skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but the Republicans have been trying to kill USPS for decades

A little disingenuous. Republicans attempted to force lower government spending by causing a deficit decades ago. The strategy (for those that were good willed) was that a large deficit would politically force spending cuts across the board, obviously including USPS.

No spending cuts have ever been made and the deficit has grown exponentially instead. Congress discovered debt doesn't matter, and now neither side cares.

Welcome to the uniparty. You can continue to pretend DC Democrats and Republicans are different, but they're playing you with fake controversies that never are resolved by Congress
>IPv6 is 24.5 years old.

And Chinese is hundreds of years old and I still don't know it. People don't invest into supporting things the instant they release.

>If your network equipment supplier...

In this hypothetical my network supplier would, but someone who is trying to connect isn't. IPv6 isn't even at 50% support in the US. That means if you want your friend group to all connect to your server there is a very good chance that some of them will not be able to. What are you supposed to tell them? That they should complain to their ISP?
It is the same in the presidential election, since number of electoral votes from the state includes number of senators.
gmail did push me to become self-hosted (currently a PI, but should become a risc-v mini-computer in the near future) because they broke noscript/basic (x)html browser support for re-authenticating my gmail account. It was years ago.
Ofc, I did write my own smtp software (excrutiating simple), for the moment simple C (c89 with benign additions from c99/c11), but the target is 100% risc-v assembly with excrutiating simplicity.

For now, I may not be one of their enslaved user anymore, but in interop with self-hosted smtp server, gmail is probably one the less worse out there:
- they don't block (many smtp admin abuse of the broken and toxic spam-haus list by blocking instead of using grey-listing).
- they have IPv6.
- A few years ago it was fine to send them email with a pure IP smtp (yep, smtp was made to be able to work without the DNS mafia).

But there is a catch: you end-up in their spam folder, DNS SPF and legit email exchanges doing nothing about it (DKIM is excessive overkill). Here, the real issue is non-tech-savvy people must be aware that legit emails WILL end-up in their spam folder: gmail should have such a warning right next to "spam name" like "spam(must be checked for legitimate emails)".
I don't know which parties are involved in News/Media Alliance, but their statements were kind of expected; prior authorization, written contracts, compensation, etc. for training.
> Those fines can be large enough to inflict real pain and damage to corporations that repeatedly misbehave.

To my knowledge, such a large fine has never been imposed in 5 years, despite rampant noncompliance across the entire industry, including Big Tech, with countless complaints having been filed but gone nowhere.
Who was it that was harmed, exactly? I'd love to see a list.
I don't have much experience. I don't understand the complaints around semantic ambiguity. Can't you just declare you aren't trying to build the semantics perfect system, pick one of the options and have things be perfectly all right?
The idea that Brexit was ever about "isolationism" is one put about by its opponents. The people who actually campaigned for Brexit were almost universally free trade lovers, with the uneasy coalition with the working classes being forged over a willingness to restrict immigration.

It is actually the EU that promotes isolationism. Their policy of "join the EU or we'll make it hard to trade and work with us" is one that places mutual cooperation and free trade very low down the list, seeing these as levers to advance their political ideology more than things that are beneficial in and of themselves. Other countries that aren't attempting to absorb an entire continent into one government find ways to collaborate and trade easier just out of a belief that it's the best thing to do. Not Europe.

> it's really just more blustering nationalist idiocy

The EU is a nationalist project: it has its own borders, flag, government, laws, trade rules, taxes, even its own national anthem, so Brexit can't be "nationalist idiocy" unless you've not understood the fundamentally nation-oriented goal of the EU. It's just that the EU wants the nation in question to be called Europe and to be formed by abolishing the existing nations. Whether or not the people who live in them actually want that, is not seen as very relevant.
So in that situation you'd accelerate into the side of the truck, and not brake to avoid it?
How do those DBs compare? I mean how am I can read these graphs? Like is mariadb slower on wsl or others have some kind bottleneck slowing them on all cases to near equal performance?
Simple proofs are often only possible, because the language of mathematics become increasingly descriptive over time.

The language conveniently helps us make incredibly complicated statements by using specialized terms. Simple solution are rarely that simple, once we eschew the jargon of the field.

We stand on the shoulders of giants, and all that.
At least SDL2 has 'proper' Emscripten support:

https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL2/README/emscripten

My own cross-platform headers too:

https://github.com/floooh/sokol

...there are also auto-generated Zig bindings btw ;)

https://github.com/floooh/sokol-zig
Yep, as always, people (and LLMs) take stuff for granted because they read it somewhere months ago. That’s why we are doomed; everyone believes anything without question if it’s not against their personal agenda.
I don't want to start a flame war. This said, I think vinyl sucks; it's my opinion and not some absolute statement about the universe so please respect it! It was the state-of-the art technology when I was kid, but I was so glad it was gone. Digital music is SO much better and I remember the joy of replacing vinyl by CDs and then by high quality digital files.

