skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really the point, but in case this is describing a real issue and not just a hypothetical situation: I've found sarama to be very responsive to bug reports and patches.
Plus the BAT (basic attention token) that I hope to become omnipresent in the web.
No sacred tablets here. A right is an ability or activity one is able to purse without the intervention or interference of others. There were rights before government and society existed and if government and society collapsed tomorrow, you wouldn't lose your rights. It's a contradiction to says that society and government decide rights.

A right to vote is predicated on freedom of association among a nation's individual citizens. A person determines for himself whether he will or will not vote. It's not for society's sake that a vote is cast.
With Windows RDP it's possible to login in the same session that was started at the phisical machine. Also the physical monitor doesn't wake up upon login and the desktop remains password locked.

None of the options I tried on linux could match this features.

NoMachine did perform well but having the remote computer in the same room I could see it was mirroring the physical monitor and I could type on the keyboard. It does have a feature to make the screen black and lock inputs but then you're unable to log in from physical even if you know the password
Oh that's good, thanks! except for the family member that regularly loses keys... Hum. I'll check whether it has evolved next time I renew my insurance contract.
Vocab word of the day: "eucatastrophes": "a sudden turn of events in a story which ensures that the protagonist does not meet some terrible, impending, and very plausible and probable doom.", via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucatastrophe

I never would have connnected Miyazaki with Tolkien.
You basically want something closer to an IM UX. Delta chat does this: https://delta.chat/en/

Only issue: Delta Chat doesn't allow to change the subject, so your conversation with someone is going to be a looooong unique thread.

I am myself thinking about doing something closer to what zulip does, with subjects as "channels". Yet another side project.
Because almost no one actually knows how it works. People hear "bitcoin" and immediately think of the dark net, Tor, anonymity, etc.
I think you missed the part where the hill is covered with snow and/or ice, and there's another car directly on your tail, because the majority automatic drivers aren't expecting rollback.
This article is written for you, yet you still can not see the problem? Think about it for a moment.

* Does the maintainer have any obligation to you, or anyone else?

* Are you entitled to anything at all from the maintainer?

* Is the maintainer in any way at all responsible for your "professional costs" for using their software?
So, AI-powered cultural appropriation? Literally tricking people into thinking they are dealing with someone from their culture. Ethnic fraud. But the Guardian predictably frames it as if the people being tricked are at fault, instead of the victims. That if only they were more virtuous, they wouldn't need to be tricked.

I wonder how The Guardian would react if e.g. the British were using AI when doing business in South America to trick the locals into thinking they were doing business with other locals. Would they also be accusing the locals of xenophobia?
One of the 2 founders has been hacking away on a model F1 track, where his dream is to have 20 cars autonomously racing each other (so nothing pre-scripted, the AI will try to overtake each other). In one of the videos he said "Modern CPUs have 32 cores, well, we can use 1 core per race-car". They've even custom-designed circuit boards with magnets and sensors that will move these cars/detect their locations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swpPfozKLNM (with subtitles).
Regarding Japan's less savory side, [Shogo on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/c/LetsaskShogoYourJapanesefriendinKy...) seems to be fairly measured and insightful in his videos on "Japanese traditional culture, tips on traveling to Kyoto, and social problems in Japan". Though they're only one viewpoint so take it with appropriate caveats.

I'm absolutely no authority but I get the feeling that Japan is a great place to live if you fit into one of the traditional societal roles, but otherwise can be very alienating. Luckily for the gaijin amongst us, one of those roles is "polite tourist", so expect to be welcomed and treated very well. Just don't expect the same wonderful experiences to continue if you try to put down roots.
https://archive.ph/FeeqX

Also law firms press release:
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/bartko-law-firm-zaz...
Yes it is archaic - very crap in traffic but I never had any mechanical issues with a manual gearbox needing replacement in any of my cars except for normal wear and tear of the clutch plate.

