty years, and then another 80% ten years later and so forth. Then you're left without enough money for basic infrastructure.
Hopefully the design won't kill users on launch day.
Funnily "ghidra" reads like غدرة in Arabic which means "treachery".
Why isn't it fair to you?

Usually the laws are such that you pay the max, not the sum, of the two state taxes.