skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I strongly disagree with this. It is easy to code and any child or adult can do it. The typical problems we solve with code are hard, and can only be solved with code.

Consider the quadratic formula. It's trivial to write this code. That's not a hard problem to teach anyone to solve with code. Or calculating compound interest. Or solving payroll and basic accounting.

All these things are done with spreadsheets as the abstraction instead of code because of the myth that "code is hard." Code is not hard, it's just we use it to solve problems that are so hard we can't do it with spreadsheets.
Oculus sells their hardware at a loss, and make up for it by selling your data.

Valve doesn't care about being competitive. They're not market driven. They hire the best engineers possible, and let them work on what they want.

Sometimes that comes together in something beautiful (Alyx, Index) sometimes it results in something out of touch (steam machines) and sometimes it results in unending development hell.
It might be better to add the link on the submit page and then describe everything in a comment (you can comment on your own post).

I've seen more success posting that way.
How realistic would it be to send (anonymous) mass sms messages with phishing or other malicious links to those numbers? I’m occasionally getting sms message with bogus sender info (i cannot reply, nor get contact info), always wonder how spammers pull that off so easily.
The view stated in your last sentence is a commonly-held one, but if we needed complete definitions of something before we could have knowledge of it, I doubt we would ever have come up with the idea of a gravitational field or a wave function. The solid definition of consciousness will follow from our future understanding of how minds work, not be a prerequisite for it.
socat is a "dumb" tool. With a proxy that understands HTTP you have a lot more influence over what goes where and for example not direct requests to a down backend instance.
Are empty storefronts worse than no storefronts? My city seems to think so, and mandates all buildings in a particular area be mixed use. The developers view it as a tax to get housing units built
The dominant factor making US cities expensive to live in is that they ban housing construction.

Legalizing a healthy housing supply would improve this country more than anything I can think of.
Marvin Heemeyer (The Killdozer Man)
JPype does this for importing Java classes.
aka federated systems like Mastodon?
The "theory" is, essentially, "what if quantum fractal microtubules somehow consciousness".

String theory, "not even wrong" as it may be, was at least inspired by an empirically adequate way to explain certain experimental data.
Yeah, saner relative imports might be one of the few things that I envy the JS ecosystem for.
one lesser known facility I have used with UDS is called SCM_RIGHTS. It is used to send open file descriptors for actual files/shm regions/socket connections. the receiving process gets the same file handle as if translated into its process space by a dup by kernel. this is very useful for implementing things like graphics compositor where specialized memory regions need to be passed around to various processing stages.
Dtree v0.1
The amount of plastics in a display panel is much less than the amount of plastic bottles most people go through in a week or less. Yes, every little bit contributes, but you need to focus efforts on the impactful sources first .
Is SciHub available on other social media platforms, ie Mastodon?
I've been spending the last 48 hours strongly pondering Linux as a daily driver. If it wasn't for my crippling visual studio addiction, I'd probably be able to swap all my PCs over, with the exception of the one bastard stepchild win10 that I will keep in the closet for when BF2042 is released. Virtualization is another option that I am investigating actively now.

I could even see the path for getting our product off the Windows platform and onto Linux (while still using Microsoft's dotnet toolchain). There are only 2 DLLs keeping us locked to Windows and I have a very solid hypothetical answer for both.

All of this is so depressing because it doesn't have to be this way. A few small changes to the OS (that would incur negligible impact to Microsoft's cashflow or margins) could mean life changing improvements in the user experience.

If profit must be obtained, then Microsoft should consider a "hacker" build of windows that starts as a bare-ass powershell prompt that you have to tack on what you want to use. I'd pay a fucking premium. Microsoft, are you out there? Charge me $1000. I swear I'll pay it if you promise to not shove updates, telemetry, defender or cortana down my throat ever again.
> but seem to be assuming that it has to be organised at town level?

No. I wasn't assuming that. I'm just using a small town with a few large employers as a good rhetorical example.

> You also mention unemployment insurance, which you seem to be implying is organised at some wider geographic level?

It doesn't have to be, but the bigger the pool that's spread-out to diversify risk, the better. That's a given.

> If you change your comparison to systems with the same geographic support area, the difference you point out would vanish, or not?

I don't see any difference between a (hypothetical) city-wide unemployment insurance scheme vs. nationwide unemployment insurance scheme, except that in the city-wide case the risk pool is much smaller so the overall risk of the insurance fund being depleted sooner by a simple large mass-unemployment event is much higher.
That's the thing the bank is (sort of) "trying to do" and the landlord is seeking to prevent them doing. If the landlord lowers the rent such that the property would now be in violation of the loan covenants, the bank has the option to foreclose on the loan and auction the property off. If the landlord does not lower the rent, they can avoid being in violation of the loan covenants and the bank does not have the right to foreclose and force an auction (provided the landlord keeps making the loan payments, of course).

