skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US kind of famously behaved the same way at least with regards to copyright.

https://digitalcommons.pace.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=...
As much as I like C#, every time I'm on the job market, I end up taking a job in C#.

Rust's biggest advantage over C# is that it's framework-free. IE, you compile a working executable; nothing more is required.

What's harder to understand is: Will I be more productive using Rust compared to C#? (After dealing with the learning curve.) Will my code be "faster enough" to lower the cost of operations? (IE, a cluster of 5 servers instead of 15?)
Don't blame them. Blame the people who buy their products and enable them.

Who does this? You, me, all of us.

The story of the end wasn't about shell or oil companies. It's about us and our own incompetence at stopping ourselves.
Can you refute any of my statements? If not, you are merely polluting the discourse with more hot air.
NNTP descends from UUCP, the Unix to Unix Copy Protocol. Used to be that some businesses and universities configured their Unix machines to call other machines on their modems overnight (the rates were cheaper) and synchronize files. Think of it like a very slow, ancient version of rsync. You would post on your school's Usenet server, which would then sync with one or more servers overnight. And eventually (hopefully) your message would spread across the whole network. This could take days.

Some of the big timesharing services (think Telenet and Tymnet, eventually even AOL) out there ran their own servers, which a lot of smaller services dialed into.

How do you join the mesh? You met someone at Usenix or a similar conference and said "I'm sitting on a whopping 800mb of storage and a T1 line at my university. I'm tired of waiting a week to get the new comp.lang.c hotness. Think I could hook up to your machine for Usenet?" and they'd be like "Cool! Yeah, here's the dialup number. Try to call after 11pm so my boss doesn't know about it."

NNTP took this concept of syncing files and made it Internet native and specific to Usenet. But the architecture remained largely the same.
their demographics are catastrophically bad.
My read is they were only using the motion tracked system to train the residual network, but the actual competitive flights were done without input from the external tracking but they still captured the data, so they could feed it to their training for future runs.
My impression is that USENET is particularly censorship resistant. I suppose that's an advantage-- until someone starts to spam it.
In upstate NY they seem to be creating new "colonies", I used to see them with their horse carriages in the area around the old Seneca Army Depot, now I am seeing them around Marathon (which really is about 26 miles from Ithaca.)
I can agree that tactile keyboards will just always be better and they were a sacrifice for sure.
> worse yet: the idea has been floated that Apple may still be able to do it on third-party app stores, completely circumventing the point of the law, just like "legitimate interest" has for GDPR!

Can you share that idea? How can one use "legitimate interest" to circumvented GDPR legally?
No, it’s worse. It takes money and focus away from things that work.
I've got an over the top 7.1.4 setup, and after running with the calibrated setup for a while, bumping the center speaker several notches was very helpful with hearing dialogue from all sources I've tried. Even in my 4.1 setups, I've boosted the center virtual speaker. So I'm not surprised people are having trouble with the mixes if they don't have the ability to adjust things.

Personally, I haven't used soundbars, the home theater shop that put together my theater did a demo with one that had two wireless? satellites and it was actually pretty good, but most soundbars are using small drivers so it takes a lot of tech to make them sound good for mid-low frequency. Otoh, modern very thin tvs have such minimal speakers that anything else is better.
This is often termed a "Third Place" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_place
Is it better than a LUV? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_LUV

Awful little vehicles. Used to burst into flames overnight an unattended without even the excuse of charging a battery. Always figured that they were self-immolating from shame.
Skype is mainly a consumer product and that's where they have their users.
Small difference: we banned chemicals responsible for ozon layer disruption, similar situation with acid rain (talking about 1st world with rain). So it's not like we forgotten, more like it's a non-issue now. Global warming is only going to get worse.
Steel and concrete aren't necessary for the most part: other materials that don't emit (or even actively sequester) carbon are available and have been for a long, long time. It doesn't even preclude building densely either: just look at cross laminated timber.
Yeah that does seem likely
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It's always been a point of amusement for me; some sites get these incredibly long lists of titles, but you can only pick one. So, despite it all, folks like Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would still be put out. And for example, when you pick "Reverend Mother" out of an airline website's dropdown list, they don't actually say "Reverend Mother" when they call your name over the PA.
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Whats to stop a bank offering an account that you only put enough money in so they cannot draw more than you have? Kind of like Capital One's virtual card numbers which allow you to have a throwaway number per account.
I think you can monkey around with “Hollywood accounting” for profit sharing purposes as those are all civil offenses with private citizens suing, etc.

