skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s completely irrelevant to the discussion at hand: whether the user or the computer initiates the gear change does not change the efficiency of the gearbox.

When manuals are discussed on the internet, it’s the manual clutch which is the central difference, not what’s essentially a firmware feature or lack thereof. That’s what’s mentioned in pretty much every comment other than your nitpicks.
They didn't have one until Apple created it.

Now they should have lower fidelity audio, and/or more shit to carry around and fiddle with, and/or fail unexpectedly when least needed?

You actually can't understand the consumer side of this? Or just like Apple?
I don’t understand why folk seem to think that admitting they are capable of fraud is some kind of dunk.

I mean - yea. Maybe your dentist never actually graduated dental school. Did you call the dental association to check he’s a member? Anyone can just print out a certificate on their home printer and put it on their wall, y’know. And even if he is, do you think the dental association actually called his college to verify the transcript he gave them when he joined in 1988 or whatever?

You really should do an independent audit of your dentist’s dentistry skills. Perhaps you should demand he does some kind of standardised test. But he can’t just go to a testing centre, you have no way of verifying that. He must do the test in front of you.

And how do you know the answers to the standardised test are correct, anyway? You will need to do a dentistry degree yourself first.

TLDR: A trustless society doesn’t work, and most people aren’t out to pull one over you.
Verbally threatening someone is not a crime in most US jurisdictions in its own right -- there needs to be an additional reason to believe that you'll immediately suffer physical harm.

You can call the police, and they will arrive and probably remove the person. But they won't be removing them because of the threat; they'll be removed because they don't have a right to be a nuisance in someone's store. This is precisely the position Cloudflare is in: they are entirely within both their rights and the realm of acceptable social behavior to remove nuisances from their premises.
> Combined with sorting dynamics that concentrated talent and resources at some schools—and the emergence of tenure—this enhanced research performance.

Something tells me this is only part of the story. Yes, after several wars we took in scientists who subsequently brought new ideas, improved teaching, etc to the country.

But this ignores the biggest factor: US universities have tremendous endowments [1]. Having deployable capital that is larger than the GDP of some nations helps not only with the acquisition of the absolute best, but also the maintenance of programs who may not have an obvious path to profit. Moreover US students pay more for their tuition than any other country in the world, further factoring in to the availability of money that can be used for such purposes. Additionally, the US spends the most capital on R&D by the dollar than any other country [2].

In the end, it comes down to money. It doesn't matter if you grow the talent if you can simply purchase the best from where ever it happens to grow.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colleges_and_universit...

[2] https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/021715/what-country...
Surely even people who love Apple a lot must realize that this is is just propaganda, right?

"Apple was right all along, says Apple"
Yes, that's my understanding too. But if the party asserting the patent decides not to defend it, and drops their claim against you specifically, can you go ahead and invalidate the patent in court? If you can, and there's no defence, then presumably the patent is invalidated by default.

But it seems rather odd; in normal civil proceedings, you have an adversary against whom you allege some kind of wrongdoing. Who is your adversary if you are attacking a patent that nobody cares to defend? Can you bring a case against the patent itself?

I understand that in parts of the USA, the police can sue a car, a house, or a sackful of cash, so it's not beyond reason.
You have an optimistic view of the amount of bigotry of the average American or avg person of any country. People likely wont care that much because they want their issue solved, but many people do care in a negative way.
I would think automatic support for TLS, no configuration necessary, would qualify?
you picked the absolute worst example. OJ 100% killed his wife.
Just to clarify - when you say degree, do you mean a CS degree specifically, or any college degree at all?

And for US devs who have gotten work visas in the EU - does this distinction matter for having your work permit approved? I have lots of work experience but I'm self taught with a BA, wonder if that would hold me back.
Canadian ISP TekSavvy has done this numerous times. They don't offer satellite internet though.
First define "true art" and we'll start there
Partly true: you can install a local IMAP gateway (Proton Mail Bridge) to access your inbox from normal MUAs. FAFAIK it supports all regular IMAP operations.
“Jeeze, Bill. Are you still wearing a dead fish? That’s so 1993”
> Or, maybe this is just a new “fad” for juvenile orcas that could go out of fashion as they grow up, Jared Towers, director of Canadian research organization Bay Cetology, tells NPR. In the 1990s, scientists observed another strange orca trend, but it has since faded away.

> "They'd kill fish and just swim around with this fish on their head," Towers tells NPR. "We just don't see that anymore.”

If I didn't know any better, it sounds like the Orcas discovered TikTok long before we did.

Edit:

It's a joke y'all. I find the trends in TikTok both hilarious and scary. Maybe Orca parents do too /s
Chrysler/Dodge/Jeep Vehicles prior to 2016 used Sprint's 3G CDMA network. That network is now shutdown so they no longer can connect.