If the bank has a loan on the books that’s being paid-as-agreed and is in compliance with the agreed ratios, it's not at all clear to me that there's been an underwriting mistake and consequently I don't think that giving them the power to foreclose is in the public or borrower’s interests. (Giving them the option is technically always in the bank’s interests, but if the loan’s being paid, they’re not likely to exercise the option anyway.)
It was a completely obvious idea that, when the patent expired, was immediately widely adopted. It's clear in this case that the patent retarded progress rather than promoting it.
Does that same apply the the money you have?
If you are serving static assets then essentially it's pretty cheap. You can use KV / Workers and then use the caching to minimize cost which measures requests not bandwidth.
With all due respect, Linus could learn some manners:

> I think the OpenBSD crowd is a bunch of...

Apart from that, if there is no test coverage it is difficult to talk about security or reliability (I don't know myself if there are tests and how good they are, I'm just assuming GGGP is right).
We used to do this in the late 90's (when there were less hosting options in general). A bunch of us at work wanted to run our own sites and experiments online, so we pooled our money and built a server that sat at one of our houses. At first we just got a static IP for the server, but eventually as more people at work joined, the guy who had the server in his basement got a T1 line installed.

We all just split the cost of internet and server upgrades, etc, which may have come out to like $40 a year or something on average. We probably did this for a decade or so until the hardware got too old and there wasn't as much interest in maintaining it all.

While I just have a VPS now, I do miss that old server and all of us working on it, and literally being able to do whatever we wanted with it. All it takes is a few buddies to get together and try it out. Experiment and see what happens, let it grow organically.
And by 2000, sound cards and 3D accelerators on the PC removed all the advantage, with BeOS looking like a possible replacement for the Amiga generation, oh well.

I guess those ideas now live on macOS and Windows platforms, to some extent.
I believe the biggest friction to this move currently is that very few countries allow import of flower. That said, this is a great signal of future evolution of import/export for the industry.
Bug report here:

https://forum.mapillary.com/t/mapillary-openstreetcam-synchr...

Unfortunately I don't think the creator open sourced the tool, so either someone needs to re-create or we have to wait.
Unfortunately, unlike with residential, there's a substantial amount of upfront build-out time and costs that go into retail. For most retail renters it simply doesn't make sense to sign a short lease.
Wouldn't it be possible for companies to simply reject e-mail addresses that end with "@relay.firefox.com"?

EDIT: Ok, it is answered in the FAQ:

> Why won’t a site accept my ⁨Relay⁩ alias?

> Some sites may not accept an email address that includes a subdomain (i.e., the “relay” portion of @relay.firefox.com) and others have stopped accepting all addresses except those from Gmail, Hotmail, or Yahoo accounts. As ⁨Firefox Relay⁩ grows in popularity and issues more aliases, our service might be placed on a blocklist. If you are not able to use a ⁨Relay⁩ alias, please let us know.
I'm wondering if there's similar type of analysis for renewable electricity sources like solar panels and windmills?

There's been criticism regarding longetivity and degradation of performance of solar panels.

And windmills have been criticized for amount of concrete (and with that CO2) that base requires, and same as for solar panels about longetivity, being hard to recycle ...
> I would love to talk.

By "talk", you must mean, "be overwhelmed by walls of verbiage while nodding my head and getting in the odd word edgewise".
Such a claim is naive. While I know nothing about this specific patent of the Japanese company Shin-Etsu, when a patent is owned by a very large manufacturer like this, they very seldom want to make money by licensing the patent but they use it to exclude any competitors.

This is done by either refusing to license the patent, or more likely by requesting royalties so large that the products made by any other company could not be cheaper than their own.

There are many examples of patents which had never been implemented in any product before the day when they expired.

In this case, Shin-Etsu would have probably been willing to supply Ga-doped silicon wafers to PV cell manufacturers, but only at prices too high in comparison with the current prices of the PV panels, so such wafers have never seen any significant use.
> Users will go wherever the techies tell them to go

Only if those techies make it worthwhile. How do we make something like private RSS feeds as easy as facebook?
That's the crux of it. Free will is an elusive concept who sits over randomness and determinism, being neither of them. We stick to it because it reflects our internal sensation, "I'm choosing this", and because is related to the consciousness/subjective problem ("I feel this"), not mentioning historical baggage.
But it still works, it is still in use, so no e-waste.

A product you don't use is waste all along. Maybe it will sit in a drawer for a decade or two before it becomes obsolete and you trash it. But it doesn't mean it lasted for decades, it means you kept your waste for decades.

