skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got a general contractor talking shop once and he confessed to me that they overwhelm the customers with cosmetic choices on purpose. People need to put a certain amount of energy into a process to feel they have done their due diligence, and it often doesn't really matter how that energy is spent, just that it is.

In his case it was to distract the customer from worrying about things they can't control, like physics and building codes. The bones of a building only allow so many locations for a sink, for instance. Trying to fight that can snowball an entire project.

Easy decisions that you ultimately question leave a sliver of doubt and regret in your mind. I could have done more. I should have said something. Things you work your ass of on and still don't succeed, you can say you did your best.
> I work in fraud detection in the US and the number of people that end up making their legit purchases look like fraud is way too high.

I don't think you meant it. But that is blaming the victim

A bit uncool

One of the main features of capitalism is you can dispose of your property as you like.
It's not a new concept, it's a new product. Ideas do not become uninteresting the moment the first person instantiates the idea. Further iterations on a possibly-good idea are also interesting.
My first Apple peripheral cable was a SCSI cable.

Look it up, if you haven't experienced a cable that is a half-inch thick, costs a gazillion dollars, and breaks in about two months.

Before that, it was GP-IB (even worse, but not on Apple devices).

And, of course, we had wonderful old AppleTalk cables...

When I was kid, we had to walk to school, uphill, both ways, in the snow and the rain...
If YouTube wants full control over the ads experience, they will have to splice the ad into the video stream itself, and block seeking requests until:

1. The entirety of the ad portion of the video stream has been successfully sent to the client

2. A length of time equivalent to the ad duration has passed

A sufficiently advanced ad blocker would be able to block the ad, but you would still be forced to sit through several seconds of nothing before continuing with the video.
> I never really understood why the accessories were Lightning in the first place.

Because the alternatives in 2012, when lightning was shipped, were either not reversible (USB A) or not reversible and fragile (micro USB)?

The USB C connector didn't arrive until a couple of years later.

Interestingly, both lightning and it's predecessor, the 30 pin connector, stuck around for about a decade.
Could be done a lot earlier than the author's proposal of undergrad/law school.

Start in elementary school. Give each student $10/week. But before you hand them the money, each classroom elects a mayor who decides how to tax the class and how to spend the money they collect. Each grade elects a governor who can tax the entire grade. And the school elects a president who can tax every student in the school.

Hold elections every month and let the students figure out the rest. It would be absolutely wild.
Lightning predates USB-C and Mac people were much more likely to have a cable laying around for charging their iPhone that they could charge their mouse with.
I think this would be a net loss for humanity. If the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis is true, there would be less variety of ideas and less creativity in a world where everyone speaks one language.

On a funny side note, I recently overheard one Spanish speaker casually comment to another about how people's personalities seem to change when they switch which language they're speaking. It was wild to see someone who's never heard of that hypothesis just invent all on their own.
I got an iPod last year and have been really enjoying what's possible with them. Using rockbox opens up a lot of features, especially usb file transfer and flac. I've gone so far as to make my own themes to build upon the old UI

https://github.com/D0-0K/adwaitapod
Brilliant. I love this so much.
Well I think we are actually done for more than a few years. Legislation mandating USB-C will lead to stagnation there. Who is going to bother creating a new physical connector design?

I say this as a fan of USB-C and Apple changing it so that we have USB-C on devices. Though I’m perplexed as to why they added HDMI and SD card slots back on the Mac instead of maintaining USB-C everywhere. That was a bit of a disappointment as now I have to hope a dongle is available and have to plan for connectivity versus USB-C everywhere.

