skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are ways of engaging with communities in democracy, rather than creating laws which one group ( majority ) think is right. which is not a great suite of the current ruling party, to be honest. Farmer laws, demonetization etc are some of examples.

BTW, If a party cannot do what is required for the country, they probably are not right for ruling the country.
Also during long persistent rain, the higher level may be already full and you can't release water from it without causing (even more) flooding.
This is fairly typical, and applies to HN too – you’ll see dang suggesting that people log out when there’s breaking news that gets a lot of engagement here.
so again, erotica to kids...
> old buildings do a very good job maintaining comfort, and that modern buildings often fail to do the same or only keep up at enormous expense

Old buildings did not have: thermal insulation, ventilation with heat recovery, timed ventilation, etc. While new buildings won't even get a building permit without all that. There's a minimum required energy efficiency.

I have to ask: what is your experience with civil egineering?
I use all my desktop screens split in half. It drives me nuts when I get mobile layouts on a browser set to half the width of my QHD displays.
I don't understand. We all know corporate IT, and how this plays out in reality.

1) my device isn't crippled

WHY would you assume they're not going to cripple your device? In the past they made it worse. One product that had exactly this purpose was "Sun Ray" machines. They weren't just crippled in software, they were utterly crippled in hardware. You see the problem with crippled hardware ... is that it's not really much cheaper than non-crippled hardware, but years behind. A bad chromebook is actually a pretty good crippled computer.

So you get the worst of everything

a) very slow processor (that actually costs more than a decent one)

b) too low amount of memory (that actually costs more than a sufficient amount of memory)

c) no local access whatsoever. So checking what ip address the thin client got ... not possible.

d) a low-res horrible headache-inducing screen. And forget about multi-monitor or anything like that.

2) a lot of potential security issues are now not my problem

Yeah because if there's one thing other departments in companies easily and quickly do it's accept responsibility for problems ...

3) environment setup is dealt with by someone else

Seriously ... why would they do this.

4) I can code on a potato as long as it can render the screens I need

You can't. You can only code on their potate. The one with spikes that leaks the suspicious black liquid and can't be replaced. Not because it isn't easy to replace, but because the problem is IT, not the technology.

At university they tried to introduce Sun Rays for us. The main thing I remember was the horrible monitor ... and when I brought my own full hd monitor from home, it crashed. Eventually I found out why: the thin client had so little memory the higher resolution made the framebuffer not fit in memory.
Congrats on learning web development! ChatGPT can indeed be super helpful when learning programming, I wish I had access to such a tool back in my days when I was learning it.
A lot of people I'm working with are not using it in such a form, and maybe my newsletter can help them learn some of those terms.
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The reality on ground is different from what you read in the press or even online. We see the work being done. When work wasn't being done (recent example of Karnataka), people voted BJP out. The alternative (Congress) came to power promising loads of freebies. Now voters on the ground are pissed off (plenty of videos where people are not willing to pay electricity bills or public transport fares because Congress said it'll make all of that free but never did so till date). So this hyperbole on BJP being "evil" is largely overblown and it is quite persistent in the Hacker News circles. Ultimately the voter decides based on whether the Party in power delivers or not. BJP has been doing great work on the infrastructure/development front as well as attracting investment. That is visible on the ground. What BJP is lacking severely is in State level leadership/politics which needs to be fixed. Congress on the other hand has given up its National ambitions and pursuing weaknesses it sees in BJP's state level politics. This is vibrancy of democracy. Nothing to feel "bleak" about unless you are drowning yourself in anti-India Western media reports and thinking that is the truth. Maybe you need to ask yourself if you are also part of a misinformation bubble yourself without even realizing it?
Scroll down to the bottom, click "Desktop". Not easy to notice that this is an option, not too hard to use once you've found out.
Anybody know why Chromebooks would have <4 year OS support?
I think you are asking two questions:

* (1) How is a private seller different from a public seller?

* (2) What is the incentive for a private seller to sell, especially in this hospice case where, presumably, the seller cares about the people they employ and serve?

Whereas a public seller has shareholders to pay out, a private seller is simply getting paid to transfer the ownership of their business. In both cases there is a pay out. The amount to be paid out is a large number – the buyer invests only a fraction of the purchase, whereas a bank finances the rest of the transcation. A large payout is enticing to sellers.

A private seller has the incentive of "a large payout" to sell their business. Even in the case where the seller is plausibly ethical and knowledgeable of the outcome of the buyout, their ethics are in contest with the financial incentive. People make personal compromises in exchange for money all of the time.

