skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know about now, but many years ago, it was common for some Australians to have different prices or caps to AU vs non-AU destinations, and for some European customers to pay more for trans-atlantic traffic. I've never seen destination specific charging in the US.

My guess is the cost differences are still there, but the increases in capicity and decreases in all costs combined with the difficulty of users to control traffic at that level mean that you would really only see this if you're buying a lot of transit. If you're just a residential customer, it might be more likely to impact you as your ISP may have more congestion on oceanic routes rather than an explicit charge.

I do occassionally see hosting operators that will optionally charge more for access to some routes that are better but too costly to include in a bundled rate.
Product listing hijacks have been a known problem for years... and you can still do it today. A lot of the time I get something it comes with a business card offering a discount for a positive review... aliexpress reviews seem more reliable at this point.
I’m asking for data on harm, we may assume it’s harmful, but how harmful? Can it even be measured? These are interesting questions.
If a solar storm knocked out the electric grid, would I still be able to use a diesel generator to power stuff in my house?
I know liquor stores with crypto ATMs with displays. If you log into paypal, you can buy crypto. They're absolutely marketing to people with not much money.
It's passport photo or government-issued ID (mine is expired), which rather narrows down the options. They also want a photo of some bill mailed to my home address with my name on it, and we've been in the process of moving for several months. I have a garbage utility bill coming to our new place, just for big G, so hopefully that'll satisfy them.

The most annoying part was that when they turned off my billing, I had been paying for 200GB of GDrive space. Boop, it went to 15GB. Turns out it's shared with gmail, which means I had now exceeded my gmail quota by around 1200%.

It's been off since April: https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1381027951446171648

But my gmail account kept functioning. They periodically said "You know, you really should purchase more storage..." but the service kept working.

Till Friday. Boop, all my emails shut off. Noticed it on Monday. Had to purge 185GB down to <15GB on my gdrive, and managed to just barely do it.

I dunno. I don't really feel like causing problems. Yeah it sucks, but I also get it, and I'm more of a "go with the flow" kind of person, and "periodically whine about it in a comment." But I'll go submit the damn passport photo and get it over with once our new house is set up. It was more of a mild annoyance than a disaster.
A painting is quite clearly a work of fiction.

We already DO have this same controversy about edited photo and video so there is no difference: most of the people who think this is wrong would also agree that creating a fake photo/video would be wrong.
Bipolar (NPN and PNP) circuits can be analyzed by applying the following rules:

1. If current flows through the base-emitter junction, then there is a voltage of roughly 0.6 V across that junction.

2. The collector current is roughly proportional to the base current, by the beta constant, which is about 10 for big transistors and 100 for little ones.

There are some rare textbook cases such as logarithmic amplifiers that just have to be looked up, following the Ebers-Moll equation.

As for FETs... once you get the type correct (P or N type, enhancement or depletion mode, which I still have to look up or find an example circuit), gate-source voltage is constant, gate current is zero, and the drain current equals the source current.

As for vacuum triodes... they behave much like N type JFETs.

You can check your analysis of any of these circuits using the wonderful LTSpice.
It seems pretty similar to this free one

https://github.com/GuntherRademacher/rr
This article makes a pretty straightforward argument that "clean electrification" (e.g., of the grid, of transportation, of buildings, etc.) should be the number one priority as it's both technologically feasible TODAY and has one of the highest impacts on carbon emissions of any other set of policies: https://www.volts.wtf/p/on-climate-policy-theres-one-main
More likely, that operating it at the official full speed causes irreparable damage within an hour, and it's traditional for everyone to piss on the radiator to help cool it down.

How maintainable they are in the field and whether the Army has enough trained mechanics are more important than sexy specs like muzzle velocity and max speed.
I don’t take it as being a jerk, I’m just trying to question my assumptions in being intellectually rigorous. I’m failing to see how denying an event leads to repeating it, or the inverse, how accepting a historical event shields you from repeating it.
Genocide existed before hitler, and I’m assuming hitler knew about some of it, so why didn’t it work there?

This is a valid line of questioning.
You are absolutely right, this diagram is misleading and I've been meaning to replace it with one of my own since forever but it has fallen deep at the bottom of long list of things to do (including many, many things I would like to describe in that document, like our approach to transmission/absorption/refraction, our post-processing pipeline, etc.).
I don't know if anyone is still following, but thank you for being civil and instructive.
The US is one of them, in some places.
I love stuff like this. You’ve basically made the world a better place. Btw didn’t notice if it can render them horizontally as well as per tradition?
That's like saying the euro isn't money because when you exchange it you dominate it in USD for taxes. Clearly this line of thought is flawed.
And actually ancient, the specific village was first mentioned in 1074[1], and a nearby city was at least a settlement in 1000-500 BC[2].

