skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
USA abandonment of Ukraine clearly shows to everyone that promises from USA mean nothing at times of real hardship.
The sad lesson of all this is that if country wishes to be both safe and independent it must posses its own nuclear weapons and means of delivery.
I'm running virtualhere on thousands of raspberry pi's sharing various USB devices to cloud machines over vpn. It's been working without issues for years now. Seems to be a solo developer in Australia that's been working on it for a really long time. https://www.virtualhere.com/
I’m a never-Trumper, came up as a voter in the Reagan era, omnivorous consumer of all news content, listened to NPR prior to the pandemic near daily, and still regularly afterwards, until the bias just completely turned me off.

Your take seems wildly off to me. NPRs non-straight news programming has always been left, but the regular news programming at least mildly tried to be viewpoint neutral.

That disappeared post-Trump. All programming took a strong PoV, and unless the politician was actively anti-Trump their interactions with non-leftists were adversarial.

Again, as a now third party voter because of Trump/Maga this is not because I felt any commonality with the other side of the coin, but purely that I was essentially being fed propaganda rather than news.
It's not that the US likes suffering. No, the US likes their 7% ROI.

There's a reason why the average S&P500 is still 7% year over year. Why does Coca Cola have a 3% dividend yield? Why does Google still have a 50% yoy ad revenue growth?

Why does health insurance get priced at 10% annual income, no matter how high your income seems to be? Why does mortgage / rent inevitably go up to 28% of income, no matter how high an income you seem to get?

It's because to make the numbers go up for corporations at the ROI they promised to their stakeholders, they have to make it from somewhere, and that somewhere is the consumers.

As long as we hold sacred the 7% ROI dream, that 7% ROI on assets is going to continue to leech all the excess prosperity and wealth our predecessors have enjoyed. You cannot have an infinite wealth printing machine - news flash - that money comes from society. The house that once costed 200k, and now costs 1.6 million? That 1.4 million went into funding the 7% ROI money printer. The 126k/yr Masters degree? It's also funding the 7% ROI money printer.

That's where all the money is going.
The other fun thing about AWS instances is that the network uplink speed isn’t always what’s advertised. There is of course the “Up to X Gbps” levels (30 minutes of rated speed guaranteed every 24 hours), but there are also other limits, like cross-region speed being capped at 50% of rated capacity.

This rarely matters until it does, like if you’re setting up an active-active DB across regions. Then it’s a fun surprise.
The big result is that ChatGPT is terrible at resume evaluation. Only slightly better than random.
They're referring to the sudden end of support for Ukraine, done at the behest of Donald Trump. Republican lawmakers were actually considering continuing it until he demanded they not do so.
I agree, I think upper bound constraints go against what is commonly accepted and used in the Python ecosystem. What I try to do on my projects now is to always have a nightly CI test step, in theory if an updated package breaks my package it will be caught fairly quickly
It does wrap automatically if you keep typing. I agree the user experience is not great with that, the word you're typing should always be directly over the guide text.
It is odd that they don’t normalize the width of the dozens of 3 cohort graphs. Apparently in order to show fully filled rows.

But it dramatically blunts the visual clarity of comparison between the differing percentages in each cohort associated with better and worse outcomes.
thank god, they're also a menace in europe.
That’s awesome! Appreciate the kind words :)
How did they stop scalping?
Probably... I thought of passing my iPod Nano 7g through USB/IP to my Proxmox Windows iTunes VM, but I never had the urge to do it. Although it'd probably work and would be great in combinaton with Wireguard on vacation, I did not want to setup a "risky" driver / kernel module on my main proxmox server :-) USB passthrough always was enough.
Just being devil's advocate since I also don't necessarily agree that TSwift could build a venue in every market, but there are plenty of large-scale events that use open fields and tents and aren't going to cost billions to setup.
Where’s that idea coming from?

I’d wager >95% of LTS linux distributions released in the past ten years are still rock-solid if you’re just exposing 22, 80, and 443. Even PHP5 is still de facto bulletproof if you’re paranoid about not trusting user input.

