skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The U.S. federal price tag for the post-9/11 wars is over $8 trillion.

Probably explains a lot of the inflation we have seen recently. Gotta pay for it somehow, one way is to make each dollar worth less. It's a stealth tax increase.
Do you presume that most of the unpolled 17 year olds in 2003 were against it? Most of the unpolled 16 year olds?

Even if they weren't polled, it's not reasonable to assume that 0% of them would have supported the various responses.
The comment you're calling naive is clearly aware of this fact, given the statement "if the public could be as compelled by anything non-security related".
Always pay by credit card for such things. You can do a chargeback if the service you paid for is not delivered.
I maintain a Homebridge (community built system to bridge IoT devices to Apple HomeKit) plugin for Google Nest devices. The newer Nest cams use WebRTC for video streaming. This makes viewing the cameras in Apple Home a bit complex, as the bridge must setup and connect to a WebRTC stream, transcode it, and then send it out to your iPhone etc. as an RTSP stream.

https://github.com/potmat/homebridge-google-nest-sdm

Since this is for home automation the system runs on all kinds of weird devices, from RPi's to NAS's to old laptops etc. When I tried to use anything requiring platform specific binaries it was a complete mess, most of the time things would not build.

The problem may not be insurmountable if you're being paid, but since this is just done in my spare time it's not something I wanted to deal with.
As the very top of the page says, I'm not maintaining it, and I preserved it online. It's an example of a way to make your own distro. Considerable work went into the `build-lildeb` script that is a single file to define the distro in a simple and lightweight way. (This was before Dockerfiles, so maybe newer then, but it's still practical.)
Ask HN: Experience Using Rewind AI?
I am using the 30 day free trial and the functionality seems very good.

re: privacy and security: after reading about the founders, etc. I decided to trust that very little data leaves my devices.

I am considering making Rewind AI part I my permanent workflow, but I am not sure. Any experience and opinions based on other people’s experiences will be appreciated.
The GHC was intended to be female-only back in the day. Sadly that is old news and now we have categories based on how closely an individual feels they adhere to sex stereotypes. Supposedly this is progressive.

And like, if you have this "nonbinary" grouping that men can freely say they belong to, and doing this gives them advantage over other men, like access to tech recruiters, then of course some of them will exploit it if they're brazen enough.

Shame on these men for taking the piss and shame on the organisers for allowing it. The only upside is this proves to anyone with their hand in the sand that tech is still very male dominated, and that maybe GHC will return to being a conference for women now they've had this very public reminder of what their mission is and isn't supposed to be.
ECS to me is a subset of the binary relational data model & first order logic. Or at least expressible entirely in those terms.

An in-memory system optimized high performance munging of such relations, with super optimized joins etc. would be invaluable I think in game dev (or anywhere else seeking to declare and manage complex relationships in real time). Basically... Datalog for games... on a tick clock

But from what I've seen game developers often re-invent the wheel, or formulate things in very specific terms for performance reasons.

I do think Tim Sweeny is sorta grasping at bringing some DB concepts into games when he talks about bringing e.g. software transactional memory (STM) to game dev.
To be fair, being mad hasn’t stopped them, either.
Great idea, with enough data this could be really interesting.
Something under appreciated in America’s failures is how they become fuel for cryptofascist (crypto like hidden not Bitcoin) justifications for whatever horrible behavior is dreamt up in the Kremlin or Beijing. You can see it in this thread, the invasion of Iraq becomes a populist justification for the Ukraine invasion — regardless of the distance in each countries behaviors. Horror begits horror.
whoa amazing, thanks! It does make me mad that I pay for youtube premium and still have to see those sponsored segments.
Except, unlike crypto, ChatGPT helps me with real day things that I easily find at least $20/month of value from.
> But there are other cases where safety and performance _are_ in contention, and we must choose one or the other. Anyone who has been forced to satisfy the borrow checker by using a .clone(), using Rc, or refactoring objects into a hash map and referred to them by an ID (that must be hashed to exchange with a reference), has felt this contention.

Yes. You literally did assume that the borrow checker is an authority, as seen here.

To be frank with you, given that zig is 95% of the way there, I feel that you are “diving off the deep end” when stating things like “Haskell doesn’t go far enough”. Haskell typing system is a nice experiment, but I don’t believe to be good in any capacity, let alone “not going far enough”.

Haskell, in my opinion, a great case of “solving a problem before even asking what the problem really is”.
"Microwaves are supposed to be perfectly shielded" is one of those myths that just won't die. Microwaves are allowed to leak a lot, with exactly "how much" dependent on whatever agency writes the rules where you live of course =)

In the US, for instance, it's the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), part of the FDA, that sets the rules for microwaves, with the performance standard set forth by CDRH allowing leakage (measured at five centimeters from the oven surface) of 1 mW/cm² at the time of manufacture, and a maximum level of 5 mW/cm² during the lifetime of the oven.[1]

A strong wifi router or bluetooth transmitter may be transmitting at one or two orders of magnitude greater than the microwave's allowed to leak, but if you're closer to the microwave than the wifi/bluetooth transmitter, or the microwave is simply between you and the wifi/blueooth transmitter, or especially if you have a low power transmitter, that microwave's going to wreak havoc.

