skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s a small market for it.

Back before Gmail ate the world there were a number of small “mail server with webmail” in a box setups - those mostly died off. Similar things happened with office suites.
Loads just fine for me.
yt video of the images to some trippy music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3Yfv4kedD8
What’s hard about that? Every company has tons of shells for various reason.
>If I/O was the bottleneck, parallelizing it won't help, your SSD/network link/database won't get magically faster.

I think your SSD/network link/database might be able to work in parallel even when Python can't. Details:

Suppose I am scraping a website using a breadth-first approach. I have a long queue of pages to scrape. A single-threaded scraper looks like: pop the next page in the queue, block until the web server returns that page, repeat. A multi-threaded scraper looks like: thread wakes up, pops the next page in the queue, sleeps until the web server returns that page, repeat. With the multi-threaded scraper I can initiate additional downloads while the thread sleeps.

My assumption here is that the download over the network is at some level being performed by making a system call (how could it not be?) And once you have multiple system calls going, they can be as parallel as the OS permits them to be; the OS doesn't have to worry about the GIL. And also the server should be able to serve requests in parallel (assuming for the sake of argument that the server doesn't suffer from the GIL).

Same essential argument applies to the database. Suppose I'm communicating with the database using IPC. The database isn't written in Python and doesn't suffer from the GIL. Multiple Python threads can be sleeping on the database while the database processes their requests, possibly in parallel if the db supports that.

I think this argument could even work for the SSD if the kernel is able to batch your requests in a way that takes advantage of the hardware, according to this person: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33752411

Very curious to hear your thoughts here. Essentially my argument is that the SSD/network link/database could be a "bottleneck" in terms of latency without being the bottleneck in terms of throughput (i.e. it has unused parallel capacity even though it's operating at maximum speed).
I’m aware :)
Is this not essentially just warranty for the increased failure rate that comes with the car being tuned?

I guess we'll see if Mercedes is going to suddenly prevent third party tuners from doing this, but I guess not.
Yes, I'm not defending the EU hypocrisy or their own hostile surveillance laws. However, keep in mind that this report mentioned many issues about MS's own processing purposes, policies, and practices, and wasn't only about the problems posed by US surveillance law. It's those MS-specific issues for which the Dutch government got fixes applied to Dutch private sector use of MS 365; naturally they haven't changed US surveillance law.

And as bad as government surveillance is in both the EU and the US, it's awful when local companies send the data of the majority of their population into the jurisdiction of surveillance law whose political bosses the population can't even indirectly vote against.

This is rare in the US because US companies rarely send the data of US citizens to EU providers, which itself is because the big tech players are American. Whereas for exactly the same reason of where the big tech players are based, it's common for EU companies to send the data of EU citizens to US providers.
Hmm that is a good point. It is forbidden to sign contracts of enslavement in every country I know of, even if the potential contractee is making it free from duress.

Therefore forbidding some types of contracts for everyone does have established precedent.

However, there does not appear to be a limit to this.

For example, can governments ban their residents from signing contracts to distribute or host porn, gambling, etc.?
The Nazi camp counterpart for US would be Guantanamo: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_cam...

They just moved it to occupied foreign soil to technically not have a concentration camp in US soil. But then Germany had concentration camps in occupied soil as well, like Auschwitz in occupied Poland.
Government drone data across New York state
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33722092

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33744577

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33750228
As I said, I'm not familiar with other platforms, Twitter included. And I take it as a given that when two problems have vastly different scales, a solution for the small problem does not translate trivially to become a solution to the big problem.

But it can provide some guidance.

What I like about HN is the guidelines [1]. They are a 700-word very thoughtful version of "be nice".

Could this work on Twitter? I don't know. I don't even know if Twitter has karma. But I think "be nice" is a good thing to have on any social platform.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You should still have a Makefile that calls your shell scripts when "make" or "make test" is run. Every person who writes shell scripts has a different filename and arguments. "make" and "make test" are always the same everywhere.
This is a dangerous counter argument, imo.

I’ve personally seen houses get purchased (sight unseen) by “investors” (some money launderers, some who actually intend to flip but can’t), then those homes sit empty for long enough to become unliveable. Unseen leaks, infestation, whatever.

If we’re lucky it gets bought in a tax sale and renovated, but it’s just as likely to get torn down and not rebuilt. That whole process depresses the area, causes costs to neighbours, and of course removes that property from the rental market entirely.
Probably, but nothing is to stop a manufacturer from just doing this artificially and it would be hard to prove it one way or the other, since the end user would never have enough data.

