skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well that begs the question of why was China so weak that they could be easily colonized and exploited by the UK, Japan, and other foreign powers? At the time they didn't lack for population, natural resources, technology, ports, etc. Was their weakness caused by culture or something else? In other words, why were they the colonized instead of the colonizers?

I'm not trying to make excuses for the crimes against humanity committed in China by the colonial powers. But we need to look deeper into the root causes of historical events.
Yes. the right thing to do is to treat a list as a general case and other uses of cons as special case
Representative democracy as we think of democracy - didn't exist much from what I can tell (I'm not an expert in history though). However small villages tended to have the "elders" gather to deal with government matters which looks a lot like direct democracy (and has significant problems - "busy bodies" are more likely to attend and make decisions for the average person who is trying to do something else with their limited time).
> Google would have to make TONS of hostile moves for that fact to change

I think the biggest issue with IE6 was not the hostile moves Microosft did, it is that it didn't do anything. The browser was just frozen. That's why it was relatively easy for Firefox to take a marketshare.

Frankly, with some of the APIs Google are adding to Chrome, I'd rather they'd do a little less.
Cows and pigs will face a carbon tax in Denmark
You can't automate art, sorry. Maybe you can crank out a bunch of hollywood dross that undiscerning audiences will slop up, but you're not adding anything of value to our culture.
Why is Git not considered a "block chain"?
Additionally, there are lots of examples where cheaper production has produced an inferior product yet the difference in price causes the inferior product to usurp in superior product. Building materials exhibit this effect frequently: plaster vs. drywall, asphalt vs. slate, balloon framing vs structural masonry, etc.

In media, TikTok exemplifies this effect. People watch fewer movies (expensive, high quality) and watch more short-form content (cheap, low quality).
We already have procedurally generated content in games - and quite a few of those seem to be pretty popular.
Is there a good explanation why didn't gdpr "make websites obey do-not-track" (or a similar set of rules/whitelist/blacklist that can easily be set once in a browser) instead of prompting for manual consent every time? I never see it when a discussion like this arises
> slave patrols

Yeah, right. Those were distinctly US-ian things; somehow, the rest of the world managed to develop a similar form of police force at similar time, too.
No, 44 kHz is because you want to reconstruct the (20 kHz) bandlimited signal and it's (much) easier to realize such a filter if you have a bit of a transition band.
Well, Mao also “unified” China by systematically going into every province and murdering the opposition. Then of course they attempted to extend influence into Korea and Vietnam.

I don’t think it’s accurate to pin imperialism as a uniquely Western thing.
Experiment supports existence of a new type of superconductor
I do opposite. I develop and test over Firefox. If it works on Firefox, would work on anything (plus I always doing transpilation to baseline)
> they provide bags at the grocery store

Not anymore. I mean, you can pay for them now, but you don't get them by default.

> You must either subscribe to our newsletter or approve cookies

That's not legal... or at least some versions it are not. You can report them or try contacting https://noyb.eu/ in case they're interested. But now you know how you actually pay for that website.

> If the EU could make itself useful, that would be now.

They literally created laws which make this behaviour illegal. (Again, some versions anyway) Now it's up to enforcement, but that's country-local not something EU as an organisation can do.
Can it?

Do you really think that dressing in military special ops tactical clothing, with advanced and powerful weaponry, balaclavas, helmets and responding to a call in a armoured vehicle doesn't create any weird expectations on the mind of police officer of how they should behave in a call?
> What's wrong with it

Unfortunately the practice of showing the latter slice runs along that of showing the whole bars, so a better convention to distinguish the two would be beneficial.

For example, "breaking" the bars (on the left side), similarly to when some bars run too far on the right side. I.e.:

| ==//====|
| ==//========|
| ==//===|
+----------------

...which is not uncommon practice already.
But does it web scale ?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
Care to share the best ones for some use cases?
Thanks
SeaweedFS and GarageFS?
Which is fine until your host doesn’t support older versions of node.

I just got burned by an old js (vue 2) project. I ended up re writing it using good old ssr in Django with htmx and alpine when necessary. Now it’ll run until the end of time. It doesn’t even have a build step.
> The answer seems obvious: because it's better.

Define "better".

The point really is that "better" in this context means "made by a human" - not "faked to look like made by a human". People need connection to other people - art is one of the means of communicating _between people_.
This is exactly right, and something that we think is particularly important for applications that care about data consistency. Often times, we see that customers want to be able to quickly hand off tasks from one instance to another which can be incredibly complex if you don't have guarantees that your new operations will be seen by the second instance!
But that's the whole point of the deductible. Any costs beyond it are covered by the insurer. This is one reason why GEICO dropped Cybertruck coverage in some states.
Those mostly seem the standard Ruby/Jekyll/GitHub Pages setup instructions?

