skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was working on Prime when VoD launched. The benefit was advertised as ad-free, but within a few months pre-roll promos for other shows or movies started getting attached.

I brought it up at an all hands with our VP, and IIRC, one of the business guys that I didn’t work with directly interjected and said the offering was “interruption free”. I’m pretty sure that’s not how it was advertised.

At the time most of the organization would call customer-hostile BS like that out, but no one else challenged him on it and I was a lowly IC.

Until I left in 2013, I can’t say there were really any other disappointments like that in the org. There was a strict sense of not diluting the Prime brand with things that members would see value in. The teams got split geographically after I left, and at least from an outside customer’s perspective, the program seems incoherent and inconsistent. I used to pay for a shipping benefit and get some bonus features that were icing on the cake. Now Prime gets applied to items with no shipping guarantees, FireTV hides Prime content, Kindle Lending Library is inundated with garbage, I’m not even sure if there is a Music benefit anymore, and it all costs considerably more, for what I use less of. As others have mentioned, if it wasn’t for the ability to impulse purchase cheap items, I would cancel. eBay, Walmart, Ali Express, and others all have the same crap, the same duplication of listings, basically the same prices, and delivery times are just as random. Amazon is the only one I’ve ever received counterfeit products from.
WebP has been supported by Safari for a while now. Even WebM is supported which uses VP8/9
https://caniuse.com/webp
https://caniuse.com/webm
Right, but that’s a non-sequitur.
Half of all Londoners don't own a car (they rarely need one).

I live in Sheffield which is over half a million people, much more if you includie the greater area. According to a quick google we have 157 charging points (across less locations). I have no idea if that's good or not, I don't drive electric yet.

I live in an arguably affluent area. Maybe 1 in 20 cars nearby are electric. It's all terraced housing with on-road parking, none of which is ever in front of your house. There's no charging stations nearby that I know of. Half of the housing stick in Sheffield is like this (no designated parking). It does make the prospect of having an electric car less appealing if I can't take advantage of home charging.
I helped a friend repair a few HP Cesium beam clocks. Once I understood how they actually work, including the Zeeman lines, I was amazed. I love explaining it to others.
I'm sorry if it wasn't clear, but I was asking for sources on GP's claim that climate change has shifted the north-south spatial location of birds' migration destinations.

The research you linked to doesn't seem to be saying that; it's claims are about the influence of interannual climate variation on timing of migration IIUC.

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https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/103/2/BAMS-D...

Abstract
For ∼100 years, the continental patterns of avian migration in North America have been described in the context of three or four primary flyways. This spatial compartmentalization often fails to adequately reflect a critical characterization of migration—phenology. This shortcoming has been partly due to the lack of reliable continental-scale data, a gap filled by our current study. Here, we leveraged unique radar-based data quantifying migration phenology and used an objective regionalization approach to introduce a new spatial framework that reflects interannual variability. Therefore, the resulting spatial classification is intrinsically different from the “flyway concept.” We identified two regions with distinct interannual variability of spring migration across the contiguous United States. This data-driven framework enabled us to explore the climatic cues affecting the interannual variability of migration phenology, “specific to each region” across North America. For example, our “two-region” approach allowed us to identify an east–west dipole pattern in migratory behavior linked to atmospheric Rossby waves. Also, we revealed that migration movements over the western United States were inversely related to interannual and low-frequency variability of regional temperature. A similar link, but weaker and only for interannual variability, was evident for the eastern region. However, this region was more strongly tied to climate teleconnections, particularly to the east Pacific–North Pacific (EP–NP) pattern. The results suggest that oceanic forcing in the tropical Pacific—through a chain of processes including Rossby wave trains—controls the climatic conditions, associated with bird migration over the eastern United States. Our spatial platform would facilitate better understanding of the mechanisms responsible for broadscale migration phenology and its potential future changes.
I don't have PiHole but this instead https://someonewhocares.org/hosts/ on all laptops.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_men's_morris
A bit harsh trying to shame him for not taking breaks, when ars wrote 600 miles in one charge. You are the one making it into a 600 mile drive without breaks.
I use to naively believe stuff like this too when I was a single bachelor living downtown in my 20s.
That he said it into a mic isn't a problem because it's discoverable, it's shocking because it suggests it wasn't an offhand comment, it was something he thought about before saying it out loud.

Evidence entered into the record in court cases is public by default unless the judge takes action to seal that evidence. Unsealed evidence is used to generate news, compiled for research, reviewed for commentary, etc.

Usually in these sorts of cases (where all sorts of sensitive info will be put into the record) there are agreements made between all parties before the trial about what will be shared publicly and what will be kept confidential.

