skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The market can de-competitiveize itself through non-compete agreements, intellectual property laws, and other barriers to entry. The competitiveness occurs around the "ruleset", which shifts around according to the regulatory environment.

The government tends to default to supporting strikebreaking(and still generally does in any era, including this one) because industrialists, financiers and politicians share lines of mutual support: legal ownership of intangibles like a corporation acts as an alternative to feudal fiefdoms and warlords, in that it's less destructive and lets complex processes evolve.

Corporations are very effective at putting taxable assets on the books, which allows a more complex state bureaucracy, so politicians end up wanting the support of business for government power and expenditures. Financiers want their thumb on the scale, for the winners they picked to continue winning, rather than to run off and form a competitor. And the industrialists themselves, though they are often at the forefront of the most dramatic reorganizations, tend to get stuck in equilibriums where either they're the evil monopolist, or someone else is. Once you arrive at the equilibrium, the elite players lose their dynamism and are pressured to stay within the existing trends or lose their place.

Thus when the Pinkertons or their modern counterparts come in, the officials shrug and say "business as usual, business as usual". The system convulses when it becomes a riot and property is destroyed because that weakens the whole premise: less capital to deploy, fewer assets to tax, failure to return on investment. And people out of a job, but if they were rioting it may have been a crummy job. It creates a shock that can break the equilibrium and enable a different deployment of labor and capital in a new technological environment. That's essentially why the industrial era has so many short, distinct periods and upheavals within it; the sausage is being made, though it's ugly to witness.
> Were automakers significantly less profitable 40 years ago

I'll go out on a limb and say that the disparity between how much money the few folks at the top of the auto industry made vs the average worker probably wasn't as wide.

If workers have been forced into debt and yet still can't live as well as households used to with just one breadwinner, I'm not sure how much of that is due to a lack of will to fight and a willingness to accept debt. Certainly the weakening and undermining of unions and the worker's ability to fight effectively has had some impact.

In any case, workers need to accept that they'll need to start fighting a lot harder in whatever ways they still can because clearly they won't be treated fairly otherwise.
Competition is coming for tesla rolls eyes
Then the band should be getting a cut of the bar, because they’re the reason all those people buying $7 beers are there.

Fair is fair, right?
I saw John Waters give a talk decades ago. He had this idea that film students should take a breaking news story -- and immediately write and film a two-hour movie based on that story, just to get it up on the marquees of local cinemas the same night.
The implication is clear from the wording. Desktop is "back", mobile is "forward".
Works well with cross-eyed viewing too, with the images side-by-side:

https://jsfiddle.net/pimlottc/f1saz46m/1/show
Depends on how many consumers you have. If you need order guarantees, then something like the outbox pattern is probably a better fit.
They just cut the price on the model x and s.

They have thousands of model ys with discounts on their website as they are waiting to be sold at a dealership.

That not even including all the huge promotions on the model 3.

I wouldn't say Tesla isn't at least slowing down based on their nearly 3 month old earnings report.
Lego ditches oil-free brick in sustainability setback
Thanks. Extremely awesome.
Perhaps "as demand for its EVs plunges" would be more appropriate, if it fits within the title length limit.
Your last sentence is interesting. Nurses make 2-3 times as much as (K-12) teachers in the USA
Islands which are also states say the name of the island twice at certain zoom levels.

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=10/54.2375/-4.6695&layers...

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=10/13.9394/-61.0785&layer...

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=12/16.7342/-62.1730&layer...

Topography and map don't match up for Fairway Rock

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/65.6235/-168.7505&laye...

Some islands are not named at any zoom level

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=8/49.629/-126.381&layers=...

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=8/63.273/-170.184&layers=...

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=8/71.253/-179.604&layers=...
> Free RDS Alternative

RDS is a managed service. This is a code repo. It is useless until you deploy it at which point... it's no longer free. Then you have to manage it yourself and deal with the overhead yourself.

This is like saying I can fire my gardener because you have a free gardener alternative, and then handing me a pair of scissors. I now have all the problems that I paid the Gardener to solve.

Likewise, we pay AWS to manage all the headaches that deploying this would introduce. And trust me, if you are running databases at scale in production, then RDS feels very affordable considering the problems it solves.
Ask HN: What shape from nature would make an interesting soapstone carving?
I have a piece of soapstone about the size of an 8” apple pie. I want to carve it but have very little artistic skill, so can’t do the usual bulbous shapes (a seal, a polar bear, a whale).

I can do something which requires constant analysis and refinement. What shapes from nature or mathematics would make a good sculpture?
Fine, keep throwing your money at a brand that sells phones that annoy you heatedly, thus encouraging them to make more phones with bulky lenses that you hate.

