skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't buy this at all.

The first reason being- a novel is a novel. A story is a story. A well-written non-fiction is a well-written non-fiction. The medium does not matter at all.

I have beeen reading voraciously since I was three and a half. It's not much, but I finished reading 200+ books that are not text books/tech books before I turned 20.

I tell you, dead-honest, once I am into a book, I absolutely, literally forget in which medium I am reading it. A book becomes the highest level I am interacting with where the medium is just abstracted away. This feeling is literal to me.

I have used laptops, tablets, 5, 6.5 inch smartphones, Kindles, and desktops as readers. Reading books on desktop is the least physically pleasing. But I must tell you that even while reading on desktop, I totally, absolutely forgot what I was reading on.

I read non-fictions spanning 300+ pages, novels spanning 600+ pages on desktop screens. I was so into them, I was so immersed, that I did not even remember it was a desktop screen.

Secondly, the author assumes the reader standard being Kindles. That's so shallow and out of touch with reality.

A lot of people read ebooks differently, not to mention ebook readers from other companies.

After trying all those, tablets are my best choice for reading ebooks, even better than Kindles.

Kindles are inadequate and have a lot of shortcomings.

I use an android tablet for all my reading- tech books, research papers, novels, comics- all of them.

I use paid apps for reading documents. I always use the lowest brightness available when indoors, with an always on blue light filter. This is a much better option and is very cost effective.

This is the best way I have to read books.

I only buy physical books when I absolutely feel that I should collect it, for my future generation to see, or I must have it.
More exposure means more viral reproduction. This means more opportunities for the virus to mutate. This is exactly why the flu shot changes every year, dependent on what strains are predicted to be the most widespread.

Edit: I am so beyond sick of the narrative comparing this to the flu.
Social things are inherently hard to study "scientifically."

Business is an inherently social phenomenon. Going to people who know something about business because they have firsthand experience with business seems to be an industry gold standard for how you pass on useful knowledge.
Redlining while in Drive in automatic transmission means driver is driving over the speed limit or doing rash driving; which millions of car owners too do that. Although in both cases it never near red line in automatic transmission cars.

Redlining while parked or neutral is absurd. Who will rent car just to rev it up. & For how much time? Few minutes? Hours? People will be looking at this person who is redlining a car since last few hours.
Regardless of one's knowledge or feelings, the math doesn't work to keep giving out 1% shares to new employees. You've got to drop it by an order of magnitude, quickly followed by 2 orders, etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limb_darkening
If that's all you need. Bare-metal provisioning is a feature not the attraction. Foreman provides first class support for Puppet, with hostgroups, config groups, and smart class parameters so you can easily organize and manage your nodes from a friendly interface.
I'm also hoping that EVs encourage a bigger reinvestment in alternative form factors like the station wagon/estate car/shooting brake. So far most of the manufacturers of EVs are sticking to existing truck/SUV trends playing it safe, but now that enough of the major manufacturers are using standardized platforms where they can easily play with the form factor above the "skateboard" core we'll start seeing more EV diversity than ever before sooner rather than later.

(VW Group has an EV station wagon Porsche now [a variant of the Taycan EV], and that's probably wildly out of most family's budgets, but if VW Group is playing with that on the MEB at the luxury end, hopefully that means they are already considering how to play with that on the low end as well.)
Pre-selling a programming course and making $550k
Which platforms have you had issues with? All the ones I use (HBO Max, Crunchyroll, Netflix, Disney+, Amazon and Hulu) work fine, surprisingly. You do sometimes need to use a closed browser (Chrome, particularly) or enable DRM (Firefox), though.
To quote someone in the dolphin massacre thread- 'Fucking humans.'

We are and have always been the problem. I feel like we legitimately are parasites, we even ravage/consume ourselves.

Shit like this makes me hope we never get off this planet to just infect more planets and systems.
Why? Why can’t big companies just apologize and try to make things right? Why do they always need to gaslight and deny and drag it out? Why does this need to be a whole big thing involving the court system and years and years of effort and thousands and thousands of dollars?

The show fucked up. Maybe legally, maybe not. But there’s no denying the show could have just as easily left the entire line out or used a fake name. And I think any reasonable person can understand how Gaprindashvili must feel having had one of her greatest accomplishments erased on the world stage.

So why can’t anyone at Netflix understand?

Netflix messed up. Make it right and move on. Fighting this in court is stupid and it’s a terrible look for Netflix.
it's really interesting seeing the "follow the science" crowd's reaction to this

somehow they know better than the scientists that they really need these boosters
I think that is because we refer to everything using mixed metaphors. We "surf" "pages" on the "web" over the "information superhighway."

