skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not the person you were responding to, but if you ignore the hundred-page speech (which isn't that difficult to do) it's a fairly serviceable pulp sci-fi romance novel. It's far from Shakespeare and far from my favorite thing I've ever read, but it'll do in a pinch.

I don't care for the philosophy/politics, but I've read a lot of good sci-fi that I didn't care for the philosophy behind. I like Starship Troopers, which isn't as fascist as some people think but is certainly right-wing. I like Orson Scott Card, regardless of what I think of his opinions on gay people. I like the Culture novels, which are lowkey anarcho-communist. I like China Mieville, and he's an unsubtle hardcore Marxist.

Those are all much better than Rand, but not totally out of the ballpark (I think the Fountainhead is actually much better written than Atlas Shrugged).

I agree with the original thread comment: people who can't separate literary and political merit are usually pretty tiresome in lots of other ways.
> I reread them, regularly, and go through all ten books,

That’s the best part! Coming back to the simple life on Faldors farm again.
The ruling is linked in another thread. The last two pages outline what all is dismissed. My naive read is that a lot of the claims were dismissed already. I have no idea if that is normal or not. I also assume nobody really expected the entire case to get dismissed?

I am interested in reading an analysis of this.
Have issues reading (500).
It's currently optional for sellers, Etsy says "This info won’t change what buyers see for now, but will be used to improve the shopping experience in the future."
> which can campaign on behalf of candidates.

Wrong, if the candidates are directing or otherwise leading ostensibly-independent donations this is illegal. Independent donations are exactly that: independent of a candidate's campaign. If they're carried out on behalf of a candidate, they're not independent donations.

You can put up billboards saying, "X candidate's record is the best on climate change, tax policy, etc.". Your spending in this manner is not subject to limits. If the candidate calls you up and says "It'd be really good if you put up billboards saying X, Y, and Z" then that's breaking election laws.

Citizens United is not even remotely close to replacing our republic with an oligarchy. You can't buy elections, no matter how much people try to say so. Clintion received about twice as many donations as Trump in 2016, but still lost the election.
> russian company

There's your answer: coming from an eastern European, I probably know a thing or two how things work in the communist world. We saw what yandex was on the inside about a year and a half ago - it'd be brutally naive, even to a westerner, to think that a cyber-"security" company is any different or rather worse. You can read the bios of all the people in high positions in kaspersky - those are not ordinary entrepreneurs but state-funded individuals that should stay far away from windows if they decide to disobey a single order, whether it's spying or donating their children's kidneys. But if you wanna dive into it, yes, plenty: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaspersky_and_the_Russian_gove...
i genuinely have no idea why someone would be trying to defend amazon on HN
This seems ideologically rather than evidence-driven.

Smokers used to claim that it suppressed their appetites. Not being a smoker, or obese, I wouldn't know. But it seems plausible as a (partial) cause.
S3 on us-east-2 stabilized for us as of 2 minutes ago
This isn't a good look. Was looking at this tool when comparing GitLFS and DVC, but apparently the whole project is suddenly shut down?
_A Short History of the Printed Word_ by Warren Chappell --- also his _The Living Alphabet, and his cousin Oscar Ogg's _The 26 Letters_ because they inspired in me a lifelong love of the written word and of books, resulting in a career in typography and book composition.

I'd also recommend Robert Bringhurst's _The Elements of Typographic Style_.
I suppose the question is - despite her failures, do we agree with the policy that she / the Biden administration are pushing?

If so, then if she isn't the right person for the job, is there someone who will be more successful?
When I was a kid, what got me into reading novels was Weis & Hickman's Darksword Trilogy. I loved the heck out of that series. I re-read it about once a year well into my 20s. Re-reading it in my 40s, it's definitely kind of cringe, but even now I still think it has some cool ideas.

The thing is, those books got a kid into reading. Now I've read thousands of books, but all my later pretentions to literacy started from that one experience which everyone else in the world would judge as junky.

I don't claim they're the best by most metrics. But as a catalyst for reading, they're right up there.
I think it’s a bug in how they merge threads. I saw this glitch in the Matrix a couple weeks ago. Went to respond in a thread and found I already had the day before. It was first thing in the morning in and telling me I posted four hours ago. Uh, no.
Precisely. It's about terror. The US having the political capital it does (among other things, being a Security Council member in the UN), Americans won't push their government to curtail drone use until and unless they're on the receiving end of asymmetric warfare attacks perpetrated with low-cost disposables carrying lethal payloads.

