skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you; I do take your last sentence as genuinely sincere. Regardless of the cause, it's an unfortunate situation.

I am making the assertion that "it's because of both sides" is actually part of the problem. I don't believe that a reasonable person would look at the 2016 candidates and conclude that they showed hostility equally. I believe that one side is weaponizing that instinct to draw compromises. You're certainly correct that a Republican would write a similar story about Hillary Clinton, but I can only leave it to your judgment about whether that argument has equal merit.

You're absolutely right that we can't stand each other, but if they're insistent on not standing me regardless of what I do, it does not improve the situation for me alone to grow ever more accommodating. I understand the impulse to do so, and engaged it for many years. I've come to believe that it has only allowed the problem to worsen, because it allows increasingly irrational people to demand more and more. I believe that 2016 marks a turning point where no reasonable observer could disagree that one side's irrational people are in charge, and that's not true for the other.

So I disagree with your assertion that it's not one side or the other, and the ability of the other side to claim it's me shouldn't be taken at face value. Neither should my argument, of course. But the existence of two opposite arguments doesn't make them equal. That's specious, and if you want to come to a deeper understanding, you should suspend the hypothesis that both sides are equally wrong. Maybe you'll come to it again through a different path, and if so you should try to convince me.
I completely agree. The internet is a completely different space from where it was 20 years ago. Tech ate everything, so everything is the internet now.

Back then we cheered when "legit" tech appreciated those of us from the backwater meme-world by hiring our "leader". Now it seems like tons of people get into things with that as the goal.
Apparently it's due to fracking. Here's an article I found about it:
https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2013/01/16/169511949/a...
The Hive – a vision of new internet space
You can't leave me hanging! What did he end up doing?
I highly recommend https://libro.fm/ as an alternative.
Ask HN: What “ancient” prog. languages to include in my data pipeline?
I am writing a data processing and analysis pipeline for my dissertation. I thought it would be entertaining to re-write a few tiniest bits of my Python code in older languages, like COBOL or LISP, so that I can cite them in future publications. (And it would be fun to write a few lines of code in them!)

By the "tiniest bits" I mean even just saving a list of all files in a directory to a text file, concatenating multiple files, or renaming them.

Questions:

1) Would you have any recommendations on what languages would be easy to set up and use (I am on Windows 10)?

2) What tasks would those languages be best for?

The pipeline:

- configures data collection protocol by interacting with Firebase Realtime Database (NoSQL)

- fetches collected data from Firebase Storage every day (thousands of tiny CSV files)

- backs up the data

- decrypts the files and transforms the data (multidimensional time-series) across multiple files to prepare for analysis and visualization

- computes various metrics based on the data and visualizes them (the end goal is to have a data monitoring dashboard with alerts)

- re-configures data collection protocol based on the metrics

P.S. If any seasoned engineer would be willing to very occasionally give me - a grad student - some pointers on best software development practices, I'd love to hear back from you. I am primarily self-taught, so I am surely doing many things incorrectly.
Yeah, and the Czech Republic, which used to be the big European success story which proved everyone else should be able to do better, ended up with the most Covid-19 deaths per capita in Europe (maybe in the world, can't remember). So many confident predictions failed and then were quietly forgotten.
How did they recover / move on?
currently the lunar version of Starship is not designed to land back on earth - it lacks both the TPS and aero surfaces required for entry & landing.
If you want to stick with cloud, then stick with what you're doing or migrate to a cheaper alternative like wasabi, backblaze, etc.

If you're not afraid of having a few operations people on staff and running a few racks in multiple data centers, then buy a bunch of drives and servers and install something to expose everything via S3 interface (Ceph, Minio, ...) so none of your tools have to change.
I sold my old iPad Pro to Backflip, and now I have cash for an M1 model
Not sure why you were downvoted down much but here’s my 2 cents.

I first started taking anti-malarial medicine as a child. My entire life I’ve been hearing of resistance to one drug and then another drug, and then another. Also, whenever we took chloroquine or any other drugs on a regular basis, we were well aware that having the medicine in our body would not prevent malaria—-we took it just to help reduce the severity of malaria when we’d become infected. Looks like there are already strains resistant to your drug of choice:

https://malariajournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/14...

