skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep. I tried to write my dissertation in an accessible way, and my thesis committee's only feedback was on the style. They didn't even bother to read the content.

Then I dropped out and posted the dissertation on the web, instead. I didn't want to ruin it by making it "academic"
enough.
Splicing ads into a video is almost instant, but its a technical change as mentioned above.
Citizens assemblies, also called minipublics, have been trialed for years in many places and in many different topics.

In real life these people do not produce legislation/recommendations that are of less quality than politicians.

I recommend a book called "open democracy" that goes into detail about this kind of decision making processes. The OCED has also done a lot of work and has a few reports on the matter too, if you look at their recommendations for "the future of democracy".

Some big experiments in this area have been done in France as recent as a few months ago, in Ireland, in Iceland and the European union as a whole did a very big one a few years ago.
A lot of hyperbole and plenty of faulty thinking.

Edit:

For example "Economically, a world dominated by the old will be less innovative, less dynamic, and more risk averse" begs the question of whether _childless_ older people are less innovative, dynamics, etc.

Another example: "Absent the binding power of children, the extended family will disappear, and the nuclear family will disintegrate. There will be few mothers and fathers, no siblings, no cousins, no aunts or uncles; whole lineages will flicker out. If family is the audience to the drama of life, each individual will perform in the chill of an empty theater. Isolation will leave the young, as a class, powerless and dependent. Loneliness will fill them with psychotic dread. There can be no exit, no escape to a better future. Repopulating the world will be a tough mathematical proposition.", This is both hyperbole and obviously wrong. Without evidence to the contrary, one must assume that people will connect with other people and build fulfilling lives for themselves. It doesn't have to be a 1950s nuclear family.
He should go to University of Texas: plenty of top students and faculty, a great climate and he'll fit in fantastically well. And it's far enough away from home to allow him some independence.

Google is great but the world will never forget he doesn't have a degree.
This is a neat perspective.

I think it can help for avoiding creator's block (more commonly known as "writer's block," but I'm being more general here).

It's easy to avoid getting started because you don't think you have a good enough idea yet. But when the thinking gets long, try just diving in and making something. Now you have something to react to, and you can often quickly identify things you don't like about it.

Then you think of ways to avoid these things you don't like, and dive back in to make the next something. Gradually you fill in the negative space, and after enough iterations are left with something good.
Surely you’ve never worked in gov’t, hah!
They would have to sacrifice compatibility with browsers that can't handle the webassembly, right?
"Stanley's father Nan Zhong is an engineer and introduced coding to Stanley at a young age. Nan works at Google as a software engineering manager."
That's not about 'using' a reference, it's about constructing an invalid value – no different than doing transmute::<u32,char>(0x110000). See https://www.ralfj.de/blog/2020/07/15/unused-data.html for an explanation why it's UB.
Dns leak
Which Countries Receive the Most Foreign Aid from the U.S.?
> A German general decorating with the Iron Cross some soldiers of the Expeditionary Force and two soldiers of the SS, in Denmark, April 1940

Norwegian writing on Norwegian houses in Norwegian town with Norwegian trees in background. So a slight Gell-Mann effect creeps in, although the general outline of Bohr's escape seems well enough aligned with the facts as known.
This analogy isn't even close.
Just get a Chase Sapphire Reserve, you’ll get lounge access and a credit for Precheck
> your answer is, “Google has always done this free tier so I’m entitled to it forever.”

Apart from OP pointing out that that's not what was said: yes.

We have been trained over more than two decades to expect stuff on the internet to be free, bar perhaps the occasional sponsored segment. From punching monkeys to win money, to news, to having music streamed to you, to having videos - including music videos - streamed to you. All for free. The whole bruhaha about privacy? Pffft. You can get what you want nownownowNOW! Without paying!

And you know what? That training was successful.

Music television no longer exists. Newspapers struggle to survive - as does traditional TV broadcasting. Waiting a week between episodes? What is this, the stone age?