But I suspect that studios play it straight with taxes as the IRS doesn’t mess around, it’s criminal investigations, officers are liable, and there’s whistleblower laws where the snitch gets 15-30% of what the IRS recoups [0].

So I bet the only way we find the true cost of these things is when they write them off and even then we know the true cost of the bundle, not each item. What they probably do is include everything legally allowed.

This is still bad for studios as getting a $210M tax (corporate tax rate is 21%) reduction from a $1B write off is still way worse than breaking even since the write off is basically a $790M loss and break even is a $0 loss.

So the studio doesn’t want to do this, it’s just less bad.

I think it’s an example of optimizing after a mistake and doing this too much is a sign of bad management.

[0] https://www.irs.gov/compliance/whistleblower-office
> If you are a US citizen software developer and ever wondered why you are not able to earn more money you can thank the special interests that flung the doors open with the H1B program to reduce worker costs.

You would be right if most startups were not already hiring mostly remote engineers from LATAM. If you can't compete against H1Bs (mostly Indian outsourcing companies) as a US based software engineer, you definitely can't compete against LATAM remote engineers with 10 yrs of experience and costs $100k all in (no payroll taxes, no benefits).

The real difference between someone who resides physically in the US vs a remote worker is that the person physically in the US:

- pays taxes

- raises families

- starts companies
Fail – crash in various possible ways
HN works well because the top stories are same the top stories for everyone. Having the #1 story be unique and algorithm-driven for every user would be detrimental to the site and the sense of community.
If you want to read more about USENET through a criticism written while it was still used, I suggest to you the wonderfully anachronistic Unix Haters Handbook (https://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf), it starts to talk about USENET at page 131
Who the hell is signing a large contract with IBM and expecting them to deliver working tech?

> IBM signed a $69.8 million (£54.7 million) contract with the British government

Ah, just good old fashioned grift. Nothing to be concerned about. The money is being spent on executive bonuses and government official kickbacks, not developing facial recognition.
They can spam users with audio ads fine.
The past 10 years.

Media: We demand online censorship.

Media: State governments can't resist the siren song of censorship.

Unbelievable.

Also, it's amazing how the article left out the most egregious example of state censorship - anti-bds laws. A few dozen states make it illegal to boycott a foreign country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws

Can you imagine if china or russia was able to get nearly 30+ states to make it illegal to boycott china or russia? Also, a super-majority of americans are against anti-bds laws and yet most states have them. Makes a mockery of democracy and representative government.
It's still as easy as setting up email. You have a username, a password, and a hostname for the server. Then you're off to the races.
Naive. As long as they can deliver competitive prices, most people with poor buying power will have no choice but to buy from them, or buy some product derived from their products.
I’m at a FinTech and some of the merchants we’re in the same orbit with are actively moving to replace credit and debit card payments with FedNow instant payments. One is paying almost $6M/year in debit and CC interchange fees, so they are highly incentivized.

Personally, moving money between Wise and Chase bank instantly was magic the first time it happened. Finally felt like I lived in a developed country.
Nice! When i tried late 2021 they didnt seem to handle it (or not well).
One of the biggest ones is that that the nix2container definition is evaluated in the context of a flake.nix file that specifies all the inputs, and a `flake.lock` that guarantees they stay frozen.

By comparison, "FROM nginx" is just grabbing whatever is the latest in some external registry that you don't control— it's the same as starting a Dockerfile with "apt update; apt dist-upgrade", you have this huge chunk of external mutable state that you're dependent on which immediately throws any kind of real reproducibility out the window.

(And yes, doing "FROM nginx:x.y" or "FROM nginx:<sha>" does help a little, but the point remains that you're pulling a big binary blob that is essentially mystery meat— trying to make sense of what's in there is why there's now entire companies dedicated to untangling software bills of materials.)
Does this also mean a third of 18 year old men will also skip children ? Sadly it’s very typical of conservative Japanese society to single out women.
You can achieve close to the same thing using uBlock element zapper, without installing extra plugins. I use the same trick for SO ('Hot Network Questions' darkpattern) and other sites.
Sounds like a fun weekend project would be to implement the Usenet client/server protocol in your language of choice, and maybe start your own federated Usenet server(s).
I used to know an American guy in Amsterdam who only had a single name. His explanation was always that his parents were a bit weird. It was a short 4-letter name too. He might well be in the running for the shortest name ever.
There is a reason why censorship is coming back these days, and its primary cause is technological. Of course, the proponents of censorship are people, but basically, the entire sum of technology behaves as an organism that optimizes for efficiency in its own growth.

