skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are VCs, and there are LPs. VCs do the work of finding investments and setting up funds; LPs provide the money and wait for it to grow.

Of course, from a startup perspective, both really just look like VCs. But in reality, the people working at VCs but who are not LPs are not usually rich.
Mr. Trump helpfully pointed out another flaw: a president can pardon whoever they want, including themselves. So it's apparently legal for Mr. Biden to send a team to assassinate all his political rivals and then just pardon them.
Microsoft offers staff to relocate from China
Does the website feel janky to anyone else ? I have routinely found content-rich webpages to be janky.

edit: nvm, turned on hardware acceleration. Smoother, but still jankier than I'd like on a Ryzen 9.
What a great cop out. Fuck up the colony, then give them independence so you can wash your hands of the blood and tears.
Identical experience! Though ironically, having useful bookmarks pushed me into turning on sync in chrome so they would be accessible one all devices, pulling me further into the Google tarpit.
But how are you proposing to distinguish them? It's all too easy to rent out a property on paper.
Vitalik Buterin says GPT-4 has passed the Turing Test
Figma valued at $12.5B in tender offer backed by Fidelity, others
Used to be that an acre of land generally had enough space for a proper septic tank and drain field. But I think in some places it is a little higher now. Depends a lot on local geography of course.
I think you hit the nail on the head when you say, "get a pulse on the developer zeitgeist on a particular topic." I really enjoyed using it to get a sense of what developers feel about a particular topic. I also learned about new products I wasn't aware of.
I suppose the caching is at a layer before the LLM.
>>Soon, a body shop found a quarter-size hole in the undercarriage he hadn’t seen before, which led to revelations of deeper issues inside. “The high-voltage battery pack is damaged and could cause extreme safety concerns,” a Tesla technician texted him. Because the hole was “exterior damage,” it wasn’t covered by the warranty, which meant a $13,078.58 repair bill.

Looks like selective quoting to me, the quarter sized hole was under the battery pack, which was damaged.

Since the hole was punched upward from the ground, it counted as exterior damage.

So $13,078.58 to fix the hole and battery pack issue.
mIRC having a security hole with DCC SEND is exactly why some routers decided to filter it. EDIT: Perhaps I'm misremembering this. It seems it might have been due to some bugged port remapping code in the routers.
I don't think that materially really had anything to do with it.

Sprint was dying - with extraordinarily high debt, in 2007, well before Softbank bought them, and indeed they lost money every year from 2008 forward - https://www.statista.com/statistics/481739/sprint-corporatio...

The Merger with Nextel managed to kill what was great about Nextel, and what was good about Sprint, and they lost customers in droves (mostly former Nextel ones). In reality Sprint bought Nextel's OAM equipment and their customers, and moved all the legacy Sprint customers onto the surviving billing and network management platforms (Nextel). The iDEN turndown also lost even more customers, most of whom who realized they didnt need PTToC after all (which is too bad, because on dedicated CDMA hardware, it worked really great).

Then they needed to start rolling out LTE (Network Vision) - and NV didnt start in earnest until 2012/13 - and as someone who was on the field end of it, was very very very poorly managed. Sprint some years prior had outsourced all their engineering expertise to Ericsson, which means they had no one in house with any knowledge. They only realized that 18 months in, and then scrambled to get people back from Ericsson (who I will note, they did not contract any of the deployment management to).

I only know this because I was in the middle of the deployment as a field resource in Seattle.

My guess is only half the sites in the network (in Seattle Market) had enough customers to pay their fixed costs.

I concluded while I worked there that there was no way for four carriers to be viable, there isnt enough spectrum allocated, and you pay the same fixed costs over and over again.

I'll go further, Sprint had a massive switch facility for the LD operations with room for like 4 DMS250's in Tacoma, but that's not where they put the SPCS 5ESS, that was in Kirkland in a rented building (and interestingly enough, it's still part of T-Mobiles operations today), there was also another Motorola iDEN switch also in Kirkland.

