skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it "competition" when you're up against state-sponsored actors who will use tactics the rest of the world would consider illegal?
I've been meaning to migrate Plex to Jellyfin. I don't even host at Hetzner, but this coming at the end of the week is perfect -- I'm going to do the migration this weekend!
Last note: according to other internet sleuths, this user runs/is closely connected to those who run archive.is

https://gyrovague.com/tag/archive-is/
https://cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/archive-today
https://webapps.stackexchange.com/a/149405
From the NIH:

"You are more likely to develop type 2 diabetes if you are not physically active and are overweight or have obesity. Extra weight sometimes causes insulin resistance and is common in people with type 2 diabetes. The location of body fat also makes a difference."

https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/diabetes/overvi...
IIUC investing in PV is actually more efficient for heating/cooling than solar-thermal, because you can use them to run a heat pump, and heat pumps have something like 400% efficiency (i.e. with 1 kWh of electricity they can pump 4 kWh of heat).

Here in the Netherlands government is now trying to ramp down PV subsidies, because PV has been so wildly successful that electricity spot prices are actually negative at peak sun (midday). (Even without subsidies I believe the panels are now cheap enough to be worth the investment, though.)
If in the regular scenario you load 10000 rows of new data and delete the old then it’s fine.

What if someone screws up the zip and instead of 10000 today, it’s only 10?
I’ve always wonder how our own IQ & problem solving skills is linked to the language we speak/think (and the numbering system we use).

Similarly, if someone can “speak/think” in Lisp - they will be able to solve a lot of problems that someone who can only “speak/think” in Bash cannot.
Yeah, it feels like an overreaction
See table 2: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-023-02565-4/tables/2
Yep, we just had a cabinet with a bunch of hardware keys for anyone to take.

Remote employees take a bit more support though.
I can't help but wonder if unlicensed copies of Windows and Office helped cement Microsoft's dominance.

Maybe Linux/FOSS advocates should advocate for better and more restrictive DRM. ;-)
> Bishops, queens, and rooks would need a 4/5 bit field.

Ignoring board boundaries, a queen has 56 possible moves requiring 6 bits. At any given position on the board, most of those aren't possible because the board is too small, but cramming that into 5 bits will make the encoding much more annoying.

Same thing goes for rooks; ignoring board boundaries there are 28 possible moves, but including the board boundaries there are 14. You can fit that in four bits, but you pick up some context sensitivity.

> 8 also works for pawns (and annoying due to e.p. 4 doesn't)

I don't see the problem? A pawn can move forward two spaces, it can move forward one space, it can capture diagonally to the left, or it can capture diagonally to the right. Those are the only possibilities and they fit into two bits.

En passant enables a pawn to capture a piece that isn't located on the space being captured, and you need to know the state of the board on the previous turn (or, equivalently, what the previous move was) in order to know whether en passant is a legal move... but to encode that it happened, you don't need anything you didn't already have.
"It's easiest and safest to assume that property is not stolen" is a parallel construction of your argument.

You can assume whatever you want but the cops may not be very impressed.

There are a lot of polite fictions in law, and this is one of them. If you had no reasonable way of knowing that a license was invalid (or property was stolen), the judge is probably going to be sympathetic, but the property will still get returned to its proper owner.

If you DID have a reasonable way to know that the status of the property was suspect (as in this case), they are likely to take a dim view of the situation.
Weird. I get 700Mbps+ in Canada on iPhone 14 Pro.
That is the most MDMA thing ever.
“half a decade” is practically yesterday in most codebases.
I’ve never done anything useful with Christmas lights or bitcoin. But Christmas lights are much prettier to look at than bitcoins.
How else would you learn about neural networks? You have to write code that expresses the network with some kind of executable semantics, e.g. PyTorch, JAX, Keras, &etc.
This either means that they have a cartel (which is illegal), or they effectively had no choice for some reason or another. ("Inflation" is such a nebulous concept...)
That is a rather special edge case - it was specifically directed training that she specifically requested on specific legal issues directly applicable to her job, directly communicated to her by an attorney, clearly marked as confidential, and was nearly purely legal advice directly applicable to her job.

It wasn’t a class given widely, it wasn’t broad or generic, it wasn’t given unsolicited, etc.

Point taken though, and thanks for the cite!
You can run a web server for self service, use a job queue on that same server to schedule actions sent to api providers for sms (Twilio) and letter mail (postgrid), integrate with insurers that provide an api if you don’t want to send papermail. All on a single machine, or virtual machine running JS, and serving JS and HTML.

Compliance is a matter of ensuring that you are following correct practices, and possible audits.

In exchange you get a program that can run on any of billions of devices in seconds without having to worry about local deployment.

If all you want is something like VB, you can opt for some of the low-code/no-code options mentioned elsewhere that are built on top of web technology.

