skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless all the cheap versions after copyright expires are edited to remove the offensive content, which copyright can protect (I recall some case where a copyright holder was going after people for editing stories).
I thought the conclusion of this study was "everything (is a problem)" -- not, "(just or mostly or primarily) consultants".

Governing mag said this almost four months ago -- Nov 2022:

https://www.governing.com/finance/why-are-u-s-transit-projec...

This month, the Transit Costs Project is planning to publish an overview of its findings. Among them: The United States is the sixth most expensive country in the world when it comes to building rapid rail projects. The reasons why range from the politicization of project management to the expanding role of consultants, the costs of labor, and efforts to limit disruption to normal traffic flow during construction.

Six most expensive countries from most expensive:

- New Zealand
- Qatar
- UK
- Hong Kong
- Singapore
- US

Time to build at ground-level or above ground instead of underground, and better -- just allow us to ride bikes -- boot the cars, and/or build us bike tracks, and subject terrorists to terror laws, even if they're American, white, etc.

I'm in NJ at the moment -- mostly shore area but also south-central -- Middlesex, Monmouth, and Ocean counties -- no sidewalks -- it's incredible.

NJ is home to legendary bike freak, Prof John Pucher ( https://bloustein.rutgers.edu/pucher/ ), but also the dreaded 'jersey barrier' ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey_barrier ).
smart people are just as susceptible
Actually most of the time it costs more for oil companies to purchase the ethanol than it would for them to use smother burning hydrocarbons which they already have access to in larger quantities.
This is the first result in Google for "regex for email validation" and it validates your email format correctly

/^\w+([\.-]?\w+)@\w+([\.-]?\w+)(\.\w{2,3})+$/
This has largely been my reaction to all the "But AI can be WRONG!" hysterics which seem to crop up. The internet is absolutely full of wrong information and there's no sign of it slowing down in any way. We don't dismiss the internet because it can give wrong answers. Why are some people so short sighted with these models?
> But now everyone around me has become mysteriously less and less competent

I feel as we gain experience we learn that most of the things can be learned! It kinda removes a lot of magic from the world but also is weirdly freeing. I dread if there's the other end of the bell curve somewhere out there where we start to think that learning is not possible or practical anymore.
Looks like there were a few take-downs.

This repo was taken down last week:

https://torrentfreak.com/mpa-pluto-tv-m3u-playlists-facilita...

Which contained links to pluto tv's channels.
For the duration of this window, https://www.reddit.com/r/Edinburgh/new/ has some. They're 4-8h old at the time I post, but would still be found in sort new if you walk back to the window of time.

There are also some at https://www.reddit.com/r/Scotland/new/

(none of these are my work btw. I'm not there)

I believe many of them to be "visible to my camera, not visible to me" class images.

I saw the aurora once in Edinburgh 4-5 decades ago and it was decidedly Meh (for much this reason) -And again 3 decades ago I saw Aurora Australis in Tasmania and it was much less "meh" for the reasons of dark sky and 13 degrees more polar lattitude than Edinburgh (42 vs 55)
Here is an aurora forecast site. A great tool to help you catch an aurora.

https://www.gi.alaska.edu/monitors/aurora-forecast
They are still going, their clock is under construction and if memory serves they have already hollowed out the mountain. Their website is not great for providing information.
I have tried it, it fails at the simplest problems that I know how to solve myself. I would not trust it with anything I do not understand.

I can see how it might help with source to source translation or with generating random stuff, but that is not a problem I have.
It seems like they don't publish updates on weekends or US holidays. So if it is a dmca, we're likely to see it published in that repo tomorrow.
Python is more than adequate for most of the simple scripts that people run on Arduinos. There's no reason that a lightweight interpreter or even a compiled implementation could not run on even the AVR-based Arduinos, and obviously the beefier ones are straight up 32-bit ARM so it would be trivial to stand up MicroPython on them.
The sarcasm in your comment is so subtle that it seems even you didn't get it.
I'll take things that never happened for $200.
It also actively used in many metropolitan networks as backhauls.

