skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe it's roughly a quote from Linus Torvalds, the creator of git who has many issues with githubs decisions. See https://www.wired.com/2012/05/torvalds-github/ for a start, his opinion hasn't improved over the decade.
Usually terms like that become problematic when they are used to erase someone's individuality. They are an addict or a cripple, as opposed to someone having addiction or being crippled. Of course, it's very useful to be able to speak about people in aggregate, so someone being intellectually retarded transforms into retarded people in aggregate and then becomes a retard as a slur.

We should be able to look at how we are using language and identify that it is problematic without requiring a list of words.
Bought a squat rack, a bench, a weight set, and a barbell. Has been awesome being able to just walk into my garage and workout. Makes it feasible to get a workout in before work. Super worth it.
I don't really buy this argument that you can rent and pay $1000/month, or you can buy an equivalent home and pay $1000/month, but now you can deduct interest rate and build equity.

Landlords can also deduct their interest expenses and so they benefit from leverage too (meaning they don't want to build up equity).

In a reasonably efficient market, this means that the equivalent cost of homeownership would be higher than rent, to offset these things (the rate at which you're paying down the principal, and the deductability of interest rate expenses). This is obviously a very simplified argument, and there's a lot of other factors going into this.
Exploring Messaging Systems with Argo Events
I think the name of the service is a bit ambiguous; they could've called it "Access Key Scanning" or even just "Secret*s* Scanning". Even capitalizing it would set it apart as a service instead of regular words in a sentence.
An exploration of Jetstream, Kafka, and Pulsar through the lens of Argo Events.
Hacking the legal system. I doubt it'll work; everybody hates a smart ass, and judges are no exception. I'm surely looking forward to see the next step though.
Advice for setting up a RAID array with different sized disks
A monitor with native USB-C support and a built-in USB hub. It's basically a docking station, except the wear piece (the cable) is easily and cheaply replaced when/if it fails, and the increasingly-universal support of USB-C means it'll work with a laptop/tablet/phone/Steam Deck/etc.

The only improvement I can think of is monitors with multiple USB-C ports and a built-in KVM, but I haven't seen anything like that on the market as of yet.

[Ed: Clarified multiple USB-C ports; there are monitors already on the market with a single USB-C port and KVM functionality]
The quota system was set up because of racial and eugenic concerns rather than some progressive notion of diversity. Though it should be noted that eugenics was considered progressive policy at that time. So it would be a very peculiar accident that it happens to resemble sane and forward thinking policy

As to why countries instead of races,

>The question will probably at once arise, why, if this legislation was a response to a demand for racial discrimination, was it expressed in terms of nationality? The answer is simple. As has already been shown, our actual knowledge of the racial composition of the American people, to say nothing of the various foreign groups, is so utterly inadequate that the attempt to use it as a basis of legislation would have led to endless confusion and intolerable litigation. So Congress substituted the term nationality, and defined nationality as country of birth. It is clear, then, that “nationality,” as used in this connection, does not conform exactly to the correct definition of either nationality or race. But in effect it affords a rough approximation to the racial character of the different immigrant stream

https://www.cato.org/policy-analysis/brief-history-us-immigr...
I lived many years of my life in the country (Soviet Union) where there were a lot of rules what words were insulting and what words were appropriate. The only real use of these rules were to bully people by authorities and assholes. These rules just gave them a seemingly morally superior standpoint and an excuse.
"Alt" is just a way of calling out beliefs you don't like as outliers, hoping that will make them go away.
I don’t think GitHub will send back the matching string, just the name of the repos
Or "feeding 2 cats with one bird"
ChapGPT:

> Hello there, old chap! I'm an AI model, but I'll tell you what, I'm no ordinary one. I may not be human, but I've got a bit of personality, I'll tell you that much. I can process information faster than a supercomputer and I can learn just about anything you throw at me. I may not have a pulse, but I can still give you a right good run for your money. So don't go underestimating me, old chap, I may be made of circuitry and code, but I'm still a force to be reckoned with.

Actually written by ChatGPT. It does appear to have trouble with Cockney rhyming slang, though. Maybe we'll have to resort to shibboleths like those in the future to discern people from AI.
> is he free to ignore the advice? Or does he have to leave?

are they free to ignore the advice? Or do they have to leave?
This and the other news that jobs will be lost to robotics, ML/AI doesn't add up--which is it? It's not like automation was to make up for retirees, it's to reduce costs so if anything we should be glad for retirees not taking jobs.
I see you are doubling down on belittling the work of others. In an unincorporated area (that is to say a place where erecting a domicile is not supported and yet also not forbidden) the firefighters may not have water for a "water gun," as you say.

