skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's such a ridiculous consequence of our field/times.

Edit: How about the backend just returns pointers to the text (word #x till word #y) and the js just (re)assembles it?
For a second I thought it was related to {pre,post}-conditions.
The Forgotten Solution: Superdeterminism
I think this is really great for getting stuff up and running as quick as possible, maybe if you're just starting out, but I'm really surprised at some of the things said. Maybe if this is a site that you run on the side.

Doing test/staging on a nano and then pushing to production on an m5? What? Like get ready to troubleshoot random issues completely unrelated to your code. And then equating different AMI's to containers is vastly oversimplifying things.

With docker I can just get up and running on my local box and every dev I share this with has the exact same environment and config.

I can package up those images and send them up to ECS/Kubernetes and not deal with the same headaches. The learning curve is a bit steeper, but absolutely worth it.

I walked the same path here (starting out with single VMs for environments, installing services locally on my laptop) and the headaches down the line are not worth it and it isn't even a case of over-thinking the solution. You don't need to ride the cutting edge but modern tooling saves a ton of time.

It was a PITA migrating our old VM stuff over, but absolutely worth it. If you don't want to deal with maintaining systems there are other solutions mentioned ranging from full PaaS to something like GKE.
subscription software should be illegal _if_ the software does not also contain a feature to port/export your data out in a standard (and supported-by-a-competitor) format.

If they are able to hold your data hostage, then it's not a free-association relationship, and should not be called a subscription, but instead an extortion. Sell me a perpetual license, or sell me a subscription plus ability to move away.
Hello,
I did a little social experiment, which will let you know what people will do if they need to pay for likes.

Every day we do a lot of likes. We make it simple - poke on the screen. And that's all. But what will happen if you have to pay for like? It is easy to check by creating a special site where you need to pay only $0.10 per like.
You can even like yourself, and type your nickname and your website. It is legal :) Let`s store your
producthunb -https://www.producthunt.com/posts/likestorage/
facebook - https://www.facebook.com/likestorage/
It's amusing you believe those projections, especially when projections of the cost of fission power plants -- a much simpler and more mature technology -- keep coming in 3x over estimates, and when ITER blew through its initial lowballed cost estimates.

Think about the motivations for the people making estimates of the economics of fusion. They have little external motivation to be honest. The worst they could suffer if they were caught cooking the books was to lose their professional positions: but that is the same thing that would happen if fusion turns out to be seen as unaffordable and work is shut down. And really, a fusion power plant is so far in the future that they aren't likely to be caught on any but the most blatant dishonesty anytime soon. And who is being funded to check on their estimates?

So what might they do in that situation, even if they didn't flagrantly lie? They could tweak the assumptions going into the estimates, and keep tweaking them until they get results that are acceptable. If some source gives an input to their cost model that seems too good to be true, they might not question it too much. It's not "lying lying", they might tell themselves. They might even rationalize it's only a venial sin to bend things a bit, since fusion is so obviously a good thing to work on, right? Motivated reasoning can be a powerful thing.

All those failure modes are there, and there's incentive for them to occur, and there's little real world feedback to keep them in check. So you should take any estimates like the ones you linked to with more than a few grains of salt, especially when they fail a "smell test" by giving better economics than simpler, smaller fission.

In contrast, costs for renewables face the harsh test of actual experience, many times a year. Renewable cost estimates are, as a result, highly grounded in real evidence, and typically come in within 10% of the actual values. There is no room for lying -- to oneself or to others -- there.
But will they ever learn? Apparently convenience wins out over common sense every sodding time.
Make meaning your vocational goal
You (should) mean centralize, not decentralize.

The innovation of Libra is that having "100 major corporations mostly large enough to not be bossed around by governments" do consensus to run a USD stablecoin, is about as close as you can get in trustworthiness to having the American government itself run a USD stablecoin.

