skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You think it's inevitable? I think it's unlikely, they probably run into a different kind of targets. Those "edge cases" horror seem unnecessary like permission hell, pricing model hell (and too many size)
If you were in Mariupol, or Bakhmut, or Dresden, or Hiroshima, or Stalingrad, it sure didn't matter if you were a civilian or not. And hell, all of Eastern Europe during WW2, it barely mattered. When it did, that might mean 'just' getting shot and pushed into a ditch instead of shot and left on the battlefield.

And the reason that societies don't just let folks leave is because the whole is stronger than the parts - and they don’t want you or some other part bailing and getting them all killed.

Though sometimes, even that isn’t enough.

In the best case, it's the collective good trying to protect itself. In the worst case, it's the controlling parent dragging you down with them.

While certainly a survival strategy for an individual to desert, it has heavy costs - and don't expect any friends in those who are left behind.
Water works because there are water towers that buffer usage. Until a thaw happens after a big freeze and drains all of the towers. If you can store electricity then you can increase the reliability and move the store pools around as needed depending on the usage.
Same, and it's got hourly, pretty much anything I can imagine needing.
Is this taxable income?
Here's a paper on how they do it in Afghanistan, absent any reliable banking infrastructure. Islamic finance in general is interesting because it rests on different ethical mores from British-style capitalism, perhaps with a view to limiting pure accumulation.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/asian-journal-of-law...
Why the tails come apart (2014)
Samwise Gamgee can be trusted to carry a phone but not use it...
Everyone's anxious on that mission and he has more experience in overcoming anxiety.
People who do this are probably just ignorant (under-skilled), not necessarily antisocial.

Doing this obviously risks your own site breaking if the linked source changes anything or goes away. That’s a serious risk which no reasonable web developer would knowingly accept.
Defining the requirements is one point, one task in that list. Developing J is another.

Note that J is not a ratified extension, or even close to being so. It has been moving slowly for years (been a low priority), and now it is finally getting some attention, as higher priority items (such as H, B, V and Zc) are either done or final stages.
They all are the same person - Satoshi.
Announcement: AI generated answers are officially banned here
Overall this article wasn't life changing, but I did really appreciate the third point:

"Set limits on your thinking time."

Meaningful specific advice like this is what actually helps imo.
>They have a public credit bureau hosted by the national bank that records all the loans and credit.

So basically the same as credit bureaus in the US, but it's a government monopoly? Given how well other government agencies work at least in the US (eg. DMV), I'm skeptical that waving a "government" wand would magically fix stuff.

>The data is not for sale to just about any company that is willing to pay for it, the individual has to give permission to share it when they apply for a loan

AFAIK that's also the case in the US. When you open a bank account/apply for a credit card, somewhere buried in the terms and conditions is a consent for a credit check.

>There isn't such bullshit as in the US where you practically have to push your student to get a credit card "to start building up a credit score."

In the US at least, the reason why it's commonly advised for students (and other young adults) to "build credit" is to build up a history of credit usage and repayments. I don't see why the same dynamic wouldn't exist in Belgium. Your own linked article says "Later, it added positive marks as well, allowing “no credit” and “good credit” to be distinguished", which suggests the same dynamic would exist in Belgium.
What stops you from using a managed database from a provider who specializes in it?

If Fly builds it, it will create another Goliath who tries to eat everything.
This is what's called a 'contract of adhesion.' If no part of it is negotiable, I don't think one party should be able to just endlessly add terms for their own convenience.
Ah, that makes a lot of sense. Thank you.
> quite litigious

I would have used the term "vigilant" instead of "litigious". There is much less connotation of barratry, shakedowns, and other distasteful activities.

> it can be easy to get caught out by licensing requirements

Indeed, a possibly dire situation to fall into.
Its cheaper to shave peaks than almost anything. A distribution company can spend a normal month's worth of electricity in a few hours at system peaks. Unfortunately people aren't willing to be warm or cold for a bit at peaks to save the utility money. I don't blame them since they will get almost nothing out of it.
Beyond that, a growing number of us have realized that democracy is incompatible with freedom.

Once you accept that, the absurdity of politicians claiming to speak for large swaths of your country is just comical.

