skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wrote an explanation for them here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28844533

Though I’m not the best at explaining things, hopefully it makes sense.
With enough counterfactuals, you can support any claim.

The argument loses all interest, but the questions remain why the argument is being made, and who wants it made.
Most startups I've worked at literally have a script to deploy their whole setup to a new region when desired. Then you just need latency-based routing running on top of it to ensure people are processed in the closest region to them. Really not expensive. You can do this with under $200/month in terms of complexity and the bandwidth + database costs are going to be roughly the same as they normally are because you're splitting your load between regions. Now if you stupidly just duplicate your current infrastructure entirely, yes it would be expensive because you'd be massively overpaying on DB.

In theory the only additional cost should be the latency-based routing itself, which is $50/month. Other than that, you'll probably save money if you choose the right regions.
They are an upscale home fitness brand that happens to make decent products for introverts, time sensitive professionals, and others who can't make it to a gym.
We had it all with Google Music
Yep. If you're looking for a musical explanation, the 1975 Hoyt Axton song "Speed Trap" explains it pretty well. It's been going on forever. The only solution is for the state government to pass laws that force ticket revenue away from the towns that employ the cops.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRnXgcutfz0
Yep, I’m agreeing with that. I’m also augmenting the argument that NFTs are pointless by saying that in the case of digital goods there can be an infinite amount of identical copies as people want so even if you somehow manage to limit the number of NFTs pointing to an asset, it’s still not really unique.

Thing is, what’s “non-fungible” here is (arguably) the token itself, not the thing it points to.
The Fed may create a U.S. digital currency and wants your input
So they mention money laundering. Serious question: does that explain at least some of the hype surrounding NFTs?
Private citizens hire lawyers to file patents on their crackpot inventions. So I don't see cost and time being a being a barrier.
U.S. Charges 4 Belarus Officials With Piracy in Forced Landing of Jet
How about standardizing battery replacements as well as standardizing on battery packs for power tools?
Not all users are created equal. This is why many internet businesses cater exclusively to a wealthy country that contains only 6% (that is, excluding 94% of internet users) of the people on the internet.
> When I first heard about LIBOR in 2002, I was surprised that the number is just based on a survey of bankers. Surely there would be accuracy issues with that?

Traditionally the banking community of London was super close and built on reputation. People do huge deals based on people's word and people were expected to be honorable. That might sound naieve in the 21st century when global trade is much bigger but it worked for hundreds of years.

Secondly LIBOR really was pretty accurate, people talk a lot about how it could have been manipulated but the evidence is isn't so solid. Yes in aggregate a few bps adds up to a lot of money but for individual parties it doesn't really make a difference.
Side note: in a related story, the Don't Go Stark Raving Mad During A Pandemic Foundation issued a statement saying that large amounts of alcohol are definitely sometimes good for not completely losing your shit during accursed times such as these.
UK/EU aviation regulators: 5G frequencies won't interfere with airliners here
I wondered the same thing. I use tidal and think that it is good.
That's kind of on Roblox then for not answering their questions transparently.
> The trolley problem is often misunderstood.

I misunderstood it for so long because I took it quite literally. When you present The Trolley Problem at its most basic level, nearly everyone will say that the most moral thing to do is pull the lever and redirect it to the single person.

But then I was watching a TV show that presented it in another way. Imagine you have five people about to die from various illnesses, but that each of them can be saved by an organ transplant, and each one needs a different organ. Would it be immoral to sacrifice someone else's life against their will to harvest their organs to save the other five? Nearly everyone would likely say yes, it's incredibly immoral.

But it's really the Trolley Problem. You do nothing, five people die. You take an action, you sacrifice someone against their will to save the original five.
My internal MBA is now planning an exit from Google's tightening squirrel-grip ecosystem because that's my profit-optimized path.
There's no explanation anywhere on that page about what the difference is between G Suite and Google Workspace.

Regardless, the only reason I use them is because it was free. Not a chance in hell that I'm going to actually pay Google to spy on me.
Wonder if someone calculated breaking point where it's cheaper for the grid operator to install home batteries than upgrade the grid itself?
teenvogue will be the last place I get economic advice.
> In 2022, every cop looks at a call through the lens of "will I go to prison if I respond to this?"

Good.

Why wouldn't we want police accountability? Even more, an officer is a public servant and must be held to a higher standard than petty criminals. The fact that some people would think otherwise is mind boggling.
> good-enough solution to a problem

That's pretty much everyone everywhere in every industry. LIBOR really was good enough which is why it lasted.
How did it lose the cops? Was it actual de-policing, or did they just quit and go elsewhere on their own?
> Pix or it didn't happen. (No pix and it did happen, I suppose).

These two statements are opposites.

