skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'll restate the principle of good usage to bad usage ratio, telephone providers are a well established service with millions of legitimate users and uses

Ditto trackers.

Have a look at the graphs here: https://opentrackr.org/

Over 10 million torrents tracked daily, on the order of 300 thousand connections per second, handshaking between some 200 million peers per week.

That's material from the Internet Archive, software releases, pooled filesharing, legitimate content sharing via embedded clients that use torrents to share load, and a lot of TV and movies that have variable copyright status

( One of the largest TV|Movie sharing sites for decades recent closed down after the sole operator stopped bearing the cost and didn't want to take on dubious revenue sources; that was housed in a country that had no copyright agreements with the US or UK and was entirely legal on its home soil.

Another "club" MVGroup only rip documentaries that are "free to air" in the US, the UK, Japan, Australia, etc. and in 20 years of publicaly sharing publicaly funded content haven't had any real issues )

> the ISP, which according to my theory has some liability as well.

The world's a big place.

The US MPA (Motion Picture Association - the big five) backed an Australian mini-me group AFACT (Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft) to establish ISP liability in a G20 country as a beach head bit of legislation.

That did not go well: Roadshow Films Pty Ltd v iiNet Ltd decided in the High Court of Australia (2012) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadshow_Films_Pty_Ltd_v_iiNet...

The alliance of 34 companies unsuccessfully claimed that iiNet authorised primary copyright infringement by failing to take reasonable steps to prevent its customers from downloading and sharing infringing copies of films and television programs using BitTorrent.

That was a three strikes total face plant:

The trial court delivered judgment on 4 February 2010, dismissing the application and awarding costs to iiNet.

An appeal to the Full Court of the Federal Court was dismissed.

A subsequent appeal to the High Court was unanimously dismissed on 20 April 2012.

It set a legal precedent:

This case is important in copyright law of Australia because it tests copyright law changes required in the Australia–United States Free Trade Agreement, and set a precedent for future law suits about the responsibility of Australian Internet service providers with regards to copyright infringement via their services.

It's also now part of Crown Law .. ie. not directly part of the core British Law body, but a recognised bit of Commonwealth High Court Law that can be referenced for consideration in the UK, Canada, etc.

> but it is semantically associated with other protocols which have 'noxious' features described above AND are semantically associates with illegal material.

Gosh, semantics hey. Some people feel in their waters that this is a protocol used by criminals and must therefore by banned or policed into non existance?

Is that a legal argument?
Living this. Very nice.
Iterating on a private API is fine. Allowing your internal AI assistant to publish to the extension store while consuming those private APIs while prohibiting any competitors from doing so is not.
90% is the startup fail rate even before AI
Could be just so his work looked better in comparison. Or something more sinister, like being paid to slow progress.
duck typing has entered the room
I feel like you missed my point.

If they correct your hearing noticeably, you will know that you had a hearing problem. Whether they pop up a little dialogue telling you that or not.
not a drew fan, but you are a vile cowardly person.
You must be doing something wrong. I bought a few cheap mototola and xiaomi android phones over the years and they've lasted years and continue to work to this day.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the miracle called Lazyvim (terminal based IDE). Once you go lazy, you don’t come back. I can’t stand vs code now. The mouse even works in Lazyvim.
I left a job about ten years ago, leaving behind a desk with a computer and various piles of paper and bits and bobs. That company then moved offices, and my desk moved with it, computer, papers, bobs and all. I got occasional updates from my former colleagues about it all still being there. It lasted years!
There are is an unfortunately large proportion of them that are fooled by the emotion and believe it.
From Every, a framework for pivoting your startup
You moved WHAT?!

That jacket was specifically adjusted and positioned exactly there because it blocks just enough of thr EM interference from the old ass microwave in the small kitchen three floors down!

If the jacket isn’t there and Marge in accounts receivable starts making her breakfast burrito early one morning while they’re running payroll the main query times out and doesn’t automatically retry, so the header of the CSV file can’t pull in the right fields for each location, the export writes out blank headers, the bank can’t read the file, and THE ENTIRE COMPANY doesn’t get paid!

For the love of god, PUT THE JACKET BACK!
A good way to tilt the political makeup of your workforce, if you were so inclined, would be to move to a red state.
I really don't think he means "cannot" in the sense of "presently don't know how," but more categorically--along the lines of chiropractic being the profession for those who cannot cure the way an MD can. I think it's an indictment of hackery.
We didn’t fully ban them. We just prescribe them to anyone a doctor decides has ADHD.
In my optimistic moments, I think that.

In my realistic moments I think that we will rewrite medical law, banking law, and privacy law and so on to accomodate the shitty AI children of billionaires. Misdiagnosed by "AI"? Too bad. Lose a job because of AI? Too bad. Sentenced to death by an AI-powered criminal investigation? Too bad.
But the reality is that people who don't pay their phone contract tend to be the kinds of people who just ignore collections anyways and have a bad credit score to begin with.