Google moonshot in action:

Alphabet is bridging the Congo River with a 20Gbps laser beam.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/09/alphabets-laser-inte...
More so as you mentioned above. I know plenty of people who aren't that smart who know they aren't that smart and are humble and don't presume outside of their expertise. But there's a certain class of "educated" folk who think that because of their education they know everything. Let me say that troubleshooting software issues with doctors is absolutely the last thing you want to do. Please let me talk to the secretary who claims she knows nothing about computers.
Any quick insights?
On the plus side, maybe everyone will stop trusting photos on dating sites and instead concentrate on the bio...written by ChatGPT.
To me, this desire to rewrite old media and pretend that the bad/offensive stuff didn't happen is fairly detrimental. It feeds a bunch of issues as I see it:

* It removes the evidence of historical injustice, allowing the kind of person who wants to, to pretend it wasn't real - it was Sherlock Holmes that first introduced me to Italians not being white enough.

* It diminishes the injustice: "the problem is just words in a book/play/movie" rather than the society that made that acceptable

I think that _much_ better is what Disney did: preface the media, bet it a film, a book, or whatever with a "hey, this says some shit that is clearly offensive and we've realized is wrong, but changing that is tantamount to pretending it didn't exist".

[edit: that said I can't wait to see how they eventually try to CGI away the horror in the "you only live twice" film :D ]
What if I want them to come off as Ian Fleming characters that authentically reflect his voice and choices as a genre-making spy thriller writer in Cold War Britian?

It’s not like these are real people who will be voting in the next election. They’re just brushstrokes in a painting.
Any alternatives for Wordpress?
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More of a non sequitur putting those two sentences together.

Tulsa had a great many rich black businesses .. how did that work out?
> So are you advocating for the government lying to the American people over where it came from because the truth might seem to be racist?

no.

> Really?

no.

> You would rather the government conceal information about a virus that killed millions of people because it might make some people upset with Asians?

no.

> Additionally it seems like you are advocating removing free speech?

no.

The personal responsibility for the liberty of speech includes reasonable consideration for the reaction of people. That's the whole point of Oliver Wendell Holmes "fire in a crowded theater" when he concretized the modern notion of free speech with Learned Hand.

Conduct has consequences
Rust: Cloudflare Outlines How They Rewrote an Nginx C Module in Rust
Followed by God & Golem, Inc. Wiener quite rightly directs us to consider the “should we” instead of simply the “could we”. Sadly it feels like we are on the hold my beer timeline.
I wouldn't trust a drug dealer with an Android phone.
Passing actual middle age based on life expectancy!
California: America's Shadow Self
Metal is not a platform native GUI, it is Apple's graphics API. The native UI on the platform is Cocoa (which calls Metal for some things, but isn't being used here).
This is quite raw and I'm actually somewhat afraid to share this. But I think sleep apnea is criminally under-discussed and underdiagnosed. It can f your life up sideways and can take years to diagnose. So sharing my story and hope I can advocate for it.

If you have sleep apnea, no amount of sleep gadgets, good habits, exercise, will help you. You must fix the root cause
Why would Chinese hegemony be any better?
I'm 32 and that feels about right to me. I don't think I've ever felt a mismatch.
Please ignore my lack of understanding a bit here. I'm genuinely trying to learn.

I've always heard (and it made sense to me) that to reduce latency of requests from across the globe, you might want to have read replicas or caches spread on global infrastructure. Then how is it that stack overflow is fast here when the db is on-prem, 7 seas across from me? Any amount of RAM should not account for the distance, right?
I get the CF deathloop if any of the options related to Referer are not default.
> don't rely on security through obscurity

if it's not obscure enough that it will be found, then you are correct.

but what's more secure than a password that you don't know? not knowing there is a password in the first place. if the answer is never found, how can it be insecure? I dub this schrodinger's security.
Bartleby’s Law states that meetings waste 80% of the time of 80% of the people in attendance

A problem for sure. But are async meetings right solution? Are they not just a modified version of email threads. Wondering..
Also see the story of Matthew Smith and Manic Miner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GjTJt40VRY

An iconic part of gaming history.
I think it's fine. Filters aren't a new thing. It's a problem for kids, but children should be banned from social media for an enormous number of reasons.

