skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I also agree the lifetime pass was a bad business move.

As someone with a lifetime PlexPass, I also think it's a terrible move. I'm starting to regret signing up with a company that allows that sort of purchase. It underlies all of the problems I have with Plex.

Lifetime membership sounds great, but it changes the nature of my relationship with Plex. If I pay a subscription I'm a customer; I use their services but I pay more in a subscription than I cost them, everyone is happy with the arrangement. But while I'm coasting off of my $79 Lifetime Plex Pass that I bought years ago I'm not a customer, I don't represent a revenue stream, I represent a growing cost.

I've paid for them to provide a service, but I've also incentivized them to change the service in a way that I use it less, because me using the service costs them money. That dynamic explains the problems I have with Plex. It explains why they're seemingly incapable (unwilling) to fix long standing bugs, and it explains the development of features that their base doesn't want (because Live TV, rental, and gaming represent new markets with new potential subscribers)
I live in the Netherlands, what is an easy (but accurate) way to test my water (including for PFAS)?
That doesn't mean it's good for you. I agree with the labeling of it as a neurotoxin, whether or not the rubber meets the pavement at a psychological level. There are better ways of calming for the vast majority of people than satisfying a sweet tooth so often. For one thing it can reduce the overall satisfaction of eating sweet things, through the law of diminishing returns.
Not the best choice of language.

They meant to say "Men of conscription age, hence most software developers ..."
Telefonica in Germany is sunsetting MMS end of this year (sending and receiving).
Ask HN: Real world specifications for Project-Based Learning?
Hey HN folks,

I'm reaching out because I've hit a bit of a wall and I reckon a few brains from this crowd might have the insight I need.

I've always been a big believer in learning by doing - give me a real-world problem and a keyboard and I'll bash away at it until I get the thing working. But I've been finding that in my day job, I don't often get the chance to really experiment. Business needs and project timelines get in the way.

So here's what I'm thinking. I want to dive into a few short-term, project-based learning adventures where I get to be the architect, the engineer, the QA... you get the idea. I don't want to start a new business or anything - just want to get my hands dirty and build something from the ground up.

What I'm hunting for are some solid software system specifications. The kind of thing you might get from a client or stakeholder that has enough detail to get going but leaves room for you to make some design and implementation choices. Basically, I want to flex some creative muscle, test out new architectural patterns, and make my own mistakes - and learn from them - along the way.

If you know of any resources, repos, websites, books - anything where I could get my hands on something like this, I'd be super grateful for the heads up. And if you've done something similar, I'd love to hear about your experiences and what you learned along the way.

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts and ideas, and diving into this new challenge.
It isn't script kiddie level but it isn't hard I finetuned a 15B parameter reddit bot with an afternoon of time and a day of training on a 3090. Bot got a few thousand Karma in a couple of days before I turned it off (proof of concept done).

If all you have is an M1 or whatever, ya, you need a real workstation and depending on your use ChatGPT might be cheaper/better.
I know nothing about your situation but please keep in mind that you COULD recover part of your brain capabilities so don't lose hope. Hope for the best, plan for the worse.
Fire fighting foam is, surprisingly, one of the main ways pfas are spread. Recent majority report episode on the topic:

https://majorityreportradio.com/2023/06/23/6-23-casual-frida...
Notifications / step counting / long battery life: the Pebble watch fit that bill perfectly.
I Built a Weird Keyboard
I just released a important Apollo update
That is fair, though not a negative for many. Clojure prefers immutable data structures and functional constructs. Rich Hickey even wishes that he added fewer OOP constructs in the language (such as structs) and leaned more heavily on Clojure rooted functional concepts like 'transducers' which came later in the life of the language.
TypeScript as a job skill for web work.

Rust because it’s the other language I see most often see coders learn to build their own apps. It has a good reputation for developer experience, security and speed.

I’ve heard enthusiasm for lisp-based languages for a couple decades and don’t doubt the merits of Racket.
At work I switched from the Outlook client app to the web version as soon as we migrated our email from on-prem Exchange to MS365 (cloud hosted).

Specifically, I get my email at outlook.office.com. Works great in Safari and Chrome on Mac.

Searching old emails is way faster and easier in the web version. It takes up no space on my machine, and there are not thousands of potentially sensitive emails sitting on the hard drive of a laptop I carry around. Way better all around.

I also run Teams in a Chrome tab instead of the Mac app. It runs way more efficiently that way for some reason.
Event-driven architecture best practices for databases and files
It's interesting to imagine how different the narrative might be if he'd been equally convinced the sub was safe but just didn't happen to be on that particular mission by sheer luck.
It's absolutely a gamble, and I hope that everyone entering the field is aware of that.

