skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What way do you think they lean politically? Many of them would no longer be considered modern Democrats. For example, 2016 Bernie was for strong borders, avoiding unnecessary war, and breaking away from trade agreements that were unfavorable to American workers. Modern Bernie votes to fund a war in Ukraine and no longer cares about securing the border. The Democratic party of today is socially far more left, but their foreign policy, free speech stances, and economic agenda resembles the old (pre-Trump grenade) Republican party. Weird times.
what the hell does "anticompetitive" mean? driving competitors out of business is exactly what competition is; and there are still very many competitors to Walmart!
Reminds me of William Basinksi's Disintegration Loops:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjnAE5go9dI

They are tape loop recordings where noise and cracks gradually increase over time as the tape is played and deteriorates.
Why does it cost so much to build things in America? (2021)
RE: buzz about a new version of Windows Terminal, which "takes characters and draws them on a screen": "How far has software and software development fallen to where that's even a notable thing." ... "The worst thing is that nobody thinks this is bad."
Spanner: Google’s Globally-Distributed Database Wins Sigops Hall of Fame Award
This comment hits the nail on the head. Just this morning when I saw FTX and BlockFi's news I thought to myself "yeah all the electricity spent on this is bad, but the real problem is how many hours of human thought have been spent on coming up with these schemes just for them to blow up on our faces".

Crypto is like the mental virus in the movie "Pontypool" [0] - people are infected by it and cannot think about anything else.

[0] - https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/pontypool
Offering a service to European consumers?

Probably not a big issue. GDPR compliance can be challenging without a suitable mindset, but it's not impossible.

* Consider that the GDPR has an extremely broad concept of “personal data” – it's not just identifying info but anything that can be reasonably linked to a person!

* Data minimization – only collecting what is needed, and only using it as actually needed – is already a great step.

* Writing a GDPR-compliant privacy notice can be a good exercise to understand what data you're processing for which purposes. Art 12–15 GDPR are the closest it gets to a checklist.

* And you'll have to implement “appropriate” security measures, but what is appropriate is largely up to you.

The more challenging part is ensuring that you're only using data processors/vendors that are contractually bound to use the data as you instruct, and that you protect “international transfers” where the recipient (e.g. vendor) is outside Europe. If you're looking for server locations in North America, I recommend looking at Canada since they have an “adequacy decision” from Europe.

You will have to be GDPR-compliant if you “offer” your service to people who are in Europe, i.e. actively market to such people, or have testimonials from EU customers, offer French localization, accept payment in EUR, and so on. Mere availability of your service is not an offer.

Offering a B2B SaaS service to companies that need to be GDPR-compliant?

You're fucked. There is no legally safe way for a company to use an US-based data processor, i.e. to engage you as a vendor. However, and this is your “get out of jail” card, many customers don't care, and will be happy as long as they can sign “SCCs”.
This is how i became a programmer
Every time I see a 'charger' like this I'm disappointed.

This isn't a charger. It is a fancy electrical junction box. The voltage into the box and the voltage out is the same. The only function of the box is to switch the power on and off. And the car already has a switch in to switch stuff on and off anyway. So this box of expensive electronics is entirely redundant.

And they don't even provide much power - typically 32 Amps at 230 volts. Ie. about the same as a caravan hookup. But a caravan hookup doesn't need to run Linux...
Seaweed is a very confusing term, yes.

Should be used for marine weeds [upper plants with flowers], but the term refer to algae that are a different category. Some algae are plants. Other are neither plants, animals or fungi and have their own category.
Citation needed. As far as I know the best available evidence (which is still pretty weak) says number of bugs is correlated only with number of lines of code, regardless of whether they're simple or complex lines.
This feels like it could cause a hell of a bandwidth bill if it does something like hit the HN front page.
How do you know that foo isn't a numerical string?
Nowhere. Just like Sequoia's $240m investment - it's just marked down to $0.
I loosely learned this too and live by it. In particular, it’s so easy to change algorithms but so hard to change data structures. The latter inform (pollute) everything about your functions and architecture.

