skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was actually Hetzner that didn't want to provision my VPS without Photo ID. I blanked out the SSN as our government tells us to do and they balked at that as well. After I showed them my government's website explaining how and why to do that they were OK with it but at that point the relationship was already soured and I started looking for alternatives.

Maybe they changed it now but they were asses about it then. I thought it was a legal requirement, they basically said as much though I don't recall the exact details, it was before the pandemic.

Eventually I just moved to Scaleway in France which is much nicer and cheaper and you can even talk to their support on slack.

PS: I don't do anything nefarious on my servers but I just don't want my ID on file anywhere it's not needed.
This is sort of a democrat neolib explanation that's only possible if you ignore the corrupting effects of capitalism and the unending class struggle between workers and capital, regardless of party.

The GOP isn't some weird guys who can't govern, but an incredibly powerful group that works almost exclusively for the capital owning class and uses social issues to empower that class. The GOP caters a bit to the workers class but not a lot and is actively radicalizing them to believe they have the same interests as the capital owning class. The culture war is by accident. If the GOP could do this all without the culture war, selling hate, etc then it would. These are merely tools for an end.

The Democrats are almost as bad, but also are beholden to some level of will of the working class, but generally default to the whims of the capital owning class as much as practically possible. The Dems need to get the working class on its side to continue to exist. The pure capital owner party is the GOP and they can't compete against them without this rhetoric. Hence, a lot of Dem ideology being lip service for populist worker issues and actual change from Dems is very rare, and when it happens, its under the approval of the many/most capital owners (see Obamacare being a mandatory private insurance program instead of a Euro-style socialized medicine program.)

The better governing of the dems is by accident. If the dems govern better its only by accident due to the strong influence of the middle-class dependent on good government to survive, and if the dems could maintain power with more corrupt governing, they would.

This is your classic conservative vs liberal divide that defines nearly all modern capitalist nations.

The difference between the two parties isn't that strong. Under capitalism, the government is a capitalist government and is nearly fully corrupted by it, regardless of party. The only real fix is to replace capitalism with socialism, but neither party will allow that, so here we are with the usual back and forth and hiding issues with workers class and capitalism under whatever social issues of the day best distract.
Meta AI lies about knowing your location
Two fascist goverments, actually. Also, the US one it's worse: apartheid like laws happened under a democracy, not under a banana republic.
The myth of the second chance
Wow they announced their first-ever dividend (following Meta which announced theirs last quarter).
Baby Map
Because this is advertising :)
Precisely! They look pretty but there's a reason (beyond tools and skills) some of these have never been seen in practice. Would be super interesting to see stress analysis on these.
I actually had a Jornada 548 as well!

Of course web browsing was “inferior” compared to an iPhone, but the Jornada also got released 7 years earlier. You could argue that the web itself wasn’t really useable beyond checking the news and weather back then (not saying it is today, but that’s another story).

Also keep in mind that iPhone OS didn’t even have downloadable apps initially.
This seemed implausible to me at first, then I remembered we've already had people submitting ChatGPT-hallucinated cases in court, so maybe not :(
IIRC the lifetime risk of lung cancer for smokers is more like 20%. For reference, among non-smokers the risk of lung cancer[0] is about 1%. So smoking is represents a 20x increase in risk.

Around 80% of lung cancers are found in smokers and another 10% with heavy exposure to second-hand smoke. Smoking is the single largest risk factor for lung cancer.

[0] All numbers are based on general population of US, so heavily white-skewed, I dunno about asian americans specifically.
I wouldn't call it meaningless. Comparative linguistics can draw surprisingly strong conclusions about how languages sounded a long time ago, even ones that were never written down. There are hundreds of Chinese languages/dialects apparently descended from a common ancestor. That's enough for some serious comparative historical analysis.

Anyway, expressiveness is not the same as complexity. It would seem Chinese was able to evolve a lot of expressiveness without adding too much unnecessary complexity, unlike more insular languages. The simplicity is also not exactly a firm rule, but a trend.

Thanks for the interesting examples. Would love to learn more Chinese.
I referenced Chechnya because it is a very traditional case of colonialism that very obviously parallels other European colonies in Africa etc: acquired through straightforward territorial conquest in 18-19th century with no justification other than "might is right" (with a dash of "white man's burden" thrown in for good measure), specifically to exploit as a colony.

