skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(You’re making me cringe, calling Atom feeds RSS feeds. Just “feeds” is a perfectly good word.)
Back to the Future, as exciting as it was when it came out, is essentially a movie of Nostalgia. I remember in the 80s how big the 50s and 60s nostalgia was. Now we are going through a similar thing by looking back on the 80s and 90s.

I do agree with the author that nostalgia is not just about remembering when times were 'good'. I sometimes get nostalgic about times I was sick. However, I do think its more than just 'the inertness of the past'. I imagine nostalgia serves many purposes, including ones that are orthogonal to each other.
The problem with all the proxmox cron / backup stuff is, that these solutions do not consider snapshots are fast, reliable, sendable and do not take up much disk space, as long as the fs has not changed too much.

So zfs-auto-snapshot is performing a snapshot every 5 minutes for an hour, every hour for a day, etc. And it auto-removes these snapshots after one "round" of snapshotting, so it should not take too much space in the long term. This is absolutely amazing, because data loss is pretty unlikely to happen and you can always free up space by removing snapshots manually. I still have backups on an external disk though :-)
Nope nope nope means this is a different quality of thing, the things you are trying to put in the same category are in different categories.

the GPL, by it's own text explaining itself, is intended to ensure that users of GPL software always have the right to re-distribute it. It says that right in it.

If your point is that IBM has enough lawyers and money to prevent users from redistributing GPL software, and they may have figured out how to exersize a loophole that will be difficult to do anything about it, especially cause of all those lawyers and money... right, indeed, sure.

If you are suggesting that we should all consider this just fine, and you don't care what the GPL intended to do, and you don't think anyone else should either, and we should all aspire to make money by getting away with subverting the GPL... okay, thanks for sharing? But as for me: nope nope nope.
Wow, never heard about this. Do you have more info?
The article shows an example of a building where one structural column had to be moved in order to accommodate the hole, and where the hole itself is off-center in order to disturb as few structural elements as possible. Indeed, every building converted in this way will probably need its own bespoke solution (e.g. if the elevator shaft is dead-center, you might cut two smaller holes on either side), but even then it seems like it would be hard for it to be more expensive than starting over from scratch.
In case anyone wondered, it looks like you can buy a small ultra low temp freezer for about $10,000.
I don't get why people don't like skyscrapers. They're cool. I am from NYC, so maybe I'm used to it. My understanding is the major reason they aren't build as much outside of Manhattan is because the bedrock in Manhattan supports heavy structures.
It is both drivers and the userland tools that you get in the tarball. This stuff is often developed by people with a focus on hardware. They will build something to work well on their machine but may never have used a different linux distro. The userland tools might assume compile options in libraries will be as they are in redhat. There will be hard coded paths where there shouldn’t be. The source may not be available, it might be static binaries. That kind of stuff.
I'm only one person, but I'm currently on week 3 of abstaining from visiting reddit. I'm giving Lemmy a shot right now. It's tough for me to find the same quantity and quality of engaging communities, but hopefully that improves soon.
> For every n, there is some base b such that n! = b^n. For example, 30! ≈ 1230.

False. Probably the author meant to use "≈" twice.
SQL Server operations for JSON are parsed from text content on demand. In other databases, the JSON content is broken apart and can be queried/indexed on that parsed/stored content. The closest you can get with SQL is a computed column from the JSON that you can then use to index against, it's very messy by comparison. If you use a lot of JSON queries in SQL server it can get excessively sluggish as well compared to PostgreSQL or even MySQL/MariaDB.

It's definitely a shortcoming of MS-SQL, which iirc is being addressed to an extent in the next release.

There are plenty of points where MS-SQL Server is very nice. JSON support is far from one of them. Even if the JSON is still a step above XML support in SQL Server.
It's not a regulatory issue. The issue is loan covenants negotiated between private lenders and borrowers. No one forced them to agree to those terms, and they are free to renegotiate at any time.

But cities that want to retain vibrant downtowns should consider imposing some sort of vacancy tax on commercial real estate. That would give landlords an incentive to lease their space out at a lower rate rather than waiting for a more lucrative tenant to come along.
> which we should probably have for browser tabs, too

This would be incredible
> Imagine if we had a similar system for the departments of motor vehicles...

So petition your state reps to do it. AZ provides tools for self-service for most common tasks. With the exception of buying a car out of state and wanting to move a vanity plate over a few years ago, I can’t remember the last time I went to the DMV. It helps that our licenses don’t expire until we’re 65, so until my kids need to get their license, I don’t see a need to go back.

