skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rebase is already lightning fast for me... Even on projects with thousands of commits! How big does your repo have to get before rebases are sluggish?
I think this is pretty on-point.

The majority of your income will be from tech companies and education/research firms that have bought into Slack (which is far and few, most are all-in on Teams with just student groups in Slack).

Put out what you can for free, then slap on the commercial licenses or options for your potential customer base. User or workspace per month with a very slight discounted annual and heavily discounted multi-year option. It's mostly about adoption at this point, outbound marketing won't work unless you're actively demoing the feature to your customers.

And a lot has to align for that; Slack admins allowing it, a business unit willing to sponsor the budget, security & compliance.

Best of luck!
The surprise was the delivery vehicle/method it was launched into orbit and then deorbited to hit a target.

Basically what China just showed is that they are capable of parking these in orbit which would both greatly increase their effective range as well as reduce the signature making them far harder to detect and intercept.

It’s basically another Sputnik moment for the US. When the USSR launched Sputnik the US was scared that they’ll launch a bunch of nukes that they would be able to bring down on the US at a moments notice.

Keep in mind that back then ICBMs weren’t really a thing yet not to mention a full nuclear triad and that the US had to mainly rely on its bombers to deliver nuclear weapons and its defense primarily focused on shooting incoming soviet bombers.

If China parks a bunch of these in space it would mean that any US naval task force or ground force anywhere in the world is now at risk.

That’s quite a tectonic shift in the balance of power, and if anything these articles probably downplaying the actual impact something like this can have.
Analysis of the Chernobyl accident suggests that this is not quite true

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00295450.2017.1...
tangential; are there plans for `fwupd` support for Framework? I love my LG Gram 17" but `fwupd` support might make me consider Framework
IPFS is basically BitTorrent if all the torrents could share with each other. IPFS is as if each "torrent" is a single chunk of data instead of a siloed collection of stuff.

IPFS expands BitTorrent into a global filesystem.

You can mount IPFS on your filesystem and address files by pointing at local resources on your machine. So you could have an HTML file say `<img src="/ipfs/QmCoolPic" />`. You can't do that with BitTorrent.
Mozilla the organization, not Mozilla the browser. It's common for companies to require their employees to use full-disk encryption on all devices that store company data.
It drives cycles of growth and contraction. How much growth and contraction depends on government action to alleviate the crises.
Saying "imagine if we said that about a technology that doesn't suck" doesn't make a technology that clearly sucks, not suck.

The Web was a hit because it was really obviously useful for real work from the moment of its creation. IPFS is BitTorrent with magnet: links, and the seeding problems that implies, and the rest is janky nonsense.
The idea is that HFTs provide value by tightening spreads.

The slower a market maker is, the more risk they take on when they quote, because they are more likely to be caught by market moves - less likely to cancel their quote when the market starts moving, less likely to be able to hedge if they get filled at the start of a move. To make up for that risk, they have to earn more per trade. The only way to do that is to quote a wider spread [1]. That means that real money participants end up paying more when they cross that spread.

The value captured by HFTs has not come from real money participants, but from other, slower, market makers, and they have shared that value with real money participants.

[1] Or to demand a bigger stipend, or steeper maker-taker pricing, from the exchange, either of which means bigger fees for other participants.
Onenote.
Looks great! How did you host it in your own domain?
That was solved years ago by moving the refcounts into different pages: https://instagram-engineering.com/copy-on-write-friendly-pyt...
My favorite bit is this series of events: “my girlfriend dumped me because of this” “I’ve initiated legal action”.

This doesn’t even seem real it seems like a joke.
Why not meal prep for the week? If I had to cook every day I would just eat out.
I really hope spotifys podcast land grab ends in complete failure.

Podcasts should be distributed over RSS, hosted anywhere you like, and you should be able to use any client you want.

