skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, so this is why I keep harking on the fact that we need a non-billionaires OS license. People will say "oh, no, that's not real open source" but it sure is as open as their chequebook. I'm hand waving a bit here, but if you have a stakeholder that's worth a billion dollars you can pay a $1m per year for the OSS library you use.

When I write open source software I'm not doing it for Bezos. I'm doing it for Heather down the street who is trying to get a cool little project off the ground and maybe pay some bills. I'm even writing it for Frank who runs a modest 20 person dev shop and maybe contributes back a bit here or there where they find the warts.

I'm not building it for the psychos that have lost all touch with humanity.
If [assholes were] the price we have to paid to upend the yellow cab industry, then I for one am willing to pay it.

The article wasn't about TK or about assholes -- it was about political corruption.
If the telescope saw any undeniably artificial structure billions of light years in size, there would be a lot more to worry about than who announces it. It would effectively be like discovering god given how absurd a size billions of light years is.
Isn't it also unconstitutional for states to regulate resident's (and anyone's) activities out of the state?
Once the salaries get inflation adjusted (20%+ of inflation in my country), then the production costs are going to increase, which is going to increase the risk for the prices to spiral up again.
Same here. Age of Empires II is still the cash cow. Neither AoE III or Age of Myth hooked me. AoE II is the best RTS in my opinion. Timing, game play, balance, fun with others.

I even - GOG - reinstalled Warcraft 2 lately and enjoyed its simplicity. ;)
SpaceX finally achieves ‘complete coverage of Earth’ with Starlink polar launch
Right, we all want nice things. But the nice things that the ultra-rich desire are almost garish in their tone-deafness. Spending an extra $10 on a meal is a relatively accessible luxury, that perhaps 90% of the population can imagine doing every so often. Accessible luxury is almost therapeutic, though, as it gives transient relief to an otherwise overburdened class in society. I cannot imagine what end the luxuries of the ultra-rich serve, save for the ego. In my opinion, the moral valence of luxuries depends on the practicality of that luxury spending in the grander scheme of the person's life, as well as the cost of that luxury. Most people don't spend a meaningful amount of money on luxuries for that opportunity cost to be significant.

And yeah, ideally charities would not need to exist. I also believe that government could become a lot more efficient. I think a luxury tax is a good solution, provided that those funds are put to good work. The nature of these ultra-rich toys can make them hard to tax, though. If America wants to levy a tax, I can just buy it the next time I'm in Geneva.
what is free software?
What matters is the movement of prices over time. So if one stock was 20% higher in price than another yesterday, and today they're the same, then that's a big signal. We aren't interested in parity for the sake of parity itself.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodchem.2016.03.120
Just out of curiosity, I wonder what if any liquid EUR-denominated good or services a US borrower could profitably buy with a credit card (if they had a huge, say, $1M credit limit), in the event the Euro ever dropped >5% in one day against the dollar, to exploit this delay.

I can't think of anything offhand but I bet someone clever could, and make some money doing it.
Many Europeans don’t know how much taxes Americans actually pay. It’s not that little, but often paid differently with high property taxes and sales taxes instead of VAT. And most of us (Europeans) don’t have to pay €1000 or so in health insurance for ourself and our family. We might make a bit less money, but most of us have at least 5 weeks of paid vacation (I’ve got almost 7).
Then you didn't mean early 20s. :) Apologies for the misunderstanding.
The "has links with the UK" portion of the "regulated service" definition says if UK users are a "target market", or if the "service is capable of being used in the United Kingdom" and there's user generated content with a "material risk of significant harm" then it "has links".

If an app is available in an app store are the users who can access it not a target market?

I'm not really sure what "material risk of significant harm" means for the second qualifier but if it means "users can potentially post bad things" then that seems very broad too.

I feel it's telling that they had a need to make exceptions explicitly for email/voip/sms texting.
feature not a bug? asking a question is the first step to a new understanding
>It’s a certified shit show and the only thing preventing conventional war in all of Eastern Europe right now is NATO.

The two things that caused this war are:

1) NATO the "defensive" alliance tearing libya to shreds like a rabid dog, basically for sport. This signaled the start of Putin's paranoia.

2) NATO putting Ukraine on the path to membership and refusing to back off.

Joining a gang is dangerous. Ukraine paid dearly for trying to join ours.
Some Tradcaths are Catholic in the narrow sense (that is, in Communion with Church headed by the Bishop of Rome), others (e.g., sedevacantists) are schismatics.
That's odd, because I recall exchanging 3.141592653 USD for 36959913570736074 10^-16 EUR.
> So, look, I get that there are some people who want to live in a world built on caveat emptor and the idea that it’s always and only your fault if something bad happens to you. I get that there are some people who think this is the only kind of world open source can be. Maybe Armin is one of those people, or maybe he just argues like one without realizing or intending it. [...] But no. Just… no. That would be a terrible world, and a terrible model for open source software.

