skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The guy you replied to is literally just reciting the actual historical circumstances that lewd to governments permitting arbitrary corporations, a relatively recent development in the west over the last 400 years. Read up some history. Originally only the government could form a corporation by a special act of the king or later parliament or congress, as it was seen as such a powerful and special thing that couldn't just be handed out willy nilly.

What you are reciting is merely modern ideology that supports the status quo.

Forcing investors to take on liability is neither just not unjust, merely different ways of running societies, equally valid depending on your goals. After all nobody makes you invest, and in a society where you might be liable for your investment's actions you would be much more scrutinizing about your management's character before agreeing to involve yourself. Ventures would tend to be more personal and require more trust. That's the world we used to live in and that was just as valid and just.

Read history.
I think it’s fine to ban first and ask questions later. If we find out later we shouldn’t have done it we’ll just lift the ban.
I once worked with a company developing a payday loan app. We interviewed hundreds of people with money problems. It was amazing how many people thought the minimum payment was the payment. I tried to explain to a handful of folks that it was possible to pay more than the minimum payment and that would help lower the balance. Lots of blank stares, then "But it says the payment is $50; why would I pay them more than I owe?"

All the people I talked to seemed like good people, but the lack of basic financial knowledge was shocking to me. Not as shocking as the payday loan industry, though. But that's a different topic. (If you're in the payday loan industry, quit now. Start dealing meth, you'll be doing the world a favor.)
US-based here. Here's my strategy:

Hook up credit cards to bank and setup auto-pay on full balance and treat them like debit cards.

Pay for everything with the credit card that gives me the most points in that category (aka 4X on dining, 3X gas, 4X groceries, 3X travel, etc).

Fly for free multiple times a year by using my credit card points to book flights/transfer to airline partners. Also get a bunch of nice travel perks. My last airport meal + drink was free because of some random credit card bonus.

Credit cards in the US are amazing. You also get what it essentially a 0% loan for ~40 days from after buying something and when the money comes out of your bank account, plus great fraud/return protection from Visa/Amex.
I can see how all pivot table capabilities can be replicated via SQL but I think some of that becomes very expensive and error prone while being simple drag-drop in Excel/Sheets.

The ease of doing it is a key feature. if I have to build a certain report because it's my job, I will do it whatever it takes. If I am just doing extra due diligence for myself, I may not do it if it takes hours of SQL crafting.
I would do this, but not just to deceive. Having a small team you work with will address some of your potential customers concerns about your ability to scale.

It’s how I’ve been working lately. It’s mainly me the customer is buying, but I have a team of 3-5 trusted freelancers I work with. Customers don’t seem to bat an eyelid at that proposal.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37776204
Fortunately, many airports have taps with drinking water available. I don't understand why not all (e.g. no drinking tap & warm water only is available on the toilets), it feels like a conspiracy by the 5-Euros-water sellers.
What App Nap Does (2018)
https://youtu.be/2fvGasiOkBY is perhaps the best take on it I have ever seen.
What are C/C++/Zig/etc. missing that Chapel has?
Would you use it? ;-)
Any Two Pages on the Web Are Connected by 19 Clicks or Less (2013)
Are there notable X rated VR productions?

I’ve heard people say “wow VR porn must be amazing”

I’ve heard people say it exists

I don’t think I have ever heard the name of a single title, porn or otherwise. I also don’t feel like I have heard any claims that it’s actually considered added value.
Yeah it's a blast goes well with Isaac Asimov's The Last Question.

Andy Weir also wrote The Martian.
> TikTok is now a US company

Not sure if I would agree. A friend works there and he's the only English speaking and Caucasian.
Yes... and to be honest, it appears to have failed miserably.

And that was with Reddit. Try inciting a full scale revolution against Google and Amazon, for what they are right now. It's not happening.