Also mixing podcasts and music in one app makes no sense. There is no situation where I’ll switch between music and a podcast, they’re for completely different contexts (as shown in this example). It’s like having a magazine with a novel stapled to the back.
It might indeed have been such an attestation.
Sasha and Ann Shulgin famously believed that dissociatives (e.g., ketamine, xenon, phencyclidine) have no safe role in psychedelic therapy:

"We are strongly prejudiced against psychedelic drugs which cause such mind-body separation, as we are against any drug which causes separation from feelings and emotions. However, we acknowledge that the ketamine state can be highly instructive for researchers trying to understand the functions of the human mind."

Dissociatives are too addictive, too pleasurable, and reliably produce long-lasting delusional states (e.g., as observed in John C. Lilly and Marcia Moore).

For example, see D. M. Turner's "The Essential Psychedelic Guide". Before he died in his bathtub (after injecting ketamine), he wrote the following (https://www.ketamine.co.uk/dmturner/index.html):

"A major concern regarding safe use of Ketamine is its very high potential for psychological addiction. A fairly large percentage of those who try Ketamine will consume it non-stop until their supply is exhausted. I've seen this in friends I've known for many years who are regular psychedelic users and have never before had problems controlling their drug consumption. And I've seen the lives of several people who developed an addiction to Ketamine take downward turns."

"After about two years of once-per-week Ketamine use I even found that I had developed an addiction. Although it was less severe than what I've described above, it took considerable effort to break the cycle of repeatedly using it, even though I was aware of detrimental effects that it was causing. Since that time I've used Ketamine only occasionally, but find that I must continually exercise a high degree of will power to prevent myself from falling into a pattern of regular use. Amongst those I know who use Ketamine, I've seen very few who can use it in a balanced manner if they have access to it."

On the other hand, there are very useful and beneficial tryptamines (e.g., psilocybin) and phenethylamines (e.g., mescaline). These drugs produce informative, useful, introspective, challenging mental states and are NOT prone to abuse. These are the valuable psychedelics.
Ask HN: Engineering Work in EU?
Has anyone taken the plunge to work in engineering, or security engineering, in the EU or UK, and done it at an venture-backed place that is similar to what you'd find in the US?

Upfront: I get that the EU is not a monolith market, and I'm excluding asking about jobs that are pseudo-offshore eng shops for places in the US (Poland, UKR, etc). I'm interested in learning about the in bonafide startup scene and related jobs, or working for FAANG/Bank EU/UK.

- Generally, does one get out there on a venture-backed job, or is mostly taking a job at Google Zurich or a US bank in the UK (that sort of thing).

- What cities have the venture-backed scenes; do certain cities/countries differentiate b/t having more earlier or later round companies? How similar/dissimilar is the experience to working at Series B->D place in the US?

- How important is English, especially at non-Big Tech/Big Finance jobs?

- Pay, what's to be expected, and do the $150k+ equivalent eng jobs exist there? Why I specify security engineering is infosec roles in the EU/UK tend to seem really low comparative pay at initial pass. I get the "but the quality of life/social services" aspect of the pay there.

- How do visas work if you go to work at a startup. Are visas sponsored?
Seems like at that point it might be easier to just build a new http+ protocol that supports document signing and focuses on bringing caching back.

You could use all the current web/http/DNS infrastructure, and add certified/cacheable GET results.

Anyone could run their own proxy and cache what they see fit. Seems like an easier transition as it could be fully compatible with the current web.
Is there anything startups won't bet on?
That towel advice is a total pro tip.
>Inb4 'all words are made up' etc etc boring thread

You admit your point is baseless but haven't internalized it emotionally, I guess.

"Terra" is "Earth" in Latin, and "teren" is Romanian for "ground". Can't "terran" be a shorthand for "terrESTRIAL" in English just because it's the name of a faction in StarCraft?
AFAIK, it's been done, though. Not RTGs, actual reactors. They've been launched into orbit, deorbited and disintegrated in the atmosphere, and blown up in orbit spreading radioactive debris there.