So it's not like extreme floodings there are common, which makes it even worse.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimerzheim

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Neuenahr-Ahrweiler#Antiqui...
Never started because of unfiltered smoke particulates and THC.

CBD isolate in a lipid sublingual tincture is good enough for me.
The truth of the matter is that the right-wing userbase of HN is deathly scared of being marginalized in wider society. Seeing things like Parler getting kicked off of AWS, Facebook Fact-Checking moderation and now this makes them scared.
"Linear" means "Linear System" as in T(a+b)=T(a)+T(b). In practical terms this means sine wave in, sine wave out. If your system behaves as such then you have a much simpler time than if your sine wave gets distorted on the output because then that means you can no longer live in the world of Laplace transforms for understanding the PDE nature of your system. Op amps were hailed as a revelation because they behave much more ideally Linear than say a Common Emitter Amplifier, even when being constructed from non-linear components.
Thank you! Reading the original article, I was wondering if exactly this sort of physical modeling was possible or being done yet.

I'm still not sure what _sort_ of modeling it's doing (surely not full FEA of the entire vibrating system), but I'm sure we'll get there in another few years of GPGPU...
I don’t think you count as someone’s widow if you split up before they die.
most of the game played against democrats is to wedge them between the capitalist democrats and the progressives, mostly to keep pogressives from shosing up at midterms. expect more fud.
Every device has a small probability of failure.

If you just take one device, it can either be completely functional and chug along for 20 years, or completely fail, which happens rarely but is painful. In either case, your software can ignore the failure state, there's nothing it can do at the case of a failure.

If you take 1000 such devices, then the vast majority will be fine, but a small number of them will fail. No matter how you fix them and replace them, you will keep seeing some degraded nodes, or temporarily disconnected nodes because the network has glitches, too. So your software has to always be ready to face a failure of a remote node, and always be ready to gracefully handle it. This completely changes the way you think.
That implies the impact of the law has been understood by the perpetrator. I don't universally buy that ignorance of the law is not an excuse. It took me a very long time to come to understand the full impact of financial services regulations, BSA/AML/KYC. The financial sector is not exactly the most trivial thing to understand.

Edit: Also,
Inducement:
a motive or consideration that leads one to action or to additional or more effective actions

In this case, a "simulated drug transactions" proceeds was presented by the Government, thereby bringing all the factors into place for a crime that wouldn't have happened except for the Government having facilitated it.

A LICENSED financial institution has the additional burden of being bound by BSA/KYC/AML/registering with FINRA/FINcen. They were not that.

You can expect people to shy away from doing anything illegal, yet we have a special caste of people that are hyper specialized in making the determination whether something is conclusively illegal or not. I find this legal axiom to be I'll informed by common sense and life experience, but that's just me.
My favourite kind of technology is technology that either takes something that was impossible and makes it possible, or that takes something that was too hard to do and reduces the difficulty to the point that you chose to do it when previously you would have chosen not to.

Fly.io fits that latter category perfectly. Global distribution was generally Too Hard to consider for my projects. Now it isn't.
Private my ass. I understand the terminology, but they are part of the defacto public domain, and are a publicly owned company. They built their company utilizing the resources and technological prowess of the United States, then piss in its face to cater to woke leftist silicon valley politics (which doesn't represent 90%+ of America).

If that MIT study about the end of the world turns out to be true, THIS type of woke bullshit will be the cause. And when society falls, I have a feeling who's gonna be gunned after first.
My best friend is Venezuelan and I assure you there are real humans in the world who get real value from a stable digital form of currency that doesn't require a central bank account. The only ones they can legally have are ones in their country, and the exchange rate for foreign currencies is a rigged price that doesn't reflect real inflation.

They're almost literally financially enslaved to their countries central bank, which devalues their only legal form of life savings by 25% every month by printing more and more (for government members) and no other country will give them banking access but their own, which has regulated against them using any alternative currencies than the one the central bank controls.

Just imagine if the US made it illegal to own any currency besides USD, and then started printing so much that you lost 90% of the value of your savings every 3-6 months.

They've experienced 10,000,000% inflation since 2014. That would turn someone's retirement account of $5,000,000 into $49.95.

The only option there is a digital store of wealth that doesn't discriminate against them based on their citizenship, unlike every central bank in the world. Otherwise, the rug is just constantly being pulled out from under you, and your only legal store of value is the things you can buy in the store and keep in your closet to sell later. Back to a financial system more primitive than in ancient Athens (400BC).

Americans benefit from a global banking structure that is rigged in their favor. Their government prints the global reserve currency, most countries in the world welcome them with open arms and offer banking solutions, and their hegemony is backed by hundreds of military bases armed with tanks, airplanes, and soldiers across the world, and miltiary ships across the seas.