Any quote involving a DSG or automatic gearbox from the VW/Audi/BMW is like buying a good second hand car.

No thanks - like my farm implement.
Yeah I might as well quit reading anything written in English online because a bozo says there's only one country in the world we should care about and the rest need to stfu.
Using software from Google or Facebook, it should have been known when making that decision that there is no influence you can have on those. These companies are run by psychopaths.

I do understand your point though, there will be many other software projects where the same issue is happening. I guess maintaining your own set of patches or doing a full fork are then the options. Or refactoring.
>My point is that 'slow' is a relative measure against other websites, not an objective value.

No, it is an objective measure that is rooted in human biology and psychology. Our perception of HCI is based on various response time limits, that define whether we consider interactions seamless or retaining our attention. For the websites those response time limits are often hit in various circumstances, even in urban areas of developed countries (e.g. poor cellular network coverage in a building results in reduced speeds and higher bounce rates).
TIL about GiroCode: QR codes for EU SEPA bank info.

I wonder why it is not used in major banking applications. I have manually copypasted IBAN numbers from friends so many times it gets old. I guess scan with a visual check that the numbers are correct before adding account could provide a boost in usability.

Maybe it is not done on purpose so that easier alternatives (like Paylib) are used instead, which may incur a fee while IBAN transferts are free.
You can feel bad if your project doesn’t go that way you want.

But don’t feel bad about trying to give away time and work for free!!!
When you die, you won't be a man any longer. In fact, much of your constituent matter wasn't and won't be human for the duration of the universe.

So why care about being a man or any particular thing at all? Experience the universe in its rich fullness while you're still able. You're already dead in the limit [1]. Nobody's left to judge you.

([1] You can also use this perspective to shut down your experiences prematurely, but pro tip: don't. That's a minimization of potential.)
Probably they used to be able to keep the poor, poor via something brutally effective and simple, like only a tiny minority even getting the chance to go to decent schools or universities. Now they need a lot of wasted effort to convince people that the people at the top are working really hard and deserve it to maintain the same elite dynamic.

evidence: 7% got to tertiary education in 1975, and recently peaked at above 100% (not sure how that works to be honest, but the trend is clear)

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.TER.ENRR?locations=K...

More evidence:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_inequality_in_South_K...
The images presented are simulations. And they are based on specs of the cameras. Specs rarely contain actual sensor performance and definitely none of the processing done off sensor. These mockups are not representative in any meaningful way.
I think so:

https://numpy.org/devdocs/reference/typing.html

Which is cool, even strongly typed languages don't usually support that.
Early in 2012-2014 I worked for a SaaS paywall provider that offered what we called a National Model. You would pay once and get access to all major newspapers in the country. The fee you paid was divided into provider fee/a reward for the newspaper you bought your subscription at/time spent reward divided by user behaviour.

The company has a successful business selling single instance paywalls. Why? You're in essence asking competitors to cooperate. One of them has higher costs and needs to raise the price? All the others need to agree on it. There's all kinds of complexities in this kind of system.
This is very accurate. I’m Irish, and when my Korean wife and I were leaving the US with our two young kids, Korea wasn’t even considered as a place to raise them. She had such a needlessly tough time as a kid, and her siblings are having to put their young kids through exactly the same exhausting upbringing.

It’s not worth it. We’re luckily to have the choice of moving home to Europe and raising our kids in a way that they get to play a lot (I’m writing this while on a bench in a playground with them bouncing around in the sunshine) and also have school, art and sports.

Korea is actively discouraging Koreans from raising their kids there, especially if they have any other option
I think your HVAC friend may actually be earning more than your attorneys. Unless you're in a prestigious law firm, they don't make all that much. And HVAC is so high in demand these days that they can raise prices to the moon and still be booked for months in advance.
Huh? I haven't seen or heard of anyone I know driving an automatic transmission car since 2005 or so, and that was a bizarre oddity at the time.
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I can't see any appreciable difference in cameras in the last 5 years. Look at the images in the link - do you?
Quick specialist.
Exactly. For one-off scripts or code you might throw away, there is nothing wrong with skipping the types.
Well, if you're deploying on an architecture with very specialized machinery, even up to JSON parsing and REST API handling, a scripting language isn't going to lose that much over a compiled one.

