skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My father in law, a very right wing italian. Me, a foreigner living in Italy for quite some time now.

The way he managed to justify the hatred towards a generic "them" while accepting people like me is a simple trick (I don't know if he came to this conclusion all by himself or with the help of the right wing intellectual class that concoct new tricks every day in the newspapers he reads):

He says that these dirty immigrants should go away because there are many criminals. Sure, he says, there are fine people like you, but they are an exception.

I object that there are plenty of Italian criminals, and I even try to find data to debunk his claims that more than half of Italian jails are filled up with immigrants (he claims he got those facts from the aforementioned newspapers).

But then he just drops his "get out of jail card" and says "ok, sure, we also have plenty of criminals, thieves, rapists, etc; but they are OUR criminals, OUR thieves, OUR rapists; we have to keep them, they are OUR people; I don't want those OTHER people coming here and doing those bad things, we already have our own to deal with".

It's all about the absolute certainty that most of the immigrants are here with the explicit intent of doing harm. Normal laws shouldn't apply to them, he says. If you're an immigrant and it looks like you may have done something bad, immediate deportation; the current laws are too lax, he says. they are good for italians, of course, because God forbid his daughter gets arrested just because she superficially looks like somebody who committed a crime, but it's ok for THEM to be treated like that ...

... Because ....

because he doesn't know them. He never met THEM. Every time he met an immigrant that immigrant became a PERSON and once that became a person it no longer became one of THEM.

That's why he's perfectly fine with the Albanian housekeeper, the Croatian son in law, the Turkish mechanic, ....

They all are fine people who are not the dirty criminals the newspapers he reads keep talking about
What you are looking for is a spectrum of light known as subter-subter-infra-red which is around 2.4GHz.
Bizarre loyalty argument aside, why is it not learning? Can you quantify that statement?
Google shows snippets of copyrighted work all of the time, and it certainly ingests the entire copyrighted work when googlebot views the page to index it. The only real issue here is that NYT figured out a way to get bingbot to look up an entire article from the internet and repeat it which may not be kosher. But if search engines can ingest the entire content of copyrighted works (subject to robots.txt) then I don't see why AI training should be different on that front.

Of course, the real reason it is different is that it impacts different interest groups than search engines, and the rule of law is a sham. Creatives will do anything to ensure they don't get disrupted and can continue extracting rent from society, and have learned a lot of tools of rhetoric from their fancy colleges to put to use in that effort, compared to the industrial workers who got disrupted by automation a generation ago.
“Tether seeks to be a world class partner to the U.S. as we continue to assist law enforcement and expand dollar hegemony globally."

Well that’s an interesting statement, saying the quiet part loud (About dollar hegemony)
The Age of Slavery
No you don't! You can just use the island (or insular) app to leverage it for your own purposes
That's what business they say they're in, but in reality they do things like (A) get nearly a billion dollars seized by the US for money laundering, (B) invest in risky Chinese corporate bonds, and (C) issue USDT loans backed by volatile crypto. They're usually solvent but they have been insolvent at various points in their history.
It applies to you in the sense that your services are covered by the CRA. Your projects themselves probably don't unless you have an open-core model where you have a commercialised 'supported' version, in which case you're not responsible for all users, but you are on the hook for the commercial users.

In a way, I don't think it's that much at odds, if someone comes up with a great open source project but not to 'give away' as a present or in a classic FOSS style, but instead as some sort of funnel to get paying customers (which includes pure support), you're already doing it commercial, and even without the CRA you'd probably be on the hook for doing it right anyway.
`pgrep`, or `grep -P`, uses PCRE though, AFAIUI.
A pill against developer's disease?
This is true for most people regarding any part of history. But for any part of history there are those who take a deep interest and want to piece together the minutia of what happened. The limit case of that is an actual trained historian who specializes in that part of history.
No. Cloud hosting (AWS) provides the substantial majority of the profits (and all the profits some of the time), but only a small fraction of the revenue.
Is there consensus of what gas is best for the purpose? I read some papers on animal slaughter done with gas and apparently even things like helium, argon or nitrogen are not completely neutral.

