skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very much this. I have a long-standing saying that I share with those that want to bypass the "explain your goals to me" portion of the conversation and want to skip to "just do what I asked."

"Be very careful what you ask for because if I really dislike you I'll give you EXACTLY what you ask for and you'll find out quickly how much you didn't want that."
The crew of many cruise ships is over 2,000 people. If you paid each of them just $100 a day you would be at $200k. Factor other things like fuel, food, alcohol or maintaining a fucking cruise ship and this is trivial.
"I did my job with love and belief. This was always obviously risky. I had no illusions that the love was returned"

That's a great insight. It will spare people a lot of frustration.
Accidentally I bought a Huawei device and it was really annoying to use. Ditched it for an iPhone with no regrets
Tell me without saying that your information all comes from old Wikipedia articles.
It seems to retrain more often after a hang, but not every time.
Food Not Bombs trial rescheduled due to too many biased jurors
> So the doubt is legitimate

That's a nice way of excusing yourself for claiming they're not complying with the GPL, when incorrect.
It's not a "war"? This discussion isn't really different from countless others that are happening.
Referral link?
I guess at the end of the day the world's legal system needs to decide if when visiting a website do all requests need to stay on the website itself, or if that website is allowed to use any third party sites to run its business as well. That is the crux of what is going on here, not selling viewing history even though that might be leaked.

The facebook pixel[1][2] that is the center of the legal battles here is routinely used not to sell information to facebook persay, but to allow the website to retarget the website visitor at a later point via an advertisement. For example you visit pateron's website, you might get an ad on facebook later from Patreon.

Now, can (and does) facebook do more with the data that goes along with it, maybe, but that is what the facebook pixel is routinely used for.. not something sinister, at least by the company who implemented it on their website.

By only reading the linked article and knowing about the Facebook pixel in general it really feels like Patreon is being forced to challenge this law not because they think its bad, but more because they are being forced to because they are being sued. Things are a lot more nuanced. Should they have just pled guilty though? Absolutely not.

Personally I think the law should be upheld but the lawsuit against Patreon dismissed.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/gpa/blog/the-facebook-pixel/

[2] https://www.facebook.com/business/tools/meta-pixel/
There haven't been any releases in the time that I've had the computer, and the board shipped with still-latest.
Note that Google is restricted in China. Their data is not necessarily accurate.
Stripe microtransaction: very poor experience and I need your advice
Dear folks,

I find myself in a helpless situation and would appreciate your advice regarding my dealings with Stripe. I build a SaaS (online service software) and use Stripe as a payment provider. I reached out to Stripe Support on 3 Jan 2024 (3 weeks ago) in order to apply microtransaction pricing to my Stripe account. The Stripe Sales Growth team and Stripe Support offered me microtransaction pricing at 5.0% + $0.10 SGD for charges <= SGD 10 for Stripe accounts in Singapore on 4 Jan 2024 and 8 Jan 2024 respectively.

However, the whole progress gets stuck since then. Whenever I reached out to Stripe Support to enquire the current status of microtransaction pricing for my account every two to three days, I always get the same robotic and similar responses from two email address (support-reply@stripe.com, support@stripe.com) but different name. Yes, you're reading it right, different person each time. I'm located in Singapore. Stripe has an office in Singapore (https://www.google.com/search?q=stripe+singapore+office), but it doesn't have provide any contact number. Is it appropriate to visit its office and talk to someone from Stripe regarding this issue?

What is your experience with Stripe especially microtransaction pricing application? From what I read from its Google reviews and other review platforms, its most recent reviews are negative. I admire Stripe excellent product offerings and its excellent documentation. But, its customer support and operation cases are poorly handled.

Since I finished the integration/development with Stripe Checkout last month, given the current situation, I consider the efforts as a sunk cost. Are there any alternative payment providers that offer microtransaction/micropayment rate for credit card in the market?

