skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Latinx is a term used by imperialists to tell their subject population how they should identify themselves. If you use it, you are implicitly identifying yourself as pro-imperialist. Don't be surprised when people react badly to that.
Never understood that need to contribute to open-source. Why would I try to meddle with somebody else's messed up implementation? I have enough messes of my own to clean up!
I think that's the intended joke
JXL was partly derived from Google technologies although it went to ISO standardisation.
I mean your technically correct that dictators were supposed to give up thier absolute power and indeed some did. But there is definitely a reason the term has adopted it current meaning.
This is where things always get extra confusing when discussing crime.

A killing is never really "rational" from an ethical or moral standpoint, except for extraordinary situations like self-defense.

But premeditated murders are rational in another, more purely functional sense of the word: the killer was not untethered from reality, they understood the consequences of their actions, and took a series of concrete steps toward achieving the murder.
I have yet to get a straight answer on what the actual benefits/trade offs are with R, C, and EI cored transformers as well as torroids. My only exposure to these are as output transformers on tube amplifiers. There is plenty of debate on forums but would love to hear from an engineer about what type works best in which situations.
I mean, I'm not sure what screening could have prevented this. The Office of Personnel Management screens all military clearances. You basically write your history down, put down people who knew you at various times, and they interview those people and ask if you're a trustworthy person.

What magical screening process would you like them to do?
There's really no way to do it. The basic issue is that the US has no outgoing immigration control. I have walked from an international departure gate to open air and encountered no obstacles of any kind in the process, although I did pass through a one-way spot. (And the reason for this was pretty trivial--major delay, I preferred the food options elsewhere in the airport.)

How do you have airside transfer when there are no barriers to leaving airside?
I kinda miss the dead simple near-pixel-perfection and freedom of font choice that could be achieved with tables-and-images web design. If you were smart with choice of color, image format, etc you could even make them load fast on slow connections despite the large number of images involved. Their source code was awful to look at but it’s not like modern web design doesn’t come with its own dump truck full of trade-offs.
I only just found the site but it indeed looks like it has been hugged to death.

I will be looking up meatball wiki in the near future to learn more haha
> Bodily autonomy is a contradiction to abortion rights. Control over one's body logically implies not allowing a second body formation.

There's a glaring logical error here: Control over one's body does not logically imply not allowing a second body formation, only that it requires consent.

> The autonomy of the child overrides access to abortion since now in pregnancy, there are 2 bodies.

But this sentence is in opposition to bodily autonomy. How does the autonomy of the fetus affect the autonomy of the person carrying them? The fetus is free to do what it wants, just as the woman is.

> Similarly, access to expensive and elective medical services is a privilege, not a right.

I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of what a "right" is. It's not just something that you're guaranteed to get, but can also be something that nobody is allowed to ban you from. The second amendment doesn't mean that you can just waltz into a gun store and take what you want, does it?
OpenVMS 9.2 for x86: Auto boot, licenses, PAKs, networking and SSH
I'm really surprised that the article does not highlight cloud services as a way to monetize open source. This seems like the most obvious way to get revenue from back office open source projects, especially databases. RedHat itself invested in relationships with cloud vendors from early on.
I think people really must not appreciate booking.com. My wife strayed from the formula, booked directly with major chain, used loyalty points to book a stay at a European hotel they operate. Got charged full price by the hotel, got charged for a number of meals she didn’t have, and we’ve been dealing with that since September 2022. When we have problems with reservations we made through booking.com, and post Covid a lot of hotels seem to overbook so we’ve rolled in and found we have no place to stay on several occasions, it’s just single phone call to booking.com resolve the issue. I don’t know what booking’s cut is but they earn every penny.
my first guess would normally be to look at the shell script[0] and follow along, but it looks like it's not super easy to follow. It's also not very easy to audit, for that matter.

I do see it using its root privileges to force-install packages without prompting (it uses `apt-get` rather than `apt`—why?), and it's completely unclear that I'd be consenting to this.

Actually, the reason why I don't execute arbitrary code on my machine as root is because it's impossible not to consent to having packages force-installed without prompt.

So the shell script installer grants this app a hard pass for me.

[0]: http://get.casaos.io/
The people didn’t trust them. Walmart came in with all types of promises of economic development but the people did not want those stores. They lied thinking they could still profit and now in a short time they destroyed alternatives and are leaving as well.
But then it stops being a general tool that is used by python, PHP, java, lisp, C++, rust, nim, zig, lisp and becomes a specific tool for C++ programs.
I’ve stayed at a few places where when I went to the front desk to extend my stay, they discretely told me to book via Booking.com rather than with them, because I’d get a better rate that way, and they were right. Like flight pricing, hotel room and channel pricing is complicated.

