skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, that was a ridiculously non-general treatment of my attempt to lift this question to an actual abstraction.

Again, OP isn't selling things directly to end-users, so I don't know how the OP is meant to acquire the end user's consent, informed or not. The OP is exposing abilities in a tool which enables his end users to turn around and deliver something to their end users. My question is how culpable OP is for abuse of his tool's abilities, and what level he must go thru to put abuse protections in place to be not morally culpable for his end user's treatment of their end user's, and your answer is "OP needs to get informed consent". Ridiculously simplified.
How much did they pay for that house though?
> This is wrong; tests and type systems have different purposes.

For decades, companies have prospered without a strong type system and using tests for type assurance ad hoc. Usually when it's worrisome or has been problematic. You can say it's wrong (conceptually, theoretically, etc) and yet it people continue to do it. That's interesting to think about.
That's like saying "no I don't shop for 'electronics' whatever that means, I buy phones and TVs and computers." The umbrella term is what it is, whether you know it or not.
Isn’t a silicone based oil used in oil diffusion vacuum pumps?

Seems like one should look for a different solution
The way things are going with micro-sats, is it not an issue of e.g. whether 1 company launches 30,000 or 100 companies launch 300? There could easily be 100 parties doing micro-sats just from the US, never mind the rest of the world.

Seems like less an issue of Starlink in particular and more of an issue with the "end game" of micro-sats.
"Well he's dead so....." that is the most epic/telling statement I believe Bill Gates has every made.

Gates comments on Epstein on NPR, I don't have a link, but Google and YouTube have the details.

Gates another question for you, what's with all the farmland you now own in the US? The world doesn't need another Monsanto's. Seems fishy! Somethings afoot with that. Farming is not that profitable, so what's his interest in it?
> nodejs has less-than-optimal performance, and not for lack of trying to improve it

I think you mean "less-than-C" performance, no? I'd say it's pretty close to optimal performance - it's just that the optimum is not that high compared with a stricter language, or indeed a compiled language, which are able to exploit far more invariants (especially in the latter case).

Anyway, I think his point was fundamentally correct, but it just seemed like an odd choice to single out one of the world's best interpreters - and one which is fairly competitive even with fast compiled languages - as your example. If he'd chosen CPython, I'd have been with him all the way, haha. (As someone who's written a faster Python interpreter, ...don't even get me started on that one.)
Genuine question: are they doing real COL adjustments, or window dressing? For example, the Bay Area can reasonably costs 2-3x+ relative to other major US cities. Are remote jobs really cutting total comp by 50%-60% for remote workers in the US?

Or are the differences more cosmetic, like 20%? I have seen this before and it is always a huge win for the employee.
I expect that happens plenty, but there is such a thing as the subconscious, and I don't think everyone who lacks a full understanding of their own mind is operating in bad faith.
A* is less useful when you're not omniscient, that is, testing if a cell is blocked has a sensing cost. I ran into this in a game application. To find out if a cell is obstructed, I have to do a ray cast at a few points in the cell, which uses resources. A* requires sensing a large number of cells to collect non-useful data, and if you have a big, mostly open space with some obstacles, like the real world, it does far too much sensing.

So I ended up with a variant on Pledge's approach to wall-following. Head toward the goal until an obstacle is detected. Then, start wall-following, but simultaneously in both left and right directions. When one of the wall-follower tests can head towards the goal, do that, and kill off the other wall-follower. So you alternate between heading towards the goal in open space, cheaply, and wall following.

Searching both left and right simultaneously avoids taking the long way round some obstacles.
This is a discussion forum, not an academic debate. The core of my statement is that Firefox has qualities that make me want to continue using it despite how I disagree with how Mozilla operates. I don't owe anyone actionable criticism or evidence to backup my sentiment.

> What specifically do you disagree with? I actually feel the opposite way. Finally after years of ignoring macOS Firefox feels more at home and the UI changes make it much more pleasant to use.

Mozilla owns Firefox, but Mozilla is not Firefox. Firefox, for the most part, is fine. The text input I'm typing this in is being rendered by Firefox.

As far as specifics go, Mozilla can hardly be considered well managed by any objective sense. The market share of Firefox has been declining rapidly for years, and Firefox is the product everyone knows Mozilla for. Why then has Mozilla not done anything meaningful to course correct? Why do their executives of a non-profit foundation still get raises when their core product is losing? (to be fair they don't make much compared to for-profit salaries) Why are they more interested in selling other products in a space where there's already massive competition, and using Udemy's pricing trickery to convince you that you're getting a good deal? Why did they abandon Servo? Why did they integrate a commercial service, Pocket, into Firefox and make it opt-out? Did they really need to make Brendon Eich leave because he committed the deadly sin of... being against gay marriage? Do they really need to be blogging about political activism that has nothing to do with the web?