Sigh
I think the nature of the service lends itself to monopoly. The part that is bad for consumers is the profit/growth requirements that put consumers and producers second. The USPS is a prime example of a non profit-driven operation that leaves customers satisfied and operates self-sufficiently (ignoring the relatively recent laws enacted to kneecap the operation by requiring onerous pension funding requirements).
Interestingly most of the artifacts, like the chicken and waffles one, are on the texture and not on the mesh.
When I was in Google SRE we had monitoring and enforcement of permitted and forbidden RPC peers, such that a system that attempted to use another system would fail or send alerts. This was useful at the top of the stack to keep track of dependencies silently added by library authors, and at the low levels to ensure the things at the bottom of the stack were really at the bottom. We also did virtual automated cluster turn-up and turn-down, to make sure our documented procedures did not get out of date, and in my 6 years in SRE I saw that procedure fall from 90 days to under an hour. We also regularly exercised the scratch restarts of things like global encryption key management, which involves a physical object. The annual DiRT exercise also tried to make sure that no person, team, or office was necessary to the continuing function of systems.
The "proper" solution would be for apps to support 64-bit, at which point they can just run natively on the device. The whole reason Tango is required is that there is still a large number of apps that use 32-bit native libraries. This is particularly true in markets such as China which don't use the Google Play Store.
I suspect it had more to do with not wanting to piss off their accessory vendors as long as they could (or selling through lightning equipment).
There are so many false premises here that it’s not worth listing them.

But if the power in the area is coming from coal then every use of that power is equally coal based.

Hair dryers use more power than bitcoin mining, ban them first.

The attempt to demonize certain uses of power is just the attempt to demonize certain people in order to oppress them.
Agree. Their salary offers were awful the last time I looked.

They did IPO in 2021 - I wonder if the equity comp makes up for it?
Now you have me imagining a penny-farthing with an F1 engine.
It already is. There a phones that support it and copters that can tow that weight.
What's the FAA incentive to change the type certification (and STC) rules here? There's a perfectly workable STC path, that's not even that expensive [almost rounds to $0 in the scope of private aircraft ownership expenses).

The TC says you must run 100LL. The STC says you can freely mix G100UL in any ratio. The legal/certification problem is solved.
I wouldn't expect the ban to occur in isolation of other actions. If we're at the point where personal air travel is being axed, then fuel taxes for automobiles would likely also be prohibitive.

But here in Canada our carbon tax is facing strong opposition from populists, and I expect that the next Government is likely to axe it. The current Government is already putting in place boutique exclusions; for instance, home heating fuel is excluded for the next three years. As an alternative, to discourage a major common form of driving, we should consider ways in which to make businesses find operating office space impossibly expensive.
I assume NoVA is fine, but parts of DC/PG county are rougher at night walking to and from stops.

it's possible to rely on it, but there are a lot services outages that will mess you up
> When you block YouTube ads, you violate YouTube’s Terms of Service.

I wish these corporate goons would drop their moronic drivel about a Terms of Service that means nothing and nobody reads and just write in the following style:

"When you block YouTube ads, we don't like it and will take technological steps to retaliate, which are within our right."
The defense would be that this set of incentives worked. We have an amazing rna vaccine that saved millions of lives. This came about from public ally funded primary research and privately funded subsequent research.

It is easy to opine on the amazing value of the amazing technology or the vaccines should have been carried forward with perfect hindsight. This was not obvious to other academics or private markets at the time.

The only way to avoid this with certainty would be to tenure every academic, and publicly fund every project.

> It is widely recognized that there needs to be a long (perhaps millenia-long) pipeline of 'unprofitable' research into commerical outlets. Who thought playing around with wires and magents would lead anywhere?

We do amazing things with wires and magnets. You know because the system worked, just like it did with mRNA vaccines.

Masses of very smart people do their best to assign government grants, and invest private money for returns. If someone can perfectly predict scientific winners and losers, there would be no problem.

Simply funding all "unprofitable" research is not a workable solution. If we did this, every university would have an alchemy department. Making something work is not just a matter of time an money.

I have defended the current incentives. Do you have a workable alternative that doesnt involve future knowledge?
Put simply, the end user is not the customer. The shareholders are. As in "we need a product that harvests money from people" instead of "let's solve a problem for people while adding value".
I have such mixed feelings about this. I can't stand to waste the time on ads so I started using an alternative client that doesn't have any ads.