Vulns don’t come out of nowhere.
> Better public transit benefits everyone. Better urban design favoring walkable neighborhoods benefits everyone. Better zoning allowing neighborhood shops at street level benefits everyone.

Sure, as someone who is raising a family in a city, I completely agree. But the reason why stores leave is invariably safety issues.
That's a fair point, but the other perspective is that perhaps the organization grew far beyond its original remit, and is now run by its insiders for the benefit of its insiders, a la Robert Conquest's laws. The public not willing to fund it "very well" could be an indication that the organization itself should remain small and bounded by its charter.

$210mm of $323mm, or roughly two thirds, of 2023 expenses incurred by NPR were for employee compensation and benefits. $58mm of the compensation were unrelated to content production and distribution; that is, booked under SG&A and not COGS. $42mm of it was for management. At least 26 individuals made a salary of more than $250k[0]. I suppose their singing voice is quite good, to receive such a supper.

[0]: https://media.npr.org/documents/about/statements/fy2022/2021...
I like Marginalia: https://search.marginalia.nu/explore/random
They’ve been actively burying true news that doesn’t fit their narrative- that isn’t even reporting, it’s advancing an agenda.
Worth noting that in the UK at least, Live Nation have an effective monopoly on:

- ticket sale
- ticket secondary markets
- they own most of the venues
- they run the security (showsec)
- they run the tour buses and logistics

And so on. So when they raise ticket prices and claim costs are going up, it is their own costs.

They're criminals. No more. No less.
Extra-ordinary claims require extra-ordinary evidence!

(my favorite maxim from 2012 era atheism debates on youtube)

But yeah I totally agree. Putting the cart before the horse here with the outlined consequences probably isn't smart, but to be fair, I haven't (and probably couldn't) read the paper.
There used to (currently?) be a revolving door between bank regulators and banking industry.

Bank regulators would “retire” after a deregulation push then banking industry would so happen to hire that same person as some midlevel executive or director. GS was infamous for this [1]

Wonder if we see the same between telcos/major ISPs and FCC

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20140220160810/http://www.nytime...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolving_door_(politics)
The Geiss screensaver and Winamp music visualization plug-in source code
Interesting the author also suggests that the proposed legislative remedy (passing an Act of Parliament to fix the issue retrospectively instead of the Court appeal process) will allow the government to avoid scrutiny of the evidence they failed to disclose, saving themselves and Fujitsu from further embarassment:

> "The Court of Appeal could probably cope with the burden of overturning the wrongful convictions, given the similar nature of all the cases and the collapse of the prosecution. But appeal procedures might expose how PII hearings were abused to cover up Horizon system defects and failures to remedy them. The proposed exceptional legislation would remove the exposure of embarrassments to the state, the Post Office and Fujitsu. It would remove the legal problem which would be caused by appeal courts being forced to admit evidence which had been concealed by other courts. No doubt the legislative solution would adopt the ‘faulty program’ explanation, thus foreclosing investigation of other explanations, such as the tampering with Horizon data featured in the ITV drama, which was factual, not fictional."

Personally, I don't think this is the only reason a legislative solution is attractive (there are some positive reasons for considering that solution - speed and efficacy etc, these poor folks have waited a decade), but an interesting point.
There are people in the comments here giving you a hard time.

I agree with you. People are talking about Oreos and biking and shit. You know, Oreos have calories, bikes move you around the world. Just don't buy the fucking tickets anymore. It's that simple.

There are a million ways to monetize. If you stop going to live shows music won't die. Maybe huge pop acts will.
This whole problem is because in python you can not specify interfaces and say "I need a function called f that takes an x of type T and returns a U", so instead you encode that in an indirect way, like "I know version x.y.z works so I'll just require that".

Any other way risks runtime errors. And to people about to mention types in python: those are also checked at runtime.