These are all facts you can look up easily.

Yeah, I don't like them. They're not well managed, and they pretty much only exist in their current form because Google needs them to exist. If Google stopped giving money to the Mozilla foundation, lots of people would be laid off, Firefox would go into a tailspin, and they'd be left with a VPN service nobody really wanted. Maybe if money spent on Mozilla VPN clearly went to making Firefox better, more developer friendly, and more prolific, then it would be a somewhat different story, but whether that is actually the case isn't obvious. Even then, it's debatable to what extent any VPN service isn't snake oil.
So the integrator circuit implies it determines the exposure time during the exposure? Meaning, the metering is ongoing during the shutter opening?
I already do that.
Should SRE and DevOps be grouped together? I thought they were separate.
How's the massage gun work for you? Have you noticed a big difference from using it? I'm curious about this and I think I'm going to pick one up.
I get the thought, you can build something now that is guaranteed to have a fixed cost, or you can risk going with a free product that might surprise you, causing you to rush to replace the solution with a tight deadline.

Just look at all the people panicking with the free Google Workspace shutdown.
I struggle with this as well. I would describe myself as very curious, and love to read about new subjects.

I wish though, that I was more organized and ambitious. I always want to accomplish more instead of just dabbling in a million different things and never producing anything very large.
EdgeDB employee here. We're beyond excited to finally publish a stable release of EdgeDB after 4 years of active development and 15 pre-releases. Happy to answer any questions on here!
> You should have a very strong case for this. Do you?

In the US, we've made this call already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_with_Disabilities_Ac...
There is no purely logical reason to ever actually do anything. It all starts with what you want and what you don't want. You may of course derive logically sound paths to get what you want or avoid what you don't want, but that's something else.

If you explain these logical steps to someone else, what you're doing is showing them that they too will likely be affected by what you're suffering, that is, showing them they have a reason to fear too.
> The US could coordinate and work with the EU to try and craft laws that span both regions in a unified manner so that businesses can operate more freely

I love your wording. Regulation mixed with "operating more freely" is oxymoronic. The same can be said with your argument of "subsidizing a protectionist agenda" when you're referring to the lack of regulation and legislation.

> As a counter point - I think it's fair to view the extreme lack of consumer protection laws in the US as protectionism for domestic tech companies. T

The spat between US tech companies and France's ancient media companies is not new. It's very disingenuous to pretend that the purpose of these laws is just to protect consumers.
I'm sorry, but are we both talking about france here? The "coup d'etat and murder anyone in Africa that goes against my wannabe reboot of a colonial empire," or is it the "bomb Greenpeace ships in foreign countries" France? If we are being honest, the intelligence services of France have proved to be much less accountable and much, much less constrained by pretty much anyone. It's also completely willing to do the bidding of any corporation the French government's "dirigisme" deems worthy enough to assassinate a few Africans for.

The big difference between France and the USA is that the French people usually either passively or actively support them and do not see any problem with what they are doing and would much rather look at the evil Americans. It's not even a political issue, it's almost seen as a divine right.

That's literally one of the main reason macron has been popular: his wannabe bonapartist "great France" mindset (and even those who dislike him don't usually criticize him on that front) that involves crushing the ennemies of France, and a whole lot of illusions of grandeur.

It's also a country where the literal neonazi FN still gets 40% of the votes, but people still laugh about dumb Americans because they voted for trump. Keep in mind, the only reason we don't see more french droning in Africa is because they lack the ability to do so.

And I'm not American or French, but I've had a lot of first hand experience with the damage France is causing in Africa and I'm very familiar with French culture. Yet I'm almost always amazed by the extent of French grandstanding online.
One data point. I’m an American that has been traveling since late 2019, primarily in Europe and Latin America. I almost always get a local SIM in pick-a-country. The only thing I use SMS for is paying for parking, 2FA, and texting friends in America. Almost everything else is WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook Messenger. On occasion I bump into someone who prefers Telegram.
If the data points are in the space [0,1]^n, and your metric function is:

d(x,y) = 0 if x == y; 1 otherwise

Then all points are distance one apart. It's been proven that, as dimensionality increases, normal euclidian distance over uniform point clouds rapidly converges to have the same behavior as the equality metric.

The proof relies on the information gained by performing pairwise distance calculations.

In the example distance function I gave, there is zero information gained if you plug in two points that are known to be non-equal.

The information gained from evaluating the Euclidian distance function converges to zero as the dimensionality of the data set increases.

(Note: This does not hold for low dimensional data that's been embedded in a higher dimensional space.)