The problem with TikTok isn't the filters. It's the password/clipboard scraping, the enormous level of data collection on its users, combined with the fact that TikTok is ultimately a wing of the Chinese Communist Party.
Did you submit a counterclaim?
> It's a bit like saying "if you have a paragraph in 'English' and it has no e's in it, it's probably not English."

For the exception, see

see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadsby_(novel)
Github is allowed to ignore dmca requests which are blatently not valid. (As an example, wikimedia ignores about 95% of dmca requests it gets https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/transparency/2022-1/dm... )

Not a lot of incentives to do so though because if they are incorrect about it they just took on a lot of liability.
It appears my Appstore agreements have fallen out of date and needed renewal. That's a somewhat embarrassing - but it should be fixed now. Gate Escape should be available in all regions, and thanks for checking it out!
fun fact: in Japanese, software is literally just called "soft", regardless of the medium. and hardware is "hard". no joke.
Roald Dahl ebooks ‘force censored versions on readers’ despite backlash
Their cocktail bar at Fort Mason is still awesome, if nothing else
I thought the whole appeal of Delphi was how easy it was though. In terms of the base language, Pascal is pretty easy to pick up. Any dev worth hiring would come up to speed pretty quick.
I think you seriously misread my comment if you thought that everything I talked about was a direct reply to the parent comment and specifically about the person who posted it.

I was not upset or objecting to push back. I was, as people often do in replies to non-substantive comments, using it as an opportunity to expand on what I previously posted.
That’s just moving goalposts. I’m merely pointing out that the post I’m responding to is exaggerating, and thereby dishonest.
What will be the effects when that happens?
It's possible in Photoshop if you have some settings wrong to copy/past Hebrew (and probably other Right-to-Left languages like Arabic) and have it show up reversed.

This has led to some unfortunate tattoos: https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2431265-mario-mandzukics...
Based on that article, it doesn’t sound like “Backup to nickel” is advice that the average or even hobbyist consumer can follow.
That account has a more interesting thread from a few days ago about how a teenage-ify filter took older tiktok by storm:

https://twitter.com/memotv/status/1628758590033993728
Here's a recent one: https://faultlore.com/blah/fix-rust-pointers/. The problem there was essentially that Rust assumed sizeof(size_t) == sizeof(intptr_t). If bounds checking makes it into hardware then two's complement will also get thrown out the window.
I once got a date by telling the person I had ten laptop computers and no Facebook account.
I used to start my opening shifts (4AM) with 3 shots straight from the same or similar machines they have now, so it’s 100% possible.
Agreed - will check it out as well.

OK - I did check it out. Pretty cool. Some learnings: https://twitter.com/deepwhitman/status/1630091600465641474
Yeah we are, but alas this will be an answer, not a solution for you.

I'm also using a language from the 90s, but one even more niche than Delhi. We have desktop systems, and Web systems, and while they share a lot of source code, the UI procedures are different.

The Ide is still maintained an updated, but of course falls well behind visual studio now.

So for you to switch to this makes even less sense than staying on Delphi. We're under similar pressures to "rewrite in something more modern" but fortunately (for us) the business doesn't have the pockets that sort of project would consume.

Technically there's little reason to change, Functionally the language let's us program anything we want, so apart from the perceived "long term security" of rebuilding from scratch in c# there's not much upside.

For what it's worth we've built the system mostly with 1 developer, although on occasion as many as 3. The primary developer has changed once, and that was a smooth process so it can be done again if necessary.

