skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are simply too many object store vendors, with different storage pricing, egress pricing, network speed, and reliabilities.

What about using SeaweedFS gateway to remote object store? https://github.com/chrislusf/seaweedfs/wiki/Gateway-to-Remot...

Basically you can think it is a cache. You operate with normal S3 APIs, and the data will be uploaded to remote storage asynchronously (most vendors have free uploading).

It's not a magic pill for all users, but it should be very fast, and cut down the API costs, egress costs.
These are AWS service timeouts and they definitely exist too. But with CF you get CF retries/timeouts on top of those.
And specifically Italian blasphemy for some reason…
Norway's management of their oil reserves, or more specifically, the profits made from their oil reserves[0], is another lesson in running a country that Australia has failed[1] at even recognizing despite its vast mineral wealth and therefore applicability to future economic stability and strength.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Pension_Fund_of_Nor...

[1]: https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2015/july/1435672800/ric...
Love it. virt also did a little tune called "here's your seven day forecast" that's also from that era and really nice, like a stereotypical weather channel tune.
Source on the lake thing?
HP RPL is one serious gem. HP48 series had lambda arrow syntax in 1990.

<< a -> << a a + >> >>

All in your jeans pocket.
Training an ML model to "learn" a rules engine strikes me as an incredibly bad practice. It'd make more sense to just have an actual corpus of labeled data.
> If being a con artist involves stealing or otherwise depriving someone of their property, that is not equivalent to sharing dumb memes or conspiracy theories on Facebook.

Ok, what about large disinformation campaigns used to sway public opinion or more generally just sow discord by convincing people of divisive things

> Being "influenced" is a vague term and is so subjective that it is meaningless to have a real conversation around it. Again, "Facebook made me do it" is not a defense under any legal system. If being wrong on the internet is a crime, we'll have to shut down almost every single internet forum. Just on HN I've seen some kooky discussions around covid by well-meaning people.

But facebook can make you do something without that being a defensible excuse. Accountability for your own actions is tangential.

Eve shouldn't have eaten the apple but she probably would not have done it, but for the snake. That doesn't mean she isn't to blame.
This is actually a really good example of why Terraform shouldn't be used in deployments. Terraform is best used for things that almost never need to change, or that you want to be able to re-create very quickly in the event that something bad happens. (It's also good for fancy CI/CD jobs that build new infra as part of a pipeline and destroy it after, but that can also lead to running into AWS service quotas and other issues)
That was both terrible and amazing.
Why can’t they at least start to inform who is advertising what. After say 1 year we would have most if not all … gradually we can build a grey BGP not all white but at least in case if some … wonder. Or any other option. Total trust is so untrustworthy.
The biggest thing for me is engine diversity. There is Gecko (Firefox), Blink (Chrome, Edge, Brave, etc) and WebKit (Safari). Since Safari is only available on Apple products it only leaves an engine controlled by Google and Firefox. I don't like the idea of Google basically controlling the path of every browser so I use Firefox. I know there are some alternatives like KHTML, but almost nobody uses them.
Modern medicine for transplant? Yes. Modern medicine for vaccines? Also yes*

*except COVID
This is one of my favorite posts on HN.

Meanwhile, I HOPE I'M NOT "POSTING TOO FAST," ASSHOLES. IT'S ONLY BEEN A COUPLE OF DAYS.
This happens a lot to me. People ignore my warnings. They believe that giving me a long explanation will be helpful. However, I just ignore what they say, and then I go read the source material.
> I would agree that their message would be better communicated with a more amicable tone.

This was entirely GP's point.
I just don't get why not drop a brief explanation on the validity of the PR? She could have so easily avoided this. Active maintainers are right to be pissed.
In traditional vaccines a weakened or dead virus is placed in the human. In a way it’s playing with fire but there’s enough experience using them that it’s built a reasonable safety record.

With mRNA some cells in your body are tricked into growing so they have some unique but supposedly harmless aspect of the virus, like the spikes. [0] The immune system encounters these cells, recognizes them as not right, terminates and communicates to the larger system to be on the lookout for the molecular markers it found. If traditional vaccine is a trial by fire, then mRNA is trial by flashlight. It simulates some aspects of the fire but not others.

Immunization by mRNA may be better, sufficient or worse than the traditional immunity from actual virus material. I don’t think anyone knows for sure yet but I do know enough big money is riding on mRNA that it may be made to look like the only right approach even if it is only one of several good approaches.

0. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/different...
Updates are few and very far between.
I’m just waiting till I reach 1000.
I’m at 995... I get up to 999, and then I fuck up and make an anti-vaccine post and plummet back to the 980’s.

