skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue is that the keys can be used to various extent to handle relational data (this re:Invent video shows this well: https://youtu.be/HaEPXoXVf2k?t=1363). What people miss though is that in order to not shoot themselves in the foot, you have to have stable, known access patterns which meet the constraints of DynamoDB.

Even the documentation of DynamoDB says so:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerg...

This means that it's a good use case for shopping cart of Amazon since there's limited innovation possible there and it fits the bill nicely, but for a new application with relational data where the requirements change all the time - it's a terrible, terrible choice for which you will pay dearly.
There was an old xkcd about this, though I will admit I have never experienced this:

https://xkcd.com/323/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flower_(video_game) was successful :-)
Siri can't even tell if I'm saying "apartment lights" or "Obama lights" when I'm talking directly to it. And if it's not even hard enough to transcribe all the ways all the people across the globe might pronounce words in all of the languages they speak, there's the problem of deriving who said it (was it you or was it the TV?) and deriving what was the expressed sentiment.

It's so much cheaper and technologically easier to parse your browsing history and parsing things you enter in as text than it is to parse voice. Especially when you don't own the platform your software is running on (what would need to happen for Apple to allow Facebook 24/7 access to the iPhone microphone)?

Also, Google/Apple/Amazon/Facebook don't have to respect our privacy, but they do need to respect privacy laws like the GDPR, so they can't actually tap your voice without your consent unless they want to risk actual billion dollar fines.
I think NFTs will transform the concept of ownership, and take power away from major corporations in the process. This is just one aspect of crypto that I think more than justifies its value. But there is a ton of hype and a ton of bad stuff going on yes, but that will be pushed to the background as it goes more mainstream. All people inside the industry think this is just the beginning and there is a lot of value to be extracted. Is it overvalued for what it delivers on today? 100%. But I believe it will catch up and surpass it soon. There are multiple singular companies that are more valued than the entire crypto market right now. It’s a drop in the bucket.
There is absolutely a rebound effect where suppressing acid production in the stomach over time causes more acid to be produced:

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112564...

> Stomach cells that make acid multiply over several weeks of exposure to a PPI in an effort to overcome the drug's effect. When the PPI is stopped, they pour out more acid than ever.
Search for any Costco-exclusive item on Amazon and you'll find exactly this strategy at work, complete with 300% markups on the Costco price.
> You could buy a commercial espresso machine and coffee grinder to make yourself coffee every morning but the machine is designed to warm up at the start of the day, pull a lot of shots, and get thoroughly cleaned later.

It is. But with home use you don’t pull 300+ shots, it can be cleaned less.
I have a 20 something year old Cimbali and it’s just great. It’s on a smart plug to turn on early and warm up.

It had a load of leaks and I decided to upgrade, but first talked to the local agent. He gave 4 washers and said try them.

20 mins later it’s completely fixed at a cost of $0. That’s the only repair it’s had in the years I have owned it. I thoroughly clean it every few weeks.
Show HN: Marvin – A stylistic language editor trained without parallel data
> “Given that so much literary criticism has now been produced on the subject of Mitchell’s novel, 12 years after its publication, these version variants are potentially problematic as they have not previously been noted.”

Ouch.
Wow, that does sound like a truly terrible set of knives.

The mixer I have is a hand-me-down from probably the 1970s. (Model 1-7A, in "beautiful" almond color scheme.) Still works perfectly.
Can you (and your representative) please just leave me alone so I can harm myself with this "harmful technology"? Whatever the outcome, I'll take my chances. Please leave me alone.
> I am 100% convinced that our phones are listening for keywords and assigning us to categories based on that.

If would like to defend yourself, consider Librem 5 or Pinephone, which have hardware kill switches for microphone and other things.
We had a guy that always opened PRs with no description. Guy always said “read the code”. Manager wouldn’t do shit and he kept doing it until we all just stopped reviewing his code and then he couldn’t merge.

Like dude, tell us why we should read the code in the first place.
"Sure, $120k + bennies + pension sound great, but you'll be selling your soul to work on esoteric proprietary technology."

It sounds great because it is great. I don't make that much and I work on boring systems.

I guess those numbers also explain why the author can recommend maxing out the 401k. People supporting a family on less than $100k don't have $19.5k per year to put into it.
Yeah, U.S. household net worth is near all-time lows in Fed balance sheet terms and people think crypto is the scam: https://mobile.twitter.com/RaoulGMI/status/13987339019132641...
The author clearly doesn't understand Bitcoin at all and Bitcoin has been already discussed for ten years by everyone in the tech world. His opinion is his own, not 'us in the tech world'.
> Does anyone have links for such reactors?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor you also need https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reprocessing to remove https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_poison which would stop the reaction.

