skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Because it would not necessarily be cheaper. The government can be incredibly wasteful and inefficient, especially when corruption is involved - and the money still comes from you!

Personally, I've come to the following conclusion after dealing with the American health care system far to much in the last three years and several encounters with corporate America throughout my adult life:

There is no difference in the potential for waste, inefficiency, fraud, corruption, laziness, and outright stupidity between government and private systems. There is a difference in (1) my (and my fellow citizens) ability to influence between that two and (2) not having to pay for profit and the costs to me resulting from necessary profit on top of the rest of the shit sundae.
You could write a web server in C using any compiler available on DOS, not just TurboC. There's GCC, MSVC (which is older than Ansi C itself), and I believe I heard that Watcom had the best C compiler for DOS.
What device and app are you using to read the document?
If you give GPT-4 a specific URL or API endpoint, it doesn't work. GPT-4 can only search the web.
Building an entire directory app is hard though. And you want it to be highly resilient, right?

What do you recommend?
Does Dual_EC_DRBG count?
You believe in a consumer driven intervention?
None of the scenarios you listed above are unit tests, which I believe is what the OP and the post was referring to.
I also enjoyed math (and related) competitions and continued them in college and beyond. Though I don't think math or algorithm puzzles are good "technical" interview questions, I was still sad to see Google Code Jam come to an end.
Pff

This would make me want to quit.
Either gently press a key without the hammer striking the string, or play it as normal and wait for the string’s vibration to die out.
Just because it's "unsupported" doesn't mean it won't continue working.

The realisation of that fact is the key to avoiding planned obsolescence and rejecting the mainstream narrative of corporate authoritarianism.
Ideas of how to intercept "scrapped" machines of this nature? I'd love to have a hobby of installing newbie-friendly Linux distros on machines like this and giving them away.

Come to think of it, I know some folks who run IT departments I could probably ask.
We didn't blog. We posted on USENET — for free.
Fully agreed; i also enjoy using an actual video player to play videos vs letting the now operating-system-sized-javascript-cruft-in-browser to try to do its thing. there are alternatives out there, use them; its called "the open web" for a reason, that "source code" fed to us can is code that we can choose to render, or not
The screenshot was from MDN [1] but today the support table is all green; no caveats for workers.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/structuredC...
> And Apple certainly doesn't have a monopoly in the (secure/rich/whatever) messaging market. In most countries, WhatsApp is vastly more popular than iMessage, even on iPhones.

From an antitrust perspective, this is the whole point. The antitrust argument would be that Apple is leveraging its dominant position in smartphones/smartphone OSes to gain market power in the messaging market.
They weren't selling software licenses here, they were selling a very real piece of hardware. It would be ethical to disable noncritical software updates under some time based constraints, its completely unreasonably to disable the use of the hardware all together. The customer bought it, that's their hardware to use however they wish.

It would be completely unacceptable to me if an auto manufacturer baked in a time lock in a car I purchased. Heck, Apple got slapped for appearing to throttle performance based on age. Why is it reasonable for a train manufacturer to pull this stunt?

To be clear, plausible deniability is also a big gray area when it comes to moral or ethical questions. It a timelock in the software seems unusual, engineers aren't off the hook simply because they didn't ask. If they did push back or ask for an explanation and were given false answers, sure they likely didn't do anything most would consider immoral. But if they just wrote the time lock because it was in a spec and didn't ask why a train should include a time bomb? Totally unethical in my book.
200k damage is wreaking havoc on a bank??

Sad for him to lose his honor though
This means there will be more cars on the road and more traffic. Whether or not people individually own the cars is irrelevant.

If autonomous cars drive down the costs of taking a taxi it’ll mean more people will do that versus public transit.

Anything that reduces public transit use or increases individual car use will be disasterous for traffic and transportation in our cities.
In the distant past I was the lone engineer of Common Crawl almost a decade ago. Common Crawl heavily leverages the WARC format.

My favorite capability of the WARC format borrows from the fact that most compression formats can be written to allow random access. Compression formats such as `gzip` and `zstandard` allow multiple compressed streams to be stuck together and act during decompression as if it's one contiguous file.

