skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does indeed, but there is a salient difference: I have no influence over the economic policies of the countries from which cruise ships draw their labor forces. If I did, you would be absolutely correct that I would not have any claim to the moral high ground. But I don't, so AFAICT giving them money is the best I can do under the circumstances. If you have a better idea, I'm all ears.

I would also point out that this kind of "exploitation" seems empirically to be effective at lifting large numbers of people out of poverty. It's far from ideal, but it nonetheless produces better outcomes than anything else that has been tried.
The transparent parallelism makes it an amazing fit for pretty much anything and everything that doesn't require minimum system resources and microsecond-level of response times.

1. Web apps work awesomely because they tolerate sudden bursts of load much, much better than Rails. Rails deployments regularly fall over on bursty workloads unless complex load-balancing setups have been put in front of them.

2. Which brings me to: operations / infra story is much simpler, and it is thus cheaper and easier to maintain Elixir apps, even when they span multiple nodes (because Erlang's builtin mechanism to do mesh networking / distribution works well enough for 99% of the projects out there).

3. Complex service trees f.ex. scrapers that also present their data in a visual CMS backoffice UI and background tasks infrastructure -- all of that can live on literally the same node, share the same code repo and be very easy to manage and maintain as a result.

4. Oh, that also reminds me: almost anything and everything you would need Redis for, you can have it natively with Erlang/Elixir.

5. Corollary to point 3: long-lived daemons that are not even web apps / APIs work really well under Elixir due to the supervision tree guarantees of Erlang's underlying OTP framework. If you configure it well (the defaults are not always optimal) you can have your invisible mesh of services survive extended outages of the 3rd party APIs it depends on.

6. In the last years, LiveView and Livebooks are amazing additions that help severely reduce the need of JS and provide an alternative to Jupyter Notebooks, respectively. Though it has to be said that LiveView works best when the latencies to the backend aren't too big, say, 200ms or less. Beyond one certain human perception threshold it starts to feel sluggish however.

I could go on and on and give plenty of examples from my career. I've replaced a lot of shell scripts and PHP / Python / JS services with Elixir, and each migration was a crushing success in every way. We're talking 15+ such projects. Only 1-2 of them got back to their original language simply because the companies / teams were too risk-averse and didn't want to hire Elixir devs (or train their current people). But the network effects are always a chicken-and-egg problem; if people never want to bet something on the tech then it obviously is never going to be appealing to them.

There are many who made the plunge though and are happy with the results.
> corrugated cardboard is made of paper, not an entirely different material; recycling cardboard is recycling paper

Did you actually bother to read what I wrote in my various comments? Much of it was devoted to explaining the difference in what it meant and when people say paper compared to what they mean when people say cardboard. Why do you think I talked about boards and chairs?

> at this point i'm starting to question whether you've actually seen a piece of cardboard at some point or whether you're a large language model

I could say the same for you, given your inability to follow what has been said across even a handful of replies.

> certainly it is not the case that something that is commonly recycled will be scavenged for profit in all cases. even gold sometimes escapes recycling

Which also wasn't my point. My point, again and put bluntly, is that some materials may exist in a space where it's not profitable enough to harvest for an individual but they are still recycled either because of subsidies or because efficiencies of scale can be brought to bear by a larger organization, or the combination of the two (subsidies for larger regional trash pickup companies that can also bring economies of scale to bear) which mean a material is recycled, even if not profitable for the common person. Another example would be items that are unlawful to discard of in the trash. There are various chemicals and materials that it's unlawful to dispose of in the trash in the U.S. (motor oil), meaning those items are taken to a recycling and/or disposal center even if there's no payment for doing so.

It's not about it escaping recycling because people miss it, it's about how both economies of scale and subsidies and laws that all go into whether something is recycled which affect that calculus beyond just whether it's profitable, and thus something being commonly recycled is not necessarily an indicator that it's lucrative enough to do so that the material will be harvested by people for profit.
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Where I previously worked we used Elixir as the backend for a early-stage social app.