If we did that, there would be no nuclear waste left. (Or more specifically all the waste would decay very fast, and not be a long term problem.)
The functionality is making the owner feel superior to consumer who buy consumer grade products
> At one end of the spectrum, people are making claims that should be actionable through legal measures

Be precise. What claims are actionable? Provide examples.

I think you might have a wildly inflated idea of what is and is not legally actionable, which is driving erroneous conclusions about what the law is, where it is going, and the limits of what is and is not possible in the courts under current jurisprudence.
One thing I've always wished I had space for was using a seat from a Mercedes or BMW as my desk chair. I saw someone post about it decades ago. You can pick them up from the junkyard for less than a fancy desk chair.

You screw it to a piece of plywood and get a car battery to power it, and you've got a 26 way adjustable seat with lumbar support, seat heaters and seat coolers, and all the other fancy features of a car seat. And it's usually made of super durable easy to clean materials. You get a swingarm to hold your keyboard and monitor and you're all set with the ultimate chair.

But it takes a ton of space.
I suspect your assumptions are wrong because you don't know many journalists. I have that misfortune. They will have taken the juiciest part of whatever they were told and made a story from it. Facts are entirely secondary.
I believe breeder reactors can create fuel from U-238.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor
That’s the UK term. Other European countries are more focussed on the US so they use all the US terms.
For the unclear: M-Pesa.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-Pesa
Bitcoin is more like a security, with characteristics more akin to rare metals than a savings account. It's entirely unfit for that purpose.
As an kernel developer, would you want to take some of the many shell scripts that the kernel has and rewrite them in C?

Different tools for different purpose. Unless there ecosystem was really designed for it, I would not write a driver in a dynamic language. At the same time, I would prefer not to write all the bootstrap scripts during booting in C. If all I am doing is calling other programs, I use shell. If all I am doing is calling a bunch of low level system calls in a restricted environment I would use C. If I am doing a bunch of string editing, process flow management, data compiling with some calls to external programs, I would use a dynamic langue like Python.

I want add a personal opinion in regard to C. Every function gives out an return code which is a kind of "type" that does not get enforced by the compiler. The return code is defined by the manual page and it is up to the programmer to catch it and react correctly to it. If the wrong code occur and the program explode during runtime its the fault of the programmer for not write a program that manage the return code. I would claim that the wast majority of crashes that occur in programs written in C is because programmers failed to realize the full list of possible return codes and what they mean. Here I do prefer dynamic languages because they usually do not leave it up to the manual to defined what return code -42 means compared to -41, and debugging errors when the errors themselves have class names and inheritance tend to be a bit easier in my experience.
> The USA bans online gambling

Does that make it right? Ignoring that, many private institutions go out of their way to ban transactions in things that the government doesn't even ban. Marijuana in states where it is legalized for example. All forms of sex work on the misguided belief that it somehow benefits the sex worker. Etc.

Also I don't have a duty to follow your misguided morals.
> The author saying the “silent majority tech people” know its a scam is such nonsense to my experience. Every tech person I know thinks either A) its neat/super cool, or B) they don’t know anything about it besides memes.

Counterpoint: most "tech people" I know — including people who have worked in crypto — both know about it and also think it's a scam.
Isn't there some way to combine proof of work and actually useful work?
I will postulate an opposing view to TFA:

Quality consumer goods are better in two key areas. First, they are replaceable. I don’t want a military grade mixer in my kitchen if getting a broken whisk or motor on it is going to require me hunting all over eBay for the specific part hoping it’s available. I was very excited at one point about the idea of getting a commercial dishwasher that can run a load of dishes in like 90 seconds. Problem with those is that you can’t go to Lowe’s and get a replacement part when it acts up. You have to call a restaurant equipment servicing company and pay them what a restaurant with a broken dishwasher would pay. Or more because you aren’t a frequent customer. Sure, maybe it’ll break less but here’s the thing: my modern LG dishwasher will be more convenient to use and if I get 10 years out of it rather than 20 I still spent only $1000 on the top of the line one rather than the $4k on a 10 year old used commercial unit that I will struggle with the entire time.

Second, consumer goods are replaceable. I am used to my Kershaw knife. I broke it yesterday. I can get it serviced by the manufacturer or get a brand new one, or both. If I buy some special forces surplus knife and chip the blade I am either done with that knife or I’m taking it to a specialist or I’m buying a new one. Knowing that I can replace an item I’m used to when a one-for-one replacement is a comfort. Obviously that doesn’t work for everything but it works for items that are made by high quality manufacturers.

Bonus: a military grade mixer is going to suck to make high end pastries because it’s geared towards making mashed potatoes for the troops. I feel like the author is romanticizing ma class of products that in reality aren’t all that amazing except in a couple of key areas that to most consumers aren’t as big of a deal. So while it’s possible that, as the author states, the average consumer is an idiot, I don’t see much evidence that the author is much ahead of the pack here.
These people really can't help themselves.
This is something I'm coming to realize. Bad customers who don't know what's good for them means you're going to have a bad time as a business if you want to actually add value to their lives.

