skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if they keep what Linode was good at.

Yeah, but that's the big if, isn't it? Once they enact changes which require action on your part (sunsetting services, changing prices, ...), you'll probably move, or at least seriously consider it.
The UK is in general making it very difficult to operate using cash. My experience last summer, as a tourist, was that certain attractions would accept card payments only. Want to go on a Thames river cruise or visit Warwick Castle? The only way to purchase tickets was via card. I also paid with a £50 for a few drinks in a bar and they did not have enough cash on hand to provide me with correct change. It was either end up out of pocket, or pay the correct amount with card. Making cash such an inconvenience means more and more people use cards (or some form of cashless payment), thus making it look like everyone wants to go cashless, which is not really the case.

A similar story on a small local mini-market. I had a small number of items and ask the shop assistant to man the till for me. She told me that was not possible and I had to use the automated check-out system. However, because I was buying alcohol, she had to come over and approve the transation manually anyway! I do wonder if people working these jobs realise that automation is doing away with their livelihoods. They should be instead actively encouraging people to come to the manual till for checkout.
This would probably be against some Blizzard ToS
I've seen this news of Toyoda's passing posted across various social media channels and it's incredible to see how many Toyota owners have thanked him posthumously. I remember that when Steve Jobs died. This seems similar in a sense.
Funny. I hear the Bing thing was trained on the Webs.

Whoever writes the last comment, wins the argument. Or, at least the response pattern often follows that logic. The model is a good learner in that regard.
The higher the monetary barrier to entry to a profession the greater the rents that accrue to those who can afford to get in. Requiring seven years of college means that very few people who were not born to the bourgeoisie or higher can join, which makes the profession more pleasant for lawyers, who have always been bourgeois. Making a first undergraduate degree mandatory means your colleagues will be more well rounded, interesting people, which makes the profession more pleasant for lawyers.

Seeing a trend here?
And let us not forget those secret random seeds!
I agree with most of what you are saying in you posts. I'm not sure it's only fear, but a lack of abstract thinking. I recommend you to look up Cynefin, which is a strategy for making decisions. People can't and won't speculate or change their mind if they lack the capabilities to do so.
I'd go further and say that all online identity politics is about branding and buying an identity to be shown to others and yourself online.

It's brand loyalty and consumer capitalism in another new form.
Now you too can invest in the VC arm of the hedge fund that passed on Amazon
Ironically, I was always very impressed with Salmond as well, he seemed to be on a different level, wit and intelligence wise to his English colleagues. It all obviously got a bit grimy with him and Sturgeon at the end, so I didn't mention it.

There has also been the recent trans policy heat (not to say she is on the wrong side, I have no idea) and the finance debacle that Private Eye has been tracking.

So yes, they are hardly pure, but just seem generally more professional and trustworthy.
I do wonder how much of that could be put down to how fantastically incompetent their English counterparts are.
It's not a ball, it's an idealized "particle" (0-dimensional point).
Crazy stuff!

(Also quite irresponsible, but fun since it all turned out okay)
I have nothing much to add except that Akamai paid 900 million for linode, so 200m was a low guess. But linode was debt free and profitable unlike their competitors.
Caffeine is absolutely deadly toxic to many organisms, including humans. Five grams and you’re very likely to end up dead.
I had to look up what a kill fee is.

From https://www.liveabout.com/what-is-a-kill-fee-1360477 :

> A kill fee is a payment on a magazine or newspaper article that a publisher makes to a freelance writer when their assigned article is "killed," or canceled.
They are running on skeleton crews to reduce costs and increased speeds to boost production. If there is no one there to pull the brakes it doesn't matter what kind of brakes they have.

The rail workers have been complaining for years.
Spot on. I’m not an Elon fan but the media is working overtime to prove him right on every point.

With such a strong stance on “misinformation” you’d think they’d have a second thought at suggesting we’re being visited by aliens. But alas clicks and alarm over reason.
I learned the name "Akamai" when I saw it in the URL for the ~~first~~ second trailer for Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace in 1998.

edit: it was actually the second trailer in '99
Thanks, I missed that on tuition reading a bit sloppily.

There's also the mention that law school is not necessarily required to join the bar, as addressed in the FAQ "Do You Have to go to Law School in Order to Become a Lawyer?":

To begin, 99 percent of lawyers who earn their license will have completed a law school program. This is for a very good reason: there are only four states in the United States that enable potential lawyers to sit for the bar exam without having completed law school. Those states are California, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington. In these states, less than one-quarter of the professionals without a law degree passed the bar exam and won the right to practice law. In fact, all four states are in the top 20 hardest bar exams, with California leading the pack at a pass rate of 54.3 percent.

Arguably three of those are nontrivial states for the practice of law.