But, despite being the next best thing, it's still strictly inferior. If the American government itself issued (minted?) a USD stablecoin, it would have an extra tool in its toolbelt that these corporations wouldn't: monetary policy. The American government would be free to inflate/deflate USD itself to control the tether of their stablecoin. (The probably wouldn't do that, but the fact that they can would keep the coin much more stable.) As well, they wouldn't have to hold any liquidity at all—they would just have the mint issue digital fiat US dollars (i.e. the cryptocurrency) in place of regular physical fiat US dollars it was planning to issue.

All of which is to say, given that China doesn't have 100 major corporations large enough to not be beholden to the Chinese government, decentralizing an existing corporate digital currency would just be silly. But centralizing one into a Chinese-government-issued RMB stablecoin, would make complete sense.
No, I really mean "many ways". Just search for tamper evident products. There's a huge number of ways you can get that guarantee. For example this: https://harcor.com.au/products/security-seals/tamper-evident...
I downloaded the pastebin link but am confused. Is the retype from the same text as the original? I noticed the original had as last sentence this:

> In either case the extent of
the public interest in freeing and encouraging these im-
provements will largely deteiinine in the next decade
or more the technical pi'ogress which may be expected
in construction.

and the last sentence in the md is:

> Capitalism has inherent in its structure and functioning, factors which militate against such realization, and thus prevent industrial practice from keeping apace with scientific knowledge.

also the markdown converted to pdf is 60 pages (with a 12pt font). While the original has ~400.
Fortnite: UK player finishes second in e-sports World Cup
Alstom did only a few years ago, I assume they're still in that business today but not sure.
PPC was niche compared to Intel. So they moved from a dying ecosystem to a thriving one.

If they moved from AMD64 to ARM, they would be doing the opposite. AMD64 is not going anywhere on the desktop and is by far the undisputed performance king. Not to mention how many shops and pro end-users they would instantly lose. The number of developers that run macOS and depend on AMD64 virtual machines must be enormous. Given how much Microsoft is embracing Linux, it would be commercial suicide for Apple to abandon the AMD64 platform since they would be driving all these devs to their competition.
No way it can work. Peltier cells are relatively inefficient heat pumps, that is, they move heat from say side A to side B, and lose some power into heat, so they need a big heatsink and possibly associated fan on side B to get to interesting low temperatures on side A. That little box shown in the photo will never work unless they give it a way to expel the heat in excess in a way that doesn't affect who is wearing them ("Hey, that thing lowered my underpants temperature by 10 degrees C; too bad it also released 20 degrees C hotter air in my shirt!" - numbers pulled from you-know-where, just to illustrate the point).

That inefficiency also creates one more problem: assuming they solve the getting-rid-of-hot-air one, this thing will work as an heater for the room in which it works, because some power is always lost into heat, which will turn in less efficiency for the heat pump since it is now working in a hotter environment.
And there's power consumption too: peltier devices of decent size draw amperes, not milliamperes, so a pocket sized device like that one, assuming they can change the laws of physics and solve all other problems, won't offer any benefit for more than maybe a couple hours at half power.

My conclusion is that toy is no more than a marketing gimmick that will never work, but (thanks to Sony's name too) as with all non working gimmicks that rely on 1% of correct-but-not-usable-here science and 99% of marketing, it will be cloned and produced in quantities by far east companies to be sold for cheap online, only to be immediately thrown away in some landfill.
Sabbath: The Cry of the Prophets
Thanks. I had not heard of these before. For anyone else interested: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Rules_of_Acquisition
True.

But you wouldn't have to use prototypes to get class-like behavior.
> is there anyone other than Bombardier who makes tram/underground vehicles these days?

Siemens, Alstom, and Mitsubishi off the top of my head. There probably is some Chinese companies but I’m not familiar with them.
You expect everyone to monitor all their deleted social media accounts for reusage? For how long? Forever?
Was confused how Greg Egan wasn't on the list, then I got to the sci-fi section, and he's in there.