> I admire them for it, tbh.

Why? It's just rolling the dice. I don't see how it deserves admiration (nor does it deserve condemnation).
De Biesbosch is a tidal wetland, it's both upstream and downstream of Dordrecht.
> Racket does not consider itself a Scheme any longer, iirc.

Racket (the language) itself is no longer a Scheme, strictly speaking, but still feels generally "schemey" in the broad scheme of lisps. However, Racket (the software package) does ship with a Scheme or two, namely R5RS and R6RS.
I'm talking about the constituents who actually believe that the reason not to adopt nationalized healthcare is because the gov would screw it up.
Strong worded posts like this always make me a bit worried when they come from a player denegrating their competitors.

If I summarize, the point of this blog post is that these solutions don't apply to every use case.

I find it ironic coming from a payments solution, whose solution probably don't apply to every use case.
Sadly none of them operating in Germany and/or don't have open roles.

I assumed so as well. I thought it would be an easy task to get a job in that sector, you know how it is as a SE. But it turns out a lot of those companies either do some form of (non-technical) consulting or offer actual physical products.
You don't need a guy doing backend stuff for tasks that a shopify page can solve.
He wonders because there’s been systemic sustained racial discrimination for the benefit of people of his race.

It’s one of the insidious and corrosive ways affirmative action undermines the accomplishments of its potential beneficiaries.
Do you believe a RDBMS can be faster than NoSQL LMDB?
LMDB is a very fast NoSQL Database, then can a relational database be faster than LMDB? Here comes the new CrossDB and the benchmark is not to compete the features but the performance.
That sounds really incredible, a 89 year old getting a new life insurance plan? Can you link to one of the providers?
Or before!
Happiest Baby on the Block
I think universities can probably come up with a different set of non-protected criteria to lift underrepresented communities out of social/financial oppression. This might even provide greater access to some equally needing students that are looked over by racially-based criteria. In a perfect world, everyone would have equal opportunity and support throughout their primary education, and college admission could be much more merit-based. Unfortunately, that is not the country we live in and there is little appetite to invest in ensuring all Americans have access to high-quality primary education.
Back when I was in school, in the U.K., my password contained a ‘£’. This was fine for logging into Windows or Outlook etc, however the printers required you enter your password and only had a US keyboard layout - so that was fun.
What also changed was the timing of the decision, see O'Connor's "25 years" comment
It seems this will end quotas, but it seemed like there would always be workarounds or proxies admissions (especially deep pocketed ones) could use to meet their goals that they were not using.

(I realize quotas were suppose to be illegal too, but obviously there’s some race based formula that these places has implemented)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IARC_group_2B

I read through this list before when I was talking to a conspiracy theorist about 5G. Radio frequencies are on this list. As are caffeic acid (found in coffee, wine, mint), aloe vera and pickled vegetables.
> You've literally managed to find the most insignificant thing to worry about in existence.

* in your opinion, in your circumstances, for your usage patterns.
Maybe as a result OpenAI will have to publish how they trained and what data was exactly used.
I tend to agree with you, but I also recognize I could be unrealistically optimistic. This is the legal system we're talking about. I wouldn't expect every court case to be decided fairly, nor would I expect any new laws and regulations to necessarily be sensible. Frankly my biggest worry at this point is that regulatory capture from the first mover AI companies will stop me from purchasing more than one GPU.

I'm not too worried about copyright issues because regardless of whatever happens with upcoming case law and legislation, any regulation against the input data will be totally unenforceable. It's nearly impossible to detect whether or not an LLM was trained on some corpus of data (although maybe there is some "trap street" equivalent that could retroactively catch an LLM trained on data it wasn't allowed to read). And even if the weights of a model are found to be in violation of some copyright, it's still not enforceable to forbid them, because they're just a bag of numbers that can be torrented and used to surreptitiously power all sorts of black boxes. That's why I'm much more worried about legislative restrictions on hardware purchases.
Clojure is a multi-hosted language. Clean native interop would be nice to have I agree though.
NixOS and My Descent into Insanity
I guess you know how bad your concussion was and its prognosis, but having post-concussive symptoms that last <= 18 months is not uncommon. I'm not even sure that the post-concussive symptoms are directly related to prognosis. I understand however what you do post concussion can affect how quickly you recover, so hopefully that's something you're considering.

You may be "less intelligent" for now in a performative sense, but you're probably not less intelligent substantially. If I don't sleep, I am "less intelligent". If I'm angry, I'm "less intelligent", and so on. Intelligence is mediated and presently you are temporarily suffering some persistent mediators.

