skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because government-run electric utilities are a mixed bag too. "Public" utility monopolies like PG&E are an attempt to get some of the benefits of a market system from what is fundamentally a government service. The utility can raise money from investors, who expect a modest but stable return. In theory, the profit motive gives the utility an incentive to keep costs in check.

It's far from perfect, but actually-public utilities are responsible for a lot of disasters too. It's not obvious that nationalizing PG&E would be good for anyone.
Nigeria may adjust VAT rate to 15% in next three years ~EIU
HN commenters like to use archive.is but I always wonder if people are aware that archive.is is (a) blocked in some countries^1 and (b) may block access to itself in a country if it feels threatened.^2

There is also the issue of EDNS subnet.^3 archive.is tries to require it; it wants to know what location a request is coming from. In addition to EDNS, archive.is inserts the IP address and geolocation of the incoming request into the HTML of the returned page as a tracking pixel.^4

Thus archive.is does some things archive.org does not do besides just ignoring robots.txt

One of the things archive.org does that archive.is does not do is that archive.org inserts an HTTP response header intended to disable Chrome FLoC.^5 I add this header for all sites in a local proxy; however I do not see many sites adding it as a courtesy. Thanks archive.org for doing that.

1.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.is

2. https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/3e29vm/arch...

3. https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/135222/why-does-...

4. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27498902

5. permissions-policy: interest-cohort=()
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Historically there has always been consultancies building 'bespoke' software for local companies. For example the CRM market usually had lots of local companies who built and maintained a CRM and would do add ons etc. for customers.

Fast forward 20+ years later, that type of work is essentially the SAAS apps you see popping up. It's not a very capital intensive business to sustain so with a few thousand customers you could have a pretty healthy company and continue product development / grow your customer base.

Why do people go for these new SAAS apps ? I've seen a few reasons

1) Pricing is somehow better
2) Integration and or support is more personal so the customer (usually a business stakeholder) prefers it.
3) Some specific feature exists that is important to the customer i.e ease of deletion for GDPR requests
4) CTO / CIO / Techie prefers it.

Why I've seen people not go with the open source alternatives is the same oul reason. Focus. If you've less than 30 people at your org, unless one of those tools has a specific team covering that area - it will just split focus and end up in a suboptimal setup and create pain points in terms of support.

Examples that come to mind, we used open source snowplow analytics because we had a data platform team that supported it and ran it full time. There was no cost with regards to the software, but certainly was with head-count to maintain, and evolve.

We used external newsletter services to inform customers about updates etc. in the product. We went with an external paid service because this didn't tie directly into a specific team and for 100 - 500 euro a month we got what probably would have cost 0.3 - 1.0 full time head count to keep a minimal service up and running (Which meant -0.3 to -1.0 headcount working on important things for the company).
Brazen assumption that the senator they voted for is the one in power. It is a democracy after all, they could have been on the wrong side of it
Makes your wonder why Neanderthals only survived as fragments in our DNA.
Work Email Address Is Your Work's Email Address
I thought Kubernetes is not great for environments with poor network connectivity, which is quite common when dealing with Edge and IoT scenarios. Has that changed?
Spoken Presentation in HTML
> neither Bezos or Branson made it to orbit.

It is true that reaching orbit is much more difficult than reach space but Branson has another company called Virgin Orbit that did reach orbit.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Orbit :

> The first successful flight was on 17 January 2021, which delivered a payload of 10 CubeSats to low Earth orbit (LEO)

It uses an unusual strategy. A boeing 747 carries the rocket under its left wing. So, it does not need a spaceport and can can be pre-aligned on any orbit.

Bezos is also trying hard to reach orbit with the New Glenn space rocket. But this one had a lot of delays.
You can get the "dir" in the file properties. A little annoying but it's there.
An exhaustive list is totally useless. The question is the handful of options that are credibly viable.
It must not be Aikido you practice then.

Anyway, people will downvote posts that break the HN guidelines (read the link on bottom).
That's a great idea- will add.

Will also review Seatable.

For now if anyone has a recommendation, please let me know here. We'll review and add.
The collective generational trauma of about two centuries of industrialized capitalism means we don’t actually know what people are like in a system that doesn’t beat the kindness out of us every chance it gets. I suspect, a lot nicer - but not right away, it’d probably take a few generations to shake off the damage being done right now. I don’t think it makes sense to ask if “we” deserve it. If it can be better, then it should be better.
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Botox is amazing for a large amount of chronic pain conditions caused by musculoskeletal abnormalities, as well as being used as a diagnostic tool for nervous system dysfunction.