It's very easy for all the rich tech people in this thread living in stable countries to denounce crypto as useless, because to them, right now, it is. But it is careless to denounce it as a concept.

The tweeter mentioned that it is a right wing tool. In the US that has a dirty connotation, and I agree that coming from the US, we can see first hand the dangers of unfettered right wing policy. But people coming from countries that have experienced extreme left wing governments that describe daily common horrors far worse than people peeing in bottles on Amazon's factory floors.

A little bit of sympathy for them and the real life saving use case the "right wing" tool of decentralised finance against the troubles they experience could go a long way.

All that said, I was very skeptical of the crypto community for a long time as well, because it is most of the same people who do MLM schemes. But real life experience has now made it impossible for me to ignore that the underlying tech has real humanitarian use cases as well, and those should be nurtured.
Because you don't need (though it can still be good) upzoning if the population is low and housing cheap.
So is that a bug or a feature ;)
I don’t think my family should have the ability to make decisions regarding my likeness. My likeness is one of those things which is just totally 100% mine. I married my wife and had kids with her and would want her to have all of my money if I died but wouldn’t want her to be able to license my voice and face to promote Wheaties cereal or something. It shouldn’t be allowed unless the person explicitly grants those rights while alive.
Without this I wouldn't have been aware of the service. Thanks Amazon, enjoy your Streisand effect.
Perhaps you're confusing "Arabic", the language group, with "Arabs", the ethnic group?
It needs low latency. There is a huge amount of inherently sequential lookups in the state (~9 leveldb lookups per 1 state acess in a smart contract) and you can't store the state in RAM on most consumer hardware.
That is super handy. We don't have that down here in Australia. We do have some country wide blocks but it is only those mandated by the government.
as someone who is somewhat anxious and apparently prone to hopefully temporarily hairless when stress hits the fan, what is the patch or best practices to avoid such failure? outside of using uuid for ids?
That's just not true. Its a very specific relation between the output and the input of a system.
Highly curious about this, anyone have a good explanation?
Paywalled of course:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00147152
Can you elaborate? The Postgres documentation leads me to believe this would work fine with the default (READ COMMITTED) isolation level. If multiple transactions attempt to modify the same row (incrementing the counter) they're forced to line up until previous updates to that row have been committed or rolled back, hence the risk of lock contention, but each transaction should consistent view of the counter.
It's read as well as write IOPS and seek time. The Ethereum state database uses hashes as keys and is larger than anyone's reasonable amount of RAM. So most accesses are all over the database in terms of physical location, and it can't be cached in RAM effectively.

There is various work to improve this, but the basic architecture does depend on random access storage to a great extent.
The existence of the motion is the news
There are subscription-only development studios and toolchains. (Always have been, really.)

If there is a new platform where this is the only kind of thing we can run on a walled garden device, then I'm not sure quite how general purpose you could call such a device.
If we're playing Warhammer 40K, the chapter keeping all these Redises around the galaxy alive might be called the Cachess Redisari. Now I wanna see what happens when get a little too twisted by the chaos.
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What do you suggest? the government takes over Google? Prevents them from controlling what they store on their servers?

If society fails (which is little more than a prepper wet dream) everyone's going to go gunning for whoever has food and fuel. No one will care about Google or political parties.
Haha, that song always stuck on my mind after playing, and I didn't fully understand the lyrics!

There's also the intro songs, "Legacy" by the Gone Jackals, which is glorious. Actually, the whole intro is glorious.

"Yeah, when I think of Maureen I think of two things... asphalt, and trouble"
Rarely does anyone have a problem presenting a majority position as the truth with no evidence.

We should be a little more forgiving of minority positions and a little less forgiving of majority positions, so that the truth can be determined more readily.

A reminder, at the start of the pandemic, the majority position was "Masks are bad". The "Masks are good" minority position had no evidence to back it up besides common sense, yet it is only through the efforts of those people fighting the conventional wisdom that the truth came out.
This is a future I want absolutely no part of. My computer won’t let me type things if it thinks the ideas are bad. Crazy.
"What if I just like to collect and share old conspiracy theory stuff"

The key word there is "share". Lots of people use the "share with anyone that has the link" for limited sharing.
The existence of the automatic scroll feature should void the contract. They are actively trying to discourage reading the contract. There is no meeting of the minds.
No; we ordered seeds but not from China and not in such quantity as to forget an order. We'd bitch about something that didn't arrive.

I've seen offered the theory that they were "thank you" gifts sent to people who left positive reviews, too; but that flies about as far as the "forgot we ordered it" before it runs into problems.
I agree.