Edit: Misread your comment. Yes, everything ends up being the same distance apart. More precisely, the ratio of mean distance / stddev distance tends to infinity. The intrinsic dimensionality of the data is monotonic w.r.t. that ratio.
Factory contamination affects “at least” 7B gigabytes of flash memory
You can just say "web" - for 20+ years it has been looking like this.
They're submitting this data to Lexis-Nexis. It's not about employers calling Apple to verify the info. Lexis-Nexis most likely requires a title and Apple is changing it after people leave.
I get the using "debt" is an attempt to make it understandable to financial-oriented people, but I think it is a double-edged sword. You have to pay off financial debt, you don't have to pay off technical debt. I think using "technical friction" is a better approach. You are increasing the cost of future projects. "Cutting corners on that will increase the cost of all future efforts by 10%". That is more impactful and conveys the situation better. Likewise, "well, we cut corners here last year to get the demo made, so now this project takes 25% more time."

Even if we SWAG the percentages (which, guess what, financial-oriented people do all the time!), it lets Product Owners and Managers make better decisions.
Well you don't. Telegram blocked the channel in germany. So I don't get what your anger is all about then. Telegram Operators were given the choice of leaving germany entirely and blocking users there, be blocked by germany or remove the channel. They choose their favorite option.
I'm glad I found this comment because the ones above are filled with the gibberings of neurotic control freaks.

I'm scared that some of these people won't let their relatives answer the front door unless they are present, lest a man with a clipboard empty their savings account.
> When you use an ad-supported service, you're not "the product," you are the customer.

That isn't really true though. The company that uses an ad-supported model can't pay its bill with a user's attention, it pays its bill with the revenue it gets from funneling those users into clicking on ads. The author can try to redefine what a customer and a product is, but the bottom line is that they are receiving money in exchange for ad clicks, which means their customers are the ad company, and the product are the clicks. This whole article reads like the author is trying to cope with the fact that they are willing to do the thing that actively makes their product worse, if it means they get more money.

I haven't changed my mind about advertising, even if it means my project will always operate at a loss, I'm prepared for that. People that want to support it can subscribe to the Patreon, and they get some extra stuff, but I'm not going to try and monetize bot traffic by stuffing my pages full of ads.
The mere fact that you believe that Android is the only alternative to an iPhone shows how effective the manipulation is.
We also lived in caves for several tens of millenia across multiple stretches of time, without written language. There may have been some sort of ephemeral symbolic transfer (knots, beads, wood carvings,) but it looks like those cultures used primarily oral traditions. We know many non literate cultures develop memory palace techniques, so rigorous oral traditions can be incredibly durable and stable, with lots of information passed down accurately. All that to say, human tribes could have had detailed and specific knowledge of interactions with Neanderthals over millenia, and developed peaceful tradition that maximizes cooperation, or at least borders that kept conflict minimized. Neanderthals could likely do the same memory tricks.

5000 years is a blip - if humans find a sufficiently habitable environment, we apparently can settle for a pretty low quality of life.

It only works until it doesn't, though. Neanderthals or humans could have initiated an incident, in which traditions were distrusted or discarded or lost on either side, resulting in hostility, or they lost their elders to disease and the knowledge to survive.

Just like megafauna extinction, "bad humans were bad" probably doesn't come close to what actually happened.

Neanderthals were likely as or more intelligent than humans, implying susceptibility to all the same conflicts, biased thinking, and bad incentives that affect human cultures. It could be environmental or biological or a pure fluke that Neanderthals didn't outlive humans, but whatever the reason they're gone, it's going to be just as convoluted and nuanced as the rise and fall of millenia old human cultures.
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SSH into the VPS from the laptop with port-forwading:

ssh -R 8000:localhost:80 mydomain.xyz

Now you should be able to access your local laptop on port 8000 of the VPS. There are a few easy steps you can add if you want to make it a bit more ergonomic or permanent. If you don't want to use an alternate port, you can just forward the port on the VPS with iptables.

iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-port 8000

If you want the link to be more permanent, I'd suggest using wireguard instead of ssh. That's a little more effort, but not ridiculous.
The thing that stands out the most to me here is the constant drumbeat blaming the "regulators", as if the only thing keeping their buggy, shitty murdercars from going fully autonomous is those backwards gummermint bureaucrats.

I'd be willing to bet Elon huffs enough of his own farts that he too genuinely believes this, but I can definitely see the "real-life Tony Stark!!!111" fanboy cohort lapping that right up. The Venn diagram between Elon Musk fans and borderline-ancap laissez-faire extremists is practically a circle.
It doesn't matter if they don't have all of them. They make their choice. I have whatsapp, but have managed to convince a core group of friends to use Signal. We make do.
> JavaScript itself is very powerful in its own domain(the DOM interactions in the browser)

Imo, most of this benefit comes from being effectively the only way to interact with the DOM up until WASM (and I think I read that WASM still calls out to JS for DOM manipulation). If Python had a way to manipulate the DOM via shared libraries or something, I'd wager there would be equally powerful Python libraries (ignoring security concerns).

