skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Early versions of Emacs didn't have lisp extension languages, which is kind of strange to think about considering the role elisp plays in GNU Emacs as we know it today. GNU Emacs with elisp is something that developed in the context of the MIT lisp machine scene. Sure it runs and was developed on unix-like operating systems, but lisp extensible emacs were never really some sort of embodiment of the 'unix principles'.
This seems more like a disagree completely.
They’re trying to maximize the amount of mask coverage. Obviously masks aren’t possible while eating, but you’re still better off going maskless for one hour out of eight, in a more open eating area, than you are going maskless next to others all day.
> BEVs

What's this? You've used it multiple times as if we're supposed to know what it means.
Thinking of BF2 still gets my blood pumping all these years later lol
> However, companies like Amazon, Netflix, and Apple provide robust, free customer support.

Its not free, you paid for that as part of your purchase cost.
> but what's stopping me from running x,000's of little scripts on a x,000 different VPS's (or a botnet, if I'm a bit evil)

Price. You have to be seriously dedicated or have serious economic muscles to pull this off.
> but when is it a good time to buy an EV? As someone who just recently got a model Y, seeing reports like this just frustrate me

I was listening to Chris Harris a little while ago. He made a great point that over the next few years the cars will go through a similar transition loop as a cell phone went in last 10 years. Every six months your best of breed car will feel old.

I’m dreading going electric, it just doesn’t amuse me at all but if I have to, not before 2025 for sure.
Uncertainty estimates in traditional parametric statistics are facilitated by strong assumptions on the distribution of the data being analyzed.

In traditional nonparametric statistics, uncertainty estimates are obtained by a process called bootstrapping. But there's a trade-off. There's no free lunch!) If you want to eschew strong distributional hypotheses, you need to pay for it with more data and more compute. The "more compute" typically involves fitting variants of the model in question to many subsets of the original dataset. In deep learning applications in which each fit of the model is extremely expensive, this is impractical.
Every system has a hosts file that you can edit for exactly this purpose.

No need to set up DNS at all.

Your system will resolve whatever hostnames you want to whatever IP addresses you want. You just add the entries to a text file.

It will always override whatever results come from DNS.

The author definitely went the long way with this approach.
I'm not sure, it seems to me that the hatred for systemd seems to come from those that learned something else and don't want to learn systemd. My analysis would be that the "unix philosophy" is just a convenient argument against it.
If the energy use of bitcoin was minuscule while heating a building, and it could generate mining rewards while doing so, then people would be using it for that purpose. They aren't.
What are you on about? Look at the git repo. There were literally no changes to talk about.
I can’t read your code because I’m not logged in. But you pretty clearly have a bug. If the host does not know which door has a prize and opens a door at random, there is a 1/3 chance the host opens the door with the prize, and the game stops (or otherwise deserves its own logged outcome). And there’s no conceivable way that the host’s knowledge, strategy, or anything else could make the probability that the contestant’s originally chosen door contains a prize be anything other than 1/3. The contestant originally guesses with clean slate and has a 1/3 chance of guessing right, full stop.
Of course, but I would not like to have to patch it to modify something that on other systems can be modified with either a configuration option, or a shell script.

To me, the most poisonous example that contrasts the traditional design with Freedesktop's design is acpid contrasting logind. In the former case, an acpi event is sent, and acpid simply executes a file such as `/etc/acpi/action/lid_down.sh`. That file can contain anything the system administrator wills, from a simple script that does nothing more than `systemctl sleep` to whatever complex task he could desire.

The last time I checked the situation, logind had replaced this powerful, and simple mechanism with a configuration that offers nine options to execute when the lid is pressed, none of which involve executing a simple file. Of course I can edit the source code and recompile to allow it to do what I want it to, but I would far rather simply quickly alter a simple shell script to do so.

And luckily I can, because I do not use logind but acpid, but that does not change the ire I experience when dealing with many Redhat and Freedesktop people who make it very clear that I should be using logind, that it's better, and that they create artificial dependencies on it to as Poettering calls it “gently puh” me in that direction.
Crypto-novice question: what's a "gas coin"?
Right, but my point was that the "U+10FFFF" limit hadn't been decided yet at the point where MySQL first added the "UTF-8" encoding, and it was added later, so it may not have been clear to them that UTF-8 would ever be a "fixed target" so to speak.

In retrospect we can see that UTF-8 has been and will continue to be static, since it's become so universally adopted.
Why? It doesn't make any difference for users.

These days, IRC federation is only used to scale horizontally, and sadly, IRC networks doesn't need to scale over 100k concurrent users anymore.
> Bitcoin is definitely fungible

Run your coins through a mixing service then try to deposit them at an exchange and cash out.
No source, just an observation.
Your wording is poor, but you are right in a sense. If I've never run, I won't finish a triathlon and expect to be completely fine the next day.

