skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In middle of this it's obscene how the media neglects to mention who did most of the actual investigative journalism: https://www.private-eye.co.uk/ -- for years on end, whilst the issue was ignored by the rest of the press.

They all now jump in on it and elide the years of work put in by the PE. This is a common tactic in media outlets, esp. here, for the major sources to try to "own" issues with nearly zero work put in on them.
Obviously not the same at all and not what happened here.
This saved me from blistering cold just yesterday night. Car was too far for the webasto heater to receive signal from the fob. Tried multiple times, then remembered this trick. And yes, car picked up the signal when sent from the forehead.

Warm car in winter, yeah
Did a ChatGPT glitch reveal Twitter's bot problem?
I got several quotes in the Seattle area this past summer. The cheapest was 18k, the most expensive was 34k. These were for 3-4 zone installs.

I went with mrcooldiy and did it myself for about $7k.
Hislop quietly rolled back his Wakefield support, sadly not in a front page apology as he should have:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2010/feb/05/pri...

He may have been smitten by Heather Mills who was the journalistic driving force behind that crusade.

FWiW when I see Private Eye I still think Peter Cook.
The お名前 (onamae) field is for your name as written in Japanese normally, and it should take any of kanji, hiragana, or katakana as appropriate so long as it is 全角 (full width) and the programmer didn't screw up.

The フリガナ (furigana) field is to indicate how the name given above is read, because kanji can have many readings including completely arbitrary ones. This also serves to indicate how computers should index and sort the names when storing and processing them, so it's still applicable even if the name is all hiragana or katakana and immediately obvious.

Furigana is also used to indicate how to read kanji in ordinary text, oftentimes when dealing with rare kanji or special readings, when the text must be comprehensible by everyone (eg: emergency bulletins), or when the text is written for people learning Japanese (eg: school textbooks).

Furigana is usually written using hiragana, so the reason 全角カタカナ (full width katakana) is specified instead of just full width is to inform the form's filer that he shouldn't write hiragana like he otherwise probably would.
It’s the same logic people use for claiming ai “will destroy us”. They deflect responsibility for making crapware. Having said that, there is not a single software company I worked at in the UK that has not suffered from serious glitches that no one wanted to fix. One I heard of and it may have been reported in the media was a prison software that let people go either sooner or later than they should have - never on time. Engineering is a joke in the UK because good engineers are considered “obsessed” while talkers are pushed in front. All due to the same mediocre leadership that blames the very same software they dont allocate proper engineering time to fix.
No because that doesn't exist in practice. The losses of converting the generated energy back into electricity make that impossible.
I've also been looking and there has been no information about the nature of the software fault(s) that were the source of the accounting discrepancies that were the trigger for these miscarriages of justice. [edit: yes there are, see above]

But we can't blame this scandal on a software fault, or even an averagely terrible government IT contractor - there were some monsters in the Post Office who chose to take this as far as they did.

(for dang) I'd change this link to the main source on this story since the mid-2000s - https://www.private-eye.co.uk/special-reports/justice-lost-i...
Ironically 3G is often the reason 4G/5G has poor reception.

1G/2G/3G all need to have a dedicated channel for itself. They were usually given the frequencies with the longest range, which is the 800MHz band. When 4G was introduced it couldn't share that band with 3G, so it was usually given space on higher frequencies around 1800MHz and 2500MHz. Those bands also allow a higher data rate, and anyone out of their range could fall back to 3G so it's a win-win, right?

Buuuuut now we're stuck with 4G in a band with poor reception, and throwing out 3G means losing coverage. Ideally the 4G sites in low-density areas would be moved to 800MHz, but that's going to require significant effort because every single antenna will need to be modified by engineers. Had 4G been deployed to 800MHz initially this wouldn't have been an issue - but that wasn't really possible because it would've meant worse speeds for existing 3G customers.

This whole issue is avoided with 5G because 4G and 5G were explicitly designed to coexist on the same channel.
Provably Fair Cooperative Scheduling
Unlocking the Fountain of Youth: Brain-Fat Tissue Feedback Loop Holds Key
Key word being "resembles" XD
I agree with the general sentiment but 2g was launched in 1991. Turned off "tomorrow" seems like a bit of an exaggeration. 3g has also been available for 2 decades.
What brand did you install? MrCool diy seemed the easiest to DIY but my 2 zone install came to about 6k. Surprised to hear a condenser and air handler together could be $850.
An employee of a major US airline had the audacity to declare my last name invalid, and literally made me pick a different name that "the system" would accept. My last name literally only uses ASCII characters, not even dashes or accents.