The same thing will happen for all current vehicles when cellular providers eventually start shutting down 4G networks.

That's why fortunately for now, all vehicles can still function properly without a network connection. I do suspect that someday that will change tho.
I think they meant weird.
It's not just the accent, I wish people would make this differentiation more often. When someone has a completely different way of communicating due to cultural or upbringing reasons and happen to have an accent the thing to focus on here is not the accent. Arnold Schwarzenegger has one of the thickest accents you can find yet he's also one of the most easily comprehensible human beings ever lived.
Unfortunately its really a centralized token.
I once made a person startled by just saying "oh because I don't have a Facebook" after being asked why they can't seem to find me by name there, so I guess it is a signal to its users.
I doubt you'd be called non-white but it's probably contextual. I have a hard time imagining a scenario where it would be likely to come up. You would not be confused with sounding like a "white American", though.

The ridiculousness of what it means to "sound white" is the subject of lots of humor. I think Dave Chappelle did a pretty good mockery of it with his news reporter character. There's also a pretty funny scene in Sorry to Bother You where Danny Glover is explaining his call center success to LaKeith Stanfield.
Wow, even after being cleared they couldn’t get their data back.
I've never worked on a project that encompasses as many computer science algorithms as a search engine. There are a lot of topics you can lookup in "Information Storage and Retrieval":

- Tries (patricia, radix, etc...)

- Trees (b-trees, b+trees, merkle trees, log-structured merge-tree, etc..)

- Consensus (raft, paxos, etc..)

- Block storage (disk block size optimizations, mmap files, delta storage, etc..)

- Probabilistic filters (hyperloloog, bloom filters, etc...)

- Binary Search (sstables, sorted inverted indexes, roaring bitmaps)

- Ranking (pagerank, tf/idf, bm25, etc...)

- NLP (stemming, POS tagging, subject identification, sentiment analysis etc...)

- HTML (document parsing/lexing)

- Images (exif extraction, removal, resizing / proxying, etc...)

- Queues (SQS, NATS, Apollo, etc...)

- Clustering (k-means, density, hierarchical, gaussian distributions, etc...)

- Rate limiting (leaky bucket, windowed, etc...)

- Compression

- Applied linear algebra

- Text processing (unicode-normalization, slugify, sanitation, lossless and lossy hashing like metaphone and document fingerprinting)

- etc...

I'm sure there is plenty more I've missed. There are lots of generic structures involved like hashes, linked-lists, skip-lists, heaps and priority queues and this is just to get 2000's level basic tech.

If you are comfortable with Go or Rust you should look at the latest projects in this space:

- https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy

- https://github.com/valeriansaliou/sonic

- https://github.com/mosuka/phalanx

- https://github.com/meilisearch/MeiliSearch

- https://github.com/blevesearch/bleve

- https://github.com/thomasjungblut/go-sstables

A lot of people new to this space mistakenly think you can just throw elastic search or postgres fulltext search in front of terabytes of records and have something decent. The problem is that search with good rankings often requires custom storage so calculations can be sharded among multiple nodes and you can do layered ranking without passing huge blobs of results between systems.

Source: I'm currently working on the third version of my search engine and I've been studying this for 10 years.
> people often start mixing complex logic into the templates, including database calls

Sometimes you can solve social problems with technical interventions, but at this point, someone needs to sit down and talk :-)

> Go encourages you to compute your data ahead of time, then pass it into the template

Same elsewhere including modern PHP and Java.

The thing that is missing in Go is a natural way to group together what goes around the content.

Sure, stringing together the templates (yes, I know the other template can act on input provided by the calling template, but they are still stringed together) feels weird when what one really wants is to fill in slots in a design, which is my thought process.
> If it's not illegal, then CloudFlare should continue providing service to them

> It should ideally be illegal for ClourFlare . . . to refuse business to anyone

Yes, we should abstain from acting on _any_ moral interpretation unless it has been codified into law. /s

Fun hyperbolic thought experiment, consider a site which posted 2-3 pictures a day of 12-13 year old girls, with faces blurred out, and no context other than the text representing their age (e.g. a caption with "12 year old"). There's no nudity involved, but the girls are always in some sort of skirt.

Now imagine this was hosted through CloudFlare and they decided to close the site because they were uncomfortable with the content. Would you find it reasonable for a law to force them to continue hosting this content?
Curious, what is your source?

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Edit-001:

(Meta) Normally good form to append “edit” to a comment if you’re going to make a substantial modification — especially if edit changes the perception of comments that have already responded; for example, adding a source that wasn’t present before.