Booking.com have a price guarantee, and a good one, so you will rarely get a better price from the hotel _unless you’re a member of their loyalty programme_ … so for the big hotel chains, sign up to those and book via their apps
Adobe didn't support WebP until 2021, they're the poster child for not supporting a format until it's popular enough that they need to add support.
> just make katex work in an epub reader

"Just write a full JavaScript and DOM implementation for your resource-constrained e-ink device"
Booking.com is actually much better about this crap than Agoda.
Should I be automatically exempt from property tax if I don't have school aged kids yet/anymore?
But then they themselves may have to read the source material, instead of relying on a vague "we're told" that may or may not be true.
Yes it does, so there's no reason to mark it up. The failure of the semantic web was trying to lower human text to the level the machine could operate on it. The success of LLMs is to raise the machine to level it can operate on ordinary human text.
Who'd be sued? The people who use booking.com with this extension? It'd be a genius (/s) move for a service to sue their customers, ensuring they'll never return.

IANAL, but I imagine a sleazy lawyer from the company could attempt to sue the users for altering a "copyrighted work", although it probably doesn't apply if the derivative work isn't for public consumption. Also it would mean defacing a book would be illegal.
That's only first layer transactions. Second layer transactions are orders of magnitude cheaper. Think of layer 1 as your checking account and layer 2 as your credit card. You don't use your checking account often.
Can we all agree that 10/03/2023 is the worst possible date format? Why is this even in use?
It's not that simple at all, especially in combination with automation and computing. What you are saying is that it is not possible to have an off-the-record chat app, because the data of the app will ALWAYS be stored somehow, even if it is just in RAM. Would you agree that this is what you are saying?

Maybe the world is just more complicated than you'd like to admit.
Booking.com has no customer support. They’ll happily fuck you over and not respond to any attempts to contact them.
> It's possible to configure NVMe devices with power caps, but the 970 Evo in the article loses 95% of its performance if you cap it to 3.6W, which is its lowest operational power state.

Heh, yeah I saw about 4 MiB/s max read speed with similar enclosure plugged into USB 3.0 port (I guess it self limited for a while). Meanwhile much less power hungry SATA SSD + USB-SATA bridge worked at 400 MiB/s there.
Video of the gun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy-ozrUL1S0 - looks like it could break some bones.
Communicating by fear in non-dangerous contexts is a bad sign of an attempt to manipulate you.
Keep an eye out for emails from noreply@githubnext.com

On 27-Mar 2023 I registered for some of the "X" waitlists.

On 13-Apr 2023 I received an email with the subject line "Welcome to the Copilot for CLI technical preview!"

Note that the "X" is a placeholder and not one of the actual products you can try. From their website [1]:

> The “X” represents a placeholder for where we intend GitHub Copilot to become available, and what we expect it to be capable of doing (e.g. “Copilot <for pull requests>“, “Copilot <for security>“). It is extending the product from one experience, code completion, to X experiences across the developer’s workflow.

[1] https://github.com/features/preview/copilot-x
I mean it's explained pretty clearly in the second sentence.

> It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

People are here to talk about interesting topics. That you are being downvoted is not a very interesting topic to anyone but yourself. You pointing it out also isn't going to magically make the downvotes go away.

> I suspect manipulative downvotes to silence my opinion.

It takes 501 karma to unlock downvoting. People aren't here making dozens of accounts just to take away your fake internet points.
Because you are an employee, but of the consulting firm.

I guarantee that the consulting firm is getting a lot more for your time, than they are paying you.

This is becoming a lot more common, these days.

In many cases, doing this, is a good way to enter as an FTE, because the employer does a "try before you buy." I have a couple of friends that landed great FTE jobs, this way.

However, that is only if you are going to a new company, that doesn't know you.
While others have commented negatively on this article, I did find this one point interesting and worth a conversation:

> In addition to the siting and sizing of the pad, SpaceX does not have a flame trench, nor do they have a water deluge system used to suppress heat and sound energy from any launches, as the Army Corps of Engineering permitting required to add these civil engineering systems is itself a multi-year process.

> No large rocket complex on the planet: not in Russia, nor China, and certainly not in the US, exists that doesn’t contain one or both of these energy suppression systems.

Edit: Looks like it does have a small deluge system installed, contrary to the article
Hijacking this thread to comment on a quote from the CDC article which I’ve also heard in a zillion other places:

> If you do decide to warm the bottle, never use a microwave. Microwaves heat milk and food unevenly, resulting in “hot spots” that can burn your baby’s mouth and throat.

This seems wrong to me. How can any fluid have a “hot spot”? Can’t you just, you know… swirl it a bit and let the temperature even out? Wouldn’t this take no more than 5 seconds?