I did pick another name at that time because I had been waiting for an hour, so practical concerns trumped principles, but it's ten years later and I still feel offended when I think about this.
Because the origin of ideas is important. But yes, we have some original ideas in European academia. Our startup scene however is absolutely laughable (the only two countries that at least trying to do something are France and Estonia, the rest don’t even understand the problem). The “innovation grants” of 30 thousand euros (what anyone is supposed to do with these?), endless copycat companies working in “sustainability” or other European buzzword du jour which will never be scaled even in principle… etc etc.
How to tell everyone that you never worked inside a hospital ...
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/09/how-the-post...

> One, named the “Dalmellington Bug”, after the village in Scotland where a post office operator first fell prey to it, would see the screen freeze as the user was attempting to confirm receipt of cash. Each time the user pressed “enter” on the frozen screen, it would silently update the record. In Dalmellington, that bug created a £24,000 discrepancy, which the Post Office tried to hold the post office operator responsible for.

> Another bug, called the Callendar Square bug – again named after the first branch found to have been affected by it – created duplicate transactions due to an error in the database underpinning the system: despite being clear duplicates, the post office operator was again held responsible for the errors.

There isn't a full list of the bugs produced, but it does look like a lot of bugs directly involved incorrect accounting to be recorded.
What a wonderful idea. Im sure our nobel politicians will ignore their donors this time and craft legislation that puts large companies at constant threat of more fines. This could never be weaponized against small businesses that pose competition to the bigger fish.
I think emoji may push the adoption of utf8. A system is not going to accept emoji correctly unless it have proper utf8 support.
I'm specifically talking about the kanji field, not the kana field. If your name doesn't have kanji (which mine doesn't), you can really only enter katakana. And I've encountered forms which refuse katakana for that field, and which also refuses half-width or full-width roman characters.

What do you do at that point?
The 800 MHz band helps a lot to increase coverage, I think. Used to carry analogue TV signals.
You’ve certainly seen the cover of Private Eye if you’ve passed the magazine section of any newsagent or supermarket.

I’m not a massive fan of Politics JOE but I enjoyed this interview with Eye editor Ian Hislop, which I think is a good overview of his attitudes and politics https://youtu.be/IbXQWqZ2RvA
if you're in trouble already, no book will help you... :D

wireshark, ifconfig, route, ping, netstat, etc are your REAL friends on Linux! :)
Yes - but I think this one is one step further.
Social media created a perpetual church gossip culture where every action and statement is endlessly evaluated by the peanut gallery, while also creating a land rush for finding new moral angles to exploit for social status. Naturally, this catty culture will affect females more and teen girls in particular.

Why specifically social media? It's a function of communication efficiency. It's why church is associated with this sort of cattiness, everyone knows everyone and is brought together regularly to provide a venue to trade gossip. It also supplies the moral standard by which everyone is evaluated and one's social status is tied to how well one appears to meet this standard. The cattiness is just status games playing out given these constraints.

Why 2010? It's when the "always online" culture went from niche nerd to ubiquitous.
What I find fascinating about evolution is that it is entirely un-intentional. There is no-one/nothing directing it yet its outcome presents (and can be discussed as) a design.
Well it's not gossip, it's against the law. The person 'walking in' on them was at work -- they could easily press charges. It's at least indecent exposure.
Author's project is a command line productivity tool. I have co-authored a now-archived command line productivity tool with half the number of stars (6-7k, maybe worth more today due to inflation) in the past, and my observation is people are generally very stingy with this type of projects. We did make people's lives a little bit better, but unlike frameworks, libraries, etc., it's not going to end up in any money-making product, so people don't think it's essential (it's not), and companies which tend to donate larger sums than individuals are completely out of scope. I think the total donation (through a PayPal link in README) we got over more than half a decade was less than $100. In comparison, I once made some web-based analytic tools when playing a casual mobile game, and got a few thousand in donations over a year or two -- not much considering the time that went into it, but two orders of magnitude better than the command line productivity tool.

However, we hardly ever marketed our project and never tried to "build a following" or beg for donations in any way, so maybe the author will do a lot better than us. The server component should also help remind people it's not free.

Edit: One thing I forgot: I think command line utilities are in a worse financial position than GUI utilities, because people are accustomed to paying for GUI apps, but aren’t accustomed to paying for things in the shell at all.
Isn’t that an annualised rate of ~3% per year since 2020 then?
The doomsday clock is closer to midnight than it’s ever been https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/current-time/ and now we avoid another 1929 by inflating away the gains of the middle class and siphoning value off to the 1%
Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft also regularly remove features from their consoles retroactively. You buy a subscription for access to them - and telecom networks - not the right to use them forever
It is kind sad and funny at the same time, that in Germany I run around with 3G in major cities, which I have had in China in the middle of nowhere in probably better quality, 5 years ago.
I would have used the only Kanji I know: :). I guess I might end up with a fair few name siblings huh.
The important word in the question you quoted is needed.