Hence you can create multiple compressions and literally stick them together:

$ echo cat > cat.txt
$ echo dog > dog.txt
$ zstd cat.txt dog.txt
$ cat cat.txt.zst dog.txt.zst > catdog.zst
$ zstdcat catdog.zst
cat
dog

For files composed of only a textual / clearly delimited format that means you can fairly trivially leap to a different offset assuming each of the inputs is compressed individually. You lose out on some amount of compression but random lookup seems a fairly reasonable tradeoff.
Common Crawl was able to use this to allow entirely random lookups into web crawl datasets dozens / hundreds of terabytes in size without any change in file format for example and utilizing Amazon S3's support for HTTP Range requests[1].

Trading compression for random lookup is even more forgiving if you create a separate compression dictionary tailored toward your dataset. For web crawling you'd likely get you the majority of the compression gains back unless pages from the same website are sequentially written which is unlikely in most situations. The website's shared template/s would result in very high compression gains across files which you'd lose by allowing random lookup but most crawlers don't don't operate sequentially so local compression gains are likely smaller than larger.

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Range_requ...
Absolutely. Give it a try. I pasted these comments into ChatGPT and asked it to score them according to slashdot’s system (which i didn’t actually define) and got this reply:

In Slashdot's scoring system, comments are scored from -1 to 5, based on factors like insightfulness, informativeness, and whether they're interesting or funny. Here are the hypothetical scores for the comments from Hacker News:

owlninja (42 minutes ago): This user is asking about the applicability of LLMs for text categorization in large datasets. It's a straightforward query, indicating a need for information. Score: 3 (Interesting) - As it opens up a discussion on a relevant and technical topic.

causalmodels (18 minutes ago): This comment provides a direct solution with a resource (zod-gpt). Score: 4 (Informative) - It not only addresses the query but also provides a specific tool to help achieve the goal, adding value to the discussion.

quickthrower2 (41 minutes ago): This comment suggests an approach for creating buckets using a sample and an LLM. Score: 3 (Interesting) - It proposes a practical method, contributing constructively to the original query.

These scores are subjective and would depend on the perspectives of the individual moderators or the community's voting on Slashdot.
I spent a year and a half building a "startup" of my own (actually, a humanitarian nonprofit) that failed. I can relate to the author's painful emotions as he processes his experience. This emotional journey is common in entrepreneurship, but very few people talk about it, so I wrote the book I wish I'd had.

The book is titled "Eating Glass: The Inner Journey Through Failure and Renewal", and I mention it whenever these threads come up. It doesn't sell well, so I'm just giving it away for free.[0] I'm passionate about the topic.

Also, FWIW, although you acknowledge the mistakes in execution, this sounds like a brilliant idea.

[0] https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/arauyfnkwwezbbk0cbvdp/eating-...
> Our disability resource office sends things out to a contractor to typeset into braille; the turn-around is measured in weeks.

This seems a massive gap in the market - many institutions have funding earmarked for such things.
Because there is a group of business that have identified 'basic societally necessary services' as things where they can effectively do as they please and charge what they please. Eldercare isn't the only one - c.f. child care[1], health care, basic services like power and water.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/16/us/child-care-centers-pri...
Hahaha. There are many viable businesses productive people can generate, many times more than they can delve into. As such, there is never an absence of ideas, it's almost always a lack of concentrated, deliberate execution in a category that can iterate into a viable, sustainable business. I think it's also possible to posit sketchy ideas that haven't worked before and bribe or cajole people into trying them.
Disclosure: I love Apple products and all my devices are Apple.

This is absolutely monopolistic shenanigans.

Complaints about monopolistic behavior in the smartphone market from Apple are always met on HN with “Apple doesn’t have a monopoly in the global market” - who cares? Apple is from California, the Bay Area is famously self involved, Apple has a majority stake in the US and certainly in California.