I diligently followed this advice with my first child and had to wait 5+ minutes every time for my bottle warmer to warm up the milk, while he was crying with hunger and getting both of us stressed out. Now with my second child, I just toss it in the microwave for ~18 seconds for a 4oz bottle, and it’s fine. I swirl it for 5 seconds and drip it on my wrist to be sure.

I sometimes feel like recommendations like these are written for the most braindead possible person, who would put the milk in the microwave for 5 minutes to boiling and feed it to the baby without checking the temp first. I don’t see how the slightest bit of common sense couldn’t prevent any issues here.
Elon Musk just shut down automation for important public safety accounts
That’s so messed up. I’d probably report their dark pattern crap to the advertising standards agency. They don’t like that sort of thing.
> Did they though? I mean, to be clear, I'm sure they tried. But both back then and now, the songs were easy to get and is still easy to get. If anything, the whole affair Streisand Effected the hell out of them.

In the 1980s how did you produce or distribute music without the internet and computers that could produce music? The police arrested NWA at a concert for rapping “Fuck the police”.

> No; they merely cut access to your account because you look suspicious, such as having pictures in your private Drive account that their algorithm decided were child pornography, locking up or deleting all data you had hosted by them, with no recourse and no hope of retrieval.

I can and do have multiple backups of my media (Google Drive, iCloud, Amazon Drive, and they are stored using a separate account in AWS S3 Glacier. Are you really comparing losing some pictures and data with losing your freedom or being harassed by a cop?

> Yes; you have the digital equivalent of the freedom to live in a van down by the river, banished from the nice neighborhoods. Vive Liberte.

Yes guess how hard it is to live a good life after getting arrested because you got on the wrong side of an overzealous Justice system? Or got shot by a trigger happy cop?
The problem with that approach is you now have evidence that the short term change will show immediate results and no evidence of the long term concerns. Given solid numbers vs somebody's gut, most managers will go with the solid numbers, even if the company has good values.
SpaceX seems to have caught the ire of the ESG czars [1] who have put out their hounds to go get 'm. Jolly good sports, sure, just like chasing the fox over the hedges like they did in days of yore but rather tiring in seeing how potentially valid concerns about potential environmental damage are being abused by these self-proclaimed masters of the universe to make their will be done no matter what the law of the land may say.

Is this thing going to be loud? You bet it is, just like the Space Shuttle before it, like Ariane 5, like the Saturn V and especially like the Soviet N1 which must have been the loudest of them all. Would I want them to launch it in my backyard? No, that'd be rather unpleasant now wouldn't it? Luckily they found some mud flats in Boca Chica where they can make a lot of noise without it being all too much of a bother. Sure, they'll scare the bejeezus out of the local duck population but so did all its predecessors which does not seem to have led to the Great Duck Exodus of 1969 from Cape Kennedy (now Canavaral) or Kourou. So I say "straighten up and fly right" to the folks of SpaceX, plug your ears to the local ducks and find yourself a more worthy cause to the ESG knight in mossy armour who seems to have been on a vendetta against SpaceX for the last few years.

To infinity and beyond!

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/musks-...
The dependency tracking and the graph/SQL thing are largely independent pieces.

The graph/SQL thing is used to query the memoization tables of the memoized functions by "joining them along a given computational graph". This roughly means that you can point to a computation, and ask: give me a table of the values of such-and-such variables in this computation across all analogous computations in the storage. Here, "analogous" could mean, for example, running the same composition of functions, but with different input parameters. The motivation is to be able to easily ask a broad class of natural queries of your storage (e.g., how given outputs depend on given inputs across all experiments of a given kind).

For example, say you have two memoized functions, `increment` and `add`, and run this:

with storage.run():

for i in [1, 2, 3]:

x = increment(i)

y = add(i, x)

Running this code will memoize a bunch of calls to `increment` and `add` in a way that recognizes that the output of the call to `increment` is the second input to the call to `add` (behind the scenes, they point to the same saved object). Then, if you call `storage.similar(x, y)`, you'll see a message like this:

Pattern-matching to the following computational graph (all constraints apply):

a0 = Q() # input to computation; can match anything

a1 = Q() # input to computation; can match anything

x = increment(a=a0)

y = add(a=a1, b=x)

result = storage.df(x, y)

and a table like this:

x y

2 3

3 5

4 7

which tells you all the values `x, y` have taken in executions of this kind of program. Since you've only ran this with `i = 1, 2, 3`, you get back just the result from this computation - but if you've been running similar things for weeks, you may not remember all the settings you've ran this with so far - and this query will reveal them.

How this works is that you look for values `a0, a1, x, y` in the storage that satisfy both the constraints `x = increment(a=a0), y = add(a=a1, b=x)`. Finding such values amounts to joining the memoization tables of `increment` and `add` in a certain way. Since this way is implicit in the computation itself, you can just point to the variables and get the result.