(Certainly not advocating for this, but noting that it's the most likely trigger to get the ball rolling on regulation of drones in military operation where very little currently exists).
So, then, Apple is next?
I happened to come across her on 60 Minutes a couple of weeks ago, and that interview seemed awkward and sound-bitey to me. Thinking that she just might not be great at short-form segments I dug a little deeper and found an awesome long-form interview that she did with the Council on Foreign Relations. I highly recommend this to get a feel for what she is actually like as a policy person. She really impressed me.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L_QaZk5iJOA
https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

Rhetorical question (I know why, humans manually involved, incentive to not report SLA breakage, etc.): How does their status page not auto-update when one of their core APIs goes to basically 99% 500 (or even above 5% 500) status error?
Obesity is associated with many forms of cancer. See https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/o...
They probably dont have a public ip but just spearfish a network engineer at these ISPs and you'll have access to the devices performing the legal intercept.
I'm a tech pro-but-when a hurricane hit my home, the disconnection shocked me
Seeing CloudFront + S3 errors in us-east-2 on our end as well.
That would make it obscure to just about everyone I know, except perhaps one of my friends who grew up in the Ukraine.

https://xkcd.com/1053/
No, that’s not the same. On a 4-way stop you have to completely stop. Also how I remember my year in the US (I’m from NL) is that the first to reach the stop has right of way, not the “left” one. But I might be wrong on that last one? Didn’t have a drivers license at the time (but was surprised - and turned off from - 4-way stops).
Wait, so the Google Play Store, which you can install alternatives to (F-Droid, Aurora, Amazon,...), and where you can easily install apps through other means (such as downloading an APK through your browser and running it from the file manager) is an illegal monopoly while the Apple App Store isn't?

Well, I guess Google's market cap is only 2 trillion compared to Apple's 3 trillion, so I guess that's fair.
Lots of company are doing this exact business, they all have insane churn rate.

Biggest use case seems to be for people who want to prototype something quickly, they don’t yet want to bother with managing the infra and don’t mind the extra cost since this will be running at small scale.
But if the experiment is successful, then the customer churns as it (most of the time) makes little sense to scale ML on serverless.
And if the experiment is not successful, they are obviously also going to churn.
Wow. That is awesome, I skimmed through it and it looks like something I will enjoy. I've still got my Tanenbaum Computer Networks book from 1996 and the first chapter starts with OSI, then TCP/IP, and explains the differences and why OSI failed.
"Show me the incentive, and I'll show you the outcome."
They should probably just stop shaking down the American tech firms that are driving US economic growth.
>The premise of this argument is false. Pre-agriculture people were food supply constrained. Nobody is audiobook or other entertainment supply constrained today.

your premise is not false, but your conclusions are. see "indifference curves" in econ 101, and Pareto optimality.

We take consumer preferences as a given, because I don't know why you choose not to spend all of your money on the best and most pure essentials for life, but instead take some amount of your money and buy alcohol or skateboards or any of a number of other downright dangerous inessential things that you enjoy. You even pay money to GP to listen to his audio books when you could read them yourself and make money selling your own recordings. We don't know why you behave the way you do, but that's your choice. Given that you pay money for GP's audiobooks, if computer generated audiobooks drove the price down to zero, that would give you more money for alcohol; and it would give the rest of the economy a worker, GP, who could now participate in creating other products you'd probably want to buy (maybe dangerous jet-suits?) with the extra money you've saved on audiobooks.

We don't need to figure out how everybody wants to spend their time or their money, people figure that out for themselves and markets emerge to accomodate them.

We do need to figure out where the negative externalities lie, which you are attempting to do but knowing what qualities mark them as externalities will help you effectuate change by working with the market instead of failing against the market.
Can confirm, S3 backed CloudFront experiencing random errors in us-east-2 for the past 15 minutes at least.
It's certainly rich, and the trilogy is satisfying to read, but I had to stop with his giant epics because he's just so relentlessly cruel to his characters. Every remotely sympathetic female character is going to spend at least a decade being repeatedly raped. Every ordinary man is going to have his family murdered and be enslaved. Yes the stakes might be elevated that way and for sure his chosen time period wasn't exactly kindly to those at the bottom of the social pile, but after a while it just felt gratuitous and more reflective of some pathology in Ken Follet's mind than any desire to tell a good story.
That's really interesting information, thanks for sharing it.

And yes, the Hubble official history makes it clear that NASA intentionally sought to reuse industrial capacity and tooling developed for the NRO's surveillance satellite programme.

My point was only that the Hubble was not a donated KH-11, not that it didn't share the same industrial base as the NRO's satellites.
Prepare to be surprised then. It's pretty messed up actually how poor quality so many of them are

https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/the-hidden-da...
As long as we're using "best" in air quotes, I'll throw in a suggestion for Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke. It's victorian-era alternate reality fantasy. Which is something I never would have imagined liking.