Downvoters are free to explain why unimpressive people have any say over how you think or how you should behave.
That system would be called "big government" in USA.
Was it the original HTC Vive? Or even the pro? Because both of those are pretty old by now, with even the pro being a pretty minor upgrade to the original that came out in 2015. I'm pretty sure the hardware improved a lot, and having used the quest 2 (just once or twice at the office, not really into VR/gaming in general) it's a massively different experience from the older vive.
I have built a couple of these boards now, and I still have no one who will play with me.
https://archive.is/ez51w
I agree. If you know the author the bias is clear, but it's okay to point it out for people who are not familiar with him.
Yeah, I sometimes wonder if they bill me correctly. Their price is not that cheap but at the end of the day, the cost is lower than expected.
Feedbro RSS reader, CookieBro, uBlock Origin
An Upscale Upscaling App
SuperLux does two things: upscale images and change the aspect ratio. It's perfect for old grainy photos, tiny logos, and, yes, AI generated art.
Hitman 1 in this series was a bit of flop at the time because of the episodic model. I think they had the right idea, but not enough meaty content. Now with 21 maps and stacks of missions and puzzles doing regular map drops for $10 every few months seems like a really good way to create a really rich product.
Because they're not moving away from San Francisco, they're moving to San Francisco. And they're moving away from those friends and family that you were referring to, to do so.

The solution is simple. Stop moving to the same 5 overpriced cities. Or, don't expect to be able to buy a house there if you do. These are facts, ignoring them causes problems.
(oh, and I'm not trying to pat myself on the back, here-- I'm mainly emphasizing the value of skileld design, generally.)
The next time someone asks me to name my heroes, I'm sending them a link to this article.
That's a difficult claim to make without knowing the workload.
Russia sanctions threaten Commonwealth's supply chain (2022)
>The problem is with basic male-female relationship dynamics within the concept of marriage/family. Women are attracted to wealth and status, men are attracted to appearances.

No, this is not true. Women are attracted to apparences now more than ever. Good looks is extremely important.

>Being a career slave for nothing is probably a big part of the suicide rate among men

Why for nothing, at least we get paid to work.
The best value option I've seen so far is Azure SQL Server databases. Not exactly Postgres, but it's only $5/month and works wonders.
This method of wheel concatenation is also used by pickup trucks known as a “dually” for commercial, farm/ranch and recreational use. The same wheels are often used in front and rear axles even if only the rear tires are mounted in pairs. This is presumably done for cross compatibility and/or tire rotation.

https://www.jdpower.com/cars/shopping-guides/what-is-a-duall...
Various Twitter Services Down in Australia
To add, the quick payment interface of India, UPI. Unified Payment Interface. Central Bank defined the rules. Every bank follows it. Money still gets settled as regular in behind the scenes, but on front end, customer sees money moving instantly, no fees. Money moves between super verified accounts or customers only.
Thanks for cleaning up our comments so we don't lose all the discussion.
Or they vote in self defense because the other gang intends to behave in a way they find depraved.

It’s gross.
Fundamentally the problems are the same, but the communities have very different priorities. The vast majority of Node is still web dev and the community focuses on dependencies that are deployed as JavaScript files (including transpiled code); this allows NPM to mostly ignore issues related to linking to native binaries and put more focus on those user-facing features you see and like. Python on the other hand has a lot of stakes on interacting with native binaries (scientific computing, automation, etc.) and with systems older than Node’s existence. This consumes up a ton of the community’s resource, and every new UX improvement also needs to take account of those use cases. If you’re ever tasked with keeping projects with native dependencies working over a moderate period of time in both languages, you’d gain a lot of respect on how well Python packaging works.
IP addresses in your http server log are a violation? Well then you may as well fine every hardware owner and ISP middleman between me and the user!
Isn’t this just basic reinforcement learning? We’re not too many steps away from having an AI equipped with a good language model and a reinforcement learning mechanism to be let loose on the internet.
Microsoft aims for AI-powered version of Bing – The Information
Related:

The Continuity of Splines [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34014308 - Dec 2022 (41 comments)

The Beauty of Bezier Curves [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28349680 - Aug 2021 (2 comments)

The Beauty of Bézier Curves - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28237166 - Aug 2021 (2 comments)
ARM is on the way out...

Also, watch for Si implanted back doors. Guaranteed to happen...

One big impediment to RISC-V now is GPU, but that is also coming on fast:
https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/risc-v-universe-grows-...
The pay per mission model was interesting but ultimately added too much friction, especially as it was so tightly connected to the online account. I didn't buy any of them until it all came out as a discounted pack, but even now I worry the servers will go offline one day and I will be left with unplayable purchases.
Could you elaborate on that? I'm curious and thermodynamics was a while ago...
It's typically 30% of the settlement, and that's why CA litigators are the rockstars of the legal world.
It is possible that machines can be programmed with a set of main (higher) goals and can then set themselves sub-goals in order to achieve those higher goals..

The question is whether us humans would be left out to compete for resources, AI machines may at some point become able to out-compete us for resources. Do we really need to satisfy our desire to play God?