Dissenting ideas are impeding the growth of technology now. Moreover, we can roughly gauge how dangerous dissenting ideas are by how strong the push for censorship is.

For example, there is already another post in this thread about the left pushing for censorship for speech if it is goes against their radical identity politic philosophy. But why is that? It is because their philosophy is idea for getting as many as people as possible building technology. Of course, that is not the proximal motivation of most leftists, but the technological system is giving them a voice because it helps technology progress.

(Note, I am not right-leaning, nor do I intent to advocate one political point over the other. I never vote for conservatives, as I hate their anti-environmentalist philosophy. The right and left have one goal in common though, and that is to push technology forward. Thus both will be in favour of policies that push technology forward, but in different ways.)
I've hit a similar wall and one answer to hurdle over is to organize with more people to push for bigger, community wide changes. This can include making your roads safer for biking, getting your local governments to penalize local polluters, etc. Getting the right politicians to vote in your collective ideals helps, too.

It all takes work so you have to brace yourself to sacrifice your free time and balance everything. It's not easy, but there are countless people already trying to do it.
Edit you're correct, I fixed the posts :)
Most so called "free speech absolutists", when pressed, will support some limits on free speech (e.g. incitement or "fighting words"). Many even support more strict libel and slander laws. Elon Musk is the obvious, prominent example of someone espousing "free speech absolutism" while limiting legal speech on his platform but there are plenty of others.

So we're not really arguing about whether speech should be restricted, but where that line should be drawn.

I would agree that Millennials support drawing that line a little more broadly, but there is also a difference about which speech should be more restricted. The pew research piece you linked was specifically about offensive statements about minority groups, but what if you asked about whether trans educational material should be banned or whether the word "cis" should be considered a slur? I suspect that the demographics would be flipped.
Power users do keep the internet running but they complain so much. I guess they believe idealistically in the projects so it hurts them when it's not as good as it could be.
They can still make money later and will just pay taxes.

Just because they value it at $0 doesn’t mean it has no potential future value. It just means when they claim they value they won’t have any costs to deduct. So future profit margins are higher.
And even beyond this specific bug, the Rust project has cared about reproducibility for a long time. There’s even a tag for it on the issue tracker.
> So in your opinion why is it that it worked the countries in Europe, but not for West vs China/Russia?

It would've absolutely worked for Russia, if the EU was offering it path to EU membership together with Ukraine instead of forcing Ukraine to choose between tighter economic/political integration between its two neighbors. Time for that was early 2000s, but Europe and USA chose otherwise.
Not quite, but yes, they are converging. But GPUs are not universal enough to be called dataflow computers. But there are some similarities. But unless I'm mistaken SIMD is fundamentally different compared to dataflow in that it executes all of the instructions in lockstep across a bunch of units rather than that each execution unit can have its own stream of opcodes. So GPUs have great performance but require that tasks be more inherently parallel than what you could (theoretically, mostly) do with a true dataflow computer.
The option is not 100% renewable or 100% fossil fuels. It's not a ridiculous goal that we can just reduce emissions
No company would bid more than they can afford in an H1B auction.

The amount they pay will be more than offset by the value generated by high skill of the highly skilled employees this gives them access to.
Yes, exactly. This is what I'm trying to get at with "market failure" -- the total economic cost of doing all of that is drastically higher than even the cost of just childcare.

In the past, many of those duties would be distributed throughout a community. And on isolated farms, parents would intentionally have big families so that the eldest could help raise the younger kids.

Doing it all with two people is a huge burden. Doing it with just one is a heroic act. Throwing in the extra burdens and expectations of the upper-middle class professional world -- homework help, extracurriculars, etc -- makes it virtually impossible.

So it makes sense that only the 500k+ income crowd is having big families. That's probably a good approximation of the income required to afford the total cost of replacing all of the childcare benefits of an informal community with paid labor.
Not suggesting it for the UX, more of a curiosity: in France, a somewhat common convention is to put the family name in uppercase. This is well known by everyone, but not everyone does that. Sometimes you would receive an email from "Robert Martin" and stop for a second to figure it out.
Will they bring back a desktop Linux client? Probably not. Having to use teams/outlook via chrome on Linux is such a pain in the arse...
If society is already committing a fast suicide by destroying the habitability of the Earth, then doesn't it seem rational?