Google homepage is 2MB. Two fucking megabytes. Without JS, it's 200K.

I can't be the only person who remembers when Google was known for even omitting technically optional html tags on their homepage, to make it load fast - they even documented this as a formal suggestion: https://google.github.io/styleguide/htmlcssguide.html#Option...
I haven't tried on ios, but brave browser has an inbuilt ad blocker. Might be worth a try. I am quite happy with brave and kagi on android.
Python Enhancement Proposal 736: Shorthand syntax for keyword arguments
I started working on an open-source API mocking tool six years ago.
It's called Mockoon and has recently crossed 500k downloads.

Two years ago, I quit my job to focus nearly full-time on it. I'm still freelancing on the side, but it's slowly bringing more money through sponsoring and the SaaS platform I'm building (a bit less than 1000$/month).
Hopefully, 2024 is the year I can stop freelancing and live the dream! Work on an open-source project I love while not feeling guilty about not bringing enough money home :D

--> https://mockoon.com
> He'd love to play professionally. Now that he's the wise old age of 20, he understands how low the odds are

Odds are low, but not zero, especially if he is at a power 5 school.

I have a relative who was in the nfl until recently. Some (summarized) comments from him:

- Focus on technique. There can be substantial differences in size, strength, and skill in college such that sloppy technique can often get the job done. Not so in the NFL. Good technique and good ability to be coached will an asset.

- Focus on good technique in the weight room. This will both develop the right kind of strength and lower risk of injury. Good flexibility via stretching and yoga are also an important part of strength training.

- Get nutrition right asap. This includes moderation of drinking and junk food. There will be people who can help with this.

- Don’t settle for good enough. Most of the future NFL guys are so good that the opponent has to plan around them specifically. Be that thorn in the opposition’s side.

> my guess is that the university brings in somewhere in the neighborhood of $100M/year from football and spends something like 30% of that on football and support for the players. That 30% is seen as protecting the rest of the $100M

Yep.

What many people don’t realize is that revenue from football and basketball fund or cover funding gaps for all of the other sports at the bigger schools.

Not to mention that alumni donations and quality of applicants increase when the high profile teams do well. Simple example, the University of Alabama has seen a substantial increase in out-of-state applicants since Saban arrived.

Best of luck to your nephew, and I hope he makes it to the NFL.
How does that work when they check your ID at security?
It also caches whole songs.
I would just enter hiragana and move on with my day, and if that doesn't work I would just pick arbitrary kanji using standard readings to roughly spell out my name (this practice is known as 当て字, ateji).

It's not my problem they have to deal with malformed data if that's all they will accept.
It is fun to pitch it as defending a website. Now it’s fine
The sort answer: "network services".

Longer answer:

1) providing basic networking (default gateway, connection to upstream provider)

2) basic security: firewalling + natting

3) basic network daemons, and "daemons": DNS, DHCP, IPv6 autoconf, and a nice new one: 802.11s ("network mesh": keep wifi at 5 bars by kicking people off their access point if another access point can provide a better connection)

4) more advanced networking stuff: VPN (l3vpn, l2ptp, l2ptmp, mesh vpn), cloud connections/vpns, WAN connections, redundancy (downstream and upstream, l2 and l3, ...)

5) more advanced security stuff: 802.1x, stateful firewalls, inspecting firewalls, IDS, ...

6) server networking stuff: proxy, reverse proxy, statefull firewalling, load balancing, ...

7) more advanced daemons (on network devices it's mostly proxying for redundancy and/or load balancing): File sharing, SMTP, WebDAV, Active Directory, payment protocols, ...

Now a lot of these OpenWRT can't provide, but you'd be surprised and their support for new things goes up every year.
That's fantastic news.

OpenWRT-based cheap travel routers have been a life-saver for me during my trips, specially to countries behind Iron Curtain firewalls.

I'll buy at least one as soon as it comes out.
I think the solution in all these cases isn't to make sure that everything works without id, without smartphone, with cash etc. It's to ensure everyone has access to technology, id, banks and so on.

Like voting. Yes it's a democracy problem if you have historically made it difficult or less likely for some groups to have ID, to suddenly require it. But it's not a democratic problem to require ID after first ensuring everyone has free and easy access to ID, and actually have the ID.
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If that were true, we’d go backwards
BBC explains why it’s hard to overturn the convictions:

The scale of the Post Office scandal means that there are no easy and quick solutions for the government.

Ministers could advise the King to grant Royal Pardons, once reserved for the condemned as they faced the gallows.

But these would be largely symbolic acts because the government can't, at the stroke of a pen, quash a conviction. That’s because the courts are constitutionally independent - and that means a second option could be difficult too.