I could second his recommendation for 'Turing (A Novel About Computation)' by Christos Papadimitriou
Semi-Parametric Object Synthesis
I agree with your sentiment, but there is far too much money in ad tracking for it to be ineffective. Internet advertising is a very metrics-driven enterprise
Airports are not public places, you literally have to pay for a ticket to get past security.
Yeah for launching startup level traffic I totally agree, lambda feels like the right arch at the right cost. Also it will engrain setups that, like you said, you can swap out. You’ll need an alb / api gateway, you’ll need to get logs flowing through cloudwatch or some other non-host logging mechanisms. Transferring onto these kinds of architectures from not-these-architectures has been a royal pain and a time drain in my experience.
Microsoft’s Tech Can Make Your Hologram Speak Another Language
> Each battery weighed around 1.75 tons and could power a bus for just 60 kilometers. Charging took almost 8 hours

But clearly it was the fact that one electric bus company was run by crooks in 1906 that held back electric cars for a century.
I think there’s a general feeling (propaganda?) that the US is a technological leader, but... there’s nothing to support that, especially when it comes to infrastructure. The US is really far behind other developed countries in a lot of ways but few people in the US notice because most Americans rarely ever look outside their culture bubble or see another country.

There are big-ass tech companies, of course, but the country itself is not exactly a paragon of progress.
Thank you for calling out the real cause of these issues. Shareholders, with their insatiable greed, demand more and more from all companies across the whole economy. Subscription models--rent-seeking--is a little peek into this reality.
But Apple does not need to be a good or efficient fab because TSMC and Global Foundries already exist. One of the cited reasons for ARM transition is specifically that Intel fab sucks and their CPUs have been lagging in performance per watt for years.
Most of these large capital contracts leave very little money for profit upfront. That comes from long term maintenance. If they are the lowest bidder they are probably losing money even at 95% payout.
What do you mean by that? It’s completely open source.
It seems to me that a profitable bank is private, while an unprofitable bank magically becomes a public concern.
For what it's worth, I obtained a way to bypass any rate limiting and quota/Fair Use systems, and basically have unlimited Internet speed and no data cap on any SIM card of one carrier. I reported the finding to them, after many escalations they in the end gave me an expensive phone as a gift and fixed the issue. It was in Serbia, so I'm not sure how relevant that is to the EU.
>But talking to my friends who use Photoshop, apparently the learning curve of GIMP is too steep.

I'm a huge FOSS fan, so I don't say this as some sort of Adobe fanboy. GIMP has a lot of issues beyond the interface. Chief among them is a lack of nondestructive adjustment layers. That means it's a non-starter right off the bat for any photographer doing nonlinear postprocessing.
What the other people are saying is that images meant as content shouldn't be implemented through background-image.

Perhaps the article makes it appear that there is something wrong with background-image - there's not. It's just the masses of devs (and I'm guilty of this, too) using it in the place of an <img>. Background-image, in the same vane as background-color, doesn't need any accessibility.
These are quite nice looking. Is it correct to say that making them in this fashion with a neat grid and precise measurements is sort of contrary to how Kanji are normally written (with sort of an artistic attention to stroke order and direction)?
You're not comparing the same things. The US stock market that returns 6.5% is much more volatile than European government bonds that return 1.5%. You need to compare either bonds or stocks for both. It's difficult to compare the long-term performance of American/European because different starting points and the world wars confound things but European stocks certainly don't outperform American ones by as much as you're suggesting.

But in any case, there's no reason why you can only invest in European things (and in fact that would be stupid). The starting strategy for most people should be a mixture of index funds covering the whole world (weighted by market size) and bonds. The proportion of stocks/bonds is determined by your tolerance for risk. You can fiddle with this (for instance as a European it might make sense to overweight European markets because of exchange risk, on the other hand you might prefer to overweight American markets because you already have exposure to the European economy from living there) but you almost certainly want to invest somewhat internationally.
Guys, can somebody show me my mistakes in spoof email, please?
Otherwise I'll be fired
Thanks!
> ...with emulation being faster than the previous architecture (PPC to x86).

