skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see. It seems somewhat like mailing lists to me. I go online, my client sends and receives messages depending on which groups I'm subscribed to, and messages bounce around in a distributed fashion, somewhat like emails bouncing between SMTP servers.

I still don't quite get the user experience. What if you're subscribed to alt.binaries? Do you then sync all the binaries when you go online? That wouldn't make sense. Perhaps it only synchronizes on a level below that, alt.binaries.something.something? But that may still be too much.

And what if my ISP's server didn't have the newsgroup I was interested in? Is it like DNS, where it would then fetch it from somewhere else and then cache it? Or did most servers store the entire data? Or an ISP would just store the messages that at least one of their customers subscribe to?
Thanks! Some great stuff under there, including the ranting review of the first episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation on TV from 1987: https://usenetarchives.com/view.php?id=alt.flame&g=224&p=0

Amazingly, you could replace most of the content of that post with "Star Trek Discovery" or "Star Trek Picard" and it'd be just like a recent post!

I think The Next Generation fared well despite the slow first series. Fascinating bit of internet history.

At least this "review" is worded better than many of the suspect (paid for?) reviews of films on IMDB these days.
If curious see also

a thread from 2010: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1650848
The website says, at the top: "[phrase] is a form of logical fallacy in which a statement or claim is assumed to be true without evidence other than the statement or claim itself."

Since the speaker is attempting to provide evidence for a "statement or claim", we could say that, if the argument were correct, then that "statement or claim" would be the conclusion. Therefore, we can substitute "conclusion" for "statement or claim", and get: "[phrase] is a form of logical fallacy in which a conclusion is assumed to be true without evidence other than the conclusion itself." Therefore, "assuming the conclusion" is a very appropriate name for the thing they're talking about.

The "assuming the truth of one or more premises" you talk about, where those premises are different from the conclusion, seems like a different type of fallacy than what this website is talking about.
Pretty rich being summarily called an "Apple fanboy" by an actual Google employee who then posts the most tendentious possible reply. But I noticed you didn't actually rebut what I said. I also noticed that you found it necessary to bring up 8-year-old issues as a distraction tactic.
Oh excellent, I can now reread those massive threads on comp.arch about how NOTHING WILL WITHSTAND THE ATTACK OF THE KILLER MICROS!

For example:

https://www.usenetarchives.com/view.php?id=comp.arch&g=14965...
Unhelpful perspective, honestly. Of course there’s a limit on anything “unlimited”, the world is finite. This is a distinction that adults don’t have to make except when they are perhaps talking to small children. And besides, it’s not like Google ever promised anyone “unlimited” anything. The contract says “unlimited, unless we decide to change something”. Getting up in arms about the literal wording while ignoring the fact that only the literal wording of the contract matters is also unhelpful.
Do you mind translating that into English?

Edit: I gather the translation is something like: For all x, predicate P is true of x. x is true. Therefore, predicate P is true of x.
Is this something that could possibly be self-hosted?
A bit of a shock to realize that there is no comp.lang.python or net.lang.python in this collection -- because Python was created a decade later in 1991.
Killing things is what Google seems to do best (well, first buying, creating, or controlling them and then killing them). They are sort of like the cancer of the Internet.
You should check out Roon https://roonlabs.com/
Apple doesn't not get _your_ location without an app requesting it.

They periodically send the location of nearby cell-towers and wifi hotspots (all public information) back to a crowdsourced database. _Your_ identity isn't associated with any of it. Apple doesn't know who you are or where your phone is. They do not store GPS coordinates. A single cell tower is nowhere near accurate enough to determine the location of the phone, etc etc.

Google/Android do this too: https://qz.com/1131515/google-collects-android-users-locatio...

You can also entirely disable location services if you're uncomfortable with this and that'd stop it.

You're weaponizing people's ignorance and the complexity of the technical details.
As everyone else is echoing - really not true. I grew up in Orange County which, for a suburb, has really good food options. Tons and tons of restaurants and a lot of people accustomed to nice things.

