skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anecdotal but I was on a flight recently and the fellow seated behind me brought his Quest2 for the flight. He said it was much better for watching movies than the poor quality of the in-flight screens. Makes sense since you can also download movies via Netflix or Amazon Prime
I'm happy with my private, for-profit healthcare. But I'm also glad to support public healthcare services with taxes. It's not just one or the other, we can have both of them.
To toot my own horn: The oldest still-active compiler-based language on the Java platform, besides Java, is as far as I know Kawa (https://gnu.org/software/kawa). It started Summer 1996, and is still actively maintained. (Not as active as it used to be, to be true.) Like Clojure, it is a Scheme-like language, but (unlike Clojure) it is very compatible with "regular" Scheme (R7RS), though of couurse with lots of extensions. With a little bit of care (including optional type-specifiers), it is easy to write code that is as fast as Java code.
I think it's less about the foresight and more about being willing to spend the extra cash.

Shoddy construction is often cheaper, easier, or faster, those are the driving forces behind ignoring code. I doubt many engineers would choose to avoid the catastrophes they've been taught to avoid in their work, because they know better than anyone what the impact of such catastrophes will be.

There will always be bad people, but there are more constraints than just lack of skill or foresight that make these disasters unfold.
So good that I never saw them in production, not even on the list of officially supported Linux distributions for commercial products.
>Russia are approaching the end of their existence as a nation

I'm curious why you think that.
So they can design things that don’t look like genitals. Huh.

Exhibit B, February 9th: https://www.blueorigin.com/news/nasa-awards-mars-science-mis...
> Fire extinguishers should be inspected by a licensed professional every two years

Really? Do you know _anyone_ who does that? What will the professional do that we don't -- take a look at the charge level, take a look at manufacturer date?
The first result of searching for your string on Google is a StackOverflow link [1] that mentions that this is a gzip header. There is another link [2] below it showing how to decompress it.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58552645/what-exactly-is...

[2] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57328953/trying-to-decod...
yes, it leaks the information that you use the application (at all), at what times and so on, at a (potentially) individual level.
But I'm not sure what the remedy is for some applications auto updates might be unexpected or even unwanted, but for other applications it would feel pretty bad to not have them and have them enabled by default. That's the user's expectation - not the expectation of privacy for their IP. I think user expectations should be in focus, but it's not always easy to guess. Saying "put the lid on everything and let the user actively enable anything, check for updates etc" also isn't very user friendly.
A 700kb dependency isn't too bad in a modern browser + connection. Depending on how much else is loaded and how it is loaded.

Developers often have an out-of-date perspective on what is big these days and the realistic performance impacts. Especially with HTTP2 and multiple assets loading async.

But the DB size is indeed the big question here.
That reminds me of how the C standard had a separate “rationale” document [0].

[0] https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/C99RationaleV5.1...
It's nice and all but simply putting "b'\x1f\x8b\x08\x00\x00\x00\x00\" in google search gives you the same answer (first link even)
Whoever sells extinguishers, I think.
So what? Why should they care about Android or Linux users?
European drugs are often funded by their profits from America.
Even though I've been to Versailles twice, I had to read that article to realize that the point of the mirrors was to see out the windows across from them. The author is correct. It is absolutely impossible to get that impression when the room is full of other people behind you!
But for the content they make, they own the rights. Including this doc, right? So what's the problem?
I mean... regulations are actually a lot more flexible than you're implying.

I was looking to wire up some solar panels to a cottage in the countryside. Since municipal regulations didn't apply, provincial ones did, which were that if you've built the structure for your own occupancy and follow the electrical code, this is completely legal.

So the code applies, but it's not restricted to trained electricians in some cases.

Same goes for drugs in much of the world. Personally I think it's a little ridiculous people need to get a script for stuff like viagra or tretinoin or finasteride.

It becomes almost farcical when online clinics exist which will do a consultation without obtaining medical records or even seeing you via video and write you a script. Or that celebrities can get private doctors who will write them whatever. Or when you consider most countries outside NA and the EU where you can get pretty much whatever you want OTC.

Not to mention you can order TONS of different research chemicals and "nootropics", completely legally, online.

If you were to pass a regulation that was essentially "only registered genetic engineers can experiment in any way with this" it would be way more restrictive than anything we have for pharmaceuticals, or even domestic electricity.

What you're suggesting would be on par with regulations for nuclear technology. IDK seems maybe a bit excessive...
WebEx used to own this market and is still going pretty strong. Ironically, WebEx has one really good feature that Zoom doesn't which is that you can actually zoom on a screenshare.
What risk? Malpractice coverage is provided by the hospital, or more typically, the private equity group that owns the ER physician practice. Last I looked, independent ER docs pay something like $15k more per year than IM docs for solo coverage... there's still quite a ways to go to make up that other quarter million dollars.