I don't love how bundler works by the way; I think it should/could be a lot better in many different ways. Same for Jekyll. But once it works, it generally keeps working.

I don't think Jekyll (or Ruby) are a paragon of stability. I'm sure some stuff has broken over the years. It just seems to break a lot less than the JS/Node ecosystems.
It took me many io_uring hello world articles to find out it's not really used in production (ex. Android and ChromeOS both disable it) because it was, and continues to be, a source of an absolutely bonkers outsized # of security issues.

I don't remember much more than that*, but just dropping it here because I learned a ton more from reading about that, than my Nth io_uring article.

* for example, the article mentioning relevant buffers are shared with the system made me want to say "aHA, yes, that's what the security articles said was a core issue!" -- but I can't actually remember with 100% confidence
Hubble sees aftermath of galaxy's scrape with Milky Way
Hearable Devices with Sound Bubbles
> Bud I think you just don't like the US and maybe that's a personal problem.

You'd be wrong. What I have done is read my history books, and visited historical sites all around the US and abroad.

Saying "shit was violent" isn't saying I hate this country. Saying "we fucked up and we shouldn't do that crap again" is how we improve as a people.

> This argument is a straw man and irrelevant. Everyone knows Africa is a huge continent and the civilizations on the coast that sold slaves captured them from a variety of other cultures more inland.

Go visit some southern plantations. Learn how the plantations were built.

Farming isn't just physical labor. There is engineering involved. Designing flood levees to water crops was a technology that the US plantation owners acquired from slaves who in many cases designed and built the levees used on plantations.

> Compared to what? The Great Leap Forward? The reign of Alexander the Great? The last twenty years of Costa Rican history?

Those countries do not have a short history. The US has a very short history and it has involved a lot of violence in rapid succession.

Trying to say that our success as a nation is purely because of Hard Work, Brains, and Grit, is a false narrative that will lead to our downfall if we do not actually understand why we succeeded.

Our economic success from the transcontinental railroad is because we imported near slave labor to built it, at a high cost of human lives, and then we attempted to kick many of the surviving immigrants out. That is the simple truth about the largest successful rail project in US history, and understanding how labor costs impact nationwide infrastructure build-outs is, IMHO, rather important.

The success of Hollywood is because patent laws were widely ignored on the west coast, which allowed technology to progress faster. Our failure to understand how too strict of IP enforcement stifles growth is why a lot of iterative improvements come out of China now, they can iterate faster w/o waiting for patents to expire.

Our success in science and technology is because we have been willing to allow the best minds in from all around the world by ensuring a higher quality of life in the US compared to other places. But we've taken that for granted for too long, and allowed that qualify of life to slip while other countries have caught up.

Jumping up and down shouting "we're the best!" is inane, especially while the rest of the world isn't just standing still.
I would if that changes for more personal communication?

If someone didn’t write something, I’m not sure I have much interest in talking to them about it.
Here's an example. I had a ton of XML files in an external drive and I needed to delete all the files that didn't contain a certain phrase. I had Claude write a bash script to move all the non-matching files to a new folder, spot checked a few to confirm that it had worked properly, and deleted them. My bash skills are decent but it still saved me time.
That number is in the ballpark of what it costs to install solar on a rooftop here in Minnesota.

The other part is these solar gardens don't stop paying for your electric bill if you move, so it's especially equitable for renters.
Are you looking to get acquihired?

What's to stop Epic Games from building their own?

Is this a lot of effort to build and maintain? Seems like they could easily pull something out of Apple's playbook and leave you with a lot of tech debt.

Not trying to insult or belittle, just really curious about the line you're walking and your thinking about the ecosystem you're in.
I don't want to watch a movie cranked out by an AI. I want to see a movie that came from another human's mind because they have an idea they want to communicate with me. LLMs have nothing to "say".
> It's pure magic when you mount a filesystem on clean machine and all your data is "just there."

I totally agree! I am hoping that Regatta can power a future where teams don't need more than ~8 GiB of local storage for their operating system, and can store the rest on something like Regatta to get rid of the waste of overprovisioned block volumes.
Why would Trump want to adopt Federal oversight of an industry dominated by MusK?
Obviously Trump would not do that on his own. This isn't Trump deciding the industry needs to be regulated. It is obvious that Musk is the one deciding that.

Why would Musk want the industry he dominates to be regulated?