Like imagine a meteor was going to destroy the Earth in a year - would it make sense to have children? 10 years? 100?
A giants shrug – how platform risk hurt my business
A free trial with automatic billing at the end is a dark pattern. The non dark pattern would be to get approval from the customer before billing after the free trial ends.
A lot of countries had and have more restrictions than the US. Is Switzerland really worse than the US to live in, for example?
I haven’t looked much into it myself, but https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2023/10033/ seems to describe how you can (a) write a speech synthesis provider (if indeed you want to integrate a custom voice) and (b) use such a “personal voice” in an app. Regarding the latter part, I would assume that the AI-provided voices will be relatively high-quality.
You realize China is having its own demographic crash, yeah? And India's birth rate is at or below replacement?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_India

Bluntly, whether you meant to or not, this comment is full of coded bigotry. It invokes images of a foreign hoard, bang at the walls of the west, threatening to dilute or destroy "our" way of life.
I despise IBM but how is that grift?
Idk if it applies in this specific case, but usually when my package is delivered there is a photo from the carrier. Would that not be evidence?
Our personal websites are so similar! (https://nicolasbouliane.com) I thought "wow that font is beautiful" then realised that it was also EB Garamond. The art really brings it together. I wish I sketched as often or as well as you do.

Potato.horse is a work of art. How do you syndicate to Instagram and Twitter? I'd love to do something similar. I like your art and the way you chose to present it.

I also met a lot of people through my work, including close friends. I love when people reach out and I try to reward it whenever it happens. What you describe seems like being a participant in a small community, instead of a person on a soapbox.
As a 51 year old programmer, you really missed out on some cool discussion back in the day. But yes, honestly, I haven't done anything Usenet in years save for the occasional Google result that lands on a Google Groups URL.

Honestly it might be worth resurrecting the protocol to run your own Usenet web UI just for weekend funsies.
All boats float:

Let’s partner with oil companies to collectively solve carbon capture at planet scale? They get to keep functioning, citizens & government helps with subsidization and research programs. Put a time limit on progress and penalize the oil companies by making fines exponentially rise by time if possible and unmet. A select subcommittee can oversee the process and politicians can coordinate partnerships with other countries.

You need BOTH the carrot AND the stick to get behaviors to change.
It helps when the end goal is really well defined like a software emulator. Nearly everything that could slow you down is a known quantity. Conversely, the unknowns, like how to implement native hardware API X on non-native non-accelerated platform Y, are naturally where community emulators are weakest.
This person wrote a post a couple days back about how "Jews are the American Cossacks", "explicitly given privileges and more freedoms than other ethnicities".

So yeah, I think maybe I'll stick with Metacritic for the movie reviews.
I'm storing ~13 TB. Just enough that online backup (Backblaze etc.) is too expensive to be reasonable, not enough that tape is really sensible. ZFS fits the bill, and let me build a reliable off-site backup system to HDDs.

LTO-7 has 6TB of capacity per tape, so I suppose I could get away with... well, ten or so? But it'd be a lot more manual work, and the tape drives are far more expensive than four 8TB HDDs.

With tape, there's also the issue that if you only have one tape drive, you don't know if your tapes are readable in anything else.
You don't have to be scared away. It just needs to be shit enough that you're going to use a second social medium alongside. Then it's just a normal "use the fun one more, use the shit one less" until you realise the shit one just makes you feel like shit and you stop using it entirely.

And of course, there'll always be a segment that never gets to that realization, keeping the corpse animated.
A Constitution for Teenage Happiness
I would say that this reminds me of the classical dropbox comment, except that that comment was friendly advice and this comment is ... not.
> do you have ADHD at all?

Certainly an interesting question. I was told by two people that have it that I do, and by a psychologist that i clearly don't. But I do know that I have symptoms. So the question is rather spot on. Unless you "you don't need to spend significant amounts of energy" do you actually have it? Can it be that the symptoms are caused by something else?

And that brings me back to my initial poorly worded comment. Whereby my worry is that some may be too happy to prescribe medication where its no needed, as opposed to focusing on removing the factors that cause so many people to have symptoms of various traits that they don't actually enjoy. I am just worried that we rely too much on sedating folks just to numb them as a first resort simply because our work patterns and habbits are toxic to varying degrees overall.
Another read I came across recently on how the Azure tuple-based load balancing isn't evenly distributed either:

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/core-infrastructure-a...
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That seems to be an excuse that's been in use for decades. Meanwhile, we're just dragging our feet about stopping oil use and kicking the can down the road for the next generation to deal with.

Ultimately, it's a very poor excuse to state that because we can't stop immediately, that we might as well continue digging as much oil as possible out of the ground for burning.
Yeah, but that laptop would come with UEFI and Management Engine and TPM and ... I'm not touching that if I can avoid it.

Besides, it's not like the kernel Matrox driver has any bugs and that's waaaay older than radeon.