skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
if you mentally rewrite the title to “lower level data systems” instead of “data engineering” i feel like it starts making a bit more sense.

spark et al have massive continuous momentum. they’re not going anyway any time soon.
crypto got a lot of outside investment. various facebook-for-dogs did too. housing pre-2008 did too.

very few of the workers in the economy outside of the data center and tech-bro market will ever see any money from this
In my experience many (most?) programmers are not interested in mathematics. Do they have to be?
I was curious what it is like on Maclisp. Here is a complete telnet session with Lars Brinkhoff's public ITS:

$ telnet its.pdp10.se 10003
Trying 88.99.191.74...
Connected to pdp10.se.
Escape character is '^]'.

Connected to the KA-10 simulator MTY device, line 0

^Z
TT ITS.1652. DDT.1548.
TTY 21
3. Lusers, Fair Share = 99%
Welcome to ITS!

For brief information, type ?
For a list of colon commands, type :? and press Enter.
For the full info system, type :INFO and Enter.

Happy hacking!
:LOGIN SUSAM
TT: SUSAM; SUSAM MAIL - NON-EXISTENT DIRECTORY
:LISP

LISP 2156
Alloc? n

*
(status lispversion)
/2156
(car nil)
NIL
(cdr nil)
NIL
^Z
50107) XCT 11 :LOGOUT

TT ITS 1652 Console 21 Free. 19:55:07
^]
telnet> ^D Connection closed.
$
As I said, I don't believe being able to work is an ethical prerequisite to survival. I don't believe being willing to work is an ethical prerequisite to survival.

Yes, I believe people should have food and water sufficient for survival regardless of their ability to work.
The market does very well where it is allowed to work. However that tends to be out in the new suburbs which are far enough from the city center that it forces unreasonably long drives if you have something to do in the center.
> what [...] is Lisp being used for [...] these days?

I dunno, there's Nyxt, Google Flights, MediKanren, there's some German HPC guys doing stuff with SBCL, Kandria,... I believe there's also a HFT guy using Lisp who's here on HN. LispWorks and Franz are also still trucking, so they prolly have clientele.

There are fewer great big FLOSS Lisp projects than C or Rust, but that doesn't really tell the whole story. Unfortunately proprietary and internal projects are less visible.
The Origins of HAR and How Everything Went Wrong (2023)
You are correct, you can sideload, but as soon as you open them in your Kindle, they get an Amazon-DRM; so you can't read the very same files on another e-reader. And - as soon as you go online with your Kindle - said DRM is checked and all non Amazon books deleted. At least, that was the case 10 years ago: I still own a Paperwhite 1st Gen which is now basically defunct.

I switched to a Poke 5P (Onyx) and was surprised at the tons of features. No ads, no DRM and reads basically all formats. Win.

I downloaded all my Amazon-bought books, so I can still read them on PC, but otherwise I'm done with their product.
Agreed, I had similar where I had signed up for a trial with a subscription, sure, and then went to cancel. "This can be done by 'manage payments' in PayPal." or similar. This existed, but the subscription was not there. But sure enough, it got charged. They did reverse it at least, but was more painful than it had to be.
I cancelled in May with their chatbox and not only was it hassle-free but instead of refunding the remaining pro rata portion of the year I got the entire year's subscription fee refunded without even asking for it.
It shows that you need to subscribe to view the full article. Just like with the original link
And electricity in Georgia is, after prices being raised to pay for this particular disaster, around half as expensive as electricity in California.

Important point: even the most disastrous nuclear projects are better than "succesful" intermittent renewables.

Nuclear power plants are big and take a while to build. They also reliably deliver truly stupendous amounts of electricity over an amazing amount of time.

Totally worth it.

Nuclear: an expensive way to generate cheap electricity.

Intermittent renewables: a cheap way to generate expensive electricity.
They never do that
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Apologies for my previous misguiding comment. We have figured out the issue and a fix is being implemented right now to handle URLs for GitHub repositories and suffix them with `?raw=true` to automatically to fetch the raw file. The fix should be live soon.

