skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I interpreted it the same way. When millions of people work on or support a subject, be it AI, cloud computing, or football. Some of them must be way smarter, more ethical, more reasonable, more successful than me. I may find the subject dumb, but them I ask myself: why do these people do that? Or if it pays well, how come people don't do it instead of flipping burgers for a measly pay if it is so easy?

It doesn't mean it is right, but it is a good reminder that there is a high chance it is just me missing something.

As for the "marketing" thing, it is hard even for a full time teacher not to treat their audience as idiots and avoid losing them completely. Good teachers, when unsure, prefer to go the "idiot" path, not ideal, but at least your audience may understand something in the end.
Critics often call the free phones Obama phones
That's no excuse for obnoxiously vague laws. Let's say, hypothetically, the premise of "save the environment" is valid. Instead of banning "tools not commonly found in the residence", which is completely open to interpretation, you could specifically ban refrigeration evacuation equipment.

This is still bad (as it singles out HVAC repair folks), but it's worlds better than letting enforcers arbitrarily decide whether a vacuum pump, security torx set, tachometer, or ignition tester is verboten.

Also, oil changes are specifically allowed, and they are one of the primary causes of pollution from home car tinkerers.
Bitcoin miner Core Scientific filing for bankruptcy
Same, it’s simple, open and snappy as f*ck
Show me a Mars rover that was still functioning but didn't get a mission extension so was just left to do nothing and decay. I doubt you will. If they are still working they are practically guaranteed a mission extension because the cost of continuing to operate a rover that you have already placed on mars and paid for is marginal relative to the mission. The most expensive part is designing and building the probe and then getting it there.

>At the end of the day the best way to ensure mission success is to put the mission first, not future missions, not "nice to haves", put every dollar you have into making the prescribed mission as perfect as possible. You're suggesting the equivalent of "Navy SEALs sometimes get caught in larger than expected firefights, so each man should lug an extra 1000 rounds of spare ammo into combat just in case". And they could, but that would slow them down and endanger the immediate mission, even if only slightly.

That's a massive exaggeration. I am not advocating for a contingency to every possible failure mode. I am pointing out that we clearly have one very common failure mode that can be solved and likely get us far more utility for little investment.

If you are going to compare it to Navy Seals, what I am suggesting is more akin to "Navy Seals can get shot. That's not good and these are highly trained specialists that don't grow on trees, we should probably give them body armor to give them a chance to survive being shot." And we do give them body armor. Yes it adds weight. Yes it costs more money. But more come home to complete more missions.

Yes a mechanical solution to remove dust from panels adds weight and cost but it can be the difference between an otherwise functional probe dying one day due to low power or dying years later once its electronics fail.
Parental Income and the Sexual Behavior of Their Adult Children
I paid 5 years in advance after I had zero problems with pinboard for a couple of years. When archiving started to detoriate I contacted support and got ignored. Now I try to take my archive with me and again: it does not work and I get no reply.
Maciej has for years marketed pinboard as the sane, stable alternative to VC-money chasing competitors and now for quite some time the service now does not deliver to promise. What you call "drama" most likely are frustrated users who believed in his story.
I like self checkouts personally, they do cut down on lines in my experience. You just have to take a little extra time and not be in a hurry. Most of those POS machines seem to be slow and you have to give them a bit of time to register your item. My big complaint, especially at walmart, is the small bagging area. Most people seem to think they are "professional" cashiers and screw it up by going to fast. Also make sure to have some hand sanitizer, those scanners have a lot of germs and likely haven't been cleaned all day.
There are some comments on this article that are a few month old. To me it looks like they accidentally updated publication the date.
Yeah what? I use macs a lot but Messages is abject garbage and isn't even a serious competitor to Teams/Slack/Discord. It's meant for texting but on your computer...
Why should an investor not exercise agency to try and influence the outcome of their investment?
No, it's saying Clear employees can manage the line of travelers. They have permission from the airport to ask non-Clear people to back up and wait, as the author mentions at the start of the article. TSA has no control over that part of the queue.
This law is intended to stop shady repair cap repair-people from working in residential areas. Fine. This begs the question as to why so many citizens are running repair shops from their own homes? Could it be that it is too hard to start a business in a legitimate manner?
wheres Elon ?

https://preview.redd.it/uk8h044uwvu11.jpg?width=960&crop=sma... [JPG]
I can't wait until you can give ChatGPT an ISBN and ask it to answer any question by citing that book. The SNR of a book may be high, but when the cost of finding that signal is having to go through 400 pages of dense material, line by line, word by word... well, Google wins.
I honestly wouldn't be surprised if Russia is now trying to fund their military through ransomware attacks.
At first glance it looks like Muse[1], built by Heroku alum, caught Apple's attention.