Post merger they never really made any effort to reduce their fixed costs (sites, switching centers, et al), because that would have cost money - they also got bled dry by having to foot the entire bill for rebanding the SMR band, which was on the order of 2.5 billion dollars. They did close stores (and RS was a major outlet for Sprint Sales, before it went belly up) which contributed to problems later.

So I don't know where you got your info, but I think its hooey - before Softbank bought Sprint, they didn't have the capital to upgrade their 2G/3G network to LTE, much less consider a merger with T-Mobile.
Star Trek: Voyager had an — in my opinion — fantastic story about this that non-contiguously spanned more than one episode starting with season 6’s “Fair Haven”.
Nope.

We ban cocaine and other super addictive drugs. Education is needed but it's not sufficient.
Have you been a customer lately?
It's wild what hoops people jump through to stay on Chrome
> You make it sound like it's just a political decision, but a main reason why attention fades because the virus just becomes less deadly

That's an interesting point, right? I don't know that we have so much control over our attention, living in the age we do. Mass media and advertising, the two pillars of a massive propaganda machine (in a sense of building consensus) continue to pump out opinions, which shape our perception of reality.

In that sense, our attention to the pandemic did not have a chance to develop organically, but it was rather guided and instrumented by the mechanisms in place. The relatively smaller subset of society that controls them (not in a conspiratorial way, but in a practical "business pays for minutes of airtime / ad impressions" way) gets to decide how we perceive world events.

I'd posit (given historical datasets and what we see in wastewater) that the level of infection across communities is roughly comparable to the past few years (why wouldn't it be? nothing's changed after all in our behaviour). It's only in public perception that the pandemic has diminished.
Cyber Security: A Pre-War Reality Check
There are plenty of reports about how Tesla has made this difficult. Tesla parts are difficult to obtain even for Tesla’s own service centers: there are frequent months-long waits. “Certified” non-Tesla shops get parts at a lower priority, non-certified shops simply cannot order most parts (just basic stuff like bumpers)

0: https://www.reddit.com/r/Insurance/s/fkcTScUDpL
It's not just a quarter size hole. It's a quarter size hole in the high voltage battery pack, which is indeed extremely dangerous and needs specialized equipment and skill to replace.
From Teslas own service website:

> Only new Tesla parts, Tesla-approved fasteners, and Tesla-approved structural adhesives must be used when performing repairs on Tesla vehicles.

https://service.tesla.com/docs/BodyRepair/Body_Repair_Proced...

What’s not clear: how much are those “new Tesla parts”?

Tesla uses some scary language to make it seem like they are the only ones that can repair their product.

They have taken a page out of the Apple playbook.
Yeesh, avoiding obvious Russian-isms is one thing, but a common suffix? I say Nyet! Anyone triggered by that isn’t worth accommodating.
Whether feed-driven social media is bad is orthogonal to whether China controlling TikTok is a national security threat. Personally I believe both are true, but the latter is much easier to deal with via legislation.

Semantic bullshit. Similarly strong logical footing as “we’re democratic we just don’t allow non-communist political parties.”

Would you be fine with Yandex running TikTok?
> I feel like one partial solution for NIMBY brain is travelling to cities in other countries and seeing things are different and realizing that it's actually totally fine.

I'd be surprised. Plenty of people would be horrified at the idea of living in a detached home next to a skyscraper.
It depends on the area. In Michigan, for example, the area here is mostly swampland, houses with no infrastructure have to build their own. Usually that means running new power lines, and figuring out well water and septic. Septic is trickier than it seems, you need to have enough space for a leech field large enough to drain properly, it needs to flow properly (away from your home, away from your own well) and soil absorption has to be high enough (and the water line low enough) to handle it all. Having a lot of land isn't enough on it's own, it has to have enough natural drainage to be able to handle itself and anything you need to seep into it.

For example, you might have an acre of land, but if too much of the soil underneath is clay, or if the water table is too high, the wastewater might not drain fast enough, so it sits and stagnates or mixes with freshwater, despite having "lots of land". You generally need a surveyor to produce and sign off on a Topographical Survey to assess that.

