skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trains leak more often. Pipelines leak much larger volume, and the leaks are harder to find.
It doesn’t “need” it, but ZFS + ECC is a lot more effective than ZFS + high-BER RAM. Once you fix disk corruption, the next thing you’ll probably worry about is memory corruption.
Note that Infuse, the Jellyfin client app he recommends in this write up, uploads your usage data (so, what you're watching) to the app developer, even when playing your own local media.

Even selfhosting doesn't give you privacy anymore because all the client apps spy on you. :/

Maybe stick to the web interface if this is something you care about. (Does Jellyfin itself phone home?)
Tesla has done that kind of things a number of times. In earlier Model S versions, you could get a software locked battery for less money. You could then pay to unlock the capacity.

On the current Model 3 SR+, the rear seats are not heated, but you can pay to have the software unlock them. Its a few hundred dollars, I think.

For both the Model 3 LR and the Y LR, there is an available one time $2k USD upgrade to provide enhanced acceleration.

And obviously, the "FSD" package is a software fee that generally requires no hardware changes. It does get you access to some new hardware, though if needed.

But I think people see this differently if it is a one time fee vs a subscription fee.
Even as a hobby game dev, I look at these and gain appreciation for just how much went into this kind of work. Particularly of note to me is the memory calculations for models right in the design doc - I'm sure for solid reasons
Some of the functions of an iphone could have been somewhat replicated with enough money.

The very wealthy could afford to pay musicians to play the music they wanted when they wanted it.

(Somewhat) detailed maps were available for large sums of money or sometimes painted on walls. If you had enough money, you could commission an expedition to map somewhere.

You could pay someone to carry messages to those you wanted to communicate with.

Skilled artists could paint pictures of your food, or selfies, if you were prepared to sit still long enough.

Of course, even this hypothetical gaggle of skilled servants following you around all day would still not be able to cover some of the basic aspects of a modern mobile phone, but if you can apply enough cheap labour, you can do quite a lot.
agreed. my dating apps I obviously want to leave notifications on so I get notified of a new match but the company uses notification to try to get me to use the app more and I can't turn those off.

Similarly the Meetup app has started spamming me with Meetup.com blog type info with no way to turn it off but I need the notifications on for meetups . this one in particular is odd given than the Meetup app has some of the most granular notification settings of any service out there.

The Lyft app does this a few times a year as well.
Beside what is discussed, I would compute the autocorrelations (ACF) of the two time series and fit ARMA models and see how similar the ACF and autocorrelations are.
For the frontend of a SPA, sure, I prefer Typescript over JavaScript for that kind of thing.

But for the backend (APIs, services, whatever), I'd personally still go with C# any day - it really is a wonderful language, and the available tooling is fantastic.
Do you also do that for links with secret tokens like the reset password link the op mentioned? Because -spoiler- that makes those links very easy to guess/brute force
Yes - although what would be completely acceptable for a well-off person to live in in 17th-century North America wouldn't come close to meeting building codes today. It wouldn't even have plumbing, electric power, indoor toilet, true insulation, etc. And it would be tiny. So can you really compare it as though they are both "housing"?
Looks great. It reminds me of my microwave, which has two dials on it and is better than every other microwave I've ever owned.
How to get stock financial data instantly on your spreadsheet
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> it doesn't include things that don't have acute tech-driven inflation (housing/education/healthcare

80 years ago the President of the USA suffered from polio. A vaccine costs about $1 now.

Education at primary/secondary level is mainly salary, buildings, land, so tracks well with inflation.

As locations concentrate, attractive land increases in value. Land in the middle of nowhere decreases in value if population is stable (but of course population has increased too)
Does plex let you just play media from a device on the network? I'm a huge noob to the home media game. If I plug a usb hard drive into my router, can I download media from my PC to the hard drive, then play it on a plex device like a smart tv directly from the hard drive?
I was just wondering about this. I recently purchased something online, and when I got the email receipt it had all the state and county and city level tax breakdown. I thought to myself, was this tax being charged due to the billing or shipping address? Apparently it was the shipping address when I asked.
A good lie is based in truth!
Block the account whose tweet is being promoted, and/or the account promoting it (sometimes there will be tiny text saying "promoted by"). You'll never see tweets from that brand again, whether promoted or unpromoted.

