skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Grew up listening to these guys (in fact, even in the womb I was at their concerts) and I would certainly say that their music has shaped who I am for the better.

It is absolutely bonkers that they (or, Fripp at least) are still playing music after 50 years and still touching the hearts of so many people.

A little bit off topic -- but we had a new consultant join our team and the only personal effect he brought with him was a grateful dead dancing bears mug. I have no idea what he does but we were able to connect over our love of good music and still today are good friends.
The Romans took it for a while

Do you mean the conquest of the 4th crusade? Those people weren't romans, arguably nobody was by the 13th century - perhaps if anyone, the locals had a better claim to it than the conquerors.
And forty years ago, when this album was made?

London is considerably less violent all over than it was in those days. Casual violence was a part of my youth that I’m very happy my teenage kids would not recognize.

I think NYC and some other US cities are similarly less scary these days. Not all places, and not for all people, of course.
You’ve very likely forced Amazon’s hand here wrt egress pricing, and yet this move alone has won my business even if everything else was equal. Bravo.
Don't know if anything similar exist in the UK, but the Danish national museum have a website where you can read about every single church in Denmark. [0] It is mostly scans for books released through the years, but they give a lot of nice information like what old things the church process and what kind of church it is. An example could be this 220 page pdf about the Holmen church. [1]

They also have a interesting webpage about chalk paintings in Danish church a lot of images from all over [2]

[0]: http://danmarkskirker.natmus.dk/

[1]: http://danmarkskirker.natmus.dk/koebenhavn-by/holmens-kirke/

[2]: https://natmus.dk/salg-og-ydelser/museumsfaglige-ydelser/kir...
Yeah. Electric leaf blowers have existed for decades and coincidentally don’t have wasteful two stroke engines that largely serve as gasoline atomizers.
Hosting a Django Project on Heroku
AWS can't reduce prices and have less revenue. That's not their goal, their goal is to keep expanding products.

They would also bring cloudflare in the spotlight and they already have the core products as a cloud hoster ( rdbms, nosql, serverless, apps, ... ).

Additionally, reducing eggres and making use of 3rd party products possible is not in their interest long term ( eg. The fork of elastic search).

What do you think they can do/announce?
Prevent lost writes from when two people read-modify-write at the same time. Be able to answer questions like "how did this end up like this" or "what happened to the change I made on xx/yy". Easier sharding, better performance, and avoiding deadlocks, because you're not worrying about database-level transactions any more. Much easier data migrations that you can do in a gradual, rollbackable way. Clear data provenance that lets you know how to resolve inconsistencies. Easier backups. Smoother relationship between live data and analytics/reporting.
This is on par with Google launching Gmail with 1GB + “infinity” space. The other email providers didn’t know what hit them. It took them years to catchup.
Food is medicine.

If you want to feel healthier, eat what your grandma did.
If we can get GPUs deployed at the scale we want, adapting to whatever language or framework you want to use to program them will be easy. The challenge is getting GPUs into enough machines in enough places to make this interesting. But, again, we're working on it.
My understanding was that they were supposed to be effective in preventing hospitalisation, not infection.
> The researchers say the Android phone and payment terminal used don't need to be near the victim's iPhone.

> "It can be on another continent from the iPhone as long as there's an internet connection" said Dr Ioana Boureanu of the University of Surrey.

While I don't doubt the vulnerability is serious in close proximity, saying it can work from another continent sounds like total nonsense. That would have to be one hell of a powerful radio signal.

Surely this researcher was quoted out of context in that it's the Android phone that can be on any continent?
I happen to agree with that logic. Corporations have too much power. What I don't agree with is limiting regulation to a few companies based on the current situation.

When Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission got decided on narrow technical grounds this is the kind of thing my political ideology warned about. We gave far too much power to corporations to decide who they do business with. The laws around that sort of power were decided long before everyone could find out some of the most intimate aspects of your life in a few google searches.

The only reason I am against the anti vaxxers/anti covid measure people trying to take down the faang companies ability to stop their speech right now is because they only want to limit corporate power and private property as it extends to themselves.

Look at the florida law for instance that tried to damage social media companies that blocked people based on their political speech unless they owned a theme park, which was an explicit carve out for Disney.

I can get behind a movement that wants to prevent corporations from having enough power to limit individual rights. I cannot get behind a movement that only wants to prevent corporations from limiting rights on a group of people that I believe are hurting me, but will not limit corporations from limiting rights on everyone else.

Either the logic applies to all, or people are lying about caring about rights and just want to be the people on top.
yeah, it looks like windows is the virus
(non-American) what does it mean to be "flawed by a factor of 4"?

