skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
... and a lot of those VPN companies are probably VC-funded.

Tom Scott made a good video on the uses and non-uses of VPNs [1]. VPN advertising has changed since that video to downplay "security", but what I think is odd is that they've replaced that with advertisement that basically is "violate the terms of service of Netflix".

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVDQEoe6ZWY
Fun fact: coal-fired power plants release more radiation than nuclear power plants do. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-...
There are something like 10-15 countries in Africa where English is the official language, and there is almost as many English speakers in Africa as in the US in total :)
clear checklist of what can be built (based on safety and environmental requirements)

Such a thing doesn’t and cannot exist. One of the (many) purposes of environmental impact studies is to stop (for example) a new golf course from destroying a bunch of wetlands habitat for endangered species. If the species can only be found in one small area then there’s no rubber-stamp process that will protect it. These projects need to be studied in detail, on a case by case basis, to determine what impact they’ll have on the environment. There are whole fields of engineering that deal with this subject.
Capitalism is when you exploit government policy to exclude others people from a market, in order to make more money?

Being incentivized to make money is not all it takes to make it capitalism. If the policy is a net-negative for the market as a whole then the market will work to get rid of the policy, because there will be more people excluded than benefit. The only reason it would stick around is if there are motivations excluding capital/market aspects, such as equity, altruism, and social good.
That's not growth, bitcoin's throughput is still less than a 56k modem from 25 years ago.

Being able to send and receive from anyone is growth, lightning isn't on the bitcoin chain until it gets synchronized.

If I give you a bitcoin address, you can't send anything to me with the lightning network.

It's unnecessary nonsense because bitcoin is pointlessly crippled. Every other cryptocurrency has plenty of throughput and can be used decentralized.
it's also in the platform of many leftists. woke culture debases woke politics and gives cover to neoliberals' authoritarian, anti-worker policy
I seriously considered making a mobile game about this
Microsoft engineering have different marching orders than hands-on 0-transparent-0 OS coders, and this yet another indication of it IMHO
> property is seen as investment first, place to live second

I disagree with this, I think NIMBY attitudes is mainly about keeping the quality of live, they want to keep current housing and avoid apartments, more crowds etc. Development and more people increases the value of existing property.
Apart from that last point I think that's pretty much https://www.givingwhatwecan.org
I wouldn't be surprised if someone responsible for verifying accounts in Indonesia took a bribe.
It's Going to Get Ugly
I live in a small town in Ontario just outside Toronto and this problem is GLOBAL.

I did a walkout basement years ago, the f'ing building inspector came to my house every single day. It got to the point he was stopping by for lunch simply to abuse my wife's hospitality.

we had enough and finally asked him what he wants. He basically told us to call the city and tell them what a great job he was doing.

We did this just to get rid of him.

I dont think the government has any clue what the lower level people are actually doing. It isnt about "building permits" but government empire building and control.
It brings into question the author's credibility.

At this juncture, claims of 2020 election theft are akin to being a Flat Earther. Do you, dear reader, desire to get advice, a hot take on sugar babies, or have anything to do with such a person?

It's at least nice to be aware and have the information.
Your post is pure speculation and just kind of excuses this behavior. We should be asking why this corporate entity feels the need to casually dip into racism to virtue signal about the perceived positives of this layoff.
You might be surprised [1]

[1] https://www.ipi.org/ipi_issues/detail/hidden-taxes-how-much-...
The level of reply spam on Twitter is irrelevant to the legal status of the merger agreement.
Voluntary transactional free association between consenting adults and the author ends with a "yes, but not like that!"

> Only this complete upheaval of traditional gender dynamics could allow high-achieving women to “sugar baby” for working class men, and without any tangible consequence to the women.

The author advocates a social-regulatory framework to preserve market relations. I can't see how increasing regulation can do anything but distort the market, but I'm willing to be proven wrong. The whole piece comes across as a "I'm more interested in a return to regulatory capture than I am interested in competing in an evolving and dynamic environment." Sorry, but in any market there's winners and losers. What are we going to do, start getting rid of free markets?
But that's apples and oranges. People who work at those companies are presumably being paid that because they are (or at least believed to be) making more in profit for the company than they are being paid. It's the same reason why professional football players and movie actors make so much. But consider ballet dancers or stage actors -- they may be just as athletic or as good actors as the football players or movie actors are, but they are in a far less profitable field. So they make less. The people in these jobs are just motivated by their passion rather than by salary.
One question I've had: why are car brakes inside the wheel at all? Is it only ease of servicing? Putting the brake disks on the shaft before the suspension would make wheels lighter and allow positioning the kingpin much further out.