I've honestly come to the conclusion that 98%+ of people... don't give a darn about "computational freedom." And, to be honest, why should they? They have so many other demands on their lives than an argument about what software they can run on their phone. As long as it runs what they are used to, they don't care. The market also shows this as well. If "computational freedom" was something that most people actually cared about, Linux would not be sitting with ~2% market share.

I also have found that most people like appliances. We argue against appliances - like, why would you want your phone to be a dumb appliance considering everything it could possibly do? I've even seen Right-to-Repair and other people (I believe Cory included) screeching about how Apple has turned smartphones into appliances. For most people though... that's a feature, not a bug. Appliances mostly just work. "Computers" in their mind, don't. They don't want their phone to be like their "computer". In which case, I think Microsoft bears the greater blame for permanently sullying what a "computer" feels like.

Edit: And while I keep adding my thoughts, I think it is interesting how the App Store, despite literally restricting what customers can install, actually gives customers a very strong sense of "freedom." How many people install apps on Windows? Almost none - in part, because the openness of the platform made most people terrified to install, or even just download, anything. Customers aren't afraid of installing, or trying, anything from the App Store - so to them, the iPhone probably feels more free than their PC. While I generally support sideloading, I do get the sense that most people will, ironically, feel less free overall once it rolls out.
> "You have 12VAC, you can buy a 16V cap and that's all"

12VAC has an RMS measure of 12 volts but a peak voltage of ~17V. (I'm not saying that no one's done exactly that, but when they did, they were operating outside the rating in the first 1/120th of a second of operation.)
Being able to effectively 'tailor' anything to their users pretty much proves they have that (or generate it within their app).
Nice. I like the approach, thank you.
I’ve traveled all over Europe and lived in Italy for several years and I’ve never heard of this.
Rationally any company with a strategic dependence on mobile apps should be afraid of Apple. An arbitrary change in app store approval policies could wreck their business overnight with no recourse.
Some of my earliest paying customers for OnlineOrNot were folks I talked about the problem with, before I even started writing code (from my professional network).

I was complaining that the existing website monitoring tools were too complicated and unusable, and I could probably do better in a weekend. It took seven days (https://onlineornot.com/building-saas-in-one-week-how-built-...), but I didn't have actual paying customers until I built a few more features.

At this point, I think the idea of MVP-based development is dead - you really need to look like a proper business before folks will buy, unless you're doing something completely unique. The way around this is probably to incorporate as a business with several products FWIW.

Almost three years later, I still find things to improve on a daily basis, so I guess I was wrong about that "better in a weekend" thing.
Thanks, and I agree. We spend the last 4 months working on a plugin infrastructure including events, api, plugin management etc so that we can now focus on building integrations. The next 3 months or so will be heads down integration work.
Yeah, you can when we're talking about home servers.
In America it should not be "fine" to ban first and ask questions later. That's preposterous and sets a horrifying precedent. We're a trading nation, not a banning nation.
I believe this is true in terms of the amount of money in the market, but do search ads actually work? I can't imagine them being even half as effective as banner ads or video ads or native ads. So why is it such a big business?
I really recommend Cory's talk at DEF CON and he was a guest on the Srsly Wrong podcast.

DEF CON:
https://youtu.be/rimtaSgGz_4?si=EBlHqv2tmKICIYhT

Srsly Wrong:
https://srslywrong.com/podcast/297-platform-decay-and-how-am...

It's a great podcast. I recommend the episodes on degrowth and half earth socialism in particular.
Thanks, fun discussion. I think we understand each other.

I’m not so worried about consistency. Even ZFC has the issue you describe. I found this paragraph from Wikipedia about Gödels 2nd incompleteness theorem very interesting.

