skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What happened to landlines?

What I witness was that innovation stopped. For instance landlines could have been upgraded to support text messaging (just as they use a modem to send caller ID they could use a modem to send and receive texts.) Cordless phones, answering machines and such could have all gotten better but they didn't.

Most irksome, landlines don't support deliverability features such as STIR/SHAKEN so if you live in a place where cell phones don't work you might have trouble getting people to pick up when you ring them.

That's different from AM radio which, driving across upstate NY, I came to the impression that the only program you could expect to get reliably was the Rush Limbaugh show. If you were lucky around sunset you might catch a black power show from Philadelphia...
> Where are you getting that number from?

https://examine.com/nutrition/does-metabolism-vary-between-t...

> Just the differences between men and women alone

> if you compare a 100 pound woman with a 300 pound man

I assumed it was understood that I meant while holding all other conditions constant.
Interesting that he places Starlink above the 5G link in "network priority".

I would think that 5G would usually offer better speeds and ping times than Starlink in areas where it's available.
Ok, thanks!

I'll focus on the top level first
Not really. https://proofreadmyessay.co.uk/writing-tips/spelling-tips-de...

India uses British English.
> That said, I never cared about HSTS and CSP. Those headers are a joke. The correct way to force HTTPS and certificate verification is on the client, not as a hint by the server.

I agree that HTTPS is more effective than CSP but HSTS addresses the problem of doing that without breaking the web: if you don't have a way for someone typing www.google.com into the browser's location bar or following an old bookmark, you're leaving millions of people vulnerable to potential MITM attacks on the local network. HSTS allows sites to opt-in after they verify everything is working so most traffic is protected long before every antiquated enterprise IT site is updated.
It's much easier to steal a code than a key. Keys work perfectly well, I don't see the issue there.
Rent control really doesn’t make sense. If we could make things cheaper by passing a law we’d do it for everything.

Rent control won’t work for the same reason a price control for food or cars won’t work.

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/rent-control/
They hit their September deadline with the project, and all of the requested changes. The assets were on track, with the requested changes.

The betrayal issue comes with the very recent statements from Australia about supporting the project, whilst behind the scenes unbeknownst to France planning to scrap it.
It didn't have to be unique to be a major force.
Lobbying isn't something that's not done I the EU or most european countries I'm aware of. Which countries are you referring to, which don't have lobbying?
Linters can check for this sort of thing, for example Error Prone[0] has a lint[1] for this.

Totally agree this is better to be in the language proper so we don't need this extra tooling.

[0]: https://errorprone.info

[1]: https://errorprone.info/bugpattern/ParameterName
This is going to tank Bitcoin also, because a large amount of Tether's backing assets are Evergrande paper.
Actually it appears that this is how it works, though in this case it’s more purchases from Czech than France.
> An economically optimal price is one that maximizes total profit.

The economically optimal price is the one that maximizes total value in the long run.
> God is an entity outside of what we perceive as reality, meaning his reality must be used to run our reality

That’s not the understanding of God and creation presented in Scripture. God is not presented as part of a separate reality but is presented as the ultimate and necessary being from whom all contingent beings ultimately come from. God is presented as creating space and matter through His will alone from nothing and breathing a spirit into man who then has free will, agency, and an eternal destiny. You can believe all the vague sci-fi derived philosophies you like but it’s nonsense to map them onto the Bible.
Alex from Speedify here. Yes, exactly, we have swarms of redundant servers. The servers are very reliable, but in case of failure, you're on another server in 30 seconds.

Your comment makes me realize we may need more options on what to do when the connection fails. Security-types had us add a "kill switch" to make sure traffic couldn't get out when the encrypted tunnel fails. But if you don't care about that, another option to guarantee it would go right out, would make sense too.
If that 12% is the annual average, also keep in mind that it's presumably ~25% sometimes and ~0% at other times.

Now suppose the domestic production is 100 GW, the domestic consumption is 90 GW and you're not exporting anything. Compare this to when the domestic production and consumption are still the same but you're exporting 20 GW. You go from having 10 GW to spare to being 10 GW short and having to bid for it against the foreign market.

And the prices aren't linear. In oversupply you could be paying barely anything. At 10% undersupply you could be paying twenty times as much if that's how much it takes to reduce demand by 10%.
But inappropriate jokes about firing people and the like are not "ordinary social interactions" with aspects "that could be interpreted as offensive", they are an objectively oppressive and distressing behaviour that even the least upset subordinates of such a manager recognize as inappropriate.
When you live at the edge, losing is only marginally less satisfying than winning, and winning is just something you do to keep going. Probably not someone you want as a spouse, but that doesn't register. Imo, someone who takes risks with an eye to not taking risks anymore is not committed enough to be taking risk in the first place.
I usually do the opposite. Sometimes when someone I manage asks me how things are going, I jokingly tell them I'm trying my best not to get fired. I find it helps break the ice, and shows them that other people are struggling with that same insecurities. Reading some of the comments on here I'm now concerned that such comments might also amplify a general latent fear of getting fired, so I'll probably stop doing this.
Privacy is not the only drawback of centralization. It is also easier to take down by simply disabling the central component. Although not used as much as during the 90's, some decentralized networks like gnutella and kademlia are still to this day.
For some reason this confused me more than normal (just not the usual context I'm familiar with it in I suppose) - so just to be clear, you mean the same 'gas' that goes in your car right? Not that you can get, I don't know, propane leaf blowers or something?

