skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My main desire in trying NextCloud was syncing files with a handful of people, as a free software replacement for Dropbox. All of the other features were nice to haves.

I've tried several of the "budget" NextCloud hosts. I'm not going to name names, but all of them were very disappointing. File syncing frequently broke in hard to diagnose ways. And from a perspective of overall service, I would get 502s, 503s, or 504s far more often that I should have. This was with multiple budget providers. I didn't try any of the more expensive providers, because I couldn't afford it, so maybe this is a "get what you pay for" situation... But in theory, the size servers I was paying for should have been able to handle our traffic volume.

Anyway, after a couple of years of trying to make hosted NextCloud work for us, I gave up and bought Dropbox's paid service and haven't had any issues with it.

We use Cryptomator on top of Dropbox to ensure data privacy, by the way. Back when we were using NextCloud, we had been using their end to end encryption plugin until we discovered a silent failure mode in which it was uploading documents in plaintext to the "encrypted" folder. I believe nowadays the recommendation even for NextCloud is to use Cryptomator on top, rather than their built-in encryption.
My voice is even more scarce, there is only one of them in the whole world! I think. Also, we can both own the same land.

I do understand rivalry in economics, but that's not the issue here. The issue is the need to protect individuals from abuse, part of which is the one's right to their own likeness. This likeness is not free for the taking. Now, we can call this owning the likeness, or we can call it something else, but having something, that is not free for taking, sounds an awful lot like owning something.
Yeah, and since most civilians in Israel are part or were part of the IDF, then the comment you're replying to is right. And according to the same logic you're using, said Israelis are totally fair game for an enemy state or organization to target and kill. If killing suspected Hezbollah fighters outside of the battlefield in civilian areas is totally fine, because they could fight Israel, then most Israeli civilians are too according to that twisted logic.

I'm sure you'd have said the same if a few thousand explosive devices went off all over Israel, and Hezbollah said that it was just them targeting IDF troops.
XCode is awful but JetBrains makes the best IDEs. There are people that dislike all IDEs which I disagree with but understand.

VSCode isn't bad but disliking Android Studio just feels like you started with it and didn't want to learn a different tool.
It’s actually not _predicting_ what emoji you want. There’s aliases assigned to each emoji and you are presented with the options based on the last word you typed.

You might know this already, but how Apple has coded it is it’ll replace the last word with an emoji unless you put a trailing space. But if you put down a space first it’ll add the emoji. So in your examples you would write “I hope tomorrow is sunny pray” and choose the emoji and it will be “I hope tomorrow is sunny :pray:”
"It's very frustrating. The idea that Earth revolves around the Sun is nonsensical. I don't understand why so many astronomers keep saying that."
That's not true, the kernel driver knows what page mappings belong to particular processes, including GPU page mappings. Moreover, you have no choice but to talk to that kernel driver; you can't go behind its back and talk truly directly to the GPU, even if you bypass the userspace GPU driver, because this would allow circumventing memory protection. It is true, however, that modern GPU kernel drivers are relatively thin.
By law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_rights
I have a bunch of credit from the Costco thing and haven’t noticed any changes in pricing on my usual routes.
If only HTTP 402 had been widely supported.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/402
As someone who does a ton of networking/routing at the link layer for a day job, I can definitely see why they’re taking measures to reduce bandwidth hogs - to the extent I might actually prefer to be on a network that has taken measures to reduce hogging vs one that has not.

When it really truly matters, like when I have a business need to download huge items in remote areas, the $10/GB+ justifies itself.
> I would say for other people

It wasn't blame and I wrote that specifically for that reason
> pretty milk winter in toronto as well

How many people live in IECC Climate Zones ≥5:

* https://basc.pnnl.gov/images/iecc-climate-zone-map

And even for those that do, just because someone may not cycle in the winter, that does not preclude cycling during the other three seasons. Further, not all winter days are bad, even in colder climates.