I tried to google for an explanation, but only found hits about brakes problems.
Same thing occurred to me. The Bleach Bit BS.
It delayed by a decade (or two) browser innovation. This meant that desktop apps weren't replaced with cross-platform web apps over that period. Note how now we no longer need Windows for most professional desktop applications. As much as we like to complain about JavaScript and Electron, they're largely the reason that we no longer depends on Windows for productivity.
Depending on the topic I'm working on, sometimes I need an approach similar to what you explained. I still use a mindmap, open a first-level node called 'temp' and start adding everything there and keep sorting them. As soon as a structure starts to emerge, I create other nodes and move those items to their new places.
This is based on the assumption that your final output would be a tree with one-to-many relationships rather than a graph with many-to-many relationships. I've seen tools for organizing many-to-many relationships, but I never had the need to use one.
Just a heads up, but jwz redirects links from hackernews to a page that isn't exactly safe for work.
You can try 10X Management. They represent me, I do system admin work, and I’m pretty sure they represent other system and network admins.
Sorry, my comment was overly brief and flippant. I see this change as a net positive for privacy, and the fact that it's of only limited benefit for people who are less scrupulous about privacy is unfortunate but I am still pleased on the balance.
If you have nothing to hide, you just be rather dull. I don't mean that only unlawful behavior is fun but if you've never had a thought or written something you would rather not share I can't imagine how either passive or manipulable you must be.
You're right about infant mortality rates.

Then there's a question of how much access to health care should be needed? I was recently reading about a study that found when western diets entered a region health care costs go up. I was reading about it in Barons which is a financial publication. I imagine they are looking for investment opportunities. But, the observation is interesting. I'd link it if I could find it.

If you look at the US causes of death, a high percent of them are related to lifestyle. Like so many heart disease issues being linked to smoking or arterial blockages (and they've studied the causes of those). If a group doesn't have those lifestyle components they they have better health and longevity.
fmovies et al are pretty hard to beat. They have an extremely large selection that goes across all services and in my experience often have better image quality. I was comparing Netflix to fmovies recently and Netflix was looking like hot garbage. Also no need to log in, just enter the website into the URL and you're good to go. Very straightforward and fast user interface, even comments.
> That should be a given. Why even bring it up?

It should be; but I think it's naive or disingenuous to imply that hiring/layoff decisions are usually fair and unbiased, especially in multiple departments in a large organization.
does the existence of a MSFT_PRIVATE partition type in the Ubuntu 22.04 installer also sound "silly" ?
More housing of any kind is a benefit. It reduces competition.

Market rate housing helps everyone. If there is a brand new market rate condo for a meta employee to live in, they won't be competing for a shabby 1 br, and a teacher might afford it.
You're totally right. But I believe the explanation still basically holds, at the end instead it's the bike turning itself to save itself due to its inherent stability.
Sorry, but you can acknowledge that something is ethical and moral while also acknowledging that the incentives of a system result in some local maximum in the happiness of the players involved where a different set of incentives might yield a global maximum that yields a great satisfaction for all parties involved.

The best good-faith criticisms of this arrangement of dating have nothing to do with puritanism, misogyny, envy, or selfishness but instead are criticisms that the dating market involved is dissatisfying to most or all involved compared to what it could be.
thanks. I stumbled into that but hasn't find a good tutorial. I understand there's a book but I was looking for something free. I'll look into that, meanwhile, have you got other options?
I'd suggest asking the folks at https://lun.energy, to start.

You're right that our site doesn't yet work for homes outside of the US, unfortunately. The approach would be similar, but some different equipment and home configurations to consider along with different data sets (fuel pricing, weather, grid emissions, etc.) -- I'll keep an eye out for good resources, and would love to help anyone who wants to try to build it!
You mean increase the offer.
Volkswagen paid much more for Dieselgate in the US
your race is saved in HR system once you apply for the job
>If you want a forum, go use forum software.

Boy have I got some news for you about what Discord just announced. You should check out the link on the post you're commenting on!
>Of course nothing ever generated by Stable Diffusion will have a dollar value on its own, what it outputs is the very definition of a worthless commodity.

Pretty bold statement based on nothing but your feelings, seriously doubt this will remain true across all AI-generated images.
I thought the discussion of the color schemes for making a 2D heatmap was particularly interesting - it's cool how the blending mode makes it easy to generate 9 colors that only need a little adjustment. I also like seeing this sort of visualization, it makes maps that are pretty fun to look at.
On Linux, the general expectation is that files starting with a dot are invisible. This started out as a bug in an attempt to hide . and .. from the output of ls but became industry standard for Unix derived systems.

This is noot the case on NTFS (and probably other filesystems) as it has its own way to mark a file as hidden. This is a workaround to bring Linux behaviour into a non-Linux filesystem by adding the hidden flag based on the file name rather than the file attributes.

