skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I loved the thrust of this overall post, but I had thoughts about this paragraph:

> In the US, it’s not easy to sue a company as a customer. Maybe about thirty years ago, it became common for companies to put into contracts and terms of service, clauses that required binding arbitration to resolve disputes. This was cheaper for the company in many ways including a streamlined resolution process, cheaper lawyers, no sifting through frivolous lawsuits, and finality once a decision is made. It sucked for the consumer because it’s essentially a privatization of justice.

The anti-arbitration vie of so many people has always struck me as odd. Wouldn't a "streamlined resolution process, cheaper lawyers, no sifting through frivolous lawsuits, and finality once a decision is made" benefit consumers at least as much as large corporations? The biggest downside seems to be lack of an appeals process, even though very few court decisions are overturned on appeal anyway, and in any case, the small claims type of actions would never be appealed due to cost.

From what I can tell, the poster filed his claim online, provided very little evidence beyond alleging the specific contract sections that were violated (though I'm certain he had copious evidence if asked), and recovered almost all of his damages. The arbitration association even provided someone to follow up throughout the settlement process. IANAL, but I doubt any process in the entire country is so easy, and from what I've seen in class actions, the arbitration damage award was much, much higher.

The difference between how easy the process was and the author's expectations is so stark that I almost wonder if the corporations themselves started the rumor about arbitration being terrible, if not the trial lawyers themselves.
The system predates the popularity of installable PWAs. It is basically an exec spawning a Qt Web view and a server process then the Web view connects to local host. Server process shuts down when the Qt UI is closed. The server process is just Java with a webserver lib.

The binary is built for those OS and installed via installers idiomatic for those systems.

It defaults to use a local sqlite backend but could use any rdbms. Simple really.
The main reason for the fear is the loss of class action potential, which means almost all small disputes are impossible to obtain redress for. If you're in a situation where the case is worth 5-50k, it's generally a better option to go for an arbitration barring concerns associated with bias (which very much do exist - many specialty boards like various copyright boards consistently make pro-industry mistakes in procedure), but the primary overarching anti-consumer element of mandated arbitration clauses is the removal of class actions as a vehicle for making mass-litigation viable.
Perhaps a Sunday ban on rolling coal
If you don't allow automatic location detection, it just breaks.

Sort of a pattern with Wikipedia... every time I've attempted to assist with something, it turns out they don't like how I do things. So I don't.
I dated an orchestral musician for a while. She was tenured and one of the best musicians in her instrument in the country. So I trust her opinion on this. I once asked her what conductors do, and that's how I learned that conductors expect "eye contact" from the musicians. The way she explained it to me, it was more about the conductor's ego than anything that she needed to her job.

Also, it turns out that the pay for classical musicians is horrendous and almost anything to do with performing arts is a terrible career choice (even before COVID).
For a slightly different take on this problem (a calendar in plain text), calendar.vim plugin by itchyny provides a wrapper for Google calendar in Vim.

The option of viewing your calendars and tasks on the phone or anything with Google calendar gives a very considerable advantage, IMHO.
Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—things like article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm no expert, but two of the key advantages noted for SPACs has been:

* Lower fees

* Less regulatory filings

It seems that one reason big investment banks (e.g. Goldman Sachs) are exiting the SPAC market is due to increased regulatory pressure, which may erase that advantage [1]

[1] https://seekingalpha.com/news/3844055-sen-warren-plans-to-bi...
That's what NFT's all about. You are not claiming any ownership to the work when you buy NFT. It's like buying a trading card of a baseball player, or in this case a trading card to a picture.
The only memory of this is that you have to keep on downloading the latest version as the last always have some issue. It was great. Better than mosaic.

But … a hugh miss in fact in hindsight … as Microsoft talked to the selling pitch of Netscape in their office (as I read somewhere) what is this? You selling me a text browser. We have ….

No they don’t. Just like internet is not appletalk … having network and text reader with tag ability is not “browser”. It is so much harder for a giant to react.

But when they did, as Russia finally did its last bid to try to counter its lowering status, it tried to use everything it can to get that back. No world peace, no consumer need, no fair competition on that ground … just me and this security (market) threat to me. Me me me. And the war is launched.
I'll believe it when I see benchmarks.

Most of the time I'm not writing Python for anything that needs to be fast.

Instead I'd prefer to complie down Python to something faster, interpreters are always slow at the end of the day
Be important enough to get explicit protections against dilution in your job offer.

Startups were barely worth it financially in the mid 2010's, anyone joining one the past few years has gotten majorly scammed.