See also "Why Canadians Can't Bike in the Winter (but Finnish people can)":

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhx-26GfCBU

Or a fellow in Calgary:

* https://www.youtube.com/@Shifter_Cycling

Or a couple that have live(d) in Ottawa and Montreal:

* https://www.youtube.com/@OhTheUrbanity/search?query=winter
What commercial flight route needs the most (min poss.) stops from A to B?
See Cal Civ Code 1021.5. Idk if it would be available in this context but maybe there’s an angle.
Thank you! I do.

https://mathworld.wolfram.com/PointLattice.html
If they are in active service, conscription or called reserves yes they are legitimate targets.

Simply killing a 28 year old because they could be called up is not.

This isn’t that difficult to understand, not that the militant groups in the region care or follow any rules in the first place.
What you’re describing are sometimes consequences of the hacker ethic, they’re not core features.
Damn, this reads like something Hezbollah would say. I mean the rockets they launch will probably kill IDF troops, whether active or not as most Israelis are part of the IDF reserves and can be called at any point to fight. Sure there are kids around them but hey, odds are it will still also kill some enemy fighters so that's fine!
There does need to be a good product to back them up for long term success. That's where Bankman-Freid failed. Jobs was successful, and the products/company he created have outlived him and his image.
> sqlx — a compile time, type safe SQL wrapper that runs your queries against a real DB

SQLx seems like end game stuff at first glance, but after trying it out for a while I eventually decided that it wasn't for me. Writing dynamic/conditional queries just sucks and there isn't any good solution. On the DX side, completion, formatting/linting, highlighting is also non-existent (at least on VS Code).

I eventually settled on [Diesel][0] (a query builder-ish ORM) and I'm loving it so far. Its [performance][1] crushes every other SQL libraries, including SQLx (very counter-intuitive, huh?). It's technically an ORM, but the query builder is very flexible and you can also extend it with your own traits. It got its warts, but it's the most tolerable SQL rust library I've found so far.

[0]: https://diesel.rs

[1]: https://github.com/diesel-rs/metrics
You're absolutely right, and yet the romantic in me still thinks there is hope.

I have an excellent example where some friends used to run a wifi mesh in my city. They handed out mesh nodes to small business owners like restaurants and corner shops. These devices were tiny, and only required power since they were mesh nodes.

The point here is that these nodes lasted for years. Sometimes we went around and restarted, or updated firmware, but by and large they worked so well that they were forgotten by the business owner.

This was 10 years ago, today a local web server, or similar device, might work in a similar way.

One idea would be to integrate it into their internet package. They get a router that gives their shop wifi, at the same time it also runs their ordering system.

I think it's possible, anything is possible if you're motivated, but large businesses don't like independence. They prefer that small business and end users are dependent on them.
I had been a customer - for a decade or more - of a company that WP Engine acquired. A couple of years after the acquisition I began to get persistent - VERY persistent - calls and emails from their ‘product specialists’ who were determined to get me a “better deal”.

It turns out that their idea of a better deal was to move me onto a more expensive plan with lower limits than the plan I’d been on for 10+ years. They kept trying. I kept saying “I’m not interested”. But I got tired out of their constant spamming. So I left.

Over my time with them I’d spent somewhere in the region of $40k I think. I referred a fair few people to them as well. Not a huge amount in the grand scheme of things I realise, but you’d think it would count for something. Apparently not.

I’m no longer a customer of WP Engine. I could have stayed another ten years. I’m taking my next $40k and spending it elsewhere.
These combination/cross deals are AFAIK quite rare in the EU (or outside the US in general?) If your credit card is branded some way, it'll give you something with that brand (e.g. Lufthansa CC) but that's about it. (And I don't think there's an Uber branded credit card?)
Vega/Altair is a declarative grammar, so I wouldn't dump it in with the others. It's also convenient because it reduces to json (easy to store) and has TypeScript libraries for native presentation in a browser.
I would say that civil engineers probably have more on the line, than anyone else. They can kill people, and go to jail, more often, than any of the others (where doing so is more of an exception, and with civil engineers, it's the norm).
The fact that its unfalsifiable is the problem. They can (and why wouldn't they) run all sorts of shenanigans with their pricing algorithms.

