skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hell yeah brother! It's our data, we should own it.

How come I can "buy" a movie on Amazon prime, but I can't download it to any device I want?

How come I can only stream on spotify and not purchase digital albums?

Our rights have eroded so quickly and so deeply that people forget one of the biggest selling points of the original iPods was carrying around YOUR music.

Everything is a subscription. You'll own nothing, and like it.

It's our data, it's our privacy. We should be able to own and control both.
> maximum 60 days

In the US, political prisoners have been jailed for years without trial. 60 days would be a major respite.
Blood pressure should be measured lying down: study
So the plan is to ship coal from Poland or somewhere farther away to keep burning it in Germany’s coal-powered power plants?
Still not a great way to win friends and influence people, if you piss them off.
Hard coal maybe, but not lignite:

https://www.destatis.de/EN/Themes/Economic-Sectors-Enterpris...
It’s the beginning of the climate revolution.

It’s going to be real ugly I can tell you that for sure.

The children have no future. The old have accumulated ownership of pretty much everything.

A generation with nothing to lose.

EDIT no climate future
It's weird how he wrings his hands over the damning half-truth of telling people he dropped out of Harvard instead of the Extension School at Harvard, but seems tolerantly baffled that his coworkers didn't like him outright lying to clients about their software capabilities. He's still defending that as a "common practice."
I took a brief look at Mojo, and it reminds me of how Java was going to break the Wintel duopoly and let Sun thrive.

(This analogy is not necessarily bad for Mojo any more than it was for Java as an ecosystem.)
No, she is at a private engineering startup. Her old boss was fond of breaking the law though
Good question - one of the soft clinical signs of a person with css I’ve noticed: they come to clinic w a thick fantasy novel in hand.

So imo every activity can facilitate dissociation to a different degree depending on the activity and individual. Gaming, gambling, stress eating, and actual substance use out on one end of the spectrum. Hiking, gardening in the middle. And mindfulness body scans on the other end.
I can confirm this: I know several mechanical engineers that do mission critical-type systems (think "power plants"), and they routinely use Excel VBA for calculations.
No idea, just wanted to chime in with "you may beat the rap, but you can't beat the ride!"
I don't think they did. They said increasingly so. They're just getting at Microsoft continually re-inventing the wheel and then abandoning that wheel when it comes to their GUI libraries. There's WinForms -> WPF -> UDP -> WinUI, Xamarin Forms -> .NET MAUI, and then the evolution of Avalonia and Uno as third-parties trying to step in. And all of those options still exist! You literally have a minimum of 8 GUI options, at least on Windows. There are of course more by external parties.
We do have a crisis with climate change. It doesn’t justify the way of protest they have chosen, but the severity of the cause was confirmed by some German courts IIRC.
Not an economist, so just guessing here.

Advantage is through the coupled mechanism. There's a chicken and egg problem for consumers of EVs. People are less likely to buy EVs because there aren't many charging ports so they take on extra risk and cost while betting that the future will allow them to regain similar conditions to their ICE vehicle. Filling stations are also at a similar risk investment situation as they don't want to build charging stations when there aren't enough EVs on the road to justify their costs.

So consumers and filling stations are stuck in a Nash Equilibrium because neither wants to take on the market bet. Both will actually suffer losses for moving first and realistically will not receive rewards for investing early (i.e. there is little to no opportunity cost). So Germany is shifting the risk away from the consumer.

But this is just a guess and I'm sure there are naive aspects about it. But it is also naive to just assume that everything can be solved with taxes and incentives. Though I hope this policy has some aspect that creates opportunity costs for not installing charging stations (i.e. gov will subsidize stations installing them at a decreasing rate)
Your comment is wrong in at least three distinct ways.
No, that shouldn’t be the criteria (common relational db) when deciding to use bigserial v UUID but the overall architecture and requirements of your system.
Germany already has 0.65€/liter ($2.60/gal) fuel taxes, and on top of that there's the regular 19% VAT.

One issue the German state is trying to solve is that even charging stations that aren't economically profitable can be valuable to the overall system. Something along the lines of "you barely ever need that charger, but having it available solves range problems that would otherwise prevent you from getting an EV".
How? Coal accounted for 33.3% of electricity production in 2022. Nuclear power accounted for 13.3% of German electricity supply in 2021.
Definitely agree with you for urban: parks, malls, restaurants -- they'll already have ample parking and be grid-connected.

For rural, yeah you gotta make do with what's already there. Gas-stations fit the bill.
We did care about performance because 1 MHz was slow even back then and data bus were slow too. However we had to care more about memory size because we couldn't fit much in a few kB or 1 or 2 MB for huge machines. Finally, compilation time for substantial programs were... substantial! You could play games as in that sword fighting xkcd.
The interesting thing about old people is they tend to die, and bequeath their properties to their children.
Assuming you know which ones are problematic and which one's aren't. We don't. All the test provides is noise, not signal, when used in a low-incidence population.