Maybe not python, but the future the article talks about is definitely one where "js everywhere" is a compelling approach.
Unless it's time-sensitive/critical, from the point of view of an OSS maintainer why should it matter whether a patch took 3 days to develop, or 3 minutes? As long as the quality and correctness is consistent across those patches, as a maintainer I'd encourage a wider base of developers who are fluent in my codebase, even if their initial PRs took slightly longer.
My guess is that most people will just use whatever router is supplied by the ISP, and those are going the be the cheapest China has to offer. Even if it is Wifi6, that will max out at around 1Gbps. Some might run Ethernet to their office or consoles, but I'd guess that most will just use wifi. There's also the issue of the networking gear. Home users will just buy 1Gbps equipment, or slower, if that's what fits their price point.

For future use, and businesses it is nice to see speeds above 1Gbps being rolled out. For now though, promising 25Gbps to residential is easy marketing. The ISPs knows that it will barely be used.
This seems overly focussed on the best selling phones rather than really the evolution of Camera Phones. The HTC One M8 was I think the first camera to use multiple lenses for depth and different zoom. The first Pixel might not have been all that popular, but was the first phone to take computational photography to the next level (night mode, background blurring that was adjustable after the fact). The Samsung S20 with 10x optical zoom and 100x total zoom might have been also not a complete success, but was really an eye opener.
Also nothing beats a snap change to third gear when you need to perform a overtaking maneuver on that slow trailer truck and there is oncoming traffic in a distance.

My experience of autoboxes is the slow glacial pace of stirring an engine.
This is an odd criticism. What do you mean rhetoric? I mean, it’s a senate hearing, we’re you really expecting no politics?
I feel bad about personal failure to communicate with a fellow engineer and come to a common understanding. I consider that a failure on my part.
Well, I'm not the only one thinking this way. Your attractivity will go below zero if you mention that you like some anime movie. Any sucess will never be because of it but despite of it.
edit: @dang has decided not to let me respond to any comments. Since I'm no longer able to reply, I'll just remove my comments.

"You're posting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks."
Disclaimer: I write open source software and I use open source software.

It's a non-useful and self-damaging trait that most people seem to have: yell at others to try to make them behave in a certain way where they can instead take actions on their own to ignore/avoid those behaviors.

This shows up all the time at work where people complain that they are getting too many slack messages or emails. You are not some hopeless caveman who has no idea what a computer is. Set up a filter and send everything you don't like to trash. Silence your notification. Mute/leave channels. Oh right, you are also a software developer. Write code to automate the above.

> There is no need to abuse the maintainer, repeatedly post the bug, harass them over twitter.

Block the user on GH/Twitter! Lock the conversation. Write a script to do the blocking for you automatically (Twitter and Github both have APIs for that - that should be a hint that this is an intended use case!).

If you have already identified someone as an abuser, any response, negative, positive, dismissive or otherwise, is only going to encourage the behavior - that is a well studied pattern. Writing a post and having it end up on HN does the exact opposite of what you hope it would. Someone reading your post is going to specifically go out of his/her way to fuck with you.

Instead, just ignore.
List of Countries by Irreligion
I pay for Protonmail and use the web client on desktop.

I hope that many other are paying users too, because there are no ads. And without paying clients, how can a service like Protonmail survive?
Humanity can't just unilaterally decide to violate the 2nd law of thermodynamics.
LHC beam will stop for a month after an incident in cooling plant
You can change TCP slow start on Linux.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17015611/how-to-disable-...
> Time to get a job with Mozilla and try to change them from within.