Still chuckle when I think about Postman reaching out for a job at a 5B valuation with something like 100 employees and less than 50m revenue. Good life lessons for many though
Perfect. I'm glad I find someone with pencil experience. How fast do you write notes on technical documents with apple pencil? Is it almost as smooth as writing on a notebook with real pencils? One of my concern is the lagging of all those devices.
If I sign an NDA, would you tell me why the schematics are under NDA?
> Your desire for a cathedral is incompatible fundamentally & at every level with the bazaar.

My take on that is more like:

Your bosses desire for you to build them a cathedral without doing most of the required work, by piling up free foundations, walls, pulpits, pipe organs, arched ceilings, spires, and left pad.js - that other people will give you for free, is a fundamentally flawed plan which will inevitably lead to things not fitting together quite right and ending up with something much more like a bazaar, that is significantly less beautiful and secure than the cathedral in the pitch deck.
No, not at all. The whole idea is modularity, upgradabilty and access. Most technies people know how to swap out an nvme or ram, basically any ifixit level repair. Board level repairs is a whole other ballpark and the need is reduced greatly due to a modular design.

People like that desktops are modular, you can easily replace a single part when it breaks or upgrade a part too. Framework is the equivalent for laptops.
If you study this story carefully, you'll notice that it wasn't a case of "new CFO was an idiot". The ENTIRE BOARD, including some experienced VCs, agreed that they were "too big for that now".

My analysis: What does "too big for that now" mean? Does it mean that they can't afford it? I doubt it. They were still going to sell the soda "cheap" (presumably 25-50% of the normal soda cost). So what was it? My theory is "big" ISN'T a synonym for "large-scale" here, but instead is a synonym for "professional". Why is free soda a negative indicator of professionalism? And to whom? I think that once you reach a certain level (non-startup or series-Z-startup), investors expect you to be extremely bean-countery. So the ultimate source of this problem is mega-scale investors which want to see a tight ship. The board was likely feeling pressure from them before the CFO was ever hired.
Indeed, this is an expected outcome from the way that DALL-E is trained. It’s still an interesting finding and sometimes affirming the expected can lay the groundwork for future interesting discoveries.

This is an example of an application where uncertainty modelling would help greatly. Any and every input will lead to an output. That doesn’t mean that all regions of latent/embedding space are equally valid.

I’m in the camp that large/modern ML models are nearing human intelligence, in some aspects. What’s currently missing is the universal ability to estimate uncertainty and identify inputs that are out of distribution. Many groups are working on this and perhaps we already have the solution but are not combining the right uncertainty estimation approach with the right foundational model.
> ‘Enterprise,’ technically, should mean extremely large companies such as Meta

Meta? This person wrote a whole article about it without knowing what enterprise software actually is.
In any case... here we are, in a world where 95%+ of the people I share / use calendars with are via orgs owned by one of two big tech companies.
I don't understand why it's so hard for companies to discriminate between sites like your example and sites like my example.

This part of hosting actually worked better back when we were all using GoDaddy and Bluehost and the like.
The claim in the article is that manufacturers focus on specifying total length instead of shaft length.
It might also cost you in dental benefits.
It sort of breaks. If you search for something the map will load around Denmark, at which point you can zoom out and manually navigate to any location.
That's right. I found a large screen extremely helpful for reading pdf books.
At Google, it is very team-specific but it is generally not possible to run servers locally for testing and there generally is no staging environment, but it might be possible to bring up some part of the stack on Google's clusters. Those severs may read production data or some test data. Other than that there are static checks, unit tests, code reviews and the release process to ensure reliability.
I'm confused about wikidata vs wikipedia - I'm surprised by the large number of dots near me, I thought every dot was related to a wikipedia article, then I clicked on the dots and realized they were wikidata, not wikipedia
I don't get it. What's the difference between red dots, blue dots, and green dots?
I've been using namecheap for years now without any problems. Others I use or have used and would recommend are Gandi and Porkbun.
Browser war of yesteryears (2002 MIT Sloan version)
I think there’s something a bit deeper going on, and it’s implied in the post. Small companies (on the whole) are more fun than big ones for a certain kind of person. At a small co. you get to wear a lot of hats and have a much more holistic feel for the business. As the business grows, you get more specialized, and restricted. Some people, and I am one, get bored and frustrated in that sort of environment. Things getting more “corporate” is a signal that transition is happening, so the people who don’t like that kind of environment leave. Some companies handle the transition better than others.
unicode card suites : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playing_cards_in_Unicode

python module for string suite tailor: https://pypi.org/project/unicards/

simpler conversion routine: https://gist.github.com/carymrobbins/b3d327bf5179280d4fa768e...

Use back of cards with motion simuation? : https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1f0a0/index.ht...

discussion : https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/1itegy/convert_stri...
Traditionally the good Asian family restaurants were the ones with bad service that didn't update their sign. Though I don't think this is true anymore because of generational change.
It's a bit too late for that don't you think?