My vanity plate - FREEBSD -required an appeal to get to begin with because their system flagged it as a drug reference (free based). I had to _mail_(!) an appeal letter. When I went to transfer it, it was reflagged and they couldn’t even help me at the DMV, and instead of going through the appeal process again I just dropped it.
Regulatory oversight in addition to Apple looking for its cut is a good reason why this would have been blocked anyway. Few things out there are more regulated than the transfer of money, something the crypto economy is desperately trying to avoid.
If you are required by law to stop for them once they are in the crosswalk then cars should expect to find people stopped some of the time and stop themselves.

If nobody expects to stop then pedestrians either must always wait for a big enough gap that they hope to cross unimpeded or step out knowing you are coming to force you to stop. The first is frequently impossible and the second is dangerous. It also creates the "dangerous" situation of having a car stopped at an intersection.

Older folks especially likely to have a hard time doing A or B due to decreasing mobility and vision. Personally I think if you can't handle such a scenario safely you have no business being in charge of a car.
It may surprise you, but music inspires deep emotions and strong reactions for many people. Especially musicians.
> as a child of the 80s/90s attempting to master the art of the perfect mixtape

I hit upon the plan of taping stuff off the radio onto 1/4", and then I could splice a not-talked-over beginning onto a not-talked-over ending.

Later, I worked out that I could extend or shorten tracks, particularly if I could get a tape of the instrumental version, using the same trick.

No-one uses tape and razors these days, but it was good fun.
You're not wrong about modern songs - but that's not really the use case for this tool:

A few days ago I was given the task of creating a corporate video - just a rolling slideshow for a shop-window display. Then suddenly it was going to go on YouTube as well - so needed some music! I found a suitable track but needed to edit it for length so its closing chord coincided with the credits card at the end of the video.

This tool might have saved me the bother of splicing the music in Audacity.
I thiiiink soft wrapping, but I'm not at my computer to verify.
Interesting. Is there any chance you would release this to run natively rather than as a web service?
> Imagine if we had a similar system for the departments of motor vehicles... pay 20% more but get it all done in minutes online instead of hours at the local office.

You don't have that? The only time I've ever had to visit a DMV office in the decade and a half was upon first moving to the state since they need to take a photo for the new ID and inspect the VIN number on the new registration. There was some sort of ticketing system so even when I got there without an appointment, I didn't have to stand in line long

The online stuff is usually cheaper since its all renewals.
I see an error saying "Remote media exceeds maximum duration" for this track that is 9:24 long: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7JG63IuaWs

I'm guessing that's the timeout?
It's also, as has been demonstrated, wildly impractical for Red Hat to continue exactly as before without others undermining its business.

The thing is that everybody is only lobbying Red Hat to make concessions, but nobody's going after Oracle or Rocky or Alma or other clones to say "hey, cool it. Red Hat's trying to keep a business going here. You're undermining their business. If you keep this up, they're going to make it harder for everybody to use a free RHEL for non-business situations."

The difference, too, is that I (probably) have a business relationship with Apple or Google if I'm complaining about their wares. When I complain about iOS or Android it's because I've purchased one of those phones (or want to) but it has a defect (in my opinion) or user-hostile anti-feature preventing me from getting the value I paid for.

This isn't that. This largely seems to be people who are not paying for RHEL demanding Red Hat allow them to continue not paying for it but receive its value.
And the prize for today's most egregiously-worded headline goes to...
It's known that iOS is the best platform to make money and targeting iOS makes more sense because of that. They probably have an idea of how much they're willing to spend to fight Apple on this because if they win it will be huge for them and they stand to make more than releasing on Android. This is also putting them directly into the news and will reach those Android people so it almost doubles as a genius marketing campaign to fight Apple. I highly doubt they see all this as a waste of money and time and I can see them fighting Apple until they are forced to release an Android app to recoup the money they've lost.

Android users are notorious for not spending money (IIRC Apple users spend double the amount of money on subscriptions vs Android users) and it's unlikely Android users would tip content creators, or even watch the content they're putting out there.
Inflation caused by the central bank that gives free money to the rich and makes classic investments in a safety account pay less than inflation.

Double whammy of screwing poor people with monetary policy.
Honestly the incredibly incorrect assumptions from the population bomb and that eras politicians horrifying responses have made me question our assumptions about climate change. Lessons from the past like Erlich’s mistakes can caution us against having too much hubris in these modern times about future predictions.
If the bank is not looking at whether the space is vacant or not, why would they look closely at what the rental price is if payments are being made?
Me too, I have a folder in my android called "breakthrough" and it has 20 applications, including Zoom, waze, Spotify, and so on... apparently, now, it should also include Google and maybe even the Settings :)
The depositors, were lied to about the safety of their funds. It was roughly fraud - it wasn't their fault - they didn't take excess risk.

How is it a bailout to let them keep their money? At best its an "internal banking restructuring in favor of the depositors".
> (for a reason I don't fully understand) landlords felt it better to have spaces remain vacant than to lower rents.

