skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have to say the reason I still want an iso is at least I have a much higher guarantee it will work. I just spent about 4 hours this week trying to get clonezilla to boot from usb and could not get it to work. EFi. Legacy. Everything I could think of. And this was on a reasonably modern server (2015/16 ish lenovo with a e3-1270 V5 )

Come to find out it was the fact that it was a usb 3.0 flash drive. Grabbed a 2.0 drive and everything worked fine.

Had I had a dvd burner (Ironically the computer in question did have one but it was not useable till i fixed it.) I would have saved myself significant amounts of time. (Or randomly grabbed a crappier flash drive.)
I miss how every hobby had a forum running on phpBB, SimpleMachines, Invision, etc.

HN is great, but it's very point in time. If I find an interesting topic posted over a day ago, it's never getting new replies. It's a snapshot of the thoughts on that topic for that single day, nothing more.
>not a 2022 model with a 2015 one

Well, yeah, but that's an important type of comparison!

Obviously (?) people who are concerned about safety want to factor it in when deciding whether to exchange their car for a new one. You can't do it every year.

So if the different years have no particular quantitative relationship between ratings, then they're no help in that respect. "Better" and "worse" don't tell you how much in any way that indicates if it matters. This has a "5" rating and that has a "0" rating, so how many percent better is it?
You can just look yourself?

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Senkaku+Islands+%2F+Dioyud...
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> (Caveat: I work on FB Groups)

You and your team members do really great work -- it's one of the only reasons many people still use Facebook. If you bail and create something that is more decentralized and web3, but with the same quality and consumer accessibility, it'd be a hit. And, you'll replace one super-voting-share emperor with a large community of crazy but well-meaning stakeholders, who are a lot more fun to work for.
That certainly helps, but the two party system is the power structure, so that's how things get done. While I support change to that system, I am not waiting for it - we need to accomplish things now.

> everyone in power is beholden to capital

That is lazy analysis. I agree that far too many are beholden, but not everyone and not everyone to the same degree. It's like saying 'all software is too buggy' - that's too true, but that's not a reason to abandon all software until we engineer and develop something better.

We need to differentiate and become expert in their individual strengths and weaknesses, strategically make the best of it we can, all while we improve things. If that sounds like a lot, look at what our predecessors did! They gave us a very easy hand, relatively (and we've FUBARed it).
I have not because I've deactivated my Facebook account and generally detest centralized services and miss the old days of user-run forums, but I'll give the SD HAM group a fair shake. I've had poor experiences with Meetup so I'll pass on that platform. Thanks for the rec :-)
In the US they stick a big label on appliances with the cost to run the device for a year. It makes it easier to compair.
i did the same thing, minecraft servers were an amazing social experience for kids
Ultimately wouldn't these rates be set politically? As in, there'd be one politician who says "raise the tax and do this" and another who says "lower the tax and stop doing that" and voters just pick what they want to happen.
Ask HN: Handling Matricies in Python?
Anyone have any tips/good practice for handling matrices in python without using builtins/numpy?

In interview prep unfortunately, so I can't just write the code that makes sense.

Hopefully can put all this to work making some cool demos ;)
> even the music is quite nice

Thanks for mentioning that; the music does not play in Safari, so I opened Firefox in the background for the music while zooming in Safari via trackpad scrolling (which doesn't appear to work in Firefox).

The wonderful "Powers of Ten" video has been mentioned elsewhere in the comments; see also "The Simpsons" take: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycvlJ9XMd94 .

Lots of fun - thank you, mattmar96!
>failure to vaccinate ... damage to those around you.

What's the evidence for this claim?
JWST has something like 300 SPOFs in the deployment phase. Then there are operation issues; the MIRI cryocooler has had a long, troubled development history. Three weeks ago NASA put out a Hollywood production quality disclaimer video[1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUAvXYW5bmI
If anyone has any knowledge about this, I would love to know as well.

edit: so apparently some people can schedule test calls: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29494197

I'm in BC, Canada. The people handling 911 in my province is E-Comm, and they don't seem to have a policy on this. I've sent them an e-mail asking if they accept test calls.
Also, consider that a half-way complex piece of software (from our outside POV) is enormously more complex than your average IC, vehicle (if you exclude the mountain of software controlling it), or general "engineering" project in other disciplines. Obviously that isn't always true (CPUs, James Web telescope, for example are also enormously complex) but most seemingly simple things you use every day (random example: Grubhub) are massively complicated to build, evolve, and keep running each day. Dismissing them as not real engineering is really ignorant and rude.