People keep using these hyper dynamic languages and then running into these robustness issues and scaling limitations brought on by their very dynamism. It makes me mad and sad.
Wake me when executives start getting double digit year jailtimes. Until then, I'm convinced nothing has nor will change.
> The truth often doesn't have a middle ground.

There is rarely, if ever, such a thing as objective truth when it comes to politics. There are always multiple perspectives.

Make no mistake here - NPR has an agenda to push and they are masterfully skilled in doing so; evidenced by the people who still believe it's a non-partisan "just the truth" journalism outfit.
It would be better for society if someone inclined to murder did not. Police do not protect the victim of murder -- they are dead already.

Your view appears to say "society" (the police?) should "protect" children from their own parents, if they are deemed "bad"? The line for police intervention should probably not include "living in a bad neighborhood" or "being poor". Those strategies are tried pretty often by evangelicals who steal poor children from vulnerable countries/populations, yet are perceived as bad by most people.

If the fault is with the parents then isn't it just as likely with the grandparents? or great grandparents? and so on down the line?
TL;DR they have several genes that are very good at repairing damage from radiation and they are expressed at high rates after damage.

HOwever I think the growing consensus in the tardigrade field is that the radiation resistance is mostly an unexpected byproduct of evolving to survive lower-moisture conditions, which are much more common than huge radiation bursts.

If there is nuclear war, if anything survives, it will be bacteria, algae and tardigrades, and then the cycle will begin again, but with tardigrade overlords.
A forum for my car just went dark. Gone are not quite 20 years of posts and discussions that I've searched many times over while troubleshooting mine or in preparation for some job that needed to be done.

I made this discovery after going to post a novel solution for getting into the hood with a seized hood release in hopes that it might spare someone else some trouble in the future.

All things are not in the moment. Sometimes it's good to learn from the past.
I know vector DBs x embeddings, so I'm afraid I'm just awful at communicating: to wit, and much to my consternation, I have to write and maintain code for both image and text embeddings, on 6 platforms.

I think we're getting to the heart of my confusion, and I only assume it's because of different use cases/expectations on privacy.

Lets say I'm CEO of Mousetrap Inc., and I got this .txt file, our top secret plan for a better mousetrap.

I want genAI to pick out the parts about the new metal alloy.

I upload the file to B2BAI LLC, who turns it into List<String>, then we give it to the model and get back List<List<Float>>.

Vector DBs store the List<String> and the List<List<Float>> for retrieval.

I, the top secret mouse-trap inventor, do not want my plan stored on any 3rd party computer.

But, this app I use puts it in an a16z approved Vector DB™.

The vector DB provider now has the embeddings (List<List<Float>>) and the chunks (List<String>), which violate my desire to not have my top secret mousetrap plan stored at rest anywhere .
where does this logic stop? At whose borders?

Because if Ukraine falls I can guarantee you that first it will be minor incursions into Poland and/or Baltics airspace. Then false flags attacks. Then more. Each time testing "escalation management" and sewing disagreements into political scenes in the West. Then more.

putin has said many times that he considers collapse of USSR the greatest tragedy ever. He wants revenge for this. And he is getting it.
The “lab leak hypothesis” is one instance where NPR seems to have buried the most plausible explanation; there are many other similar examples.
In case you did not notice...If China takes over Taiwan, Chinese troops will be 60 miles from Japanese territory...
Peace through superior firepower or at least mutually assured destruction is a thing.
I was thinking about something similar, but from a different angle. Language history can demonstrate connections between peoples, times and places. The words show what was important enough to be encoded: say, we have the word „computer“ and it means that very important technology has been developed. Looking at such words we can judge on what could be included on the timeline, which discoveries and inventions have been made. We may find for some words how old are they and what could be their origin. We may trace the words and language structures across continents and thousands of years and reason about technology and knowledge needed for such journey, what climate was there etc. This would create a very interesting map.
The US could've and still could flood ukraine with weapons. It wouldn't even be the first proxy war between the US and Russia.
Most of the venues, behind the curtain, are Live Nation owned too.
Subjectively, I've seen a lot more conversation on the internet in the last few years about people using chargebacks, often in contexts where it's obvious to me as an outside observer that they're abusing the system by doing chargebacks compulsively without even trying to resolve things with the merchant.