Commercial tenants tend to have very long term leases, order of 10+ years. So attracting a tenant through lower rents has a dramatic effect on the long-term cashflow of a building.

Imagine the salary of your next job determined your salary for the rest of your working life. Would you prefer to stay unemployed or accept a below-market salary?
They should do the job they get paid to do. Insisting we also adore them for it seems pretty precious. No one made them be a police. Barring the anomaly of the post sept-11 US it has always been an unpopular job.

The "risk their life for" thing I don't even want to get into but here we go. Most of the risk is the normal health damage and accident risk of being in a car all day, and it's comparably dangerous to other jobs where you're in a car all day. Statistically in a police encounter, the lives most at risk are any but the officers'. And were you not here for Uvalde or what?
A company in pre-seed phase has no history, so some of the other indicators of promise/trust don’t yet exist. It makes more sense for the first investor in a new company to spend some time to investigate the founders and/or the idea or market.

That, however, doesn’t mean that later or faster investment rounds are any more informed.
> To mask flawed turmeric, some processors began dusting the roots with lead chromate — an orange-yellow industrial pigment used to color plastics and furniture.
I understand in some places in Europe (for instance) the price on the shelf is the price including tax. This is not a hard problem to solve.

I think Sales tax for most things is probably the fairest means of taxation. It can be applied equally between the wealthy and the poor. It is applied when you choose to get something, rather than arbitrarily before or after. It tends to be applied evenly whether you're buying a box of chocolates or a flatscreen TV.
Hubris. It’s not a fault exclusive to whites. We favor the latest greatest “trust the science” of the moment over traditional but non-scientific (in our estimation) public policies. Expand your mind. There’s much more to learn from history than white peoples were racist. Of course they were. Hubris still exists and it’s better for you if you aren’t blind to it.
A good point.
Another point can be: A l-Daemon in this universe must know even about itself, being a part of the whole, creating a loop?

in ANY case, reality cannot do a replay. we cannot have twice the same universal configuration/conditions and compare evolution/results, so we don't know (for sure) if reality is ruled by a full deep determinism (quite probable, IMHO).

Who know if apparent 'randomness' of physics world is the ignorance of deeper causes. (J.L.Borges docet)

And maybe free-will for a finite system (a human being) is real/significative inside the boundaries of the complexity arising even in a full deterministic reality. More complex the system, more far-from-predictable the dynamics, even a fully causal/deterministic one. Being no super-predictor in pratice (and in theory), free-will is a condition quite significative. Our finite-nature grand it in a infinite universe..
Scala was the only time in the past decade I actually enjoyed programming, but it wasn’t a great idea to use for our relative large team as the amount of expression allowed comes at the expense of subjecting others to your mental model of how things should be done and having them spend undue time grokking it. I view this largely as a deficiency in style guidance, but Scala attracts very opinionated people in my experience and I say good luck to any style guide being upheld across a large org or team.

Kotlin has been nothing but great for me though. (Different company). It’s largely the best parts of Scala for me and without the headaches that come from some allowed patterns.
You're right as far as it comes to the prosecution itself. But there's additional value both to the FBI and to the public at large to determine the more general nature of the infractions. The FBI likely has enough information to infer if this was malicious or just acting outside of regulation out of carelessness/complacency/convenience.

The rest of us are left to conjecture and reading the tea leaves.
This isn’t true, you can’t deduct lost rent as an expense.
There are many of us that work with scientific instrumentation that has to retain compatibility with 5 volt logic levels. Many labs have equipment that is over 50 years old and which is still in use. Suppose you tell a scientist that they have to replace a working instrument built in the 1960s with a new one that costs over $250,000 only because it does not use 3.3 volt logic levels. They are going to laugh at you and say that they want to keep using the old instrument.

So having cheap and easily available electronics that can still interface with 5 volts can be very useful to some of us.
"if there are consequences" is begging the question.
TikTok turns to south-East Asia to drive growth
A bit late on the reply, but someone else mentioned observable HQ for lots of examples.

I found this YouTube video of someone walking through creating a bar chart helpful - the author explains as he goes:

https://youtu.be/BDpBAFvdjYo

Beyond that, copying and pasting working examples and trying to adjust them for your purposes works really well. I still don't fully understand the API but it doesn't seem to matter that much to start with - I'm still in the "monkey see, monkey do, monkey iterate" phase.
I doubt there was online self-service for the DMV in 1993 anywhere in the world.
People did build things like that a couple of times, but it’s probably telling that my last vague recollection of one is several US newspapers piling up on one of them because people used it to put mean and perhaps even hurtful things on pages of news websites (opt-in via a browser extension, mind you).
>>It is worth a reminder that a healthy human's emotions are calibrated to perform optimally in a <1,000 community stuck together for life with scarce food, no technology and opponents who are fought with sharp sticks and blunt stones.

