skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The cost to ISPs was mostly in the binaries groups, and some usenet servers were set up as a paid service for this purpose when ISPs started dropping the binaries groups.

I don't blame the ISPs for this. At the time, you could be an ISP with what is essentially a low-end home Internet connection now, but it cost thousands per month.

What started the downfall of Usenet was Eternal September when AOL let their hoi polloi access the Big Boy Internet. The "Me-tooer" phenomenon was particularly irritating.
"Our analysis reveals that dogs are generally lazy and friendly animals" - a kindred spirit! No wonder they're man's best friend!
Genuine question -- how is this different/better than/less good than Brave?
I have no clue if the bushings in my car really did need replacing. Not even sure what they are. My mechanic sure has an incentive to say they do, as he'll make money that way, but if what he says sounds kinda reasonable and I don't get weird vibes from him, I am not taking a gamble with my 1600kg, 120km/h destroyer-of-pedestrians-and-passengers.

Most people aren't medical doctors, and most aren't gonna gamble with their health. It's a transaction where one side has way more information, less to loose, and therefore more power. Hopefully they use that power for good.
This isn't correct. GoodRx makes money by partnering with Pharmacy Benefits Managers. It's taking advantage of a loophole in the US's extraordinarily convoluted drug pricing system.
Yes, it seems like it is now true. https://developer.chrome.com/blog/http-cache-partitioning/
"economically viable"

what is the price target here?

If it is 2022 solar and wind LCOE cost, and you are targetting, say, 20 years to build a plant, then those aren't viable targets. Solar and wind will probably drop another 50% or more by then in LCOE cost.

It's worth research, sure. But the same issues of new-gen nuclear are shared with any fusion, except fusion is way further down the prototype stage. Solar/Wind/Battery is already near-price competitive with natural gas turbine unsubsidized (and they never seem to account for all the hidden fossil fuel subsidies), and the curves are still in prime economies of scale improvement.
Huh, so I could perhaps hop on a train and take a look one day.

What on earth is the ESA doing in Noordwijk though.
"you must have permission from the rightsholder to distribute any copyrighted material and if you don't we'll block your site"? Blocking under that law, whether you agree with it or not, isn't censorship.

But that is not "illegal content" - that is illegal sharing of legal content. The government making content itself illegal is much much the definition of censorship.
'A key feature of free markets is the absence of coerced (forced) transactions or conditions on transactions.' [1] Healthcare is not such a market. If you have a stab wound and you're bleeding out, there's no supply and demand, there's no ability for you to have market participants compete for your business. It's 'pay me or die.' Ditto substantially any major medical issue. This is, in my opinion a coerced transaction, and therefore, not a free market.

This is true of prisons (you can't exactly have private prisons compete for your business). Of fire departments (I'm not going to call for quotes while my house burns down). Of police departments.

If it's not a free market, it should be socialized, imo.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/freemarket.asp
Ms Marvel: Critics praise Disney's 'joyful' first Muslim superhero story
I'm also a huge fan of Keycloak for the same reason. It's been a while since I've looked at the Ory suite, but at least a year or two ago Keycloak was still the much more mature (and still fully OSS) product.

Either way, reading the Oauth2 and OIDC specs are probably the best way to get a really solid understanding of modern standardized authn and how to start thinking about authz.

https://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-discovery-1_0.html#P...

https://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-discovery-1_0.html#R...
Synology has its own sync apps. You can also use NAS to host NextCloud, which has sync apps too.
Re: Thinking machines. If you are looking at moving on from your current company, and are evaluating 6 companies, you have to bank up 6 weeks of PTO to 'try to work' at various companies for a week?
Anyone remember 'cash is king' from the 2000 internet bubble? Phrase should be making a comeback right about now ...
I wonder if there is some way to always block remote fonts? Seems like a real bandwidth saver.
Just before I ask this question, I want to let it be known I am for base healthcare as a public right, as well as public 4 year universities (4 year community colleges, basically) and a low UBI - I've basically become a hippy, somehow, in my old age... I'm not sure how that happened. But with that out of the way, on to my question...

Do you think that part of the reason that America is so attractive to pharmaceutical innovation is because of the obscene profits that can be made in the prescription space that is not only allowed by our laws, but encouraged by our politicians?

If we were to socialize our pharmaceutical sector, which would involve putting caps on pricing, do you think this would make innovation into treatment which involves huge upfront costs in research a non-starter?

Would neutering the profit motive and corporate greed in our pharmaceutical sectors revert our pharma studies back to university programs and corporate tax write offs/good will programs and the occasional government budget surplus when they've decided to not funnel it towards another uneccessary war?
One Joke Wonder
Margaret Thatcher's Brahms phone was invented
> Otherwise we're talking about software engineers deliberately writing code to waste other people's time and make the Dropbox product look worse to their customers or prospective customers.