So yeah, "there were no sewers once upon a time", sure. But if you try to build suburban-like densities out here without a solid plan signed off, you are likely to end up piping your own sewage right into your own water taps.

https://www.miottawa.org/Health/OCHD/pdf/AboutSewage.pdf
You might find documents like this interesting: https://mymodernmet.com/ancient-egyptians-attendance-record/

But I think others here have pointed out the larger issue at hand, "slavery" isn't a monolith. The spectrum of forced labor is pretty wide and to our modern colloquial use of the word, the builders of the pyramids weren't "slaves" in the same way that those who built the Great Wall or worked in Rome's silver mines were.
> and not the slightest bit New Testament.

I don't know about "slightest"

The part where the state severely beats an innocent man and nails him to a couple of pieces of wood, and the guards hang around waiting for him to die in agony is a pretty central part of the New Testament.

And it turns out there are two other guys also undergoing the same fate. The one guy says - hey use your power and fight against the state and get us out of this mess. He is seen as a villain.

The other guy says, me and the other guy deserve what the state is doing to us, but you don't, but please just remember me in the afterlife. This guy is seen as a good guy.

So yes, there are some hints of this in the New Testament as well.
The author's choice of Loco also claims to directly support ResX: https://localise.biz/help/formats/importing/xml#resx
The most misunderstood emoji of 2024
Federal prison guards often have bonuses based upon their UNICOR (the Federal slave labor corporation) work detail's output. Think about that. The prison guards, who have a financial interest in the UNICOR output, control every detail of these guys lives.

'Hey guys, anyone who wants to volunteer to work overtime can. Also, my bonus depends on it. Anyone want to bring up any safety issues that might slow production? Also, I will be working the UNIT night shift all next week.'

Also FYI, UNICOR does CAD work for McDonalds remodels. Knowing that it kinda makes sense why McDonalds went from bright happy places to the dark, dreary places they are now.
A Bayesian game is a strategic decision-making model that assumes players have incomplete information. In such games, players are aware of the rules and the mechanics governing the game, but they lack full knowledge about certain aspects, like the strategies or payoffs of other players. Poker is a classic example where the game rules are clear to everyone, but players do not know each other's hands.

This contrasts with the real world, where we do not fully understand the "rules" of reality. While we have well-established theories like Newtonian mechanics, quantum mechanics, and general relativity, these frameworks do not provide a complete explanation of everything. In reality, we are continually searching for new rules and understandings.

Imagine playing a game with three known rules while being told there are additional unknown rules. Calculating the odds of these unknown rules based on the existing ones is simply not possible from my perspective.

Then we have concepts like the anthropic principle, which states that "conditions observed in the universe must allow the observer to exist." This statement is a tautology, meaning it is self-evidently true. It's similar to saying, "a game that is played must have conditions that support playing." While tautologies are logically true, they do not offer new information and thus don't allow for substantive new conclusions to be drawn. They simply restate the obvious without providing additional insights.
The State of Alabama has stopped nearly all paroles. There is far too much money to be made from criminals so the state aims to keep them as long as possible.
Yay! Thank you for trying it out, so glad it's been useful!
A novel flame-retardant, smoke-suppressing superhydrophobic transparent bamboo
Proton responded to this in 2021: https://proton.me/blog/climate-activist-arrest

"the identity and location of the activist was already known to the French authorities. The fact that Proton Mail was not able to hand over any messages even under legal order proves that our encryption works, and very likely of great assistance to the activist in this case. Had they been using any other email provider, the outcome would have been very different.

"we also provide an onion site for anonymous access (we are one of the only email providers that supports this)."

They also updated the blog:
"Update: In October 2021, Proton won a Swiss court ruling that email services are not telecommunications providers. Consequently, email services are not subject to the data retention requirements imposed on telecommunications providers and are exempted from handing over certain user data in response to Swiss legal orders."
indeed, it’s the Aesthetics.