One horrifying thing I've read is that industry actually often uses CO2 because it's cheap. Which causes hurtful and very emotional suffocation.
My sister-in-law owns a Pilates studio in an affluent area north of Houston, but she has kept it small, approaching it more from the hair salon model: 3-4 instructors, each with their own book of clients they do one-on-one sessions with. As for her clientele, almost all of them have been with her long-term. I don't even think she does any marketing, other than minimal social media.
Price is kind of absurd, but the rest is cool
>People liked having Napster, but it didn't stop file sharing going from a big mainstream app to underground sites run out of Russia (or other places that ignore copyright law). Sure, you can download music/movies still, but it's not like the Napster days.

Definitely, but that's not because as society we managed to put an end to piracy. It's because people are just not as interested as they were before. Piracy networks for media are alive and well, I'd even say that some are in the best shape they've ever been.
There is a lot of talk about who this regulation is supposed to cover, but not a lot about what it actually requires if it covers you. The best I could find after a couple quick searches was that you're supposed to provide information about the security mechanisms used and regular security updates over the lifetime of the product. Is there anything else? This doesnt sound terribly hard to comply with at first glance.
Seymour Cray used to say this all the way back in the 1970s: his biggest problems were associated with dissipating heat. For the Cray 2 he took an even more dramatic approach: "The Cray-2's unusual cooling scheme immersed dense stacks of circuit boards in a special non-conductive liquid called Fluorinert™" (https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/supercomputers/10...)
"But I think it is useful to put this in perspective as a phenomenon in a subsector of a subsector of the economy, rather than a trend in the economy as a whole."

Maybe also useful to ask, "Is there a connection between the economy as a whole and this subsector of a subsector?" If yes, what is it.

If the subsector of a subsector is in a downward spiral while the economy as whole is strong, what does that suggest.

It's not surprising that "famous tech companies" are "famous" given that they are in the practice of surveilling and intermediating communications between remote computer networks for a large segment of the population. The opportunities for self-promotion and/or manipulating the flow of information to prioritise their own interests are neverending.
If Emojis are legally actionable, then is "in Minecraft" a legally valid defense?
> Unless you're recording every single keystroke, then you are also doing "revision after the fact." There are differences between our approaches, for sure, but "revision after the fact" does not capture them.

He corrects mistakes forward (new commit fixes old commit), we correct them backwards when possible (just fix the old commit directly), otherwise forwards. I know which I prefer, but nobody's going to convince anybody.

I just wish I didn't have to wade through dozens of pointless "Fold in John's suggestions from the PR" commits when trying to get to the meat. Or have git bisect land on a merge commit with two parents, throw up its hands and say "over to you, pal".

Funny thing is, I'm normally a proponent of "worse is better". I wonder why I'm not in this case. Probably because a rebase repo is a single train track, and so much easier to reason about.

(I bet the answer to your "when did rebase screw up so badly it took days to unpick" is something to do with "push --force". With great power...)
Maybe Vercel and Netfly could think about doing Perl serverless.
I'm guessing It's stopping and reloading services that don't have any support for for runtime changes
Calling Hudson Yards and Times Square stagnant, risky investments is so ridiculous it becomes difficult to believe it’s being argued in good faith.
This could convince some more people:

Google settles $5 billion privacy lawsuit over tracking people using 'incognito mode'

https://www.npr.org/2023/12/30/1222268415/google-settles-5-b...
With 10GbE networking would it even matter much? You'll be capped at 1,250MB/s by the network, so PCIe 3.0 x2 will still be enough for that.
And it's also annoying to argue that "it's a mixed bag" is not an excuse for Amazon being in general or on average a huge step worse in terms of work life balance and pleasantness. You are much more likely to end up in a more excruciating role than the average software co.
> but the technical superiority is on our side.

