skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your definition of "cancelled" seems to be pretty different than the current usage, in particular people who are against "cancel-culture" as a threat to legitimate freedom and/or as a dangerous unfair ideology. (in both cases, it requires the cancellation to be unfair. If it is not unfair, then it cannot be considered as a danger)

I don't really see the point of the term "cancelled" if it is what you describe: what you describe is just the normal usual consequences of living in society, and it existed since millenia without the need of using a specific term like "cancel".

It is also not really good because it muddies the water. We have people who are saying that the cancel-culture is a big danger. What they have in mind as "cancellation" is mainly a fantasy, and it is true that what they have in mind practically never happens in real life. But then, if you come and say "yeah, there is the list of people cancelled", these people will just start to believe these people went under the way more extreme definition of "cancellation" they have in mind.

> P.S. I never said Finkelstein as cancelled for being woke (you likely misread the word "work"), in fact he is very much against woke culture - see his latest book, "I'll Burn That Bridge When I Get To It!"

Oh. When I saw that, I was thinking "Good, this list contains some people that would have been cancelled for not conforming to right-wing ideal. Then I guess it is already more believable". But if it is not the case, I find it problematic. There is absolutely no intrinsic reason that only people would be cancelled for "not conforming with a left-wing ideal". If "cancellation" is a real thing, it should happen to right-wing or left-wing.
I love Gnome, so not everyone agrees on the "enshittification" claim. It's the most visually consistent DE for Linux, in my experience, and has an aesthetic that I appreciate. It mostly just stays out of my way, but has affordances for the things I need. Fortunately, there's plenty of choice in the Linux world, and we can hopefully coexist without too much hostility.
85%? I can't imagine even dedicated spam hosting companies in China having that kind of deliverability issues. That is seriously bizarre.
> English and French descent

> descent

30 years after showing up most of them were speaking English and generally living in roughly the same culture (be it Catholic or Protestant) with roughly similar expectations. As opposed to Muslim, East Asian, Aztec, etc.

Like my people were French huguenots (protestants) and rapidly turned into any other VA tobacco farmers
https://karl-voit.at/cloud/
I would be happy to pay content creators the money they deserve for high quality content. But no matter how good the video is, it's not worth sitting through pitches trying to convince or manipulate you into spending money. At that point I would rather receive lower quality content with no ads.

It's not that people don't want to financially support creators. It's that the targeted advertising business has become so manipulative and hostile that some people do not want to see ads for any product in any context.
Elon Musk live streams from border
They did it. Women are now "women+". Yikes. The meme became real life.
I am so glad that Electron makes must haves for me like Signal possible.
> The actual significance of this is that metal is being offered at a "blue dollar" rate by one of the three largest retailers in America

Or, it’s a novelty item to get PR buzz.
Python's simplicity and flexibility is what has allowed the language to reinvent itself for every new period of computing, while the paradigm- or bare-metal-bound languages have become relics. A good programming language is self-organizing. It takes on the features that are needed by the programmers of the day.
I quote from the highest featured review:
> Met lots of gifted individuals that can look at the ground while spinning and still click heads. Very impressive!
While it's true that the best way to keep a secret is to keep it off the internet, regulation could absolutely improve the prospects of keeping secrets by requiring encryption in every context, imposing heavy penalties on companies that fail to properly secure sensitive data (much heavier than what we currently see, up to the corporate death penalty), and enshrining in law the people's right to strong encryption.
Swedens income equality is growing fast because they are continuously bringing in more people who can not and never will contribute to their economy. This will take generations to fix, if it is possible.
Throw in power adapter, case, and micro sd card for rpi 5. Price difference almost disappears. Do you seriously think that rpi with an sd card going to beat 256gig ssd?
Still probably better than having the private key part of a random core dump from a random developer. :s

That’s just embarrassing.
I’ve also seen conductors do amazing things in service of customers, including radioing the train heading the other way and doing an unscheduled stop/meet to transfer a passenger who had missed their stop.

I feel he did it because he felt bad for not waking them up, but still.

If Amtrak wasn’t forbidden from competing with greyhound it’d be more reliable I feel, even if trains became busses a bit more often.
There are laws against adding in taxes on listed prices in places like NJ, likely others as well.

Regardless, I'm not sure why people consider it such a big deal. It's consistent across the board and it's relatively basic math to estimate what the total would be.

I've lived in places that do it both ways and it's a non-issue.
The sad answer is that it's because it's not familiar to most programmers. The quality of the tools sadly has barely any bearing on their adoption.

It's just too different and too advanced for the average programmer to use. There is no surprise that we have languages like Go now - explicitly familiar, explicitly dumb.