Ukraine is a bit different in that both the official Russian ideology and the prevailing public opinion don't see it as a colony, but rather as "lost heartland" that is inhabited by what are still fundamentally Russians who have "strayed". So the long-term goal there isn't to acquire a new colony for the metropole to exploit - it's to forcibly assimilate its Ukrainian population into the metropole in its entirety. Now in practice this isn't that simple either, because of course the occupied territories are exploited. However, one could argue that it is still not colonial exploitation, because its economic nature is fundamentally the same as the relationship between Moscow and basically every other Russian region. That is, it would make sense to say that occupied Ukraine is a colony if you're also willing to say that pretty much all of Russia is also effectively a colony of Moscow (which is not an unreasonable way to describe it, to be fair - just not a conventional one in Western historiography).
Stock is up about 5% after hours, copy-pasting main metrics from the release:

- Revenue was $61.9 billion and increased 17%
- Operating income was $27.6 billion and increased 23%
- Net income was $21.9 billion and increased 20%
- Diluted earnings per share was $2.94 and increased 20%
Our 8 year old 2015 Kia Soul EV is about 15% degraded (on the worst cell, which could be replaced individually btw). Battery degradation is generally fairly linear between 100% to 70% SoH. So I don’t see why I shouldn’t expect another 8 years on it.

It depends on how much it is driven of course. The mileage is probably a bit below average on that one. I have a short commute to work. We did some road trips in it though.

You gotta take into account that old EVs with small batteries will probably often be used as a second car, and so used less often. That’s the case for us since we got a newer bigger car as our family grew. We don’t take the Kia on road trips anymore and my wife takes the bus to work.
That was for breaking sanctions law, but you supported my point. It's difficult.
"Others were bullies, too" is not a valid reason to be proud for ever having been a bully.
This is what I first thought of as well, but other sources indicate that Asian Americans are actually the demographic with the least overall cigarette use[1]. Given that White and Black Americans use cigarettes at almost twice the rate Asian Americans do, we'd expect strong second-hand correlations for those groups as well.

(This source doesn't quantify "use," so there are confounding factors: prevalence of smoking at home, chain smoking vs. social smoking, etc.)

[1]: https://smokingcessationleadership.ucsf.edu/racialethnic-min...
> This is about whether positions are being created without ever planning to fill them.

Right. And what I mean is that, if your hiring department is posting job "openings" which they don't intend to fill, they probably aren't allowing any of the applicants to advance to an interview.
I have to disagree that the Republicans do not have a plan. They have a very clear and public plan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025

Yes, they spend a lot of energy on obstructing the government from functioning, and creating a naked kleptocracy to use the government to funnel money into their own pockets. But they are also moving openly towards a fascist dictatorship with very specific ideas about how society should function, and how (and when) people should be permitted to live.
>when seed oil dangers are mentioned, it's hilariously politicized

???

Where are you seeing this? It's definitely controversial, but calling it "politicized" seems like a stretch.
I think the premise is really interesting! looking forward to seeing where it goes.
After about 30 years I'm really good at shell. But I don't think it's the best for managing complex workflows.

You could use a local port of something like github actions, but personally I'd pick a language (Python, TypeScript, Ruby) and make a function that takes an input kernel and optional disk and networking config, builds if the tree has changed, and returns the ssh command to the created VM.
- ...[Plato] was lucid enough to criticise the barbarian musician for her "scant sense of rhythm", in front of a Chaldean guest who had come from Mesopotamia..."

"I wish that my musical talents be such as to be remembered across the far ends of the world, even two thousand years hereafter..." [monkey's paw twitches]
I've only skimmed the Horizon OS news, but my first reaction was that it looks like an obvious attempt to emulate the success of Android. Own the operating system, ship it with a flagship product, and push it to other OEMs. There are more iPhones than Google Pixels but there are more Androids than any other phone.
Yes. Someday augmented reality glasses will be possible in the form-factor of regular glasses, and I see no reason that would be unpopular.
> Providers will supply anything the customer is willing to pay for.

I suppose every company and every service should be in scope for KYC then. /s

But the reality is that Wordpress hosts are not in the business of renting people dedicated servers the price of a nice house. And if they were asked to do so, it wouldn't be a simple automated request without scrutiny.
From this comment it is clear that you have a policy and plan for governing. But it isn't clear what that has to do with the portion of the parent comment that you quoted.

The implication of the way you wrote your comment is that it's unfair and naive or disingenuous to say that the Republican party has no policy, because what you outline is their policy. But the rest of your comment just ... isn't their policy. (Which is, presumably, why you aren't a registered Republican.)

For instance, you say you don't like expanding Presidential powers. But the leader of the Republican party has a suit in front of the Supreme Court, right this moment, attempting to expand Presidential powers all the way to "immune from the rule of law".

Now, it could still be true that the policy of the Republican party is in disagreement with the desires of that person who is the leader of their party - that totally happens! - but unfortunately at this specific moment in time, "the desires of that person who is the leader of their party" is exactly as close as you can get to defining the party's policy.

