skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, good policy that benefits a wide group of constitutes instead of a few key donors is how you counter populism.

Lobbying makes it worse bc the response (populism) will have credible grievances, which is why you will see populist candidates all over the west.
People don't prepare, so either pressuring or mandating congress to keep AM a standard is necessary.

There is already mature roadway infrastructure that provides localized announcements via AM - tunnels, bridges, mountain passes, low-vis areas, flood prone passes, hurricane evacuation corrodors, etc. I would imagine the cost of pressuring automakers to keep AM pales in comparison to the cost of updating public emergency communication infra.

I'm also a ham but I'm also a person who sometimes forgets there's an air compressor beneath my trunk floor.
I owned cars with an AM radio for 30 years. I never used it.

I've now owned cars without an AM radio for 10 years. I don't miss it.
It will always be a turd. Typescript is a nice illusion, but underneath is still the same turd.
I like LISP, but I wouldn't say I'm an evangelist. Here's my 2 cents for why LISP has such a following.

1. LISP is easy to start with if you're not a programmer. There is very little syntax to get to grips with, and once you understand "everything is a list" it's super easy to expand out from there.

2. LISP really makes it easy to hack your way to a solution. With the REPL and the transparency of "code is data" model you can just start writing code and eventually get to a solution. You don't need to plan, or think about types, or deal with syntax errors. You just write your code and see it executed right there in the REPL.

For my part, I love LISP when it's just me doing the coding, but once you start adding other peoples custom DSL macros or whatever the heck it becomes unwieldy. Basically, I love my LISP and hate other peoples LISP.
The article didn't say but I'm guessing the target could of been JSI Telecom. I knew some people that worked for JSI ~10 years ago and the US govt used their platform in a handful of organizations.
What about the Garand M-1?
I worked in a grocery coop and it depended on the vendor. For some, they controlled how much stock we carried and would take back anything that didn’t sell. For things that we ordered directly and chose how much to carry, we were responsible for expired food costs.
I did a quick test and on my use case the performance improves mainly on a complex aggregation pipeline.
I still have to run extensive benchmarks.
I think one of the improvements is the New Query Engine: https://laplab.me/posts/inside-new-query-engine-of-mongodb/
The worst are the seed stage founders complaining about the proposed paper gains tax (while not knowing enough about it to answer if it would apply to startup equity) because they’re definitely going to have enough value for the $100MM threshold to apply to them.
Six Tips for Loving Your Enemies
> ... everything gets worse and worse ...

They're coming to take me a away haha
they're coming to take me a away hoho hihi haha
to the funny farm where code is beautiful all the time ...

-- Napoleon XIV, more or less...

Via: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
> From a health and harm reduction perspective they are probably saving lives by replacing cigarette smoke which is much more harmful.

There is some evidence that they are used by people who never smoked, though. The smoking reduction seems like a convenient excuse for these companies. In actual fact smokers or former-smokers is a limited and dwindling market. They want to expand aggressively, notably in younger populations.
The New Jersey approach has the benefit of dealing with time in a sensible way.

The time to market for the MIT approach is just too long if your revenue relies on actually shipping a product that covers the cost of the next iteration that will move you from 80% to 90%, or even 60% to 70%. It's an old joke, but in the long run we're all dead; and waiting for the production of an ivory tower implementation won't work out well. If it's all academic, and there's no commercial pressure, well, have at it. There's not much at stake except reputations.

Furthermore, in the real world, your users' requirements and your internal goals, theoretically covered by "the" design, will change. Not everything can be reasonably anticipated. The original design is now deficient, and its implementation, which is taking too long anyway, will be a perfect reflection of its deficiency; and, not fit for its new purpose.
It was sad that Sagan died before the New Atheism movement started -- in many ways the "The Demon-Haunted World" is sort of the same book as Dawkins' "The God Delusion" but Sagan made his arguments in a more level-headed, less arrogant way and realized that religion was just part of the problem, not the root of it.
http://archive.today/4Z0wl
This trick worked in Telefonica's phone booths in Spain in the 90s too :-)
https://wasabi.com/glossary/egress-charges

Wasabi doesn't have an egress hard limit and doesn't charge for egress. You get consistent pricing, and if you need to recover everything, it's not an issue at all, and you won't pay for it.