They are noisy and smelly as hell, there was some going on just outside my window (not that I'd hired) recently, the operators wearing ear protection of course, but I was barely any further away. Do wish they'd use electric - can do it from a battery even these days. (And mitre saws etc. too, quite incredible.)
>in their off-hours

Is that really the case, I always imagined they had a full time team on it.
You're asking two different questions: an open source app is not an organization, and the organization does more than zero here (as another commenter said, you need cooperation)

Secondly you suggest a co-op, which could maybe work if this were actually a profitable sector. Currently it's still loss-leading
They are also enormously expensive to construct and don't scale down. You can build a single wind turbine for what, $100K? Even a basic nuclear power plant is now around $50B, which is a large chunk of change to take away from taxpayers leaving even less money to research more renewable/sustainable alternatives.

I do think that a better policy decision over the past 30 years would be to be more strict on building regulations to ensure good levels of insulation at construction time, which is much cheaper than retro-fitting. Also making sure it is done properly, I've seen plenty of builds where a few sections of insulation are missing because the builder ran out and no-one really checked.
I can think of a few:

- type safe clients provided by M3o

- reducing app/webapp/binary space by relying on APIs to get a subset of the content you need

- a web interface to query the data

There are probably a few more, YMMV
Well, the price for HPC is very expensive. The stupid thing is that by structuring the subsidy in a smarter way the UK could have gotten it at half the price. I've seen no reason why they did it how they did except adherence to some ideological dogma. Or putting my conspiracy glasses on, maybe some politically well-connected bankers in London made off like robbers at the expense of the public at large.
Selected my country in the drop down at the bottom: “404 Page not found”. Lol.

Otherwise, would love to see a good and privacy respecting alternative to Amazon take off.
Simple the 50 year or 100 year mortgage.

But really covid was the perfect opportunity to let the housing market collapse and reset buying us an additional decade. Wasted opportunity by bailing out landlords.
Chelyabinsk was 20m? That's surprisingly little damage for something equivalent to a massive light seen on Jupiter.
My front-end JavaScript collection on a global site has recorded traces of just how widespread this is — ads, malware (I'm assuming compromised hardware at the ISP as it was things like an ISP in Brazil injecting ads for a .ru pharmaceutical site), and in the case of what appeared to be an Iranian college's student network, something which appeared to capture more information about the browser and page content after the DOM had fully loaded.
Maybe.

If crops fail, it's going to depend on what crops fail. We won't have the option of radically reapportioning our crops on the fly; while a pre-emptive move to vegetarianism might help, that's a radical solution for a problem that may happen every 20,000 years.

So, consider what happens. If crops like alfalfa end up more resilient, we probably won't eat those past their sprout stage. However, if they can feed rabbits, it may be incredibly valuable as an option.

However, we would absolutely be looking to prioritize vegetables that can be processed for either human or animal consumption, even if they're not particularly palatable. I think the real problem, however, is the calories that would be available from such.

I think it's fair to say that if the food dries up, we would cull herds early and prioritize the most efficient food sources. We would likely be eating much less meat, if at all. We would not have room to be picky with our food.
OK, if you can eat the hay that is currently fed to the cows I eat, have at it
That was the first one I tried, but I was getting data speeds of about .1 Mbps
Some forms of rent stabilization make perfect sense. But most of the policies implemented in big cities are far too restrictive. There is a lot of policy to be explored between "your rent never goes up forever" and "you can't be immediately evicted for no reason". No one wants the latter, but there are better ways to address that, like much longer notices for rent increases, or requiring multi-year lease options.
The marketing page claims to offer "up to a 160x" perf improvement to Python. No idea how though.
I'm not religious, but I've always assumed belief in one religion means you believe other religions are false maybe even fake. To say you are a practicing _____ (insert religion), you're in essence saying my religion is right and others are wrong maybe even infidels or heathens. I can see how people who believe in these things could take offence if they're of a different belief.
There's a HUGE difference between getting murdered by your friend in a drunken argument, and getting murdered by a stranger street criminal trying to rob you....
But why bother? Its easier to bring some internet.
I'm not sure you could get to 100% safety. See any rail system in the world, however I'm more comfortable with our general rate of derailments I think (I haven't looked into the statistics). So I think we could get to a 'safe' system that looks like 'automated freight carrying in a special lane that is restricted, has built in 'hinting' and only if all the freight carrying vehicles are networked' Let the truck drivers get in that lane, fully engage automatic pilot and hopefully one day take a nap, to be awoken upon approach to their destination where they will take over, move out of the special lane, exit the freeway and proceed to their dropoff/pickup.
I'm a huge fan of Alfa gear, for a long time. They do an amazingly good job.

