skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pressing danger == immediate; near at hand. I’m not talking about the grand sweep of history, the all-time leaderboard. I’m talking about the present era we’re living in.

In the future (or the past) of course it’s possible that the left wing could be (or was) more dangerous. I didn’t even think we had a truly dangerous problem with the far right in this country until Trump brought the crazy out of the shadows, and January 6th drove home the damage they were willing to do for him.

You alter priorities as conditions change. In this present era, we have a serious problem with a violent far right lead by a demagogue that has already shown a propensity for trying to overturn the results of legal elections. The far right has gone up several notches in my “we should be worried about this right now” list as a result. The more pressing danger to prioritize.
The English test that ruined lives (2022)
There's also a big difference between being able to just speak English, and being employable in a job that focuses on use of English as a skill... like writing a TV show or a book
nobody is perfect, but some people create mnay less leaks than others. Modern C++ is the rules those who create few leaks follow.
Could you delete the other copy of this question?

I think you can get the questions for a video without being logged in so I think that part is no problem.
I’m not a native speaker and learned English primarily through technical books. I may have a succint way of writing, but it does match my idea 100%. You can explain an idea in multiple ways and I rather avoid jargon (I like to tell a story) when talking to someone who is not that interested in the topic.
I don't think you can opt out of this kind of advertising, and it's important that people en masse don't, because it subsidizes the entire mail system.
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Obligatory reference — electronica legends the Future Sound of London (FSOL) [1] produced an album called "ISDN" that was originally broadcast over ISDN lines in 1994:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISDN_(album)

It's an interesting relic of a specific cultural moment in time just before the Internet broke through. With ISDN, you could send a nearly hi-fi quality digital audio stream to anywhere in the world, but it wasn't yet on the open network that would define the actual future we now live in. Quite fitting for a band with "future" in their name.

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[1] Even if you don't know FSOL by name, you've most likely heard their massive 1991 club hit "Papua New Guinea" somewhere.
Also note, that labor income is usually higher taxed than capital income.
New governance models start with discussions about governance by a quorum of interested parties, not by dictating a new set of features or the decision to leave some out. That's just a change of regime, not a change of model.

I'm sure that there are legitimate gripes and D's reliance on Walter as gatekeeper may be too strict for some but the way this fork has started out doesn't bode well for the long term. Forks succeed only if they are carried broadly, you'd need to more or less pull a majority of the folks in the D community along rather than just a handful of prolific but ultimately low in number individuals because there is a fair chance that both your fork will fail and that you further fragment the mindshare of the original to the point that it too looses any viability that it still had.

You also need to be able and willing to support it for decades.
import myModule from "./my-module.torrent"
Compare also 'Linear Programming'. Or the usage of a 'TV programme' or a 'musical programme'.
With regards to the OPs note about headlights being too bright: Has anyone adjusted their headlight angles? I noticed oncoming traffic has occasionally been flashing their brights at me, and I suspect they think I left my brights on and are trying to tell me. I'd love to drop my headlight angle a degree or two but don't know if that's a daunting task on a modern car.
I think that's a bit reductive. I suspect the constant stream of dicks, day in day out, in a dating app context, would cause a change in opinion in the moderators. It's the sort of thing that sneaks up on you without you quite realising it.
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Siri 2.0: Apple Is Planning to Drop a New Gen AI Version of Siri at WWDC 2024
Well, dynamic programming also tells you when you can drop your 'memoization' caches.
The von Restorff Isolation Effect
I don't have my phone number attached to my GitHub account, if that's any indication
Time will tell how the maintainers of the fork will react to similar criticism. It's very easy to stand by the sidelines as a community member and to piss on the leadership, it's an entirely different thing to be in that position yourself. Ask GvR what it feels like to herd a band of cats over a period of decades. You need to be in it for the long run and you need to be utterly dedicated to make this really work.
A quick fix for the user experience would be to output a canned "one moment please" as soon as the input's received.
Agree, not sure it’s helpful for a regulator to bankrupt a business for sending too many emails. Spam email is pretty par for the course nowadays. This seems like a proportionate response to alert them to get a handle on it.
why not a slingshot?
Living sustainably is an ambiguous goal in so many ways, for one thing. Secondly and more fundamentally, there's no direct connection between achieving it by some clear definition and being able to colonize the rest of the solar system. We could just as well end up living very unsustainably on Earth while still pulling off all kinds of colonial feats elsewhere in our system. Again, nothing stops the one from being done while the other is the case.
Do they have humans test cars before they produce them or what?
They are the worst. I signed up once for trial and decided to cancel it. They kept sending me postal mail, sms, phone calls, and emails.
UDP couldn't work here?
Some sort of a sideways space-elevator.
> It is impossible to do physics by thought experiments.

