skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Freedom of speech shouldn't be freedom of hate speech.
If they are running on AWS (which it looks like they are), they aren’t going to be able to undercut AWS. For a retail user who doesn’t want to commit to RIs or have enough volume for an EDP, sure PS can be cheaper.

The value I found is being able to do multi-region read replicas with no compute overhead for lower traffic geos.

I like the idea of PS and have toyed around with the idea of migrating to it but there are some glaring issues I don’t want to deal with:

- no native way to export backups and avoid vendor lock in (or pay for the row reads to generate regular backups)

- contradictory cost model. Their pricing page reads “Every time a query retrieves a row from the database, it is counted as a row read. Every time a row is written to the database, it is counted as a row written.” while their docs state “Rows read is a measure of the work that the database engine does, not a measure of the number of rows returned. Every row read from a table during execution adds to the rows read count, regardless of how many rows are returned.”
It will be interesting what their Daily Average Use or Monthly Average Use looks like in a month. It's hard for successful firms to rediscover the skills needed to launch a new product that is not an offshoot or derivative of existing offerings. I think the more new competitors to Twitter that emerge the less likely it is than any gain critical mass to challenge as a viable replacement. But nothing lasts forever so it will be educational to watch.
Awesome, glad you enjoyed it and thanks for the feedback!
Elevating Tasks over Files in the Runme CLI
It would still make me uncomfortable that a 2nd exit or lack of indent would break my script. And it's less clear than an explicit marker
Dummies. In my country there is magic spell: "it's only for three minutes", in Italy they use "park anywhere" magic button (emergency lights). Don't believe there is nothing like this in US.
I did one of Heartbeast's courses. Can recommend.

He recently put out one for Godot 4 specifically.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8-JVjtJlIQ
> 15% average profit is usury by most definitions

Usury strictly refers to interest and has no bearing on the profit margin of a risky enterprise that deals in goods and services.

If my landscaper spends $5 in gasoline and an hour and a half to mow my lawn, where he values his own time at $20 an hour, his cost is $35. If he charges me $50 for this service, are you going to call that usurious?
Looking at the thread I don't think he objects to government ensuring clean water, but Democrats' taxing policies.
https://xkcd.com/1732/ does a good job of showing why it does not look like "just part of a cycle in the planet weather".

For a long time scale, a rapid warming is associated with a rapid increase in greenhouse gases. This causes ocean acidification. Ocean acidification leaves a clear record in the paleontological record. The last one which was comparable to what we're doing through now was https://www.britannica.com/science/Paleocene-Eocene-Thermal-... about 55 million years ago. And current projections for the speed and severity of acidification are worse. Which indicates that the warming that we are going through is also faster than that experienced at any point in the last 55 million years.
I think you're mistaking centrists for liberals.

Are you in a predominantly conservative area? A "red state"?

Or is your circle of friends in their late teens and 20s? Younger folks just don't vote as often as older.

In the circle of people I know, who are mostly actual liberals, and who are generally 40+, they've been very engaged and voting consistently.

Heck, even the conservative Republicans I know have been engaged and voting consistently for Democrats since Obama came on the scene. I do tend to hang around smart and educated individuals, and every ethical conservative at this point has defected to voting for Democrats for years now--at least since Trump won.
If by self-reinforcing you mean run-away then the math doesn't work out.

For nearly any Good / Service the price is not 100% labor.

This means that if a price index (PI) goes up 2% and that causes a 2% increase in labor prices those labor prices will have a <2% increase in that PI. Lets be generous and say it has a 1% increase in that PI. That 1% increase will cause a 0.5% increase in the next PI iteration and next time it's a .25% and will effectively become 0% as the number of iterations increases.

The fact that prices aren't 100% labor is also why when looking at minimum wage increases the cost of a good doesn't increase by the same amount that minimum wage does. i.e. increasing minimum wage 20% (historically) doesn't increase a PI by 20%.
Pascal's wager was stupid then and still is stupid.
The claim is that "the alternative to letting the price mechanism bring supply and demand into line is to rely on something worse, such as rationing or queues."

The way the system works is we assume a profit-maximization motive by actors, and nothing about that changed before or during the inflation, so it's obvious that something else is going on (i.e. fiscal stimulus during supply chain disruptions).
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They could be owned by the State as well.

And I would say, they could easily be owned by readers in a consumer-coop model. These work for many other industries, I don't see why it wouldn't work for newspapers.

I think most importantly, a lot of newspapers now a days are money losing businesses. But they provide political influence (local in most cases) so they're still useful for rich people to push certain agendas whereas genuine competitors just don't have the resources to maintain them.
So you want me to shut up just because I'm questioning common knowledge without being toxic to anyone?
Millions of internet pedants will leap at you for calling various American styles of pizza "pizza", since only the "traditional" Neapolitan/Roman style is "real" pizza (or a different internet pedant might declaim that only NY pizza is pizza). That standard honestly applied would preclude anything much farther back than 100 years.