If they had access to water, a standoff approach with "a water gun" would only control the fire from spreading more broadly than building and damage the structure through inundation. If the structure was salvable, then the work of a firefighter is to control combustion to extinction using tools to manage the movement of air and other gases so building materials stop burning and do not reignite. It is a close-in effort.
Silicon Valley startups race for debt deals in funding crunch
https://archive.vn/4bqG0
There's use cases (e.g. music production) where this doesn't work.
> What makes you so sure about that?

I think the commenter means that China can't do much about them while living where they do (e.g. the US), whereas the US based intelligence agencies can black bag them in most of the western world.

Given the Snowden revelations, I don't believe there's much accountability to what the NSA and co collect and analyze. Secret courts, CIA dark sites, Gitmo, all kinds of things that might be legal according to the letter of the law, but feel immoral and unjust (war crimes level of unjust).
they/them has always been a neutral pronoun in English. It's only now that it is a controversial topic that everybody is fussing about it. Imagine the following sentence.

"Someone is knocking at the door, can you let them in?"

Nobody would say "let him in", unless they knew a man was behind the door. This is utterly uncontroversial and boring.
It’s not Truth because it’s not from a position of authority - I am just a random commenter. You’re asking the wrong question. The right question would be, “Would agreeing with this make my life better or worse?”
Having a battery on your server does nothing for being a UPS for your website if you don't also have one on your source of internet.
Also, the phrase "worth their salt".

It's funny how sometimes these things are hidden in plain sight. I bet the average person would expect a more complex etymology for that phrase.
Do we really want a system where a very elderly person, with say millions in assets, gets all their nursing home care for free in their final years, just so they can leave a bigger inheritance to their kids? I don't.

Going thru this now with my own elderly parents - I am perfectly OK with medicare ending up owning the equity left in their house, and meager other assets - to recoup money spent on their care - people should support themselves with whatever resources they have available, before taxpayers are asked to pick up the expense.
Omg you must have incredible luck when filling out sign in forms. There must be some sort of sadistic instinct on the types of people who design password forms. I’ve had passwords rejected for being too long (over 15 characters), including the “wrong” kind of special characters, having the same character repeated twice in a row, not having enough numbers, just to name ones I can remember off the top of my head. Oh the best ones don’t tell you the rules until after you’ve been rejected.

A special place in hell is reserved for those websites that consider themselves too cool for a password manager. They actively block auto fill or cut & paste in the password field. I don’t envy the 1password devs for having to put up and work around this stuff.
That video is great, and less than a minute. For anyone watching, be sure to catch the reactions of those standing at the starting line.
I'll echo this with my own story.

Up in Nederland CO, there is the body of Bredo Morstoel. Most years the town holds the Frozen Dead Guy Days festival to celebrate his cryopreservation, complete with ice cream, coffin races, and frozen salmon tossing. Yes really.

I've been on the tour of his cryonics 'facility'. It is a Tuff Shed on the side of a mountain next to a chemical toilet and a home-made above ground nuclear bunker (with sliding glass doors). The Morstoel family was ... eccentric. During the 'champagne' tour, you are allowed to help restock Bredo Morstoel's tomb with dry ice and see his coffin. The coffin is in very rough shape and you can easily see his corpse.

He is very dead and is never coming back.

He looks just like Otzi the Ice Man. There is a lot of mildew in the corners of his styrofoam and plywood cryo-chamber-thing. He is not fully attached together anymore. His caretakers are, honestly, paranoid occult isolated libertarians.

Bredo Morstoel's dream isn't ever going to come true. He is dead and rotten now.
> College isn't just about the book education. That's the easiest part. It's also about the social experience; but it's much harder to apply for jobs without the degree.

This can not be overstated.

University is the means with which one can reach out to knowledgeable people and build connections. The biggest mistake of my studies imho was not taking advantage of all the resources I had access to.
Main reason I've heard from mostly Latin/south American people on visa who consider staying past the expiration is that you can then never leave to visit family or visit any other country.

It's definitely common to just 'stay' but you better be prepared to stay the rest of your life.

Note this is from talking to people who enter legally but then consider staying illegally, not those who enter illegally.
One does not simply restore purchasing power.

To do that, the society would have to strip out all the nonproductive parasitic layers that accumulate over time, and then redistribute excess wealth.

Those actors will resist strongly, so good luck with that.
>they can walk into a ba[n]k and walk out with a HELOC. My house appreciating 100k this year means, potentially, that I get to spend 100k this year.

No it doesn’t. It means you can take on an additional $100k of debt this year. HELOCs are not free money, no matter how much the banks want to convince you this is the case.
They don't know about Unix and "Killing a child process"? Promoting violence in the family

And "daemon processes", being just generally scary
Here is the cheapest prediction possible:

The outrage against this is going to be a festival of mansplaining, 'splained by people who have never been talked over in a meeting by a woman, nor pulled over for driving while black. OK, that's not your lived experience, but that's why empathy is so valuable to arriving at the right answer. Without it, it's right only for you.
Found it: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-do-you-use-adjust-f...