Lastly, you didn't ask, but I think there is an important part of "how it actually works;" The buyer owes the bank the rest of the transaction. In order to make good on that debt they will need a competent "exit strategy." It seems typical that the buyer will attempt to slash costs up front in order to make a quick, initial gain (e.g., fire employees to avoid paying salaries). After the short-term squeeze realizes gains, the buyer needs to sell off the company to dump the rest of the debt (e.g., spin off some of the business area/assets and sell to yet another buyer at a mark-up; having attractive short-term growth figures probably helps with this part).
Do note that while Astro is a fine choice, your blog has much snappier page transitions with speculative prefetching and pre-rendering, while maintaining an equally good Lighthouse score.

As projects scale this matters more. For example, hard page transitions will accrue the cost of re-initializing the entire application’s scripts for every click.
I divide the day into a list of negotiable and non-negotiable items. My schedule is then optimized for the non-negotiables.
Some users have virtual desktops in the cloud. Or use browser security sandboxes that run in the cloud.
Yeah but everything I hear is that new builds in the US are worse than ever in terms of quality.

I owned a brick ranch house in the US and had to have all the ductwork redone because it had accumulated mold. Cost me 3k. It just seems way more trouble than it’s worth.
I used to work with Drupal, it was a security nightmare, like almost all community-based extension system (see also npm). Modules made Drupal popular, they also made it close to impossible to have any sense of security, as only very popular modules would be audited, and you basically needed a panoply of smaller ones depending on your use case.

I wonder if that's changed over time, for instance I could see GPT3.5 doing a good job of summarily inspecting modules systematically.
> NAT hole punching

Could we just throw a STUN service in front of this, then?
I think you capture it, but to make it clear, post-modernism existed before the Internet.

I’ve never considered the post-truth perspective as having anything to do with intentional misrepresentation, but rather relativism (which is dangerous in other ways, imho). Outright lying has been used by authoritarians, but it really seems like we need a term to describe societies controlled by blatant, obvious lies (which is where I would consider the US at the moment). People like to use fascism, Marxism, etc., but those used similar techniques, for very different ends.
I've been using Easy Effects for a long time. I almost exclusively use the "Noise Reduction" filter which is based on Xiph RNNoise. It is absolutely fantastic at removing my keyboard and other background noise from my microphone. And the UI is so easy that it is trivial to click it off if I want to record something raw and do the processing later. There are also compressors which can be useful and pitch changers which can be fun.

I have it set to start up automatically and I forget that it is even running. I've donated in the past but I think I'm due for another round. The developer is super friendly and helpful in the issue tracker (although I haven't been there for probably a year now as it has been rock-solid recently after the PulseAudio to PipeWire transition bugs have been hammered out)
> we are at the best time in the entire human history, even with that.

I've heard this ad naseum during my whole life. The word they always forget is "materially". People are on average better off materially than ever before (maybe), but that is far from taking into account what it means to be human and what life is.

One example is that we have better quality beds than ever before in history, but maybe that doesn't matter since people in the past had tougher skin and didn't need better beds.

These "best time in human history" doesn't take into account things such as freedom, purpose in life, dignity and any other factors of life that cannot be measured, because scientists can not deal with things that aren't measurable.
Novamin is another “dental secret”. US toothpaste doesn’t have it, but studies consistently show it’s more effective than just fluoridated toothpaste and protecting teeth from decay.

You would think that in a “capitalist, free-market” such as the United States, an innovation with a clear and pronounced benefit over the status quo would take the marketplace by storm and quickly become the new status quo.

Last I checked, you can get Sensodyne with Novamin toothpaste on Amazon, but it does come from Canada.
Interesting news aggregator (looks like), nice one!
AI is far more useful and is fairly neutral in the sense that there are probably as many good uses as bad uses.

Web3 was almost 100% scams and gambling with very little productive utility. The good uses were almost nonexistent. It was one of the more vapid hype waves in tech history.
As if kids weren't hard enough on things; these objects are forced on them (rather than something they wanted themselves), and loaded with all the negative associations of school.

That any have survived this long is probably a glowing testament to the design and construction quality of the models they bought.
They're definitely on every Atlantic city and las Vegas table I've ever seen. But they blend in and are very subtle. It's just enough to make the dice tumble if they're being slid instead of rolled. Most people never even think of it because the stickman should be telling you to throw the dice to the back wall anyway. Next time you're at a table look in the middle right in front of the boxman.
I think its this but I am unsure.

https://github.com/Alloyed/flirt
If you’re not logged you’re getting the pre-rendered, cached page.

If you’re logged, a number of things have to be recomputed before the page can be rendered.

I run mediawiki at home, the difference is even more stark (i have a small home server).
CRIU – Checkpoint/restore Linux tasks
Wikipedia/Wikimedia are quite open about their infrastructure. You can even see the Varnish Frontend Hitrate on their Grafana server: https://grafana.wikimedia.org/d/wiU3SdEWk/cache-host-drilldo... (currently 87.6%, min 69.9%, max 92.2%)
Damn, I obviously meant "network read" not a "disk read". Oh well.
Ok, considering that it comes from VMware, I think they aim to create some kind of a multi-architectural execution environment that can host apps in a hardware-independent way on multiple clustered nodes.