(Re: Source URL) Worth noting your source doesn’t appear to provide any proof that Twitter is knowingly allowing bots — or more importantly, that DemCast is using bots. What am I missing?
It's probably not as impressive as Miniaturwunderland, but if you're in the US, and specifically near northern New Jersey, there's a neat place called Northlandz [1]. It's much older than Miniaturwunderland and I'm sure it doesn't have the level of computer control. But it's huge. Even going as an adult, I was still surprised at how large the display room was. It's been maybe 6 years since I last visited.

There was another, much smaller one that was closer to home - Roadside America [2] - but it sadly closed permanently during the pandemic. I remember going there several times as a child and really enjoying every trip.

[1] https://northlandz.com/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadside_America
Much like everywhere in Europe, the Spanish population is stable since the Bronze Age. Subsequent invasions are anecdotal. Considering the European population is generally very young and homogeneous compared to that of other continents, it does make sense to consider it as one ethnic block (whatever you call it, "white" or not, is of little interest).
I can 'demand' whatever I want. Doesn't mean anyone has to actually follow that.
>Elon Musk has moved the needle much more than all of the universities combined it seems like.

Well certainly most of his engineers he employees were educated, and this is shocking, at Universities.

Where do you think all the fundamental research into Aerodynamics, Materials Science, etc. happened that has made his company even feasible?
Marry a Dutch citizen and you can keep your other citizenship ;)
Along with the civil unrest...
A profile of single Americans (2020)
There are remote-friendly companies which hire people from your timezone and absolutely don't care which country do you live in or what your credentials are (as long as your country is not under some kind of embargo etc.). I'm in similar timezone (in Poland) and got jobs in many such companies. Are you not able to find them, or do you find them but they reject you?
The components communicate with a central module in the car, which then has an LTE modem. So you only need to disable one module, not every single component.
Do You Eat Lunch as a Staff?
Is the next thing going to be image generation trained on your own photos? It seems like personalized generation would be a huge market.

Ex. Show me walking on a beach. Show my dog wearing sunglasses, etc.
Because brave/firefox is better, and its not based on the new IE engine(WebKIT) which is incompatible with anything that improves user experience to the point it competes with Mobile apps.

Yes its better than chrome, but its worse than anything which claims good privacy.
And let's not forget to add the Crypto AG story to that list.

Although I'm still naive enough (by choice) to trust a select few companies.
Isn’t Substack itself closed to search engines?
>We also need to innovate tools that provide proof of authorship, and whether it was created by a human. It might never actually be possible, but knowing the source is an ideal we should strive towards.

I think requiring some sort of proof of being a real person before being able to post content might be how this shakes out, similar to accounts requiring a valid phone, or services with KYC requirements. There would still be some level of fakery, but when content is tied to a real person moderation is a lot more straightforward.

It would definitely be a departure from the internet as it is today, but how many are still operating in the old model of "never share personal information online"?
This will be nice when a person wants a custom item tailor made to describe visually what it should look like and verify the picture before sending over. Taking that idea further into the future, we can clearly see how speech-to-text and dynamic adjustments coupled with 3d printing could lead.
Depends on the person. As someone who values the environment I don't want any crypto stuff in my browser. Totally not saintly for me.
If Michael Jordan Played in Today's NBA, He'd Enjoy the Benefits of Modernity
It looks like they recommend recycling them https://support.apple.com/guide/airpods/disposal-and-recycli...

And use 100% recycled rare earth elements according to the tech specs https://support.apple.com/kb/SP856?viewlocale=en_US&locale=e...
Stop being outraged about other people finding things to be outraged about. They’re not going to stop and you’ll just end up miserable in the end.
Unrelated barcode question, to take advantage of a technical audience with knowledge in such things:

I have a use case where users are trying to scan 2d Pharmaceutical Product barcodes (https://www.gs1.org/docs/healthcare/GS1_Healthcare_Implement...) containing lot number, expiration date, and so on. We're mostly using Realinn 6200 scanners, some bluetooth some hardwired. In my testing, the FNC1 character gets sent to my Mac as '29', and to the warehouse PCs as '↔'. They also have chromebooks in the warehouse, and as far as I can tell the Chromebooks are just dropping the FNC1 character entirely from the barcodes.

I can not figure out how to program the RL6200 scanners to replace FNC1 with another character - only to add/remove a prefix/suffix.

Is this a known issue? Do I need a different scanner which can be programmed to substitute characters? Throw out the chromebooks in favor of Windows machines?
We have one big pot of money and not a single care in the world about who spends what.

The primary earner has flip-flopped a dozen times in the last 15 years.

There have been many times where we needed to come together and get our total spending under control, but we always made sure to make a budget that says we each can spend $X per month on whatever we want, no questions asked. A few times that has been $25, others it could be $500 or $1000.
I think it sounds worse when you put it like that.

In practice, it will run on most phones.

Google is phasing out 32-bit[0] and x86 was never really a thing for Android, more than a curiosity.

