skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also it doesn't really match with reality, since they'd usually get refresh grants and have a rolling four year window at all times.

The article sounds like the reporter heard a soundbyte about google's typical four year vesting period, and then did zero actual research into what that means.
> $2000/mo on databases is also nuts, unless you're storing hundreds of terabytes at high redundancy levels.

What? 300TB at 0,20e /GB which would actually be quite cheap for fast storage at high redundancy would cost 60 000e / month.
>there can't be an ad attacking your attention when it doesn't exist on the page in the first place.

We can even go one step further and say there can't be an ad attacking your attention when the page itself doesn't exist at all.

The bulk of the internet wouldn't exist if not for ads. Things like youtube almost certainly could not exist, with how expensive it is to store data, provide bandwidth, develop the site itself. It's only thanks to ads that the internet is where it is today.
You are not inventing new way of serializing them, byte arrays are what ed25519 keys are. In fact, by using ASN.1 you are making it more complicated to use and increase attack surface as one now needs an ASN.1 library in addition to an ed25519 library.
I'm aware of the pension rules and to your point I'm sure the cost is minimal. It just seems so long as they are being managed by the government in this way, they should get some "free" services elsewhere.
Davenport is a slightly better bet weather-wise than Pigeon Point, as due to the shape of the coastline and prevailing winds the clouds usually get swept past it. But it still gets cloudy from time to time there. Route 1 in general is a toss-up.

If you live in South Bay, the hands-down best place IMO is Pinnacles National Park. It's only 1.5 hours from San Jose, and easily daytrippable.

If you don't want to go that far, try anywhere along the Airline Highway, in the Paicines or Tres Pinos area (just get away from streetlights; for example, Panoche Road is a very, very dark road), Coyote Lake (shoreline is open for stargazing 24 hours; pay with machine at entrance), Henry Coe State Park, or anywhere along Mines Road but at least 15km southeast of Livermore.

Also, if you're going for Milky Way viewing, do make sure you know when and where the Milky Way is visible. The bright part and galactic core are only visible very late at night now, after 11pm or so, in the east direction. In mid-Summer the MW will be in the sky all night. In autumn the MW will be in the southwestern skies early at night and not visible late at night.

At other times, such as in winter, the outer parts of the Milky Way are in the sky, but you need much, much darker skies to make anything of it, and it's hard to see without long exposure photography. The winter side of the galaxy is actually really beautiful if you do a long enough exposure and all the signal processing necessary to get rid of noise.
Its very German a few years ago there where a number of people caught with bundles of 500 euro notes going tax havens.
How big is this tank? Water is heavy, and we're talking about an insanely massive tank to generate any reasonable amount of energy... that can also move and be used as a gravity battery. Anything you build the tank from would also be vulnerable to the corrosion of the sea water.

Hydroelectric dams essentially build a tank, but they only build one wall of the tank. Hydroelectric turbines are about 90% efficient, so you're essentially looking to extract the same amount of energy from the weight of the sea water... with the complicating factor of needing to peak smooth due to tides.
Very interesting! I remember seeing https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/12/world/europe/belgium-elec...

That article seems to point to potentially larger conflicts of interest:

The official explanation is that it helps road safety and provides security. But critics doubt this and say the phenomenon sheds light not only on Belgium’s roads but also on a mutually profitable relationship among its politicians, electricity distributors and main energy supplier, Electrabel.
Right! I get it for the very high end chips used in CPUs and GPUs that are in demand for home computers and cryptocurrency mining are constrained by a very limited amount of fabs, but what is holding back the older process chips?
Oh my god yes. I had a Jasper Report I was working on once that had totals, subtotals, totals of those subtotals...

Suddenly I just froze wondering "wtf is a total?!"
I see it more as an inevitability of the growing online nature. As long as people use their personal name on social media and have an obvious link to their line of work, any and everything you say represents your work. For better or worse. And what you say can persist for years unlike before.