Linux has a bit of a Thunderbolt audio problem though. Apple dragged the world into compatibility with class compliant USB; there's no equivalent for Thunderbolt though :-( we're back in the bad old days of individual (nonexistent) drivers per device.
in addition; Chernobyl, three mile island, and fukushima were all early nuclear design. Construction began in 1972, 1968, and 1967.

The first nuclear reactor was built in 1942. We have more than 50 YEARS of technological advancement in nuclear design gained after any one of those reactors.

Modern reactors have made radical improvements. Imagine comparing the safety of a car from the 1960-70s to the safety of a modern car. They are NOT equivalent.
This question was asked a lot when GDPR came around, and it's essentially an implication that the regulator will act in bad faith.

Courts and regulators, particularily European ones, understand when there's a "will" to follow the law. It's one of the differences between "rules-based" and "principles-based" regulations.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17100541
Sorry, at first I read "EW" as "Edward Witten" and was like "of course I wouldn't expect to follow any of his talks!" :) But no, I haven't seen any of Weinstein's talks. TBH I don't have a real physics education (just did independent study of GR as an undergrad), so my knowledge of QM/QFT is far too weak to really follow pretty much any technical talk on quantum gravity.
Explaining It All: How We Became the Center of the Universe
https://archive.is/JtBXW
> The document in question was a motion that asked a federal judge to shorten the length of Cohen’s three-year probation, which he’s now facing following prison time and a guilty plea to tax evasion and other charges.

The best people
I happen to have reached a similar conclusion through a totally different path (by watching many American home building YouTube channels and comparing them with how we build in Europe). If you ever put your thoughts out there, I would like to read them/watch them.
Job pays them really well and/or they are very well off already, so a minority have the time and passion to try and make something on the side. Even then, the biggest and highest value OSS have full time maintainers and offer pay for that. Are there really any Linuxes out there that were purely maintained by free labor?

Alternatively, students who want portfolio pieces. They have an incentive to stand out in a job market and make money as an endgoal.
They pay exorbitant rents to politicians to retain that privilege. It’s less of an argument more of an avalanche of money.
Removing yourself from your peers is never the answer.
Here is a page from AWS executives with insights on how your organization can also be data-driven too!

https://aws.amazon.com/executive-insights/content/how-do-you...

AWS does have differences for sure - but the "everything is only decided based on numbers unless you are Jeff Bezos" is universally true.

Being that rigorous about data-driven-decisions is really quite powerful. The S-team are 1000% of this mind-set. I'm paraphrasing, the saying at Amazon that they tell new recruits and pride themselves over is that there are only three correct answers: "(1) Yes, and here is the data why. (2) No, and here is the data why. (3) I don't know, and I'll have the data shortly"
I really like the idea of using top loaded fridge as a makeshift capsule. You could prepay electricty bill. So they come clean you up at their own convenience with very little mess hopefully.
I suspect Apple considers developers ignoring a five(?) year notice period that 32 bit compatibility will be dropped a sign that the publisher has already abandoned their software.
No international relations expert, afaik, would say India is in the US sphere of influence; the US specifically says India is not (in what I've seen). India is an independent power that is growing its relationship with the US. It also has relationships with Russia and with others. China happens to be an adversary, which strengthens the US relationship for now.

India is nearly unassailable. Nobody can really conquer a country of 1 billion people anyway, economically they have the size (and therefore power) to be independent-minded, and geographically there is no neighbor that is now a serious threat: China can bicker and skirmish but would have to cross the Himalayas to fight a war, which is impossible. Pakistan has nuclear weapons, but those are useless other than to deter an existential attack by India - using them would be suicide. Bangladesh lacks economic, political, and military power. Others are too small.

