skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, we can call it "advice" instead of "legal advice" or we can even call it other names, like "potato", if that's what you want. My point is that potato not censored.
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri was discovered in the 1800s, has been fully digitized and experts expect it to take I think 150 additional years before they can all be read to the level of scholarship that's required

I found some conversation on the difficulty here
https://www.reddit.com/r/AcademicBiblical/comments/16dj68i/h...
> Thou shalt remove batteries when placing items in storage, or thou will surely go to hell with them

As a kid of the '80s, I swear this was a solved problem with batteries from about 2000 to about 2015.

Suddenly all my batteries are leaking again if I leave them for more than a couple months just like they did in the '90s. It's remarkably frustrating. I just want to yell "why is this happening, we fixed this!?'
Once upon a time, QAs and developers also had a bit of cooperatively adversarial relationship as well. It's no more now as teams are restructured by business, so they cooperate.
The secure enclave cannot be more secure than the software running inside it.

As for the trust, we generally trust the CPU manufacturers, including their implementation of encryption like the AES instructions.
Is there a correlation between recently (last 10 years?) logged areas and wildfires? I watched Wasted Wood by Harvey Richards lately and was surprised to see how much waste is left on the forrest floor, 15-30% of the tree. Seems like it could be an unnatural dense source of flammable material.

The US is the world's biggest lumber producer and Canada is often #2 as far as I can tell.

I'm a woodworker and this movie from 1964 was fascinating. At one point it said 'one day the 16" board will be a museum piece' and I just laughed because it is too true! The only non-composite boards I have seen that wide are $100s of dollars per foot and have such funky grain, checking, cracking, or splitting that I'm sure would have been ripped down by traditional pre-industrial revolution carpenters.
Exactly the point I was hoping to read. Well said.

Rampant fraud and scams are what's at the root of the "negative discussion".
> 8. Thou shalt figure out what thou willst do with thine collection upon thy passing, or all thy hard work will be lost in an estate sale or something.

Or better yet: Decide what should happen to your junk and specify that in your will, so your grieving kin don't have to figure out how to sell a house full of it. Unless they are also fans of your hobby, your hobby is just going to be another pain in the butt to take care of while they are already dealing with your loss.
Among many other things, sample bias.
Is this a fantasy-experiment about "what would it be like if the idea of a 'tech bro' had existed in the '90s", or is this person actually under the impression that such people existed? I can't really tell.

Perhaps they did exist - somewhere! - but I sure didn't know of any... the term confused me when it first came to use, since bro culture and tech culture felt entirely disjoint.
> It’ll last as long as it does then there will be nothing but crap.

Perhaps that is closer than we think
The point is not to get the “benefits” of a VR headset, but rather to maximise one’s chances of doing something interesting without a VR headset.

I would not suggest getting all of them anyway. It’s just to observe that the opportunity cost of disappearing inside an expensive virtual device is matched by the financial cost.

One gadget is the equivalent of the outlay of an entire well-funded hobby that might broaden your horizons.
From a quick Google search, at the very least Oral-B uses WiFi on some of their models: https://oralbconnect.com/faq/#question-6a2zEDL932GFQWv1HhT25...
This looks super cool; thanks so much for sharing!

I'm probably an outlier, but when I saw this name I thought of the eating disorder [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pica_(disorder)
This is exactly the same problem that happened with streaming services. When there was only one streaming service that had most of the stuff on it, a lot of people felt it was reasonable to pay $15 per month. But then the streaming services splintered and it would now cost n * $15 per month to watch the exact same shows you were watching before.

The economics of it make sense from the perspective of the creators, but they don't from the perspective of the consumers. Creators need enough cash that they can afford to survive flops, but consumers only want to pay for hits. This is why I think micropayments will never be a great solution for TV, journalism etc.