[1] https://transition.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Engineering_Technology/Do...
The comparison involved different and not completely overlapping sort algorithms. If you want to say this you have to first prove it's not just the algorithm.
While I agree with that general sentiment, far more than that experienced homelessness over a 20 year period.
What a tragedy that what used to be called "installing" is now mocked by the industry lobby as "sideloading", and what used to just be "visiting a web page" has taken its rightful place.

I have not and probably will not ever "install" a "web app". This is literally just a list of web sites. It's no more useful than Yahoo circa 1998 but now the bookmarks are on your desktop or homescreen rather than in your browser, where you're going to be taken anyways if you open one of them.

Call me a cynical boomer.
I pay $14 a month for YouTube Premium. YouTube is my most used streaming service and I think it's completely worth it. Maybe if you don't consume a lot of YouTube it's not that valuable to you but I'd rather have YouTube over Netflix, HBO, Hulu, etc all combined.
Right, implementations of Shor's algorithm on existing quantum computers can only factor 7 x 3. But even if quantum computing power doubled every year it would still take decades before breaking modern crypto becomes viable. That would require many scientific and engineering breakthroughs. Possible of course, but I wouldn't bet on it.
What going wrong in canada lately?

Edit0: As I thought, nothing really
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The majority contributor to inflation we’ve seen recently is a profit margin increases by corporations in poorly competitive markets. Decades of weak anti trust enforcement coming to roost
No, the citizen price tag is the 1+ hour you lose to the "temporary" security theater every single time you fly on an airplane despite it demonstrably doing absolutely nothing.

It's not inaccurate to call things paid for by the federal government (which yes, are indeed funded by your tax dollars) the "federal price tag".
Both, really. The OS-level ossification isn't quite as bad as the middleboxes, but is still glacially slow and bad enough to justify QUIC on its own.

Case in point: the whole TCP Fast Open drama.
More than Pinterest?
Less than a year's GDP for that many years of war including Veteran's benefits seems pretty cheap as wars go.

That is not an analysis of whether it could've been spent better, just a statement about war costs generally. Clearly not a total war at all. Barely a partial one.
I can't think of many industries with more competition than 3rd party travel sites.
I mean, that's what happens when you give politicians who want to privatize the NHS political power for nearly 15 straight years.
Yes. I cited the financial industry for a reason.

In reference to your previous question, along with the obvious brute fact of the fines not escalating for the same infraction over time, I would take a first stab at an answer being that the stronger the "revolving door" the less likely the fines are to be serious.

Note that just a one way industry -> regulator won't necessarily produce this effect, because in that situation a regulator can still want to flex by producing meaningful fines. But the more the cycle is industry -> regulator -> and back to industry, the more the regulator is going to be thinking in terms of what will come around when they're in the industry again.
In a resource constrained world, we have to make trade-offs.

That is not indicative of poor functioning.

It's like saying 'a well functioning human has a six pack and reads 20 books a week.' Like sure one can do those things, but I think it's probably true of neither of us.
Browser addons you didn't know you needed
Sorry but i just wanted to share the solution to one of the worst minor frustrations of mine.

Regex search, thank god they exist

It would be cool if we could share some niche pices of really usefull software :)

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-regex-search/bpelaihoicobbkgmhcbikncnpacdbknn
It is meant to be its own thing :) To kickstart the content on the site it pulls from a few places (including HN).
That will vanish over time with more user activity
Yes but then the issue isn't whether copyrighted works can be used as training data, but how you can obtain those works to use them as training data. I agree that you can't justify copyright infringement based on the fact you are using it as training data. But I do not agree with those that say using a legally borrowed book as training data violates copyright.

But if you have an example of some types of books that it is impossible to borrow from anywhere on the planet please share. Textbooks are readily available from libraries.
In polls, most American people supported the Iraq war

https://news.gallup.com/poll/8038/seventytwo-percent-america...
*is gross
Hey I'm a good guy I vote the same way Dick Cheney and John Bolton do.
Welcome to Dynex SDK
Victim Mentality
Why hasn't this happened to me yet? I watch youtube videos ALL the time and I have never once been prompted to turn off ublock. The only time I see ads is on my phone.
The withdrawal also once again established that the nation doesn't care about its responsibility and the consequences of its actions (Iraq -> Daesh, AF->Taliban and all achieved progress and hope ruined), only its own costs and troops (go-to excuse for AF: how long do you expect us to stay?)
My domain was blocked from serving Adsense (for some a pedantic reason). Fortunate result, if I watch youtube loaded from their own embed script but hosted from my domain there are never ads!
Who says OpenAI pirated it? Unless the content was pirated in the first place simply showing it to an LLM is just like letting your friend borrow your book.