That's the problem with small debts, and why phone locking was a clever solution -- if the phone becomes useless when you stop paying, people will actually pay it off when they wouldn't have before.
It's fun to think for the sake of thinking.
200 w/sqm is not a weapon. It's barely enough to keep you warm in the winter time.
But if their overall SAT scores aren't good enough to get into the elite colleges, won't we just be denying the eccentric geniuses?
I find it hard to believe that consumers are that dumb that they can't do an addition and multiplication to find the actual TCO.
Incredible news! This should be replicated in tropics everywhere. In Singapore, the government is using Wolbachia mosquitoes to control the spread of vector mosquitoes, which looks like another effective solution.
From some members of the Atom team, a code editor before VSCode showed up. Electron sprouted from the Atom project.

see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_editor
https://archive.is/Izumh
One qualitative difference is that the child's 30,000 hours is realtime, interactive, and often bespoke to the individual and context. All the videos on youtube are static and impersonal.
I'll have to assume you don't understand how tech investing works. Give a dollar to 100 companies and you've spent $100. 99% fail, but one ends up returning $1,000 and you've 10x'ed.
I love the notion of having standard definitions and practices that are specifically not agreed on and will be argued about every time they come up.
College is not trade school. College exists not to generate people who are masters of Framework v3.0, but to generate people who can quickly learn to use whatever tool they're given and who can connect the dots to solve generic problems. Part of that is exposure to a broad range of ideas. Part of that is showing that you can learn about and deliver results on things you're not necessarily excited about.
It takes so much money to be a player in this space; the ante went from ~$100k (GOOG, FB) to like $4B or 100k H100s. That's how I arrive at the statement as 99% don't have the cash.
"Hearing problem" is not a binary thing. People just want to have their hearing improved while believing that their hearing problem is minor even when it is not.
You will be surprised to learn that methamphetamine is not banned and that it is currently prescribed for refractary ADHD under the name desoxyn!
The list I gave was of some public trackers, I made no claim that they were zero knowledge trackers, I simply made a statement that trackers needn't be aware of .torrent file manifests in order to share peer lists.

I also indicated above that having knowledge of .torrent manifests is problematic as that doesn't provide real actual knowledge of file contents just knowledge of file names ... LatestActionMovie.mkv might be a rootkit virus and HappyBunnyRabbits.avi might be the worst most exploitative underage pornography you can think of.

Some trackers are also private and require membership keys to access.

I was skating a lot as TZubiri seems unaware of many of the actual details and legitimate use cases, existing law, etc.
Sure, but how does the company account for the losses from people who get the phone and then stop paying and switch to another carrier?

What happens is the overall price goes up to offset those losses, even when it's not explicitly labeled as such. That's just basic economics. Empirically.
Even if these younger vintage batches fail completely, the existing portfolio will benefit from AI being hyped.
It's probably because secondary school has become mostly worthless in the US, so college is taking its place.
Weren't the majority of those induced by manipulated politics rather than it being a base characteristic of the technology?
And commuting in a private jet is either expensible or tax deductible, neither of which apply to actual commuters.
Wordpress isn't OSS, it's Free Software.
Not quite, but if one does not have ADHD or something similar, things like adderall have a very different effect than they do to someone who has ADHD.

Your apparent disbelief in ADHD doesn’t make it imaginary, by the way. Consider yourself lucky that you do not have it; I am unemployable without medication.
I'm wondering if we are now in the Low Background Steel transition, as far as Internet content goes. I already see material on the open Internet that has very obviously been generated by AI. As the next round of Common Crawl or whatever is slurped in for training, AI ends up eating its own output. Does the quality of the material degrade at that point? Maybe we'll end up searching for an Internet that existed before AI started rewriting it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel?wprov=sfl...
I can never truly wrap my head around the time component here, this is 400+ million year old light! in earth terms, that's when most life was still ocean-bound
No relation to CivetWeb
its not really RTO, Walmart had a lot of remote sites in different cities and countries and they've decided to shut those sites down.
I thought FCC regulations require that phones be unlocked after 60 days? At least with straight talk it auto unlocks in 60 days

https://www.tfwunlockpolicy.com/wps/portal/home
> Exposure is good, but success in school requires you to be successful in these subjects as well.

Being specific, it's not school, it's what school grants you i.e. a paying job. The higher paying, thusly more coveted jobs, generally filter against good grades which then the requirement pushes downwards into schools because, at scale, it's a decent system; leveraging the schools to help decide who is good.

> Being _really_ good in one thing should allow you to make up for being subpar in other areas, but it doesn't.