In the meanwhile, if you would like to submit the project, you could use the following URL which redirects to the `raw.githubusercontent.com` page: https://github.com/nativephp/laravel/raw/main/.well-known/fu...

I hope this helps!
> Video meeting software is doing all kinds of sound rejection based on an unknown set of rules, even though none of us enabled that as a feature.

It's optional on discord. Besides, it's conceivable that you might create a similar effect with a nice audio hardware setup
Glasses Equipped with Facial Recognition Are in Our Future
As a recovering libertarian, I remember how the idea of making all roads tolled to pay for maintenance was an instant conversation killer.
They don't find that state of affairs intolerable in practice, otherwise they would have already taken steps to not only avoid themselves to use GAFAMs, but also to associate themselves with businesses whose websites don't work if you block requests to GAFAMs and/or only have Android/iOS apps. And started doing it years ago. (I can bet they didn't, because otherwise I expect that they would have give examples how they did so, this article being a perfect opportunity.)

Instead, if you scroll down, they themselves have a Github account !

It's a bit like a doctor complaining about the prevalence of lung cancer, while themselves chain-smoking in their own practice, during patient consultations.
I don't really understand why people complained.

The source is open, if don't want to contribute, don't. Just because something doesn't fit a specific definition it doesn't mean it's not worth of existence.
For me it's:

FT8 - a weak signal mode that lets you make contacts around the world with not much power. From Canada, I've made contacts with Japan and Romania on 10W of power.

Satellites - the ISS has a repeater, so you can make VHF/UHF contacts with people in a huge footprint.
There’s actually a way to do this currently: https://jake.tl/notes/2022-05-how-to-airbnb
Identify hot surfaces could be an obvious thing for IR. For UV, you could at least delight yourself with seeing flowers the way bees do.
http://www.digitalbook.io
AFAIK it’s not a thing on my iPad. Maybe parent was expressing a desired feature?
You read any biography of him any testimonials from people who've been with him. It's well known and obvious he gets into the weeds. THATS why his companies are successful.

This is a fair and balanced view of him:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=WYQxG4KEzvo

The video goes into criticism as much as it goes into praise. It's a very accurate portrayal of elon with journalistic integrity.
We have a version of that in Texas, too. There are some commercial cryptocurrency mining operations that pay for a certain level of power capacity, and if the grid is running low on power, the grid just buys the capacity back from them and they stop mining for awhile.

If you find cryptocurrency mining objectionable for some reason, you could apply the same basic principle to things like aluminum refining or desalination.
Yeah, I'm not sure whether archive.org should be defaulted to on or off (I see both sides of that one), but its existence is definitely surfaced.

I love Archive Box btw, thank you for your effort! It's filling a very important need.
> They proactively forced interconnectivity and limited the ability for companies to make "walled-garden peudo-monopolies", as we have in the US with Apple and Google.

WeChat is the inspiration for the idea of the "everything app" that so many US companies want to create but have always failed to. Has it somehow been newly limited in its ability to control an absurd percentage of all Chinese internet-connected activity?
Staff often doesn’t like it either. Probably some combination of actually making less money and being overly optimistic about what they would be making if they were getting tips. a bar I was aware of that advertised paying $20+ and hour with no tips switched to a tipped model due to staff complaints.
Yeah, that's fair and what you said is reasonable. I was changing the context back to multiplayer to make my point about that.
I had a lot of trouble with the idiosyncratic ways of MCP, and I have no doubt Tron's villain was named after it.
Will it let me feel the breeze at the top of Half Dome?

Or have me chase a squirrel around after it stole my snacks?

Or have me feel the pride of accomplishing a long hike that I trained for?

Or let me talk with interesting people along the route and hear about their travels?

Or help me find an incredible pizza restaurant with concepts that aren't in my local suburban area?

Or give me the health benefits of hiking outdoors?