But regardless - trying to rebut the argument “this looks like monopolistic bullying” with “but they aren’t a monopoly” isn’t a good argument. Debate why it doesn’t seem like monopolistic behavior, the debate about whether Apple is a monopoly is whataboutism.
Apple is pretty unique there, right? They are the only ones selling macOS devices, so if you want macOS, you are eventually going to go to M-series. And they have enough control over the stack that, when they say it’ll go smoothly compatibility-wise, most people treat that as at least… plausible, for most use cases.
Even if functions were immutable as objects, they can reference anything within their containing scope, including arbitrary dynamic variables in outer scopes and even values from other modules (whose bindings are “live”). They may also have their “this” bound to arbitrary objects from any scope at all.
> The policy doesn't have to cut off the meth supply to be successful on its own terms.

Here in Australia we had project STOP in Queensland which started about 20 years ago, and there's an analysis of the outcomes here - https://www.aic.gov.au/publications/tandi/tandi509

tl;dr it did stop pseudoephedrine going to meth labs BUT it has had no long term impact on the number of labs being detected nor seemingly on the availability of crystal meth.

To me that's an abject failure of a policy, but some people look at it like "we restricted a precursor successfully!" and count it as a win.
Different cultures prioritise different things. Some cultures prioritise individual choice over reproduction, others prioritise reproduction over individual choice. What's going to happen in the long-run? The culture that prioritises individual choice will shrink, the culture that prioritises reproduction will boom.

A good example of this is Israel - the Haredim (ultra-Orthodox), roughly 13% of Israel's population, prioritise large families over individual choice, and are booming; secular Jews, (by and large) do the opposite, and while currently around 40% of Israel's population, are slowly shrinking; it is predicted that in 2065, close to 50% of all Israeli children will be from Haredi families, only 35% from non-Haredi Jewish families (secular or moderately religious).

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2023-05-22/ty-article-opinio...
You can’t “look up” the business practices of a business that doesn’t let anyone in to take a look unless forced to.

If a drug company on the other side of the planet is adulterating the drugs in a way that makes people sick 20 years from now, your bad reviews will show up 20 years too late.

If fly-by-night retailers on Amazon can game the reviews for USB flash drives, you sure as bet that an unregulated pharmaceutical company could.
Wait wait hold up:

> Other nonprescription drugs like guaifenesin (sold in Mucinex and Robitussin), dextromethorphan (sold in Robitussin DM), and antihistamines for a cold like chlorpheniramine likely don't help with coughs and colds.

I knew about phenylephrine, but is there specifically evidence against these other drugs?
Attempting to argue the finer points of the flawed conclusions of the 4 liberal judges on this case is a bit much for this venue.

The easier answer is to point out that the case barely got a majority decision with 3 Liberal Colorado Supreme Court judges in dissent. Barely a majority decision! The inability to get unanimous results from 7 liberal judges in a state controlled by liberals speaks volumes about the legal foundation (or the lack thereof) in this case. I'll let those 3 liberal judges make the case for me.

As for the "Technique" that Trump used??? What Technique? Bloviating like a crybaby because he lost? Please. It is not obvious that Trump employed any technique or strategy at all just as it is not obvious that he attempted to invoke an insurrection and overthrow the government.

If a Democrat president behaved the way that Trump did, i would be equally offended by that behavior but i wouldn't fear that a similar sized and unarmed group of protestors was going to somehow take over the US Government by storming the Capital in the same manner as occurred on Jan 6th.
Yeah stopping payment doesn’t nullify the contract you signed.

This is all like trying to cancel an apartment lease by not paying your rent for a few months.

You might get lucky and they decide it’s not worth it to pursue it, but they still have a legal claim to that money.
These companies think in terms of evolution and BOM cost, not revolution.
I wonder what other tests of being non-apathetic and at least somewhat competent would work as well or better than the typical rat race.
If they’re keeping the car for 40k miles as they state, there’s plenty to test and review in a car while waiting for a 1500mi break in period. I don’t see why they wouldn’t respect it as journalists.