What you want is this tautology

p → q ⟺ ¬p ∨ q

By which you can see that "pix or it didn't happen" is equivalent to "no pix implies it didn't happen".
>e.g. they don't support motherboards w/out TPM's and they don't officially support CPUs that aren't relatively new; e.g. it only "supports" Intel CPUs that are 8th gen or newer regardless of cores/frequency

Can we please end this FUD that keeps parroted over and over?

Microsoft themselves mention that TPM 2.0 and CPU model requirements are just soft-requirements checked if you go the upgrade path but are not enforced if you do a fresh install from image[1] when only TPM 1.2 is the single hard requirement, but every CPU after 2011 should have it. I installed from image Win 11 on multiple PCs with chips way older than Intel 8th gen and had no speedbumps.

[1] "Important: An image install of Windows 11 will not check for the following requirements: TPM 2.0 (at least TPM 1.2 is required) and CPU family and model."

[1] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/ways-to-install-...
Oh nice. They are getting close! Still unprofitable, but maybe year seventeen is the sweet spot.
There used to be an old fashioned concept called noblesse oblige. That’s no longer a thing in society, and the elites - barring performative actions and fashionable statements- are not invested in the well-being of average Americans.
Reminds me of my grandmother’s small Alabama town. They have a population of around 1500 and the city spent a large chunk of relief funds after some bad tornado damage building a huge “city hall” police station. Last time I was there they had multiple military vehicles parked outside. Meanwhile parts of the city haven’t even been cleaned up and the roads are in terrible shape.
It's been a long time since I did it so I don't know. Used one to monitor the name of my open source project once.
I think the public cloud is a good choice for startups, teams, and projects which don't have infrastructure experience. Plenty of companies still have their own infrastructure expertise and roll their own CDNs, as an example.

Not only can one save a significant amount of money, it can also be simpler to troubleshoot and resolve issues when you have a simpler backend tech stack. Perhaps that doesn’t apply in this case, but there are plenty of use cases which don’t need a hundred micro services on AWS, none of which anyone fully understands.
The idea that these children would otherwise be making their own games is knowingly, generally wrong.
I'm on the fence about that. I prefer a situation where the forum (bug tracker, ticket intake, etc.) is tracked well-enough that no-one _needs_ to ping-for-attention (and, crucially, people asking questions trust that enough that they don't feel the need to ping) - but I recognize that that isn't always practical.

Either way, it's certainly better than the situation presented here!
> I wouldn't put it past the court system to make web browsers

I agree.

My faith would be upon appeal or enforcement, such a ruling would get overturned, or dismissed.
This comment reminds me of the first time I saw genetic code in github and realized that the analogy of computer code to genetic code is almost not an analogy because on some level they're the same thing. I find it interesting but uncomfortable.
Why?

The article in question is about what's good for the heart and ultimately, living. Prolonged sitting kills far, far more people than alcohol. Anecdotally speaking, alcohol happens to be a lot more fun than sitting. Pick your poison, I suppose.
Hold on so if someone is intending to kill themselves with a gun, so cops that come have guns, the only reason a person has a gun suddenly becomes to defend themselves from the police? What happened to the original gun? Am I just parsing this wrong?
That presupposes that maximizing tax revenue is a net good for society.
Exactly. A subreddit for those who want to end work, are curious about ending work, and want to get the most out of a work-free life that they can in stead devote to the fulfilling accomplishment that you -- but no-one else -- call "work".
Curiously enough, this is the only font that I've tested which matches the horizontal proportions of Ubuntu Mono; well, to be precise, iosevka is actually a couple pixels wider than the former :-)

All in all, a very nice font, although if I'm allowed to complain, it now seems to me that it takes too much vertical space :-) (not just a nitpick, same test lines take considerably more pixels)
Octopuses are known to not live very long in captivity.
> 15. Should a CBDC pay interest? If so, why and how? If not, why not?

Hadn't thought of interest on a CBDC. I guess it's an obvious knob for a central bank

From my brief skim the doc looks thoughtful and useful. I especially like the list of questions under "CBDC Benefits, Risks, and Policy Considerations"
Comparisons in an if statement involving subtracting two unsigned variables from each other?
Teen Vogue - where I always go for my economic policy analysis /s

First paragraph:

> In a fair society, there would be no billionaires. Bernie Sanders says they shouldn’t exist and Elizabeth Warren sells mugs of their tears. I’m talking about billionaires and making the case that an economic system that allows them is immoral.

So, the article start by assuming that the author's position is right, quotes two politicians that agree, and moves on from there. Yeah, that's how you prove your position to a skeptical world! (more /s)

I'm not surprised that Teen Vogue is that shallow. I am a bit surprised that they assume that (the vast majority of) their audience is in agreement with this position. (Are they right?)

There may be a case to be made that billionaires should not exist, but this article isn't it.
States can choose to make their personnel subject to lawsuits in defined circumstances.