An example of of "bad" customer is someone who pays money for quantum healing or crystal healing. You could create a product that they'll buy, but that product is snake oil.
Why should modern languages care about legacy targets? Some do care about modern small 8-32bit targets, sure.
But DOS is only needed for UEFI, and there we have an ecosystem, modern languages don't care about.

2MB RAM is a lot. Most of my devices are about 16K RAM, some much less. Lua, picoc, micropython and ulisp are common, but there are also much better modern, safer languages.
I’ve always suspected this. Same with TV. Internet+phone+TV = $X. Remove any single component or just choose one and the price is > $X. Makes no sense. I was told at some point if I remove TV and phone my price would go from $90 month to $500 month for just Internet. Their answer is always “it’s a bundle discount!”
Performance has improved somewhat, at least using the dynamic mode. I think largely through more effective caching. I use it even on my phone these days.
Probably, but IMO they have too much power and their behavior is destructive.
$ units
You have: 2 + 2 * 10%
Definition: 2.2

ITYM "the answer may surprise you", and in this case it did not.
It was purchased from the vendor with the lowest bid, so that's not entirely surprising.
This article claims that Native Americans from Florida were used to salvage Spanish shipwrecks in the Marquesas. That's bizarre.

I mean, stranger things have happened (e.g., at one point dirty laundry was shipped from California to Hawaii by sailing ship, laundered, and returned), but I'm really curious why the Spaniards didn't use Native Americans from one of their Pacific possessions instead.
people are using crypto to bypass country based currency controls. The original big bump I think was related to chinese getting their money out of china.
At some point Amazon shipped me 5 CPUs in five boxes in a larger branded box instead of just one. I sent four back and didn't even get a "sorry for your trouble".

I wonder if that factors in somehow.

I also wonder - since the box containing five CPUs looked like a "single product" box - how often that must have happened.
The company is over twenty years old. What’s the problem?
Virtually seamless in things such as Protonmail or Thunderbird. It gets more complex if you want to use hardware key storage, as one should with GPG. The setup is 90% of the pain, awful defaults, terribly discoverable documentation.
To be fair, this is almost certainly an issue with whoever was selling the item on Amazon, rather than Amazon.

Which of course is nothing more than a convenient excuse for them to use when the only ones with the power to regulate what sellers end up on their platform is... Amazon.
How have you done a deep dive on Tether and not seen it as deeply troubling?
What does “in Fed balance sheet terms” mean?
What fraction of all commerce is worldwide as opposed to local?

What degree of that difference, if any, is a consequence of payment frictions rather than other factors (say: most activity and interactions are local).

What preferences are exhibited by major international buyers and sellers for payment or credit systems?
What they're doing, I think, is compiling a trained neural net into a different form.

(1), training input data (e.g., an image) is input to the physical system, along with parameters.

(2), in the forward pass, the physical system applies its transformation to produce an output.

(3), the physical output is compared to the intended output (e.g., for an image of an ‘8’, a predicted label of 8) to compute the error.

(4), using a differentiable digital model to estimate the gradients of the physical system(s), the gradient of the loss is computed with respect to the controllable parameters.

(5) the parameters are updated according to the inferred gradient.

What they mean by a "physical system" is a series of analog elements with lots of tuning parameters. Like filters. This is a system for setting the tuning parameters. You have to be able to simulate the "physical system", and it has to be mostly differentiable, so you can tune by hill-climbing.

The control systems people ought to like this, because the output is a control system that's made of components with predictable and continuous properties. You want to know that if if does the right thing for an input of 1.0 and 1.5, it doesn't do something totally unexpected for 1.365. This may be a way to get there.

This may be the mechanism behind "muscle memory". Tasks get optimized down to a control system that executes fast, but doesn't retrain easily.

The problems they chose to work on seem strange, but that may reflect their funding or interests. This might be worth trying for, say, quadcopter control. You might be able to train a neural net controller and then hammer it down into a quick little algorithm that can fit in the onboard computer.

(I subscribe to IEEE Control Systems Journal, and I understand maybe 15% of it.)
Print Testing TDD
Why does he hate pandas?
Bitcoin is giving people in hyperinflation environments like Nigeria, Argentina, Turkey an out to their oppressive and corrupt govt banking system.

If one looks at gold and asks themselves “why is gold worth 11 trillion dollars today?” How did it, over centuries and centuries obtain such a status?

Bitcoin has better properties than gold does. It’s more scarce, scarcity means predictability, and predictability gives rise to trust.

You don’t have to be a hardcore libertarian- I’m sure not- to appreciate a better version of gold, and what benefits that can have.