If we had a uniform view of what it is, we might be able to make something of it.
Security by obscurity works fantastically when used intelligently.

S-by-O got a bad reputation due to people imagining it was the last word in security, when it really is just the beginning.

Passwords are literally purified security-by-obscurity.

I can't think of any security technology or method that doesn't have a security by obscurity component. Or that isn't enhanced with an additional layer of it.
Also consider that YC at the start had few companies per batch. Also a tonne of large acquisitions.
>As much as I love hip hop and electronica, and as difficult as it is to make excellent music in those genres, it really is very easy to make okay music.

Before finishing reading that sentence, i was ready to get upset, but the ending made it so that I perfectly agree with you.

Modern music production experience allows for a fairly easy way to make ok music, but to make good or great music, it is still just as difficult (if not even moreso, albeit not for financial reasons anymore, unlike how it used to be in the past). Basically, easy to learn at a beginner level, still difficult to master. Which is imo the optimum, because some of the best competitive games ever are set up like this. E.g., learning the rules of chess is easy, mastering chess is an extremely long path.

A bit off-tangent, but we also gotta understand that genres evolve from infancy to maturity as well. In terms of music production and composition, 80s/early 90s hip-hop was indeed fairly basic and primitive. Lyrics, similarly, were also focused mostly around the same cluster of topics related to living a tough life surrounded by crime and police brutality and such. But it was new, original, and covering bases that were not covered before in the same way.

Hence why it started gaining traction and popularity. As genre matured and evolved, music production for it got much much more complex and involved, where the ceiling for "well produced hip-hop" has went up massively. Just compare any track from Kanye West's "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy" (2010) to some classic like NWA's "Straight Outta Compton" (1988). Both groundbreaking albums for their time, both still enjoyable, but there is no way to compare them in terms of music production/composition in a serious manner in 2021, as it is just night and day. The sheer complexity of MBDTF is something that set the new bar for the entire industry on its own. Lyrics on MBDTF are also touching topics that early hip-hop would never touch with a 10-foot pole back in the day.

TL;DR: fully agreed, music production became much easier to enter and produce beginner level stuff, but the ceiling went up significantly as well (which is a good thing). What was groundbreaking level production in the late 80s/early 90s will get rotten eggs thrown at you in 2021. Which makes hip-hop music production (as well as most other genres that are evolving) just as difficult of an art to master these days, if not even more difficult, but only because the bar is set much higher. The actual availability, cost of equipment, learning material access, etc. has become insanely easier.
AMD GPUs are supported over their open-source ROCm builds. HIP (CUDA-clone) works with Vega and CDNA.

It seems like RDNA (5xxx and 6xxx cards) are less supported, but reports are that OpenCL kinda-sorta works (RDNA cards have a very different architecture than Vega / CDNA)
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Right. Too stable. That's the problem.

The number you've "predicted" is "the age of the universe", which isn't constant. Unless you can show why this particular instant in time is especially interesting, then it's just another number, no more interesting than any of the other numbers you generated in the process.
Nah, I was playing around with an AMD integrated gpu a while ago using openCL (I believe).
There are 2 reasons:

1. Most don't have the knowledge to make an informed choice (how many people have enough medical knowledge?)

2. It is generally accepted that seat belts are mandatory, helmets on motorcycles are mandatory in most of the world (except a few states in US), but that is not seen as lack of own determination. What is the difference? All these are preventive actions.
Have you listened to early Jega ?
> TOS can not treat anything as "borderline"

They addressed this, I think, later in the article

> With all that, why don’t we simply remove borderline content? Misinformation tends to shift and evolve rapidly, and unlike areas like terrorism or child safety, often lacks a clear consensus. Also, misinformation can vary depending on personal perspective and background. We recognize that sometimes, this means leaving up controversial or even offensive content. So we continue to heavily focus on building responsible recommendations and take meaningful steps to prevent our system from widely recommending this content.

So much, in terms of moderation, what is acceptable, etc. is a constantly moving target. Even if there is an exactly right answer today, it might become an important conversation to have tomorrow
WireGuard. Run it on a bastion box. There isn’t a batteries included tool I know that’s good at this. The WireGuard ecosystem means you gotta glue a lot of OSS stuff together.

tldr make sure the bastion box can reach the stuff you need it to reach as far as subnets and security groups go, ensure kernel will fwd traffic from WireGuard clients, run WireGuard daemon, and expose it to the outside world via eip. I’m oversimplifying (dns, sec groups, routing client traffic to other subnets) - but hopefully that explains the gist.

