skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am using the xduoo X3ii right now, and that seems to check all of your boxes. It supports Rockbox too!
That is not a very generous attitude towards those creating free content (or any sort of content) out there for you.

Not everything in this world needs to be optimized for speed and productivity. Where is the room for artistry and craftsmanship?

There are many out there who write and create content for the joy of writing and for helping out others. Not everyone is trying to maximize on profit.

Sure, there are probably billions of SEO spam pages out there now which serve no value other than improving the site's page rank, but you can't generalize that this is true of all sites.

It may be harder to find quality content (see the top thread of today on Google search for more on that), but it is still out there.

Also, you can definitely "flip through" a webpage. Easier than a book in fact. And you can even cmd+F and search to see if something you're looking for is in there.
The author even mentions they hope to see this consolidated into dbt Cloud right there at the end of the article!
> It doesn't really matter because I don't care enough about Reddit anymore.

OK. So, what was the slur?
It is in fact ripping off the sailor saying "ship, shipmates, self": https://mobile.twitter.com/boztank/status/149366154542687027...
Yet TVs are sold with huge pixel counts and even bigger sizes at much lower prices. So I don't think the yield is an issue or they'd be affected even more.
I think that Google's monopoly and their worldview that everything is data to be mined has created a feedback loop that killed the web of old.

The web was originally very social in nature. By linking to another page you spent some social currency to lift up others who were worthy. You, the other author and the audience all understood the social contract enshrined in a link. Google rejected that model and successfully changed the web to be a place where Google simply directed people to their final destination.

SEO became first possible and then necessary. The audience for hobbyists and anyone who can't pour money into optimising their Google results has dried up. The nature of Google search results undermines whatever opportunity the author had to build a relationship with their audience. Google reminds you that this is all an impersonal transaction: this page has the recipe you want, it lets you buy a product, or it answers your question. The value of this connection can by quantified as unique visitors, bounce rate and time on page.

Intertwined webs of relationships between pages have been replaced by a graph where the only edge that matters is the one that connects you to Google.

With the social dimension of the web undermined, and the audience siphoned off to the big, commercial, operations, it makes sense that creators migrate to platforms that will give them an audience. It is not that Google results are getting worse, it's that Google has accidentally killed the web as a source of valuable data for them to mine.
One thing we can be almost certain of: no asteroids will be diverted, in any meaningful sense, in your lifetime. Maybe in 50 years robots will be nipping off bits of some, to loft someplace where they are wanted.
Apple is operating a search engine right under our noses, hiding behind Siri. Applebot is regularly crawling the web. They’re probably much further along toward a privacy-focused search product than any of us would know.
I buy new computer parts somewhat infrequently these days, but in the 2ish decades I’ve been buying from Newegg I’ve never had a problem.

Once, when I royally screwed up an order (I double bought a whole desktop worth of parts) they took everything back without any problem at all.

Additionally, they have been one of the most prominent companies fighting patent trolls.

I’m sure they have screwed up in big and small ways over the years, but they’ve also been serving the tech community well for a long time. Companies are large and difficult to manage. Hopefully they learn lessons from this and improve.
I don't think you're considering how loose the definition of 'use' is in this case. They might intend to 'use' the IP in a way that makes them no more able to help previous customers than a patent lawyer is able to build a robot.
But even if the new company plans on using the IP, there's no guarantee that the company buying the IP will use it for the same purpose or want to continue supporting the existing use. Like maybe the same technology is useful for implants to provide artificial hearing to deaf people and the new company wants to use it for that.

So if the sale of IP is allowed because the new company will use it, that still leaves the visual implant users in the dark (no pun intended), but if the sale of IP is not allowed or is placed into the public domain to allow visual implant users to use it, then the original company was deprived of the value of the IP.
For 2020 (the last full year for both companies):

Cloudflare (NET) has higher revenue: $431M vs $318M

Digital Ocean (DOCN) has higher profit (net income): -$44M to -$119M

Cloudflare is growing revenue faster, but also increasing losses to get there.
Russian Stove
> hard to build a new forum site and attract an audience that's willing to type your URL in every day

This is exactly the problem that RSS has been solving since it was created over 20 years ago.

If you have this problem, it means you do not have granular-enough RSS feeds. Per-discussion-thread at minimum.
Mine have no subject with a PDF attachment and seem to be getting through on a daily basis. Might help to get some more upvotes here: https://support.google.com/mail/thread/150229727/getting-a-n...
If your account gets shadow banned and you don't notice does it really matter? You are still getting something out or you wouldn't keep posting. Sometimes just posting to yourself is enough.

