skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I answered more in depth about why I left above, but basically the work environment felt a little too academic and a little too static for my liking Aerospace is my passion, so I’m still in that world. But just somewhere in private industry where things change a little more rapidly.
What does the EU instance have to do with any of this? The instance started before there was any talk of anyone buying Twitter.

edit: HN won't let me reply, so:

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I had a whole comment written, but you deleted and remade before I posted, and I lost what I wrote.

But the gist is, no, the existence of the instance alone has nothing to do with Musk.

It could possibly have nudged them to speed up existing plans, but that's not the same as "EU signalling that Elon Musk is bad for the democracy." It's them signaling proprietary social media under the influence of a non-EU power is bad for democracy in the EU.

This is one of the possible failure modes they hoped to avoid by exploring alternatives to commercial social media. The conversations are long-running and high-level.

For example, from 2019: https://ar.al/2019/11/29/the-future-of-internet-regulation-a...
All of the cheap tabletop cooktop I have seen have terrible cycling at lower powers, there seems to be two power levels and when you need something below the lower one, it cycles power at ~10s frequency. In contrast a Bosch integrated cooktop from a couple of years ago also does cycling, but seems to have more power levels available and the cycling is faster, around 1Hz or so. At least for me that is good enough.

My issues with it are more about inaccurate placement causing hot and cold spots and if you move a pot it can triggers cookware detection, which then clicks different coils on and off for 5-10s before it is satisfied with the new configuration. Both of those issues are probably exacerbated by the "FlexInduction" system that promises one large automatic cook area.

I'm hoping that power electronics development for electric cars creates some innovation in this area, but it's really hard to tell because there are no useful review sites and there aren't any places that let you take a cooktop for a testdrive.
Tradition has held that these are ideas, not inventions, and thus
obtain value precisely because they can and should be freely shared
(which is the ultimate aim of patents anyway).

Ideas may also require intellectual labour. But one may not receive
the protection of the government for them to give temporary advantage
over competitors. Ideas are a collaborative venture, protocols being
the very epitome of this - since a "protocol of one" is a bit like a
birthday party for one... a bit sad and pointless.

If one wants to make money, by all means invest time in pursuing
patentable inventions, but do not presume that mere ideas (most of
which are "nothing new under the sun") should be afforded the same
protection.

The problem we have today is that the patent system is derelict. The
goalposts have shifted to allow almost all and any silly idea to
obtain a patent and the system itself is weaponised for extraction. It
has not shown any will to reform, so abolition may be its ultimate
fate.
Kindle is the no-brainer solution here, if most of your books are in Epub. I don't have any experience with PDFs on it, though.
The simplicity of using it and the possibility to send books via e-mail and get them on the reader in no time is great. Of course you can still use the usb cable to do it, if you don't want to have Amazon account/give them any info.

Plenty of older models should be on eBay. Paperwhite 3 and Paperwhite 4 might be a good start for a used (but still supported and receiving software updates!) cheap option.
Ahh, FORTRAN. I have fun, memories of FORTRAN. Write out of college in the mid to late 90's I worked with the language quite a bit. I was working for a logistics company and we spent a lot of time calculating routes, costs (fuel, maintenance, etc.) and the like using FORTRAN. The move from F77 -> F90 -> F95 was rather pleasant.

When the web started to become popular and Microsoft started including IE on desktops, I ended up writing CGI scripts, in FORTRAN!, to model reports in HTML. We were moving from OpenVMS to Sun Solaris boxes, which allowed use to move way from writing text based reports that people viewed on a terminal to HTML pages that would easily allow CSV files to be downloaded. I was a mess for few months. I don't think I have ever fully recovered.

Yep, my first bit of web based programming was FORTRAN 95 and DCL. I had to cobble a cgi library together where I put in something that acted like, but wasn't exactly, authentication and security.

By the mid-2000s the system had been migrated to some monstrous application that was mostly Java, but there were still FORTRAN bits handling the math and numerical back end, but I had moved on by then.

I still have nightmares about the system, but writing the FORTRAN code was also easy. Using it in the right spot was always the hard part.
I remember many years ago when in France to be a moped (technically a cyclomoteur, that could be driven by 14 years old without a license) there was the need to have pedals, so there were "funny" motorbikes with pedals clearly added on as an afterthought or however explictly added for the French model only.

Example of a 50 cc Vespa with pedals:

https://vespasmallframeforum.proboards.com/thread/7725/vespa...
I'm still waiting for Nintendo to treat us to an N64 mini. And it needs to have 4-player support. Maybe we need to wait for this chip shortage to sort itself out before we can have cool things (at realistic prices).
Funny seeing this pop up again after all these years.. If IIRC pg still used to post on HN those days. How time flies..