It wouldn't surprise me if we're seeing a tragedy of the commons: chargebacks were easy as long as people were inculturated to use them as a last resort. Now that enough people reach for them first, banks have to look at each one more closely and they're going to err in the direction that takes less work.
> Between 1973 and 2013, the number of people in poverty in the US increased by ~60%.

You edited your comment. I believe it originally contained the text above.

I'm assuming the edit was due to the fact that the statistic was based on absolute numbers and was not corrected for US population growth.

I also think the US vs China comparison is basically apples to bowling balls. It's "easy" to lift a giant percentage of the population out of poverty when a large swath of your population is in poverty.

Not saying the US doesn't deserve some criticism here, but your comparison was not apt.
Hey Ryan and thank you for the feedback!

I agree that storing the data is appropriately chunked Zarr files is almost surely going to be faster, simpler to set up, and take up less space. Could even put up an API in front of it to get "queries".

I also agree that I haven't motivated the RDBMS approach much. This is mainly because I took this approach with Postgres + Timescale since I wanted to learn to work with them, and playing around with ERA5 data seemed like the most fun way. Maybe it's the allure of weather data being big enough to pose a challenge here.

I don't have anything to back this up but I wonder if the RDBMS approach, with properly tuned and indexed TimescaleDB + PostGIS (non-trivial to set up), can speed up complex spatio-temporal queries, e.g. computing the 99th percentile of summer temperatures in Chile from 1940-1980, in case many different Zarr chunks have to be read to find this data. I like the idea of setting up different tables to cache these kinds of statistics, but it's not that hard to do with Zarr either.

I'm benchmarking queries and indexes next so I might know more then!
Or parents desperately trying to make it 'not their fault' from it being genetic. The wild-ass guessing popular for it screams motivated reasoning for "anything but genetic".
I assumed you were trying to distinguish shows like A Prairie Home Companion, which was distributed by American Public Media, from shows distributed by NPR; and that you were simply mistaken about Car Talk. That would have been a somewhat meaningful point, despite the incestuous relationship between all of these organizations. However, if you're arguing that shows distributed by NPR aren't "NPR shows" unless they are also directly produced by NPR, then you're not only being pedantic, but being pedantic on the basis of a definition that is not widely shared.

NPR's own Terry Gross has described Car Talk in these exact words, "an NPR show".[0] A large part of NPR's mission is distributing shows produced by local affiliates, and no doubt they exercise significant editorial discretion in determining which shows to distribute. For the purposes of this discussion, who cares if a show is produced directly by NPR, or if it is produced by another organizaton using NPR's money and then distributed by NPR?

[0] https://www.npr.org/transcripts/361408028
I regularly replay FFX, I recently replayed the Battle Realms remaster, and now I'm once again on Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney.
Well TIL! I only knew about it generally from watching Lynch's stuff, but had no idea it was a cult.
MOD4WIN (1999)
> You have to personally notify every California resident of the breach, and California's Attorney General.

And if one doesn't?
This is not a surprising take to find online as it's been well demonstrated that while conservatives mostly understand where liberals are coming from, liberals have a really hard time understanding right wing concerns.
This entry in Matt Stoller's newsletter goes into a lot of detail on how this works: https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/explosive-new-documents-u...

