skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It’s all good and fair, no?

as good and fair as any bigger and more powerful forces coming at you and demanding a cut of whatever it is you do... lest you're breaking the law

but this is very normalized, but ultimately is a legacy of imperialism and other kinds of centralizing powers: give your rulers some freebies or get harassed until you do

an alternative perspective is that we all need to contribute some money (and/or energy) to the public systems which do things for "all of us" as the public at large

when this is 'mandatory', like it is now (you can always not do it, but there will be consequences), we call it taxes and fees, to do this voluntarily is the now obsolete tithe (even the quantity matches 10%).

the real problem I have with this setup is that money (but I actually mean currency) is made up and controlled by governments in collab with banking corporations; which means they have ways to use this system to move some of said "energy" from us to them; this leads me to conclude that then, regular taxes like VAT are double dipping on our energy as we 1: get taxed so to give money to the government/public entities and institutions; and 2: they make up currency and extract money/energy from all of us automatically (them theories about how money is debt, combined with QE and the new quantitative tightening, are all parts of how this whole hidden system works);

arguably this way to take advantage of the currency/monetary system is only being used by private financiers (big banking) not governments which really do need the taxes to function at least for now but I already ranted too much
Trouble with executive function / working memory are issues that affect every facet of your life. It's already ever-present, regardless of whether or not you put a name to it.
I suspect that Google isn't paying Apple to have Google as the default engine, but it's to keep Apple from creating their own. Search is a huge business and Apple has a massive user share. They could cut into Google's search revenue if they made their own engine, and made it cleaner than Google.
Not all jobs can performance be measured in concrete statistics.

We've had some really likable good guys who just couldn't keep up either technically or functionally, and it's obvious to everyone around, even if no deadlines are missed, and margins are met.
Automated trains doesnt seem as valuable though. Trains are so much bigger than trucks that the costs of its operators is much smaller than paying a truck driver for 1 load
Using a different size for elements matching a :hover selector is how a lot of CSS gets this done.

The first result on Google (https://gist.github.com/olmstadfm/d6b4d37219e957d9cdcdb3ec88...) also seems to employ the :hover selector to accomplish hiding the tabs. I don't know how effective this particular script is, but it makes sense to use such a system.
interesting! It'd be in cool to see someone use sprites to render a total war like game with historical scale (100k units) though at that point I think the real bottleneck is the cpu and pathfinding though.
Some registry keys also have The Old New Thing posts by Raymond Chen [1] /s

[1] https://github.com/mity/old-new-win32api#registry
Not to be snide but how many games have you shipped like that? Its really a massive undertaking to build a game engine. Not to mention a distraction as well.
I’ve also come to enjoy Apple Music. Has the same upload capabilities I liked with google music plus it matches them to lossless these days. Took apple like 5-6 years to make the ui not suck but it’s decent these days too. Also, no joe rogan podcast being recommended to me constantly when I just want music and there’s a nice separate classical music app too.
With a stockpile of their own anti-sat weapons and the threat of MAD.
It doesn't need to be a sex toy, obviously. $5 worth of parts from Ali Baba could be assembled into a signaling tool:

https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Type-C-Bluetooth-5-0-...

There's even prebuilt solutions for things like poker:

https://www.cardslenses.com/remote-contorl-poker-game-vibrat...

https://elie.net/blog/security/royal-flush-an-in-depth-look-...
It certainly adds costs, but it can be automatic or remote systems (e.g. cameras monitored by the signaller, or RADAR/LIDAR systems). However, I don't have an idea whether there are 10s or 100s of crossings.

There are lines at roughly this speed in Europe with level crossings, e.g. the UK (125mph), Finland (85mph), Norway (100mph), Sweden (125mph), but there's not much detail on the speeds allowed for various types of crossing.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_crossings_in_the_United_...
Zero rating has been banned in the EU because two court rulings found that zero rating's economic discrimination was just as bad as technical discrimination.

You can't find or subscribe to a zero rating plan in the EU any more.

Except in Portugal where the equivalent of the FCC has so little power the telecoms do what they want without any fear.
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> Hate to break it to you, but we still live in a time where education is a privilege.

Not in Voltaire's country France, or most other democratic countries. And I'm talking about the average education available to all citizen, so school, not university. And yes, there are of course exceptions even with school, but those are for other reasons.

But that's the point, with any somewhat rich country, the level of education is high enough, that a generalization on the benefits of reading which Voltaire is talking about, are not valid anymore, because we now have them, and are on the point of moving on. And this is especially valid for the young generations.

