skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then why would you ever put it on a website that generates its revenue from using and selling your data?
Turbulent cold flows gave birth to the first quasars
>>The people with a lot of stake in the system can change or prevent change to the system.

This is very misinformed. There is no governance by stake vote in Ethereum. The protocol is immutable absent a user willingly updating their node software to run a different protocol.

Stake is used exactly the same way hash generation hardware is used in PoW: to determine what share of blocks a person produces. This is safe in both Ethereum PoS and PoW as long as the assumption that 51% of block generation capital (stake, and hashing hardware, respectively) is controlled by honest parties holds true.
Hm, that's not available on Lenovo's UK store that I can find :(

Maybe it's also a regional issue.

edit: or the US store? shows me a T14 Gen 2 (AMD) - Up to AMD Ryzen™ 7 Pro 5850U Processor, Up to 14.0" FHD (1920 x 1080) IPS, anti-glare, touchscreen with Privacy Guard

or

T14 Gen2 (Intel) -
Up to 11th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-1185G7 with vPro™,
Up to 14" UHD (3840 x 2160) IPS, anti-glare with Dolby Vision™
Those are orthogonal really since your laptop clock can still go below base clock when idle.
> And, anyway what is the real distinction between official and homebrew?

Well, official is the material written by the creator of the game (here WotC), which is supposed to be tested, properly edited and more or less balanced; homebrew is written by anyone: that doesn't mean it's lower quality or unbalanced, but there's less of a guarantee; so most GM will usually allow official content and forbid homebrew
Quote from a novel? Not one Google knows!
Recently heard this description of PE:

Private Equity is an arbitrage on bloated companies. Typical cycle is innovative startup -> efficient corporation -> beauracratic corporation. PE firms buy the companies late in the cycle and then cut the fat. Commonly also seen in activist investors. This is a needed function that will never go away.
I grew up in a sleepy coastal town in California. Nothing special except beaches really. A racetrack where thoroughbreds races annually. Beautiful, but nice and sleepy. And then as California grew and any beach town became a tier 1 locale, my hometown became more and more expensive to live in. For people in service careers, it became impossible, so they moved inland and commuted.

Now, unless you managed to buy a house very early, you're priced out. The amount of money in the town is crazy, and I would estimate that the amount of 1%ers is over 20% of the population. Compare this back to the early 70s and there wasn't nearly the same amount of variance in wealth.

It makes me sad that my childhood home has changed so much, but I don't think there's a way to prevent this from happening.
Yeah it also uses less energy per year then the sun... what a comparison...
I have been wanting to play that game a while but sadly forgot to buy it at launch and then forgot it completely until now. Your comment made me realize I have to go and get me a copy, thanks.
Shouldn't mean anything as long as you can keep paying on it.
I can teach someone technology (assuming they have a minimum baseline knowledge of the tech space). It's much much harder to teach attitude.

You need both to succeed, but it's much easier to teach the knowledge.
Have you even used Svelte yourself?
Poe's Law strikes again; I genuinely can't tell whether this comment is a Stack Exchange parody.
I'm torn on Web scraping because the extreme of each end of the spectrum on this issue both seem unreasonable.

On one side, you have people who say any form of scraping is be disallowed, even prosecutable. This went so far that the Department of Justice on behalf of AT&T prosecuted a case of URL modification [1]. One of the few bright spots for this psychotic Supreme Court was to curtail the government's power under the CFAA by limiting what constituted "unauthorized" access [2].

On the other hand, there are those who think that any level of scraping should be fine and I think that's untenable too. Consider Yahoo indexing of Stack Overflow [3]:

> In the meantime, since Yahoo (via Slurp!) is about 0.3% of our traffic, but insists on rudely consuming a huge chunk of our prime-time bandwidth, they’re getting IP banned and blocked.

Do these "scraping extremists" think such actions should be illegal? It's actually not that far-fetched given the Ninth Circuit decided LinkedIn wrongly blocked HiQ scraping [4]. Like if you change your website with the intent that it'll make scraping more difficult, is that a problem? What if it's an unintended side effect?

Additionally, companies like Meta, Google and Apple are going to be way more acountable to abiding by data retention laws and regulations than any scraper. If it's OK to scrape FB.com completely, that information is out there forever.

I certainly think the government shouldn't prosecute on behalf of companies. At least that should expose to people how the government's #1 priority is in fact to protect the true constituents: corporations and the capital-owning class.