Pricing algorithms should be not be private. Free markets depend on transparent pricing.
It’s ultimately just going to make WP Engines life harder to not contribute back. Forks are a PITA.
> The problem isn't that there isn't money, but that there isn't enough money for scientific research

My whole point is that if you believe this, you've accepted defeat: you're saying the politics is unwinnable and there's no convincing the people with the purse strings to give out any extra money for science, while the defense contractors suckle at the government's teat unimpeded doing exactly what you said isn't possible for the scientists to do.

The whole argument is literally that we shouldn't explore areas of science because cheaper science should be prioritized. And in fact, I think that attitude is actively harmful for the reasons Adam Mastroianni writes about when he talks about the NIG giving money to "safe" projects labeled as innovative[1]. If all you ever fund are projects that you think are safe, affordable uses of money, you don't end up with MRNA vaccines or a cure for goiter, you end up with a pile of papers that didn't do a whole lot to further anything at all.

[1] https://open.substack.com/pub/experimentalhistory/p/whos-got...
Reasons I choose android.
1. Data on device is mine. I can plug it in and access data on phone like it's a hdd.

2. Devices work way better with other devices. I can plug it in to any laptop or computer and without any other software access the device. No downloading iTunes to do basic functions.

3. I can slap just about any usb-c peripheral into my phone and it just works. Need to test a eth connection onsite? Just whip out my laptops eth dongle and off I go.

4. Menus actually let me access phone functions.

5. OS is actually easier to get around and do stuff. Nice simple buttons overlayed on bottom of screen, easy af to navigate. I can train an 70 year old to use an android phone as the menus and system layout make sense. Apples a bloody nightmare to use for basic functionality.

6. Doesn't get bricked because it's "too old" because the mob who sold it to me are having a money grab trying to force me to update because they say so.

7. More price competition due to more companies selling devices.I can buy brand new android rigs that have all the basic functionality for dirt cheap with a warranty. Monopolies rarely provide value to the user.
And (what to most consumers seems like) an equivalent Windows machine can be had for less than half that. After 2.5 years, you can upgrade. This argument has been had ad nauseum; it's not interesting anymore. I just wanted to point out what seemed like a mistake in your analysis re: sales. If you'd like to discuss that, that's fine.
SvelteKit, Rust Boilerplate – Need to build a SaaS who's performant?
You want to build an web app who's fast ?
Make your project with this boilerplate, It use Rust as a backend, and serve frontend to make your web app cheaper (ex: on AWS) and faster than a "normal" framework like NextJS, NuxtJS, even SvelteKit itself.

If you're developer you're free to make pull requests and help this project to grow up. Thanks
I just make this boilerplate, not totally finished but it work, I will upgrade it every day
That's cool, but when decent companies think that legitimately useful people are considering resigning they often don't fire but instead offer a raise.
Xcode's new autocomplete is pretty awful. It tries to be smart, but keeps hallucinating nonexistent API methods, and makes up stuff from my own codebase.
I thank goodness I haven't been subjected to (mobile) Apple for many years in order to speak to what they "allow" and don't nowadays, but the short answer is that I want to *fucking own* the hardware I pay fuckloads of money to purchase

Also, while I was typing out the "I want f-droid.org for iOS" I realized there is a pragmatic answer: I want to build and distribute apps without having to pay for the right to do so, not because I am stingy but because paying is gatekeeping. Do you know how much the Joplin devs have to pay Google to put this .apk link here[1]? $0

1: https://joplinapp.org/help/install/#mobile-applications
That's not the reason. The host android has full access to the child VMs; the VM can't hide anything from the hypervisor. It's about isolation. The child VM can't leak your photos or contact list if it doesn't have it in the first place, and sticking things into their own VM provides an additional layer of isolation beyond what exists currently.
When you call a restaurant, you might be chatting with an AI host
> or spend your time managing something you get for $10/mo from Google?

