skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which one did you start with? (I started with the number 3)
My conclusion also, judging from a few latest Launch HN's that are prone to be featurized by the competition instead of building an ecosystem. Or being a good idea, but without a unicorn potential even if you strech your imagination. But I guess they only care about successful exits at a valuation that will make return on their investment.

Or they may see what we mere mortals can't see.
Clickspring has been recreating the Antikythera[1] and findings[2] went into a research paper.[3]

[1] Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML4tw_UzqZE&list=PLZioPDnFPN...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkKgdq57uOo

[3] https://bhi.co.uk/antikytheramechanism/
Who's worked with Brahmin IITians, raise a paw? :paw emoji here:

I hope the Valley absorbs all of the world's horrible tech sociological antipatterns because I ejected from that heap. Transient gold miners descended on the place where I grew up, treated it disposably, and failed to make any effort to integrate because they're just visiting to make their coin. Sunnyvale Costco is like an airport in Burma (okay, Myanmar), not because of race, culture, or ethnicity, but because of the predominant "fuck it" attitude: don't learn the customs, don't speak the language, don't put down roots, and don't interact with locals. There are perfectly nice, Americanized immigrants like a good fraction of the TiE folks but when you bring in a junior software engineer's extended family, you're getting a swath of average people too... and that's like moving a crowd of random Floridian Disneyland-goers in for a temporary extended stay.

Also, I noticed how the offspring of the well-to-do from authoritarian countries act like, or even worse than, drunk American college students in the rest of the world. For example, I noticed mainland PRC kids pointing, laughing, harassing, and taking poverty porn pictures of homeless people in Palo Alto.
The video was badly prepared. He was talking about datacentre names as if the audience are his own employees and are fully aware of the different buildings.
He could at least have some graphics.
https://github.com/bitwarden/browser/releases/tag/v1.49.0

I had to update my chrome extension manually but there's now a new "Send" button in the extension. Should be similar with firefox.
Thanks Alex for posting this!
people do that, but it's not an efficient way to heat. The most efficient heaters pump heat from somewhere else, even when the source has a lower temperature, like the way a fridge pumps heat from inside the cold fridge to the air in your house. (my apologies for assuming you live in a house if you are actually a 12 dimensional entity that lives on a space whale)
>the 90% value is more honest since exports reduce CO2 emissions just as much as domestic usage

Let's torture this a little more. The reason why it's an important distinction because today we do not have a model of sizable country (and let's include Scotland in that group as well) that powers their economy by wind and solar. Scotland is not an example of that. There is no example of such a nation.

>I keep hearing that there are all these countries or states that have no ability to deploy renewables due to their geography

Come on, don't be obtuse. Almost every country that doesn't have hydro today will not have hydro tomorrow. Almost every country that has deployed hydro, will not have more hydro tomorrow. Why? Because, at least in the developed world, we've dammed every river that could be dammed over the last century. So no, you can't just rely on hydro as a solution to wind/solar base load problem - I wish it were so, but it isn't. So pick any country that doesn't have any sizable hydro deployment, and that country is an example you're seeking.

>Germany is investing in renewables and has increased its share from them each year.

They are also spending billions to build natural gas pipelines to Russia. What does that say about their confidence in wind/solar?
You know we can own shotguns and full power rifles (303) in the UK.

Thankfully the armed police have very stringent training in the Uk.
Sure, the Dropbox comment will never stop being a meme.

But in a world where, for example, a competing product like Fantastical already exists, costs less and does more, it does seem valid to be wondering what is going on.
When I read that the global baseline device is still based on a Cortex-A53, it occurred to me that the Raspberry Pi 3 might be a reasonably good proxy for that, for those of us who really prefer to test on a desktop. But then I guess I should be routinely testing on a phone, to feel the users' pain.
Thanks for your intrest!
That’s literally the cost I just paid lol

But yes, $500k is about the minimum. Plus ~40 acres. For grass fed beef you can raise probably 20 heads and buy supplementals. You might only make $5-10k up to maybe $30k (buying hay or leasing other land to grow feed) profit initially.

BUT it’s not a ton of work, really only feeding the cattle every other day, doing injections on the cattle and cutting / bailing hay 2-3 times a year. Average is probably 10 hrs of work a week.

When those trees I mentioned start growing in, I can net closer to $2-3k per acre. So closer to $60k profit on that 40 acre farm. That’s only one harvest a year, plus checking periodically. I can work a full-time job besides the 2 week harvest season.

