skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Where the politics turns into a fight between "use government to achieve public policy goals" versus "destroy government, except for the police and security forces", the "destroy government" faction get to make the actual governance worse and have forfeited any ability to make useful or constructive criticism.

You've got the causation backwards. The "destroy government" folks came into existence because governance was poor. Don't forget that in the 60 years between 1932 and 1994, Democrats controlled the House for all but 4 years, and the Senate for all but 10. Every now and then a Republican would get elected President to pump the brakes a bit, but Congress makes the laws, and since Democrats controlled that even wildly popular Presidents like Reagan couldn't meaningfully roll back any of the FDR or Great Society era programs. Its not like people didn't have ample opportunity to sample what the "use government to achieve public policy goal" folks were selling.

There's not a single American city that has public services as well-run as even a second tier German city. These are one-party places like in California or New York, where Democrats control both houses of the state legislature, and the executive, and the municipal government. Here in Maryland, Democrats have controlled the state legislature continuously for a century. Since 1969, we've had just two moderate Republican governors (who got elected to pump the breaks a bit on otherwise unbroken Democratic control). Around the country, people are streaming out of New York, California, and Illinois, to places like Virginia, Georgia, Arizona, and Texas where the government doesn't try to do much but at least the taxes and property prices are low. (The #1 reason Virginia turned Democrat is migration into what used to be a well-run Republican state. Georgia and Arizona flipped for the same reason, and the same is happening to Texas.)

As someone who leans center-left on "government should provide services" it's not clear to me why American government is so bad. My hunch is that Democrats aren't really interested in governing. We have a new Democratic President. What's at the top of his agenda? How about reforming Medicaid to make it easy to sign up (vast numbers of the people who are uninsured are actually eligible for Medicaid but don't sign up)? Following up on the extremely popular $600 checks to permanently expand unemployment benefits? Instead we're going to spend Biden's entire term fighting over a divisive amnesty bill.
IANAL and I am pretty sure they will need to be involved in a serious way to iron all this out. I have my understanding of the intent, which I would not invest money in at this point trying to prove, and that's as much as I can offer. It seems that you can have users search your data in your Elastic+Kibana instance. What they're precluding is you offering an Elastic instance for your customers to load their data into and then search or offer for search to their users.
It takes research, reading reviews and asking people you trust for their experience.

One general rule of thumb that has worked well for me, is to look at how much marketing focus is on selling you a lifestyle and the brand name itself. The higher the focus is on brand name and identity, the less they trust the product to sell itself on its inherent qualities.

Unfortunately there is no easy way to ascertain the quality of a particular item. You may be buying online, with only pictures and a description to go on. Sometimes the quality looks and feels acceptable in the store, but the workmanship itself is bad, so the item falls apart after a short time.

You can certainly learn to distinguish quality by feeling the fabric and looking at the stitching, but there are so many places to hide shoddy quality out of sight. What I've concluded is that I generally go for items with as little or as discreet branding as possible, as my very first filter. The flashier an item is, the lower I expect the quality to be. It also meshes will with my desire to not be a walking advertising banner. That considerably narrows the list of items I'll have to research in detail.

Learning which manufacturers and retailers can be trusted is hard. They may change their suppliers, but keep the same product name, it's hard to know this, unless they specifically tell you. Some online retailers will have only the barest possible information on a product, such as nominal size and color and nothing else, while others will give you an entire rundown of the materials used, which thoughts went into the design, how you can expect a given cut to fit and a full listing of all the important measurements, plus tell you where it was manufactured. That last bit is shockingly absent on so many online shops.

And please do try to go for local production and organic/repurposed materials whenever possible :-)
The house came with low quality DSL access but I knew that was not going to be enough for us. The closest cable run was about about two miles away. I guess if I was patient, the low speed DSL would have been fine until the virus hit and now everyone is at home watching zoom.

We limped by at first while we connected with the cable company's engineering division. They scoped out a project to run cable the remaining way to our place down an existing set of power poles.

We paid for the project and if any of our neighbors tied into "our" run in the first few years they would have been forced to help offset the cost of our install. Once they started stringing line, the project was done in a few days including trenching near our house.

We get good internet now and we also run an AT&T mini access point to boost our cell signal. We kept the DSL access as a backup. I have also put in for the StarLink beta program but have not been called.
Might be good to change the landing page to require a click before executing the code.

Would probably cut down on executions by 90%.
News media makes a profit by controlling voters and politicians. Selling papers is a loss making activity, an expense they pay to keep political influence. Actual investigative journalism is all but dead. News media knows Google has money. News media will make politicians make Google give them that money.