We only really encountered the lack-of-libraries issue a single time (we needed a Neo4j driver that supported their hosting platform).

But aside from that, Elixir was a great choice and served us well. When our app went semi-viral all we needed to do was increase our instance size in AWS, never really needed to worry about horizontal scaling thankfully.

Our app also needed a lot of realtime messaging and updates, which was genuinely a breeze with Phoenix. I don’t think I could ever to back to trying to finagle a websocket API in Python.
The Kievan Rus is the mythical birthplace of the Russian people. Afghanistan on the other hand… has some nice mountains, I guess?
Humans having to do drudgery in service of AI is not exactly the vision I was presented.
Yes, I'll add these to the list of other languages. Thanks for the feedback
i thought centralized economies were communist?
Not a good thing when doing load-testing and DNS resolution rate-limiting silently fails.
I found on arch linux, LXD is a pretty great option for running VMs (--vm option) without root, being able to immediately execute commands or get a console, and is a good qemu-based alternative to virtual-box-focused Vagrant.

```

lxc launch ubuntu ubuntu-vm --vm -c security.secureboot=false

lxc exec ubuntu-vm -- /bin/bash

```
I don't get saying that is has legs and body like a dachshund and then conclude that its not the body of a hunting dog. Dachhunds whole layout is how it is to facilitate hunting.
Python remains a mess for these use cases because it does not have packages.

It has a very specific filesystem layout that it calls a package, but this is not a first class citizen; it has a packaging format called "wheel" that is now used for distribution, and that can contain native libraries. That currently mostly handles the distribution of compiled libraries for multiple platforms, but only within the traditional venv-style setup. Being able to ship interpreter+venv+launcher would go a long way towards providing a native-ish experience.

A step beyond that would be being able to distribute a "virtual filesystem" containing a whole tree of python compiled as .pyc, appended to a native executable containing the interpreter and linked against the required native libraries already.
Let's assume this is confirmed and that tomorrow an inhibitor that also works is found. How many decades from now until one can go to the doctor and get the inhibitor prescribed? Any bets?
You had to buy a whole Windows computer to use IE.
Replace all your competent sysadmins with even more expensive cloud architects!
Nintendo Switch Has Shipped 129.53MM Units; Tears of the Kingdom at 18.51MM
> The Business version starts at $31 per user, per month. For that, you get a 4GB Azure VM with 128GB of storage, along with Microsoft 365 apps, Outlook, and OneDrive. Personally, that's too lightweight for me — the next step up, with 8GB of RAM for $41, sounds much more practical.

You're not going to be running too many Electron-based apps with 8GB, or any with 4GB.

Is there a gaming edition that actually uses local hardware? We've seen time and time again that the latency is a non-starter for gaming, and Windows is strong there. If MS wants to throw that out, so be it. Save us, Gaben!
We are looking into some sort of support system. Once our new website is out there will be more info on that.

You can also email us info@polars.tech to get more info now.
Mogan Editor v1.1.4 released [TeXmacs fork]
> (2) The Immigration System: that simultaneously enables BigAg to procure cheap migrant labor and can be weaponized to prevent that same migrant labor from organizing for or demanding humane working conditions.

The Jungle all over again ... apparently not much has changed in ~100 years. Fascinating.
That number is higher now. $351,000 for physicians across the board, $382,000+ for specialists.

Source: https://www.whitecoatinvestor.com/how-much-do-doctors-make/ (actually a MedScape survey, but that requires a login, so I found this which summarizes the survey).
Yeah, apologies. Wasn't expecting nearly this much traffic. Have made it more robust so it should be running faster than ever now, but let me know if any issues
"The first created .net domain name is nordu.net. It was created on 1 January 1985"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.net
"grad school"
SpaceX Starship launch dumped sand across South Texas, researchers say
> I am not an American. But how many 78 year olds are working at missile defense companies as engineers?