I imagine those folks on the article have long since moved on and forgotten about this incident
A MVP and quality product are not mutually exclusive. To me MVP means do a limited set of things and do them very well. UX is of course part of that.

Failing fast and iterating is absolutely important to make sure you're building what your users actually need. I've found that what users want/need and what they think they want can be very different.
Maybe we can just stick to the existing tradition of not policing how adults decide to identify and self-describe in their chosen social circles.
More concretely, it's a pain to have to implement the same functions over and over for slightly different types, even when you're basically doing the same thing every time. Specifically, `Option` and `Result`, for example, both have `map` implemented for them (that's one lot of duplication), but also the consumers of the data structures need to know whether they've got an `Option` or a `Result` (and that's another lot of duplication if you want to allow consumers to use either an `Option` or a `Result` depending on what happens to be locally convenient to them). Sometimes you really do want to do different things depending on whether you've got an `Option` or a `Result`, but much of the time you don't care; you're only using it to signal errors, and you have no particular opinion on how you do so.

The example in the top comment allows you to implement what it means for a type to "have a `map` function". So it doesn't get rid of the duplicated effort on the "supply side" - we still have to implement the `Mappable` trait for each of `Result` and `Option` individually - but it allows the consumer to not care whether it's got an `Option` or a `Result`, by using only the `Mappable` trait instead. That is newly possible because the GAT feature allows the definition of a `Mappable` trait which contains fresh generics, and `map` is inherently a generic function.
No, they were before social media was a thing. Social media has an implicit social network behind it and profiles where you can post information, not necessarily in a forum.

HN has none of these features. Neither do BBS message boards.
Classic example of "free speech absolutist".
From DotCloud to Docker (2017)
Seems the author forgot that it's not "money" until it's in your hands/bank account

It's all numbers on a screen until you cash out
Thankfully, the ghost racer patent is expired by now:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210824042808/https://www.gamas...

That doesn't make it any more deserving of a patent.
Yes Windows is also easier then Linux...true.
> We can actually refine blood plasma down to a state where it's basically 100% safe even if someone with "bad blood" donated it.

Do you have a source on this? Given that many blood donation facilities still refuse many “risk groups”, which honestly always carried the stench of politics to me how arbitrarily they are selected, from donating blood?
This is literally how the US moved west and how most cities in the US were developed.
Unfortunately, Boyue seems to have dissolved. I was looking at the p78 when I bought my last ereader (Onyx Boox Poke 3), and thought to get one to replace it, but they are no longer cheaper or easier to find.
Poor people have harmed people too.
I guarantee those critical of the code have forgotten about it, but I also that Heather has not.
I use self hosted Gitlab, which provides docker registry and much more. I recommend checking it out.
Axiom: Just-in-time dynamic infra for offensive security operations
I do freelancing. Any one person‘s advice is going to be from a pretty low sample size, but here is mine: the specific industry and the geography you have contacts in matters a ton more than “the economy“ that you read about in the headlines. Maybe that’s a good thing, or maybe a bad thing, but I would recommend talking to the exact people you would be trying to sell your services to.

If you cannot get meetings with those people, it is not a good time to start regardless of the overall economy
> The problem is that newer versions have fewer links to them, so they seem less authoritative.

Ah, that makes a lot of sense actually, thanks for explaining! The heuristics idea sounds neat.

Sounds like it's running on surprisingly little hardware. Is the index stored on a separate SSD?
How to Destroy Google
Also available in [Spanish](https://freakspot.net/C%C3%B3mo-destruir-Google/) and [Esperanto](https://freakspot.net/eo/kiel-detrui-Google/).
I'm quite cynical about my own ideas. If I actually stop and think about them when I have them I tend to dismiss them because I focus on the flaws more than the good bits. Writing them down and coming back later helps immensely.

Somewhat tangentially, this is one of the reasons why I dislike a lot of meetings, or, more specifically, meetings that don't have an agenda or a one-page doc upfront. If I'm in a meeting and someone drops an idea on the attendees expecting an immediate evaluation I'll say what I think but that's very often quite wrong and not really what I think. My first impression of things is driven by what I can see as flaws and problems and I don't see the good bits particularly well.

If you give me 24 hours and a doc outlining what you want to do you'll let significantly better feedback. I believe this is true of everyone.
It'd be good to see an adult comment on the Vegas Loop.

Vegas Loop $50 million. 2 years from contract signed to opening. 1.7 miles, one lane. Currently has shared driven cars - https://www.tiktok.com/@alexsibila/video/7156602211508768046

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boring_Company

How cutting edge is the prufrock? https://www.boringcompany.com/prufrock

Musk knows what to do, cut out bureaucrats. Pay more money to dig deeper rather than mess with permissions.