A cheap product you use to its fullest because you are not scared of breaking it is less of a waste than an expensive product you hesitate to use.
OLED burn-in is likely less of a problem with phones because the useful life of most phones is only a few years. Laptops and monitors are a different story as they typically last for 5-10+ years.
Yeah it really tripped me up as a beginner. I think the hardest part to get used to was that the import syntax actually changes based on how, and from where, you are running your code. So depending on how you call your code, your imports might or might not work. This is ESPECIALLY painful when you are building a distribution. There is no syntax that works for all situations, which seems like it would be pretty important for an import system. I had to bookmark this tab, and still refer to it often.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14132789/relative-import...
Right; I think Starship, if it pans out, is going to entirely change how we plan, build, and carry out space missions, both manned and unmanned.
Sufficiently wealthy private entities can buy access to that force, which makes it more of an oligopoly than a monopoly. Not to mention there are private security services who are also granted force.
Aaaand here we are again.

Every few years a story about how quantum physics is releated to our brain..
Presumably all non-american ones are not on your list?
You can make an authentication method strong enough on the VPS, multiple factors, even IP block lists so they'd have to do it from your home.

Secondly, you're local machine should encrypt itself if that's your threat model. They can take it while it's still on but if that's actually a concern for you, you can figure out a way to trigger a lock or a shutdown if things change. If it's a stationary machine, it can be easy to notice your environment changing. maybe you can't find the mac addresses of your switch any more, maybe all 10 of your neighbor's ssid info is no longer visible. Perhaps lack of internet is good enough.

Phones are a lot harder because their environment changes a lot more, but you can still check things like has my computer decided to go to lock itself? In the end, if your threat model involves that kind of risk, you can set your devices up to brick themselves or at least shutdown and encrypt themselves.

Last, you'd probably want a device so that you can do the things. A phone and or old laptop with an OS already installed that you can retrieve.
reddit removed this link due to not passing media bias.. interesting.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CanadaCoronavirus/comments/oqawe5/s...
The Dark History of the Jukebox
https://old.reddit.com/r/nosyntax/wiki/projects
Prioritizing everything is prioritizing nothing
crypto is seeing massive changes, I'm sure it's gonna play a big part. my eyes on Ethereum PoS and EIP-1559
The billionaires yachts of the ancient world. It's a shame they were destroyed in WW2.
The hard problem of consciousness seems almost entirely made up by people who a priori reject physcalism and reductionism. They generally start by assuming that there is something different between knowing what, say, a color is vs the experience of seeing that color, and deduce from this that qualia exist and have definite meaning.

However, if we don't start with such assumptions, it is easy to accept that our attention mechanisms have some way of interpreting the stimuli that they receive, and that similar computational architectures will interpret these stimuli the same way. It is entirely possible that all humans experience pain almost identically, aand that it is even more or less identical to how dogs experience pain; while at the same time, an alien or AGI might experience these things entirely differently.

It is also quite obvious that a being without self-reflection, such as a microprocessor, will not have this experience mechanism, almost by definition.

With enough study of the computational structure of the brain, we will likely come to even understand the precise advantage that experiences (self-reflection) have.

To give just one personal reason why I don't believe in the idea/importance of qualia, I feel very clearly that there are certain mental states that I experience (such as colors and smells etc), but there are also mental states that don't have an associated experience. for example, I don't think there is such a thing as 'the feeling of thinking about the number 277`. This to me suggests strongly that experiences are a specialized part of our computational apparatus, with specific roles that we don't understand precisely now (like so much about our minds), but with limited applicability - not some be-all, end-all of consciousness and thought.

I will also note that my position is entirely in line with philosophers like Daniel Dennett, it is not some dismissal of mainstream philosophical thought.
Dugway Sheep Incident
Not a fan of "skyrocketed" in this headline. Just tell us the statistic.
I think we’ll see more people switching over to web based technology as more and more applications get web versions. Eventually, OS won’t matter in the long term.
> Matrix is interesting, but I'm waiting for their new Go implementation (dendrite?). The deployment for matrix feels like it's heavier than it should be. I feel like I should be able to spin up a process and point to the port and call it a day.

Sounds like you, like me, have had your brain broken by the ease of deploying Go programs :) The current Synapse server is written in Python, so it's a bit of a trial. That said, I run it on a tiny linode instance and it Just Works after maybe an hour of fiddling around (I seem to remember something about DNS records being the fiddliest part to get right).
This post isn't a list of reasons why Python is bad. It's a list of design choices in Python the author disagrees with.

A "bad" language isn't a language that uses typing discipline X or keyword convention Y or whatever that you don't like. A language is bad when it is inconsistent, buggily implemented, hard to use correctly, etc.

