skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not convinced installing competing services locally on a NAS or home server device will get all that much easier to setup. We are at the stage where you buy a thing, run some setup for storage and then a few clicks for installing the application. The challenge is setting up the bits on your phone too and dealing with networking. This is just too much for too many people who long ago decided renting cloud whatever meant when it broke someone else would fix it.

I would love to see a move to Self hosted but I just can't see it happening. Cloud software as a service doesn't have to be a dishonest business but it happens to become so every single time so someone can make even more money.
In many industries, e.g. biotech, this is how it works. Every product is vetted so much and has so many regulations to follow and liability to cover, the profit margins are not as big as software companies. I argue that is one of the main reasons we see so many breaches and also why software developers are paid so much compared to, say, a biopharma scientist.
"Advertisements and marketing are immoral."

That's quite a position. Are you also taking the position that capitalism and commerce are immoral? Because you really can't have those things absent marketing.

At any rate, I can't agree with this. The way that ads/marketing are done can be immoral, for sure -- but you also have PSAs against littering or simply marketing / advertising for any number of things that I'd hope we'd all agree are good ("Spay and neuter your pets," "Don't drink & drive") or at worst neutral ("Now available: The Beatles 50th anniversary Sgt. Pepper CD").

Promoting a thing is not the same thing as "psychological manipulation" unless you consider "making a person or persons aware of something" is manipulation.

One might even argue that marketing is a good when the thing is something that people benefit from being aware of. Is marketing open source immoral? Fitness, as a concept? Ads for animal adoption are immoral?

At any rate - ads are a symptom of consumerism and capitalism, so as long as that's the system we exist in they're going to be present.
I didn’t see the original comment before it was flagged, but I think I agree with you. My experience with urban cycling in NYC is also that people are routinely awful to each other.

It does seem to be much worse for my girlfriend, when she bikes alone. Men on bicycles (and only men on bicycles) frequently insult her for her weight or imply that she is promiscuous, and then ride off.

It shouldn’t be important, but I will also mention that she is a highly experienced cyclist who primarily moves around the city on her bike. She is a competent and careful road user who knows how to get around without getting in people’s way.

My personal theory is that riding a bicycle in the city puts people into an unusual hyperalert, competitive, euphoric, and persecution-complex-y mindset that causes some of them to feel comfortable being loudly obnoxious to strangers. And of course, it’s easy for them to ride away quickly and avoid any consequences.

It’s deeply frustrating to me, because I have to explain to friends who are interested in cycling in the city, that one of the biggest downsides is that you will be repeatedly verbally harassed by strangers pretty much irrespective of your cycling skill.

And of course, it is totally possible that European cyclists don’t exhibit this behavior, or that it is less common for whatever reason, but it is a real thing in NYC.
Show HN: Tangle Network, distributed infra for zero-knowledge and MPC dApps
Just look at the various films that have been lost to fire over time. Of course with the old ones piracy wasn’t really an option. Digitization has its own issues as well.
Other shoe will not drop because the liability for mishandling customer/user data is minimal. I don't expect a scenario where Microsoft (of even Microsoft's cloud division) folds after this. Bear Stearns actually collapsed after their fuckups.
Very convincing to get me to try it!

Also reminds me of the "Dear Abby" column story:

> Dear Abby: I am a 36-year-old college dropout whose lifelong ambition was to be a physician. I have a very good job selling pharmaceutical supplies, but my heart is still in the practice of medicine. I do volunteer work at the local hospital and people tell me I would have been a wonderful doctor.
>
> If I go back to college and get my degree, then go to medical school, do my internship and finally get into the practice of medicine – it will take me seven years. But in seven years, I will be 43 years old! What do you think? – Unfulfilled in Philly
>
> Dear Unfulfilled: And how old will you be in seven years if you don’t go back to college?

(though of course, one weekend is much easier of a commitment to make here)
You know how Nyquist says you must sample at minimum twice your highest "frequency" or your get aliasing in your spectrum? It's the same with antennas except you must sample at least 1/2 your wavelength or you get grating lobes (the equivalent of aliasing) in you far field pattern; it's all the same math. A sample in time is equivalent to an antenna element sampling space. A big reflector is equivalent to sampling everything at once with no gaps; it's bandwidth independent. You can only put array element so close together, limited by the size of the element (itself is limited to a fraction of the lowest wavelength), electronics, and unwanted inter-element coupling (though there are tricks to take advantage of this coupling and make very wideband arrays).

If you leave "gaps" in your array elements, that's not a problem receiving strong, periodic signals. You can physically move the elements to fill in the gaps to remove those lobes; the equivalent of an equivalent time oscilloscope or a synthetic aperture radar. The problem is you can't do that when transmitting since you only have one opportunity to send something (non-periodic).