Is "that would be a terrible world" supposed to be a counter-argument? The world is built on caveat emptor, especially when downloading random packages off the internet. That's why browsers are sandboxed. That's why people run virtual machines. The vetting process for adding new dependencies at big corporations can literally last months. The 2FA nonsense does basically nothing in practice (vetting will not and should not magically go away), and only adds an undue burden on developers.

The internet is a dark forest and I think it would do us a bit of good to treat it as such.
Outside of North America and the EU other regions such as Asia, SouthAm, Africa and ME still trade with Russia.

Yes, it means no luxury goods from the EU and no tech from NorthAm. But the embargo isn’t as broad as one might imagine.

There are some important tool and equipment from the EU and NA that if sanctions remain for years could result in a mega Cuba situation where lots of things are under maintained.
It's visually appealing. I really like the web design.

Congrats!
Yup. Canadians don't go bankrupt because of medical bills (the #1 leading cause of bankruptcies in the US)
I’d happily pay more US taxes if it was used to fund healthcare, infrastructure, and had better human (worker) rights.
Early 20s fits well with 2020-2021, butil it was apparently a typo for early 2000s.
This is valid for the rest of Germany as well. There was a challenge to open a beer with a single piece of paper as well.
> Influenza mutates and mostly escapes natural immunity all the time

You're right, it does, and the parent comment is also right that your immune system will fight it and win again most of the time.

HIV is special because your body will fight it, but lose the battle given enough time. The Human Immunodeficiency Virus targets your immune system, and gradually weakens it until you can't fight even common fungus spores.

COVID storms the gates and the soldiers fight it back, HIV sneaks into the castle and attacks the barracks in a war of attrition.
It could mean choosing a life of crime if the regulations are too draconian. Now that your legit business enterprise can’t succeed because of Stasi tactics by the UK government, you are forced to go underground and build something to sidestep the measures.
Euro is my new favorite USD stablecoin
Reading the Wikipedia entry on Power-on hours [1] says that:

"...Once a [SSD] drive has surpassed the 43,800 hour mark (5 years), it may no longer be classed as in "perfect condition"
"

And that SSD generally has 5 year life expectancy.

So with this bug, should we simply think of it just to become 40,000 hour hard life-time limit? Well, it's 10% less than by design.

I'm just not sure how realistic will it be to obtain SSD firmware updates given that it's "an industry wide firmware index bug".

How could I even know if a particular SSD has an affected firmware?

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power-on_hours
U.S. News and World Report was a highly respected & trusted news magazine in the 70s-90s, but it's online incarnation now is just another clickbait site (similar for Newsweek).
This because Euro is falling in value (probably faster than USD is falling in value)
A lot of miles were not paid for. A typical shift in the cab (12 hours) would have maybe 200 miles, with half of those being paid. I drove for an owner-operator - I think I paid her $75/shift for the use of her car... Maybe $20 for gas, and the rest paid me.

The taxi company put together a system where drivers could take their contract fares (such as in the video I linked) in personal vehicles. I had to get a commercial license plate. Then the company did a safety inspection on my car. Their contracts paid better than standard ride share fares, but the numbers still didn't work. I only did that a couple times. One time I got a solid fare, but it took me out to Apache Junction. It was 40 miles to get home. The technical term for unpaid miles is deadheading [0].

> I honestly don’t think most Uber drivers realize they are just trading deferred maintenance costs, and depreciation expense for cash now.

I referred to this as this 'economic cancer'. Professional drivers figure out how to keep their expenses down.

[0] "They report 40.8% of their total distance traveled (VMT) being lost to deadheading." https://www.caee.utexas.edu/prof/bhat/ABSTRACTS/RidehailingE...
Can share some sources for this? Genuinely curious.
That makes a lot of sense to me. I don't know if I do open source even for Heather down the street, I mostly do it for myself. "I made a thing, come look." "Come look" is not really an invitation for "we looked and we took it and can you do all these things for me for free". It's really a tradeoff between ego/reputation and time. It's possible that people can ask you for more of your time than you get returned in reputation. (Ask any artist who has made something "for the exposure." People will do it! But they'd rather be getting paid.)
How does mandating 2FA get them any closer to that second point? If they wanted to start with that, they could. They're two separate issues.
> There being something there for others does not mean that we will get the same thing out of it, or even anything at all if we're not in the right place for it.

Sure, but it's reasonable to want to try, especially for a novel considered by some to be "the greatest work of literature ever written". That seems worthy of investigation at least. Giving up when things get tough is a pretty problematic approach if you want to grow. Whether my objection matters admittedly depends on whether the goal is to learn/grow, but I think there's a good case to be made that it is.