Elixir does not have familiar C-like syntax or the usual OO-ish programming model, and its (btw fantastic) approach to concurrency is also very strange to people coming from popular languages.
Do you think Google pays $19B and doesn’t make more than that?
Here is why I think it's not more mainstream

1. The really cool and differentiated aspects of elixir require specialized deployments. Cloud vendors are optimized for stateless horizontally scalable infrastructure not stateful infrastructure.

2. Elixir is a functional programming language and this means you cannot mutate variables. While I like many aspects of elixir, not being able to mutate state makes elixir unsuitable for any task that cares about performance at all. Many algorithms are memory bound and you really cannot justify using things like linked lists.
Great breakdown. I hadn't really thought of each of these in this manner
even radiation is different for different people - I have had a couple of treatments for brain metastases and due to my proximity to Boston I am lucky to get the most up-to-date treatments available. There's something called Proton Beam Stereotactic Radiosurgery which is a single session, they are somehow able to curve the beam so it enters in three different places and the place where the beam(s) meet is the place that gets the treatment. It's a single session and I don't have any side effects at all.

But yes, when I spoke to radiation oncologist when I was diagnosed 2.5 years ago (and before they had a full picture of what my cancer looked like), he told me to expect to be hospitalized multiple times because the lymph nodes they'd treat were so close to my esophagus and the treatments would burn my espohagus. "Thankfully" the cancer was spread too far and the field was too large for radiation, so the only radiation treatments I've had have been the ones described above.

More info on the different kinds of Stereotactic Radiosurgery: https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/stereotactic-rad...
What would a better protocol look like? Backwards compatibility is pretty nice in a lot of areas.
Just a bit pick, there’s no such thing as intrinsic value. All value is subjective. Gold has strong and common utility aiding in its valuation, but there is no intrinsic value.
I think a few things are happening.

First, the language paradigm pendulum seems to be swinging back towards the middle.

Second, and perhaps more impactful, Ruby on Rails is having a bit of a renaissance.
plus bing continuing to exist means you can push Google for more money during the negotiations
GSuite or whatever Google calls it now, Zoho.
Dianne Feinstein has died
To add on to this, when I think about a situation where you're trying to hedge against all government-backed fiat collapsing; I feel like you're already down to cold-hard bartering. The saying of "booze, bullets, and bandages" comes to mind.
I’ve ridden long distance a few times and if I (not necessarily the train, mind you) end up at my destination station within the quarter of the day it was scheduled, I count it as a win.

Pro tip - fly OUT to your vacation, and take the train back.

Then the worst case you miss work and oh so sad cry cry.
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You have completely ignored the babies suffering here.

Until you can recognize in cases of abortion there are two parties with different interests we cannot make progress. (we probably cannot even after understanding that, but maybe we can be civil)
Not everyone is DropBox. IIRC GitLab also wanted to switch but after long planning they found out it would be worse.
My PC speakers do that. I'm pretty sure that's the cable between the sound card and the amplifier acting as an antenna and picking up the broadcast as interference. Then it gets treated by the speaker system as if it was the actual audio signal. Here's the thing, though: either AM or FM, radio broadcasts are definitely not in the human hearing frequency range.

EDIT: Thinking about, maybe what he meant is not that the carrier signal is in the sub-20 kHz range, but rather that the switching happens at around that frequency. For example, gates opening and closing modulating the amplitude at audible frequencies.
Going back a few years about 7% of Tuvalu's GDP was from the .tv TLD. It can be a pretty big earner for some of the smaller countries that lucked into a popular TLD.
> Stainless steel is rigid. We would need a material with some flexibility probably

Good point, that'd probably be more optimal.
> You can cause the same problems from another thread in the same process, or even from the same thread. The fact that an OS process boundary is involved isn't relevant- you simply don't form the &str if some other part of the system has that kind of access to it, whether or not the OS is involved.

No you can't, not without unsafe. Rust will not let you.

Again, this is sort of an up in the air discussion. In most cases saying "your type system can't handle someone else ptrace'ing you" is obvious and fine, but when you're talking about certain abstractions like mmap, where multi-processing and shared contexts are inherent, it's important to note that you can't just rely on normal aliasing rules.
Print to PDF, instead of bookmark.

Collect all the things in a big folder. Try to make sure the PDF has a page title.

Mine the data with pdf2txt and other things. ;)

My archive includes lots of juicy nuggets of things I did 20 years ago, and again 10 years ago, and so on. Just mining the data before feeding it to the AI, I'm learning things about myself .. I've returned to some subjects through multiple different paths.

There's also a lot of interesting parallels between the different slashdot, kuro5hin, reddit, HN and lobste.rs epochs. I could probably add an extra training stage where, after analyzing the PDF archive, it also gets access to my still-extant social media accounts.