JavaScript and PHP (the latter much less so recently) are good examples of widely used languages that are, from a more neutral design standpoint, arguably quite bad. Python does things I wouldn't choose to do if it were up to me, and I don't regularly use it, but I don't think it's "bad" in the same way.
> It amazes me that Microsoft haven't replaced the Registry

how does this amaze anyone? how do people think backwards compatibility works?

Microsoft, supporting Windows, promises to make every effort to maintain backwards compatibility wherever possible so that programs compiled for, say, Windows 95 will run unmodified on Windows 10.

Not every program from 20+ years ago runs, but a lot do! That's a very hard thing to do if you wish to continue to advance the technology you use in your operating system. Apple doesn't even try.

Microsoft have taken steps to break backwards compatibility a few times in the name of progress and every time I talk to people during those transition periods, it is a 50/50 split between people who don't know that they've been given a decade of notice and now their "tried & true" software development paradigm doesn't work anymore, and people who are angry because most of the old ways are still supported.

The registry wasn't even supposed to be what it is today. it was a small stop-gap thing to stand in place while a better solution was developed. Developers discovered it, started using it, and now Microsoft has to support it. Of course it's rubbish; metaphorically, it's a piece of a whiteboard used as a doorstop until the real doorstop is delivered, except for some reason people started using it for important stuff and now everyone needs it.
How hard is it to install git and Python 3?
Facinating but if we are to focus our attention on someones writing or speech it is best to get to those writings as fast as possible without spending to many words explaining them. One would much rather [first] read a bunch of these texts before learning what others are doing with it or have to say about it.
On a related note, one thing I'd never thought about until actually being served by a masked waiter last month was that, pandemic aside, I kind of liked it as a general protection against having them accidentally breathe or spit on my food.

I could see the mask policy remaining popular for chefs and/or waiters indefinitely, just as a logical next step after hairnets and gloves.
Companies are dominated by the major shareholders, basically the rich.

Guess what the us government is dominated by?
dtree is a side-project designed to be something like the vim of mindmapping, a way to explore spaces of ideas quickly without leaving the keyboard. Lightweight, responsive, and stores all data inside a plaintext file. Many features will be added down the road, including search and undo, but we are releasing now to get early feedback and gauge interest in the project. Let us know what you think!
"We found the correlation to be very strong, which is the highest category statistically possible"

What?
Yes this is exactly what happens, to a “T”.

Most of the bars I knew of had their own collections of fake ID’s. The good ones would use them for training purposes and the bad ones would find ways to sell them on the black market.

Holding onto them for training purposes may be illegal but generally we had very good relationships with the police, it wasn’t something that would have ever been enforced.

To dispel the notion that this was some “bootlicker” bar that got special treatment from police, it was the actually the most popular bar in a college town very much like Berkeley or Austin or Cambridge. When Obama won the election the bar was standing room only but the manager had the staff give a free shot to everyone in the bar.
Wait, what?

> that you create

As in existing language supplied eg. Perl, Java, etc., or literally anything? Like bootstrapping your own home made language from scratch?
The key thing to understand is that commercial real estate is valued as some multiplier on rent (exactly the same as evaluating a bond by the interest rate it pays out). If the rent you're charging goes down then so too does the valuation, which can out you underwater on your loan and then you're just screwed.

Some kind of regulation that imposed an equation that increasingly devalues property from its last rented price the longer it remains vacant would do wonders here at correcting the market distortions. Another way to implement that would be to value vacant properties using the total rents charged over the past 5 years -- so the more vacancy there is in that, the more your total rent suffers.

Lenders can (and should) make this change too. It doesn't even need to be imposed top-down by the government.
I think the team dynamic can be just as important from the “host everything” standpoint. Hosts generally have incentives to automate manual processes, and a diverse set of customers pushing to make that automation sane, for some value of sanity.

There’s a struggle against manual processes in self hosted environments, or aggressive automation with bespoke or otherwise incomplete tools. What you want is glue code holding together open source tools without too much abstraction over the top. You should always have a hint what’s going on underneath. I find myself having to spend way too much social capital on this.

While I much prefer self hosted, there is a clear advantage of third parties inasmuch as you can bond over the stupid things their solutions do, instead of driving wedges between teams by engaging in that kind if catharsis.
They should legalize the cocaine instead, in that produce, they are the undisputed best manufacturer.

Many people do cocaine tourism there similar to people who go to Amsterdam for marijuana, might as well take some profit for the state.
That's never been the case. Users at large want convenience above all. If Twitter were to hire a private army and take over a small remote island exterminating its indigenous populace in the process, I would bet good money they would lose fewer users than if they were to force mandatory 2FA and >16 character passwords.
Stick with the truth over lies.

Your line wasn't cut.