It's a racket. It's just not called that by the news media because its THEIR racket.
Or Gist.cafe needs to be at least written in rust and advertise that as a feature.
Generally I agree with the article, but it would be nice for the author to enable dark mode of the website for dark mode users :)

(it's possible in CSS to detect if the user is using dark mode, and adjust the colors automatically)
> Remember changing colours on the computer?

You can do that in Windows 10. It can also change automatically based on your current wallpaper.

Similarly to installing Nova Launcher, perhaps the author need to use GNU/Linux or Windows instead of a Mac.
Sure for my money, but my heirs aren't going to kill each other fighting over my netflix recommendations.
Probably not, at the very least since Widevine is licensed by Google.
Make sure you read through this section as well to fully understand the security concerns:

https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox#caveats
I can't say that doesn't exist, but vale tudo definitely exists as something akin to mma.
Please do not follow this blog's advice of compiling your own cgit with a git pull off master; the blog author is now (a) using some random commit point (untaggged release) which contains who knows what, and (b) has to now manually upgrade cgit for the life of his server. At this exact moment there are 13 commits on master ahead of the latest tag, who knows what that might be. https://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/log/

Find a repo (apt/PPA, dnf/EPEL, AUR, whatever works for you) and use a repo to manage your server software unless you have no other choice than to hand-compile it. Hand-compiling server daemons like this means they never get upgraded with bugfixes and CVE issues regularly - this isn't 1995, we did this back then because we had to do it. It's not a good idea in 2021 to be doing this unless you're going to hand-manage that cgit binary every day of your life going forward, this is an internet facing endpoint which will get people probing it to attack (assuming you used a cloud server).

If nothing else, clone off the last tagged release by the upstream authors not HEAD.
Soyuz is still, to this day in 2021, the cheapest and most reliable way to get people in LEO. By any performance metric it was and still is the best tool for the job.

Same for the AK, it was reliable and accurate at a fraction of the cost which is why it is so popular still today.

There is a lot more to engineering than top performance. Reliability and cost is just as important. When you factor that in, it's clear that Soviet engineering was excellent, and frankly could hardly have been better. Production though? Yes, not that great. But the engineers were able to meet their goals brilliantly.
I was just twiddling my GTK theme for the first time since the 90s the other day. I guess my tweaker gene got activated again. It is really fun though, and getting even more dark mode was worth it!
It sure would be nice if the DOJ in an administration sponsored by Amazon can be relied upon to prosecute an antitrust against Amazon.

I'm skeptical though.
>> You can store UUIDs as bytes if you wish but when you are looking at it in a human readable form it will be still a UUID. I think storing UUID as text in 2021 is not that hard.

Not going to store a text type prefix + UUID in a 16byte UUID column, you will need a variable length text column. All your DB tools will convert UUID to human readable plus the column name no need to store in the data reading for every value.

if your looking at network traffic or debugging the id will hopefully be keyed (json, query string, protobuf, etc) if your looking at plain text logs with no schema, sure emit the type-UUID for readability, in your logging code...

>>Depending on what is your use case.

Only use case I can think of is unstructured logging, or maybe using a file name as a key? I guess if your db is just key-value with string keys maybe (basically a file system).
That's why you need to cancel the credit card when you die.
I'm guessing because it is a reply to someone saying they use it as a personal server. That is sort of like telling someone not to buy a sports car because it cant fit a wheelchair.
Yes, the cost quoted was for the cable provider's "project" to string an cable a mile and a half or two from the nearest public road to our house along existing poles.

Our water is a well and sewer is a sceptic tank (we have pumped out every other year) there is also no public garbage collection so we pay a private service to pick up once a week.
Publishing excerpts is a perfectly legal use of other people's copyright and does not require any sort of compensation (attribution is the only thing required and Google correctly provides that)

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/fair-use-rule-copyri...
Well, right now you have to manually run command via SSH or set it up in any app launcher (oxide, draft). So you can run it daily in with launcher. I really couldn't figure it out how to setup timer to wake up device and execute command automatically.
Phytium Develops Eight-Core ARM CPU for Desktops
If telegram has a nazi problem, then telegram has a nazi problem.

When telegram, WhatsApp, Facebook, Google, tumblr, reddit, Instagram, and others have a nazi problem, then Humans have a nazi problem.
That's not a commonly known or used trick.
The question is: can we design deep configurability (and composeability), and hence put more accessible creative power in the hands of the user (instead of say having to edit obscure configuration files or even worse, do a full recompile, or simply have no choice at all), without exploding complexity of the system or is this fundamentally mutually exclusive?