It's a sad state of affairs! But I seem to frequently see this kind of wishcasting based on what people think the party's policy should be, except it has nothing to do with the clear policy of the party in actuality. (Note that this wishcasting thing is not actually unique to the Republican party.)
CCP controls TiKTok
CCP supports Russia's invasion of Ukraine
CCP suppresses videos on Ukrainian war on TikTok
You can search 'nvme [or ssd] lifetime vs hdd' and get plenty of results to answer your question. [0] TL;DR: SSDs [NVMe] is generally more reliable and/or has a longer lifetime than spinning disk.

With that snark, have you RMA'ed or replaced the SSD? Have you tried the drive in another motherboard or perhaps an external enclosure connected over USB? Have you validated the firmware is up to date? And a brief search for 'samsung 870 bugs' yields a thread on failures of this particular model. [1]

[0] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/09/five-years-of-data-s...

[1] https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/samsung-870-evo-b...
I'll be the contrarian. I really do not like ESPHome at all. It sure is a nifty whizzbang project, and generating firmware on the fly from a json config is pretty neat, but I found it to be utterly insufferable.

First, the ESP is a beast of a chip. The 32s have megabytes of flash space. Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems that it should be very possible to have one firmware image that consumes the same json config directly to set up components at runtime. The compiler for ESP is slow and the binaries are quite large. Makes far more sense to beam over a couple kb of json than a few MB image.

I found the documentation to be absolutely terrible. Took me multiple hours to figure out how to use the LEDC peripheral with RGBW LEDs.

I also wanted to include an IR remote transceiver, the ESP has hardware for this. There seemed to be no IR receive software available, and the IR transmit module gave you a single button. Just one. I was expecting a keypad at the very least.

Also the whole process of finding a module for the functionality you want is a little ridiculous. You just scroll through this endless list of poorly categorized modules with ambiguous names and irrelevant icons. Then once you find what you want, you have to find the documentation for its json somewhere else entirely.

Honestly I would enjoy this project a lot more if it were simply a light framework that you plug into your own firmware. Handle the web stuff and HA API calls for me and just expose some events so I can handle user input myself. Instead I have this gigantic binary blob. I'm sure I could go find the firmware it's generating and customize it myself, but it seemed like a lot of effort so I gave up.

It's a neat project if all you want to do is plug some stuff together and never, ever think about anything. That's not how I like to work, there's far, far too much hidden from me.
Sure, I'm fine with that. What I object to is people using the US's flaws or past mistakes as a reason for isolationism or surrender to far worse actors.
Fascinating that they’re issuing a dividend. Can’t find anything better to do to drive growth?
I suspect part of this is because smokers, generally, don't always live long enough to actually get cancer, and statistically their year-over-year cancer risk drops to the same as the general population when they do quit.

However, COPD, once established, is irreversible.

My dad was a long time smoker and it was COPD that eventually got him. He battled it for years after he quit.
> Not sure why you think so. There had always been a minority of Jews in Palestine. By 1890, that was a 10% minority. By 1947, that was a 30% minority. What exactly is bullshit about saying this?

There were the indigenous inhabitants of the region. Then European powers started funding and arming a mass migration into Palestine, and in a totally unsurprising turn of events that increased the proportion of that region that were jewish. This is like saying america was not invaded, people just migrated to it, and suddenly there were more europeans than the indigenous population.

And much like america, the non-invading migrants ended up with all the power and resources.

> "Israel" being a colonial invader makes little sense, since Israel didn't exist before that.

Israel is the name the invaders gave to the country after they seized control of it from the people who lived there prior to the invasion. We could call it a European invasion, because the colonizers were from all over Europe, and were funded by Europe, if that helps?

> Yes, there is a lot of discrimination and racism against Israeli-Palestinians. Yes, things are not perfect, not by a long shot. But legally, Isareli-Palestinians have the same rights as any other Israeli citizen, including voting rights.

I just checked, and indigenous Palestinians can't vote in Israel's elections, so I'm not sure where your getting this claim that they have equal rights? Yes there are _some_ Palestinians that are allowed to vote by magically being classified as Israeli, but the overwhelming majority are not permitted to because Israel decreed that only specific parts of Palestine count as being Israel for the purpose of having rights.
bad take from carmack
Thanks; much I had not known before.

(but 2.5% of 12,5 million is still only <320'000. I guess the tajiks didn't have MANPADs, but in this scenario neither would the afghans)

How much did the USSR and US spend on their two wars? What if that amount had been invested in regional development? Or would that also have been a non-starter?

(why is everyone meddling there, anyway? it doesn't exactly seem to be on the way to anywhere. China-Arabian Sea doesn't go through it, and china-russia [Novosibirsk?] doesn't either. Is iran a big enough trading partner [and is there sufficient transport capacity through xinjiang?] that china-iran would be worthwhile? more worthwhile than just going to Bandar Abbas like everyone else?)
Makes sense to me.