The difference in food options between SF (where I am now) and OC (or LA vs OC) is absolutely astounding. Its really not even close. Its gotten better but large cities are still orders of magnitude better.
> I pointed to the fact that the meaning in old dictionaries used to be increase in money supply.

Monetary inflation is one thing denoted by the word "inflation", and perhaps it used to be the more common use in general conversation. Its not anymore, price inflation, particularly consumer price inflation is the most common general use.

> measuring inflation by rising prices isn't ideal

It certainly is if you are doing for a purpose to which price levels are most directly relevant, which is quite commonly the case. There's nothing mystical about the word "inflation" that creates an all-purpose best measure (and, in fact, "inflation" is a name for lots of different things, which have complex interrelationships.)
That's nice, but it seems the whole Zoom and Teams hype has done a quick end-run around those.

Given that Zoom looks like the interface on the moon lander, I'm sure part of the appeal must be in ignoring all these rules.
This is currently being discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24770617.
I didn't see this reply until just now.

I had no idea what Ryzen Master was until you mentioned it - seems it's some AMD utility for Windows.

I'm running a stock hardware configuration, no overclocking, and running Pop! OS 20.04.
The EU unsuccessfully tried to save the JCPA (aka "Iran nuclear deal") from US sanctions by creating an alternative financial payment infrastructure based on the Euro & European banks & side-stepping sanctions as enforced by the US Treasury.

It totally would have worked, had the US not escalated to sanctioning any entities that dared to utilize this alternative system to deal with Iran. You are right to say the EU needs to get a bigger stick to successfully protect its interests when they diverge from American interests. In the long term - I'm talking decades - American troops will leave Europe, perhaps leaving a skeleton crew managing nuclear deterrence: whether they will be pulled back, or pushed out remains to be seen, but the natural evolution of the EU project will eventually result in a standing European army. What happens on Nov 3 will accelerate or delay this eventuality
How did you get a username? What was its format? Something structured like an email address or just any string?
Which makes me wonder if anti-virus software maintains 25+ years worth of data that might be required to detect a virus from a cracked exe posted in the mid-90s.
in overly simple terms http+html+url=www, born in 1989.
"Hey Siri, where are my keys?"

...

Nope. Not useful enough yet.
The best way is to get monthly blood tests and measure your serum levels of vitamin D. You can then adjust your dose accordingly. For me, light skinned in the northern hemisphere I need 4000IU keep my labs above 50.
Static outbound IPs for serverless containers on Google
Those stats explain everything! It certainly sums up my experience on the modern web - awful and slow!
I mean it's not wonderful, but timezones and native English skills are a pretty good moat.
There’s probably at least one copy of Kibo’s .signature in there.
That's IRC though.
I guess it depends on what you need to carry with you. For example, I only carry my medical insurance card if I’m going to the doctor. It’s not an every day carry. Likewise, I only carry my HSA card when I am going to buy something that can be covered by the HSA (not that often). I have a work-issued credit card but I only carry it when I’m on a work trip (and even then I generally leave it in my wallet inside my luggage unless I know I will need it that day).

On 99% of days over the past two years, I’ve left my wallet at home and only carried my phone with only with two cards: my personal credit card and my drivers license.
Agreed. My opinion is that we need to eat less, higher quality meat. Don't get fried chicken for a snack, cook a pasture raised chicken roast and use the leftovers. Better for us and improves animal welfare.

This still might not provide adequate vitamin D. But I think the demonization of fat is part of the Vitamin D problem.
Isn't that the whole point of BeyondCorp though? That application level security can work. Long term, trusting the network is a bad idea anyway.
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Split-tunnel has solved all of our bandwidth and performance issues, and it's so easy.
Reminds me of https://bonkersworld.net/based
I would say that “over $2 Billion/year” is a massive hit to profitability for any company, even if that is “only” 10% of the total income.