AWUS036ACH is one of Alfa's most up to date USB cards. It is, however based off an RTL8812AU chipset[1], which is 8 years old now[2]. I'd love at least to have a good client chipset & equipment that supports WiFi6 that has good RF performance. I still think the market is overly structured & segmented. No one makes AP-class chips for USB, but to be honest I really think they could & should & that it'd be exceptionally useful & good. But no one dares to threaten the AP market like that.

Thankfully in wifi, RF engineering & antennas count for a huge amount. You still have great gear. But it does hurt me to see what seems like rampant tech-stagnation & neglect, of such a vital, interesting, basic part of modern communication technology: our wireless systems.

[1] https://wikidevi.wi-cat.ru/ALFA_Network_AWUS036ACH

[2] https://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8812au#purpose
this is true actually. every place we read code needs to also parse the code. it’s already happening today, that’s how you get syntax highlighting. the future of all code review in the browser is a more similar experience to coding in an ide. and eventually the browser will replace the ide (and you could say this is already happening too)
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It's worth noting that in Python, the enum will be slower than using a bool (how much slower? I don't know - I haven't measured it), if for no other reason than the repeated name lookups. Is it worth fretting over for something that's called occasionally? Probably not. If it's something that's going to be called a lot, e.g. in a tight loop, then it's something to be concerned about.
The thing is, high profile prisoners have a whole system set up to prevent a single individual getting in close like that. (Or were supposed to. You'd think they learned after Oswald!)
This seems a bit inaccurately stated.

The registration is tied a a particular geographic cell over which a large number of different satellites will pass.

Starlink has added the ability to change your address if the cell of your new address has available capacity. You do need some sort of internet access to submit that address change.
Agree. From experience, people look into how much they would pay monthly and their income.

This then begs the question: what will happen once rates go up even a bit, and houses suddenly require a 50% larger monthly payment.
Many load-balancing use cases (e.g., caches or stateless services that simply work better with affinity) don't need the old data. If you need redundancy, the ordering also tells you where to duplicate the data: durably send updates to the first k + 1 servers in the list, and you're safe against up to k failures.
Yeah, i have a large dataset and I'm looking for ways to work on the classifier, with or without putting labels on the data. And the classes than I'm interested in form a tree.

Thanks! Yeah i think there's no way to scape the manual labelling
How exactly will this defend humankind from supervolcano eruption?
The Macintosh was the "good enough" version of the "Apple Lisa".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Lisa
People always read the warning labels.
Starlink would be used when camping; 5G doesn't work in scenarios like [1] this and is only useful when hanging around cities as the range of 5G is very poor.

[1] https://ghuntley.com/content/images/size/w1600/2021/02/Photo...
> There's still more Apple-contributed code at the core of Blink than Google code.

Not sure about that. Even before the Blink fork, Google was the main contributor to WebKit. See the first two graphs at https://hypercritical.co/2013/04/12/code-hard-or-go-home
Yes, when calories are cut below a certain level, your body downregulates "NEAT" (non-exercise activity thermogenesis), which includes activities like fidgeting, walking around a lot or walking instead of driving, taking stairs instead of elevators, etc. This actually accounts for a considerable number of calories.

Furthermore, a mass M needing energy E is too simplistic because it neglects environmental factors. A mass M in sub-Saharan Africa or a tropical jungle will require considerably more than E for maintenance than the same mass M in a relatively mild climate. This is because your body expends energy to regulate homeostasis (sweating and increased heart rate to cool the body in hot and humid conditions), so more difficult environments require more energy.

That said, "calories in vs. calories out" is still true, you just have to consider that your "calories out" responds to the number of calories in. Drop them too low too quickly, and your NEAT drops to maintain energy balance. But, you can force your body to expend more of that energy by requiring yourself to walk (increasing NEAT), or putting yourself in uncomfortable environments (like saunas), or my forcing yourself into strenuous exercise regimes (weight lifting, HITT, etc).
I think there is actually a lot of data that many of the low wage positions are long term jobs for a middle aged to older demographic.
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Not the OP, but I'll guess that it's because both of them strongly erode property rights. Another, more freedom-preserving, approach is to make it easier to build build build. Planet Money had a decent introduction a couple years ago.[0]

In the current NIMBY climate, my neighbor is struggling with the red tape to repave her driveway. Building a new home around here seems about as improbable as a hobbyist making the first human Mars landing.