Good luck with that. "Mozilla is laying off 250 people and planning a ‘new focus’ on making money" https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/11/21363424/mozilla-layoffs-...
"Hardware Offload for All" reminds me of Sutherland's Wheel of Reincarnation[0]: just a few complete turns further along from 1960's Channel Programs[1][2].

[0] http://cva.stanford.edu/classes/cs99s/papers/myer-sutherland...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_I/O#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_I/O#Channel_program_ex...

[2] if a supercomputer is a device that turns compute-bound problems into io-bound, is a mainframe a device that turns io-bound problems into compute-bound?
In a couple decade gasoline cars wont really be a thing. Everyone will drive EVs. If it's smart to burn gasoline to generate power, they powers that be will build large plants to far more efficiently burn the gasoline.

Tesla didn't get a transmission mainly because they put enough power and low end torque would blow up any transmission that hit weight and size specs they needed to do.

However, a manual trans can be in an EV. It just doesnt make sense, there's virtually no situations where you want to be out of gear.

Flipside, this is a huge adoption hurdle for me. I need my manual trans.

I love the idea of a manual trans ev wrangler: https://www.motortrend.com/news/jeeps-magneto-concept-wrangl...

But my understanding is that it's not happening.
Or use uBlock Origin, which will allow you to re-enable fonts if disabling them breaks a site.
Fair enough, though since anigbrowl is continuing their absurd argument regardless of any opposition, I think replacing “hypothetical” with “straw man” would be more appropriate.
Top Amazon seller Packable begins liquidating after failed SPAC attempt
Amazon has "Amazon Care" filled with employees, they just bought "One Medical", and they are trying to buy "Signify Health".

They appear to be trying their best to increase their exposure in healthcare, but they just shuttered a major branch.

Its confusing to say the least. Or, perhaps, amazon care just was a bad service.
Is high iq an indicator for success? Would be interested in a source about that.
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Studies often use amphetamine as a control. Many psychedelics have a stimulant nature to them.
Pregnancy-Related Mortality Impact of a Total Abortion Ban in the US
They're not slowing down anything. The cat's out of the bag.

What good does a few months lag do when nobody is bracing for impact?
Yes, pretty useless except for play and experimentation. Real chatbots (by “real” I mean ones that are deployed to perform work) actually tend to rely on a lot of hand-coded rules, as you can observe by talking to Siri, or Alexa, or the Amazon support bot. They do use ML to understand the inbound messages, though.

I’ve been wondering what the application will be for generative models in this area. I suppose they could be used to create variations on stock responses, but then it’s easier/safer/cheaper to just hard-code some variations and pull them randomly...
I have used Go’s web assembly target a fair bit. The output wasm has an initial overhead of about a megabyte, and goes up pretty rapidly from there. This really limits the cases I’d like to use it in. Beyond that, the performance is generally several times slower than native.

I’ve had AssemblyScript recommended to me for exactly these reasons, but the one thing Go does have is a pretty great library ecosystem that AssemblyScript lacks.
Yeah, fast loading news sites are few.

Here is a list to show how bad (and sometimes good) they get:

https://webperf.xyz/

I maintain this so let me know if any news sites I should add!
Yep. It’s called Facebook.
It's really simple: Harassing people, who explicitly waived liability in a manner that agrees with the law, is never an okay strategy. That is not to say it can't be very attractive in the face of personal adversity or be very effective, in getting you what you want. Just it's never okay.

I am also somewhat puzzled how we are having a discussion about this on HN, where adherence to open source licenses is usually a virtue. Only as long as our work is not negatively effected, I presume?
I understand, but a modern pickup truck comfortably seats 6 in its King Cab (and good luck finding a truck without a King Cab) and has a bed that is useless for carrying anything except maybe your gym bag or a dozen cases of empties. There is no doubt the purpose of a modern pickup truck is as a passenger vehicle and secondarily to provide an advertising medium for you political beliefs.

