skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're one of the few people here I've generally respected and you're better than this. You're just repeating the ISPs' rhetoric here without thinking about it critically.

Consider: what incentive do ISPs have to hide municipal taxes? Why would they do that? Wouldn't it behoove them to advertise these taxes to consumers so that consumers know it's not them adding this cost? There's obviously going to be very little cost simply reporting these taxes given they already have to calculate them to pay them.

The obvious answer is that, maybe this happens occasionally, but the majority of these fees aren't what you're describing: this is just a foil that ISPs are using to cover up their own greed.

> It should be the responsibility of public bodies that levy fees to make sure that people are made aware of the nature of those fees. The ISPs aren't responsible for this stuff, and shouldn't be asked to do more work to further conceal decisions our elected officials are making for us.

How does this make sense, given that ISPs are lobbying to be allowed to continue concealing these supposed decisions?
> I can type on a 25-year-old iMac USB keyboard attached to a 2023 Mac Mini with no adapters! What stunning longevity.

The keyboard is fine though laptop-sized with cramped arrow keys, but the original revision iMac puck mouse is a famous case of form over function. It's not actually as bad as its reputation suggests, but Apple still silently admitted to the flawed design by adding a little centered dimple to the butan on the later five-colors version https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockey_puck_mouse

“There's no reason that the Macintosh won't be an absolutely perfect gaming platform for anything that you wanna do. […] The only thing that you wanna do with a Mac as a serious gamer — you wanna pull out the silly one-button mouse and plug in a three-button mouse pretty quick, but aside from that…” — John Carmack, 1999 https://youtu.be/XzbFgzgy1mc?t=4791
The iMac and the return of Jobs really felt like a fresh new start for Apple at the time.

However, after a while the design language was picked up by other brands ... and you could see translucent and coloured plastic on pretty much all types of products for a while: from PCs to home electronics to toilet paper holders, and by then it started to feel a little tacky.
My least favorite Excel-ism is when it changes correct dates to american dates.

https://xkcd.com/1179/
What happens if you include AGPL code into your commercial product assuming copyright laws exists:

* you must give source code (to the software users, not necessarily to anyone)

* receivers of software gain rights to modify it (because AGPL says so)

* receivers of software gain rights to further distribute it with or without modifications (because AGPL says so)

What happens in the previous scenario without copyright law:

* receivers of software can modify it (because copyright law doesn't prevent it)

* receivers of software can further distribute it (because copyright law doesn't prevent it)

Even more so the same happens automatically if you don't include AGPL code.

That's 2/3 things which copyleft code grants not being necessary because there is nothing preventing it. Sure not having the source code and having to reverse engineer things to modify them takes more effort. But large portion of software is closed source anyway, reality is that in many case GPL type licenses instead of increasing amount of open source software simply prevents its usage in the commercial software. The current trend with programming languages is going for higher level ones which are much easier to reverse engineer or require barely any reverse engineering. There are also plenty examples where copyright law get's used to prevent doing anything near the product containing closed source software not even directly modifying the software in situations where people are willing to spend the effort for creating new software or do the reverse engineering. Stuff like John Deer preventing repairs because you own the tractor but not the software. Cricut (vinyl cutter maker) preventing creation of third party desktop software for using their hardware because that would somehow violate copyrights of their firmware.

Preventing commercial software from using open source libraries isn't the goal of Free Software. It's a middle finger for copyright law doing the same in opposite direction.

The idea is that benefits of being able to freely modify and distribute any software might be might outweigh the few cases where software vendor decided instead of not using the GPL library to make their whole software open source.

We can only speculate how it would play out in long term. Would more commercial software be written using C++ instead of javascript and electron? Would more software be server side only? Would obfuscation be more widely used? Or would everyone accept that that's the norm, which wouldn't be that different from how things were in the early days of computers.

I don't doubt that if copyright was suddenly one day canceled companies would use every possibility to claw back privileges they had before. Once something is given it's hard to take away.
How typical to blame it on the devs instead of leadership.
This type of marketing by deception is absolute anathema to me.

People will "dig deeper" because you tricked then into thinking what you've made of something else, something that person knows they want. Bleurgh.

Yes, that's consistent with modern marketing: make people get your product even if they don't want it and/or don't need it. But, really, are you so desperate. You might save a 1000 hours by making it clear what the subject is; choosing to waste others time [which I'm not at all claiming the OP has done] is contemptible.
Was the performance true on Apple marketing benchmarks or in actual use?