Functions are just boring implementation detail. The structures tell you everything.
Is this really going to send me popcorn?

What kind?
It's depressing to me that there is such a vocal group of people cheerleading the demise of an industry that seeks to improve the financial system on a global scale. Truly disheartening are the financially disenfranchised (and what I believe) young voices for whom any system would be better than the current. It's to the extent that many think that attacking capitalism itself is the answer.

There is an incredible amount of fraud in crypto and it should be identified, stamped out and vigorously prosecuted. But there is also genuine genius at work solving difficult problems for everyone's benefit. It is terrible that people are losing money so easily and is a reminder that crypto isn't solving the problem of fools being parted from their money. Presumably that's what laws and regulations do.
Elon Musk’s Hyperloop Fantasy Ignores the Laws of Science–and Politics
Note that this is not covid but various long-standing respiratory illnesses. No mention of the idea that this is because of all the covid isolation.
This is entirely consistent with free speech. Impersonation and parody are still allowed on Twitter.

Musk was just offering to add a blue check mark to accounts that agreed to certain terms, including identifying impersonation and parody as such.

Why should making an agreement and honoring it be so hard?

Of course he should have known that there are a lot of trolls who wouldn't honor the agreement, and that's on him, but it's disconcerting to see so many people cheering the trolls on.
> It speaks to someone too sensitive to tolerate views that deviate from those of a narrow ideological narrative

The only thing that's narrowly ideological is the blind idolization of the so called tech cult ehm...I mean thought leaders in SV.

4 times this guy went to speak at TED and 4 times he produced lies and exxagerations.

It's fair to ask that the apex individual in the public sector (the POTUS, Senators and Representatives) and the pinnacle individuals in the private sector (the Forbes 400) behave with decorum.

Musk has less decorum than Trump and it takes a whole lot to beat him in that category.
Or you can strive to treat every customer like gold and reap the long term rewards of an impeccable reputation.
Similar to a Lisp REPL / Listener is in Smalltalk the Workspace, in Pharo the Playgound.
Perhaps you're thinking of the UK? The UK only has the gas storage capacity for nine days of gas.

Some other European countries have enough gas storage for months - the Netherlands has 123 days of gas stored [1]

[1] https://www.energylivenews.com/2022/10/31/uk-has-nine-days-o...
Or they just trap you into "lying" to the feds and lock you up for obstruction. It's quicker.
You have to admit that it scales pretty well though. Most people that set this up with PHP with nginx wouldn’t be able to do it in a way that happily handles the tens of requests per second.
You're almost certainly right!
Tech Money Fueled FTX’s Rise. The Crash Exposes Deep Flaws in VC
95% of the time the only difference will be developers pay less for the land to start with and then pay this saving to government at time of development.

A small amount of cases the owners wont want to sell for those lower prices. So yes its a disincentive but only a minor one.

Yes existing homeowners get benefit without paying for it but the usual argument is we cant tax them as they didnt ask for it and some will not be able to pay. Forcing pensioners out of lifelong homes is not seen well

In broader terms we are always looking for some way to deliver owners rights as well as socialised community outcomes. No system can deliver all but this is as clear a compromise as can be made in the view of most I've seen who have looked into it in detail
The Drawbacks List
When I had to move a large amount of data from one cloud storage to another (migrating Dropbox and Mega to Google drive) on slow dsl internet, I rented a VPS for a couple hours from Digital Ocean and installed a desktop, which I connected via x2go. If you have the ability to do this, your home internet connection speed is irrelevant.
In my experience managed languages scale a lot better than unmanaged ones. A managed language does a small constant factor (2 is often quoted) worse than the theoretically optimal allocation. Manual memory management gets incredibly good results on microbenchmarks but gets worse and worse as a codebase gets larger.
Dumb question, but how could you even be allowed to change your name on a verified account (old blue check), without some re-verification?
> All I need is [...]

So you have the money to donate a large sum all the time?