There are other disadvantages with phased arrays. Each amplifier has to be matched in amplitude and phase. I've had to bin lots of amplifiers as some have phase compression and some phase expansion over amplitude. That distorts the pattern over the pulse.

On the receive side, each receiver has thermal noise un-correlated with the others. So for N antenna elements, you received signal-to-noise scale proportional to sqrt(N) instead of N like you have on transmit, or with a big reflector. This is why arrays suck for very weak signals. Notice NASA keeps building big dishes for their DSN instead of "cheaper" arrays.

Then there's the whole timing and phase noise issue with distributing an oscillator.

Tough you can only make a reflector with about 100 dB gain.
Music in games can be contextual, and it's more fun if you score that beforehand than stepping out and doing it as you go. You may also want to enjoy the score a map/modpack maker intended.
It's speculated that the remaining business was slipping out of profitability without an overhaul. Users were dropping, movie selection is expensive to maintain, and distribution staff/centers ate the remaining revenue.
I realize all that. I disagree with it (or else I would be using the GPL), but that really wasn't my point. My point is that there exist people who use permissive licenses because it fits their ideals better, not because they are corporations trying to capture profit.
From the article:
"One theory is that such CEOs are overpaid because they have too much influence over the board that should be monitoring them on shareholders’ behalf and too much influence over the committee that sets their pay."
Netflix DVDs could be ripped and shared via P2P with ease.

Netflix DRM playback is harder to deal with.
If Facebook could have a false positive rate of 0% and a false negative rate of 0%, they would absolutely make that happen. Unfortunately, due to the way statistics work, Facebook can pick its false positive rate or its false negative rate, but it's impossible to get to 0% false positives without just giving up on moderation altogether.

We're not talking about capital punishment here, we're talking about social media, and Facebook appears to have made the very reasonable decision that it's worth accidentally rate limiting some innocent accounts in order to keep spam lower than would otherwise be possible.
There's no organized effort to roll out ReactOS as a first party supported OS on real hardware. I could imagine a future where the EU funds its development to break away from foreign-owned OSes but that's a long shot and they'd probably be more effective just funding development for the Linux based ecosystem.
A phased array antenna can both transmit and receive within a small beam angle.
You can use the battery on top of the existing grid connection. So if you can charge the 790kWh battery pack on a 50kW grid connection you can charge at 400kW + 50kW = 450kW which seems overkill if you only need 350kW.

It might also be designed to support multiple EV’s as most cars can only stay at 350kW for a relatively short period.
That's nothing compared to the Moncton reversing tide!
The mere fact that you had to buy a cable does not speak to the efficacy or lack thereof of the regulation, any more than the first tweet I found by searching "USB-C Apple" does.

https://twitter.com/trunarla/status/1706760798662758517

I suppose hackers really are digging EU regulation in this area!

https://twitter.com/trunarla/status/1706766113672212932

Gamers too?

https://twitter.com/VadimYuryev/status/1704507228353351741
Satellite photos show pretty clearly that the dam was allowed to overflow which caused the collapse. Russia didn't need explosives. Total irresponsibility, much like you are exhibiting now, was enough.
This is how I feel about the word "literally". I just assume at this point it's from an emotional person probably over indulging in politics.
You need the JSON de/encode implementation with checks. At that point you'll want code generation, and something that was never elegant is turning awful.
You may be making a huge difference to a few people.

That the Pebble app has the option to connect to a third-party service provider (and that the Pebble works indefinitely without any connection to a phone, apart from some time drift) will probably keep my beloved watch alive over a decade past its official life span, maybe even longer.

It actually feels like something I own now, which makes a hell of a difference to me.

That it is like that probably comes down to a combination of tiny decisions during the development process in which the right people were in the right place.
OK, let me refine my recap: you are arguing that to assess responsibility for atrocities is to invite genocide? Or that our best course is to ignore culpability? - passive acceptance of any outrage?
In Croatia they are also known of being shady company with shady government deals, shady beginnings (money laundering) and burning money on projects that aren't feasible at all. But they look good on paper and government lovea to use them as a PR and "successful Croatian project"
It is not that expensive to set up a team of engineers to keep a product working for 10+ years. Microsoft had/has this. They called it "sustained engineering". They don't do any new feature work, just bug fixes and security issues on legacy software. The product team gets disbanded, and ownership is moved to sustained engineering. And they keep it running for years.