I didn't take the statement as "we own all your time" so much as "you represent the company at all times".
I read this which is a good start - teaching the difference between a 'good' stranger and a 'bad' stranger.

https://www.asecurelife.com/stranger-danger/
NASA’s bold bet on Starship for the Moon may change spaceflight forever
Google launches AI-powered document processing services in general availability
Plus a national police force is basically illegal and unconstitutional in the US.
I'd argue the RFC is already there and it's RFC 8032, which defines "32 bytes string" <-> "public key" and "32 bytes string" <-> "private key" APIs.

Then you can use your preferred format to serialize a 32 bytes string if you need a text-safe encoding. (If you don't you're done!) For example, you can use RFC 4648.

I am positive every language has Base64 code, and if there's an Ed25519 library out there that can't accept 32 byte strings we should talk to the author because it's broken as it doesn't implement RFC 8032.

What else would a serialization RFC say, that is not already said in RFC 8032? Deciding that keys are encoded with Base64 and not with, say, hex seems like a weird thing to force on people.
Just to admit something odd I do in public. I've started using my lithium powered devices between the 40%-80% charge range. i.e. I plug it in when it's at or around 40% left charged and unplug it when it's 80% charged or around there. I'd read that's what Tesla drivers recommend for maximizing the life of their batteries. Don't know how much it translates to phones/computers. 40% of 20 hours is 8 hours...
It's really not about the bugs. The bugs were unfortunate, but bugs happen. The problem is taking the word of the system at face value and not investigating further even when dozens of people's livelihood and freedom are hanging in the balance.

Oh, and also the bit about spending 2 decades covering everything up and trying to clamp down on the investigation rather than admitting you got it wrong, once again at the expense the subpostmasters..
Just for clarification, are you talking about Vue.js?

Just looked it up and people actually donate thousands of dollars to a JS project?

https://opencollective.com/vuejs

Crazy.
Using Hotwire Turbo in Rails with Legacy JavaScript
Turbo can be used in a long-developed project with a lot of old JavaScript code.
> the powerful technocrats living in silicon valley, the primary users of HackerNews.

That's a serious misperception. Only about 10% of HN users were anywhere near SV, last I checked, and the vast majority of those aren't "powerful technocrats".

I frequently see comments like this setting up (or expressing) barriers between the commenter and the rest of the community, when the truth is that the community is mostly just like themselves. I think it's important to realize this. How can we function as a community if people are suspecting and/or putting down everybody else who's here?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Depends on the company, I work in tech but for an old company, 5 years isn't very long and there isn't much room for any movement.
It's even worse these days. There are letters in the middle of the model name, e.g. i7-1165G7, not just at the beginning and end! That thing doesn't even sort. You have no idea where to position it without seeing the spec sheet and Passmark scores.

We consumers have it easy, though. Go find some Xeon or EPYC model numbers and try to figure out which digit means what. They make absolutely no sense.
I’m curious if automotive systems used more generic controllers for cabin systems if shortages like this would be less or more severe.

If the AC and the power seats and the cabin lights used the moral equivalent of a raspberry pi compute engine, would we see supply harder to disrupt, or massive consolidation that just makes these problems worse, for instance every single car plant shutting down for two weeks out of the same three months as the pause wends its way through the supply chain. Today a Chevrolet plant gets the only truckload, but Ram doesn’t run out until tomorrow due to transit delays.
As opposed to spending four years on the boat, then leaving without getting paid? Cut your losses, man.
I consider ability to perform open development of future products a key differentiator for Apple.

Like Jobs said in his Stanford speech, “You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.”

It seems like Apple uniquely combines open development of technology in known products with secrecy around new product development.

This allows people to be so surprised by the M1, when the late AX processors were obviously pointing toward massive capability.

I believe there are other examples of this happening--specifically with the Apple Watch.