Or spend your time writing privacy policies and adding 3rd party data-sharing consent banners.
It is true, but also kind of trivial. More subtly, one can say that we tend to call what is real using the same words that we use for mathematical objects that model them.
brainfuck is truly the language of the gods
But if you read what monks actually write about it you'll see that they there are tons of moments of doubt and despair where they don't want to go through those habits.

Their habits work because they're _forced to_. There is nothing else to do in monastic life and no option to following those habits that isn't leaving the life completely.

In the same way if you go to school you're forced into class structure with assignments that give very little in the way of options if you want to actually finish a degree.

The most effective way to have habits is to be forced to have them. I can't keep habits worth shit when I have no schedule. I suddenly have schedules and classes and the leeway becomes smaller.
This really is a good way to go. The majority of apps can be a PWA just fine as long as you don't have to have an app in the Apple app store. If you need push notifications of the specific Apple variety or any other APIs that Apple doesn't think non-native apps should be able to call, then you'll hit some friction as well, but for the most part it's a pleasant delivery strategy.

Even now if I need a "native" app I'm looking very seriously at React Native first before rolling two totally separate apps in different languages.
> Free markets depend on transparent pricing.

I mean, there are no surprise post-ride fees or anything. They're quoting you what the actual price is, and they're free to quote whatever they want for whatever reasons they want. Nobody's forcing you to agree to it. There's nothing stopping you from getting a competitive quote from Lyft by simply switching apps on the phone. Or by calling a cab company. Also there's nothing that keeps you from choosing to wait for a bus.

*Edit: Per Uber's help page there are exceptions to the up-front price quote actually being charged, but they are exceptions. My basic point that it's still a free market stands. "The upfront price you’re shown may change due to a number of circumstances, which may include adding stops, updating your destination, significant changes to the route or duration of the trip, or you pass through a toll that was not factored into your upfront price. In addition, you may incur wait time fees for the time you take to get to the car at the pickup or multi-stop fees for time spent at an on-trip stop."
Strange, the Lisp example has a lot of syntax, even though the article claims it hasn't.

letrec, lambda, or & and are not functions in Scheme.
Although true in most cases, a lot of great products appeared first as internal tools.
Better is subjective. Not everyone likes Seaborn's defaults.
> or by multiple phones looking at the same route implying increased demand (the latter search might display a higher price)

This post sounded like it's saying that the later search is the one with the lower price.
I actually did and it said: "While the proportion of critically viewed gliadins fell by around 18 percent, the proportion of glutenins rose by around 25 percent."

Sure, you can say one thing is a little bit lower and another thing is a little bit higher, so it is the same. But as I always said: Units! Units! Units!

Maybe the glutenins are underrated?
Good guess! This has always seemed like a tricky edge-case-ridden feature, so I’m not super surprised it eventually broke. I mean, this is the kind of thing that should be covered by automated tests, but who knows what’s going on internally…

Personally, I’m putting good money on someone “fixing” some regex constant while doing another bug by either disabling full-match or taking off the “useless” $ at the end. This is why you don’t do unrelated fixes!! Otherwise, I don’t see any way this would get past ticket review as an intentional change in any half-awake dev team.
REST (REpresentational State Transfer) as a concept is very human orientated. The idea was a sort of academic abstraction of html. but it can be boiled down to: when you send a response, also send the entire application needed to handle that response. It is unfortunate that collectively we had a sort of brain fart and said "ok, REST == http, got it" and lost the rest of the interesting discussion about what it means to send the representational state of the process.
Woah, I feel dumb (I knew all this, but my tired brain did a silly while I commented). Thanks for correcting me! I can’t edit my message.
nope, horrible Lenovo experience here as well.
battery life is a joke
Is ggplot2 still using hyphens for minus signs? A pet peeve of mine.
New battery designs could lead to gains in power and capacity
Researchers are looking beyond the cathode
You've never been sick from keeping an extremely busy life and when you do it takes out your will for a couple solid weeks?
I agree 100%. My comment was extremely harsh but to my defence he has even apologies for his over zealous comments.

https://www.pcgamesn.com/masters-of-albion/peter-molyneux-ne...