Point remains however that $300k tuition is not strictly required to join the bar in the US, though it may offer a substantial selection advantage for prime opportunities.
The native Chinese speaker is NOT a Chinese room because nothing in the room speaks like a native speaker. No part or amalgamation of room/dweller/setup has the property the native speaker does. Only the native speaker understands Chinese. It’s interesting for a moment to collapse “understand” to “reproduces”, but to continually assert it comes off as denial. Denial of the subjective (feeling what it’s like) component of understanding something. Nothing in or of the room understands. The person inside will tell you he/she doesn’t. And the paper, pencils, and amalgamation are so physically unlike biological brains it becomes suspect to attribute to them the same qualities brains have.
The "dying animals but no casualities" angle really gets to me. This is possibly the source of millions of future cancers in America. The damage will persist over decades. They're just downplaying it until something else comes along in the news.
Substack is a website where basically anyone can start a blog/newsletter, there is a subscription model (you subscribe to a newsletter/blog, not the whole site) that the authors can use to put some content behind a paywall.

On one hand it's not really a "news source" like a regular newspaper, on the other hand they did contact relatively famous bloggers/people offering them really great deals, at least at the start of the platform.
> Applies to ALL employees within 40 miles of an office.

Wonder what happens if you decide (while being employed) to move to a city that has no office. Would management just accept it?
Maestro debit cards are common in NL and you can use them with Apple Pay.

(Online shopping is a bit different, instead of Maestro cards we use an NL-specific system called iDEAL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDEAL, basically direct bank transfers)
> Some central server needs to be the arbiter of randomness

What, no? My hash-based system is entirely random. The only issue is that draws are done with replacement, so two players may both have e.g. six of spades in their hand. This is aesthetically unappealing, but doesn't alter the actual maths of the game. (There are more complex solutions to this, however)

> not to mention being the actual escrow service for the money in the pot

FHE doesn't solve this, since FHE can't actually interface with your bank. Even if it could, I could just log in on my phone or physically walk into a bank branch to freeze my account before I have to pay out, so you still need a solution for the money layer.

> you can trust their generation of the hole cards

You can do trustless generation of hole cards already, as described in my post.
thank you for discussing with me
What's New in Rails 7.1
Do you have evidence or do you have assumptions?

Something I learned in CBT - while I can trust my mind to return facts I know most of the time, if I'm in a heated moment or excessively stressed out I can start making assumptions of the world (to save time and think faster?) - sometimes these assumptions are wrong.

Basically the therapist taught me to be less like ChatGPT, haha. I can express my assumptions and opinions of course, but I should note (at least to myself) where something I claim is an assumption I've made rather than a fact I know.

This was primarily for my low self-esteem and imposter syndrome feelings, but it works for pretty much everything.

---

Side note it turns out actual imposters don't have a mental portfolio of projects to hand that are actually really impressive when listed off in one sitting, haha

"oh yeah I tinkered on a project for a weekend while bored which went on to (indirectly) help raise millions for charity that one time"

If you also suffer from this I'd recommend making a "brag bin" - This is a tub I store complements and success stories that I can later go through when I'm feeling useless. This I adapted from (my systems use individual cards rather than documents) https://jvns.ca/blog/brag-documents/
> I saw a billboard for a lottery, it said "estimated lotto jackpot 55 million." See, I did not know that shit was estimated. That would suck if you won and they go, "oh, sorry, we were off by two zeros. We estimate that you are angry!"
The Quartering? The only channel heard I code names for. And God is he sloppy!

FD, I dont watch him anymore as he is becoming increasingly less interesting.
BigInts are closed under addition/subtraction/multiplication. Limited-size integers are not. That's "a truth that may hurt" and all programming languages have to deal with it. Most of them decided that using modular arithmetic and silently throwing away the most-significant digits is fine.

But again, all your arguing about "numbers should be closed under arithmetic operations just as they are in C/C++" is kinda pointless because in C/C++, they are not! When you add/multiply two signed char's, or two shorts, you get an int, not a signed char/short, so only ints and longs are actually closed under arithmetic operations. Whoops!
> As a Gen Xer, I cannot be tortured enough to care about these bland, apolitical, self-commercialized, professional personalities and, as far as I can tell, neither can most of my peers. When my crowd was coming of age, we called this sort of thing “selling out.

> We identified with Naomi Klein, who back in 1999 wrote No Logo, the book with which you waged an intellectual war against identifying with any kind of branding. Branding (especially yourself, God forbid) was anathema to Ms. Klein and to us, too.

Well, the '90s were a totally different time. It was infinitely easier to get a well-paying job with reasonable working conditions, but the economy is massively more unequal and feels way more all-or-nothing now. Basically (and I'm exaggerating for effect) you either sell out or you eke out some kind of meager existence, and who wouldn't seriously think about selling out in that kind of situation?
And yet nobody uses them. I wonder if there's some reason for that?
Around 2TB with little need for that to ever grow.
Those things are both boring and economically stolid with no chance to make big windfall returns.