On that product, the size limitations combined with increasing expectations of performance and functionality have allowed Apple learn and improve production-capability in many areas that will be in any forthcoming AR/VR products.
Thanks for the pointer. Never thought about this as an option. Great stuff!!!
I can second that. Our politics has become a clown show. Traditional German values are not really upheld anymore. I don't want to sound like an old-timer here (I am not by any standards), but honesty, precision and quality seem to slowly fade away
The problem was people lying about the quality of the evidence. There's nothing exotic about prosecuting people for lying to investigators or courts.
This is actually a really tough problem, because it's even unclear which rate to talk about. If you look at "trial by peers" as a test, what error rates are we worried about/trying to make unreasonably rare? Sensitivity? Specificity? FDR? Posterior probability under what prior? One of the many many others used in stats?

I might argue that FDR [0] is the right number, given that you want to look at the set of convicted people and say it's unreasonable to doubt that a randomly picked one of them is guilty.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_discovery_rate
Apples to oranges. You're referencing an incident that involves someone stealing the information from Facebook as opposed to Facebook intentionally releasing the information. One has no bearing on the other.
Being a dick has consequences.
Nazca Lines
This place in Kazakhstan is lit! https://www.lightpollutionmap.info/#zoom=5.62&lat=48.7573&lo...
The font on the landing page is...unconventional. What was the motivation for choosing it?

Side note: I'm not sure why, but a font like this makes me trust a site less, even though I know it's just a line of CSS. Can someone explain why?
I admit I am a bit of a masochist in that area but I am almost exclusively using blender on my laptop for many years and once you get used to it and have setup your keys correctly, it works
> AFAIUI this is not uncommon practice for IPOs in general

IPOs generally have a 180 day lockup, in part so that the market can begin down the path of price discovery. This is a solid anti-pump-n-dump mechanism. This is achievable because new shares are issued for folks to trade with. The rules were changed recently, by the way, so that direct listings could also issue shares instead of requiring insider selling.

I think some selling is fine, I do think selling almost 100% of vested shares by every executive on day 1 isn't a bullish indicator. Usually they sell over months/years with a 10b5-1 plan.

> Jumping on Tether seems very shortsighted in CBs position.

I think they direct listed before launching USDT specifically so they could avoid putting Tether in their disclosures.
What blows me away is in a study group of 734 infants, which benefited from maternal antibodies against malaria, 717 were infected by malaria in the first year of their life. That's nearly 100%, in the first year since birth. That's devastating.

The vaccine is showing 77% efficacy in trials in Burkina Faso.

That's an ongoing pandemic that makes covid-19 look like a case of the sniffles. Malaria deaths peaked around 930,000 a year in 2004, and is around 600,000 a year now. I believe covid-19 death toll stands around 3 million deaths, most above the age of 70. Malaria is over 100 million, most under the age of 5.

Source: https://ourworldindata.org/malaria
I miss canv.as
Yeah, "factory" is really the general term for a facility that adds value to inputs at an industrialized scale. A lay person would call everything from a smelting plant to an electronics assembly floor a "factory" and not be wrong.

From a pre-industrial blacksmith's perspective, the bigger distinction might be between a "factory" and a "shop". The processes involved are effectively the same; the difference is the scale/flexibility tradeoff (a shop can make different things every day without added overhead, where a "factory" gains enormous efficiency by being configured to do a single process).
> I disagree, ultimately, we the consumers are at fault.

Nope. This is a lie fabricated by big corporations so that they don't seem responsible.

People have limited money and time. Just because you buy a more expensive product does not mean it is produced more ethically.

If two companies are selling their product for the same price then the one using non ethical behavior to lower production cost will still make more profit. It has a competitive advantage and will take over the market. Increasing the base price because you as a consumer are willing to pay more does not help the situation.

Some companies advertise with certain labels that imply that they are more ethical. One example of this is called green washing. Most of the time it is an advertisement stunt and does not improve the situation.