I'm sure this will fix all kinds of compatibility issues with applications using lower level APIs for file access and enumeration. It's a non-standard workaround, though, so it makes sense to put it in a mount flag.
I don't see any reason for an executive to be less likely to make a mistake. And considering that the core business is rock solid and didn't change much in last many years, I don't even see a potential for such mistake.
The old lady is now visiting more places than it did in its lifetime.
This is of course a silly but valid criticism of a post claiming FP is better than OOP in every situation. As others have pointed out, there are functional GUI frameworks, though of course something state-heavy is going to be more naturally modeled with OOP in some cases.

But that is all beside the point- OP specifically did not claim FP was always better, just that they found it more natural. That personal and subjective experience (which I share) is utterly orthogonal to the relative maturity of GUI libraries! The fact is, most GUI frameworks are OO, and the ones I learned were all OO. And I hated them! I am not a person who enjoys making GUIs, and that's in large part because I am not a person who enjoys OOP. When I learned my first functional language, it felt like a breath of fresh air. While I was a perfectly serviceable Java and Python programmer, Haskell just made sense immediately. That doesn't make Haskell a better language in absolute terms, but it was much better for me.

Now that I've worked with functional languages, I find I actually don't mind imperative languages at all. I don't really need 100% of the bells and whistles to write composition focused code that meshes with my brain, especially since just a hint of state here or there can free you up to do the rest of it statelessly. And now I find that as I build interfaces with LiveView or Vue that I actually do enjoy making GUIs- even if there is a little state here or there.

People, and this might come as a shock, are sometimes different from each other. And sometimes their talents don't match up perfectly with whatever task you feel is important in the moment. There's lots of programming which isn't as state-heavy as a GUI, just as there's lots of programming more state heavy than a data processing pipeline.
It’s worth noting that Paul posted this thought to Twitter.

For as much as everyone complains about Twitter, there is obviously value in the product.
I'm the same as you. Obsidian[0] is non-linear and has worked for me.

0. https://obsidian.md/
I hope I/O write queues at some point. Being able to inject I/O barriers relevant to the I/O stream instead of a system-wide barrier can let you write some higher efficiency I/O.
Comically, when I view this tweet in my browser, at the top right in the "Relevant people" box that Twitter wants me to pay attention to and follow is _another_ fake yet verified Vitalik account.

Honest question: what do Twitter's army of engineers and designers actually do every day? The site is slow, the UI is god awful, and the spam is - as this tweet points - appalling.
> The bureaucracy, just like the old taxi industry, is about keeping smaller players out, not enforcing the codes.

See my post above.. it is also about feeding the bureaucracy itself as well.

Some places (like where i live) actually go driving around looking for construction taking place so they can issue "stop work" orders and force you to get permits.

they use these permits to ask for more federal/provincial money as they are 'growing'.

They also grow the bureaucracy machine, which allows them to hire more people to drive around looking for lumber on your yard, to make you buy more permits...
It's much more likely to do with licensing radio bandwidth.
Maybe there is a case for moving much of it outside the US? Lots of staffers work remotely anyway.
Honestly paying 3% to make sure your shit gets approved sounds great. It's kind of like dealing with a hooker instead of a wife -- at least you know exactly what it's going to cost after you leave.

More corruption at this point would almost be a good thing. As things stand there's basically no personal incentive for inspectors to actually approve projects.
I agree that we should focus on the major uses of power, but the trajectory of computing and data center usage is accelerating quickly. We have the opportunity to get ahead of it rather than try to rip out and replace later as we are doing with power plants and transportation, all very costly.
Capitalism concerns who owns the means of production. I think you’re confused.
My experience has been that every podcast is sponsored by a another podcast. I'm not sure where the chain ends.
I don't know about SFO. I can say from painful personal experience that, if it is worse than LA County --which is a nightmare-- I cannot imagine building anything in SFO.

In one of my projects the plan-checker got into a fight with the civil engineering firm I hired over the method used to calculate static and wind loads on a structure. I had done all of this work myself --including running FEA simulations. However, because I am not a Civil Engineer, I had to hire a firm to, effectively, duplicate my work. Physics is physics, right? That's OK. No problem.

The issue was that the plan-checker did not like the method the civil engineering firm used to do the math. He called it the "European" method. This was a US civil engineering firm bonded for operation on all 50 states, BTW.

What was absolutely perplexing to witness and endure was that the numbers were correct. My numbers, the civil engineering company's numbers and the non-European method (whatever that means) numbers were the same (within the margin of error).

The plan checker (a Civil Engineer) knew this. The results were the same. He just wanted it done his way. That cost me weeks and thousands of dollars.