"The reasonable use egress policy indicates that if your monthly downloads (egress) are greater than your active storage volume, then your storage use case is not a good fit for Wasabi’s free egress policy, and we reserve the right to limit or suspend your service."

If you're using Wasabi for normal backup data storage, you shouldn't worry about egress. It is meant to prevent malicious users from uploading data and using up all the egress bandwidth, for example, a 500GB user egressing 5TB with public access or using Wasabi as a dump point to upload in one location and download in another region 1:1 ratio. As your storage goes up, your available consistent monthly egress goes up. It only becomes an issue if you abuse the account by uploading/downloading in a 1:1 ratio on a consistent basis.

What happens is you get an email from support asking if something changed in your use case. If so, they will help troubleshoot it(Think of a CDN scenario, where the CDN gets misconfigured). You also have an egress monitor for suspicious activity in case you aren't normally downloading all your data, and then you see a rise in egress https://docs.wasabi.com/docs/en/whats-new?highlight=egress#e....
Thanks! To me it still doesn't look like an adequate replacement for Times New Roman, Palatino, Bembo, Computer Modern Roman, etc.; it's still a monoline font with no serifs but the occasional slab serif.

I know de gustibus non est disputandum, but if you picked up a book in a bookstore and it happened to be printed in Intel One Mono, would you really think, "Oh, what a visual pleasure!" or would you think, "Oh, how unfortunate that 50 years ago they couldn't afford to properly typeset this book and so just xeroxed these typewritten pages!"? I would think the latter.
You get a much more usable framework if you drop the idea that there is some "pure" tech or innovation that politics are a corruption of and instead realize that technology and innovation are always political. Politics were there from the beginning, but they may have been invisible to you in a previous era.

Understanding how that could be and articulating what the politics were before is key to deciding what to do about the changes now.
> The reality is that if you are a halfway competent worker, and you move to a populated area, you can pretty easily find a job with health insurance.

This is absolutely true, especially for tech workers but doesn't it concern you that you need to be a cog in the machine to get this benefit?

If you want to work for yourself ("the American dream") you either have to risk having no insurance or pay $700+ a month for baseline coverage for 1 person (price varies by state). There was even a time a few years ago where you had to pay a federal penalty if you didn't have medical insurance. I forgot the exact year, maybe it was 2016 or so but I remember the government forcing me to pay around ~$3,000 for literally not having insurance.
IIRC there was something with the way zparseopts worked that caused it to not be able to parse the CLI I had setup -- I can't remember what the drawback was, though, and it's one of those one-liners I've just used blindly after I got it to work. :)
> people who use Cursor

What's Cursor?
Why are you being a Democrat shill? Didn't you see that recent video of Democratic party boss Hillary Clinton saying the quiet part outloud? If the social media isn't censored, "we lose control." And by "we", she didn't mean you and me.

I just don't see this as "SO much better."
Backblaze is 3x less expensive and offers more generous free allowances.
>Post war analysis of allied strategic bombing indicates that it did not have a large impact on the war effort

The bombing didn't cause the German people to overthrow their government like Allied leaders hoped it would, but it did significantly impact the war IMHO by decreasing German production of essential materials like refined oil products, particularly lubricants, ball bearings, airframes and probably other materials.