Another less than perfect possibility to come out of this could be AI based war machines - goal driven self sufficient entities that have two goals, to survive and to kill.
So we’re going to reduce the hourly rate and charge a base fee, and then increase the hourly rate back to the old value?

So you’re asking for a regressive rate in electricity.

If your solution to a public policy issue is “why don’t we just” then you don’t understand the issue. I’m just pointing out externalities that you guys aren’t thinking about when shooting the shit about upcharging low income families and allowing the rich to get richer. You are contributing to the problems we complain about.
You aren't wrong!
> How is [Python] very different from NodeJS?

Unlike Node, Python is essentially older than modern package management. When Python developers first decided to tackle distributing their code, `apt-get` did not yet exist.

Early approaches which stuck around way too long let any package do more or less anything at install time, and didn't bother with static metadata (can't figure out what your deps are except by attempting an install!). Subsequent solutions have struggled to build consensus in an already vast and mature ecosystem. Backwards compatibility means compatibility with bad conventions.
Absolutely, that’s the ultimate goal and those are great ideas. Thanks for the feedback.

Right now I’m just getting my calibrations on learning how to make consumable content. I’ll be upgrading my setup soon to produce higher quality videos thanks to some friends donating some gear to me.

I’ll probably continue out a few more concepts here specifically to local development with this series. Then move on to a new project from start to finish. Maybe like a basic web app game or something that requires common infrastructure. I want to get more feedback data then make something really awesome once I get my bearings.

Right now I’d I were to do a stack it would be with what I’m familiar with. That would be IAC with something like terraform/cloudformation/CDK, then keep it simple with GitHub actions for CI/CD, go into migration/rollbacks/chaos/secops scenarios, and most likely deploy on both AWS (what I’ve used primarily for professional production) and digital ocean for my hobby projects.
It happens here in the US too--family businesses that have no one to take over when the owners retire or die. If they haven't prepared a successor--whether a next-gen family member or employee, few may be willing to step in. So the business will just close.
Yea, when I read that the claim group had ballooned I changed my ‘compensation’ to be 5 years of their crap service for identity theft monitoring.

I figured that was worth more than $5… though it is debatable.
Tab exporters (to plain-text)!

I use Tabitha for Safari, but there are plenty of different options for each browser.

I find that it's super easy to clean up my tabs by dumping them to my plain-text notes.
Write a program to show me where that mistake was made.

> Intent is lost because there is a mistake.

The signal is reduced but not gone. In a language like Ruby I can tell you plus or minus a few lines exactly where the problem is.
I tested websocket on fly about 2 years ago, it seemed to have kinda weird characteristic. It's hard to explain because I can't dig it. It's like throttle + batch scheduling somehow (I don't know what it actually does though)

I tested Fly, DO app platform, Render. Ended up with DO (but it's meh, can't mount disk volume, can't deploy to a specific sha code git)

I'm going to [stress]test their wss:// again this year, I'm thinking to finally move a commercial one to fly (already have hobby apps there)
> Supermarket too are massively profitable businesses.

By "massively" do you mean margins of 2-4%?
There really isn’t such a thing as a “crazy amount of vacuum”. The most vacuum you can have is 1 bar. From a structural standpoint there’s no difference between a very bog standard vacuum, like say the 2psia or so a vacuum cleaner produces and a 10^-10 physics lab vacuum that takes hours of pumping.
Apple collects much of the same data (and more) and they use it to push ads at you and for whatever else they want. They also sell that data to third parties including "information about your transactions and viewing activity, as well as aggregated user demographics such as age group, gender (which may be inferred from information such as your name and salutation in your Apple ID account), and region"

See: https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/data/en/apple-tv-app/

Remember, what companies consider to be "non-personal information" is often extremely personal. It's often trivial to identify an individual based on "anonymized" or "non-identifying" data, and even aggregated data my not be enough to prevent individuals from being identified.

It's not clear what "disabling ACR when Apple services were in use" actually means in practice. I'd guess it means that Apple TV+ content isn't being snooped on directly by anyone except apple, but it's hard to say.
How much are chips in mobile devices currently? How much of a saving are we talking?
You know it's always the intellectuals who fret so much about life. I've seen construction workers succesfully dating and being happy and enjoying life. Maybe we overthink things too much. We'll be fine.
The Curious Case of Nebraska Man
There's a lot of awful stuff in here, but as a non American, this really blows my mind:

> Prosecutors charged the mother with second-degree murder, which carries a maximum sentence of life in prison. She took a plea deal — without admitting guilt — that resulted in a manslaughter conviction and she served about two years. “We would never have known the truth,” Garland wrote to Harpster, “if it hadn’t been for your book and your excellent training.”