Apple has a looooong history of cherrpicking benchmarks, especially when their arch wasn't as fast as competing Intels.
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I think that you are reading this too narrowly. SPAMers etc are often in a hurry. For example, simply avoiding responding for a second or two to an inbound SMTP connection drops a whole group of bad email attempts on the floor while no one else even notices.[0] Another example: manually delaying admitting new users to a forum (and in the process checking for bad activity from their IP/email etc) seems to shed another bunch of unwanteds, and raising the cost a little with some simple questions on the way in, also. This point about small extra delay and effort deterring disproportionately bad behaviour is quite broad.

[0] https://deer-run.com/users/hal/sysadmin/greet_pause.html
Australian here

Isn't it mostly just economies of scale plus transport costs?

Or are our industrial relations laws really not as good?
There is a reason that their are different safety standards to achieve - regardless if you have DRM or some nonname brand.

What I mean is that with a rigorous check any battery no having a CE mark (here in Europe) or other type of certification then it can’t be imported. I believe there is a world where reputable battery brands make all sort of battery for Ebikes, vacuum cleaners etc that fit the device and have an appropriate mark. No need to have a price tag like the bike manufacturer just a plain good battery maker.
What do you mean with more insights? If they are not represented as some data, how could they ever influence any computational model?
This is really great. I am a big fan of Lottie files and a big fan of anything that makes them easier to work with.
I'm not interviewing for a position at your think tank.

People who honestly want to get a picture of what the NED is, can read up a bit on it. Nothing I've said should be controversial.
Look, I don't want to defend Twitter but ignoring 15 years of changes and the whole journey of scaling and then using the cost op just building a snapshot of the 15y old version is pretty disingenuous.

That's a bit like starting an Oracle clone now and summing up what they spent on developer salaries in the last 40 years. You basically can't not "reduce costs".

And no "the original consumer product" is not a real cop-out, you probably still have tons of people building iterations.
Thailand, Turkey, and Brazil are unfathomably corrupt and less productive countries…taking refuge from the US in these places is weird.
I see an argument for estimating tasks here, not for sprints.

You can track progress on these tasks without sprint. Of course, this tracking needs to happen regularly and sprints is a possible implementation of this but you can do it without them.
Thank you - we tried our best!
As has been pointed out: Give them perpetual funding according to the needs of the children, not pervert unrelated systems to provide an unstable income stream.
I don't know if it's still the issue, but even the yubikey has its limits. It's a max of (from memory) 32 2fa codes.
Which seems a lot but isn't really
as a counterargument, every single aerospace engineer I know (a few dozen), mainly in socal, has no plans of ever leaving. in fact, aerospace engineers I know from the UK and europe are dying to move to the US.

I buy that people they spoke to "think" about it, like people saying they were going to leave the US when trump was elected but no mass exodus occurred. it feels like pure fear mongering with people "thinking" or "considering", since that means nothing. The US isn't falling or dying, and even if it was its worth saving rather than running away. they're even spouting misinformation like the USG is preventing people from revoking citizenship because they dont want people to leave, despite the reason this was occuring was because of COVID regulations.

The US is the greatest country in the world, bar none. It has a lot to improve upon and these intelligent people should try their hardest to improve it. this article is anti-american at best and is abundant with conspiracy theories to the point it is noncredible.
Plenty of people have credit cards in Europe. In 11 countries, the majority of people do, in fact:

https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankings/people_with_credit...
Seatbelt laws force seatbelts onto people that don't want them.

Global warming forces negative outcomes onto people that don't pollute much.

Anything and everything can be framed as an act of force. It is therefore unhelpful to think of things in these terms.
This is so weird to read. My local small ISP in EU has only one fee: monthly. That's it.
First, I'll say that I find this characterization of Weltman to be relevant to understanding his intended point.

Second, I'll say that Weltman seriously misunderstands children's literature. The point has been made by many famous children's writers that kids love comic gruesomeness. When J.M. Barrie wrote Peter Pan, Britain had just ended the Victorian era, when children's literature was serious, morally upright, and deadly dull. Peter Pan upended that and became a smash hit, possibly even bigger than Harry Potter has been.
Tantalum caps apparently don't suffer from DC bias capacitance decrease (or at least not as much as ceramics). So you don't have to use caps rated for like 10x your working voltage to get anywhere near the rated capacitance when decoupling. Higher-rated caps usually come in larger packages.

