skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that unfortunately there are a lot of monkeys out there that actually do call for things that can be done online, either because of laziness or incompetence such as not being able to manage passwords to login online (I used to work in a customer-facing role selling phones and the amount of idiots buying high-end smartphones while not even being able to login to their email was mind-blowing - I did more password resets for Hotmail/Gmail/Apple than my main duty which was to deal with carrier- and network-related issues).

Of course the real solution is to make phone support paid (with a refund if the problem ends up being the company's fault or something that can't be done self-service) as to discourage this behavior.
Yes, I believe it was the source.
Ontario doctors sign letter to Premier advising against sweeping lockdowns
QML might be.
Wow imagine, the modem sound - I’d listen in just for the nostalgia.
> Private schools can only charge as much as the demonstrated quality of their product

Part of my aversion to private schools has been about what constitutes 'quality'. For a lot of wealthy parents, 'quality' seems to mean that their kids get straight As without putting in much effort. Money corrupts. Private schools aren't going to easily give up on $30k a year.
Home schooling works pretty well for affluent families who can afford to have one parent not working, or hire tutors. But that is not most families.
What you say is entirely correct: in 2120 there will, proportionally, be more people living in northern latitudes.

It nimbly skips over what will happen to get them there. India is the second most populated country in the world. Pakistan is fifth. Between them, they need to move hundreds of millions of people before the end of the century.

Directly north of them are China and Russia. China and Russia both have very restrictive immigration policies, and are one-party authoritarian states.

All four of these countries have nuclear weapons.
I liked Alacritty well enough, but it doesn't support ligatures. Kitty does, so that's what I use.
Doesn't matter what minimum wage was used for if we agree that it works for us today.
Only 2 years since the original announcement. :D

A bit strange that only memory & magnetic stores are currently available. I'm curious as to why the SSD option isn't available yet.
One of the strongest appeals to me of a sustenance level of UBI is that we could then abolish the destructive minimum wage laws that shut some people out of the workforce, preventing them from the pride that is inherent in a solid effort at a job and bettering their lives on their own.

Right now, if you can only create $7/hr of economic value, no employer can legally employ you for a regular job in a way that's profitable for them.
One reason is database indexes. If you shove truly random data into a standard B-tree (or whatever), performance tends to suck. If the start of the key lets you roughly sort by time, performance improves.

It's not super uncommon for people to use a normal UUID (usually v1, NOT v4; you need a timestamp), then restructure the fields so the timestamp is in front on save, then flip it back on load; this gives you a "proper" UUID, but (in theory) gives you better performance. See, eg, here: https://www.percona.com/blog/2014/12/19/store-uuid-optimized...

Now, ULID mades an odd attempt at making keys strictly sortable by time, which 1) doesn't work and 2) is pointless. :-) In that case, you really would be better off with an auto-incrementing idea. But while their implementation is questionable, the idea isn't absurd.
He forgot the most important lesson: be lucky :)
I, for one, never have corrosion problems on my software projects.
r/IndieDev ?
The pricing page seems off, $0.03 per GB-hour for the magnetic store, while the unreleased SSD store is $0.0004167 per GB-hour?

Comparing with S3 prices surely the magnetic store is closer to $0.03 per GB-month?
Surely if Apple though it was worthwhile, it'd be pretty simple for them to remotely fire up iTunes and play your iTunes Favourites playlist at full iTunes streaming quality through the phone app while on-hold with them. (And for the lulz, make it play every song you've ever skipped when you're on hold with Google. Which'd be one of those wait-10-years-before-anyone-finds-it type of easter eggs, 'cause that's approximately the time between real people finding an actual working support number for Google... ;-) )
That's impressive. Nothing bugs me more than having to punch in my account number (or play the voice recognition game) and then have to go through it all again with the agent.
Google is too smart so they can expect covid while designing Pixel 5 /s. I hope Apple is also too smart.
Like that dude who had a go project that bowled over by Google Golang

E: found it!