The ME and EE associated with creating new product like the Nest Thermostat (for example) are, by comparison with something like Grubhub, of trivial engineering complexity (although still very respectable engineering efforts)
(Also, upgrading CPUs costs labor, so having the CPU "pre-upgraded" is another cost savings)
Selling weapons to other countries always backfires.

Let's mind our own business, and focus on defense not meddling in the affairs of others.
I once heard someone say that land value taxes would be worth it even if we burned the tax revenue. I almost agree with that. The point of land value taxes is not just that it raises money, it's so the downstream effects. We want it to change people's behaviors. The incentive structure that it creates for developers, land owners, renters factory builders, and City planners is why the tax is so good.
Isn't the workaround to uninstall Teams?
> not sure what benefits the building is getting from Latch

My first guess would be to support AirBnB usage. I've never seen Latch but I wouldn't be surprised whether apartment owners who rent their apartments out on AirBnB grant temporary access by asking the users to install the app and then sending them "an electronic key".

No idea how Latch got on yesterday during the us-east-1 outage but it might be worth reminding your neighbours that they're introducing a significant dependency into their lives. You might also ask them how many times they've heard of targetted phone thefts by comparison with targetted key/fob theft.
I've seen dodgy chargers knock out capacitive touchscreens, albeit temporarily and until disconnected.
Governments don't usually do things from the joy in their hearts, or out of the care for their constituents.

I'm more inclined to think that smokers aren't subsidizing everyone as much as they like to think.
The quotes without the horizontal scroll:

> ESL is the world's most comprehensive development tool for easily connecting all of your current and legacy systems and presenting your users with an integrated and easy to use windows program.

> The latest versions of ESL are available to all of our customers with a support contract and are also available for a 30 day evaluation.
> I bet the creator of cap’n proto would tell us what a bad idea this is

You can draw your own conclusion based on the provided arguments and some additional exploratory work. Someone else's opinion is good but optional and is not always as insightful as your own discoveries.
No, FFS, NO! No app should ever interfere with dialing, ever! If you want to use your VOIP app, use the F'ing VOIP app.
> "I am furious at the thought that I have been unable to dial 911 for who knows how long."

Initially I thought the above comment was unreasonable. But when I put myself in the same shoes, I have the EXACT same feeling.

It is like the person who was coming at the intersection at blaring speed, but missed me. The fact that he COULD have hit me, and if that happened, I would likely have died, is a very frustrating thought. But when conveying it to a 3rd party, I feel the 3rd party might think "hey, its ok. nothing happened. you are safe. he did not hit you, so why are you upset?"
Land is taxed at very low rates, and it's almost always bundled with property taxes. Instead of taxing land at a few percent, Georgism says we should be taxing it at 100%. That's a huge difference from what we have in play today.
100% and it got me into tech too :)

Learn a lot with spare time on your hands and wanting to build something for your friends!
50 Years of Solar System Exploration: Historical Perspectives
Teams is VOIP. Legally they HAVE to allow for and setup 911 calling.*

Yes they royally screwed up. But its not like they could have just ignored Ray Baum Act/ Kari's Law.

*I think for non static location devices like cellphones or softphones the law does not kick in for a bit. For deskphones or say a voip phone you take home from work it has been in effect for a while now.
As much as it’s popular to hate on Facebook, I’ve found the niche groups that form are great.
If they gave in so easily to a government and agreed to give something about which they care a lot such a huge amount of money, imagine what they do if they are asked to hand over something they don't care as much such as user data.
Only slightly related: SF now texts you instead of calling back for a 911 hangup.

I called 911 at the Montgomery BART station when visiting SF last week, because someone was having a medical emergency. I got dead air (despite strong signal) for about 2 minutes before I spotted an elevator call box. That helped me get the station attendant; once she was on her way, I hung up on 911 so I could attend to the person in distress.

10 minutes later, I got a text:

we received a 911 hangup from your phone. if you need help, call back, tell us where you are and what happened. if that was a misdial, have a good night (capitalization from original, so probably not automated?)

I think this is a good thing, for example in a situation where someone needs help but is uncomfortable voicing their emergency aloud. But it was weird to get dead air and no immediate call back.

In any case, I found it an interesting experience.
I mean if it will never be updated again how could you fix any issue ever? Like yeah this one is particularly severe but any resolution will be an update of some kind to the software.
North Korea won't think to look at other maps?
As a retired computer programmer whose seen a lot of bad software the phrase "software is eating the world" scares the heck out of me.
> It aches my heart to be a young man in this country and see this be our so-called 'leaders'. I'm confident the tides have already turned against all this nonsense, though, and I look forward to rebuilding industries of the world with good-hearted men & women

I just got finished reading a book about the pre-war climate of 1930s Europe and man this comment sounds scary and nationalist.