Refusing to disclose which dialogue the AI generated serves no one but the documentary maker himself. He’s not protecting a source or doing anything commendable. It doesn’t make the documentary better on any way.

It’s a media stunt.

It’s despicable.
> The internet seems to specialize in this sort of "doxxing". Why? My theory is that the internet, even if you have a real name for a handle, still distances and dehumanizes others to the point where it's hard to understand the pain you're causing.

That's a good theory. My personal theory is there are a lot of psychopaths and sociopaths in the world, and the internet lets them find each other and form communities that revel in causing misery.
You should replay them. They remain surprisingly fun.

There's a special place in my heart for Space Quest I to III, EGA versions with text interface. I learned some English by playing them!
Maybe the (evolutional) reason that we perceive blue as darker is exactly that it would otherwise reduce the sharpness of what we see.
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I doubt it has a serious effect.

I think most iPhone users buy the latest model every year, and that those who consistently use older or secondhand devices, wouldn't buy new often enough to affect Apple’s sales anyway.
I’ve found my people! I have similar issues and nobody I’ve ever spoken to about it seems to have the same experience.

Two similar issues I’ve had, and I’ve wondered if they’re related, are:

- at conferences with very large overhead projection sometimes the setup produces an effect where each time I blink it’s like it separates the RGB elements. It’s like a combination of being able to see the refresh rate (like when a CRT was filmed out of sync) and the colours being projected out of alignment.
- a stadium near me as those digital display advertising signs around the sidelines. If I’m not looking directly at them they appear to flicker. Which actually makes watching a game at that venue not enjoyable as watching the action means I have a permanent shimmering right on the periphery.

Does anybody know what’s happening with either of these?
If you want to know what a "free speech zone" is on the internet go spend time on 4chan. I can't imagine anyone spending long periods of time there without harming their mental health... and that's even with some moderation.

I'm convinced the only way to effectively create free speech on the internet is to tie whatever you say online with personal identification. Not because it will prevent people from saying bad things, but because you could use it to ban people from the internet. (for the record, I think that's a horrible idea... but so is free speech on privately owned servers)
What they are all doing has real risks. There is a slight but still real chance they die explosively, and I'm sure they understand that. Particularly the proposed orbital flights. This is a potentially very expensive marketing gimmick.

You are right that it's sexy, though. I figure something deeper is driving them. Us. Probably the same basic mystical awe I get watching old film of Apollo missions. Some mix of ego and adventure and eccentric waste. The PR and marketing is just the cherry on top, surely.
Yeah, I used to work for BlackBerry and watched the whole thing unwind in slow motion. BB focused on the wrong things and had shit software. (And I say this as a person responsible for writing said shit software)
Why is everyone here just blaming Amazon? Of course they're going to ask Apple to do this. It's in their own self-interest.

The more interesting questions is, why is Apple complying? Are they afraid that Amazon will retaliate by pulling their apps out of the App Store? If so, are they really just going to keep prioritizing big tech connections in favor of it's own customers?

The rule cited is so vague that even a basic paid browser app would break it. All the app does is augment data available from any web browser with other data.

> 5.2.2 Third-Party Sites/Services: If your app uses, accesses, monetizes access to, or displays content from a third-party service, ensure that you are specifically permitted to do so under the service’s terms of use. Authorization must be provided upon request.
It seems like everybody is jumping to assume things that haven't been remotely proved, e.g.:
- That the forum poster is in the British Army.
- That they are British.
- That the manual is current and true.

First, low grade manuals (like UK RESTRICTED) are not very secret. This could even by an FI disinfo op to make people think a current RAC officer would be dumb enough to post a classified document online, a great way to create bad publicity from a low grade document which has nothing further to tell you.

Nothing in this manual will say anything about armour or engine capabilities or weapons that isn't already known to adversaries or easily determined from photos. Chill already.
I think this may no longer be true with the Snap sync protocol (introduced in Geth this year). Even though transactions are very random access, Snap iterates sequentially over storage to transfer it all from one node to another, which is HDD friendly.

However I'm not confident it will be able to stay in sync afterwards using HDD.
I also spent weeks finishing Full Throttle, and remember it fondly. Some parts were way too difficult, but this was such a unique game with great sound and fun cut scenes. The junkyard with the guard dogs, the bikes with nitro, the five-finger fillet challenges, the fights on the road with other bikers… this game was so different.

It makes me wish I could play it again and see how much of it I can remember after 25+ years. I see there's a remastered version on Steam, I'll have to give it a try!
> A company does not have the power of the state to impose its will on me.

No, but it may have the economic power of a (near or total) monopoly to do that which - depending on the time and the place - may be more powerful than the state.