Thank you so much.

some of our conversations:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/er1d62ew0pz6d2ulcw5st/customer-support.png?rlkey=9e0juf4vrn3qgl5zf31xekfhe&dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/z3f9z4mq8u45qqi7xy3yr/request.png?rlkey=0o7j9fgx334zxize220ihn81c&dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/5ze4x8iv80514fnw4kxff/offer.png?rlkey=hoe9kmvbi0z0bagakpl0rsl9u&dl=0

"Your case remains with the specialist team, and I will notify them that you are still waiting for a response. The team will notify you once they have an update to share."

"I will be connecting you with a member of our specialist team that is looking into microtransactions availability for you. They will be in touch as soon as they have an update to share. "
Acknowledged, good point.
Windows 11 and Fedora
Hey I appreciate the dislike of comments like this, thanks for engaging with points rather than snark.

FWIW I'm not trying to take either side, it's a complex, nuanced topic. But, HN isn't very good at nuance, and I was intending to make a comment on the conflicting viewpoints that many seem to hold, which is a far more interesting situation to me than the specifics of this situation.

You're right that part of the cost of building an ecosystem now is competing with the incumbents, although I'm sure you could make this argument throughout history with different incumbents, if at a smaller scale.
> Software Development is not rocket science. Tons of developers became seniors in <3 years, some of them even without a degree.

Ugh. I wish people would treat it more like rocket science instead of having an entire industry of people who insist on calling themselves senior engineers but who haven't learned the first thing about how the computer actually works, who have no meaningful depth or breadth of experiences, and who can't architect creative elegant solutions to novel problems, and who pretend like none of that matters.

The flat skill to experience curve shown in the blog post is extremely wishful thinking vs the average of what's considered normal.
Is this a special case of operational transforms, vv or something else entirely?
Where do they make them? Bialetti's aluminum moka is labeled as made in Italy but their steel induction plates are labeled as made in China
The assistant Secretary of Health is also a commissioned 4 star admiral but they have never seen been the inside of a Navy ship. The last one was a pediatrician before joining. There's a lot of symbolic and tradition based commissions like that through the US gov.
The juror who found herself guilty
Not sure why you're trying to push that. :(

It was a smart arse response to a smart arse question.
Can you not sandwich it with a peltier layer
That's so funny, I once long ago worked on a project that suspended retro reflective beads in a solution to get unique patterns, this is a very simple variation on that theme and probably a more effective one.
The owner of DIY FW13 12 Gen here. The only problem I've faced was fingerprint scanner: it just fell off (I don't know why, I've not done anything crazy to the machine, worked almost stationary). I've just replaced the button with sticky plastic rectangle and that's it: button works, fingerprint - no. But this is a minor issue really: overall this is the best laptop I've had considering that I also can upgrade it more cheaply in the future, I suggest almost everyone to consider this brand when searching for new machine.
It was not, in fact, "loss of habitats ... and overconsumption". It was, in fact, the comet strike. Habitat increased throughout the period that glaciers were melting, from 20kya to 8kya, opening up basically all of Canada.
I don't understand the downvotes to this comment.
> The biggest problem with CAKE/CoDel is that if you're not deploying it on the bottleneck device.

Right. This is a scheme for trying to manage the flows from the end you control so that the clueless FIFO nodes out there don't overload.

Flow management should be at the point where multiple flows feed into a bottleneck. Usually at the point where the LAN connects to the outside world, the telco modem or cable box. And, in the other direction, where bulk bandwidth goes into limited bandwidth to the consumer at the upstream end. I'm encouraged to hear that this finally got into DOCSIS. Now if only we could get it into AT&T modems.
Tooling has gotten pretty sophisticated at working around that limitation for languages like JavaScript or PHP but Ruby lags way behind. The different between what RubyMine and PHPStorm or WebStorm can do is strikingly obvious to anyone who's worked with both. Or at least, if that's not the case anymore, that's how it was when I last compared the two environments.
Because changing the center of gravity is an expensive engineering solution. Crossovers came about as a loophole to CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy) regulations, as CUVs are considered "light trucks" and are thus tested differently than pedestrian passenger vehicles. Since CUVs had to adhere to that "light truck" designation before the EPA just gave up and let them do whatever, often times that meant they had to have SUV like features such as taller bodies, higher ride heights, and thicker unibodies to enable towing. Lifting an existing sedan platform and creating a subframe for the rear was cheaper than engineering an entirely new platform with a lower center of gravity, and thus that's what they've been doing since 1999. Even as sedans drop like flies leaving only CUVs, SUVs, and trucks, they still engineer them as if they were just adding ride height to a sedan.
I'm talking about an IDE giving me useful hints and code navigation. I guess I should have been less vague when I said "tooling" though.
Fantastic! I can't wait to give this a go
Sometimes (but not always) the reason for these cultures is more due to nature than nurture, in which case it can be virtually impossible to change without replacing people.