However, I do recognize that I've been using youtube for 15+ years without paying a cent or watching any ads - which is pretty unreasonable. No streaming service or television channel has ever been free with no ads. I can't really justify it.

And yet, I'm not willing to pay for youtube. It having been free all these years makes that a hard pill to swallow, somehow it just feels wrong now.
I love standalone MP3 players, mostly because I don't like carrying my phone around with me at the gym or when I go out running. Right now I use a AP-60 II by HIDIZS. It was about $100, and perfectly fit into that sweet spot between the dirt-cheap questionably functional $20 models and the $1000 audiophile players. Sadly it looks like HIDIZS ceased to be a company at some point so once my current players and the spare I picked up for $50 die I might be out of luck.
So I assume it's floating?

Is it just a mat of soil and roots?
Thanks for the kind words and feedback!

There should be a real-time table when you're running a scan so that sounds like a bug. Having a real-time table is surprisingly light on resources. I haven't done a huge amount of testing on WSL, so I'll take a look and fix it in the next release.
You took me back: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/01/03/your-heart-is-...
yeah my bad it does have a page cache: https://www.sqlite.org/arch.html

The more you know :)

The query planner is still not nearly as good as PG's, but it's okay for simple applications.

I have actually used sqlite "at scale"... I'm still not sure people know that system (30k+qps dumping data into kafka) is running on sqlite on an EBS volume lol. But in this case it's just streaming stuff from disk, so pretty much any DB would have worked.
> they're the only ones taking legal responsibility while the system is active

They are the only ones using the consequences of general principles of product liability as a selling point, might be more accurate.
US asks Qatar to 'turn down the volume' of Al Jazeera news coverage
If factory resets are indeed happening, maybe it's the device management service thinking it got a remote wipe request?

(Pixel 8 Pro owner, full disclosure and all that guff)
If you have YouTube Premium, you can watch videos with an ad blocker on. I found this out last night after getting Premium because they blocked me...
Wait 'till you taste my AI-generated ramen recipe that does guarantee it! (Spoiler: it contains bleach, and is fed only to those in the office.)
Does rockbox support headphone remote controls (vol+,vol-,play,pause,next,prev) and audio books with chapters these days via extra "audio books" category? I would be interested.
FreeBSD, FireFox 115.0 - Fails.

I get a page of White and Black and <shadow> as a title.
My understanding is that AA guns work best against targets the size of a fighter or bomber. As the target shrinks, so do your odds of a hit.

Here's an Orlan-10 on its launch mount. Perspective means it appears larger than it actually is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlan-10#/media/File:SlavicBro...

So, no, not perfect. Probably not even within an order of magnitude of the same effectiveness. Possibly not even two orders.
Just goes to show how good the twitter bots were at making you think people cared to keep you engaged with the platform.

Remember all those people who saw follower counts plummet as soon as Musk started doing his due diligence and looking into the bot situation?

What's that thing called? Is it The empty internet phenomenon? Where its all bots and you're the only human.
I'll agree that there are some cases where it'd be useful to have someone with familiarity with the industries they regulate on staff.

This case in particular is one where in-depth insider knowledge or decades of industry experience shouldn't be an issue since setting "safe" levels of poison is entirely about the negative health impacts of heavy metals on the consumer and the specific means for reducing the levels of those poisons in the products themselves can be left entirely to the "experts" at the chocolate factory/cocoa farm. Regulators can just set a level deemed "safe" and it falls on the corporations to either offer a safe product or, if they are unable or unwilling to meet the standard, find a new way to make money that doesn't involve the mass poisoning of the American public.

We could bring just about any random person in off the street and have them consult with medical experts to develop the standards. In fact, the farther away from the food industry that person is the better.