So preventing and even treating malaria has never been a sure thing with ANY drug that I’ve ever known.
Cashlessness may have gone foo far in Norway, government warns
I particularly like their "smart power". RPIs not having a standard on/off button is just unnecessarily annoying.
Just get a fake camera with a light and put it in an obvious place so everyone that walks by notices they are being filmed.
AWS is on its second in-house ARM chip. You can launch an M6g/R6g/C6g right now. If you have workloads on the cloud, you should be benchmarking already, as they will likely be cheaper for any given workload.
In addition to the real and massive reduction in human suffering a 77% efficacy vaccine could bring, the opportunity for renewed investment and growth for the economic development of Central Africa cannot be overstated.
I am never buying a Volkswagen after the Volkswagen Emissions Scandal in 2015.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal
n=1 of course, but to me Teslas aren't compelling until they 1) are a company I want to support, 2) building a vehicle I want, at 3) a price I want to pay. They fail #1 in a bunch of entertaining ways, they don't make a vehicle that satisfies #2 either in features/size or in the absence of misfeatures like the center console or the quasi-automated car crasher, and they'd have to take a significant haircut to satisfy #3.

Your mileage, of course, may vary, but right now Hyundai's Kona EV is pretty close to that in terms of features/size/battery/price, for me. It's the car I'm considering as a moderate size upgrade over my current car (a super-compact hatchback). Being electric is a significant plus to me, enough that I'm considering the upgrade even though I don't strictly need it.
Happens all the time. They even used to publish lists of unclaimed funds in the paper. It's occurred to me twice in my lifetime.
I'm kicking around the idea of an electric car, but the ranges of these things just utterly disappoint me. With some companies offering, or planning to offer 500ish mile ranges, it would feel immediately outdated to me to throw 40k on something with a ~200 mile range. Is battery tech that different between companies, is it cost prohibitive?
How firm are your "less than 1000ms" requirements. Could you identify a subset of your images/videos that are very unlikely to ever be accessed and move those to s3 glacier and price in that some fractional percentage will require expedited retrieval costs?
> the moral equivalent of a raspberry pi compute engine

I did not mean mass market parts when I said “moral equivalent” since that was not clear. I meant automotive grade controllers.

I guess the real problem, besides shortages of the IC on the board as someone else said, would be connectors. The circuit boards aren’t just built different, the connectors are ruggedized and in some cases water/dirt resistant too. There’s no way you’ll use the same connector for a five way adjustable seat as for the cabin light controls. And if you did you couldn’t put any of them next to each other or someone plugs the defroster into the cruise control and somebody dies.

Best you could do is a standard circuit board and custom housing that has the wiring harness, and at that point things look pretty similar to the status quo.

Also relays in that situation are probably a bigger part of the wiring than I’m allowing.
Lord knows if I were emperor or whatever, I would have some fairly draconian laws on the books, with hefty fines, about so many light sources. I can walk around at night and read a paper books. It's easy. Some places, I feel like the going standard is "can someone perform open heart surgery on this stretch of road?"

A lot of it is a race to the bottom -- look at my sign! Sure, my business is not open right now, but I have a sign! Advertising alone is a huge detriment to the light pollution landscape.

Much of it comes from misguided "this will be safer" concerns. And so half the neighborhood has these floodlights installed above their doors that will be on all night, plus little solar lights everywhere. Oftentimes, they're positioned so poorly that it actually makes seeing people walking around more difficult, due to having these things shine away in my eyes.
It is amazing how consistently tech journalists manage to outdo mainstream journalists in incompetence and ill intent
Because malaria has been killing people consistently for thousands of years? You can easily add Tuberculosis to the makes-covid-look-like-sniffles list as well. Over the last 200 years 1 billion people have died of TB.

https://www.nature.com/articles/502S2a
Cue stock drop people buying up all new cars and selling on Ebay for double...
Sihwa Lake's working basin is 30 square kilometers. Rance's is 22.5.

And while Rance could take advantage of an estuary with a dam just 750m wide, Sihwa uses a 12.7km long seawall.

Sihwa's seawall was actually built for flood mitigation before SK realised it could work for power generations, building a 10km seawall solely for power generation sounds insane.
Luck often looks smart in hindsight. You're right of course that it was lucky.

I think it was a smart decision for many reasons, that worked out well. It was also a big risk.
I started using Fathom instead of Google Analytics.
You could also use std::bit_not

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/functional/bit_not
Real estate (built a few spec houses and then small scale landlord). His last client, BTW, was George Lucas' personal secretary. When she retired that was the end.
I had a similar problem at a past job. Though we only had a PB of data. We used a products called SwiftStack. It is open source, but they have paid support. I recommend getting support, as their support is really good. It is an object store like S3, but it has its own API. Though I think they now have an S3 compatible gateway now.