How many people graduate in computers and say “now I want to go maintain 25 year old enterprise Java code for banks?” No? Same principle applies.

It’s hard to get people to maintain the boring stuff in a country with so much interesting shiny new stuff going on.

It doesn’t help that these industries are also low margin and are not attractive investment targets.
By law Linode is supposed to turn off and wait for a counter claim. Most companies forward and wait forward. Hetzner is not fast to react on abuse and are quite large.
What's orwellian or horrific about a cashless society? Sure, there are valid arguments against it, but that doesn't make it orwellian or horrific, this is just hyperbole.
Are you sure the gap under the sink is due to Legionnaire's Disease? I think it's just not to contaminate the sink in case of backflow.
Can you pay with your bank's app in a neighbour country? Does it simply boil down to a virtual Visa/Mastercard card?
While I'm sure the OP appreciates the successful "support via HN", it seems very clear that the real problem with your organization in this regard is people needing to do this in the first place. OP did say of the initial ban that "I tried to appeal but no luck."
>I find it curious that archaeologists or historians (?) seem to take a lot of things like this so seriously and assume everything has some sort of symbolic meaning, rather than just some teenager scribbling on a page or painting his hand on the wall of a cave just 'because'.

Yes, it's definitely funny how they completely fail or refuse to consider this possibility. Humans weren't any different in 10 000 BC. Evolution doesn't work that fast.
> [Anything GPU and ML-related] Can be done in Python/Rust

Can be done in Brainfuck. You just need to write the Cuda bindings.

> > C++ still has a better selection.

> Why is that?

Because C++ was around for longer.

For people who are more invested in Rust (myself included), extending Rust's selection is seen as a great endeavour.

I personally keep a list of things I wish to "oxidize". :-)
https://archive.is/ypoOZ
Some piece of psychology research said having others depend on you is a deep source of happiness. You were contributing to the hunter gatherer tribe or whatnot.

Another piece of psychological research. When you did something for a gold star reward, and they took the reward away, people stopped enjoying the activity.

Aka, just do kind deeds for others. Everything will be alright.

Also, do stuff for others, for free, using software. It's a really important part of enjoying your job.
KDE Plasma 5.27 release, with better multi monitor support and a tiling system
I agree that women have seemed relatively impressive at the top when they have stuck compared to their male counterparts; again, I don't know if that is coincidental, or representative of something we should learn from.
The burning vinyl chloride produces hydrogen chloride (which becomes hydrochloric acid when in solution with water). Tens of thousands of pounds of it was present.

So the answer is probably yes, with it being a lot harder to say what the exact effects are (because how much did it dilute in the atmosphere before going into solution, how quickly did it fall in rain, etc.).

It seems likely enough that there will be some rain that is moderately effected and not much else (because in terms of mixing with the atmosphere, tens of thousands of pounds isn't that much material).
The larger the company, the worse they are at naming things...

Large company a name has a go through several committees in different depts, then to legal, then to some exec committee, and through all of that creative dies, slowly and painfully
The only part about "reasonable usage" is that the ISP reserves the right to "temporarily control" your traffic once it exceeds 200 GB/month during a period of congestion "if the congestion is exceptional or temporary".

If they just slapped an overall speed cap on you after 200 GB/month, they'd be breaking their own terms of service.

And that's for a mobile plan. The fixed connection has no "reasonable usage" provisions and just has your generic "reserves the right to shape traffic" stuff.
> They know that due to layoffs, people are likely to stay.

Not really. My company announced return to office 100%. All the IT department complained. Executives reconsidered their decision... now it's hybrid mode for non-IT folks only. A few key engineers already set their green labels "open for work" on Linkedin and that scared upper management a lot.

Western Europe.
It was not the first GDC (CGDC at the time), that was in 1988 (and founded by the same Chris Crawford!)
Once you have your foot in the door...
To get good at something, you have to be bad at it first, often for a very long time.
Apple doesn’t want you developing hobby apps
Your unsupported claims damage the case against such overreach. You are just helping the FBI to ridicule these accusations.

Don't wonder, stick to the facts. You are drifting the topic. Your conclusions are baseless for that matter. This is why they are so easy to ridicule.
> Everytime I want to go somewhere the first thing I need to do is to plan how to park once I were there. It's awful.

I’d say it’s a fair requirement: if you want to carry a big machine around, you are responsible for leaving it somewhere adequate.