I'd argue that the more a regulatory agency is focused on the health and safety of the consumer, the less important it is for the regulators to be intimately familiar with the industry being regulated. At least, when we're already aware of the health problems and know what to test for. Industry insiders may be able to help identify products or chemicals in cases where companies know they are selling dangerous products and are hiding that information from the public, but it seems that someone with close ties to the industry wouldn't be very likely to act as a whistleblower in those cases anyway.
Check out the Netherlands:

• https://youtu.be/CTV-wwszGw8?t=895

• https://youtu.be/SDXB0CY2tSQ?t=305

• https://youtu.be/ZsrVP7p33Ng?t=605

• https://youtu.be/SDXB0CY2tSQ?t=807

• https://youtu.be/VWDFgzAjr1k?t=664s

• https://youtu.be/bMJaMy-0ChA?t=268

• https://youtu.be/uxykI30fS54?t=448

Freiburg, Germany is nice as well: https://youtu.be/6Vil5KC7Bl0?t=827
Mobile uBO is Firefox's killer feature for me.
I find myself using Nebula more and more because most of the creators I watch are there and their app, while imperfect, is miles better than YouTube on the Apple TV. I'm currently subbed to YouTube Premium so I don't get ads either way, but if Google ever changes that, you can bet I'm unsubbing immediately. I only tolerate how expensive it is because of the sheer amount of content I watch from there, and because I watch the majority through Apple TV's where adblocking is a lot more complicated than I'm willing to deal with.
This implies the training dataset does not reflect the world.

Adding minority characters to every group of four people does not reflect even American reality, let alone other countries'.
He also built a nifty scope for photographing snowflakes.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/10/science/snowflakes-photos...

It looks like he embedded it in a pelican case, I see some tubes probably for cooling the plate.

IIRC he was a physicist before he worked at Microsoft.
Pretty sure the customers are the entities who buy advertisement space.
Juno and NetZero eventually merged but I’m pretty sure they started out totally separate (I used both back in the day)
I was worried from the very start of the WASM tech, that it would lead to the end of the user-controlled client. You don't even really need an embedded browser, a motivated provider could create a completely proprietary protocol for rendering their pages.
This is true, and why some diagramming packages include "draft" modes that intentionally change the presentation to make it look less permanent/polished looking.
If Ads supported creators I don't think they'd all be doing sponsored bits in their videos.
We used to have 40 acres and a mule. Things change.
Oauth 2.1

> Keep in mind that when OAuth 2.0 was published in 2012, the iPhone 5 was brand new, the latest browser from Microsoft was Internet Explorer 9, single-page apps were called “AJAX apps”, and CORS was not yet an established W3C standard.
The statements by republicans tend to be a denial of the idea that we should get rid of gas by government fiat, or a skepticism of the ability for renewables to provide consistent power. I've never heard a wholesale dismissal of renewables from most conservatives.

I strongly identify with this position. I don't need the government stopping gas sales. That doesn't mean I don't recognize that renewable energy is cheaper and pollutes less.

What I've noticed on the left is that unless you believe that gasoline and natural gas should be made illegal, you are considered a hypocrite if you also use renewables.

I'm just chasing the rationally superior energy source. The environmental argument doesn't really sway me on this one. And I don't like government coercion for a very useful and life saving substance (fossil fuels).

Nevertheless to directly address your claims. Abbot has been pretty vocal in his support for renewables..his campaign puts out materials extolling his success in bringing them to Texas.

https://gov.texas.gov/uploads/files/business/RenewableEnergy...

In another speech, abbot makes this clear by saying he favors a both and approach: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/Gov-...

He again touts the benefits of renewables.

I think what's happened here is that progressives have once again moralized on this issue.

