skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if it was at ground level too when they carved it...
The simpler, less cynical answer is that it's not just a US-based company, it has to be a Delaware-based company.

This is because all of the laws around founding, investing, selling, etc. a company are extremely well-trodden in Delaware, and there are very few question marks as to how some strange eventuality or disagreement might be handled.

Since startups are already incredibly difficult, this is a way of normalizing away some of the weird situations that could cause a startup to fail (and likely would never cause them to succeed), so that everyone is putting energy into the real unknown unknowns around the startup.
I would believe this is way more complicated, even if set the profit apart.

Arguably having access to technology is important for the regular citizen, even under less democratic countries. There is the privacy angle, and also if you have an Android monopoly it becomes easier for the government to exploit/enforce what they want. You don't help people to understands the benefits of participating on a democracy, or even fighting to have a democracy by withdrawing and hiding what democracies around the world are able to produce and manufacture. Withdrawing the apps as required by government censorship is just one of the battles lost, but not the entire benefit Apple presence has.
That we can't stop thinking. It becomes too easy to stop using our own judgement when we have numbers to back up our decisions. We can point to he analysis and say, "Look, we've improved <metric>!". That itself becomes the justification for the actions taken, regardless of their actual sensibility.

This is an area where discipline remains essential, and maintaining discipline is a constant battle.
> overestimate their own intellect

It is quite possible that some users whose private details were exposed during this criminal act[1] might end up suffering personal consequences for being on the list. But there will always be a subset that emerges complete unscathed because they no longer depend on surrendering to the Borg and its ideology to maintain either their reputation or their livelihood. To paraphrase Nietzsche, what does not kill them makes them stronger.

The Borg "intellect" invariably misses this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act
Ask HN: Best UX to limit file uploads?
Specifically I'm working on a website where users should only upload a file once per object.

I do some rather intensive processing on this file, so at a minimum you'll need to wait about 5 minutes or so.

What's the best way to communicate this to the user ?
> About 27% is dark matter—the invisible force holding galaxies and the cosmic web together—while 68% is dark energy, which causes the universe to expand at an accelerated rate.

I understand that matter slows and energy accelerates the expansion of the universe but how is this ratio calculated? It seems like we would need to know the strength of dark energy to arrive at this reasoning.
It's the water vapor that reflects light / IR and increases the albedo.

Evaporate more water using waste heat from nuclear plants, industrial plants, or just by building huge vertical pipes that use convection to push warm damp air a kilometer up. Produce more clouds!

This all can be done without burning (additional) carbon to power it.
iirc the car does all the driving but you have to have a hand "on the wheel" so they don't technically have to legally classify it as a self driving car or something.

I'm guessing if he is videoing it and hovering over the wheel that much this has happened before and he is nervously expecting it?
1a - Lockdown wise - 100% with you - Don't put all society on hold to protect the vulnerable. Protect the vulnerable and leave everything else alone; vaccines - should of been created but give only to those that wish it or those "at risk" and only after proper testing. Don't use everyone as lab rats.
1b - Yes please.
My gigabit internet in HK was similarly priced to my gigabit internet in suburban USA (like US$80/mo). That said, in HK areas with robust competition between ISPs, some of the offerings were shockingly cheap. A friend of mine got 10Gbps for less than US$100/mo after negotiating. I don’t remember if HK lines were symmetric or not - my US line certainly isn’t.
Interesting that they may have found a physiological explanation for this effect.

Just to note: the public health field has not availed itself well on this issue. From the earliest days of the pandemic, it was observed that current smokers were less prone to Covid infection than never/former smokers. This result played out again and again, in literally hundreds [1] of studies across the world.

[1] https://twitter.com/phil_w888/status/1279973073811197952

But virtually every time, public health folks would deny that smoking had any protective effect on Covid-19 infection at all. They called it a myth [2], insisted that some sort of statistical bias explained the discrepancy, and accused anyone who said otherwise of being in the pay of the tobacco industry [3].

[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41533-021-00223-1
[3] https://www.bmj.com/content/373/bmj.n1303

I can understand having strong priors like "smoking worsens respiratory disease" that would make one skeptical. I can understand being reluctant to inject any nuance into anti-smoking messages. But eventually you have to concede. Hopefully this is the tipping point.

I'm waiting to see how this turns out, but it'd be a real shame if the politics of smoking research meant that we missed out on a prophylactic that was right under our noses the whole time.
It's a genuinely hard problem because the quantifiable output metrics are easy to measure and an individual often does have some level of direct control over them. So we convince ourselves that they're a reasonable proxy for something we care about but aren't sure how to measure and that we have control systems in place, whether management or individual responsibility, that largely prevent e.g. quality being thrown away in pursuit of quantity.