Is he referring to being off by 4 or more orders of magnitude?
I would. Back in 1986, enterprises paid for Adobe software (paid a lot) and everyone else pirated it. Piracy was the free tier -- you'd pirate it as a student or small business, then pay as you either got a job at a big company or turned into a big company.
The whole point of NaN working this way is that it is not well behaved and raises an alarm when a bad computation is made. Otherwise you run the risk of wiping out a NaN and never knowing that a divide by zero has corrupted your results.
Somewhat related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem
Basic knowledge making you able to do rudimentary big O analysis is always useful. Unintended polynomial running time where linear is possible is a very common performance regression.
What are you talking about? It's absolutely not free at all.

https://cloud.google.com/vpc/network-pricing

https://cloud.google.com/storage/pricing#network-pricing

The only thing that is free is between nodes of the same zone using specifically the internal IPs.
~25 years ago. It's not fun, not good. I do not recommend it, if you can avoid it. The damage can be lasting.

See my comment here to give some context. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25610810
A product I was working on got cancelled after 3-4 years. Fortunately, some of the work we did on that product was useful for another product, so some of the team (including me) got reassigned to that other product. It was disappointing to not see our original work released, but it didn't bother me too much.
One thing that always amazes me was how these cathedrals were build. The techniques were amazing, even more so for the time. And then there is the way those specialized workers and architects were treated and paid. Some of that resembled modern workers rights, e.g. free weekends, limited working hours, safety. I guess it always helps to be part of very skilled, very limited group of workers that is very high demand.
As a non-affiliated, random reader of his document, I interpreted that as a linear multiple, i.e. show that deaths are less than 150,000 / 4 = 37,500.

If I were going to invest effort into a challenge, I would first contact Kirsch and obtain written clarification on terms.
> it's a well-studied economic fact that monopolists generally sell higher quality products

What does this have to do with Apple, which has neither the completely captive market that AT&T did nor the overwhelming market control that IBM did?
Exactly these 2 points.

I as a PM for a platform may sound arrogant, however I strictly adhere to the phrase: Only what customerS need, not what they want. I also rely on numbers and classification: does this feature help one or more user? Which type? Power User(s)? Everyday normal users? Is this just emotional, a want or need? How much does a user benefit from the change? Can we do better, are we missing something (symptom vs. root cause)?

Product development is incredibly hard to get it right. However, do less as a general advice. Think about Word and its feature overload. There is a downside to customer feature wants: clutter and distraction. Users of all kind are allergic to noise. Keep that in mind. I call this "friction free".

I think in systems, as a general abstraction and modules. I classify features. For example Power Users can get a special Role and Admin area where you can abstract there needs away. Their productivity is different.

I learned as a rule of thumb, that you should talk a lot to your customers and blend that with data. Data itself (usage tracking) is highly misleading.

This is hard and I aim for general satisfaction level. People who like your products tend "get" your idea and don't fight it.

Have fun! :)
I don’t know why every vehicle doesn’t have a HUD at this point. Once you have one you don’t want to go without, even if it’s just the speedometer.
A couple of good examples of (much) earlier switching supplies from Ken's site:

1) 1960s-era tech used in the Apollo Guidance Computer: https://www.righto.com/2019/08/reliable-after-50-years-apoll...

2) Mercury thyratons used in 1930s-era Teletype hardware: https://www.righto.com/2018/09/glowing-mercury-thyratrons-in...

Might be some other candidates as well, but those are a couple of the more interesting ones he's gone over.
Microsoft (and bill gates) appear to have actually invested in Climeworks, not just purchased carbon removal from them.
No information is proper enough. Like the second comment from top points out, the goalposts are always shifted.

Information on vaccine studies? Rushed.

Information on vaccine rollouts from countries that have reached 75-80% of the entire population vaccinated? Faked/not applicable.

Information comparing cases/deaths in US states with neighbouring states having higher vaccination rates? Invalid.

Look, be honest here. There’s more than enough information out there and none of it is being hidden. Hundreds of millions have gotten the shot and the benefits are abundantly clear. For example - “Despite Delta, severe covid-19 is much rarer among vaccinated Britons“ (https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/09/18/despite-...).

But this doesn’t make a difference. Despite all this information being available, people will still rely on faulty information like “Nicki Minaj’s cousin’s friend became impotent after he took the vaccine”. FWIW, the White House treated Minaj like an adult and reached out to have a conversation with her. But she didn’t change her mind.

> treat people like adults

If they were intelligent adults they’d be able to evaluate the data for themselves. Instead they watch YouTube videos telling them to “do their own research” followed by checking out Nicki Minaj’s tweets.

Go ahead. Try having an open debate with Nicki Minaj or Kyrie Irving or any vaccine skeptic with millions of followers. Let me know how that goes.
Because very often, any time anybody mentions their country it is quickly dismissed as "not applicable, because nobody but OP lives there".
This happened to me so many times.