Seems true-to-form. This has been Dropbox's product strategy for the last 5 years.
It sounds like that would be fine with the OP who is looking for tech community and discussion.
They have recommendations for each robot but it's not easy to parse them quickly (I.e. in the table).

I went through them all and it seems the only one that's fully recommended is the Dreame Tech Z10 Pro. I actually bought it too the other day with the intention of installing this on it, so now waiting for delivery.

The rooting process seems relatively involved though, so we'll see how it goes.

[0] https://valetudo.cloud/pages/general/supported-robots.html#d...
Yeah; that's what I've preferred to do. Interestingly, I've had just as good results with the hires I've made regardless of the process used, from whiteboard coding that is little more than fizzbuzz, to actual pairing with an engineer on a real problem, to leetcode, across multiple different companies. Maybe the softer parts of the the interview, which was largely the same (and prioritized people who could talk intelligently about stuff on their resume, those who when led to places they had no experience were comfortable saying "I don't know" or similar, and those who seemed interested in learning new things), was better for distinguishing mediocre from excellent (with the coding being helpful for distinguishing imposters from everyone else).
GOG isn’t a streaming model, it’s an iTMS model. The streaming model is where each title has no marginal cost after you pay the subscription fee, so you can just download the whole catalog.

The closer analogy would be to Xbox Game Pass, which has no marginal costs per title, but indeed does have DRM.
I'm not following what aspect of US health insurance you consider a state monopoly, can you be more explicit?

There are a variety of different non-state companies providing health insurance in the US, no? What am I missing, how is this a state monopoly?
The alien technology is coming from California. It’s just made in Taiwan.
I'd love to see bigger focus on performance per watt from other browser vendors, for that matter.
The solution to this in my mind is self-hosting. Yes, right now that's the exclusive domain of tech nerds, but in theory there's no reason that an open source project can't come along and make this relatively easy for non-techies to set up for themselves (in a similar way to how, say, Squarespace made website creation easy).

I think the real hurdle in adoption would be that most non-techies don't even register their dependence on big cloud providers as a problem yet. But I expect the day is coming. Similar to how Mastodon saw an influx of Twitter users when Musk announced he was intending to buy Twitter.
Svelte is definitely still a thing
The "bankrupt your company with the wrong keystroke" is not entirely accurate. AWS does work with companies (or even individuals) if they genuinely made an error that wracked up a huge bill. Personally they have dropped bills of $1000's when I made a bone headed mistake and have seen companies get $100 000's of bills credited due to the same issue. They are not in the business of ripping people off in the short time who would spend a lot more than that in the long term.
I'm curious, what was broadcast.com like? What were the issues?
There’s also a lot of politics around OpEx vs capitalEx.

In prior firms we’d have to go hat-in-hand for $3M of hardware every 3 years on an upgrade cycle. Of course few were around long enough to be on the requesting or approving side of this upgrade cycle and it would drag out painfully. Sometimes we’d try to get creative and go more just-in-time and come back for $500K every 6 months but the pain would just be more frequent.

On the other hand, $150k/mo slowly growing adds up to more in the longterm, but no senior manager ever has to approve a single $500K-$3M purchase request.
Ah, Uniprocessor versus Multiprocessor HALs, I remember now!
The main difference between Usenet and Reddit/SO/etc was posting speed. The Usenet groups I posted in were slow by today's standards. No one expected an immediate response, and the groups didn't hide things after a few hours. Paging back through 5 or 6 pages of threads in `tin` was common. The equivalent today is probably a subject-specific mailing list.
Are there plans for handling multi-tenancy? Sort of like with Keycloak's realms.
> Most importantly: cached content is no longer shared between domains. This is known as cache partitioning and has been the default in Chrome since October 2020...

TIL.
Like I said, unfortunately Republicans have been found in court to have used similar tactics intentionally to disenfranchise minority voters. When they have full control of states they show their hand by passing voter ID laws without commensurate GOTV funding. So we know they are acting in bad faith before it even starts.

If Republicans were serious about non-racist voter ID laws they could have demonstrated that in Georgia when they overhauled election laws there. They didn’t and we know why: more “surgical precision”.
Dropbox only hashes files that they've gotten DMCA takedowns for. So WB told Dropbox "do not allow people to share Rick & Morty", and then got angry because they couldn't share Rick & Morty internally. This isn't a false positive, the algorithm is working exactly as intended.
As to why Usenet/NNTP failed, there are many interestings comments here from 'tptacek:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
One paper just blew up Bitcoin's claim to anonymity
>write a robust solution rather than a clever one

but why must it be mutually exclusive? Are you implying all "robust" solutions, whatever that means, are dumb? Surely you put some thought in it to make it "robust"?
All true, but replacing the strlen() with a caching version is just fixing the symptoms (of calling strlen too often... but the only realistic solution without the ability to recompile the game - so kudos to the author to come up with this hack).

