skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a not so glowy opinion of Dell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go5tLO6ipxw&t=37s

TL; DW: LTT bought computers on the phone secret-shopper style and Dell was forcing them the extended/on-site warranty, despite the shopper saying no many times the Dell rep still put these things in the order and charged them for it.
that is a totally different kind of event, it was not a spontaneous event among people who a day earlier didn't know each other and without any apparent cause. The Jonestown massacre was an intentional, orchestrated event among leaders of a cult and its victims were people who had gone through a substantial cult mind control process for months or years beforehand. There were also people who were murdered in connection with the same event including a US congressman.

in short, the Jonestown massacre was an organized mass murder that had nothing to do with mass psychogenic illness, as the mechanisms of cult mind control have been studied and documented for decades and are well understood.
I only hear people lionizing it. What were the rough parts?
If:

- Your father became rich as an inventor, creating wonderful gadgets which improved the world

- My father was a warlord

- My father murdered your father, and stole $1M from him;

- invested it; and as a result

- my family now has $1B

- your family is deeply in poverty

You're poor, uneducated, and hungry. I'm at Harvard, have a trust fund, and in connected political circles. I haven't done anything wrong myself, but I did inherit blood money.

What should happen?

It's not obvious.

Great-great-grandfather?

On the Scotland point, all I can say is that it's more complicated than you present. I did NOT present a narrative of either Scotland as subservient to England, and my exact phrasing was that it has a "mixed history with England." I stand by that. I don't think "equally complicit" is any more accurate than "subservient." The last Scottish independence vote was a 45/55 split.

As for "current citizens," you can look up more recent colonial issues, like the Mau Mau Rebellion.
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A rare lucid moment for The Atlantic. It feels like there's a group that wants humanity to be living matrix style in pods for fear of disease and carbon emissions, doing only the basic necessities to stay alive as long as possible, regardless of how horrible a life that creates. This is exactly why technocracy doesn't work, technocrats only know how to optimize within the confines of their narrow speciality. Health officials should have no say over how people choose to live.
> You can do the job of a $50,000 pickup using a machine that is half the size of a Honda Civic

You can't, though: “half-ton” pickups start much lower than $50k and near universally have a 1,500+ lb cargo capacity (the half-ton designation is historical and almost never actually meant what it seems to, quater-ton is even worse.)

Seems more competitive with the $27K Hyundai Santa Cruz, with similar cargo capacity (by weight), 40 MPG mileage, US new vehicle standards compliance, but trading off a shorter bed length for a second row of seating.
This is an excellent article (unfortunately somewhat rare on Amazon's blog)!

I'd never heard of Massey’s method for ranking before. It seems to have been an honor's project!

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/84482244.pdf is a good overview and extension which includes a comparison to ELO.
https://archive.is/yaBeL
A quick Google shows that only 15 states have vehicle inspections. The concept seems completely foreign (and a waste of time?) to me.
It's a topic I'm already intimately familiar with, enough that I'm quite comfortable being the evaluator here.

And he did a very good job.
That's a really good point I once accidentally wandered into something like this because I saw hordes of kids my age going into a convention center so I slipped in. It was absolutely insane and there were 1000s of teenagers, all speaking in tongues and falling on the floor rolling around. People walked around splashing water and a "the preacher" was in the boom of like a power company truck and he was flying over the crowd while the truck drove around and people threw money at it. There were several cars with hydraulics bouncing in the crowd as well. It was completely nuts, then later I talked to some of the kids that were there and they said that it was their first time speaking in tongues and they didn't really remember everything that was going on.
reader mode ftw
So VC is Bhrama and PE is Shiva. One monetized building and another the deconstruction. If you're mad at just the destroying entity you're missing the point. The rot of PE stems from the same incentives of VC from where I sit and see.
Totally agree, which is why I wanted to build a config directory to find good examples of code http://neovimcraft.com/c/index.html
There is a mod board to fix the clock speeds. https://youtu.be/lDO-ZFbzKp4
DCE/RPC is basis for DCOM as well.

And honestly, Profinet is one of the best fieldbuses out there (DCE is used in the setup phase, afterwards it's pretty much always raw ethernet though there's UDP mode documented somewhere).
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Sure, but literally everything they're looking at is classified capability or may include classified capability. They don't have permission to just post a hot-take on Twitter, and definitely don't have permission to unilaterally release supporting data.

All of that has to run through the chain of command and declassification process.
I’m sorry, what’s TBL?

And when you refer to Roy Fielding, do you mean REST is much better than CORBA/DCOM/etc.? On REST, all I can say is that while it’s okay, I’ve been using GraphQL pretty much exclusively for the last year, and it’s been quite superior to REST.
If indeed the researchers did conceal that the subjects had other exposure to asbestos, that would be pretty bad? As we've seen in a number of other recent cases research is by no means free of malfeasance. Even research performed to some statistical standard may fall far short of truly indicating a casual link.