> It’s easy to believe the worst about Live Nation, they have a bad reputation. But the reason I buy this particular story is because it is consistent with the behavior of many dominant middlemen firms in our economy, from pharmacy benefit managers to Amazon to big banks securitizing mortgages in the financial crisis. As monopoly scholar Kate Judge noted, such dominant middlemen use fees and kickbacks, hidden via a complex maze of subsidiaries and overlapping lines of business, to extract in ways that are hard to see. In Live Nation’s case, it’s clear they are generating a great deal of revenue, but somehow show low margins for many of their products. Hiding the price hikes is important, because monopolization is harder to prove that way.
The Power of a Good Prompt: Share and Discover Prompts on the Prompt Square
Health insurers tend towards regional monopolies or duopolies.
Sure, but the economist would say that Taylor Swift should have made every penny of the $300 ticket cost. Live Nation getting even a penny is the market failure, not the cost of the ticket itself.
Godot 4.1.4 RC 2 and 4.2.2 RC 3
Tiptoe around the facts like Hunter Biden's laptop? I agree NPR needs to stick to facts, not editorially choose to censor a topic that the public has deemed important.
It might just be that conservatives drive more (and that’s how most radio listeners tune in).
Foobar and AIMP support Winamp DSP plugins.
> a big driver of cost is the scalpers/hedgers who buy out everything and put it on StubHub

Not true.

About "10% of [performing arts] tickets sold in the primary market are later re-sold by ticket scalpers," increasing to "20-30% of top-tiered seats" [1]. Banning scalping increases attendance but results in "fewer distinct productions...shown in metropolitan areas or states that require ticket resellers to be licensed or that prohibit resale above face value."

Empirically, markets with scalpers have lower ticket prices [2], though this has been studied more in sports than the performing arts. Which makes sense. Scalpers de facto underwrite the seller's risk.

[1] https://www.oxy.edu/sites/default/files/assets/Economics/Chi...

[2] https://www.jstor.org/stable/27698042
Defender of The Crown - Heroes Live Forever. The original DotC requires DosBox, so I opt for the (a bit fresher) update.

There are weeks that I play this 2-3 times a day, and then a couple of months of not at all. I usually win it. If I am overwhelmed, I joust and bet a land (and 90% I win - this gives me the opportunity to 'conquer' 3 counties per round, instead of just 1 with normal attack).

EDIT: I don't know if this counts as old, but I've restarted playing FTL - Faster Than Light. I sometimes also play StarControl II, but once every couple of years for a weekend or so.
frying, roasting, and baking all produce acrylamides. There's a paper from sweden that shows you can even find acrylamides in bread that was cooked at standard temp.

The story of frying and cardio is still ongoing; I've seen several full reversals in the public health field over the past 30 years. It's really painful being a quantitative physical biologist watching the press around papers that when carefully inspected provide little to no evidence supporting their position.
Much of this is voodoo accounting since Live Nation through intermediary own most of the venues, promoters, services, security, catering and so on.

It's just using their vertical integration and monopoly to move as much money onto their books and increase ticket prices and margins.

Shady.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biYciU1uiUw

Linked doco by Dan Olson. Strong recommend.
I don't know! That's why we're asking. Do you know those numbers? If you do then you could enlighten us
Inflation wasn't caused by the giving, it was caused by the printing. The cure for that is to destroy money (taxation). If you tax the people you just gave to, that's just doing nothing with extra steps. So if you want to help someone by giving them money, you need to take that money from someone else.

Giving without taking is (Keynesian) only useful when it "greases the gears of the economy" enabling productive people to trade with consumer, in which case the inflation is cancelled out by the increased real productivity.
> I have less than 3k of personal websites.

It is extraordinarily difficult for me to believe this is indicative of the reality of the entire Internet. I've probably visited a good chunk of this amount of personal sites.
Boeing is not the only airplane manufacturer in US. If you look how it operates, it runs the government’s civil aviation, not the other way around. FAA has basically trusted Boeing to self-certify everything. It looks like without government interventions the only outcome is total monopolization.

It’s really funny that anti-governmental slogans of the ideological fights of the Cold War during which US Government was way more powerful than it was not got into the brains of so many people. As someone who grew up in USSR that’s really funny to observe.
Begging people to understand that they'll lose more time to debugging this AI output than it would take to learn something that isn't very difficult.