Industry regulations are written by the industry and history has shown that regulations create the rules that determine which businesses within the regulated industry thrive and which die a slow death. Musk is simply using his new federal toolkit to create regulations that will assure Tesla remains the dominant player. In other words: $$$$$$$$$$ for Musk.
Amber find on the Antarctic continent provides insights into Cretaceous forests
Given that two organizations make an agreement, I'd say a statement by either organization is considered a primary source of said agreement.
The locus of fast development will always develop superiority narratives. The fact is that there will always be a locus of concentrated development and it's not because it has a special culture.
CUDA is the assembly to Torch's high-level language; for most, it's a very good intermediary, but an intermediary nonetheless, as it is between the actual code they are interested in, and the hardware that runs it.

Most customers care about cost-effectiveness more than best-in-class raw-performance, a fact that AMD has ruthlessly exploited over the past 8 years. It helps that AMD products are occasionally both.
We found that for extracting tables, OpenAIs LLMs aren't great. What is working well for us is Docling (https://github.com/DS4SD/docling/)
I actually agree with many of the points you made here, especially your two policy proposals.

But I don't think you can mention the US in the same breath as imperial Belgium. Leopold was surely one of the low points of our species. But the Brits, for all the bad things they did - including in my native country - were the least bad empire up to that point, and forcibly ended slavery.

My broader point is that certain cultural values lend themselves massively to economic and technological development. European nations got these values by random chance, and then used this economic edge to then colonize the world. How else could tiny Belgium utterly subjugate the Congo?
I think tourism, especially in countries that rely on tightly controlling the experience, can tell you very little about the function of the country itself.

I've had many people say the same to me about Nepal, ignorant of the high youth unemployment rate, the corrupt politicians, the complete lack of any basic infrastructure (schools, transportation, electricity, etc.) in some areas, or the astronomically high number of people leaving to work as migrant labourers in countries that are the absolute worst in the world when it comes to labour rights.

None of these problems are visible to you as a visitor. This is especially true if you stick to areas that are heavily trafficked by tourists which tend to be rich enough to cater to their needs.
I do think part of it is how darned long cars last now.

I have an 18 year old car that I purchased used long ago and currently has no mechanical issues. I've had a few repairs but nothing terribly expensive. I have no interest in replacing it.

When you think about it, people who are frugal will buy practical and cost effective cars and drive them for a decade or more (that is, if they buy a car at all!). That means they either never buy new at all, or when they do they do so only seldom.

People who are chasing the new shiny will continue to churn through new shiny. And of course they want to pay a lot to get only the shiniest.

So I can see why the average new car cost would creep up, because buying a new car at all is a luxury in most cases.
AI tools will continue to get better, and they'll really shine when they can enable increasingly smaller teams of people to execute on their creative vision. Existing non-AI tools have already helped enable tiny teams to create media which is enjoyed by millions of people; the biggest and most recent example is how Source2 is used to animate Skibidi Toilet. But there's still room for increasing accessibility.

The biggest issue I've noticed with most existing AI-gen tools is that they only focus on generating completed output. Ideally you'd have tools that can generate multiple layers or scenes within creative tools to allow for continued iteration.

The future is when one person can do by themselves what previously would've taken hundreds or thousands of people. I'm really looking forward to what sort of creative works we'll get from people that wouldn't normally have access to Hollywood-tier resources.
Agreed on CVS and Walgreens. Walgreens in particular has developed the most incompetent and non-functional Rx platform. I still have orders in there that their pharmacy didn't/couldn't see to get filled or even have removed. I just get shrugged shoulders when I asked them. Just a total clownshow.

I'm sure some MBAs got some big bonuses, so who am I to say what's good or bad?
Oh, vans! Of course, who could mistake those?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brake_van

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_utility_van
Well back then there were fewer options, but the result was that completed products were easy to work with. Perhaps we live in different times.
> but there is no 'regular pickup truck' in existence

I grew up in deep country. I've owned my share of pickups. When you need them, they're invaluable. When you don't, they're basically the most inconvenient daily drivers you can have short of a box truck, an RV, or a main battle tank. Outside of a fairly narrow range of medium-sized hauling activities, they aren't really even terribly good at carrying things.

I hate talking about things as "it's more than anybody could need" because you end up with needs-based conceptualization of lifestyles with people eating diets of only sweet potatoes, commuting on onewheels, and living in Hong-Kong style coffin apartments. But these things are not only obnoxious main character syndrome demonstrators, they're actively dangerous to everybody in and around them even when they're following the rules of the road.

If I was king for a day, I'd make driving one require a special class of license and tax them extra if they aren't being used for active work purposes like they're intended. They should be in the same class of vehicle as commercial box trucks, because that's what they're supposed to be for.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if some type of vehicle fad takes over the U.S. at some point where people just start driving converted box trucks or RVs around as daily drivers, then complain that all the parking garages and train overpasses are too low for their 13 and a half foot tall lifestyle decisions.
No one is using nanometers in aviation navigation. Quite a few aviation systems are case insensitive or all caps only so you can't always make a distinction.