One of the reasons Google has so many failed product launches is because consumers don't trust them to provide long-term service and support. At some point they will need to realize that this behavior is inhibiting their ability to become more than just an ads company.
It's about maximally effective advertising. Why would you choose anything less?
Moving to Slovenia for a Tech Job
:-( I've been a subscriber nearly from the start and I've watched hundreds of movies via this service. It is a tragedy simply because so much content is not available any other way or a myriad of disparate streaming services that I am not going to subscribe to. There was a good article about this topic in the WSJ from a few months ago [0]. As the article states:

"This month the Washington Post’s Ty Burr reminds us of some movies we can’t stream: “Cocoon” (1985), directed by Ron Howard, “Short Cuts” (1993) by Robert Altman, “New York, New York” (1977) by Martin Scorsese, “Henry & June” (1990) by Philip Kaufman and “Silkwood” (1983) by Mike Nichols."

The only silver lining is I am probably going to start exploring the Kanopy catalog more which may be available via your local public library.

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/dvds-demise-leaves-many-films-g...
I think this should do it for a quick patch, loaded first into every javascript execution context:

window.MediaStreamTrack = undefined
window.RTCPeerConnection = undefined
window.RTCSessionDescription = undefined
window.webkitMediaStreamTrack = undefined
window.webkitRTCPeerConnection = undefined
window.webkitRTCSessionDescription = undefined
Usb-C is pretty big
I assume it was actually the last batch shipped.

I suppose they could have figured out the last fulfilled order though.
It’s crazy that we saw the birth and demise of a technology in our lifetime.
Square knots used as bends have a tendency to loosen over time when used with rope that is not exactly equal in characteristics, especially when they are not under tension (or the line alternates between slack and taut).

I believe the US Navy recommends 2 bowlines over a square knot, but the sheet bend is still the gold standard.
It looks like a worthwhile discussion about which you have not yet been able to prepare a reasonably well thought argument to present.
I was hoping to learn this too.

We're left to speculate.

...But I hope it was Weird Al's first film, "UHF".
Based on structure (but not the Ames test), phentolamine has some genotoxic metabolites. I wonder why they chose that alpha agonist and not a different one (of which there are many).
It’s a fascinating subject.

I think a lot of the English peculiarities with spelling come from it adopting other vocabulary without enforcing a change to English orthography onto it, so we end up with a crazy mix of Germanic, French, Latin, Greek and other language spelling conventions. Also English speakers were perhaps more willing to coin Latin/Greek terms for new objects than other languages - contrast ‘television’ from Greek and Latin in English, with Fernseher (literally far-looker) in German.

With respect to dialectical marks, I’m not sure why English in general doesn’t use them (although some might argue we do if we spell words café or naïve), but they don’t seem to be ‘fashionable’ in related languages - Dutch doesn’t seem to use them either, and in German they feel somewhat optional - ä, ö and ü can be replaced with ae, oe and ue respectively (e.g. where the accented forms aren’t available) and ß can be replaced with ss. Indeed correct alphabetical sorting of German demands this.
> I have actually as productive is a chalkboard and a phone on a tripod, joining the phone to the VTC so people can see the chalkboard. I wish there was a better way to do that.

You should check out Huddly Canvas -- it's a USB whiteboard camera designed for just this use case.

https://www.huddly.com/conference-cameras/canvas/
Honestly, advertising is not inherently evil. Putting a sign out front of your business with your logo is advertising, though it also helps your customers find you. You are advertising your location.

How would you know where a restaurant is or what it serves if they did not have a logo or a menu located outside on their window? All of this is advertising.

What is immoral is advertising that holds your attention hostage. Advertising should be able to be rejected, or skipped.

I don't have to read a billboard. I don't want to stare at it for 5 seconds before saying "Skip Billboard". I just don't look at it.

Instagram does a great job of this with Reels. I can just swipe past a reel that's an ad. I can't even tell you what the last ad I saw on Instagram was, period.

In my opinion, advertising should be an inefficient way of communicating your services / products. Commercials, in-stream ads, popups, anything that forces you to interact with an advertisement should be banned, and any personalization of advertisements should also be banned.
I think there might be some class-based miscommunication here. I would like to humbly recommend a book: https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/darren-mcgarvey/poverty... . It's one of my favorites because it puts into words some inklings I occasionally get when I talk to mediocre white men (read here: upper middle class people). I think that the default stance when you're a member of the in-group is one of comfort and tacit understanding that your opinions will be valued and your personhood will be respected. I think that the default stance when you're the member of an out-group is one of fear and stress because there is a tacit understanding that your opinions will not be valued (unless exceptionally insightful/valuable) and that your personhood will not be respected. Class is racialized in the United States and I am making the assumption that the above commentor is American (hence interpreting racialization as class; race is constructed. See blonde white women). Now, I ask: what makes the above comment about mediocre white men challenging? For me, I think that it comes from an out-group default frame of reference, where the default state of worth is replaced with a default state of worthlessness. Being implicitly treated as worthless can be aggravating and feel threatening, because it is. I think that this frame of mind is perfectly rational when you look at outcomes from members of out-groups. When looked at from the point of view where only the truly gifted and exceptional in your class are treated as people, is there any wonder why there is class rage? When I look at mediocre white men and observe them, they have class signifiers. Walking around in a relaxed posture, general ease, confidence, and sometimes even this type of generic dismissal of the thoughts of others are some typical behaviors of mediocre white men. I guess I'm trying to say that we should try to be thoughtful about why people write things. The words are not often careless. Also, a hit dog will holler.
> That would basically ban normal cell phones. You can't do calls without access to the network.