Like when multiple users asked me to add monitor brightness dimming when the sky is covered with clouds in the Location Mode of my app for controlling monitors: Lunar (https://lunar.fyi)

Turns out cloud cover reported by weather APIs isn't a good predictor of the ambient light. The feature was so useless (and expensive because weather APIs are not cheap) that it never made it into a release.

What the users really wanted was an external ambient light sensor that they could place where they're working and have the app adjust the monitor based on that: https://lunar.fyi/sensor

Even with the high entry barrier (buy sensor parts, assemble, flash firmware) it was still more accurate and used by more people than the location based approach.
There is a normal trend that Apple users want to deny reality and downvote or flag facts articles about zero days, or articles about bad developer relations or articles about bad relations with security researchers. Then you had Apple vs Epic that also released some dirt on Apple so is normal that the number of Articles on Apple is larger this year(I did not checked) and add on that the CSAM failed launch and I can see some Apple power users getting frustrated)

We always have an article about Facebook and Google when something bad or interesting is happening and I thionk this article qualifies because from the comments it is clear that the majority of people if asked "if the iPhone is powerd off if it really off? " would have said Yes, because we are used to power off to mean off and sleep like state to be labeled different.
>It isn't infecting everyone or affecting everyone equally.

You are 100% correct. The vaccinated are barely affected while the unvaccinated are heavily affected.

>It doesn't make sense to apply the same restrictions everywhere, if your odds of catching the virus happen to be slim.

Correct again. We should not limit the vaccinated and prevent the unvaccinated who refuse to take routine tests from affecting the public.

Just so you think I am not allowing for any other option. I am 100% fine with someone who takes a Covid test and gets a negative every single day being allowed the same public privilege's as someone who gets the vaccine. My actual issue is with people who conflate not getting the vaccine with not getting tested as well but still somehow being allowed to walk around in public
You almost certainly know this, but others may not - Fripp & Eno's collaborations are well worth a listen.
Having it not compare equal to itself is a pretty crappy way of making it raise an alarm - you're relying on that accidentally causing some kind of visible corruption to your program's datastructures, which is not at all guaranteed. Anyone who cares about not silently getting corrupt results should be turning on floating-point exceptions rather than using NaNs, unless they know exactly what they're doing.
Handling Overflow condition in calculating p-Norm
Stocks vs. flows. The idea is that masks reduce the flow into a reservoir (like inside air of a building), and not just direct transmission. In your example double masking might reduce your personal intake from a large reservoir (refilled by unmasked people who happen to be sick), while everyone wearing a mask should reduce the size of the reservoir.
That sounds like you haven't aligned the lenses. In the Quest 2 you can slide the lenses left and right to match how far apart your eyes are.
On the topic of lost source code... we had a few blessed binaries that were vital to building System 8 and System 9 at Apple. There was a single build machine that could generate these binaries from other object code but the source was long gone. Oh please oh please old Quadra 700, don't give out on us! Those days are over right? Surely nothing like that is happening with OSX...
YES IT WAS README! I remember that speed reading feature was really cool too! The one where it shows only a single word on screen and highlights a few letters and you set a tempo to change the words.
Since they needed DRM-free ebooks, I spent some time to find some authors who published their works that way officially. Doctorow was one of the few that really cared to do that.

I've always remembered the name 'BeeLine' but couldn't find that app again. The name ReadMe has been used for too many other things for me to link it to a lesser known e-book app.
I did a small A/B test long ago, and found that the date, if more than a couple of years old, can discourage a lot of people from even reading the article.

So maybe it should be placed at the end as a compromise?
I wish software did something more like video games. Well-designed video games will notice that there's a skill you're not using when you should be and show hints on-screen about using it, e.g. press L1 to change weapons, R2 to take cover.
> learning from others', which is what smart people do

my grandfather had the same words :)

> What you need is PostgreSQL, perhaps with something like Hasura or postgraphile in front of it. What you need is a lightning-fast way to iterate and flesh out your idea.

optimizing my team's incoming stream stack atm, event sourcing seems so enticing on paper...
It looks like it’s been carved out of bone
this is absolutely terrifying
There was a thing called the Holy Roman Empire. [0] An Orthodox seminary professor remarked that it was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire - so you may be onto something. Although I took a history of Christianity course in uni, it was taught by a RC priest, and there were no lessons about the crusades. You did get me curious though, maybe I'll get a book about that whole situation at the time.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Roman_Empire
There is a blog post linked at the bottom of the readme that has some more interesting numbers.