Another important factor for me, was the protection from inflation. Food prices go up during inflation, so my farm is worth more. Further, what the farm PRODUCES is worth more. So I took out a loan and my loan will be easier to pay off from the production and be worth more when I sell. Effectively letting me leverage the loan to make more profit.
In my experience, it's not going to pass SafetyNet with Magisk Hide either. As far as I can tell, Magisk is of little practical value any more.
"Old boys network" in the US. Companies do need to guard against excessively hiring only people with the right connections. On the other hand, personal networks are certainly a thing and companies rely heavily on referrals for hiring. I have to confess that I haven't gotten a job by applying blind/via a recruiter for 35 years.
Find where a lot of power is used. Go in with guns.
I disagree, but those are art and not a chair.

A chair has utility. Nobody sitting on those back-aching butt-hurting pine boards is going to want to sit on them for long. They're designed to be un-chairs, places where the function of 'chair' is denied.

Sure they look cool. And if we all lived in FlatLand and were geometric shapes, a functional house might look like those pictures. But not here in reality.
A fall in the demand for high value meat dosn't itself affect demand for low value meat. That makes no sense.

On Brazilian soybeans. Most of the soybeans produced there are actually used to feed livestock. American vegans will be eating American Soybeans not Brazilian ones, so there's no real connection there. Even if there are a ton of Brazilian Vegans, it will take a lot fewer soybeans to feed them directly than it would feeding them via meat anyway. Same for vegans anywhere, surely you must know this?

I'm not even a veggie, but I can't deny the environmental argument is very strong.
Polyglot Programming with MetaCall
I warned about this a few weeks ago, and people were skeptical. But sadly “in retrospect it is inevitable”. Where is the flaw?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26220992

Let me refine my prediction to describe the transition period. Bitcoin will actually deepen inequality in the world, by robbing the third world countries of electricity first, and no one in first world countries will care. The politicians of the third world countries would be paid off similarly to how Nestle or CocaCola buys up lakes and pollutes them. And privately owned infrastructure and lakes will fall even faster.
My theory is that Apple purposefully switched alt and control around to create a sort of usability trap; everytime a mac-user ever touches a different brand pc, their experience is filled with frustrations, making sure they'll never switch away. Of course the fact that every mac since needs an apple-certified keyboard is 'just a happy (very profitable) coincidence' for apple.

Disguising this move under the banner of 'be different'™, mac-lackeys immediately went to work spreading the gospel of 'it's better because it's closer together'.

Ultimately there already was an international standard, there is value in keeping practices standard, and Apple was the one who broke the standard. It should not be celebrated, it should be ridiculed as the shameless cash-grab trap that it is.

Instead of making an app for every platform out there that makes that platform more 'mac-like', there should be an app for mac, that makes that platform behave like the established standards.

OFC Apple don't allow such modifications, because what they say goes, and what they do, apple-fanboys will like anyway.
> It creates awareness

It does not. It pits the common people against each other while billionaires have jets, rockets and fully stocked houses they do not live it.

We need to fix something big here, and saying that tax will not happen is simply giving up a lot of species on earth (possibly humans as well).

> I expect that the counterpoint to this would be that shaming doesn't convince people.

:) It might convince one here and there, but that will add just one whiner to team whiny-whine. Ecosystems are suffering under the exploitation of human's profit maximization. Only a super heavy de-incentifizing tax can truly save us. And the reason that tax in not possible is the reason a revolution will be inevitable.
The PRRA polybasic furin cleavage site somehow managed to get into just the right part of the virus structure so that it was really effective at getting into humans cells (but not at infecting bats, or pangolins for that matter). The closest known relative (itself a major discovery) was somehow forgotten about for the last five or so years, and by the time news of it came to public attention, it just so happened that all of the physical samples of it had been destroyed

I'm starting to become bemused at the people are now talking about the lab origin as having been somewhat obvious all along.
Re point #2 - You can set a max access count to 1.
Abstract interpretation: a unified lattice model for static analysis of program
Not saying this is a cure all. But we should support British independent media.

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/declassified-uk/

https://www.thecanary.co/
I could be wrong, but it seems like importing a system of arbitrary discrimination whereas America maybe viewed as some mythological, egalitarian land where the streets are paved in gold.
But why not make the prediction public? That' the part I don't understand. (I came to ask the same question as GP.)

It seems that it's used on Twitter to prove that you were right about something, and so people should trust your foresight ability. E.g., this tweet here: [1]

How does keeping it secret change things? If it's about something that is secret that you know about, well then having foreknowledge is not that surprising. Is it so other people can't steal your prediction and also be right, so you're not as special?

Indeed, as far as I can tell, that tweet was a prediction about global consequences of the Coronavirus. How does keeping that secret help anyone at all, besides saying "ha ha, I was secretly right all along!"

I guess I can also think of some very specialized cases, like getting a hash of a patent you're submitting to prove invention date. But I think I'm being dumb not coming up with more obvious reasons that must make this desirable to lots of people..

1. https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1241551327743770624
It does. See for example the Ticketmaster case. They were fined £1.25 million under the GDPR: https://ico.org.uk/action-weve-taken/enforcement/ticketmaste...

