skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What does the individual care more about tho, a chance at affecting change, or potentially getting fired?

Really shows the limits of an individual when their livelihood depends on the source of the problem
It was a contrived example given k8s is a ripe source of jargon and engineering rabbitholes/boondoggles, though I guess I could envision a real situation where some bad choices about which workloads run on which nodes wind up impacting application performance, which then results in over-provisioning of resources as a bandaid fix.
Time Lords and Terminators
Not GP, but one of my previous jobs used to have a deploy method of "ping one of the ops team on Slack to release a certain commit SHA to prod/staging/etc", which might easily take an hour or more if they were busy and/or you asked around lunchtime. Even if they were available immediately it would still take 20 minutes.

After we moved to k8s, the release model went to "every dev can use kubectl to deploy" and it took a minute or ten to release something to prod. Needless to say, we all loved it much more than the previous setup. Even more so after someone whipped up a script to automate all the kubectl invocations.

One of my former colleagues wrote an article about it here: https://wetransfer.com/engineering/migrating-frontend-to-kub...
>Without robust standardization, the result will be a spaghetti of ad hoc middleware that could lower security standards to cater for the lowest common denominator and raise implementation costs, particularly for smaller providers.

This seems to be based on the same sentiment as expressed in XKCD-927[1]. We will fix a standardization mess by introducing a new standard that covers all the existing use cases. Dunno if efficient end to end encrypted groups with thousands of users actually counts as an existing use case. There doesn't seem to be any way to make such a thing practical in actual use.

[1] https://xkcd.com/927/
My main concern exactly.
Exactly, use the politics to your advantage! Depending on who you're talking to, you have to have a different raison d'etre.

o Talking to HR: "We need to do X to reduce/increase headcount needs".

o Talking to legal: "We need to do X to comply with Y regulation or decrease our exposure"

o Talking to other teams: "We need to do X because our current system can't scale to take your load".

o Talking to other teams that don't want to work with you: "We need to do X because your system can't scale and we're going to drop our dependency on you".

o Talking to the business: "We need to do X to save $$$ this year"

But if you simply say "We need to do X because of [highly technical reason]" then no one outside of your team is going to care or help you.
They specifically say about that (on FB...)[0]:

"I have good news and bad news. The bad news is that Facebook seem to have rolled out new Sponsored Post code which is currently evading FBP's filters. The good news is I'm looking into fixing it. Please be patient while I work on a fix"

So I wonder whether someone managed to come up with a solution.

[0] https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:gg2Y-F...
Alcohol is incredibly useful. A 70% solution is a sterilizer, a solvent, a fuel, and in a serious pinch a better anesthetic than absolutely nothing. I’m sure there are plenty of other good uses for it too.
That’s true of everything in an economy. It’s also true that Norway’s prisons rely on, and provide revenue to, companies specifically designed to profit from the prison population. Is a prison suddenly better if a government worker builds the bars rather than a contractor?
Haven't all new vehicles dramatically fallen in price due to the decrease in aggregate demand as interest rates have risen or am I mistaken?

Anecdotally, car dealers around me ( East Coast ) that were enforcing prices well above MSRP are now reaching out and offering deep discounts.
IMHO it's not possible today because of higher expectations from nontechnical users and radical complexity bloat in commercial software.

There is a path-dependence in software and it's almost inconceivable that a small team of hobbyists starting from scratch could build, for example, an office suite that could compete with MS Office or Google Docs. For better or worse, we're stuck with Libre Office.

Even Microsoft, with their massive resources, decided they weren't up to building and maintaining their own browser engine. They've chained themselves to Google's Blink along with everyone else.

BSD is an interesting example: less hardware support, fewer GUI options, good luck running BSD on a mobile phone. Can you imagine your parents trying to use BSD as their primary OS?
Any mirrors we can use for images like golang, etc?
Do Experian next.
I dunno, i think it smacks of overly priced items (homes, and apparently cars) being thought of as investments which must retain value. "We can't drop home prices because we'll lose money" some say, and now apparently it's happening on cars?

Kinda feels like our own versions of "too big (expensive) to fail".
> The advantages of tiling window managers are so tied to muscle memory, I’m not sure many people will want to switch from, say, sway or i3 or whatever.

Hear, hear !

I have been stucked with awesome for years now and even though I lost some functionalities between v2 and v4 I still can't switch. I tried i3 and regolith (was really looking for all the niceties of a DE: volume, bluetooth, screen, etc.) but tiling operations are not the same.
I get amused at people looking at my bow tie and saying "I don't know how to tie that".