Now, I tend to think those internet pedants are boring and obnoxious, but the entire reason we have to have a discussion about the "myth of the national dish" is because of people like them.

Once you decide that these things don't matter and food should just be enjoyed without caring about "authenticity" and that every tradition is only traditional in a certain context and time period, the whole idea of fighting about it kind of gets silly.
That's implying compelling speech which is not the discussion.
It seems the negotiations and previous history of transactions is what the court decided was most persuasive, but I'm surprised that a non-signed contract was considered signed with any sort of non-textual response.

Hypothetical response:
"Got the contract. Will send a signed copy ASAP!"

Did this accept and sign the contract? What if the sender of that text reads the contract before signing and realizes a mistake, misunderstanding, etc.? That seems to be the defense here, although they lost.
You may be able to (entirely legally) part out the sets on bricklink, buy the generic bricks from webrick, and buy the specific bricks from bricklink sellers. This will be substantially cheaper and it’s an onboard into non-Lego building bricks which have gotten really good in the last few years. The glut of vendors selling copied Lego sets has given the field a bad name, but the brick design is out of patent and there are many sellers designing their own sets as well as selling MOCs.
Click on the link, it's linked inside.
Does threads not use the same usernames as Instagram? Like if I sign up, using my instagram account it wouldn't be the same?
Cannabis is linked to mental illness
I can't imagine a more backwards decision than to have a waiting list to sign up for a social networking site.
> If climate change is not a thing or not man-made, the worst outcome would be missing a few percentage points of economic growth by unnecessarily restricting energy sources.

Don't forget about the benefits to average healthspan from not breathing in exhaust/coal fumes. And the unknown benefits from opening up a new technological frontier that has previously been closed off due to the high energy density of fossil fuels.
My ten year old son loves sci-fi. And, it sounds like many of Delany's stories deal with adult-ish subject matter (of a sexual nature). I know he has a complicated history as a gay man in America, and I'm interested in knowing if there are good stories for young adults? My son can handle complicated things, but as his dad I want to be cautious as well.
The article calls paperspace "a leading provider of cloud infrastructure as a service".

Does that mean they have/had lots of hardware investment? Or do they "just" offer a management layer based on other clouds?
>This article reveals that someone named Brian Spencer with, as they put it "his multiple engineering degrees, including a PhD from the University of Nebraska in engineering mechanics and publications galore".

Very likely he is the founder of SCC composites:

https://www.spencercomposites.com/wordpress/?p=261

which is specialized in (beside designing) manufacturing every kind of composite material products and hold a number of Patents, including a few related to "pressure vessels".

https://www.spencercomposites.com/wordpress/?page_id=17

At least on paper it seems like Spencer and SCC composites are qualified, so - even if they were evidently wrong - they know something about composites that you (and myself) don't know.

In my (very little and tangential) experience with composites, besides the relatively poor resistance to compression that you highlighted[1], I would mention the difficulties in manufacturing that can lead to a product that has poorer resistance than expected and in checking its structural integrity/resistance.

[1] but that not necessarily has been the root reason of the failure, possibly the structural calculations were fine but presurization/depressurization cycles were not taken properly into account or the actual hull had not detected structural defects
So many that would have been published in Japan but probably not the USA. Star Ocean, Xenogears, Suikoden, Vagrant Story, Breath of Fire, Dragon Warrior 7 or something, Brave Fencer, and adjacent ones like Parasite Even and even Bushido Blade. These are just off the top of my head.

> FF7 took it to the next level graphically but kept everything good about the gameplay

Respectfully disagree. FF7 is not an S-tier JRPG by any means. It was a regression from FF6 in that it was linear, had very 2D characters, inferior story and boss, and the fighting system was really basic and lame. But it turned a generation onto the genre and I played it recently and it has aged well in some ways. The Chocobo stuff was great and Golden Saucer for its time was amazing. So a good game but not a great one. Even in the list above quite a few are better. Xenogears in particular.

FF7 is iconic though and easily the most important game in the fanchise. Cloud is iconic even if he's sort of lame IMO.

> I feel like games haven't been as good since that era, but it's probably mostly me that has changed.

I'd agree that Ocarina of Time was probably the most anticipated game I've ever had. But modern games are amazing. They're just better in every way. I don't play nearly as much as I used to but games are just so refined and built on so many years of knowledge now.
I really like early returns for this reason.

if (someEdgeCase) {

return SpecialValue;

}

const normalCase = a + b ...