Sigh.
Thanks for this. I feel somewhat overwhelmed myself. I am on device 1 of x. X because I actually don't want to know how many more i have to go though. I am manually copying things into 1 location. I also fear once done I will have to deal with deduplication, etc. I started with windows machine and found microsoft's robocopy. Supposedly its an improved version of xcopy. Still copying.........
Mp3 at what bit rate? 128 and flac might not be hard. 320 I'm suspicious of the results
also there is a FOSS platform.....Navidrome
Chin up, cobber.
Did anyone actually look at the milliseconds? I thought it was just a reasonable guess — based on the incredible similarity of the waves.
I recently got introduced to this system at work, and also built a new job using it. It works fine, but since I had to implement work stealing to deal with abandoned jobs in a timely manner, I wouldn't dare to use it for actions that absolutely must not happen twice.
The closest I can find is this:

On a psychological level, LARPers temporarily enter a fictional world with characters who reside within it and are separate from day-to-day reality; there is no discomfort in distinguishing between the two.

It implies the opposite -- that violent extremists may have trouble distinguishing -- but doesn't seem to say it outright.
As an engine developer, I get what you’re saying. However, Workshop files are workshop files, mods are mods. Sometimes they are the same, sometimes they are not. In the cases where they are not, redistributing them outside of workshop is going to get the ire of Valve, and rightfully so. Mods that aren’t workshop specific (like HL mods or Unity Asset mods, etc) then there’s nothing other than legalese keeping you from redistributing them granted the authors have given you permission to do so.

What you can’t do, is take mods, put them up on your site to download, without the authors permission unless stated in the license.
yes...but only after 500-1000 dollars and a decent preamp and dac
To do anything safe and interesting you’ll need transactions. Using SKIP LOCKED won’t be your bottleneck, your application will. Job queues are about side effects and the rest of your application needs to keep up.

Oban is able to run over 1m jobs a minute, and the ultimate bottleneck is throttling in application code to prevent thrashing the database: https://getoban.pro/articles/one-million-jobs-a-minute-with-...
Oh come on… it’s a hueristic, like anything else.
It is always strange to see a large industry getting disrupted, in slow motion, in plain sight.

The problem is, the leader of a new product direction has not just perfected the new tech, but identified and grown a new market segment and captured a new customer base.

The followers not only have to catch up with technology, but find new market segments with latent customers for their version of the new technology. After the original company scooped up all the low hanging market fruit.

That is a sneaky double whammy they don't plan for when they initially wait things out.
You said crime was found, there is no innocence possible in your scenario. That makes it fundamentally different from what I described.
Works on Firefox Android with uBO enabled.
Has any country exported an RTG to be shot into space by someone else?

Vertically-integrating it yourself is one thing, but I'd expect NASA exporting a chunk of plutonium to India, even if they're both are nuclear states, would be challenging.
I also went through APANA for my primal internet access, specifically tyndale.apana.org.au.
Wow, that was a long time ago.
Specious and unnuanced take, which is probably why it's so common. We understand human error, and its ceiling. We have decades of observation of human driving across all real world scenarios. We still know very little about what self driving cars would do at scale when exposed to the full range of conditions.
The Wreckage of Virality
the decline is mostly because a government subsidy ended
That is surprising to me. I would have thought there was already a robust shipping network through the Mississippi river.

Eventually, I would expect the amortized costs of a rail network to beat river barges, but that would take a significant time.
I have seen many human drivers sort out the situation where they both wanted to turn down the same street. If they stopped and stared at each other for this long, it would probably make the local news or at least twitter. :)
Further to my top-level comment mentioning OzEmail above...

When I started there in Feb 1999, the highly-publicised acquisition by MCI WorldCom had just been completed and staff with earlier employee stock allocations were receiving their payouts.

At some point the signage out the front was changed to UUNet, and that was the brand promoted to Australian business customers. A major project was undertaken to transition customers over to UUNet's "DAN" (Dial Access Network).

Sadly that was the beginning of the end for the OzEmail brand. UUNet soon set about trying to offload the OzEmail consumer-focused business whilst also trying to make such a deal a bigger wholesale contract for use of the DAN [1].

Those attempted sales in 2000 didn't eventuate, then with the bankruptcy of MCI WorldCom, everything there just went into a holding pattern; there was no solid strategy or investment to keep growing the customer base and embrace the consumer broadband era that started taking off in 2001 (I'd moved over to another ISP that was very early to market with ADSL offerings to small business then consumers, and we watched on with bemusement as OzEmail just seemed largely dormant).