A-levels are significantly harder than GCSEs. You may be partly misattributing the difficulty to your concussion due to a coincidence in timing. Similarly, your coding ambititions may have leveled up. Sometimes when you level up you have to grind for a while before you get good enough to do what you want: this could be another thing you are partly misattributing to your injury.

As others have stated, take fewer A-Levels or take a break. If you take 3 years to do your A-levels instead of 2, its not a big deal. If you are an "eyes on the prize" sort of chap, it may be a mode you'd benefit from postponing for a while. Being goal driven can play terribly with significant unexpected impediments.

I'd add lastly that its good to have ambitions like "get into Oxbridge": shoot for the stars, and all that. However, bare in mind that you cannot get in by just getting good grades -- even if you got straight As. There has never been more straight A students in the UK, and Oxbridge is always over subscribed, so if that is something contributing to the stress of all this, I'd suggest speaking with people familiar with the internals of the entry process, they are not difficult to find.
Couldn’t you have used the forgotten password flow?
Latency isn't just a static number bolted on to baseline performance. While it may intuitively feel correct to say "if distance adds 100ms to every request, then a website with 200ms baseline performance would be 33% slower, but a website with 5000ms baseline performance would only be 2% slower"; its not. Its additive. A typical website like reddit will require hundreds if not thousands of requests to prop up the home page; many of these requests cascade in batches, their inputs being dependent on the output of the other; so, adding on 100ms to every request can very realistically mean the addition of 1-2s of load time, on a site that's already slow because its poorly engineered.

There are newer web technologies and methodologies to help get around some of these problems that request cascades have. React itself, on the other hand, in how it loads children, then children of children, oftentimes conditionally based on data availability, has made the problem worse. There's also CDNs, and more recently, edge-local compute like CF Workers. The emergence of all of these technologies to help triage the problems geographic centrality in service deployments creates should be all the evidence you need to change your mind that this is a real problem.

But, it will remain a problem, because much like passwords to passkeys: It takes a very long time to clear out the calcification that's been built up in our human and computer systems. Not only does it require a shift in how we think about systems design; it requires convincing people like you that this is, in fact, a problem; people who may have not left town for years, not experienced the internet from the other side of the globe. Ashburn VA is ~2500 miles from the west coast of the US; ~4000 miles from Europe, Hawaii, or Alaska; and ~11,000 miles from Perth, Australia or Jakarta. Yes; the US is that large, and the world is that large; your experience in Europe is barely different than what a person living in California would experience, on a site that centralizes itself in us-east-1. There's a lot more distance to cover once you move out of the West.
Sorry, I was being a little flip. There's more to it than that, of course. Is the performance sufficiently transformative, is it educational, is it non-profit, etc.
MPT 30B inference code using CPU
Some spam is just thrown away, not put into your Spam folder, so there's some lost opportunity to disagree (and it's hard to judge whether you would have without seeing the spam).

Also, GMail is no longer good at detecting spam. It consistently puts my phone bill into spam, as well as other repeat emails I've marked as not spam. More importantly, I get bursts of actual, obvious spam in my inbox at least twice a month, possibly more often. Maybe Google has just given up and some other anti-spam system is better.
Are these not covered in uBlock?
The Nothing phone cost $50M+ before it was even made [video]
I would like to point out that any discrimination based on race (and thus affirmative action) is forbidden by law in lots of other countries, for example Germany.
What I don’t understand is why the Electron-based desktop application is so bad, but the web client isn’t. Somehow they can make a usable web app but their all-webview client is trash.
Principles of Paranoid Design – Open-Source Semiconductor Design Automation
My point is that you have to separate the method for collecting the data versus the usage of the data as separate legal questions. Scraping is legal. What you do with the data that you scrap though is a whole other question.

To put it another way, it's legal for me to go to the library and borrow a DVD or a book or poems. That doesn't give me the right to publish the poems again under my own name. Whether I find the poems from scraping, borrowing the book from a library, or even just reading it off of a wall I don't get ownership rights to that data.

The same logic applies to a lot of other laws around data. If you collect data on individuals there are a bunch of laws that come up around it, and many of them don't really concern themselves with how you got the data so much as how you use it. The fact that it was scraped doesn't grant any special legal rights.
After the flood:
Genesis 9:2-6 NIV
[2] The fear and dread of you will fall on all the beasts of the earth, and on all the birds in the sky, on every creature that moves along the ground, and on all the fish in the sea; they are given into your hands. [3] Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything. [4] “But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it. [5] And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. And from each human being, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of another human being. [6] “Whoever sheds human blood, by humans shall their blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made mankind.
Perl is super-specialized at reporting (that's in fact the "r" in Perl). In particular there's a bunch of extremely useful implicitly defined variables that take their context from your place in a line-by-line loop through a text file.
Station transformers are usually out in the open, because airflow for cooling is critical. Nuclear power plants have lots of very big transformers that aren't under concrete roofs.
It’s actually sodium nitrite that’s carcinogenic (after being exposed to high heat), and I can find bacon without sodium nitrite here pretty much at every grocery store.
Formal verification is very cool and definitely has its uses (https://www.sigops.org/s/conferences/sosp/2009/papers/klein-...). From what I heard at least some chip manufacturers do formal verification of their chip designs.