Vice is run by children, and children of the most boring kind. Reading articles on Vice for this stuff is pointless.
eh, most of the comments here aren't saying what you're saying. They are blasting Musk for having layoffs in general.
I'm @ora@mastodon.lol though I'm debating starting my own branded instance.
Note: nowadays EPUB is a 'kindle friendly format'. Amazon promised to ditch .mobi support (when sending as e-mail or using Send To Kindle apps) on August. They still work (you will have an e-mail with a warning 'in August 2022 it will be gone', lol), but people are encouraged to use EPUB.

I assume there is some conversion from EPUB to 'new mobi' (azw3 maybe, I forgot the name), but it's on Amazon's side. I've sent 20+ EPUBs via e-mail to my Kindle in the last two months and all of them work like a charm, no problems with formatting and stuff.
Doesn't that just change the point of failure? Can't soul still ban an account?
That's the funny thing - young people can hear better, but most don't have enough money to buy the really fancy stuff until they get older and their hearing deteriorates.
I think you need a better argument than that.

Is physics patentable? Everything in the real world eventually depends on physics. Yet despite the unpatentability of physics, patents built on physical properties of the world exist as well. Why should mathematics and software be different?
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I wouldn't quit LinkedIn either. For 99% of the time, it's totally worthless, and has even more of an authenticity problem than most social media. But when it comes to finding a job its actually invaluable. I was laid off earlier in the year with a large number of others from my company, and I pretty much exclusively did my job searching through LinkedIn. I made a single post about having been laid off (which was my first personal post on the site ever), and within 24 hours I had so many people reaching out to me with job leads I needed a spreadsheet to keep track of them all. Within 2 weeks, I had 5 competing offers all of which were better than my previous job. I can't imagine being able to do all of that without LinkedIn.
Not according to Oban and Wildman, who define social media as having the following characteristics:

“To define “social media” for our current purposes, we synthesize definitions presented in the literature and identify the following commonalities among current social media services:

1) Social media services are (currently) Web 2.0 Internet-based applications,

2) User-generated content is the lifeblood of social media,

3) Individuals and groups create user-specific profiles for a site or app designed and maintained by a social media service,

4) Social media services facilitate the development of social networks online by connecting a profile with those of other individuals and/or groups.”

Obar, J.A. and Wildman, S. (2015). Social media definition and the governance challenge: An introduction to the special issue. Telecommunications Policy, 39(9), 745-750.
Quello Center Working Paper No. 2647377

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2647377
I see there are a lot of misconceptions here.

FLAC is 100% identical to the original audio CD sonically, it's a lossless format. See it as a ZIP file for WAV audio files.
1) This is a problem everywhere. And yet most don't have problem as extreme as the US. The are often solutions for those sorts of things.

2) This is certainty a problem but also not totally unique.

Musk wont help public transit, he hates it.
I read the book, haven't seen the show.

Since the book doesn't really have any A.I. characters I don't think it's much like West World unless they changed a lot in the adaptation.
Oh I didn't know that, cool!
Should've called it an awesome awesome
> What I have now at about €20/month:

> 80 GB SSD Storage

> 3 Cores @ 3 GHz

> 4 GB ECC RAM

> 4 TB traffic

This is kind of a bad deal?

Hetzner Cloud gives you for 9.7€

2 vCores

8gb ram

80gb storage

20TB bandwidth
“You’ll have to scroll far to see unverified users”
Unless you already have a partnership with some platform using it, i think its a hard sell.
Last month, I was pleasantly surprised that Apple was doing a next-day delivery of the new iPhones. Now, it has gone back to almost a month delay here in India.
> At least he didn't reinvent a forum, so in that sense it is minimal.

Herein lies the problem though: it's "minimal" for them, at the expense of the users. Like all those soundbites.
Quitting social media is an evergreen topic and a new article about it pops up about once per month.
That's a really good question, yes it can but we can remain impartial as we have no visibility to content or anything our users do. Platforms can still ban users on their side or through our API but that would not limit our users from joining other platforms or creating their own.
That's super cool, thanks for curating those websites and putting them up!
Google Options Make Masseuse a Multimillionaire (2007)
Archive link without paywall: https://web.archive.org/web/20220425210619/https://www.nytim...
A better made up law is that, given a complex enough product, simplicity is inversely proportional to the underlying complexity. An Airbus A380 is a long shaft with windows and wings, etc. This only applies to non brutalist design though.
It was a somewhat rushed point, admittedly. I was reaching for enlightenment-era imagery to challenge the seeming disavowal of morality itself. I note that OP extended those remarks elsewhere to claim that the law is the preferred source of moral constraint. I'm not even sure of what to say to that.

