skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, of course it’s terrible for someone to issue death threats over anything, much less software prices.

Threats of violence are wrong and illegal.

But companies should have security in place to protect their buildings for large gatherings. And that security should be able to reasonably protect against jerks who give death threats.
You can filter your feed to only show friends stuff (and it's chronological)

https://www.facebook.com/?filter=friends
But doesn't that inherently imply you try to keep users from making long-term connections? Users having lots of fun dates are not doing them with the same person and continuing to use your app. It's a bunch of dates that ultimately went nowhere.

That's the thing with dating apps/sites. If you succeed too well, you've lost 2 users.
So what is the consensus view on how to do parallelism in python if you just have something that is embarassingly parallel with no communication between processes necessary?
> category 3 but needed to do a rare long road trip

In fact, we know people with an EV for commuting and chores, plus an ICV for long travel.

(Of course this is exactly a slice of that "cat.3" for which such arrangement makes sense - it may possibly count many, but those "cat.1" and "cat.2" do exist. To be fair, there will also exist "cat.4" people who live in environments where cars are not a daily need.)
I don't think it's unreasonable to fear that your employees will say something stupid that shows up in court even if you haven't done anything illegal.
> Personally I think it's a great attitude; if your technology is better than everyone else, you deserve to put them out of business.

I think this "Others must lose so that I win" attitude is one of the more toxic attributes of this Thunderdome Capitalism so many industries have somehow ended up in. Wouldn't it be great if we could have dozens of businesses all successful, all doing "somewhat good" rather than having to always have a small number of winners that take everything?

If I'm going to open a laundromat a block away from Paul's competing laundromat, I'm not doing it to try to put Paul out of business. I'm just trying to capture enough business so that we can coexist comfortably. Some entrepreneurs just don't know the meaning of the word "enough".
You would simply be prosecuted for theft, it's not that complicated. "I didn't know how it works" obviously doesn't work and I doubt that would work where you live. But do let me know when you eventually find out.
Or 4) You could charge at home but you have a long commute and forget to charge enough that range can become a problem.
It's an M+N tool in my opinion because it parses M languages with a uniform interface, for use in N higher-level tools. I can use the same Python grammar/parser with any tool that's based on Tree Sitter.
I think you over estimate the power of the word "socialism". The reply "yeah, and?" would probably play over pretty well with the kind of crowd that would have a chance in hell of voting for such a party anyways.
Insurance isn't a financially bad bet. They're providing a service (not needing to maintain the liquidity of replacement costs) in exchange for a fixed monthly fee. It's cheaper for me to grow my own food but it's not a "bad bet" to not be a subsistence farmer and buy my food at the grocery store even though many people are making money off my purchase up the chain. I get to use my money and time for something more productive.
I shouldn't have said "eliminate". I'll defer to:

https://electionscience.org/library/the-spoiler-effect/

or

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_electoral_system...

I don't really have a strong preference for IRV (over, say, approval or score voting), but it does seem to be widely accepted as an improvement over first-past-the-post and also an option that has a realistic chance of adoption (due to slotting into existing electoral schemes without giant overhauls).
According to wiktionary, 'scientism' has these meanings:

1. The belief that the scientific method and the assumptions and research methods of the physical sciences are applicable to all other disciplines (such as the humanities and social sciences), or that those other disciplines are not as valuable.

2. The belief that all truth is exclusively discovered through science.

Maybe the second definition kind of fits if you stretch it. I think 'futurism', not in the sense of the artistic movement, is a closer fit; '2. The study and prediction of possible futures.'
Colin's channel is just a treasure trove.
Instead of collaborating or supporting me, Google stole my idea
Utilu Standalone Internet Explorer Collection
I bought an eeepc netbook in 2008. It was my main computer until 2012, spent several years sitting on a shelf, and now is my daughter's. It's still doing fine, as are the two other eeepcs people in my family bought around the same time.

It's not useful for very much, since it's way underpowered for most things you might want to do today, but it still works for typing and basic networking.
This has been available in Lisp since at least 2004.

https://github.com/edicl/cl-ppcre/
I sleep with my phone under my pillow. I should probably stop.
I work at Google and the comments like the one OP had is so deeply confusing to me?

If the judicial system finds that there was monopolistic behavior, then they should deal with it. People apologizing that "oh poor companies have a hard time with words" are wild to me.
They certainly are. I went to a concert with just a few thousand people and they had off duty cops there.
Seems like a candid conversation got taken out of context. I get that it was insensitive, but it seems like they were having a private conversation about the value of a judgement in a potential lawsuit or settlement. If this was a public conversation or release it would be wildly inappropriate. In private it's just some people that are not very sensitive. Should they have prefaced every sentence in the discussion with a disclaimer about what a tragedy it is, etc?