It allows you to drop a case from working memory as early as possible. I believe this would be a +1 in cyclomatic complexity, but it shouldn't be. Cyclomatic complexity is not the whole story (nor do I think it tries to be).
I'm just saying there are times where you may want the government to be able to express opinions....
These are private platforms. They can censor whatever speech they want. They decide whether to listen to big bad government with an axe over its head or simply get their head cut off, right? I mean, they could have just chosen to be crushed with legal battles from the government, right? Free speech and free will in America, right?
Unfortunatelly the baseband is not controlled by GrapheneOS
Just a reminder that Hitler and Stalin would be so jealous at the amount of power these governments have compared to them:

1. Force twitter, fb, blah blah to shadowban anyone that criticizes their lies

2. Backdoor any device made by Google, Apple, etc.

3. Warrantless wiretap

4. Shove out more lies and goto step 1.
I've only read Dhalgren, which I have extremely mixed feelings on.

The hazy liminal atmosphere and writing was impressive and moving. The people were generally shallow or neutral, but the main character was very difficult to appreciate and was borderline repulsive (not the sex, but the person and sometimes the vivid descriptions of his putrescence).

I was interrupted about 50 pages from the end (of like 800 total), and never bothered to finish it.

...

Any recommendations on another book from Delany?
You're not concerned about how having such a large percentage of population becoming basically useless due to psychological problems can trouble the future of mankind?

I have not seen any evidence of a "large percentage of the population becoming useless" due to fear of climate change.

Can you provide a citation?

I have seen people with a basic background concern about climate change, and some people have more of it than others, but I don't see a "large percentage" of people becoming useless.

People have lots of fears. Some even more more pressing than climate change. Human beings are able to handle and process many different fears of varying intensities simultaneously, and have for thousands of years.

I have also not seen any information that the psychological fear of climate change is worse than actual climate change. One provokes level of fear in a subset of the population. The other will kill us all.

Perhaps the best way to fix those psychological fears in people is to fix the climate so they don't have to worry about it?
A simpler explanation of 'greedflation' is simply that the lack of actual competition by market leaders in most consumer goods markets has lead to massive profits and higher prices, without increased wages.

"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good" - a fantastic quote from a fun movie, but it can in fact be true too. If we use greed as a means to drive competitors in a market, competing against each other, resulting in them creatively undercutting one another, driving down prices so that they can sell the most, then the consumer wins out.

But that isn't happening anymore.

The largest corporations in each market have gained dominance through mergers, acquisitions, etc. They can reduce their own costs because of their massive scale, more than anyone newcomer can. The result is less and less competition for even basic things like groceries. Here in Canada, there are dozens of different grocery store brands- and they're all owned by 3 companies, giving the illusion of choice.

If there were lots of competing retailers for common goods, they'd also be competing for labour, offering better salaries and benefits to their employees, which would help alleviate the cost of living crisis we're in now. But that isn't happening either, again because there's fewer and fewer companies to work for.

All the while, the leaders of the world's large corporations are taking hundreds of millions of dollars in salaries, and giving their shareholders billions in profits.

"You don't need a formal conspiracy when interests converge. These people went to the same universities and fraternities. They're on the same boards of directors. They go to the same country clubs. They have like interests. They don't need to call a meeting. They know what's good for them." - George Carlin[0]

When you have a situation like this, it is, in my view, the role of government to step in and break up these companies.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAFd4FdbJxs
I second this suggestion. I tested numerous Python tools to extract text - nothing matches Tika for general extraction of just about any data format.

However - if you can expect a certain format beforehand - then Python is better since you can extract higher-quality data (tables, lists) with the appropriate tool.
YouTrack kind of has support for that https://www.jetbrains.com/help/youtrack/server/Workflow-One-... and I thought they muted the notification email for the comment, but I couldn't find any evidence to support my recollection. Similarly, I thought they had a whole series of "low value comment" handlers but also similarly I wasn't able to find any evidence of my hallucination
Wage-price spirals only happen when business owners refuse to adjust down their operating margins and instead pass the increased payroll costs on to their customers. Too much economic value is accruing to capital and not enough to labor. This is what needs to change.
Everything you describe works well for estimating tasks that can be automated.

If you’re doing that kind of work, your employer will be happy to replace you with an AI system.
With the reasons you listed why you'd want to become a manager, be careful what you wish for
It shows a blank page on Firefox, though displays as it should on Edge/Chrome. I guess they simply haven't considered deploying for non-Chromium engines yet.
That means they control how much heat you get. Otherwise, they would always run in a more efficient/lower-energy demand mode... think about it.
Switch to Microsoft? OneNote's entire file format is built to enable live collaboration. Their apps may be a bit clunky but they work.
He is a blasphemer I say throw the book at him, preferably a big thick one with a hardcover, perhaps a corner will catch him in the eye.
The best government is efficient government, whatever the size it needs to be to efficiently and successfully accomplish the tasks it has been given by its citizens.
Yes, it's on its way.
Is this version having c++ support? Is development using c++ really viable in Godot?