I counter with, if you are "_really_" good, it shows because you truly are a genius and you get fast tracked on that subject, but I think your "_really_" is actually just "_pretty_" and you're trying to include more than the 1 in 100 million.

To directly answer your point, for the "slightly smarter than everyone else" my middle school allowed kids to attend highschool in specific subjects and then highschool into the nearby community college and considered "harder/more prestigious" than the AP programs - admittedly only in math for this latter part. The school was in a more affluent neighborhood so I recognize the privilege.
> And RTK does rely on being able to acquire and maintain a link between the booster and ground for this precision.

There are cameras and other electronics sending telemetry (via at least Starlink) on the things.

The "acquire and maintain a link" seems to be a very solved problem.
In the Ramanujan story, a true MVP is G.H. Hardy. He read letters from some random unknown guy (a savage "native" no less!) half the world away, and took them seriously. And then organized resources to have that guy travel to England. A true MVP. All the others Ramanujan wrote to ignored him (understandably so). Such a tragedy that he died so young.
There's nothing better than verbosity on large projects, especially in rarely-touched areas (build/test/deploy infra).

The perfect anti-pattern example is sbt. It shortened commands to unintelligible codes, even though you need to write it maybe once per year.

And by the way, you never write full lines anyway, autocomplete knows what to write using just 2-3 keystrokes, even without any AI. So verbosity doesn't affect writing speed anyway.
> If I want to be explicit, I’ll write something in C.

Absolutely love those explicit void pointers.
I'm honestly no genius but I can relate to R in that one way.

As a child I used to get all As and even got into a Stanford pre-collegiate program as a kid where I learned C++ and geometry.

Unfortunately after a surgery in 9th grade that left me unable to attend school for 3-4 months and just terrible QOL for about a year my grades slipped (went from A+ studen to C grade student) and I basically became average. I lost all interest in most subjects at school due to depression and other things.

My goal as a child was to get a Stanford JD/MD MBA (lol I know..), and today I have only a bachelors from a low ranked state college in business.

I enjoyed programming so much as a kid that one summer, so later in life I ended up going back to it. Taught myself enough in a month to get on some projects as a swe. Later I got lucky working at a unicorn company that IPO'd.

Now I am trying to build my own company and see how far I can get as a solo founder. Sometimes I wonder how my life would have turned out if it wasn't for that injury, but oh well. Shit happens, right?

Jeez sorry for the sob story but it feels good to get it off.
Parent listed several benefits (to the rich or unethical) of illegal immigrants, and why the powers that be want to keep it that way.

You agreed that it's a precarious and generally bad situation for the immigrants to be in, and objected on moral grounds,

... but then jump straight to the negative affects that local citizens are supposedly suffering from, without actually listing any that are unique to those border towns.

Undercutting workers would be nationwide, as would any adverse affects on the healthcare system. Being in the states illegally means you avoid going back and forth across the border - so being in a border town doesn't strike me as relevant to a discussion about illegal immigrants.

So I'm earnestly asking, which issues affect border towns more than any other place in America, considering most illegal immigrants are overstaying visas instead of trying to sneak through the US-Mexico border?
Right. I know of no consumer products that are sold using way “A” as you describe it.
Exponential slowdowns at each level ruin this hypothesis.
I missed out on theater and improvisational comedy only because I pigeonholed myself as a computer nerd and engineering type and almost nothing else.

I found that I have a certain knack for it and really enjoyed performing.
New Defense Dept Initiative to Recruit Private Sector Tech Pros for Reserves
When I first encountered the Mahalanobis distance, I thought it sounded strangely Indian. Turned out it was!
I think the used car market is suffering from a few things.

Some states implemented "extreme" used car sales taxes (Ga)

Cash for clunkers,zirp, caused a surge of new cars after 2008.

Cars produced after 1996 (OBD2) and 2003 (wideband, multi fuel), and 2008 (8 speed zf transmissions with full lockup - and dsg for sports cars) are incredibly reliable - especially with a 100k mile warranty and service packages.

Then you have the 2017 tax cuts, compounded with 2020 chips shortage.

Somewhere you also have ev incentives
https://www.wsj.com/tech/wanted-weekend-warriors-in-tech-3b3...
Also treating non-boolean objects with a boolean meaning. Python is fine and all, but the Zen of Python has always been a joke that the language doesn't bother to follow.
Per the example (the services/component_b/child example) in the article, are you supposed to put __init__.py in the sub-folder of a module too ?

I'm asking because I rarely see this be done (nor have I).
Agreed.

Fie on "Implicit namespace package". If only because making "implicit" explicit is linguistically pointless in that 3-word phrase.

Either "namespace" or "package" is also pointless linguistically. Noun-noun names ("namespace package") in programming are always a smell. Meh, it's a job career that pays the bills rent.