A key justification for the fine (see the report eg. sections 6.3 through 6.7) is that "there were multiple failures by Ticketmaster to put in place appropriate technical or organisational measures to protect the personal data being processed on Ticketmaster's systems, as required by the GDPR."

Process data without taking appropriate steps to protect that data and you face being fined under the GDPR.
>You're right about the consensus among economists. At the same time, 10 years ago there was a consensus about the virtues of free trade. Then Autor et al. wrote "The China Shock" and other similar papers, and, well, now there's not a consensus any more. Also, economics isn't immune to bias. Are papers showing a link from immigration to low wages, or crime, or reduced trust, likely to get a fair hearing?

Physical reality: Factories are in China we don't have to work in the EU to get manufactured stuff! The Chinese are working their butts off for us and we are making them rich in the process!

Anti free trade idea: Chinese people working their butts off for us should be illegal. We would rather work ourselves and prefer expensive domestically produced products (if you did, why make the "inferior" competition illegal?). We don't need high skill jobs, low skill work is just as important!
Retro computing community: https://www.retrobrewcomputers.org/doku.php

There's stuff for sale on https://tindie.com/ and various projects on https://hackaday.io/
Pushing art into home furnishings, to the point the home is not liveable, is missing the point of art to a massive degree.
You have to view things from a bigger timeline. The Internet is only about 25 years old. In the grand span of human history, that is nothing. It's so insignificant that making final pronouncements about it is really nonsensical.

I always go back to the printing press analogy. It took about 50 to 100 years after its invention for serious societal change to start happening: The Reformation, Counter-Reformation, birth of Protestantism, etc.

Give it time. Networked communication is just getting started.
> M1 is entry

> Only compare high-end laptops

Wait...

Depending on what you're doing, compare Best (most powerful), Value, Efficiency, etc...

M1 wins in Efficiency. Ryzen wins on high-end power. Value varies by laptop but currently Ryzen wins on any sub-$1200 laptop comparison for value.
Ask HN: Story about an ex-programmer that become a farmer
If I remember correctly, several years ago I read a story in front page of HN about an ex-programmer who had enough with programming and decide to become a farmer (specifically potato farmer, IIRC).

Unfortunately I lost my bookmark, I forget the title and haven't been able to found it again. Does anyone have an idea which article or site is it?

Thanks!
Such an easy thing to say from a privileged position in (probably) the richest country on Earth. I was lucky enough to be born in one of those "remote locations", which you could not find on the map if your life depended on it. The internet connection I now have _enables_ my creativity, however limited. It allows me to learn and use technologies I wouldn't even know existed. I'd rather off myself than go back to ye olden times when the only thing I had to entertain myself was a limited collection of 40-year old books from a local library.
I think this is pretty true. I think almost all of the hard science researchers are part software developers. Pretty much every professor I had in mechanical engineering was doing some type of programming or had graduate students/post docs doing it. My masters in oceanography was almost entirely built in Matlab and Python. One of the physics professors was studying black holes and their work revolved around making a cheap super computer with PS4s and running his black holes merger simulations on it.
And regret it for the rest of your life.
"Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" was a thinly fictionalized retelling of this period. John le Carré's contempt for the people in the organizations he wrote about could be seen as a reaction to the excesses of the era Greene wrote about.

Perhaps by necessity, these aren't good people. The le Carré view can be summarized as, for that business you need people who only need the justification of the approval of their handler (and maybe a few dollars) or a story about being aligned to a secret power to release their inborn urge to be an utter piece of shit. He describes a world of compromised people, working and blackmailing each other all the way down. That they often use investment banking and journalism as a cover is no accident. I found his books more entertaining.
Fast Optimization of Classification Thresholds
Yes, they could block the fiat pipes out instead of the crypto pipes in. Even if it wasn’t a perfect plug, it would devastate the prices and might cause the whole industry to unravel.
Erlang and GNU poke are better than hex editors
Your post is a poor fit for the collective mindhive here and it makes me uneasy. I better downvote it.
What are you on about? Wealth and income are absolutely tied to ease and quality of technology/internet access in the home. That's not a stereotype, it's a fact (at least in the US).

I'm not trying to be flippant, but do literally any cursory search related to income and technology and you'll find many, many, many scholarly articles supporting that statement.

I have to assume that the lesson holds true for other countries, though I do need to admit ignorance to that fact.
"The Internet" isn't to blame. The problem is advert funded media & technology and the 'free market' of eyeballs.

Competitive markets; our greatest engine of innovation and creation are racing to discover our biggest weaknesses and exploit them mercilessly.

This is inevitable — at its core ad-tech is a market in manipulation. There's no possible band-aid fix to square the circle: Markets innovate for their customers. Even google must constantly optimise to better manipulate the public or be beaten by those who will.*

We really need to get out from under this because machine learning makes it terrifying. We already have recovering addicts targetted to re-ignite their addictions. Eventually the technology will be good enough to make addicts of us all.