If your body is utterly out of shape, i.e. you're morbidly obese, you don't start with running. You start with walking and slowly move to running. In that case, you won't regret walking, not running.
>stagnant and slowly dying

As Progval noted, this is more maturity than stagnation/death... Not all software needs to have more things continuously added to remain useful.

> Users expect seamless multi device sync, for one. You can achieve a poor facsimile of this with a bnc and a shell account but it's not a great experience.

I'd highly recommend TheLounge since it does this extremely well. For a given login (which can be connected to any number of IRC networks/channels), it'll have the same state across all sessions/devices (including private messages), without needing a special client for the device.

Being a webapp, it can also be used on any work PC/device with a browser & internet connectivity.

> It's little wonder to me that discord and slack have eaten IRC's lunch, sadly.

Frankly, I've found Discord to be largely full of children and trolls.
If your PC consumes 500 W, it's gonna heat the room it is in exactly as much as a 500 W space heater. That's what I alluded to with the "space heater" parenthetical.

There are people who reduce their overall bills by mining for both cryptocurrency and heating with the waste heat (instead of only one or the other). But it needs specific circumstances for that to be worth it, and I'm very sure Symantec is not advertising this concept in the first place.
> One student tested positive IN THE AUDITORIUM, and a few students started screaming and ran away from him. There was now a lack of available seats given there was a COVID-positive student within the middle of the auditorium.

This is really awful behavior.
Computation and resistive heat are pretty much the same in efficiency.

Heat pumps, which will pump outside heat inside, are a lot more efficient.

So, "computation for heat" is only useful to the point that it's replacing a space heater or other resistive heat, or is focused in a place resulting other heat use by a lot. So, my computer could be a cost-effective way to keep my feet cozy.

This also presumes that cryptomining is "useful computation".
In the shade of California redwoods, Redwood Sorrel is a a pretty tasty treat. I'd describe the taste as akin to green apple skins. They are a bit too sour to eat large quantities of in one sitting (as a kid in my Boy Scout troop learned the hard way).
That 573 number is died "with", not "of" covid.
>Making two adds little cost.

I think you are overextending your experience in a production environment here.

I’ve worked in both, and the type of builds in these aerospace applications still have huge costs in subsequent runs. Hell, even rebuilding an existing component can be prohibitively expensive.

Much of the GSE was likely existing so that’s probably a non-issue.
I’ve found 1337x.gd to consistently have more content and seeders than rarbg.to if you want to go with a public tracker. Still worth checking rarbg if what you want isn’t there though.

If you like to watch things as they air, make sure you go to the main sites I’ve wrote rather than the mirrors that show up in google. They take a while to update.
Doesn't it work you that the fundamentals simply don't make sense? Estimates of the entire planets GDP is around $85 trillion USD.

Can you shed some light on it?
Thank you for the link. uBlacklist [1] is a more popular alternative, also featured recently on HN [2]

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublacklist/
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29794372
Hey, this is show HN, where you supposedly "show" your stuff?
Then why other currencies don't dilute the US dollar? Or monopoly's (the game) money?, or just paper, or shells, or grains of sand?
It increases immediately and takes a few days to settle back down. After quitting my weekly average slowly continued to decrease. My RHH is a very consistent 46 bpm now and it was consistently in the low to mid 50s during the months/years I was routinely drinking on the weekends.

Obviously there are other factors like fitness, sleep, general health, but I was monitoring the numbers on a daily basis and the trends became really clear.
Oh that's unfortunate. I just checked and FreshSat is listed as a "Premium" layer in the app. It's a good piece of software but not worth it just for what is essentially free data.

You can pan around the map a little bit here: https://www.gaiagps.com/maps/source/freshsat-cloudless/
> Imagine if the "my body, my choice" redirected to a "my computer, my choice" idea.

No need to imagine; that's the central tenet of RMS's ethos and he's been shouting it from the rooftops for decades.
The card issuer ultimately decides and I suspect it varies. These things can be pretty annoying internationally though, I've had the opposite problem that Canadian gas pumps won't take my US credit card and I have to pay inside - I think because for whatever reason Canadian credit card terminals want a signature slip every time I use my card, which based on cashier confusion I take it is unusual for Canadian issuers. Mexican credit card terminals don't do this, so there's something more inconsistent than just international transactions, I assume it's an irritating interaction of the network trying to line up the schemes in the various countries.

Amusingly debit cards tend to be less of a pain this way since the North American countries are mostly on the same interbank network and the rules have changed less over time.
> If you are doing something weird it can make your life a living hell.

I find it much easier to reliably accomplish non-standard things with systemd unit definitions, than it used to be with the ill-defined complex set of shell scripts we had before.
> [IRC's] ux story is pretty bad by modern standards

UX is entirely dependent on the client. And there are issues with modern UX standards that result in browser tabs using an entire core of CPU resources and/or allocating enough memory that the device becomes unresponsive.

