skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's probably more important

No, it absolutely is not - the opposite actually. F1 history is full of mediocre drivers getting catapulted into top spots by rocket-cars, only to fall back into mediocrity once competing teams catch up on the engineering.

It's also why everyone knows that, outside the 2-3 top teams that dominate the table on any given year, the real competition is between drivers in the same team, because it's the only fair fight for drivers (since both have basically the same car).

Driver skill is definitely a factor, don't get me wrong, but F1 is 95% about the car.
Extremely welcome legislation, especially since it has an exception for "permanent download that can be accessed offline", ie. DRM-free downloads. It's about time someone actually calls out Big Media on their deceptive practices. As I've been saying for years, it's not "buying" with DRM-encumbered media, merely "renting for an undefined time period".

In fact, it'd be even nicer if the legislation explicitly required rental terminology to be used for anything DRM-encumbered, but well, even as-is, this is an extremely welcome development and I hope legislators worldwide are taking note and plan to follow suit as soon as possible. This kind of victory for digital consumer rights has been long overdue!
"Some things I like: [...]

- *n-word*
- objectifying women
- weak women
- stalking"
are we just waiting for excel to exhibit this behavior shortly?
In regular training shoes I can barely run a mile without getting some pretty bad pains in the side of my knee. With good cushioned running shoes I can easily do 10-12 miles pain free.

I'm assuming it's a form thing, and that the running shoes just somehow naturally give me a better form, so I could maybe fix by learning how to run in normal non-running shoes, but I'm lazy and would rather just pay a few hundred every few months.
No one used Standard Pascal, just like everyone embraces their Compiler C extensions and many of them are blissfully unaware their code fails to compiler under strict ISO C conformance mode.

We are beyond Ada 83, Controlled Types and SPARK exist, and Rust also does runtime bounds checking, so what.
It would be helpful to understand exactly which layers in the stack you think of as technically difficult.
I believe yes, it's that easy. Zuck is breaking your feed posting ads and low quality retention content, you see only the most vocal discussions, people who post less often are not shown at all, and one day you realize your old FB which was more about connecting with others is just full of shit you have no intention of following at all. Sometimes your muscle memory wins so you open it once or twice to see what is going on, still same unpleasant experience, and then you quit.
Pop quiz: What's better for your wallet? a game with a 66% expected payout that you will play twice before you lose interest, or a game with a 97.3% payout that you'll play 31 times on average?

The comparison needs to be in terms of typical use, otherwise engineering for addictiveness gets a free pass because it often hinges on frequent small rewards and can have a near unity return on a single shot basis yet be a big money maker for the house.

Of course there are probably 'safer' forms of gambling that some addicts are presumably able to use to maintain their addiction at a level which isn't disruptive to their life. ... but single shot EV isn't the right metric. Some weekly state lottery usually has pretty poor EV, yet is seldom ruining anyone.
>Chargebacks for instance are a key protection which I have made use of multiple times. There’s no such option available with bank transfers.

In case someone doesn't understand why this is the case:

Banks don't really care about your money.

Banks really care about their money.

When you buy something with a debit card, you are spending your money.

When you buy something with a credit card, you are spending the bank's money.

Yes, banks tout zero fraud liability with your debit charges just like credit charges; no, their enthusiasm is /dev/null compared to credit charges.
A hybrid solution with AI and Blockchain would work best (for the very long term).

That way the content can be monetized using Bitcoin as the payment backbone.

You laugh, but all TV will work this way in the future. Micropayments. Think Grameen, but for Video Clips.
The greatest performance improvement of all: From not-working to working
I don't like the fonts, maybe quirky is not good for finance.
Your home can be raided for, say, running a Tor node, and you best believe they'll be looking for anything to charge you with because that's their job. I don't see anything wrong with this one.

Fun fact: having nmap installed on your computer is illegal in Germany.
Steadily appears on HN every two years:
https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=libcello.org
I was expecting something like Gobo Linux, with various package managers installing packages into their own non-conflicting paths with Gobo symlink wizardry, but instead:

> [...] through Apx, a wrapper around Distrobox. The latter, in turn, is a wrapper around Podman, Docker, or the simple container manager lilipod
People using their free speech and free association is now "policing thoughtcrime"? It's always interesting how that works.

Ought we not be allowed to make an informed decisions about whether we want to use a piece of tech? Or whether we wish to associate with an individual?
Nothing much, what about you?
> notify some other system with a POST message

I think this part would be blocked until the write confirmation comes back. Cloudflare can presumably achieve this in the network stack, so it should be agnostic to the code/library/platform.
I'm referring to this https://garden.glennstovall.com/notes/build%20your%20own%20d...
In 2021 Hamilton was robbed of the title by Michael Masi. :o(
that's a good point.