[0] https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/03/05/700432258/the-...
Yes. It's not a bad first-pass, but it can easily lead to problems if there are too many instances of it. In particular, if there is any error in the initial program that's gone undetected or any change to the requirements that it implements, then you have to fix every single copy. Good luck.
Most mortgages haves fixed rates
Bagel values will fundamentally be JavaScript values, so the same subset of them will naturally translate to JSON

With that said I hope to give stronger typing to what's allowed to be converted to JSON, since JavaScript's serialization will happily eat up class instances (losing class information), dates (silently converting them to strings), undefined, etc.
Acquisition seems natural, because this would be a great component in a Pi-focused set-top box experience, competing with RokuOS.
I did say old :D.

They were actually given to me by a friend who wasn't using them, who learned I didn't have a phone.

I probably used Android for a cumulative total of 20 minutes from 2006-2020 before this. EXTREMELY interested in the platform, absolutely (and came up with some ideas for apps), but yeah, wasn't really viable to pursue.

Here, have two LifeProTips:

1. Rewrite your DNA during conception to edit out all the weird obscure medical issues you might otherwise get lumped with

2. Ensure you quantum phase-shift when selecting the reality you're born into so you ensure you skip the world(s) with a broken medical systems that doesn't have fundamental interest in research and discovery

Alternatively, spend nearly 30 years trying to get anyone at all to listen, without the resources to pay people to listen to you cuz you can't work.

</rant>

(In all seriousness, the Note 3 takes 10 seconds to open a new tab. I'm absolutely looking forward to upgrading. But it'll be sad to stop using it.)
Now adjust that chart for interest rates and monthly payments.
In an energy market, contracts are signed for months an/or years. If France thinks it has plenty of gas supply, it can agree to sell electricity capacity to other countries, when the gas goes away, they can't just cancel the contracts.
Citation needed. They say they don't hold Evergrande paper. Is that true? Who knows. But we actually don't know who's paper Tether holds.
I’m sure he invested in something
Strictly speaking every 10m under water increases pressure by one bar. So elastic bag 10m under water would take up 2x less space.
Yes, but I'm thinking about what happens if a single UPS truck delivering 500 packages is replaced with 500 individual drone trips. One drone is probably better than one truck, but that's not the right tradeoff to consider.
Yes, there's code in Chromium going back to the KDE/ Konqueror and WebKit days that's LGPL licensed. Mostly in the Blink rendering engine like you linked.
This breathtaking ramble by lindybeige about covers it (I don't agree with a lot of what he says but he's well qualified and it illustrates the point):

https://youtu.be/WFxOxU9qQyQ?t=1170
Though tbh nothing sounds more relaxing than a warm cup of homemade coffee and some net gun target practice in the morning :-D
I'm glad that awesome ballsy bird didn't get injured by the blades on that ridiculous noisy irritating gimmick. I mean, a cup of coffee, not even a pound of ground coffee so you can make your own and only force this intrusion on your neighbors once a week instead of every day.

Obviously I still need _my_ morning coffee.
I don't get this criticism. That's one developer explaining their own development style, not representative of the whole project. And that mismatch and self-centeredness you describe is present in every open source community I've ever seen. Almost every project is underfunded despite being used by millions of people, sometimes even billions. So in order to make any progress, the developers have to laser focus on what they're doing. For example KDE developers won't make progress on KDE if they drop what they're doing and start spending a bunch of time working on GNOME.
Their is also GlitchTip, which is an Open Source fork of Sentry, created after Sentry went proprietary in order to keep the Open Source legacy maintained. https://glitchtip.com/
Virtually no legal consequences for them. Virgin is also one of the worst consumer business I have ever interacted with (and this includes many big US ISPs with bad reputations). The company is beyond dysfunctional.
Why should you make your projects open-source
WinPE is super convenient.

I've used to build Linux USB installers for PoS systems. Some of these systems used some kind of flashable custom keyboard that most of the time had to be programmed in place and the proprietary software ran on Windows.

I've build a 100MB-ish image containing the current version of WinPE and the program along with its library dependencies. I think I had to download some kind of special blob to that Syslinux could load it into memory.

I also remember booting a small WinPE ISO into the server virtual ISO ILO function to repair remote Windows servers on remote retail stores. Pretty much all the disk related stuff is included. That particular ISO had the proprietary drivers for the server raid controllers.

Anyway very good stuff if you only need to run some old style software that doesn't require multitasking.
I upvoted your comment because it clicked with me, but now I'm thinking about it more.

_I'm_ content with my pay now, perhaps others aren't and there is little they can do about it. How might we even define "content" for a cohort as large as "anyone buying a house"?