Send me the money and I'll implement it :-)
Thanks for your response, but what I was looking for is your opinion on what is a better solution if IAM has all these issues. We're just starting the implementation, so this is very timely.

In terms of our situation, we provide fine grained access to distributed resources, mainly data elements: think records/fields. An example is to define which user, group, and role can access which records and which fields within each record and to what extent (e.g., can't access SSN at all, can only get last 4 digits of phone number, can see first/last name, etc.).

I really liked the policy approach of IAM so my plan was to let data owners define policies that are then applied to users, groups, and roles. At run time our coordinator engine will check levels of access to each query (that could be to one data store like Postgres or Salesforce or a federated query spanning multiple data stores). By assigning a set of policies (with IAM's effect/action/resource/condition model), we can make this happen in a flexible way as I see it. Effect also has "deny," so that would be very useful for a majority of situations.

A hierarchical model like Google's as mentioned in the article doesn't seem as flexible as this IMO.
Here in New England, USA November is firmly in Fall/Autumn And Feburary is firmly Winter. March is also Winter until the last week.
I don't think the subs hanging from the ceiling on the hallway in front of the bar are COTS. If they are it's not on their websites or catalogues. Like it may be the same cone but it's not the same enclosure or anchoring.
Of course. The paper is at https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.3060.

> Our method applies to any translation invariant and any dot-product kernel, such as the popular RBF kernels and polynomial kernels. We prove that the approximation is unbiased and has low variance. Experiments show that we achieve similar accuracy to full kernel expansions and Random Kitchen Sinks while being 100x faster and using 1000x less memory. These improvements, especially in terms of memory usage, make kernel methods more practical for applications that have large training sets and/or require real-time prediction.

Sadly Fastfood didn't quite make it into Scikit[1], but did land in scikit-learn-extra[2].

1. https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/pull/3665. A shame, Scikit's equivalents scale very poorly.

2. https://scikit-learn-extra.readthedocs.io/en/stable/generate...
Every September 26th, the LessWrong forum has some variation on a button that can be pressed by a large number of people and which will bring down the entire site for the day if one person presses it. In 2022 the model was that it was open to all users, and the karma threshold to use it went down every hour.
Allowing people to suddenly buy a symbol that used to mean the source could be trusted (at least more than now)… what could go wrong
Maybe if the signs paid $8 per month they'd be more visible.
Oh, no, I mean from a career advancement perspective. Even if your contribution is a net negative you still look like you are at least working hard.
React is self-similar which to me makes it simple. The framework gets out of your way. I can’t say the same about, say, Angular.
Lego's 3D-Printed Duck Is a Sneak Peek at the Toy's Future
Dark room, a lot of coffee and no distractions
> That's right, according to the BLS, healthcare costs went down 0.6% MoM. To anyone with healthcare insurance or medical costs, they know this is an absolutely fake number.

I have health insurance and medical costs, but my healthcare costs definitely haven't increased MoM in the last year or so. In real terms my medical costs have decreased; in nominal terms they're about the same.
Yep. ISPs should be regulated like phone lines: a utility. There's really no excuse for the way the law fails to protect citizens this late into the internet revolution. Can you link me to some of the incidents of people "deplatformed by their ISP"?

I consider it a bit different because there are far more ISPs than there are CAs. Most human persons currently just use letsencrypt (good, but not good that everyone does).
This website could do with just a dash of CSS (and a mobile meta tag).
You can move the fan and the bubbles too
I don't doubt that the US can produce good schools and good engineers. Like I said what happened during world war two was unprecedented.

But good engineers from good schools won't stay and become great at their work unless they have big infrastructure projects to work on. Also money and prestige. Their colleagues from Japan, France, Germany and Spain have huge infrastructure projects to work on.