I'm not sure how a headset could ever obviate the desire for travel
hmmm....pretty sure i paid at least double that 2 years ago.
This is a cautionary tale for preservationists. My current preservation project is still not open because we are very slowly reviewing the code to make sure we don't accidentally include any IP when we open the source code. The real things that get you are similar to what happened here: codecs, graphics libraries, and a really big one to look out for is fonts. It'd be great if there was a scanner that could detect this stuff, but unfortunately, the scanning tools out there tend to go the other way like Black Duck: they detect open source code, not closed source.
If you want "the whole picture," trees also have many non-zero benefits apart from just energy — habitat, outdoor cooling/comfort, habitat, cleaner air, habitat, lower stress hormone levels, and oh did I mention habitat? :-D

Since the only upside of PV is energy, it seems like you should at least show it's energy positive (vs wasting 1,400% as much energy on net). That huge energy waste is a big hole to dig out of using only secondary incidental benefits.

If a tree is unhealthy or too close or too big, then of course you do something about that. But to do it because of solar (thinking it'll be more "green") is often misguided.
Shares are not fungible, these are not NFTs. The accounting nuances of how the buybacks are handled is not relevant here.

The issuance of new shares requieres new legal docs, and is constrained by the article of incorporation. A company will have to amend their articles of incorporation to issue shares beyond the allotted amount decided at the time the docs were created/filed.
I've had a wallet lost and another stolen. It was pretty easy to go the the MVD and have them replace my ID card, one of the times including an address update. They were able to identify me based on the photo in said system and was relatively painless. From there, getting a duplicate social security card has also been relatively painless. Even ordering replacement birth certificates, which includes county border changes since my birth. It takes a few weeks, and you do need a physical address to deliver to.

I know there are homeless resources you can use as a physical address to receive mail like this when trying to re-establish your life. My SO and one of my friends both work with orgs in this space. It's not nearly as fast as some might like, but it isn't in the end all that difficult at all.
You assume that most train rides offer a good view, and a view that the commuter would find novel.

If I’m taking a commuter train every day , my view is not something great. Most of the time it’s rundown houses, tunnels or fences. This has been my experience in the UK, US and Canada.

If I’m taking a more long distance train, you assume I’m sat on the side with a view. Ever taken a mountain train? One side just gets rocks wizzing by.

You also assume they’re travelling in weather and a time of day that affords them a good view. Traveling at night? Traveling in misty weather?

And all that aside, you assume they’d prefer to look at the same things you do.
> Baseload is a term used ...

'nuff said.
> but "how big" and "why" or "what" could be fascinating.

I would love to know more about those.
Here is a mirror of the repo, as of the last commit before it was deleted:

https://git.cbraaten.dev/AtRiskRepos/winamp

Also here is a git bundle file which can be cloned from:

https://litter.catbox.moe/dwhadv.bundle
Awesome news. I had a New York Times subscription for a little while. Signing up online was quick & easy, but cancelling required making a phone call to "Customer Care".
If you look at everything in the larger group of world population you’ll end up with a lot of useless info.
Hoping for a day without evil corp Google and its Chrome.
EU directive on liability for defective products
New installs make lots of unrequested accesses… fwupmgr, unbound-anchor, ocsp, firefox, all generate telemetry.

Companies have tried buying floss software specifically to add spyware, such as audacity.

It’s not a big fraction of what proprietary OS does, but the threat grows steadily each year.
> ^ When the grossly overweight 60yo smoker pays the same amount as a health-conscious 30yo, we have a problem.

It depends on what your goals are. The reasoning behind why the ACA ("Obamacare") is the way it is:

> Suppose you want to make health coverage available to everyone, including people with pre-existing conditions. Most of the health economists I know would love to see single-payer — Medicare for all. Realistically, however, that’s too heavy a lift for the time being.

> For one thing, the insurance industry would not take kindly to being eliminated, and has a lot of clout. Also, a switch to single-payer would require a large tax increase. Most people would gain more from the elimination of insurance premiums than they would lose from the tax hike, but that would be a hard case to make in an election campaign.