I applaud this development but at the same time any kind of run-time code translation imposes performance penalties. WASM is not exception. It would be enlightening to hear the authors' stance on this topic. CPU utilization factor is a big thing for hosting companies, so they will be hesitant to use something like this in production.
The intriguing part of such stuff is how the impact of these things is both short and long, such asymmetry of the individual vs the state. At the (population) scale of India, this is particularly heinous.

In the near term, it is designed to mislead the public perception. In the long term, it both creates a chilling effect of what consequences protesting may have… and will anyone remember that these pictures were manipulated “for effect” decades from now? Will they fuel other echo chambers?

I very much doubt the public understands the precipice (and precedents) that these malicious actions lead us all down.
France’s army platoon of carrier pigeons is one of its kind in Europe (2021)
To help ensure future hardware sales.
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Why not use a seedbox? Download torrent to the seedbox and then ftp home. This way you get the upload from a server which if you're on a private tracker (which you should be) you'll get good upload speeds, easy to hit the default seed requirements, and you'll get full download speed when you want to use it locally.
But are they useful forever?
There is no "necessarily" about it, but it's obviously how history ended up unfolding. The big cultural-media-pop conflict in the west this very moment is centered around acceptance of diversity regarding gay and trans folks.
> No, it’s because the barriers to immigration are much higher to Asian immigrants than the people who already live here

Incorrect. By far the main vehicle for permanent immigration under American law is family reunification, which isn’t based on skills or education. A large fraction of the Asian American population is also refugees from countries like Vietnam and Korea. There are a huge number of poor Asian immigrants, and they vastly outperform similarly lower income European Americans: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/27/upshot/make-y... (use the chart to compare economic outcomes of Asians in the bottom 1/5 to whites in the bottom 1/5). See also: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2057150X209738... (“Rather than being a class phenomenon, Asian cultural factors have important effects for most second-generation Asian Americans regardless of the socioeconomic status of their parents.”). The effect does go away over time, but that’s because kids adopt American culture. E.g. Mindy Kaling and her new show.

Nigerian immigrants also outperform European Americans (and Asian anmericans) even after taking into account income and education: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23780231211001971. Their parenting style tends to be extremely rigid and disciplined.
// this code looks wrong but was mandated by the pm in the 3/3/22 memo. I do not endorse
Most people I know earn less than $100k per year, unfortunately. Even then, having a divorce rate reach the floor at 30% seems pretty risky to me.
> And most of the potentially "bad" applications are also things you could do with a shell script.

I'll take this a step further - all of the current LLM attacks require a human to act on instruction. AI doesn't even provide a supposedly-secure platform like crypto does, it just issues completion through text. In that sense, it's not any different from those same impressionable humans visiting 4chan and reading something inflammatory. The medium is exactly the same, whatever you get out of AI could feasibly exist in the status quo before it.
Do you have an example of a place where that is a significant issue? The upstream flow is the same as it was before a dam is built. You’d imagine this would only become a problem if nearly the entire flow was being consumed, which is unthinkable.
My guess is that it’s going to be a tradeoff between functionality and compatibility.

Wikipedia is consulted every day by a lot of people, i guess that a large number of those people are running older browsers.
I've paid with my card though. It's possible to refund those, and PayPal.

It's a very sudden move on the Mullvad part that impacts a lot of their customers. If the torrent speed drops down as much as I think it will I won't be very happy...
To be fair, I use subscribed ProtonVPN. Same exact issues.

Cloudflare gives me captchahell with infinite "click on fire hydrants or vans or bicycles or stoplights".

Amazon just pretends to "site error".

Numerous sites like Tiktok, JLwaters, my state's data portal, and others just give me a 403 forbidden.

Other sites just load a <html></html> blank document on my VPN.

And Proton is actually kind of hard to get port forwarding turned on. You can do it by adding a suffix to the OpenVPN name, or by generating a wireguard with port forwarding on.

But again, I don't think it's anything to do with port forwarding per se. The current web demands deanonymization. And naturally "abuse" is blamed, even when attached to legit accounts with legit historical purchases etc.
I didn't really put much of a value judgement on it. Mostly I was thinking about my beehives and how you have to make sure the queen is reproducing or the hive will collapse from attrition within a month or so. I rather like the bees in that they don't seem to think much about meaning or morals; they just go on about their business of existence.
Port forwarding is a big deal. Mullvad is very well respected, and so is their advocacy of privacy, but once the setup ports expire I'll be forced to pick another provider, not as safe and certainly not as cheap either—I think many others are on the same boat too. Up until now if you needed a VPN with this feature there weren't any better alternatives. Another day cursing at networking, I guess.
Android does support audio effects [1]. You cannot create new ones, but the built-in ones are very broad.
For example, the DynamicProcessing effect can be configured for your loudness compression use case.
Note that you will have to attach your effect to the global session, which was deprecated more than a decade ago but support has never been removed as there are no alternatives for global audio effects.