These researchers have gained materially from the output of their research (expert witnesses do not testify for free). Of course if the lawsuit is baseless then it is an evil distraction but the mere act of suing researchers is not, on its face, a problem.
> Why no audiobooks?

They allow mp3s so you could still have audiobooks.
But that's routine healthcare for one particular part of the body. Meaning it could be true for general health.

In the US dental is considered a seperate insurance for most. So there's a separation for whatever reason meaning using it to disprove the demographic theory for "regular" healthcare might be valid
Xquery, for me, was and remains a core tool for dealing with XML specifications of surreal complexity that verge on madness. BaseX is the "Microsoft Access" xquery application, while eXist is sort of like a full framework, with package management, deployment, and that sort of thing. Other query languages might be more cutting edge, but they either 1) have a lot of stuff I don't need, or, more likely, 2) require a more permissive InfoSec setup than I am typically allowed. "Docker and any other form of virtualization are not permitted on ANY company network regardless of circumstances". Well, ok then.

Generally the next stop after xquery, for me, is text mining, either on R+Python or on Orange ML. If a miner doesn't cut it, then LLM shenanigans.

Also, xpath? It's pretty great. XQuery? Does the job. XSLT? Ok, so NOW that's the feeling of a panic attack. I've been doing XSLT for literal decades, and I still don't know what I'm doing when wrenching on a giant pile of FOP generating funhouse madness. When I am tagged into a data transformation job, I always stress that xquery is the right tool, rather than a confounding nested directory of XSLT using different parsers and different passes like a figure-8 interstate off-ramp. For FOP, though, there's really just one game in town for that. Although, having said that, me and a bunch of others are doing our damndest to show that what you're trying to do with XSLT/FO can be done way way way easier with CSS and Paged Media (either via Paged.js or Vivliostyle or any of the other zillion PMM implementations). The downside is you have to wrench some CSS yourself, but honestly, that's probably going to be easier than wrenching on DocBook-XSL or the DITA-OT or one of the MIL-STD XSL packages.
I’d really prefer not to kill anybody else I’m sharing the road with, all else equal. It would be quite traumatic for that persons family and for me too.
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> Whether this is true in every country I don't know, but it's certainly not an inevitability.

Australia has pretty terrible health care in many of its rural areas, and Australia's governments (both state/territory and federal) are clearly guilty of major policy failures in rural/remote healthcare provision.

But even supposing they did a much better job, even supposing they did the best job humanly possible – you are still going to get higher mortality and morbidity somewhere like Ivanhoe [0] – a town of less than 300 people, 800 km by road west of Sydney – than in the Sydney metro area. It is just the inevitable tyranny of distance. Far Western NSW simply doesn't have the necessary population to sustain the most advanced health care facilities (tertiary/quaternary), and the inescapable physical delays in getting to them (even using air evacuation) is going to cause deaths and clinically inferior outcomes.

Now of course, England is geographically a much smaller country than Australia – England has over twice Australia's population in less than 2% of the area. However, even in England, I would be surprised if the impact of geography on mortality and morbidity completely disappeared – inevitably, even if the NHS were the best health system humanly possible (and it obviously isn't), someone who lives in central London is going to have faster access to the most advanced healthcare than someone who lives in Penzance, [1] – and there are going to be times when that difference makes a real impact to mortality and morbidity.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivanhoe,_New_South_Wales

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penzance
Not a particularly nuanced take there - my road legal '250W' e-bike in New Zealand provides electric assist up to 45 km/h, which lets me keep-up with & over/undertake traffic in my dense city. Definitely doesn't feel suicidal, rather practical actually (especially compared to my 60+ km/h hill bomb commute on my previous vintage non-electric bike).
Tim Berners-Lee

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee
Driving in the US is such a nightmare because everyone seems to think it’s their own video game and where they are the main character avoiding cops and NPCs.
Because most semantics manifest through syntax. Syntax is how the programmer communicates their intent and gets access to the semantics of the underlying system.

A contrived case is the construction and use of lists built of CONS cells in lisp style languages. You can certainly do this in most any language, but creating CONS cells readily without something like an S-expression would be tedious and awkward indeed, to the point that folks would drift to something else more naturally represented in their language than something based on CONS cells.
The GP I was responding to did actually allude to a future of inevitable climate issues and species collapse.