> I promise that the gatekeeping attitude you’re perpetuating is way more damaging than a group of online book lovers

How am I gatekeeping? I'm just describing the reality and speak against the delusion of gatekeepers. Reading today is not anymore the great awesome enlightenment it was in the past.
Humans actually need to eat more than for-profit companies do.
Thank you, an actually useful reply. I will drop you a note tomorrow — it's late here.
Sadly, my case is the opposite. I use Firefox since the beginning so it is close to 20 years. I'm not going to use it as my main browser anymore as I'm working fulltime with PWAs and service workers and Firefox support of it (or lack of) is unjustifiable.

My new apps make use of modern HTML and JS APIs and I can't count on Firefox implementing them.
Yes. I even break mine up into two sections: things I've used in the last year, and things I've used ever.

By "used", I don't mean that I touched it once. I mean that I have used it enough to consider myself competent with it.
Retrieval Augmented Generation (Rag) on Audio Data with LangChain
Whomever at FF came with the text on that page deserves a raise:

hello :teapot: -> bonjour :baguette:

HN unfortunately removes the emojis.
All the big clouds are bad for this, GCP has actually been the best big cloud in my experience.
I agree with this overall sentiment. When the author speaks of "crappy institutions and leaders" I understand he mean something along the lines of "we shouldn't accept this level of performance from things we can change" or some other call for more effective government/infrastructure/etc.

It's when the author drops into 'overwhelming debt ending in failure' that he drops the mask enough to show that he doesn't want any sort of government or public infrastructure. It's a libertarian, leaning anarcho-capitalist, viewpoint that explains the discontinuity in tone that permeates many of the articles I sampled from this author.
Should work well in landfills since there's heat buildup
Reading doesn’t have to be good, in the way people mean when they try to paint reading as good, is the thing. Not more so than anything else. It’s usually not, and that’s ok. I’m advocating the opposite of gatekeeping.

Nobody makes these weird claims about how great and beneficial watching TV is, but people do it anyway. I think some of us failing to over-praise reading isn’t why people don’t read.
> Absolutely incredible to describe the US forces in Europe as "occupying" and not mention what the Soviets did.

How do you call a foreign force in a foreign country that came with the force, and refuses to leave, although there is no reason to stay there? If you think they are "partners" to Europeans, ask yourself why are there no "partner" European forces on the US soil.

> Yeah I think we're done here.

Great. Then tell your army to pack their stuff and GTFO from Europe. We don't need you here.
Yes, but in the context of this thread ("[...] so I doubt there are any technical hurdles in doing the same with fibre"), that would be like installing a wired phone or network service which reaches only as far as the same city. That is, you can operate an independent network, but what you want is to network with the rest of the world; and even if doing it with optical fiber is as easy as connecting to the country's main electric network, there are places where connecting to that electric network is already hard.
Greed Street, Rapacious Street, Wall Street. Is all the same. We all let our
401 fund managers do their dirty work for us while we dream of lofty retirements. For older folks, that lived through the .com bubble, savings and loans and too-big-to-fail, and so on, this article rings disingenuous.
Well, maybe not absolute monarchies, but I wouldn't compare them to the UK.

From Wiki:

Qatar:
- "The emir appoints the prime minister and cabinet".
- "The Consultative Assembly is the legislative body of the State of Qatar, with 45 members. The body can only question the prime minister, who is appointed by the Emir of Qatar, on his policies if two-thirds of the members agree, which is unlikely given that one-third of the members are appointed by the Emir."
- "The consultative assembly has the following functions:
Legislative authority
Approves the general budget of the government
Exercises control over the executive authority
The assembly has the right to forward proposals on public matters to the government. If the government doesn't comply with the proposal it has to give its reasons and the assembly can comment on them"
- "The government does not permit the existence of political parties or other political groupings. All candidates for the municipal council elections run as independents."

Kuwait:
- "Kuwait is an emirate[1] with a political system consisting of an appointed judiciary, appointed government (dominated by the Al Sabah ruling family), and nominally elected parliament."
- Executive: "The prime minister chooses the cabinet of ministers, which form the government. The prime minister is a member of the ruling family and is appointed by the Emir. "
- Judicial: "The judiciary in Kuwait is not independent of the government, the Emir appoints all the judges and many judges are foreign nationals from Egypt."
- Parliament: "On 22 June 2016 parliament passed a law banning any citizen who had insulted the emir from running, resulting in several major opposition figures including Musallam Al-Barrak and Bader Al-Dahoum becoming ineligible candidates."
How would you easily electrify our freight network?
Which ones, out of curiosity?
>We have gotten it, but with services not websites.