I’m not saying that for what VB was used for, it isn’t a better solution. I’m saying that we ask our computers to do a lot more than we did 25 years ago, and tools like VB can’t do as much as the easier to write languages that have emerged in that time.
The entire reason aluminum smelters are happy to play along is because their restart costs are relatively cheap.

An aluminum smelter uses a humongous amount of power to, well, smelt aluminum. Due to the square-cube law the aluminum takes a really long time to cool back down. When you are trying to heat something from 20C to 700C it doesn't really matter if you take a break in the middle of the heating cycle. Sure, it might cool down from 500C back to 450C, but who cares?

As long as they get paid enough to make up for their workers getting an unscheduled paid day off, the smelter really isn't going to complain too much.
No, the war on drugs was definitely the reason, and it was stated as such at the time. They were doing PTSD research with veterans in the 70s and the feds shut it down even though it was clearly promising.
Except there are statutory damages for copyright infringement.
> You only need 5b to encode the piece to move: you know whose turn it is.

If you want to encode the piece (rather than the square), and you're comfortable not counting "whose turn is it?" against the information requirement, you don't need 5 bits. Each player has only 16 pieces, so you can give them all four-bit names.

You won't know what kind of piece they are, though.
I imagine it has to do with intent and willfulness.

Not sure if that’s relevant or not in a monopoly case though.
Apple “chose” it might be a bit misleading. While I’m sure they could’ve gone with Unreal, the outstanding lawsuits alongside the very loud negative press from Epic made it a non starter. Outside of Unreal and Unity, there aren’t a lot of options.
Oh that I had no issues with, as you see in my comment history. That’s not what the parent poster I was responding to was implying though.
idk i was able to libgen my way through a college physics degree not so far in the past
Parents Are Baffled by the Celebrities Their Kids Love
What drives me mad is many countries publishing this data openly online. I'm Ok with relevant government agencies knowing a business is mine but I really don't want every random weirdo on the Internet to know this, let alone my birth date, home address and which other businesses I do. There should be a legal and practical way for business owners to protect their personal privacy. Especially nowadays when they are so many parties collecting all the personal data they can reach and so many industrial-scale 24x7 scam/fraud farms all over the world.
Now a pile of legacy code needs to be burned to the ground and replaced (it sounds like a lot of Kubernetes was generated to work around it). In the Java ecosystem we’re fortunate that this is long since finished.
There were a lot of places that didn't map--some that were transcribed correctly and exist as places in the US, and some that didn't map because they were transcribed incorrectly
You absolutely can. Keeping your citizenship only means you would owe taxes on foreign income, not that you can't leave.
You are aware of intersex/chromosomal conditions and “gender assignment” treatments at birth right? “Sex assigned at birth” is a well-defined empirical label.
The biggest blow was the British privateers... yes, the British are why the US isn't on Metric.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/12/28/574044232...

https://www.military.com/history/why-pirates-might-be-reason...

> Thomas Jefferson, secretary of state in 1794, was eagerly awaiting a meeting with French physician and botanist Joseph Dombey. The Frenchman was supposed to meet Jefferson in Philadelphia to discuss a couple of critical international trade issues between their governments.

> He was also going to revolutionize the way Americans did business.

> But instead of meeting Jefferson in Philadelphia, Dombey found himself in the Caribbean, where his ship was being boarded by British privateers. Upon learning he was a Frenchman, and a famous scientist at that, he was captured and taken prisoner.

https://www.nist.gov/blogs/taking-measure/pirates-caribbean-...

> The marauders now swarming Dombey’s ship were a particular breed of pirate: British privateers—the state-sponsored terrorists of the 18th century. These waterborne gangs had the tacit approval of the government in London to harass and plunder other countries’ maritime commerce and keep part of the spoils as their profit.

> After seizing control of the ship, the pirates came across a sailor speaking Spanish with a curiously French accent—Joseph Dombey. A French physician and botanist acting under orders from the French government, Dombey had left the port city of Le Havre, France, weeks earlier for Philadelphia and the meeting with Jefferson, the United States’ first secretary of state and future president. But storms had pushed Dombey’s ship off course and deep into pirate territory.

> ...

> Some historians view this event as a tragic missed opportunity whose consequences we are still living with today. When the U.S. became an independent nation, it inherited an inconsistent collection of traditional British weights and measures. Congress was aware of the flaws with its British measures, and a congressional committee was formed to recommend solutions. Thomas Jefferson, an admirer of French scientific ideas, lobbied for a measurement system similar to that of France. But Congress didn’t adopt it, and the British-influenced system took hold in the U.S. instead. However, If pirates hadn’t intercepted Dombey on his way to Philadelphia, the situation might be very different today. As historian Andro Linklater writes in his book Measuring America,

> “The sight [in Congress] of those two copper objects [Dombey’s meter and grave], so easily copied and sent out to every state in the Union, together with the weighty scientific arguments supporting them, might well have clarified the minds of senators and representatives alike. And today the U.S. might not be the last country in the world to resist the metric system.”
Ho man. Have you ever actually sat in a court room before?