The other issue is the inconsistent UI. Automatic updates result in users having to learn a different way to accomplish what they need to do without prior warning or a way to opt out of the change. Slack did this a few years ago where markup no longer worked the way it had before[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21589647
Mine failed an emissions test (11yr old diesel mondeo with 170000 on the clock), but passed when I took it for a thrash round the M25 and a load of additive in the fuel tank.

The next year emissions weren't an issue, mainly because the only journey it did was a 250 mile run up the A1/A66/A6 and back again on a weekly basis.
mostly in schools there's no understanding whatsoever: to the contrary, students have to REMEMBER what the teacher provided as a valid understanding.
That research definitely doesn't seem to support the thesis that it's the green bubbles that are the reason.
With torrents people actually participate. Piñata should not be viewed as the "database of record", but as a something that complements the desktop at home.

I understand that is still not satisfactory.

I think the real goal is to find institutional users who are not interested in a profit. For example I am involved with https://nlnet.nl/project/SoftwareHeritage-P2P/. Software Heritage would be not a high bandwidth pinner, but a pinner of last resort. Universities were very important to the original internet, and should also host public data sets, software artifact, and hopefully if Sci Hub prevails the journal articles themselves.

None of that is a pinning service, but if it catches on the big cloud companies might feel compelled to get into the pinning service game, if only so they can get those university and government contracts! The current cloud computing business as a racket, but them offering support for a protocol that reduces switching costs might make for some real competition.

Basically "web2" problems are Captialism problems, and the stuff needs to become a low-margin business or state-run not-for profit to be better. There is no secret magic short cut, it is a political problem. SV is of course completely uninterested in low-margin businesses. The regular web3 will have a hard time being anything but a Ponzi scheme per its design, but IPFS itself at least doesn't have those characteristics baked in, and so these alternative futures are possible.
You say that like it's definitive. Do you have a source?

My colleagues all sit near me at work and eat with me at lunch. I don't see how that logic shakes out.
> I think Apple needs to enter the search engine business.

Relevant: https://www.macrumors.com/2022/01/05/google-pays-apple-stay-...
Exactly.

“Idempotent” is one of the key words used as a cudgel in this way. It’s great for the bullshit artist, as to a layman the dictionary definition is completely inscrutable.
When FaceTime was announced Steve Jobs promised Apple would create an open standard so it could be used by anyone. They got wrapped up in patent hell and chose to limit the service to their own devices rather than pay for licensing. The alternative would have made Apple less money.
jokes on you I'm on rapamycin and I'm going to live forever
I think it's more that this argument can be continued ad infinitum. Yes the JWST had significant cost overruns, but in the design phase these types of projects necessarily are looked at as how to best utilize a fixed size grant of money. At the end of the day the decision got made to make a better single telescope than to make two simpler telescopes.

I wouldn't be surprised though if we start to see clever design proposals coming down the pipeline, like several cheaper telescopes, swarm designs for giant radio telescope arrays, and even amateur designed and operated space telescopes. Remember that the JWST started it's design phase back in 1996, and the economics of space launches have changed considerably since then.
> Neırssi is not yet working

I think that is just a case of a non-native English speaker making a mistake. The full context is:

"If you are stuck at any point, feel free to come to the IRC channel #irssi on the Libera Chat network and ask for assistance. While Neırssi is not yet working, you can use the Libera Chat Webchat."

I read the last sentence as "If you can't get Neırssi to work for you whether due to a critical crasher or something else, join via web chat and ask for help".
And less distro divergence in how to write the service scripts, or how to start services etc.
https://old.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/rxtl22/w...

OP followed up with:

>I actually realized what happened and I didn't want to keep it up and misinform other users or cause more damage to Google or Whatsapp.

>So what happened is I actually used a temporary phone given to me by a repair service prior to buying this phone, due to mine being repaired by said service. The service was handing that phone to anyone who needed one while their phone was in service, like I did and thus was used by dozens of people in the past years, and so had thousands of photos on it. When I used it, whatsapp backed all that data into my drive. So... When I bought a new phone, and restored the backup to it, what essentially happened was all that data from the service phone was transfered onto the new one. That's how I ended up with loads of random people's data.

>So in fact the fault was the fact that the service wasn't deleting data on the phone before handing it over to other clients.
The real trick: expect to die in a minute.

No joke. The Buddhist perspective gets into that. The idea of dying tomorrow sets you up to worry about making the most of the future of the rest of the day, and you're still not really present. When we consider that these few breaths or bites or moments might be our last, we can release all the clinging and aversion because it's too late to do anything but be profoundly aware of being alive in this moment. And given that we usually don't just die, we get to experience that sense of life-flashing-before-your-eyes and immediate sense of love and compassion, and still an aspiration to make the very most of each moment (including planning for the future since that might be a thing).

