skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It will happen as soon as one of the dead people is a Republican politician or close friend thereof. Not a moment sooner.
Fellow former $BBY-er here... you gotta admit, the bundle pricing Best Buy ran on all of that stuff (with the purchase of a new printer, of course) made it so easy to talk them into it.

When I started I had just left commission-based sales in electronics at Sears and I was amazed at how much better Best Buy was at pushing accessories with big ticket items.
>On the one hand it's cool that they are improving but how do people keep up with all these additions? I find this really hard.

Very often they improve things in a way that you'll get an improvement regardless of whether you are aware

E.g linq, collections, regexes, etc.
No good will come from discussing this here.
So what they're saying is, if you have "I worked at a startup" on your resume, this will make VCs more likely to give you money.

Straightforward enough.
Lol snap
then why don’t they publicly invite back 8chan and the daily stormer, possibly for a discount/free? similarly, are they lobbying to get FOSTA revised so they can bring back Switter?

their opinion is that it is (almost always?) ethically wrong for them to withhold security products. for the two websites i mentioned, nobody is stopping them from providing services. for a third, they could lobby to fix fosta and/or not transit switter traffic in the us.
They talk a lot about "human rights" in this post. At what point does someone's right to personal safety and privacy trump another person's right to host whatever they want on the internet?
It seems to me that the two formal systems can disagree about BB(n) for some n without disagreeing about the state of any given Turing machine at any specific time step. For example, ZFC+CH might non-constructively predict that some machine M halts, while ZFC+notCH might predict that M does not halt. If all machines other than M can be either run to completion or proven not to halt, then the value of BB(n) would be provable in ZFC+notCH but undecidable in ZFC+CH.
A large part of the article concerns this. There’s mention of a pub that’s in a building from the 11c though it didn’t start being used as a pub until the 15c.

It’s currently got a huge picture of an angelic nurse with two face masks on its side. https://www.theoldinnandrestaurant.co.uk/
This is a crazy take on responsibility. It isn't Europe's responsibility when people decide to take unsafe passage on the sea and drown. Could they do more? Yes, I'm sure they could, but are they directly responsible for drownings? No, this is too far.

I'd argue the same for Kiwi Farms. If people are cyber-bullying (ie, reaching out to people and harassing them) then those people should be addressed. Arguing that any speech you or someone else deems "hurtful" or "hateful" should be banned is nuts, since no one has to go and read those words, its an opt-in process. AND, if people can disagree about whether something is really "hateful" then its even more difficult to justify taking action simply for communication of ideas that we find offensive.

CloudFlare is in a tough spot that they put themselves in. If they'd like to avoid legislation then they've got to be the pipe, not the moderator. Once they switch to moderator they are responsible for all moderation. They can't pick and choose. Imo they'd be better served by acting as a utility and staying out of the moderation game. We've already seen a ton of attacks on free speech by powerful Internet companies, in the US at least the 1st amendment (freedom of speech) needs a defender like CF to help.
Good.

Java is doing something similar with Graal Native Image thing. In a way it is funny to see few years back so many people were claiming that heavy CPU/memory usage of JIT based platforms would be even more non-issue in Cloud because one can scale as much they need on demand.

And now I see AOT/Slimmed Runtime/Compact packaging are happening largely because of cloud deployments.

Seems cloud bills are making impact in places where enterprise cloud architects were running amok with everything micro service deployments.
That's a lot of text for "sticks and stones may break your bones, but words protected by CloudFlare will never hurt you".
We don't really keep up.

I read with interest all these articles, and then go back coding our LOB stuff in .NET Framework 4.7.2 and similar.

On the Java side, I am finally confident that all our servers have at least Java 11 on them.

Only on private stuff do I happen to enjoy latest versions.
It is not a strike if they are working normal -non overtime- hours.
I think when you need it you need it quickly because if the pain starts to get out of hand the pills will no longer have any effect. Is it so hard to not take them if you don't need them?
How does one find a doctor willing to prescribe these kinds of drugs for anti aging?
Now imagine absolutely inexperienced founders and external senior management. You have a total lack of knowledge around how to run an org combined with the urge to rush into super-mature organisations. That is fun...
Protip: when leveraging utils to apply optimizations, always segregate lossless operations from lossy, and do lossy first.
Key term in your comment bein 'back-up'.
I would have liked a few diagrams describing some of your ideas, structures or internal processes, instead of using only text.
Doesn’t that assume continued support for Intel CPUs? Once all the Macs are Apple Silicon they’d some else.
There is also worldwide an as yet unexplained 10% rise in non-covid surpluss mortality.
Never thought I'd see the Left trying to weaponize corporations to suppress speech they dislike. Reminds me a LOT of Evangelicals in the 2000s - I know that comparison has been made frequently but that's the last group that made a serious censorship push.

