skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had XM (before the Sirius merger) and cancelled it >10 years ago. The process was difficult enough that I would never even remotely consider signing up for them again. If it had been more painless, I may have resubscribed at some point. Instead, they've completely poisoned their brand with me permanently.

I've heard enough horror stories about other classes of subscription-type things (gym memberships, newspaper subscriptions, etc.) that I don't even consider signing up for those - entire industries that I write off because of bad behavior when it comes to cancelling subscriptions.

I always wonder if companies think through the consequences of their aggressive "retention" efforts.
Burning and bombing their countries down to the ground works pretty well too.
Apple Card (and some but not all cards you add to Apple Wallet) pop up a little notification every time they're charged.

It can be nice, but you might miss the nighttime ones.
Soft power.

“European countries are estimated to have spent additional 792 billion euros in the last year just on the status quo system to protect consumers from the effects of the energy crisis introduced by the Russian invasion into Ukraine”

Honestly I think building solar and wind farms in Europe would do more for America’s military power than more tanks.
This also came as a surprise to me! Not only that but:

> restoring service was delayed until we could get the community maintainer, Ludovic Chabant, online to help

Maintainer, singular!

The only reason i use Sourcehut, and the main reason i pay for it, is because i stubbornly still use Mercurial, and want first-class support for it. With the utmost of respect to M. Chabant, that is not exactly first-class.
Without commenting on the relative merits of monoliths, microservices, graphql, BFFs etc., as an analogy it's possibly worth thinking of the BFFs as interfaces tailored to specific use cases.

For example the backend may provide a reporting facility. For reasons of screen factor the available options and the resulting response data may vary depending upon if you're on a mobile phone or a laptop.

The backend needs to allow for the most complex use case, so its endpoints will likely support all the options and return all the data regardless of the client. It may include filters to mitigate somewhat, but that is also extra complexity.

With the BFF scenario the small form factor device would have its own backend as would the large form factor. The large form factor one would likely transparently proxy the request/response to/from the original backend whereas the small form factor one would be free to offer a more limited (and hence less complex) request/response definition based on the up-front awareness of what the device will be doing.

With this situation the shared functionality, data access, business logic, etc., all exist in the main backend so you still only have the one main codebase to maintain. The teams working on the various form factors only need to manage a thin abstraction layer suitable for their consumers who, in turn, benefit from a simpler API as it is focused to their use case.

The end result is still coupling, and numerically it's actually increased coupling as instead of backend-to-client it is now backend-to-each-BFF plus each-BFF-to-client. However the extra layer in the middle (the 'interface') removes the kind of coupling that requires changes in the main backend to be done alongside changes in the clients. I'm aware that API versioning exists as another possibility, but again the idea here is to present an API directly suited to the consumer - and you can still use versioning within that context.

Each team responsible for a particular BFF is free to roll out their own version of changes, including either hiding/ignoring them if they are not needed, or simplifying them or merging in relevant context if they are, independently and to their own timescale. This is the decoupling obtained; it simply works at a different abstraction level.

Again, I'm not offering a view on which approaches are superior (personally I don't believe a single approach will ever be the best everywhere). I'm pointing out one main benefit which makes BFF worth considerating in case it suits your needs.
alignment tax = Training needed to cancel bad behaviour, political incorrectness, dangerous results etc.
Your terminology is off and you seem to be talking about a hypervisor or something. Virtualization is just virtualizing computer hardware and emulation is one way to do it
I think that is an odd opinion to have. The data shows otherwise: https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/electric-vehicles/chart...
I apologise for being pedantic (I am a programmer with a law degree and so have twice the inclination to be): can you provide specific examples of the FA law being interpreted in “surprising ways” especially in light of the GP concerns about a developer of some NPM package?

Here is a list of individuals designated as FAs (the Russian DOJ site doesn’t load for me so I can’t verify it right now). https://ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Список_иностранных_агентов_(... I recognise a few people on that list and can see why they are on it based on what I read online. Can you suggest some names that are surprising?

Just to be clear, we are discussing the interpretation of the law, rather than whether or not the law should exist in the first place - that’s an entirely different kettle of fish.
Given that it also functioned as sort of an uncomfortable couch—not really.

Besides, it's way further behind in basically every respect but compute.
Globally demand is up.

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/global...

> LONDON, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Global sales of battery electric vehicles (BEV) and plug-in hybrids (PHEV) rose 20% versus a year ago as strong growth in North America and China offset lower sales in Europe, according to market research firm Rho Motion.
The police won their recall election and the Mayor appointed one of their allies as the DA.