Enforced parking lot requirement is just obliging other people to reserve mostly unproductive land in their properties, and that has very negative effects, such as creating big distances between destinations and, as a consequence, making public transportation less efficient and walking more difficult. It usually (always?) makes cities worse.
Yep. This is very common and is called binning:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_binning
You can very quickly run up against resource constraints with a raspberry pi.
I used to use Linode, then they got hacked and leaked my CC details twice (IIRC) and at that point I switched to DigitalOcean. Guessing many are in a similar boat.
> And this is the key bit: They reached into its mind and flipped bits on that internal representation (to change white pieces to black for example) and it responded in the appropriate way when making the next move.

Excuse my ignorance, but how is this useful? This seems to indicate only that they found the "bits" in the internal state.
Why should society give preference to people unwilling to acknowledge the reality of a pandemic? Seems the obvious solution is to allow access to the commons to those willing to take steps to protect eachother, and block access to malcontents. I'm really confused why this was suddenly controversial during COVID - we had ridiculous rules about commons access before such as you must wear a certain kind of clothing, but mask or vaccine requirements is somehow different? I don't get it but, whatever.
It's still an expense to avoid for small businesses. Especially those who do relatively few transactions.
My old laptop is more than powerful enough for Plex and backups, and idles at around 3W. Why someone would use a desktop PC as a home server in Europe is beyond me.
There was a conductor though? I am not disagreeing that the labor practices going with rail workers is not right, especially with the ability the federal government has to jump in. Only pointing out that this appears to be a mechanical failure, not a labor safety failure.
It's a bit like 'whoever moves first loses', isn't it? So many big corpos who could pay, but if one would pay, it might be enough. So why should it be your corpo?
The AI is pretty benign. The people surrounding it are the danger.
I can already imagine a culture where people who type code manually are treated as code monkeys and your boss wants all your code to be typed out by their pre approved specifically to the company tailored LLM and the employees have to be frustrated with the crappy technology the same way they get frustrated by Java EE or ORMs/compilers that refuse to generate the queries they want.

I am extremely worried about people telling me it can do things it can't. I asked it a simple question that you can easily get an answer for on stack overflow. It repeatedly generated garbage answers with compiler errors. I gave up, and gave it a stack overflow snippet to get it on the right track. Nope. Then I just literally pasted in the explanation from the official Java documentation. It got it wrong again but not completely but corrected itself immediately. Then it generated ok code that you would expect from stackoverflow. Finally I wanted to see if it actually understood what it just wrote. I am not convinced. It regurgitated the java docs which is correct but then it proceeded to tell me that the code it tried to show me first is also valid...

This thing doesn't learn and when it is wrong it will stay wrong. It is like having a child but it instantly loses its memory after the conversation is over and even during conversations it loves repeating answers. Also, in general it feels like it is trying to overwhelm you with walls of text which is ok but when you keep trying to fix a tiny detail it gets on your nerves to see the same verbose sentence structures over and over again.

I am not worried that adding more parameters is going to solve these problems. There is a problem with the architecture itself. I do not mind having an AI tool that is very good at NLP but just because some tasks can be solved with just NLP doesn't mean it will reach general intelligence. It just means that a major advancement in processing unstructured data has been made but people want to spin this into something it isn't. It is just a large language model.
You can do a law degree in the UK, but it doesn't give you the right to practice without undertaking additional courses and training. Becoming a solicitor in the UK is a 7 year ordeal. I assume becoming a barrister is similar.
> Disney just wants to sell you shit and manage the flow of traffic in the busiest theme parks in the world.

> They're not trying to generate your social credit score to forward to the draconian authoritarian governments of the world.

Well, they will, their databases will end up on the dark net, also will be used by the governments in your social credit score.
> very little progress or activity as of late

There's been equally frequent releases and updates, I'm not sure how you came to this conclusion?

The best I can think of is that you're confusing core language updates with other tech. Clojure is structured differently than other languages, and core language/library updates are (and always have been) relatively rare while the surrounding ecosystem/tooling provided by the Clojure team is active.
“…for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ’If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?’ And whenever the answer has been no for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.”

- Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address

https://youtu.be/UF8uR6Z6KLc?t=562
Rails is still the king (2021)
This makes sense, I guess when I read they didn't "trust" VenToy my brain went to "I worry it might modify my install ISO with malware" or similar rather than the reliability/compatibility aspect.

I've not used VenToy with anything but official ISOs so cannot comment to more unique uses but I've never had an issue with the official images of Fedora, Debian, Windows, Ubuntu, etc.

For me VenToy has been great at making life a little easier and saves me time. I have a 128GB USB drive with two dozen ISOs on it. Much easier to work with the one drive vs half a dozen I have to keep rewriting ISOs onto.
Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are household names

Akamai is not. I bet i you asked 10 random people what Akamai was they would never guess it, probably think it was new drug pfizer came out with or something