So I point to their shoe and say, "The open secret is that it's the same knot."
that's why legal documents number the paragraphs, otherwise it's unreliable over the days you edit the document, no need to wait years for the app to change layout
That paper does not look like it actually measures addiction, and I don't want to sort through hundreds or thousands of results...

But I don't really care. It doesn't sound true but it also doesn't change anything.
A panic means your program has entered an invalid state. Continuing to run an arbitrarily broken program would be reckless, so crashing is the only option.

Even if you could somehow prevent your program from crashing internally, it could be killed at any time by the environment it's running in, up to the cleaning lady tripping on the power cable.

That's why it doesn't make sense to try to prevent crashes. Instead, programs should be capable of resumption irrespective of when they were killed. Resumption should be facilitated by supervisors layered on top of the program, as needed.
Tesla is sort of unique for the massive price swings.
Seriously? KDE is managed by a German Foundation. They probably received more German money than Gnome.
You may be right about "too well", but how does an android developer do, without Google play?

Like you can sell your consumer goods at Target, Costco, Kroger, Albertsons, Publix, Meijer, or just in another country.

Where do you sell your android app?
I mean that if I’m a business the size of Netflix, I very much care about the difference between “patent encumbered with an open source” implementation and “patent unencumbered”. In the first case, a patent troll can come after me.

On the other hand, if I use H.264 as a large business and I choose to modify the open source implementation and pay the royalties, I’m mostly covered.

Theora was last updated over a decade ago and currently no processor has built in support for it making it a non startee on mobile devices where battery life is at a premium.

And if AV1 meets your definition of “open” why are you complaining about Apple not supporting an “open codec” since Safari supports AV1?

While you may not be interested in talking about the legal system, I can guarantee you that every major company is before they re-encode their library using a codec or add die to the chip to optimize decoding.

Big companies can’t use their patents against small patent trolls who are just holding companies built just to sue large companies.

In other words, it is financially dumb for any large company to support an “open” protocol based on 20 year old technology (when patents expire) or newer supposed “open” codecs that are just as patent encumbered.
The is incredibly inspirational. It’s a light we can potentially use to guide our prison system out of the dark ages.
The main focus of the article is on a scientific study that showed that ChatGPT-written argumentative essays were graded, on average, with higher marks by teachers than essays written by human students.

However, the conclusion and the headline don’t follow from the study. A key benefit of developing a skill in argumentative writing is that it helps you quickly and clearly express your ideas and point of view, which also has benefits in speaking—such as in professional meetings or even debates with friends.

The fact that ChatGPT-written persuasive essays score higher than human-written essays is no justification for the abandonment of skill development in critical thinking and communication through writing tasks given to students.
> He had his chances to be a productive, tax paying member of society and he blew it

I love this thought that people in the US with felony convictions can just go out and be: "productive, tax paying member of society".

I'll place a wager that if you called <$CURRENT_COMPANY> and ask them if they even HIRE felons, they'll tell you "No, as a matter of corporate policy."

So, what then -- work for $10/hr so that you can barely make rent in your project housing and spend your entire life a single injury or natural disaster away from financial insolvency and homelessness?

That's a bleak existence to even think about, much less spend a lifetime living.

The US criminal justice system is fundamentally broken, and we DO NOT AFFORD convicted felons the opportunity to have a decent life as a normal member of society.
I hate that this is the angle taken by the author. Complaining about a company dropping its prices is of course moronic, but it's doubly so because a much more interesting and valid article could've been written about how Tesla is constantly bumping its prices up and down nearly randomly. Talk about how weird or not weird that is, how it compares to other car companies, how it's good or bad for Tesla.
Ok. So he should do what? Give the money back? Clear up this misunderstanding.
That has to do with the physical shape of the material, not a naughty knot.
Ever observed how legal documents, product documentation, books etc., are typeset - with exact placement of comment boxes, US code reference/legal disclaimers/ barcode, precise footnotes or margin notes. Many of those are meant to be also machine readable when printed out. Exactness is a very pressing need.

I would recommend taking a good look again. It might answer you why it is preferred in some situation to be typeset in PDF over a format where text could reflow.

About the immutability in Word, it seems optional & not something by design. You can edit any *docx & 'Save it as' back. This feature doesn't absolve immutability as a principal feature.
Yeah, minimally I could pass off the root password and after that I turned off the unreliability script.

In retrospect, probably frightening how quickly the business could become accustomed to random 15m outages as a cost of doing business.
SO here's how he can clear his reputation: give the money back.
Sometimes everything looks like a hammer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHpDf-Q90OM
It's also similar on a qualia level though. That's what I was getting at. In the same way how something may taste spicy or something looks blue there is a certain distinct set of feelings/mode-of-consciousness I have only ever felt in childhood, during retreat, and when on LSD.
Nicotine specifically is also more likely to be used by people with psychotic disorders than the general population, as a form of self-medicating. Many Schizophrenic people report smoking cigarettes to help their symptoms in the short term, though I'm not sure what research says about long term mental health effects of this practice.
Purely anecdotal, but I believe Keith Richards is on record stating that kicking heroin was far easier than kicking nicotine.