Or been involved in cases?

This is so far from the actual application of the law it’s hilarious.

The purpose of the law is keeping problem cases under control, providing a degree of predictability necessary for social stability, and mediating disputes in a way they don’t escalate into socially disruptive violence.

‘Keeping the peace’.

All the rest is window dressing/PR.

The reason why Google is getting this case thrown at it is not because what it was doing was unfair - but because they were too damn good at doing it.

If they went bankrupt trying or it didn’t work, no one would care. Same if they were only middling successful (but didn’t get so obscenely rich and high profile off it). There are hundreds of examples of this right now in a number of industries, from meat packing to RAM, that will continue to be ignored.

And because they’ve been so good at it, it’s stirring up a lot of anger and resentment that will cause problems. So they need to be “brought back under control”. Just like Microsoft was back in the day.

We’ll see what happens.
What good do they think this will do? Literally thousands of people have backups of the whole database and content, there's an uncountable number of mirrors and torrents are widely available. And as the article says, LibGen operators are basically untraceable and don't exist outside of the Internet.
The USB C connector is not 23 years old. IIRC Apple was a big participant in the USB C design process, advocating for a symmetric connector (like Lightning), unifying USB C and Thunderbolt, etc.

For that matter, Apple was a major adopter of USB starting with the iMac in 1998 (which also ditched 3.5" floppy disks in favor of optical and USB storage options - later models added FireWire.) Non-USB connections for iDevices (FireWire, 30-pin, Lightning) were used because of limitations of USB at the time(s). 30-pin and Lightning were retained for ~10 years to reduce connector churn (sorry Firewire iPod people.)

Regarding the pro model, it's definitely convenient to be able to shoot directly to an external SSD, connect to a monitor (and charge from it like a MacBook or iPad) etc. without a dongle.
Ask HN: What app do you use for book recommendations?
I’ve tried Goodreads and StoryGraph, but neither gives good recs. It seems like an easy problem to solve: just look at the authors I like, and recommend books that other people who have similar tastes also liked (ie. k-means matching). Is there an app that does this?

For example, I like:

- Greg Egan
- Ted Chiang
- Nabokov
- Kerouac
- Ishiguro
- Vonnegut
- Bukowski
- Kundera
- Joan Didion
- Oliver Sacks

Surely if you get a list of favorite authors like this from a few hundred people, you could trivially recommend new authors to people?
I prefer my cat not to get hit by a car.

Deer, possums, raccoons, and other wildlife who live outdoors seem incapable of learning how to avoid it, so it's unclear my cat will either.

Further as mentioned in my post, my parents essentially ran your experiment already with the result being every male cat we had dying in under 5 years due to being hit by cars.

So no, I don't think it's a great idea to let your cat outdoors in most reasonably populated & dense areas of the US.
I get an error trying to enable notifications (on iPhone safari):

undefined is not an object (evaluating
'swReg.pushManager.subscribe')
I let my subscription to the NYT lapse because of their unrelenting propaganda.

In any case, Carter's ineptness at foreign policy left an opening for his opponents. Not that that justifies his opponents, but it's still ineptness.

P.S. Carter is a nice guy and well-meaning, and I like him a lot. I'm glad he's been given a long life. He was just not a good President.
Those are average speeds across the country, not best/peak speeds. My guess is that the modem supports more efficient encoding and/or has better signal to noise ratio so given the same radio conditions they can get more bandwidth. Either that, or there's sampling bias where the new phone is more likely to be owned by urban customers, which have better speeds compared to rural customers and thus skewing the average.
Not that I'm a lawyer, but this rule strikes me has having a lot of potential. If a company declares false beneficiaries, it may be hard to find the true beneficiary, but I would think it's a lot easier to find and prosecute everyone involved in the false declaration.
> I mean, Morton sells it as salt replacement in little salt shakers in the grocery store. It's pretty mainstream.

They also sell margarine in cute butter-like packages and sweet ‘n low or stevia in the same single-serve packets as sugar. Doesn’t mean they don’t taste absolutely foul.
Starting a timeline at 20k years ago when we were, or near to the peak of the Last Glacial Maximum is not only deceptive, and most of Canada was under the giant Laurentide & Cordilleran glaciers, as was much of Asia, is frankly unscientific and alarming.

A simple response to that is a graph of glaciation cycles
https://opentextbc.ca/geology/chapter/16-1-glacial-periods-i...

In respect to CO2 https://mashable.com/article/co2-earth-history-climate-chang... or any longterm measurement of CO2 levels, however, speaking from a scientific perspective there is a great deal incorrect with current processes of measuring CO2 levels from ancient ice cores.