Thought experiments are an important tool used by many brilliant physicists when it is not possible to carry an actual experiment yet. Their usefulness is in the opposite of what you say: sure, they can't prove a teory correct, but they can point out potential problems by finding contradictions. As an example, here you can find a famous and very important thought experiment in the field of thermodynamics: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%27s_demon
Here in Australia, ISDN Data over Voice (DoV) was in fairly common use. Telstra (the major telecom here particularly in those days) charged an untimed flat "local call" rate (a few tens of cents) for an ISDN voice call, and by the minute for an ISDN data call. It didn't take many minutes for a voice call to be vastly cheaper.

At a technical level both types of call are a 64kbps data connection, with just a flag to discriminate between the two. All the major suppliers (Cisco, Nortel, ...) had software options for their ISDN gateways to tell them to set the voice flag when making an outgoing data connection, and to treat voice calls as data calls when they were received.

This was extremely common and Telstra never seemed to do anything about it. Just a funny memory that this article brought to mind.
And? Because he wrote several science fiction books on the colonization of the solar system, his word is law on what we can and can't achieve in space?
Just a side note, Golang has generics now: https://go.dev/doc/tutorial/generics

Google says that only since Feb 2022, and the article was written in 2021, but I think it was a planned feature and if the author did some research, he'd realize that generics are coming.
Same here. For kicks I checked my USPS Informed Delivery emails and not only did I find one with Hello Fresh, it has its own dedicated section within the email with share links.

It seems like Hello Fresh has an agreement with and/or pays USPS to deliver their advertisements, to the point of getting a spot in their emails.
This can also be due to dirty/aged headlight covers dissipating your headlight beams wider than intended.

You can get kits to clean them, but it’s a bit tricky
Ahh, good ol’ pair gain, where the ILEC would basically share one circuit between 2 houses. Saves money from not having to run a second circuit, plus the sound quality isn’t too awful as long as you’re deaf.

I also worked at an ISP. Customers would sometimes call to complain about how much we must suck because their shiny new 56k modem wouldn’t train up past 28.8, and it couldn’t possibly be on their end because they lived in a neighborhood of brand new McMansions. That’s when we had the diplomatic mission of explaining how Ma Bell saved a whole lot of money at the expense of the customer’s phone quality.

As long as we’re swapping horror stories, I can summarize another one in 1 word:

Winmodem.

shudder
> The labor share of income in 35 advanced economies fell from around 54 percent in 1980 to 50.5 percent in 2014.

3.5% in 34 years is not exactly something to get all luddite about.

Also keep in mind, that it's not the capital share that's expanding at the expense of labour. It's the share that goes to land that's taking from labour. The capital share is relatively stable. (Alas, few apart from the Georgists care about differentiating between land and capital.)
What's the best book to read then?
This looks really cool and I plan on checking it out. Ironically, I recently built a desktop app using the same stack (Rust + Tauri + Svelte) for managing audiobooks. Shameless plug in case anyone is interested: https://gitlab.com/fonner/audiobook-locker#audiobook-locker
There’s a massive variation across sectors and a lot of it seems to be driven by the larger companies keeping profits high: if you buy a lot of processed food and beef, the supermarket prices are sky high. Costco seems to be largely insulated from that, presumably due to long-term contracts, and our farmers market pricing for things like eggs hasn’t changed much since the local producers weren’t buying huge amounts of feed or selling through the profit-taking middlemen.
Yes. And both are wrong. Neither labour nor capital should be taxed, as long as there's still land to be taxed.