I have a small Python script that takes a XLSX file as input and populates a dir with config files and QR code images for each user.

Or you can check out some of the OSS ways to do self-service vpn mgmt with a web UI that authenticates against Google auth. I haven’t deployed this yet but it looks cool https://github.com/subspacecloud/subspace

If you know this sort of tech well it is not hard to deploy and manage yourself. But tailscale has a really killer clientside experience and “just works” so honestly it might be worth the $$$
The theory is lot stronger/valid in enterprise sales like gitlab, customers take a lot of time to switch even if they are not satisfied with a product, there may not viable competitior with bespoke solution the same your current provider gives you etc

It is far less true for consumer/SMB mid market products as cost of leaving there is not high.
I’m open to having my mind changed about blockchain/bitcoin’s utility, I could also see a new cryptocurrency changing my mind about all of this, I really _want_ to like this stuff! But whenever I ask people about the environmental impact of crypto (or really any sub-surface level question about blockchain, smart contracts or NFTs) they either dodge the question, ignore the question, give a shallow non-answer, or call me (a developer who works on integrating AR, VR, IoT and neural style transfer into live theatre) a luddite who doesn’t understand or is afraid of technological change. I’d love to be persuaded about why I should incorporate blockchain into my bag of shiny tricks or how I could use it for good. But I’m getting very frustrated with the community’s refusal to answer a lot of really basic questions about it.
1) This isn't about their 501 non-profit status, it's about their use of the non-profit exemption for re-transmission of copyrighted materials through a service that would otherwise be classified as violating copyrights.

1) No, it's not a valid use of the money under the restrictions of the non-profit exemption from copyright for re-transmission. The law is quite clear on this point: revenues derived from the violating service must not exceed the actual costs of providing that service. Expansion costs are not related to the costs of providing existing service, therefore they are not permitted under the exemption.

3) PBS is not even remotely the same thing, because it's not the non-profit status that is at issue. PBS owns and/or licenses the content they broadcast and stream, so it does not need an exemption from copyright laws. Locast does not own or license the content it streams, so it does need the exemption, and it violated the explicit requirements for the exemption it needed.

4) But Locast attempted to resolve that and remove the interruptions entirely, but was still required to completely shutdown and was given 0 chance to adjust
Historically, using someone's IP without their permission resulted in statutory damages, and Locast should consider themselves lucky they're not on the hook for those, as statutory damages for copyright law can be as much as $150,000 per violation* for willful violations of copyright law. * Tech was able to get away with the ask for forgiveness business model for 3 decades, but generally the law does not operate on "ask for forgiveness" basis. It's irrelevant that they got "0 chance" to adjust since the onus was on them to plan their activities in a way that complied with the law.
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Any fans of EUCs? I'm considering getting one, not sure how long it will take until it becomes a practical commuting medium. [1]

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGOvSBJq-Bg
by that logic i should be able to go buy myself a big box of fentanyl for the medical care i've decided that i need
I don't. Should I?

I go through at least 3-4 books a month. It sounds exhausting to keep track of all that. And for what?
The WHO disagrees with you:

https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/rest-of-the-world-n...

Its never going away, it will mutate regardless, and it will become less impactful like the flu over time as we get accustomed to it.
Can we all make wishes? Lol.

I would like to define a pipeline of Workers that get to act on the request / response and count the whole pipeline as a single Worker run as long as I stay within the limits for normal workers. That way I can write composable, reusable workers that perform very specific tasks (like pipes). There could even be a GUI to let me enable / disable parts of the pipeline.

I can do that right now by jamming everything into a single source file, but it would feel better (to me) as a pipeline. It would also be cool if I could stick (headless) Cloudflare apps that are glorified workers into a pipeline like that (at a specific position).

Something that I've found difficult in the Cloudflare ecosystem is understanding the order of execution for everything (access, cache, workers, apps, page rules, etc.). It would be useful to have a dedicated resource that lists that.

Also, the preview pages for every app I've looked at today give an unsafe content warning [1].

1. https://imgur.com/a/KRTdjRM
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'Boring' here seems to mean "reliable and easily understandable". You could search material about software testing, modularity programming, and in general best practices in coding.
YouTube's recommendation system (and googles search engine if you see the comments in the other post today https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28550764) somehow escapes the flak that other systems, such as Facebook news & posts, get but I find it's equally damaging to society.