The research necessary to ensure the product you buy is ethically produced is way above the scope for an average consumer having a job and other obligations to do.

> We won't vote for politicians that make everybody's life better

Lobbyists have way more power over politicians than the common man trying to vote for the smaller evil.

Only if they are organized do they have a voice. For this they need to first understand that blaming consumers is a lie and that the industry needs to be regulated.
Li-ion batteries are typically limited to a minimum of about 40min for a complete charge. If you don't need the full 500 nm range, you can get away with a lot less. Maybe 20min.

Infrastructure for this plane would be an oversized electric car supercharger.

Larger planes (Wright Electric is working on a 186 seat electric plane) will require a much larger charger. The charger might actually need batteries itself so it can charge off the grid while the plane is not connected and then dump it all into the plane much faster than the electrical grid would allow.
Interestingly the company initially wanted people to call them "Froffles", but people apparently called them "eggos" due to the fact that they taste eggy. Then the company changed the name to "eggo" to reflect that.

I checked the wiki page and thought the contrast between the two approaches is interesting.
CI/CD Pipeline Security 101
Apple is pretty uniquely positioned to make the architecture change as smooth as it has been. If you look at competing smartphone SOCs it's not hard to believe that a technical M1 competitor could be put together, but getting it adopted would be much, much more difficult.
Attacking Xerox multi function printers [pdf]
Certainly not. See the other comments about light pollution from heavy industries (oil, etc), and also countries with lower-than-expected light pollution compared to their population, due to laws (Germany)
seems like, initially, they hoped he'd help make Google+ the Next Big Thing
Well on Linux my 16GB thinkpad would thrash for more than 60 seconds unless I sysrq.
Not necessarily proven to be correct, proven to be correct _beyond a reasonable doubt_. That's the standard.
Gmail Asking to Unsubscribe to Political Email Lists
Is GMail asking you to unsubscribe to political email lists? This started for me today. GMail has never asked if I wanted to unsubscribe to ANY list EVER.

```
Unsubscribe from US Senator Rand Paul?
You haven't opened any emails from this sender in the last month.
```

Just interested if anyone else is seeing this.
I wish the Chrome team would dig into why my Chrome uses nearly all of two cores all of the time with one tab open. The issue (or something similar) comes up all the time on their forums and they just lock all the topics[1]. Chrome is such a resource hog under normal operation that it's hard to say when something is going wrong.

[1] https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/17537877?hl=en
Out of curiosity, would you be able to provide concrete examples of those build failures?
Scientist Who Says He Created Bitcoin Can Sue Mystery Website
The best option I know of for Unity is this commercial plugin: https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/gui/ui-accessibi...
I, very late in life, got interested in the NBA. I grew up a "nerd" and didn't think too highly of sports. Regardless of what you think of sports, they are exceptional ways to talk to people you just met.

People, even of rival teams, don't hate each other. There might be ribbing but it is a topic that makes it very easy to have commonality across demographic and socioeconomic lines.
I have friends working in the physical side of the chip industry- there is a lot of money being poured into the industry right now to increase fab output, but it takes time to build the physical infrastructure. Chip fabs are highly hazardous environments and need to conform to pretty intense standards.

And of course, every time anyone on their specific team within the fab gets COVID-like systems, the _entire team_ goes home for two weeks. This has happened several times over the past year.
We’re Carbon Neutral
What is a fab?
The is amazing. Thank you.
I’ve been looking at Backblaze storage pods that seem to be designed for that use case.
Never rented rack space.