Regular mini split heads are huge. They are really visible. It’s a really big turn off to many buyers.
Not enough people did all that for long enough to make a difference. I'm the only one masking at work and in other enclosed spaces.
I pay for enterprise, but I’m also fine with them consuming what I provide to improve, for now.
Queues are great; but it looks like you're trying to solve a different problem. In my own case, the aim was to store a function for delayed execution. That's slightly different from storing typical state. The interesting bit (hopefully) in here is serialising and deserialising function calls.
I’m sorry but this is rather stupid. Europe has done incredible damage to the world that persists to this day. Until they address this damage, it absolutely is not a stale point. Assuming you are European, do not attempt to weasel your way out of your debt to the world.
I did. I built a new PC recently and put Fedora Kinoite on it. There are still rough edges but many less than there used to be, for the most part stuff works "out-of-the-box".

It's my personal machine that I do hobby development and some gaming on. There's a handful of games where the anti-cheat won't work on Linux but the games I play (Counter-Strike, Hunt: Showdown, Halo Infinite) are fine.
Qwest never owned Sprint.
> Firefox isn’t dead

Yet. That's to say that Firefox feels as it's currently on life support; alas one thanks to Google.

All it would take is for Google to remove funding and the browser sinks, Mozilla with it too.
> This is a conjecture that as far as I know does not match what actually happens, which is that the new infrastructure is paid by debt, and the 4 new taxpayers will not have paid off the debt before the infrastructure needs replacement, paid for by more debt.

If four taxpayers aren't paying the amount of taxes required to fund the infrastructure needed by four taxpayers then your city is already bankrupt and zoning and planning is irrelevant.

> If it was 600 new units rather than 4

If it was literally only 4 units then you shouldn't need any new infrastructure anyway. Nothing should be operating with margins that thin to begin with.

If it's 4 units here, 4 units there then it adds up to hundreds which is the thing you admit isn't a problem.
True but it’s unclear how much the performance difference is from Qualcomm delivering value vs. Qualcomm destroying competitors’ value through blatant patent trolling.
And now everyone misses the good old days from Heroku.
It wasn't to fix the hole, it was damage to the battery that wasn't covered by the warranty because of the hole.
Unless you do something unusual, that's almost exactly what it means. (Almost exactly because new causes appear, and those chances won't stay constant during your life.)
Another interesting takeaway is that because you are taking a single line capture the pixel distance equates to time not to distance like a normal image.

What that means is that if you pick two points on the car, you can measure that distance in pixels and multiply by the frequency to get change in time.
Divide the actual physical distance of those two points by that result and you know how fast the car was traveling.
By the time they merged with T-Mobile, they had a fully modern LTE network - I know because I helped to deploy it.

That never would have happened without Softbank buying them however.
Everything I can find points to an issue on some Netgear routers. At least some people say that disabling a specific router feature (stateful packet inspection firewall) would fix it, which seems like damning evidence. Presumably the router didn't actually crash, it just triggered the firewall. Interesting bit of archeological security. The fun part is that nothing has improved.
Not only did they put their real apple email, but the recovery email itself is an optional feature (of which there are a few to pick from).
Taboos and Self-Censorship Among U.S. Psychology Professors
It was always good natured and I enjoyed the comradery that came from it. He also taught me a lot about vim and command line tools in general.
Might help show prior art to defeat software patents too.
That's pretty neat, not much in the way of progress bar for me but they load in about 30 seconds. And it seems a little choppy at times but playable. Reminds me of late stage flash era games.
Spending money on linux devs who are available to help work through problems and keep systems up to date.
It actually did really well 3/3 tries correct when given the text prompt and a simple chain of thought appended to the end of the prompt. What's interesting is that combining it with another mode (image) caused confusion, or rather introduced another source of potential errors.
Believe it or not suicide is legal.
This is interesting because many believe the Black Plague is what caused the Renaissance. Maybe Roman leadership drained themselves ensuring that power structures stayed in place, whereas in post Black Plague Europe survivors were left with tons of land and hierarchies fell to pieces now that workers had so much leverage.
> The best way to resolve these issues is never "force the bad guys to do good things" but rather destroy the walls which enable their rent seeking.