Once I hit 1000, I’m outa here. Promise.
Nope! Same. BTW the memcpy is always optimized out, so you might as well; then it's totes portable, C or C++. You can always build up an object (int, float, struct) from char values. Technically they are supposed to have come from another value of the same type, but the compiler can't really tell where the bytes came from, so has to assume they must have come from there.

C does have a thing where a void pointer can be copied into any other pointer, without a cast, and operations with the typed pointer are OK. Technically, the pointer value is supposed to have been copied to the void pointer from the same type, but realloc has to work. Note, realloc does give you alignment guarantees you don't get from pointers to random things.

Nothing else is portable. Unions, other pointer casting, all is UB unless your compiler extends the definition. So, Gcc has an extension to make unions, used in a certain way, well-defined. Probably Clang copies that. You would have to look up exactly what. But the memcpy hack works in all compilers. You won't use it often enough for the extra verbosity to be a problem.
U.S. faces a recession if Congress doesn’t address the debt limit within 2 weeks
The article never said they started charging again, which means that "temporarily" was an editorialization.

Having a written agreement—I don't think it sounded like "formal contract" to me—is more transparent than the pre-existing situation where they were informally providing water. Your complaints are internally inconsistent and it seems you just want to kvetch.
Project Salus 5.6m Vaccinated–Waning mRNA Vaccine Effectiveness Raises Questions
What is the cost of having that scaffolding?
Wasted resources? How about $6 Tn / year subsidy just to keep the lights on with an energy source that is vanishingly finite and making the planet uninhabitable? We're racking up a debt that nature is certain to collect.

It is absurd to say that fusion research's current level of funding is a waste.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/06/fossil-f...
Honestly I think it should be collected by insurance companies. You’re legally required to have it in basically all states so they’re effectively an arm of the gov’t, (and the BMV can collect it if you go the self-insurance route since you have to put up a cash deposit) plus your insurance company needs to know roughly how much you drive your car and so can charge proportionally.
Trying to help these mute children gain speech. Horrific.
It wrapped media objects into compatible OLE 1.0 objects for insertion into OLE containers (example: office documents, presentations etc). It was a component of OLE before later versions and before OLE became ActiveX, and learned to embed stuff by themselves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_Linking_and_Embedding#O...
I don't find any particular service difficult to quit, but its pretty much impossible to never be on some sort of dopamine grinder on some level.

Video games are a nice escape hatch in this way. If you pivot to a game, and then beat the game, there's a moment of nothingness where you have nothing gripping your attention constantly. Or at least that's my experience.
That's an interesting interpretation.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Ifeoma_Ozoma
SEC chair warns U.S. debt default would shock markets
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/trialsite-news/
For the last two years Singapore has had a hard closure of all eating establishments at 1030 - they will literally come and take your drink off of the table. For the last several months any and all background music has been banned in restaurants in case 'music causes people to speak more loudly and encourage the spread of covid "droplets"'.

What you said may have been true in the past, but it hasn't been true for a long time, and at this rate may never be true again.
My best friend spent the '90s running a BBS with two modems on an OS/2 machine, running two instances of the BBS package (Wildcat?) via MSDOS emulation. Good times.
In a previous life, all of our code was scanned for "vulnerabilities". One of the issues they looked for was if passwords were being stored in local variables. Initially, LOTS of people would do something like:

$Username=<username>

$Password=<password>

Connection.string=($Username, $Password)

The parser would flag this - Password was being stored to a variable! So we just changed our code:

$pw=<Password>. Problem solved!
Sure, but what is the advantage of being first to a new language? I’d rather be the 50th than the first.
So let's just keep firing natural-immunity only people? Surely they won't lose all faith in government and corporate institutions when they're being fired for negligible benefit...
I totally agree, this was my first non trivial introduction to SCP (and that was recently) and it was a really enjoyable read.
Is doing well be a bar against doing better? The wealthy have no hangups about taking profit so why should the rest of us?

Mining activity is 10% of Australia's GDP. Mineral land rights in Australia are property of the government so why do overseas and private-domestic operators get to make all the profit? When Norway's example shows us that a publicly funded and owned industry was possible!

Too late now though - the last attempt to extract more value out of a booming industry led to the downfall of the government: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minerals_Resource_Rent_Tax.
The debt ceiling: can the US avert a disastrous default?
That is a nice Western view point you have there. Do you think this is a universal view? Also, some people think dogs can't be owned, and can only have carers.
It's the Ministry of *Manpower*.
In practice, how does such a change actually affect the project owners? Because from all the kerfuffle, I haven't seen a single legitimate grievance or issue this actually caused the owners. In fact, one of them even says (paraphrased) "If you had just waited for review, there probably wouldn't have been any issue."