I was pretty amazed reading a writeup about the facility in either Irvine or Anaheim CA that the toxin is processed at. They take the delivery/transport security incredibly fucking seriously because the amount is enough to kill a lot of people if used as a bioweapon iirc
> goinv to

Did you succumb to the exact same problem GP comment described?
I loved the alertbox and 101. Tanks for sharing. I love to see how robust foundational knowledge is and how volatile much of the candy and buzzwords.

Writing plain, static html is still paramount for everything that has to be there the next years and on. Near unbreakable, clean and still CSS designable to be enjoyable.

Thanks for sharing!
The documentation shows ffmpeg is used only for encoding/decoding, composition/animation/effects are driven by openCV/numpy/scipy/PIL

See: https://zulko.github.io/moviepy/getting_started/quick_presen...

The Gallery section has more advanced demos on vector/3D animations & audio mixing:
https://zulko.github.io/moviepy/gallery.html
Russian power has been oppressive since long before communism but it was communists who managed to turn that oppression into full fledged genocide machine killing 20 million people in USSR alone with further tens of millions going though the Gulag system of slave labour (quite deadly as well). It was absolutely unparalleled in the Western world and only matched (also by communists) in China.

Communism is a threat to humanity itself, not just capitalism.
I personally feel that uptime monitoring, status pages and similar solutions should always involve a third party. You can run your own service, but you would have to trust your service to be working properly. And in the exact cases where uptime monitoring is relevant, you may end up facing issues with your own monitoring service.
windows defender was one of the (many) reasons I gave up on windows and replaced the last windows machine I had with a Mac Mini. (FC33 on my main)

Very similar experience here, coupled with windows defender randomly switching itself back on and quaranteening half my (completely benign) development folder.

The last time it did that I spent an entire afternoon trying to get it disabled and get my files back onto the machine with only limited success.

I think it may be a windows home vs windows professional thing.

But rather than wrestle with it further I just gave up. Only thing I had left that really needed windows was word and excel which ironically actually now work better and crash less on the mac mini than they ever did on windows.
ughhh this is why i ended up completely disabling it
> By that reasoning

No! Bad! Stop that!!

The fact that I think some currently illegal things should be legal is not evidence that anything and everything should be legal.

Similarly the fact that some things are made illegal is not automatic evidence or reasoning that another, different thing should also be illegal.

Different things are different. The reasons why one thing should be legal or illegal may or may not apply to a different thing.
I've been (unfortunately) in a few houses refurbishing by now and the good workers are the ones that also know a bit about other domains in house refurbishing. The HVAC guy will know about wiring and the good dry wall guy will know a bit of the layman job as well. They don't necessarily have to, but the good ones will.
With ambient WiFi signals one can get the error down to 10 meters or even less depending on coverage. This actually powers some of the location signals which Google and Apple provide in their location API’s, as it costs less battery life than GPS.
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Our Strathpine law firm is in the industrial area between Kremzow Rd and Leitchs Rd, towards the end of the cul de sac.
And then you have people claiming that security/safety in game engine code is not important, therefore Rust has no benefits over C++ for games. Nonsense!
Not sure why the justice does even bother with people like this.

There's real criminals to prosecute. Why help some large company like twitter get rid of some annoyance?
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Hello, we just finished community version of FastoCloud, here you can find sources: https://gitlab.com/fastogt/fastocloud
Few-shot learning NLP with GPT-J and GPT-Neo
Hello!

Since I added the GPT-J and GPT-Neo endpoints to NLPCloud.io, I've had many questions about how to make the most of these 2 NLP models.
So I just wrote an article about few-shot learning with GPT-J and GPT-Neo: a simple technique to dramatically improve accuracy:
https://nlpcloud.io/effectively-using-gpt-j-gpt-neo-gpt-3-alternatives-few-shot-learning.html

Few-shot learning is about helping a machine learning model make predictions thanks to only a couple of examples. No need to train a new model here: models like GPT-J and GPT-Neo are so big that they can easily adapt to many contexts without being re-trained.

Thanks to this technique, I'm showing how you can easily perform things like sentiment analysis, code generation, tutorial generation, machine translation, spell correction, question answering, tweet creation...

I personally find it amazing what can be done with these models. It seems that only our imagination is the limit!

Hope you'll find it useful.
As someone who lives 15 miles from Paradise, CA - A “very expensive solution” makes it sound like there are inexpensive solutions that would be just as effective. If there were, wouldn’t PGE have implemented them?

Maybe its just “the solution”.
you may have misread the parent comment? it is deleting things completely unrelated to malware
I keep seeing people make this wild assumption that we're going to somehow terraform Mars and make it habitable. If Earth becomes so uninhabitable that we literally need to find another planet to live in, the question I'd ask is, "why couldn't we save an already perfect planet where we and everything we rely upon evolved?". At what point does earth become so fucked up that we look at Mars and think "Hmm, that looks like an option"
We've narrowed it down to just the top 2-3 options in each category. :)
Not sure what to make of what seems to be an agitated outburst
99.999% of all species ever existed was wiped out by the climate way before we arrived. That's always a danger as nature doesn't care about us.