> The corollary also indicates the epistemological relevance of the second incompleteness theorem. It would actually provide no interesting information if a system F proved its consistency. This is because inconsistent theories prove everything, including their consistency. Thus a consistency proof of F in F would give us no clue as to whether F really is consistent; no doubts about the consistency of F would be resolved by such a consistency proof. The interest in consistency proofs lies in the possibility of proving the consistency of a system F in some system F' that is in some sense less doubtful than F itself, for example weaker than F. For many naturally occurring theories F and F', such as F = Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory and F' = primitive recursive arithmetic, the consistency of F' is provable in F, and thus F' cannot prove the consistency of F by the above corollary of the second incompleteness theorem.
If the data collected on TikTok is a national security issue, that would be a good admission since it would mean we'd have to pass some actual privacy laws in this country. Facebook/Google/Microsoft/etc collect the same kind of data, and their revenues are not as important to protect as our national security (I assume).
I usually prefer to write this as

[P(H|E) : P(¬H|E)] = [P(H) : P(¬H)] × [P(E|H) : P(E|¬H)],

which is admittedly not notation you can find in a high-school textbook, but you still understand what I mean.

One advantage is that it makes it abundantly clear that the restriction to two hypotheses (one of which is H, the other is then inevitably ¬H) is completely incidental and you absolutely can use the analogous expression for more (e.g. the three doors in the Monty Hall paradox). Another, funnier one is that it suggests that when talking about “odds” you’re using projective coordinates instead of the usual L1-normalized ones (and you are! your “o” is then the affine coordinate of course).
Working in heterogeneous computing environments (and having first-class facilities for that), while still being easy enough to immediately start adapting numerical code from any reference implementation.
> And I was expecting some discussion of interlacing, which had a big impact on how pixels and animations appeared on CRTs.

Not for 8-bit systems and the vast majority of games on 16-bit systems. AFAIK, all of the 8-bit systems used not-standard video where all frames were odd frames or all frames were even frames, so you got 50/60 Hz progressive video with no interlacing (240p in NTSC, 256p in PAL; both subject to not all systems put meaningful output on all lines). Some 16-bit systems allowed for interlaced modes, but it was rarely used. Fifth generation (N64/PSX/Saturn/etc) made interlacing a lot more common; those systems were more likely to render to a frame buffer and then you can send half the lines in each field and get an increase in vertical detail much easier than getting the same effect working with a sprite engine.
Yeah, the entire security posture of Android would be massively different if Linux could have been relicensed away from GPL 2.0 to a license that says "you have to give users a way to compile your code and install it". Now the community can fix old phones without security updates.
> Are national security arguments not legal?

Arguments aren't a source of law, and what's permissible in legislation is defined by the constitution.
California government is large, and exceeds past the role of government in other states.

They pushed for all new construction to require a GU24 bulb socket because it would "mean" high efficiency. It was a massive failure with practically the only market in the world for the GU24 connector in CA. Now, they rolled it back so you are still required to use high efficiency bulbs but the connector isn't important anymore. No concern that of all the GU24 fixtures that will need to be replaced and sent to landfill.

The comment is Anthony Adams here in this meme [0] is California looking to adopt a new socket because past is prologue. https://preview.redd.it/e4t802ztnqb31.png?width=1024&auto=we...

GU24 update:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/update-california-title-24-fu...
I'd normally agree, but this is dangerous advice. Why? Because by the time you notice, it's not slow, it's down. N+1 queries don't scale badly as a function of users, it scales badly as a function of cumulative user behavior. One unexpectedly active user can make you self-DoS your database. Even a DB proxy like pgbouncer won't really help because parameterized queries are likely implemented with stored procedures, which require an exclusive DB connection, layering bottlenecks on bottlenecks.
With emulation, there's always a deeper level of emulation you can do to approach "perfectness".

In this case, the pinnacle of emulation of a CRT is to simulate photon emission in a tube, and simulate the response curve of each phosphor element.

To do that would probably take a supercomputer to effectively calculate real-time.

