skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Replacing my time capsule is not a priority for me, because it's a backup. If the backup goes bad / fails, I'm not sure why I should care (unless it fails silently)... By definition, I have a duplicate copy so all I need to do is to replace it when it fails, with whatever the latest greatest solution is. I do recognize that there's a bit of risk during that replacement period, but I'm not losing sleep over a few days of exposure. And I'm not worried with it failing silently because my machine is constantly writing to it and it's constantly moving and compacting (aka reading) data to eliminate the oldest stuff anyways.

My only actual concern is whether or not the networking aspect of my time capsule is up to snuff... Perhaps it makes sense to get a better wireless router, and perhaps there have been advances in router tech that mean I could get way better performance on my network. But there's no easy way for me to know if that's actually the case, so I'm just holding on to my time capsule until some event triggers me to make a change.
Same here. I've had my 3 AirPort Extremes since the Middle Ages, and just upgraded my house to Eero Pros (Gen 2, found cheaply). As for Wifi, things are just as fast for most of my user devices, BUT my HomeKit devices all now work all the time and respond almost instantly. This alone was worth the upgrade.

I still have one AirPort Extreme set in Bridge Mode, and hardwired to the main router so that my Time Machine backups still work with the USB drive hooked to it.
No, for M1 series the crew manual (back in the day) just says it is secret stuff and to cover it with a tarp it with a tarp if the outer armor exposes it. That goes for the front of the turret, hull and the first track cover.
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What is the issue with a condo?

I do think Condos in America have an issue, which is that they could be cheaper if there were more, and less luxurious condos build. Japan for example has many apartments for sale that there is no indoors shared space, all doors open to to air, this is a huge cost savings. Those type of buildings aren't build in the US.

We need denser, smaller, buildings in general. A city like Philadelphia or Baltimore have tons of row which provide a walkable city, and affordable housing without building up.
The older I get the more I appreciate the US Midwest (where I am originally from and where I live now). There are quite a few advantages in your doomsday scenario as well!

- Cooler climate, and far away from many natural disasters such as earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, etc. This should make the effects of warming/climate change milder.

- Plenty of fresh water

- Diverse local economy including manufacturing and agriculture

- Far away from international borders (except Canada)

- Cheap land in 2021, so easy to move to if you are already in the USA
Cuba was also propped up economically by the USSR (until the USSR collapsed due to its inability to function economically). The USSR ran a huge deficit in supporting Cuba, and did it for political reasons. Economically it didn't work.

Cuba can also trade with other countries.

I do enjoy your assertion that Cuban communism can only succeed if they have free trade with free market countries.
The sensation when your heart stops is sudden and terrible. It feels very quiet and you know for sure that something very bad is imminent.

I’m not sure if it comes from the absence of sound or from something else, like the stillness in your chest. The actual stoppages didn’t last that long with me (obviously), but they were very memorable.
How likely does it seem that if you can traverse interstellar space, your civilization splinters over time and your potential for internal conflict just grows without bound?
20/10 vision in one eye, 20/13 in another, no astigmatism.

Blue LEDs in clocks when viewed at night look completely fucked up.
like, just stop using google, lol. What's wrong with computing the way it was intended? Stop using the cloud people.
It’s ironic that the largest advertiser is concerned about misleading content.
Same Story, Different Notation: Finite State Automata Meets Recursion
Maybe they are trying to evoke Mr. Subliminal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aImzZfXGJ4M
Why are so many cops blasting music while being filmed?
We still need there to be suitable alternatives, so there needs to be some regulation at least, to encourage competition and/or to prevent companies from reaching a point where there are no longer alternatives.
Risk level is at the same level as for any other random person.
Anthony Bourdain documentary sparks backlash for using AI to fake voice
If your side project is at least a two man operation, say that all the work is done by your buddy, while you only have ownership rights. Or say your buddy hired a cheap noname outsourcing firm or even a freelancer who did the work and vanished. At the end of the day, software is too complex and it's unprovable that you did any of it.
In the EU, governments and actually trying very hard to discourage the spread of misinformation, as well as passing legislation that the tech sector has always claimed was not needed. So yes, it's very likely, as it's already happening.
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Are you writing in Chinese? No, you weren't. So the question is, what is the intent here? Would you have used the same word if, for example, the context was Brazil? or Russia?

I think a little more self-reflection, rather than defensiveness is in order. Especially because the comment was intended to be helpful, and not a criticism. The original comment was getting downvoted, and I suggested what the reason might be.
You've got some sort of vendetta going on here, so I'm sorry for whatever burr you have in your britches.

When someone says "you are misinterpreting what I said" perhaps you should consider that you are misinterpreting what they said.
This is techno-utopianism. The problem isn't technical. Your grandparents won't figure out how to host their own cloud or use Mastodon. Your friends who work at art galleries or in construction won't figure it out either. The reason centralized services proliferate is that they cater to the vast majority of people who don't care about this stuff.

