skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bingo. The marketing strongly implies permanence, but the only permanence is that same content chunks will have the same hash, not that you can always retrieve content for a given hash. Then you start digging deeper and realize you need to have a paid pinning service to ensure that your content remains available. And these pinning services are way more expensive per gb than traditional storage options.
> Bombus Pollinators Association of Law Students

A.k.a. BPALS

:-)
This is a really cool project! Thanks for sharing.
Average of roughly $107 per book
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I’d call IPFS immutable rather than permanent. Which is a cool idea for media files at least, but isn’t very useful for something like a blog post. I think the “HTTP is obsolete” claim is a bit laughable. IPFS is essentially just bittorrent, reimagined (with comparatively no users, so not very useful yet).
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this is now beyond the facts of the matter and has crossed over into controversy-as-marketing.

(personally have no interest in this controversy, or chappelle, who i find angry and unfunny.)
As a Spotify user for ages, I can't understand why if I search an artist, I then can't see all of their songs in a list. I need to search their name, then hit the songs tab to then list all the songs under that query.

I swear some time ago I could search for an artist, see their top 5 then scroll down and hit "See all songs".
Just waiting for the ad-free channels to start having "skippable segments" that just contain sound clips of explicit language and/or other non "advertiser friendly" content.
Nice explanation! May I suggest a tiny addition to the text? Fixed point (in decimal) is also useful to make sure 1 trillion dimes are 100 billion dollars instead of $99,999,997,952.
Instead what if we just create companies that don't comply with any court mandated record-snitching? What if we find a way to monetize without selling user data or even logging it beyond the bare minimum?

What we really need are people and companies to take a stand against this nonsense.

Encrypt everything. Run nonsense traffic all the time to add noise. Stay anonymous as a priority
I wish I could give this more up-votes; it really hits the nail on the head with respect to this thread.
I’ll bite when we retreat behind the midpoint on the laffer curve — which I don’t see happening in my lifetime.
I highly recommend a book on the topic of China's point of view on the world and USA in particular:
The Hundred Year Marathon, by Michael Pilsbury. It is a very exciting and thought provoking view of America, from China's perspective.
Solar is already cheaper. But from the theoretical energy to actual stuff you can put into your tank to drive your car is a long distance.

And you need both solar and storage to approximate the reliability, and that is not even remotely solved.

And even if you had 1-2 storage, it would still not be reliable in a few important situations.
I disagree. You need strong leadership in an organization. You can't run an organization with 10k employees where any employee can hold you hostage and refuse to work if they disagree with any decision made.
It’s a pointless gesture designed to be more about sending a virtue signal than any impact at all. Dave’s been paid, a work stoppage won’t stop eyeballs and ears from hearing the comedy (it’s all over YouTube), and Netflix will not lose a statistically significant number of subscribers over this. To be honest, I’m sure that there will be no interruption to the streaming service at all.

And the next series of specials that Chappelle sells will have an increase in viewership because of the controversy these activist employees and stupid media outrage has created from this one. Netflix knows this and will want a chance at being the provider of that content.
It sounds like the cars are intending to route through a Slow Street[1], and when it gets there it discovers it can't and so reroutes, and in these situations the only way is by going back the way they came, is that right? Waymo should be able to quickly annotate streets as no-entry so it's not clear to me what's holding up the fix.

[1] https://www.sfmta.com/projects/slow-streets-program
I'm just still dark at Spotify over them adding adverts into podcasts, even though I've got a premium account. Grubs
The twisted world of Twitter consists of people who claim to care about others for internet points, yet have no idea what empathy is.
Great question. The account only exists to manage the payment and subscription. I toyed with the idea of providing the service for free but it is very compute intensive. Each model takes approximately 20-30s on a modern GPU.
The insane number of advertisements (TV, radio, internet) for different consumer "privacy" VPNs suggests otherwise. Nobody would waste money trying to sell VPN service if people weren't buying a lot of it.
I think you may well be right, though it's hard to say just how many trans people aren't on board with these controversial ontological claims of gender identity activism - perhaps in part because those who speak out against it get accused of 'internalized transphobia' and such, and relentlessly bullied by the activists.
People don't add more dependencies into ther code out of fear that's just a weird idea.

I'm not saying I know the cost, I'm just rebutting the comment about this being driven by fear. It's not, this is cost saving, and might be lousy at that, or not data driven.

By the way there is no such thing as "data driven software methodology", no one has ever done such a thing, so asking for it is just rhetorical.
and much better, to justify switching costs.
> It's somebody else who owns much hiqher quality printers that you would buy,…

This is just completely untrue. What kind of machines do you think they have back there?

Photo labs typically have two types of machines: something like a Noritsu which prints onto standard RA-4 paper with lasers, and ordinary inkjet printers, like the ones from Epson or Canon (like what I’ve purchased for myself—I’ve occasionally seen the same exact model behind the counter at photo labs—the same printer I have at home).