According to this paper, there are (1.12 x 10^16) photons per second produced by a 1-lumen source over the interval from 400 to 700 nm . And with a 200 nit CRT is roughly 600 lumen... which is roughly (6.7 x 10^18) photons per second... if you just model them as a particle. To take in quantum effects, yeesh.

https://www.imaging.org/common/uploaded%20files/pdfs/Papers/...
For those of us without a subscription: https://archive.ph/4IyOF
Maybe Im just on different level than you or mean something different than you see between my letters.

Or you are some kind of blessed enlightened engineer who never faced a horrible “designed” million lines codebase to untangle?
> Twitter blue is generally worth it. Although the value it adds in some areas is subtle, if it helps you out even a bit socially, it will easily be worth $8.

Stopped reading here. If you see an $8/month subscription as the "must-have" feature of your social network, it has no selling point. If Hacker News charged me $1/year to post and comment, I would leave. It's not worth any amount of money to feel more socially "seen" or "accepted". It's a non-starter for non-Twitter users, with or without Elon Musk.

I've lived around chronic Twitter users, and this attitude is pervasive. Nevermind the rapidly deteriorating user experience, witch-hunts and echo-chambers; you can shop locally and couch-surf for Coachella! Instead of detaching their positive social experiences and personal identity from a profit-optimized claptrap, they have to defend it to the death. And trust me, Twitter is dying. Everyone now associates Twitter as "the broken platform"; it doesn't work reliably, and when it does, you can't browse like normal. Even the Fail Whale didn't have a reputation that bad.

Your guide suggested I pay for Twitter before even trying to use it; I could not be less-attracted to a social media site if I tried. It should be no surprise that "many people haven’t given it a serious try" when a "serious try" means paying for Twitter like it's HBO.
Vickery won a Nobel prize for it, so yes.
Is there a comparison of Language Agent Tree Search to Graph of Thoughts somewhere? They reference it only in passing while talking about "search algorithms", but I understand it's a fair bit more than that.
https://archive.ph/LQQBX
For $30/month I could buy a GPU all for myself, they can serve a huge number of users from one GPU, how can it be that expensive?
Feds find "substantial'' safety issue at SC nuclear plant
> If they were driven with 10% less power they would have a chance to last.

You are describing Dubai LEDs, which are driven lower, last longer, but are dimmer:

https://hackaday.com/2021/01/17/leds-from-dubai-the-royal-li...

Last mention on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35003411
Legion is great! I like that its developers really get HPC. But it is C++, with all of its baggage. (Update: There is also Regent language on top of C++ API, looks interesting).
Looks nice - major feature request / design ask / feedback.

The current "kanban board" looks basically the same as JIRA's and it's what a lot of people are familiar with. I would love love love to see a visualization that puts all current planned stories into a single vertical column and groups them by status. Done at the top, ready for review underneath, then in progress, and not started. It's a way more compact view of stories and better use of real estate.

For prior art look at Pivotal Tracker.
If we agree that both parties propagandize we should also recognize that they may do so to different ends, no?
Any thoughts on Poland?
It's weird how the hivemind works. People frequently lament conspiracy theorists incredibly stupid. People frequently take as granted that Republican policies are fatally flawed by default. Or Democrat ones, pick your poison. And that the supporters thereof are either incompetent or cruel.

But Madison says things like the masses are ignorant & we must guard against the tyranny of the majority and suddenly it's a travesty indicative of whatever flaw or vice is faddish. It's almost like you're the person Madison was afraid of.
I can understand Netflix. If you want regional pricing this is what it takes.

I don't care either way I'm living in one of the richest countries in the world but consumers in Argentina or Bolivia can't pay €15 per month.
This is the simplest and most effective form of security for your credit card as well. You can have the notifications sent to email which is less annoying and more effective. Taking a moment to review your transaction emails means you'll quickly discover if someone has stolen your card details, or if someone has overcharged you for a purchase.
Music is more varied than it ever has been, you just have to look outside of legacy media (ie, radio).

> Music played on the radio used to be a lot more varied and take chances.