There's evidence for this, too -- he quit using heroin decades ago, but only managed to quit smoking a few years back.

So it seems to be true, at least for him.
Before better analgesics were available it was used for pain management. Of course getting your gangrenous leg with a musket ball in it sawed off while blind drunk wasn’t a huge improvement, but evidently it was better than doing it sober.

Incidentally some modern analgesics have oddly similar effects. I came out of a minor procedure once and for about 10 minutes had markedly lowered inhibitions. I said pretty much whatever came to mind. Thankfully it was nothing awful, but still definitely had that not quite in control feeling.
not OP, but I'd guess they are referring to F# and C# interoperability. It's trivial to call into each other from within the same project. I'm not as familiar with this on the JVM side myself. How easy/common is it to have multi-language projects? Because in .NET it's very common to have C# interface to F# projects and vice versa with minimal work.
I hate to tell the internet hipsters the bad news... but this pretty much happens with every personal car or truck you buy.
I remember when gnome was that way. I still don't understand why it changed.
Nice one, I remember writing a 2D graphics library in Turbo Pascal using embedded hand-optimised assembly for the actual drawing code when I was your age, but that was back before I discovered the internet so it ended up being something I'd enjoyed writing but never did anything with, so well done on taking the next step turning it from a personal project to one that other people can see and maybe use themselves - it all looks very tidy, well-commented and the README is clear.

Putting things out there for the world to see can be a scary thing, but remember that what people say is often as much about them than it is about your work, especially so when what they say is about you.

PS I'm actually more interested in Motes than this myself, going to experiment with it now :)
Hypocrisy I say!! Hypocrisy!

People love spending their lives looking for it. Ever watch Fox News for 10 minutes. It’s a business model.
SvelteKit's New Image Handling
Wow everyone in this story sucks
Getting the Lorentz transformations without requiring an invariant speed (2015)
Precisely. I was submitting from my iPad which is like typing with mittens. There are other examples. [0]

I really want this problem solved, because it's preventing us from managing forests in a way that's provably more sustainable than the current regime of putting everything out until there's a fire that destroys the entire forest ecosystem. It would be ironic if high insurance prices turned out to be the lever that restores a semblance of ecological balance. [1] Maybe there's a deal to implement sane forest management in exchange for reasonable insurance rates.

[0] https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/environment/...

[1] https://apnews.com/article/paradise-camp-fire-california-hom...
I guess it's mainly that part of the marketing was he told people it would be an appreciating asset, but yeah otherwise it's normal and expected for cars to depreciate in value.
That is fair. Hopefully the # of pre-1.0 V units out there gets dwarfed quickly by a wave of new machines in the next couple years.

Do you happen to know if the Pioneer board's CPU is socketed? I can't tell from the pictures, but it seems like might just be soldered on, which is a bummer. Because the hope would be that it could be upgraded later if/when SOPHON brings out a new chip, but I suspect that isn't going to be possible.
It is slightly different— usually the new vehicle has a stable price and drastic price drops in the new vehicle don’t contribute to loss of resale value.

Buyers before bought thinking resale values would be stable, but sudden price drops from the mfr helped to undermine this assumption.

I’m not saying this is bad on Tesla’s part but we shouldn’t be surprised that it has upset some owners.
He also completely glosses over why he was really in solitary confinement. I guarantee it is not merely because of his "influence".
The world’s most successful electric automaker has been completely dicking over its customers for the last year by dramatically dropping prices across the board.

This is an interesting judgement about value economics. In the author’s mind, do makers of computers and televisions and any other product with a positive change in value to cost ratio, do those makers also perform a genitourinary act on their customers?
> As a citizen

Of where?

I, as a lawful citizen of the United States of America, am not embarrassed by the prison system.

I am embarrassed, however, by folks who use hyperbole without merit to try and appease the masses without having the courage to go against the grain for fear of getting "downvoted" and losing faked internet points.

The fact that you believe the USA has the worst prison system in the world, compared to somewhere like, I dunno, Venezuela, supports my prior point.
You can side load Android apps.
I agree with your one example and disagree with the thousands of others designed to profit off of incarcerated individuals instead of rehabilitate them.
You keep mentioning Wright's law, but SMRs are not about that. Changing the location of the manufacturing from on site to inside a factory will not have an impact of 10-20% on the cost, but rather a reduction by a factor of 10 or 20. Wright's law is about subsequent reductions.
A former colleague of mine loved going to these type of events.