This _does_ feel very toxic and unnecessary.
Speaking of those classic weather channel vibes: https://m.twitch.tv/retroweatherchannel
You said "why do you seem to imply that unions are an unqualified good" which has no support in the material you replied to.

The only information you had was that the poster held a
a strikebreaker in contempt.
You seem to be equating having a NaN in a result as being undetectable corruption. The whole point of NaN is that you don't end up with silent data corruption, you end up with an unusable value: unusable in the sense that it infects further calculations instead of covering it up with a value that looks valid.

r = (x / y) + 1

If y was 0, I wouldn't want r to equal 1; if r was 1 (or anything other than NaN, really) then that would be silent data corruption.

That some languages have a literal form of NaN that can be typed into code and that has a type that is the same as the type of floating point numbers leads one to believe that an equality operator can/should be used to test for NaN. Really, a literal form of NaN is kind of a blight on such a language: the only way to obtain a value that is NaN should be via a calculation that results in it, there is very little need for a literal form, except for the case where you want to store the result of a calculation that might be NaN (to record that the calculation was corrupted). But in the wide range of cases, if someone was typing a literal NaN into their code, that would be a code smell: NaN is a legit result of a calculation, but not a legit input to a calculation because it infects any calculation it touches, and since there's not a legit reason to have it as an input, there's no reason to have a literal form that can be typed into the code.

As for floating point exceptions vs testing for NaN:

x = performcalculation()
if isNan(x) { abort }
y = performFurtherCalc(x)
if isNan(y) { abort }

This can be done at every point an additional value is introduced to the calculation, to determine if the result is sane or not. Floating point exceptions do these checks for you.
An email did it for me. Couldn't believe I had to, though.
> LIKE '%aggin%'

Looks like "Baggins" is banned.

Poor Bilbo...
Any burning plasma MCF machine will be "derived from it" in that it will incorporate the physics learned from it. The machines that come later will not be as large.

And "late" is better than never.
Your updating the service to a broken image? I would say ensuring it's healthy falls outside of the scope of CF responsibilities. `aws ecs update-service` won't even do that. ECS should wait till your new image is healthy before draining previous image versions. If you deployed a bad image, probably needs someone to look at it anyway.
"Nearly every jurisdiction on earth"

- citation please. Or did you not learn to provide references at NUS?
Will be interesting to see if WeChat will actually allow account deletion.. last time I looked years ago, they did not.
This is good. Now that the skies are blotted out by smoke during prime summer months, and the rivers are running dry due to drought, it's a really smart idea to double down on weather-dependent power sources.

In 10-15 years, the entire world is going to be clamoring to build as many nuclear power plants as we can in the shortest amount of time possible. Why we would be shutting them down now is beyond stupid. I get that it's not politically viable, but irrationality has no place in such dire circumstances.

Oh well. Not much we can do about it, I suppose.
There is a downside to using an interesting language as a recruiting draw; you are going to get people people who are more interested in the particulars of how you solve a problem than in actually solving the problem.
ouch... this struck home.
Oxygen is known to be toxic at high pressure. Most healthy young army recruits can withstand a pure oxygen atmosphere (at normal atmospheric pressure) for up to 24 hours before they begin to suffer adverse effects.

Astronauts could withstand the pure oxygen atmospheres in the space program because the pressure of the capsules was significantly less than 1atm.

NASA wrote a report on the toxic properties of oxygen while working on the Apollo program:
Space-cabin Atmospheres: Oxygen toxicity (1964) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25883728

Any benefit of high pressure oxygen treatment is short lived. People lose their metabolisms as they age. Alzheimer's is one possible result.
Somebody should probably fix that typo [Plannd -> Planned].
Yes, banks store your information in databases. Not sure what you’re driving at.
Just the Russian government. Like I said...
That’s cool! I also made a version of this game around the same time: https://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/248/24890.htm...
When it comes to censoring randomly generated strings, I like simply to omit vowels from the alphabet. Usually I'll omit some of the more obvious lookalikes too, e.g. [1 0 v].