The problem with these people is that they have an incredible amount of power. One cannot challenge this power without being willing to delay a project for months or years and incur thousand, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of dollars (or more) in costs. It is as close as one can get to dealing with a totalitarian regime within a free society.

The same permit office forced me to install 64000 lbs. of concrete as the footings for my ground-mounted 13 kW solar array. An architect friend of mine told me those footings can support a four-story building. There was no way to have that decision reversed. I tried. It cost me a couple of months and tens of thousands of dollars.

Building safety and zoning regulations are most-definitely important. However, there needs to be a mechanism in place to ensure there's fairness in the system all-around. I don't want unsafe buildings anywhere around me. I also want construction projects to be able to execute on reasonable timelines and at the lowest possible cost; one that is not inflated by bureaucracy and, yes, incompetence.
Compromised or not, the blue checkmark is completely meaningless if you can change display names and not have to re-verify your account. Profile pictures I can see allowing for convenience, but what is the blue checkmark supposed to be certifying if not the person's name?
Next Phase of Vancouver-Seattle-Portland High-Speed Rail Study
Don't Be Worried About DALL-E Replacing Illustrators
The vitalik spoofing spam bots are such low hanging fruit. They should really just auto shadow ban anyone using his profile picture besides the real vitalik. (And probably elon musk too..)

I wonder if its an issue of being tangled up in internal bureaucracy, or not wanting to implement one-off solutions to glaring issues that can't be generalized. Certainly a management failure somewhere.
I don't consider myself a paranoid person, but I realized 20 years ago that we were all losing our privacy to online entities. When I first read about "the cloud", I knew that what I put on it was no longer mine. Government regulators don't care at all about our privacy, so what makes anyone really think they have nothing to hide? Honestly though, I can't imagine my life without these entities stealing my data, that's how bad it has become!
They would at worse be arguing in bad faith. But their argument is right or wrong because of its bases and assumptions, not based on who's saying the words
R has call-by-value semantics. Python has call-by-reference. These are entirely two different programming paradigms.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15759117/what-exactly-is...
The SpaceX tweet says "Starlink is now on all seven continents", not "Starlink is commercially available for general use on all seven continents".

Non-commercial users such as the US military are using it on bases, ships, and aircraft worldwide. Antarctica is notably a continent without US military bases, so the "on all seven continents" claim was not complete until these scientists got a hold of a dish.
Sexual preferences are themselves subject to evolution. If intelligence isn't beneficial, then people will eventually stop selecting intelligent partners.
Radv: Reduce CPU overhead of draw command recording Code
I'm really bummed that the streaming services never integrated with Last.FM. I have years of scrobbling on my account from ~2006 thru 2013 and the recommendations were always amazing.
“The docs were signed in 2006 but the Calibri font used was released in 2007”
Europe shatters all-time summer temperature records (set last year)
Wait, iOS has a solid 1/3 of the market in Europe. What am I missing?

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/europe
Curses! now I need to learn yet another language!
The data on their life expectancy shows it was far lower than average. What caused this? Was it heart disease? Infant mortality? Something else? Did they live long enough on average to get heart disease? The inuits eat more of a western diet now so getting data on their traditional diet must be difficult.

In any case, we don't have enough data to justify them as a data point supporting high saturated fat diets.
AI in finance-related article and inserts incorrect data without any review
This is the definition of prejudice.
Printers are odd beasts. At first glance they appear to be a bitmap printing engine for paper (or whatever the medium) and you send it a bitmap and maybe some settings. But no, they actually have a front end computer that speaks one or more page layout languages. That language tells the printer how to render the data into bitmap which is printed.

You first have to figure out which language your printer speaks. If it speaks a common language like postscript (basis for PDF) or PCL (printer command language) then you might be able to use a generic driver or one from a similar printer. If it is proprietary you will need to reverse engineer it by installing the printer in a native environment along with tools to sniff/log the communications send some test prints with magic data and figure out the command language that way.

Given that your printer already has a 32 bit driver it stands to reason you could have a look at the 386 source and see what fails to build on an amd64 machine. Then correct that and you have a driver.
Real humans being caught up in anti-spam measures would be much easier to stomach if there was a sane way to talk to a human at Twitter and get the ban reversed.
Scott Aaronson: That Financial Times QC Skepticism Piece
Kendi is one person with one interpretation and doesn't work for nor represent the policies of Twilio, a completely separate institution.

I read the statement the same as the GP comment.
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it's a tale as old as time: "centrist" liberal goes online to argue with the right, discovers they're arguing with the left, covers their tracks with the delete button and an accusation of horseshoe theory
The data-driven enterprise of 2025
It’s the difference between US and UK comedy.
I'd have to look, but it was during some contstruction they were doing in the pizza restaurant I believe. I don't want to post the link here as he has a redirect which ridicules HN users.... (edited for spelling)