See Land Value Tax.
These are not quite serious classes, they are fun experiments. They have a bit of educational value, but it looks to me the professors just put them together just for kicks.

If you want to take MIT classes for credit, you can go to EdX.

https://www.edx.org/school/mitx?
That’s the spirit! The environment’s not going to destroy itself, dammit!
ISDN was the gold standard after the 56k modem time. Low latency included, which was very nice for online gaming. It lasted for a while but then DSL came around the corner and it was game over for ISDN.
From what I remember it wasnt just that.
I'm not saying that bankrupting businesses is the best strategy, but it can be helpful. If you put fear into these companies that they can get wiped out at a moments notice they will smarten up really quick. If you show them that they will get a fairly cheap slap-on-the-wrist warning first they will ignore the rules until they get the first warning, then toe the line.

So if you want the whole industry to follow the rules without investigating and fining each one-by-one you better make sure that your first action against them makes them regret their choices.
Who else is seeing a future of tiny spy devices powered by tiny batteries which last decades?
> Cars are getting too big; why are manufacturers pushing “crossovers” and SUVs on consumers and why are consumers buying them? I could write pages on this point alone.

I’ve got 3 kids under 5. Car seats are absolutely enormous these days — it’s impossible to fit 3 across in even the largest “crossovers” (VW Atlas / KIA Telluride). I don’t want a big car (my dream car is something along the lines of the Audi A4 Allroad Saloon) but I also sometimes need to bring all my kids to the same place.

Figure out a way to safely downsize car seats and I bet SUV purchases would drop 10% or more.
> or is it just security theatre?

WAF in general is security theatre. If your operation genuinely benefits from one, I dread for what's sleeping underneath. Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
If you consider my 24 year old car "modern," then my modern car is easy. There's a screw on top of each headlight that will tilt them up and down.

I thought I noticed people flashing their brights at me, but then I realized it's actually them hitting a small bump, thereby raising the angle of their LED headlights momentarily. I drive a somewhat low-sitting sedan, so SUV LED headlights do that a lot.
Comparative advantage, even if some techbro had all the super ai and money to use, they would still be better served by doubling down on the specific products/services that provide the best return.
Maybe just grab a second hand Toyato that can pretty much run indefinitely as long as it is maintained. That's my plan if my wife decides to ditch me :p
I wonder if it is related to when the most competent team — often the one that created the product — leaves and is replaced by other people that can't maintain the same level of quality.
Two things; modern HID or laser or LED headlights should have the auto adjustment, so just jump to the second paragraph if you have one of these. But halogens can be adjusted usually from inside. They tend to have adjustment buttons to compensate for load (situation might be different for US cars, I’ve seen this with EU cars). This could be easier place to get started.

The manual adjustment is also very easy :) there are some screws on your headlight assembly that you need to rotate. It is different for different cars, though. So I’d suggest referring to YouTube for your own car’s adjustments.
If you are seeking black magic, dynamic optimality might be more your speed.
For a lot of the services I'm thinking of for this case the scheduling may be across multiple nodes but it may not be flexible - e.g. this is my preferred way to run things which need guaranteed local iops. So Swarm maybe helps with service discovery etc. but its main purpose is lost.

I have a lot of complaints about Docker Swarm but they're either about its ownership issues or relatively minor (but - lots of minor) issues, if you want to use it it's fine. But you do still need an orchestration layer above it anyway.
Then we had two very different lived experiences - my parents couldn’t get it in the Seattle area, I couldn’t get it where I was going to college in the midwest, and what I recall was that it was very expensive, like double the cost or more, or any available dial-up option.
> Figure out a way to safely downsize car seats and I bet SUV purchases would drop 10% or more.