Ban advertising for gambling, tax the hell out of gambling companies... possibly create some sort of regulation for actual gamblers, i.e. check their ID against a national database everytime they bet to ensure they're not over-doing it... seems more likely to fix the issue than outright prohibition, which, at least for other things like drugs and prostitution, doesn't really seem to solve much.
So this is the "having stuff weighs you down thread", I guess tomorrow something people like will get deleted off streaming services and we'll have the "owning physical media is The Way" thread.

The thing about archives is that it's never clear what will turn out to be important or valuable. You're buying and storing a pile of lottery tickets. Yes, they're probably worthless. But only probably.

I suspect a lot of people's thinking is informed by the long saga of missing Doctor Who episodes, too.

Edit: here's today's "keep forever" thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41665593

Myself, I hoard in moderation and don't even have a home media server.
These are all redacted in the current version, including his real estate records.
HP printers apparently have AI now, because of course they do
There are and you can get cheap noname Chinese ones for as low as $10.

Unfortunately most of them are terrible. I've played with it on and off for years and even gotten individual tools for $100+ but still have issues. It's a bit of a mess with PAL/NTSC, different recommended settings, and at the end of the day you still need a high quality VCR to extract all the data. Those tend to go for hundreds of dollars here. You also need a time base corrector (some VHS have them built in I believe) to avoid dropping frames and causing desync.

A common suggestion is to just get a VHS->DVD recorder and then rip the DVD. You lose out on quality but it usually works and will save you a ton of time.

The suggestion by OP is probably if you truly want to maximize the quality.
CachyOS Optimized Repositories
How do you know the drummyfish person doesn't have a mental illness either? Arguably most personality "quirks" are caused by either some medical issue or events in childhood, some of which can be addressed as an adult and "sorted out", but some of which cannot.

It's entirely possible that drummyfish is a victim of some childhood trauma, which is likely easier to get into control than severe schizophrenia in the case of Terry Davis.

To be clear I totally agree with you, but I am arguing that you never quite know where illness ends and identity starts and we should try to attribute less bad behavior to identity for everyone.
The most baffling part of it is that at first glance it seems nothing like the Dutch IDEAL system.

The IDEAL system is a replacement for online C2B payments. Rather than entering an incredibly insecure credit card number, the storefront redirects you to your bank, where you safely log in, confirm payment, and get redirected back to the store. It's essentially OAuth for payment. The only annoying part is having to manually select your bank, but even that is now a non-issue with a single unified QR code you can scan in any mobile banking app.

On the other hand, https://wero-wallet.eu/ tells me that Wero is a C2C system, so basically an alternative to Paypal, Venmo, Tikkie, or all the bank-initiated payment request implementations we've seen pop up over the last few years. You can send and receive money via your mobile phone number. So how is this supposed to be like IDEAL?

Reading the FAQs it feels like nothing more than a strictly-worse version of Tikkie, but potentially with an added attack vector for your bank account. In other words, I see very little reason to switch to it.
All the "EU regulations prevent innovation" commentators suddenly in shambles.
> I assure you that there are people who are happy with the clothing they own and do not buy more except to replace things that wear out or develop holes.

This is mostly my style. Actually, I can keep using things well after they develop holes. The shirt I'm wearing right now has four different holes developing around one of the wrist cuffs. I'd believe $60 / year for replacement-level clothing. $3.50 / year isn't enough to replace things that develop holes.
> Isn't being able to manufacturing cheaply the signature of a highly developed society?

Maybe. Or a it’s a sign that workers, the environment, or some other factor is being exploited for gain.
Mediterranean (or at least the GP's family, which they say is Mediterranean).
> Visa and Mastercard moved swiftly to suspend their operations, preventing overseas payments by Russian cardholders and halting foreigners from making transactions on Russian soil.

> Russia’s central bank, ready for this sort of crisis, had previously created the National Payment Card System to process transactions domestically, even if the cards carried a Visa or Mastercard logo. This workaround meant consumers could continue to make payments locally after the invasion.

Not knowing much about how Visa/MC works internally, how is this technically possible? I thought both companies had most of the control over their networks, and if Visa/MC says "Charge rejected", then that's the outcome. But here it seems like the Central Bank was able to still be able to process the cards at least domestically, but unclear exactly how.
I think your comment illustrates that our current society is built on gambling. Most businesses dark. We want people to take the bet and invest into companies, because that's what gives us all these goods and services we use. This system allows people to voluntarily combine their skill and luck to try for a better future. Society benefits as a side-effect.
> Dethrace is released to the Public Domain. The documentation and function provided by Dethrace may only be utilized with assets provided by ownership of Carmageddon.

> The source code in this repository is for non-commerical use only. If you use the source code you may not charge others for access to it or any derivative work thereof.

I'm confused. Is the source code in this repository public domain, or not?
I've had years where I definitely spend less than £100 on clothing, and many years where I've spent almost £0 (I'm not counting running shoes here, or climbing shoes), those are kinda specialist, but day to day clothing definitely very very little.