My comment was not about his games though. It was a a strong suggestion to ignroe all his bullshit and wait for the game.

Fable is great if you ignore all his antics. All his games are ground breaking in one way or another. Just don't listen to his bs.
Nudge: Lightweight Non-Parametric Fine-Tuning of Embeddings for Retrieval
There's also an app called userland which seems to spin up some kind of VM. I don't know if android supports KVMs or if it's a real userspace chroot type of deal.

I toyed with it briefly, the performance is about what I expected given the hardware I was using. Which is to say, not a terrible amount of overhead
I'm from a generation where I will try to find my answers before calling. But when I need to talk to a human I'm in a situation that something is unclear.

But more and more do we run into situations where no-one has the actual knowledge or power to solve your problem.
I don't think it's actually auto-correcting, it's offering an emoji option in the word suggestions that matches your last typed word (if there is one) and allows you to select it to replace the previously typed word. As far as I know it doesn't auto-replace anything you typed with an emoji with the exception of the old basic smileys.
Willow is a semi-common name. But good chance it is from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willow_(TV_series) and/or the original movie.
During their growth years when they arguably did the shadiest stuff they also had record-breaking quarterly losses in the billions while their counterpart DiDi in China was doing well enough to acquire Uber China (who according to Travis Kalanick was losing over $1b a year).
Perhaps this is a case of overzealous bureaucrats improvising legal judgements outside their jurisdiction, e.g. the Rimmer directives.
C++ or Rust? Or Zig? Or D? Kinda pretty much anything else tbh?
Well, pedantically DFU allows injecting someone else's recovery partition, usually from a computer over USB but probably from Apple's CDN if they have the equivalent of macOS's "Internet Recovery." What I'm guessing this change provides is that the iPhone itself carries a recovery partition, and based on the language allows pseudo-AirDrop-ing it to someone else
Wise, it seems! Surprising to see no one think that maybe their recent OS upgrade would be at fault. Hindsight is 20/20 I guess, and at least they were nice about pushing the subject;

This is what happens. I'm sorry you can't reproduce it. Are you using mac for this?
>Northern Virginia — home to the largest concentration of data centers in the world

Beside other factors, it seems there is decent concentration of nuclear power plants in the area.

And it seems we'll see even more close ties between those technologies - Oracle talks nuclear reactors as a part of the future data centers, and MS partnered to start a Three Mile reactor specifically for MS datacenters.
they're usually not though, just polite enough to get the job done and you can sense the real connection through that.

Similarly, when someone is being overly friendly to you, it feels strange. Now imagine a robot that does nothing but that automatically.
What you're responding to is market demand for an alternative. Who knows if it'll spring into existence, but the words have been uttered into the universe.
The second article, about the GoT character, is a big nothing burger:

> With fears it could affect her daughter’s future travel, the family sought legal advice over the passport rejection.

> They found while there is a trademark for Game of Thrones, it does not apply to a person’s name.

> The family then sent that information back to the Passport Office to clear up the issue.

> The Passport Office has since apologised to Lucy and her family, labelling the rejection a “mistake” and claimed there was a misunderstanding between guidance staff.
Exactly! Why can we fund defense projects with no cap on budget that might never become operational but we have to pick and choose which areas of science we're going to put money towards? That's the whole point: nobody is glad we spent the money. Surely instead of inventing an almost unimaginably expensive jet, we could have spent that money on less ambitious jets that are many orders of magnitude cheaper? Ukraine doesn't have any F-35s and yet they're holding their own against Russia. Why is there a double standard?
You can contribute to Servo?