Yes, it borrows a LOT from existing stories. To the point that it's nearly a pastiche. But it is incredibly well done and you appreciate it more when you learn that it was the author's first novel. I recommend skipping all of the footnotes on the first read through and saving them for the second read, if you go back for more.
Absolutely! You can even run clang in wasm targeting x86_64, and then emulate the resulting program using the blink x86_64 emulator.

I'm working on something similar, where students can compile intel assembly and run it client-side: https://github.com/robalb/x86-64-playground
I was under the impression the App Store was indeed ruled a monopoly and that Apple was going to be made to open up third party app stores?
> you essentially can't target it with a single-pass compiler,

That might be true if your source language has goto, but for other languages that start with structured control flow, it's possible to just carry the structure through and emit Wasm directly from the AST.
> An observation of this idea is that Rust compilers are terribly huge and slow because they use static type-tetris for everything,

Rust's typechecking passes are not the reason why the compiler is slow. Code generation dominates compile times. Type checking is pretty quick, and Rust makes some decisions that enable it to do so, like no global inference.
It certainly is. Especially lacking in proper comparisons of the final filter with the competition. I myself default to RobidouxSharp for downscaling and something like https://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?t... for upscaling.
You had me until "reasonably". I'd rather friends who have read than friends who prefer ignorance.
Same! The first books I really remember reading for myself.
Does Walmart/CostCo/BestBuy/Kroger/etc not do this exact thing?
The physicist who argues that there are no objective laws of physics
I don't know why, but I could NOT get into it. I read what felt like 2/3 or 3/4 of the first book, and still felt like I had no clue what was going on, and it felt like a difficult slog (for reasons I don't understand), much like how the Silmarillion felt to me. I wish I had enjoyed it, because every review or bit of spoilers I've seen about it sounds like a fantastic story, so I don't understand why it was so unenjoyable to read.

Meanwhile I'll read any chapter of a Neal Stephenson book and feel the comfort of a tea and warm blanket on an (imaginary) dreary day, and never care about the overall plot, and only feel remotely bad about not finishing the book.
Hi, It is normal that you see "1 online users", which means you are the only online user using the app at that specific time.

I had a chance to have coffee chat with a few people as the founder of the app but I accept that the number of online users throughout the day is pretty low.

It is generally between 1-3 nowadays.

Perhaps we can have more active users if this post goes to the homepage and we have thousands of HN users downloading it.
Oh cool ! Will the apps installed through froid be recognized in droidify ?
У "Мастера и Маргериты" лушчее начало из всех книг, которые я когда-либо читал!

And chapter 2: Pontious Pilate absolutely sealed it for me; I love that book!
Any time the message is "We should do X because if we don't, the bogeyman will do it," it should be a red flag. Seems to be one of the common themes in the article.

It's always admitting that the thing you want to do is bad, but wanting to do it anyways. And more often than not, it relies on a mischaracterization of the supposed bogeyman: "the democrats eat babies and wouldn't hesitate to do X, so that justifies us sinking lower unless we want baby eaters to win."

Or maybe it's just inevitable that anything structurally resembling a race to the bottom ends up with everybody on the bottom.
....so why is it so slow to generate code?
If only the FTC could claim credit for the disappearance of free money
'Project Hail Mary' was a great read. Especially 'Rocky' (no spoilers).
The Spirit of the Machine still lives in some form in emacs.
It is ridiculous. From Google's reply (https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/public-policy/epic-...): "These Epic-requested changes stem from a decision that is completely contrary to another court’s rejection of similar claims Epic made against Apple — even though, unlike iOS, Android is an open platform that has always allowed for choice and flexibility like multiple app stores and sideloading."
I can add such features if I see enough people enjoy and there is a potential in the app.

However, I am not sure if I should spend more time on it as of now.
I don't think it's humans that are hopelessly pathetic, it's just species that are less advanced technologically, mostly because of developing later compared to another species.
And who do you think they will be paying it to?

Subsidizing Japanese companies to develop technologies that may be exported elsewhere isn't that bad of a deal actually.
I think my comment was way too short.

What I meant was that I needed a set type in Rust. At first I tried to use HashSet but I needed it's elements to also be sets. I couldn't because HashSet doesn't itself have a natural Hash. I'd need to implement it myself.

However while using BTreeSet the requirement on the elements is that they have natural ordering (have Ord trait) but the BTreeSet itself also implements Ord so I could have a BTreeSet of BTreeSets without implementing anything additionally. Thanks to the fact that BTrees have natural ordering.

So I used BTreeSet instead,
Reminder that a mere 15 years ago, Walmart was the unfair monopolist whose market position rendered competition infeasible.

Also unclear to me why "ecommerce" is a market unto itself that we should be concerned with level of concentration in, as opposed to simply a slice of the broader "retail" market (which is much less concentrated)
In the FOSS world there is a protocol between chess-like board games and user interfaces, the primary examples of which are the XBoard GUI client, and the GNU Chess engine.