If your boss came to you and said, “Retric, we’re making the world better, but as a side-effect, we’re cutting your pay by only 10%,” how would you react? That’s probably close to how the board and shareholders would react to Google doing it.
How Cameo put a new price on fame
Even worse than the cold imo is the 'about to be cold' weather preceeding and following winter. Rain that freezes overnight and encases your car right when you have to run to work. Muck and mud everywhere the minute you step off a path. Everything green turns to brown. Coupled with the limited daylight and it's depressing, frankly.
Oh yes. Same here. Long after realizing Internet never forgets.
Backblaze B2 is awesome
“Reddit + bittorrent” would actually be pretty cool...
Ya travel batteries are a good fill in for those circumstances.

I suspect Covid has had a big nerf on battery use overall.
How so? They release new phones every autumn, with few exceptions. So if you buy an iPhone in the autumn and it’s not the brand new just-announced model, you should expect that you’re going to have a previous-generation phone very quickly.

Apple’s marketing timeline is remarkably consistent with very few exceptions.
It's probably not a good idea to use the same variable for both, also 'x' is not a logical statement so the proof would look more like:

∀x. P(x)

P(c)

where c can be anything. This is usually called something like instantation or ∀-elimination. I suppose you could call P(c) a trivial consequence of ∀x. P(x), no matter what c is. The formula P(x) could be something like 'if x is human they are mortal, so something like 'if "Scorates" is human they are mortal" is a trivial consequence, as is 'If "Blue" is human they are mortal".
> not to mention the new generation being spoon fed that that is way to go

The new generation is always joining one cargo cult or another, that's why competent technical leadership is important. Remember when noSQL was the best thing since sliced bread?

Serverless can be a good option if you have large and unpredictable transient loads.

Like any architectural choice, you need to consider the tradeoffs and suitability for your use case. A TODO app probably doesn't need to be built with a serverless SOA.
I prefer that they don't have it either, but that's not a choice. But if every garage in the state has access to this data, it seems like a much bigger risk.
If it wasn't about the money and just about the environment Apple would let you walk in to one of their stores with your serial number in hand and pick one up for free if you needed one (one per person)...
San Francisco is rekt on so many levels and irrecoverable.

Pensiontracker.org

This is why I left:

I’m bullish on the W2-pocalypse and bought Facebook, did you? Facebook twisted its earnings with W2pocalypse.

Silently through the night W2’s are being slashed, this is front running the onerous taxes, fees, and small scale apocalypse that has been accumulating in California.

Let me walk you through some metrics on California.

Min. wage $12/hr

40% of California’s income tax revenue is generated by .5% of the state’s population. (the wealthy)

California’s new tax bill targets the wealthy more on top of what they’re already charged.

1% for $1M-$2M

3% for $2M-$5M

3.5% for $5M+

The worst part is that these taxes are possible for the 2020 year retroactively, meaning if you decided to stay in California under the existing tax regime, they can come after you for the new rate hike. (assuming you’re wealthy)

California’s congress is single party and this bill will likely pass according to some friends of mine who sit in legal and policy spheres.

California is aggressive in collecting taxes from moving residents in all other 49 states.

$50,000/yr or less is 60 percent of California tax filings but ~2 percent of its income tax revenue.

SFBA makes up 40% of the state’s income tax revenue but makes up only 20% of the state population California has the highest average impact fees for construction of a single-family home, at $23,455. (up to 3 times higher than other states)

25-34 year olds can’t easily own homes in the state of California. ~500k+ is the minimum to purchase a home, at least 5-10 times a yearly salary.

7.25% to 10.25% is the sales tax depending on which county you’re in. https://www.cdtfa.ca.gov/formspubs/cdtfa95.pdf

The bottom 20% pay 7% of their <23k/yr incomes on sales tax.

The state’s pension unfunded liabilities are estimated to total $93.1 billion ($59.7 billion at CalPERS for state employee pensions and $33.4 billion at CalSTRS for teachers’ pensions) California has some of the highest electricity costs, it will go green and the price will go to $0.25-$0.40/kwh in the next 2-4 years likely.