During the Last Glacial Maximum, many plants showed evidence of CO2 starvation also, which is part of the reason why desertification increased so much during the LGM.
Their new trick is online assignments with automatic grading. The access code for the assignment system will be something like $230 alone, or $250 bundled with the textbook. Departments save a few bucks on grading and pass on the costs to the students. It's a pretty gross business model.
my sensory skills are on point. its beyond infuriating when i notice a change in a food or drink product, hop online and search for the others with the pitchforks to join in with - only to find crickets.wav.
> They build this conglomerated system that all comes together as one blob, and get third parties to depend on various parts of it to prevent them from being swapped out individually. Then to replace one of them you have to be able to replace the others, which makes it very hard for any but the largest corporations to compete.

The case doesn't focus on this because it's not illegal. There are definite benefits to the user in terms of convenience here. And building a product that people want more is not anti-competitive behavior just because it requires a larger company to compete. Anti-competitive behavior is when you get customers by means other than building a product they want more.
If you're looking for ZFS backed why not rsync.net?

Am I dumb for just doing some rclone+rsync.net?
Alan Moore giving all his screen royalties to Black Lives Matter
»Is it true that he refuses all money he is entitled to from the film companies, asking for it to be divvied up among the film’s writers and other creatives? “I no longer wish it to even be shared with them. I don’t really feel, with the recent films, that they have stood by what I assumed were their original principles. So I asked for DC Comics to send all of the money from any future TV series or films to Black Lives Matter.”«
LibGen is amazing. Used it throughout college and saved so much money, I would use it again without question. My favorite part about it (aside from being free) is that the experience through LibGen is somehow superior to the legitimate $200-$300 alternative of purchasing the textbook and a DRM-riddled CD/PDF. You just download a lightweight 10MB PDF you can carry around on your USB drive, or view on your personal Dropbox!

There was a quote by Marcin Iwiński from CD Projekt, something to the effect of "if the guy who pirates your game gets a better experience than the guy who bought your game legally, there is something seriously wrong."
"...expecting about 100 people at the three-day conference, to be followed by a protest..."

non story, a statistically laughable number of people
zombo.com is still going, so why not Enron?
Isn’t that why many psychiatric experiments engage in some misdirection?
Wow, if this is real and practical it could be huge! Right up there with sanitation, nutrition, antibiotics and vaccines.
> It's true that they are much less likely to be shell companies

I think this seems to be the clear answer though. Such a business is not trivially filed into existence.
I think the commenter was referring to immunosuppressive therapy.
Streaming is changing the sound of music
Your train of replies reminds me of a canard I saw once on Twitter, can't remember by who: "Everything is monocausal and the cause the the thing I care most about." Your thing is regulation, apparently.
Same. Dwarf fortress used to have an economy but they took it out. I tried to make something like this and burnt out, though I expect I'll pick it back up again at some point.
Thomas Jefferson to John Adams (1813)
Jefferson: "There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. Formerly bodily powers gave place among the aristoi. But since the invention of gunpowder has armed the weak as well as the strong with missile death, bodily strength, like beauty, good humor, politeness and other accomplishments, has become but an auxiliary ground of distinction. There is also an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents; for with these it would belong to the first class. The natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature for the instruction, the trusts, and government of society... May we not even say that that form of government is the best which provides the most effectually for a pure selection of these natural aristoi into the offices of government? The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provision should be made to prevent its ascendancy."
Yes but in a subtle manner. While hundreds of Mbps is well past the point of finishing returns for one individual, that pool of bandwidth is shared between all customers in a sector. Rising peak speeds helps reduce the likelihood of congestion. To use a strained analogy rising car fuel economy keeps national gasoline demand flat even with more people driving than ever before.
OK. Firstly, people in academia don’t even talk like this (“what’s your source!”). Secondly, you’re fighting anecdotes with anecdotes, which is fine, except you’re trying to pull the ladder up after you.

You’re coming across as an MDMA fanboy and the way that you’re approaching the conversation will have if anything a negative impact on “the cause”.

MDMA wasn’t ‘designed’ to do anything. It happens to do something. I’m surprised that you’re even phrasing it this way because MDMA fanboys tend to obsess over the lore of its discovery.

I have been present for bad MDMA trips. One of these people has C-PTSD (putting aside the controversy about its existence), and had a C-PTSD-related bad trip, which seems highly highly relevant to this topic.

I’ve done a bunch of MDMA. I’m certainly going to do a bunch more throughout the rest of my life. I’m not going to kid myself about it being perfect. I’m not going to kid myself about the fact that over a large enough population even “improbable” adverse reactions are meaningful. Nerds that do drugs are so often insufferable because they’ll try to intellectualise what’s essentially “God I love drugs and they’re great!”