skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few friends used to run https://lancache.net/ to cache the traffic between the steam cliemt and their cdn. Its nice this feature is made accessible to all but there still remains cases where lan cache maybe preferable.
I don't think advertisers and media care if you their consumers are rightist or leftist as long as they consume and the company find out what they are willing to pay for, be it weapons, "organic" food, propaganda t-shirts, survivalist stuff or magic stones.
From my experience and for the music I listen to, Discogs has much more detail compared to Musicbrainz.

I think a good 50% of my local music is missing from Musicbrainz.

When the release is present, almost always it's missing different issues for the same release (e.g. the white label test pressing release, the final release, the restamp from 20 years later). Discogs almost always has all of them.

Discogs includes lot of useful information: is that specific release single sided? Was it pressed on acetate rather than normal vinyl? What had it etched on the runout?
Lol, your average American is 200 pounds of muscle. Right
Make a new library if that is case.

The point of open source is not to be hosted hostage by one poor person.

If it is too much for a person to handle, something needs to happen to accumulate this.
Come to Asia. You'll see people far richer than those in Silicon Valley next to people who parasites and diseases the Western world eliminated 100 years ago.
If it isn’t clear to everyone, this is a gesture meant to calm public populace fears about “AI”.

First of all, there is no definition of “AI”. It’s a running joke in the community that once an “AI” approach gets good enough to be commoditized it is no longer called “AI” and becomes simply “ML” (machine learning) that we teach to college students.

With that in mind, military drones have used “AI” since at least during the Obama administration. This is a nonstory.

I’ve been to summits like the one talked about that are a bunch of people in government, nonprofit, or for profit executive roles that get together to discuss things they don’t understand and make a resolution that looks good. They are all for show. Nothing useful, meaningful, or impactful comes from these things.

Yes, yes, we should be responsible with the use of AI. Everyone agrees without asking what that really means.
I've taken the "Oh no! Sorry. That book was accidentally destroyed maliciously," approach before.

(Interestingly, my own parents took that approach with the Berenstain Bears for exactly the reason you describe.)

But I'd prefer to either read something to my kids as originally written or not read it all. Or as they get older, read the original but with a parental aside on how it was a product of its time. (Might as well make it an opportunity for a brief history lesson.)

I'm definitely not a fan of this "force push" approach to updating established older works.
I think I agree with Rossum. As far as software architecture and functionality is concerned vscode has become a sort of spiritual successor to Emacs. The most significant enhancement being that Emacs is just a multi-modal text editor and vscode takes this concept an moves to the project level while maintaining many of the same implementation ideas from emacs. In this sense it's like a spiritual successor to the technical concepts in emacs.
May I get the name of the DSA book that your friend read three times?
Yes, tracking calories and measuring results does work, but I have found it to be an ever moving target. The more weight I lose, the more I have to restrict and/or the harder I have to work to burn the same amount of calories. And it certainly doesn't work over smaller ranges like 5 lbs. It's pretty easy to gain or lose 5 lbs simply by retaining or losing water which seems to fluctuate a lot based on more or fewer carbs/sugar. I have to see closer to 10 lbs loss to get a good direction.

As for the micro level issues, I agree they don't really matter in the scheme of tracking everything and losing weight, but where they do come into play is comparisons. If my body burns "just" 100 calories fewer per day than someone else, that person and I can follow the exact same diet and exercise and all else being equal, I will gain 12 lbs per year while they maintain their weight.

And I have heard so many people brush off these small variations among people as insignificant. But 50 or 100 calories a day is actually very significant.
The biggest employer of long-term contractors is Uncle Sam.
I suspect it went something like this: There were studies into shaming of overweight individuals concluded it was a poor method for weight loss. This mutated into the idea that anti-shaming must be good for health and the idea that we should not implicitly shame fat people in general.

In general, I suspect these kinds of cultural phenomena generally begin by fairly mundane scientific observations being processed through a game of telephone within academia.
Huell Howser visiting the Bagdad Cafe is a classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImpGsMenmSs
I'm surprised it's not mentioned (I guess the author doesn't do anything small) but a microscope was like my third purchase after solder station and scope and I've loved every minute of playing with it.
Probably the healthiest thing is if he just deletes the project.
I linked to one review earlier, but there's actually a lot of evidence that WHtR is quite good against a number of populations and ages, and certainly for each individual, even if you ignore cutoffs, it will be directionally correct:

Corbatón Anchuelo, Arturo, María Teresa Martínez-Larrad, Irene Serrano-García, Cristina Fernández Pérez, and Manuel Serrano-Ríos. “Body Fat Anthropometric Indexes: Which of Those Identify Better High Cardiovascular Risk Subjects? A Comparative Study in Spanish Population.” PLoS ONE 14, no. 5 (May 23, 2019). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0216877.