As a consumer, I can see the appeal of taking a Robin Hood approach. Pay for one streaming service and pirate the rest. Pay for one newspaper subscription and bypass paywalls on the rest. Adblock all of the things. If the law of big numbers holds then all of the content providers with at least some content worth consuming should end up getting fairly compensated. If those economics don't work out, then neither would micropayments anyway.
Dialects.
AFAIK, the Dutch (Netherlands) and English languages are further dialects of low German. But I might be corrected.
Lawd I'd hope the vision pro beats the quest 3 in more than 7 ways for being 7x the price.

I think it's comparing apples to oranges though.
Sarcasm is usually conveyed through any of tone of voice, facial expression, or gesticulation; none of which transmit through the written word. Standard operating procedure is to add something like /s.
This is not an inherent feature of capitalism. This is a failure of the government to create a fair market. This is caused by people that are subverting the rules to out compete the people playing by the rules.
Comparing worst case kWh pricing with highest mpg and average gas prices seems a bit unfair, no? If you’re going to compare California power prices, why not compare to average California gas prices which are more like $4.50/gal?
Tweet is the only one that has made any sense IMO being the sound the bird mascot made, thematically with "short chirps", and birds "tweeting" at each other.
Even in this most simplified form, it's clear genes don't determine all of the outcome. You're Y% more likely to get a disease, with other factors affecting how the dice actually fall.
Qubes OS is for the end-user devices, while the approach in the article is about the server side.
> 'Missing' all welds in one of a skyscraper's lower columns?

Or just throwing the rebar in at random maybe? [0]

[0] https://www.gr-us.com/%E2%80%9Chorror-at-the-harmon%E2%80%9D...
How similar is this to InstructPix2Pix?

https://github.com/timothybrooks/instruct-pix2pix
Then you care more about how other's see you using a product than your own experience. That's fine.
Fortescue (www.fortescue.com) is actively working towards that goal.

To the extent they have stopped taking tax credits for diesel fuel as they start trialing electric/hydrogen/ammonia fueled equipment.
(while also researching into green steal production and hydrogen electrolyzer production.)
Nobody should call hook-and-loop fastener 'velcro' either, but good luck changing people's habits.
Zagat was pretty small potatoes. It sorta made sense at a time when foodies was sort of an artisanal thing. Not sure Google even lost out on the buy.
I don't think they should be intimidated, I'm just saying they are: https://erinkissane.com/mastodon-is-easy-and-fun-except-when...

But I wouldn't say it's a fully inconsequential choice, either. Your instance and how it's situated in the wider fediverse does matter to some degree. Not having a full view of the network, missing meaningful replies, at the mercy of some admin #fediblock drama, etc.

Or maybe you finally find a good instance but your admin dislikes Meta so you're defederated from threads.net now. That's a bummer.
I would need careful analysis of your explanation before having an opinion since I admit to not have read, thought or known about this very concrete topic, feasibility, etc. in depth.

Thanks for this very positive exchange.
Tell that to my Linux boxes that have been up for years, or others who have been up for decades.
> "For" loops may now range over integers