So congratulations to Google and other internet juggernauts. We've been trained well. We expect to be able to binge what we want, without having to pay. And without too much ad annoyance. We will no longer pay. Our threshold for crap (ads included) is also miniscule, because that's the other factor luring us away from competition.

So yes: I totally expect Google to serve me what I want, when I want it, without having to pay. Because that's what Google has been training us to expect.
Still, when they consider a "low priced" EV to be $30K, it's still out of most peoplels reach...
I bought a remote mountain property with bad internet and freezing winter temps. Added automatic failover generators, ok internet, but needed to know when I had power cycles vs Internet outages. Wrote my own service. Dogfooding for 7 months. Thought other people could use it. Feedback welcome.
Walking is great for many reasons, but 10K steps isn't much. It would be silly to expect much weight loss from that. And most people significantly understand their caloric intake.
But to the point of the original question that started this thread - the takeaway is still that cloud services made development massively easier right? The answer to the original question seems to still be "Yes cloud providers did lead to big wins for customers" since none of these other suggestions are able to get away from needing a cloud service provider without making starting something intensely difficult. And you wouldn't be able to get a vps for 5 bucks for ingress without all the other cloud competition in the market.

> Cloud infra may be a comparable market, since computation is a big share of AI costs. Did consumers win big from competition between AWS, Azure, and GCP? Not sure. I see an uptick in write ups saying “We switched off cloud and reduced costs by 2/3rds.” Not a scientific sample but may leave the question open.
Can't speak for the US but the extra cost buys you reliability and convenience. I can be late to checkin and assuming the gate's still open I'll make it out on time. Try doing that on a budget carrier.
I haven't listened to it in close to 10 years, but a podcast called "Manager Tools" had some helpful ideas and techniques.

https://manager-tools.com/manager-tools-basics
One of hundreds of similar situations (literally) - [https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2010/03/other-burn-pits...]

And the US is actually a relatively good gov’t on this front.
The comment specifically referred to references and pointers whereas your example does not.
What subjects are your degrees in, and what state are you located in?
If they declassified them, they couldn’t go after people trying to get them, or stop their own people from reading them.

They classify them because they either look bad, or would be helpful to enemies if they got out.

And as long as they stay classified, they get to keep the courts, etc. from using them too.
The last all-business-class flight that served London to NY (BA1/BA2) was shut down in 2020.

It flew from LCY to JFK with a stop at Shannon in Ireland for quick refuelling and US Immigration preclearance (so you landed in NY like it was a domestic flight). It was an Airbus A318 in a 32 (if I remember correctly) all business class configuration.
Excellent points!

System/360 is indeed interesting because (if my memory serves me) it was one of the first computational architectures to implement microcode (also, if I recall correctly, the necessity of updating of this microcode was one of the reasons that floppy drives were invented...)

I'm also a fan of the Motorola 68000 -- I used to have an Amiga 1000 "back in the day". I'd choose it over any 8 or 16 bit CPU of the time period, but (correct me if I am wrong) it didn't have an MMU -- which would have made it a less-than-ideal candidate for writing a modern-day Unix compatible operating system, although the authors of AmigaOS managed to pull off quite an impressive multitasking OS on it, despite this fact, nonetheless...

Also, as a 32-bit architecture (as opposed to discrete single-package IC CPU) we'd probably additionally want to remember the VAX 11/780 (1977) -- whose CPU was implemented as circuits of multiple simpler TTL IC's...

(Oh sure, IBM might have done something like that earlier -- but the VAX 11/780 brought down the cost of IBM's comparable computing offerings by at least one order of magnitude! -- Although, even so, the 11/780 still would have been ridiculously expensive to the average person of that time period... (and yes, I know it was intended for mid-sized to large businesses, not people! :-))

But anyway, great article, and yes, the IBM System/360 and 68000 were indeed groundbreaking!
Blogger is one of those Google products that they've quietly abandoned, but it would be great to see them add ActivityPub support just to stick it to Meta/Twitter.
How do you know those skinny people actually have high metabolism? Have they quantified it with a resting metabolic rate test?
30k is significantly less than avg priced internal combustion engine cars.
>tripled the costs.