"How do we limit the harm of misinformation while preserving our freedoms?" That's a political problem. We can't just code our way out.
You can buy 'cold chain' stickers that indicate whether they have exceeded certain temperatures. Could be useful for prepper diabetics. (And for practicing and testing different ways to maintain cold chain in emergency-like conditions)
> Where does one draw the line?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_secret
The little reset hole in the bottom/back. Hold it for 20 seconds while it is powered up.
Looks like you were personally hurt by DNSSEC, care to share some details?
When the voting system is that binary, yes.
TBH, it is you who seems to be offended. Not me.
Ok so having worked on distributed consensus a bunch here are a couple thoughts in no particular order:

* In the real world, servers misbehave, like, a lot, so you have to deal with that fact. All assumptions about network robustness in particular will be proven wrong on a long enough timeline.

* Leader election in a world without a robust network is an exercise in managing acceptable failure tolerances. Every application has a notion of acceptable failure rates or acceptable downtime. Discovering that is a non-trivial effort.

Jeff Dean and others at Google famously came to the conclusion that it was ok for some parts of the Gmail service to be down for limited periods of time. Accepting that all self-healing/robust systems will eventually degrade and have to be restored is the first step in building something manageable. The AXD301 is the most robust system ever built by humans to my knowledge (I think it did 20 years of uptime in production). Most other systems will fail long before that. Managing systems as they fail is an art, particularly as all systems operate in a degraded state.

In short, in a lab environment networks function really well. In the real world, it's a jungle. Plan accordingly.
It's used on desktop and iOS as well.
Until they commit crimes and are formally charged and prosecuted in a court of law, they can believe anything they like.
Raft is very similar to Multi-Paxos. These Raft and Paxos user studies comparing the "understandability" of the two protocols might be helpful: https://youtu.be/JEpsBg0AO6o (Paxos), https://youtu.be/YbZ3zDzDnrw (Raft).

See also, comparison of various "Paxos" implementations: https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2016/04/consensus-in-cloud...
Great anecdote!

Reminded me of the short story Zima Blue by Alastair Reynolds (which was adapted into an animation short on Netlifx's "Love, Death and Robots").
Asymptotic progress bars for tasks of unknown length
Is it rational, though? Maybe for a certain type of politically active person. But I believe in free expression (the principle kind, in addition to the 1st amendment kind), so it seems to me it is not rational for me to oppose the distribution of anything legal. Or is it irrational of me to have principles, rather than being maximally self-interested or social-utopia-utilitarian?
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If people are really willing to pay for crappy phones that come installed with political apps and news feeds meant to flatter their ego instead of providing any actual news, I'd say commemorative coins and etc are only scratching the surface of what you could potentially market to them.

People paying money for a physical echo chamber could probably as financially beneficial as politically beneficial, since you now have a platform with lots of access to a decently-sized market with known interests and easy keywords that'll trick them into overpaying.
If you have a finite number of non-empty sets you can construct a choice function by induction. Of course induction won't get you beyond a finite amount of sets.
To you it's a golden age, to others this is a period where the internet was thoroughly weaponized by misinformation agents to undermine democracy and civil societies around the world.
There are ways to resolve merge conflicts automatically in some cases given some assumptions, but there is no way to resolve any given merge conflict without a system that can create a correct program. I won't bore you with the formal proof for this (especially since I have no idea how to construct such a proof). Consider that some merge conflicts require new code to be written to resolve them.

For example, here's an original program:

if(foo()) {
send_money_to_oftenwrong()
}

and here's a change we would like to merge:

if(bar()) {
send_money_to_oftenwrong()
}

and here's a concurrent change we would like to merge:

if(baz()) {
send_money_to_oftenwrong()
}

How do you produce the correct program from these conflicting changes?

---

Also for example, an unsophisticated and unsound method for automatically resolving some merge conflicts:

1. Assume that if the build and tests succeed, the program is correct. (This is the most important bit)

2. Accept all non-conflicting changes.

3. For conflicting changes, accept one side of the conflict.

4. Build and test the result. If it succeeds, merge it.

5. Otherwise, attempt the same with the other side of the conflict. If it succeeds, merge it.

6. Otherwise, it cannot be merged automatically by this method.

Note that this approach could also apply to a CRDT-based merge.
LOL, Intel was a classic 'get them by the balls and squeeze' type of monopolist. Never, ever let Intel into control of anything.
With gaming, I've started to allow myself play only during Friday evenings and Saturdays. It's like a reward after whole week. Also I play only on the computer, got rid of mobile games completely because of ads and in app purchases and a bad habit of playing in the bed. And interestingly, for a month I haven't played at all, although I could.
As a common carrier they should not be allowed to discriminate. Like railroads cannot discriminate against traffic they do not like, and restaurants and hotels cannot discriminate. As a society we decided long ago that if you hold yourself out to the public you cannot discriminate
I just wish they would admit they do not support free speech, or American Values... if they did that I would not have much of an issue with it

Their continues false advertisement of "All users are welcome" and "We support free speech" is the biggest problem.
I think the whole concept of “voting with your dollars” is flawed. Google will always have more votes than you.
Do you have a source? That's wild if true.
No, because just a handful of companies control the entire ecosystem. There is no alternative, you cannot escape their influence and you cannot function without interacting with them.