In some cases, your electricity rate can be $0.54/kwh. CA taxes will be almost double the 2nd highest state. Free healthcare for everyone, including illegal alien immigrant violent criminals.

Gov. releasing inmates, defunding / slashing police forces, 3x the per capita welfare spending of the nation, sanctuary for illegal immigrant violent criminals, reparation bills coming, business-crushing regulations, huge secular departure of companies and individuals, and traffic/smog.

According to some of my legal friends and people who talk to city controllers, the forces that be will torch Prop. 13, double property taxes, and crush real estate values.

California has a 10% sales tax in many situations.

“California’s top rate is 13.3%, astronomical for a state…

In 2016, the top 1% paid 45.8% of the state income tax revenue while accounting for 23.1% of the personal income.

The top 10% paid 78% of the total tax revenues.

The bottom 80% contributed just 10.6%."
How does this work? Based on their posts, or subreddit subscriptions, or what?
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I don't see what the "default" has to do with what I'm saying. That's just an artifact of the US's backwards intellectual property legal system. It has nothing to do with positive vs negative rights.

Bottom line is that laws and ethics aren't the same. A legal grant to do something (even if it isn't the default) doesn't constitute an invitation to do something unethical.

And I stand by my characterization. The parent post was literally talking about prohibiting things one doesn't like.
Universal Instantiation
> But how many people put more data onto it than you could fit into a relatively normal NAS? I would think one off-the-shelf NAS is firmly within the scope of an unlimited data storage plan.

A typical home NAS is probably on the order of 10TB. I have a feeling that would be OK for "unlimited" cloud storage, even if the provider took a loss on those customers. The problem users are certainly storing hundreds or thousands of TB. In the age of inexpensive 1GBit home internet connections, one could theoretically store ~10TB per day.
Configure Task Manager (get there by right-clicking on the task manager panel that you're talking about).

Appearance (tab) -- and deselect 'Highlight Windows when hovering over tasks'.
All these transformer explainqtions are missing a level of detail.

I wish someone would code this model and walk through it along with the training and inference procedures.
Interesting throught experiment. I believe you would still see the interference since there are still two possible paths.

Using the word copy in conjunction with C-NOT is slightly misleading as the copies do not behave independently.

Tongue-in-cheek explanation: Maybe whoever wrote our simulation used shallow copy when they should have done a deep copy.
Any ex-FAANG startup hiring for systems (low level) programmers, remote?
Very involved behind the scenes. I'm sure he set the direction for a lot of this presentation.
> Why are we presenting bigger, badder VPNs as the solution?

I'm guessing because this is basically a submarine piece touting bigger, badder VPN providers.

Though when I see the problem mentioned, I think of BeyondCorp[0] (the basic model, not the particular technical solutions) more than VPN as the solution approach.

[0] https://cloud.google.com/beyondcorp
I suspect there may be significant overlap between the DejaNews archive and https://archive.org/details/usenethistorical
It can't automagically not do stupid things if you feed it a query that will make it do stupid things. You still have to know certain things about how queries will try to fetch data.
I can't see the karma score for the post, so I'm not sure what it reflects...

But if I've understood you correctly, you're equating "risky" with "could lose some imaginary internet points on this site" and not some more tangible risk? (I'm not calling that an illegitimate definition of "risky" but when I heard that word I was thinking of something much worse.)
Apple has a position as a gatekeeper and is charging a toll, unjustifiably. It's disingenuous to say that other people submitting to Apple's tolls are not working in the long-term best interest of their customers.
Glad I can now read all the old posts from alt.fan.dragonball now
> It would be as though people started using "the die is cast" to mean dying, simply because the word "die" is in there, without any knowledge of Caesar. Is there any idiom -- not a single word, but a full phrase -- whose meaning has changed over the years, simply by virtue of its being misunderstood by the linguistically inept or the historically ignorant?

Ironically enough, Caesar’s quote of Menander likely meant “this crossing of the Rubicon is a roll of the dice”, or “let the dice be thrown”, not that his crossing is setting in motion the irrevocable. So there’s that.
I have a few of the spigen stands. They are basically required. Idk how Apple doesn’t have something that simple for the watch.