I worked on a team that went from a very strong "debate everything" culture to a very apathetically strong "just tell me what to build" culture, and it was primarily due to the hires we made. We hired for the ability to grow technically, and that certainly proved true. But the interest in the "why" behind the work never developed the way the "debate everything" folks assumed would happen with all good devs. The QA team cared, and remained in "debate everything" mode, but the dev team eventually just wanted to be left alone to focus on relatively meaningless (without context) work. No amount of connecting the dots to real user need seemed to really get through. They just wanted semi-challenging technical problems, and a paycheck. Nothing wrong with that in moderation, but it ended up infecting the entire team.

So be careful how you hire. If you have a blind spot for this phenomenon and hire exclusively for technical skill and/or potential, you might just get unlucky and end up with a critical mass of "just tell me what to build", and then you're screwed, because you'll have a technically strong team that has zero interest in understanding the bigger context of their work, forcing you to choose between getting sucked into the codependent relationship, or resigning yourself to doing the wrong thing with great technical prowess.
Galaxy S20 definitely has a microsd-slot. At least some models.
> Plants don't kill each other

They absolutely do. From simple concepts like resource competition in which trees deplete the ground or outcompete each other for sunlight (e.g. any forest floor is usually not covered in grass) to parasitism and strangulating vines and whatnot, these guys are hostile and deadly to one another. They just don't run around much.

> through different eras, men have traveled long distances to kill, subjugate, enslave other people

I know lichens are considered "symbiotic" but I'm not sure what you would call a fungus that breeds algae cells and consumes them for nourishment. In that vein we're also symbiotic with pigs, which I find an inappropriate term.

Either way, my point is: Animals aren't remotely as unique as many people think.
Sex workitution?
Do we really need a clock for computing?
Heretical answer - most of these have pretty easy answers and not much of anything to say about progress.
This is primarily about shipping through the Suez canal, a route taken by most goods travelling by sea from Asia to Europe.
https://readingbyeugene.com/2016/05/15/there-is-no-such-thin...
Now, but temporally rather than spatially.

A VLIW has a lot of functional units that are used simultaneously.* Modern processors (out of order, superscalar, using speculative execution, pick your techniques and buzzwords) allow these units to be used simultaneously and dynamically depending on the instruction mix. With VLIW some instruction units won’t be used and so won’t contribute to performance.

The compilers can give hints to the execution CPU but it also decides what to do when. With VLIW (EPIC is probably a better name in this regard) you have to guess right up front, without knowing what the data will be.

* So does SIMD, but in VLIW you don’t have to have a single instruction.
Four new octopus species discovered in the deep-sea vents off Costa Rica
I feel this should set precedent for search of other protected property and information, including encrypted data.
As in understand, German played a minor role in the design in Airbus, for example the flight controls were designed in Toulouse by french engineer.
However they have more responsibility in designing the production system and assembly line. The assembly line in Hamburg is quite unique.
They have done a pretty terrible job of being accurate about who is shipping to Israel. Which makes that a bad strategy.