I’m worried that so many people like you buy into the media positioning of China vs. America. It ratchets up tensions for the purpose of selling clicks.

Do you not see how American companies making deals with other countries is beneficial for everyone, including you? The economy is not a zero-sum game. You can create value without destroying it elsewhere. Nobody has to suffer in order for you to thrive.

When deals like this are made, it makes it less likely China will do things to piss off the US, and vice-versa. The last thing we need are more tensions.

Do you really want to hold people in other countries back from ever achieving the standards of living that you enjoy?
Async models are idiomatic for high-performance server code regardless of the programming language, particularly for anything I/O or concurrency intensive. The reason people use thread-per-core software architectures, which naturally require an async model, is because they have much higher throughput than the alternatives.

If software performance, efficiency, and scalability are primary objectives, you are going to be writing a lot of async code in a systems language like Rust or C++. People that “know what they are doing” understand this and why. Hence the interest in async libraries for Rust.
I'd go the opposite direction, that an A-10 is a great plane for the kinds of wars America has fought for the past few decades. Until your enemies are BVR, it doesn't make sense for you to have a really sweet BVR plane. It's a flying infantry support tank, and it being scary and loud as it flies by after wreaking havoc as a psychological weapon is half the point.

Yeah, maybe a low flying AC-130 hits the same niche, but we only about twenty or so AC-130s versus almost 300 A-10s in active service.
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InstaLeaf connects partner retailers with an age-gated, targeted community of cannabis consumers.
> I've made a small hobby out of noting websites which should be illegal in India because of that.

Do you mean you are reporting these sites?
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> And it looks very dated -- old-style MDI interface and controls, System font everywhere, bare-bones interface...

Maybe it's just me because I am used to that interface, but it looks much more user-friendly than many of the modern apps I use:

1. I can tell at a glance what is clickable and what is not.

2. I can see the accelerator/shortcut keys for most of the elements.

3. Sections are grouped together, and on a single page. I don't have to click 'Next' to see the next three clickable widgets.
Hey, that's really kind. Thank you!

Web3 is super interesting, and I'm excited to see it grow.
Web3: Be Skeptical, Not Dismissive
Disabling ME is part of its functionality. You’re just not given the API to do it. To the best of my knowledge this functionality has been in there from the beginning.
Ah so many bugs. Going to take care of all of these soon. Glad you enjoyed.
That might be less propaganda, and more about wanting a large, precise map of the area that interests you.
Yes, I've found USB 3 and above to be significantly less compatible and reliable than 2.0 and below. I can always trust that whatever I have plugged into a 2.0 port will work the moment the PC comes on, be it a flash drive or a DVD drive or a keyboard/mouse. That isn't always the case with a 3.0 port.
Maybe we can all get along. The goal is to reduce the burden on public health services and incidental harm to non-smokers. Even if harmful effects of non-tobacco nicotine products can be demonstrated, they would need to be just as bad as smoked tobacco to get a similar response. Maybe next we will see the fossil fuel industry pivot to renewables...
So HN is largely not making money off their website, since they're aren't selling targeted advertising -- at least not to the extent FB makes.

If your targeted algorithm makes the company money off planning a genocide, and if you're aware of it and do nothing about it (because lawyers say blah blah section 230 blah blah), that's a real problem. If you're making money from people whining about a bad call in a football game, so what? But if your company actively promotes criminal content and profits from it, then section 230 probably isn't going to save you. Either it will change, or the courts will force you to.
Commercial satellite operators licensed in the US are restricted to no more than 25 cm imagery resolution. Of course that limit doesn't apply to foreign operators. And it doesn't apply to aircraft either; many of the "satellite" images you see on Google Maps were actually shot from airplanes.
I think in principle, an income tax is similar to a land value tax in that both of them are trying to capture monopoly rents. Compared to the property tax, the land value tax exempts investing in improvements, just as the income tax exempts capital investments and interest.

The important differences are in what they exempt from taxation. America’s income tax exempts imputed rent, so a business or household who happened to buy land that has appreciated gets a discount on their taxes compared to their younger neighbors (who have to pay inflated prices). Whereas a land tax would capture imputed rent, so old landowners are on a more even playing field with new businesses/households, incentivizing young people to compete, making land value tax better than income tax.

The land tax’s major additional exemption is labor. A bakery’s land taxes don’t go up at all if he puts in twice as much effort, whereas his income taxes would at least double. So LVT incentivizes work, making land value tax better than income tax.

On the other hand, progressive taxation automatically taxes other monopoly rents, whereas the land value tax depends on the government assessing the value of land and any other important monopolies.
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Apple Wins Delay in Monopoly Case, Allowing App Store Rules to Stay for Now
Reproducible builds are a form of idempotency. You run the same build twice, and get exactly the same artifacts.