And because of all of the above, I understand why a lot of the buyers don't have actual record players. Vinyl is a bit like 8-bit cartridge gaming, it's a mix of nostalgia with physicality, holding something fun and cool in your hands. It's more like buying a book... The albums had pretty covers, and I do remember liking to hold them in my hands, read lyrics (often included in an insert) while listening to the music. That was a nice aspect of it, but it was overall so cumbersome and lossy that I'll keep my FLACs, thank you.
Are there any tools along this line, but act more like an external monitor does when plugged into your laptop (in external-monitor-only mode)? I.e. can run at a different resolution/size, rather than just mirroring the phone screen? Something like what Android Auto does when you plug into a head unit, but for 'normal' android.
I already believe most of reddit are LLM bots created by reddit I especially in the highly political/moderated boards.
what makes you think they were way off base, keeping in mind that the relationship between the two isn't necessarily linear or perfect?
The real question is, where do you get trustworthy APKs, if you cant download them from playstore ?

You can already install an APK through the phone
What else are you going to use the ground for?

Supermarkets effectively give the meat away for free because quite often farmers are locked into contracts that end up paying less than cost.

Don't buy any of your food from supermarkets.
Bollocks it does. :P

Club culture was built around people dancing to music played on turntables. Specifically Technics SL1200 mk2 or SL1210 mk2 which only have a very little suspension in their feet.

If you run in mono and there will be almost no feedback no matter how loud you play or how close to the speakers you are.

Since one of the audio channels is inverted when recorded any signal feeding back will be cancelled out when the re-inverted signal is combined.

This is why old DJ mixers from people like Pioneer used have a prominent Stereo/Mono switch.

There's no real soundstage on a dance floor so you don't miss the stereo.

In the really cool venues, back in the day, they used crossovers to move just the high-hats or percussion to a specific speaker array hanging over the centre of the dance floor and have the mids and bass somewhere else but it would always be from a mono signal never stereo.

Source: Phono.

Aux Source: I worked as a DJ way back when and have experience of very loud systems in front of large crowds of dancing people. I've also played many a sketchy flat where everything was balanced on milk crates on wooden floorboards.
If you don't deploy to deno cloud it's just SQLite and not distributed.

If you do deploy to deno cloud it's trivial to migrate because there are many competing offerings of kv stores.
My SaaS is not an open source project nor a language runtime. How would you feel if Go, Elixir or Rust (just to name a few) were run by a company that depends on their success, so try to push aggressively new features and mindshare, often with disastrous result?

Are Go, Elixir or Rust developers working for free? There is a difference between getting paid to work on open source, and structuring an open source company as a VC-backed startup that needs to grow fast or die.

I guess everyone has already forgotten about Docker, Inc.
Years ago I worked with a project that used eGranary and FabFi mesh networking:

https://widernet-egranary.org/?page_id=5

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

We were trying to bring Wifi and digital content to some struggling communities.
The funny thing is, if you insure everything everywhere then why would anyone pull their money out of a bank to begin with? That ends the bank runs and the deposit flight right there. It probably wouldn’t come to that.
Isigny yes, the fact I just mention not so much!

Most of my family is from Normandy.
None of those organizations are OpenAI, which has yet to establish a history of dishonest dealing. It's not usually a good idea for government agencies to assume that every company in a particular field is maximally dishonest and criminally inclined.

The goal is compliance, not punishment. So it's better to give them a chance to comply, a warning, and then prosecute and fine if they continue to flout the rules.
> The British viewed themselves as superior and apart from their conquests, which prevented their conquests from coming to identify as “British”

Not really no. The British ran the empire with famously small numbers of actual Brits on the ground, using armies mostly raised from local populations and training up the local civil service from local recruits.

And that legacy lives in. The current Prime Minister of the UK is now Indian, his counterpart in Scotland is Pakistani, and the British are one of the least racist countries in the world:

https://www.uk-values.org/news-comment/uk-public-among-most-...

... caused partly by the huge number of people who immigrated from former colonies and now identify as British (and who are accepted as such).
In this specific case I think it's super reasonable.

The KV store has two backbends: local sqlite and distributed deno cloud.

If you choose the deno cloud backend you're signing up for a closed source cloud service from the start. There's no trickery.
Is it really so binary that either they’re rich westerners or they’re so destitute they can’t benefit from this project?

Also, this project ends up being a compact way to deliver educational material. Imagine sending them the equivalent in physical books and manuals
Samsung Dex does this but it only works on some devices.
There’s site tracking the fines:
https://www.enforcementtracker.com/
> People don't invest into supporting things the instant they release.

Virtually every other aspect of the tech world, including networking, has managed to update multiple times in the intervening years.