I don't think the average person realizes that Blackstone is one of the largest employers of ER docs... it's not "supply and demand" that's increasing ER salaries, it's a private equity cartel that aggressively upcodes routine treatment and then sues hospitals to increase their reimburesment rates.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeamHealth

https://tennesseelookout.com/2022/05/09/tennessee-health-bil...
> Take away the profit and everybody who needs to rent is out of luck.

How does that follow?

Take the situation as it exists today—X amount of "housing units" exist, and Y of those "housing units" are owned by investors as rental properties.

Now, change the situation so that it becomes unprofitable to own properties you are not occupying. All X of those housing units still exist. They won't be destroyed (well, maybe a few will, but not enough to seriously change the calculations), and if it's not profitable to rent them, it's going to be even less profitable to hang onto them sitting empty.

What happens in that scenario? Well, they should be sold.

Who would they be sold to? People who need a place to live (because no one's going to be buying them as investment or rental properties anymore).

How much are they going to be sold for? The amount these people are willing and able to pay. Why would they be sold for significantly more than they would be rented out for before? Sure, some current owners would be in denial and unwilling to accept that they'd lose a bunch of money on it (or maybe, as nicoburns suggests, there would be some kind of one-time bailout/incentive/whatever to make sure that the current owners would sell, and wouldn't lose their shirts). But while it would certainly change the economics of the situation somewhat from what they are today, and it would take our society a few years to reorganize around it, ultimately, I don't believe removing the middleman landlord class from the equation would harm the people who are currently renting in the long term. Indeed, I think it would benefit them, because instead of being in a situation where they're basically guaranteed to have a significant portion of their earnings siphoned off purely to be allowed to have a place to exist, they would be building up equity in something through those payments...and once they finished paying the purchase price, they would own the place, no longer have to make payments, and be able to sell it on when they decided it was time to move.
They should focus on customer service instead, then maybe the profits would follow
But the pure AI companies like OpenAI and Tenstorrent haven't gone public yet.
You disconnected from your family as well while living in Costa Rica?
Does ferros+sel4 have a workable story for working on a hypervisor? e.g. is there anything built around virtio & block devices and so on? (Just circling back on my original probing around where the emphasis of the project is... embedded or cloud... Arm SoC of x86_64, etc.)
Yep. I've just seen an interview of a custom officer here in France. In the past 25 years the amount of foreign goods entering the country has more than doubled; in the meanwhile, the number of custom officers was slashed by 30% (in Germany it slightly increased in the same period). Illegal goods of all kinds (from toxic paints to non-conforming tools and drugs) are now everywhere. But the state saved money! In the short term at least...
Reminds me of the famous pictures of a tori arch in Japan that survived nukes and earthquakes while its surroundings were repeatedly destroyed. Real trooper.
almost nobody claims that. everybody knows covid was caused by 5G :P
This is entirely a "rich parts of the west" kind of a thing - and has nothing to do with Turkey
Still there, "Don’t forget to share this post": https://blog.zoom.us/a-message-from-eric-yuan-ceo-of-zoom/
Here's an example

https://www.ktnv.com/13-investigates/officials-in-nevada-dem...

You're welcome!
Building a Technical Moat Around LLMs
Go to any commercial building and find their fire extinguishers. They'll have a tag on them indicating when they were inspected and who did it. Or look up 'fire extinguisher servicing [your metro area name]' or check with your local commercial occupancy inspectors department.
There are a lot of things driving up housing costs. Some of those are also driving wage disparity.
Just out of interest for the layman, is there anything a non-expert like myself can examine on a building to assess its 'survivability' during an earthquake?
You should call a professional and ask them what else they’d do.
Perhaps Ukraine kept a few nukes hidden that the Russian bookkeepers lost track of. Time to launch may be nearing.

And then there's

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/russias-atomic-nightm...
Take a look at what happened to Ekrem Imamoglu recently.
No that is false. The highest volume Shinkansen lines are inspected by a high speed train once every ~10 days: https://www.jrailpass.com/blog/doctor-yellow-shinkansen/amp
Matrix 2.0: How we’re making Matrix go voom
In your case, it won't. You would be better off renting and investing the extra $2k in assets that are productive rather than speculative. This should be obvious, but the West as a whole has bought into the housing as a form of wealth and can't let the music stop now without ruining millions of lives.