I agree Apple usually figures this out but I think that product was demonstrated, one that folds.

I could see this being the one that hangs over the arm of the couch. But still it needs a little landing pad thing.
Two ways offhand:

* Float will alight "one" to the left or right with a gap next to it, while flex can stretch, center, or align the element differently.

* If the elements are different heights, they'll stack up very differently.
I see some issues there:

- Is keeping a magnet near my credit /public transport cards safe? Can't they be damaged by magnets?

- all of those cards are contactless in my country. Will I have to take them out to use apple pay, to avoid approaching a bung of nfc cards ?
Ya. The inconsistency of placement has dramatically reduced the value of the wireless so far. Presumably they have the data to see that people have struggled.
By "reputation management", what do you mean exactly? Black hat SEO / framing competitors for black hat SEO?
On the other hand, your insurance company would have strictly (and wisely, IMHO) defined how many millions worth of chemo your $500/month plan will buy you, or specifically what kinds of treatments will it pay for, and at what rates.

So, if you run into a "miracle doctor" that will charge you $1,000,000 per dose of their "miracle medicine" that "wipes away cancer, like, forever", the reasons why your claim will be denied are already stated clearly in the small print of your contract.
In the tricky data migration cases it's not plausible to know every system and be able to modify them (e.g. to ensure that you write and read from both), many of them will be outside of your control, likely in different organizations. That other organization will not run the same operation on two sets of data to verify if they match - they'll just import it in their workflow, and what happens there will have consequences immediately as soon as some item e.g. a person is switched to a new system. And it's plausible that you won't have any direct visibility in any flaws in that migration until that person complains to that organization and perhaps maybe eventually they will identify that your data migration is involved instead of simply screwing that person for months.
I'd say that's where my analogy breaks down a bit. Reddit has a fully centralized username system, in Usenet it would be up to the individual hub (as I recall?) The Mastodon ecosystem today is a better analogy here.
Most networks weren't designed for everyone working from home. It just wasn't seen as in the realm of the possible.

On paper I have 1 gig internet and this was certainly true before the pandemic, but now my apartment's fiber is clearly having issues with the whole complex being home and using the Internet at the same time.
> If you have unlimited storage, the data hoarders will find out about it and abuse it.

That reminds me of:

Linus Tech Tips: I Hope Google Doesn’t Ban Us... - Abusing Unlimited Google Drive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2F0wjoKEhg
Ask HN: Level 5 autonomous vehicles and deep neural networks
Deep neural networks are close to but not enough to achieve level 5 autonomy. Any thoughts?

Is anyone experimenting with a different approach?
I think the answer to that question depends entirely on the employer. While some are making waves becoming remote companies, the vast majority are chomping at the bit to get butts in seats. I know several people who have been called back in, to sit in an enclosed office in their cubicle for 8 hours a day with their mask on doing the same exact task that could be accomplished on their laptop at home.

Why? No reason at all beyond managers wanting to see people physically in the office working. The management class rarely takes a page from science and reason when making decisions, gut feelings are king, and the gut feeling in many boardrooms right now is that people are slacking off working from home. Whether that is true or not in real world productivity isn't considered. That's why I think not much will change ultimately once things do eventually return to normal, whenever that may be. People will go right back to living conveniently to work.
> He immediately gets angry at Facebook messing up his name. The company changes his name to ‘Hans De Zwart’, with a capitalized D.

The name seems to be spelled with a capitalized D throughout this Medium essay also.
How much danger is a DOS bootsector virus to a modern system? I guess DOSBox might be vulnerable since it does such a good job of emulating the hardware.
See... you've downvoted this because you've decided BLM is "your team" because of politics and that is a problem. You can't think objectively about what political actors are actually doing in the real world, and that is very dangerous.
Then why include the cable? Apple sells them, everyone else sells them. You are missing the point here. A better solution is to put something like this in the box: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B079LYHNSR/