Their rates are still abysmal.
Donated bodies are powering gene-edited organ research
Very interesting! I think the next step for that guy is to go after amazon for enabling the scam and being the front-end.
This has worked pretty great in DC. Massive quality of life improvement.
Not the same - Ruth is far more effective version. Guessing you missed the whole “scrappiness to help investors out oops nvm we are investors” thing or just hadn’t yet run out of coolaid at the time
Any thoughts on Fat FIRE (e
g. retirement on investments) in Germany with a family with 2 kids under 5?

Generally smaller eastern EU countries would be much easier on the wallet, but the quality of education and the need to learn irrelevant language bother me.
[addendum: per u/pm215 Hypervisor.Framework does still apparently exist and supported on apple silicon apparently, I assume the absence of hardware docs just makes it miserable. OTOH maybe the Asahi GPU drivers, etc can work in that model? I really haven't ever done anything substantially more than what the WWDC demos do so am not a deep fount of knowledge here :D, to avoid confusion with replies I have not edited or changed my original comment. I kind of wish that HN UX exposed edit histories for comments, or provided separate addendum/correction options]

Virtualization.Framework is how you have to do virtualization on apple silicon as it is the userspace API layer that interacts with the kernel. There is no API you can use.

Virtualization.Framework is pretty much everything you need out of the box for a generic "I have an isolated virtual machine" model, basically it's just missing a configuration UI and main()

There are a couple of WWDC sessions over the last few WWDCs on using the framework, configuring rosetta, and improvements in the 2023 OS update

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2022/10002
https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2023/10007

[1] commercial VM products probably require more work to compete in the market, things like the transparent desktop, window hosting, etc
i'm not a huge fast food eater, however my biggest complaint is what these "modernized" stores now look like.

the mcdonald's near my home was recently "modernized". it went from a traditional, fun-looking red/white mcdonald's store with a red roof and a yellow sign to a MASSIVE gray/concrete box with white windows.

it certainly doesn't look like a place that would catch my eye for a meal.
I'm interested in their laptops but I'm a bit afraid support won't be as good since I'm in Europe.
A Brief History of the United States' Accents and Dialects
That happens in case an existing card renews (or is replaced after getting lost etc.) If you get a net new card then retailers aren't getting that info.
There is no statute of limitations, generally, but Canada does recognize the right to a speedy trial. The Charter of Rights And Freedoms [1] 11b says "Any person charged with an offence has the right ... to be tried within a reasonable time".

Common law interpretation through R. v. Jordan [2] establishes a presumptive ceiling on the time between charges and trial, "18 months for cases tried in the provincial court, and 30 months for cases in the superior court".

In the US statutes of limitations vary between jurisdictions and offenses; some start the clock ticking at the commission of the criminal act, others at when it comes to light, and others when it is reported to law enforcement. This is in addition to the right to a speedy trial, but the US does not have any uniform guidance on what "speedy" means and generally courts do not entertain speedy trial motions.

[1] https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/const/page-12.html

[2] https://scc-csc.lexum.com/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/16057/inde...
Interested in filing public comments on this if the FTC asks for them?
virtualization != containerization.
Visa calls this "Visa Account Updater (VAU)" [1]. MC and AMEX have something similar.

[1] https://developer.visa.com/capabilities/vau/overview
I agree, Mosaic was groundbreaking but when Netscape 0.9 launched in the fall of 1994 was like waking up in another century.

Or we could go back to 1991 with IRC, Archie+FTP, and Telnet BBS's on Wyse terminals or SparcStations. I'm very nostalgic for that era.

IMO Netscape 3.04g was the peak browser experience - and by far peak performance.

I remember when a friend who ran a business out of his basement got a T1 installed in 1997. Myself and several other friends were there the day Verizon hooked up the local loop. I did the first test on a desktop windows95 machine with Netscape 3. I typed "cnn.com", hit enter and BAM! the entire page loaded and rendered instantly before you could blink an eye. I fell out of my chair. On dialup it would take about almost a minute to download all the images.

Once Netscape 4 hit it was a slow downhill path of bloat. I have not been able to replicate that instant rendering experience since then.
The irony is that Americans are probably spending a lot because they forgot to cancel their WSJ subscription;-)

When I canceled mine a couple of years ago I think it could only be done by phone, which already is a hurdle. To be fair to WSJ, it was smooth sailing from there and they did not bother me or try to trick me to renew it, in or after the phone call.
"milquetoastian nature"?
I see what you did there. [0]

[0]: https://youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM
It seems the charges expire after a year.

As per https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/c-46/page-98.html#d...:

(4) However, if the Attorney General or counsel does not give notice under subsection (3) on or before the first anniversary of the day on which the stay of proceedings was entered, the proceedings are deemed never to have been commenced.
I sort of agree but for different reasons.