[1]: https://www.techdirt.com/2013/09/30/dojs-insane-argument-aga...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Buren_v._United_States

[3]: https://stackoverflow.blog/2009/06/16/the-perfect-web-spider...

[4]: https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2019/09/ninth-circuit-...
If we had something like this in the U.S. it would help with the high price of gas in the short term, the long term, and fight climate change.
Is attitude more important than knowledge? No it isn't.

Success is dependent on so many factors, the most important being your connections. I've seen many smart developers fail in their businesses, while a well-connected sales guy sold an app via powerpoint slides until he got enough money to hire a couple developers. The sales guy is now worth millions.

In my opinion for success, you need a good network, money to burn, knowledge, and then attitude. The variables affect each other a bit though.

If you have a good network, ALOT of money to burn, and a little knowledge you will probably be successful.

If you have a good attitude, good knowledge, no money, no network, then you will probably fail. At least the knowledge will help you get 9-5 job.
> Gas emits so little CO2 compared to coal

At a molecular level this doesn't make sense to me. The fundamental carbon cycle value proposition is to harvest energy released when a carbon atom (re)joins two oxygens. For the same energy, how would methane and coal produce different amounts of CO2?

That said, I can see how the oxygen reaction would be less efficient and create more byproducts (i.e. acid rain) using coal given its less refined nature. How methane would have a better energy to CO2 ratio doesn't seem to have an obvious mechanism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane

Imagination, Physics, Fire & Trees - Richard Feynman (aka Trees grow from air, carbon cycle): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJLMysTpwhg
I use Html + bootstrap + htmx + django
I prefer lotteries. There is probably less revenue to be made but we can't make the beautiful places of the world into rich man's paradises where regular people can't go. Although I am sure a lot of people in power want such a world.
I don't think LBOs are that sensitive to interest rates are they? There was a ton of them in the 1980s when rates were still in the double digits.
i like that your username and spelling of that witches name both match.

i love this kind of subtly absurd humour. good work.
Body Margin 8px – The origin story for a style no one wants
If you use vi, you already know how to use ex.
You have the cart before the horse here.

OP receives value from Google Maps for free. For whatever private reasons they may have, they decide to give value back for free[]. OP is under no obligation to 'donate labour'.

[] Assumption is here that there's no 'value exchange', and OP's contribution is not directly related to value they get out of Maps. (as opposed to private bittorrent trackers which maintain an upload ratio requirement etc.)
People make fun of ed, but the command line is basically ed with the ability to execute.
...which incentivizes the network to become more decentralized.
Max covid drawdown of sp500 was 34%
Did FB ever take any legal action against Cambridge Analytica? I can't remember anything about it and this sounds very similar to that (although back in those days FB's tools made this incredibly easy).
If you can fit 5% more functionality into a fixed size that is nice. Especially if you are only using this optimization level for the final production build that needs to be squeezed onto a small (and therefore cheaper) ROM.

Although I do agree that these days most projects will have media that takes up the majority of the space.

The stat that seems clearly impressive for me is that their register allocator claims "0.3% ~1.5% improvements in queries per second" which is a huge cost savings for operations at the scale of Google. If you have 100 datacenters of software running you can conceivably turn one of them off. (Or more likely slow down future building and expansion plans). Of course for most people compute costs aren't a significant expense.
Quite disgusting.
Not only privacy, but also reliability in my experience. If you add in a CDN you now have a point of failure you have no control over that (Murphy's Law) fails at the most inopportune time. In all web frameworks it's pretty trivial to serve up static files with a future expiry date.
> Mistake 3: Strawman argument. DRY does NOT lead to over-complicating things. Overcomplicating things leads to overcomplicating things.

Sure, I agree, except DRY is probably the second greatest gateway drug to overcomplicating things to OOP. Actually, they really hand-in-hand since OOP features are often used to DRY things.

DRY can easily go too far because fundamentally it's about centralizing ideas with the premise that different operations can and should share units, even though a "writeSomeFileToDisk" function doesn't necessarily have to do the exact same thing between different higher-level operations. Because so many engineers emphasize "elegance", if a set of functions seem similar enough, they pressure themselves to write code that is shareable, hence more abstract. Abstractions are inherently more complicated and hard to understand, not the other way around. Rather than having very simple "molecules" of code that can be understood on their own, there is instead a much larger molecule of nodes that are connected by abstract dependencies, and those nodes may only have dependencies in common.