The fact is there's no evidence such testing improves outcomes - if there was we'd just be doing it as part of the standard course of care. Folks are just demanding access to noise. Just go flip some coins instead, and save the medical resources for the people who need them.
This seems to be at least part of the complaint if I’m reading it right:

> AB 587 thus mandates X Corp. to speak about sensitive, controversial topics about which it does not wish to speak in the hopes of pressuring X Corp. to limit constitutionally-protected content on its platform that the State apparently finds objectionable or undesirable. This violates the free speech rights granted to X Corp. under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and Article I, Section 2, of the California Constitution.

As for the precedent,

> Which it can, for the same reason that the government can compel businesses to do their taxes, file permits, and disclose their political contributions.

My understanding is that what can be compelled is pretty limited (e.g. facts in advertising, ingredients, etc.), it’s not a blanket precedent for the state to ask you to produce anything at any time.
Only professional, human narrators are acceptable to me. With few exceptions (e.g., Jimmy Carter), I can’t listen to an audiobook that was narrated by the author.
I think it does not work the way it was intended.
In the "remedies" section of the complaint they ask for "divestiture" which I'm pretty sure means spinning companies off out of Alphabet's hands.

> Order the divestiture of, at minimum, the Google Ad Manager suite,
including both Google’s publisher ad server, DFP, and Google’s ad
exchange, AdX, along with any additional structural relief as needed to
cure any anticompetitive harm;
I'm referring to the maximum length of detention under the German law being used (if I'm reading things right). I am aware that the US has some pretty serious problems that are at least somewhat related, but I'm trying not to digress into that.
We have a constitutional right to a speedy trial.

That right can be waived to give the defense time to prepare, and it isn't always enforced for non-citizens detained abroad (e.g. Guantanamo), but I'm unaware of anything similar to the article happening in the US.
Somebody needs to drive the garbage truck...
If the stations can make money, they will install as much of them as possible. Capitalism.
Brilliant execution. I see so many knob-based inputs on home appliances where they have physical detents but the input encoder does not match the detents. Say you turn the appliance on, it starts at setting one, and you need to turn the dial to setting three. Any reasonable person would expect one physical click to take you to setting two, another click would take you to setting three. But I keep seeing devices where the detents are completely arbitrary and you have no idea how many “clicks” it takes to get to the setting you want. This makes the detents actively misleading.
Don't forget that VB.NET was a thing. I worked on a web-based client management system that used VB.NET on the back-end.
Every time I need to work in JavaScript (which happens only a few times a year), just getting build scaffolding to work is so very hard. The gulf from "you understand the language's syntax" to "you can build something useful following commonly-agreed conventions" is vast. Not to forget that these conventions significantly change every few months.
> That's incorrect

Is it?

> the Send bounds are only there in the multithreaded runtime (because it might need to Send a task across threads).

Tokio is interacted with using free functions which dynamically look up the current runtime, they could not have a different signature even if tokio had different runtime types, which it does not.

> The single threaded runtime will never do that, so its futures don't need to be Send.

Please do point to the ?Send spawn (not spawn_local) which supposedly exists for the current_thread runtime. You can't even spawn_local at the toplevel of the current_thread runtime.
> The manufacturer was able to offer further expertise including analysis of lower-level software logs which led to identification of the likely flight plan that had caused the software exception.

This part stood out to me. I've found it super helpful to include a reference to which piece of days in working with in log messages and exceptions. It helps isolated problems so much faster.
I remember, in some sense, Google (and also a group of anti Microsoft developers) encouraged web development as a strategy to break the Windows software monopoly.

So it's not that Microsoft missed it, it is that a big shift happened and it was specifically targeted against them. There's nothing they could have done, except to embrace it, and they did. Visual Basic Script existed and was very popular for a while. IE4 ruled the web.

The shift to web based technologies is a Google and an open source win. And it is also an inferior experience. That was the price we paid =)
It's a good explanation, and more readable than the Wikipedia! Thanks for that.
I no longer care about GitHub anymore. Since I am being forced to use 2FA starting Oct 12, I moved my repositories elsewhere. The methods they are forcing us to use are ones I am unable to use or will not use (in the case of Cell Phones).

For me, this was the straw that "broke the Camels back".
There was a piece of footage shown on British TV. Street scene, camera tilted slightly upwards, and something flashes across the screen from top-left to bottom-right. Fast, just a few frames. Never saw it again (admittedly I didn't look very hard).

Don't suppose anyone knows what I'm talking about, do they? Would be nice to know it's not a false memory.
Good. These idiots are a net harm to the climate change cause. The only thing they have managed is accelerated resentment towards pro climate activities.