Not one or two launches, but dozens. So there definitely is a risk, but it was once considered acceptable.
>I just don't trust governments or corporations to maintain, inspect, manage and operate nuclear power plants at scale.

The US Navy has 300+ reactors and has been operating them for decades without incident.
> What is different about this compared to just grabbing frames in software and differencing these frames?

Normal cameras lose information by accumulating the intensity of each pixel over time until the next frame "arrives". You can not reconstruct that information anymore by diffing the frame-based output.

Event cameras on the other hand track the timestamp of the intensity change for each pixel individually. Thus they experience far less motion blur because they don't average the signal amplitude over time.

However, I haven't yet understood why their dynamic range is also better.
I'll remove this line. Appeared to be shorter than I expected. Estimates, d'oh.
The key handling is (as always with this big corp "crypto") murky to say the least.

FB effectively still controls the encryption keys.

Coincidentally nobody of the usual suspects complained that "the terrorists are going dark".

Putting this facts together I'm assured the crypto can be broken at will.
Yes; objectively nobody is a creepy weirdo because it's a cheap, nebulous, meaningless term. Yet for some reason there seems to be no shortage of people using it to designate people who are just different in some way.
ITER isn't a commercial project. It's a multinational research project.

You're basically saying "research is corruption because it isn't guaranteed to produce a result", well, if it was, it wouldn't be research.

The plan for fusion: First, prove it can work. Then, worry about commercialization and cost reduction after we know it works.

You're also glossing over the fact that if fusion works, it solves a lot of problems other renewables don't: density, reliability (at night, on a still day, etc), possibly cost overall. Probably more, I'm no expert.
‘The Billion Dollar Code’: Developers Who Sued Over Google Earth Algorithm
What stocks should I buy?
Going Java and dealing with Oracle is easier than .NET and Microsoft?
IPNS doesn't work. Whenever you press them on this point, they'll admit it doesn't work.

But IPFS has the crypto problem of conflating the stuff that works now with the stuff that's hypothetical in its marketing, and not admitting that the latter is janky nonsense that doesn't bloody work.
> Nassim Nicholas Taleb's dietary practice to "only eat that which our ancestors ate 1000 years ago"

So: wheat, barley, rye, and oats filled with rat droppings, small stones, weevils, weed seeds, and funguses like mildew and ergot?
Up close, turbines generate lots of noise, unnatural air currents, and EM field. Seems like an ideal situation for natural selection.
I can totally recommend this tool. I use it daily and perform a sync between all devices with syncthing.
it would work about as well as asking the old Radio Shack staff for help.
It might not have materialised as a problem because those venues are not handling as much traffic as the busiest CLOBs are.
I would like to see uncertainty and intermittency exposed to consumers, with contracts that allow power to be curtailed in various ways. The less you value consistency, the less you would pay (up to a point.) Or, if you contract for a certain level of reliability, you could stipulate the payment you'd get if that were violated.
What would you prefer to have in Nix instead of systemd?
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/sep/30/revealed-no-...

> Downing Street has asked officials to consider the option of sending asylum seekers to Moldova, Morocco or Papua New Guinea and is the driving force behind proposals to hold refugees in offshore detention centres, according to documents seen by the Guardian.

> The documents suggest officials in the Foreign Office have been pushing back against No 10’s proposals to process asylum applications in detention facilities overseas, which have also included the suggestion the centres could be constructed on the south Atlantic islands of Ascension and St Helena.

I'm iffy on terming this "concentration camps". It fits the technical definition (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Boer_War_concentration_... as examples), but the line between "concentration" and "extermination" camps like Auschwitz has been entirely blurred for decades.
I'm not a PHP expert, but I did not know it was also used in data science, game programming, embedded programming and machine learning as Python is. Of course they are both used for web services.
Copy the link. Open Obsidian and quick add. If you aren't aware of it, there is a plugin called Quickadd which can be customized for these things
This is exactly how I felt when trying to use my smartphone for ‘productivity’. The screen is so damn small and most apps zoom in so damn close there’s no space to do anything non-trivial. It feels like I’m operating in a workspace for ants. It’s impossible. So I concluded that experiment and now exclusively use the phone for stupid cat videos.
Is that wired? The Quest has spoiled me, unfortunately, and any VR headset I buy will have to be wire-optional at least.