Misinformation.

Under all previously proposed NN rules, throttling is always allowed for network congestion and mobile actually does have a legitimate network congestion issue.

I personally would rather T-Mobile make a promise about the speeds for the first 25GB rather than say "UNLIMITED*" and make that asterisk any time they feel like it.

Likewise, they could always make allow-lists in throttling, they just couldn't make block-lists.

Nothing in your example would be better under NN rules as actually defined.
Even without profit in mind: sometimes you just want to build a game.

It's easy to get sidetracked by "the engine" when all you wanted was to create a game... Most amateur gamedevs I know all started creating "the engine" and then the actual game never happened.
Yeah, I see Docker Compose as a development environment setup aid. This seems like a way to set up a system.
IDK, it's not really relevant to my point I don't think. It sounds bad to me too but you're not going to argue an addict into believing they're addicted, even if they are. My understanding of gambling addiction isn't that sophisticated but I think that sort of use still puts them firmly in the minor leagues of use.

Anyway though an essential mechanism of addictions is that they are dynamic. You can interview large groups of users of any drug (and also probably gambling) who will attest to its benefits in their lives. Even if they are currently correct, some of them will later become full blown addicts. It doesn't mean they were wrong at the time, just maybe overly confident about why it suits their lives.

A common AA dark joke is that "high-functioning isn't a type of alcoholism, it's a stage in it." A lot of normal users will end up addicts, a lot of mildly problem users will progress. AFAIK the same patterns show in gambling addiction which is imo one of the major problems with these super accessible entry points into it.
Measure URL Performance
Our customers care about the latency of their APIs for users around the globe. We developed this simple tool to measure endpoints' performance from various locations. It is an MVP, so suggestions and bug reports are welcome.
Is that true for all memory safe languages? Why?
I work closely with an ISP in my field. It seems to me that the biggest threat to customer choice is independent ISP's being able to provide service through the building out of the cable infrastructure, at least in northern California. Most municipalities have a grandfathered in cable network from ATT and Comcast, because of this they have been recently dictating how and when ISP can deploy their service.

Because of the democrat to republican administration change in the past, the rules have changed regarding line sharing and infrastructure build out. In many cases, the big players, who were previously prevented from interfering with other ISP's build-out, are now able to actively make it more difficult (costly) for independent ISP's from expanding their network.

If this continues, its going to put smaller ISP's out of business. So IMHO, this is more important that forcing the big players to play by the net neutrality rules in regards to throttling services, Id go so far as to say they are using that as red herring to distract people from the real problem. If there is no competition, you don't have anywhere to go when an ISP suddenly decides to do something that is anti-competitive.
It's probably not now that they've had to deal with it. Instead the web of business relationships they've had to build and the constant capital they have to spend creates a moat around incumbent players in the video space like Netflix.
I don't know about TST, but sidebery can alter your window title when it's active, so you can match css rules against it.

#main-window[titlepreface*="Sidebery"] #TabsToolbar {
visibility: collapse !important;
}
I'll repost my comment:

I have no involvement and I'm not a game developer (except for small weekend projects). Please do not make any change "to the policy" you have announced! Your decision seemed to be the straw that was lacking for many people to support Godot and I'm rooting for them. Please don't let us down now.
>What do you mean by abuse? Can you name one instance of someone's life being negatively impacted by Google's data collection?

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

https://fortune.com/2019/01/28/google-iab-sensitive-profiles...
How the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act governs data security practices
Starlink doesn't need defending. It's too low to cause Kessler, and big enough that the loss of a small number of satellites is inconsequential.

It's a different story for pretty much every other satellite, though. GPS, for example.
That position doesn't make any sense to me.

Why should "decent human people" who want to build a cool game be forced to first build an engine for it?
> There are just so many podcasts that aren't available via an RSS feed anymore though

If I need a proprietary app to access a show's feed, then IMHO it should not be considered a podcast (and I refuse to listen to it).

That being said, I remain cautiously optimistic about the podcasting ecosystem. A huge number of high-quality shows remain freely available (and many shows sustain an independent revenue stream). Despite the creeping centralization, podcasting still feels very independent when compared to things like Youtube/Tiktok.
Neither have I. My main complaint is that it's slow.
> Yes but the idea is that you trust the camera which unique and works as a physical private key.

You're pushing a (bad) technical solution to a social problem.