But I very much appreciate the depth of your point. I've always found validation (?) in the deontological aspect of Kant's idealism because I think it neatly describes why people feel obligations to those they interact with most closely (i.e. I feed my child because I should, rather than to avoid his hunger). I certainly take your point that the categorical imperative isn't the best or only tool for interpreting moral dilemmas. Honestly, I was bringing it up in part because it's a recognisable phrase that might infer that there's more to the question of ethics than unexamined instinct.
We just had our interview last Thursday and heard back from the partners on Friday.

I wrote about the experience, our interview questions, the feedback from the partners, and our lessons. Sharing in case anyone finds it useful!

All the best to those who will be having their interview soon :)

(P.S. I’m hoping to speak with founders, developers, and agencies who often work with admin panels or cms to learn more about your work. Let me know if you are up for it!)
Fun and cool!
I mean maybe for the US its a success. But reality is in Germany/Switzerland metro areas with 1/10 the city have rail networks 10x the size.
Do you need a blue check mark to use Twitter?

Ask yourself that question.
It's a mess, I agree.

On practical side it rarely bothers you. In most organizations you standardize on single one and that's all.

Say my largest current Linux deployment is on Centos 7. Project is new so just for 3 years.

Migration will highly likely will happen to Alma 9 (RHEL 9 clone) somewhere next year. And will run another 5 years or so.
C2 is lossless if the error correction (Reed-Solomon) can reconstruct the data. It interpolates when it can't (therefore lossy).

The gist is that you need to clean your CD's meticulously before ripping them!! Also, clean the CD-ROM player's lens using a cotton swap and lens fluid if you can (wrap the cotton swap with non-abrasive lens cleaning tissue).

If you do that, there will be no audible difference between the ripped version and the data on the original CD (providing you don't have some setting turned on in your ripping software that does some kind of processing of the data). You don't need special software to get a clean rip. I've been doing it this way for decades.
Bragdocs: Record and show your proof of your work
I must have misunderstood something.

The OP wrote:

“Would you treat someone in real life like that?”

You responded:

“Yes, in a pub”

Your definition of snark seems very off. Snark is only ever used in a passive aggressive attempt to tear down another person. It is literally “critical or mocking comments made in an indirect or sarcastic way.”

Snark is never made for the edification of the other person, nor is it ever constructive.
>You can’t conclude that if you spend it, then it is a currency.

Why not? It's an abstract concept. Consensus decides whether something fits the definition, or even change the definition so that it fits. And, IMO, if WoW gold is widely accepted to be a currency, then BTC is too. YMMV.

My point refers to those who still bang on the fact that you can't pay BTC directly to buy bread, therefore it's not a currency. Just because it's not used in the economies YOU engage in, doesn't mean it's not a currency. You're just not involved with it.
We definitely would be better off being nicer to each other, but in realistic terms that's not something that changes overnight.

> Asked if you’re in the wrong place for a job interview? Suggested you were in a CS class by mistake or to find a husband? Thought you were in a meeting to take notes?

I would imagine that's often more of a surprised blurt made without intentional ill will, even if it has vastly negative effects on the person being asked. Like seeing a male kindergarden teacher and asking which kid are they there to pick up. It's just so rare to see women in CS to the point where I didn't even realize or consider that OP is one of them.
It's much more complicated in practice, but in theory, it's pretty simple: convert existing car lanes to bike lanes. Chaos will ensue as the construction work and reduced road throughput inevitably generate huge jams.

That chaos is a feature, not a bug. It's meant to discourage people from using their car. If you keep car usage convenient, people will continue to use their car. Any measure that makes using a car inconvenient is a good thing. Low road throughput, high parking cost, low number of parking spots etc...

I've seen it played out in Paris, which was very much a car city two decades ago, and can now be described as a bike-friendly city: it's far from being on-par with Netherlands standard, but good enough that lots of people chose a bike over other methods of transportation, and cars are generally one of the slowest form of transportation in a city (behind public transit, bikes or other 2-wheelers).
Every gas range( Wolf, Viking, GE, Bosch, Maytag ) I've used seems to vary dramatically with temps at different settings.

The lowest setting on some ranges might be a High setting on others.
You don't need a blue check mark to have an account or post.
GAT is Generic Associated Types

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2022/10/28/gats-stabilization.htm...
The article makes it sound like the only choices were this hack or break X, but that's not the case.

It would be perfectly fine to have a "modeswitch_prohibit" property (hooked to sysfs and kconfig) which contains a list of process names to match. It would be unusual, but it would ot be an ugly hack.
Yes and no. Meaning: depositing fertilizer close to the shore in shallow waters causes toxic algal blooms and suffocates everything. One needs deep, cold waters so the sinking organic matter is not decomposing rapidly.

And yes, if the winds blow the Saharan dust over large oceanic surfaces algae do grow in otherwise "desert" waters and some of the generated biomass does sink deep.