According to this article, when Youtube red was introduced in October 2015, it was $9.99/month. It's now $13.99/month. That's a 40% increase. If you adjust $9.99 in October 2015 for inflation to September 2023, it's $12.93/month. So inflation-adjusted, the price increased 8.2% from 2015 to now.

https://www.theverge.com/2015/10/21/9566973/youtube-red-ad-f...

https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=9.99&year1=201...

Disclosure: I work at Google but not on Youtube.
> I'm not sure if I understand - there are candidates that want the position, but won't write a couple of (relevant) paragraphs?

If it's just an open-ended "cover letter"? Then yes.

> Surely then they don't have time to interview, negotiate compensation either?

They have time for substantive stuff, not nonsense.

It sounds like you want to filter only for candidates who may or may not be particularly competent, but who are somewhat obsequious, at least during the hiring process. Maybe that works for your business.
Gnome developer proposes removing the X11 session
This got me looking into what it would take to start publishing my own static file GitHub Pages-based blog using ActivityPub. It's something I've wanted to look into for a while.

It looks like at the very least ActivityPub requires a host that responds to POST requests, so GitHub Pages is out. But I found a blog post of someone using serverless functions to handle the ActivityPub part of their static site. I might try that out.

Does anyone here happen to have any experience with setting up ActivityPub for static pages? I'd be interested to know how you set things up.
But how does it compare to SW? I’m trying to not sound like a shill, but do you have free cancels and changes up to 10 minutes before boarding, kiosk check in and curbside baggage check? Super easy to use website and app that doesn’t hide costs and also makes it easy to change flights and see the exact price difference and actually refunds you money if the new flight is cheaper?

With SW I’d be completely comfortable booking a flight 6 months out that I had a 25% chance of actually taking.

I’m trying to actually understand why the major airlines have customers.
Rather than trying to answer the same basic question in slightly different terms, let me try a completely different tactic... perhaps the entire question of "actually doing things" needs to be addressed in a grand, cultural kind of way. When, for example, people are driving around in their cars and going to convenience stores, they are "actually doing things". Those kinds of things aren't very sustainable, though.

It should be pretty apparent that ours is a finite world, and there is going to need to be a hell of a lot of soul searching in order to figure out how to make this modern human experiment of ours actually work. So, it might help to think about looking at the web as the nervous system of the world. As long as there is nothing but blinding commercialism (bordering on sheer propaganda) traversing this nervous system, then it is hard to envision how our modern age can "end up" very well.

But if there can be a way to start injecting doses of sanity into the world's nervous system, then perhaps the younger generations will start being able to breathe easier when it comes to their long term prospects. In my opinion, there is a good possibility that getting people to start using the web under much more thoughtful and rational terms can only help matters.

Hacker News has itself been an interesting social experiment from a very successful capitalist enterprise. Perhaps it can start stimulating "real world" social experiments involving projects like Linux on the Web (or whatever the best name for it happens to be) so that we can all start turning the corner in terms of finding ways of life that can balance the needs of private things (like businesses) and public things (like human communities).
A barebones Toyota Camry is $26,420.
What’s the price of a low priced regular car though?
Yes yes! I am hinting that someone needs to make the dropbox of a less
shitified youtube!
Jupe: Off-grid shelters that pop up anywhere on Earth
I mean, Delta’s certainly not amazing (although, ok, Delta One is awfully nice), but I will still 100% go out of my way to book them over, say, United or American.

Like a sibling commenter, I fly PDX so will usually fly Alaska but Delta is a solid #2.
Isn't SW the airline that completely fucked almost all of its customers nationwide last holiday season because they don't have a hub and spoke network? That is probably a good enough reason not to rely on them at this point.
One of the big players will surely buy him up before so much as a bite of the lunch is missing.
I don't think firefox could reasonably do this, just because a significant part of their funding comes directly from google.