I wonder how all of this will end? I support CloudFlare here - they should act as a utility, not as an arbiter of content. This ends poorly and one day will bite the people that are pushing for this.
"Throwing out the baby with the bathwater" is an expression that's never really made sense to me. The bath isn't a permanent position, babies and bathwater aren't fundamentally inseparable, why do we want to throw out the bathwater in the first place, is it even safe for the baby?

In the case of Facebook, the bath is toxic, we should remove the baby from the bathwater, toss out the bathwater, and then figure out what's going on (maybe we can just refresh the bath, maybe we need to figure out a regulatory framework for designing baths).
I have a previous model DCPL2550DW and it has the low-toner warning too. Can't remember if it refused to print because I just went and bought a new toner for $45 which is cheap IMO. Anyways, I was perusing the Amazon reviews for my printer and came across this... maybe it'll help you?

Now, to override the alert Brother gives you when it THINKS you are out of ink, I have user Allegra to thank for that as follows:

"Go to the buttons and follow these instructions:

MENU > GENERAL SETTINGS

Press the down button (minus sign) until you get to REPLACE TONER

Hit OK

Please the down button (minus sign) until you see CONTINUE

Hit OK
I do this with Firefox's Temporary Containers. Every manually opened tab is a new browsing session, with no cookies etc. Closed tabs' data get deleted after 15 mins. Fantastic addon, and the usage is as seamless as it gets.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con...
Just wondering, is there a fully automatic way in e.g. FF to do this? Like right-click 'open in new private tab which automatically accepts all cookie dialogs' ?
FDA authorizes Pfizer's and Moderna's updated Covid booster shots
I’ve been using Cookie AutoDelete for that purpose for the last few years. It works flawlessly for me and brings me comfort in knowing that I am only being tracked online by my browser fingerprint and IP.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autode...
Is there an expectation for something similar for the USA? Several more years of drop?
Hi all, either OK but this weekend won't work. Will look forward to the next meetup.
Ask HN: Is there part-time dev work?
I've been getting burnt out and want to spend more time of personal pursuits, but financially I'm not in a position to completely stop working. Given the compensation in this industry and my relatively cheap lifestyle, I'm sure could live modestly comfortable off a part-time income.

That said, I don't think I've ever even seen a job posting for a part-time dev. Do these exist? I don't need benefits, I have health insurance and everything else I need covered. Just a steady paycheck.
For context: life expectancy declined for the first time in decades in 2014 (from an all time high of 78.84 years, to 78.69 years), plateaued at 78.54 until 2019 (when it increased to 78.79 years), and then fell off a cliff from 2020 onwards, to 77.28 years.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy-at-birth-...
Why does it have to be a US legislative solution? Any country CloudFlare serves could come up with a harmful-content policy for issuing takedown orders; and CloudFlare would likely have to obey that takedown order globally (not just to that country’s view) in order to be in compliance, such that their only other option would be to remove their POPs from that country and block all clients from that country.
The US obesity rate is over 40%!

https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html
In other words: We have to keep the slaves in poor conditions or else they'll quit working. The only thing we are able to provide to make them work, is a threat of death if they don't. No carrots, only sticks.
Would love to know more about this workflow!
Geez, the world’s management class has really risen to the occasion re covid. They knew it was going to end and cause massive demand increase. They had governmental funding to assist through covid and yet we are bombarded with no staff or no stuff stories all the time. Why were these suits paid all that money, other than they paid governments to enable it? Hell, they even had a year to get ready once omicron appeared and many/most people declared it over.
The mode of interaction is totally different in person. In a text discussion I can skim through several pages and find a point that resonates, then respond with something topical/helpful. In person, you're limited to a single stream of conversation (maybe more if you walk around), there's not the same 'wide area scanning' mechanism.
Added point 5 I forgot, thanks to your comment.
The GOLD printer cable used to get me.

At Staples they also told us something about better USB cables for faster, more reliable printing.

How bad does your existing USB cable need to be before it starts to cause your printing to fail? Stop running it over with your chair.
> Just because there isn't a strict naming convention doesn't mean there isn't a longstanding convention in English-speaking countries of giving wars boring names based on the participants or theatre

That is one name that is ascribed to a conflict, but we often have many. The Forgotten War is the Korean War, The Great War is World War 1, The American Civil War had many names.

> Picking a ludicrously overblown name like "Northern Aggression" for a failed secession makes no sense in that context, but plenty of sense in Lost Cause victimhood narrative.

How is it overblown? It's a descriptive title that is certainly controversial, but if you accept that particular viewpoint, it's simply descriptive.

> Which is why it was a name popularised by 1950s segregationists, not the original secessionists who may have rejected the notion that it was a "rebellion" or "civil" war, but talked about wars of "Separation" or "War for Independence" instead.