It kind of makes sense. A lot of military equipment is old. The front-line US land based nuclear missile entered service in the early 60s. If you got an old guy around from the early days, he might be valuable for filling in gaps in knowledge even if he's doing little else.

Though I'd expect that military and defense contractors are a lot better at documenting important decisions and reasoning than the typical half-ass private corporation.
Cool, thank you! Do you know if iOS falls back to the local DNS if necessary, e.g. if a visited Wi-Fi blocks a given DoH?
Not a starship
I don't remember last time I read about malicious code found on an app here:
forum.f-droid.org/
Code is available, and license allow the project to distribute them.
I think WhatsApp or Telegram check the boxes of your proposed MVP. Or Skype. Or any other VoIP service, frankly. Discord? Matrix? E-mail link to a Jitsi Meet call?

The problem with the legacy phone system is that everybody uses it and it's hard to get off of it. I think more and more people rarely ever use it though, except as “dumb pipe” for data.
I never heard about class generators before, could someone please point me to some resources to learn more about it?
They worked the same year 15 times, or maybe the same two months 90 times.
Yes, indeed. You are correct.
You should see the cartel Monsanto has on agriculture

This is just one more reason we should push for sustainable farming, including meat products.

livestock naturally bring nitrogen and other nutrients back into the soil when grazing. Then use that land to grow plants, move the animals where plants pulled the nutrients from the soil, rinse and repeat.

Also reduces the need for harmful fertilizers that impact the ecosystem
Do you have any particular studies you could reference for the connection between schizophrenia and EMF?
I think the key thing you're missing here is that they were talking about behavior as the number of flips goes to infinity. That long improbable upper end becomes more and more improbable over time. As time goes to infinity, the probability of being in it goes to 0. With a finite population, everyone is ruined.

I ran the same simulation as you. After 100 iterations, the richest one had $71. After another 1,000 iterations, the richest one had $78 (of a total $133). After another 10,000 iterations, the richest one had 10^-165 dollars. They were still an extreme outlier with 95% of the total wealth, but he had almost nothing.
Even if you identified the mushroom species, sometimes that is not enough to know whether it is safe to eat. The same species can be edible (perhaps after some soaking) or dangerously poisonous depending on the geographic area where it grew.
Use pihole and a recursive dns (unbound). Here is a guide:

https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns/unbound/
Depends what poster above did. If they are just monitoring something at constant rate "just" low jitter" is enough.

No idea if ESP32 DMA engine can do it but common trick to get either constant rate input or output was just setting DMA engine to copy data from/to IO port to/from memory at constant rate.

I remember someone using it to drive some ridiculus number of RGB LEDs by basically using DMA to bitbang multiple chains of them at once

But yeah, using a simpler MCU as basically IO co-processor is usually simpler. I wish there was some kind of low pin bus that allowed to say directly map a part of memory to the chip on other side, akin to what RDMA does.
Believe me, things whole thing is wild to someone who worked for one of the big healthcare 'cartel' for a very long time. It's tragic, and it's by design.

And the CMS 9915-F isn't going to fix this problem.
Same. This is about meat, although since a lot of our land is used to grow feed for livestock, subsidies for plant agriculture are indirectly subsidizing inefficient animal agriculture.
You have forgotten fusion. Ignition was less than 12 months ago.
Before Maya there was Power Animator from Alias|Wavefront :)
Microsoft's CBL-Mariner 2.0 Linux Distribution Adds Clippy
I was really interested in the figure that shows prices going up while input costs decrease. But this doesn’t reflect all inputs just the price of meat procured. There are many other input costs, mostly labor.

So this diagram is really frustrating as it makes me want to reach a conclusion (wtf, what an unnatural difference) without giving me enough information to know anything.

It would be like showing that household grocery costs decreased while disposable income decreased and then writing an article about the relationship between those two while not revealing that rent increased at the same time.