This is not the history that I remember, at least with contemporary hardware. In my recollection, PPC emulation was generally slower, but it didn't necessarily really matter.

> There's no ARM that's fast enough to emulate an x86 in the same power envelope, so right now any transition would either require all performance sensitive apps to be ported or would result in machines that were slower for many tasks.

I don't think that's true, at least at the lower end.

Whether it is running x86 emulation or native, the Snapdragon 835 comes pretty close to the Celeron N3450, at least in terms of single-core performance. Both chips have a comparable power envelope.

https://www.techspot.com/review/1599-windows-on-arm-performa...

Emulation adds overhead of course, but it's worth noting that most ISAs are effectively emulated through micro-operations:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro-operation
Clickbaity and completely misleading headline.

The reason why the electric car didn't win was that it wasn't practical and still to this day isn't close to being as practical as using the combustion engine.
Pray, Mr. Radhakrsna, if I put into the machine an article which contains errors, will a corrected summary come out?
What are the downsides of using terraform? We are currently in the process of redoing a lot of our infrastructure and are considering Terraform.
We had some bad experience in the past with AWS (probably 12-18months ago) and Terraform especially when it comes to manual changes to resources for environments where manual changes for testing purposes are common (think changing security group rules for example). It resulted in us having a broken state and being unable to apply changes to our Terraform deployment without tracing the manual changes and undoing them, so I'm a bit cautious about moving forward with terraform. Have you experienced this recently? I'm intrigued by your comment and would love if you could expand on it.
Hey, I am also looking for a way to filter images like that. How about we exchange contacts? If email is okay, here is mine: rjt %40 keemail dot me
Pls source your claims https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259766087_Rate_of_t...

Maybe instead of "debunked", you meant to say "this is a controversial issue".

Here's a better source to support your claims: http://www.co2science.org/subject/f/summaries/forestold.php
Right, thanks a lot.
That's a deep question, I don't think they mix well and this isn't my area of specialisation. I generally try to avoid receptor mashing so try to stick to one thing unless work absolutely demands it (I also think it's very important to have a wash out period where you are clean, we really don't know what the long term effects are but Modafinil has been used since the early 90s and doesn't seem outright harmful).
Caffeine has a short half-life (depending on your genetic profile), said to be 4-5 hours online but I don't find this to be true to me (i'm a fast metaboliser according to 23&me); whereas Modafinil has 17 hours. take from this what you will.

My honest opinion is that you should try to balance your life, sleep well and exercise, because everything else is just a crutch, and crutches shouldn't be used long term.
They can alway use this https://coding.net/ yes, I know there is a minor problem of the language.
Why are they buying new trains instead of fixing the tracks? There are many places on the BART system where the track have not been replaced in so long that trains have to slow to a crawl for safety reasons. New trains don't solve that.
Not sure if these are available in Europe, but Vanguard in Australia offers hedged indexes like this one https://www.vanguardinvestments.com.au/retail/ret/investment... specifically to avoid the currency exchange floating.
I created an Interactive Brokers account and used this investment scheme:

65% of funds in:
80% VWRL
10% VEUR
10% VFEM

35% of funds in:
VECP

This is pretty fire-and-forget. I also don't really know anything more about investing, so this is pretty much the extent of my help, sorry. I don't know if these ETFs are hedged against currency fluctuations, but my gains/losses don't seem to have followed the USD, so maybe?
In my years I've been a keen swimmer and cyclist. When I'm pool swimming, I don't usually get that euphoric high until the cool air of outside hits me in the face as I'm leaving the building. The harder I swam, the higher the high, but it never hits me until the outside air hits my lungs. It's incomparable.