So, he's not wrong. Usually there is an agreement in place governing what information will be shared, how it will be shared, when it will be shared, etc. But there wasn't an agreement in this case, and it's weird that he's acting like someone should have told him instead of acting embarrassed that he didn't know that.
To understand what happens when the server doesn't perform IO, apply Little's formula to the CPU only. Clearly, the maximum concurrency would be equal to the number of cores, which means that in that situation there would be no benefit to more threads than cores. What you would see in the graph would be that the server fails once L is equal to the number of cores. The average ratio between IO and CPU time as portions of the average duration would give you an upper limit on how much more throughput you gain by having more threads. That's what I explain at 11:34.

Also, both throughput and latency are performance metrics.
Sounds like "other dev" found some business case they could unblock with existing system, and you thought the business was better off not solving that, or finding a more expensive solution.

Curious how you plan to justify cost to "fix it" to management. If it ain't broke...
My understanding was that Caesar represented the populares who championed the poor like the Gracchi brothers. By Caesar's time, the poor believed not only the Senate was beyond repair but were the primary reason for their poverty. Several attempted land reforms were blocked by the Senate who lived off their latifundium.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/latifundium

The populares welcomed Caesar and Augustus because they saw no other alternative. Sulla had effectively ended the office of the tribunes who represented the poor. From the essay below, A tribune couldn’t even guarantee his personal safety: the murder of the Gracchi brothers is the best example. This office itself was an outcome of the political compromise in the early Republic. Its seemingly supreme and sacrosanct power was based on the compromise, or to say, tolerance of the Senate. When the symbiotic relationship between the nobles and the commoners on the political stage of the early Republic collapsed after drastic economic changes, the compromise of the Senate automatically vanished, so it was only a matter of time to weaken the power of the tribunate. Thus, the Roman commoners must find new strength for their political struggles.
https://www.atlantis-press.com/article/125967046.pdf

In other words, the people will rise up if they believe the political class no longer represents them and are actually opposed to them. I see a parallel between the enslaved Carthaginians working the latifundium and all the immigrants our politicians want to bring in to "fix our economy." I believe this is playing with fire.
the law is still in a state where it has not been implemented since the technical part is missing, the body that is dealing with it is agcom (an Italian state agency for telecommunications), the problem is that the platform is not developed by the state but the Italian Football league provided their platform to agcom for free and agcom accepted it without asking any questions.

the problem is that this platform is not neutral, the Football league delegated to an espect copyright protection company to develop it, they have the full power of this platform.

the creators of the platform were the same ones who lobbied the Italian state to convince them in making a law that allows them to be able to block any ip or domain within 30 minutes and without any verification
The joy of 240V single phase.
Don't forget that in v1->V2 they deprecated influxQL, their half-baked implementation of a SQL-like query language with half the semantics of SQL and plenty of footguns. And now after telling everyone how much better flux was going to be, they deprecated it and brought back influxQL...
You treat ipv6 /64 just like /32 in ipv4
Rich upper-class white people are still absolutely a republican demographic, if there's any rich people the democrats woo it's highly educated wealthy people, urban wealthy people, and wealthy people who are minorities of some sort. Whereas your prototypical rich republican is a WASP who owns something like a mining company and lives on a ranch or something.

The democrats also notably have a lot of support among the poorest in society, and this base is a LOT of their electorate, so this really shouldn't be overlooked.
I've been on Prime since the beta. I have a spot on my calendar to drop it today.
Those should have all been runaway hits. WoT and LOTR especially, all they had to do was stick to what made it successful in the first place.

Instead Rand was sidelined, they made me hate Galadriel, et al.

I can't imagine paying millions for a recipe and then throwing it out because I think I know better.
To me they look like the kind of abbreviations I'd only do when writing. I just say authentication or authorisation when reading them (out loud or in my own mind)
Yes, but it can be an internal CA. There are even FOSS products for that: https://goteleport.com/
And there is a clip from I think King Lear in I am the Walrus saying, "Bury my body." that people claimed was Paul saying it instead of the movie clip.
> You have a separate room at home and that's where you switch to work mode.

Ironic to see this comment in a discussion about carbon footprints of remote work. Separate rooms do not come from free - they also have a high carbon cost in terms of bigger house, more heating/cooling, most likely suburban setting which has its own carbon costs etc.
Heh, I went a step further and thought "ooh, a novice EE project, but titling it like that everyone's going to be confused about it involving machine learning" until I realized I was the one that got it backwards...
If the buyer works for Cisco or Splunk, they're going to have a bad time
> Start annoying the flag author to delete if the flag is over a month old

No problem, filter that email directly to spam folder.
I think the most important issue they've failed to address is that they haven't fixed the license they edited earlier this year. The edits changed the license to allow for retroactive changes to pricing.