When Google crawls websites to build a search index, we don’t expect Google to pay royalties… all these analogies at least demonstrate that copyright is impossible to apply consistently and our notions about what’s fair are wholly subjective.
What Guantanamo is horrible but in a historical context it is pretty tame. How can you know about slavery, the holocaust, etc. and be unable to imagine force feeding prisoners who are hunger striking.
I'm worried that if I block adds and get caught they will eventually sanction my other Google accounts (i.e. Gmail and Drive). I'm thinking about adding YouTube to /etc/hosts and only browsing through Tor.
So what interventions after WW2 do you support?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_Uni...
The intervention in the Korean war?
The intervention in the Vietnam war?
Intervening in the Laotian Civil War?
The Permesta Rebellion?
Lebanon crisis? Bay of Pigs?
Invading Panama? Invading Grenada?
Public perception of revenge.

It kept on going because, as we saw with Biden, whatever administration made the call would get excoriated for some detail of the withdrawal.
> I was saying QUIC can be userspace just like (...)

I think you're too hung up on "can" when that's way besides OP's point. The point is that providing access to fundamental features through a standard API is of critical importance.

If QUIC is already massively adopted them there is no reason whatsoever to not provide a standard API.

If QUIC was indeed developed to support changes then there is even fewer arguments to not provide a standard API.
> get over it

> get mad

I can't help but feel this is contradictory advice.
Sure, but nobody but chx even brought up Thinkpads in the first place.
The bush administration was the only winner here, most of them had major stakes in the DOG suppliers, they made trucks full of money
Fortran added the most important OO feature, methods bound to types, around 2003. Therefore, it is a more modern object oriented language than C++, in the sense that the object oriented features were Frankensteind on more recently. So maybe we could move past C++ to it.
>I've been running OpenBSD on my T480s for a bit now. I think it's an absolutely amazing machine.

Same. I've been buying them off-lease for many years. You can usually get them for a couple hundred bucks. Best non-Apple computers I've ever used. Keyboards are awesome.

The last laptop I bought was a Dell XPS13 because research indicated it's a pretty popular Linux-compatible laptop. It's nice, but I'm going back to a Thinkpad next...
Aww, is that what you tell yourself?
it's almost like AI just repeats data its fed on, even incorrect data, without any real intelligence to determine if the data is correct.... /s

Its not simply garbage in garbage out. There is no logic to verify and analyze the data. You are simply told what is popular in the data.
So did the US population. [1] The one thing the US does very well is manufacturing concent.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_opinion_in_the_United...
First off, kudos for putting in the effort to critically think through the implications of stats you see!

Actually, the counterintuitive truth is that two-stroke engines produce ~300-500x more PM/hydrocarbon emissions from the same amount of fuel use than a four-stroke engine, due to the fundamental nature of incomplete combustion and the oil-fuel mixture used in two stroke engines, and the efficacy of emissions controls on modern cars vs common leaf blowers. Your calculations are correct, it's just this difference is so big it seems crazy when you first learn about it. (Which is what Nicole's art is trying to communicate!) This is cited in the NYT article from the tweet you link: https://www.edmunds.com/about/press/leaf-blowers-emissions-d... , although for a more scientific source you can see https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/bitstream/J... .

While technically, carbureted two-stroke engines can sometimes produce less NOx than four-stroke fuel-injected counterparts for equivalent fuel use, incomplete combustion means leaf-blowers and the like have a massively outsized impact on air quality, especially for the operator. The good news is that electric systems are now cheap and lightweight enough for most applications, which is fantastic.
No. Have you never seen frozen shrimp available in the store?
Their government has become totalitarian.
I understand people who block ads on the sites where you have no option to pay to remove them, especially if they're intrusive and you get served tons of random JS and popups everywhere you click.

But here - you can pay. And if you think it's too much and doesn't reflect value it brings - well that's your choice, but its not a charity and they can (and should IMO) fight with ad blocking.

Disclaimer - I pay for YT family plan that I share with my wife and it's most useful subscription we have - YT is our main source of media consumption.
a little bit of this, that and tax evasion.

people don't want the government seeing what they spend their money on, or if it was saved.

almost everyone does this to some extent due to the insanely high tax load and double economy that exists in every facet of our lives.

for example, when someone is buying real state, big part of the negotiations are how much is the declared price of this transaction (how much our "IRS" sees), because clean money and undeclared money have different costs. So when our "IRS" comes asking "where did you get the money from?" you say "from all these cash extractions of course, I saved most of that, I ate rice only", you can't say that if you spend your money with a credit card, they don't need an investigation to see your spending habits, in fact a change in spending habits will trigger an investigation.