But I don't think it scales to general-purpose programming. Most of the easy-to-verify conditions could (and should) be checked by asserts and unit tests. But there's a whole layer of complexity on top of that and in my experience it accounts for the bigger share of bugs.
To play devil's advocate: why should I care what immigrants my government is desperate to have? My government would probably love to deport me, a native-born citizen with disabilities. I'm not as valuable as a H1-B AI developer. So by this logic, what right do I have to stay here?
Welcome to the Big Blimp Boom
I often wished universities (and other organizations) would use a scoresheet-like "matrix of oppression" to determine someone's background difficulties.

Like okay, you get X points if you're this race, Y points for that. Z points if your parents were poor. Or if you grew up in these bad zip codes. Or if your dad was gone and mom was an addict. Whatever.

As an Asian American of relatively privileged (middle class) upbringing who went to a state college, I often found it unfair that many of my desperately poor white peers worked their asses off their whole lives, despite minimal support from their parents, to get into college on merit alone. Meanwhile for me, my admissions counselor handwaved away all the entrance requirements (my GPA was low, I didn't have the pre reqs done, etc.) and admitted me on the spot. Years later I'd find out that I was part of their zip code based recruiting program designed to get non whites into the school for the benefit of their diversity quotas. In California they already weren't allowed to use affirmative action due to Prop 209, so they just used a geographical proxy for race (finding zip codes with high non white ratios to recruit from).

I didn't deserve that spot at all. I never worked for it, I never suffered for it, my parents didn't much either. I just happened to benefit from policies meant to protect Black and Hispanic people, at their expense, while simultaneously throwing white people under the bus. It was pretty unfair all around.

I get that as a society we want to help give people a chance to escape the circumstances of their birth. But skin color alone is an awfully broad brush that paints only a vague picture of who that person is and what kind of adversity they may or may not have overcome. I wish we looked at it with more nuance is all I'm saying.
There's a lot of "blank slate" thinking and "meritocracy" is now bad.
Wow, not really sure where the hostility is coming from. I'm literally asking for suggestion/motivations/reasons to pay because I feel like it is something I want but I need help getting over the hump of paying for search. I also outlined that I didn't experience an increase in quality and posited that I might be using it wrong or not taking full advantage.

> You've literally managed to find the most insignificant thing to worry about in existence.

It's clearly not "insignificant" since others here have voiced the same concern or annoyance. I think we have enough research/studies to show that metering/limiting has an effect on how people use something even if the overage fee is low.

I used the trial and I wasn't sold on it, I was asking for people to tell me how they get value out of it, you're doing literally the opposite and being a jerk about it. If anything your comment makes me want to just forget about Kagi.
Even better, discharge your waste somewhere then make it a national park :
https://www.calanques-parcnational.fr/en/waste-discharge-sea...
Last I checked I can legally enter any bookstore with copyrighted books, pick up a book, and read it. And then tell anyone what I read.

I can't go write and commercialize what I learnt directly, but I'm not breaking the law by quickly seeing how some book I didn't buy ends so I can talk about it at a party - and then everyone knows how it ends which might affect whether they want to buy said book and upset the author. But, tough shit, what I did was legal. I can even use the ending as one set of input from dozens of inspirations for my own book where the end result is transformative enough where the sources are unrecognizable. And if I had learnt about the endings from a dozen books without buying those books I didn't break any laws even though I am now commercializing something in being inspired by them all to make something new.
Would it not be sufficient to angle the panels to 90 degrees so that they're sitting vertical instead of angled
to the sun. That would at least minimize the surface are exposed to the falling hail (unless it's really falling at an angle).

I'm guessing the top edges of the panels are (or could be made) strong enough to handle a direct hit.

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What advantage does offering a FOSS based phone offer them?
It’s kind of hidden at the end of the article, but if these numbers were considered fine in 2020, it’s a bit backwards to blame them for keeping to the original limit now that someone adjusted the numbers.

Even if they don’t release any more PFAS than acceptable under the new standards that won’t clear up the earlier pollution.

And I sorta agree that making people attentive to the fact their water is now at dangerous levels due to a fuckup by whoever set the 2020 levels is not the factories’ responsibility.