[1]: https://museapp.com
Many 2D illustrators, industrial designers, and graphic designers considered it one of the best 2D drawing tools ever made.

One of my roommates in the heyday of Flash was an industrial designer who was paid by an Italian business to design aftermarket wheels for cars, which he did in Flash. Eventually he figured out a Flash > Studio Max workflow he liked and finished projects in 3D that way.

That guy could draw anything in Flash and preferred it over Illustrator, Photoshop, and Fireworks.
Wait, didn't you suggest using twitter instead right above this?

You realise twitter runs loads of JS, including all kinds of tracking. However unlike mastodon, twitter scripts are not open and reviewed.
I don't know why you're downvoted. Maybe the answer is obvious to some, but my public school and college degree never really educated me on this. I'm quite interested.

What recourse does one have if your county imposes unreasonable rules? I imagine some of this is political and some of it would be jurisdiction/constitutional?

So maybe you could sue on the basis that a law is unconstitutional or that the county doesn't have the right (where maybe the state does).

And otherwise your only other recourse is to run/campaign/vote in county elections?

Edit... My county claims to be a "Council-Manager form of government."

Guess I've got some reading to do on my county's politics -- though I do plan to move soon.
How unfortunate. One of my favorite news sites, no paywall, good ui (plus no junk ads) and good journalism m.
How could anyone possibly measure that an app is despised and depresses people (or vice versa)?

Usage can't be it, because I use a ton of software that I despise and get depressed by, but only because I get paid to do so, or the app is so niche there isn't a viable replacement.
You missed the part where I pointed out that the US government outsourced the administration of its currency to a private banking cartel and some people just think it's normal.
I want folders... A directory structure feels mandatory for something that's supposed to keep your notes, but for some reason they didn't include it at the outset.
I'll join the sibling comments in speculation: They're so big that they can either get away with it in aggregate or when they can't, can count on favorable judgements, like the comment about J&J. Favorable in the sense that the individuals personally responsible won't face the ramifications.
My unfounded guess is that this more about tax dodging / regulation skirting than a sign of an imminent collapse. They may have to pay a fine or something but will survive.
> the venerable western democracies hate and fear dissent as much as those loathsome dictators do

Who specifically hate and fear dissent in western democracies, and what's the mechanism against that?
I don't see my credit union on that list. Or any credit union, for that matter.
> The US law, and the British law it was modeled after, were both trying to solve an existing problem of theft.

No, it wasn’t. Creation of novel property rights is never to solve a problem of theft, because theft only exists in the context of existing property rights.

> but the stated purpose from the very beginning was in fact to protect authors’ and publishers’ rights to make money

The original British copyright law did not apply to authors at all, but to printers only. As D f goodzw
I think Backstage is better than most tools since it integrates a lot of the functionality in one place. If you have the docs, service map, team data etc in 10 different places it will get worse.
> Definitely not always. Loss is common in business.

Maybe randomly here and there, but you will be homeless if your landlord continually loses money. I said it earlier in my comment, "on average".

If your landlord on average is losing money, you will be homeless soon enough, or someone else will buy it and increase your rent or find a way to be more efficient than the previous landlord.
Really obvious use that took too long to occur to me: Make a bunch of textures for your game. Label them and use them to train a specialized model file. Use that to make more textures for your game.

It’ll get you 80% of the way there for each texture really fast. Would work really well if you are making a ton of NPCs and made a head model and a separate clothes model.
> Is it not true that most Germans do not own a home?

Yes, only about 47% own the home they are living in [1] - partially due to a strong history of government-provided and cooperative-owned housing, partially because land values around suburban and urban areas have exploded so far that young people can't ever hope of owning anything.

> Is it true that the Catholic Church in Germany is the largest apartment owner, by a large margin?

Good question. The Catholic Church is extremely intransparent, so serious estimates can't really be made [2]. The real estate market is extremely fractured - even the largest players Deutsche Wohnen and Vonovia, with something like 550k homes, own just 2% of the market combined [3]. The Catholic Church has been estimated at about 130k units in the past [4], so they are while certainly a large player still not the largest, not even close.

[1] https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Gesellschaft-Umwelt/Wohnen...

[2] https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soziales/katholische-kirch...

[3] https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/vonovia-deu...