I'm generally the first to jump on law enforcement for misbehavior, and I'm sure the guy that killed her will be treated way more leniently than a civilian. I think this is a little blown out of proportion though, and focusing on the interpretation of the words "limited value".
Big fan of https://utilu.com/IECollection/ for testing stuff like this
It produces cars that are within spec:

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/new-images-and-video-conf...
Maybe the LTV is higher. Or it attracts more shows to Netflix than competitors. Ot it secures a moat.
XTTS: Open-source Foundation TTS model
XTTS, the production-quality TTS model from Coqui, is released

- Multilingual: Generates speech in 13 different languages

- Voice cloning with 3 seconds of audio

- Cross language voice cloning as well

- 24khz quality

- Blog: https://coqui.ai/blog/tts/open_xtts

- Demo: https://huggingface.co/spaces/coqui/xtts

- Model: https://huggingface.co/coqui/XTTS-v1
Intermediate [insert topic here] knowledge associated with overconfidence and negative attitudes.

Topics: Science, Sports, Cooking, Driving, Programming… literally anything.

I didn’t need a study to know this.
> not sure if it is a data cable, also.

I may get accused of being an Apple fan for this, but this is why I dread USB-C. My lightening cables always charge and have data. Having to care about this is a pain.
I guess this could also be a play to make Microsoft interested in buying them out when money crisis hit.

But I don't know, it could just be an ordinary bad bussiness decision
for 2D or simple 3D games, sure. Godot should be able to do enough to enable a small team to launch a game. You just have to keep in mind that console support won't be as robust and smooth as UE.
I worked at OkCupid from 2013-2017 and totally resonate with the author that mid-2010s OkCupid was a really special product, and that it took a steep decline as the decade went on. It's not entirely fair to say that the Match acquisition immediately caused that decline; I started a couple years after Match got the company in its hands, and only two of the original founders were still focused on OkCupid full time. But the product continued to improve and grow for years after that. There was very little top-down directives about how to develop the product during that time.

OkCupid had excellent growth in the first half of the 2010s, but as that growth started to plateau, it was pretty clear that the focus moved to following Tinder's trends in an effort to match their level of growth. But OkCupid was a really healthy company with great profits and low burn, being only a team of 30-40 people. It could have stayed the way it was and continued to turn a profit. But Tinder had shown that the market size for mobile was way bigger than the desktop-focused product that OkCupid used to be. The focus towards acquiring more mobile users meant stripping down and simplifying a product that previously demanded hundreds of words of essay writing, and answering hundreds of questions. The essay prompts became simpler, multiple choice asymmetric questions got deprioritized over reciprocal yes / no questions. And as a user, I felt the quality of conversations I had went down as most messages were sent on the go from people just trying to line up their weekend plans, instead of a deeply invested audience trying to form meaningful connections first.

I really miss working on the product OkCupid was when I started, and often day-dream about starting another dating app closer to its original long-form vision. But the worst part of trying to do that is bootstrapping users, and seems like the only ways to do that are either have a lot of capital, or shadier methods like fake profiles or scraping data off of other sites. Not really interested in raising or setting my morals aside to do it.
I think the “winner takes all” attitude is the problem. It’s perfectly fine to run a tech company with a limited market but it doesn’t generate the spectacular returns current investors are looking for.
As a host or VM? It would not work as a host as TA uses Windows’ driver kit api. It’s written all for windows.
There is one timing-related disclosure in the F-1: The Kronos guarantee
Newton has a fair claim to be the greatest genius that every lived, with his hugely influential work on gravitation, law of motion, optics, calculcus and more. But he also spent a huge amount of time and energy on bible studies and alchemy. I wonder what other areas of science and maths he might have discovered without those distractions?
Yes but it doesn't have to be upheld in a court of law. It just has to be what corporate officers are ordered, selected and incentivized around. It doesn't need to be legally required for people to do something.
We need to go back to making everything available offline, and use local compute power. Chromebooks and the ChromeOS are useless really in offline mode unless you are technical expert. The Linux container and Android support is abysmal unless you have the fastest and most powerful chromebook. At which point you should just get a Windows machine with WSL and WSA, or a Macbook.
If you search for "perpetual motion machine" you can find a ton of cheap knockoffs of this device. You can get a badly made wooden knockoff for $50 or quite a bit less?
They really want to but Lina Khan will blow up the acquisition before the ink even has a chance to dry.

Especially after the bruising FTC for from the Activision fight. Unlike Activision, the FTC actually has a case here.
There do seem to be "churners" out there subscribing to services only for as long as they need to watch the show they want to see, and I'd guess a wide middle of customers who are at least prepared to cancel if they feel that they're not using the service enough or that they will get better value from an alternative.