For me the fact that the planet will love on regardless is a sign of optimism though, not doomsday apocalypse or some kind of perverse nihilism. It's like looking up at the stars, it reminds me of how small we are and that we're just a part of history rather than the start and end of it.
I've just pushed an initial build with a tag for PostgreSQL 15:

pgautoupgrade/pgautoupgrade:15-alpine3.8-v1

The "-v1" text fragment on the end is a version number because I'm still improving the scripting for the upgrade part. So that'll likely increment over time (-v2, -v3, -v4, etc) until it stabilises.
Austral has been looking good to me as a potential "rust-lite". It's still in the very early stages though.
A few years ago, I was trying to get my website faster than average and gave OpenLiteSpeed a chance and with its caching system, it turned out to be the best choice. It does run on WordPress and I also chose the most minimal theme I could find and built it with inspiration from the old Medium.com (no sidebar) with a central focal content point and Craigslist (black text, white background).

When I first started... it was just a blog for people to come and complain about their bosses, co-workers, jobs, life... and I would even interview them and write their stories for them, but has since evolved into much more than that... with unique content about jobs, careers, and the workplace, and everything in between. I was never short of any stories myself, having worked for tyrant bosses and supervisors... its probably how I was able to keep my jobs for so long... instead of having an outburst at work, I'd come home and turn it into a story and publish it on my website.

And as it turns out... too many people could relate to my stories which is what kept attracting more and more visitors to the site, which is receiving around 2 million visits a month or a few thousand unique visitors per day. Been running it for over a decade now. Every time I was about ready to give it up and quit... I'd get emails of people praising the website and sending me their articles and stories to add to it, and the emails have never stopped. And I am not complaining. It keeps me going! I created it to stay connected to my passion: organizational-industrial social pyschology or human psychology in the workplace.

GTMetrix seems to like it...
https://cdn.confessionsoftheprofessions.com/media/2023/07/gt...

Google Page Speed Insights, not so much:
https://cdn.confessionsoftheprofessions.com/media/2023/07/go...

If you'd like to visit it yourself:
https://confessionsoftheprofessions.com/
Custom LLM—hence the self-hostability.
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It's diffcult to do this in countries where one or more political parties use "personal freedom" as a theme.

The UK does have a sugar tax that was implemented 5 years ago that seems to have some good effects

https://www.wcrf.org/looking-back-at-5-years-of-the-uk-soft-...

The problem is any regulation is an opportunity for those who don't like the government to attack the other side.
You mention self hosting the model. Do you have the model weights up on HuggingFace?
This truck seems to have most of the desirable Kei truck qualities (besides price) but it’s an EV with modern features.

https://www.telotrucks.com/
That's great, think about it...

Let's say I have a Collection and want to do IO within that collection... If IOException was a runtime exception I could just write that code without handling it and an unsuspecting user of my new IOCollection would suddenly get an IOException. That means I need to explicitly deal with it in my class and can't add a serious exception to the behavior of the class.

Yes, it can still throw a runtime exception which is why the separation of the two is so important.

OTOH we have InputStream and OutputStream. Both throw an IOException for all their methods. So if I have one of them I should always handle the exception which is always the right thing to do...

But you might say, wait... What if I have a theoretical InputStream that will never throw an IOException?

Don't fret, we have that. It's called a ByteArrayInputStream and works roughly like this:

ByteArrayInputStream bos = new ByteArrayInputStream(new byte[100]);
int value = bos.read();

Notice I didn't use try and catch. Why? Because neither the constructor nor the read method throw an IOException which is legal in Javas polymorphism implementation. However, the following code won't compile without a catch exactly because I need to handle IOException for the generic case:

InputStream bos = new ByteArrayInputStream(new byte[100]);
int value = bos.read();
Yup, and yet the thousands who will read the CNN article (ok let’s be serious, they just skim the headline) about the WHO version will “tsk tsk” at me and say “You know that stuff gives you cancer,” while ingesting dozens of supplements that haven’t even been tested for safety because they’re unregulated.
Unfortunately not. Certificate Transparency in this case wouldn’t provide any real benefit.

If your private key is compromised then any access the key provides is also compromised. The main problem here is that the key was able to be used outside of its intended scope and that MS don’t seem to have the systems in place to detect inappropriate key use in a proactive manner
I lived up the top of a big hill which used to be grueling climb on my old non-electric bike. Now with the e-bike, I have the choice of taking it slow and not having to put in much effort, or I put in lots of effort but I'll be going twice as fast compared to my old bike and can carry a load of groceries in my panniers.

Essentially, it becomes a choice whether or not you want to use it as workout.
Reduce the friction between podcast listener and podcast host. Improve the podcast listener community.
Having used all three myself I bounced off VS Code hard because getting a usable Ruby setup with all the fixings like irb integration and sorbet ls was multiple days of frustration and still not working right compared to it just working out or the box with Doom Emacs. What’s the happy path that made VS Code work so well for you? I’m curious in case I did it wrong.
The philosophy has an impact in the mental model and the learnability of the mathematical theories. Technically you could learn and use the mathematics without knowing the philosophy behind it but in practice almost nobody does that.