If $1,000ish every year was a reasonable cost based on increased warranty risk, that is a big increase in risk!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33725825

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33721300

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33707454

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33707235
Because the article is false. The original researcher said

> We should have seen it again when we looked for it 50 times.
U.S. bans equipment from Huawei and ZTE, citing national security concerns
Give em hell o7
Ah, I see. You’re confused. You’re thinking of precedent for individuals aware of it, who knowingly perpetuated it (who can typically be charged criminally) and you’re perhaps conflating it with situations where innocent employees at a company lost retirement investments or jobs due to the collapse of the fraudulent company.

While it’s true that these are old questions, it simply is not settled law that claws back money from employees who worked at a company doing wrong but didn’t perpetuate the fraud themselves.

So, the answer to my question might be that you acquired a misunderstanding of the law at some point. You also believed that most people in HN are versed in this area of business law so expected them to see this your way.
>Today in America, we have a similar issue for example with the citizens of California who are woefully underrepresented in Congress and the electoral college.

Oh please. California has the most seats in the House of Representatives, the most electoral college votes, and the 2 senators per state was purposely done so that large states like California couldn't bully smaller states through their sheer size. Claiming that California is "woefully underrepresented" is just absurd and purposely ignorant.
Are you simply glossing over the fact that CPU 1 has a turbo of 5.2 Ghz and the other 3.6 Ghz ?
> The C# standard library will not run many case-insensitive comparisons. That comparison object doesn’t just compare two objects for equality, it also has another interface method which computes a hash of a single object.

Which doesn't matter because I'm talking about identical strings, so they will hash the same by definition, and they will have to be compared.

So the question is how fast the CI hash and equality operate compared to the CS ones.

And I asked about comparison because I assumed that would be the costlier of the two operations, relative to its CS brethren.
Photos and I imagine in most cases, full names.
The fancy new X1 credit card is issued by Coastal Community Bank, a local bank in WA state. It seems an odd pairing, that a "revolutionary" new credit card aimed at techies is partnered with a seemingly random bank.

Banking is weird. Like, how did they find this bank? What makes it better than other random local banks across the country? Is there a marketplace for these banking partnership opportunities?
I thought about this for a while and I don't have a coherent answer.

I do think it's interesting that the Old Internet was more spontaneous, unorganized, and high-trust than the New Internet. It would be effortless to find counterexamples to this claim (back in the day I got death threats, now we have moderators for that!) but the fact remains that any new prosperous sector of the New Internet is immediately invaded by advertisers, authoritarian moderation teams, and the Eternal September effect, and the way that people present themselves on the New Internet is far more curated than in the past.
Switch? They're not mutually exclusive.
Complex financial crimes can take years to get to the arresting point. It's very silly to expect something of this nature to lead to arrests in under a month.
The $205.4B Gulag
Contrary to HN I think it's a very good idea.

Some people buy cars for status and bragging, so you need the car to be expensive. Others don't care. So instead of having too separate cars, you just sell the "base version" for $X and then sell "status upgrades". Like "skins" in video games.

The bragging person will brag about the expensive subscription, just like some brag about their AMEX/Centurion/... credit card, while the regular person will get a cheaper car since it's price won't be artificially inflated to cater to the luxury segment.
https://archive.ph/zzMCh
Interesting to think about the horrible ambient smell that must have existed even in these noble-class locations at the time. A wooden floor built over a giant open sewage pit.
My anecdote to counter yours:

I moved from the PNW to Rhode Island for four years, and then to Ohio. Moving to the Northeast was absolutely a culture shock for both of us, with “colder” and less helpful people in general. Over time, we discovered that the people in rural areas were still friendly, and the city people would open up after they got to know you, but there was a very noticeable lack of trust or respect in Providence. As an example, I remember one of those electric scooter companies pulled out of Providence because they couldn’t stop our citizens from throwing the scooters into the Bay.

We moved to Cincinnati next and it’s a night and day difference. Friendly service at businesses, people helping each other in snowstorms, etc. I’ve helped to care for my elderly neighbors since day one and we always get help when we need it as well.
Ballistic missile submarines are primarily second-strike weapons. By the time they launch, our GPS satellites might already be destroyed by anti-satellite weapons. So far no one has demonstrated a working weapon that can knock out satellites in medium orbit (like the Navstar constellation) but I have to assume that China will have such a capability soon.