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/9
Why does Google get to have a tld?
Many private schools do not provide the same set of services, such as the speech intervention that helped my oldest so much.
Interesting. Since Sony, whose Bluetooth speakers I'd been using for most of a decade, discontinued most of their higher-end stuff, I tried out the JBL Charge 4 earlier this year and was astounded at how bad the sound quality was. There was a very ugly rumble in the low mids that was grating. I'd wondered if I'd gotten a defective unit since the sound quality was so bad, but was disenchanted enough to look elsewhere. From what you're saying, it sounds like they may have been another victim of the bass wars. I ended up going for the Anker SoundCore Boost, which I genuinely thought sounded better and is a third the cost.
> Banks are actually allowed to lend part of the money without even asking anyone.

not just part of the money. most of the money (fractional reserve banking.) and recently, the fraction to be held in reserve was lowered to ~0 iirc
The existing Android TV launcher will show movies, shows and other content. Apps can put recommendations on the home screen for the content they offer.

Having been a prolific Android TV user for years, this appears to be just yet another reskin. No new functionality.
As far as I can tell everything is pretty much standardized these days, not sure what inefficiencies these guys imagine. I live in a college town with a ongoing huge boom in student housing and I can say for sure that the process is extremely efficient.

Want something personalized and craft-built? That's where you're going to spend some cash.
This reminds me of the constant "security reports" I get.

"Changing the email doesn't expire the session on your web app". Should it? The email isn't the login, why should the session expire? It should expire on password change, maybe username change (but even then, why?). It's just a bunch of spam templates basically from people who don't really even understand the reports they are making.

And then they ask for public recognition so they can get points on one of those public security leaderboards.
Is this a new moneymaking business unit or is it a demo?

The degree of entitlement here... this is an OPPORTUNITY for someone else to do this, but for all the other languages! Why does it have to be Google who do everything?
I actually did not know that. That is too bad.
No one is claiming it's a good situation. But given the alternative was 000's of deaths, that is just the unfortunate reality.

There's no good answer here, only a least bad alternative.
It seems like we could have a script that marks all low-value PRs during the 7 day window as spam, and automatically emails digitalocean about it.

And then run another script to try to find high-value/non-spam PRs and suggest those to the maintainers for a second look.
I do work in Salesforce, and I find Lightning Web Components easier to use and understand than the popular frameworks. Yes they require JavaScript, but the alternatives don't?
To me, at least, those adjectives are all associated with American suburbs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tract_housing#/media/File:Sout...
When I've been to the talk pages they were populated by even-less-neutral discussion about how to expunge anything that might offer support to people who believed the right-wing position.
From my limited experience with time series, not being able to insert data older than X seems like a big disadvantage that may bite later down the road. Bugs happen.
__attribute__ is a nonstandard GNU feature
So it is success to make viewer to feel my phone is too old to browsing and want a new phone.
The ritz has far better beds, cleaner & safer rooms, better food and is far more likely to deliver that consistently. It's not just the appearance.
Do you have a dual GPU laptop? Kitty uses more CPU than say Konsole but I can't imagine it using 30w - likely it wakes up the dGPU when it shouldn't. I use it all the time on my ThinkPad with iGPU and haven't noticed any big battery differences from when I was using Konsole.
Yes, it’s plausible, and charging money isn’t the only possible congestion control mechanism. But there don’t seem to be any serious plans to spend the tax money to do this.
three generations (and counting) marveled by his work...
Why would they exclude a repo and then not exclude all PRs from that repo?
Yes but it’s dead now.
> What's the argument that Sweden will experience one

That everyone else has? Again, the only way for you to make your argument work is to argue that Sweden is somehow special in a deeply unique way. All I need to say is that they're probably just lucky.
That could be prohibited by law in some places for some things
As much as I like kitty, that shortcut is the only reason I've continued to use it for the past 18 months. Needing to manually fix it every time I connect to a new VM would've otherwise killed the appeal for me. `+kitten ssh` solves it nicely.
I do think there is something to be said here about variances in city, state and federal ordinances and code. Ideally there would be only 1 federal code to which to build to but due to regional differences I think 1 code for any given region would suffice.