It's like knowing design patterns in OO: it's ultimately all software right? But software exists first in the mind of the programmer, and what's written in the IDE is just a shadow of what the programmer imagined. This makes one appreciate the point that there are things in software that exists entirely inside our heads
> Yeah but the point is that the vast majority of people buying full sized pickup trucks aren't actually using them for practical purposes,

If they aren't, you can replace them with a cheaper, safer, more fuel efficient vehicle that meets US safety standards and is easier to maintain and register than a Kei, and probably at a comparable or far cheaper initial price than the Kei.

If they are using it for a practical purpose, you can't replace it with a Kei.

Either way, a Kei is probably the wrong choice for most US buyers.

(There are newer import-legal minitrucks that don't have the registration hassles, like Nissan Clipper, which makes the range of situations where the Kei makes a lot of sense outside of particular brand attachment even narrower.)
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I mean it's clearly not working.

There's nothing wrong with it being legal to shuffle assets among subsidiaries, as long as the veil is trivial to pierce when needed.
> But then there is still Korea and possibly Japan.

If china becomes that aggressive that they are in open war with Taiwan, Korea and Japan won't be an option either.
In fact in my experience switching to DFS 5GHz channels would already make things much better. Many cheap access points don't support them at all.
India’s poverty problems are leagues worse than the US in the 60’s. The 60’s were literally the decade of “sex, drugs, rock ‘n roll”. The post war economy meant the majority of people could afford to buy a house, car, and raise a family.

Meanwhile, a large portion of India doesn’t even have potable water.

Try harder.
This seems tangential to the article, but I'll engage with it anyway.

> It feels like there's a group that wants humanity to be living matrix style in pods for fear of disease and carbon emissions

This group is so small, it essentially doesn't exist. Nearly 100% of people are not extremists on either of these issues.

> regardless of how horrible a life that creates

Reasonable precautions from disease and reducing carbon emissions don't create a horrible life. The pandemic was a less-than-once-in-a-generation exception, not a common occurrence.

> Health officials should have no say over how people choose to live

As long as people want fellow citizens to give them a safety net for their mistakes, their fellow citizens should get to impose harm-reduction measures on them.

For example, if someone on a motorcycle chooses not to wear a helmet and not to have health insurance, they could incur millions of dollars of costs that their other people have to pay for. It's reasonable, then, to force people to wear motorcycle helmets.

I'm all for letting people choose how to live, as long as they give up the privileges that come with it. For health, that would mean:

- no Medicare/Medicaid

- no emergency medical care until it's determined that they can pay for it

- no publicly-funded investigation of their death if/when they die

- no usage of public wheelchair ramps or other accommodations for people with disabilities

I'm missing things, but you get the point. If people want to opt out of public health and safety, they should have to opt all the way out. "Libertarians" want to have the freedom to shoot themselves in the foot and have other people subsidize the surgery.
Hard one to decide though the researchers did profit nicely and they are not naming their patients name. Are they real patients and if so J&J does should have the right to research their health records.

Overall Where there's money to be made there usually is shenanigans. That's goes for both sides.
Isn't that a problem with OmniORB and no CORBA?
Consider my statement amended to "in San Francisco" wherever required.
Related: 2bit Astrophotography with the Game Boy Camera¹, which features a few surprisingly large accompanying photos.

¹ https://pietrow.net/astrogb.html
the fatigue from video calls is a major reason why i prefer working in the office
This is also interesting:

> Moline published an article in 2019 studying 33 patients who said their only exposure to asbestos came from talc products, and Emory, Kradin and Maddox followed up with a 2020 study of 75 similar patients.

> All four doctors have provided expert testimony in lawsuits against J&J, and their research has been cited in lawsuits where they have not testified, according to the complaints.

> LTL said the researchers concealed the fact that some or all of the patients involved in their studies had been exposed to asbestos from other sources.

If the only thing they used to exclude non-talc exposures was asking the study participants, that seems pretty weak science. And their income depended on not digging too deeply for other exposures.
When you have a substance that is labeled "For External Use Only" and it's used in a way that manages to pack large quantities, asbestos or not, deeply into internal organs, then perhaps adverse effects can be expected.

"Junk science" is a charitable description of what was perpetrated in those studies.
Scratching the surface on talc, it's difficult to determine what should/should-not be done.

Cancer.org has a page on talc[0] and from it:

> Studies of personal use of talcum powder have had mixed results, although there is some suggestion of a possible increase in ovarian cancer risk. There is very little evidence at this time that any other forms of cancer are linked with consumer use of talcum powder.

> Until more information is available, people who are concerned about possible links between talcum powder and cancer may choose to avoid or limit their use of consumer products that contain it.

Seems like more studies are needed for the consumer level.

[0] https://www.cancer.org/cancer/risk-prevention/chemicals/talc...
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