https://www.lloydslist.com/LL1147633/Houthis-target-tenth-sh...
Same here, only I don’t use an external service and simply use my own domain for unique email addresses.
Back in the 90’s there was a company in Tulsa called Syntroleum that was using Exxon catalysts that were coming off patent to build mobile GTL facilities that could be placed in oil fields to convert Natural gas being flared to synthetic fuels via FT reactions. Despite a free feedstock and support from big oil they couldn’t make it work with proven technology. I doubt these guys will do better in a work with nonzero interest rates.
No, it's even worse in other Anglo countries, and China, Brazil, etc. (not sure of the details of the last one, just remember something about planned cities not working)

The US just has an unusually large money and land budget to spend on car dependency, but other countries have made their housing even less affordable.
That looks very promising, but I'm not brave enough to jump into ARM land yet.

Perhaps in the next cycle.
Related story: 4 or 5 years ago my brother got held up on the street in Baltimore in a daytime robbery. The cops drove by 30 seconds later, my brother pointed out the guy, and they caught him right away. My brother was told he could only get his money back if he could provide the serial numbers for the cash he had stolen. Of course he couldn't do that.
I've been using Zed for a while, alongside Xcode and nvim. It's really snappy and the vi bindings are decent, support for Rust and TS is pretty great out of the box but not so great for the other languages I use (Swift).

I'm quite excited to see this UI framework open-sourced, as I guess many people are.
I wish hide my email was released 20 years earlier.
Same for me. Big fail for regulation and government oversight.
Yeah I think this holds true there as well. It's a small, niche market, but it's hard to argue what they are doing isn't leaps and bounds ahead of anything from Meta (Ignoring the price differences).
Colonization facilitated the expansion of Western civilization globally and, as such, there's a strong argument that it was a positive force. This is notwithstanding the fact that it was imperfect and involved certain mistakes like the one you allude to.
A few weeks ago, some D developers decided to fork the language/runtime/stdlib into OpenD with the goal of fixing some deficits in the language.
I guess this spurred some new interest in D from new and older (ex-) users to look again into it.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38986546
Show HN: Open-source Rule-based PDF parser for RAG
The PDF parser is a rule based parser which uses text co-ordinates (boundary box), graphics and font data. The PDF parser works off text layer and also offers a OCR option to automatically use OCR if there are scanned pages in your PDFs. The OCR feature is based off a modified version of tika which uses tesseract underneath.

The PDF Parser offers the following features:

* Sections and subsections along with their levels.
* Paragraphs - combines lines.
* Links between sections and paragraphs.
* Tables along with the section the tables are found in.
* Lists and nested lists.
* Join content spread across pages.
* Removal of repeating headers and footers.
* Watermark removal.
* OCR with boundary boxes
Artisanal bootstrapping, pretty good sustainable ecoomic model described here.

In short: self-fund, do good, be cool.

This is the Neal behind Neal's Yard & Monmouth Coffee

A few Unicorns set-up by this man such as Neal's Yard Remedies bought by Doring-Kindersly: £220,000,000 per annum

Also :-D the origin of The famous Monty Python Cheese Shop Sketch was inspired by John Cleese trying to buy cheese from Neal's Yard Dairy.

And he wrote the UK's 'Whole Earth Catalogue', quite a guy.
US Airlines and Boeing buybacks for US$73.8B (2020)
Every auto manufacturer plans to do this. The regulatory environment dictates it. Thank you, governments of the world.

Now if only Tesla didn’t sell pollution credits to the highest bidder, their cars would actually have a net positive environmental impact.
You can’t call it a chip anymore as it’s not cut into chips. More a slice.. perhaps they’ll put it in a 19” pizza box.

Pizza Computing
I don't know where you're from, but where I live (the US) public ground transit plays a very small and steadily decreasing role in total mode share:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_in_the_United_S...

and given the current growth trends promises to play a smaller one in the future. (I just returned from a trip to the southwest - ever seen Phoenix? Given the growth trends that mess is as likely to be the future as anything else is.) As someone living in a city who likes the idea of transit (and walking and biking), I think the sort of prescriptive attitude (transit is the solution to all questions!) you are displaying is part of the reason American's have such a poor (and declining) opinion of it.