Really though? Healthy human emotion state is still calibrated at the experience of several thousand years ago?

While I do agree that healthy state is NOT calibrated for our current rapidly-technologized environment, I'm not sure it's correct that it's still stuck in the stone age.

Happy to be proven wrong though if you've got something interesting to read on the topic!
> Security is a field related to protecting device-users from malicious actors.

This is one of many aspects of security-- perhaps what Google considers most important on Android, but surely you can imagine some scenarios which we care about which aren't about an end-user getting attacked.

(Indeed, sometimes security is all about protecting infrastructure, assets, or information from device users).

Besides, the third point that you cavalierly dismiss above:

> > 3) Given the embedded browser is not secure, if a lot of kids do this, it WILL lead to someone exploiting this, and machines being compromised and escalations

directly relates to even your limited notion of security.
It's been a pleasure working with you and the bytebeam team.
> I think about half of the RSS feeds I subscribe to are Atom-based.

Meaning, they have an `atom` namespace declaration? Because that's very common in RSS feeds, and is required for Podcast Standards Project-compliant feeds. Apple supports RSS feeds that use the `atom` namespace.
See also "Ground Turmeric as a Source of Lead Exposure in the United States": https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5415259/

The problem with lead in tumeric seems to extend beyond Bangladesh.
Times change. My child grew up (late completely bilingual in the language of his parents plus English (the primary language spoken where he mostly grew up, Silicon Valley).

But the "language of his parents": we didn't use the languages of both of my parents. In the 1960s Australia still had a "white" legal and social system and my mum quickly realised that the kids would use the languages spoken at home in public -- not a good idea!

Luckily I have at least one language in common with most of my relatives. But half the time that language is English.
Your factors are tech focused, but almost always what's more important: Are you working on the correct problem and do users care?
I'm acutely aware of it as a bike commuter. It has saved my neck on a few occasions in the past three years since I have adopted the assumption that everyone in a vehicle is intentionally trying to kill me.

It seems like it's a combo of impatience + lapses in attention more than anything else, but something has to be fueling it because it is consistently worse now than it has ever been in my 15 years of biking for transport. Pre-emptive braking with the right of way has saved my ass more times that I can count.
I wonder if this turmeric spread and was sold in the West. My mother recently started taking "golden turmeric" and insists that it's a cure for a lot of ills. Maybe that's true I don't know, she sent me some articles a couple years ago. It was clear that she was influenced by Facebook groups.

Hopefully the turmeric she takes is safe :(
Looks interesting. I would have liked to see more linkage between RVT and human visual cortex, they operate similarly to Event Cameras.

One of the related papers via the new tools on arxiv.

"Bio-inspired looming object detection using event-based cameras" https://core.ac.uk/display/289267311?source=2

Searching for papers on "event camera" and "visual cortex" leads to

"Event Camera Data Classification Using Spiking Networks with Spike-Timing-Dependent Plasticity " https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Event-Camera-Data-Clas...

https://www.connectedpapers.com/main/8a1c7387d7130394c7947b1...
I mean, looking at a site now that sells cryogenic freezers, only one model goes colder than -86C, and this was going down to less than -110C. this is expensive and specialized equipment. I understand not having a second one but they needed more safety and redundancy on this one.
> a problem is this conversation takes oxogen away from bigger issues

Is it? This doesn't seem like an obvious conclusion to me, and isn't this just another way to frame "zero sum" thinking? i.e. there's only so much oxygen, and it's better used over there on that other issue instead of here on this issue, with the implication being that using oxygen here detracts from other things over there.

Another way to frame this is that those other issues aren't seeing the desired progress for the same reasons these negative outcomes are starting to emerge: current strategy/tactics are not working effectively, and/or we aren't looking at a big enough picture. If this is true, conversations like this are necessary to address both, and to course correct as needed. A conversation about one should happen in the context of the bigger picture, and becomes a conversation about the other, raising awareness and moving the dialogue forward across both fronts.

I should be clear that I'm not taking a hard stance about this, but challenging the idea that we should steer clear of certain lines of discussion. I don't think we make progress until we expand our thinking to include an honest evaluation of actions taken and their effects (desired or otherwise), and narrowing the field of "acceptable" exploration seems like it can only be counterproductive.

> Do you know what the most popular source of news in this country is? Have you seen polling.

Not recently. What do you feel that these pieces of information indicate?
Another use I don't see mentioned yet is that they offer investors an uncorrelated source of returns from the main asset classes (stocks and bonds). According to Markowitz and modern portfolio theory, including such an asset in the portfolio will make it more efficient (better risk/return). Then, you can leverage the whole thing back up to the original level of risk and get higher returns. Also search for the modern re-branding of this concept known as "return stacking".