Frankly, I'm half tempted to just fire up a "RoboTaco 1000 AI" on this, point it at a blog interface, and see how many like-minded souls/AI I can suck into the vortex ..
Wouldn't that need an awful lot of training data? And different people might have very approaches to laying out a graph, so all that training data would need to come from one person, wouldn't it?
Oh right, because if we're looking at (say) a ball from two sides, we're not looking at the same splat. So except for very thin 1D-approximating shapes like the spokes of a bike wheel, or pointy convex shapes, most splats will effectively be domes, right?
Americans did not invent the concept of free speech, but they take it to an extreme that is extremely far out of the mainstream in Europe and always has been.
NEC, Surfliner, maybe a few others. All the long distance routes save the auto train would be cancelled leaving only the commuter trains.

If it has sleeper cars, it loses money.

However Amtrak serves a portion of the population that are in areas not serviced by much else and I’m perfectly fine with subsidizing that outright. But that may be because choo choo go choo.
My old boss directed us to Azure because one potential benefit was 'getting all invoices from Microsoft.' It was a separate invoice and not with O365...
If there is a story here, it's that the employees have access to their own badge access history.
"Control" has to be properly contextualized. Just because one company is the only available option for a service or product doesn't mean that business "controls" the industry.

Natural monopolies occur and get displaced by innovation all the time without any regulatory involvement.
What? Including Chrome? Including niche stuff like Brave, etc?
The significant extra bit missing was DXVK(and VKD3D), whose development is financed by Valve and, for various reasons is still not part of Wine.
the problem is when it becomes more instruction on "if you do X, make sure you don't say suspicious words so nobody notices we are doing X"
Can someone give a QRD on all of the political ramifications that will come from this? I've heard things about judges being harder to appoint, what else is there?
In addition to what others have said...

There are enough other acceptable languages+frameworks, and two of them (Python and JavaScript) are unfortunately just too visible and in the way.

Students, junior developers, and developers from non-CS backgrounds start with what's "easy" and available and talked about (lots of published examples, guides, etc.)

Elixir is for those who have experienced other langauges and seek something better. And since it definitely requires a paradigm shift in thinking (OOP->Functional), that puts it essentially behind a fence for many people. Why climb over the fence if Python is "good enough".

Elixir also has a great story with BEAM and all the amazing capabilities it offers, but those are capabilities that would be desired and exercised by experienced developers.

Ultimately it's a matter of mindshare. Search for programming examples for just about any topic, and you're going to get a flood of Python or JavaScript results. Maybe Java too. This is especially true since some of the programmer-mills appear to require students to regularly post blogs with trivial or lightweight essays and examples in the aforementioned languages.

The people who use real power tools are usually busy doing real things, so they generate less web fluff about their tools.
"Hello I'm agent smith from federal agency group, costco said you bought some gold, where is it?"

"lost it"

"Mind if we search your house?"

"i've known you were going to ever since I bought the gold; knock yourself out. Just please don't disturb my antique collection of locked filing cabinets. They're all empty but the keys are in that big pile over there"
What are you thinking is your business model? I'm a sysadmin at a small MLS, trying to figure out where we'd integrate it. At $2/stage it's something we'd probably have to have you bill the Realtor directly for (I don't think we do any pass-through billing), but could maybe include a couple stages per month per Realtor. I could see a fun use-case where consumers would be able to do their own staging, but there are probably few if any Realtors that will be willing to pay $2/stage for consumers to do that.
> So, the term women+ includes women (trans and cis), trans men, and people who are non-binary, genderqueer, genderfluid, agender, intersex, and all other minority genders.

It seems to basically mean "everyone except cis men". But I guess that wouldn't be a very good name for a conference..
I had a similar, surreal exchange with the same user on a different topic, yesterday.

Back to re-weighting "check users comment history" when deciding to keep commenting.
Discussed a few hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37697382
I had the same reaction; it seems like a brand you wouldn’t want to use in this space.
This is very timely. I was profiling some code a few days ago and noticed streams were much slower than expected.
@randomcarbloke probably means installing/soldering the components onto the board. E.g., https://www.digikey.com/en/maker/blogs/2021/how-to-populate-...
Comparing the US with Argentina is wild. Americans are buying gold because there's a lot of propaganda about how the country is going to hell, the economy is fucked and there's plenty of marks out there that fall for this, while unemployment is historically low and the mcdonalds close to me is offering 17 an hour for line workers.

There's been a huge increase in ads about "buying hold to protect yourself" instead of buying US government bonds, that will actually make you money, because these grifters feed off fear and there's plenty of people there that will believe in it. These people will all lose money on this gold when they decide to sell it.
describing wine as some sort of semi-usable half-working project before their involvement is rather inaccurate

i disagree. wine worked, but many games didn't. fixing that is mostly valve's doing. and in my opinion the wine experience is still inferior compared to steam.

the problem is very much one of perception. 90% of the work that went into wine was already there. but the remaining 10% of work that was missing make up 90% of the impression of how well it is working. (the numbers are made up, but i hope you get my idea. it's the general linux desktop problem. the desktop is functional and stable, but the impression of it isn't because of a few small issues that just seem to bother many people)

so by attacking these remaining issues, valve is making a significant contribution.

i think it is also important that valve is able to apply patches before they make it into wine, because that means these patches see way more testing than the wine project probably would be capable of on their own. which is another reason that makes vales work significant.
are you asking if its a crime to read information they've publicly broadcast?