In general, I don’t know if they answer properly if profits increased because of inflation or if inflation increased because of inflation. Since the cartel existed before the shift, I would like to know what they think made companies suddenly get greedier.
James Webb Telescope images show death throes of distant star
we aren’t disagreeing.

thinking isn’t always smart. being a cog isn’t always dumb.

sometimes the smartest thing to do is understand how a system is built and accept that until you understand it, you should learn about it. as a cog.
"They were afraid to turn off or reboot the DEC Vax for fear that if the disks stopped spinning they wouldn't start again. I saw it once at the retirement ceremony and it didn't look like a server but more like a set of industrial washer and driers. The users transferred files using the Kermit protocol and printed locally by a telnet client that could understand the special characters that redirected character output from the terminal to a lineprinter."
I'm sorry, there's simply no world in which switching to the cloud, and serverless to boot, results in a 70% cost reduction unless you so grossly over-provisioned your on-prem infrastructure that whoever architected it should no longer be employed. Cloud infrastructure is more expensive across the board, full stop. Unless you're using hollywood math to claim millions in "efficiency gains" I don't buy it.
I would frame this as:

1. Make sure there's always a trap-door where you can implement special cases

2. A good way to always have (or to create) a trap door is to compose out of smaller pieces; then if you need something to be different in one case you just "reassemble it" with pieces added, removed, or rearranged

In the author's case, maybe CRUDController's key pillars of functionality could be broken out, still bundled together as CRUDController for normal cases, but then for special cases they could just assemble custom solutions out of those pieces instead of bending CRUDController into shape
Average and median are different.
What is it about the funding environment that makes VCs suddenly willing to fund companies built around open source python libraries? They generally aren't beating the AI drum, but are they benefiting by proximity to AI via python?
Nix-Darwin and/or Home Manager on macOS can provide a nice, slow way to transition into the Nix world as well, for folks who are hesitant to jump in with NixOS and like to have other options around. There's even a very nice Homebrew module for Nix-Darwin to let you manage Homebrew from Nix if you want to Nixify without giving up Homebrew!

It doesn't feel nearly as 'safe' as NixOS, in that OS upgrades are less predictable and can break a lot of things (not limited to Nix). But all-in-all, it's really not bad, and for some use cases it might be better.
Far more trustworthy than google or apple. I've never seen reports of Vodafone or whatever blocking a number because of some nebulous reason (unlike say through a court order), but it's so common for apple and google that someone tried setting up a startup to fix the problem [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36899787
Well, that's not much of a rebuttal of concerns, and as I'm not in the field I don't have suggestions.
> And yet the main reason Elon is famous and rich and owns Twitter is because he is a very successful communicator and Twitter's most adept user.

The dude also has Asperger's.

And personally, when I'm getting stuff done I don't really care about punctuation and spelling in the email I send to the VPs saying I got the system backonline and saved $10M in billing for the month.

> I think you will find that the people who work at Ford are, by and large, "car guys" (/gals/thems).

My meeetings with major OEMs in the US has sadly been the opposite. All the car enthusiasts were replaced with Marketing people long, long ago (which again emphasizes my point that actually doing is much more important than marketing that doing)
Median is an average, just like the mode, arithmetic mean, geometric mean, harmonic mean, etc., are, even though most of the time when “average” is used without specifying which one, its actually the arithmetic mean.
(I have edited to flesh these out a bit more, but have stopped since there is a reply)

I've kinda waffled in my opinion of outsourcing through the years, but one issue I keep coming back to is that you can trivially view it as massive, intentional wage suppression.

"It's cheaper to live there" yeah, I wonder why that might be. The numerous unbelievably wealthy global companies all doing this in the same very specific areas surely have the area's best interests at heart, and want to raise its standard of living, so it must be something else.

"No education required" because they don't have enough to fund education or provide alternatives that could let them fight back on this exploitation.

And it also provides leverage for suppressing wages elsewhere, because companies can always just offshore work that their peons are demanding fair wages for.