DRY should be done sensibly, but teaching DRY is a problem in our industry because we don't teach engineering discipline. We teach principles like DRY and OOP, and even YAGNI as if they are tenets of a religion.
One of Facebook’s earliest acquisitions was a scraping company called Octazen.
The cruise ships are large, but hardly "darken the skyline". They dock in the industrial part of the city, and you can't see them from most of the city.
The end of Netflix’s culture of feedback
LBOs haven’t been the defining structure of PE for a while now, though leverage is still a key ingredient. The massive growth of the “PE industry” over the last decade has really been on the credit side (which does include equity plays, e.g., in real assets and distressed debt that leads to equity positions) despite the low interest rate environment.
Ask HN: What has been your experience in SQLite in JavaScript?
Then we agree to disagree. I will end the discussion at this point. Q.E.D.
First of all, i replied to the generalization "Open source fails at many real world tasks. Choose the tool best suited to solve the problem you want solved, regardless of religious beliefs" not just about CUDA. Open source might fail at tasks but it isn't pushed or chosen because of religion. It has nothing to do with religion. In fact...

> OP complains people use CUDA instead of a non-existent open source solution. That's religion.

...that isn't religion either. The person you replied to complains because CUDA not only is closed source but also is vendor locked to Nvidia both of which have a ton of issues inherent to being vendor locked and closed source software, largely around control - the complaint comes from these issues. These issues for many can either be showstoppers or just make them look and wish and push for alternatives and they come from practical concerns, not out of religious issues.

> And a significant amount of open source solutions are the result of reverse engineering. It's a perfectly reasonable and time tested method to replace proprietary solutions.

It is not reasonable at all, it is the last-ditch effort when nothing else seems to do, can be a tremendous waste of time and telling people "So fix it" when doing that would require reverse engineering is practically the same as telling them to shut up and IMO can't even be taken seriously as anything else than that.

The proper way to fix something is to have access to the source code.

And again to be clear:

> People use CUDA for actual practical issues. If someone makes a cross platform open source solution that solves those issues people will try it.

The "actual practical issues" i mentioned have nothing to do with CUDA or any issues they might use with CUDA or any other closed source (or not) technology. The "actual practical issues" i mentioned are about the issues inherent to closed source technologies in general - like fixing any potential issues one might have and being under the control of the vendor of those technologies.

These are all widely known and talked about issues, it might be a good idea to not dismiss them.
If Google has 100 data centers they can sell 2 of them.
That's what article is advocating (using ETH directly, rather than inventing some bespoke token on top)
Facebook has hidden much of Instagram's content behind logins, so that makes most of it "not public".

At the same time, I don't think all of Instagram's users care if their images are hidden, or not.

It's quite unfortunate Facebook/Meta is using hostile language and the word "scraping" together in this case. Scraping is a legitimate process used by various business models to gather information from the Web, which itself was originally intended to be an open forum for people to share content.

Hostile business models have corrupted that intent and turned it into a competitive environment that is harming users and legitimate models which may not have the funding larger corporations can muster.

I have a "scraper" I've built that will either snapshot a page from a user's browser or crawl it remotely with Selinium/Firefox, on the user's behalf, to save the content in an index for searching later, by that user. It's not automated, nor does it parse and crawl URLs in the pages saved. It doesn't use page content in a wider context, either.

I've spent a significant amount of time trying to "work around" anti-scraping efforts by various companies and it's frustrating to see hostility instead of cooperation in certain types of use.
Totally understandable, it was poorly worded on my part.
The S&P500 index is about 20% off the highs. The NASDAQ index is ~35% off. And some big tech names are down 70% or more (Teledoc, Zoom, …).

The stock market is doing alright. Some investors are getting destroyed. And some new investors are receiving a very useful, very painful lesson.

(Full disclosure: I’m mainly a buy and hold index investor)
Most probably the locals that remained are tied in to the business industry, and, as such, you'd expect that sort of discourse coming from them. But the majority that left (~175k down to ~50k, as a fellow HN-er said above) probably had a different opinion about that.
in reality, you as an individual can't press charges. Only the state can. And many times the state chooses not to. You can sue in civil court, but individuals can't bring cases in criminal court.
As a user GTK typically feels a little funky on Windows, although I don't know how much of that is a fault with the toolkit and how much of it is a function of Windows definitely not being those developers' primary target.

I'm delighted to hear Rust programmers have got something worth using.
You think we've reached bottom? Given the various global economic shocks we've already experienced and are likely to experience later this year, a long, relatively slow bear market decline is more likely than one giant drop.