Like an Estate / Station Wagon, a category of very capable cars that is being extinguished by the rise of SUV.
I had a ford van I drove for decades, then tried to buy a new car and holy shit the amount of electronic gadgets on all cars nowadays is insane.

you cant just buy a simple car anymore.
That's a great analysis, maybe in the first suggestion, instead of force someone being at the same company, there could be a law that will be a crime doing this behaviour.
That’s probably the most horrifying flip side of that debate. There’s genuine physical abuse at a scale that would make every genocide, or any pandemic look tame, but it’s all dismissed because car companies represent a material amount of ad revenue.

But because the images of it (not the reality of losing a loved one, or the consequence of losing a parent) are gory, there’s nothing we can do to highlight we should care about more than ad budgets.
Json2smtp: Emal proxy: input JSON; output SMTP call – (json2smtp)
Nobody is just setting up a 24/7 server with docker to talk to tech support
That's too much in the other direction. To protect against that you would just have to wear a seatbelt and not go over certain speed, and not swerve into incoming traffic. If they wanted to suicide you, you would need to go faster to be able to do that without seatbelt and/or intentionally break some sort of laws/rules.

I think best to me is to assume other drivers are not paying a lot of attention unless there are obvious hints that they are and if you don't have visibility somewhere, assume that something could be there.
Makes me really happy with the Nissan Leaf I bought a few years ago.

It’s a Nissan Versa with an electric motor and battery in it. That means most of the parts on the car are standard and the body is cheap to repair. Lots of higher end EVs have stupid high repair costs from minor accidents due to this not being the case.

It has a dumb infotainment system that I just plug a phone into and use as a screen. All the car’s critical functions are physical buttons that are ergonomically placed.

Acceleration and handling is fine. In fact it out accelerates most gas cars. It has one pedal driving.

The adaptive cruise control and auto steer work great. If you are stuck in traffic it just guides you along leaving a selectable distance between you and the car ahead. Steering assist has never tried to kill me.

220 miles of range is more than enough for a city car and I can charge it at home for stupid cheap. (It’s like $8 to fill from zero off home power, about 1/4 to 1/6 the cost of fueling an efficient gas car.)

It’s small and electric and is called a “Leaf” so it does nothing for one’s penis. But I am secure in that department.

Literally the only sucky thing about it is its CHaDEMo fast charge port which is chonky and a fading standard. Makes it not great for road trips but we have an old gas second car for that.

Make a model of this with a bit more range and NACS and Nissan would have the ultimate boring competent EV that I want.

I like the car enough for its boring competence that I’ve looked into CCS or NACS conversion. Apparently it’s possible and there are people working on kits but I’d have to find someone to do the install since I don’t have time for such a project.

PSA: anyone who knows high voltage electronics well could design and crowdfund a NACS to CHaDEMo dongle on Crowdsupply no problem. It would be non trivial though because it would have to be powered. But there are enough cars with that older standard to make millions on such a device. I’d spend as much as $1000 or a bit more for one.
Diono car seats fit three across in a CRV for us. They’re built like little airplane seats.
> All of this comes in the face of slowing growth in demand for EVs, especially in the US.

"Slowing growth in demand" aka rising demand.
Best not to judge all cars by EVs.. for some reason most manufacturers have decided to discard 100 years of ergonomics learnings and start anew for no reason (beyond meager aerdynamics gains)
If you get it most of the way, it can just roll downhill the rest of the way.
>So what does that leave us with to filter water absolutely safely? Distillation?

No idea. Wouldn't be surprised if even distillation doesn't do the trick...i.e. carries the particles with it

I think best plan is just to minimize plastic use as much as possible.
They definitely need to install a caching plugin. Wordpress taking your site down, even on some subpar shared host, should be a thing of the past by now.
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Hey Folks, been working on this cool project and have decided to open source it to the wild!

Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef2ivitjiBU

Allows for a relatively seamless big tech coding interview experience.

Frontend: Qwik

Backend: Go Fiber

Database: MySQL (GORM)

AI Providers:
(Vertex only has hacky support)

Text Generation: OpenAI, Vertex

Text to Speech: OpenAi, ElevenLabs, Unreal Speech, Vertex

Speech to Text: OpenAi (Whisper), Vertex

The code is definitely not perfect as this is my first project using Go & Fiber and probably (definitely) has some security flaws in there, but it's all an iterative process.

The real project is currently being tested by a couple of mates so nothing major (Yet question mark?)

Big fan of positive and negative feedback so lmk what you think!
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> D is pragmatic about memory allocation strategy, this fork won't be

Better than a pragmatic approach to memory allocation is to not have to think about it at all. For many applications, you can use the GC and not even know anything about memory allocation.

If you embrace the GC, you make a lot more progress, since you can add things to the standard library and the language quickly and easily. Users not wanting a GC should use something else. Catering to users that don't want a GC imposes a big tax on everything and everyone.

Embracing the GC doesn't mean they're going to strip out the reference counting and unique pointers already in the standard library.
why doesn't work in the browser?

seem cool other than that! (I didn't know MS owns npm now).
There are far worse entities than HelloFresh that are still alive as of today and given that the ICO is trying hard to get parties to comply it is kind of logical that they take an individual approach to each case. That said I think 140K is too low.
This is why everyone needs a strong state that can input demand at the bottom.
This article, and every comment on here, every discourse about that problem, takes this tsunami of shocking images as a natural, exogenous phenomenon.

No one ever asks: Who shares those? Why? Do they ever stop? Can we discourage them from doing that?

People uploading this have reasons to do so. You can talk to them. I did.
3rd kid is much more expensive than the 2nd
Have you looked at minivans? When my 3 were under 5 a couple years ago they all fit, with room for all the stuff. No, it's not sexy, but it's incredibly practical.
One end is Mexico sothe jones act won't apply. In fact this could make thing, cheaper because a small ship, for a short run makes sense
This just incentivizes companies to do this behaviour until their first warning. If you want companies to follow the rules from the get-go you better make sure that your first fine makes them regret ignoring the rules.

If you make the incentives to ignore the rules until they get caught the first time then companies will do that. HelloFresh got huge numbers of subscribers based on this strategy for pennies. Even if they stop now the next competitor will do the same thing until they get the first fine.

It's like saying that your first murder should just result in a warning or a token fine. This basically gives everyone one "free" murder and it would be a waste not to use it. (Moral issues aside of course)
To be fair, you'd have to make an argument. Like KSR does, with facts and such. Simple Pollyanna optimism isn't an argument.

I hope its such as the optimists predict - a great bright future for us all. Still it's worrisome that each time somebody researches it, they get depressed and won't talk about it any more. Or writes a depressing book.
I see kitchen appliances are in the shit pit of the author’s graph and I can definitely testify to that.

We just bought a new dishwasher and several of the advertised features are only accessible if I connect it to the net and use an app. Since I won’t connect it to the net, I could have saved money by buying a model that didn’t advertise those features.
On the “who’s to blame” front you can put banks at the top of the list. They are the ones that make it easy for people to “buy” these modern monstrosities. If people did not have access to wild financing options the cars they could afford to buy would be much more modest.
older cars had a knob to adjust them. With LEDs you usually have to open the hood and use a wrench or they can auto adjust. Service should do it for it.
Thank you! This was exactly the kind of project I was interested in.
New volcanic eruption right next to Grimdavik, lava on the streets
it's hardly an improvement on the classic PS/2 hijack, where the attacker hides behind your PC Tower until you reach back there to plug in your keyboard, then swats your hand away and plugs in their own keyboard instead