I get your point but making calls is no longer the principal reason to own a smartphone. I have made no calls in the last two months and have received just one. But I have spent hours on Skype via WiFi, recorded tens of hours of video and taken hundreds of photographs, as well as read lots of books, sent and received money for goods that I have used the phone to list for sale online. Not to mention email and dozens of other applications.

Almost none of my use needed the cellular network.
Why a bunch of software folks think “eh, it’s just indexing” is reasonable fills me with dread. It’s almost if “indexing” is some excuse to do whatever the hell you want with the hardware in question. This isn’t beyond the realm of engineering to fix if it is the issue. Stop holding it wrong, folks.
I would think waaaay more people have heard of Snowden than of RMS. If a movie about RMS will get made, than in the shape of a crowdfunded community project.
> Well, the supposition GP made was that Security Experts AGREE ON ANYTHING.

That’s not what they said

> Centralization in any other area of life tends to be bad for citizens, so I ask you this: Why would centralization lead to MORE security, or MORE benefit to the users and citizens of the world?

I had already addressed the point about centralisation and risk. This additional question you’re raising is, at best, a straw man argument.

If you go back and read, and I mean properly read, pause and think about the comments being made, you’d realise that we aren’t saying risk doesn’t exist. We are saying the reality of that risk depends on numerous factors specific to each business, project, and even team. Thus you cannot distil “the cloud” down to a single truism such as what you keep trying to do.
It's good to be king.
Good grief. Here I thought I was all doom and gloom today...
It might be hard to imagine now, but it was only 15 years ago that we were able to function in a world without Facebook.
The Death of the Author
RedBox undoubtedly will. It's not quite the same service, but definitely aimed at the same consumers.
Relevant occurrence in GPS history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_007
I used the social credits as a mechanic to reduce the overall number of queries that run against OpenAI API (because it costs real money). Having prerecorded queries is a related workaround (it costs nothing to display a static input-output pair). You should be able to run prerecorded queries without losing social credits, even in the situation where you have >0 social credits.
In your prompt, instruct the llm to return responses as markdown then use a markdown parser to display the response in your ui. Code will automatically be formatted.
Do you think that’s likely to ever actually happen? It has had well over twenty years and isn’t there yet.
The corollary of this is that low-code is best when a reusable component for a well-defined problem space exists.

As soon as you drop into customized complexity, you should be building new low-code components with actual code.

Which I think is the main reason low-code is popular in the API-to-API SaaS space: actions are limited and well-defined.
The argument goes that calling it a "disaster" is shortening the phrase "natural disaster". This isn't entirely true; there are man-made disasters like global warming or pollution. However, when talking about an intentionally caused man-made disaster, we don't usually call that a disaster, we call it an atrocity or a war crime, and we name and shame who caused it.

Half of spin is headline craft.
Not really.

Rust is significantly more discussed than Haskell ever was. Haskell barely ever had more than a couple hundred comments / posts. Rust has thousands.

Haskell was never discussed more than Ruby or Python and you can go to the archives to prove it. This year, Rust is more popular than Ruby and Python combined for discussions on Hackernews.
Don't quote me on this, but I vaguely recall an explanation years ago, that the one-two punch of Norman French and the Great Vowel Shift arriving were enough for spelling and pronounciation to permanently decouple in English speakers' minds
The argument is about what caused the dam to fail. For some reason Russia haters are insisting the only possibility is an explosion. Photographic evidence shows that Russia allowed the dam to overflow which caused the collapse. Only one thing can be true. Both possibilities are clearly the responsibility of Russia in any case. But unfortunately Russia haters have decided it must have been explosives and so the truth has become the enemy as is usually the case whenever Russia is involved.
Sure but then you're using some cheap plastic Acer piece of trash.
Right, I guess I should have specified which DVD was shipped with the last incremental order ID?
The ads you are describing are the the most intrusive forms of modern advertisements, which imo deserve to be banned, while the parent post mentions benning advertising in general, be it a commercial or an insertion on a newspaper for an used civic.

The idea that ogling even the most innocuous forms of advertising reduces your quality of life to the point the government has to step in and prevent everyone else from benefiting from them sounds excessive.
I live in America and view every billboard I’m forced to see as anti-social. Many also obscure scenic views. If you drive through middle America, many are explicitly anti-social, encouraging you to join cults and deny women basic human rights.
Aha interesting, I thought this was standard for some reason