> My point being that the original comment sounded more like wishing to check a box of having read a classic book rather than wanting to approach the book for what was in it and growing from the experience

But the point of being well-read isn't just to complete a checklist. I think you are reading very deeply into something and drawing a potentially unwarranted conclusion.

Everyone I know who reads avidly, and who many would consider well-read, who are even aware of the existence of Anna Karenina read not for the sake of it, but to improve themselves, their knowledge and understanding of the world around them, etc.

I think that's where our differences in this thread are coming from. I'm assuming the whole point is the acquisition of knowledge/understanding, and you seem to be assuming a different motivation, although I'm not entirely sure what that motivation is (I don't think "checking a box just for the sake of it" is a warranted conclusion in context, and "checking a box" is just a rhetorical device to help us understand that this person has a gap in their reading that they haven't succeeded in filling yet). Perhaps they primarily value good literature, in which case having a list makes quite a lot of sense.

If someone expressed the same frustration about the Greek myths, a potentially more productive response would be to point someone to Stephen Fry's Mythos, Heroes and Troy, which he wrote exactly for the reason that this comment thread exists: some people find the original material difficult to get through, but the underlying message was important enough to re-tell.

In the case of Anna Karenina, perhaps exploring the various translations that exist and choosing one vs. the other would be the ideal next step.
I got you.

If you think government regulations will help reign in prices I invite you to look at the Texas power grid price structure it's highway robbery already.

And if the government can't keep current electricity and gas prices under control why should we for a second think they'd do better if we were all driving electric vehicles.

The only pattern I see is to build a moat and use their regulatory capture to raise prices while ignoring infrastructure to the detriment of everyone.
> Some of this may just be due to incommensurable world-views. My view of the world is based on the idea that my actions may have consequences not only for me, but also for other people, and that I have some responsibility to at least consider those other people when deciding what actions I will take.

Very well then. Do whatever you think is necessary and appropriate.

For you. Don't heft your ideas on other people.
1 liek = 1 prayer
I think the answer is something like:

- the dollar is falling compared to US living expenses (US inflation)

- the euro is falling compared to the dollar (exchange rate)

- therefore, the euro is falling faster compared to US living expenses

- but the euro is not necessarily falling faster compared to EU living expenses (EU inflation)

Indeed, EU inflation and US inflation seem to be about the same, which means that the exchange rate change is not because one or the other is experiencing more inflation.
Dude, how did you go from 2FA for a Python package to Putin in a single sentence? This makes no sense.

Look, publishing to PyPI is not a right. If typing 6 digits is too much burden you can drop a source tarball in some web page and call it a day, you don't have to go through PyPI. Done.

I, for one, I'm very very glad that a piece of _critical infrastructure_ that I depend on is a bit more secure.
Can this be used for automatic tests or there are some other tools that people use for that use case?

We develop apps that have LDAP/AD auth. integration and I always wanted to have that feature tested locally, without relying on corporate network and full blown LDAP/AD server.
The Email That Got Me Promoted to CTO
I find this hard to believe. Obviously everyone had more important considerations, but I know a few people that got full rides to a few top schools and absolutely chose based off rankings.
The better example is that Russia was robbing a bank and now has hostages (I think I've seen many movies about it). Why negotiate even though they're wrong? Because they can shoot a hostage (nuke something).

Their nukes don't mean that you let them do whatever they want. But it means that you have to take limited actions that keep the warfare conventional. And sometimes that means settling with them.

Heck, finding something that Putin can claim is a victory is probably important if you want the war to end. It doesn't matter if it's real, and it may not matter if he thinks it's something he won. It certainly matters that he can tell the Russian people that the cost they bore to "denazify" Ukraine worked. Otherwise, he failed and that way lies bad consequences for dictators.
Oh I don't know, EU leadership and officials were more than happy to settle with with a dictator who annexed foreign land, crushed dissent and assassinated political rivals both domestically and on foreign soil. They were happy to sell him weapons. Hell they invited the bastard to dance on their weddings.

It really is a good question why has the world leaders have settled with a person like that in charge of a nuclear power. I wonder if cheap energy had something to do with that.
Why not dockerize it?
I'd do it if they had one that didn't involve needles.
With the amount of online and offline inquisitors ready to pounce at the slightest divergence from the official EU and US party line, those trolls and nerds stand no chance.

Just like truth, neutrality, free speech, etc don’t either.
My rule of thumb is to assume the best in regards to tech, and be skeptical in regards to politics. That includes your manager and your CEO.

You should be advancing your manager’s career. If you’re not, you’re at risk. So assuming good will in that situation is a recipe for nothing good.
Where Tesla's recently laid-off talent is going
Yea, my anecdata is that I feel crazy full from eggs. Maybe the choline in them? I dont know but more than any other food eggs trigger my brain to say "stop thats enough".
My guess as to why the potato diet works is the glycoalkoloids inside potatoes, since potatoes are nightshades. Potatoes contain some of the strongest glycoalkoloids out of the nightshades. By eating only potatoes, you give yourself non-standard amount of glycoalkoloid than most humans get. Glycoalkoloids take more than 24 hours to eliminate in the human body, so there is a build up effect.