After a few weeks of this you'll get some pretty strange tweets from really obscure brands. You will however still regularly see promoted tweets from financial services companies, because there are apparently an infinite number of them.
> Last year, nationwide there were 38 grain entrapment cases with 23 of those leading to fatalities

https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/Grain-bin-accident...

Obviously these are low numbers compared to general population, but as a share of people who would actually enter a grain bin in the first place I would guess its high enough to matter.
Scene, hipster, emo, goth, etc. all but disappeared. Most of the people who would have fallen in one of the aforementioned groups a decade ago are now non-binary, gender fluid, etc. They found a way to tie their identity to their humanity so now it's bigoted to scoff and laugh at them.

Have any social psychologists studied this phenomenon? It's a great defense mechanism that seems to be working quite well.
> For the next 6 months, I spent my extra hours before class (and during my least favorite classes) working on Rails bug reports... The core team members held every pull request to a very high standard, and I learned a lot about how to write good code.

My question is how he got anyone from rails core team to review his PR's! Maybe things were different then.
In general, use the filesystem hierarchy consistently.

/media/music/artist-or-composer/album/01_trackname.flac

/media/video/seriesname/season/01_episode.mkv

/media/music/playlists/

and construct your playlists in .m3u format, which is the nearest thing to a cross-player standard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M3U
Critical hit if the preferences page has toggles that actually don't toggle, and just remain "on". This tracking data sent to a third part is certainly crucial in development of a website.
They have no app because of the censorship in the app store, not the nature of their content.
There are many valid use cases for URL shortener, I am not sure if this is one of them.

IMHO, this is a display layer issue that only affects human eyes, and should be handled on display layer (html, email rendering...etc) -- just don't display the whole URL somehow. Machines won't have any problem processing that long link.
How do they know that it's not the neurons who are themselves slowly drifting position over those timescales?
Ten years ago we didn't even have AlexNet; I think most people would have thought a paper like that was nuts at the time. The ten years since are what popularized backpropagation as a path to general intelligence. Who ten years ago would have seriously predicted GPT-3? The odd few that did are certainly not the people I would expect to have been dissuaded! And if there's any actual experimental evidence that backpropagation is not enough, I haven't seen it.
Paywall bypass

https://archive.is/3XCM5

http://web.archive.org/web/20210610095517/https://www.nytime...
In retrospect, was it the right move?
ZFS works fine these days in low-RAM environments. As you say, you won’t benefit much from ARC, but for most NAS workloads that is fine.
Pilates, fruit, Amazon Zen booths: why workplace wellbeing effort can fall short
> But compliance was basically non-existent; most people didn't even know that they owed use tax on such sales

As a business owner, I would ask myself “how is this my problem?” If a stare has a problem with residents not complying with a tax, I am not sure why a business in another state should care. If I buy a product from China, are they required to collect sales taxes for Montana? Of course not. So not sure why a business located in a sovereign US state has any obligation to follow laws of some other state in which they don’t operate. It’s the purchaser that has the relationship with their local state, not the seller.

The Wayfair decision was ridiculous. The Quill decision it overturned was the correct answer in terms of interpreting the Interstate Commerce Clause. Interestingly, Amazon and other large e-commerce companies don’t have a problem with collecting sales taxes everywhere because their compliance costs are trivial as a proportion of revenue.
Anecdotally I’ve seen the same in managers.

I tend to believe these arguments just curve right into confirmation bias.

I’ve been on teams that worked fine with managers and those that did not. It depends on the commitment of the actors in question.

Anything else is reading what we want to in the tea leaves.

Edit: Been working on distributed systems since the late 90s, from public uni to big corp, to day 1 startups. It’s just computer configuration. Not magic.
One of the postulated reasons for why older people have worse reaction times and think slower than their younger counterparts is that the neural networks they use draw upon more stored information, thus making routine evaluations take longer.

There's a sweet spot between knowing enough and knowing little enough so that you get the right answer and get it quickly enough.
Many of DeepMind's opinion style papers are like this. Another example of the "handwavy" DeepMind paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.03406.pdf

It's also worth it to note as well that this isn't a homogenous organization, many DeepMind employees have different opinions on issues like this and an individual paper isn't representative of the entire organization.
What about link largeners? How secure is urldefense really when everyone runs on it?
It's not random.