You can certainly find its usage linked to segregationists, but the entire basis for suggesting it wasn't used before the 1950's is that people couldn't find any evidence of the term being used prior to that in their google searches. It not showing up in term searches for archived OCRed newspapers is hardly evidence that it wasn't a term used before then. Regardless, that is beside the point. You're going out of you way to project meaning into it that isn't intrinsically there.
NAS and SSD, multiple copies. I don't know if I'll get to the point of archiving on Amazon Glacier or something similar but that's always an option. Having just gone through a funeral for my dad this summer I can say that having non-digital images (photo prints, negatives, slides) doesn't always yield the most durable image. Compared to the possibility of storage devices failing I think digital images will be far more durable than previous analog formats... having those in a format and location where the next generation will know to find them is another matter. (For example: how long before the images I burned to archival quality DVDs cannot be viewed because no computers ship with optical drives and external optical drives are getting harder and harder to find?)
If kiwifarms becomes the original public manifesto posting spot for national mediafest mass shooters, their views may change.
Just like Windows Control Panel has "Printers and Devices" - because I guess people don't think of printers as devices?
Are there ways to do this while whitelisting sites where you want to retain and keep login tokens?
I would add sugar too.
100% agreed, wish the "printing somewhere" experience was better too.

Printed at a print shop, paid 50cts for the prints and $3 to use the computer for 10min trying to print from USB drive

Printed at a library and for the printer could only pay in cash and there was a long line.
Nvidia Explains Why It Believes USD Is the “HTML of the Metaverse”
As shown here, it wouldn't just be denial of service attacks. It'd be legal attacks on their DNS provider, their registrar, their hosting, their hosting's upstream providers, etc, etc.
Europe has shot off many feet. Look at how they have demonised nuclear power in some areas. Had they not done this, they would not now be at Russia's mercy(Varies across member states).
Similar to gene changed food - unwise denialism.
Not even that good at religion, given what additional stuff there is in the three[0] holy books containing those commandments.

[0] Arguably more holy books, but I don't feel like arguing if Mormonism is more different from the rest of Christianity than Islam, let alone the differences between Catholicism and Protestantism.
> There is zero moral difference between mailing someone a Bluray disc . . . and streaming the (censored) contents to exactly one person at a time.

Streaming is making a copy of the contents, which, if done without a license, usually violates the content owner’s copyright.
3-2-1 backups haven't let the world down.
@connorlu
My employer has offices across the major UK cities including London.

I doubt there would be any cost but it would likely need to be planned a month or so in advance as the building managers and security need to be briefed and approve it.

Most buildings would have conference spaces etc which would be suitable for talks, and pretty central so could head for a drink afterward.

Let me know if interested, it might be an easier option to manage if going broader across the UK.
Ask HN: Recommended finance factor model literature?
Looking for papers, journals, blogs, articles, anything on long-view public markets models y'all would recommend. Currently working with a factor model and looking to do some improvements so would appreciate anything you can suggest!
Thank you for this! I've been playing with the optimizedSD for a while but couldn't get what I wanted out of it. This guide makes sense to me. Gonna give it another shot on the weekend!
Contra a lot of popular belief here: I don’t understand how working as an engineer (because this is always what seems to be implied) will improve your odds at starting a startup.

Working as an engineer, and kickstarting a business are two very different jobs.

Even in practice successful tech startup founders seems to be 40 yos with a background in management consulting. So I really wonder where do people get the idea that working as an engineer is a path towards entrepreneurship.

EDIT: and it’s rather ironic that the author doesn’t himself run his own startup.
We will meet if this post gets over 20 upvotes.
I agree. It may well speed up convergence to the 'ideal' inner vision we have from a prompt.

But maybe the feedback will make marginal defects/artefacts worse. (Which could be manually corrected before re-entering this loop).
Google blocked my Chrome extension so I created a website to host it
I had an extension on web chrome store to remove paywall, now google don't let me updated it. So I create a website to host the extension.
The biggest underlying issue is the decline of family units. No one talks about it but it’s true. You can’t function as a society when there is no immediate support system left in the form of family and loved ones. We are inherently a social creature.
Nullable's have been around for at least a decade and before .Net core existed? Are you thinking of the NotNull attribute argument checking instead(Likely the wrong term here)? Any change in a data type to an existing API or code will always be tough and a lot of work. Maybe an in32 to a in64 being the exception.

Library developers are looking at these and following them to make enhancements. Developers working on business apps get the automatic performance improvements of these changes and the library dev changes to improve performance and allocations. I personally quickly go over these so when I get into a performance issue I have a little bit to know where to go find more information.
Machine Learning in the Enterprise: Use Cases and Challenges
Affirm Fiscal Q4 2022 Earnings Review: is the guide too optimistic?
Chrome Custom Tabs
> The most common electronics I see being thrown out these days is some shitty inkjet printer.