The effort to get there also shows you how elusive idempotency can be, especially if strictly defined.
I suspect millions of Android/Teams users will never hear of this bug. They won't realize there's action they could take.
I appreciate that! No pressure, but you will be credited
PDX_Web said:

> u/KitchenPicture5849 should be awarded a sum in line with what a bug bounty hunter would be awarded for discovering a bug of comparable severity.
Except many Web3 proponents consider DAOs to be a part of Web3. A bit of a "no true scotsman"
Your double negative is confusing.
But they don't need to inject themselves in the dialer. I think that's the clear takeaway.
There is considerable effort on this direction already. A lot of the bus (on board computers, power, etc.) is standardized for a lot of missions.

But there's always have uncertainty in the payloads. First, because there are lots of contractors involved. That's somewhat fixable.

Second, and most important, is that many of these payloads are cutting-edge. They've never been built before and some of them push physical and engineering limits. I've worked on missions where the only delay was the payload for many years, and they were simpler than JWST.

It's a problem of not knowing what we don't know. When working on those kinds of systems, the estimates lose a lot of meaning.
The anonymization and aggregation is left up to the third party with no way to enforce it. Apple basically gave up and it seems now just says “please be nice ok? Thanks!” While still advertising to consumers that their devices are privacy friendly. This is something to be upset about.
Not to worry. That was all solved with project Treble.
I hate the habitual cigarette, but I feel like there should be an exception for the occasional pipe or cigar.
> Some parties tolerate or use corruption more than others

Evaluating this is inherently politicized. Is defense spending keeping the country safe from China and Russia and funding the creation of things like the internet, or is it a giveaway to defense contractors? Is government healthcare spending saving lives, or is it a giveaway to drug companies? The answer is complicated and subjective and people will believe what they want to believe.

But it's telling that both parties receive big money from big corporations who don't give altruistically. If one party is more corrupt than the other, it's not for lack of competition.

> If you mean 'no party is perfectly clean', that's not meaningful, like saying 'nobody is perfectly honest': some people are far more honest than others.

Some people are far more honest than others is the point. We have some idea who the dishonest people are. Let's get rid of them independent of which party they're in.

> If you don't hold the parties to account for their organized behavior, then they have no incentive to stop.

So go focus on defeating the specific Republicans who are the most corrupt instead of the ones who are the most vulnerable.

And you don't have to replace Adam Schiff with a Republican. Go replace him with a better Democrat. But spend your resources getting rid of people like him instead of trying to destroy some incumbent moderate in a swing state who was one of the few people doing the right thing in a party doing the wrong thing.

And hey, if you remove some corrupt and dishonest people from the party you like, maybe they'll win the majority more often.
We're also realising we don't need full transformers all the time. Token mixing might suffice, there are quite a few papers replacing the core of the transformer with something simpler.
Depending on the code and vendor it is either patented or a trade secret. Most of the time the code is protected because it is required by the patent law. Remember that a lot of chip companies you know from today, started their life as memory companies.

There are also a lot of businesses that act as patent trolls , e.g. RAMBUS and stifle memory innovation by suing everyone left and right and enforcing their patents. Part of licensing agreement is to keep stuff secret and proprietary. Otherwise if you give something of value away for free, you can’t make money off of it anymore , can you?
Weren't emergency services numbers supposed to be available, not matter whether the phone is locked or not, and does not even require a SIM card?
Then how come an user mode app can block calling numbers that were supposed to be available where is there is cellular coverage?
Yes please.
I develop Android custom ROMs and I have no idea whether I'm putting people's lives in danger. And it's not just whether calling works, but also E911.
Even when I used to work at a smartphone maker we didn't have any process for that.
The Georgist answer is that the government wouldn't decide the value of the land, the market would. If the government is setting it, it's almost certainly not pricing it optimally.
I kinda agree though.
Maybe not on their political stuff, but...
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Years ago (early '2000) I was using FVWM on my Gentoo setup (screenshot https://www.deviantart.com/sonic969/art/Station-32316919) now I'm using macOS and I have no idea of the state of FVWM, it was great at the time!
That isn't true at all. If you read the postmortems on the USS McCain and USS Fitzgerald collisions, you'll find that one of the contributing factors was the fact that both ships had lots of issues with the computers and software controlling their sensors and communications. This post (https://fixvms.com/) on the mapping software for the US submarine fleet doesn't raise confidence either.
> Indiana trying to pass a law that declared the value of pi to be equal to 3.

Interesting. Was that really true? Why did they need to change the value?