The future is now, old man!
Vindigo with Zagat was peak mobile internet. It's been downhill since 2002.
You made me spit my Java out. (and you're right, even for smaller companies)
Yes, "Record audio". BetterTouchTool launches the shortcut on keydown, then clicks the Stop button on keyup.
Referring to the German language as Dutch (as in PA Dutch) is closer to the German word for the German language. The word "German" is actually the Anglicisation as far as I know.
Can you explain what they are implying? Is there a belief that China hands out blank checks to anyone who happens to be Asian? This sounds insane to me.
Um, I wasn't under the impression that wearing goggles made you look cool. Trendy, maybe. An early adopter with too much disposable income, definitely. But cool? I don't think so.
It's not bloat when you "need" those features (read: BIG Company)
There are some: https://oralbconnect.com/faq/#question-6a2zEDL932GFQWv1HhT25...
The oxygen was pretty rarefied in 1999-2001. Maybe they used nitrous.
This argument mistakenly credits collectivist policies for successes but ignoring the profound negative impacts of state overreach in places like San Francisco. This isn’t about choosing between so-called utopias and hellscapes but recognizing the failure of excessive regulation that stifles supply and inflates costs. Vienna and Singapore are outliers that succeed due to unique governance, cultural attitudes towards public housing, and centralized planning that meticulously balances supply and demand—conditions that are not easily replicated elsewhere. The real issue is state intervention distorting market incentives, leading to inefficiencies like NIMBYism and housing bubbles. A truly efficient housing market thrives under free market principles, minimally but effectively regulated to encourage development and affordability. Mentioning New York as a paragon of housing policy overlooks its glaring issues with affordability and efficiency—hardly a model of success. In comparison, cities like Chicago, with a different regulatory approach, demonstrate that a more balanced policy framework can indeed foster better housing outcomes. New York’s situation, far from an example to follow, actually underscores the pitfalls of overregulation and the necessity of rethinking housing strategies.
YouTube TV Hits 8M Subscribers
Do you want to work with technology or be a software engineer? There are plenty of careers that deal with using or creating software that aren't software engineering. Product management, UX, product research roles for the development side and solutions engineers and solutions architect roles for the services side comes to mind.

There is also demand for people with real world experience to join software companies to help build software for their previous Industry. I could be the best developer in the world, but any legal software I could make would suck because I don't know anything about the legal industry.

Also coding/programming is a skill, not a job. You don't have to be an engineer to code. Similar to how not everyone who writes is an author. Learning to code and wanting to become a software engineer is advertised as the same thing, but its really not. Also the job of a software engineer really isn't coding past a certain point, its taking fuzzy business requirements and turning them into technical specifications capable of being implemented. Coding is just a detail at that point, like pouring concrete is a detail of construction to an architect.

I would recommend automating tasks at or building tools for your current job. I personally started in tech support and moved into engineering. But 95% of the people who were in tech support with me are either still in support or moved into services, so its not exactly a golden path. I was only able to make the switch because I was building tools for other support reps, and I was able to pivot that into a full time internal tools developer position.

Also bootcamps have peaked. Maybe do one out of interest, but don't expect it to turn easily into a full time position like its 2015.
"Powerful" is irrelevant if the hw isn't up when you need it.
The current sophistry is that the complexity of multiple "redundant" examples of cheap hardware always costs less than a suitable (or small number ) of better systems.
There is a company called Helios Space that found adding Sodium into the process solves a couple of different issues. And it can work to refine other elements as well.

https://project-helios.space/green-steel/
Nicely done Jon. I really like the UI - I wanted to have buttons as well but didn't find how to do it in Streamlit.

I also built Resume Chatbot but using slightly different stack: Python, Langchain, Faiss as vector store, MongoDB to store chat logs and Streamlit for UI.
Here is a link: https://www.artkreimer.com/resume/ or you can try it on streamlit https://art-career-bot.streamlit.app/.
Code is available here https://github.com/kredar/data_analytics/tree/master/career_....
Great thread and I got some ideas for my next project. Thanks a lot everyone.
Adblocking via the browser is the best option if it's available.
All the games the kids play on their iPad try to insert ads, track them, all that sort of stuff and DNS based Adblocking stops that. My wife's iPhone isn't subject to ads when she's reading the news in Safari. On my Google Pixel I don't see ads in browsers either, Firefox I use uBlock but even the Google Newsfeed uses Chrome for webview, so DNS adblocking stops me having to see the sponsered stuff in there.

There's so many places other than "the browser" to see ads, to even question that seems like not really having knowledge of what the Internet is used for in 2024. Edit: Sorry that's a bit rude, I just meant maybe you don't use it the same way a lot of others do. Sorry for sounding obnoxious and rude.