If you write an XBoard-compatible terminal client, then it can just work with GNU chess and other back ends.
For me that would be "How experiments End"

This book is written by a science historian with science background. It gives a real perspective about how scientists reached concensus about some of the nowadays well known facts in physics. It goee through some technical details and history including people involved and how personalities and the circumstances around these times affected the progress. If you read it you might find it somehow difficult with some technical details although he tried to simplify it. But once going through that you will find that each chapter is really a journey that you will enjoy.

I really recommend it for people interested in learning new stuff and also enjoy some reading down the line. And get a first hand look into how things are usually done in physics.
Agreed! There is definitely overlap between the three books but my recollection of Siddhartha and N&G is that Hesse dwelled more into how hedonic pleasure corrodes the soul. On a side note, you'll get along well with Doestevesky's Brothers Karamazov if you found N&G affecting.
No, apple won on the exact same claims in front of a different judge.
Monopolies are harmful to the economy.
So the better F-Droid client is recommended to be installed via F-Droid? Seems complicated.
Spikster: A Laravel based cloud server control panel
I was just thinking that if I don't establish antagonism to Agile, people might not notice that it's radically different. I am in the beginning of the learning process how people react to Swinlanes. So far, even though there is a lot of hate towards Agile on the internet, I have received a lot of hate as well, that's interesting.
In the EU only
I’m confused, I’ve been using 3rd party app stores on Android for years now?
Serious question: are paywalled news articles better at outlinking and do they have no ads?
because I used the word 'deliverism'?

HN is a safe space from anti-intellectualism, thankfully
I'm not sure human-generated content is any better on the whole. BS-laden drivel has been pervasive for some time now, even before AI started taking over.

I'm talking about those 300-word, ad-ridden crap articles that are SEO'd right to the top, and if you're lucky you might get the 3-word answer you were looking for: "<300 words of shit>... and in conclusion, <1-step answer>.". Anyway, humans have been getting paid pennies to write those for a while.

AI just turns the throughput on that up to 11, where there's just no end in sight. I think this is like the primary failure mode of AI at this point. It's not going to kill us - we're going to use it to kill the internet. OTOH, maybe then we just go outside and play.
A number of my favorites have already been mentioned so I’ll round out the list with Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer.

If you have kids, an interest in gardening, or a curiosity about Native American culture, this book will hit you in all three.

I got it on audiobook, and felt like I wanted to use a highlighter on every fifth sentence. So I bought a paper copy so I can just open to random pages and start reading.
Well that was an entertaining read. Needless to say I disagree with most of it (and think he's factually wrong on a number of things).

But it's entertainment - totally fine to disagree! :)
The word to "bag" may be more common in this context but it's not exclusive to it nor very uncommon, at least in North America. You might say "they bagged a record in the 4x400m relay" or "we bagged the contract" or another form like "that objective is in the bag." I think it's etymologically derived from hunting (literally putting game in a bag) but at this point it's just a word.
Sounds fantastic, just bought a copy. Thanks!
Companies that use their market position to kill competition hurts economic growth.
Sam Altman Goes Full Emperor
This is not pauseless GC.
> 61.5% of Germany's electricity comes from renewable sources[1]. What nuclear generated has been replaced years ago, and they have a law to phase out coal completely.

472g of C02 per kW/h as we speak[1]. 20 times more than France and its nuclear.

A resounding success…

[1]: https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/DE
Where is the "C-Code"? How would anyone know if there is a compiler error (rather unlikely), if all we can see is the object/machine output? In any case, this is something you might take to StackOverflow.
I also took that approach. The problem wasn't the keyup trigger, moreso trying to make the typeahead suggestions play nicely with radio/toggle filters, plus the results, made things really confusing for me personally. I was taking the approach of ONLY returning HTML from my endpoints and found it hard to mentally model how all the templates were fitting together (probably a skill issue, I am very new to webdev).

Once I abandoned the pure HTML/HTMX approach and just focused on returning a big payload with the search results in JSON and rendering it with vanilla JS, the whole thing became a lot easier.
AWS has posted the outage: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
ML =/= AI.

Machine learning was widely considered to be a subset of AI, until it got a big resurgence almost 2 decades ago. Now some people use the terms interchangeably.
Not sure why you’re going to expose your dev cluster to the greater world but that would be a time to re-evaluate your security posture.
This is quite sensationalist. There's a myriad of issues inside America's own borders that will bring down the empire.
So for nuclear power to be successful you just have to change human nature and politics to secure long term investment. And do so in countries that cannot even figure out how to properly fund education.
I’m reading the mistborn books right now. I was up until 2 in the morning finishing the first book in the trilogy the other night. These books are fantastic!
They have apk's in the github release's tab, I assume you can just install those instead https://github.com/Droid-ify/client/releases