He enjoyed toying with the reps, almost agreeing to sign, then in the last moment suddenly asking a hard question. Watching them apply all their dirty tricks.

He and his wife would go out to such event once in a while and come back with stories to tell.
Does Ubuntu not already offer an option for that? I always encrypt my entire disk to I uncheck the encryption of the user (home?) directory that Ubuntu offers on installation because it would not make sense to double encrypt.
The apparent lack of opportunities for anyone is easy to solve with Dorm Room Welfare:

Open free dorms next to the campuses of community colleges. Anyone who is physically able to live on their own, but who can not afford to live on their own can move in and live there as long as they are working towards being economically self sufficient.

Working towards being economically self sufficient can mean passing academic classes, passing career and technical education classes, taking remedial classes, completing a high school equivalency degree, passing K-12 classes online, earning certifications, working in internships, working jobs at a training wage, or other things

I suggest we replace all other welfare programs with drom room welfare.

This does not solve the problem that many of us do not want to hire convicted criminals.
Is the European 3DSecure verification only for non-card present transactions or for all? Otherwise, businesses using NFC readers shouldn't pose a problem for european tourists.
I think some people derive pleasure from resisting sales pitches.
> Private prisons are problematic in their own right, but they only make up 8% of the total prison population

It's not how many people they are in charge of that matters, but how much money they donate to politicians to be be "tough on crime", and how much other soft money influence they have to make citizens think that crime is a problem that politicians need to be tough on, and to demonise politicians who aren't (which right-wing media is all too happy to help with).

Even if private prisons only have a small slice of the prison pie, they still work hard to make the pie as big as possible.
It is very often wrong, but (at least ChatGPT4) outputs proper names correctly. Principles/Patters may seem similar for someone who hasn't been around long enough to see the whole hype cycle of "Gang of Four" seminal work.
Fuck me, carfentanil is one of those things I read about years ago, that seemed like it would never get anywhere near the recreational drug market, because it’s just too potent and too dangerous to handle safely…

Ah, I see from your link it was u-47700 he was arrested with. Certainly a potent and potentially lethal substance, but not exactly on the same scale as carfentanil. U-47700 is quoted as 7.5x the potency of morphine, fentanyl at 50-100x and carfentanil around 4000
I’m pretty sure I could have sold my (~10 years old, but I bought it used ~6 years ago) for more than I bought it for last year. Kinda regret not doing so, and I’d be in better shape, as I’d have to ride my bicycle around.
Not only can you, in my experience it is substantially less drama and arguably less load on the target system since the full page may make many many other requests that a presentation layer would care about that I don't

The trade-offs usually fall into:

- authing to the endpoint can sometimes be weird

- it for sure makes the traffic stand out since it isn't otherwise surrounded by those extraneous requests

- it, as with all good things scraping, carries its own maintenance and monitoring burden

However, similar to those tradeoffs, it's also been my experience that a full page load offers a ton more tracking opportunities that are not present in a direct endpoint fetch. I mean, look how many "stealth" plugins out there designed to mask the fact that a headless browser is headless

But, having said all of that: without question the biggest risk to modern day scraping is Cloudflare and Akamai gatekeeping. I do appreciate the arguments of "but ddos!11" and yet I would rather only actors that are actually exhibiting bad behavior[1] be blocked instead of everyone trying with a copy of python who have set reasonable rate limits

1 = this setting aside that "bad behavior" can be defined as "downloading data that the site makes freely available to Chrome but not freely available to python"
Why not? Stimulants are the best thing known to man. There's a reason people enjoy them so much.
Reminds me of the guy in my high school class that got addicted to nicotine patches and had to be hospitalized after he poisoned himself accidentally...
They are using it for another purpose - which is fine by me (tho usually not with LEO).

If my psychiatrist gives me medicine supposed to deal with my mental health problems, I don't necessarily want contact with extradimensional entities, I want to get better.

Different purposes. Some people drink beer to get drunk, some people drink alcohol-free beer for the taste. Same with decaf coffee.
You’re saying if only we’d given this particular guy more free stuff he wouldn’t have gone back to flipping carfentanil for $20k a weekend? That seems pretty far-fetched.
The Master Debater – GPT Debating Game
GPT debating game with scoring, judging and Austin powers humour.
FYI, nicotine poisoning is uncomfortable but if it happens to you, you can greatly reduce the effect by eating something sweet, the effects seem to be blood sugar dependent. Try a spoonful of honey or a can of coke, you will feel better almost instantly.

This tip brought to you by cigar smokers.