I'd like to clarify that I don't have experience with anything of this, a friend told me about it.
A simple GPS receiver could also provide the time. But I agree with your rant overall.
The other often forgotten cost is the loss of freedom and privacy. Young people don't know any better, but there was an era where both the government and banks did little surveillance.
Am I the only one who watches enough YouTube content that I just pay for Premium without question?
That sounds like an amazing way to empower corporate legal bullying and copyright trolls, and ensure that no single entity could ever take a company to court ever again.
using the example of ffmpeg, you can use things like -f in front of -i to describe what the incoming format is so that your homebrew exporting can send to stdout piped to ffmpeg where reads from stdin with '-i -' but more specifically '-f bmp -i -' would expect the incoming data stream to be in the BMP format. you can select any format for the codecs installed 'ffmpeg -codecs'
Between that and the push for brainless "shorts" I already reduced my use by a good 50%

They might finally cure my addictions
It's called the "military-industrial complex". And for a large part it literally went up in smoke - that's what tends to happen with ammunition in wars.
It provides the US military with invaluable combat experience and allows it to test/improve its strategies, equipment, and intelligence capabilities.

(Of course, fighting wars so one can remain combat-ready is the very definition of treating other people as means to an end rather than as ends in themselves, and so very much offends against the moral sensibility. But the question here is about self-interest.)
There will be an option for everyone to create communities in a few weeks :)

Which ones do you want? Will add them by hand!

That blog plug-ins sound awesome. Can help you set it up with the news.aiapipro.com api, if you want. Shoot me a message via ainews@simon-frey.com pls.
You should offer embedding as a service lol.
But not all the works that have been consumed by LLMs are available to read without a license to do so.
Arguably the most mature engine for building games for the web, Phaser (think Vampire Survivors), isn't even listed.

I wouldn't trust this list.
Former M1 Abrams crewman (19K). It has an automatic transmission.
CC charge back. I had this during covid with an online travel agent that decided aeromexico was the one I should get refunded by while aeromexico didn't want to know me.

He who takes your money has the responsibility. The travel agent cried foul but what are they going to do.
Thank you! I really appreciate it!

I'm working on adding as much data as possible.
"As seen in the benchmarks, the current Rust standard library unstable sort implementation outperforms the C++ standard library counterparts. "
RPC Endpoints for Mainstream Users?
On the Ocean: The Famous Voyage of Pytheas
If "we" is misinformative, it seems like the opposite of coherent.

It is possible to use some sort of set theory terminology to avoid misleading people, but then that wouldn't really be "proper" (culturally acceptable).

It's a real conundrum.
I assume their processes are so broken that they have no idea who is and isn't doing chargebacks, and also they couldn't care less. The Casino keeps winning on average anyway.
I could be wrong, but from what I understand, net neutrality means I can use my connection how I see fit without certain content, websites, or apps being paywalled by my provider.

With this understanding, I will not have net neutrality until I can use my phone as a mobile hotspot without paying for a more "premium" package. I should be able to use my bits as I see fit. This is where my benchmark currently sits, and I eagerly await progress towards it.
>It's not a blockchain, but a single writer Merkle DAG.

Hmm. Just because something's a Merkle DAG doesn't make it useable on the Internet. A single-writer blockchain, perhaps?
judging by the flame fest they received on their github issues/comments section, I doubt they'll be proceeding. Then again, money talks and b.s. takes the walk every time and twice on sunday.
Just use a proper browser
Where do I pay to remove sponsor segments?
No specific support for audio embeddings yet, though depending on you're specific use-case, you might be able to map your data to more generic primitives such a TimeSeriesScalar, LineStrips2D, BarChart, or Tensor.

We have an open issue for adding more support for audio-based projects -- if you have specific needs feel free to add a comment: https://github.com/rerun-io/rerun/issues/2852
I just started using chezmoi, a cross-platform dotfiles manager. Would highly reccommend chezmoi if you're looking for a reliable dotfile manager.
Proof: the reality is that just right now we’re talking about (yet another) report on how they can behave badly and get away with it.

- Isn’t that market distortion?
Oh… so you are calling a database a “block chain”.
My Ask HN from 2020: "Are YouTube ads getting worse?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23769291

I didn't always block ads on YouTube, but they pushed me to it. And apparently enough people for them to do this. There still isn't enough on there to make it worth subscribing for me. ~$170/year is not a small amount of money.
I followed this advice and it's been great. I have a $350 laser Brother printer, my iPhone can find the printer without fiddling with drivers, it wakes up, print, goes back to sleep. Works fine even if I go months without printing. After my last 'free ink forever' HP inkjet that never worked, a working printer is a blessing.