It's not enough to be in favor of and actively take steps to encourage renewables. If you don't do it to the same degree or you don't simultaneously criticize and ban the alternatives, you're presumed guilty of some great transgression.
A browser is nice because the provider can continue to use their whole tech stack, hosting, dev tools, etc. Just wrap it in a proxy that only wants to talk to the "inner browser".
Solving a problem is harvesting money when it’s well done.
It’s when they stop solving new problems that they have to optimize their existing revenue streams at the cost of user satisfaction.
One example, Ghana, second largest cocoa exporter in the world is also the home of the largest e-waste dump site.

I don't know the current status, but Ivory Coast, 1st producer used to have large dump sites it was struggling to manage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDjDGrrDD7o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDjDGrrDD7o
True. However it can also be used by asking a question without having looked into it, ie. laziness, having others do the work instead. The tactic is then to come across as (courageously) courteous. The old preface on /. "OK, I got karma to burn [...]". Looking into it before asking for help is easier nowadays than ever before (sapere aude). With the caveat it is also easier to find misinformation and fall into such a cultish trap set up by people thousands of miles away, frolicking around in hostile jurisdictions (IRA comes to mind). I guess the cynicism is high in my post; if we lighten up and assume no harm Saul Goodman.
ADB might have been the pinnacle. I had a VGA connector AND an ADB connector on my AppleVision monitor.
If they update all the accessories, there are still devices they sell which don't have USB-C for charging, although they are not the "latest" models. Not that it isn't impressive, but I'm guessing it will take years for some of these to be retired.

* https://www.apple.com/ipad-10.2/specs/

* https://www.apple.com/iphone-13/specs/

* https://www.apple.com/iphone-14/specs/

* https://www.apple.com/iphone-se/specs/

* https://www.apple.com/airpods-max/specs/

* https://www.apple.com/airpods-2nd-generation/specs/

* https://www.apple.com/airpods-3rd-generation/specs/ (comes in both Lightning and USB-C)

I think that covers it. Honestly, not bad :-)
They could also have some sort of "skip ahead by giving information about the ad you just partially watched" feature, although seems vulnerable to a sufficiently good bot. (Unless they make it so complicated that it only works for very engaged native speakers of a particular language.)
To offer them services on the land they were robbed of, while not playing tax on land they where robbed of, seems like a cheap way out of the colonization crime.
Oh. You are right. I did not properly grasp the post.
It's vastly male dominated, so you could argue that if there's discrimination against men it's not very effective. Probably there's discrimination for and against women, and for and against men, in all sorts of ways.

But I'd bet that discrimination against hiring men into a tech position is probably the norm.
I am shocked at how this start-up with a not-great name that was just another developer environment tool not less than six months ago managed to do a full re-haul and pivot toward fine-tuned AI models. It's much more compelling now.

Popped into my feed recently with two laughing attractive employees. That little video loop of them popped back into my feed again, and again, and again. And then they did a new, expanded version. It's TikTok marketing crack.

They caught lightning in a bottle in a sea of high interest rates and startups going bust left and right. Fair play. Great combined maneuver from marketing and product.
If you think of an SRE as an expensive sysadmin then yes, you should absolutely scratch that entire org. SRE, by Google's definition, is supposed to contain software engineers with deep systems expertise, not some kind of less-qualified SWEs.
^This.Maybe part of the problem is that I've been around a while, and already have a bunch of habits around writing, and one of them is that I like to edit while I write, because writing is an attempt to work out what I actually think.

Having something that blocks me from editing as I write would be a huge downgrade. Zero interest.
You still have to purchase the STC for your airplane serial number and engine(s) serial number. What the FAA did was approve that all-model STC as being valid/legal to sell and "install" (which is just placards).
If youtube did that then they would no longer be able to accurately measure the number of ad views... which probably would make both the advertisers and the video-creators mad sooner or later.
We got some different definitions of being bullied. I run pi-hole, ublock, sponsorblock but also pay for yt premium.
This is known as SSAI for server side ad insertion.
Russian Lancet new generation already uses target locking. I suspect if it is possible to clone a piece of equipment, the only answer is an economy of scale because neither side will have technological advantage.