To keep these customers, you need to keep them continuously hooked on your programming.
That's new to me. Who are those analysts?
Sounds like something you probably should not be talking about on the internet with your real name?
Just a bunch of people holding "I accept" signs they've never read. Not that different from most politics, I guess.
Not true at all in my experience re:speed, it's really bizarre to me how often people assert that without even a token anecdote. It's not the same speed as your average devs machine but doesn't mean it's any slower than WSL on the same hardware
What sun? This is the UK we're dealing with. These factory workers would be going to work in the dark. I imagine alarm clocks would be a luxury item back then.
No one is telling them not to do this. The news just takes things out of context to push agendas.
This was epic! I used to bring this to school on a floppy and was absolutely shocked at the quality of the experience after booting. It's a pretty full featured desktop environment.
Ohh that's a good idea.

If I'm understanding this correctly you proactively filter comms through an AI. If it detects you said something that could be interpreted a certain way the communication isn't sent and the user is told to be more careful in their phrasing?

That's pretty brilliant to be honest. Except maybe the discovery will then be on what the AI filter was instructed to prevent as if that's an admission of guilt.
It was a nice cooooop for as long as it was operational.

Bi'ness was abooming without any bloodshed.

---

On a more serious note, it is quite baffling to me that even after the tech sector embracing the corporate culture fully, and tons of documents generated every hour, prosecutors still have to scrape for such documents.
What is your background? I know that many Americans perceive a British accent as snobbish/arrogant (this is often used in Hollywood movies as well). So maybe it's just that?
I used to use Pocket, then migrated to Pinboard, and now use Raindrop.

I like Raindrop because it has both golder and tags, plus the folders can be shared.

For example here is a list of tools I have curated over the years, https://raindrop.io/dentropy/tools-31378381
Play the Harvard Assignment Game
While this might seem to be intended for DJ remixes a demixer also lets you jam along to your favorite songs. For instance you can extract only the voice, bass, and drums and play along with your guitar like you were a part of the band.
Breaking that is the entire point of ranked choice voting. If the existing parties co-opt that, then the party has succeeded.
Clever use of language to check one's thinking
Absolutely, and the fact that our lawmakers cannot distinguish the two, and rely on fighting the last war with dumb heuristics based on phraseology is a real social problem.
I also use alpine as the main/root environment. But I rarely use any applications from alpine. For that I have Arch, Fedora and Debian rootfs dirs into which I pivot_root with the help of bubblewrap (bwrap) in shell scripts. There is no overhead and the GPU can be easily attached. You can also dynamically attach ro/rw CWD and target paths (`for arg in "$@"`).

Everything that I care about just works and I get a separation of concerns. Use of network namespaces allows further flexibility. For example, I have a netns that is forced through a Tor gateway such that any traffic originating in it can only go through Tor.

This type of setup is not hardened against kernel vulnerabilities, the kernel treats applications running in namespaces as if they are isolated from other namespaces but those applications can still interact with broad surfaces of the kernel and therefore potentially exploit it.

For kernel safety applications must be denied direct access to the host kernel, this is usually achieved with virtual machines.
I'd be more interested in learning how they would've collected that data.
They are in the US. My work has armed private security guards.

It’s more common than you think. That’s why there are armed private security laws and regs.

Looks like there are 239,000 in the US [0]. This doesn’t include law enforcement.

[0] https://www.zippia.com/armed-guard-jobs/demographics/
It this the B swimming lane thing again?
I hate that I love this article. It's so true.
Introducing Infrastructure Manager: Google Cloud Resources with Terraform
Did you misread my comment?

If not, what 'numbers or evidence' are you referring to?

The only thing I mentioned, costs and figures, are explicitly not known by me, so it seems bizarre to think I made judgements based on non existent knowledge.

The rest seems like your own rambling thoughts.
The Jordan River flows northward into the GSL.
Thank you. I've tried git fsck in the past, and it complains about the missing object as well.

And I just tried "git gc —prune=now", and sadly it still fails the same way.

I'm afraid I'm going to have to bite the bullet and clean up my 30 or so worktrees and re-clone the repo, and re-create the worktrees.
Using a single coil, the microcontroller program is pretty complicated. It needs to pulse the coil very briefly on a regular basis and measure the resonant frequency.

If you do the capacitor-less design, you might want to have a steel core with sawtooth top, and then use software to measure the position of the ball relative to each tooth and turn the coil on while the ball is heading towards a tooth and off when the ball is heading away. That allows the energy to be extracted from the battery slower.

You might also choose to have your coil driven by an h-bridge. That means you can put the energy from the magnetic field that builds up in the steel core back into the battery between each 'tooth'. That should dramatically increase energy efficiency, allowing you to use a smaller (cheaper, lighter, more eco friendly) cell or have the battery last longer. To do that, you'll need current sensing too.
if you have a task that is easy to split, make a python script that runs on a subset of the task, split into N subsets, and write one output per process? Once they all complete, join together the outputs. Maybe https://docs.dask.org/en/stable/ is a good start if you want a framework. I don't think there's a consensus, it depends on the problem.
Yep. Not saying public service is efficient, the privatisation of certain sectors like water and is much worse. The environment cost is just ignored and the public still get to foot the bill
I worked at another FAANG and they did exactly the same thing.