Power + complexity will only ever remain niche. But if we can design a system (be it a single program or an entire machine with OS), that is both powerful but intuitive to use, even down to deep layers, then we could actually empower 'end' users into becoming authors of 'creative computing'.
It's much harder if you include the return trip.
There is also some layout issue when you open on an iPad, should be easy to fix: https://app.pagewatch.dev/6cbdb96d57e36c4262076131f95335e947...
> This is why you have column headers?

I'm not sure I can follow. You get an uuid from somewhere, probably external code that you cannot even look at. The uuid comes stringly-typed, let's say as json. Then you have no chance to know what type it is, you can only assume it is the correct type that you expect.

Just putting "550e8400-e29b-11d4-a716-446655440000" into a person colum does not make it a person id.

If you get instead "order-550e8400-e29b-11d4-a716-446655440000" as a typed-uuid, you know for sure that this is not a person id. It is an order id. Somebody made a mistake somewhere. You also know that you probably have to look in the order DB to debug what it actually refers to.

> but to use it throughout your db eats up tons of space from both text encoding the id

You dont need to put your uuid in this format into the db. You can add/remove the type before/after accessing the db.
I see it in Chrome. Here's a link https://astralcodexten.substack.com/subscribe?utm_source=men...
Lokl-an optimized local WordPress environment perfect for static site generation
The only reason China follows the patent and copyright system even somewhat is because of international agreements. There is no international agreement that allows for this.

As a result China will simply ignore the US and do whatever they want.
RedHat was never worried about CentOS, the people/companies using CentOS never had the budgets for RedHat anyway and the companies using RedHat often need certification and support contracts (due to regulations). So CentOS never was seen as a competition I would argue.

However, once Oracle started "repackaging" RedHat, and making indents RedHat acted quickly and essentially made using their patches much more difficult (https://www.zdnet.com/article/red-hat-turns-on-oracle-and-ot...).
Yes, this article has less to do with Claude Shannon and more to do with garden variety motto's like "Chaos is okay", and "Big picture first, details later". This is a theme I've found in shallow marketing copy that's optimized to raise to the top of a social feed instead of actually inform the reader of something substantial. It's quite sad, as Claude Shannon is a truly fascinating individual, but I will not read three-hundred pages of a book by this post's authors to hear more about him.
Windows 10 has themes now too
"Open source" does not mean "all patches immediately published."
I swear they developed a sophisticated bot to trigger this discussion in every comment section. The most powerful nerd distraction since Natalie Portman. Pure evil indeed.
Also, an interesting oddity about relays and switches: many have a minimum current rating because some arcing is actually required, it burns off the oxidation layers on their contacts. This is called "wet switching", if you use a wet-switching relay to toggle a control voltage with negligible current flowing on the line, you can drive the relay to death prematurely due to oxidation. The solution is to use a control current instead of a control voltage, but it has higher power consumption (on the bright side, better noise immunity). There are also specialized "dry-switching" relays to solve this problem, usually for test and measurements applications (but using them to switch live circuits causes the opposite problem - arcing will damage them).
Related to a reply[0] I wrote in another thread. Most of the content out there is produced by people who never touched client data, sadly. A lot of enthusiasting/influencing/audience building/blogging on Medium and Twitter by data virgins, essentially. Those who are in the field are sadly not writing about it. I'd love to read their content. The other type of content is from "architects" and "thought leaders" who come up with acronyms and 60,000ft view with workflows and methodologies that make perfect sense if you never worked in the field. They seem to think they're the first to think of using "DevOps" in machine learning and they give naive examples on how to do that. This gets circulated. Even those who talk about topics such as "production machine learning" have clearly only worked on Kaggle competitions, then extrapolate that into advice to be applicable on real world data.

Then there are companies that heavily use machine learning, but they have their own internal platforms which are not accessible to the general public.

There are other companies that try to build such platforms, but they come into the problem without having much real world experience and tackling a problem they don't themselves have. These products tend to focus on stylesheets and animations, or whiteboard an ML workflow/pipeline that makes sense to them (but they've never actually done a project, so it's similar to writing the Kama Sutra without actually having "done the deed"). They'll tend to bake in a rigid workflow or what they think a pipeline is in the real world into their product. You can predict these will fail, and what sucks more than reading their post-mortems when they shut down is them having the wrong lessons learned..

We're not a large corporation, just a tiny consultancy, but we help large organizations with machine learning, and we meet them wherever they are on the maturity spectrum. Some, especially those who didn't view data as core to their operations, are in the "what's this AI thing and how can it help us". Others actually have internal machine learning and data science teams, but need help because their team is either fully booked, or we have expertise on a particular topic they don't have, and we augment their team for that project. Yet others are a pure research entities in artificial intelligence (the "AI" Skunkworks of a large organization) who talk with us to do it more effectively and solve their problems.