Even if no factories had been hit, just the fact that the Germans underwent the expense and inefficiencies of distributing manufacturing among many small factories, some underground and some in caves (which the Germans did in fact do) would still have significantly decreased German production.
Each server has a 1 Gbps connection. Some servers are storing more than average, some have 160 TB. That's already 2 weeks at full line rate. But I also need to keep serving user traffic. I can't take the site offline for a month for a data migration, that would completely kill my business.
And Azure Functions still doesn't support Python 3.12, released more than a year ago!
You can be familiar with Hanlons's razor and disagree that it is a good rule for dealing with faceless corporations. If you excuse everything as bening incompetence then that's exactly how malicious actors will hide.
An anagram. Same letters, different order.
Hey wow, was debating whether to post this, but me too for Tom Swift. My family chanced upon a complete set of the 60's series at a yard sale when I was about 10, and it definitely had an effect of drawing me into technology.
I don't have experience with a gas station so mine could be very different. I'm at 1-3 daily employees.

For me it's:

- counting the till pre and post : It takes about 3-5 minutes a till. (money counters are awesome, and I setup all pricing increments to avoid anything below a quarter, which wouldn't be practical for an average gas station. But it could be done down to the nickle or dime) I don't count before and after, just after. The before till should already be done from counting the after and using for a shift the next day.

- validating voids and receipts : it's mostly fully automated via the POS. Maybe 10 mins when something odd happens but it's not common.

- checks and cashier's checks : we get almost zero of these.

- bagging and dropping cash : labeled bags and a drop safe, I don't count until at least the next day, all in one quick go. All the time is in the counting part.

- cash slippage - ours has usually been fairly close. Some times a bit over sometimes a bit under. If its a few dollars off every now and then I don't worry about it. If its consistently off, either way, it signals a problem, usually in training. But every now and then its nefarious and corrected.

So weekly time breakdown is probably:

- counting daily tills : 30-45 mins

- making the change request, deposit and going to the bank, Ill just say 1 hr as the bank is about 10 mins away. I also usually do this when already out for another reason and I usually go only once per week as cash is so low post covid. I used to go 2-3 times a week pre covid. But if we have a large cash day I will make an extra trip so we are not sitting on as much.

- misc accounting etc. : our QuickBooks auto syncs to the POS, with each day's sales recorded and the corresponding expected credit card and and undeposited cash account records created. So when the physical cash deposit is made it with auto match the record already created by the POS and I just click the match button. But other things always can happen in the chain so let's give another 10 min buffer here.

So I'm out 1.75-2ish hrs/week, which actually feels like more than I spend on it. So for quick math for each 10k sold per week at a 2.5% cc rate (ours is higher around 2.8ish). That's $250 in credit card fees. That's About $125/hr to handle the cash vs take the card. Looking up the average gas station sales of about 109k/month that is around $2,725 in fees. So even quadrupling the time I spend that would yield a savings rate of $340/hr spent handling the cash. Seems worth it.
> cyber-libretarians like Ron Wyden

This dude is a certified ghoul.

In May 2017, Wyden co-sponsored the Israel Anti-Boycott Act, Senate Bill 720, which made it a federal crime, punishable by a maximum sentence of 20 years imprisonment,[88] for Americans to encourage or participate in boycotts against Israel and Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories if protesting actions by the Israeli government. The bill would make it legal for U.S. states to refuse to do business with contractors that engage in boycotts against Israel.[89] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Wyden#Israel
> Are people that dense?

did you not observe 30% of the world population's actions between 2020 and 2023?
I don't ever plan to distract my dentist.
They probably used chatgpt to build the product and copied-pasted
Javascript is the only language which straddled the Client Server Gap. If it weren't for Node, Javascript would not have been as popular.
Hillary Clinton went on TV and said we should get rid of Section 230 in order to moderate content. So is it really that surprising that SV made a right turn?
Even if marked correctly, it still doesn’t go in until you look at the socket.

USB-A connection is not a classic system, you have to collapse the wavefunction before the connectors can match.

The proper way is to always look first.
What I've been surprised about is the number of python packages that require specific python versions(e.g., works on 3.10, but not 3.11. Package versioning is already touchy enough without the language itself causing it in minor upgrades.