It is fully possible I have a naive interpretation of their goals and perhaps they're just looking for an excuse to be the biggest twats possible.
You have to reduce that to the (still massive) set of IDs that are somewhat pronounceable in languages that use the Latin script. You don't want to be the air traffic controller trying to work out how to say 'Lufthansa 451, fly direct QXKCD'. Nonetheless, I think the there is little cause for concern about changing existing IDs. There might be sentimental attachment, but it takes barely a few flights before the new IDs start sticking, and it's not like pilots never fly new routes.
The book "An Epidemic of Absence" documents the hygiene theory mentioned in his piece. There is a review of that book here [1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/11/science/an-epidemic-of-ab...
If anyone LSO/LG have earned the "reputation" for destructive or disrupting stunts

I actually do think they're indirectly being financed by the oil industry (LSO head figures go around in private jets) to antagonize and create a bad (but not unrealistic) caricature of the climate protestors. And of course there's plenty of people willing to play the roles

Greta looks like the serious grownup compared to LSO
Arguably those chargers are most important along the Autobahn to fix the long-distance chicken-egg problem, and the gas stations along the Autobahn are mostly set up like "truck stops" where you can hang around for an hour or more, have a proper meal and do some shopping.
Not all 5-character long strings are usable though. They have to be pronounceable as a single word and understandable over radio as much as possible.
Very interesting research!

Given that you're using cosine similarity of text embeddings to approximate the influence of individual tokens in a prompt, how does this approach fare in capturing higher-order interactions between tokens, something that Integrated Gradients (allegedly) is designed to account for? Are there specific scenarios where the cosine similarity method might fall short in capturing the nuances that Integrated Gradients can reveal?
This makes me mad because I actually do like Windows. I don't understand the need to make it crappy considering their market share.
Yeah, I wish the mobile OSes cared more about backwards compatibility
The wealth is skipping a generation. That would be a very strange age/role reversal.
You seem to be implying that freedom of movement isn't a right?
"by means of moderation/censorship and boosting"
Of course, the only way to get it seems to be to pirate it. Is there a recommended way to do this? My partner isn't ready to give up on Windows yet and I'm trying to find the least bad path.
I think the most important thing to ask about an edge case is “how could I have designed this code to make it not an edge case”
Ask HN: Why Did Yelp Fail?
Yelp was once _the_ source for reviews and sometimes photos (for restaurants).

Then something happened, and then it seemed to just fall away.

? Was it Google Maps (with reviews)?

? Was it disputes about reviews, or questions of financial influences or censorship of reviews?

It's been long enought that perhaps some insiders can share details without risk...
It's complicated, and the law leaves a lot of wiggle room. In principle, it can be a valid reason to end an employment relationship from the employer side if someone is unable to perform their work due to being in jail. However there's a lot of hoops to jump through for the employer - the absence has to be of "significant length", the employer has to be able to show they deeply looked into it when they came to this conclusion, they need to consult with the employee on it, they may have to look into alternative solutions to fill the gap, etc. As a guideline, if the absence is expected to be two years or longer, much of this is no longer expected by the employer.

I think most employers would not get away with firing someone in this case.
Unless things have changed since I was a subscriber, you get a token every month which can be used to purchase any book from the full library. So its effectively 1 book a month + a few extras bonuses for $7.95
True, Intel could've been influenced if there was an expectation on the behavior of shifts. But I doubt they'd have made two versions, and we'd just be stuck with the less useful mod 32/64 one.
Advanced x86: Virtualization with  Intel VT-x
> Google pockets on average more than 30% of the advertising dollars that flow through its digital advertising technology products

Say more about tech companies extracting 30% from their platform...
Steps Toward Artificial Intelligence – Marvin Minsky (1960)
The climate of the entire world is changing for the worse. ICE cars do not consider negative externalities.

Not to mention that EVs are enormously popular! They are only being produced now because Tesla is making them. EVs are far more reliable and cheaper to maintain than ICE cars, which is bad if you're a car manufacturer because people buy EVs less frequently than unreliable ICE cars.

"ICE only exists because customers only want them" has no basis in fact.
The 1999 equivalent for Nvidia stocks would have been something like Sun (as mentioned in the article) or Cisco (because they sold routers which everyone thought were essential).
An example where this matters is tethering right now. My android phone won't tether. It's an unlocked android phone bought independently of the carrier. But it won't tether the connection to another device as my provider has a flag that this is not supported and android due to pressure from carriers obeys this on all phones, even non carrier locked phones.

Of course I can just swap the sim into a dedicated tethering hotspot and it works. But esim will soon fix that as esims are tied to the phone.
It's not about feeling sorry for them, it's about not abiding a society where you can be imprisoned for something you haven't done.

