skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did the same thing to my Dell laptop in college when purple LEDs first became available. And a year or so prior to that (when my google results were still fruitless), I swapped blue LEDs in like you, and got a purple-ish result by putting some pink paper between the LED and the numlock icon (or whichever it was). I was fascinated to find that the paper faded to white after a few weeks as a result.

These days I like yellow, but am lazy and just put kapton tape over the white LEDs on my desktop...
That incident basically ended Uber ATG. I wouldn’t say that nothing happened.
My guess is that this is a strategy for dueling giants. You look at his examples, it's MS, AOL/Time Warner, Sun, Oracle. This is not really a strategy for startups or even successfully midsize companies. Those companies are too busy working to make money off of their own products. To commoditize your compliment you have to have so much extra capacity you can develop a product at a quality level of a midsize company and then give it away for free.

So it's a very interesting theory, but its also pretty much irrelevant for most of us.
I can see you've spent a lot of time thinking about things like slowloris. What do you think of the approach that redbean takes? https://justine.lol/redbean/index.html It still needs more unit tests, but basically what it has is a meltdown mode so that when fork() starts to fail it sends SIGUSR2 to the process group to EINTR recv() calls so that lingering processes can exit gracefully. Its parser also isn't cubic, so even for a fragmented messages, it only needs to consider each character a single time: https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/net/http/pa...
I think they run Java Card, which is not quite the same thing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Card
That is close, but not quite correct. You can gift <= $15000 per year without reporting it. You can gift > $15000 federal tax-free (state tax may apply), but must report it. Reporting it doesn't incur federal taxes until your lifetime gift total exceeds your lifetime gift exclusion of $11,700,000 (2021).
More fun than worrying about global pandemics or nuclear meltdowns!
A semi-related thing - in Poland there is a law stating that income from prostitution is not taxable.

When some people tried to take advantage of that (to cover illegal income of other kind), they were audited to prove that the money actually comes from prostitution:

- the family was asked whether the person was in fact a prostitute

- the tax payer was asked to specify where the services were performed

- if they said that these were performed at the client's flats, they were asked to specify the addresses (and names of clients) who might also be interviewed

- if they said they did it from clubs and so on, the club owners were asked about it (and likely denied, as even if the people were in fact prostitutes, it is a criminal offense to profit from other people's prostitution)

- if they said they did this at home, the neighbors were interviewed whether the prostitution did in fact take place at home

In some cases they also rejected these income statements because based on the age and looks, the amount of money was much higher than the woman could have been paid.

And if you appeal this decision, you'll likely get a court decision supporting the tax authority, saying that you are in fact an ugly prostitute and that you have to pay 75% taxes since the source of income was not determined.
I don't wanna be 'that guy' but the news of this on the same day of Tesla's Q1 p/d beat speaks volumes about who's winning in this space. Watch the FSD beta vids, especially the Weimo & Tesla comparison in Phoenix. It's clear who's going to dominate this space.
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Stuff like this is what got me excited about fusion. Energy is the most fundamental constraint of the universe and people like MIT's Zach Hartwig say fusion merely has a funding problem.
by default we assume nothing, not a lack of change or interaction. to do the latter is to assert.
Instead, parents feel bad about telling their children what to do, and without rules and structure anxiety and depression seem pretty high.
Thx. But ... actually I remember the fighting to be way too boring and not challenging, not too hard.
The 2012 Imagenet results which jumpstarted DL did not benefit from Theano or Torch frameworks. Alex Krizhevsky had developed his own GPU accelerated framework (cuda-convnet), and it remained quite popular for a couple of years after the competition, until Theano and Torch caught up with it.
I remember reading the story of the development and breakthrough of the blue semiconductor laser in Scientific American (in print). Looked it up[0], it was Sept '97.

Quite fascinating, it was a holy grail of sorts in that it would lead to higher resolution applications (Blu-ray) as well as round out the RGB to be able to make the range of visible colors. One thing I remember about the article was that it's hard to say 'blue' with a Japanese accent and it comes out 'true baroo'.

Shortly after there were lots of expensive blue LEDs being added to lots of high-end items, including audiophile equipment that two of my family members made (separate brands: one tube, one solid-state).

[0] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/true-blue/
Oculus started on Kickstarter. I believe GlowForge is a unicorn and started on Pebble.
Roughly 70% of the world population lives within 5 km of a body of water [0]. By this definition, every country is a string of settlements along water.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3110782/
I understand the sentiment, but $20M/year really is a waste of time for a $200B/year business. I have a hard time thinking of a way it wouldn't be a loss given the added organizational complexity having those kinds of projects would bring.