I'll add that getting city permits and what not is also a nightmare and it really shouldn't be. If there was a well equipped federal agency to do this through we'd all be better off.
for those into these things, i just started using cool-retro-term which i just love working in now :) seems i must still try kitty though (heard good things from the nnn file mamager devs, itself also a sweet project)
Would be cool if they let you record a ‘yep I’m here just a second my headset came unplugged’ that it could play while you rejoin the call
Exactly this. If you're running WSL2 then you're in Hyper-V mode, which means Windows itself is also running virtualized. The WSL VM is a sibling of Windows on the hypervisor stack, not hosted inside of.
> things like "being a Joe Rogan fan" are now considered unacceptable politics

For one who has had their head in the sand and is only vaguely familiar with Joe Rogan; why?
If you doubled the price of Uber/Lyft rides, I suspect the demand is cut by more than 50%.

I find Uber (and Lyft) more convenient than taxis, but also compelling because they're not as absurdly expensive as taxis.
The reply issue is pretty hard to solve, since sometimes the extra text is useful, sometimes it isn't. Perhaps if there has been N minutes or X lines of chat since the message being replied to, then include the extra text, otherwise don't. The template should be changed to something like this though:

<foo[m]> bar: re "hello about something longis...", hello!
<foo[m]> bar: re "short hello", hello!

Those are the main ones, a few more:

Image uploads could probably just post a link to the image instead using /me uploaded an image: foo.png (123KiB) < https://matrix.org/_matrix/media/r0/download/matrix.org/....... >

Directing a message at a specific person on the channel sometimes posts their full Matrix URL on the IRC side, rather than just using their IRC nick:

<foo[m]> [bar](https://matrix.to/#/@bar:matrix.org): hello

Directing a message at a specific person on the channel sometimes posts their full name on the IRC side, rather than using their IRC nick:

<foo[m]> Bar Baz: hello

Matrix <> IRC splits seem to occur more often than IRC netsplits.
Blacklight even turns up trackers on ftc.gov.

Think about that. If you go to ftc.gov to file a complaint about Google, Google will have a log of that interaction.

I trust that Google is honorable and does not abuse this privileged position, but it is unsettling to realize just how involved FAAMG has become in daily life.
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As an argentinian, this is a really sad day for me and for the rest of the country, you can tell in the /r/argentina subreddit today which has been absolutely flooded with comics from him to remember his work, you don't need to know spanish to understand his work because he was a genius in semiology, there was no reason for words. I even named one my cats Mafalda 8 years ago in his honor for making my youth fantastic while reading his comics.

He will be missed, RIP Quino.
Not _exactly_, but it's a pretty close analogy. Certainly moreso than WSL2 is.
I will openly admit to hating Google but found the scrolling effect on this website quite beautiful.

However, it would have to jump out of the TV and make me a bacon sandwich before I allowed Google to track what I was watching that evening.

Even then I would delete the app having ate the bacon sandwich.
AOL pioneered and optimized this cancellation game like no one ever had before and made millions from people who could not cancel. IIRC there was a class action lawsuit about it years ago.

EDIT: looks like they settled for $1.25 million, a ridiculous salon on the wrist when their take home was many many times that

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/aol-settles-cancellations-suit/

There may have been other suits... this one was limited to NY?
Nice! This just inspired me to setup my own Matrix server (had been using Matrix for a couple of weeks).
It's 5G unlimited era and Google operates Google Photo and Drive, that's the answer.
why the us attacking other countries but not the cartels down south? rarely anybody wants to leave their country if their lives are ok at home
What are the actual benefits of these Windows Arm machines?
I thought most of the funding comes from local property taxes. That means there are little or no cross subsidies. I image special ed is a huge cost, specially for kids that need to be home schooled. But even that is unlikely to explain the high cost of public schools, and it definitely does not explain the increasing costs.
There seems to be a trend toward using MORE computing power, if it saves on programmers. Continuous integration, fuzzing, other high volume automated testing techniques, all the various applications of machine learning.