And maybe more relevant, having this be default behavior would just cause the cat-and-mouse to get worse, when the majority of users are now blocking it with no effort, and the bean-counters notice the ad impression numbers suddenly dropping.
a nisaan versa is 16k msrp. a 30k toyota or honda will last you 20 years
I'm ok with adding more functions to the titlebar, it's something I experimented with myself for a desktop app some 15 years ago. I found there was a heck of a lot of special behaviours tied to the titlebar and that overriding them meant a lot of work to fix edge cases like - being able to move windows. So I never followed through with it.

Maybe the addition of dedicated Move button next to the minimise, maxmimise and close button would be a reasonable compromise?

That would provide a consistent target to click on with your mouse. Obviously a button is a lot smaller than the entire titlebar for clicking on, so there would be some efficiency loss for people that regularly move windows (I am one of them). Getting move use out of the titlebar space would be worth the minor inconvenience of a more accurate click-drag to move operation.
As an owner of both a Librem 5 and a Pixel 6a running GrapheneOS I can confirm that the latter has been much more reliable and has taken substantially less work to get to the point where I can daily drive it. The Librem 5 is not there yet, and while I would like it if it were I'm not currently very optimistic about that.
I am not sure how it's out of reach for most people when the average price of new car in USA is like $48,000.

Sure, you might say the average price is skewed by people buying expensive trucks. But even Camry costs like $35-36k after dealer markups - you can get Tesla model 3 for like 32k now after federal rebate.
I was surprised to see that China is receiving foreign aid from the U.S. so I clicked through to the sources (https://www.foreignassistance.gov/) and found the list of funded activities:

Transnational Crime: $500,000

Natural Resources and Biodiversity: $400,000

Trade and Investment: $182,000

Direct Administrative Costs: $106,122

Natural Resources and Biodiversity: $100,000

Agriculture: $89,211

Natural Resources and Biodiversity: $83,328

Private Sector Competitiveness: $48,600

Direct Administrative Costs: $48,403
Have you ever played a real time strategy game?
Select the peon and right click ;)

For real though, there's stuff that needs to get done, it's your job to tell the guy to do the job. Ez
Creator of Elratio language admits majority of compiler was written by ChatGPT
In the past year, I have used a pinephone+keyboard with Arch, a oneplus 6t with postmarketOS, and a pixel 7a with GrapheneOS. In my opinion, Graphene is significantly easier to daily drive because the applications are designed for a phone's form factor.
Do note that this experience is not universal.

Where I see self-checkouts, I see customers choosing them voluntarily, and staff who seem perfectly cheerful and willing to help with the normal issues that arise, as well as "training" less-savvy customers to use them.

Personally, I would use them every time if I could. I'd much rather minimize my interactions with strangers while shopping.
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Does this support iOS WebKit? All I see is Tux sitting on a globe.
Now we're getting somewhere.

Although I'm still seeing $15K of "additional dealer profit" stickers at a Jeep/Ford dealer in Silicon Valley.
The 2000s were the best times for internet. Nothing will compare to that. Some Saturday nights I feel so nostalgic that I prepare tea and I start browsing my favourite websites on web.archive... and I become sad.
Depends how you measure.

If you enumerate the ICE cars for sale, the mean and median is much higher than 30k, yes.

If you enumerate the cars purchased in a given year (and ESPECIALLY if you include used cars), the median price paid for a car may be well under 30k.
>instead of them having to advertise for dubious VPN services.

Do you think Youtube wants creators to do that? Youtube doesn't get a cut of that revenue, whereas Youtube does get a cut of regular Youtube ad revenue and Premium revenue.

Disclosure: I work at Google but not on Youtube, and am just speculating here.
Where's the source code?
No way I'm going to type my servers info without it.
> Another option is to require Chrome for playback outside of authenticated apps, and lock Chrome down.