I’ve never managed to get my GTX 1070 working on Linux without any caveats, though currently I’m closer than I’ve been before. If you’re happy using X11 life is relatively easy, though you probably end up needing a compositor to solve tearing - and if you have mixed refresh rates you’re seemingly out of luck even then.

Wayland is better with mixed refresh rates, and now mostly works. I say mostly as XWayland is still broken - you have to disable GLAMOUR and rely on software rendering for X applications. This is where I’ve currently settled as most software I use is native Wayland anyway.

Supposedly this’ll be fixed with a protocol change for explicit sync - https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests...

Of course if you have a newer GPU that can take advantage of Nvidia’s new open source kernel drivers with Nouveau and you don’t need CUDA this is all irrelevant.
It's very interesting that he is strongly for the use of computation in math, but strongly against using computer logic systems to formalize proofs--see opinion #184. I'd love to hear other people's take on this.

I saw how pro-computational he is from the one time I heard him talk. One of his most repeated phrases was, "you write a little computer program...", meaning as a way to enumerate some set of objects or calculate the size of something.
This kind of formless skepticism is never well founded right?

GP could've read the papers, or read commentary of the papers, or read about the 13th Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction (CASP) contest.

Instead, "llms are bad, so isn't this bad too"
This really comes down to the intended workflow. By design, SourceHut aims to provide the Linux kernel development model to a wider audience (with extra features beyond mail and Git). It is a very different collaboration model than the likes of GitHub and its peers. I summarize the comparison of the two as "to each their own"; I'm okay with both models and see the merits of both, but my preferences and willingness or ability to work with a given model won't always line up with contributors.

I also self-host Forgejo in my homelab and really enjoy it.
I first used the net at work in the mid 90s, where we had a T1 and pages were light by modern standards. It was peppy with a Mac IIci.
If it's not acyclic then you haven't broken down the knowledge graph enough. But that's probably a waste of time, trying to come up with a perfectly ordered plan of study for all of mathematics. When you find an apparent cycle, it means the two domains are strongly interrelated and you'll be studying part of one, then the other, then the first again, repeat until you're done (whatever that means to you). No need to try and break every subject down into one-week or one-day chunks and finding a perfect ordering, just figure out the roughly course-lengthed chunks of study and start working through them, concurrently if needed as described.
Export bans of politically sensitive commodities are not that uncommon.

For example, India banned onion exports this year [1] & the US has restricted oil exports before. [2]

Moreover, without officially banning exports a similar result can be achieved by mixing exports taxes with consumption subsidies.

If international oil prices got too high, like over $200, the political pressure for an oil export ban / restriction than made domestic prices $50-$100 would be hard for congress to tolerate.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/asia-feels-sting-...

[2] https://ballotpedia.org/Crude_oil_export_ban#:~:text=The%20c....
The Sciences of the Artificial by Herbert A. Simon. Absolutely foundational.
I worked at the University of Washington, dept of Computer Science & Engineering, for the first half of the 1990s. I was there when the first webcrawler was created (Brian Pinkerton). I knew a lot of graduate students there. I was the "webmaster" too.

I feel fairly confident in saying that even though the facts of the MDDS grant that was helping to fund Page & Brin's graduate student research are clear, I do not believe that the involvement of the US military and intelligence services would have been particularly obvious and/or significant in their minds.

Saying "They knew what they were doing and who they were doing it with all along" defies everything I knew about university CS graduate student research. I knew several UW graduate students (including one of my best friends) who were recipients of grant money that originated with the military/intelligence services; they were highly buffered from donor contacts and even donor requirements while working on their research. Most of them would joke to the effect of "our grant donor(s) would have a fit if they knew what we are actually working on", and would often have to struggle to explain how their research fit into the ostensible goals of the donor. I've also known many graduate students over the years for whom, especially in the early phases of their PhD research, it wasn't even clear to them precisely what they were doing, let alone "for whom".
How is where they are native to relevant prevalence and diversity?
Exactly. Large parts of the economy require oil as feedstock or energy.

Parts that cannot be down for more than a week, or bad things happen, and which by virtual of volume have limited storage capacity (at normal consumption rates).

Consequently, US energy independence is about creating a credible detachment of the US from global market oil prices, such that countries thinking of using an oil embargo to pressure the US... don't.

In reality, oil embargos obviously impose immediate and intermediate term costs on the exporters as well, so doing a painful thing that the US might be able to blunt anyway becomes less attractive.
Well, it's all you've got, ultimately. You can't categorize people just on their word, and you can't categorize them based on any of the biological criteria since you don't know what their chromosomes or hormones or genitalia are when you see them.