If a programmer costs $200K/year, that salary could support about 300KW continuous power use at average US industrial electricity rates (about $0.07/KWh). So if you could spend (say) 20 KW to increase programmer productivity by (say) 10% you'd be coming out ahead.
This is hilarious, I wonder if there is a Twilio implementation ... I'd love to redirect all unknown callers to it.
I guess this is why you pay for the second-to-last yet most expensive education system in the developed world.

If you want to run a day care, by all means, but just to pretend it is a school. Even if you run the day care in the same building, call it a day care. Make school an optional service on top of that.
It's not a development stack, it's more of a product stack. It's like saying you opened a shopify store and made a page with blogger in 2 hours.
Nvidia's problems are holding the progress of Linux desktop back, so I totally recommend avoiding it for anyone who is using Linux already for that reason alone (besides various other reasons). But it is usable, just your use cases will be more limited. Performance when it works is OK.
I respect your preference but I think you're in a minority on face vs fingerprint, not even adjusting for covid facemasks.
This was an absolute blast! Very "exquisite corpse" at 0.9. But what the other comments said: allow minor editing. Also maybe insertion of new keyword directly into a song during edit phase.
Bring back levittown I guess.

Customization/design premium is insubstantial compared to land price most of the time. That said I can see snowflake designs with no consideration for functionally leading to excessive environmental costs. Ideally the default typology should be an extremely efficient and economical net-zero rectangle oriented for maximum solar gain. People should recognize how much additional "extravagance" goes on in your typical construction, and maybe reel back a little. There should definitely be a mcmansion extra roof / unnecessary geometry tax like old window taxes.
In my experience, "UUID" often means nothing more than "take 16 bytes from a CSPRNG".
For sure. Apple can get market research for free by just waiting.
When I was a teen white text on black was easy to read and cool. I remember my dad making a comment about how it was hard to read and a bit incredulous that I was fine with it. As I got older, not so much in certain contexts. The author is probably young.
Talaq! Talaq!! Talaq!!!
> not just part of the money. most of the money (fractional reserve banking.)

Yes, I agree completely. I didn't remember the exact exact figure so I said "part of the money" in order to be less wrong...

> recently, the fraction to be held in reserve was lowered to ~0 iirc

Wow that is ridiculous... Is that in the USA? What country did this?
There's simply no comparison. I wrote a program that prints mpeg videos to the terminal, and used it to stress test just about every terminal out there. Nothing goes faster and smoother than KiTTY. Alacritty is no exception; in my experience it had glitchy rendering for certain characters and lagged. The only terminals I've seen that come close to KiTTY in terms of textmode graphics performance and overall quality, are probably PuTTY, Gnome Terminal, and Terminal.app. The only bad thing I could say about KiTTY is it glitches for me on occasion when rendering Emacs windows side-by-side. See also https://justine.storage.googleapis.com/printvideo.html
exactly. It's amazing how many things bypass on-device firewalls. Docker is a good example.
> My LinkedIn right now is full of professionals

Is it though? I’m lucky to know a lot of brilliant people across many disciplines, and none of the engage in LinkedIn “activism”.
That is a very good point and I think something that would make things much more difficult in the event of spacex/starlink failure and acquisition. Their entire architecture is predicated upon producing their own satellites in bulk, cheaply, launching replacement regularly using re-used falon9 first stages at a (relatively) low $/kg launch cost. As a vertically integrated single company.

If you had to break that up in a scenario where spacex no longer existed and there were no more re-used first stages, it could cost considerably more. And also cost considerably more if a third party had to be paid to manufacture and QC the satellites.
Mostly it means that under federal law it doesn't need to be transferred through an FFL in your state. If you buy it online it can be directly shipped to your house. Otherwise you should assume local and state regulations for firearms apply.