In my view the answer is to nationalize product discovery. Have a free to use government run product register. Let industries create open standards for product specifications and have real legal penalties for deception. Have product reviews with again real penalties for fraud.

Ban all paid promotion of products. Pay anyone selling adverts today 90% of last years revenue to run socially beneficial nonsense (call your gran, eat some veggies, go for a run). Until the whole thing is wound down.

* There's an interesting meta-possibility here where ad-tech platforms manipulate and bamboozle their real customers _the advertisers_. Facebook lying about video plays for example. This is probably the best outcome for society! Naturally the legal system punishes it sharply.
Open the Desktop Signal app, connect it to your phone, and watch it download all the supposedly "expired" messages.

They will not always be shown, but they are downloaded.
Kings of Leon dropped a new album last week as an NFT and it's grossed $2 million in sales! I usually try to keep up with music and technology but this kinda blows my mind. Should I start creating things (anything!) and sell it as an NFT?

Actually, now that I think about it, are NFTs any different than any other thing? I could get a piece of cardboard and spill paint on it and try to sell it, but that doesn't mean that anyone would buy it. Maybe NFTs aren't so "weird" after all.
I recently moved about 1TB of video files to S3, before moving it to another service that supported importing via HTTP. Not sure if there are any better alternatives for this, I would love to hear about an alternative.
As a customer I understood the video perfectly. Those names appear on every invoice and during every order
Heat pumps are approximately three times as efficient as electric heating.
The real jewels were the friends we made along the way.
The Doteveryone definition of done: how we make complex ideas travel
> You might ask, with Kubernetes, don’t you declare the state you want and Kubernetes makes that happen

Am I using Kubernetes wrong, or is this not really the case?

You say "make this yaml file happen", but any given yaml file is a small fraction of your deployment. It doesn't make all the other yaml files happen. It doesn't make the yaml files you no longer want happening, stop happening. It doesn't even tell you "these things were created by 'old' yaml files" and should be garbage collected (since it doesn't seem to have a sense of old yaml files).

It's lifted the scope of commands from one `cp` or `apt-get install` at a time, to one yaml file at a time. But it still feels like I'm managing the state of servers by running a sequence of commands, instead of just declaring what it should be?
Linked HN discussion, in which people were already (IMO rightfully so) very critical of the product:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26425318
We received a mail. Fortunately we were using the managed database service from ovh and could quickly restore our websites from a backup.
Novogratz Invests in Crypto Startup Serving Millions in Korea
It may be great but I haven't tried it because the hardware support is really restricted, much more so than eOS.
> These shame based tactics arise from our powerlessness

Or they are sand in our eyes! There is a vested group who does not want to status quo to change. They make money on pollution, CO2eq-heavy stuff. We need to rearrange the system and the best avenue for this is a very heavy tax on pollution (so big we can lower the tax on wholesome behaviours, like, say, income from labour or housing).
Enjoyed this. I look forward to seeing more people/companies take on building their own indexes from scratch. It's not only fun (to some extent) but can be very valuable given the right use case.

We've built a search engine at my company over the past year that now gives us significant business value and competitive advantage, has an index of fewer than 1 million records, is currently for internal use only, and listings only live for 30 days after inclusion. Would that work for a general purpose search engine? No. But for very domain specific, tight use cases, even a small index could make a difference to business processes.
In my rural/coastal bubble, people seems to believe than UK homeowners will suddenly have to sell their properties and that prices will drop, and are pretty much happy about brexit. I know it won't happen, but hey, at least its cheap joy and hope.

But mostly, no one cares.
The company needs to have a pretty good brand to be able to hire at all with this strategy. If you're NONAME INC., I don't know what role you're hiring for, and I don't know how much you pay, why would I even spend 20min to apply?

If you have a good brand, good benefits etc. maybe you can afford this. But at that stage, this strategy probably doesn't scale anymore (still not enough applicants) and you just do leetcode interviews instead.
The wheels are in motion now. The first block was proposed on the proof-of-stake system on December 1st.
Firebase + svelte.

Firebase gives you auth, serverless database that you access from the client directly, storage etc.

Svelte gives you low overhead, easy to write and easy state management components. it's very close to plain HTML & JS.
It's not often I find like minded people on this one.
I remember some insinuations to that effect, but from an unreliable narrator given Vinge's penchant for strictly in-character exposition, and what would child races know of progenitor's motives?

As a universe arrangement scheme (both narratively and literally), it is a clean solution to providing a new race incubator and preventing "Why don't the First Ones rule everyone?" endgames.
Neither following nor playing either sport I'm on thin ice here (or maybe that's exactly what I'm not!), but isn't bandy sort of like hockey but with soccer-sized goals (and a ball instead of a puck)?