For routine operations, modern subs do carry a towed buoy which can be used to exchange radio messages and update GPS position while the sub remains deep underwater. This carries some risk of detection, but less than coming up to periscope depth.
Shells are not separate from the parent company. The Cloud act still applies to them.
I traveled through and am still in a wholly unexpected series of changes recently and found James Hollis’ book “Living Between Worlds” to be a fantastic study about living through the uncertainty and outside-of-our-control changes that often happen during the adulthood period alluded to in these paintings.
Can't help but see shades of "Metropolis". Is there perhaps an Art-Deco style the AI is drawing from?

It caused me to wonder if Tron was a world inside a computer ... or our own future (and, sure, why not both).
Don't forget about naive implementations in languages like C++ where using cin/cout can cause your program to run slower than Python when doing file IO
Metrics are religiously collected and any sizable performance improvement will have a clear impact on one metric or another no?
A navigation app that illuminates public land within privately held property
Sum up page counts of books from Calibre library with babashka
If you want to go deep ISO-14496-12 is probably what your looking for. You can either pay ISO to read it or hypothetically you can google for "filetype:pdf ISO-14496-12". For how things actually work in practice https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/blob/master/libavformat/mov... is a good resource.
Mastodon and peertube are both AGPL
> a totally different issue is that big-o notation doesn't always narrow down where the bottleneck is even if you calculate it correctly because n is never arbitrarily large and so the bottleneck depends on the constant factors

Yeah I think this is part of my point, in that theoretical best, average and worst case scenarios can be useful in isolation but rarely tell the whole story.

In the worst case, every word is unique and is equal to word count and it's a standard sorting issue.
Scientists Have Used Mushrooms to Make Biodegradable Computer Chip Parts
That sounds like an interesting challenge with today's technology. It's so impressive that this was accomplished at scale with Cold War era technology levels.
We have used this many times during GitHub outages. It's great and does what it says.

But just one word of warning: when you run `act` with no arguments, what does it do? Displays usage? Nope -- it runs all workflows defined in the repo, all at once in parallel!

This seems like a crazy default to me. I've never wanted to do anything remotely like that, so it just seems both dangerous and inconvenient all at once.

Nice otherwise though...
posting to hn has its disadvantages

most of the interactions you get are people trying to prove you wrong

this is great when it's with evidence, but half the time instead they accuse you of lying, argue from their own authority, or insult you

the options for including equations, data tables, and diagrams are very limited, and these are important when what you're thinking about is objectively falsifiable propositions

the options for structuring your writing into sections with titles with a table of contents, so readers can navigate an argument that takes more than two minutes to read, are similarly weak

nobody reads what you write after a week, and it's hard for you to even find it yourself

worst of all, if you discover that you were wrong two weeks or more after your initial comment, there's no way to append a correction
I think perhaps it is offensive to claim that decent and intellectual people cannot reject religious fairy tales. This sort of grandfathering in of the legitimacy of the belief in the supernatural is... illogical, to use a charitable term.
Set up a free Mastodon-ready server in under 20 minutes with Pleroma and Fly.io
> We should have seen it again when we looked for it 50 times.

This is a weird thing to say. If the Wow! Signal were indeed from intelligent life, what’s to say it’s not like our own Arecibo Message, which was a one-time transient burst transmission?
It's not just about clock speed. CPI has been steadily improving across processor generations, even when the clock speed doesn't meaningfully change.
> and just because you know 10% of the language doesn't mean you're ready to write it professionally

I don't see why not. Plenty of folks learn on the job, including new languages, and the way things work out you might end up implementing some things sort of by kitbashing, knowing relatively little of the concrete details that you end up learning completely more later on. I do this all the time.
What do people think about paredit vs. just using the regular sexp editing commands (https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Pa...)? Especially when you rebind those to easier key combos.

Honestly I feel like those are enough for 90% of what I'm doing, and for now learning Paredit/infer is low on the priority list. Is it worth moving it up?
> convenient

It is also the case, happily. "Nobody does that" openly implies, "oh my, some do". Like a legitimate "No True Scotsman". It does mean "show me a credible practitioner that thinks differently - then, let us see the elaboration".

It is language: you have a full burden to interpret it. (And the guidelines oblige you to rubberbanding to the plausible.)

> everyone who disagrees

It is not a poll, it is never a poll: it is the arguments that count. And we are all professionals with different stories.

Of course some defended a position against obscurity: by default, they must have meant that having algorithms cross checked saves the enterprise from the embarrassing finding by some mathematician that your apparently strong algorithm reduces to, say, a bit-shift.