Also - the USD is used more for malicious purposes, paper money is actually harder to track than Bitcoin transactions.
IMO, I think it's easier to onboard with a controller than the compromises of touch controls. (I suppose you might be using a controller on the iPad.)

Of course, at the same time, it's also been getting features added for years and years now.
breaking news from 2013. i lol'd https://www.information.dk/udland/2013/11/denmark-part-of-ns...
Depends on how expressive you are being.

There are some problems where you don't want any barriers to getting your idea out of your head.

No rules are best for new exploratory code.

Types and structure are good for existing code.

I wrote Ada years ago when it was newish, and it was hard.

But working on existing Ada code is wonderful.
That sounds reasonable. I didn't have a specific range in mind, other than "significantly below the minimum specified operating temperature of conventional electronics". The article was mostly focused on space applications, so 120K seems like a good upper bound for extreme cold in these ranges.
Something being wrong with the economy doesn’t preclude Bitcoin from being a scam. That’s a false dilemma you’re proposing.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4524054/

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This work was supported by NIH grants R01AI089728; (to F.L.) and R01AI110700 (to R.S.B. and F.L.).

"To evaluate the potential genetic changes required for HKU4 to infect human cells, we reengineered HKU4 spike, aiming to build its capacity to mediate viral entry into human cells."

Fauci has been director of NIAID since 1984, which is excessive.
> before we knew amazon was using their market insight to steal and knockoff their own sellers products. Likely amazon was the one making the knockoffs.

I have not heard that, but holy cow. Just so incredibly shady.

For what it's worth, I bought that same birdfeeder directly from the manufacturer's own storefront on ebay (I've found ebay to be easier to find real sellers than Amazon and don't have to deal with figuring out who is doing the shipping etc) and it's awesome.
Seems like a good thing to do for high-value items is video record any unboxing. That will certainly go a long way in helping to prove the correct contents were in the box when first opened. I will be doing that from now on.
It's nothing really to do with them being massive and better understood. Google was heavily attacked (SEO) and massively used, long before their quality started going downhill.
I would really love someone to review a commercial display. I effectively only want the panel and some inputs wired to it.
I thought buying a TV was bad, but today I wanted to find a good digital picture frame. What a shit show, it seems that search term has even more fake review sites and SEO spam than other electronics, Amazon is full of Chinese brands with random names selling the same few models, and with even the apparently good ones it's hard to find out what they actually do and what not. And then in the fine print you find you they want to sell you a subscription, too, and presumably the thing will be worthless if the company decides to pull their app or shut down their servers.

I just want a frame that I can send pics to, or that pulls from google/dropbox/whatever shares, and maybe turn off when it's dark.
> Sure Bitcoin suffers from high fees, but it serves well as a savings account.

Does it? Your Bitcoin "savings account" would have lost over 45% of its value over the past month and a half.
For the scarce Youtube ad I get, I made it a habit to close one eye, focus next to the video, not see the ad, and only look at the 'skip'-button. What also comes in handy is having a hardware volume knob for my speakers; with one tactful twist of my fingers I turn the volume to zero. This way, I actively prevent ads from entering my brain. See no evil, hear no evil.
> The next day I learned to fish, spent all my money, in order not to starve, and decided that the game was no fun for me

It is literally impossible to starve in the game. Starvation is not a mechanic.

Unless something has changed dramatically since last time I played.
A Singly Linked List implementation in Terra (just testing out):

https://pastebin.com/xt3Wddtu

Output:

https://pastebin.com/KwSTiN8L
For laundry, these are amazing: https://www.vzug.com/ch/en/product/ch-Catalog/287600

Impossible to break, engineered to was several loads every day, etc. But they’re not cheap.
A.k.a. “Vimes’ Boots”
Where is the "preview" button?
Migrating to a new machine is a PITA that inflicts misery for quite a long time.

Maybe I’m doing it wrong?
The harm is not limited to you.

Electricity shortages: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/26/iran-bans-bitcoin-mining-as-...

Chip shortages: https://www.fxempire.com/forecasts/article/bitcoin-mining-ad...

Ransomware: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/bitcoin-extortion-how-cryp...

In terms of overall negative impacts, crypto is worse than ponzi schemes and online gambling.
It says something about the laptop market that you have to buy a complete laptop when you just need a sunlight-proof display. With desktop computers, this would just be a monitor, because they're modular.
The Blade Runner Phenomenon (ARTE Documentary)
It’s just a token amount that qualifies as a bounty.

No one is doing it for the monetary value, it’s a token prize offered when succeeding in discovering a vulnerability. Did you watch the video? LiveOverflow is a YouTube channel dedicated in discovering security vulnerabilities who explain why SerenityOS’s code base is a great code base to study for this.