Why did they have to invent GDScript? Is there any reason why they could not have chosen a existing language?
One of the design goals of Discourse was that it should work well on mobile phones. I guess most other forum software is either from the time of before widespread smartphone use or it doesn't consider mobile users. With that being said, I actually don't like discourse's UI and prefer more classical forums like PHPbb.
Do implied threats count as coercion? Does a threatening tone? Does someone in a position of power making demands they don't actually have the power to enforce count as coercion? I don't know. The judge seems to think they do.
Which restrictions are you cool with?
"Should we stop developing Terraria or should we port it to a new console and add some new stuff to make another bucket of guaranteed money"?
What do you mean "going to become"?

I mean, not to just be a jerk or trot out a tired cliche for the heck of it, the "internet" - particularly the web - has, IMO / IME, massively degraded in the past 5 - 7 years. And, unsurprisingly (given the nature of these sorts of processes, looked at either from a more "naive" statistical / distributional POV, or more mechanistically), the rate of degradation is swiftly / noticeably accelerating (i.e., d^2/dx^2 >> 0).

The flood of "AI" BS is just about the most apropos way to continue what's already in motion. A way that could hardly be more perfect - LLMs and the like can work 24/7/365 recursing infinitely until there's no information content left at all, just a "gray goo".

The dark hilarity of our "intelligence" is endlessly amusing to me (yet another stupid human).
I was just discussing using timestamps or not on digital signatures. I guess we'll go with likes now.
I've always wondered how much of the success of the PS1 could be attributed to the fact that games could be basically free because of the CD/DVD medium instead of cartridges, which required more dedicated hardware to make "backups".
I'll admit that seeing they are single-homed is sketchier than I assumed Fastmail's infrastructure was. I've been using Fastmail for years and I like them, but they are clearly big enough to have a second transit provider, and have been for many years. I'm amazed it took an outage for them to decide to get one. I appreciate the post-mortem but I felt better before I had read it.
I advised people I know not to buy non stick pans for a very long time. It's not an easy task though
A warrant can be "on demand" within minutes if you can get a judge to pick up his phone.
And a history of similar negotiations being honored and fulfilled by the farmer/seller meaning the buyer could reasonably expect the contract had been agreed to as it had in the past.
Well, sure, but more often than not, when someone on HN gives a URL to support some point, the URL ends up not actually supporting the point. I'm curious why people do that. Why did you do it?
Totally natural. In a capitalist society, money is consent. I don’t like it, but that’s how this society is setup.
Over the last several years I've made a habit of downloading PDF manuals for many things I own and saving them in a Google Drive folder for safe-keeping.

You never know when you need one until you do and it's a nightmare if you lost it!
My major problem with Joplin is the lack of a native client for Apple Silicon, otherwise it's great. I know you can run it with Rosetta but it's performance and load time is terrible.
The problem is, that it still requires an address (be it tor or IP). Even if you run the script locally, there is still a need to communicate input and output. So people can just ddos that page.

Works great for combating human spam though. You tend to behave better if your login took half a day to get and expires quickly when not used. Plus build in cool down time after getting banned.
“Indian food” itself is a major generalization given its variety of regional cuisines. You can say the same thing about Italian food.

In this case, people’s preconceptions are typically just ill-informed.
This is not talking about "regular old citizens". This is the government and the government has power. Your comment is basically a Straw man.
consider currying, exploit symmetry, or exhaust cases
If I search for your quotation — "worst case of environmental terrorism in modern history" — Google only surfaces this thread. Whose assessment were you citing, and what did they actually say?
Yes anything type of acknowledge that is reasonable can be viewed as agreement in Canada under law but to prove it, if there is a dispute, it is best to have it in some reproducible form.

For a contract you need an exhchange of value in both directions and an agreement. It can be completely verbal and enforceable if you can prove that both parties knowingly and reasonably consented to it.

I think the requirements for consent go up as the agreement becomes more exploitive/one sided though.
Interesting and lovely to hear they decided to use Django. What is your source, though?
They don't even have the dotcom?
Agree, Twitter is a sinking ship and Meta is there to gain users.
Pointing out historically demonstrable facts isn't bias.
What I meant is that a lot of rich people support more re-distributive economic policies, like high marginal taxes and expansion of welfare.
> Surely, clean water—something we all need—should be an apolitical bipartisan issue, right? ...right?

Unless there's a way to get very rich from doing it, it won't get done in the contemporary US.
So that's why my droplet increased costs by 50% last year.
Circles were so close to what I wanted, but still not quite there. I want to be able to say "these are the people who would probably like to see this post", which Circles let me do, but then it went farther and wouldn't allow others to see the post. There was no way to make the post public but tell the platform that the post was aimed at the Circle.