Parliament could pass an act declaring that all the Horizon convictions be quashed, but that would be an unprecedented meddling in the work of judges - and it would pave the way for politicians to do it again.

The third option is a mass appeal with a crystal clear submission to Court of Appeal judges that the state no longer believes the convictions should stand. There’s a precedent for this - 39 post office cases were overturned in one go in 2021.

But running such a case would not be easy - and it could still take years to resolve.
Google routinely flags my genuine AWS invoices as possibly dangerous, despite me routinely clicking the "this isn't dangerous, I know what it is" button. So yes, I think it's totally possible that engineers who build web crawlers can't build reliable email classifiers.
Initially I followed the link wondering if perhaps the author had done something interesting regarding append only ledgers and derivative generation processing semantics (e.g. event 5 modifies event 2, impacting the proper processing of events 3 and 4). After all, the linearity of the character stream is not unlike log offset/ledger row.

Frequently these esoteric languages have very interesting purposes.
Do you mean they had a mononym?

Famous examples but for stage names are Madonna or Cher.

I knew someone who had one that has a mononym and would regularly run into issues.

I believe they did get their passport issued with their mononym, but it caused all sorts of problems with international travel. Some airlines would require duplicating their name for first and last, then cause issues during check in, security or immigration, because of the mismatch between passport and ticket/visa/etc.
> HPE is the wretched refuse that's left.

Cray tends to disagree...
> I wonder if this was a simulation or an observational study of real markets?

It's kind of both.

Try to name a market where the largest company in the market has <15% market share but they still have a successful cartel going. They exist but you're going to keep finding that their enforcement mechanism is some kind of violence or (equivalently, through the government's monopoly on violence) regulatory capture.

Drug cartels can have lots of members because they murder you for defecting. Landlords collude through zoning boards. OPEC is literally a cartel of governments.

You can also kind of reason this out.

Suppose a market has two companies and the smaller one has 40% market share. If they could increase their market share to 60% by cutting their margins in half, that's losing money, so screw that. The bigger company doesn't even have to buy them off.

Suppose a market has eleven companies and the smallest one has 1% market share. If they could increase their market share to 20% by cutting their margins in half, they're making 10 times more than they do now. The other companies would have to buy them off. But how? More market share without lowering prices? Even if they could arrange it, any company with less than 10% market share would rather have 20% at half the margins, but in a market of eleven the smallest company can't have more than 9% without making someone else the smallest company. And that's if having the lowest price only gets you 20% market share and not more.

Now, you can make up numbers that allow coordination with arbitrarily many companies. Maybe lowering your margins to zero doesn't get you any more customers at all and then no one would have any reason to do it. But how many real markets work like that?
Adults don't seem to know any better. It's going to take more than age restrictions to halt -- let alone reverse -- the damage.
There is an imperative force internal to evolution - self replication. Information must propagate (replicate) from the past into the future. But this leads to competition for resources, and hence drives evolution.
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Elixir has nx project for numerical computing
I wonder if this will force Borrowell to finally allow unsubscription from their regular emails without deleting your account.

https://helpcentre.borrowell.com/hc/en-us/articles/100145089...
They also have overseas subscriptions, I have been receiving Private Eye here in Denmark for £90 per year (26 issues).
I'm curious whether you've figured out a good monetization strategy for Atuin. The article doesn't answer that question.

Like you said, you won't be paying your rent with sponsors any time soon, but you've already quit your job. Are you living on your savings, and trying to come up with valuable paid features meanwhile? Is it the plan?

Anyway, good luck with whatever you're up to! Building a good monetization strategy is hard
Here comes the Forkbus! brm brm
I started SupeChoiceForm as a passive income project many years ago: https://superchoiceform.com.au/

It started as just a content site, with google Adsense. Making about $1200 per month from ~30k visits.

It kept growing in popularity over about 2 years and I finally decided it might be worth some more effort.

So I turned it into a web app that took an employee through the process of gathering/generating all the paperwork they require to provide their employer with their superfund details. Effectively just digitising the paper form process with some smart automations.

(Superannuation is the 401k of Australia, but probably more widespread as it’s mandatory)

That was 2x MVP’s ago. Last year I got two trust partners / co-founders involved and we’ve turned it into an embedded service that can drop into any payroll/hr provider.

Raised $1M and now we’re making a lot more than $1200

All because I was nervous about getting Adsense banned for no reason. So thanks google!!
The closest thing Europe has to Silicon Valley is probably Sweden's Stockholm region, but it is nowhere near as close. To be fair the tech companies that ARE in Europe are more spread out across the country instead of being all concentrated in a single region. It is probably part of the reason why Europe didn't create any Big Tech company.
> While it may be taboo to say so

What does that even mean?

You just said it, and it's also been said by countless people ever since the aforementioned 60s.

It's not taboo, it's trite.