I write all this to encourage you. If what you have is the best option, then stick with it, swapping bits out slowly as you need to. Make a transition organic, not one giant project. Code is just code. Customers don't care about the language, they don't care about the code, they only care about the solution to their pain.
Not to take anything away from Dapper (it's an excellent library), but it isn't really that much faster than EntityFramework anymore.

> EF Core 6.0 performance is now 70% faster on the industry-standard TechEmpower Fortunes benchmark, compared to 5.0.

> This is the full-stack perf improvement, including improvements in the benchmark code, the .NET runtime, etc. EF Core 6.0 itself is 31% faster executing queries.

> Heap allocations have been reduced by 43%.

> At the end of this iteration, the gap between Dapper and EF Core in the TechEmpower Fortunes benchmark narrowed from 55% to around a little under 5%.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-entity-fram...

Again, this isn't to take anything away from Dapper. It's a wonderful query library that lets you just write SQL and map your objects in such a simple manner. It's going to be something that a lot of people want. Historically, Entity Framework performance wasn't great and that may have motivated StackOverflow in the past. At this point, I don't think EF's performance is really an issue.

If you look at the TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks, you can see that the Dapper and EF performance is basically identical now: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r21&l=z.... One fortunes test is 0.8% faster for Dapper and the other is 6.6% faster. For multiple queries, one is 5.6% faster and the other is 3.8% faster. For single queries, one is 12.2% faster and the other 12.9% faster. So yes Dapper is faster, but there isn't a huge advantage anymore - not to the point that one would say StackOverflow has tuned their code to such an amazing point that they need substantially less hardware. If they swapped EF in, they probably wouldn't notice much of a difference in performance. In fact, in the real world where apps, the gap between them is probably going to end up being less.

If we look at some other benchmarks in the community, they tell a similar story: https://github.com/FransBouma/RawDataAccessBencher/blob/mast...

In some tests, EF actually edges past Dapper since it can compile queries in advance (which just means calling `EF.CompileQuery(myQuery)` and assigning that to a static variable that will get reused.

Again, none of this is to take away from Dapper. Dapper is a wonderful, simple library. In a world where there's so many painful database libraries, Dapper is great. It shows wonderful care in its design. Entity Framework is great too and performance isn't really an interesting distinction. I love being able to use both EF and Dapper and having such amazing database access options.
Everything I learn about health, pharma and related industries makes me think that we need a new financial/ economic/ social model to run these industries. Somewhere between the extremes of USA and Denmark in developed countries. There needs to be a way to accelerate innovation and for the world to work in unison for some diseases.
Even though companies routinely neglect security until they are forced to address it through breaches, "Shadow IT" is often a thing and can bypass company security standards. I've worked with multiple corporations where the business side of the house had all but lost trust in the technical side of the house and just started getting what they needed implemented by 3d parties and consultants instead bypassing any existing corporate security standards and review.
This may be accurate, but a couple notes.

1) Other ideologies are not immune to having people with such views, so I'm not sure why to single out conservatives for those kind of worries.

2) A truly open mind might be open to 'racist' viewpoints, such as blacks are more likely to suffer from sickle cell anemia and this trait is inferior to whites in regions without mosquitoes. That's just a straight up racist viewpoint (by the dictionary definition) coupled with the assertion whites legit have a characteristic here that is racially superior in places without malaria. I wonder how many other biological traits like this, of any 'race' (to the extent such a concept exists), we've thrown aside because scientists are just too scared to investigate it.
Check your stats: how many young homeless ended up successful in life.
The publishers could not care less about removing words due to the fact that they might be offensive in 2023. They are not losing any sales because of any specific words in these books. They are editing the books simply because it creates cheap publicity around the brand. This isn’t censorship, it’s a publicity stunt.
> I think it's fine. Filters aren't a new thing.

The whole point though is that undetectable filters are a new thing. Like the first video said, you used to be able to know when someone was using a filter or not, and that's not really true anymore.