"Adjust is a mobile marketing vendor. Many of our mobile products use Adjust to determine the origin of the installation by answering the question, "Did this user on this device install the application in response to a specific advertising campaign performed by Mozilla?"

[...]

When you download one of our mobile apps for the first time, if it uses Adjust, it sends an anonymous "attribution" request to the adjust servers. This request describes how the application was downloaded, for example, whether it was downloaded directly via the App Store or through a marketing campaign link. The data includes an advertising ID, IP address, and timestamp."
Worthless internet polls become even more worthless. What a joke.
Some restaurants pull a bait and switch on customers ordering wine, bringing a similar bu wildly more expensive bottle in place of the one that was ordered, hoping for exactly the outcome that you described.

I would be shocked to find a cloud provider doing that, but I wanted to point out that you might be not have made a real mistake.
It's virtue signalling. Talk to actual people from indigenous communities, they're probably more concerned about actual problems affecting communities than whether someone says "bury the hatchet". Talk to a blind activist association, they're more likely concerned about the unwalkability of public spaces than the usage of the phrase "blind review".

It's mostly white, mostly affluent people, competing in the political sensitivity olympics, probably without even realising they're harming the very causes they claim to fight for.
AIC SB407-TU 60-Bay Storage Server Houses over 1PB of Capacity
Amazon agrees to deal with EU to end long-running data probes
Elmo tweeted this after the "Should I step down" poll got a yes.. was he really expecting a loving crowd giving him a landslide "No"? If so, what beautiful Schadenfreude!

And there were probably bots voting yes and no as well, so Elmo can just dismiss the result he didn't like as "Damn bots!".
If you aren't teaching students about how master/slave terminology is applied to tech then you are doing them a much MUCH bigger disservice than the horrors of them having to read words they were taught to react to poorly.
If Apple really cared about their pro users they would have launched an Intel Mac Pro update to fill the gap but they didn’t because they don’t. Pros were ready to jump ship after the disastrous iMac Pro was launched in April of 2017 which is why Apple held a round table discussion with members of the press in April 2017 to allay those fears by promising that a new modular Mac Pro was coming. Two years later in December 2019 Apple fulfilled their promise by releasing the Mac Pro. But between 2017 and 2019 Nvidia made serious gains over the competition which left the Mac Pro obsolete on launch. Fast forward 3 years later to today and the pro market has really started to abandon Apple in favor of machines running Nvidia GPUs. Apple is attempting to create an updated Mac Pro that will bring those pros back to the platform and to do that they have to compete with Nvidia and to do that they have to ramp up the GPU core count significantly which has been difficult delaying the product further.
I've noticed some time ago Lex isn't the brightest person, despite he tried to present himself as one. But he was a good show host. His sycophantic behavior in the last 6 weeks has been quite off-putting. Yes, let's cheer and clap for everything Elon Musk does, and then say "hey, we're friends, how about I become the CEO?" Absurd.
You may not have noticed this, but China is seeking to extend it's influence. By whatever means required including deadly force. There is a picture you might want to look at. Search "Tank Man". That is why people worry about China so much.
I'm not a potential consumer of this service because I know enough to run my own sites, like most HNers I assume. But I am frequently asked by friends and family for help and advice on creating and hosting their own websites, like many HNers I assume. They need something that is easy to use without knowing how to code, for sure. But the most important thing they need something that will be maintained for the long-term and won't lead to them calling me in a panic if the people behind it eventually get bored, retire, die, go bankrupt, lose their keys, get hacked, or just decide it isn't worth the money or mental energy to keep hosting it for free.

I see lots of discussion about feature comparisons to competitors like about.me, linktree, but for me, the critical component for this kind of product is the organization behind the product: do they commit to hosting the site indefinitely, and are they stable, mature, and trustworthy enough to follow through on that commitment? Does the organization behind the product have long-term financial sustainability, or is there a risk that they could fail like 90+% of startups fail? Is the organization notorious for suddenly sunsetting popular products for no good reason (see Google)?

For example, I trust Microsoft to keep GitHub Pages running in its current form indefinitely (edit: or to sunset it with such advance notice that it won't be a crisis), although the me of 20 years ago would slap myself for saying this. I just don't trust what appears to be a single freelancer who has one active product in their resume. I've been that freelancer trying to build out a portfolio with free services like this. I regret it, and everyone who trusted me regretted it too.
This has to be some PR guy writing these, the tweet strings surely aren’t being sent from the lander itself.
Some people are Chinese.
Please read the article first.
Love your observation! I hope the author never fixes his typo. I can always google this essay by "horziontal"!
> I've answered this elsewhere. TPMs are neutral technology enabling technology that you might approve of and technology you might disapprove of.