And we're often not entirely wrong if we do pick reasonable proxies and have reasonable control systems in place. Because throwing up our hands and saying metrics are useless is usually not the answer either.
You must admit that having it hosted on a different domain and apparently not linked to from anywhere (at least as far as I can see) makes it pretty undiscoverable.

That said, I had a hunch complaining about it would bring someone out who had a better solution than I did, and it worked, so thanks.
Why retool? That’s way too complex for someone who can’t code. Better start with something more NoCode and then figure a way to move to low code
This isn't the standard autopilot but the "full self driving" option that is currently in a limited beta (around 1000 users that have gone through extra approval, not just 100% random owners)
It's shockingly good. I'm actually very proud of this statistic. Most won't see material difference between 200mbps vs #1 spot of 250mbps. It's negligible.

However.

I think there's a rather huge sampling bias, because the data is gathered from people who come to Speedtest.com to run the test.
Wondering if you guys know of any famous or historical instances of a company or person trying to sell an algorithm that is known to be a fake.
This github issue in interesting: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/2886

It sort of hints that you could coax LxssManager.dll into running an elf binary without WSL itself really running. Though you would need to do some things to make lxss happy, so it's not trivial.
the headline says 'older'. the implication that it somehow implies something more subversive is coming from your own expectations.
"Car slightly spooks a couple of people including the driver who safely took over and resumed driving"
>if their product isn’t safe for all certified drivers, then it’s not safe for all public roads.

Tesla FSD is safer than most drivers. It’s just novel, so there is a focus on mistakes. To adhere to your principle, we’d have to ban all cars except Teslas.
The thing about rural America is nobody lives there. More than 80% of Americans live in urbanized areas, the same fraction as France, Norway, Spain, and the world generally.

The reason America doesn't have broadband or trains is not because of its extent, it's because our war budget is $2000 per capita per year.
How about using the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a score sheet? 30 Articles there. I doubt there are many countries that score a perfect-30 but is Russia even in double-figures?

I agree, there's some arbitrary hand-wringing to be done to work out where to draw the line, but doing nothing while you're paralysed trying to decide what pencil to use, seems just as bad as going along with the acts in the first place.

https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-huma...
Please tell me if i am wrong because i am not sure if it is right.

Verifying 1 block requires the calculation of 1 hash. The hashrate for my CPU for RandomX is ~8000hashes/s. The monero blockchain currently has 2450000 blocks. blocks / hashrate = 5 minutes to verify the whole blockchain. Is that really that bad?
Personally, id find those interesting too - I've always found archaeology grabs my attention.

Once I asked a local archaeologist about why articles are always like that, and she told me that there's also a problem with looters. They try to only release pictures that don't give away the location, to prevent looters from ruining a site. Not sure if that's a general thing or her specific area of expertise.
I would like to see some metrics that take into consideration landmass, population distribution, grid scale, or the like. Singapore's road network is roughly 3500km vs the United State's 6,850,000km.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_road_netw...
You shouldn't read too much from the benchmarks.

The gRPC libraries are primarily developed by Google. Google pours most of its development resources on its core languages: Java, Javascript, Go, C++, and Python. Google then allocates a developer to port the implementation to other languages and platforms. C++, unlike Java, is not typically used for cloud development, so I don't think a lot of resources were allocated for the language.

You can see how the difference in implementation effort can impact performance by comparing dotnet_grpc (Microsoft's fork) against csharp_grpc (Google's original implementation). There's more than a sevenfold improvement in req/s in Microsoft's implementation in the 1 CPU server case (35070 vs 5337), outperforming nearly all the Java benchmarks.

Also, many of those top performing JVM implementations are the same code running under a different garbage collector. .NET has two GCs each with a parallel option, but we only see one benchmark using likely the slower GC (Workstation GC instead of ServerGC).
By default speedtest only reliably measures last mile speed, since it defaults to the nearest server it can find. That data has its uses, but it doesn't tell the whole story, and is often misleading. Backbone, stability and practical latency tend to be much bigger issues, which are not represented here at all (last mile latency is represented but not even accounted for in the ranking, nor is upload bandwidth).

You could make a much better index using speedtest by taking several measurements for each ISP using near and far nodes, and using weighted averages accounting for upload, download and latency.
"Entered the crosswalk section" is a rather euphemistic way of describing "drove directly through where the people were going to be"
I was running either a Slackware or SLS distro when I did the a.out to ELF transition. I remember the libc migration occurring but I don't recall the details. It amazes me that I pulled it off given how little I understood about how the system actually worked. My experience, up to that point, was with MS-DOS and being a user on a Xenix system (but not a sysadmin). I was really, really excited to have a Unix-like OS at home, but definitely didn't understand how shared libraries worked, etc.
All this is certainly expected behavior. If companies don't want to be complicit in these crimes, then they need to remove themselves from keeping remote power over devices that are purportedly sold to end users. Dell doesn't get flack for what Debian chooses to put in their repositories. And when Debian itself gets bullied (eg decss and other video codecs), even-less-exposed organizations can create another repository that coexists with the main one.
Why not? Everyone here seems to be in favor of full taxation according to the law.