India doesn't need to be in the US 'sphere' and serve US interests.
It is yes. It's a separate profile which is open at the same time as the regular profile (unlike the multi user function of Android where only one is open at the same time)

It separates your app list and files into two sections, work and personal. The work apps get a briefcase overlay icon.

I use it to separate my work apps and to shield privacy invading apps from my main profile. You can use the insular or island apps to invoke it on pretty much any phone. Even AOSP has it. MDM can also invoke it, which is what it's intended for.

It also allows you to turn off the whole work profile with one button. Great if you do use it for work and you want to have a quiet weekend. The benefit for your employer is that it stops you from copying work data to private apps.

If you do use it for work it stops your employer from seeing your personal side like what apps you have installed. This can be pretty privacy invasive. For example if you have tinder or Grindr installed. I work in MDM management and on apple I can see this. On Android when work profile is used I can't.
Many managers don't know how to handle firings/layoffs and there's little incentive to because you're gone after the event anyway.
Ironically books are the one thing I don't buy on Amazon. eBay has a much better experience, easily 9 times out of 10 I'm confident I'm buying the book in the picture, and usually there are several pictures of the exact condition.
My electric bill in CA was ~$300/month.

$3600+/year.

Great investment, and no more power failures. But also, OP said this technology doesn't exist. You're pivoting to it exists but you can't afford it. Different question.
Here's one of the senior legal peeps at the EFF who has litigated IP cases talking about the issue:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/how-we-think-about-cop...

It's not as clear cut as you think it is.
This is journalism for web brought one step nearer its true potential! Not like reading the papers on radio (when radio was new), or a visual speaker on television (when tv was new), or video in a little YouTube box. This format is truely unique for web, and here it is executed extremely well.

The contrast between the eye-catching "beautiful" visuals and the rather "ugly" facts of the matter is an extra dimension. Very well done!
> bazaars

Here in Eastern Europe we are having fewer and fewer of those during the last 30 years. My favorite cheese maker closed her small shop and started selling direct from home since local authorities started demanding test and workshop inspections (bribes really). She's planning to switch to selling the milk directly to one of those big name supermarket diary processors soon. Less money but fewer headaches.
I recently had to solve a captcha in order to unsubscribe from something!

The unsubscribe link included a cookie in the URL which identified what is being unsusbscribed. Only the e-mail recipient would reasonably follow that link. And yet captcha in your face.
Check out BusPatrol.com
What really surprises me in west palm are just how many of the housing communities post signage about being 55+, soooo much of the housing restricted by age. Sure, it’s famous for being a retirement community but I’m just so surprised it’s legal to limit the housing stock by age.
That's true, that's why the client API should allow you to submit a callable object of some sort (e.g. a C++ lambda) that is automatically wrapped in a DB transaction and allows you to register commit and abort handlers as I described. Here's such an API that I'm currently working on: https://senderista.github.io/atomik-website/.
So they are giving tax breaks because they aren't making enough tax revenue?
Their packing has gotten comically bad, particularly for sensitively items like books and such. I've greatly reduced my Amazon buying over the years due to issues with damaged items, and lately, Amazon is getting more aggressive about discouraging returns. But I'm not going to pay $30+ for a new hardcover that comes damaged and covered with dirt and grime.
If you have a long running copy process running but forget to enable progress, you can use the "progress" utility to show the progress of something that is already running.

It supports: cp mv dd tar bsdtar cat rsync scp grep fgrep egrep cut sort cksum md5sum sha1sum sha224sum sha256sum sha384sum sha512sum adb gzip gunzip bzip2 bunzip2 xz unxz lzma unlzma 7z 7za zip unzip zcat bzcat lzcat coreutils split gpg gcp gmv
Dismissing people as dumbass is flag-worthy - and actually dumbass. :)
Related. I thought there were others, can anyone find them?