The way we combat that is not to minimize our impact on the planet but maximize it by creating general knowledge which can be used to come up with even better solutions that we have today.

We have never been as safe from the climate as we are right now. The number of climate related deaths have plummeted the last 100% years.

This is done through the use of energy and technology which is responsible for saving many more lives than killing them. In fact most people wouldn't be around here today if it wasn't for our use of energy and impact on the planet.

So we could ask the same question back. How many current lives are those who want to stop our current impact on the planet ready to let die in return for speculative issues in the future where we would be much richer and have even better technologies to handle any issue.

I think far too many people haven't actually sat down and thought this through but are mostly caught in short term thinking while telling themselves they are telling long term.
What India needs to become a superpower
I wonder if Right to Repair is going to cover creation of updated firmwares for abandoned products.

Old firmwares are full of known and exploitable holes.
It's not about you. But about what each person in the mob projects out into the world.

When enough people would be insincere themselves, no matter what you say, they just can't believe your sincerity.

Mobs are mindless and project, but are lead by individuals in the mob that are either caught up in it or just lack certain insights into themselves. What makes it chaotic and unpredictable is that the leaders change and eat their own all the time.
We can't prevent suffering.

Cooperative systems like all sorts of communism don't work because people are by nature lazy and even worse greedy. Everyone maximizes their needs and minimizes their abilities.

Hence we are left with competitive systems like contemporary capitalism where pressure to perform and be better than the others directly leads to suffering as inevitably there will be losers. The winners also don't fare much better as well. It is often a Pyrrhic victory.

Cursed if you do. Cursed if you don't.

And in the end to feel better about ourselves, we the society, tell people it is worth living so they do their stressful job for a few more decades and enjoy a few weeks of free time a week to play Candy Crush on their iPhones they are still paying via installments.

But even if looked beyond politics and social organisation perfect prevention of suffering is impossible until medicine reaches some state of seamless merging with (bio)robotics. Ironically the competitive pressure might actually be the way we reach such a state of science. Ray Kurzweil is talking a bit about this in the book about the Singularity.
Here's another one. A small town mayor got raided by the state SWAT over marijuana (package shipped to wrong address, at that). Himself and his mother-in-law were handcuffed and held at gunpoint for several hours in their underwear, and his two dogs shot. The mayor went on to sponsor a bill that required all police departments with SWAT teams to publish reports on how often they're deployed, and the reasons for deployments - which showed that the vast majority of SWAT raids are to serve search warrants in non-violent crimes, mostly drugs. Despite strong opposition from law enforcement, the bill passed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berwyn_Heights,_Maryland_mayor...

I'm afraid this story doesn't have a good ending in the long term, though - the law expired in 5 years, and wasn't renewed.
i have been using no av on my main machine for a long time. in the rare cases i was doing RE or sketchy execution, vm or dedicated offline old machine
'starbot', from 'star chamber' [0].

"In modern times, legal or administrative bodies with strict, arbitrary rulings, no "due process" rights to those accused, and secretive proceedings are sometimes called "star chambers" as a metaphor."

Example uses:

"I got starbotted."

"Instagram's automod is a starbot."

"YouTube is too starbotty for your lectures. Better post with your school account."

"We're suing them because their starbot took down our site right after our superbowl ad ran."

"Play Store starbotted release 14 so we cut a dupe release 15. How much will it cost to push the ad campaign back 2 weeks?"

"We use Gmail and Google Docs but not Google Cloud because of the starbots."

"I tried to put Google ads on it, but their starbot rejected the site because it doesn't have enough pages. It's a single-page JavaScript utility." (This is my true story about https://www.cloudping.info )

"Our site gets a lot of traffic but we don't use Google ads because of the starbot risk. Nobody needs that trouble."

"The STAHP Bill (Starbot Tempering by Adding Humans to Process) just passed the Senate! Big Tech is finally getting de-Kafka'ed. About f**ing time."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Chamber
For those unfamiliar with the country, this is likely not a post against Facebook. In fact Facebook was instrumental in this party's campaign.

The country ranks at the bottom in the EU in media freedom. In the last 10 years, all mainstream TV channels got into the hands of a handful of people that also happen to receive plenty of funds from the government. As a result, an opposition party had no media coverage at all, or if there was anything, maybe negative one. I don't think parallels to some TV channels in the US capture the extent of the problem. But by using Facebook, this party managed to win in the capital and now they are part of the parliament (not anywhere near ranked first still, and btw I am not affiliated with them).