Meanwhile, the little-known Perth-based ISP iiNet moved very aggressively to capture the consumer ADSL market, and blew us all out of the water in that segment.

iiNet acquired OzEmail in 2005 [2], for about a third of the best offer price in 2000. I once heard iiNet named conference rooms after all the companies they'd acquired, so if that's still true, that's about all that's left of the OzEmail brand, along with a few old email addresses you occasionally see in the wild.

It's a shame; it was such a strong brand and presence in the Australian internet scene in the mid-late 90s, which is why I was so excited to be able to work there.

[1] https://archive.md/ci8Ln

[2] https://announcements.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20050215/pdf/3pqz6tg...
I worked at UTS from 1991 in the IT department, starting just as NCSCA Mosaic and HTML was killing off Gopher and Turbo Gopher. UTS was the backbone for AARnet and I had a couple of computers with IP numbers that were directly accessible from anywhere. At that time the only people with e-mail addresses were staff from IT and staff and students from the faculties of engineering and science, but some time in the mid to late 1990s Sydney University offered free e-mail to all 50,000 students and all others universities were forced to follow suit (it was a HUGE support load).

Those mid-1990s were spent browsing through the free software archives of (I may have the names wrong) InfoMac and the another at the Berkeley. And general text-based nonsense on Usenet, of course.

At one stage I had a Mac running FileMaker Server 4 hosting then-popular documents about Jaguar (the car) XJ6 and XJ-S maintenance that I'd converted into a database (each sentence was a record) so it was fully searchable. It was up for a couple of years before the university's internal network was moved off the backbone.

As for Telstra buying the internet: most likely they took over the running of the hardware to support the backbone and moved it off-site (ie, out of UTS premises). It was getting expensive. I remember when it happened, our bandwidth dropped overnight and overall quality dropped. IIRC a couple of years later the universities built their own network again.
I wrote programs on my calculator in high school, an ostensibly narrowly focused device with computing power generously estimated at well under 1% that of your phone, made by a company that didn't really give two shits about their device's programming community.

Therefore, it's hard not to come to the conclusion that if someone as dedicated as you is struggling to write programs for your phone, on your phone, it's because you're being actively discouraged from doing so. Demand better! As a consumer the only voice you have is your wallet. Can you not find a real computer that's comfortable to use in bed?
This is one of the least understood things in our society, and one of the things we need to understand most urgently.

The same people who use rhetoric in bad faith would happily use violence if they thought it would be a more effective method to advance their motives.
Viktor Zhdanov
I was recently looking for an ultra minimal monitoring solution for OpenWrt and other lightweight systems (Pi’s, etc.) and was disappointed not to find one that met my needs (negligible CPU, disk space and RAM).

I ended up hacking together a shell script to send data to Home Assistant (via MQTT) which runs on pretty much any system that has at least netcat: https://github.com/roger-/hass-sysmon
Waste and the Wasters Who Make It: A Quiet Crisis
> but let's strong man this instead of finding reasons not to consider it.

Why though? You need to give a good motivation for avoiding the obvious and direct solutions in the first place before anyone sees any reason to go through the effort of strongmanning an alternative. If I was proposing a $50 fine as the penalty for random people caught squatting in your house would you be interested in strawmanning it just because it makes for fun argumentation? I sure wouldn't.

And anyway, I already commented on the merits of this idea in my earlier comments: you're not at all considering the fact that $100 (or even $1000 or more) might be well worth it for certain people's information. It just might not be the entire population, is all. You're just picking winners and losers with this approach, on both sides, is all.
Because both companies are worth many hundreds of billions of dollars? Meta couldn’t afford it.
Probably a case of “Logically this makes sense but let me branch and do it manually to make sure” and never got back to it.

I have code like that. A return then some body of sane looking but outcome unknown code.
Honda is probably not who you want to look at for EV comparisons. They have the Honda E (city car, I think being discontinued) and upcoming partnership with GM to rebadge the Blazer EV as Honda Prologue. And then there’s their “Afeela” joint venture with Sony which I’m sure will go great…
You can buy 1 or 2 parts each month, instead of buying all of them at the beginning of the semester. It followed the official order of the clases, so there was no risk that you have to read one of the last chapters during the first month.
The article is overly-hard on Jay Cooke. He was just getting started on the NPR when ...

The 1873 Depression started with the Vienna Stock Exchange. Article completely fails to mention Oakes Ames, the Lincoln-recruited boss of the Union Pacific Railroad, which precipated the Crédit Mobilier scandal (i.e. charging the US $94M for the $50M railroad.)