DNS blocking doesn't stop stuff like ads in Instagram, or Youtueb etc, but it certainly helps in a lot of other situations like Ads in the Imgur app etc etc.
Nah you're right actually

Having said that, the article points to a dialogue box of which says Cancel instead of Ignore. Perhaps the dev got the naming wrong too?
Anecdotally I've seen much bigger gains on my team's Spark jobs that use complex business logic (i.e. our own hand rolled algorithms in idiomatic Scala) compared to plain ETL jobs that use the vanilla Spark API, which is now very mature and optimized.

GraalVM does a really impressive job with mediocre code :-)
I wonder how much DNS blocking would contribute to a unique browser fingerprint? Like a tracker could use a range of domains, some of which are known to be blocked by certain end-user software, to build a fingerprint.

I currently use a vanilla LibreWolf which has uBlock Origin and reasonable defaults out of the box for this reason.

My only other line of thinking is that a combination of DNS, IP and in-browser blocking could be more effective than just in-browser alone.
Syfy makes it airs the occasionally great original content. Everything else, is and has been, junk filler on repeat for over two decades.
Just did it... perhaps I am too used to read SRTs as plain text that I assumed it would be Ok for other people.

For people who want it, transcription in SRT format is here: https://text.is/O6ZX
Especially when they don't know what's valuable and what's not. If you're leaving valuable stuff, indicate that somewhere.

Source: the MASSIVELY expensive machinists tools I bought for nothing from an estate sale.
To me, a Twitter successor has to do exactly two things: Look and feel almost exactly like Twitter, and have an escape hatch once things go south that lets me preserve my handle (essential), social graph (important), and post history (nice to have).

In other words, I want what has always been possible for email: Gmail with a personal TLD.

I haven't looked too deeply into AT proto, but at a first glance, Bluesky might be that.
All the patterns and textures are expressed by only one dimension? Bizarre.
Better still, start "disposing" of it before you die (so called Swedish Death Cleaning).
> Are there any promising avenues towards microtransactions that gets around small card transactions getting a hefty fee? Or an approach that doesn't require one company to have a monopoly over it?

Either one company with a monopoly or maybe a small number of companies is probably the only feasible way to do it, because efficient payment processing is only half the problem.

The other half is taxes. Every time someone in a browser pays to unlock content provided by someone in a different tax jurisdiction some government is likely to view that as a taxable sale that someone has to collect sales tax or VAT for.

In many places (EU, US) it is the jurisdiction where the buyer resides that is owed the tax, but the seller who is supposed to deal with collecting and paying it.

Unless we can get a lot of countries to make special rules for small consumer content purchases that greatly simplify this, the most practical approach is to have a small number of content marketplaces.

So say you are in the EU and want to buy an article from the New York Times. Instead of directly paying the NYT you would go to one of the market sites and buy a NYT access token from them. You can use that access token to get your article from the Times.

What going through the intermediate marketplace does is make it so your monetary transaction is with them, not the NYT. Instead of each content provider having to deal with taxes in dozens of different jurisdictions it is just the marketplaces.

The marketplace would pay the NYT for the access token, but that would be a business to business sale of a product for resale which most places exempt from sales tax and VAT. It's just going to be ordinary income for the content providers that they report on their own income tax.

You don't want too many separate marketplaces so that content providers can reasonably offer their content in all of the marketplaces. That way consumers just need an account at one marketplace.

The marketplace approach also largely solves the problem of transaction fees. Instead of each article you unlock for $0.10 being a separate charge on your card you'd preload your account at the marketplace you use. You credit card would only be charged for the initial prepay and then whenever you need to refill it.

The big issue I see is keeping it from devolving to something like the current streaming movie/TV market where content providers make exclusive deals with different marketplaces.
The person everyone is replying to stated:

> You can't leave your assigned altitude/trajectory without coordinating with ATC.

They didn't not say it was advisable, but heavily implied it was required.
Convert a Google Spreadsheet to JSON-Formatted Text
RDD leaves serious wreckage in its wake.
> So what do you call it when the wealthy and corporations exploit their opponent's inability to afford legal representation?

It's called a Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation.

It's also illegal in most states.

> A normal Tuesday in Amerika.