I thought the entire purpose of "other bets" was to pursue ideas that have the potential to become $XXB/year revenue streams. So of course they want 'moonshot' companies.
Anybody know why the account was deleted. Did the poster fear for copyright violations?
That is true, the cost of mistakes for a platform used so broadly is high which is why folks working on the platform don't rush things that aren't ready or don't feel natural yet.

That said, the faster release cadence has done more than just cut the "wait time for next release" down. For example, the preview/incubator system has allowed the team to get features into releases without being final (see JEP's 11 and 12, or [1]).

And each of the innovation projects like Loom, Panama, and Valhalla, are able to release features incrementally. In fact, it could be said that something like Valhalla wouldn't even be possible without a faster release cadence.

I could go on and on with anecdotal stories about faster pace of innovation, less energy spent on releases, etc....

[1] https://blogs.oracle.com/javamagazine/the-role-of-previews-i...
"_*Permanent liability*_"
Are you insane?
You have the cash in-hand. The customer has made an interest-free loan to you.
You're ACTIVELY trying to *DISCOURAGE* positive cashflow!?!?!?!?!?!

You should execute the exact opposite pricing scheme:
provide discounts to your most loyal customers who are willing to provide you cashflow long in advance of your incurring an expense to provide services to them in order finance your operation.
Not true with Islam. Many Hadiths warn against using loopholes, there's no "tricking" God in Islam.
It's important for many people's belief systems that intelligence is unaffected by physical/evolutionary factors.
Why bomb a damn when you can hack it.
> 2.5G and 5G arrived relatively recently to fill the gap with the stalled jump to 10G.

10G wasn't stalled, it was and is for most completely unnecessary. 10G over copper requires Cat6, most homes have Cat5e if they're lucky.

So why are 2.5G and 5G a thing? Well modern Wifi is faster than 1G, and most homes with Ethernet are Cat5e. Guess what 2.5G and 5G run over?
To get trademark protection in a particular class (e.g. candy belongs to class 30, "staple foods"), you have to demonstrate you are using the trademark in commerce.

Stuff like this seems whimsical, but it serves the very serious purpose of allowing Microsoft to claim exclusive use of their name in that class.
Those fears have been discussed endlessly. Just look at the graph I posted to see the change in the last years that is still continuing.

Availability has nothing to do with what you are talking about (it’s much higher for photovoltaics anyway). Out of the 49.5% non-renewables only gas which makes up 12.5 percent of electricity can really be used to follow demand. Coal and nuclear are too slow for that.

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

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

https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/de/presse-und-medien/news/2020...
Possibly stupid questions.

(1) When is operating your own PostgreSQL instance desirable?

(2) Isn’t this equivalent to running an RDS instance in its own VPC with public access turned off and only allowing comms with app VPC?
> No one goes to jail for underreporting a small amount of income, like a weekend garage sale.

Almost no one goes to jail for tax-related issues, period. Only about 600 people are convicted of tax fraud per year and they usually do so because of amounts of more than $100,000.[1] If the IRS finds discrepancies, they'll work with the taxpayer to pay the appropriate penalties. You have to be doing something particularly egregious to end up going to prison.

The IRS is not the big, bad bully that it is usually portrayed as.

[1] https://www.ussc.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/research-and-pu...
Allegedly blue LEDs are supposed to be really disruptive to sleep (not just due to brightness but due to wavelength. Body interprets blue as daylight and red dusk or something)
No, it's not remotely true. Roughly equating neurons to petaflops, counting flops, drawing the best fitting straight line, and then announcing a date where the line gets high enough is not a remotely reasonable way to estimate a "worst case guarantee" date.

It's not impossible that some sort of thing would happen, but anyone who tells you that it can't possibly fail to be achieved in the next 80 years is lying, either to your or to themselves.
When used for business logic they also execute about 20x faster than the same logic encoded in a client, and in far fewer LOC. Getting rid of all those round-trips has a huge effect!
youtube should make an exception for this video so that it doesn't show ads when you visit from an external referral. Ads really ruin a good rickroll.
> UBI isn’t likely to drive wages up

That is far from clear. If workers don't have to worry about ending up destitute if they lose their job they will have more bargaining power. They would also be able to allocate more resources towards acquiring new skills.

One of the reasons workers put up with shitty working conditions is that the alternative, more often than not, is to end up on the street. Remove that from the equation -- by whatever means -- and lots of things will change.
>It's surreal to see people minted with money for life and yet deliver so little value. That sort of arbitrage usually only happens on Wall Street.

This must be a joke? The multi million-dollar exit with zero actual earnings is an almost uniquely tech phenomenon. There are Wall Street-ers that earned high pay for generating high earnings that many years later were found to be value-destructive, but at least at the time they were paid, they were cash-generating. That Wall Street jobs paid so much was because comp was structurally a function of cash generated.
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Guess-that-number game in various languages (2013)
Interestingly, almost all "plain" European beers have either 5% or 4,9% of alcohol (Pilsners, Lagers etc.)