See: https://www.atf.gov/firearms/firearms-guides-importation-ver...
There are a good number of APIs that will mail physical letters, pretty sure they’ve been a thing since the dot com bubble.
Yes. It's pretty good actually. It got a reputation for being painfully slow. No longer the case, yet… reputation is reputation.

There's a more modern reincarnation of the similar ideas — https://pijul.org. Ready for playing with, not much else.
Apparently "reimagining housing" means inventing the mobile home. How innovative. I live in a double wide, and wish it was many times cheaper than a site built house but sadly not. The car analogy doesn't fit. It was built in a factory and is cheaper but has definite limitations. It sure isn't a slam dunk replacement for one-offs.
Or to paraphrase Laura Ingraham, shut up and code.
I'd blame Logitech in that case, because my 1st gen Chromecast is still going strong to this day.
> "your call may be recorded for training and quality purposes"

I reply "Thank you" when it says this. I mean, it's permission right? Saves me remembering to ask the person who picks up if it's OK for me to record our conversation.
https://www.raytheon.com/diversity/erg
Right.

So there are no more containment measures in China, not even masks are needed. However, the cases haven't spiked in the 2-3 months since the lockdowns had ended.

If China was covering up the disease and still had thousands of cases, then by now there would be millions of cases. However there aren't, I have friends and China and they don't know anyone who caught the virus in the last months. There haven't been secret lockdowns either because they would be easily noticeable.

As a consequence, we can come to the conclusion that the virus has essentially been eradicated in China, and while I don't know anyone in Vietnam I'd imagine it's the same.
There was a startup called AirPaper that would do this for cancelling Comcast, $5/pop. It's no longer around, which I know because I was trying to look them up the last time I needed to cancel Comcast.
Hmm, now I see about 3x more than I did before. Perhaps there was some sort of bug that was preventing some keyboards from showing previously?
thanks, I didn't see that!
We built a license-key generator using AWS serverless architecture
I absolutely detest most chat-based support. 60 seconds is way too long for an interactive medium. I'd rather be waiting for a sound from a phonecall than waiting for a browser tab. If I'm going to be using a keyboard, don't make me wait there by my computer or on my phone browser. Just let me send an email.
I initially read that as "Say Goodbye to Old Music".

I thought they were rubbing it in that they were throwing out all my music I had uploaded to Google Play Music (last time I checked, outside the US, it isn't possible to move the music to Youtube Music).
I don't think I've ever used an app I wouldn't have preferred as a web app
Land Wealth Tax? Don't you mean Land Value Tax?

A LVT taxes the land underneath while not taxing the building on top of it. This is opposed to our current situation in which people are deincentivized from building because it'll increase taxes.
Was just going to post the same, this seems great for rolling analytics on software or VMs, as a backing for monitoring infrastructure and pairing with Grafana.

However for IoT or hardware time series I’m left with a few questions... A few things it seems are not possible:

- An IoT device with limited network connection that batches data points while offline

- manually loading time series data from disk at a later date on an offline device such as a weather station

- loading data “in the future” (data points with bad/erratic timestamps, memoized predictions)

I guess the hardware / IoT use case is pretty small compared to infrastructure monitoring, where Timestream’s design choices make a lot of sense.
This is such a common misunderstanding it might be time to consider labels or an explanation somewhere about the difference between reporting, commentary, and advocacy (among other categories).

The New Yorker is particulary tricky because they blend all of the above along with fiction and satire.
On the topic of Watson... I just really want Chef Watson back.
After you buy your hardware it's yours to do with as you will. If these hacks result in the ability to load whatever you like on the T2 and intel proper then why not? Hackers like to hack. A lot of programmers are also hackers (in the traditional sense, not the negative sentiments that the press gives it)
This is one of those things that seem patently false at first glance. But the math in the article checks out.