I don't mind it needing a PC, but I don't want to have a wire to tangle up in.
More like them then us
I'm not sure what American political orientation has to do with this.

DID is a DSM V recognized disorder. Anyone who thinks this is because of a tyrannical society that oppresses them by refusing to recognize that they are sometimes themselves and sometimes an anime character who has taken over their body, probably needs help -- and chances are there's a lot of shit in their lives they don't have together. I'm not the one confusing a mental disorder with a lifestyle choice. And HR departments are starting to adopt rules to force companies to treat employees' significant mental issues as lifestyle choices, to the detriment of the employees and the companies.
Posts like this talk about enterprise installations because families don't need VPNs. Unless your family is roaming all over the country and you're hosting private network services that they need access to. In addition, there are a multitude of consumer wifi routers out there with VPN servers built into them.
Ships sink at the rate of about 10 per year, and there are on the order of 80,000 large commercial cargo vessels in the world's trade fleets.

About 1/3 of that is dedicated to the movement of hydrocarbons themselves (mostly bulk crude oil, but also natural gas, coal, and refined products).

The total military nuclear fleet is on the order of 500 vessels, and actually accounts for the overwhelming majority of nuclear reactors in operation.

Sea lanes are not distributed evenly over the oceans, but are concentrated along a limited number of high-traffic routes, notably between China, the Straits of Malaca, Gulf of Aden, Suez, and Mediterranian, between western Europe and the Americas, and from the west coast of the US to Japan and China, by way of the Aleutian Islands (great circle route).

Odds of hull losses in coastal waters near fishing grounds and shore habitation are high. Piracy and other activities are another risk.

I'm wondering how the headlines following a decrepit nuclear-powered bulk carrier discovered to be carrying a cargo of poorly-loaded ammonium nitrate, blowing up somewhere in the Medierannian, South China Sea, or Singapore, and dirty-bombing the hell out of a few thousand square kilometres will read.
The cause of the problem here is generally that you didn't provide (or adequately document) a reasonable API to do that thing.

If you did, and the third party was fishing through your internals to do it instead, they're the assholes. That's generally more work than reading API documentation so if the API exists people are likely to use it, which should make this rare.

But if fishing through your internals was the only way to do it, maybe change that if your goal is to not hear from so many angry people after you move things around.

Expect people to use the undocumented unstable interface if the documented stable interface doesn't exist or doesn't work.
Same laptop as you, I run Bootcamp when docked however as I found that macOS won't stay on for long running processes while Windows does.

MacOS on battery power though since Apple forces Windows to use the discrete GPU. Only macOS can use the iGPU.
Unfortunately using a single db/RPC connection for many active threads is not done in any multithreaded system I’m aware of for good reasons. Sharing this type of resource across threads is not safe without expensive and performance-destroying mutexes. In practice each thread needs exclusive access to its own database connection while it is active. This is normally achieved using connection pooling which can save a few connections when some threads are idle, but 1 connection for 64 active web worker threads is not a recipe for a performant web app. If you can point to a multithreaded web app server that works this way I’d be very interested to hear about it.

The idea of a process-local cache (or other data) shared among all worker threads is a different story. Along with reduced memory consumption, I see this as one of the bigger advantages of threaded app servers. However, preforking multiprocess servers can always use shmget(2) to share memory directly with a bit more work.
They gave no specific criticisms. This thread was born of a request for specific criticisms. When that happens, I try to operate as though the assumptions laid out in the parents hold for the children. I think this makes sense to do, especially when you appeared to step in as a proxy expanding on the parent's opinion. Even if that wasn't your intention, this is a public thread, and the most relevant place to post things as a response to a sentiment in a thread may not be directly to a person who holds that exact sentiment. If you don't take issue with "design by committee" then you need not be concerned. I don't think you think that, and I think no less of you regardless.
The article explicitly tells that he did not die.
What we need to do now is build out solar panels. Until their share of generating capacity approaches a stability limit, spending on other tech is counterproductive.