The problems we work on are as diverse as our clients who are in different sectors and industries (energy, transporation, retail, banking, telecommunication, public relations, etc) and for different functions within the same organization when we do many projects with the same client, which is often.

- [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25871632
I remember before OS X on the Mac, one of the fun things to do was trade sound effects for system actions, like the Enterprise door swoosh for window actions, and so on. Then Apple took the fun away, because Jobs didn't like fun.
You're probably thinking of polonium record cleaning brushes sold by staticmaster.

Its an interesting case study in planned obsolescence, the radioactive half life being only a hundred days the anti-static effectiveness of the brush would completely disappear a couple years after manufacture, requiring the purchase of yet another brush.

Electronic / ham radio people would sometimes use staticmaster brushes in the winter when soldering RF preamp FET transistors to try and eliminate transistor-destroying static charge; I was never personally a believer in that technique at least at the amateur level.
The general class of rhetoric is not the issue. The complete failure to take action about specific, identified pieces of content when notified about it is the issue.

Now
"Anti-Fascists", who are ironically more fascist than they people they fight against.
I used to love experimenting with LiteStep and Winamp themes and browser themes when I was younger, but honestly user interfaces are Good Enough now that I'm relatively happy with the out-of-the-box experience. But it's still disappointing that a generation of potential computer nerds won't have the same experience of being able to treat their primary computer as a blank slate for personal expression.
There is a lot of hate for PHP, and monoliths.
The great thing about WordPress, mediaWiki, Drupal,
nextCloud, and many other open source web solutions
is that you can get up a running for $2 -> with little
computer knowledge.

A lot of cheap consumer hosting services offer managed PHP/MySql stack very cheap. A lot of them have variations
of one click installs of various kinds.

You pay the monthly fee and do not have to know about
Linux, PHP or MySql.

If you are familiar with PHP, MySql finding
a place to host it is still really cheap and available.

A common argument would be that you can get a VPS for $5
maybe even less. Then you have to know about what
a database is, what version of PHP, when to do upgrades
of all of them. Managed VPS solutions are usually fairly
pricy.

With the new version of ownCloud, based on Go and micrnosercivices the barrier of entry is much higher.

The best bet will be to buy managed nextCloud hosting from
someone.

While PHP is often scoffed at, the ecosystem that is ready
and waiting to help host it for each is amazing.
It enables a lot more people to be able to get involved and
get inspired and maybe learn more and get start contributing.

If you are writing software that needs hosting but want as many people as possible to be able to use it then PHP is still the best bet, even if not the sexy bet
No. you cannot change colors in windows 10. You can only change 1 color which only Microsoft know on what exactly is used.
Hisham keeps popping up in my life, it seems. He's the guy who created both htop and LuaRocks.
Good idea, I'll put it on the TODO List :)
There will always be tinkerers and people who want to customize their stuff to their personality, but I think the majority of people don't want to tinker, they want to "get shit done" and the standard wallpaper and theming of stuff now days is visually pleasing enough to not mess with it.
This seems to fly directly against recently articles about the massive uptick in iOS customisation after 14 launched. The #ios14homescreen hashtag on Twitter seems extremely popular: https://twitter.com/hashtag/ios14homescreen
So long as you are happy giving up 1/2 of your traction, that would only solve corners if the steering wheel is moving. Say your right wheel hits a bump. Even with zero steering input that right wheel is traveling slightly further than the left wheel. (Up and over the bump is longer than the strait line driven by the left wheel.) There also also times when the steering wheel moves but the car remains strait (crosswinds). The further one looks down this rabbit hole, the more appealing a simple mechanical differential becomes.
Pippin, you weren’t supposed to actually LOOK into the Palintir! Fool of a Took.

The whole story is such a direct fable of the danger of powerful tools being used perhaps initially with neutral or good intent but ultimately serving the interest and aims of powerful evil people, how the very power itself will inevitably corrupt the bearer and how some tools are perhaps just better off never ever being used. With a company actually called Palantir, is this just lack of awareness or is it nihilism?
I do not live in CA and have never took any contract jobs from CA, its contract hourly rate is not competitive at all and to make it worse, its state income tax will take another cut(~13%), there is no way CA's contract rate can be competitive, CA is in decline in general as far as I can see.
I would note the pattern is not unique to "Democrat/Democratic"; it is used to turn other descriptors into slurs. Cf. "Jewish" vs. "Jew" as adjectives.
It's because the server has exceeded its GitHub API quota, have to wait for next hour to be allotted a new Quota.
It confuses me that you used a video with that much high-pitched background noise in the audio to showcase your tool - in the end, both version seem a bit low-quality because of the noisy audio.