Let's get those transaction to the IRS to increase honesty in reporting.
I used to live in rural and the best to offer was a wimax connection. The problem was there wasn't enough people locally to justify building a second tower to handle more people, but there were enough people to slow down the single tower they all shared.

Ultimately it would have still made money for the company, just not enough, gotta get those earnings up!

I also tried satellite providers but they price gouged via bandwidth caps. After about 50gb used for the month you could upgrade to their ultra high bandwidth package, or accept dialup speeds for the rest of the month.

I still have plenty of friends who live in these places, and it really has an impact on life. People still use phone books and have regular cable tv. Only recently have some started to cut the cord.
Yggdrasil was indeed the best name ever for a distro…
What, where ? Can you give a concrete example where an American company copied European company?

I.e. facebook cannot even copy snapchat and they have INFINTE resources, and 2B users.

Also, Markets today are so huge, nobody dominating anything.
Is this contrarian? I'd imagine this is actually an incredibly popular opinion shared by basically everyone except government software contractors and some associated officials.
We're evaluating this product to replace our self-hosted "resize and deliver images on the Internet" solution and we definitely do have source images over 10mb. I'm not worried about the migration, but this means that going forward we might need our app (or worse our users) have to resize images down before uploading them to the image resizing service. That's a bummer.

EDIT: I just checked, 2.5% of source images are over 10mb.

An easy solution might be to have it accept an upload of a larger file, but automatically scale it down to fit under 10mb and then only store that as the new original.
strongest:
- Anyone (Male or Female) that hurts kids should be executed no matter what country they are in. Hunt them down like animals if needed.

Others that would cause some heated debates.

- All transportation should have a weight multiplier to the base price since every kg adds to the fuel usage. Nobody should have to pay out of their own pockets for you.

- Social welfare should not be free. There are low skilled jobs that can be done by most. Missing both arms and other serious things are valid reasons not to do anything. Arachnophobia is not- I can vouch for this one personally. Panic attacks and all.

- Immigrants (like me in UK) should not have a right to vote until they get citizenship. This is the proof that you actually understand the country you live in.

- Election campain "propaganda" should be legally binding

- Voting should be done with "personal" digital security certificate. Anyone involved in electrion fraud should have all assets confiscated and put in prison

- Prisons should not be "free meals". You either work or study for a qualification in a field where there is a skill shortage.

- Internet should be declared public utility and nobody should have the right to kick anyone off it. In most civilized countries you're as good as dead without it.

- All platforms that reach the level of google search in peoples life should be declared public utility and punished for biases and manipulation of any kind.

- All big + small taxes should be merged into one (for example 50%)
That's for the storage though. You'll still paying $1 per 100,000 served images, including variants. Which makes small images expensive.
Good, let the free market decide what should be built where. Don't let factories be shoved next to houses to prevent environmental contamination, but other than that, the governments job should be to set standards so buildings are safe and waterways are protected.

Also irritating, minimum set backs and parking requirements. Let people choose if they want to pay for parking, and remember that building a parking spot in a city can add 30k to the price of a condo/townhome!

Now loosen up codes to ensure safety but allow more freedom of design!

One thing I'd like to see though is denser housing that still supports families. The modern trend of super narrow 4 story townhomes only works for people under 40, and I can't imagine having a baby and needing to go up 2 flights of stairs to get anything done.

I've seen older town home/condo complexes with good layouts, but everything new seems to be of the super narrow lots of stairs variety, I wonder why.
My first distribution was DLD ("Deutsche Linux Distribution", started already in 1992). The distribution came with a softcover manual that described everything from compiling your own kernel to setting up your own webserver etc. Delix, the company behind it, was later sold to Redhat.
Because every political system has elements of "authoritarianism"/decisions being made by unelected officials.