When I'm on my bike, I reach that same meditative trance. It's just the road, the pain in my legs and lungs and the focus on getting to the end of my ride, little by little, kilometre by kilometre. Everything else just falls away. My problems don't matter when I'm on my bike. The pain ensures that my focus is occupied and I'm present. Completely present. When I reach the end of my ride and fall from my bike because my legs won't carry me, the high comes as I lay trying to catch my breath.

There may be something to your observation that it could be related to hypoxia. Either way, the high is real.
The key argument is that transitioning low to mid end Macs isnt enough. They would also need to transition the high end pro machines. That would require engineering super high performance, massively multi core ARM CPUs with huge IO throughput, that would only sell in the tens of thousands of units range.

There is just no way on earth they could ever be economically viable. The economies of scale are just dire. Intel can only do it because they sell many hundreds of thousands, or even millions of these high end CPUs, not just a few tens of thousands.

So the real point of contention is, does it make sense to only transition part of the Mac lineup to ARM if this is correct?
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I disagree. I would say cropping images is essential to be able to use images in responsive designs. It is obviously possible to make websites where images have the same aspect ratio on all devices, but in reality you dont always have the same people in charge of design as implementation.
I had a similar thing on my website for ages (probably 10 years or so) based on the open text summary tool. It works pretty good and is completely open source: https://www.splitbrain.org/services/ots
> Purescript is the only one I’ve seen that is close to being as good as the Vue/React apps I get paid good money to develop for a living.

Purescript is a language, are you saying that the language itself allows for creating View/React apps without need of a framework? Or do you mean that there are native (in the ecosystem sense) Purescript UI frameworks that allow one to create View/React apps without depending directly on JS ecosystem to handle the UI?

Wonder how PS compares to OCaml/BuckleScript wrt to generated code size (the latter is absurdly tiny somehow, just incredibly efficient on that front).
I'm a core dev of stacker, it's worth taking a look at if you maintain Cloudformation templates. Makes life a lot better.

At Remind (remind.com) we have nearly 600 separate Cloudformation stacks which build and maintain our stage and prod environments. This would be insane without stacker.

As for this tweet, I'm fairly confident he is talking about a side projects or early startups and I agree with most of what he said.

Personal, I don't use AWS for side projects, I use offerings from Linode, Digital Ocean, and vultr. They are cheaper and scale up vertically with a click of a button, which is really what you need for the first couple of years, unless you hit the growth/scaling lottery, which isn't typically the case.

For example, over the last two weekends I was able to use Digital Ocean Spaces (alternative to AWS S3) to build my wife a secure digital downloads store.

All uploads and downloads use presigned POST and GET urls created via Boto3! I was suprised how perfect Digital Ocean implemented S3's API in their Spaces offering.

https://russell.ballestrini.net/pre-signed-get-and-post-for-...
I love seeing artists and designers overcome obstacles and the limits of their medium. In this case, the need for highly-visible, easily understandable signage and the use of duct-tape leads to some wonderful results. Although very different in both motivation and technique, I can't help but think of the "King of Kowloon", who's calligraphy has also been quite influential:

https://www.hongkongfp.com/2017/04/30/hkfp-lens-late-king-ko...
I've always thought this was inevitable. If there were a Chinese government coin that could be simply transferred peer-to-peer and we were absolutely sure would always be easily convertable (let's say the Chinese government started paying salaries in it, and had no possible way to embargo transfers, only taxing it in itself at a public, stable rate when it was converted to/from CNY), I think it would become the primary form of internet commerce within months. I'd certainly use it.

There's got to be an easy way for a country with a strong, stable economy to make p2p fiat money transfers work.
This was the hardest one for me and caused me a burnout a couple times, especially when working remote from home.

Separate your work and personal life. This was a major change for me. I’ve always identified very closely with my work. I’m learning to separate my sense of self-worth and purpose from my professional self.