The walls here are defined by physics. There's only so much spectrum to go around.

You can't have more than 3-4 large cell phone operators working in the same area. Decoupling the radio part and forcing everyone to play as MVNOs is a way to work around this.
But
> CreateAt > ?1 OR (CreateAt = ?1 AND Id > ?2)

Is not the same as:

> CreateAt, Id) > (?1, ?2)

Because it is like that:

> createdAt > ?1 OR (createdAt <= ?1 and Id > ?2)

Or am I wrong?!
Is this what humans do?
Thanks for absorbing the downvotes. Helpful or not, I mostly agree with your reaction. Let the work stand on its own without injecting identity into it.
GPT-4o My and Google I/O Day
Actually, this is feel-good nonsense.

Pretty much every society has treated at least some of those over whom it has power over very, very poorly:

Assyria,

Persia,

Greece,

Rome,

Han China,

Franks,

Arab Empire,

Mongols,

Ottomans,

Spanish,

French,

British,

Belgians,

Germans,

Swedes,

Norwegians,

Soviets,

Americans,
Show HN: Dingo: Rapid Prototyping of RAG-Powered Applications
Plus, you don’t really need six units. My system (Mass) has 5 for a 3 bedroom house.
$29k in 2021 prior to rebates.
and... no single screen shoot of it?

what an article!
You're spot on, I posted a long comment downthread elsewhere, but you're 100% correct here.

Sprint lost money basically every year after they merged with Nextel (having to pay for rebanding was part of it).
> I'm pretty sure AA cannon is cheaper to build than this RFDEW device

I suspect AA cannon may suffer in accuracy on such ranges trying to target small moving target, because too much physics is involved (wind, bullet drop), from another hand those beaming devices will have near 100% accuracy.
That's fair enough--in any slave society, there's a decent chance that any sufficiently large body of unskilled labor contains slavery simply because some non-negligible fraction of the labor force is slave.

That said, I interpret a statement like "the pyramids were built with slaves" to refer to an idea that the vast majority of the workforce were slaves, as for example was the case for agricultural workers in the antebellum US south (although apparently it was roughly 6 free workers : 7 slave workers specifically in agriculture in the region, a somewhat lower ratio than I would have expected--I guess I'm undercounting the existence of non-slave agricultural lands.)
If I were to pick one book that has had the most impact on how I think about programming languages it would be the textbook Programming Language Pragmatics by Michael Scott.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/89197.Programming_Langua...
$25,000 for a two year old $47,000 car with 70,000 miles already on it may not be that great a deal. A brand new one is that price so you're basically paying 31.5 cents a mile to buy the newer ...
Too Much Yard in My Backyard: Minimum lot size regulation are deleterious
Having a better product and charging more for it very quickly becomes overcharging in a market that has such limited competition.

Their premium was very very likely already plenty.
Correct, the journalist is stating it "is a replacement" without providing source
What if you had 30k or 10k teslas hanging around for parts though?
Where would you recommend someone find one of these? Do they expire, or could I get one to cover years worth of travel? Thanks!
Would they be equally horrified at living in a skyscraper next to a skyscraper?
They internalize it with tacit assumptions and let runtime exceptions deal with it when the assumptions are violated. We all do this to some extent, and not just in programming, but many people are a lot more YOLO about it when the language allows it (see “duck typing”)
Thanks for the relayd example. It's not something I had really looked into, but was 'stuck' using nginx as I didn't want to figure out a OpenBSD-way of implementing a reverse proxy alongside using httpd.
They didnt start to build their LTE network until 2012-13.
I'd rather a beam of light be fired over a city than a constant stream of projectiles that have to come down somewhere.
> If you're shooting at a cheap drone with a million-dollar-missile - ... to defend a high-value target.

The cost of the drone is less important than the price of what you are protecting
I would probably care a little if my country’s historical record (in the form of human and animal bodies) was turned into paint.

(You can turn me into paint when I’m dead, but I don’t think it takes a huge stretch to understand why nobody makes paint out of mummies anymore.)