I really hope that that would be enough to finally coax the antitrust regulators into doing something.
The Infrastructure bill designates a specific amount of funds from the federal government for public works endeavors, with a particular portion allocated for road projects. $110 billion has been earmarked for roads. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrastructure_Investment_and_...

When the government earmarks funds for a purpose, they are typically spent for that intent. The road projects funded by this bill will be realized, although potentially less in California if faced with continued opposition.
I will laugh my way to the bank with my ten year old Toyota that has only required oil changes!
Why is the EU singling this type of content out in particular? Surely anything Hamas would release would be considered with skepticism as the EU has a very different tradition. Are they nervous the residents of the EU would quickly become assimilated to the culture of Hamas based on their propaganda videos? I can’t imagine that happening. I don’t get it - why is this different?
You have to click the ingredient to expand the instructions.
How can I make sure that this site is legit?
self-driving cars already in production are not explainable, at least with llm in it, we know what the network is thinking, and thus are possible to figure out what went wrong
The hardest part of teaching is it's impossible to remember what it was like to not already know something. You can't un-know it so get back your previous perspective. So, you forget all the things you take as known.

This is the problem I find with the 3blue1brown videos. They're pretty but I never get any understand from them. To people who already know they nod and see all the concepts they are already familiar with shown in a neat way but to some (like me) they don't generally get me to understand. Too many pre-reqs or someting
Google was pretty clear about that, internally.
Gabe Newell said it best. Piracy is a service problem. Ad blockers are a response to terrible ads.
750 kcals is insanely high for a 10k training run. If you hold your HR to Z2, 620-640 kcals would be my ballpark expectation.
https://www.cntraveler.com/story/all-the-ways-to-fly-private...
I'm not sure of your math. I weigh 180 at 5'9". That's well under obese. If I lost 20 pounds, I'd be just under the midline of healthy.
Seems you're completely missing the point. The baseline experience is much worse for the same or more cost. Of course spending (a lot) more money gets you a better experience. That's probably part of why they make the baseline experience so unbearable.
> The primary reason for this foreign aid has been to guarantee U.S. interests in the region, given Israel’s proximity to Syria to the northeast, Hezbollah-influenced Lebanon to the north, and an Islamist insurgency in Egypt’s Sinai to the south.

Would these not be more accurately described as Israel's interests, not the US's?
You didn't answer the question: "What does it actually do?"

I get that you have a vision, but when I run the code you wrote it does something. That something is hopefully something you designed it to do. What is that something?
> The plugin works with the following tested federated platforms, but there may be more that it works with as well:

> Mastodon

> Pleroma/Akkoma

> friendica

> Hubzilla

> Pixelfed

> Socialhome

> Misskey

> Firefish (rebrand of Calckey)

Surprising that they mention so many different federated platforms - most of which I haven't heard of - but not Lemmy/kbin. I wonder if it's just a less straightforward integration or if it didn't occur to them to try those.
Median Student Debt for a U.S. College Degree
Louis de Broglie's dissertation [1] is mindblowing and quite cogent (at least in the English translation, but presumably in French too ...)

1. https://fondationlouisdebroglie.org/LDB-oeuvres/De_Broglie_K...
Well thanks to taxpapers electric vehicle companies are able to reduce the costs as stated in article. in general I wish tax payers got more opportunities to directly vote on where our money is going. A taxpayer should get a yearly report to indicate exactly where their money goes and which representatives voted for them.
No particular reason. I was watching the Snowden film for the first time, and at the same time fixing some bugs in secure document viewer code that required me to test it on large zip files (ideally containing PDFs). I just happened across this repo from a DDG search.

You can see the ongoing work here: https://github.com/BrowserBox/BrowserBox
Author just copied the caption. https://www.agefotostock.com/age/en/details-photo/german-gen...
>I'd insta-buy if i could just pay to skip any ads i actually would have watched.

Google actually had a system like that in the past, but it wasn't for Youtube, it was for other ads around the web. I used it.

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

Disclosure: I work at Google, but not speaking authoritatively.
There are a lot of ways to pay content creators, generally.