Colorado, Connecticut, and New Mexico have done it --- e.g. https://lawandcrime.com/live-trials/live-trials-current/geor...
1998 - 2014 Katie Cotton

2015 - 2019 Steve Dowling

2021 - 2022 Stella Low

2022 - Pre Huguet Quayle

I continue to maintain there is something very wrong in Apple's PR strategy since Tim Cook took over. Both Katie and Steve Dowling are not working in any other PR position.
Could this character profile be tested for for purposes of recruitment?
Final Fantasy VII Tifa Pornography Interrupts Italian Senate Meeting
> alcohol does not heal or help the mind

Is it not possible that some people find alcohol in reasonable doses to be a net positive mentally and mood-wise?
The following is pretty far down on the list of facets of this story which are straight-up bonkers, but...

I would think that any threat of legal action on Color Star's part is an empty one, since that would mean "Lucas Capetian" would have to appear (either in-person or via video) for the purposes of a legal deposition. That seems unlikely, given "his" reticence to appear in public or reveal anything at all about his true identity.

Those with legal expertise, feel free to weigh in here.
Sure, I encounter TIFF images when working on various datasets if that counts as using the format. One of the first things I do though tends to be converting the tiff images into a more common format. Once the conversion is complete I don't need to worry about which apps/tools have limited support for TIFF files.
Japan solves 5G airliner conundrum
I'm really not understanding what you're saying here.

What the hell is a microkernel here? What kind of security are you talking about?

User space filesystem and network implementations still need access to the hardware. Multiplexing that access is a kernels job. The more you want to separate and hide that between clients the higher the cost.

As far as i understand your argument you are saying "If an application has a dedicated hard drive there will be little overhead"
One of the druggier people I ever worked with said that the US government funded a lot of cannabis research in the 1940s and 1950s. He said that at the time the US Navy used a great deal of hemp rope, and the researchers were out to increase fiber production. They also, of much interest later, recorded any effects on resin production. And of course this information was all free to the public, available through university libraries and so on.

True? I don't know why he'd have made this up.
Correctly handling failure edge cases in a active-active multi-region distributed database requires work. SaaS DBs do a lot of the heavy lifting but they are still highly configurable and you need to understand the impact of the config you use. Not to mention your scale-up runbooks need to be established so a stampede from a failure in one region doesn't cause the other region to go down. You also need to avoid cross-region traffic even though you might have stateful services that aren't replicated across regions. That might mean changes in config or business logic across all your services.

It is absolutely not as simple as spinning up a cluster on AWS at Roblox's scale.
>"will I go to prison if I respond to this?"

I mean people should think about that about anything they do. The fact that it's new to police is telling. It's because until now they see themselves as above the law, because they have been.

The only cops I've seen get prosecuted are the egregious crimes. Anything anywhere close to borderline gets a pass, including killing unarmed people.

Look at the cops who beat up that demented 73 year old lady in Colorado. They got a pass from every supervisor in their department and would still be employed if the lady's family didn't file a federal lawsuit and the news caught wind of it. Their supervisors should also face charges for covering it up, including that SOB police chief. If any police department should have everyone fired and rebuilt from the ground up, this is a perfect example. The video of her arrest exists, but don't watch it unless you wanna get really, and I mean really mad.

Yes, good cops exist, but if I was a good cop and I found myself working at a department like this, I would find my morals extremely strained every day. I don't know how long I could work for them and sleep at night.

Oh and fuck that Walmart employee and his/her supervisor for calling the animal cops too. And fuck Walmart the company for calling cops on demented old ladies.

https://www.npr.org/2021/05/19/998433764/former-colorado-off...

Schielke has noted that the department failed to take any action against the officer until media reports publicized Garner's violent arrest. This inaction was despite the fact that several other officers as well as supervisors were aware of what had happened. Only after reports did officials seek to launch an investigation into the incident resulting in Wednesday's charges, she said.

/end rant
Frankly I think our justice system should be less tolerant of "hacks" like this. They clearly violate the intent of the law, even if technically following it to the letter.
Ahh, interesting. I could swear this wasn't possible last I checked, but this page [0] suggests it may be, however it's not very clear at all what is being turned off. Does this mean if I buy an app, my wife doesn't automatically get to use it too, or does this mean if she buys an app it doesn't get billed to me? It's the shared billing that was always the creepy bit.
And this is why libertarianism is stupid.

There is zero notion of duty or honor in your worldview. The only decision loop that exists in your worldview is "(if (profitable? action) (action) (not action)". It's disgusting.