Plus, as some of the other videos in that tweet thread say, it's not like these filters haven't fucked with people's heads already, e.g. the photographer who takes actual photos of people and then people look behind the camera and are shocked at how "ugly" they are because the filtered view is their baseline.
> This puzzle was the focus of a conference hosted by Long Now in 01998

01998. Please.
>Higher mortgages mean higher rent

But lower mortgages also mean higher rent. I've never seen rent go down.

Literally everything means higher rent. Go figure.
Related, does anyone have ideas or experience on backing up and preserving the digital artifacts of someone deceased? I’ve been meaning to do an “Ask HN” but this post is in line.

I’ve thought of putting the photos, videos, and document scans on archive.org. Also wondered about using IPFS or long-duration DVDs. And of course miniature archiving as in this post (But it sounds awfully expensive.)
“Doctorate” of Nursing Practice: the laughingstock of academia and medicine
Thanks for the pointers, I tried them both. Gostatic is super simple, but probably too simple. It's quite a step up in power from Bearclaw, and has all the parts to be able to make a good blog, but the parts are all pretty basic and if you want anything very fancy you're going to have to custom build it. Think "main page is <ul> of page titles and date". Also didn't seem to have a way to specify a base URL so everything needed to be at "/" in the resulting site, a little tricky for testing.

Zola looks like a good fit, almost as simple as gostatic, but with a lot of templates (though many kind of stale, many I couldn't get working, but I think the template largely dictates the install, so switching between themes really is a bit of work).

Hexo looks like the quickest way to a fancy looking site, though it is more effort than Zola. I'd lean towards Zola.
Isn't stackoverflow, incidentally, one of the websites who would benefit the most from caching, given their content supposedly is going to be static the majority of the time?
Ham radio was always cool.
Propellers are usually up around 85% efficient at their design speed (with fixed pitch propellers falling off very rapidly away from this design speed, and variable pitch props having a flatter optimum). There's room for improvement here, but not a game-changing amount. A larger, slower prop captures most of the potential improvement with far less incremental complexity than something completely novel.
Sure it’s more difficult, but the difficulty doesn’t increase linearly with budget. A 100m dollar project isn’t 100x as difficult as a 1m dollar project.

I am not saying anyone can make the jump, but promotions often mean handing an order of magnitude larger projects.
If it's on the internet, sure people can edit it, but other people can freely exchange the original.
I wonder if perfect filters like this might actually result in people rejecting beauty standards like this.

Maybe it's because I was used to an earlier era, in which photos actually had to be developed and were taken with something called film, but I suspect I'm not the only one who finds this sort of "beauty" very unnatural and even somewhat repulsive, almost uncanny-valley style. It's like they don't look like actual humans anymore, but more like androids pretending to be humans.

In other words, this filter doesn't look "realistic" to me at all.
Show HN: Yet another) (better) ChatGPT action for pull request code view
chatgpt-action is designed as an AI assistant backed by chatgpt for interesting things like scoring a pull request, reviewing the patch hunks, assign labels to pull request and issues on Github.

Compare with existing such actions, this one has the following unique features:

- focus on "review", rather than "summarization". It doesn't just talk about what the PR is doing, rather, it tells users how good/bad the pull request/changes is, and give comments about the goodness/badness.

- leave useful comments only. It omits the review comments that commonly won't appear with human reviewer from the human's perspective.

- highly customizable prompt templates. It allows the prompts been configurable by users, thus it is useful for users who just want to try chatgpt with Github actions, without the effort of reinvent a wheel for the action itself.

This action should be a nice playground/testbed for users who are interested in applying chatgpt on Github as an assistant. Any suggestions/bug-reports/improvements are appreciated!
This reminds me of an Arabic client who wanted both English and Arabic version of the app. I sent him a spreadsheet with 2 cols, with English on one column, and another empty column where I expected him to fill the Arabic translation.

He replied with a plaint .txt file with a couple of Arabic lines in it, with a message saying "I translated some of those text from your excel sheet, please go ahead and use this text, I will send the rest by tomorrow". Nobody understood which translated to which.