Hope that helps! I realize that this is a fairly non-standard way to query, but I believe it's well worth the benefits in terms of reducing the boilerplate required to interact with computational data. Let me know if you think of ways to improve the presentation or have any other questions!
Can you elaborate on this? What event are you referring to?
The day old.reddit.com goes so do I
Whooshed me good.
That's assuming RMS isn't just LARPing.
Article gift link (if you cannot get past the paywall): https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/16/health/coolsculpting-side...
I haven’t seen any in depth analysis but I suspect that it would increase electrical usage and lower natural gas usage (at the home), which is what I suspect this rate reform partly may be targeting. CA’s astronomically high per kWh rates create an informative disincentive to electrify homes, even when the overall efficiency of the electric machines is much higher.
I’m a receptionist, handle about 150 bookings a week. Two-thirds direct, the other one-third are third-party booking sites. Booking.com (Agoda, Priceline, Kayak) makes up about half of that one-third. The other half of the one-third is equally split between Expedia (hotels.com, Orbitz, Travelocity, Wotif, Trivago) and a big bunch of various corporate travel agents and agencies.

Despite the proliferation of booking sites on the web, all of them are either part of Bookings Holdings (Booking.com’s parent company, 17bln revenue last year), or part of Expedia Group (11bln revenue last year), and I would expect the distributions of third party bookings at most hotels to roughly reflect that revenue split. There is one other competing group, Trip.com (5bln), but they mostly service China and don’t have as much penetration into Western markets as far as I know.
This has nothing to do with those words rhyming: your examples rhyme because they all end with -in, but we are concerned with the sound in front of that.

Also, the point in this subthread is not how you should pronounce the word in English. The point is that English speakers (or most other people in the world for that matter) cannot pronounce the word the way it's pronounced in the regions where ghee and its name is originally from.

Trying to sum it up: different languages have different sounds and you may not be able to hear and/or pronounce the differences. Your sibling comment mentions the English lice-rice distinction which is difficult to some Japanese/Chinese natives. Is saying 'lice' when you mean 'rice' just a different accent?

Going further, people don't observe these details of how they speak their own language and thus cannot reflect or explain to others. Quoting Wikipedia again:

> Native speakers of a given language perceive one phoneme in the language as a single distinctive sound and are "both unaware of and even shocked by" the allophone variations that are used to pronounce single phonemes. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allophone
AFAIR the most significant part of crippling Germany MIC was denying the resources for production. I wouldn't agree with the parent theory, but I definetly remember how the quality deteriorated in the last two years of war. Same applies for USSR, there was a significant decrease in quality (especially in things like the tank armour) till the supply lines were re-established after evacuating the manufactories to Ural.
A much easier solution: don't use their product. This would serve as a fantastic article about the reasons why it's worthwhile to stop giving them money. Except, it's the exact opposite of that--it teaches (or encourages?) everyone to learn the tricks required to ignore a company's unethical behavior, or install the extension to do it for you.
Yeah I noticed that too. Sorry but no way I'm installing this given that.
> but their only customer is the military

Not true. Their only customers may be militaries, plural, but that's not the same as the military, singular. Defense contractors routinely sell to allied countries, with complex financing arrangements whereby the costs are distributed between the foreign customer and the US (which agrees to pay partial costs for strategic reasons).

The distinction is important because US financing is done by a civilian, not military, branch of the American government. Production is not a pure function of physical capability; it still requires financing. If the military is capable of producing its own weapons, lacks civilian financing to do so, but can sell excess production to foreign allies, then you've handed the military the keys to self-financing. This undermines civilian control of the military.
this depends a lot on how you count. edge and Samsung Internet are both just reskinned chrome. Safari, Firefox and Opera Hot sound 20%, but that's almost all Safari, and Apple still wants to pretend that their special image format is relevant.
As a European I have a feeling this is only the beginning.
If cache eviction and I/O usage are limiting, perhaps a better way to design this system is as a cluster management system that can very quickly change the number of cores allocated to foreground vs background tasks (within less than your latency SLO). That means each core is only doing one kind of work for many milliseconds in a row so CPU caches remain hot, and I/O can be sorted into separate low and high priority queues. IO blocking is much less of a concern with NVMe drvies anyway, since they're intrinsically so parallel.

Memory usage is still a concern, since you do need to have the code and in-memory data for both workloads loaded on some number of your servers in order to rapidly change what tasks they're doing. Physical machines have so much memory today (compared to the code size or working set of most programs) that I suspect this isn't actually a blocker in practice, and it's not necessarily required for every machine in the cluster to have both workloads resident as long as some of them do.

This definitely feels like diving into an alternate universe of cluster management, and I'm not sure how easily Linux gives you tools to do things like this.
Downside of game engines is lacking accessibility, I think, are there any that don’t?
Remote Work Requires Different Management Skills