Say you do notice, you just start a new account for free. Bonus points for moving identities and breaking existing tracking history.

Getting banned can be a win/win
I don't think this is entirely surprising. Rust isn't many people's first language. People who learn it, mostly do because they have become fed up with the unreliability (typically of C). This creates a bias towards people who are more experienced and have more organizational power. Also, language surveys tend to be biased towards power users which can shift the sample significantly. For example, the Julia survey from 2021 only had 25% Windows users, while Julia binaries are something like 70% windows.
Vinay Prasad has been a beacon of rationality in the tribal quagmire that is COVID discourse.
Yeah I have this LG. It's amazing.. such a shame they stopped making a 24" model and I'm really worried if this breaks because there's no replacement. It's the 24UD58-B and cost only 220€ at the time. I wish I had bought two.

Apple seem to be the only one doing 24" 4K now and I don't want a computer attached.
> I'm not really sure Intel should push ECC if desktops users aren't willing to pay a modest premium for it.

$50 more for the motherboard and $100 more for the RAM is not a "modest premium" for most of the desktop market. But aside from that, the bigger problem is that consumers (and especially gamers) will always prioritize the advantages that are more easily quantified. When forced to choose between ECC support and a few hundred MHz plus the option to overclock further, consumers will pick the faster processor.

If Intel offered a part at the high end of the product line that had both ECC and overclocking enabled, it would be guaranteed to sell quite a few units, because a lot of consumers will always want to own the top of the line part. And such a part would be an opportunity for a better experiment to determine how much premium users are willing to pay for ECC, if Intel also kept offering the current -K overclockable parts that don't have ECC.
I wish that too
(I'm the author)
Rust closures store a function pointer for the closure body. I'm using yaxpeax, which is a fast x86 disassembler made by one of my friends, in order to turn the function pointer into an x86 instruction stream. There's some junk that we have to do with parsing /proc/self/exe in order to get the symbol it points to so we know how big the function is, as well.

It's kinda complex, because Rust closure internals aren't documented all that well, but it works fine and isn't UB (as far as I know). The bigger issue is actually that Rust closures use the Rust ABI, which is not stable, and so Lineiform shouldn't really assume which arguments are in which registers since it could (technically) change at any point: we end up having the disassembly entry point be a C ABI trampoline that calls the rust-call ABI so that rustc emits the cross-ABI register shuffling for us as a prelude, and emit a C ABI function to call as an output.

The relevant code is https://github.com/chc4/lineiform/blob/4a104c994561282318179.... It is very messy, sorry.
For me the annoyance is a subscription model as the default, when other models would make more sense and be more palatable.

E.g.

My calorie counting app (which shall remain nameless, since that's not the point) has a freemium model, where a subscription will grant you access to a bunch of extra metrics, recipes, and ability to store "meals", etc.

This doesnt sound too unreasonable, until you realise they ask for £10/month, on the basis that they're offering "hundreds of extra stuff", but in fact I would probably only need, like, 2 or 3 of those extra features, max.

I would have happily paid a couple of fivers for those 2-3 features as permanent addons, (including something like "recipe update packs", which in principle isn't too different from a subscription model) but the idea that I'm expected to pay the same amount to only use them for a month makes me feel cheated. As if my stuff will be kept hostage after I cave once. So I haven't left the freemium version yet, and it's unlikely I ever will. It's fairly easy to work around the annoyances anyway.
> Elon ... have taken all the talent that would have gone to bell labs and used it to generate ad revenue

This is pretty unfair to Elon. He took all that talent and started putting things into space. And building the next generation of cars. He seems to be doing amazing work.

Bezos and Zuckerberg, sure. Musk is in a different league, possibly an entirely different game.
This is fine and will allow Airflow to focus on it's core functionality of being a distributed job scheduler.

FWIW, last I looked at Airflow I thought the schedule+task model could be made tighter as their was numerous ways to enter inconsistent states. For example, changing the schedule after tasks had already been run would allow to rerun jobs (in the past) at dates that were never scheduled in the first place.
Hah, this reads like it was written after using Amazon Prime video (at least as it existed circa 2017).