The advantage of the Noritsu style machines is that you can churn out hundreds of 4"x6" photos per hour. It’s not higher-quality than inkjet… actually, inkjet prints are better, and you can do that at home. If you think about it, it makes a lot of sense—the Noritsu is constrained by RA-4 chemistry, but the Epson / Canon ink can be anything that you can squirt out an inkjet head.

You can calculate the break even point for inkjet printers. If you’re printing, say, 8x10s, then break-even is somewhere around 200 prints, over the lifetime of the printer, compared to using the cheapest discount services online. This is if you decide to get a photo inkjet printer (around $300), account for the cost of ink ($0.01 per square inch) and high-quality paper (also around $0.01 per square inch) and compare it against online services (around $3 for the cheapest 8x10s).

If you aren’t printing many photos or are sticking to the super-cheap 4"x6" size, go ahead and take your photos to the lab. But the photo lab ain’t magic—it’s mostly just equipment that you could reasonably buy for your home.
People do join non-conspiracy Facebook groups today. Most Facebook groups are actually non-conspiracy Facebook groups. People don't want to be spammed with balderdash all the time.

The problem with Facebook is that they do what amounts to inverse moderation, site-wide. They promote inflammatory nonsense because it builds engagement. Ordinarily this would cause people to leave, but the site is so large that the network effect locks people in and enables the company to survive abusing its users like that.

If there was a larger number of smaller sites, or a federated network in which individual subgroups handled their own moderation, people would abandon the ones that operated like Facebook because they're severely unpleasant and the network effect wouldn't be strong enough to lock them in.
There are still lots of boars in southern Germany that are far above the official threshold for consumption (which is quite high already), like, almost glow-in-the-dark.

Southern Germany is a long way from Chernobyl, but a substantial amount of the fallout rained down here. Pretty much nothing grown in the areas that got contaminated precipitation was safe to eat, sometimes for years. Milk was way too contaminated even after dilution with milk from other areas, and pretty high amounts of radionuclides accumulated in the bottom layers of sandboxes on playgrounds and other unexpected places.

No one knew at first though, the West German government kept playing down the incident even though they knew that fallout reaching Germany was a big possibility, and thus lots and lots of people got rained on who could have protected themselves (my mom for one, on the way to work, metallic taste and all)

That's a pretty important part of the anti-nuclear sentiment in Germany, by the way. That's why a lot of people simply won't trust the parties involved in running nuclear power plants to do so safely – because the system failed already in an incident that wasn't even a domestic one, and also because of the rampant corruption surrounding those plants and high-level politics in general.
They are however also designing and building their own molten salt reactors and are building next gen reactors on the pebble bed design.

So I think that somewhat excuses their lack of scale for now as they probably want to get operating experience with these technologies before scaling much harder than that.
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I don't blame them. I would definitely consider activism when picking someone for my team. At the end of the day I like working in mission focused organizations. I love working with a diverse group of people, but it's critical that a mission unites us
Errm. AFAIK their complete stuff is here for anyone to see and grab:

[1] https://github.com/armbian

Ignoring their convenience scripts(which you don't have to use) they manage(d) to be the solution for most ARM-based SBC not being Raspberry. Often better than the solutions from some fire and forget vendors based on obsolete kernels.

They make the best out of a bad situation, similar to things like LineageOS and others for Android-based smartphones, for
some more technically inclined and able users. Without much bikeshedding or care for the glacial flow and rituals of other orgs. What do you suggest as a solution? Have the FSF sue countless vendors into oblivion until they comply to your whims and whishes? Hmmm, why not start with Samsung then, and then Google, down the whole chain of craptastic smart things?

Yeah, let's see how that will work out.
Most of the tax collected gets sucked up by the crooked healthcare industry.
But the spread in many-to-most stocks is limited by the sub-penny rule (SEC rules, as of 2005, say you can't have a spread < $0.01) rather than by the supply of market makers in that stock. Extra competition in those markets is negative-sum.
> that you don't even realize that connection pools exist

The GP mentions connection pooling literally three sentences later.

> literally everybody "shares a single DB/RPC connection across multiple threads" (or at least shares a number of connections across a number of threads), except python.

Right, but multiple ≠ many. You're discussing the former. GP is discussing the latter.
France, Sweden, Switzerland and parts of Canada had essentially green electricity for decades. Nuclear did that for the most part.

Germany has spent a long time, a huge amount of money and political will driving into renewables and they are not even close to done.

France in comparison was far, far faster in transition to nuclear any they did it in the 70/80s with basically 60s technology.

Had Germany started building as many nuclear reactors as they can as fast as they can and build them next to coal plants, they would be as Green as France in the next couple years easy.