[4] https://www.domradio.de/artikel/zwischen-investment-und-sozi...
I believe the traditional American solution is a "homeowners association" where some neighbourhoods strictly police the length of your lawn, other neighbourhoods don't, and you can choose when buying your home which type of neighbourhood you want.

They implement this entirely through covenants and deed restrictions, with no state involvement at all, as I understand things.
He didn't express a lack of pain, just that he was never in a situation where he was stumped by not having them. Generics aren't exactly magic. They can improve code, but you can live without them if you really have to.

Although I think you are on to something per the original question about the appeal of Go. For all its faults, Go also gets a lot of things very right that aren't obvious until you have gained the necessary level of familiarity.

Once you rise above 'blub', it is indeed hard to go back. While I spend most of my days in other languages full of all kinds of fanciful features, I did a short stint on a Go project and now especially hate not having blocking functions everywhere (async/await is one of those fanciful features I have to deal with) and sensible error handling.
This is a great listen/read:

https://www.npr.org/2022/07/28/1114335397/expiration-dates-l...

NPR
Expiration dates lead to lots of food waste, though these dates vary widely by state
July 28, 20225:14 PM ET
Heard on All Things Considered
If bad smell or clouds of insects enter your property, I'm no longer just affecting my property.

If my property just looks untidy, it's much harder for me to accept you have a case.
Lots of companies start with a singular idea ... and never grow beyond it.

At one time, I looked at using Coinbase/crypto for money transfer purposes. I had several clients who tried to open an account but their applications were rejected. They were more strict than most banks.
This is more about "What are you willing to bet the mission on". The mission being a billions of dollars and years of effort. And mission success is defined as working for a limited time. In aerospace "simple" beats "slightly more complex but much better" often.
Cyber criminals face no consequences in Russia so long as they don't target russians. One of the tell-tale signs of Russian provenance for malware is if it checks for russian locale or cyrillic kb layout before branching.
Bitcoin isn't going away, sir.
One of my favorite technical projects involved overcoming a network constraint. The virtual machines (VMs) hosting the core services kept exhausting available ports. Once all ports were used up, new connections would fail, tanking our availability and reliability. Read on to learn how we overcame this issue and opened up opportunities to reduce costs by a third.
Enjoy the fire, sounds lovely!
I couldn't see any summary for total prison time for individuals. Does anyone know if that's because there hasn't been a any or is is just missing?

I somehow feel with a $10B (which include bribes/kickbacks) there ought to have been some.
Service Now enters the chat...
I'm ascribing a desirable future to be beyond consumerism, so I'm critiquing an article called "the future our grandchildren deserve" that is based in consumerism.
>Dealing with banks in general since 2008 has been a huge pain in the ass,

In which ways? I cannot say I have noticed any difference pre and post 2008. If anything, the CFPB which was established after 2008, helped save me a ton of time and effort when I could not easily get a hold of a bank employee who could resolve my issue.
This worked surprisingly well.
My point was more about a local monopoly. If you operate a monopoly, you should relinquish your right to deny whoever you want without cause. I do see your point about not having the right to be served served alcohol within convenient distance.
I'd add Visual Basic to your "glue bits together" list. After working on C++ & FORTRAN professionally, Visual Basic was like a breath of fresh air. I remember thinking "how could programming be this simple". It felt like cheating.

Ofc, there's an evil undercurrent to the "any non-technical person can use it". We ended up having to support a tool that some "business analyst" had written. My eyes bled.
With all due respect (big GitLab fan here) there are at least two features that are missing that for me makes this product unusable:

1. Inability to switch branches in the editor [0]

2. Full project search "to be enabled at a later date"

So I can't switch branches off of the default branch and I can't search the entire project. To me, this undermines your claim that the new web IDE "will provide users access to more features" and in fact I don't find it useful for hardly anything in its current state.

I get that it's a beta, but it seems a very incomplete one, at best.

[0]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-web-ide/-/issues/72
> So begin with a sequence

That is the trick that I was calling out. The intervals are reals, and cannot be made into a sequence. Beginning with a sequence is even worse; what is in evidence (for the aliens) is a set of real intervals. That's what the aliens have to begin with.

Now explain how they get to primes.
There's a reason why arrogance is measured in milli-dijkstras. It's not because he was humble.
> so why can't we simply retract them so that enough dust falls off?

Thus scratching the delicate surfaces of the panels, as well as requiring a retraction motor and associated devices that have their own failure modes.
I'll have to brush up on my history of the protestant reformation, but I'm under the impression that for a very long time the church had a monopoly on people with enough dedication and support to sit around copying books by hand. There was no need for copyright law because it was totally legal to kick the rabble rousers out of the monastery for any old reason.