It somehow lacked an easy way to jump back to the last episode you were on. You had to dig it up anew. And then if you looked up a TV series and wanted to pick a season, they were somehow out of order. Like, what? How do you get those two things wrong?
Right, the State laws have different rules for major/minor party, and laws are often (depends on State) designed so mathematically unlikely to be more then three major parties. And if there are three it typically drops back to two in a few years. 'Minor' parties have issues such as reduced donation limits in the law.

Local offices like a city council are often not done by party affiliation. Local voting can have some influence.
Probably because they weren't the only company working on this and selling products and even at $500K they weren't making money:

it faced financial headwinds. Second Sight was selling the Argus II for around $150,000 in the United States—about five times as much as other neuromodulation devices, according to Greenberg. But even so, he says, the company was losing money: “With all the overhead of sales and regulatory people, it wasn’t profitable.”
War is extremely profitable.
Lucky for you, the Democratic Party and Republican Party have nearly identical priorities on economic politics: corporations and the rich.

Both parties share sweeping agreement on nearly every single economic bill that passes. If you ever start thinking they might disagree about something, don’t worry because it will never pass, because they don’t disagree.

The record is painfully clear. You only have one choice on economic policy.
They answer the phone at 11pm central (USA) time, with a human who speaks good English, even when the customer (me) pays them ~$15 per month.
> (Although one wonders if it could go single-stage-to-orbit without SS on top. That would be another first!)

On that note, I recall reading somewhere that the top part is at least in theory SSTO-capable without payload.
I like being on camera in fact I run it often when I am at the office alone to use as a mirror because otherwise my hair might be poofed up with static electricity and then I go out and scare people without trying.

My trouble is that webcams don’t last long for me, my laptops have defective USB 3.0 ports. I think someday I want to set up a mini tv studio at home but never get around to it.
As a newcomer to the world of data, I have no strong opinions about Airflow. It replaced a bunch of disparate cron jobs, so it's definitely better than what was there before.

There are things I like and things I don't about it. The UI is awful -- I don't know anyone that likes it, unlike what the article states. I like that it's centralized and that it's all Python code.

Deploying it and fine-tuning the config for a variety of workloads can be a pain. Sometimes sensors don't work right. Tasks sometimes get evicted and killed for obscure reasons. Zombie tasks are a pain big enough you'll see plenty of requests for help online.

That said, replacing it with a bunch of disparate tools again? Seems like a step backwards. And now instead of a single tool, your org has to vet, secure, understand and monitor a bunch of different tools? It's bad enough with only one...

What am I missing?

PS: data analysis/engineering as a field seems new and immature enough that, in my humble opinion, we should be focusing on developing good practices and theory, instead of deprecating existing (and pretty recent) tech at an ever increasing pace.
I'm reminded of the movie Repo Men.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1053424/plotsummary
What's missing from these voter id laws is provisions to make it easy to get voter id, and to pay people to spend time getting it.

They aren't bad on the face of it, other than being chosen specifically because black people are less likely to have an ID, or be able to get one.

A new restriction like "you aren't allowed to give out water anymore" because black people were sharing water in the ultra long lines in the heat black people are forced to wait in to vote doesn't impact security at all though, only useability
> That shows the search algorithms ... are good enough and Google can be eventually disrupted

I doubt this. I'm guessing that 90% of Google Search's development effort is concentrated on defeating SEO, and as soon as a new competitor succeeds well enough to attract SEO attention, their results will suddenly turn to custard.

The competitor then has to combat the extremely sophisticated SEO practises developed against Google over the years. This is likely to be an even bigger barrier to disruption than building market share against Google.
Factoid: The richest kind of heterosexual household in the US, on average, is Asian man, white woman.
I manage and run our airflow instance - outside of migrating from 1.X to 2.x I haven't really had any problems. Learning curve was a bit higher than I hoped, but being able to set tasks downstream and backfill is so much nicer than regular cron / windows task manager script running.
Thank you! I really do sincerely appreciate that. If you'd like to, please reach out to us there because we'd love to chat more. It wasn't my intention to take the discussion off-topic here because this thread is so incredibly interesting, but at the same time it's super encouraging to see the unprompted feedback and questions, and we'll share what we're doing properly on HN soon so we can address questions properly.
I may start using another search engine just because of this. I can't tell you how many times I've searched for something in quotes, but the results almost always lack a word or two. They just want to show you some results; they don't care if that's exactly what you wanted.
Joining two pieces of text and having one destroy meaning in the other is certainly a bug, most commonly a security bug. If you look at the search results in the original link, much of the discussion involves using it to hide file extensions and similar information hiding attacks.
The tool `eqn`, which she wrote (joined by Brian Kernighan) is an "ancestor" of TeX: The mathematical syntax of TeX (design started 1977) was based on eqn (1975). For example, the eqn paper (https://research.swtch.com/eqn.pdf) has the expression

sum from i=0 to infinity x sub i = pi over 2

which would have been entered as something pretty close to that in the first draft design of TeX (the second draft introduced the backslashes), and today as:

\sum_{i=0}^{\infty} x_i = {\pi \over 2}

and you can see the evolution. The Wikipedia page has more examples (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eqn_(software)&ol... ). Knuth credits Lorinda Cherry explicitly a couple of times in the first draft design (https://www.saildart.org/TEXDR.AFT[1,DEK]):

> A special syntax is used in formulas, modeled on that of Kernighan and Cherry, Comm. ACM 18 (March 1975), 151-157. For example, ``sup 9'' in line 41 specifies a superscript 9, ``sub {n+1}'' in line 74 specifies a subscript n+1.

and in the last page/paragraph:

> To conclude this memo, I should explain how TEX is going to work on math formulas. However, I will have to sketch out the code in more detail and it is only fuzzy in my mind at the moment. […] it may be necessary to build the parse tree first as Kernighan and Cherry do.

(Yes indeed TeX builds the parse tree first, as we can see from the second draft: https://www.saildart.org/TEX.ONE[1,DEK] )

The eqn system was a pioneering and capable one: although Knuth did not use any of the code of troff/eqn as-is (not sure if it was available to him; in any case he was targeting "book" quality), clearly it influenced the design, and I imagine it inspired him about what was possible in the first place. Even after TeX became widely used, there have been some math books typeset with troff and eqn.

Reading about Lorinda Cherry's other accomplishments like `typo` and the Writer's Workbench, it's clear we've lost someone who was a pioneer in multiple respects.
Not saying you're imagining it or overreacting, just trying to call attention to the fact that commenters on any topic are outnumbered by those who are reading and don't react. For whatever that is worth to you. Perhaps not much. I suspect it may be helpful perspective for many of us.
> we’re an investor in Black Sheep, and I think it tastes better than the animal analog

I'm the same, in that I honestly prefer the taste of The Meet Co's products when making the various recipes than actual beef or chicken.
Not comparable. Log4j was a vulnerability in the software, not leaving their shit open and and putting all their cash registers on an intranet available to the internet.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/09/inside-target-corp-days-...
Ideally the user wouldn't have to do anything. Whatever your editing tool is would have some "text blur" mode which functions and looks like normal blur but the end result is blurred garbage.
Ground Truths on Prior Covid
https://comsec.ethz.ch/research/dram/blacksmith/
I'm asking if there's a proof for determinism itself. I was under the impression that we've only ever been inferring consistency is a property of reality.

If you can QED me to a conclusion that yes, in fact, the sun will rise in the morning, I would genuinely find that useful.
> My dad has this story where he sent our cook’s teenage son with some money to get some cigarettes. And he couldn’t bring himself to buy them because a pack cost as much as what he was paid in a week.

This is odd... Did none of the working class smoke (surprising), or were there vast differentials in price between different kinds of cigarettes?
I think the vacuum tube has a bit of a different chain of history, with thermionic emission being discovered several times going back to the 1850s and the first real attempt at manipulating it by Edison in 1880 and patented it in 1883, but the first commercial diodes didn't appear until 1904 well after Johnson's experiments
Goddamnit. I was already having a bad day.

I've run jsonip.com off of linode for over a decade. They've been incredibly reliable as a hosting service.

I don't have any experience with Akamai, but I generally find acquisitions are the death of any good service.

Goddamn it.
Here's a copy of dc: https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/Researc...
> In the Iowa town where my wife grew up, the doctor’s kid went to the same school as the poorest kids in town, because there was only one school for everyone.

But the same would be true if you decide to live in the countryside or smaller city in a developing country. In major cities everywhere in the world, including the West, affluents can and often do live in bubbles. This has nothing to do with expats.
Well maybe we can agree it results in a similar level of insufferability.
> Many believe that one of the greatest opportunities for fraud come

And where is the abuse that fuels this belief? What are the numbers?
> I suspect the environmentalist community aren't the ones that actually want it.

Anecdotally, your suspicion is entirely confirmed by my experiences. None of the vegans or environmentalists I know care about or are asking for it. Plant based products are already fantastic for them along every axis they would care about.