Keep in mind Russia is only starting to cut off Western Europe (which is only starting to cut off itself), so oil and gas prices still have lots of room to go up if Putin doesn't relent (which he won't). Also we've yet to price in impacts to food from the global fertilizer shortage.

And those are just the obvious 1st order effects in the pipeline. The last time wheat prices went through the roof in North Africa it kicked off the Arab Spring and subsequent Syrian Civil War as side effects. There's going to be all sorts of fun coming out of this year, and I imagine a lot of stocks reliant on global supply chains are going to be ground down by hit after hit after hit.

That's not even touching on domestic demand destruction and interest rates.
How much Gbps does the USB-C port support?

Does the HDMI port support 4K displays?
It's unfortunate perhaps that neither of those are particularly uncommon and so aren't really outlandish claims only an AI would make.
Interest rate trends are more of a factor.
This is somewhat funny and very smart and can only be downvoted by people who don’t speak fluent Latin.
Imagine you want to create a Rust or Go backend for a web app that runs locally so you can manage OS components. Maybe a graphical package manager. There isn't an easy solution for this currently to communicate with a native app without using a browser extension with Native Messaging API. It something like this gets implemented then it would eliminate the need for Electron and similar apps as you could use whatever browser your OS uses for web apps.
From GDPR point-of-view this kind of 3rd party data collection is not acceptable (assuming it covers personal information, for example names of people and what they have posted). The difference with Meta's own data collection is that the users have relationship with Meta and users have given their permission for Meta to handle the data. Users also know they can contact Meta and ask them to remove the data.

3rd parties don't have the consent from users. Users don't even have an idea these companies might be holding their data.
Correct. Many of the large private equity companies were started in the 1980's when the rates were significantly higher than they are today.
Wow. You call copyright infringement "stealing" (which it is not) but give the company a pass for removing the content they paid for (which is much closer to "stealing").

Really hard to take this comment in good faith
Great post that summarizes exactly what I feel about globocorps. The euphemisms and propaganda are disgusting.
Low Context – Software's Silent Killer
Pretty rich idea coming from FB, lol. They do human scraping.
I've scanned through the Lenovo site as an example and I can't find anything AMD with a display larger than 1920x1080 (at least on the UK site)...
I'll preface this by stating that I'm German and I'm intuitively against using nuclear. But hear me out anyhow. :)

At this point the climate crisis is bad enough that I won't even fight against nuclear as such. If you can build it safely I won't stand in your way. I'll be busy across the street, fighting against coal, oil & gas. Thing is, the time scale at which nuclear stations are constructed isn't at all the same as for renewables; starting the planning for new nuclear now isn't gonna put us on the right track to a livable future. Nuclear plants are huge; the big ones that would really be needed for a big shift like you describe would take a while to go online.

Which is okay I think; if anything, we'll need much more electricity in total anyhow as we electrify more processes.
But we'll need more low-carbon energy much before that, now more than ever.
So I'll only agree with this if it's not an either or but doing both.

Caveat: I don't trust big profit driven corporations, nor states, to run nuclear plants in an honestly safety-oriented way. I have yet to hear a proposal how the incentives could be set up to change that. If nuclear is relatively casualty-free so far, I feel that's mostly luck, and indeed there were a few close calls. Don't start arguing with me on this one please because it's not the core of my argument (here). :)
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Thanks! Yes. I updated my comment.
It's like they don't know that courts just made it legal: https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/18/web-scraping-legal-court/
In NYC you're mostly trained just to ignore people trying to get your attention. Or at least I was. I assume ignoring banner ads is a similar phenomenon.
Not to mention it lets you do things like:

mixed_pizza = {
crust: [["thin"], ["thick"]],
sauce: [["tomato"]],
cheese: [["regular"]],
toppings: [["beef"], ["pineapple", "pepperoni"]]
}

Where you offload the logic of making multi-topping pizzas into the data.
I've never seen it work that way.

Typically they cut a bunch of expensive overhead, like employees, which juices the books to make it look much more profitable, then sell to someone else left holding the bag of a dead shell of a company. Cut long term viability for short term gains.
... which is what makes the command line so clunky and annoying.
Yup. Tourism in Venice has, ironically, destroyed most reason to visit it.

Dubrovnik, recently famous as the set of King's Landing in Game of Thrones, was probably once a charming medieval town, but is now one enormous T-shirt shop.
sadly, I don't have a crystal ball

my point is only that there is a lack of perspective on how bad things currently are
It's like they don't know that courts made it legal: https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/18/web-scraping-legal-court/
Do you mind sharing why you pivoted?