We don't (mostly) use dialup; we switched from 2G to 3G to 4G and now to 5G mobile telephony since then; HTTP has been mostly deprecated for HTTPS and the cryptography standards for the latter have changed; etc.

> What are you supposed to tell them? That they should complain to their ISP?

Yes.

I mean, what, is their ISP also using Windows 98 on a 486 chip running at 75 MHz with 8 meg of RAM and a 500 meg hard drive, and software patches being passed around on floppy disks? Because that's what the tech world looked like when we should've started refusing to buy products and services that were IPv4-only.

Today?

Today, this kind of nonsense has gone on far too long. It was obvious even during my degree ~20 years ago that IPv4-to-6 transition should have already been finished by the time I even learned about it. As there are now far more devices on the internet than IPv4 addresses, I would go further and say that normal ISPs should be banned by law from using IPv4 — if we're going to do that for which type of USB connector personal electronics use, why not this?
I wonder whether this is actually limited to academia. When I was at business school it was mentioned that US firms are more likely to have special managers (MBAs) whereas somewhere like Europe tended to promote technical staff like engineers.

Someone out there must know whether this is generally true.
This reminds of how the politburo of China is often made up of engineers, chemists, and people with similar backgrounds. Whereas American politicians are all lawyers.
Not really, no. Like SVB, FRCs problem was just having too high a percent of uninsured deposits (rich customers, basically). When rumors started that they were next, unlike SVB they were actually a healthy, well run bank. But no bank can handle losing more than half their deposits. It killed them.
Just for the record: obsidian is not open source in the same way as Firefox or linux is. The source be viewed, but is subject to restrictive licenses. I use it, really like it, but it isn’t free and open.
> The LLM has infinite patience.

Not Bing Chat. She doesn't have problems telling users that they have been bad users.
As of 21 September 2022, the size of the current version of all articles compressed is about 21.23 GB without media.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia
.co.uk isn't a country TLD, .uk is. If you block .ac.uk you'll block every UK university, .gov.uk the UK government and if you block .me.uk you'll block, well, me.
I think pretty is subjective. I am not a fan soulless all modern cities. For example I once went to Almere in the Netherlands and I found it quite depressing.

But on the other hand I like cities which keep very old building and pieces of architectures alongside much more modern ones and I think you can always discuss details but Copenhagen is generally a good example of that. Having said that I have not known Copenhagen in the 1960-1970's so maybe older people would tell me it was much prettier back then.
In theory that's true, but a substantial proportion of all US mortgages are fixed rate and originated in the last few years when interest rates were at record lows, so they're still going to be pretty sensitive to interest rate changes and the bulk of the repayments still pretty far into the future assuming they're structued in the usual way with fixed repayments.
gRPC is a pain in the ass to setup. I strongly disliked the web client library for it.

I don't like REST because it's basically become a specific url structure with semantic http methods (e.g. POST for create). Practically nobody bothers with the HATEOS stuff. Things start breaking down if you have a complex resource hierarchy and custom methods.

I've personally just settled on rpc using json. Any consumer of the api REST or otherwise is going to check the docs for the correct endpoint, at which point there's little to no difference between rpc and rest.
That sounds like REST but more awkward to use.
One of my favorite physicians was my oncologist. I litterally spent less time with him during the whole diagnostics and treatment period then I did with my, at the time, dentist. He was straight o the point, no empathetic BS, just a doctor with a diagnosis and a treatment plan to discuss. On the hand was me, an engineer with a problem to fix and an expert with the right answers. That discussion took all of 15 minutes.

That guy would have failed against ChatGPT, and I loved the way he told things. Anythong else would have just driven me crazy, maybe to the point of looking for a different doctor.

So I giess, what passes as good bed side manners for doctors largely depends on the patient. By the way, the dentist I have since is in the same category as my, luckily former, oncologist. A visit with hom usually takes no more than 5 minutes if he's chatty, less if not. Up to 10 when treatment is required, anuthing longer than thaf is a different appointment.
Exactly. As an example, a typical 30-year fixed will be halfway paid off after 15 years, and so is about half as sensitive to interest rates as a 30-year interest-only.

This should not be a surprise to the management of First Republic.
> As an aside, my personal view is that making your own butter doesn't provide anywhere near the same return on investment as making your own bread - home made butter takes ages, doesn't really taste that much better, and can cost more money, while home made bread doesn't take that long, and can taste a lot better.

There is a good book called "Make the Bread, Buy the Butter" which covers what foods give the best return on time, effort, and money invested.
That’a not ‘strictly’ what inflation is, it’s how the Austrian school defines it. But it’s much complex than that (monetary velocity etc.), so trying to model the economy using the quantity theory of money tends to not yield useful results.
That wasn’t the only reason. It was a cascading effect from junk mortgages and a bubble burst on the inflated housing market that people were unable to sell their homes. So they had to change laws under Obama and things started to get better about 2012-2014.
My website is private. If you visit it I will sue you.