Someone in stereotypical metalhead attire is unlikely to be called a hipster for it, neither is someone dressed in punk fashion, nor a goth or a jock, etc... well, they won't by a anyone with half a clue as to what the identifying features of these subcultures are.

The negativity comes from people assuming that hipsters think they're cool, but (according to their critics) they're not... it's kind of a rejection of a holier-than-thou attitude, but in fact the critic is engaging in the same snobbery by picking on the hipsters (or whatever subculture they're targeting).

The insult slingers are trying to act as a fashion police, as if there's something special about them that let's them see what's "really cool" that hipsters are blind to. But every sense of fashion is just as arbitrary and ridiculous as any other, and no one's so cool that they can't be looked down on and sneered at by someone else.
I believe API's exist. You can follow redirects in most webclients pretty easily, or there's "redirect detectives" online: https://www.redirecttracker.com/
> and issues would be detectable with the monthly scrub

Depends where the corruption happened. Scrub can’t detect data that got corrupted before the checksum was taken.
We need to talk about WCAG
Another problem with long lived short URLs is that the account used to generate it can be hijacked later and the short URL be pointed at a different destination with malware or other malicious intent at the end. I've seen this happen a lot in my time.
"the only wining move is not to play"

really, if you are in a point where you hunt for hidden settings to disable in your browser? why not just use firefox?
Does Congress have that power? I suppose you could argue they're interstate commerce regulations, but idk if that'd fly.

Edit: Obvious SD v Wayfair is relevant here, https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/17-494_j4el.pdf

It's too complex to even take a stab at guessing what they'd say based on that though. Also, I'd forgotten what a wild lineup the votes were.

GINSBURG, ALITO, and GORSUCH, JJ., joined. THOMAS, J., and GORSUCH, J., filed concurring opinions. ROBERTS, C. J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which BREYER, SOTOMAYOR, and KAGAN, JJ., joined.

Edit again: Seems Roberts agrees Congress can do something:

Roberts noted that Congress has been considering whether to alter the physical-presence rule, and “nothing in today’s decision precludes Congress from continuing to seek a legislative solution. But by suddenly changing the ground rules, the Court may have waylaid Congress’s consideration of the issue.”

The majority “proceeds with an inexplicable sense of urgency,” the chief justice said, and it “breezily disregards the costs that its decision will impose on retailers.”

There are complex distinctions made in more than 10,000 taxing jurisdictions, he said.

“New Jersey knitters pay sales tax on yarn purchased for art projects, but not on yarn earmarked for sweaters,” Roberts said, while Texas imposes a sales tax on plain deodorant but not on deodorant with antiperspirant, and Illinois treats Twix and Snickers bars differently for sales-tax purposes.

https://www.scotusblog.com/2018/06/opinion-analysis-court-ex...
To understand the angle of this article, I looked for what this site is selling: https://iism.org/training

> We have a management problem!
> How traditional management sabotages the bottom line
> Developers are fine, management needs to change

Folks who agree with these headlines & don't click away immediately seem more predisposed towards the offered product, which seems to be a mixed bag of developer-entrepreneur-leadership training that would make sense for a small, flat organization.
One of our border collies comes from a working line; both of her parents were working sheepdogs on a farm in Ireland.

We once walked her through a field in Scotland that had a couple dozen sheep scattered about. Of course we kept her on a short leash and stuck to the public footpath.

Nevertheless, by the time we'd reached the other side of the field, she had somehow managed to round up the entire flock.
The first link is a hex encoded token, 80 chars, 4 bits per char = 320 bits of information. The second shortened link key is likely base 64 encoded, 5 chars, 64 bits per char = 320 bits of information. These should be basically the same from a security perspective. Is there something I'm missing here that you're suggesting?

Edit: This is wrong and should be 30 bits of information not 320 bits for the shortened form. 64 values = 6 bits not 64 bits.
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It is immoral and illegal that McDonalds won't serve me a Chik-Fil-A sandwich.

This is such a great rubric!
> Since this seems to have brought TryAPL down

Apparently that always happens:

Try APL in your browser - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9774875 - June 2015 (27 comments)

Try APL online - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4090097 - June 2012 (4 comments)
I think there is a strong cognitive bias in the present culture of thinking of the brain like a computer or hard drive.