There seems to exist a downward spiral where content that is prioritized to be attention grabbing over all else gets the most clicks and then drives more content to focus on this. The quality of the content itself seems to be increasingly inconsequential and has fallen off a cliff in the face of click spam.

Anecdotal evidence 1: I used to watch youtube videos for investment ideas and now all of these streamers pump out the same low quality, not very researched content with their face plastered on top with a shocked look on their mug.

Anecdotal evidence 2: My son was shown youtube by one of our nannies (despite my rules on no youtube) and has since become semi-addicted to the most brain dead content of toys being made into knock offs of the reasonable shows he used to watch or some adult man child being a weird clown in public.

Idiocracy will be due to memes as much as genes.
And that's how I started having problems enjoing games like Factorio.
It seems like currently the minute it detects rain it shuts it down. (wipers are automatic also)

On the other hand, there are a lot of videos of FSD Beta on youtube that show the car driving into the sun where it's almost impossible for a human to see, but the cameras detect all of it.
How do you buy shares in the SPAC? Is there a minimum amount? Which platform can I use to buy shares in the SPAC?
Considering this data is probably fed back to Tesla, it's probably safe to say this guy is actually helping.
Some of the common answers that make me differ:

> Social welfare should not be free. There are low skilled jobs that can be done by most. ...

Most people are not able to do anything productive for the society, expect for in a limited number of positions. It would be more expensive to provide a job for everybody (training, commute, supervision). Many jobs are cheaper to automate than have a human to do it without paying salary. Many others are simply not worth doing at all.

> Election campain "propaganda" should be legally binding

"When the Facts Change, I Change My Mind. What Do You Do, Sir?"

> All platforms that reach the level of google search in peoples life should be declared public utility and punished for biases and manipulation of any kind.

Why would anybody build a platform like that, then? Punishing for any biases sounds like a hard task as well, as the main use of a platform like google search is the "bias" to include more useful results. Moreover, this kind of thing would become a political too rather quickly. I agree on the idea level, but I don't see any way to do this well.
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If all the miners in the world are mining something, it doesn't really matter much if the users (who are paying for the security through inflation) don't want to agree to the new rules. In fact, the miners that defect to your system are all just hurting themselves: no one wants their bogus blocks, and so they are just throwing energy away.

Sure, you are supposedly paying them (by your tweaked rules that gives them more reward per block), but you are paying them in a currency that is incompatible with the software used by every exchange, every bank, every supermarket, and every other user, who all see your "more profitable" blocks as "invalid"... they are buying real energy and you are giving them a currency no one has heard of or accepts in exchange for goods and services.

What makes these networks hard to get everyone to switch between, even when they suck, is thereby all of the momentum of software deployment and brand recognition and "belief in the value of such" that they have. This network effect is extremely difficult to quickly replicate and is a massive barrier to entry for not just newcomers but even mere upgrades... bug fixes to these protocols require everyone to agree!

Truly: if you could just create a new network that was slightly better or which paid miners slightly more per unit (which isn't real value) and somehow immediately sweep away all of the miners, Bitcoin--which is clearly an antiquated piece of shit to most of the people who work in this space--wouldn't exist, as not only do new networks come out every day that offer small improvements but new networks exist that offer large improvements, and it is extremely painful to get anyone to switch.
Haha you're not wrong! It's another potentially incompatible part, especially now as PCIE generations change. People will upgrade their GPU and suddenly won't have any video output because it's a gen. 4 motherboard talking to a gen. 4 GPU over a gen. 3 riser cable.

That said, you really only run into that kind of stuff when you're entering hobbyist mode. If what someone wants is a compact gaming PC, there are cases like the CoolerMaster NR200 (https://i.redd.it/fq9y7mevznb71.jpg) which are affordable and just as easy to build in as any mid-tower. The only difference is you'll be using a mini ITX motherboard, and an SFX power supply.
After seeing this design in Funny Face, I wonder why we ever lost it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VELAM

You get in from the front! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUXiQMozHkM
I know some guy that took the booster in a similar way in Europe; he took the first shot in his native country, the second in the country where he lives and works and the third back in his native country 5-6 months later.
New Yorkers move to Florida; both states become less conservative.

It's like that old joke about switching parties and the average IQ in both dropping.
> The ultra wealthy, if not breaking the tax law, are paying what the government believes they should pay and are not avoiding anything. Congress wrote, voted on, and passed the tax laws.

What would if the winning team always ended up writing the rules in such a way to where they were always winners and only winners could write next years rules?