skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just recently started reading Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge and it's fascinating that he thought Usenet (or something VERY similar) would be how civilizations communicate with each other across the galaxy.

(Granted, it was written in the early 90s but feels very apropos to see a post about it here on HN)
I removed the "Andrew" and it went away in Free Chatgpt.
There are a lot of people saying that Usenet is no longer appropriate given today's social landscape. But it's interesting that Satoshi started Bittorrent by posting to the crypto mailing list. That was 2008, a decade and a half ago. But Usenet had died long before that, and long after Usenet-style newsgroups had gone out of fashion.

Text is timeless, and it's worth keeping an open mind that it can work. Maybe specific niche interests are the key; crypto is a big topic now, but back then only a few enthusiasts cared.
It's been a while but I don't recall a ton of politics on the usenet groups I used to participate in (mostly tech subjects). Of course there were groups for politics, and sometimes a thread would go off on a tangent, but the nice thing about usenet is it was easy to killfile people or threads that you didn't want to read anymore.

When I used it it seemed like it was mostly real names (.edu accounts) at least on the groups I read, so maybe that kept people in check a bit. Though that would have been easy to spoof I'm sure.

My department also had some local groups that did not propagate. So it must be possible to stand up your own NNTP server and have groups for your local users that are at least in that sense "private"
Cmd+shift+g brings up a dialog where you can type arbitrary paths to jump to. Cmd+(up arrow) goes up a directory. Took me way to long to figure these out, seems small but they definitely are productivity boosters :)
Try Text Blaze (blaze.today). It's a Chrome extension, but desktop apps are also available for Mac and Windows.
This paper is based on the performance at the 2022 event, but it took this long to write it up and get it published.

The tracking system was used during all of the races for data collection of both the autonomous and human-piloted drones, which is why the reflective markers are visible.

They did do some demonstrations of the drones controlled with the tracking cameras, and they were significantly faster, but the vision-based drones were definitely able to fly faster than the human pilots in some races.
Agree, except with Pine (now Alpine) as the aggregator. Very high signal-to-noise ratio.
I said, beware of give access to internals of your technology. Because, this is your value NOW. Later, when you will have many customers, they will be additional part of value.

Sure, you should decide yourself, to whom you could trust, but for me now, all looks too clear - they just want to assimilate your technology, or if lucky, assimilate all your command with technology. I cannot decide, if this is good for you from what I know now.
>US constitutional rights were provided and are defended by the power of the US military.

Absolutely not.

Right according to the US Constitution are not “provided” except from a higher power.

They are restrictions against the government. The governments force does not provide restrictions against the government.
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Reddit and the subs themselves may not be explicitly political, but the site leans incredibly heavily to one side and seemingly can not shut up about politics for even a moment. I honestly think it might be one of the most toxic, worst for your mental health social media sites that exists.
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It is 100% legal in the USA to use an emulator to run ROMs you dumped from legally purchased games.
> since I'm not sure what the state of spam being sent to the various Usenet groups is

Isn't this why some groups were moderated?
"A comment on a Hacker News thread" article not starting on a good foot.
The government is already subsidizing families with children. 700,000 won ($528) per month up to age of one, and 350,000 won ($264) per month up to the age of two. It's certainly a nice to have but not enough.
Tradeoff between availability and consistency. Not to error when accepting a transaction probably makes bank good money, but showing correct numbers all the time or handling transactions larger than entire account balance probably only ever helps poor people like me who anxiously check incoming transactions at the ATM and we don't make banks lots of money. So a queue of transactions to record doesn't sound like a problem, but idk I don't work at a bank
If you don't want your name attached to what you do, you need to find a career where you do. I can't imagine not wanting to have my work seen if I think I am doing good work. Pride, unlike what some people say, is not for what you are born as, but for what you accomplish through conscious effort.
The Philippines saw a massive amount of American investment after WWII. I don’t have exact figures but it is comparable to South Korea. There are lots of differences. One Marcos was the most corrupt politician in history (in terms of total money looted). Two, Korea benefited from cultural and geographic proximity to Japan. As a former colony it was able to sell low cost products on the Japanese market and secure manufacturing contracts from Japanese firms. Three you might also make a point about the influence of Confucianism and Protestantism on Korea. To this day Korea is a very Christian country by East Asian standards (~30%) and the Chaebols are more Protestant than the overall population. Contrast with the Catholic Philippines and you can make a classic Weberian case of work ethic.
Although not exactly generic shopping streets you describe, but “anonymous” places also have been theorized and dubbed a “non-place” (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-place)
Yes, but at the same time you also don't want to rob a child of their childhood and adolescence. Who cares if by age 20 they aren't a virtuoso in violin and who cares if they haven't already won 5 random bogus academic awards?
Bubonic plague, supereruptions, ice ages, malaria, smallpox, ozone deterioration - lots of these seem small now but that’s only because we’ve already overcome them
yeah I have been using it so much that I definitely know when it's down.
What was left there to be acquired?
> The awfulness of the user experience is surprising, given Amazon’s purchase of Goodreads in 2013.