> Beyond that, most Americans under 65 are covered by their employers, and are reasonably happy with that coverage. They would understandably be nervous about any proposal to replace that coverage with something else, no matter how truthfully you assured them that the replacement would be better.

> So the Affordable Care Act went for incrementalism — the so-called three-legged stool.

> It starts by requiring that insurers offer the same plans, at the same prices, to everyone, regardless of medical history. This deals with the problem of pre-existing conditions. On its own, however, this would lead to a “death spiral”: healthy people would wait until they got sick to sign up, so those who did sign up would be relatively unhealthy, driving up premiums, which would in turn drive out more healthy people, and so on.

> So insurance regulation has to be accompanied by the individual mandate, a requirement that people sign up for insurance, even if they’re currently healthy. And the insurance must meet minimum standards: Buying a cheap policy that barely covers anything is functionally the same as not buying insurance at all.

> But what if people can’t afford insurance? The third leg of the stool is subsidies that limit the cost for those with lower incomes. For those with the lowest incomes, the subsidy is 100 percent, and takes the form of an expansion of Medicaid.

* https://archive.is/HzS1G / https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/10/opinion/obamacare-repeal....

* https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2023/02/15/all-three-legs...

The goal of the ACA in the US was getting closer to universal coverage, and that means 'subsidizing' bad behaviour to a certain extant.

Certainly smokers and such should practice more (so-called) 'personal responsibility', but there are a lot of situation where the pre-existing condition is not smoking or other lifestyle choice, but something genetic / congenital. So unless we want to get into (social) Darwinism and leave those folks on the sidelines, the lifestyle folks can end up coming along for the ride when society decides to protect other non-lifestyle pre-existing people.
LLM-Informed Tooling for Detecting Retry Bugs [pdf]
Brussels doesn't dictate any laws, member countries send elected and appointed people to Brussels then those people come together and agree on what to do and how to do it together and publish the directives like this one.

Countries like UK don't have a say on it anymore because they left the organization. EU doesn't impose any red tape over UK, it's just that if a British company wants to trade with EU needs to prove that they are doing it in accordance with the trade agreements with EU and that their products meet the EU standards.

For example, the UK companies will need to prove that the product that they sell in EU is mainly made in UK and not just an import from China(EU doesn't want UK to be hub for circumvention of trade deal, if China wants to sell stuff to EU they should do it with EU-China trade deals), then they will need to prove that their products meets the EU standards(EU doesn't want to import products that don't EU standards. Since UK is no longer a member, they can produce products that don't meet the EU standards and as a result UK companies need to prove that they meet EU standards).

That's why there's so much red tape and paperwork, this is to allow UK not to produce their stuff in accordance with the EU regulations and sign their own trade deal. For example, UK is now free to import chlorinated chicken from the USA and lead-paint from China if that's what they want or in less cynical words, UK is free to trade with the rest of the world in their own terms. That was one of the core promises of Brexit anyway and it was delivered.

Ps: banana curvature thing is a Euromyth[0].

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euromyth
I've been using an instance of https://readeck.org/ for personal archives of web pages and I really like it, but I might try out ArchiveBox at some point too.

I also run an instance of ArchiveTeam Warrior which is constantly uploading things to archive.org, and I like the direction ArchiveBox is heading with the distributed/federated archiving on the roadmap, so I may end up setting up an instance like that even if I don't use it for personal content.
Wireguard seems to be something they can reliably fingerprint and block in Russia and China

Previously HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39067213
Official page: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/devices/new-kindle-color-sc...
I'm not sure if being from the north of France changes things, but I think the Renaud song is much more familiar to folks I know than the wind.
authn or authz? Authentication is not terrible to build but authorization yeah, I'm totally with you there. It's hard.
Unfortunately the people they "serve" would get nothing as nobody can afford to lend to a bad credit risk at reasonable rates. Of course a lot of what they are selling are luxuries that people with bad credit shouldn't have, but then we have to ask what the alternative is. (most places have terrible public transit so you have to get such people in a car. You don't need a TV for movies but you can't really live life without internet anymore as many forms assume online and the alternatives don't work well)
"projects" top-level key should be labeled "Required" at https://floss.fund/funding-manifest/
But honest day’s work income has an additional payroll tax which totals about 20% marginal for the majority of people (plot about 60/40 between employer and employee).