There were official docs saying not to say the word monopoly, or something to that effect (It's been a few years). It felt dirty, glad to see that I was right and no, there isn't some magic legal loophole of using special phraseology to imply things that are illegal.
I'm not really sure what you understand the word "bypass" to mean here?

Tor/Tails can certainly help someone who is experiencing censorship to publish a book or distribute a video in a different region where that censorship does not exist. That bypasses the censorship. For example someone experiencing censorship could contact a publisher or distributor in a different location and transmit the book or video to them.

If censorship exists on Twitter, publishing items to Twitter isn't bypassing Twitter's censorship. You may be bypassing automated censorship or some mechanism but Twitter would still be censored.

The same goes for books. There's no tool that is going to keep a book on the shelves of a library that wants to burn the book. Bypassing the library's censorship means getting the book to readers despite the library's censorship.
Google Usenet Abuse Complaint – Spam Denial of Service Attack
I am starting this thread to document complaints to Google to resolve
the tsunami of Usenet spam originating with their servers. The spam
flood attack has persisted for a very long time.

Since 8/31 the last 10000 messages I polled from Usenet group
'sci.crypt' are mostly automated spam originating with google path
headers.

Only 44 messages were found that are not spam. This means that roughly
99.56% of all messages in the group are spam originating with google
servers.

I suggest others file abuse complaints with Google, then post copies of
those complaints as follow-ups to this thread in news.admin.peering.
This way we can document efforts to request Google cease enabling the
spam abuse.
"... purpose built anti-stylometry tool, that explicitly tries to analyze for and mute the signals stylometry uses."

Just mention a "devil strip" in every post and call it a day.
He was also petty and vindictive. As shown by using his status in a long running attempt to ruin Leibnitz's reputation over the invention of calculus.
Why Voice Failed as a Platform
I believe we are in agreement on this. Intuitively, and under the assumption that the physical world exists (although I have no clue why or how it exists), I feel that mathematics is formed inside of the physical world. The experience of being able to practice mathematics probably emerges from brain structures which have evolved in the physical world.

Still, there are some problems that I run into when taking these thoughts further. How, for instance can one apply deductive reasoning or apply Occam's razor in a context where these are not available?

I am also intrigued by your earlier remark that "math is just a model that is surprisingly applicable to the real world." (emphasis mine). This brings to mind "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences". Perhaps there is an easy way out for believers of anti-realism.

Would it be an interesting hypothesis to say that the real (physical) world that we observe is limited exactly by the way that our sensors and brains take shape in it? I'd like to think of this as the antithesis to "in the beginning there was nothing" -- I'd rather think that outside our physical world "there is all and everything"; we just seem to be able to reflect only on part of it. The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics hints at a correlation between how brains work and what physical laws there are. Perhaps Emmy Noether's ideas on symmetry may lead to some clues here as well.

In this way it would not be surprising at all that mathematics is applicable to the real world, as it is so almost by definition. This is obviously not the same interpretation as Max Tegmark's, but it does hint at some kind of interplay between a mathematical world and a physical world.

Unfortunately, I can only make this theory work for myself intuitively. I have no grasp on what it means that the physical world is part of something bigger. In a way, it seems to be moving the goalposts, similar to how some people believe we are somewhere in a nested series of simulations. And I feel quite uncomfortable in using logic, concepts, abstractions and what have you, which are part of the human brain context, and possibly not of the context that I magically believe our physical world to reside in.
30% market share is not a monopoly
Maybe they're more similar than I thought. I guess 9 months' gestation isn't exactly "in a hurry", though.
I really enjoyed that book!

This pair of pants actually looks fairly complicated. If you look at the knees, they're a different patter of twill than the upper and lower leg. This could possibly be made so that the knee flexes more easily and is more durable. The seat reinforcements are interesting as the article points out. You commonly see a smaller version of this added to jeans worn by people who commute on their bikes.
Not a good idea when the date can be extended later.
All members of the fraternity (Male and Female) are called brothers, a few chapters don't do this, but it is rare, and forced by local school admins.

As we say: Incest is best, put your brother to the test.

It makes sense that brothers would date. We share a love of community service, many common values, and experiences. Think about how much that simplifies the whole dating thing.

https://apo.org/
WASM typed function references and GC are in standardization
Im not saying that is what they want, but it looks like what is happening to me. Ads was not new, it was selling internet search ads on a open auction that was novel.
On the other hand, considering we are talking about kids breaking laptops, this failures are much more random, a brand new laptop is not that much more likely to survive a fall than an old one.