In fact, if you say "miles", you mean nautical miles. You have to use "sm" to mean statute miles if you're using that unit, which is often used for measuring visibility.
Some of us live close enough that it's not really an option, surrendering to Russians don't work that great if you live in Eastern Europe. I will volunteer first day to join Polish Army.
> Can’t they tell the Russian non-combat ships (or pressure them) to get lost?

Not in international waters, which is where submarine cables are largely located.

And even if they could: The oceans are... kind of big. If it were that easy to "just patrol" shipping lanes/submarine cable tracks etc., why would piracy still be a concern?
it's impossible to answer to this line of reasoning without wasting time so I'll just start right away with the ad hominem.

you just don't like art, you don't understand it and you want slop, admit it and don't feel compelled to enter the discussion with your growth oriented bullshit mindset
Can you comment on how this is different from https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/mountpoint-for-amazon-s3-ge... ?
I've seen many of these, i.e. https://www.convertjson.com/json-formatter.htm
Can AI write really funny jokes? honest question
It's guilt by association and that narrow nationalistic perspective that the US is the entirety of the world. Turns out, most of the planet managed to form similarly-operating police forces without first having slave patrols.
The problem is that cookie law requires consent not just for tracking cookies, but for everything except "strictly necessary cookies".[1] This means that any cookie that stores preferences (preferred language, location for weather info, etc) requires a consent banner, as they are not considered strictly necessary. The EU law also classifies any analytics or performance cookies as not strictly necessary, meaning that if your frontend uses software like New Relic, Datadog, or Splunk, you also need a cookie banner.

1. https://gdpr.eu/cookies/
Was this change ever logged or noted some way? Or did it just show up one day?
This isn't a technical limitation, per se, but a time limitation in terms of getting to the place where we feel comfortable supporting those environments for the public. I still wouldn't recommend mounting it from a local environment (because NFS behaves pretty poorly when it can't connect to the server), but we do have a CSI driver for containers running in K8s. We expect that customers will get the best experience if their instances are very close (latency-wise) to our instances, which is why we only support access from us-east-1 in AWS. We expect to launch in more regions and clouds in the coming months.

If you want early access to other clouds or the CSI driver, feel free to email hleath [at] regattastorage.com.
Which company deployed a chaos monkey deamon on their systems? Seemed to improve resiliency when I read about it.
Pan Am 103 springs to mind, a transatlantic flight from Frankfurt to Detroit.
Well, it's a major cable and entirely unoperational at the moment, so newsworthy irrespective of the reason.
> And it’s only a referral blogpost. Is it even worth fighting? What have we won by attempting this fight? The Internet is unusable today.

Actually for me it offered ldlc.com which is a fairly good result. With an ad-blocker, it's the first result. Is it worth fighting? If the alternative is a web that is unusable today, yes. Will it prevent the enshittifiction of the web in the long term? Probably not.
> I wonder if a cable car would have been feasible.

I would think no reasonably usable cable of that total length would work. But what if you could break it up into segments, with a car releasing the cable of one segment and coasting to grasp the cable of the next segment, and some other system (possibly massively thick cables, possibly some mechanism) underlying it and supplying power to the smaller loops.
You're not wrong, but I'm talking about regular old business trips. That said, Rivian is closing that gap quickly with their Adventure Network charging platform.
OpenAI isn't retaining your details sent via the API for training details. Stopp.
Sure but the world would also be better without out of tree patches which don’t track the mainline.
Computers can do stuff humans struggled with since the abacus. A 386 PC can do mathematical calaculatuons a human couldn't do in a lifetime.
> He is wrong. Movies will be automated and when they will be, all these actors will be first one to go.

Man, whom should I trust? A guy who's been living and breathing movies since the 1990s, or a 19-minute-old, green-colored account on hackernews? Man, I just don't know.
The funny thing about storage is that all of the problems are the same! Ultimately, there is no problem that cannot be solved with caching, journaling, write-ahead logging, etc. I think what makes the problem space so interesting is how a million different products can make a million different trade offs with these tools to deliver on their customer needs. File systems are awesome.
The solution is to project strength and hit them where they don't expect. You are dealing with a thug, not a cost/benefit accountant, as Obama seemed to mistakenly believe. As long as they do things and we respond, nothing good will happen. They have already calculated the response and found it acceptable. Instead of this, go to the mattresses. Oh, your bridge has suddenly exploded? Shame.
Seems a very difficult problem to produce a response just on the text given and not past training. An LLM that can do that would seem to be quite more advanced than what we have today.

Though I would say humans would have difficulty too -- say, having read The Three Body problem before, then reading a slightly modified version (without being aware of the modifications), and having to recall specific details.