https://spin.atomicobject.com/2013/03/14/heatshrink-embedded...
Exactly. The problem is not Martin Fowler himself, but those who pick up his books and ignore those warnings.
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I had this team of consultants which sole purpose was to introduce an ES system, it was my predecessor that had decided this. The consultants were “experts” on building this kind of system. Very long story short, it failed miserably with a completely broke system which was hard to test, failed pretty much all use cases and completely blew budget.
According to the team there were many reasons why the project failed, one was they the requirements were complex. This also manifested in that implementing some of these requirements had “close to infinite” amount of combinations. Never understood that but that was one of the explanations. We shut down the project and made a “traditional” solution instead.
But your wife should realized that if she can have her free speech then so can facebook. She's free to peruse odysee and gittr and get all the antivax stuff she could possibly ever want to see.
The lack of signal is a sign that OP wants to go off the grid intentionaly, which is suspicious behaviour. There is no plausible deniability.
Do you have any mention on the speed of delivery from R2?

That is the only avenue why I can see why paying for S3 is worth it. Sure egress may be free, but what's the point if I can't download a file faster than 1MB/s.
I don't know (you'll have to see the response from the market) but based on the content of your site, I'd worry you're positioning yourself in a no man's land between non-technical small business owners (who will see you as expensive compared to cheaper and better established site builder offerings) and more technical business owners (who will see you as expensive for what you offer).

Some feedback on your site:

> Subscribe to a plan and send a detailed request about your business through Slack.

I'd guess many small business owners don't know what Slack is, and would expect you to drive the process before they pay you. Specifically, why would a business subscribe before they've had an interaction with you and developed confidence that you can meet their expectations?

> We use Webflow, which means we design in a real staging environment

This is mumbo jumbo to the average small business owner.

> Your website is specially designed for you, and it's yours for life.

What does this mean? What happens if I don't want to pay you anymore? Is it still my website?

Also:

1. You FAQ page states "startups that require complex features like database integration, chat systems, dashboards, and thousands of APIs should please not bother signing up" but a lot of small business owners won't understand what these things are. Are you really targeting small businesses or startup founders who for whatever reason don't want to build their own website?

2. A lot of things are really vague. For instance, what's the difference between "Standard" and "Priority" support? And "Standard" versus "Enhanced" "SSL and security built-in"?

3. $79/month for no more than 10 pages, no analytics???

4. Your latest projects don't contain links to actual websites.

5. There's no mention of whether business owners can edit the content of their website on their own. In my experience, this is probably one of their biggest requirements.

6. "Site optimization (SEO)" is listed as included in all packages. I'm guessing what you consider SEO might differ from what a lot of business owners consider SEO because it's impossible to provide actual SEO services for $79/month.

7. Unlimited revisions could really come back to bite you. Death by a thousand small cuts.
Don't kid yourself. We all are virologists and epidemiologists.
> I don't know if SAP contributes but Microsoft pays for C#

That barely counts, as C# is very Windows-centric AFAIK.
Not sure, I assume someone reports it then it gets turned over to AI to convert voice->script and compare it to a large set of known antivax rhetoric, if it surpasses a threshold it gets banned and stays that way until the owner asks for a review and then at that point a human probably enters the chat.
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The Dutch police want to avoid that civilians 'play their own judge'. If the perpetrator and/or stolen object can be positively ID'ed this is a big plus for the public prosecutor to give a go ahead. What can happen then, is that the police try to buy the stolen good, catching the perpetrator red handed. This is the most effective path of getting a case succesfully put to trial. However, it is going to differ per local jurisdiction. Some Dutch police do have man power issues as well, just like some of USA has.

On a side note: I don't like the attitude of laughing at civilians/victims who the police officer is supposed to serve. Its a kind of negative attitude which devalues the victims interest (I don't like the word toxic but others would apply it here), eventually harming trust in police in the process which (long term) benefits criminals. And what I also don't like is when such is generalized on all police, all around the world.

The way you were treated flat out sucks.
I would say no.

I would advise never to start with a distributed team. Sure we have the tools & technologies to shorten the distance & the communication-gap, but nothing beats the in-person talk where people can tap on your shoulder to discuss ideas, disagree with you & informally communicate with you. Once you enable the team to take decisions on their own without your active involvement, that would be an appropriate time to go distributed. My learning is that the team has to be decentralised (in decision-making) before it's distributed. Otherwise, founders could end up becoming the bottlenecks in startup's growth.

Please take my opinions with a pinch of salt as I've never been a founder myself, but I was part of a geographically distributed founding-team member of a startup, which got acquired ~3 years ago.
>You realize that those are just two different ways of saying the exact same thing, right?

It's really not.
There is a worrying strain of scapegoating lurking around, asserting that unvaxxed are infecting us all, and/or are a reservoir of dangerous mutations. There are ruthless politicians perpetuating such messaging and enacting discriminatory policies based on vaxx/unvaxxed status. If the UK data shows that vaxx/unvaxx makes little difference in infection rates, then the scapegoating is Not Good.