It seems this may also be a measure to boost local sales?
Yeah, exactly. Showing my age here.
Anti-nuclear activists aren't my opponents. They're the opponents of Amiga fans. You know. The people I'm making fun of.

> There are legitimate concerns against nuclear:

Yeah, I agree. There were legitimate reasons not to buy an Amiga, too: it was expensive, it didn't run WordPerfect or Microsoft Flight Simulator, and then it stagnated. Probably 20 or 10 years ago the legitimate reasons not to use nuclear were less important than global warming.

Now they're irrelevant because nobody is going to use nuclear anyway except for things like submarines because it's too expensive.

> Chernobyl and Fukushima haven’t been predicted

Hmm, are you suggesting (non-gas-cooled) US and UK reactors were designed with a negative void coefficient without knowing that this was a safety feature? I think that in fact Chernobyl was predicted but happened anyway. Similarly the power company at Fukushima was found guilty of predicting the problem and then not preventing it.
They do, they start as toddlers, they practice the language 24/7, and they have a decade to master it. Adult people simply don't have this luxury. Kids are not really a model for learning as an adult.

Learning is an effort that needs to be put. Preferably, in a time frame narrow enough you don't forget why you even started learning. And when optimizing the language learning process, grammar tables are useful.
Isn't IQ a relative test, though? Doesn't this just mean that there's a growing intelligence gap between the average person and the most intelligent?
Being in a single .c or .h file does make a project easy to incorporate into the source tree of other projects.
How many XXB/year companies start off making XXB/year or have clear visibility to XXB/year near-term?

For example, I doubt the AirBNB founders early-on and/or 5-10 years ago even imagined they'd have multiple billions of revenue.
Yes, of course this is reasonable. Progress still requires ruling out reasonable avenues of exploration. And even some relatively unreasonable ones.
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Note: You do know that Belgium overcounts?

Still, I'll check what science says when it's sure. There's no reason to think that outdoor contributes a lot to the spread. But masks do help ( indoor and outdoor) and is also always what i took into consideration for BLM protests ( which they mostly did).

But partying outside is a bad initiative. We still need till September till it improves and going to the park for a festival now is just stupid and irresponsible, even if it was an obvious fake event. We are not in the clear yet.

There are better options/attempts than the ones you mention ( allowing partying would send a bad signal, lol).

At least try to contribute positively instead of the hateful behavior now. Everyone is in the same situation here.
I'd imagine life was more violent back then, that's I've read anyway. To the point where a great number of people were murdered.

So my guess is people back then would be less relaxed about eg meeting strangers, and they would maybe all practice self defense.

Another thing that might be different is their attitudes to property. That is after all something that has gotten fairly complex since the dawn of civilization.

It's also the case that they probably has access to fewer people, so that has an effect on how well they could satisfy their emotional needs.
It's basically just Xeyes.
Do you save the user's key in server to decrypt? If that's the case, how are the notes truly 'private'?
I decided to use Go for a medium sized CLI app at work. It took me about 2 days to get proficient enough to write the whole thing without googling for every line.
In context, with the rest of the magazine: https://archive.org/details/MacUser8605May1986/page/n9/mode/...
It frustrates me to no end when people compare autolanding (even the Garmin kind), or worse, general autopilots, with self-driving cars.

Anyone who does that has either never traveled in an airplane (even just as a passenger), or just never observed and thought about the vastly different levels of interaction planes have with their environment.
"Everyone who grew up here and works an Xth-percentile job can still afford to live here, plus we have room for more" is a lot better than "GTFO natives, I've got more money than you." America (after the obvious colonial invasion) was also founded on principles of democracy and republicanism, where representation and self-determination belong to locals, not outsiders.

It's really bad for a community and a country when there is massive forced migration due to price pressure.

When new graduates are detached from their support networks, they have to pay more for things and services they could have shared with their family/friends/community. When new couples are detached from their support networks, they and their kids suffer from higher costs and reduced mentorship from extended family.

When there is a constant flux in and out, like I saw while I was living in SF, nobody has any commitment to the area, and nobody has lived there long enough to know what "normal" is.

When people who invest their entire lives into a community are forced out of it, and/or their kids are displaced by lucky rich in-migrants, you amplify people's natural defensiveness and, whatever points you may have had, they will oppose you on everything. Those communities are desirable places to live because of the years of time invested by those who came before, and they deserve not to be forced out by people with no prior stake.

When every avenue for just starting a life, let alone advancing it, is closed off to people, especially because of outsiders trouncing in with no appreciation for the history of a place, you have all the ingredients for revolt and revolution.

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In places where there is ample land (like my native Utah), but supply targeted at natural growth can't keep up with in-migration and investor speculation, I would favor policies that significantly bias toward natives. Keeping churn low, but not zero, is absolutely essential for the health of communities.