We had about 25 Dell R730xd servers. When the cluster would start to fill up, we would just replace drives with larger drives. Upgrading drives with SwiftStack is a piece of cake. When I left we were upgrading to 10TB drives as that was the best pricing. We didn't buy the drives from Dell as they were crazy expensive. We just bought drives from Amazon/New Egg, and kept some spares onsite. We got a better warranty that way too. Dell only had a 1 year warranty, but the drives we were buying had a 5 year warranty.
"has already brought"
Then I guess you’re never buying any European car ever again because it has since come to light that they were all at it. A bit misplaced given the electric push anyhow surely?
No hacker news is just reddit with a disdain for low effort jokes and a more technical/verbose focus. Most of the lame part of reddit culture is still here.
It's the internet for people who hate.
Please let's not do guilt by association.
Vietnam banned travel to fight Covid-19, defying experts. It worked
They are configurable to 16GB. The Air can drive a 6K external monitor already at 60hz (in addition to the built in display), and by now multiple benchmarks have shown that performance is basically the same for 8 vs 16GB on the majority of workloads, except if you’re rendering multiple 4K video streams at once.
I think if there was a perspective to upgrade to a more modern battery later on, that would make a huge difference for these decisions.

I wonder how much the actual battery contributes to the production costs. It can't be trivial, right?
the problem though is what happens if he gets sick or needs to move on, or the passion fades? Now you need to hire someone who may not be motivated in the same way, and if compensation is low for the duties entailed, you won't get what you need.

It's not good to undervalue work because you really rely on the gift of the worker to keep the project going.
The early data suggests suicide rates dropped, so however these people feel, the fact is that fewer died from suicide.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0...
As an American who grew up playing with and saying "legos," I've never heard anyone pronounce it the way you're suggesting.
What about rattlin'?
In addition to Geometry Nodes [0], and the "Everything Nodes" initiative [1], you might be interested in Sverchok [2] too, which implements this kind of graph-based parametric/procedural modeling technique.

[0]: https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/modeling/geometry_...

[1]: https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Source/Nodes/EverythingNodes

[2]: http://nortikin.github.io/sverchok/
> They were going this way before the internet threatened them. Newspaper reporting (and journalism generally) was becoming increasingly emotion-based rather than fact-based.

"Yellow Journalism" was a thing as long as we had newspapers and a free press. The term was coined in the 1890s, but was almost certainly around long before then. William Randolph Hurst did what Rupert Murdoch does now, just with slower turnaround time. If you assume Fox News help make Iraq happen, then they've both caused the same amount of wars.

> It's the same mechanic, though: competition for eyeballs. Social media became the super-competitor, but the ad-based model would have got there eventually even without the internet.

It was already there, by a long shot. Internet social media just made it omnipresent, automated, and responsive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism
I'm curious to know when the growing number satellites passing through your sky become a bigger problem than the light pollution?

Although, it is a qualitatively different kind of "noise" -- sparkly bright dots that fly through the dark sky periodically, versus a glow that permeates the whole sky.
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Any successful mitigation will look like an overreaction in hindsight.
I mean there's a handful of sites you could point to that were also important, but the point was a 2 sentence description of 4chan's cultural significance and importance is lazybad. It feels particularly lame on a site called "hackernews".
Except for the age difference of the victims, those numbers actually make covid seem pretty bad. Covid has hardly been around for a year and is killing 7x as many people a year.
I wouldn't use the word 'takedown' for that because to me the word connotes internet takedown culture, which that piece long precedes. It's an interesting artifact of the early reception to Weil in the English-speaking world. It's deeply ad hominem, though (not to mention grusomely sexist by standards nowadays).
Government on all levels wanting to appear more competent then they actually are?
JFTR, There are few other projects on Lego-based microscope design on GitHub[0], for example IBM's MiscroscoPy[1].

[0] https://github.com/search/?o=desc&q=lego+microscope&s=update...

[1] https://github.com/IBM/MicroscoPy
That is highly possible, I did allude to that.
The goal of NASA, or spaceflight at all, has never been to maximize science per dollar. That is a new invented benchmark.

The goal was, and IMO still is, to put ourselves in space.
I’m not informed but it seems all the high range cars are also the expensive ones. Mercedes EQS and Tesla Model S for example.
>These savings aren’t theoretical either —- there are smaller scale electric aircraft used for pilot training on the market already. An hour of time in a Cessna costs $150ish/hour, these new electric planes are boasting costs of around $30/hour.

I'm curious, do the training hours on electric planes count towards normal ICE planes? I would assume at they very least they have different operating procedures if not outright handle differently.
I'm pretty confident I could be doxxed (email me if you like!), I don't really want to play the game of proper anonymity (throwaway on Tor-Browser over an sshuttle "tunnel" is about as far as I'd go but that would be getting pretty silly; hopefully it'll never happen, if it does I hope my disclaimer will be enough to argue unfair dismissal; who knows.
Since no one else said it, why not just use Fossil? It's precisely what you want already, and it's well made.
> Yeah, they also don't care. Why would they? Bandwidth is usually too cheap to meter for most commercial sites like these.

Because it's not about server bandwidth, it's about download speeds on slow connections -- mobile, bad Wi-Fi, etc.