I see the author doesn't use Amazon very much. The instant checkout flow is a mathematically frictionless surface; literally every other interface is somewhere between a bannister full of splinters or landing in a copse of pines without a parachute.
I can't speak to what's common but, with my dad it was he was increasingly confused, constantly tired and sleeping all the time, and progressive weight loss. He was down to 100lbs when they admitted him.
They certainly won't find water on a 60C surface.
presumably you want your service to be up. If you can smooth the load out to other nodes, your service stays up. If you have a bad strategy, you start losing capacity as nodes get removed.

Let's say each node can handle 5k rps and you have 10 nodes. You can handle 50k rps. If you are receiving 40k rps, a good strategy will put each node at 80% capacity. A bad strategy will knock a node out, reducing your total capacity, putting extra pressure on the rest of the system, causing more failures, and more pressure. This is called a thundering herd.

At some point, your only option is load shedding. But with a bad LB strategy, you start load shedding much much earlier than you should. This is a bad experience for customers that is avoidable with good LB strategies.
You are right, to some degree this would be taxing unrealized gains which IMO is generally bad. The important part though is that it's taxing a negative externality (the opportunity cost for society).
They're using an Israeli company, AU10TIX, to collect that data.

From the platform that launched the Arab Spring.
This is the reason that Twitter is removing the block button...
>All the species of technically simple moderation patterns were present there

I consider voting (allowing readers to upvote and downvote, which is extremely quick and easy compared to writing a comment) an important technically simple moderation pattern, and I'd be very surprised to learn the voting on Usenet articles was ever possible.
Why discount LG, Huyndai-Kia and even Daewoo?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaebol
I also wemt to platform.openai.com GPT and moved the "You are Andrew. A professional software developer with over 20 years of experience in the field." into the system prompt and put the rest in the user area and it seemed to work fine.
I have plenty of examples of hypocritical free-speech "absolutionists" to back my belief, but again, people will throw the good ol' no-true-scotsman response.

You are just projecting your inability to use data on everyone. Some people don't think like you.
The first link has some problems too. Even with the second two fulfilled, the fist is a real blocker for many.
because half of bees are gone, half of barrier reef is gone, 75% of insects are gone, UK has like 10% tree cover left, emperor penguins, had zero chicks survive

Do you think you can survive if the biosphere is gone?
Open Steno: Bringing stenography to everyone
X phone? Twitter becomes X and now makes phones? What world am I living in?
It's a right to have a gun, not to use it.

Even then, it's not a very strong right, since for the past 30 years at least, the common reason for cops to shoot people is "I thought he had a gun" with suggestions that people carry bright orange wallets to avoid being mistaken for having a gun
So many people locked out of their bikes to which you can now sell a subscription.
One of the founders / Co-CEOs wanted to do just this.

He was over-ruled, and sometimes I wonder which one is more bitter about (effectively) losing their company - Jim (IIRC), who played Cassandra and was ignored, or Mike, who didn't trust him enough.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/titles-included-i...

If you set your title to "Graf" in the passport form:

> By Royal Warrant of 27 April 1932, the use in England and Wales of foreign titles of nobility was discontinued.

> You must include the observation: THE HOLDER IS ALSO KNOWN AS (foreign title).

If you instead set your given name to "Graf", these instructions would not apply, as you are not claiming it's your title. Nor would it be evident to the passport office or any other English speaker that your given name implied a title, so provided your supporting documents corroborate that "Graf" is your given name, they'd issue a passport in that name.

However, if you used not "Graf", but a title recognised in the English language:

> A person may call themselves any name they want, as long as it is not for fraudulent purposes

> You may receive an application supported by documents (for example, a birth certificate or a change of name deed) that shows a customer is using a name that includes a description of a title (for example, Lord, Princess, Earl or Baron as a forename).

> You must include the observation: THE REFERENCE TO (description of title) IS TO THE HOLDER’S NAME AND NOT TO THE HOLDER’S TITLE.
> I'm not arguing your decision to not have children. I've made the same decision myself, but the 'can't afford to have children' has always confused me.

To add to your list of reasons, for me, I feel like I am bringing a child only to feed the capitalist system - saddled with debt, and living with less freedoms than me. I feel like my dearest loved one will not be able to thrive in this world. They could, sure, but the chances of thriving are low.