And will python 3.14 be named pi-thon 3.14. I will see myself out.
As a reference: https://whatPWAcando.today/
> I'm not convinced that LISP was ever the-right-thing.

Remember that this has to be read in historical context. At the time C was invented, things like garbage collection, message-passing object-orientation, generics, rich sets of conditionals, first-class functions, etc. were brand spanking new. They were The Right Thing to do (even judged in the harsh light of hindsight), but also quite complicated to implement – so much so that the New Jersey people skipped right past most of it.

Today these things are par for the course. At the time, they were the The Right Thing that made the system correct but complex, and had adoption penalties. As time passes, the bar for The Right Thing shifts, and today, it would probably not be embodied by Lisp, but maybe by something like Haskell or Rust?
If it's on a server on the internet how would anyone know the difference?
Show HN: World Wide Waiting Room
i can’t imagine having sympathy for some foreign megacorp hellbent on controlling every way you interact with a game their employees made. fuck nintendo, maybe they shouldn’t release complex software exclusive to an underpowered piece of shit that can’t even run ps4 games at 1080p60 if they don’t want people to prefer a superior experience
Generate an AWS, Azure, or GCP IAM policy using client-side monitoring
I will, and when it's done it will definitely appear on this forum. But in the meantime I have to focus on cleaning this mess up.
If you don't happen to have a suitable handkerchief a first aid kit might be very useful.
Create and curate your own lindy book list
To me WASM is the wildcard. It lets other languages infect the Javascript host organism.
One of the key differences is that the graph edges are being stored directly in scalable graph stores - either Cassandra or Neo4j. Also, the graph edges are structured as RDF (https://www.w3.org/TR/rdf12-schema/). In TrustGraph version 0.11.20, the extraction process follows the patterns that many projects use: finding entities (both conceptual and person, places, things, etc.) and relationships between entities. Upcoming releases will continue to evolve this process to make the extracted knowledge graph much more granular, especially focusing on the source of the extracted graph edges.

Daniel
Central vacuums are worse in at least one specific way: Cost of fixing or replacing them when they break.
Over the years I've developed what I call the "lefthanded scissors" analogy: people assume that everyone's mind is wired the same way and that all good programmers are good in the same way and think in the same way, but what if that's not true? What if different people have a predisposition (like lefthandedness) to prefer different tools?

Then a righthanded person picks up the lefthanded scissors and deems them weird and uncomfortable. Which they are .. for the right hand of a right-handed person.

Other popular examples of such taste controversy are Python's semantic whitespace, the idioyncracies of Perl, the very unusual shape of J/APL, and anyone using FORTH for non-trivial purposes.

edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41766753 comment about "other people's Lisp" reminds me, that working as a solo genius dev on your own from-scratch code and working in a team inside a large organization on legacy code are very different experiences, and the "inflexibility" of some languages can be a benefit to the latter.
Pistols are horrible weapons, and anyone who HAS to use guns will do anything they can to avoid having to rely on a pistol.

You use a pistol because you need it to be small, unobtrusive, or it's your last option.

A rifle or a shotgun is almost always better than a pistol if you don't have the size constraints (which are sometimes optics - a police office with a holstered gun looks way less threatening than one with a rifle).
god dang, how could I forget Heart of Darkness?

well I guess I know what I'm re-reading next.
AI based code editing tool (https://www.cursor.com/)
Linus Torvalds is fed up with bcachefs
Solve the problem at whatever junction that is exposed for a solution is my point. Being outraged about stuff seems to not magically solve problems. Rather it often has a similar effect as ruminating about problems when being depressed. It often enforces the idea that the problem is somehow unsolvable.