Another infamous glycoalkoloid is nicotine from the tobacco nightshade. Nicotine is a stimulant that decreases hunger. Stimulants also increase body temperature, which is something that happens on this diet too. Nicotine is also a depressant, which is why your probably still able to sleep on this diet. It's also one reason why smokers tend to be skinnier than the normal population.
Don't you literally just buy a wall heater and plug it in? What am I missing here?
I find it exactly the opposite! There were excellent phone games back then, now it's all microtransaction, spin-to-win/scratch-to-win, ad-infested "experiences" with some inane gameplay on the side, engineered for maximum addictiveness.
> HN is not representative of the wider tech community.

But we are on HN right now...
Concerns over mask register design in RISC-V Vector Extension v1.0
There's no separate test prep industry, but private secondary schools will have extra classes for people based on what they intend to apply for. They also prep the kids for the interviews, for instance with mock sessions. That kind of thing is not available to ordinary kids. There's a wealth of Oxbridge application experience that is basically what such schools sell. I'm currently looking at them as a parent.

Isn't this what was depicted in The History Boys? The extra class for kids who wanted to get into Oxford? Can't quite remember.
> No. You have no right to not be in fear.

Strange conception of rights / freedom
Well it depends, is the thing the second factor is meant to protect actually worthy of that level protection?
You've provided very little support for your position. To be fair, I don't think you are claiming that the idea of using batteries in such a way doesn't make sense as we already know that there are successful deployments of batteries doing exactly this (I mean, you could argue that those deployments aren't actually successful and that they aren't properly taking into account the replacement costs of their batteries, but I don't think there's evidence of that). So then the argument comes down to, why would a power supplier pay individual owners of relatively small batteries to do this when they could just deploy batteries at scale. That then is the more interesting consideration and I don't think it's actually clear that the economics don't work out. Private batteries have some benefits to power companies, for example the infrastructure to support them is almost free (as it's otherwise already required), there's no long-term risk of building out too much (i mean, there is, but the power company doesn't have that risk), etc. All in, it could be that the power company is better served by building out batteries themselves, but that their own battery storage ends up always under-provisioned and that it is economically beneficial to everyone that they then use private distributed battery storage to shore that up.
Obviously the most stable plave is some non-fiat crypto-stable-coin thingy or other. /s
Hrm.. maybe stick to small businesses so they have no hiring manager and jobs that require little to no training? Dishwashing for a small restaurant could be ideal. It is a miserable job, but can be picked up pretty quickly.
If colleges manipulate rankings like this en mass I think we have a solution to the student debt issue.

A FTC review of college advertising would be interesting, if they are selling you a degree with basically no career prospects while proudly displaying these gamed rankings, that sounds like fraud and misrepresentation. Perhaps the students can get a refund?
Whatever the default Windows Terminal font is.
I assume that any advanced civilization has already created AI that is several orders of magnitude smarter than humans (and able to think ceaselessly, without being tired etc.)

At that point, it seems fairly trivial to do direct things like messing with the very small number of telescopes and other methods of detection that we have rather than actually trying to hide by coordinating the entire civ to act a certain way.
Yeah, like as a senior engineer I get $85k, that leads to a take home of about $4500 per month. Mortgage and debt payments are ~$2500 to start with.

And now that buys less and less.

We can't afford to be playing world police or pretend to be the world's refuge.
Here's the approach I settled on that allows for fuzzy search (also some useful links at the bottom):

https://gist.github.com/cpursley/e3586382c3a42c54ca7f5fef166...

Downside is I haven't found a way to do weighting.
I remember a question that was similar in nature; suppose you (accidentally of course!) drop a full but opened bottle of vodka in the sea. That night there is a huge storm that mixes all the water in the oceans so that the vodka is distributed perfectly. How many alcohol molecules (from that original bottle, ignoring any existing alcohol, evaporation, and other chemical or biological processes that would interfere with the answer) are in a liter of seawater?

Sadly I do not recall the answer but it was way more than I expected. The Avogadro constant is a lot.
Nice! For my game I want full control over the UI, so this won’t be an option, but for future ones this looks like a great one!
> less on social services

Less? By what metric? The tax burden is lower in the US than in Europe by a good amount. Does paying a lot more in taxes not count toward paying for social services?
A lot of people working in tech in California pay above 40% effective income tax rate with a top marginal tax rate of like 48%. So Europe income tax rates are not as much higher as you might think.

The tax brackets in the US tend to be much progressive though, so for people earning lower salaries their taxes in the US are much lower.