This might be the final sentence you read. So, there's no reason to live each day as your last. It's okay to live each moment in whatever way it shows up. It's all we have, and there's nothing to do but to be aware of it. And, remarkably enough, once we stop striving and just let go, we magically find ourselves more attuned to our deepest values of love and compassion.

This writing might be the last action I ever do. Love to everyone and everything
Here in the UK I think WhatsApp took off here based on the strength of the group chat. Now people use it (and Facebook Messenger) for everything.
Same reason Bitcoin isn’t a threat to the US government. You can’t store shells in a bank, you can’t pay your taxes in sand, etc.

I do think in our lifetimes we will see the US dollar cease or transform (such as the transition from gold backed to nothing backed). Maybe it’ll be Bitcoin backed hahaha
Germany was most okay 18 months ago also...
As I understood the engineering of the JWST requires it to be at L2 so it's in permanent shadow of the sun and can keep the very low temperatures necessary for good infrared image quality.
It's a queue. A dequeue I guess, they can do it on both ends.

You've gotta tow 100 miles worth of vehicles with dead batteries vs. someone comes along the queue with a gas can and it's all good, you don't see any difference there?
> Not a ton of biomass/wood, but some:

Biomass is so very inefficient at capturing solar energy (maybe 2%, if that) that even at that small fraction of energy produced it contributes very substantially to the land use of the energy system.
88% use smartphones on the toilet, and 44% put those phones in their mouths
Might be correct but it was rising exponentially until Google started using dirty tactics again and it is still rising extremely quick while Google isn't rising.

DuckDuckGo has been profitable for years already so they only need patience.
These articles always play up the sillier aspects, but I don’t think non-iPhone users realize how much more annoying a group chat becomes when you add even one non-iPhone user. All of the social network features (thumbs up, etc) becomes an explicit and long text, etc. None of it is a big deal individually, but it adds up. If I were younger and meaner, I’d definitely make passive aggressive comments about “green bubbles” and occasionally leave people off threads.

(I realize this is a US-centric perspective, etc… but I’m definitely not a teen. :))
Time is the most valuable thing you have. Use it wisely.
Chris Dixon: How Web3 data portability reduces the power of centralized services
Network configuration (on say, Debian) is still a pain and has a lot of different ways of accomplishing similar tasks. Anything beyond the plain vanilla singular network device that is either dhcp/static is often painful. Systemd has some sauce, there is legacy /etc/network* stuff, there are daemons which can be configured graphically… it’s still a mess. In this arena, I think systemd has failed for the last decade. It introduced yet another way of doing things without considering the whole scope of what it needed to replace.

I’m old enough to remember the culture wars and even older to remember a well thought out approach to overall configuration in Debian given the available tools of the time.
Resistive heating is still dumb heating.

Smart heating involves heat concentration, not heat production
It’s in use in Japan as i understand it but in the UK the DNOs currently don’t have appropriate controls in place for when the power goes out as i understand it. I believe people with solar and batteries on their property have no power when there’s a power cut - their inverter turns off for safety of the DNO operatives if mains power goes out.

Im not that clued up on this. Tent with a big pinch of salt…!
Survey: 93% of Young People Admit to Using Their Phones on the Toilet
Isn't Musk's increased stock sale to facilitate the exercise of expiring options? That doesn't seem like "pulling out".

Zillow stopped ibuying, but a lot of post-hoc analysis seemed to explain that ibuying can do poorly even if real estate is doing well, because the owners most likely to sell to Zillow were ones with properties that were overvalued by Zillow's model, due to attributes that the model didn't consider.
can you give an example of taxable assets?

ex: i bought a tractor and i will be making payments for 60 months. i paid the required taxes on it at the time of purchase and that is included in the loan repayment. i can depreciate the tractor as a fixed asset. i can claim deductions for repair/maint/service. the tractor is useful and still working even after i pay off the loan. after 60 months, i am not expected to pay a tax for it. even though i have no more payments and i still use the tractor to farm to generate income.

the realisation requirement is the fundamental rule of the IRS. asset appreciation is deferred up until realisation. the quality of life doesnt improve in an old house. if there are improvements made to the building, the assessment changes and the tax amount will change too. california increases property taxes by a capped percentage every year. it is govt spending that has gotten out of control and this spending is not always for the benefit of the tax payers in california. so perhaps thats where the fault lies.

if you change the IRS rules in this regard, the entire economy would become unstable and collapse. the problem is that CA govt spending is bloated and there is no accountability. there is a lot of money. the state is highly taxed. we are not asking enough questions and instead targeting the weakest participant because its the easiest and laziest thing to do.