For instance, we often criticize Iran as being authoritarian, but compared to many of our allies elsewhere, Iran is actually relatively democratic, even if they have authoritarian "checks" just like we do with the Supreme Court.
I read this when it was on Twitter. To be honest, it doesn’t really sound very different than the MVP method.
The whole point of the MVP is that it is minimally viable so the founders can test around it before building something full scale that the customer wants.
RCW 46.61.245
RCW 46.61.235

You are required, by law, to stop for pedestrians in crosswalks. Every intersection in Washington state is a crosswalk, marked or not.
Amplenote
Combines a todo, note taking system and calendar in one.
What I like about it is that I use a timeblocking system for time management.
So being able to write notes, create tasks inside those notes and then schedule those tasks or at least have them available to me when I reviewing my day is really invaluable at least to me.
Retaliation is too easy for Israel, it would bring the war too close to home. The US needs the Saudis more than Israel does.
Are you sure it was unironic? Because I sure can't imagine anyone saying that unironically.
> Also, guns in the US are used nearly a million times a year to prevent violence (CDC, https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/firearms/fastfact.htm...)

I don't see that number on that site. Instead, I see:

> The report Priorities for Research to Reduce the Threat of Firearm-Related Violenceexternal icon indicates a range of 60,000 to 2.5 million defensive gun uses each year.

That's equivalent to saying we have almost no idea how often guns are used defensively.
The keyword `class` has no more reason to exist
Can anybody update on who Tesla fans perceive as their mortal enemy right now?

First it was big oil, then it was shortsellers, but I found those narratives sort of died out.

Who are they beefing with right now?
It's not directly linked, but it is where the search box at the bottom of every page will take you. Algolia was a YCombinator company and since, at the time, HN had no built-in search they piggybacked on them to add the capability.
Who gets the advantage though? Corporations only concerned about profit?
> How rich someone else is does not affect how much money I need to live, with a few exceptions (inflation, friends, power dynamics in pre-existing relationships).

Many people cannot afford to even own a home in the Bay Area because everyone else around is so rich. Relative wealth is important because "other rich people" drive up prices of everything, from housing, to groceries, to health care.

If my salary doesn't change, but the people around me get a 10% raise, my buying power decreases.
IAM.

In GCP you can create a project and give pretty indiscriminate permissions between entities at the project level. It's not the hardest posture in the world, but as long as the project is fine-grained and the stakes aren't too high, it's reasonable.

In AWS it seems you are stuck managing ARNs for every damn object if you want to have anything less than a free-for-all in the account. This is an incredibly intense level of bureaucracy. I can see how the project abstraction could break down for a proper enterprise, which might really need that arbitrarily complex spaghetti of individual objects connected to individual objects. But it would still be better if the default or happy-path approach favored the better engineering practice of self-contained systems connected over few and well-defined interfaces.
Yeah, this is definitely a common experience & a real problem. Rural broadband _access_ can be spotty towards terrible. But it's probably not captured here--in fact, that might skew 'average speed' stats _higher_, since there's fewer folks willing or able to fork over money for those slower lines.
I confirm I used to experience this as well, and I have the feeling it also has some long lasting effect in one's communication abilities.
Back in the early 90s I purchased CD-ROMs that were nothing more than archives of tsx11 and sunsite. It was much nicer for large files than downloading with a 28.8kbps modem.
I often visit Fox News just to see what half of America is reading and it scares me every time.
> The value of the cumulative labour of Mailchimp's engineers is $12 billion

No, that's the value of MailChimp as a company. That includes the product, the branding, the management and the customer base.

> The value of one's labour is the value it generates - not what anyone is willing to pay for it.

The market value of anything is exactly the value that anyone is willing to pay for it and that's the only value that actually matters in this case. No one knows the exact value that anyone specifically contributes on a large project. How much of MailChimp value is due to its engineers and how much is due to its sales team? The only thing sure is how much the company agreed to pay its emgineers and that didn't include equity.

If you want to own parts of the company you work for, go work for a company giving equities. If you work for a company which doesn't, you are not entitied to a part of the company value when it's sold. That's literally the meaning of being an employee.
yup, there was a lot of that on HNS and ENS
It's cheaper to do point to point relays from that far.

I would encourage you to look into this more, if you haven't already. I set up such a connection for my in-laws who live in rural Oklahoma, and it's been a resounding success. It still has issues, but it's worlds better than the antiquated satellite options they had before.

They'll likely transition to using Starlink when it's available as the point to point connection (3 hops for them) is difficult to troubleshoot since I'm a thousand miles away, but if Starlink isn't an option for you for some reason, a point to point connection can be a great choice.
> Mixing news into social media, sharing stories to Facebook, turned it from a coffee shop into a town square with a million soap boxes.

That only happened after Facebook decided to editorialize everybody's main view. People were not even used to sharing news at that point, but it was the only thing that Facebook allowed to spread.

Anyway, I'm not sure about causality. But claiming that fake news spreading through a heavily editorialized medium is proof that people can not handle self selecting their information is a complete non-sequitur.
Yes, that makes sense. But it is interesting that this product becomes crazy expensive as the image size gets smaller. $1 per 100,000 served images is a weird pricing model unless you're serving exclusively large images.