And even if they didn’t fully follow spec, having the engine literally explode after a few hard pulls immediately afterwards is a horrible outcome. No engine should do that, as there’s bound to be plenty of regular users that don’t actually wait the full 1500mi period.
There's also a charity called Free Geek that does exactly this: https://freegeek.org

They're local to Portland, OR, so if that's not your stomping grounds maybe ask them for advice?
Imagining a doctor writing a script for meth is pretty amusing, and maybe if that’s not a cool enough drug, they can hand out some crack or something.
Which is why Windows XP is still in use in various places today.
Higher education too.
Ten and a half years of support is quite decent, no?
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> Offriver closed loop pumped hydro just needs two football size fields hundreds of meter apart in elevation

A football field sized reservoir isn't going to hold much water unless it's deep. Realistic pumped hydro sites are much larger than 500 square meters. And those two reservoirs can't be too far apart, because excess lateral distance reduces output and increases the energy required to refill it.

It also needs to be close to a source of water in order to fill the reservoir and refill any loss due to evaporation.

It also needs to be close to a major highway otherwise the costs of construction will be immense because of the long distance that materials and equipment must be shipped. This is particularly problematic because most pumped hydro potential is in mountainous terrain where transportation is expensive.

And lastly, this site has to be close to places that have energy demand, otherwise you'll need to build miles and miles of transmission lines. This is also a problem because the places that have pumped hydro potential also have hydroelectric potential, and usually already generate electricity from dams. Norway and Brazil have huge pumped hydro potential, but already generate most electricity from dams.

The conditions for a viable pumped hydro sites are much more narrow than "two football field sized reservoir a few hundred meters apart in elevation".

The paper you cited just ran an algorithm over a terrain height map. It did not attempt to account for accessibility. Good luck developing the immense pumped hydro potential in Tibet. Pumped hydro would be great if we could teleport concrete, excavators, and turbo machinery into some of the most remote parts of the world. But unfortunately this is not in our capabilities.
I always thought it would be cool to have everybody carry around a private key on some device, and that key signs all data to prove authenticity. Instead of creating user accounts on a forum, posts would be signed with a key and a hash would be appended to the username, so you know that this John Smith is the same one as the last post because he has the same hash appended. Kind of like what 4chan does with tripcodes
I make liberal use of the masked email feature. Love Fastmail
Thanks for the idea. There's something similar in my city that I was thinking of getting in touch with as well.
The law should be that if you end support for hardware you have to open source all its software including any services needed for it to run.
Oops! Thank you for this, for some reason I always thought the policy is "AND", not "OR". My mistake.

Well, guess I have something to do for Christmas... (I run a non-Postfix MTA, gotta try to test it and see if I can implement a patch if it's vulnerable.)
> Last I checked this is a forum and we were having a discussion.

This:

> So you want to starve and beat your kids, got it. thank you for confirming that.

Is not any kind of "discussion". This is you using ad hominem attacks to set up a dishonest straw man argument.

> while we have evidence that some parents are using the loopholes in the home schooling system to be able to do this

You have cited no evidence of any kind.

Also, kids get beaten up and sexually abused in public schools as well. You know that, right?
Another common issue is moving countries which often changes your phone number.
Taking "no hope" patients into a clinical trial is something of a bad-science dillema.

On one hand you have patients either a certain death diagnosis. They'll take anything, they have nothing to lose.

From the drug trial point of view its more complex. Your death and side-effects are recorded. It's not great if half the people in a study die. What if 90% die? Adding lots of one type of patient yo one side of a study, without adding similar to the control group, invalidates the whole study.

And people who are already "hopeless" may end up masking the good outcomes for people earlier in treatment.

Currently there's no mechanism for random unproven drugs to be disseminated outside of a study, but equally its a rare study that wants to add "certain death" candidates to the roster.

If we want "hail mary" options in drug administration then we need that to exist outside of nedical studies. And formalising this would be difficult because one senses that moves in this direction would open the door to massive exploitation and profiteering by both snake-oil salesmen and big pharma.
They force you by not issuing any security updates for the unsupported versions (for free).

It's probably ok to continue using win10 even if this is the case for an individual, but for a corporate IT system, this won't fly.