And that thought pains me deeply.
May I recommend a Dell Wyse thin client from eBay as a replacement for the rPi? They can be had for around $30, and they come with an 8GB onboard eMMC storage as well.
You could also just have different personalities. The idea that differentiation must be entirely visual and object-based seems pretty uncreative.
Well...what would you call Jeff's $500M yacht?
Needing the cloud to connect your keys, keyless entry or not, to ypur car (which idealy is an embedded system anyway than works fine without any server connection) is just stupid...
For BOTW specifically you're better off playing on CEMU (Wii U emulator) as it's the exact same game(not a more limited version as one would assume) but significantly faster. TOTK you'll need RyujinX.

Exact numbers are hard to give: native game resolution or native macbook resolution? Docked or undocked? Shaders cached or not? Graphics mods (some of which are efficiency/performance related) or not? Generally though most games run at native size at native speeds once you get everything going. BOTW/TOTK are some of the heavier ones though and, ignoring BOTW as I play that on CEMU, TOTK runs alright as long as you don't push it or expect high FPS mods.
That's good to hear, finding basic information is so difficult on Facebook.
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This isn't enough of an explanation. South Korea is denser than India, but only by ~20%, and India's fertility rate is more than double South Korea's. Taiwan is denser than South Korea, but its fertility rate is more than 50% higher. South Korea really is an outlier.

You might also compare the United States to its peers in Europe--fertility isn't that much higher in the US (and is lower compared to a few European countries that are much denser).
What are you using for K8s autoscaling? We initially tried a few standard K8s scaling mechanisms and found that they didn't work well for GPU workloads. For example, if we were serving a low-RAM Huggingface model on GPU, it wouldn't trigger autoscaling. But since the GPU can only process one request at a time, the system would get bottlenecked while it waited to process requests one-by-one.

We wrote a bit about this here, if anyone is interested: https://www.beam.cloud/blog/serverless-autoscaling
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It has gotten more closed in its approach. I cannot download my own data anymore.

And the UI was always bloated and clunky.
It should be fairly obvious that I am not taking a jab at Dang, I am taking a jab at "people" who flag or downvote me as a form of censorship and stop conversations mid track because they are interested in pushing a certain narrative.
So what you are saying is that the numerous deficiencies are *intrinsic* to India (and Indians) by extension and will never go away? Is is about their DNA (nature) or their culture (nurture)?

What is about "a vast, diverse population into something they are not"? Are you saying India can not be a middle-ish income country like China/Thailand/Malyasia etc. I would like to believe that wise choices by the electorate and good leaders and some luck can transform the country (or any country). Japan/South Korea/Thailand/Malaysia all did it. Some of those countries are vast, some diverse and some had less advantages than India.

If you believe in the opposite that then are you not giving into the ideas in the "Clash of Civilizations" or worse "Genetics as IQ" crowd?
>Perhaps . . . "Social network" is too vague to be effective.

I was talking about the term "social media".
Ukraine is using cardboard flat-packed drones against Russia
Why would you name your company Babylon?
Xeeting from the Xelsa.
Actually, I edited it before I saw your replay, because it occurred to me after I posted that the way I had originally phrased it was open to exactly that criticism.

But it's neither here nor there. The only thing that matters is that there are examples of things being advanced as truth by large numbers of people that pretty clearly are not actually true (even though they sound plausible), and I think it's pretty clear that that is true even if a specific example that I picked out of a hat wasn't a particularly good one.
They attached the Skype brand to an unrelated product (Lync -> Skype for Business)

From what I remember, the two Skypes were never fully interoperable.

I guess they wanted to start fresh rather than clean up that mess and didn't want a third incompatible Skype.
Glad that existing customers will be able to maintain their bikes more easily. But I also look forward to (hope for?) an era where e-bikes are a lot more like regular bikes: totally generic, interchangeable parts that don’t require any single manufacturer.
ZEV debuts an affordable ride-in nano-van for wheelchair users
Elon Musk would be the last person I trust with my employment history: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-03-13/when-elon...

Or with biometric data for that matter.
They need their XWayland?
It's not bad seeing as Mars is 225 million to 401 million Km away depending on where it is in its orbit.
The US was designes as a republic specifically to prevent tyranny of the majority.

Already the direct-democracy bills of county elections destroy me. The _majority_ has voted to steal from me to pay for their daycare, housing, and other non public good subsidies every single voting cycle.

A direct democracy allows majority theft with no recourse or limit. It's proposterous!

There was a reason for voting qualifiers at the founding of the country. I say we bring them back if we want to switch to direct democracy so that only those with skin in the game get to vote: restrict voting to only those persons that pay income taxes on agi.
Also, about Africa: That's the only continent where birth rates remain really high today, and they have very far to go before the continent becomes uninabitable due to temperatures.