The new fees seem mostly reasonable especially as a non-retroactive offer (though new engagement sounds like an annoyance to keep track of from the developer end), but they haven't given anyone any kind of legal guarantee or feeling of safety, other than their word. And their word isn't worth anything anymore, nobody is going to trust unity for a long time.
I don't see how this conversion makes much sense. He started with a generator that was junked because the ICE was shot. He could have replaced that ICE with an off the shelf 4 cycle engine for under $1000.00. Instead, he's got a car that even as junk was worth half what the new engine would cost, with the space requirements that come with a car, the investment in electronics and build, and the net result is a junked nearly 200hp car running an generator that can only use maybe 10HP tops. A great job of McGivering up something, but I can't imagine why anyone would do the second one.
Locally or if for some reason you need to move off of Github and have to use Jenkins or some other CI tool.
It's pretty good, but I think it's hard to figure out which piece of information is on which page and it's insufficiently anchored/crosslinked. However the concept index is excellent and should help you find everything you need: https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#Concept-I...
The UK version of appealing to coal country in the US.
a second mistake like this would be devastating

According to the GP, this already was their second mistake like this. I'm not in game development and I'm not aware of the first, but maybe someone else can explain what/when their first "mistake" was.
pretty cool to include xkcd for the loading screen :)
I think owning a personal vehicle will definitely get more complicated and less convenient with the transition to electric (at least for a period of time); but I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad thing. Folks will have to lean more on public transit, bike lanes, etc; which will change how public funds are allocated over time. It could be a virtuous cycle.
MIDI supports neither. It supports an encoded tempo change, there is no way for you to read a MIDI file back at the pace a player wishes to play using just the MIDI file. Velocity is not the same thing as dynamics, it represents the particular force applied to a key at a moment in time but cannot represent change in dynamics over time (or even leave room for interpretation).

The thing is that if you want to play you need to learn some fundamentals first. A keyboard isn't a just slab of buttons to push at particular times.
Try it sometime. It works for me and I’m not a single bachelor or in my 20s.

But I’m in Toronto next week, without a car so I guess I’ll see how I go there.
Looks like it! I'm definitely not the first to do this
Do google and samsung have similar practices (parts pairing, serialization)?
It's a lot easier to live in London without a car than outside it. As far as I know most new flats in London don't allow car parking anyway.

(I am a non driving Londoner and it's pretty good. I don't think I'd feel the same way in many other places)
I worked in a company where we had network equipment all over the world.

Often IPv6 and IPv4 paths were entirely different and latency on IPv6 was much bigger, so we had to measure latency between nodes on both. Also, sometimes IPv4 was a symmetrical, but IPv6 wasn't. As a result, we had to buy tons of IPv4 addresses.

Our control plane was on IPv6, but data-plane had to be on both.
I’m not familiar with other UK cities but London planning policy in dense areas for some time now has leaned very heavily towards car-light, preferably car-free developments.
I don’t have the stats to hand right now, but where tower blocks are being built, a large minority if not majority of households don’t even have a car.
> The grid is not keeping up

You've mentioned this a few times in the thread but the national grid say there is already enough capacity plus more investment happening. Where do you get this from?
My recollection is that there was an intentional limit on what parts were compatible with what ventilators, essentially DRM or filter tying/bundling. This denied healthcare facilities the flexibility to pair consumable components from third-party manufacturers with a specific ventilator.

(I've been looking for articles to support this without joy so far, though there were numerous articles on "open source" ventilator concepts, such as this one: <https://journal.valeriansaliou.name/makair-series-the-incept...>.)

This goes above and beyond basic market function, though yes, I suppose you could say that it was rooted at some level in capitalist short-term-profit-maximising practices.
Dropping this on a Friday with a fireside chat happening in the afternoon on the same day leaves a bad impression. A blog post announcement is ok, but my reading of this is that there is no guarantee that they will not attempt a retroactive change again (ex: their TOS change and removal). This is a step in the right direction, but feels there’s still a long gap to bridge if they want to earn back trust.
It's amusing seeing people justify working from an office but the same people turning around and telling others to not eat meat or other restrictions on their life style.

Either it's all in or it's not, and for most people it's not.
Heh, obvious a cultured man of knowledge (or anyone who watched the movie 300 and read wikipedia) would know that these are major leaders of Sparta

Grant, Sherman, Meade

Churchill, Roosevelt, De Gaulle

It's to filter the cultured elite from the unread plebes.
TFA says they’re banned in 2035 though.
Friction with modern devops practices is a big one.
Also, what happened to the current sysadmins? Did they even have FT sysad?
https://www.commoncriteriaportal.org/products/index.cfm?