Autonomy opens up possibilities - of taming the roads, of enabling more responsive transit that can reach deeper into medium density suburbs, etc, but none of that is going to happen without a wide spectrum of constructive criticism.
> What's missing are meaningful rites of passage.

And role models that tell men that failure is normal and a necessary part of learning, and that some discomfort builds character. That competency and skills deserve respect and recognition. And that you can feel comfortable being alone.

> There are no honest signals of capability. With the diluting of sports and other pursuits, as men our options are reduced to muscle and money, with some credentials that might secure us an institutional job as a distant third.

Video games. Look at labor participation rates for men since 2009. Pretty much all of those men are either in prison or barely getting by sitting at home, playing video games, often sponsored by their parents.
I could see two explanations:

* They ended up with vaults full of them because domestic banks didn't want them. I understand this was the fate of a fair amount of US 50-cent and $1 coins: they migrated to 'dollarized' economies like Ecuador.

* They figure they're being helpful-- the $20 note is the most common in US cash commerce, and the $50 is very uncommon, so they figured giving people a note worth about $20 is convenient.

When I've ordered notes from the bank, they usually loaded up with the largest notes (lots of CAD100 or GBP50 notes) with just 100 or 200 units divided into smaller notes.
I enjoyed the link to the language checklist https://www.mcmillen.dev/language_checklist.html
It can be useful for small-scale verification in academics - TAs and schoolteachers can use it to ensure the assignments and homework submitted were actually worked on. Yes, an incumbent can spend more time and brains on making it look authentic despite using LLMs but you've already gone past a typical tardy student's usage pattern at that point - if she is too lazy to do her homework she can be safely assumed to be too lazy to spend time refining her prompts and weights as well.
Enhancing Port Scanning with Osint
The statistics demonstrate that capitalism is morally good, your tribalistic aversions to capitalism/human-freedom notwithstanding.

It ended slavery and genocide worldwide. Unlike other traditions, it upholds principles of humanitarianism above utilitarianism. It was the opponents of classical liberalism that instituted lockdowns around the world during the COVID pandemic "for the greater good".

It was the Aztecs, pre-colonization, that sacrificed 40,000 children in one day, "for the greater good".
Manhattan is better than L2 at high dimensions..but why cos?
No numbers on the sides is probably a clue. Now, on many of them each hole is a different width, it is hard to understand the culture and mannerisms that long ago but i find it improbable that could be used in a quick game of chance to see what has been rolled.
Of course. However, the amount of time spent thinking consciously or subconsciously on a doomed project is minimized. The amount of time spent making decisions predicated on having the same job also. I can also savage any expensive holiday plans I made.

The keyword for me is the employer should let me know ASAP when something is doomed.

Again, this stress-free holiday with family is not a problem for me. I will rather be real about the situation than have my employer hide it for a month. They could give me an extra month of severance instead :).

Edit: I might be a minority on the earlier take.

I think the other argument that would affect other people is: these things always leak through gossip. When you hear of an imminent layoff and you don’t know if you will be included, it’s the worst type of stress.
Fellow boater here - I live on a Dutch Barge. Also awake at 0530 with creaking lines in this storm. Lovely lifestyle. We registered our new baby’s address as the boat on a birth certificate last week and had no problems. Good luck to any future researcher geocoding that! I expected a postcode to be required but it wasn’t :)
I just set up a MacBook Pro for my mother. Updated to latest macOS Sonoma 14.whatever. No Apple ID. Local account.

Didn’t have to disconnect the internet either, for that matter.

I’m fairly sure but not certain the exact same thing can be done on iPhone - the Apple ID is required for the store, not the device.

Why compare apples (ha) to oranges, that is iPhone to Windows?
> Colorado pot tax revenue: More money than expected.

This does not list what it claims, just 'underestimates'.
I wrote an article about the importance of meta-learning for humans: https://www.dsebastien.net/meta-learning-the-missing-link-in...
How is the license being abused?