The possibilities here are:

1. This women was innocent, her child died, and she spent 2 years in prison, or
2. This woman was guilty of murder and only spent 2 years in prison.

Either way, surely this concept of a "plea deal" is a broken one that doesn't lead in any way to justice?
Yup. In Go the target is called `riscv64`.

But someone could come up with a translator which compiles arm64 or amd64 binaries into riscv64, similar to how Apple's Rosetta2 and box64 does it for arm.
There are some solutions to these problems.

The typical hardware solution is for the phone provider to install a battery powered backup device.

In the event of a power cut, the backup device allows the landline phone to make calls to 112/999 using a built-in mobile SIM.
Ah, lua-users.org... That wiki which pretty much looks like the comment section in the PHP manual but with a less chance to be correct for many reasons. And I'm not sure if there's other (preferably more trusted) source of snippets.

Back in time when I messed with Lua [1], I needed a version of `pairs` that returns keys in the sorted order. Lua-users has a page for that [2], so I looked it up, and found that it has a subtle but important enough bug---it relies on `__orderedIndex` stored in the original table, which never gets updated nor GCed. I'm sure many enough people had been and will be tripped up by this snippet.

[1] So much that I had written a type checker for Lua: https://github.com/devcat-studio/kailua/

[2] http://lua-users.org/wiki/SortedIteration
Oh lordy, same. I personally can't wait for someone else to solve it.
> In non-authoritarian countries like the US, the users are responsible for all of the bank's losses.

What? You can almost always get a refund even when someone gets access to your account. That's true for debit, and even more so for credit. Some types of transferts might be irreversible after a certain delay, but again, for customer facing retail banking, those are generally not widespread anyways
This sounds interesting. Do you have a good write-up?
...and this is why there's a push for DNS over HTTPS/DNS over TLS
The traditional way was to drink heavily.
After 40 years in industry, I'd recommend enjoying your life after work hours...
Did that ever happen to Heroku? Ignoring 10% of use cases for their target customers and making the 90% doesn't sound crazy to me.
In my experience of building stuff in a way that I guess you would describe as micro services, but purely by happenstance (ie. I didn’t set out to “do micro services”) at the heart of micro services are queues.

Queues are awesome, just use queues almost all the time and then either build micro services or don’t.
Brittney Griner is named “Arizonan of the Year”
My daily driver is from 1996. My son's daily driver is from 1963 and he's about to take it on a 3k mi trip. We also have a 69 and a 61.

We are monsters.
I'd like to know about the bigger picture in a way that helps me appreciate it, and only if there's a way I specifically can be involved in getting there or the possible positive or negative outcome of me knowing or not knowing about it. Most of the time though, "knowing about the bigger picture" is actually just some arbitrary executive who wants to hear themselves talk to everyone simultaneously, inevitably saying nothing of substance, and about things I don't and will never likely have involvement with. It's a ludicrous burden to subject myself to, viewing my day to day work through the lense of some specious company-wide objective, especially if the only people who gain are the people at the top.

Like seriously, I don't even have stock or stock options, if the company makes more money, it's someone elses choice whether I get anything more out of it, or whether I get fired because my role doesn't fit within their new structure.
Fair enough, hence the additional comment just clarifying that I'm not being critical of them for that.
There's plenty of evidence that brains do casual inference. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31047778/ is just one of many reputable and scholarly results that came up when I googled for "brain causal inference".
Personally, I’ve never considered docker compose to have any security at all. The containers have IPs on an OS network device. Why would the host not have access?

Then again, I use openvpn and had to deal with network routing tables.
> How does this help consumers?

The same asked of ARM, just look at the Surface critique.
The greatest advantage is that you can make your own processor implementing the ISA without asking for permission and/or paying fees. Also you can make your processor open source if you wish and many have already done so.

As an example Apple designed their processors from scratch, they do not use any core designs provided by the ARM holdings corporation. Yet they still have to pay ARM a lot of money because they use their instruction set.

The instruction set is a very sticky thing. All the software gets written for a particular instruction set, and people like to keep using previously written software. Thus, software stickiness causes CPU ISA stickiness which gives companies that control that particular ISA a lot of power. And they of course monetize that power by charging extra for their CPUs.

With an open ISA, anybody can make processors that use the same instructions, which means that your software should work on any CPU designed for that particular ISA. Thus, all the talented hardware designers in the entire world can work to make RISC-V processors without asking for permission. They are free to charge for their designs or make them open. And if you write RISC-V code, it can execute on any of those processors or any future ones anyone decides to develop. (There is a bit of complication here in that the RISC-V ISA includes several different combinations for instructions for different use cases, but they are all open).