Maybe "namespace" (no dunder init) vs "package" (dunder init) would have saved countless person-years of confusion? Packages and "implicit namespace packages" are not substitutes for one another (fscking parent relative imports!) so there's no reason they need the same nouns.
Are you answering your own question? I read your reply as :

"How do we stop Z? X and Y are the cause of Z.

The thing is, I said gun control, but I'm not even sure that's real issue. I kinda took it backward. There are mass shootings because of the ease of access to guns, but it's not the ease of access to guns that pushes people to this.

In other ords, remove the guns, the mechanisms that drive people to think they want to kill remains. I might be wrong but it feels like in Europe there are more and more cold weapons attacks, or the use of ramming trucks.

I guess I have no suggestions.
Very impressive collage of images! Just one doubt - what are the pitch black patches?
The point is loans are generally secured with collateral. The bank can repossess your car or your house. It's worth it to go through the expensive repossession process because those items are high-value.

A carrier just eats the loss on a phone they provide but don't get paid for. The kinds of people who skip paying their cell phone bill generally have bad credit to begin with and couldn't care less if it goes to collections. The recovery rate for collections is pennies on the dollar.

And you know who will suffer if more people are able to basically keep phones for free? Not the carriers. They'll just jack up prices for everyone to offset the additional losses. You think they're just going to eat the cost themselves?
I don't think college teaches people how to learn, and if they do it's only by accident. There's a body of knowledge on how to teach and how to self educate and it takes a long time for systems to incorporate these knowledge.
Because the test we're talking about is comically unfair, and people were complaining in the press about multiple-choice constitutional knowledge tests that were only subtly unfair.
Isn't that what high school is for? What's the difference then?
What do you mean by index files? It might depend on the bundler, but I haven’t heard of index.js/index.ts files being a hard requirement for a directory to be traversable in most tooling.
I read a lot of books,[1] and Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World[2] by Jack Weatherford[3], is one of the very few books that I could claim to be brilliant. Genghis Khan was way ahead of his time. My biggest surprise learning about his story was about his meritocratic leadership.

He promoted individuals based on their abilities rather than their noble birth. This improved the efficiency of his military forces and fostered deep loyalty among his generals and soldiers. Under Genghis Khan’s direction, the Mongol army became a highly disciplined and fearsome force capable of overcoming any challenge.

Another surprise of that time was that he promoted religious tolerance within his empire, allowing people of different faiths—Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, or shamanist—to practice their religion freely. This was a pragmatic approach, as it helped to prevent rebellion and fostered loyalty among the diverse peoples under his rule. Under his leadership, the Mongol Empire became a cosmopolitan and multi-ethnic empire connected by trade routes and shared economic interests.

1. https://brajeshwar.com/#books

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genghis_Khan_and_the_Making_of...

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Weatherford
"Paris in the spring" is the one I fixated on, but lots of other examples downthread.
Google Fi apparently because Google always has to be different.
I don't know if you're familiar with how LLMs work, but after diving a bit into that space, I'm a "realistic enthusiast" after a lifetime as a deep skeptic. For me it's like the beginning of the internet (yes...old). It's clear there's something profoundly different and potentially enormously useful going on. Exactly how it will end up being used and who will make money from it is unclear. We know from experience that those questions ended up having answers different than we anticipated with the internet and I'd expect the same to happen with AI.
I'm watching Starbucks, like a hawk. I find this episode of their history rather interesting and I don't have warm fuzzies about this new CEO, yet. All these Chipotle people are showing up now. I hope they can innovate and iterate quickly.

I remember the 1990s when it was common to see the same baristas day after day for years. Everyone seemed to enjoy working there. It's a bleak, dystopian contrast as of late.
Now is the time when we have thousands of people laid off from other FAANGs looking for jobs. It seems to be slowly getting better, but it's still pretty far from when you can ask for anything.
removing red tape is for business, not consumers!

My jurisdiction finally got rid of annual/biannual car registration fees and stickers. Was a rather pointless process other than collecting money.

Was hoping they'd raise gas taxes by 0.1cents/litre or something, but I guess they buried it in with other taxes.

Unfortunately, we still require driver's license renewals every 5 years for CAD$90. And they don't bother taking a picture with every renewal because that was too much bureaucracy for them. I think it's only once I'm 80 they'll haul me in for a cognitive test.
I suppose this is somewhat related to previous discussion[1], Microsoft has shown it's true color for multiple times, why even bother trusting them?

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41691577
Yes - this insight has been repeatedly discovered by many, but remains a great analogy.
Thank you. I was struggling doing some basic calculations on the iPhone calculator and it was the uncanny valley of calculators. This explains it. The missing C was noted but I assumed it was user error that I had put it into some mode without one.