Today a monument to Ames and his brother still exists on the empty open plains of southern Wyoming: a 60x60x60-foot granite pyramid, 20 miles from Laramie. The UP board hired 85 men to build it in 1875; President Hayes attended the dedication ceremony.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ames_Monument
Maybe I'm missing something obvious here, but how would you handle situations where you are forced to change your password, like after a site is compromised or they force password rotation?
Stop and frisk isn't "seek out black people", they found the person first and then identified him as black and that means he is a risk and needs to be stopped and frisked.

I don't really see the difference.
I am not so sure this is a bad thing. Electric vehicles still seem to be part of the same pattern of planed obsolesce and profitable waste production. Looking at the production and expected lifetime sustainability seems little more then an image from the marketing campaign. Not a surprise but maybe something worth mentioning given the hype.
The next phase of the train is to the Orlando Convention Center / Universal Studios, then to Disney World, and eventually to Tampa.
I've heard that there's a scattered body of (amateur?) scholarship analyzing QAnon as an ARG [1] that the "players" don't realize is fictional. I've only briefly dabbled in "playing" ARGs, so I'm far from an expert, but the dynamic does seem strikingly similar. A few people allegedly even believe that QAnon originated as a legitimate attempt at an amateur ARG and was then hijacked by real-world political interests, though I don't understand how the ARG would have worked given the venue and content of the original "Q drops".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternate_reality_game
> At the same time, Volkswagen is following Tesla, BMW AG and others in exporting an EV from lower-cost China to Europe. Its Cupra brand has announced plans to produce the Tavascan SUV at a factory in Anhui. Built on the same hardware and software platforms as the ID series, the model is due to hit the European market in 2024.

So, once again the only country to manufacture cutting edge technology goods at scale and at a reasonable cost ends up being China.

The geopolitical landscape when China's EV domination fully expends will be something else entirely...
I agree that stating outright that the answer is no is a bit too strong of a statement. The general consensus has definitely been that fine-tuning (especially instruction fine-tuning) is primarily to pick up style over facts, but that doesn't mean it's not doable. Continuous pre-training is used to instill new knowledge, and the line where it becomes "fine-tuning" rather from "continuous pre-training" is not obvious to me.
> But LARPing shouldn't be an excuse for people who want to don real tactical gear and weapons and plan mayhem.

Just saw a video talking a bit facetiously about this. The question is, "What's the difference between Paintball and LARPing?"

Dressing up and using made-up names and speaking specialized terminology and engaging in make-believe combat...

They decided there is no difference. (This could just as easily be airsoft or paint markers for regular guns, to be clear.)
The EU will do what they did when the Japanese car industry was about to crush it, they'll slap tariffs on Chinese EV imports to protect Thier domestic industry until they're in a position to be competitive.
I've done this successfully with a web service front that retrieves jobs to send to workers for processing, by using a SQL table queue. That web service ran without a hitch for a long time, serving about 10 to 50 job consumers for fast and highly concurrent queues.

My approach was:

- Accept the inbound call

- Generate a 20 character random string (used as a signature)

- Execute a sql query that selects the oldest job without a signature and write the signature, return the primary key of the job that was updated.

- If it errors for any reason, loop back and attempt again, but only 10 times, as some underlying issue exists (10 collisions is statistically improbable for my use case)

- Read the primary key returned by that sql query and read it, comparing it's signature to my random one.

- If a hit, return the job to the caller

- If a miss, loop back and start again, incrementing attempts by 1.

The caller has to handle the possibility that a call to this web service won't return anything, either due to no jobs existing, or the collision/error threshold being reached.

In either case, the caller backs for it's configured time, then calls again.

Callers are usually in 'while true' loops, only existing if they get an external signal to close or an uncontrolled crash.

If you take this approach, you will have a function or a web service that converts the SQL table into a job queue service. When you do that, you can build metrics on the amount of collisions you get while trying to pull and assign jobs to workers.

I had inbuilt processes that would sweep through jobs that were assigned (had a job signature) and weren't marked as complete, it actioned those to handle the condition of a crashed worker.

There are many many other services the proper job queues offer, but that usually means more dependencies, and code libraries / containers, so just build in the functionality you need.

If it is accurate, fast enough, and stable, you've got the best solution for you.

/edited for formatting
If you connect your servers to the netdata cloud, you can manage all of them there. (Put into groups etc). As far as I know there is no self hosted solution for this.

https://learn.netdata.cloud/docs/configuring/connect-agent-t...
Afaik 386SL was in fact not a 386, but a cutdown 486. This might explain the difference in transistor count.
+1 this ^ I have tried FF with ublock and other browsers. But Brave gets it better. Out of the box aggressive blocking and yet the same time providing smooth transaction experience - purchasing, adding to carts, sessions etc are frustration free without fiddling with individual filters. Performance is added bonus. Go Team Brave !!
I do enjoy a good Neil Young pun