I loathe clothes shopping.
Sepa direct debit has chargebacks.
one example of a small european country is Switzerland, where a big part of the population uses TWINT. I can instantly send money to my friends, split bills, pay parking tickets etc.

Most big banks have their own TWINT apps, so that you don't even have to use it as a prepaid solution and it's instead directly linked to your bank account.

no idea if that's also how venmo/cashapp works.
> If maximizing value is not the goal, then why should Marxism redefine value in a counter-intuitive way?

Because it's only an exchange value and doesn't take into account the myriad of things that also have value but are not a consequence of work ? And the goal of Marxism might not be to maximize exchange value ?

> In Marxist societies people are in charge that pretend to have the laborers best interest in their hearts

Hard disagree, looking at societies applying values evolved from Marxist theories I see people in charge of themselves. I think of the old Commune de Paris, of the Spanish Revolution, of the Rojava. You need to look further than the one example you have in mind.
what about Quarantine?
Whoa! That's wrong HP, first implement Blockchain THEN AI...that's the right order.
New frameworks are fancy because organizations don't have them
Micronesian Island of Nauru Joins Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)
Surely you don't need sudo for listing with either apt or rpm.
I vote we ban alcohol next :DDDDD
I like the high contrast actually, that aspect reminds me of gov.uk
I know the article is just using the noise thing as an excuse to deep dive into zfs and proxmox, which is cool, but if what you really care about is reducing noise I thought I'd leave some practical advice here:

1. Most hard drive noise is caused by mechanical vibrations being transmitted to the chassis the drive is mounted on.

2. Consequently the most effective way to reduce noise is to reduce the mechanical coupling in the drive mounting mechanism. Having the drives in a noise-isolating case is helpful too, but only as a secondary improvement. Optimizing the drive mounting should really be the first priority.

3. If space isn't a concern the optimal thing is to have a large case (like an ATX or larger) with a large number of HDD bays. The mounting should use soft rubber or silicon grommets. Some mounting systems can work with just the grommets, but systems that use screws are ok too as long as the screw couples to the grommet not the chassis. In a good case like this any number of hard drives can be made essentially inaudible.

4. If space is a concern, a special purpose "NAS like" case (example: the Jonsbo N line of cases) can approach the size of consumer NAS boxes. The lack of space makes optimal accoustics difficult, but it will still be a 10x improvement over typical consumers NASes.

5. Lastly what you shouldn't ever do is get one of those consumers NAS boxes. They are made with no concern for noise at all, and manufacturing cheapness constraints tend to make them literally pessimal at it. I had a QNAP I got rid of that couldn't have been more effective at amplifying drive noise if it had been designed for that on purpose.
When everything is supposed to be "free speech", then yes. That's exactly why total free speech is a red herring.
Should probably mention that it's your own software and that it cost $5. Not that the money really matters.
I hold the strong belief that gambling companies are evil and make the world worse and I wouldn't find the burning of them down by the loved ones of people's lives they ruined to be unethical.

However people should know what regulating ethics to this degree looks like: the modern PRC. In the PRC you get a government mandated timer on your MMOs to ensure you don't spend too much time playing videogames. In the internet cafes there's 24/7 a CPC bureaucrat prowling around keeping an eye on your chats - plus automated mandated filters which depending on the implementation can auto kick you from a multiplayer match, hence the entirely viable strategy when playing against PRC players to spam "FREE HONG KONG REVOLUTION OF OUR TIMES CCP COMMITS GENOCIDE AGAINST UIGHUR MUSLIMS XINJIANG" into chat to get them kicked from the match.

There's industry level morality controls as well such as not being allowed to make a tv show featuring "feminine men" and the implicit ban on showing LGBT couples.

Personally I don't trust a State to choose the correct morals, be it aesthetically communist or aesthetically capitalist. We can look at America's history of moral laws to see another example, such as prohibition.
There are whole YouTube channels where people buy random tapes like this and watch them. I'd say donate or sell them to one of those folks.
They voted for him and they'll vote for more like him. Related: actual Nazism is on the rise in Germany, with the neonazi party recently winning control of two state governments.
-command instead of -action, but otherwise perfect! :)
I would recommend reaching out to the Wellcome Trust, London. https://wellcome.org/
I needed to send categorized and annotated batch of pictures (150MB) to a client, and for some reason I decided to drop the pics into excel sheet (allowing me to nicely support them with data etc). The client complained that they use web version of office 360, and that version doesnt allow to open excel files bigger than 100MB. I cant even.
This is where most things in the EU start, including the EU itself.
There are various comments about fixing matches.

There’s a meme/“theory” in retail options trading about “max pain”. Wherein, the stock price will move as to maximize the total amount people lose on options.
The gaming industry is not ready for that discussion yet, but you absolutely should be able to.
Uh, I'm confused why you expect most compression schemes to be necessarily seekable after all.