Djap, H. S., B. Sutrisna, P. Soewondo, R. Djuwita, K. H. Timotius, Trihono, S. Sharif, and Y. S. Tjang. “Waist to Height Ratio (0.5) as a Predictor for Prediabetes and Type 2 Diabetes in Indonesia.” IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering 434 (December 2018): 012311. https://doi.org/10.1088/1757-899X/434/1/012311.

Zhu, Qihan, Feixia Shen, Tingting Ye, Qi Zhou, Huihui Deng, and Xuejiang Gu. “Waist-to-Height Ratio Is an Appropriate Index for Identifying Cardiometabolic Risk in Chinese Individuals with Normal Body Mass Index and Waist Circumference.” Journal of Diabetes 6, no. 6 (November 2014): 527–34. https://doi.org/10.1111/1753-0407.12157.

Vrdoljak, Davorka, Biserka Bergman Marković, Ksenija Kranjčević, Dragica Ivezić Lalić, Jasna Vučak, and Milica Katić. “How Well Do Anthropometric Indices Correlate with Cardiovascular Risk Factors? A Cross-Sectional Study in Croatia.” Medical Science Monitor : International Medical Journal of Experimental and Clinical Research 18, no. 2 (February 1, 2012): PH6–11. https://doi.org/10.12659/MSM.882451.

Ochoa Sangrador, C., and J. Ochoa-Brezmes. “Waist-to-Height Ratio as a Risk Marker for Metabolic Syndrome in Childhood. A Meta-Analysis.” Pediatric Obesity 13, no. 7 (2018): 421–32. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijpo.12285.

Caminiti, Carolina, Marisa Armeno, and Carmen S. Mazza. “Waist-to-Height Ratio as a Marker of Low-Grade Inflammation in Obese Children and Adolescents.” Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology & Metabolism: JPEM 29, no. 5 (May 1, 2016): 543–51. https://doi.org/10.1515/jpem-2014-0526.
If by 'full BGP tables' you mean the entire internet routing table, you don't need that to advertise a network on the internet. You can receive just a default route if you wish and still be able to advertise to any carriers you have a connection with. You won't lose out on any functionality in dual homing or anything like that.
Cat5 (6,7,etc) cuts make for some very good breadboard cables; they're just the right size, colored, stiff, and much much better quality than the specific ones sold online. Unless one needs more colors or different sizes, they're just perfect.
The ready made ones aren't single core and not ideal for breadboarding, still they're handy for other uses; A while ago I was about to throw away a long (15 meters or so) cat5 one that I swapped after it had been chewed by a dog, but rather cut the damaged part, stripped away the external insulation and saved each wire, and man, they're really good, from the copper used to the consistency of their insulation.
The post said that consumer connection does not let you do BGP peering with the ISP.

There are real value in doing so in addition to the hack value, by doing so you can steer the Internet traffic to whatever IP blocks you owned to your house, dynamically. For example OP mentioned "add some resilience" as motivation, i.e. anytime their services running in the DC failed he can reroute the traffic to ... their house.
I had more simple and dumb approach in past.
Lets say you have some password like "super-secret".
Just place a secret "html" with content under the directory with the same name as your password. In public page have some prompt with password. When user enter password, you either redirect, dynamically inject iframe with your page. Since there is no way to list files/dirs of http server, it does pretty good job.
Vote counts are already approximate. That's why close results are re-counted using slower methods.

(Additionally, I would argue more generally that vote counts should be approximate. If a vote is close to tied then we run the largest risk of making an incorrect decision. Better to continue debate and/or refine the proposal until it has wider acceptance. This does not work for selecting government with term limits obviously.)
For you maybe. BMI is a terrible generalistic measure to make specific recommendations.
So economy is now a justification of slavery?
Come on, the internet has existed before the heavy reliance on JavaScript and npm. HN would be unaffected if core-js completely disappeared tomorrow.

If someone had full control of BGP and demanded money, I guess you could say they are holding the internet hostage. This is very minor in comparison.

I'm not convinced trying to read between the lines and psychoanalyse what the maintainer is thinking is a great approach. English isn't their first language, nuance will be lost. Also culture will affect word choice and something that might be interpreted one way in the US would be taken differently in Russia.

I do agree that if you donate, you are back rolling an individual and not an organisation. But I don't see how that as a bad/good thing. Telling the guy he needs to stop writing code and instead manage people is pretty entitled.

Core-js going away probably isn't as big a deal as people make it out to be, as long as you aren't trying to use bleeding edge stuff. I suspect most projects are on an old frozen version of code-js anyway.
Blah blah blah … head in the sand … blah blah blah free stuff forever … blah blah blah …

Anyone who’s been around long enough to watch dependency culture rise has known that it’s built on a house of cards.