0: https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-to-64-bit-android-devic...
One might wonder where Elon gets his ideas from. Perhaps he's standing on the shoulders of thousands of man-years of research and development paid for by the American people. You may be surprised to learn how much R&D technology that takes telescopic photographs of chorizo ends up in your pocket as your phone, smartwatch, etc. Elon fetishism has no place in this argument. He's an end user of the system. I am not even sure how it can compare.
I have been using proton for more than 2 years now.
These outages are rare, they haven't occurred for a long time, I think they are due to the new flood of subscribers after the new plans were revealed.

But In general it has been very stable.
how many are still operating in the old model of "never share personal information online"?

Me, for one. I like my real life and my online life being totally separate.
Pretty much everybody who trains models trains tens to hundreds of models before their final run. But a better way to think about this is: Google spent money to develop the TPUv4, then paid money to have a bunch built, and they're sitting in data centers, either consuming electricity or not. Google has clearly decided the value of these results exceeds the amortized cost of running the TPU fleet (which is an enormous expense).
Happy Fastmail customer for 10 years or so. They are quite focused and do a great job. My only complaint is their mobile app: I wish it worked offline. I've used K-9 to work around this, but don't feel like I should have to.
> if I were to build an (fairly simple, monolithic) API, would I automatically benefit from using a queue?

Queues basically serve as a decoupling layer. If you need one, you'd benefit from one.

Example one: you put incoming requests into a queue. If latency isn't a big concern, that means that your service can go down / be restarted for a moment while the queue buffers all the incoming requests.

Example two: you write a HTTP API for an interactive web application. Fast response times are important, so you do only what you absolutely must inside the request handler, and everything else that can be done later (like sending mails) is put into a queue, and can be dealt with later either by another component, or by your service running "queue worker" mode instead of in "http responder" mode.

If your services is just reading data from a DB and handing it back to the user, you usually don't benefit from a queue. But most apps tend to become more complicated with time...
I'm working on building an AWS for anyone who wants to make their own search engine. The idea is to have a single open webindex database, continuously updated that you can apply ranking and embedding algorithms in it. This would reduce the cost of entry, and enable developers to build competitors to google on top of it, or create new products in the search space like a search engine for clothes. I don't know if this is interesting for anyone but if it is, hit me up.
Are you suggesting the US should start and lose some world wars in order to test that hypothesis?

The things people will do for science!
A monolithic application can still have queues; there's no need for them to be coupled with a microservices architecture. They at least afford you a 'fire and forget' decoupling in parts of your code that might be nice. For example, take this action and fire this event. Then in another part of your application you can subscribe to events.

They aren't _queues_ per say but they have a lot of the same DX. Depending on your runtime environment as well, you might benefit from splitting side-effect jobs from your API request/response cycle. That way you can still respond quickly while enqueueing work (locally) all still within a monolith.
I just read this poem and I agree with you about the lines:

> And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be.

I don’t believe that any supernatural force is at play, certainly not an all caring and loving one, for there is great and needless suffering in our world.

That all said, I do find much of the rest of the poem comforting and good advice for myself.

Very finally, I urge you to reconsider the phrasing of “bovine acceptance”. Cows are intelligent beings. They have long memories, they have friends, they have feelings. They have personalities. They are capable of learning.
Pillars of Building Developer Communities at HashiCorp
The bus and bus network of the future is more likely to be built and operated by Elon Musk than any Government agency. Auto-routing, and segregation by socio-economics (based on rider ratings and enforced subscription fees) is the killer feature of a sustainable mass transit system.
Try disabling alternative routing in the settings. Solved all refreshing problems for me.
Yeah if you are going to work for a US company with US salary, be prepared to take US "vacations". They'll look at you weird if you ever mention that you want to take three weeks off.
A queue is a pretty fundamental abstraction alongside heaps, files, etc. if you think about it. It sucks that it falls in that grey area where it’s badly supported both by the OS and most languages/runtimes, and you have to setup and manage a separate system to have one. I feel it should be as easy or well supported as sockets.
It's not a far right forum and site members are recommend not to contact the people being discussed there. There aren't harassment campaigns being organized there.
There's a website out there somewhere about the issue of not seeing cross traffic because it's approaching the intersection at just the right speed to stay hidden behind the A pillar of your car. Ah, it looks like it involved cyclists [1].

OTOH there's also a fairly simply fix invented by an 8th grader... [2]

[1] https://www.core77.com/posts/71732/

[2] https://www.core77.com/posts/91054/
Bad news is loud ambient sound vibration travels through your bones, so you need more than noise cancelling, which means a louder sound and that will damage your hearing.
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You're right. It probably doesn't change them.

There's a good chance there's just a selection bias for the type of person that joins a nofap cult (religious or otherwise) being intrinsically violent (unhealthy to others). Now they just have a cult to encourage them and tell them which researchers to send the death threats to.