I’ve been meaning to coin a fallacy for this. Every era is absolutely certain that fundamental reality is just like [currently dominant technology] and always has been. I expect the fundamental reality of 2200 to be some kind of mystical networked entity, probably either deistic or pantheistic in nature.
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Something I like with Kodi is that I can create short text files with .strm extension to refer to Youtube videos. This together with .nfo metadata files allows me to create a "metadata library" of content on Youtube. Since the Youtube plugin lost most of its browsing capabilities, I have now scripted download of metadata from my favorite Youtube channels and view them that way.
Ohboyohboyohboy, it seems I dodged bullet with an idea that I had 5-6 years ago that was very similar to this guy's: My idea was to sit beside a sign that said something along the lines of "Celebrate yourself Through Poetry" in the morning in downtown Chicago in front of a large office building. People going in would commission a poem in the morning, I would finish it and write it in calligraphy on a nice piece of paper by 4pm for a fixed cost, say $20. They would either buy or not buy the poem after I show it to them. A poor person's Francois Villon, if you will.

I've never mentioned this to anyone other than my wife (who used to work in that building) and she laughed her head off. Now that I write it, I feel like I might do this in the future. What do you think, would you buy such a thing for $20-$30 a piece? OTOH, I've gotta admit: I think most of the customers would be young women, so that would make me seem more of an object of ridicule / creep than this guy. Still ...

EDIT: OK, now that I've read my entry I feel like I have to admit something that makes the above proposition more insane or interesting, depending on your POV: I cannot write poetry, like not at all! My proposed strategy was to lean in to my NLP skills and get software help to find interesting ideas, rhymes, etc. Sort of auto poem creation with human tweaking.
Exactly.

Different populations of humans vary wildly by almost every physical trait, such as height, build, bone structure, skin, hair type, eye color, muscle fiber.

But when it comes to the brain, we are all exactly the same.
I mainly use Plex, but every now and then there is a file that it won't play on my Samsung TV. Sometimes it will play the se file on another TV I have, an old Sony.

I also have Jellyfin installed and serving up the same collection of media for exactly this reason - sometimes it plays stuff that Plex won't. But the Plex app on my Samsung TV is far superior to the generic DLNA app I use for Jellyfin (I can't even remember the name of it; I tried multiple, and none were even close to as nice as the Plex one).
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> ZFS backups are easier

the weak point in home based geographically unique off-site backups (like, put a small zfs box in your family member's house) is that while the ordinary residential internet user might have cablemodem service with 500 Mbps down, you may also have only 16-20Mbps up. Good luck backing up 15-20TB over 16Mbps upstream and possible 1TB/month quotas from an ISP.
Fortunately I rarely see Oracle on IBM z.

DB2 on IBM z is quite well capable, I'd just like for there to be less artificial barriers between teams involved in the places I encountered it :/

(Funnily enough some of it could be blamed at bright-eyed "modernizers")
Wikipedia also has a set of "Orders of magnitude [length, power, area, etc]" articles:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(area)

It only has a few examples for each order of magnitude, so in this case we'd get just "between Jamaica and Belgium". Still, I find these pages useful for getting a general idea of what something means, and as fodder for further researching evocative comparisons.
Ever use Glacier?

Obviously, the good analysts at AWS have the talent to cook up complex billing models.
I recently ripped a Bluray after years of not using optical media at all and found MakeMKV to be a quick and effectively free way of doing so.
Effectively, yes. Wood smoke, not tobacco.
This is the most interesting musical instrument I've seen. There are a ton of videos going into a lot more detail on his channel.
I'm talking about OTAs being pushed to cars that have already been purchased. Not all of them add features. Some have removed or modified features in ways that owners did not want.

OTAs are great when they add features. They suck when they remove/alter ones you previously liked.
Even with those items, they have changed significantly. For example, how do you compare the value of a house that has indoor plumbing, electricity, central hvac to an old house without those things?

If the price of the modern house is 2x the old house, should it be attributed to inflation or a higher intrinsic value?
Turns out having your short URLs too short can also be problematic: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1604.02734v1.pdf

An example in this paper cites the shortener used by Google Maps. The researchers were able to enumerate all the short links by brute force and join destinations from specific residential addresses. This is scary because now you've essentially created all points of interest that 1 person visits (originating from their home address).

Google's response was to expand their URL tokens from 5 characters to 12. The sparseness makes it uneconomical for someone to brute-force their way through. Microsoft OneDrive's response was... interesting.
Could a browser extension do this for every single request?