And I strongly disagree! A TPM with an attestation key that is known to the previous owner (eg manufacturer or distributor) allows the previous owner (and everyone who trusts them) to compel the current owner to verify what software they are running on their own machine. The presence of the neutral hardware capability, plus the non-neutral treat-owner-as-an-attacker security property that the owner cannot read the private attestation key, creates a non-neutral security vulnerability for the owner. Hence my point (3) to mitigate this vulnerability by making it so that the owner can always choose to emulate an attestation. This property would make the hardware feature actually neutral.

> it's their tech, so what can you do to make it not possible for them to implement lock-in?

The problem is not set top boxes and other narrow-purpose devices created by vertically integrated companies - code signing is enough to lock those down and guarantee the creation of e-waste. Rather the issue is general purpose computers including hardware that allow remote parties to dictate what code you're running when you interact with them. For example, a bank that says "for [our] security, you must run a known copy of MS Windows with a known copy of InterChrome Explorer to access our website" (or analogous proprietary environment). The market basically moves in lock step, so you won't be able to choose a different bank (just as with the now-common "SMS 2FA" hassle). So given the basic non-neutral capability, corporations can gradually shove the general purpose computing genie back in the bottle, rather than having to make due with trusting device owners.

With binary/proprietary software, a similar dynamic exists right now. But for important cases it's possible to reverse engineer protocols and make third party clients. Owner-hostile remote attestation closes off the escape. This further pushes us into computational disenfranchisement, where the computer you purportedly own, that's sitting right in front of you, is enforcing the rules of the corporate-government power structure rather than functioning as your agent.

We do need to win the battle in the market, but to do that we at least need an option for people to buy that respects their freedom. Saying "buy this corporate phone and then run this procedure to change the TPM key [destroying your ability to use corporate-based attestation]" isn't a compelling story, but saying "buy this freedom-respecting computer based on a freedom-respecting TPM" is. We need enough of the people doing the latter that it is market-infeasible for banks et al to require remote attestation.
You can buy a Motorola z series phone for $30 on eBay and a 360 degree camera mod for $25 probably. It has two wide angle cameras that it stitches together.
I'm not riled up at all. I already avoided the great majority of these instinctively because I like treating people with respect
Which is why every professional audio tool uses ASIO and every audiophile player is going to great lengths to avoid the audio mixer and uses things like kernel streaming.
Sort of? The kernel supports this and has forever, but the OS doesn’t ship with an app that exposes the capability. It’s super annoying. There are a number of third party apps, some free, some paid.
Can second Photon Engine. Great team with a lot of experience on this
A fantastic book, the sort that lingers with the reader.
You’re on to the issue and almost figured it out. Why are the tribes fighting in the first place? They have to be told that the other side is evil - either because they are attacking first or responding to it. Who is responsible for communicating that Truth and why are they doing it? The issue of weapons as a tool for cultivating traumatic experience does require this Truth. But the physics of the weapon are based in objective experience which is something else entirely.
I was explaining the project estimation process to my 8 year old (whip smart) daughter and told her about the "Estimate then add 10%" heuristic and she immediately recognized the flaw and said, yeah then add 10% to that, then 10% to that, etc...

The reality is, estimates are a business function not an engineering function.

Once you realize that, then you change your approach to: Never take on cold start projects that are business critical

Do this and you'll never have to estimate work that isn't already in some form of progress!
Jack is as naive as they come. His focus is on sounding bombastic and sending good vibes about "extending the light of consciousness" while being quite average as a CEO. Twitter won't survive with an average CEO at this point. Maybe 6 weeks ago.
I don’t know.. probably more into school shootings and racism than usual?

I didn’t pick the term, I was replying to a comment that used it. I was just trying to keep it consistent.
> In most cases, that's not true.

Are you claiming that most landlords operate at a loss? I don't buy that.
Here (research lab doing computational materials science), we get a €8k workstation every three years or so. AFAIK there is no review from the accounting people below €15k. In any case, honestly, the expense is tiny compared to the salary and other costs of whoever is using it for 3 years (close to a quarter million overall).
> Conclusion: bill gates has a profit motive for having his charity prop up ALL Kurzgezadt videos.

I said the channel was engaged in shilling. I never said that this video was one of the videos involved.

It's cool that you like this video, but it's in the people's interest here to know about the conflict of interest involved with this channel
Sounds like your issues are non-determinism and client prediction. This book is a great resource.

https://www.amazon.com/Multiplayer-Game-Programming-Architec...
Cable was never free