What's the equivalent of that in the US right now?
> TBH many folks in medicine can be quite callous

Pretty much. Med school seems to have this sinister ability to destroy part of your humanity.
I love seeing my memory actually used while "idle" in Windows 11. 64g of RAM and usually with nothing running it'll be using 12G. This is a good thing, it means less is cached to disk and more is in memory. Please, use my RAM, it's fast. Yes my nvme is fast but ram is faster.
Are you trying to claim the serious fire issues are solved by LFP batteries since 2022?

https://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20210328000109
Same here, I like that it imitates the iOS behavior when holding the command key down.
I've tried taking a bottle of CBD oil, which is only a few euros here from the drug store. The main issue is it makes you high in some way, so definitely not without side effects. No idea how they work around that.
I want two things before retirement:

1. visual undo/redo. I don’t want to be surprised when I perform either command. Show me.

2. visual clipboard with history. I don’t want to be surprised when I paste something. Show me. Also let me have more than one item in the clipboard.

Now I know some of you veterans will say, “there’s a plug-in for this! You just need to do these things…” no no no. I want this mainstream. Why are we living in the 1900s still?!
Except the latter is backed by an army and you can actually buy stuff with it. The former is so volatile that you don’t know if it’ll exist next year or not
If crypto didn't exist, these people would either go to wallstreet, or play poker.
Beautiful work. My 4 year old instantly got it. But she noted that bubbles usually pop themselves. She also wondered when the bubbles would run out.
Somewhat. But it's probably not a big factor.

I believe a more important factor is that the sw engineering job market is still a seller's market. Many large and well-known tech companies still struggle to compete with the tech giants. Even if several of them have frozen hiring.

It is difficult for me to agree with the very popular notion these days that the epoch of employee's choice is now over. Perhaps for FAANG and a few more exceptions. But I have been referring tens of very skilled engineers to my company and I often heard they have accepted other offers. From my perspective, employers must still compete for good talent. Maybe even entry-level talent, although maybe not so much.
Iron ore liquefaction is still a deadly problem for bulk carriers today and is suspected to be the cause of several recent sinkings.

https://gcaptain.com/cargo-liquefaction-continues-to-pose-de...
-- indeed - don't understand why they didn't use a different colour for authentic account vs verified account - marketing? --
People are cheerleading the ponzi-scheme part of it.
Is there a term for this type of highly interesting problem that is ultimately a waste of time? I have been calling it a “brain sink”in my head, it is deeply sad to me how many smart people have jumped on the bandwagon and what they could have done otherwise with their potential.
1000 hz! and yes, seems tied to fps is all :^)
Oh, I'm sure there's a good story there.

Also, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33547102
Tesla certainly didn't feel the need to get their Fake Self-Driving right from the get go.
White cheddar.
Yes, folded once between the cover and spine. My one consolation is that it was probably Jowett's translations of Plato -- on the possibility that that would have been less likely to go straight to trash at Goodwill.
You'll take the mine because you don't live near the mine.

I think what the parent comment was really hinting at is the need to move towards a less car-dependent life. Of course, electrification is important, but it's not environmentally neutral in any way.

It would be better if we had trains, strong public transport, walkable and cyclable cities rather than electric cars. I think that's kind of what Europe is doing and the USA should try to do similarly. Cars are extremely important for rural life but they're really unnecessary in cities... unless your cities are build as urban sprawls.
We had explained yet here why this point of view is incomplete and wrong.

If you provide antibiotics to a cow they probably will fart less, but also will grow poorly and will not produce good milk. Cows need their gut bacteria to liberate the nutrients in their food and remain healthy.

Many macroalgae have antibiotics as chemical defenses so feeding cows with it is the same as feeding cows antibiotics. Its ability to eat cellulose will be destroyed.

Even worse, this algae they evolved to use chemical defenses, so they grow slowly and only in a narrow ring around the continents. If some thing grows slowly, to harvest it at large amounts will destroy the resource in no time. Is a totally non-scalable plan.

Feeding cows with Chondrus is a false solution. If we try this path I predict that we will soon hit a dead end.

