skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, they have different uses cases. But one can easily see an arbitrage opportunity here for building an immortal database atop S3 (and other cloud services) for a lot less money. For $12,000 USD, I could store the same data in S3 for (at the very least) 445,217 years. (Using the example above.)

That makes the value proposition of the Ethereum blockchain as a data store a lot less attractive.
Windows 95 Space Cadet Pinball running on Windows 11 as a Linux app under WSLg
One question, and one point for consideration.

Qn: You wrote that "All the material around it was removed", but then you wrote "at the time we went to the clinics the spots were too small to take samples". This seems to suggest that you know having samples of it would be ideal (or you'd not have written the second statement) - but don't you have biopsy samples from the material was removed the first time? What did they show?

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For consideration, I'd strongly reconsider this position: "I understand taking them now might prove more helpful - but then, if it's an incurable cancer my wife is kind of reluctant to have another surgery just to find out what we are already pretty sure what it is..."

Why? Well, three points:

a) I suspect that the biopsies could be taken via a relatively minor surgery - maybe laparoscopically. If this is the case, it would be a short procedure with a short recovery... which could result in absolutely critical information being collected.

b) obtaining biopsy samples of 'it' (whether it's a malignant tumor or not) is a hugely important step towards identification. If you can identify it, you're much closer to knowing how to treat it, or accessing relevant clinical trials, or putting your minds at rest. This could be life changing, or life-extending in a significant way.

c) if it is a malignant tumor, there are now techniques that can be applied to the biopsy tissue which give insight into the nature of the mutations that drive it, and therefore could point you towards a treatment. Two examples are mentioned here: https://www.cancer.gov/news-events/cancer-currents-blog/2017...

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(I have domain-relevant professional knowledge, but I'm not a liver cancer specialist - there's your caveat.)
They are pretty public about their position but they are in HFT
Never asked for shit from you, buddy, so feel free to keep your biz your biz.

Back to the point, after thirty-two years of hanging out in BBS networks, Usenet, and dozens of web social media sites, I see nothing special about HNs denizens, other than an inflated sense of their own worth. This site has as many idiots and blowhards as any other.
So technically this could mean that every person that has launched a mastadon instance needs to make a copy and release to the world our config files, passwords, DB users and other changes for the world to see?
Or we are all in violation of making changes and not re-releasing them?
Does it spell out how we need to release them, like upon request via email or have a link to a package via main page or something?
That’s a great thread, thank you. Do note that one of the replies calls his fundamental thesis into question, though: empties are sitting on chassis not due to regulation, but due to lack of equipment for stacking them higher.
But who will administer the site after you pass? It's much harder to justify the administering effort, when you never even knew the original guy.
This is a classic motte and bailey. The motte is that "intolerance" only means the denunciation of rational argument and calls to violence. The bailey is that this justifies blocking the entire opposition because they are declared to be violent criminals who have abandoned rational argument, or expanding of the definition of "violence" to mean (warning: irony) any rational debate about sacred cows.
> I don't feel like I'm fighting the git tools. Is this a common experience?

Yes. Today I spent way too much time explaining to a coworker that what he was complaining “should be easy to do but seems impossible” was actually quite simple, only to spend ages explaining how git works, why he wasn’t understanding the paradigm. And after all that help what he needed to do was simply to “git checkout feature-A && git merge master” we didn’t even touch on rebasing, and it’s not like he hasn’t used git before, he had at least half a decades worth of experience working with codebases managed in git.

And this is far from the first time that I’ve had to help out people with something that seems extremely straight forward to me and others who have git under our skin, but is overly complex and difficult to people who might not be experts but have worked with git for several years in a state of “minimal viable knowledge”.

Git has the same problem as it’s creator, it is arrogant, and has for way to long tried to explain the fact that new users find it difficult with “well they are just dumb” instead of accepting that it needs to make its user experience and interface more intuitive. Some of these changes are finally happening now, so I no longer have to explain why “git checkout” is used for seven completely unrelated things, but there are still tons of cases where the “straight forward way” to do something is only accessible to people who have spend way too much time doing deep dives with git and fully explored all the edge cases just for the fun of it.

It doesn’t help at all that googling issues is swamped with advice of “just force it” or “delete the repo and clone it again” which can cause permanent damage to the codebase, for a tool that is at its center suppose to avoid permanent damage to your codebase. No matter how stuck up some blinded advocates of the “git is and has always been perfect”-camp you are, everyone should understand that needing to give advice like “and if you have an issue don’t Google it, go see me or another git expert first to avoid loosing code history” is at its core spotlighting fundamental issues in the tool interface.
Such an odd career path for David Sears, to go from this to being the creative director behind SOCOM and SOCOM II - two wonderful games whose online community I miss dearly, but games Ellison would no doubt include in his categorization of "arcade bang-bang games that turn kids into pistol-packing papas and mamas".
Yep, OSX isn't the only system doing this, any good disk encryption program also has the same feature.
Just as our forefathers intended I'm sure
It is refreshing indeed to see a move like this. Too many times, companies have just obsoleted products, turned off the servers and/or yanked the app (or had it yanked for them by $GATEKEEPER) needed for them to function, and left the buyers in the lurch. Speaking for myself, it's a huge factor in my disillusionment with tech. It was also the reason I've never bought a VR headset in the first place, even before Facebook wormed its way into Oculus.