Do you remember somehow the math on how much cheaper it was or how you thought about upfront cost vs ongoing. Just order of magnitude would be great.
Literal definition of failing upwards. He isn't a boy genuis, he copied code from japanese websites and then fostered one of the most toxic communities in human history. At google, he took a job from someone who was almost certainly way more qualified, both technically and morally.
> Poole's 4chan is an anonymous, ephemeral imageboard that is often given the title "cesspool of the Internet." The site is broken up into boards of various topics, and some of the more lawless boards are home to all of the worst characters on the Internet, like school shooters, child pornographers, and racists. It's also the birthplace of a lot of Internet culture, like Rickrolling, lolcats, and, more recently, Pepe the frog memes and the alt-right. The site gave rise to the Internet hacktivist group Anonymous and is often used as a dumping ground for various hacks like the Nintendo Gigaleak. Poole sold 4chan back in 2015, a year before joining Google.

I don't think it's fair to say this without clarifying that a lot of the Q and other deranged stuff started happening after moot left. Nor is Pepe really a recent meme (somewhere I have Pepes saved from like the mid '00s), nor is Anonymous really a group (but that's questionable and a debate that isn't really relevant)... I know there's very little expectations when it comes to reporting on web subcultures but come on, this is common knowledge (maybe that's why it isn't clarified?).
Where / how do you find inflation linked bonds?
Googling used to be a developer super power but I don't think it is any longer. We've seen massive consolidation in the sources of information and google focuses on them, so (a) everyone can find the same answers with pretty vague queries, and (b) your odds of finding "that hidden gem" because you used a highly optimized query are dramatically lower.

In the aggregate this is probably a good thing, but from one former google-strong developer it's diminished my competitive advantage.
For comparison, the mentioned "RTS,S" vaccine has an efficacy "from 26 to 50% in infants and young children", see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTS,S
Dark Sky communities are only one kind of designations, there are also Dark Sky "Parks" [0], "Reserves" [1], and "Sanctuaries" [2]. Those are much more scattered through the world.

[0] https://www.darksky.org/our-work/conservation/idsp/parks/

[1] https://www.darksky.org/our-work/conservation/idsp/reserves/

[2] https://www.darksky.org/our-work/conservation/idsp/sanctuari...
Link to the talk: https://vimeo.com/showcase/8085537/video/539693997
canv.as always seemed like a great idea, ahead of its time, as far as letting people make memes easier... but now, flash forward to today, and original content on 4chan is at a proportional all-time low. users there always say things like "someone take this image and shop [x] in" instead of doing it themselves in mspaint.
My brain keeps trying to turn that into an airplane.

On satellite maps that’s going to look like someone ditched an A-10 at sea.
Truth behind broken McDonald's ice cream machines
The fact that there's not room for movement is exactly why people leave companies, not a reason to stay.
Probably not because it was warez. I know people who work with Maya in productions; everybody knows that Maya is crash prone to varying extents. It's the least reliable software I've ever used. It does a TON, and it's otherwise pretty awesome, but it's embarrassingly buggy.

I never really got to work with it in a professional space, but before software development I wanted to do character animation and went to school for it. Outside of assignments, I did a bunch of hobby projects both with just animation and sculpting. I was particularly interested in mixing CGI with live action, and there were some things I did with modeling and rigging things like monsters, filming footage, resolving camera motion, and compositing rendered animation into the video. Was both a lot of fun and horribly difficult. These days I it's much easier since software for resolving camera motion has improved by orders of magnitude.

There was a studio I worked at briefly, but it was a pretty crappy deal and I decided to just ditch that field for software development, which I am much better at anyway.
> If Postal is monitoring broadly for threats against their systems

If, however, they are running a wide-net surveillance program under the guise of "anybody could be threatening our systems at any time, so we better monitor everyone just in case", thats a bit different sound. It's easy to say "well, we have to protect our systems" but so far there's zero evidence anything that USPS has been monitoring was threatening their system, and yet they keep the surveillance. With zero oversight or control from the people.
OK, I see where we are misunderstanding each other. I was was trying to say that the decreased cost as you make more of something comes from economies of scale more than the learning curve.
The mass market parts probably wouldn't stand up to car environments, these are expected to operate for years with temperatures that range from well below freezing in the winter to over 150 parked in the sun when it's hot out.