Open source development took root as a way to share cool work and receive some community recognition. Decades later, your code is the nth tier dependency silently sucked into 8 millions projects through some dependency manager CLI command, you’re not credited anywhere visible, and people are harassing you for not prioritizing their byzantine complaint over the day job work that actually makes sure your rent is paid.

We’re slowly on our way back to reasoned, respectful, collegial practices among developers but the road there is going to see a lot of these card-houses catastrophically tumble.
> ... But no one spoke up. What use are any of them.

I agree. Fire them all and replace them with scientists that signed the Great Barrington Declaration, with priority to those that signed earliest.
Aluminum Wire Hazards and Safety
It likely had nothing to do with lifestyle choices, and more to do with who their target audience is.
New Breed of Generator Can Run on Almost Any Fuel
>Clearly there's not agreement in what is classified as conscious, given this thread/article.

There is general agreement. We agree for most things like rocks and humans..there are a few things where we aren't sure, like chatGPT.

But in general humans are in agreement for most things.

>Just because there are some classifications on which people agree about the label this doesn't imply they agree upon all classifications.

Well just because ambiguities for certain things exist doesn't preclude the existence of things that are utterly clear to be conscious or unconscious.

We know humans are conscious and we know humans have all the required parameters to make them classified as conscious. We just can't deduce the exact thresholds and features that cause a phase shift when changed. But we know these parameters exist.
I think you may have missed the context for why I brought it up in the first place.
Discussed a couple times:

Backroom Boys (2003) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8904587 - Jan 2015 (2 comments)

The making of Elite - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6604478 - Oct 2013 (56 comments)
Vramfs – GPU VRAM based file system for Linux
I say "I don't know" when I'm reasonably confident that the other guy doesn't know, and that neither of us is going to look into it. It's sort of like "next question."
Demystifying the Restrict Keyword (2006)
I can't say how good this book is, but the author has a PhD in parapsychology. This makes me question how prone they are to magical thinking, and also whether I'd want to read what they have to say about this topic.

Yes this comment is an ad hominem, and no I have not read the book... All I have is a skeptical hunch that this might not represent "the state of the art" on the topic.
How do you make sure of that? With atomic consistency guarantees you can "just" roll back the transaction -- nobody else would have seen any values contained in it. In an eventually consistent system some parts will have started building on the new values so you can't roll them back. You have to give up on consistency and achieve it only in a "best effort" sense.
what does AI-generated content mean to you? or are these just terms to be used with no critical thought whatsoever
> I suppose they could charge for the privilege of downloading the package through NPM, but that seems easy to work around if the code is available elsewhere (such as GitHub).

Yeah but as mentioned, workarounds have costs. The amount of money required to pay a maintainer is so small relative to the number of downloads it would still be cheaper to just pay it in almost all cases.

> Also, any sizable open-source project has multiple contributors. What are the legal technicalities of the project's founder selling (and possibly relicensing?) other contributors' code?

Not sure, but I’m sure a company like GitHub, npm, bitbucket or similar could figure it out
The good news is, there are plenty of good solder brands out there. If the Multicore stuff isn't readily available to you for whatever reason, you can also consider products from Kester, MG Chemical, Stannol, Cardas, Chip Quik, etc. And while I've never used it myself, I've actually heard good things about one of those cheapo Ali-Express brands - "Mechanic"[1].

And since this whole sub-thread started with a mention of "silver bearing" solder IIRC, I'll point out that there are a couple of decent options there. I actually like the Radio Shack brand silver-bearing solder, but I don't know if it's still available or not. But Chip Quik have a product in that space[2] and they are a pretty reputable brand so I would expect it to be fine. That said, I don't think the whole "silver bearing" thing is terribly important and I rarely use the stuff myself these days. YMMV.

[1]: https://www.aliexpress.com/i/2251832830340296.html?gatewayAd...

[2]: https://www.amazon.com/Solder-Wire-Lead-Silver-no-clean/dp/B...
Strunk & White is really bad, try Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace as an alternative.
Where is your data to backup your assertion that it’s “chaos?” What research can you cite in opposition to the information I’ve provided?

Where are the customer satisfaction surveys that say deploying to production multiple times a day is making their experience worse? Where are the articles showing deploying more reduces revenue? Where is the link between more deployments and reduced reliability?

We’ve provided our evidence, now put up our shut up.
Yeah that or just use a $1 PC fan to direct the fumes away from your eyes like I've been doing for the last decade. If you solder <100 joints in one session like the average hobbyist, a normal HVAC system that does >4 air changes per hour should have no trouble cleaning up the diffused fumes.
Really? Last time I read the spec (which was a while ago), v3 disallowed unrestricted blocking, but it had no corresponding restrictions on sniffing requests and responses and maybe even on modifying requests. So it had no actual security benefit — it just nerfed ad blockers.
I wouldn't consider that awfully secure...

Your local browser will be saving your 'password' unencrypted in the cache and history, and maybe syncing to other devices.