It's a simple solution. Sure, it is still possible for something to slip through that looks similar to something bad. But the potential to strongly offend is greatly reduced.
What about whole management pressure, complete with massively funded astroturf campaigns, threats of layoffs, and mandatory indoctrination sessions, pressuring employees to not join a union?
Is that a huge turn-on to the whole idea of unions? If not, why not?
Another vote for BulletTrain here.. Andrew is amazing and support on the product. Been really happy with using it for my first SaaS
Well yeah, I mentioned that at the end, CDK just produces a declarative cloudformation output.
I think this is a good thing, but I wouldn't say that CDK is declarative, as you don't write declarative code.
Erm, this is the story I'd meant to link:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28780108

The final "8" got truncated above, leading to a random 10 year old comment...
Did I say he should have objected, or to get the recruiter reinstated? I find it inappropriate to respond with a smilie when you hear somebody was just fired. Something more neutral like "I appreciate the issue has been handled" would have sat better with me (disregarding the larger context of how f*cked up the entire agreement was, of course).
It's more than overtime, see:

"since half of my income from the University comes from clinical revenues generated from seeing my patients, supervising resident clinics, and engaging in weekend and holiday on-call duties. So while on leave my salary is significantly cut. Furthermore, my contract stipulates that I am not able to conduct any patient care outside the University..."
Society gets to live with the monster that it created. There are people who believe that a one-mother-and-one-father family structure matters, and they were shouted down years ago and told they were bigots and that the slippery slope was an obvious fallacy.
As a Firefox user, I am very disappointed at this change.
Per one of the followup tweets, that's unlikely:

https://twitter.com/ladyaeva/status/1445919761901129728

> I have "install and run studies" disabled.
And one of the replies to that tweet: "yes, ywhiteguys.com is terrible." Guess where that redirects to...
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Any chance there is a presentation about this?
I predict that in 10 years, a secret nuclear power plant will be uncovered that was built specifically to mine cryptocurrencies. And the construction costs would be 10x lower per Watt of output than what we see in the conventional nuclear (as none of the safety regulation would need to be met).
> We can't effectively test in order to objectively assess who is naturally protected.

There are over 43 million Americans who have already survived a lab-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection. You don't need to test them. Their status can be verified just as easily as a person who has a CDC vaccination card.

Oh but it's "protection" you want to talk about?

The reality is that you can't measure real-world protection in any given individual with natural immunity or vaccine-based immunity. The vast majority of people who have been vaccinated don't test their antibody titers (ever, and over time) and even if they did, there are no validated models for correlating antibody titers to real-world protection. Antibodies aren't the end-all and be-all of immunity. Immunity is complex, and there are a variety of factors (memory T and B cell responses, your overall immune health, the viral loads you're exposed to, etc.) that determine how your body will respond to a pathogen.

Moving away from family anecdotes, here's an actual case: https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4307460

A pilot in her 40s who received her second dose of Moderna in early August had a breakthrough infection in October. Data suggests that Moderna is the most effective vaccine and a person in her 40s is not in the age group (65+) where we see vaccine efficacy waning most quickly.

So a person who got the most effective vaccine, who is healthy enough to be a commercial airline pilot, who is not 65+, and who was fully vaccinated for less than 2 months, when her antibody titers would be expected to be very high, can still catch a breakthrough case.
> A few specialized miners form a complete graph.

How "few" is few? What number of would you say is "too few" to count as an actual decentralized system?

> The majority of users use the SPV introduced in Chapter 8 of the Bitcoin white paper.

Why? Why would people get themselves into a system that has none of the advantages of central systems (institutions with authority to correct human errors and some type of checks-and-balances) but will still require them to trust a handful of "specialized miners"?

> Miners compete for their own incentives, processing hundreds of millions of TX.

At what cost? And what kind of capital will be required for the operation to be profitable?

Presumably these costs are not low, otherwise more people would be interested in joining the network and you wouldn't have "few specialized miners".

How distributed are these miners going to be around the world? Given the amount of hashpower that is already concentrated in China, one would assume that these "few specialized miners" would be seeking places where energy can be cheaper and/or subsidized. How robust is a system that depends on geo-political factors? What happens when the cost of securing the network are just too big and China decides it is not worth it anymore and pulls the plug?

If there are "few specialized miners", what's stopping them from colluding?

If the competition is actually efficient and drives the prices down, the operation would be barely profitable. If the ROI is low, what would stop stopping from some bigger entity to just buy them out and keep them running? Doesn't that just give us the world's most expensive central bank?

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Putting aside the cult-like obsession with Satoshi, the problem with maxis is that they assume always that their models (the "designs") are right and that people will change their behaviors and attitudes to fit into their model. Whoever continues to spew that BS after any kind of "one true way" is either incredibly naive or a pathological crook.
My wife used to name her RPG characters “Isis” after a cat we used to have. Used to have to explain to vets that we named her Isis years before Bush and Cheney created Isis by starting their illegitimate war in Iraq.