Housing as a form of generational wealth is a trick that works for the population as a whole for a generation or two. The majority of rentals come from regular people who bought long before you and have significantly lower mortgages or no mortgages at all, or large firms who have access to lower rates and more accounting tricks like depreciation. In either case, what they can afford to accept as rents is a lot less than what you can afford to accept as rent. The best you can hope for is significant appreciation or significant rent increases in the face of stagnant wages. High demand markets like NYC and SF can sustain ever increasing prices for a long time, but most markets cannot.
Continuing the dio journey with CFUG team
Rationale for International Standard–Programming Languages–C (2003) [pdf]
For a small fine

We have a word for those "fines": they're called indulgences.
That's not because of building codes. That's because of people who don't believe in helping their fellow man through, oh I don't know, paying taxes, supporting the welfare state, paying living wages etc.
I think that's more of a problem with zoning codes and environmental impact regulations than building codes.
True; the easiest solution is probably to have upstream add an option to ./configure to compile it out. FreeBSD, Red Hat, etc, etc. would also appreciate that.
Thanks! The space is becoming more and more exciting. Many players will emerge in different verticals, creating a great impact. Companies will be able to price, invoice, and track usage with greater precision.
Link to YouTube video since FOSDEM video isn't loading.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUPJ9zFV5IE
I love this article because it is very succinct. "Here's an analogous problem. Here's how it might apply to parenting. Here's how it might apply to work."

I love that it just shares an idea. It doesn't spend pages trying to qualify every nuance and detail and counter-argument of the idea.

Regrettably (or maybe it's helpful), this will always lead to people nitpicking the analogy or idea apart, based on their personal interpretation of all those undefined details.
These days it's difficult and expensive for a company to go public. So when it's early enough that you could make a good return just going long on this kind of bubble blowing up, there aren't yet companies in the public markets to invest into.

So what happens is that awful companies that happen to be already public will try to reinvent themselves as part of the trend. Some past examples:

- Fish-oil company Zapata happened to own the domain zap.com, so in 1999 they became an Internet portal:
https://www.forbes.com/1999/04/13/mu11.html?sh=5d90ad3b65d8

- In 2017 a beverage company called Long Island Iced Tea changed its name to Long Blockchain Corp:
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/21/long-island-iced-tea-micro-c...

With mostly companies of this quality to pick from, anybody who built an Internet portfolio in 1999 or a blockchain portfolio in 2017 probably lost 99% of their money.
20 Years After Deep Blue: How AI Has Advanced Since Conquering Chess (2017)
I mean that is kind of the _ultimate_ goal isn't it?

-Vaccinate the population, eliminate the disease in humans

-Eliminate the disease in any of its natural reservoirs

Once you're certain it's gone why continue vaccination? There's cost to that and those resources can then be dedicated to "active" diseases (perhaps with the instructions for that vaccine archived somehow).
For anyone wondering - the evidence implicating Modi "vanished". No court will convict someone without evidence and the Indian prosecution in general has a record of doing a shit job in gathering implicating evidence when influential folks are involved.

Also, the one member of the indian bureaucracy who dared to question Modi's role in the riots - Sanjiv Bhatt - was sentenced to life in prison.

I am not sure what the poster here is insinuating with the claim that the case was tried under a different government. In no reasonable democracy are the courts swayed by politics.
When the funding horizon for your company or project is shorter than the tech debt horizon, the biz pick tech debt every time.

Color me jaded, but I don’t care if the crud feature du jour is full of tech debt when we’re gonna throw it out in 3 months anyway.
You cannot just say that these businesses hire too many people, there is a reason why they’re laying people off right now.

These businesses know what’s coming. Get ready for a higher than expected inflation rate tomorrow.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34774930
Did it hurt when you stretched that far to try to prove a point that's not even valid. did you read the words coming off your fingertips?

Does "that the director didn't really want anybody to see" sounds exactly like what the director is going to go back in to allow people to see on an anniversary release? Here's a quote never said by James Cameron: "yeah, you know, when we exposed for 2.35 aspect so we allowed all of the film gak to be in frame for a smaller aspect ratios, we should release that to the public since it will definitely enhance the experience of the viewer. that was such a mistake to not do that 25 years ago"
Is there an independent international body which inspects and reports on building standards noncompliance?

Even a stratified random sample of a few dozen buildings per country (based on location, size and cost of development) would likely reveal any evidence of systematic failures

It would be a nightmare to establish something like this as every country's laws and building standards are different. I do feel like this is bordering on a human rights issue however (right to life, adequate - nonlife-threatening housing)

This is tangental but a similar idea (somewhat) works for ensuring less developed Commonwealth nations conduct voting properly. Developed Commonwealth nations setup Commonwealth Observer Groups (COGs) who sample voting places and occasionally provide security such as the recent PNG elections
Yes they are anchored to the schist substrate. The point I’m trying to make is you generally don’t build to account for earthquakes if you’re not on a fault line.
I started out reading the article thinking the author was going to say that it's all vaporware, but he doesn't at all.
Would be cool if the headset was just an AirPlay receiver that could map the video stream into VR space. Although I suppose that wouldn't work for Netflix anymore since they killed AirPlay support.
In Europe there's a service from minimax, one of the biggest fire extinguisher manufacturers. So I guess check up on the manufacturer, fire protection consultants, or any place that sells them.
And check your fire exits, if you live in a larger building. Know where the closest one is. Know where an alternative one is. Check they’re not locked or blocked.
That's 100% black mirror, not white mirror. Babies being raised by machines is dystopian as hell.
Sure you're not gonna wear one on your commute.