Anyway, my point was that UNLESS Africa continues to have such birth rates, the population seems to be falling sharply globally in the next century. In other words, the main assumption is that global pupulation is going down, with the Africa part only being a qualifier.
Xen is considered a "bare-metal hypervisor" because you don't run it as a virtual machine on a Windows/Mac/Linux/etc. host OS. sel4, a very minimal microkernel, can be considered a hypervisor. To my understanding, bare-metal hypervisors and exokernels are quite similar, as they are both a thin layer multiplexing hardware resources and providing security. I have read that the Exokernel exposes more of the hardware to applications.
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so "death row" is a label with no other information attached?
> Blumberg decided to put the dream-debris theory to the test. He surgically removed the rats’ cortex—the brain region, involved in visual imagery and conscious experience, where dreams were believed to originate—leaving only the brain stem, which controls subconscious bodily functions, intact. The sleeping pups continued to twitch exactly as before. “There was no way that twitching was a by-product of dreams,” Blumberg told me, when we spoke last fall.
we just ran `grep` on the news spool directories

Usenet with full access to a big server was fun. With just NNTP access, it was diminished. 3 to 6 hops out in UUCP/WWIV/FIDOnet land it was a different animal. Still of use but high friction.
Exactly. You me and everyone who drives or consumes basically anything are part of the problem. You can’t put all the blame on them. However where they are to blame is denying the science to the public for years. Had they invested in clean tech years ago we would be much better off.
I wish Apple would drop the 2 VM limit for virtualized macOS.

UTM is really nice for running Xcode as a build server, but being limited to two VMs sucks. I build lots of software with old macOS versions because I still support macOS versions that Apple no longer supports.
My biggest problem with Discord is still more related to support communities (what would have previously been a focused forum or subreddit) moving there, and the subsequent lack of archival of topics and answers for future reference.
It might be fair to assume that you are relatively upperclass tech worker; I think your perceptions of what people can do is colored by your social circle. For many people they aren't worried about kids going to a private school, it's whether they can afford to feed someone else.

I'm surprised none of your expectations include basic child care - food, shelter, care. If you are just scraping by on two incomes how do you expect someone to feed another human on one income? For many young adults that still live with their own parents, they aren't worried about their kids having their own room, they are worried about having their own place to stay.

It's very pompous to assume that most people aren't having kids because they won't be able to afford to send them to Phillips Exeter when a record number of single people in South Korea live with their parents because they can't afford homes.

Sure, the people in your social circle may be eschewing having kids because they can't afford to give their kids the same lifestyle they grew up with, in private schools or don't want to give up traveling, but people who can afford those luxuries in the first place aren't representative of the broader population.
Streetlights as Spyware
Exactly zero people are locked out of their bikes. That profoundly low information take is like a canary.
Exactly. Wasn't the whole point of passkeys that all the user-facing authentication happens on the device and all the server gets to see is a signature?
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A lot of virus infections are unfortunately like that too. Few years ago I had a fever that wouldn't go away, night sweats, no appetite, nothing......finally got admitted to a hospital with an infectious diseases department, they ran about 40 different tests.....all negative. Did few dozen more, this time on all kinds of tropical/exotic diseases.....all negative. Few weeks of back and forth while I was still very unwell, losing a lot of weight. The doctor looking after me was suspicious it's actually HIV that's not coming up on the tests for some reason, repeated the tests like 3 times just to be super extra sure.....eventually they just said "it's some kind of virus but we don't know what, so we have no idea - go home and rest, it should improve within few weeks but in the meantime we have no solution for you".

Couple weeks later several of my joints got really swollen which led to them testing me for a human Parvovirus-B6 infection, and indeed, that's what it was - but it was just a lucky guess by the doctor there, he said they don't normally test people in my age group for it because it's incredibly rare for adults to get infected or show any symptoms, but lucky me, I was in that 0.000001% group that not only got infected by also had severe symptoms. But even then it was just "ok, we know what it is but there is nothing we can do to help, it should go away, oh and btw there is a 5% chance you will continue getting symptoms for years if not forever". Well it's been 4 years and I'm still fighting it, so...........
I wanted to dispute this but then I remembered that I wasted 2 hours yesterday because Yarn 3 PnP and Typescript weren't playing nice together.
Unless the Moon will actually be blue, I can't say I really care.
I can’t believe no one but the IRS wants all this money.
Ask HN: Should I Learn Blockchain?
I am half way learning it, through the MIT lectures. But, most of the reddit is against it. I asked a question on reddit about it and many were against it. I sometimes feel that might me true and what i am learning might me totally useless in the future. Should i really continue or leave it?
> sign up for a free Usenet provider

Sorry, but you make it sound like there are many. That allow posting, and free, I think I only know one.
"What are the chances my kid – the individual – will lead a relatively peaceful, fulfilling life for the next 70-90 years?"

Did your parents know the answer to that? Did your grandparents? Etc

What gives you fulfillment varies based on perspective. Peace is fragile and basically non-existent across one's entire lifespan.