- Favoring live-in owners over landlords, but still allowing for some renting

- Very strongly favoring live-in first-home owners over investors through tax, HOA, and zoning policy

- Breaking up the very large parcels currently owned by and being developed for billionaires -- hating on single-family housing is a scapegoat for this real issue
Cool! Thanks for the additional details.
It has been used several times against organized crime, most famously against Al Capone.

You can't prove they did anything illegal to profit, but the IRS can audit them and prove they have not paid taxes on all their assets.
The PS2 got it right-- its power button was a red/green bicolor LED (red on standby; green when powered on).

The blue LED was on the eject button, and was only lit while the console was powered on (and a disc was loaded, IIRC).
Indeed, but it comes really early in development. A 2 months old baby understands that if you smile at other people they will interact with you. And they'll try to use the to get more interaction / playing (in a very simple way) which also makes sense evolutionary because more attention from adults means higher chance of survival.
I agree with the password example. I don't agree with people updating queries willy-nilly. Updated queries should go through the same life-cycle of testing (etc) as code, meaning they can simply go out with continuous application deployments anyways.
No. But perhaps humanity has reached "peak dopamine".
Continued to do the things I was banned for? Why don't you point out the specific examples because we both know that's bullshit. Just because you don't agree with people doesn't mean you should use your status to silence them. Let me guess, you're a Joe Biden liberal aren't you?
SPJ has been coming at this from the angle of let’s add things to Excel because Excel itself is already established.

This, in my opinion, is putting lipstick on a pig. The inputs and outputs work represents a very stretched contortion of trying to do real programming in a limited environment.

I am coming at it (commented elsewhere in the submission my project, avoiding spam) from the other end: start with a fresh, language take all the tried and tested programming language research useful to this way of working and connect it to a UI which fully comprehends this language. Throw out the grid and coordinates.

Row types, polymorphic variants, FRP for time/streams/events, type classes for arithmetic, CAS for cells, etc. We really do know what works, and therefore we can actually start from scratch and have some thing that is actually nice to use.
There's also an ignorance of the externalities of renewables. Yes, they are magnitudes better than fossil fuels, but it amazes me how much people bring up uranium mining and ignore everything to do with rare earth mining in general. Or talk about waste storage of heavy metals and lithium. The problem is that everything has a cost. You can't make good comparisons if you only look at the costs of one system and the benefits of another. These are extremely complicated equations that people act like they are simple. I also frequently see a lot of belief that the issues are purely political (renewables and nuclear) when there is so much technical challenges still left.

There's no free lunch.

I want to make it clear that I'm not trying to say "nuclear > renewables" or even "renewables > nuclear" (this is a dumb comparison imo), but rather that every time we have these conversations in HN and most places we aren't even attempting to make a one-to-one fair comparison. I just wish that, especially on a technical form, that the conversations would focus on technology and science rather than the politics. Though I understand that not every (anyone) is really qualified to talk technically so we talk politically because we still want to engage.
It’s impossible to be politically correct these days unless you buy that theory.

The idea that evolution stops at the neck seems completely laughable to me.
Ah yeah, I use that configuration option (love it), but I think the issue is that highlighting text doesn't stay highlighted unless I hold shift -- which shifts the mouse functionality to the terminal emulator. Maybe there's a setting to get around that, but it hasn't been a big enough deal to really try and figure out.
More resignations at FSF over Stallman returning to board
Fair. Still, it's those private actions that matter here; that perpetuation of ideas against the will of the ostensibly-in-power government is, too, a rejection of that government's power.

That is:

> You stated above that people have a duty to "bring the government to heel, or else establish a new government obedient to the will of the people"

Chopping off the parenthetical immediately following that quotation changes the meaning from what I wrote entirely. As noted in that parenthetical, a perfectly valid way of fulfilling that duty is to promote and exercise self-governance - which is exactly what those dissidents did in private.

And further, that promotion and exercise of self-governance is itself a way to bring an errant government to heel - namely, by introducing an alternative to it and prompting it to seek a more "diplomatic" outcome.
Please note: While they write about "group IQ", they only considered dyads (two persons).
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GB5 = Geekbench 5. It is a real world benchmark.
You can gift $15,000 per person, per year, without counting against the exemption. If you go above that you start to chip into the massive lifetime exemption.

Unless you have a net worth way above $10 million dollars you don't need to worry about the gift tax. If you accidentally forgot to report a $30,000 "loan" that turns into a gift to a friend, the IRS isn't going to care. You might have to go back and fix it if they notice but it isn't going to be a problem.

The gift tax exists to prevent extremely rich people from cheating the estate tax. If you've never heard of the gift tax before you don't need to worry about.