You always want images that are no larger than they have to be for page load speeds. It's a user experience thing, not a cost thing.
> Suddenly the white working class outside of major economic centers, the same ones who have seen their economic prospects erode over a generation due to deindustrialization can be painted as the villain and racists.

May you please expand on this, because I am not following how white working class outsiders are involved. To my knowledge, corps & MLB have commented on specific actions by organizations such as the police or legislatures.
> Maybe fabs take longer than a couple years to set up regardless of money spent?

Maybe fabs take a level of expertise that only a handful of people in the world have, and it's a matter of ramping up promising undergrads to that level which will take like 15+ years?

From the start of permitting to first tape out, I've heard five years for cutting edge, three to four for mid range (under 100nm), and two years for older processes. Subtract a year for expansions of existing facilities where hazmat permits and infrastructure already exist.

Far more than a handful of people in the world are qualified to set up a fab but it really is hard, time consuming work that requires a lot of expertise. While most of the equipment in a fab is customized off the shelf (not totally custom but not cookie cutter), each piece has to be carefully calibrated to fit in with the whole.

Stuff like HVAC, which is normally pretty predictable in commercial buildings, has to be custom designed for seasonal variations which differ from region to region while taking into account each piece of equipment's heat generation and stability needs. Tens if not hundreds of different robotic positioning and material handling systems need to be calibrated so that they can move wafers entire meters with a precision and accuracy measured in the tens or hundreds of nanometers. The design of the factory even needs to take into account regional variations in day to day humidity which usually takes a year just in data collection.

Building the concrete shell for a fab is easy. It's filling it with equipment that actually works together to produce cutting edge technology that is the expensive part.
yes I agree with the data fudging, however I'm just asking for some restraint in extrapolation. One anecdote of furnace melting does not mean we're in hell. I'm saying this not out of some misplaced sense of patriotism, but that these are incredibly hard times and its easy to spiral into more fear mongering and FUD.

However I'm not defending anybody in this mess. From the US and EU blocking patent waivers to India's government being chronically under capacity, to having people fly to Maldives for late last year. This is a cluster fuck of how stupid humans are at the end of the day.

Please donate whatever you can, we'll get out of this mess.
Just try random project from github without using nightly, alternatively try a project from 2018 with a current rustc.

Specially the debian/Ubuntu Rust packages have hard time compiling many recent projects.
Can you explain the stablecoin thing to me? I've seen them mentioned everywhere (including being bombarded with ads advertising 15%+ returns). How is that possible, and where is the money actually coming from?
Specifically, the Czechs were praised for their early and aggressive mask mandates and compliance rates, which were credited with keeping their infection rate lower than European neighbors.
Absolutely. If the battery were easily swappable, either by me or a low cost service center, AND a promise of bigger batteries was made, I'd probably bite. But as it sits, it seems like batteries are very central to the car and rather cost prohibitive to swap out.
I saw one in the wild last week and I am very happy to see that they look great and normal.
Not sure, but at a glance it seems the OAK models are for developers to build up their entire use case from scratch, the Vizy _I think_ is pretrained with a lot of object recognition and has some tooling to take action based on that stuff built-in. So more of a purpose built device with some existing tooling vs an open-ended developer device that you bake the full product out yourself.
> What has made the auto industry particularly vulnerable is its reliance on just-in-time delivery, where parts are brought in when needed, rather than being stockpiled.

In another version of my life I was a truck-driver bringing parts to Ford/Chrysler/GM/Honda/Toyota on a daily basis. I've done this for many trucking companies, and the warning/threat that you get at 'orientation' (aka training for 15 minutes) is the same for all of them:

GM Charges us $24,000/hour if we are late for our window by more then 15 minutes.

I'm sure the other automakers had similar threats, but I only ever heard it about GM.
Yeah sure it wouldn't work without a global change in policy too. Because right now shipping companies are just leaving their ships because of hardships, so to think they'd hire someone is silly.

But with policy changes one can imagine a future where sailors prefer employers who have a contract with ship custodians before signing up with them, thereby voting with their employment.
I think the lesson here is that Intel's marketing for these chips has been a mess from day one.

Some of it is inevitable, they have too many aspects to contain in a reasonable product name, but letting the names become divorced from any sort of reality helps nobody.
> and I can get an idea of concerns people have, though they might be concerns left unsaid im polite society.

That's an interesting point. How do you tell if something is a real concern that is left unsaid vs just a fake concern? Or the difference between a concern that is quite prevalent vs a concern that is just being astroturfed?
They should be stripped of those powers immediately in my opinion. It's an anachronism and as been shown by this incident they are not fit for purpose.
Not disagreeing on data fudging. Just asking for some cooler heads when thinking about the situation.