However they decided to go to renewables and they are literally decades away from being able to run the country 100% on renewables reliability.

Any country that has actually decided to seriously and heavily transition to nuclear was able to do it very quickly.
Given they're known for their strong ideological stance, it'll be interesting to see their coverage of this and future ransomware attacks.
At a certain point (size of org, number of incidents) you decide that mere stupidity is not an adequate explanation. It doesn't have to rise to the level of actual malice, but willful negligence is on the table.
No. See also my comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28900781. The work isn't directly compatible, and the equivalent upstream work is already underway.
I agree with you, and I'm not sure what you're replying to.
> On top of this, I'm still dumbfounded by the fact that they didn't go for a chiplet design where ARM could truly shine: if Apple had went the chiplet route, the M1 could have had a much higher IO ceiling and might have a shot at addressing more than 16 gigs of RAM.

Remember that M1 is just a mobile SoC that work for iPad/MacBook Air. It's exceptionally great so people tend to confuse M1 is targeted higher end. 16GB max is fine for a mobile SoC in 2021. I can't wait M1X.
I’ve been seeing more and more of these unfortunate postings lately. I often only hear of these contributions or even the languages themselves after the person passes on, which is unfortunate. Hope his family is ok.
Apart from the transfer aspect I identify two other reasons for taking notes:

The act of note taking itself may help structure and focus thoughts, regardless of intent to review or transfer the note.

It may also be cathartic. It gives peace of mind to know I own the detailed information on X, just in case. Or perhaps making a pretty list about something random lets me take my mind of work for a few minutes.
How do you know they didn’t watch it otherwise?

Similarly, if you think the context changes things that much, you could explain how, since it’s often not that simple.
There are areas of Europe that have good salaries. I think Switzerland is one. It's also hard to compare salaries due to how taxes and benefits work.

For example (hypothetical), you could be spending few thousand per month to give your family healthcare in the US. This could take the median US dev salary from about $105k down to about $75-85k, or even lower depending on a bunch of factors. Then we would have to compare cost of living in both countries, including if healthcare is covered in an indirect manner in the other country.
I know fixed point was very important back in the days when CPUs didn't have dedicated floating point instructions. How important is it now, when most common CPUs have fast floating point operations? Is there still a performance win? Do games and similar software use them today?
log(size of the network) still means it gets slower as it gets larger without any aforementioned speed advantages for all but the IPFS Google popularity equivalent class content.
I don't support internet mobs - they generally seem to hurt innocent people (or hurt the guilty in excess of what they deserve) - but i don't see those two as mutually exclusive.

Presumably the twitter mob is mad (rightly or wrongly - i havent watched the special) about transphobia by Dave in general. It is entirely possible that Dave could be a great friend to Daphne and be transphobic at the same time. You can be friends with a trans person and transphobic at the same time (just like you can be sexist and friends with a woman at the same time, etc). Those two things aren't mutually exclusive.
The exchange you are referring to is IEX [1]. Michael Lewis (author of The Big Short) wrote Flash Boys about the intricacies of low latency trading and this exchange [2]. One of the primary "unfair" aspect of HFT is Front Running and has been illegal even before electronic trading (the name comes from traders racing ahead of big buyers in the trading pit). It was a big problem during the advent of electronic trading but has since been tamed. Exchanges arbitraging off their clients order books is another matter. Trading fast in reaction to real time (public) events is a market efficiency. Not accessible to the masses, but neither was traveling to wall street to place a trade.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEX

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Boys
That is entirely unfair and loosing the point. First I’m not gonna gamble my money on taking profits away from different companies. Second, even if I had the knowledge and the will to buy correct shares and make money by buying shares, that money probably deserves to stay with the workers that actually produced it. I personally don’t want to be the person getting the money that fellow workers earned but didn’t get.

But this is all besides the point. The point is that money siphoned to shareholders and CEOs is just as costly as money used to pay workers more. Both have the potential of ending up as increased consumer price. If your workers are demanding more pay, and you are a CEO of a multi-million dollar company, you could very well finance the increased pay by cutting bonuses to upper management and canceling dividends, as opposed to raising the price of the products.
> Uber Says First Adjusted Profit Possible This Quarter

> Uber’s disclosure comes after Lyft Inc. LYFT posted its first profit on the same basis in this year’s second quarter, and food-delivery rival DoorDash Inc. DASH surpassed the ride-hailing giant’s market capitalization last week.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/uber-says-it-will-post-its-firs...
Even the email based flow presents a series of changes as a thread of email messages, so the association between changes that are related or depend on each other is maintained.

Once a patch set looks good to the maintainer, it's merged. Email clients do enforce looking at the changes as a series of diffs on a per commit basis.
Well it's the government that is prosecuting the person, it's just that the corporate-political oligarchy is for them, not you.