I bet the "official" patch by Rockstar simply dropped in a less embarassing JSON parser library :)
Why do people suddenly need to buy a phone for 300$? Almost all current phones support USB C and within 10 years it's will be all of them. No need to buy a phone for a charger.

And if USB-C turns out to be bad, which I don't think'll happen for quite some time, the EU can make sure that legislation ensures poor people won't have to buy a new phone or a new charger until they want to.
> People frequently die, or get sicker, as they wait their turn

This also happens in the US. Plus, if you do happen to get care you can go bankrupt!

>when their MBAs come in an consult about how to reduce costs.

The US is far far past this point already.
Why are you so concerned with CPU time and not the end user's experience?
The collapse of complex software
stackexchange.com isn't a full replacement but definitely fulfills some of the use cases of Usenet.
ADHD meds alone not enough to help kids learn
The US is richer and has higher per-capita consumption of resources. The US as a whole has far greater climate impact, so it makes sense to focus here. I'm also a US citizen who doesn't speak other languages or have the type of money and political influence to be effective in other countries (also, most of them wouldn't even allow me entry if I did, but that's beside the point). I think it would be good if all countries adopted such policies and a forward-thinking vision of environmental responsibility though.
What is the web based on if not standards?
And the phone comes with one. They also might have to rebuy their apps. Should all phones now be forced to run the same apps?

Even decade+ old cars support the old iPod protocol for music (still supported by iPhones). Should the government force all phones to support the iPod protocol for the sake of “the poor people so they don’t have to buy new cars”?

It would also be inconvenient for former iPhone users who have AirPrint printers. Should we force all phone makers to support AirPrint? It’s based on an open source protocol.
I don't think it is something that needs legislation.

But it definitely needs more publicity. And if there is something that will bring down "big tech", I think that's it.

"cloud providers" should be treated like something that can fail. We already don't trust hard drives, that's why we have RAID, we don't even trust RAID arrays, that's why we have backups, and we don't trust the place where backups are stored, that's why we have off-site backups. Dropbox (and Microsoft, Google, etc...) is also not to be trusted, just like your hard drive can crash or your servers can catch fire, Dropbox can delete your data. It is not the same mechanism (one is a chemical reaction, the other is a mindless algorithm), but the end result is the same: you lose your data.

But once you take that into account, the value proposition of big cloud providers takes a hit. Often, big companies justify the premium price they ask with reliability. I mean, no one expects companies like Microsoft to go bankrupt anytime soon, and they certainly know about backups and redundancy, but what's the point if all it takes for your data to disappear is an artificial brain fart. Suddenly, the server in your basement doesn't look so bad in comparison, and neither are the smaller companies that actually have people you can talk to.
> Out of that $100+ads that cable costs, the ad revenue pays for the entertainment, and the $100 pays for the sports, because pretty much every sport is far more extravagantly expensive to run than you'd think

I think it’s kinda the reverse - e.g. the AHL is able to pay its players, televise its games, and make do with an order of magnitude less revenue than the NHL. After adjusting contracts, etc. the NHL could presumably do the same.
And it seems that a lot of uuencoded content was removed at some point. You can see the text of the message, but the uuencoded part is mostly cut out. Here's an example: https://groups.google.com/g/misc.int-property/c/f2-dV5wVP9U/...

If anyone here knows how to get the uuencoded part of that message, I'd be interested.
> - something else?

Recycling it would benefit the planet more right?
How to change that :-)
That's because it only polls every 5 seconds by default. You can reduce that to 1 or 2 seconds in View > Update Frequency on the menubar.
It varies. Automotive is basically all metric now. Aviation is typically in customary units. SpaceX is doing their new vehicle in metric, but the Falcon 9 is in the old style. Manufacturing is varied.
https://sqwok.im has old school forum feel mixed with new age chat, with both tech and non-tech ppl.
There was plenty of spam, to be fair. What I mean is, I don't feel like I inhabit or share a space on Twitter or Facebook (or here) with actual humans I feel I know. I did feel that in various Usenet groups and IRC channels. There's a kinetic, physical quality, an explicit coming-together, like having your favourite, regular table at a pub, compared to standing on a busy street screaming at anonymous strangers. But tbh I don't really seek _out_ those niches now, and presumably they exist.
You missed the qualifier though "with support for extended file attributes". Google Drive does not support extended file attributes.
This article was written before Rockstar released a patch and the 70% speedup is from his strlen() caching.
> However, if you are doing web apps or any networking stuff, massive concurrency benefits are almost always too important to ignore