The fact that modern American passenger vehicles have evolved into statistically significant deathtraps for surrounding pedestrians, cyclist, and even smaller cars is as political as anything else in that country these days.
Packable is the parent of Pharmapacks (#1 Amazon Marketplace seller in 2021, #5 this year). From the article:

>For Packable, the disappearance of capital represented a dramatic turn for a business that boomed after the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. With consumers stuck at home, online spending surged, and investors poured into the space.

>Revenue slowed last year from double-digit growth in 2020 as the company struggled to navigate supply-chain constraints, which “resulted in significant inventory out of stock, purchase order delays, and delays in onboarding new customers,” according to an investor presentation.
> This is no different than if Meta published a website which told you all these things after clicking a few links

They definitely already do that - make it trivial to find misinformation online. It has effectively ruined democracy.

This has a big disclaimer on it about how it is likely to produce misinformation and shouldn’t be used in any serious contexts. Hardly the same.
I can see two ways around it. If you have a free data/calls/texts, you could use a zero knowledge proof of having a free-data secret. If you have pay-as-you-go you could spend tokens each of which are unique and anonymous.

Edit: I think the first approach may not work, as the secret could be duplicated..
Googling the author list, gives me a preprint dated March this year. https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.11487
Peering, the mechansism that allows INTER-communications between NETworks has changed the structure of the Internet?
Our clutch plate needed replacing earlier this year. We paid <£400 for the replacement.

50% of that was the cost of labour.
20% of that was the cost of replacement gearbox oil
Not surprising. I've received death threats on twitter simply cause my name is similar to a politician's

Doesn't seem improbable that an AI picked up some nasty rumour from somewhere
Spent a year there 20 years ago. Even then I was horrified by the lifestyle.
Maintainers do owe fixing bugs to some extent. Otherwise they are not maintainers in the first place. It is also the nice thing to do.

If some project does not fix bugs handed on a silver plate it is good to warn others against using it. I.e. self-entitled whining.
I second this so much. Not everywhere is the USA, or a FAANG. What I do would probably be split among 2/3 positions in a large company. In a sense this means I'm less efficient, but it also means I'm able to give a lot of value to the company in a lot of different scenarios.

Many more companies than you think are very happy to take that tradeoff.
Yeah. Whenever I read shit like that, I just reach for the Longbottom leaf. Over time I think they’ll hit diminishing returns as peoples interest moves on to other stuff.
I got this too for my Starlink unit in Ukraine. Dropped to $60 from $100. A welcome change although I for some reason assumed it was specifically for Ukraine. Looks like it’s in a number of markets.
I for one am glad that, for once in my life, an obviously huge advancement is taking into account the human impact of releasing the technology responsibly. Maybe it’s just a “BS statement” but given the major strides they’re making at removing racial/gender biases[1] from similar projects, I don’t think it’s just hot air. Especially given the phenomenon of “bias amplification”.

Maybe I’m being too optimistic but either way, given the pace of progress we won’t have to wait very long to play with this magic.

[1] https://openai.com/blog/reducing-bias-and-improving-safety-i...
I quit Facebook ten years ago, Twitter two years ago and Reddit one year ago, deleting all my accounts. It's been great, no downsides whatsoever.

There are a handful of niche hobbyist forums that I still have accounts on, but I don't consider those to be social media, in that they're not psychologically manipulating me to engage.

That said, I'll still browse Reddit and Twitter for specific purposes occasionally, but I don't feel compelled to participate any more. Just feels like a waste of time.

Instead I've been using my free time creatively: writing software, composing music, reading actual physical books.

To anyone trapped in the social media bubble, I would recommend giving it all up. When you die, no-one will give a damn about your tweets, Facebook posts, Twitter comments. It's worthless chatter, done to feed the advertising machine. You don't need it.
This looks like magic.
It says the collected browsing data is not linked to the user's identity. Still a bad move by Apple.
Audi Q3 does not have a representative modern automatic transmission.

You should try a car with a CVT from the last 2-3-ish years to feel the difference.