Cameras that cryptographically sign their output will not solve anything. The idea has more flaws than it's possible to list, but here's a big one: do you really think a technological gimmick like that would stand up to a nation state? Do you really think the CIA, NSA, FSB, Chinese Ministry of State Security, etc. will not be able to sign whatever the hell image they want with a camera's signature?
> Under the revised terms, there is no runtime fee whatever for any game developed with a current version of Unity, only for those developers who adopt the latest version in 2024.

So they haven't done a 180. They're no longer going to try and retroactively inflict the runtime fee on existing projects, but it is still going to be a thing going forward.
A "race to the bottom" can certainly feel like "viral" collective behavior even if you want to consider all the individual inputs just "basic greed"
I saw this. Betting on whether a merger will go through has a very long history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Boesky
It would increase consumerism since everything would need to be replaced on a periodic basis
Apple didn’t invent the GUI, touchscreen or the concept of unifying init, cron, etc.

But it was after they released their implementations that those ideas caught on.

I hope you can see the point I’m making.
UltraVNC 1.4.3.5 Released – VNC/RFB – Remote Desktop Software
This is correct and zero rating is now banned in the EU as a form of economic discrimination.

It's also largely outlawed in Canada, the EU, and California.
I am a physicist, and I believe what I said is accurate. Although yes I am (1) oversimplifying, and (2) assuming that some form of quantum gravity is correct.
I don't think either of the claims in the headline of the article are supported by the content of the article. They didn't u-turn, they modified their terms but are making the same set of changes with new parameters. They did not beg forgiveness, they said they were sorry for how they handled it, but did not say they were sorry for their new policy, or that they were asking anyone to forgive them for it.

They basically did the standard thing of "we're sorry for how we communicated this the first time around, but we're still doing it, and we've scheduled a Q&A so we can give you more information".

Should I think of articles like this as news or opinion? It's packaged as news, with the reporting standards of a tweet.
This is an effect with all antivirals, and was predicted from the start. It's much like antibiotic resistance in bacteria. Except it arises even faster as the replication and mutation rates are much higher with viruses.

In people with HIV, treatment with a single antiviral drug generally leads to strong antiviral resistance within a few years at most. This is why it is always treated with two, three or even more parallel drugs that work by different mechanisms. Developing multiple mutations simultaneously is improbable. Genetic testing of a person's HIV strain before treatment to determine resistance profile is standard now in rich countries.

There is one small grace. The traits that improve resistance to antivirals usually decrease overall fitness. There have been cases of patients who have, after a long time, had their strains of HIV lose its resistance to certain antivirals. When treated for a long time by different agents, the mutation for resistance no longer serves a purpose and is rapidly selected against.

Anyhow, given the nature of COVID I would look to influenza antivirals for what to expect; they're mostly useless because of widespread resistance.
Exactly. It's fairly straightforward to get PM2.5 down while CO2 goes up, and vice versa. The trick is to control both.
None of this addresses control of code base, limited exchanges handling the majority of traffic, or the scam aspect.

Sure eth solved some of bitcoins issues, it also increased the scope of crypto scams to a whole new level.

The fact that a crypto 'currency' is supposedly operating at prices irrelevant to it's value is not an argument that helps you in any way in this situation.
I remember reading about that when molnupiravir was introduced. It was clear this could happen but having an effective drug in this case is more important. Now what bothers me when I read the article Merck likes to downplay any risks - and as far as I understood Pfizer created Paxlovid which is safer as far as I remember.
"people will just change it back to Google in the settings"

My friend you do not know people.
Be gentle with Apples new Titanium iPhone 15 Pro Max Yikes [video]
> Slightly misleading headline, as PET (polyethylene terephthalate) hydrolases were already known

It doesn't say it was the only one, just a newly discovered one
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Alcohol recovery meetings are absolutely full of people who have to say "I thought if I wasn't doing it alone it wasn't alcoholism." The social context of use is only one factor, it can't be used by itself to determine if the use is a problem.
Both of these have high population density, which makes railroads easy.
> You can disable that the dialog shows up, then it's just a subtle icon.

And then? This would make it even worse, people will easily forget some random icon sitting somewhere.
That's lower than I expected and it'll be fun in a few decades to see what they do. Maybe we'll have to go looking for some new ducks.
> You're taking a distinct philosophical stance, but you're also being unnecessarily dismissive by claiming other stances "miss the point".

I read my comment again and I was surprised, as I did not intend this tone. I’m sorry for being dismissive and for generalising too much about mathematicians.

Could you elaborate or point me to a formulation of the “language of the universe” argument you mentioned that avoids mentioning quantum physics? I don’t understand quantum physics and I’d like to avoid falling for the quantum physics fallacy [1]

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