If Google and Apple ban you from their products and platforms, and Visa shuts down your payment processing, there is nowhere to go. You're done. This and much more has happened many times.

You're making the "just build your own internet bro" argument.
Just because it isn’t valuable doesn’t mean it is legally allowed to be released.
There's a technique I've been using for progress bars in ArchiveBox lately, and thats "asymptotic progress bars".

They fill logarithmically, so they still feel fast for the majority of tasks that execute quickly and finish within a few seconds, while remaining responsive and showing progress even for the longest running tasks.

https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/blob/dev/archivebox...

I've pulled it out into a gist here because I think it's generally a neat technique and works in almost any case where you are uncertain of total task duration.
Curious how often the “race to the bottom” versus the “planned price floor” applies to healthcare.

Sure, OTC stuff may differ given the different markets, but I’m highly skeptical of this spurring any sort of race to the bottom that doesn’t also come with large asterisks around quality, qualification to purchase, etc.
In the early days of the coronavirus, you couldn't use Google to find information at all because everyone other than the WHO was getting censored. I was using Bing for a while because their censorship was much slower.
First line of the readme: Red is a *new* programming language strongly inspired by Rebol.

There are over 13,000 commits in nearly 10 years and it has been discussed dozens of times on HN. I understand it isn't old, but is this actually new?
I looked closely but I cannot find anything that says that paying customers are excluded. So I would assume it is included.

It makes sense, though, to enforce one single policy: otherwise, just becoming a paying customer would be a loophole to circumvent phishing etc policies.

I guess the crux here is when, exactly, they start scanning the content. Is that perhaps the moment the content is first shared?

It doesn’t seem to be documented.
Unfair comparison. The large ones of those (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_floods_in_Europe) all were flooding of coastal areas by sea water.

This is flooding by rainwater in mountainous regions.
Very true I've seen too many cases of these kind of things ruinning entirely the work environment. If people can't get along, the productivity will surely be low.
The major difference I see is that the viewer is aware that they are watching an actor. Or at least, they should be aware. It has always been standard practice to note when something being shown is a reenactment of an event, and not the actual one.

Even if they used a voice actor to mimic Bourdain, they should have informed the audience that an actor was reading the script.
>whether they like the people they're interacting with

It's very common for introverts to still need time away from people they otherwise love.
> Global Warming should be part of middle or high school syllabus.

I concur, but I think it is almost 30 years too late. The decisions need to be made now - like today - in order to have a chance of solving anything. Waiting for these middle and high schoolers to graduate and get into positions to change anything will be waiting until it is too late.

This is a boomer created problem, a boomer ignored problem, and now needs to be a boomer enabled solution.
What do you mean by "physical evidence"? As Bart D. Ehrman (a non-Christian New Testament scholar) explains:

The reality is that we don’t have archaeological records for virtually anyone who lived in Jesus’s time and place.

Who was the most important Jewish figure in Palestine for the entire first century (who wasn’t, say, the actual king)? There’s no doubt. Flavius Josephus. Highly placed aristocrat, military leader, political figure, eventually made a court historian by the Roman emperor himself, and our principal source of information for the Jewish people and history at the time. And how much archaeological evidence do we have of his existence? None.

So too, who is (by far) the best known Jewish cultural figure outside of Palestine in the first century? Again, not much competition: Philo of Alexandria, brilliant philosopher, massively prolific author, political activist, known even at the highest levels of government in Rome itself. How much archaeological evidence do we have of his existence? Again, none. The lack of evidence does not mean a person at the time didn’t exist. It means that she or he, like 99.99% of the rest of the world at the time, made no impact on the archaeological record.

The most detailed record of the life and death of Jesus comes from the four Gospels and other New Testament writings. "These are all Christian and are obviously and understandably biased in what they report, and have to be evaluated very critically indeed to establish any historically reliable information," Ehrman says. "But their central claims about Jesus as a historical figure—a Jew, with followers, executed on orders of the Roman governor of Judea, Pontius Pilate, during the reign of the Emperor Tiberius—are borne out by later sources with a completely different set of biases."