Police have a duty to justice. These police, if the reporting is correct, have ignored duty and used their office for pecuniary gain.
Carbon taxes are set up so they cancel regular taxes. So if you use the average amount of greenhouse gasses, you come out equal, if you use more than the average, you come out worse, and if you use less than the average you come out better. So overnight not a whole lot changes but everyone enters a race to use the least greenhouse gasses.
Yes it's non-zero, though https://www.capabilitieslimited.co.uk/pdfs/20210917-capltd-c... is a recent exploration of what it takes to port X11 and KDE to CHERI. Of the around 6 million lines of C and C++ code involved, only about 0.026% needed to be touched, or just under 1.6k. That number will of course vary significantly between the type of code; boring applications code generally doesn't need changes (e.g. htop and sudo built and ran out of the box for me recently, as examples), but language runtimes will need significant changes. Pages 21, 22, 26 and 27 of that report have the per-component breakdown of that number.
Love the "Note on Public Cloud", and their stance on owning and operating their own hardware in general. I know there has to be people thinking this could all be avoided/the blame could be passed if they used a public cloud solution. Directly addressing that and doubling down on your philosophies is a badass move, especially after a situation like this.
Actually, you are correct, I had a copy/paste error from pulling a different curl command and merging it, the curl page correctly shows it as `-d [whatever] -H "Content-Type: application/json"`
People don’t get it. The sole purpose of patents and intellectual property is to give a reward function to large capital allocators. Capital is heart and sole of any society, it is what builds skyscrapers, cars, toothbrushes, shopping centers, internet backbones and everything you can think of. If that capital does not have a reward function, it will build the wrong shit. It would be like a cell making the wrong proteins — you don’t want that.

Like everything, it’s only as good as it’s implementation. I think it would be better if a patent was awarded only after a profitable demonstration was built and running maybe with a pre-patent filed beforehand. It’s insane that a guy can sit at his desk and patent things arbitrarily — how is that providing guidance to capital? And I think the patent should withstand ongoing demonstrations of actual implementation.

And also, we need to get rid of arbitrary litigation because that just makes everyone afraid of other peoples patents. It would be easy to get rid of that.
We've never not had scarcity for digital goods, you just have to look at it at the level of the producer rather than a specific digital goods. You can have unlimited copies of the same jpeg once it exists, but there has always been a scarcity of human beings to produce new original art. Enforcing scarcity of the former is just a trick to deal with scarcity of the latter.
>"why did this person lie about her convictions?"

This may not have been an intentional lie. It's entirely within the realm of possibility that the person who tweeted this was just wrong and conflated her history and record. I know the average person knows the words "indicted, charged, convicted, exonerated" etc. but probably can't actually tell you what they mean from a legal standpoint. I feel bad returning to the position of "meaningfully correct, yet technically incorrect" but that's what I sense is really going on. Someone on Twitter said something, it got fact-checked 'till-kingdom-come and now people have wildly different takeaways primarily based on the wording of the communiqué rather than the events it is trying to communicate about.
Technically if the police department doesn't have competition isn't that the opposite of Free Market?
We forget that just 30 years ago the modern day equivalent of word processors edit features would make any typewriter or scratch pad jealous. Re-writing at breakneck speeds has saved countless trees and forests, as was the old environmental concerns with writing too much.

Want to edit a long form part of any paper written in 1985? Toss the paper in the wastebasket and start over. Most decent ideas can be fleshed out with enough editing and re-writing.

Paper had the advantage of being toss-able.. On a computer, what we write seems to be so unique and special... Books are common to have been written a couple times before they are in their 'final forms'.

Public internet knowledge before the social media moat was forums, wikis, various video sites, comment boards, Stackoverflow etc...

Embracing the mess of private knowledge in automotive repair space means recording any and all private repairs and posting them publicly whether someone gets value of it or not.

Embracing the mess of private knowledge in almost any other industry gives anyone the chance to see how messy most industries are with their knowledge moats.
If you are filing a bug you will be ignored (or could be ignored) forever.

If you send in a patch - you are MUCH MUCH more likely to get a response. As it should be.

What is obvious to you as a patch may not be obvious to others, so if you can write and test your patch that would go a long way towards getting things to move forward. Bug reports are noise to many maintainers (they know there are lots, their focus is on code that fixes bugs).
I’ve thought for a while about moving my email out of gmail/gsuite, but for me the best feature is priority inbox. Whenever I get a push notification of an incoming email it’s one I’d want to know about. Had anyone else caught up?
iCloud price is affordable. One problem I noticed, though, is the process to create a family account. You must have an Apple device to do it. There is no option to do it through the browser. I don't have an Apple device, so I cannot create a family group associated to my individual account.
They aren't telling you what you can do with your items. They are telling you what taxes you owe based on the intended function of said item.
I am using a music streaming service which is totally free and offers me genres without any subscription lock-in. Additionally it doesn't track my listening habits and thus enables me to discover new music as I am not in a listening bubble.

I like that streaming service a lot
erm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemp
This is why it is still best to only have your OS and apps on SSD but all your data files on HDD (and backup). When you need fast access for some file, move it temporarily to the SSD.