In this way, the church had been asserting copyright on the Bible for hundreds of years. It wasn't until the invention of the printing press that they needed a law for it.

It's easy to find legal text today that says it's for one thing but if you're in the know it's clear that its purpose--the side effect without which it wouldn't exist--is unstated or hidden. I'm skeptical that our picture of the 1700's is good enough to solve the same puzzle that far in retrospect, but my hypothesis is that if it was, we'd find things were a bit less about protecting authors economically than a surface-level read would lead us to believe.
How much of that is due to the debt he himself laid on the company in his leveraged buyout?

"I set this building on fire, and put a lot of the fire out!"
You’ve literally not responded to a single comment I had
If it were an option selected when purchasing a ticket, I suspect it would be on the order of first/business class in terms of popularity. Maybe the price point needs some work, but certainly ~a lot~ more than $15/yr for the first tier of priority).

Clear and Pre-Check both have signficant friction to sign-up. If line cutting was offered with little friction (i.e. without security considerations), I think it would be quite popular.
Tangential, but what would be the most expensive outgoing call destination from mainland North America, sat phones excluded?
A native code VM gives really little performance penalty.

Consider VMs like those which run Javascript, or WASM. JIT compilation can get pretty close to C performance, as JVM and LuaJIT show though, given enough RAM at runtime, and money for development.
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But that's not how laws work in reality.

The police decide whether to enforce a law or not - eg whether to give you a speeding ticket or not.

The district attorney will decide whether to bring a case to trial.

Even the supreme Court, as we've seen with Roe v. Wade, can decide a different interpretation on the same fundamental laws and constitutional rights.

As an engineer who has worked with a lot of lawyers, a great observation I once received from one was that the law is fungible and should not be treated like source code.
Maybe, but there also seems to be a lot of people who are very passionate about removing content they dont like. You could give moderation groups access to tools for modeation, like filters, keyword weighting, reporting, and ML models.
I live in Sacramento and I happen to also do work on my own cars. This law has not been formally challenged and suspect it won’t hold up if actually done. This law has been used to to persecute car enthusiasts by their neighbors who work on cars a lot and it’s honestly disgusting. Other than direct complaints, however, the law has not been actively enforced.

I’m the last 12 months at my home in a historically low-income neighborhood, I’ve done a clutch job (clutch, flywheel, throw-out bearing, rear main seal), coolant tank and hose swap, radiator fan swap, popping out minor dents, touch up paint work, oil and filter change, spark plug change, cabin and intake filter swap, and probably some other stuff. Never once had code enforcement or Sac PD come knocking.

Granted, I have a lot of privilege that not everyone has: I am white, fairly well-off, I can do work in the privacy of my fenced-off backyard or 1-1/2 car garage, I know many of the people who work in city inspections and code enforcement (who I have asked about the law specifically and everyone says it’s only been enforced by these departments during hoarding situations, unsure about SacPD).

My partner (who restores classic European cars with her dad) and I often help our neighbors by loaning tools, provide an extra hand, and on two occasions, offered our backyard to do the repair, with the condition it is done within a few days. I’m not worried about being caught personally because it’s such a low priority “crime” that won’t be investigated for days if at all and would require someone to actively report it.

I do think it’s important to share one’s privilege which is one of the reasons why my partner and I are very keen on helping our especially low-income neighbors. These people often have a job they must be present at and cannot afford a costly repair or a new vehicle, penalizing them for trying to maintain their own property is an egregious and unnecessary overreach that actively perpetuates “illegal to be poor” we so desperately need to move beyond.
I use flash occasionally to run some older code. I've been running this setup for a few years now on my Intel Mac because it won't work with Apple's new M chips. There are a couple of things you will need. First, download Firefox 84.0 here: https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/84.0/mac/en-US/. Next, you need the Flash Player itself. Adobe, as far as I know, removed the links to download it and I don't have anywhere I would trust to download. After you have the Flash Player, install Firefox 84 and disable the auto-updates. Now install Flash and everything should work. Good luck!
It's not. VSC is a packaged version of the open-source code with proprietary bits added. Integration with the plugin marketplace, telemetry, etc. VSCodium does not have that.

In addition, a lot of the good language plugins are proprietary, like PyLance and the C# plugin.
It's possible for the solar panels on rovers to be self-cleaning, but it's not possible for the solar panels specifically on Insight to be self-cleaned.