ISPs acting like a utility service should not offer special deals to some companies in a way that harms competition.

A social media site enforcing their terms of service appears entirely different.
At twice the price of cable and fiber, at least in my backyard...
For me, it's political texts from Illinois, which I moved away from 6 years ago. They seem to be doing this thing where you can unsubscribe from a given campaign, but when some other politician wants to do a campaign they will acquire that list without scrubbing the optouts.

I was led to believe that this is technically allowed so I've been using an app (buzzkill) to junk any text containing the name of a politician.
> Traditional old Asian men are possibly the worst humans ever.

That's, uh, quite a strong statement. What makes them worse than all the other humans?
Part of the reason liberals hate conservatives and vice versa is that they think the government is actually representing their opponents. The reality is that influence is severely concentrated on every "side," and things that average people believe are only used to justify actions that a truly influential coalition wants to take. Your disagreeable family relations are as powerless to get a new issue introduced as you are, but they're going to be blamed for whatever advances the oligarchs who are opposed to your oligarchs have recently made.
> finality which is 6 blocks

There isn't such thing as "finality" in bitcoin right? The probability of another chain growing longer just dramatically shrinks each extra block mined (as most of the mining power will quickly shift to the longest known chain).

There is also a lot of historical data as the bitcoin blockchain has been running for many years. How many times has a chain with a 2-block lead been surpassed? It seems like the data is out there to create a pretty accurate graph for by-chance reversal for a given number of confirmations. (Intentional reversing is a bit of a different issue but you should be able to estimate the computation costs as well).
Isn't that a distinction without a difference? If the constitution isn't upheld by rule of law, what does it matter what is says?
> So to say that a power company should cut off access to people saying these things is tantamount to saying these people don't deserve to have basic living necessities. That's a lot different than "Hey, we don't want this text to be displayed on our website."

What's a basic necessity? Do you think they should have their phone service cut off, because the phone company doesn't want those words being transmitted over their wires? It's worth noting that not too long ago electricity wasn't considered a basic necessity.

I think there's an inflection point where a website's scale morphs it into a utility that needs to be governed by different rules than smaller websites. Where the line exactly is is not clear, but the large social networks are definitely on the "different rules" side of it. And personally, my preference is that social networks and internet services become a lot smaller and more diverse than stay large and be governed by some regulatory framework.
Interesting idea, using the strengths of the tooling to expand how joinery can look. Some of these are photos; looks like they made actual wood examples of some of these joints.

What is really missing for me here is complete pieces, utilizing some or many of these new joints throughout. Are they practical? Do they look good as part of a larger whole? Even 3D renders would be a good start, if not an actual physical piece.
So it would be technically correct to say that Oracle has not returned any tax incentives to Austin.
"Self-modifying" means modifying code at runtime.
I must admit, I cook all my food with Avocado oil. Unless EVOO can be used.
Depends on how refined
Maildir
Here is one such article - https://www.cringely.com/2016/04/06/is-ibm-guilty-of-age-dis...
One of the PDF files on the GitHub page has some info about the software implementation:

"* The original C version running on Z80 @ 4MHz was really slow! (maybe 25% of HP-25 speed)

* I started to re-write the emulator in Z80 assembly

* would love to finish this someday, but...

* Then I noticed that CMOS Z80 are available rated up to 20MHz

* I ended up running the Z80 at 16MHz, which results in an emulated speed within about 10% of the original HP-25. Not bad"

The other interesting thing is that this uses the 40-pin DIP version of the Z80, which will be discontinued on June 14, 2024: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40083885
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We pay a european level of taxes (and rising) in order to receive a "safety net" thinner than Cuba, mostly so we can drop bombs on brown people and shadowy "communists"/"terrorists"/"freedom haters"/"yellow cake enjoyers"/"nazis that arent Ukrainian". What's the metric for that?
I'm somewhat skeptical about the advice given out on this site, while it looks ok on first glance, can I really trust their "professional advice" if their corporate parent site [0] is serving up, as of this writing, an expired SSL cert? What other things might they be missing?

[0] https://outpost.plus
"Jews control the media" isn't an opinion worth debating. Move on
Check the size of the Planet 9 on the Wikipedia.

Check the size of the Earth's Moon.

...
Interesting that they think they're out of internal projects and acquisitions to (profitably) spend money on. Even more interesting that the stock seems to agree -- I guess investors already believed that growth is over, and are seeing this recognition of that as an alignment between reality and internal strategy.
Thanks for replying I appreciate the insight, although as someone else mentioned the most obvious use (to me) for KYC is censorship / de-banking and I think that was it's intended purpose all along because there's nothing about KYC that specifically enables the two things you mentioned that couldn't be done by a bank on it's own.