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And, yes, it also brings a lot of outside wealth into those areas. At high human cost, but still.

idk. I do find myself leaning more and more towards it being almost universally a bad thing though. Particularly when they keep saying it's a highly exploitative thing, when they manage to bust through to international news.
Forget government force, I am talking about industry standards and defaults. People have RedHat, Apple and others for distributing stable app and service versions with operating systems. Same principle should apply to package managers. How can a low-level package break or poison 40,000 other repos overnight?

This culture of Tweeting at 5 am to 5 million people before the truth has a chance to get its pants on is defended in the name of “freedom of speech”, but I much prefer the peer review gated approach of science. Not one monopoly gatekeeper but at least 2 reputable ones, before your OS or package manager allows the download (but users can override it if they insist). I think rpm and yum do that..
Where've you been the past 13 years?
If your domain is

domain-with-âççéñþß.com

Could you register the punycode variant?

xn--domain-with-ss-mhb4fa0b6kuk.com
I assumed the graphite was for longevity: it does not fade while vegetable based inks do. It's also less subject to running when wet. But I'm not sure where you could (or would want to) use that to test authenticity...
I have actually heard a similar thing when having my head on my pillow with my phone on my mattress. Is yours a spring mattress? Im curious if that could contribute
What's your business model? Contract development of features? Paid support? Paid-only features?
It’s not empowering when I accidentally tap an address while driving and my iPhone sends me to the App Store to download Maps instead of recognizing that Maps has failed me too many times and I want to use google maps which is already open…
While Ted Codd is no longer around, Chris Date is, and even he has admitted the original "academic" notion of what constitutes a proper relational domain in SQL was incomplete/flawed.

I can't recommend this presentation enough with regard to modern relational design:

https://youtu.be/swR33jIhW8Q
It most definetly is.

And given that Kenya's Gini coefficient is 51.3, that means the median Kenyan household is earning less than $145/month, which only shows that Sama is paying competitively at the national level.
PyInstaller bundles native dependencies just fine. Well, for Windows and macOS at least, never packaged as “native app” for Linux.
In the cold fusion experiments, they were measuring an exess of heat. That's very difficult to measure, and some noise or experimental error can confuse the people.

No one measured a huge flow of neutrons, that were expected to be generated by the fusion and are more easy to distingish from noise.
Now pages are wonderful!

[0] https://nownownow.com

Here's mine:

[1] https://taylor.town/now
Fair.

On the other hand, didn't he start the whole thing after getting kicked out of Mozilla?
100K is very cold. But if this result pans out, it's a very good thing for the possibility that LK99 really is an RTAPS.

There are a lot of explanations as to why they might not see bulk superconductivity at room temp - impurities in the sample (or the impurities being the SC) being the big one.

If LK99 is a superconductor at all, but not a RTAPS, it would be quite strange for the South Korean team to have made a mistake. It's quite difficult to accidentally cool something down to 100K, and if they were just getting false positives on their testing for superconductivity, it would be a massive coincidence that it happened to actually be one at 100K.

We're also seeing a lot of videos that show strong diamagnetism - this doesn't mean it's a superconductor, but all superconductors are perfect diamagnets. We have some unverified videos that seem to show things beyond just diamagnetism, with the material being stable in suspension over a single magnet, which a regular diamagnetic material cannot do. These pieces of material are too small to have been cooled down to 100K and stay there for the duration shown, as well as no frost appearing, etc., which would be quite difficult at that temperature in an environment with any humidity.

I think the bigger concern is around whether or not this is a valid result at all - the Real Deal scientists discussing it seem to have mixed thoughts there, particularly around the noise floor of the instrumentation equipment, etc. Some say that that doesn't matter, others say that it does, particularly since we don't see the kind of on/off drop you would in other superconductors, etc.

At worst, this replication attempt's result is from a misunderstanding of how their equipment works in this condition. At best it provides evidence in favor of LK99 being an RTAPS.