The time to do that was 10 months ago. [0] Example Nikola Motors (NKLA).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27996773
Utility scale solar projects with investment grade counter-parties (off-takers) produce an IRR of ~6% to ~7% over say a 30-year assumed life. This company is not delivering an 8% yield to investors putting up $1k for fractional ownership in a panel.
The contract doesn't invalidate their obligations as a registrar.

"All ICANN-accredited registrars are required to allow registrants to transfer domain names to another registrar."
That's about right. WebKit continues to be used by Apple, and finds its way embedded into a lot of platforms like game consoles.
Grafana Labs recently wrote a new clickhouse adapter.

https://github.com/grafana/clickhouse-datasource

https://grafana.com/blog/2022/05/05/introducing-the-official...
Then your state may be doing something right, unfortunately here the students are not getting a quality education for the cost. We try but we can't pull $2000 out of our pocket every semester to have group projects or other students programs.

Fun fact with many of the external programs is you are actually paying them to do it. Though it's a "grant" the institution wants you to fundraise to pay them. Yeah, no.

Because of this most students never touch a project outside of classes.
>The recruiting individuals thing is basically an admission that this team does not have access to that kind of backing.

I don't think that is a given - crowd funding can raise significant sums these days
ok. what do we call the companies still in search of an acquisition target?
Indeed, I could be mistaken on the crime statistics. Perhaps it's because I just experienced an insane increase in crime I experienced personally. My house was broken into twice, though I only felt the need to report it the first time, so perhaps I messed up the data a bit. The police didn't seem particularly interested either so I figured why waste their time. Sounds like they had murders to deal with anyway. But I never saw so much petty crime in my life either - from vandalism to outright shoplifting to homeless people doing their thing; I get everyone's gotta use the bathroom, but I don't need to see it. I heard a lot of the same from talking to people in person and online.

But you say that we can solve hard problems so I'd ask something my grandmother (a retired teacher) asked me yesterday that seems like your subject matter - what can we do to lower the murder rate in the US? She was particularly interested in school shootings, but I'd say overall - it seems like a hard problem that affects the US, what can we do to solve it?
As a proxy variable, it's a proxy for things that were already true, they just hadn't realized it yet.

It's like how there's a lot of turnover after bonus season. The bonuses aren't the reason they're coming/going (though they're often shaped significantly by the real underlying reasons they're coming/going), but they do effect the timing of their coming and going... because that's the point where it becomes impossible to ignore the underlying reasons for the turnover.
Lack of reasonable delivery slots dude... having to wait in all day not knowing when something is arriving is the #1 issue yet to be widely resolved. Amazon have improved in recent years, but eBay are still dreadful. Plus of course, having to pay extortionate rates for delivery in certain cases.

Other than delivery, slightly more minor yet still impactful issue is not being able to see the quality/sizing of the product online vs in-store.

That's probably it, other than common concerns like lack of trust and other such uncertainties.
Yeah my thoughts exactly... Blocking out all formerly used letters makes it way too easy/hard, whatever you wanna call it. Just wasn't fun because unless you can think of the exact word you can't really put any other guesses together.
For ipad, reading only (no social media, slack, etc).
Will is a hero of making downmarket competition real. It's so easy to declare alternatives are only what you pay for them, to pronounce Caveat Emptor & anyone paying less is a fool, but it takes a brave fool to say, yes you can, and it'll probably work.

$1300 for a almost 6.5kW inverter with 120A 48V (almost 6kW) battery charging? Uhhh heck yeah. As long as it doesn't catastrophically fail you'll probably come out ahead.

This gear deserves to be comodified. Just watching a Mouser catalog for a couple years on end tells a compelling story about how awesomely improved mosfets & other hardware has gotten in the past decade. Tacking on some decent control processing should not be that exotic an exercise. Home solar gear has held a botique price point, but increasingly I think it's going to be hard to justify, as downmarket competition provides increasingly clear value.
The real reason seems to be:

https://github.com/SheetJS/sheetjs/issues/2667#issuecomment-... (archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20220510110516/https://github.co... )

>Due to ongoing legal matters between SheetJS LLC and npm, Inc. (which will not be discussed here), it did not make sense to continue using the public npm registry for distribution.
I had the same experience. There's an old quarry near my home and there's a Wikipedia article written in Cebuano about it.