Feeding cows with Spirulina would fall into a different situation and maybe could work (but Spirulina is contaminated and spoiled easily).
Miami Heat Arena Balks at FTX Naming Rights, Ending 19-Year Deal Early
Oh I love it so much.
I'll add my provider of choice, Purelymail.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27707857
The Parody Gold Created by Elon Musk’s Twitter Blue
It's not correct to say 'inflation went up'. While inflation was not 0 and prices went up, inflation went down.
Okay let me rephrase:

I need a free state host for a single timestamp and I need to also write a button-pressing bot, carefully, to keep me out of crippling debt.
Yes, I feel so cheated that all I needed to do to get money for my ideas was to just talk like an ayn rand novel protagonist. At least Zuckerberg did all this but was legitimately a genius. Made sense that bankers put up with that shit cos they could tell he was smart af. But when you’re larping to be a banker like most VCs are, you’ll just copy what they did like a monkey without understanding why they did it. And I wasn’t there to part their money from them. Fml.
As I wrote.
Many of us grew up with the axiom "The fastest way to speed up a computer is to throw more RAM at it".*

Most of us still feel that way. My newish desktop (6 months old) has 32 gig of RAM.

* A corollary would be to replace that slow HDD with yet more RAM again. And what is an SSD but non-volatile RAM?
Top US border official Chris Magnus told to resign or be fired
This Week in Net: 2022 US midterm elections (and Developer Week intro)
It's also quite possible they caused it. Fractional reserve banking by definition means keeping only a percentage of customer deposits readily available.

Regulation also doesn't fully solve this, we still have fully regulated bank failures today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bank_failures_in_the_U...

What solves it is the Fed stepping in and agreeing to print money no matter what to cover customer deposits if need be (FDIC insurance). That's hard to replicate in the crypto world but likely possible.
Would you say they are A-OK?
If you snore badly. Wake up sweaty. Heart racing. Or bad sleep in general. Waking up exhausted.

Get a sleep study. You may have sleep apnea. Which is your body starving for air. A cpap can be a dramatic life changing device.
How would that improve things, exactly? You realise this is a commandline and emacs/vim email client. Right?
So we just have to stop the military industrial complex and problem solved!

Likewise, it's a good thing Elon is attempting to disrupt the attack on free speech.
"And then everybody clapped"

This story could be true, but it smells so much like fabrication.
honestly its better than the pile of garbage that GitHub has become. I swear if I see one more fixed top or side menu, I am going to scream.
Trump, Musk and Kanye Are Twitter Poisoned
The issue is that we don't believe the crypto industry seeks to improve the financial system, on any scale. It's not just that so many of them have turned out to be scammers — it's that the industry as a whole has not put in any work to prevent that, and often has actively worked to prevent any sort of guardrails.
True. Ironically, Vivaldi still integrates many Google services in its browser, instead of using alternates. I also suspect they have a search engine deal with them too.
It's really not easy. They more or less have tenure. They can only be fired for cause and they have a right to due process. These are legal rights that normal at-will employees just don't have.
If Tether is 87% backed they'll be fine; they can find some way to hide that shortfall. (To be clear this is illegal and I want Tether to die but we need to acknowledge the realpolitik of the crypto market.)
GLP-1??
I tried using a combo of mbsync, notmuch, and notmuch-emacs to start migrating away from Gmail's UI (and eventually moving away from their service).

I found, though, that mbsync failed to download updates after the initial bulk load.

Has anyone else run into this, and/or found a good way to use notmuch with gmail?
> 1. visual undo/redo. I don’t want to be surprised when I perform either command. Show me.

I'm having a hard time imagining an implementation of this feature that would be faster than "undo, check what happened, redo if undesired". I can see a need to explore the whole history (JetBrains IDEs have the local history), but what benefit do you see from previewing a single step?

> 2. visual clipboard with history. I don’t want to be surprised when I paste something. Show me. Also let me have more than one item in the clipboard.

CopyQ is a great tool that does just this, available on Linux and Windows. I'm sure there's an equivalent for Mac.

EDIT: also, not to plug JetBrains again, but their IDEs have clipboard history built in within the editor. I have CopyQ for system-wide clipboard history, so I don't bother with it, but it's there.