Iron-air is not, in fact, unproven. Factories big enough to build what will be needed are right now under construction. We will need a lot. We will also need hundreds of ammonia and hydrogen production plants.
Doesn't running /boot without encryption open up a class of attacks?
Much of economic behavior and dysfunction comes from our poor ability to scale socially past the Dunbar limit. When we can keep up with everyone, we have a little accountant in our head saying who to assign credit or blame to, so our transactions happen without much physical manifestation.

Once you get bigger than a small village you have to believe in the system. The system is, throughout history, a hierarchy, and the hierarchy is defined by an overarching mythology of who or what is good and pure - the religion, nation, etc. - followed by division into ranks and groups. Business and finance becomes part of this system as a mechanism to offload credit and facilitate market exchange. While business and finance can be studied in a technical sense, the way in which humans ultimately use it is socially driven, and market norms vary widely between countries. It's an enormously inexact system the way we have it, because some groups define the rules and others are enforced-upon. That dysfunction lies at the heart of why economies crash, since that allows the elite to live in a Disney fantasy for a while, at least until the rails run out. They can "afford" to ignore society's limits and set up the game to benefit them as long as their status remains in place, and likewise people want to look up to elites as the system in manifest, which is why we have so much fan worship and a sense of national competition.

And so the value of money tends to revolve mostly around the overall validation of the hierarchy as it stands; break that and you break a country. This is a major part of why cryptocurrency incites strong reactions; the beliefs it validates are all premised around consent to some communally defined principle of value(with Bitcoin being an direct extrapolation of labor theory of property to computing resources), and don't have the with-us-or-against-us-by-force qualities of a national currency. That pulls it out of the competing-hierarchies framework in a disconcerting way; there's no leader to assassinate, no bureaucracy to infiltrate. You can, of course, rush in to corner the market that is already there, squash competition and attempt to enforce your preferred hierarchy by dictating the development process - and that is the thing being done at present - but the jury is out on whether controlling it is really possible or if it's going to slip through iron fists like so much sand.
Boeing’s Disgraced Ex-CEO Returns to the Aerospace Industry–Backed by $240 MM
I am highly skeptical of increasing dependencies between countries on energy when I see this sort of headline: https://news.sky.com/story/france-threatens-to-cut-off-uks-e...
It absolutely guarantees nothing of the sort.

A big problem in the NFT space of late is that OpenSea sells NFTs that link to an IPFS URL, then doesn't bother seeding the image after it's sold - so a pile of NFT images no longer exist anywhere on the IPFS.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkdj79/peoples-expensive-nft...
It doesn't, because the parts that are implemented are at the level of putting people on blacklists (there are currently seven different ones https://www.creditchina.gov.cn/gerenxinyong/?navPage=10 ) Social media integration is way down the list of priorities.
Wow, "talk to sales"? Who has that kind of money?!
Hands-on demo of Sia's decentralized storage tech
Paying user here too, big fan. I've had several adventures with Emacs (mostly vanilla, some Doom), but always find myself returning to (Neo)vim due to performance and the perceived Windows-hostility of the project.

I mention this because I, too, fell in love with org-mode and magit, and for a while I kept using Emacs only for those tools. Org quickly became a cornerstone of my workflow and made it easy to separate notes and tasks for different clients. I think Obsidian leaves maybe a bit much up to our imagination, but that's part of the beauty of it, imo

Currently sticking Obsidian (because it's discoverable, fast and extensible) and Neovim (only because Emacs is too antiquated)
The USA Fact-Check Algorithm by the Science Ministry is the canonical arbiter of truth.