I've had a broken HP inkjet on my desk for 10 years. The only reason I've hung onto it is because it makes for a very nice network-connected document scanner. I got it used from one of my spouse's parents, and I haven't ever even tried to print with it. I keep thinking about replacing it with a multifunction laser printer, but why bother? I only ever really need the scanner.
I remember that story and I remember hearing someone actually produced a cart of it. Nice work!
Pool your money with others and order in bulk from Asian or Sourh American suppliers. No questions asked. There are specific subreddits/forums for this kind of stuff.
If someone crashes into your house, do you sue the car or the person?
Or you can just ask that folks agree to keep their phones away for the duration. There may be less pushback than you expect.
have you ever think in a minimalistic format like https://legiblenews.com/ ?
The incompleteness proof depends on the input to the program under consideration, BB is limited to programs that don’t have any input which makes the incompleteness proof irrelevant.

For similar reasons you can have a solution to the halting problem given a program of infinite size that is only considering programs of finite size with finite inputs.
Nah. It can be played by two people who have index cards and the willingness to do so. Did it twice in my school years. Given laptop support and something like Vassal it should be straightforward. DAK, supposedly, is a less-work alternative that has good reviews, although I never purchased a copy.

CNA was deliberately complex but the systems could be easily automated. I’ve seen Grigsby pc games that looked way more tedious…
Where I live in Mexico nobody owns a printer. Instead there is a print shop on almost every street corner. You walk in, print wirelessly from your phone or laptop, or hand them a USB drive, and they hand you your prints made on an expensive office printer. They also scan and copy. And it's cheap.
The current phrasing in Chrome is:

Block all cookies (not recommended)

- Sites can't use cookies to improve your browsing experience, for example, to keep you signed in or to remember items in your shopping cart

- Sites can't use your cookies to see your browsing activity across different sites, for example, to personalize ads

- Features on many sites may not work

That seems long enough that they could put in text about how this is storage in general and not just cookies.

Firefox just has "Cookies: All cookies (will cause websites to break)" so there's not really a place for that sort of text.
I would venture to guess that the author doesn't have a full understanding of what the AI is doing or how it works.

There are a gazillion artist who take clear inspiration from other artists, and there is no copywrite violation in doing so. The AI viewing his work isn't any different.
Scientists puzzled because James Webb is seeing stuff that shouldn't be there
> Lack of access to basic health care

the number of Americans with health insurance is at a historic high, Biden bragged about it on Twitter last week

it doesn't matter if you go to the doctor...if you don't take the doctor's advice and eat better + exercise...
According to the article the object is moving too fast to have come from our solar system. It's pretty rare for an object to come in from outside of our solar system. We have no idea how common technologically advanced aliens are. But you could argue that if they are common, if an object comes into our solar system from outside it's more likely than not alien tech. Although if it was from an advanced civilization, why would it crash? So maybe not.
> He was not completely opposing it, he just demanded to follow the law - you make your case in front of the UN and get it sanctioned. And in this case you should get credit for opposing it as it was all made up bullshit.

Well, as you point out, he doesn't get credit for opposing the Iraq War because he wasn't opposed to it (he just wanted Bush to ask his permission). He also doesn't get credit for upholding the value of International Law because he only does so when it suits him, which is essentially my point.

> How well Russia followed the laws and treaties itself, I can not judge

Sure you can. Russia regularly flouts International Law and it's currently in the process of doing so.

> Making Russia great again is also perfectly fine if it means to rebuild the economy, improve living standards, and similar things. Making it greater again, i.e. extending the territory with force is of course a different matter.

Right, but we're talking specifically about extending the territory with force.
As someone writing a .NET-based API hosted on AWS Lambda, your case is quite different to a "typical ASP.NET hosted application", that can run for days between restarts.
> On the other hand, Cloudflare taking it upon themselves to police the Internet is a nightmare in its own, given their bot-prevention services are effectively mandatory in order to even keep any sort of larger interactive website running.

Maybe we should additionally also focus on that problem as well. It should not be the case that you need to pay a protection racket just to be able to survive on the Internet.

We definitely need more, also international, efforts to establish:

- baseline requirements on IT security (to reduce the impact of stuff like hacked IoT devices)

- quick and fast cooperation between governments to identify and contact owners of hacked equipment to get them off the Internet and patched. Maybe something similar in operation to firefighters - you don't have to pay for their assistance unless you actually created the fire or were grossly negligent?

- procedures to get nation states that are a clear and consistent threat to everyone else off the Internet either because they actively attack others or because they are shielding hacker groups, and judging by where a lot of attacks originate, that is Russia, China, North Korea and Iran.

Particularly regarding the last point, I'd also advocate to take factual declarations of war as what they are and strike back.
Let's throw in "high on life" just to make sure.