Not saying outrage doesn't have a place. Just that other means might be more efficient.
Backblaze seems to be 2x less expensive than Contabo.
I have solar panels at home. Electricity is way more fungible than dino fuels.
Dumping yards reminds me of a scene from the Office, where Dwight says (IIRC), "humans are the only animals capable of this".
> Porter, who had initially polled well, lost decisively in the primary, coming in third, with just fifteen per cent of the vote.

She was running against Adam Schiff, who had much broader name recognition. It also didn't help that she's overweight and "Porker" became her nasty nickname.

This is a shoddy piece of reporting. Tech lobbying didn't start with Chris Lehane, Uber, Lyft, or crypto. Anytime government is capable of helping or hurting an industry, they form a lobbying group. The more money involved, the bigger the lobbying effort.
This all makes massive sense to me. The people in my life treat any date on food as an expiry date and throw out massive amounts of perfectly edible food. Also, people do not seem to have any concept about the rate at which different food products spoil. Some things can be used way past the dates I see. Others really are going off by then.
Consumers aren't the issue. Consumer support for right to repair is broad. The issue is the government doesn't give a shit what consumers think the vast majority of the time, they're bought and paid for by corporate lobbyists.
Untrue. The US entered the war with what is wildly regarded as the best rifle of the war.

The Rifle M1 designed by John Garand was adopted as the standard service rifle in 1936. and on their entry into the conflict the US was the only belligerent that issued a self loading rifle to the general troop. well, except for Uncle Sam's Misguided Children, they always seem the be last in line to get new toys and were still using the 1903 springfield as the standard service rifle.

Unless you are talking about guns in the strict military sense(artillery) in which case I have no idea how advanced US artillery was at the start of the war.
so-called “deliverism” as a cure to populism has empirically not worked very well.

actual material changes do very little to defuse populist cultural moments in modern wealthy societies
Yep. They’ve primarily (entirely?) involved removing ancient libraries from stdlib, usually with links to maintained 3rd party libraries. People who can’t/won’t upgrade to newer Pythons, perhaps because their old system that uses those old modules can’t run a newer one, aren’t affected. People using newer Pythons can replace those modules.

There may be a person in the world panicking that they need to be on Python 3.13 and also need to parse Amiga IFF files, but it seems unlikely.
> And then they’d create a religion as explanation for the flood and why it was from god/the devil.

.. as opposed to climate change which is self-evident.
There you go ...

https://www.cargoshipvoyages.com/WhatToExpect/
> Yes, you literally can. Whatever you think is the problem with this, it's not a problem for me, or hundreds of people I've worked with, who are doing this.

Well, numbers of people who don't know how something work isn't a proof of anything... Also, "doesn't work" in this context means that the design of the feature is flawed and in corner cases cannot be made to work. This is different from, for example, a bug that suggest that the design is fine, but implementation failed. This is also different from "doesn't work at all". But, it would be too obviously false to be considered.

The reason why it doesn't work is this: some Python packages are distributed as source distributions. There are plenty of reasons for that, which I don't want to go into. In this case, pip will try to build these packages, unless you tell it not to (but then you won't be able to install them, which is probably not what you want). It doesn't matter whether you use pyproject.toml or any other description of the build system you use: pip will have to somehow find it and run it. And, at this point, all bets are off. conda may improve detection of such cases and identify potential breakage caused by this, but there isn't a universal solution to this problem, and with the current position from people working on Python infrastructure there won't be one.

Conda will be also unlikely to give it in to pip because conda's packages are a lot better designed than PyPI. It would be a huge downgrade if they do. So, I expect this to be a problem for a long time.

> Yeah, two things having an overlap in functionality does not mean there is some kind of competition.

This is exactly what it means: overlap in functionality means competition.

> yeah, it's a snake. haha, get it?

This took an unexpected turn to... an elementary school?
Nice trick, now do it with cosmic rays!
Free business ideas, because I want this to exist:

Use drones with IR cameras:

* Find deer after they're shot. Right now you need to hire a blood hound and it takes hours

* Do wildlife surveys for conservation and management departments

* Pest management for farmers