How do you expect the plebs to "push back"? You get bullied, threatened, branded a conspiracy theorist, their corporations censor you and publish lies about you. If you're a really big threat they get law enforcement and intelligence agencies to go after you, manufacture evidence, create charges, persecute you in their "secret courts".

They have six ways from Sunday at getting you.
Facebook has no problem lying to advertisers about how much their money buys, I'd say it's much more likely that Facebook is concerned with preventing scraping.
A. Huxley explored many concepts and ways, I'm not sure he was trying to enforce anything or manipulate anyone. Case in point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_(Huxley_novel)
But lots of stocks have their spread limited by the subpenny rule, in which case additional HFT in that market is completely socially useless.
Very cool. At first I assumed it would show you what else is swimming beneath you... something I think might be best left unknown.
I used to work with Erin for a short time many years ago, before Udemy. He was always a seriously smart dude. Him and his friends built a very capable A/B testing system from scratch like it was a minor challenge.
if built into (some) void-free/void-consistent substrates, like high density foams or fiberglass, many sonar transducers can be tuned to ignore the hull and provide feedback of the underwater surface without a 'thru-hull' opening on the underside of the craft.

This is useful for boats, but maybe useful as an idea for a project like this as well?
I’d like a monitor with the following specs:

4096x2160 true 4K resolution
24 or 27”
120 or 144hz refresh rate
Under $1000

Too difficult to make happen?
Do you really believe your mission unites your employees?

Maybe if you're curing cancer or something, but for most tech workers working on some generic CRUD app, they pay lip service to being motivated by the "mission", but settle for something mildly interesting that hopefully isn't actively doing evil in the world.

Your employees trade time and skill for money. Hearts and souls is a much less common trade.
When a director pulled two engineers together, gave them the problem and told them they had until the end of the year to make it happen. Ended up hiring an external consultant to help get stuff done. Delivered 3 months early. Team was very small, 2 engineers dedicated 100%, one dedicated 50%, an intern, part-time product manager and part-time tester who knew the domain well. Most fun team I've ever been on. Interesting what happens when you give people a problem and get out of their way.
What are you replying to? I'm not talking about whether or not it's okay to make fun of trans people. I'm saying the bit about Chappelle's friend was one of the least offensive parts of the special, and it's not the part that some people are taking issue with. I didn't even express my feelings about offensive comedy in my comment, you just inferred that because you have some axe to grind about the subject.

For the record, I agree and I enjoy offensive comedy.
I think the page looks and is great. One column of plain text and pictures. Minimal, loads quickly, easy to understand and navigate.

It doesn't have any of the pointless bloat of most "modern" web design, and is all the better for it.
I wonder if there is some way you could pull data from the sound of the waves breaking instead of an active ping? That might be the only reasonable way to get accurate readings in that zone.
I get abuse and threats online – why can't it be stopped?
I found this, I think it's what @Taek's referring to - https://siasky.net
It’s a widely known password auditing tool that’s been around for 24 years.
> There’s thousands of skits about brown, black, white, asian, men, women and every other diversity box possible which everyone has loved laughing at for forever and continues to do so till this date.

Yes, there are. Including about the “diversity box” targeted by Chappelle, that are nevertheless appreciated by the people upset at Chappelle.

Not all things that someone slaps the label “joke” on are created equal.
France didn't have these engineers either, and 10-20 years later they were finishing 5 plants a year.

The US didn't have these people and build reactors incredibly fast as well.

With modern reactors, and not gigantic PWR. You actually build most of the nuclear components in factories. The actual CAPX part is mostly the same as a gas plant.

What you need is not technical engineers but many experiments people who have done it before.

So you start to build one reactors before its half finished move some people start a second and a third and so on. Its basic scaling.

France was able to it with terrible PWR designs from 60s, we have the opportunity to do it with amazingly small and save GenIV designs.

> And Chernobyl is an interesting example here, because one of the reasons for its (and many other Soviet and Russian projects) low quality is that Soviet Union/Russia have been stuck in emergency mode since the Tsars.

No sorry, that is nonsense. The reason for low quality was their political system.

> You just needed that many flats and that much power like two decades ago - so you winged it.

Äh no. Chernobyl was actually partly a design that allowed them to make materials for weapons. That is what their political system cared far more about then providing power to civilians.

> and the only way I see EU building enough reactors in 10 years to handle our energy needs without _major_ cuts is by winging it quite a bit.

No that wouldn't be how you do it. There are perfectly reasonable ways to do this without just having no standard.

> near-term future on them.

If near term future is 10-20 years we absolutely could.
I don't need to watch 11 year old girls crotches to find sexualization of prepubescent children strongly objectionable.
We do this as well (using fixup! commits to make code changes and squash! commits to update the commit message).