My problem is more that even if I don't need massive concurrency (say in a client that only talks to a single server, in a serial manner), I'm still more or less forced into async code because that's what the ecosystem switched to. No matter if you benefit from async or not, not using it is going against the grain and generally makes your life harder, despite threads being much better from a language-ergonomics point of view
On the supported robots page they have developer and recommended field. The z10 pro for example is listed as: get it right now https://valetudo.cloud/pages/general/supported-robots.html
Back in the late 90s I had some forum software which would sync with NNTP, either posting from the forum into NNTP and vice versa.

I ran it, and linked it to a new group. Nobody ever posted in usenet, and I suspect nobody read in there.
I’m a huge advocate for private (non-socialized) healthcare.

People always twist this into “you’d have to pay so much more for healthcare”.

No! I never had to pay anything substantial for healthcare. I pay for insurance. But I prefer private insurance (to improve competition, performance, quality, accessibility, …)
My M1 Air still feels faster in practice than the monster hex-core AMD desktop I built less than a year before I go the M1. And waaaaay faster than my 2015 MBP.

I expect it'll last me until the M4 or M5 :-)

[EDIT] Though, yes, if I were just getting ready to buy one, I'd be glad I waited for the M2, as well.
localhost ftw !
I would like to know how much it would cost me to do that on Google Cloud :)
> I don't understand why streaming from Netflix gives a worse picture than playing a torrent

Because Netflix is conserving bandwidth by sending you a lower-bitrate stream, while the pirated copy is — for movies at least — very likely a pirated copy of some offline release, e.g. BluRay, which comes with higher bitrate.
Do the charge-back! There is no other course if you want that money back.
It was never anonymous, but this is cool research from a stats perspective.
That's correct. If I lived in Montreal and wanted to watch all the Avalanche's games, there would be no issues. If I live in Montreal and want to watch the local team, I need to agree to get fucked three different ways.
For me, AllTrails is great for biking/hiking, and lets you share things with some light social media features.
A friend was still using it for tv/movie download a couple years ago too
There's a "delay" option in your settings, it's in minutes

I give myself 6 minutes to fluff around (or get bored of and delete) comments before they appear live for that same reason
I was 12ish.

And yes, I remember.

It's why I saved aggressively into index funds while maintaining a checking account balance that would make people quote 30 Rock at me because god forbid you maintain cash reserves in both FDIC and NCUA insured accounts strewn across multiple jurisdictions in case you need to move into a third floor walkup in... not Brookyln.
Because the US is captured by those with capitol and the system works to shit on everyone else thanks to the money lobbying efforts. As it turns out, most people don't actually like oligopolies
> However, if you are doing web apps or any networking stuff, massive concurrency benefits are almost always too important to ignore

No, you will benefit from parallelism/multithreading. Why only use 1 core? Multitasking as it was once called, or "async" as it is now, is fundamentally _synchronous_ because everything still happens on one core. Just that the order of execution may be a bit wonky, which technically all code already suffers from at the microscopic level with instruction reordering and out of order execution. You almost certainly don't need multitasking unless you are writing an OS for embedded.
Reddit is not an alternative as it is heavily censored (same as HN really) and centralized. Usenet still exists and discussions still take place there. Being a decentralized protocol, censoring (or scoring, killfiling) someone is left up to you.

And this is the major advantage of Usenet. You can’t be silenced by a mob, which leads to freedom of expression and disparate views. Sure there is spam and flames, but one gets all the tools one needs to deal with that. There is no committee deciding what posts should be kept or deleted. We are a lot worse off today than we used to be, largely because of the centralization of discourse.
Although if you combine it with homeassistant or other home automation services it becomes fully "cloud replaced"
Unfortunately, it’ll take years for those chargers to get built out, and it’s likely the only automakers left after the EV transition are Tesla, Ford, and possibly Rivian [1](lots of potential and the R1T is a solid platform but currently in production hell). In the meantime, Tesla continues to ramp mercilessly, and deploys tens of Superchargers per month [2]. Legacy automakers also carry an immense debt load ($1.1T collectively) [3] making pivoting to EV manufacturing a Herculean effort, especially in a rising interest rate environment.

As usual, you can always count on America to do the right thing after exhausting all other options. The time for this was years ago.

[1] https://youtu.be/yPhpntKlPFI

[2] https://supercharge.info/charts

[3] https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-car-industrys-1-1-trillion-...