We already understood your derogatory outlook without it needing to be literal.

Anyways, that's why the founders gave us the First, Fourth, and Fifth amendments. It turns out, they recognized, the "law" is literally the worst mechanism for discovering truth and managing outcomes.

> Yes, the banality of tuesday terrorism.

It's terrorism because it has no logical conclusion nor any ability to positively benefit anyone's life, in particular, the person who would wield it. Your equivocation ignores this.
OISD is what I use as well. It's great, the family don't have any issues like we used to with the other lists I used. It doesn't block as much, but I'll take the odd thing slipping through vs not being able to load a page we need.
Sure, but it should only do that after making sure those things are safe and don't harm or track you.

(How we would trust the EU to not insert its own tracking, I'm not sure. It would certainly be interesting to see how long EU ministerial aides take to start coke distribution)
Wow - can you elaborate on your process to “debug” these different layers? What comprises your personal or team’s feedback loop, given that 6 months is short? (I suspect it’s a lot of sequencing?) Are there good comparisons to be made with getting acquainted with a new codebase/technical system? Are there any particular computational tools involved? Pardon all the questions, this stuff is fascinating!
Odd - I have a pi-hole on my home network and never hit the issue with YouTube. The only breakage I've found is the top "results" (actually sponsored ads) on Google search don't work, but I always scroll past those anyway to discourage bad behaviour.

In fact pi-hole works so well that I'm always struck by how awful the internet has become when I venture away from my home network. Doctorow's enshitification in action.
This was 2011. Foodies were well past artisanal by then.

As for Google: 'splain me why it wasn't just $150M down the drain? Minus the undisclosed amount:

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

On March 6, 2018, Google sold the company to restaurant discovery platform The Infatuation for an undisclosed amount
I recently set up a Pi-Hole for the first time, but I spun it down pretty quickly. On desktop / mobile I already have client-side ad-blocking, and it's not like the Pi-Hole can block embedded ads in adware apps like YouTube on iOS, so I just couldn't really justify keeping it powered.

I suppose if you have a house full of Samsung / Huawei / etc. IoTs that you really need to keep connected to the Internet for whatever reason, I could sort of see it, but I don't and I genuinely can't figure out other use cases for it. I'm far from a networking whiz though. Am I missing something?
He writes "16-bit Windows", and it's beyond anything I can find documentation for, but he's probably right. That's like pre-1992, I think. But it's been "Ignore" for so long that it's kind of silly to make jokes about it.
Many countries changed from Julian to Gregorian calendar between 16th and 19th century.

When they did the switch - they skipped about 13 days (depends on when exactly they did it, for some it was 12 days).

And yes - the recorded monthly/quarterly/annual and hence min/max/avg temperature that we can find online [1] for the year particlar country switched is 0, NaN, YOLO, or maybe even negative ...

Hence combination of "average earth temperature" intially being set by just handfull of countries/records/rows would make you think that there was a small ice age, when it was just Christians (re)doing date math to catch up with actually natural seasons

PS [1] wife did some data analysis training during Covid lockdowns, students were given links to github "reference" annual temperature data and some outliers caught our attention
Security hardware and software are such a honey pots
I don't feel insulted, I pointed out you were being insulting.
You can see this pretty easily with `ls` as well by using different options for the color. If you run `ls --color=auto`, you'll get colored output when running directly but black and white output if you pipe to `less`. However, if you pass `--color=always`, you'll get colored output when running directly and a bunch of garbage around some of the entries when piping to `less` because it doesn't interpret ANSI escape codes for color by default (although depending on what the output you're piping into `less` is, there are some workarounds like https://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite/)
Likely it's a tesla fan downvote brigade. I have no idea why such a thing exists, but it does.
I think the hope is people of good conscience stop being political cowards.

If you believe in quality engineering, but refuse to engage in the political and business dimensions of an enterprise to fight for that view, then you are just virtue signaling — since you’re refusing to engage with the tools needed to make it happen.