Or phrased differently, I don't think anything about the design of Javascript is uniquely well suited to manipulating DOMs, it just has a monopoly on manipulating the DOM.

> most of the bloat comes from developers wanting to write JS in different way than originally designed

I think a big part of this is that Javascript has become a much more integral part of websites than it was originally intended to be. My impression is that it was designed to add a little bit of interactivity, not for people to ship a nearly blank HTML file and then fill in the entire page using Javascript.

That's not to say it's a bad idea, I just don't think it was designed for that and we have some warts and a lot of changes to allow us to implement that modern paradigm. I strongly suspect some form of parallelism would have been included if we had known what modern frameworks would look like.
>It's only ok if you self-host on a server in the EU, right?

In the EU/EEA or in a jurisdiction that has adequate level of data protection.
>It will take forever to build up a similar ecosystem in Europe and I think most successful European entrepreneurs will just end up starting companies in the US instead.

This is what you are wrong about. It would be true if you were from a small country like Sri Lanka or similar but for EU many European companies will smell an opportunity to fill the void.
Visitors' IP addresses are provided to Simple Analytics in the course of loading their script and reporting back the results. That's all it took to get web sites using public Google Fonts resources in trouble—note that this didn't involve any actual analytics scripts or overt data collection, just some embedded CSS and font resources.

The only real advantage Simple Analytics has here is that they aren't Google, so they aren't as much of a political target and don't have deep pockets to attract legal predators on the lookout for an oversize payout—which is a pretty thin justification for treating them any differently.
We're not both right when parent is saying the "federal reserve is lying about its mandate" - which makes no sense, not least because the mandate is defined, by Congress, in the Federal Reserve Act. The Fed's job is to execute on it. You can argue about their efficacy or tactics (in spite of their pretty solid ~110 year track record), but that's not the same thing.

It's like saying you think the USPS is lying that they have the mandate to deliver letters.
Les'see, when I worked halftime for my Dad at 14, I got 60 SEK (~$12 at the exchange rate back then?) a month... Uh, no, would need to know cumulative inflation since then to figure out how many doublings it's been. Quite a few, I guess. Not as many as I'd wish.
As the value of your home goes up, your 'rent' goes up in the form of increased property taxes and depreciation becoming more expensive on the improved land and structures residing on top of the land.

This may seem invisible to you now, but as assesors re-assess your house, you realize how much more you are paying in 'rent' (maintenance) on your house for materials like wood and labor, or you're forced to sell at depreciated value because in 50 years you end up the old folks home or whatever -- sooner or later we all pay rent on the property we own. Basically 'using up' your house is getting more expensive in terms of opportunity cost.
They are evergreen listing for my company. They do have some mid-level and entry level, but certainly not as much as senior. We're even known for value shopping new grads to save costs, so I assume the ratio is even worse at other companies.
> Diaz was awarded $6.9m in damages for emotional distress and $130m in punitive damages, in what is believed to be the largest such verdict of its kind.

:O

You would think they would be super sensitive to these claims after shelling out 130M for this.
> ...because many people still don't understand that this is analogous and convertible to money in your bank account especially at these convenient amounts...

FWIW this project doesn't have its own token (this L2 uses ETH as its currency just like the base layer), so the bug bounty payout is denominated in actual USD.
or you could use ruby on the backend and javascript on the client
Kbuild-inspired build system to replace Automake, using only GNU Make
No. Try a lightweight distro & just install Kodi or Plex for a media server. I have several old laptops (hp 17yrs, Toshiba 8yrs, Acer 11yrs) for that purpose
I have a hard time calling these "upgrades". I had a TI-83 (not Plus) in high school - the Plus gave us ROM, the TI-84 gave us USB, and the TI-84 CE gave us a color screen, which are all creature comforts at best. It's on par with what we'd think of "upgrades" circa Apple II -> Apple IIe.

I _would_ call moving from a TI-83 to the TI nSpire CAS an upgrade - there's a whole host of things that the nSpire can do which the TI-83 can't, like symbolic calculations and matrix math with complex values. I'd also bet it can emulate a TI-84 faster than a native TI-84.
I mostly listen to metal when coding - actually, most of my colleagues do too.
I'm impressed that surface mount components existed in the 1970s and in consumer electronics that early. I've taken apart VCRs and game consoles from the 80s and they were DIP mounted and through-hole circuit boards for all of the ones I've come across. I didn't realize the SX-70 was so cutting edge.
Data pipeline asset management with Dataflow
It's important work. I wish we had better infrastructure for incentivizing things that are beneficial in the long term.

And don't even get me started on web3.

I went ahead and beefed up the ZT entry in the list[0] a bit.

[0]: https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling
Was that before their datacenter caught fire and their customer servers were lost or after?
> as opposed to in way that causes enjoyment just like when you normally want things?

Wants do not cause enjoyment. Desire is the root of all suffering.