[1]: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/media/audiof...
> Yeah but everything I hear is that new builds in the US are worse than ever in terms of quality.

That's a meme. There's a lot of variability between houses (and the shitty old houses don't tend to survive long), but insulation is one of the things that has unambiguously improved over time.

Matt Risinger has a good video on the "old
houses were better" thing here, but his channel is full of great house-building content: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBMMDY3LFAA
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I half agree, UX seems to be being optimized for the new user and common workflows. This is great, because every user starts as a new user, so it makes onboarding easier. It does not seem to be optimized for experts and novel ways of completing tasks that were not explicitly thought of.

Consider the power of piping a few unix commands together, this is an advanced task that enables power users, but is nearly impossible for a new user.

tldr;
For the common cases and beginners UX has improved, but dropped off for users that go beyond that.
NYC is so heavy it's sinking as fast as Venice, Italy
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Wikipedia uses extensive caching when logged out, and caches much less when logged in to facilitate editing and user account functionally. https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Caching_overview
The article isn't about WASM vs a container runtime, it's about comparing two container runtimes.

WasmEdge is a container runtime designed for running Webassembly

If you check the whole article, you'll find the (simple and basic) benchmark comparing a rust "hello world" running with runc, and (apparently) the same code compiled to Wasm and running in WasmEdge.
Half the average US cost for a VERY nice place sounds a lot better actually.
Hopkins study identifies the body odors that attract mosquitoes
Which paid CF services do you use?
this!
I asked a neurologist and she said at least 40% of her time is spent on formulaic discharge letters and rounds documentation.
Hold your horses, this is false equivalence. India is no where near China or Russia, Turkey may be closest thing but that is also kind of false. State governments in India are powerful and that complicates many things.
> Geoffrey Miller was one of the loudest voices decrying the decline of radiology 5 years, and now he’s crying fear for new AI systems.

I don't know who Geoffrey Miller I'm pretty sure if there's a Geoffrey who notably predicted the decline of radiology, it was Geoffrey Hinton a few years ago...
"Sorry we cannot support your network" The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the very few...
I wouldn't even go all the way to a dedicated seedbox. I'm using a shared one, gets the job done and only costs $12 a month.
Of course, but if everyone is behind the NAT then no one in the swarm can connect to any one. If this is a popular torrent when someone with the connectivity would show up, eventually, but otherwise good luck. Recently it took me four months to complete one torrent and I was the one with the real IP.
> There is no classroom full of students 3+ standard deviations above the norm.

May be 145 is unrealistic, but 130 is not. It's only 1 in 44, which should be a pretty realistic figure. My own high school had a similar ratio of admission.
> - Circumventing OS or browser default functionality. Example:

Google search bar breaks macOS keybindings eg. option-arrow doesn't work as expected.
Yea. the moment Elon started charging for the blue tick, it became useless and I wouldn't pay for it anymore unless I really want to use the extra goodies that it provides which I don't need personally.
Stripe just shut down a small biz
Such a weird comment. Yes, what is wrong with emptying the label of any meaning and letting any misinformation trash account buy it for a few bucks? You might be terminally online but then not everyone is.
This is already standard. I've worked at several places which had hardware white lists on the VPN and only company controlled and secured hardware could connect. Working on your own hardware was strictly forbidden.
Is "Congress party also bad!" still a primary defence of Mr. Modi who is in power for about 10 years now?

I think NRIs are praising Modi because he is helping with the fall of Rupee as compared to other currencies so NRIs get maximum return when they send home USD.

Will you be able to share some examples of "at least doing some work in various areas"?

1. I see BJP government as expert in data manipulator and creating smoke screens through their network of social media cell and mainstream TV channels. [1]

2. As per Govt data, over 80 crore people in India currently depend upon government for free food. [2]

3. Modi government manipulated the GDP calculation method to show higher GDP growth. [3]

4. Modi government changed the calculation method to measure the length of highways. Going by lane km, the total length of highways constructed during 2017-18 fiscal comes to 34,378 km as against 9829 km if counted linearly. [4]

[1] https://zeenews.india.com/india/get-maths-lessons-bjp-faces-...

[2] https://www.livemint.com/news/india/over-80-crore-people-to-...

[3] https://scroll.in/article/954986/the-daily-fix-is-modi-gover...

[4] https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/now-new-concept-to...