But on a long-distance train or a long plane flight? I could totally see people reclining and wearing this to watch TV and movies.

(Honestly, the gigantic IMAX-sized cinema screen in VR is kind of the killer app nobody is talking about. Not to mention it's the highest quality 3D movie experience you can get, if you want to watch something like Avatar.)

Obviously nobody's going to be playing games on a VR headset on public transportation, at least not ones that require moving controllers in space.
Active protection systems (big hydraulic dampers (passive and active)) and tuned mass dampers/diagonal dampers.
That's why I said "at least in the USA". I can only speak to what I am familiar with. Would you rather no one say that "this advice is not applicable in my area"? I've seen so many older US citizens over the last decade or so say "join the military" that I want to push back on this. What was so during the Vietnam war, when a draft was ongoing, is not so anymore.

I stand corrected wrt the merchant fleet.
> it's so frustrating

I feel the same way developing software - the only thing that ever matters, and has ever mattered (at least since I started developing software in 1992) is "meeting the date". Whatever corners can be cut to make the date are cut, and then the thing breaks in fairly predictable ways because corners were cut. It's maddeningly infuriating and I'm not even dealing with people's lives here. I can't even imagine having to put up with this attitude when people could actually die.
Indeed - you just need to look at the UK cladding scandal to see this.

I mean ffs:

In the 1980s, the Conservative Government introduced its
Deregulation Initiative; in consequence, the Building Act
1984 reduced building regulations from 306 pages to 24.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_cladding_crisis
Except it's worse, because no one could otherwise use that cubic kilometer of the sky as a place to live.

Owning residential land that you can't or won't live on, in a country with a significant homelessness problem, is depriving other people of shelter, a basic need.
> Because personally I doubt I will ever learn a second language, but I'm sure I could given enough time and the right incentive.

Yeah—I know I can do it, and even know that I enjoy learning another language, but also know from experience that I don't have enough natural reasons to use anything but English, that I'll have any hope of keeping it up without committing to permanently spending 10+ hours a week doing nothing but practicing the language for the sake of it, all for the occasional few minutes a year (optimistically) in which it's actually useful, or for the once-a-decade trip I might take to somewhere it's widely spoken.

Au revoir my once-somewhat-decent French.

Europeans sometimes imply Americans are dumb or hopelessly provincial for being so persistently monolingual, but it's hard as fuck to keep up a second language when you can travel 1,000 miles and the locals are all still speaking English (at least, mostly). European learners of other European languages are doing it on easy mode, compared to us. It's hard to find a route anywhere in Europe that long that doesn't pass through at least three different languages, as primarily spoken by the locals, and even finding one with that few takes some effort.

So I'm both aware that I can learn another language, and aware that I in-fact won't short of some huge shake-up in my life circumstances, which may as well be the same thing as "can't".
If you use AWS SSO, I wrote an extension to automatically change containers when you log in.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/aws-sso-conta...
Yeah. If their fuel costs were $1 and their profit is $1 million, a 68% increase in fuel cost makes no difference.

It's like the food companies in Canada that defend their price gouging by claiming their profit margins haven't changed. It's true, but if revenue is 2x what it was last year, the rich families that own those businesses are getting 2x the profit while trying to blame higher costs for the increased prices the average person is seeing.
Thanks for the mention! It'll be 13 years this year... which is hard to believe.
That still doesn't make any sense. Do you mean he had passed the FINRA Series 7 Exam? Anyone with money can trade, with or without a Bloomberg terminal. Order execution speed will depend on the exact type of order the trader puts in and where he directs it; there are multiple types other than simple market sell orders and there are trade-offs between speed and price. And if he had evidence of his dealer engaging in illegal front running then he should have reported that to the regulators.

Anyway, it sounds like your colleague was just an idiot who didn't understand the basics of professional trading and got in over his head. He should have stuck with buying index funds on a Vanguard account.
Very interesting the sad contrast with reality, in particular, considering that there has been an occurrence of this event already, and then lesson hasn't been learned:

> Construction amnesties, which allow owners to register unlicensed properties or ones that violate building codes in exchange for a fine, have made a bad situation much worse. Mr Erdogan’s government passed several such amnesties, the latest in 2018, ahead of general elections. The opposition backed the move, because it was popular with voters.