If someone bypasses authentication I understand but if your api is open on the public internet on purpose, you don't get to randomly declare what's private and what isn't.
The more I use ChatGPT (including 4.0 version, available with Plus subscription) the more I think these "Studies" and articles are simply made up.

For my experience is terrible for any question I ask:
- if it doesn't know well a person it simply makes up things
- if I ask code examples or scripts, most of the time they are wrong, I need to fix them, they contain obsolete syntax etc...
- if I'm asking a question, I'm expecting being asked for more context if the subject is not clear, instead it starts spitting text without even realising I asked a completely different thing
etc...

I could go on for hours with other examples, but I'm seriously not finding it useful
"she"?
Good point but Bing Chat seems like an example of why OpenAI's mastering of RLHF has been so critical for them. Honestly the more time you spend with ChatGPT the more absurd fantasies of evil AI takeover look. The thing is pathologically mild mannered and well behaved.
Because extensibility should be a design decision.
Do you need to pick just one?
What I'm referring to is what most rest APIs actually are. You mostly just use GET & POST, and urls are more arbitrary and often verbs instead of nouns. Pretty much nobody uses "true" rest.
Wow you overcame cancer. That is awesome.
I have a similar dell latitude and when I have linux problems from time to time, I usually first blame the hardware, but then it turns out to be something more mundane - network disks and network usb devices seem to be bigger problems for suspend/resume than anything else.
How do you get the x scaling right? You have to measure the speed of the train somehow?
> For a real sneer, if you dare, go into Melbourne coffee shop and order an Americano instead of a long black.

That's stupid, it might be impressive they know the difference, but what if I actually wanted an Americano? (Hot water added, vs espresso pulled into it in a long black.)

I'm not so snobbish as to care (and I prefer lungo anyway - long shot all brewed, no pure water added) it just seems to me if they're going to be like that then they should recognise they're different and offer both. 'Certainly sir, or if you prefer we can do a long black too' sort of thing, acknowledging that the customer may be just as snobbish/knowledgeable, but accustomed to ordering Americano because 'long black' would generally furrow eyebrows.

I do think in hindsight I may have experienced it though, in the UK - I didn't order, but my aunt or someone was told they don't do Americanos and came back with a filter coffee or something. At the time I thought they were just incompetent ('do you do espressos? Hot water?' I would have not been able to resist retorting) but now I think probably it was similar to your experience. Stupid.
No, just “we covered the world in cement” is not a good reason to keep covering it. Definitely doesn’t justify adding autonomous sensors and paint and whatever else to the whole world to achieve autonomous driving.

So I was being polite leaving that conclusion for the reader. But I can see I wasn’t clear enough.

Given we cycle cars much more often than we cycle roads (globally) makes sense to update the technology on the car.
Curiously the time conservatives want to go back too.

HN is higher income bracket so they don't need the services the government provides- and have the arrogance to call it waste.
The highest rank in my mind is the tenured professor who builds businesses from the safety of the university. Those few who poach the brightest students for their lab, leverage that into a startup (or more than one), and exit for millions while collecting university checks. This brings me awe, respect, jealousy, and distaste in equal measure.
the EU has repeatedly doled out fines in the billion dollar range which is enough to even hurt big corps for non-compliance, most recently Meta in January so it really doesn't make any sense to act in bad faith with intent.

I've worked at several large companies and I've honestly never once seen someone advocate to ignore legislation intentionally . It's stupid even from the POV of companies themselves. A lot of data leaks happen out of incompetence or indifference before someone got a slap on the wrist, but the calculus to fake a textbox that comes with a 9 figure fine doesn't make a lot of sense
Already on the first page I found a case (ETid-1788) where the operator of a public toilet was fined for installing a hidden camera inside a toilet stall(!!!) to secretly record people who used it.

The fine was 25,000 Euros. That's insane. That business should have been closed down and the responsible person jailed. GDPR enforcement is a joke.
Or, from a much more charitable angle:

> It's a physicist¹ proving that we need integration tests.

¹ Juan Parrondo is a physicist by training, not a mathematician.
I highly doubt occupy wall street was the big deal for the elite.

Ironically enough you're kind of adding to the supposed distraction, since occupy wall street didn't accomplish much of anything.

Unions forming have caused more of the elite to quiver in their boots than protests.
Cheese in coffee is not that unusual. In France they dip the cheese comte in their coffee in the morning in the alpine area. It's probably mostly older people who do it these days.
Look how few projects containing valuable knowledge are available offline. There's less and less stuff that can work offline.
It looks like you are equating pink salt, and mined salt. Mined salt usually colored in white-gray spectrum.
A lot of people over 60 own a record player even if they never use it.
It’s a lot of geographical Australia.

Which isn’t a lot of people. A million, perhaps. Two at most.