Open source liability is coming - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38808163 - Dec 2023 (218 comments)

Debian Statement on the Cyber Resilience Act - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38787005 - Dec 2023 (144 comments)

Can open source be saved from the EU's Cyber Resilience Act? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37880476 - Oct 2023 (12 comments)

European Cyber Resilience Act [Discussion] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37580247 - Sept 2023 (4 comments)
Though if there's a window around that light might go further than 60GHz, which is presumably the best competitor for same-room high-bandwidth links.
okay so the prevailing sentiment seems to be:
a) We kind of already have
b) it's a big deal but not that big of a deal because knowing the precise protein structure does not become useful until you know how that structure interacts

So my takeaway is that we just need sufficiently advanced quantum computers that can do molecule-level simulation on a large cell, THEN we'll be there.
Prevalence of abstraction layers (ORMs), document stores, key-value stores, etc.?

Someone somewhere decided they didn't like SQL and engineered a way to postpone having to know SQL until their ORM performance dragged their systems to a halt.
The common sense is that they would make a lot more money by doing fractional reserve (leaving them open to a bank run collapse) and there is nothing really to stop them from doing that.
> What about a dense ui is intrinsically more difficult to implement on the web?

You have no control over layout or control over rendering. In native apps (especially desktop apps) you can always go down or up any level you want. In the browser you're always fighting the quite rigid and high-level layout and rendering engine.

It's somewhat better now with grid and felxbox, but the browser will always have its own ideas on how the children can be laid out, and there are no good ways for children to depend on the parent, or for the parent to depend on the children etc.

There are very, very few dense layouts on the web. And while late-90s/early-2000s sofware was often ridiculed, you could create dense control-rich interfaces in minutes. Because they are usually not ad-hoc hacks added to the platfrom as an afterthought, like everything on the web.
Not many previous threads but I found two from the site:

Isometric Geological Diagrams - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37898223 - Oct 2023 (4 comments)

Walls as Rooms (2012) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19144031 - Feb 2019 (2 comments)
I wrote scientific simulation software in academia for a few years. None of us writing the software had any formal software engineering training above what we’d pieced together ourselves from statistics courses. We wrote our simulations to run independently on many nodes and aggregated the results at the end, no use of any HPC features other than “run these 100 scripts on a node each please, thank you slurm”. That approach worked very well for our problem.

I’d bet a significant part of compute work on HPC clusters in academia works the same way. The only thing we paid attention to was number of cores on the node and preferring node local storage over the shared volumes for caching. No MPI.

There are of course problems requiring “genuine” HPC clusters but ours could have run on any pile of workers with a job queue.
Visible light does not pass from the core of a star to the outside.

The sun has a radius of about 700,000 km. Only a few hundred km is transparent enough for light to pass through and has a density of about 300 mg per cubic meter. Roughly the density of air at the altitude where airliners cruise.

The photons you see originate from a layer that’s just 0.5% of the radius of the sun. That layer is heated with other photons from inside. The core temp is 15 million K while the photosphere is around 5800 K. The spectrum of the core were the rest of the sun transparent would be much different and … unsafe. (Not that this really makes sense, if the rest of the star was transparent it would go nova)
Most likely because 2nd season just dropped recently.
> Financial markets

There is only one of those in my whole country. Not much competition there if I'd ever want to do an IPO.
>I don't collect rent from people who benefit from my work long after I stopped working.

I don't either but that's because I (plan to) sell my art for a lump sum and move on when it ships. No one is forcing you to charge a subscription.

>I definitely don't ask the government to lock people up if they benefit from my work years after I stopped working on it.

you rarely get locked up for copyright infringement. It's a civil case, so at worst you are bankrupted. You need to be doing some violation on a massive scale to justify a crminal hearing.

Someone stealing an indie artists' 3 songs and selling them isn't seeing jail time.
3C273 is the brightest quasar, similar magnitude to Pluto. It changes brightness daily, as it consumes nearby stars. Perhaps more interesting subject, than yet another classification argument.