Far better to be paid in shares.
How tscircuit works – compiling functional circuits from React code
Yes. In a margin loan, the "things of value" never leave the institution handing out the loan. The borrower buys stock, for example. And the institution giving out the loan has the right to sell whatever you bought to prevent losses on the loan, without your permission if certain conditions are triggered.

In a loan backed by collateral, all the money can leave into some external account controlled by the borrower. To get some or all of it back requires an expensive and lengthy process that doesn't guarantee success.
Good luck, you are going to need it.
Yeah, I did. I want something low level and cross platform, including mobile. I think when I tried the C# for iOS stuff, nothing worked. But it's probably too much VM/runtime for me anyway, for this project.
I love this discussion -- it provides interesting perspective on the history, especially for me as a person who is learning web development.
Sshhh...
If it is like Italian, my native language, it's just exceptions you learn by usage.
Dang... The conversations must've been really entertaining.
Some regulations help me. I'm glad I don't have to sort through all the pipes to find lead free ones. However some hurt me - I know very well how to do electric work and so having to hire an electrician costs me money I don't have (as opposed to an inspector who is much cheaper since they only verify I did the work right).
Five years ago batteries weren’t anywhere near grid scale either. Arguably they still aren’t. That doesn’t mean we should not consider them when talking snot the grid in 2040.
Yes, I know. But the frames still aren't passed through JavaScript.
You know what, I do use a small font size in my editor. I like to see a lot of code at once. And if memory serves I spotted this in the browser, where I do the opposite.

I'll have to look into hyper legible monospace fonts. Or maybe I'll just use Atkinson and deal with the variable spacing.
I've stopped carrying my over-ear noise-cancelling headphones for this reason. They take up like a quarter/half of a normal item-sized backpack. I can sleep with plane noise. But I always bring a sleep mask, because I can't sleep with bright lights turning on and off all the time. I did recently get some in-ear headphones w/ noise cancelling, perhaps they're enough.

There's always the fear of losing stuff when you're moving objects around so much, too. One less thing to worry about.
I like buttondown because I can directly contact the developer when I have problems. Some downsides to small companies, lots of upsides too.
show me an ad. fine. but don't track me and my browsing habits across domains and applications. that's disgusting. ads would be fine if they were static images and not bloated javascript spying devices.

good will has been eradicated.
in the row house article's picture I see the house, with the tree, but where's the beestje?
I mean, maybe technically.

But the "its yearly with a cancellation fee" was not qualified in the sales information on the sign-up page. Maybe it was in the fine print.

Given that customers are quite used to a monthly fee is a monthly subscription model, it was disingenuous at best. Putting significant terms in the fine print doesn't exactly engender trust.
Why is this only about China? Russia is a much bigger problem right now.
I refuse to sign up for subscriptions in many cases for that reason. Same reason I won't sign up for 6 months no payments or interest for things I'm buying - by paying cash I ensure I won't forget to pay in 6 months and then just get the minimum payment withdrawn. Large parts of the world are built to scam you and they know how to make scams seem like a good deal.
I've seen a few of these videos. I enjoy watching the perspective change overtime. Highly recommend.
I love ArchiveTeam warrior, it's such a good idea! We run several instances ourselves, and it's part of our Good Karma Kit for computers with spare capacity: https://github.com/ArchiveBox/good-karma-kit

There are a bunch of other alternatives like ReadDeck listed on our wiki too, we encourage people to check it out!

https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Web-Archiving-...
http://www.famobi.com
It's probably part of it oddly enough as investors want to stick money in stocks that can be classified as 'AI'.