Any workplace security system will probably be keeping records of your 'password'.

Any mistake on the web server could turn on directory listing, revealing the password.

Some other user of the web server, even a sandboxed low privilege process, will often have the ability to list directories.
The claim was just that it’s a better indicator than BMI, which is certainly not sensible for all bodies.
Where do you draw the line on this “it’s just regurgitating” argument?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.02083
https://archive.is/TQ0BM
Sam Obisanya: Jan is not being rude, he's just being Dutch.

<team nods in understanding>
>In fact there's an almost culty refusal to take embodiment seriously as a bedrock factor in consciousness.

We're researching artificial intelligence, not artificial consciousness. People who are building AI systems largely don't care about the question of consciousness, because there's no evidence to suggest that it's in any way necessary to do the kind of things we want to do with AI.

The people who are very concerned about issues like consciousness and embodiment are in no way being prevented from running their own experiments, but they aren't running many experiments and those experiments they do run largely aren't particularly successful or interesting. The experiments of people who are just training models to do stuff are generally very successful and very interesting.
This article is awful. Dennis Pushkarev isn't holding anyone hostage. They have dedicated years to software they gave away for free. They want, quite reasonably, to be able to make a living, and so told people they can't keep working for free.

For me the deal of open source software was I get the source for no payment, with no warranty. It seems some people get furious whenever devs stop wanting to give million/billion dollar companies high quality software for free.
That's an incredibly misleading way to phrase it. The counting algorithm is exact. Errors creep in during execution, resulting in an approximate result. An approximation algorithm is a whole different beast, and that's the point of the discussion here.
The vast majority of information cannot be compressed and the proof of this is trivial by a simple counting argument.

In any case, it is still just a lookup table. Compression, unless lossy, doesn't change the meaning of the information in this lookup table. It just makes access more indirect.

Hutter might think that intelligence is a form of compression, but I think that's just wishful thinking. It might be my ego speaking to say I think I'm the one that's right. But it's not my ego speaking to say that there's no hard proof to say unequivocally that intelligence is equivalent to compression.
It ends up being used to dismiss women levying legitimate criticism. It basically gets used to enforce patriarchy. In practice the opposite is not really true of “bellowing” to the same extent. But even then, gendered insults are falling out of favor in general.
The sense of entitlement in that post is insane. It's not one mans job to save you from your inability to do things yourself.
Do plan on having a native mobile app ?
Purported classified footage shows UFO formation from orbit [video]
The scientific method is about paying strict and close attention to what we can observe. The black boxes we can make sense of must have enough datapoints within the observable universe to be understood.

We can almost definitely learn a lot more about consciousness related phenomenon than we already know through science, and I don’t know the answer to OP’s question about the current cutting edge of that, but I think it’s always going to be about related phenomenon rather than consciousness itself. Unlike other phenomenon, which are only revealed to us because aspects of their existence appear in our observable universe, we don’t really “observe” the core experience of consciousness. The goalposts can be moved indefinitely whenever consciousness related phenomenon are made sense of. The fundamental experience is not observable, which means we can’t really see that black box at all. To me the mystery of that is much more satisfying than thinking we can ever get a definitive answer.
Older I get, more I realize that this game is brutal as shit. Is what it is though. Kill or be killed.
Most pants sit way below the waist, though. Pants labeled 38 might fit just fine on someone with a 38 waist even though the actual measurement of the pants is larger, because they are sitting far down on the hips.
The power of money creation is in the hands of private institutions more explicitly than that. When a bank lends you money, they are just incrementing the money counter in your bank account. They cannot print bills, but they do for all practical intents create money.

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/explainers/how-is-money-crea...
I could've sworn that the copy of Doom on DOS I had back in the 90s supported the monitor angle as a commandline arg. This video says otherwise, but I'll swear black and blue that it was there, and I've never had any special copies of Doom beyond the official (but likely pirated) one.
At that point it's just an OS.
pardon my poor English, but what exactly does "sentient" offer?

As long as it's intelligent, and solves problems, then it will play a critical role in the future. Let's say it's auto-complete, but what if an AI model can auto-complete a design for Q>1 a fusion reactor? what if an AI model can auto-complete people's personal needs? I'd say it's enough to power the world regardless of "sentient" or not.
power is money. Old money is power. New money is only influence.
> You can receive just a default route … You won't lose out on any functionality in dual homing or anything like that.

Except you do lose out on best path routing / any other outbound TE, and you’re now restricted to rudimentary load balancing methodologies / manual prefix-specific hackery.
In the middle of boreal deep in Alaska with auroras blazing 360 ° around me
There's also AiXun T3A for about $100. I've been using the T245 version as my main soldering iron for a while now and have been very impressed.

Here's a discussion on EEVBlog forum:

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/reviews/any-opinions-on-the-ai...
This is a seriously cool project!