One can frequently see an 6.3V 22uF to 100uF SMD tantalum capacitor being used for the bulk capacitance right after the DC-DC converter. Closest MLCC you can buy is 25V 22uF X7R, which costs slightly more and provides less capacitance (even when comparing 22uF nominal) with further loss due to aging. I have yet to see 100uF MLCC.

Not all designs strictly require them, though. When for example dropping 5V to 3.3V using an LDO, having all components decoupled well enough locally, you might get by without bulk capacitance. Some boards are large enough for electrolytic caps that can be combined with ceramics to get you close.
I can tell you all the ways in which you’re wrong, but something tells me you wont trust anything anyone says unless it confirms your biases.
I'd actually go further and say that taxes should always be included in prices, even before checkout.

A common anti-poor talking point is that poor people don't make and stick to budgets, but corporate refusal to include tax in prices means that you can't reasonably tell how a given purchase will affect your budget beforehand. A simple trip to the grocery store means that you have to know what taxes apply to every item in your cart before you go to checkout to be able to know how much you're spending. That's not reasonable for the average consumer. If you really think it is, go ahead and try calculating your total of 20+ different grocery store items before you check out--you'll fail.
This matches my prejudices. Namely that 'thinking about god' is similar to the Eliza effect, ie., a kind of projection of consciousness onto the world.

Animals solve 'the problem of other minds' by assuming that everything is like them, ie., conscious. And then walking back from this presumption upon evidence to the contrary.

This kinda mild 'default schizophrenia' is something I've always been allergic to. (I imagine my defaults are lower than most, which no doubt runs the risk of under-valuing the actually conscious).

Nevertheless, it's one of the things that makes me most concerned about the hype around AI: I see nothing more in it than a nascent secular religion. Born "from the ground up", as all religions are, by immediate experience 'of the divine'. Ie., of that impulse to analogise the world to one's own mind.
> Yet you probably think dropping a nuclear bomb on Japan was a good idea

Does pretending you know my position on topics not discussed make it easier to disagree with me? I'm anti-war and wish everyone would refuse to go to war, individually. Maybe that helps you process my actual comment with that out of the way.
Per-capita emissions is the only valid way of looking at it. If China split up into 20 separate countries, would you point the finger elsewhere because each of those 20 separate countries doesn't pollute much?
Thanks for sharing your experience.

I remmember hearing voices a few times, but they would not last more than a day.

They were telling me to reach out to one person (that would be awkward at the time) or to harm someone close. I've felt fear but knew those voices weren't real.

The voice sounded like me talking to myself.
This opinion is evolutionary selected against.
>So where are these Americans going?

Nowhere? Americans are (almost) the only people subject to income tax even on income not made in the US. You'd need to get a very good income to live on two sets of taxes (how unfree for such supposedly free people...)

Which is why Tina Turner died a Swiss citizen.
That's not true. Debit cards are more common, but credit cards are also very common in Europe:

https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankings/people_with_credit...
What about people that live in the tropics? What are they to do? Migration laws are strict all throughout the Global North.
Relating a statistics language model to religion is ... beyond words.
I thought according paragraph 61 of the Magna Carta the 25 Barons are expected to declare them selve in rebellion as a control mechanism.

A fringe group of modern day commonwealth citizens construct quite elaborate fantasies based on that:

https://ukhumanrightsblog.com/2020/12/04/magna-carta-and-fre...
Thank you! If you take Lottielab for a spin, let us know your feedback and feel free to report any issues, it will be really appreciated.
I'm aware of that mirror. What I'm talking about in my comment is that there was a time when the development of the Linux kernel actually moved to GitHub, due to problems with the regular Linux kernel development infrastructure.
I used to do this too. Express + PUG templating. Maybe a little <script> injected VUE on the front end for some light client side stuff.
Quite common here in South Africa, can get them from regular supermarkets.
Depending on whether you open a CSV file with Excel or import it into it, different things work and don't work. This has been a problem especially on a Windows with a locale that uses a different separator, e.g. semicolon instead of comma on a German Windows because the comma is used in numbers as decimal separator.