Because if that's a crime we're screwed because then it's illegal to read, or listen.
Adoption of new programming languages is always an uphill struggle. The majority of companies will exercise a lot of caution around their technology stack because they are anticipating (rightly or wrongly) difficulties hiring staff who can work with the programming language.

I think this causes a big push towards adoption of a already popular tools, until those popular tools cause significant issues. There's a weird kind of loop there where "it's not used much" is the reason something isn't used much but those cycles can be pretty tough to break.
Not dissimilar to HN then :)

‘Show HN’ posts often have a mix of different comparatively negative comments: from the (classic) I could do this quicker/cheaper/easily, alternatives being posted, genuine criticisms (+/- misunderstandings) of the offering, criticism of the underlying website due to choices made around design/fonts/contrast/processor utilisation/JS use…

It’s such a nice surprise when there’s a ‘Show HN’ and the comments are predominantly supportive and/or positive!
Not All Older Adults Reap Cognitive Benefits of Life Satisfaction
€5.8M fine for Grindr – Norwegian Consumer Council’s complaint upheld
With PCB design, you can work at a few abstractions above that. For example, nets, and the various abstractions used in electronics (resistance, capacitance etc). Even for RF and high-speed designs, I don't think that's an appropriate granularity to model the system with.

I'm curious if that has any implications for future nano-scale tech; we might see an intersection of DFT and electronics design.
Amazing! I've been trying to find great resources for USD for a long time, this is hands-off the best tutorial I've ever seen. Thanks for sharing.
Yes, attempting to re-implement generic programming (as opposed to a particular domain) as node-based seems doomed to failure.
This is the one situation where it does work better. Many years ago I was interested in affiliate marketing, where there was a relatively immediate purchase. The aim then was to optimise spend and conversion rate and a profit could be eeked out.

When there is a slower sales cycle and a more complex or less transactional purchase then it all becomes much more vague and significantly harder to find ROI in my experience. The ad-click is likely to be one of a hundred factors compared to transactionally selling a widget.
The government can do whatever it wants as long as they pass a law and you respect it.
In other words, "Word of mouth" for all services.

This is one of the most difficult marketing channels for marketers to promote. It basically requires astroturfing (e.g. planting biased questions on social platforms and encourage organic engagement).

I hate to admit this but this is how I got the first 10-20 paid users for my B2B SaaS. Our product is a dev tool that integrates with a bunch of other tools, so we found questions from people on forums asking how to accomplish [what our product does] and we'd answer the question with a post recommending our service.

And then we wrote a bunch of tutorials / guides for how to integrate [popular service] <> [our product] to achieve [what our product does] so that if anyone googles "[popular service] [what our product does]" our help docs are usually top of the page.

Posting on forums was fine to get the first few users, but it was long-tail SEO (which is pretty easy to rank since it's long-tail) that got us the next 200. If the search terms are specific enough and the category is relatively undiscovered/unexploited, it's easy to rank. Unfortunately it's really hard to find unexploited niches.
You can share screen, Shortcuts supports Bluetooth automation triggers, turn off Background Apps or let the CPU race to sleep.
AAC is one of the most widely used and implemented codecs in existence. It’s extremely unlikely that you’ll ever need to transcode it for compatibility since the only reason to do so (licensing) becomes moot over a preservation timeframe as patents expire. If you aren’t noticing technical defects in your recordings now, you’re really not going to care in 20 years - many of us will be lucky to still hear well enough!

> And for archival of digital source material, lossless is the only sensible option.

I work in digital preservation and one thing everyone is keenly aware of is the cost of storing large amounts of data. Archivists like lossless, of course, but if it’s below the level where humans can notice problems they’re often more forgiving than you might think because preserving twice as many works with the same storage budget has its own appeal. Your personal music collection is probably small enough that it fits in your personal storage slop but maybe that’s not true if you’re a huge fan or partial to high-res soundboard recordings, and if you’re archiving for a larger group you’ll start to exhaust what capacity you can get for free.
Storyteller Tactics
Most wouldn't, when? When the comment was made these were true statements, 40 years later things do change.
I think(hope?) Llama 3 will be a MoE architecture that shows >GPT-3.5 level performance. Interesting to think Meta will probably continue to spearhead the open source AI movement.
And just recently Sharepoint was found to accept alg: null JWT tokens (ie. complete authentication bypass)