Or they could have misinterpreted the above completely and now shout "make everything public": because those individuals exist, and they are part of what you meet, and their presence does not have a Bayesian effect on truth.
Best course on bootstrap to learn bootstrap?
I'm struggling with frontend. Although my basics of html,css are clear, I'm having trouble in building websites and I'm just putting baby steps towards it(made my first simple html css site today). Thus a guidance from a mentor would be really helpful to me in learning. If I don't find any resources, my plan is to just google and read till I understand.

I want to ask this question because I wasted lots of time in the past in bad resources. I bought "CSS Cookbook", turns out it was heavily outdated. I bought Jonas's CSS course in udemy, turns out it wasn't right fit for me because it was unnecessarily project heavy. But imo you make projects on your own rather than by watching and copying others make projects.

So, recommend me a course that teaches bootstrap basics and maybe guide me towards building a website using html,css and bootstrap. I'm asking this question so that I don't waste more time on bad resources.

Should I focus on bootstrap 5 courses or courses teaching any bootstrap are alright?
The title makes it quite obvious that the poster isn't enjoying deeply abstract concepts. To me that's what math is about at its core and is also what was appealing about it. There's nothing wrong with applying math or visualizing concepts etc but if you don't find joy in abstractness then math maybe just isn't for you. Also to bring "the state" into play as if this was a more recent trend math sadly got stuck in is BS obviously. And then "elitism" just because the poster doesn't grok it ... sorry, but you studied the wrong subject - it's as simple as that.
Alaska Democrats, Republicans Form Coalition Senate Majority
> A pixel on TaxAct’s website then sent some of that data to Facebook, including users’ filing status, their adjusted gross income, and the amount of their refund, according to a review by The Markup.

A pixel is a powerful thing.
We don’t know this bank was used for anything illegal yet though. We don’t even know how FTX took or hid money right? We just know it’s ‘missing’?

A finance startup buying a small bank is pretty normal. We’ll find out more in time.
Meanwhile a murder suspect gets to spend these gathering years in jail awaiting trial...
There is nothing objective about right and wrong.
While we're generally symmetrical, the human body is full of wonderful irregularities -- different sized eyes or slightly longer/shorter limbs etc are exceedingly common.
> If you buy a car the manufacturer can't just randomly come and take your keys because their license for the car's paint ran out.

Not yet, at least not for that reason.

That business model is currently being established however and the ability to remotely disable the car at the discretion of the seller/manufacturer has already been added on a lot of cars, especially electric ones like Tesla etc
> installing $language_compiler

Yes, because proper use of the tool cache (and other caches) significantly speed up GitHub Actions builds.

Look, I'm all for putting logic in Makefiles instead of in YAML. But not at the expense of slower (and therefore more expensive) builds!
price, morals, the usual.
That’s what they’ve been doing for years, without subscriptions. It even makes more sense since the car doesn’t contain the things you don’t want.

It’s just pure greed and collusion and abuse of their position in the market to facilitate these things.
We Built a Meta Pixel Inspector
Big opportunity for studios.

Instead of selling the 4K version of an old movie, now they can re-imagine it in 10 different styles.
Let's be real, no Western country is banning Chinese products or services because China is spying on their own citizens or abusing Uyghurs. That's at best the "feel good" story sold in the media to get the people's support and distract from other issues. They're banning them for 2 reasons. One is that China will abuse them to spy and get a competitive advantage over those other countries. The second is that it's hard to compete in price so local alternatives are pushed out.

In the same vein the EU isn't blocking a US company from collecting data because the US is spying on its own citizens and abusing people of color. They're doing it for almost the same 2 reasons. Everyone knows (with evidence) that the US will abuse them to spy and get a competitive advantage. The second is that it's hard to compete in performance/features so local alternatives are pushed out.

The only reason to see a difference here is nationalistic bias. And that's fair enough, most people aren't educated enough (not talking just academic degrees) to be capable of critical thinking when their own principles or morals are under attack. They will just go to the first easy, "feel good" explanation when they do something to others, and the opposite when others do something to them.

My favorite illustration on the topic: https://pics.me.me/their-barbarous-wastes-our-blessed-homela...
Agree! And at the end of the day, we are optimizing for cost. Although, the EBS portion of that 7k RDS bill is going to be tiny, right?
Sir, you must have grown up in front of a TV with strictly US American programming.
Those are rarely the slow ones though. Lots of software simply has not been written to keep IO queues full. They read a bit of data, process it, read the next bit and so on. On a single thread. This makes all kinds of IO (including network) way slower than it has to be.

For example a tree-index can be parallelized by walking down different branches. On top of that one can issue a prefetch for the next node (on each branch) while processing the current ones.