And it's not purely about clothes. Even if you look at people adopting more clothing styles traditionally associated with their other gender, say Harry Styles at awards shows, they do not style themselves exactly as the other gender would. Ultimately gender is a social construct, and that involves some shared performance that we each choose to adopt when defining ourselves in relationship to everyone else.
Wild speculation: maybe the attacker's motive was to usher specific Sourcehut hosted repositories to the jurisdiction of the EU.
Looks like Cloudflare did change their minds later and offered to mitigate the attack pro bono:

> Following our initial quote from CloudFlare, we understand that some CloudFlare employees undertook a grassroots effort internally to convince the leadership to sponsor our needs, and eventually CloudFlare came back to us with an offer to sponsor our services for us free of charge. This was a very generous offer for which we are very appreciative; in the end we did not take them up on it as we had made substantial inroads towards an alternative solution by that time. I have had my reservations about CloudFlare in the past, but they were there for us in a time of need and I am grateful for that.
That's one of the reasons I enjoy using PayPal and Google Pay. Because my payment card details simply aren't on file with any vendors anymore. And I get a dashboard full of recurring payments where I can unilaterally cut anyone off. And I can modify which payment card they're using for each.
How does applying for asylum grant the ability to "stay forever regardless of the outcome"?
Many single-unit family home neighborhoods do not have an HOA—people just get along or take their concerns to the town itself. I mostly associate HOAs with suburbia.
AM is worse than FM in every imaginable way but one - in AM you can hear if two people transmit at the same time. In the FM the stronger signal completely suppresses the weak one which can be dangerous because a pilot or the ATC could miss some radio traffic and not be even aware of it.
China's Landspace conducts first VTVL test for reusable stainless steel rocket
I realize cultural marxist was confusing word choice but I meant it in a purely descriptive sense.

I'm critiquing Tbray who is obviously not a radical leftist from the left. And I'm questioning the implicit claim made by some Marxists that capitalism is now on its last legs, not from left or right but as a question of fact.
> The first thing is the output of a mathematical function as computed by a computer, while the second is an expression of human creativity.

The mathematical function is the expression of human creativity. It consumes other expressions of human creativity, a creativity act in an off itself, to output a different expression of human creativity. Other humans consume the output of the system and the system alike to generate further creative works. An AI model is a higher order creative process, much like humans, and is fundamentally predicated on the creative involvement of humans.

Consider the seminal work _Designing Programmes_ by Karl Gerstner if you'd like further consideration of optimizing creative output via self imposed, systematized restrictions and permutations (design programs as meta art). Or alternatively, consider aleatoric music or Toshiko Takaezu for the incorporation of _chance_ into art.

There really isn't anything too new here in my book (AI) - just increased scope and fruition.

> They do not have emotion.

Art does not require an input or output of emotion nor an emotional affect.
Everyone has an e-mail account. That means if you want to contribute to a project on SourceHut, you don’t need to create an account there.

Also, I hate when I’m looking for useful forks of something on GitHub and have to sift through tens of useless forks that were created just to be able to submit a pull request.
Neat. I was 10 back then but I remember having to deal with IPX networking to play Warcraft 1-2 with my dad, and over Mplayer, or some sort of online game service IIRC. Never really thought about how you'd do a mounted network share back then. IPX was a pain but we had no idea what we were doing back then.

edit: Oh duh, battlenet.. sigh, my how blizzard has changed.
I don't see how this is possible assuming all the parts are identical.

If I'm too afraid to build my own computer I'll buy a Mac
Thats a contradiction. prices were sticky until they weren't. Something changed if they can charge more in 2023 than in 2003.
I'm going to take a guess this was FUSE.
And London's ULEZ cameras have created a whole new form of crime. Activists felling them like trees, or vandalising them in other creative ways. Probably causing collateral damage to traffic lights and cameras used for other purposes in the process.

(But I guess this is considered legitimate activism these days, not real criminal behaviour. After all, Just Stop Oil were essentially given free rein to throw paint around and block traffic repeatedly...)
Write down your backup codes. Register a second key if possible. Google accounts are set up to prompt phones, too. In some cases we still have SMS 2FA enabled.
99.999%. Doubt it.

edit:

https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2021/05/The_increa...

Rounding up to 30000 objects in orbit (not even in space), that would mean 0.3 objects weren't made by capitalism. 1 object put up by government invalidates OP.
I have yet to see evidence of this lol
> As a result, empty-nest Baby Boomers own 28% of large homes — and Milliennials with kids own just 14%, according to a Redfin analysis released Tuesday. Gen Z families own just 0.3% of homes with three bedrooms or more.

So, does GenX have the other 58%? I have doubts about that. Why don't they tell us where GenX stands and where the rest of the houses are? How many houses are corporate owned? They mention GenX a few paragraphs down, but only in the context of 2012, when they owned 19%.