Nobody needs the right to say "I like ice cream" protected. Nobody would dare impinge on that in the first place. Protecting objectionable behavior is how rights are enshrined.

insert "there was no one left for me" poem etc.
It wasn't accidental.
It's good to get a fresh perspective sometimes
First of all if that was the case then I would obviously not do it since it would be tantamount to throwing money in a hole. So the answer to that is trivial.

Second of all my snark was about being completely wholesome. If something is less than wholesome they can still be... okay, not outright bad.

Third of all, OP (I don't agree but that's a different matter) was clearly talking about finding a balance between letting businesses pursue profit and keeping them from interfering with the larger public good since they gave an analogy with fire. (The examples with fire seemed a bit out of tune with that though.) We do use fire for good but we also have to contain it very carefully.
> January 24, 2023

Previously on HN (246 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34507230
I wonder how Stripe generates their IDs. They look quite nice.
Superuser: Delete defaultuser0 account on Windows 10
> My internet research suggested that there were a number of potential problems with most brands

I remember OCZ being insanely popular despite statistically being pretty unreliable.
Looks like they just renewed it 5 hours ago. [1]

Valid from Mon, 11 Sep 2023 13:28:21 UTC
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[1] - https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=pecl.php.net
That sounds interesting indeed.

I think the major disconnect is that I'm mostly familiar with UI and game programming. In these async discussions I see a lot of disregard for the use cases that async C# and JavaScript were built around. These languages have complex thread contexts so it's possible to run continuations on a UI thread or a specific native thread with a bound GL context that can communicate with the GPU.

I suppose supporting this use case is an implementation detail but I would suggest you dig into the challenge. I feel like this is a major friction point with using Go more widely, for example.
Your employer is not allowed to fire you if are in jail for less than 2 years. You also can't evict someone from their home because of jail. And the government might be paying your landlord for your time in jail as well (depending on the time etc.). It's complicated, but basically, Up to 6 months, all fine on all ends.

Germans don't have car payments usually. They pay for the car in cash, if they don't have enough, they buy a smaller car :)
All numbers we have are not supporting those claims.
> Its only really important to a very small minority of the population. The rest of the people say they want privacy

This argument is absolutely a No True Scotsman. Just because they don't Truly Want privacy doesn't mean they're not expressing that they want privacy.
You fine tune small models for different purposes. Small because big models are hardware intensive and for a special purpose you may not need the big model anyway. After you tune your small model for your special purpose, you ask it questions from a standard set to make sure you haven't tuned your model into incoherence.
There were interviews with or voice recordings of the two fighter pilots discussing who would hit the cockpit and who would hit the tail, should it have come to that.
Maybe it didn't. What I mean is, maybe the purpose for VB died and thus the language just kinda went away.
Yes, essentially radar. Wifi is the medium because you already have a router in your home.

This sort of capability is being introduced into the newest WLAN standards and is being promoted as the next step towards smart homes and devices. The idea being that a standard router can be used to detect human presence, and therefore do things like turn on/off lights, HVAC, etc. This might make even more sense in the commercial space.

This would be as far as I'm aware the first attempt at doing something like this without additional hardware (mounted sensors). It should in theory lower the barrier to entry even further.

There are higher frequency variations of this that could in theory do things like detect breathing. Some people are talking about it being like the new lifeline button or baby monitor.

How well it's implemented will ultimately determine it's usefulness IMO.
One reason could be that they were developed for specific versions of software and haven't been updated to keep pace with evolving technologies. Additionally, the open-source community often faces challenges with maintaining and funding projects, which can lead to stagnation.

However, it's worth exploring alternatives or checking if any passionate developers have taken up the torch to revive these libraries for newer software versions. Collaboration and community support are key in keeping such projects alive.
> become 30+ days late on all of their bills since you cannot pay bills from jail

can't americans bind the utilities to their checking account? i (european) can do that. the bills are paid automatically from my balance (the same where i receive my salary). the web portal from my bank can lists all the entities allowed to pay bills from my balance, and i can revoke any of them unilaterally (in that case i'd have to go back to pay the bills one by one, manually).
True, insofar as knowing that the problem doesn't affect everyone.

But often the key people responsible use that phrase as a shield to seemingly reject the suggestion that there is a problem.

I've experienced this so many times with ISPs over the years. I offer them a lot of details, but the most common initial (and final) response is "nobody else has reported this". Obviously the first person reporting a problem will be in this situation.
I'm very pro-green energy but it's rather hard to deny the utility of oil & gas as a means of storing energy.
It is almost impossible to fire long term employees in Germany. But getting proper employment is very difficult for this reason. Most people are on yearly contracts, part time jobs etc...