Music played on the radio is owned by a handful of conglomerates who own nearly all 'local' music stations across the country (assuming US). This is all due to deregulation starting in 1996. Before 1996, a company was prohibited from owning more than 40 stations, and from owning more than two AM and two FM stations in one market. [1]

In an effort to paint a picture of the landscape of radio media, the United States was reported to have 15,445 commercial radio stations in the year 2020. With broadcasting corporations factored in, the statistics look something like this:

- iHeartMedia, Inc. owns 858 total stations
- Cumulus Media, Inc. owns 429 stations
- Townsquare Media owns 321 stations
- Entercom owns 235 stations

Similarly, in the UK, it was found that 60% of national commercial radio stations were owned by two companies, Global, and Bauer. To take it even further, these same companies were reported to own 70% of all local broadcasting channels. [2]

Monopolies are hell and anti-consumer.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_homogenization
[2] https://bestradios.co.uk/why-do-radio-stations-play-the-same...
Apple AirPlay isn't always lossless. Sometimes it's lossy–but why?
Under GPL-2, is the company not allowed to modify the code for internal (company) use given they avoid publishing or distributing these modifications?
You can run a company for-profit, and still make a good product that respects their customers.
Given the Snowden revelations any kind of reciprocity in the international community regarding that principle would make basically all US tech companies US-market only...
I often notice comments made regarding ancient or historical locations and civilisations, when discussed by a historian in a documentary, often seem to be opinions based on pretty flimsy evidence. In some cases no evidence at all, just things could be likely maybe possibly. Relying on the fact that there's no written evidence for or against any claim.
FWIW, Glassdoor shows >90% approval for Nadella:
https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Microsoft-EI_I...
I have enterprise access to Github Copilot and it is surprisingly bad for code generation compared to the free version of ChatGPT (I mainly use it for generating simple functions in C). It always generates incomplete functions and there seems to be no way to increase the text generation window or even follow up. On top of it, I am only able to use it through VS Code and I couldn't ever figure how to use their chat interface plugin.

Overall it just feels like an incomplete product. I would've been happy with a chat interface on the web. If they're already losing money I can't believe how bad it would become once the enshittification begins.
Video streaming at scale with Kubernetes and RabbitMQ
I wonder how many engineers are left from that era that could even help with setting up a manufacturing site. Probably not many. I for sure would pay a lot of money for a new hires 16:9 tube solely for modern games. The market would be small though I fear. Lots of people now prefer 60”+ OLED screens for gaming, which to be honest are indeed amazing at this point.
0. One thing that three letter agencies like to do when posting an intelligence officer to a foreign country is to give them a false identity. Platforms like TikTok make reidentification much easier, which blows their cover. What makes this especially insidious is that this data goes back to childhood, before anyone is thinking about a career in intelligence.

1. Tiktok can identify people (in the US, in the government or military) who are in key strategic positions. For example, people with access to interesting information, or who know a lot of people with access to information.

2. Among the group in #1, it can identify people who are vulnerable to recruitment as spies. For example, it can identify any taboo tastes they might have, which are not (necessarily) illegal, but can be used as leverage to recruit a spy. Or identify people with financial problems (another vector for spy recruitment). Or people who are lonely, who would fall for a honey trap, etc.

3. It can spread propaganda I. What happens if the chain of command breaks because someone thinks a war is illegitimate because they've been brainwashed? If Taiwan is and always has been the rightful territory of China, and nearly 100% of Taiwanese and mainland Chinese want them to be united, then why are we fighting a war to keep them apart?

4. It can spread propaganda II. Trade wars are not without downsides. One of them is that it makes imports from China more expensive. Propaganda does not need to be false information. What happens if the public broadly loses support for the trade war because of TikTok propaganda?

5. Remote no-click zero-days for iPhone exist. China has a capable cyber intelligence service. TikTok could be used to spread an exploit to phones of people in key strategic roles.