I assume the seeking implies a significantly faster way to skip the first N bytes of the decompressed output without the actual decompression. "Significant" is here defined as a time complexity strictly less than linear time in the size of compressed or decompressed data in that skip, so for the RLE sequence like `10a90b`, seeking to the 50th byte should be able to avoid processing `10a` at all; reading `10a` but not actually emitting 10 copies of `a` doesn't really count.

Virtually every compression algorithm has two main parts, modelling and coding. Modelling either transforms the input into a more compressible form, or estimates how much is particular portion of the input likely. Those results are then coded into one or more sets of symbols with different probabilities, resulting in a compressed bit sequence. Both parts can be made as complex as needed and will likely to destroy any relation between the input and output byte. Many algorithms including Zstandard do come with some framing scheme to aid with data verification, but such framing is generally not enough for actual seeking unless each frame declares both the uncompressed and compressed size and can be independently decompressed from each other. That's what the Zstandard's seekable format actually does: both sizes for every frame, and an implicit promise that a new frame is generated every so often. (Zstandard frames are already defined to be independent.)

There do exist some compression schemes that retain the seekability by design. Texture compression is a good example; a massively parallel nature of GPUs means that a fixed-rate scheme can be much more efficient than a variable-rate and thus inherently sequential scheme. There are also some hybrids that use two interconnected algorithms for CPU and GPU respectively. But such algorithms are not a norm.
I believe that making mistakes is an integral part of learning and the way our society views failure is totally wrong. When you’re failing as often as you are succeeding this means you are operating at or near your limit, absolutely something to be proud of.

None of that applies to gambling though. Not only is there nothing to learn from failing that you couldn’t have learnt before placing a bet, but success could mean addiction and the eventual ruination of your life and the lives of those you love.
That still leaves you with a question if harm reduction is better approach than criminalization. At least you don't attract the mob into the business with the former.

Banning addictive things isn't as straightforward as people love to believe. Even during the worst theocratic times, you could get alcohol in Saudi Arabia by asking the right people; and Saudi Arabia had way harsher means at its disposal than democratic countries do.

(For the complete picture, my grandpa drank himself to death at 57 and even though he used to have a good income, on the order of 3x as much as an average Czechoslovak worker of that time, he left almost nothing behind. All "liquefied". Other people were able to build family houses for their kids with less money.)
I would consider personal non-technical idealoligies of the author of this code are off topic.
It's not easy coming up with a name that sounds at least somewhat OK in >24 languages.
That's a colossal number of tapes. The few I found that had been stored in boxes since the 80s had mould on them, hopefully the collection doesn't have mould.
> They've never taken a math class let alone learned enough probability to know that gambling is a losing bet.

Even with a modern education this is a losing proposition for many people...
> Things I dislike: https://xkcd.com/1357/

Yeah, I guess it makes sense they wouldn’t like that one.
What's the difference between UnionPay and Zelle?
Most run by commercial enterprises do, because they have teams running them that care about security.

Your average non-large-brand coffee shop or ho(s)tel? They stick some cheap ass router in and disable the wifi password to get a public wifi for their guests.
Big lawsuit against Automattic incoming. Which WPEngine will easily win. Given that Automattic is clearly desperate for funds it will probably bankrupt them.
There was speculation whether a baseball player was actually behind his interpreters’ gambling scandal.
Who ever said that nationalism is a good thing, apart from nationalists?

“Nationalism is an infantile disease, it’s the measles of mankind.”

-Albert Einstein
I think yes, and it really boils down to role separation. For everything.

An example being cable companies. They should have no capability to own TV stations, media creators, news companies, the list goes on. Backbone is backbone, be it an internet connection, or a TV/video feed.

Back to Microsoft you can make an OS, or you can make apps, but not both. An OS being a 'backbone'.

Applies to Google. "Search" vs "Ads". Backbone versus 'stuff on top'.

Really, sadly, there are cases where co-mingled stuff makes perfect sense. But bad actors are why we can't have nice things.

I wonder, there have always been jokes about how the world would be a paradise without lawyers, but would that be more MBAs in the 21st? Whether cars, or computers, or even the ladder I recently bought that is junk, it really all comes down to MBAs.

Engineers input "that's not acceptable quality", and MBAs just tromp all over that.

MBAs, the "we can't have nice things" people.
is tcl relevant beyond maintenance of existing legacy projects?
The Visa/Mastercard duopoly also has a stranglehold on card payment in the EU, though. The big difference is that the EU primarily uses debit cards, which traditionally could not be used for online payment. Whereas the US could just use their credit cards for online payments (thus strengthening Visa's position), the EU banks were forced to develop their own online payment schemes. This made Visa irrelevant almost by accident.