Generally only components are EAL certified. For example, the iPhone is not on there, but the security protecting access to Apple Pay on the iPhone 13 with A15 Bionic running iOS 15.4.1 (19E258) is EAL2+.
There was also a separate release of counterstrike called condition zero that included a single player campaign and a tweaked version of counterstrike multiplayer.

That was not included as part of that bundle.. but if you used the dedicated server tool to download the czero mod and copied it to your halflife folder you could play both the single player and multiplayer version on steam
I don't think that tells the full picture.

Take a look at https://www.ons.gov.uk/census/maps/choropleth/housing/number...

In Birmingham, about a 3rd of people have no car. But if you zoom in to central, it's about 2/3rds of people have no vehicle.
Right now in some areas there are restrictions on new housing because the grid is saturated, charging stations are delayed because the grid cannot cope, and renewable production projects are also delayed because the grid cannot take it.

So, clearly the grid cannot cope.

Then, is electricity production growing 2 digits a year? Nope.

Yes, an EV can charge from a 13A socket, for people who have off-road parking... and anyway what happens when everyone plug their cars in the evening on a socket, or worse 7kW charger? The substation blows up... charging is a big issue, it is actually the issue.

Charging stations delays because of grid:
https://www.energylivenews.com/2023/07/24/uk-faces-ev-charge...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/09/09/electric-car...

Restrictions in West London because of grid:
https://www.london.gov.uk/programmes-strategies/better-infra...

Renewable projects delayed because of grid:
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-65500339
Well... if it is any solace to you, as time moved forward the way we valued life, saw mortality and death in ouraelves and others, what we value, has changed.

People were violent and death was a much more normal thing.

When we look at it in modern time with all our accumulated knowledge we seek to not cause it. Even tyranical and psycotic individuals hold nihlistic or anarchic philosphies.

Truely to understand the worlds pardigm change over history is multifaceted in regard to demographics, and skills aquired, and scarcites and suppluses come into effect too.
Or a tautology. No true professional programmer would derive more enjoyment from beauty than from making his boss happy.
Unity U-turns on controversial runtime fee and begs forgiveness
Fair points. Not sure if it will ever be possible to get back the trust they destroyed.
I was completely out of the loop as well, until my wife shot me a completely out of the blue text this morning asking me if I thought I could help land a plane in an emergency, and how often I thought about the Roman Empire. After I begged for context, she told me about the trend, and then about three minutes later I happened upon this thread and this comment chain was at the top lol.
> Unfortunately, the CVE database(s) are too noisy to be useful.

I used to hate on CVSS scores a lot more than I do these days.

Sure, the scores are rarely correct and sometimes nonsensical. To be fair, it's impossible to have a scoring system that precisely ranks every potential risk in the optimal order for everyone.

Technically, the best answer is to take every report, evaluate it internally based on exactly how this code is used, where and for what and create our own risk assessment and prioritize changes based on that. That would get us risk scores as good as we're going to get for our product.

Nobody has time for that. Even in the best funded organizations I've seen, it's not going to happen.

Turns out it's like an order of magnitude cheaper to just say we must address Critical, High and Mediums and call it a day. As much as it bothers me at a technical level, because I know we're fixing stuff that wasn't worth fixing and leaving out some important fixes that got mis-scored too low, the pragmatic reality is this is easier to do and thus can get done. On average, that will capture many of the things that really did need fixing so our security did get better. Yes, we did waste time fixing some that didn't need it, but it was less wasted time than it would've taken to do a deep evaluation so we still saved some time. So overall, not bad.
Leap Hand: Low-Cost, Efficient, and Anthropomorphic Hand for Robot Learning
Hopefully they have a plan for a better mechanism to discourage frivolous ambulance calls and ER visits. Those resources are overloaded by casual abuse resulting in higher costs and wait times for those who truly need emergency care. Without an alternate disincentive that problem will only get worse with this change.
You still can. You just need to play online matches of Rome Total War, which is where I learned the vast majority of my classical historical knowledge, lol
Pattern matching is what makes sum types ergonomic enough to be used. Many a Java design doesn't use said interface-based sum types because it's so cumbersome to use them. But whena language has pattern matching, then suddenly designing with sum types in mind is done a lot, and therefore you see examples of good pattern matching everywhere.

When I teach Scala, a very high percentage of the teaching time is ultimately down to re-introducing how to design business domains, because seasoned devs just reach for large classes with a million optional fields, which not only can represent valid systems states, but thousands of invalid ones.