It seems to have been auto-generated from public data using the DotNetWikiBot.
HN is also the Stripe and Google hotline.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/unconscionability
If these occurrences are often enough, it puts Cloudflare’s registrar accreditation at risk with ICANN.
Wow, thanks for posting this! I've never used Erlang before, but the "become" functionality and the message-passing style is similar enough to another actor-model system I'm familiar with (Spritely Goblins) that I was inspired to write a version of this program for it:

https://git.sr.ht/~jfred/goblins-test/tree/master/item/unive...
I recently helped someone set up a dell optiplex 7090 small form factor PC. Much to my surprise it came with a proper serial port.

https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/desktops-all-in-one-pcs...
Neat concept! Sounds like a great way to explore a place beyond tourist spots.
Streams are opt-in. Topics are transient and fast to create, and everyone in the stream will automatically see the new topic. You also get per-topic read position tracking, and stream members can mute individual topics if they want. You can also view the entire stream at once (or even all streams!) with the topics interleaved. The sidebar shows the most recent topics in each stream, so inactive topics are eventually hidden from the main UI (though you can still dig them up if you go looking for them).
Lobby to delegalize stock classes.
And since I didn't clearly note the impacts of printing-press changes:

In 1800, on a wooden press little changed from that Gutenberg had first used based on a wine press, a team of pressmen could produce about 120 printed sheets per hour. Those were often either folio (two pages per sheet) or quarto, but would have been one side only -- the versos were printed after allowing the first sides to dry overnight.

Iron and steel presses improved efficiency and strenth of the presses, and roughly doubled output.

Powered and rotary presses sped things up further, and by 1900, an electrically-powered offset-lithographic web press could generate one million pages per hour, a performance increase of about 10,000 fold.

At the same time, the cost of paper, especially cheap pulp newsprint (though also other grades) fell through advances in the papermaking trade itself.

The volume of printed material exploded.

A webserver is effectively a printing press of sorts, streaming bits out over a wire to be reassembled in your browser screen. By 2016, a single webserver with 8 CPU cores could deliver over 1.6 million requests per second.

https://www.rootusers.com/linux-web-server-performance-bench...
> We should temporarily abandon car safety requirements, to reduce weight and complexity and get EVs to people earlier.

Yep that's a sure fire way to solve the battery supply constraints...
Kutt: Modern, open source URL shortener
> When Apple was trying to escape from its near death experience (imac era)

The "imac era" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac_G3#History

Steve Jobs reduced the company's large product lines immediately upon becoming Apple's interim CEO in 1997
...
The company announced the iMac on May 6, 1998
How did Perl "lose"? It's such a great tool, super powerful and concise. One of the best languages out there, but doesn't seem to have much adoption these days.
Thanks! I think one problem of self-teaching is the difficulty to 1) Figure out which parts of the textbooks are needed and which parts can be shelved; 2) Find a good textbook with detailed answers; 3) Find someone to ask when blocked.

I totally agree that a good teacher is at least a 10X multiplier. My plan is to register as an independent student, takes 2-3 courses to show serious business and then find a professor with GR background as a mentor. I don't think it's worthy to get into a program because I'll have to take a lot of off-topic courses then.

The simulation is also interesting. I remember someone programming a renderer for black holes based on GR (or something else) and it looks exactly like the one in Interstellar!
Polr is a quick, modern, and open-source link shortener
Owning a specific solar panel seems strictly worse. What if yours malfunctions and has to be replaced? Averaged over all the solar panels in the plant that might be a negligible risk, but if you own just one then you could be the unlucky investor that randomly suffers a total loss
Works only in Google Chrome for me, not Firefox. That might be the confusion here.
> People in cities are the ones enabling human misery.

And people in locales that solve these problems by kicking out their problem citizens are the ones creating this human misery, but we never seem to be able to hold them to account for it, or to demand that they pull their own weight.
For my parets, our consumption of Netflix definitely peaked years ago and has been on the decline, but they never even thought about cancelling it b/c we've been subscribed since the DVD by mail days, it's such a long term expenditure it didn't even register as something that could be cancelled.

Sometimes though, the squeaky wheel doesn't get the grease, the squeaky wheel gets sold as scrap metal.
Thank you. Wait, which one?
Language support varies but if it’s possible, why not generate an AST and count references, bubble up most common, etc?

Could do similar with bash text mangling tools, but language native would probably be best.

I dunno, just a thought in an EOD fog. I don’t own a printer these days, so I guess I’d need an alternative.

Tell computer to observe self and report back.
I'm conveying my personal experience with the software.

> There are tonnes of unfederated Matrix servers out there,

No way to know for sure, but it certainly isn't a well-supported configuration.

> History retention does apply to encrypted events.

> Note that message retention policies don't apply to state events.

https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/develop/docs/mess...

> And Synapse only tends to use lots of resources when federated into large public rooms (these days)

Synapse used 30-50% of 1 CPU and ~1GB memory at idle with 1 room and 0 connected clients.
I want a scalable platform that can scale to zero and scale upwards.

Like Kubernetes cluster autoscaler and scaling individual deployments.

I want to be capable of running the same code on a 100KiB file as a 10000 petabyte datastore.

As it stands you need to write your application differently.