Within a few decades of his lifetime, Jesus was mentioned by Jewish and Roman historians in passages that corroborate portions of the New Testament that describe the life and death of Jesus.

Regarding the apocryphal texts, they're called apocryphal for a reason, and do not form part of the Biblical canon.
Risk of Rain 2 boutta be lit on this thing.
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Steam does have one huge thing over Nintendo. The PC platform is so backwards compatible that I can play games from the 80s on a brand new computer today.

Nintendo charges you money for new copies of each game you want to play on their latest hardware. You can't just pull out your old copy of Super Mario Bros and install it on your Switch.

Hell, I've heard that there are Switch games that have been out since the very beginning of the console that are still full price.
My point is that embargoes are not the reason for the misery in these countries.

I can only speak for Venezuela so let me put it in perspective: The US placed the embargo in 2019[0], that's many many years after inflation and corruption had made the poor poorer, drained all the brains out and stole productive companies from their owners (aka "nationalized")[1].

To somewhat answer your question: the dictators actually appreciate the embargoes, because it keeps them in power by providing the perfect scapegoat for the complete chaos.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_sanctions_during...
1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbN3-uWnTqY (the word he keeps repeating means "expropriate", he's talking about all sorts of different companies or even random buildings in the street)
> capitalism is a system that rewards merit, and communism is a system that doesn't

That's right.

> The end result of capitalism is a society where 1% of the population own 95% of the wealth.

That hasn't happened yet in 250 years of free markets. But the communist countries all achieved that in short order.

> Capitalism is doing nothing for them.

And yet people with nothing march literally thousands of miles to try to get into the US. Why aren't they marching to communist countries?
> led to more violence in neighborhoods in *later years*
I think this is understood. The issue is that these bureaucratic legalese nonsense needs to go.
It almost looks like someone find+replaced 'listing' or 'black listing' with 'blacklisting'. If you replace the word black at the places it doesn't seem to make sense with 'listing' it sort of makes sense I think?

ex:
"Similarly, arguments against black short-term rentals often hinge"
->
"Similarly, arguments against listing short-term rentals often hinge
That’s like 3 layers of assumption.

Google doesn’t want to eliminate its cash cow, and doesn’t want to be associated with crazy fringe people. It’s pretty simple really.

Running this stuff through a “liberal” or “conservative” lens isn’t productive. Big public companies care about making money and eliminating risks associated with doing so.
It's horrible, we can't normalize this
This could be very useful for adaptive AIs in gaming.
you genuinely knew that he cared about every single person he was sitting down and talking to

I wonder if that's the impression that he crafted for TV. I read his book Kitchen Confidential, and the thing that struck me about his characterization of restaurant kitchens is that he always seemed to be surrounded by terrible people.

He portrayed that as universal, which is not my experience in them. Some are bad; others are not. And I notice that the common factor in all of his bad experiences in kitchens is him.

Restaurant kitchens are, indeed, hot, unpleasant, fast-moving, and potentially dangerous places. They pay very badly for incredibly demanding, exhausting work. It does attract a certain kind of adrenaline junkie.

But it also attracts a lot of kind, compassionate people who just want to make food that people enjoy. They're not all about taking cocaine and drinking and quitting on no notice.

I'm glad he presented a more thoughtful version of himself on his TV show. I didn't like the person he presented in his book. I would like to think that the former is more true to him than the latter. But I can say that his death didn't come as a surprise to me, based on what I read in his writings.

I don't mean that to be cruel. His work touched you and I'm glad for that.
I feel sorry for all traditional Catholics and for the pope Benedict XVI whose efforts were destroyed during his lifetime.

Apparently, the open Catholic Church build by Pope Francis won't be so open :/
You're welcome!

Lucky indeed. Their resources are so valuable. The Mom Test is always worth a re-read, I recommend it so often to people.

I understand the tendency to be broader and speak to more different people (larger target market, more potential buyers), but it makes it harder to effectively communicate your message in the language of the buyer. Also different people have different priorities. The more focus, especially at first, the better.

Do some experiments and see who has the problem in the most pressing way, or who can and is willing to pay enough to solve it to make it work for you and them. Consider size of company, decision maker, potentially industry/sector, location, time since money raised, bootstrapped vs investor funded, anything that makes sense - you never know which niches will be amenable to you.
It’s funny that that wouldn’t have been a spoiler if you hadn’t mentioned the name of the work.
There's a fascinating Radiolab episode that expands on this topic, asking the question about whether 'blue' is a feature of nature or a cultural invention & transmission:

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/segments/21121...
Just because its illegal doesn't mean that there was any harm done.
Oh no! I have an OKR sheet that might be in violation.
This. Also, 'misleading' is a mechanism to how content is used, not the content itself. So content in one use case may be misleading and in another, it is not. How content is used matters. How is google to judge this?