Despite all its problems, Facebook was not painted as something bad here. Also they were not painted good, because they were paid for the promotions. Still, some of these policies are puzzling. It is unlikely to be related to the end of the election cycle, because (due to the composition of the parliament now) the next elections may by as close as 3 months away or as far as 4 years away.
I thought Uber already did this with surge pricing? Or does it not take supply into account, only demand? Or is the extra money not going to the drivers?
In the "can be" vs. "is" argument, a point that's frequently neglected is what's the prevelance of the circumstance argued?

How many commercial business corporate entities are explicitly structured with a moral focus as their principle organising principle?

Would that even stand up under corporate law in most jurisdictions (e.g., Delaware, where the state supreme court has pretty much upheld the Friedman "shareholder value" mistake)?

Because that's what really matters here.

I don't follow your final paragraph. Are you arguing that humans are not moral, or that morality isn't a strictly human phenomenon? I'd disagree with the first, generally, and agree with the second. For the second, experiments with animals show innate senses of "fair" and "unfair" as well as group alignment of behaviours, which may not be a moral code, though they seem to me the evolutionary basis of one.
I think people take Uber because the price is known in advance. Taxis were considered the biggest theft profession of the world (excluding politicians) because they relied on extremely nasty techniques, such as threats, misconfiguring the counter, letting it run between clients, in Mexico abducting people as part of racket networks, using the wrong route, pretending there is a station charge and, last but not least, using law and local police against the customer. It’s sad that Uber has lower prices, because I would have liked to see a real match, I think everyone is happy to see taxis go bankrupt and another system with a reputation framework.
Wanna bet the signature is the hex key?
Improve performance scores (Pagespeed insights guides you), get rid of those Animations as they don't add value, add search suggestions (take a look at Instantsearch), add guest checkout, add some "trusted shop" certificate, and, most important add way more product information! It's content commerce these days.
Thanks for your reply! The problem I have is that the probative value of _anything_ seems to me to be based on the Axiom of axioms, which is Logic itself. I just don't understand how the provability, formality, or completeness of _anything_ may be achieved without having an unassailable tool that determines those things. We might say that Logic is that tool, but how does it sustain itself?
Couple Charged After Gender Reveal Pyrotechnics Sparked a Deadly Wildfire
SCOTUS could always overturn the existing precedent but if we assume they won't then it's legal right up until someone gets injured as a direct result. (Unless it somehow ends up running afoul of our ridiculous obscenity laws? I doubt it but you never know.)

Agreed that anyone who decides to demonstrate the above is definitely going to want plenty of money and free time at their disposal.
You're both right. In grammatically gendered languages, various situations and context are present. Sometimes, people get worked up on a non-issue (like the latinx example other commented). Other rules have a more debatable impact, like the famous "in groups, the masculine prevail".

Interestingly, other approaches existed in the past like the rule of proximity where the gender of the closest element will dictate how the verb and adjectives will be written.

Languages are an ever-changing thing. I think it's healthy to propose and discuss grammatical changes if it makes sense, but everyone should be aware of what they are actually talking about.
Oh nevermind, I figured out the answer to my question: If the server responds with a 401 code, it's unauthorised. It's right there in the spec. Duh.
As for this disclaimer at the end: "The allegations of a criminal complaint are merely an allegation, and all defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law."

I hadn't noticed it before, it seems relatively new at least, if not unique to this release. Apart from being circular, is the first half even valid grammar? Or is it somehow important to note that multiple allegations are hierarchically combined into a single allegation?
There are several (many?) posters on here who create a new throwaway account every time they say anything
What would it match against? ASCII strings? Add a whitelisted string and make your malware pass.

The heuristics are much more complex than that, cf. spamassassin rules.
As always it's a matter of judgement which businesses are ok and which are a nuisance.

Any number of desk job type businesses would not worry me much. Strip joints tend to be open late at night and have lots of traffic, so that's the other end of the spectrum.

AirBnB for me is not necessarily at the desk job end but they're also not at the strip joint end. I think it's up for debate.
This always makes me wonder why this is even possible in the US. Why can anyone just make an anonymous call and have a death squad kick in someone's door? Sure the guy who does the calling is guilty, but why is it so easy to do, shouldn't there be at least some reconnaissance done before you decide to do something so invasive?
That's the general direction, but had a little more than that in mind.

In prediction markets people bet on a future outcome and then these bets are traded in a market. Turns out that the price that they trade at converge to the perceived (and often the underlying) probabilities of those outcomes. Options market has a similar structure, people bet on the future price of a stock. What I am interested in if there is any study that shows whether the prices on these outcomes track their probabilities.
Rapid antigen test kits have reached retail prices well below 1€ now. They probably cost cents to produce.

I guess a significant factor in the cost of PCR tests are the thermocyclers and the lab staff. Not nearly as easy to scale as rapid test kits.