Unicode encoding or rather anything non-ASCII is also prone to cause trouble. The automatic conversion of quoted(!) digit strings to numbers can be worked around by appending a tab character. Line breaks within a cell are a big headache, however, and I believe the U+2028 code point can still not be used instead.
Entirely separate from the truth value or consequences of religious belief:

I think this paper makes sense. If you think of the God concept as a kind of externalized decision-making system that enables “cognitive work” that is beyond human capabilities - or the perception of human capabilities- then acceptance of AI is a similar phenomenon.

On a similar note, I haven’t done the research myself, but I have a solid feeling that the contemplation of an infinite, eternal, etc. God-concept (as opposed to more localized polytheistic concepts) can be tied to developments in mathematics throughout history.
In your cost/benefit analysis, you overlook the harms created by secretive actions. That's why I asked for details about your experience.

The internet has run on secrets for 40 years. That doesn't make it right. Now that everyone and their mother is online, it's time to consider the harms that secrets create.
Honest question, what are the real world impacts of these kind of vulnerabilities? If I am running a few on-premises private servers where I control all the software, should I be worried?
In Japan, illegal money transfers for criminal purposes to personal bank accounts have also become a social problem.

https://togetter.com/li/2172555

https://togetter.com/li/2015918
It's tied to your identity. If they commit any fraud it may fall back on you.
Not having a kid cuts off a whole branch of human reproduction; it's undoubtedly the best thing you can do for the planet, on the personal scale. Everything else pales in comparison.
While the website is an amazing show-off of modern web design,

I'm not sure why I would need this

as opposed to the dead simply good old tiny WireGuard client

which just works perfectly.
Git and LKML predate GitHub, and the kernel was the reason git was born (Torvalds was unhappy with other devecentralized version control software).

Anyway, everything wondered where "Pull Requests" come from? Literally an E-Mail saying "please pull my branch ... at ....". Git has special tools to create and apply mails.

GitHub copied most of the LKML/kernel development flow and turned it I to a web UI. That's nice, but the text workflow is often faster and easier. And it works. And it is decentralized (a key requirement).

So yes. It is not broken. And GitHub would break the decentralized nature to some extent.
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> Some of the things you mention are not like the others, and many are not terrorism.

Just say what you mean please. What have I suggested which is terrorism?
I see the eco-terrorist tag more and more abused for anything. I mean, if some organization plan to terrorize population, for example with bombs killing random citizens, that's matching terrorism for sure.
Otherwise that is raw propaganda.
can't even what? When you fix an issue there should still be evidence for its existence, no? Commenters of this entire thread expect everyone to read it at the exact time the issue happened?

Like what is the point of "citing" a bunch of "sources" if the "sources" are only able to provide the necessary information at one particular point in time?
Please point me to the data then. How are these fires worse than before, if acres burned are the lowest in 10 years?
I like the article.

But I have to say I was looking for someone outgoing to match my very talkative personality. And I’m glad that plan failed.

I have been married 32 years. On my first date, I talked non-stop. She said almost nothing. We were married a few weeks later. Turns out she wanted to be with someone who was good at talking. She wanted a verbal protector. And it turns out I didn’t mind learning to speak softly around her and to leave a lot of silence around my sentences in case she wanted to respond.

My wife and I are complementary in many things. She is non-technical and believes in magic… But we do share bedrock values: generosity, forgiveness, respect, duty, traditional gender roles, and the belief that neither of us can be happy if the other is miserable.

But I would not have predicted I would marry an introvert so shy that she secretly stalked me until she was sure I was husband material before revealing herself.
Alright, took a peek and, honestly, I can't tell if this is a hot mess or a gold mine. 100TB, and so much of it is just duplicates and crazy big PDFs, even when there's a decent version right there. And those books? Some are copied like a hundred times over. I'd bet only 10TB of that 100TB is even new stuff. What a way to waste seeders' hard work... This isn't really an archive, it's more like a jumbled file dump. You'd expect some organization in a proper archive, but that's totally missing here.
Interesting, how would that work? Are there any well-known examples?

Is it: the weights all happen to be where float is sparse, so quantization ends up increasing fidelity? Or is it more of a “worse is better” dropout-type situation?
I didn't think it was possible to have such an unserious worldview to the point where you believe that it is inherently and automatically wrong to take any forceful actions against an unwilling third party. So if a brutal dictator takes power, and I wish to take forceful action against that, I will be sure to remember that it is me and not the dictator that is the morally bad party.
Spoiler: Data read into Excel/Google sheets was interpreted as scientific notation, this caused uniqueness errors.