Is it too much to ask for vendors to do the right thing?
Here's my reality: I know a lot of older people - people in their 50's, 60's, 70's, and even 80's - who can barely run Windows adequately. Do I think they'll ever run Linux as their daily driver? Nope.

Okay, perhaps you think that's unfair, maybe you think it's the younger generation that's going to abandon Windows for Linux. You might want to re-think that. There was an article here on HN just a couple of weeks ago where a CIS professor was lamenting that their incoming students didn't even know how to use a computer! Most shocking to the professor was the fact they couldn't comprehend the file system! They were used to using tablets and phones. And those are the CIS students - imagine what the other students are like? They're not even running Windows, do you really think they're going to abandon their mobile experience for Linux? I wouldn't make that bet.

Where does that leave us? People over 50 aren't running Linux and they most likely never will. People under 20 aren't running Linux and most likely never will. That leaves those aged 20-50, and frankly most of them aren't running Linux either and most likely never will.

The future for Linux on the desktop isn't looking too bright. Meanwhile Linux on the server? It's pretty much foolish to run anything else.
Yes, it was a necessary endeavor, but the implementation never lived up to the task. I'm glad Pipewire is now getting traction, as I fear PulseAudio will never be able to be the stable and robust solution we need for audio on Linux.

Particularly, it handles badly sleep modes, hot plugging sources, and BT, which in 2021 is not acceptable. I regularly have to set things up manually using pavucontrol.

But yes, we needed it, and I thank the people that tried.
Which is a fair assumption. GPS going civilian in the 1980s was an incredible thing, so was the lifting of selective availability two decades ago. Without American govt spoiling the market there'd be little incentive.
Where are you getting 28 years old from?
For a moment I thought this was going to be a version of the site with megabytes of javascript, 50+ third-party tracking/ad network/analytics scripts, facebook/twitter/reddit "share" links, a cookie consent dialog allowing me to accept all or "manage my preferences", autoplaying videos about an unrelated story on each page, a sidebar with thumbnails + clickbait headlines that distracts from the main content, and a popup window that appears once I scroll down past 30% inviting me to subscribe.

I was pleasantly surprised.
Wherever there's a geek beating on a book. I'll be there :)
Because when you're defending a lawsuit, you lay out multiple lines of defense. What we said was true, but even if it wasn't true, we had good reason to think it was, but even if we really didn't have good reason, we're just entertainment. That way you're not doomed if the court accepts some convoluted argument that what you said wasn't actually true.
I wouldn't automatically assume that tape is better than a phone line. For instance, a phone line will always clock at 1 second per second, because everything runs in real time with no storage.
As someone who has loaded custom roms on more than a couple of dozen Android devices over the years, it is really hard to brick a device installing an OS. The closest I came was an Xperia Play years ago, but even that was recoverable after pulling the battery.

These days there are some decently high guardrails for not bricking a device, as long as you follow installation instructions.
I once bought a laptop with a trackpad and it came with Windows ME. The trackpad kept dropping. It was a problem with the driver crashing.

I once got a macbook from work, and the mechanical stress from carrying it in my backpack broke something internally. Started randomly rebooting. I had to bring it in, b/c Apple would not allow me to swap the broken piece myself. Got it back with everything wiped and all my files gone.

This is why Windows will never work for normal people and will never become popular. This is why Apple won't work for any common use like a backpack and will never become usefull /s

But first: thanks a lot for spending the time to make a patch!

Yet, my point is: sure, that is valid criticism. Stuff should Just Work. But it also is kindof anecdotal and a little random to write off the entire desktop experience of Linux on a piece of unsupported hardware 10 years ago. We all have experienced bad hardware support everywhere, with every OS, with every ecosystem, haven't we? Hell, even one of my thinkpads did weird stuff once.
Can We Ever Fly Without Polluting?
>The FSF have used this clause in the past to bribe license violators to release other, non-violating pieces of code under a FOSS license in order to reinstate their license on code that was previously violating.

Is there more on this somewhere?
Both sides of the agreement are likely being deceptive in their statements. Google says they never asked for preferential treatment of search, nor access to user data[0],
yet Roku says they did.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28945280

also see[]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28945250
Good point with symbolism.

I could be wrong, but to your last part - the sense I've gotten from her recent writing as of the last two years is she's changed her mindset regarding cancel culture (if not in whole, then a large part). not that i'd call it atonement outright, but that she's focused a lot more lately on those who've been "cancelled" and talking with them 1-on-1 and showcasing what they have to say.
Maybe the poster is in another country. I live in a third world contry where most work is grunt off-shored work. Most positions here are for devs with 1-3 years of experience, and there are loads of them. If you are more experienced and want a good job you need to work remote with an overseas company.
More extreme temperatures will clearly affect plant growth rates.
This part is really interesting:

> It is fast - our spatial classifier takes only milliseconds to come to a conclusion about a page (there is additional time prior to this step due to the OpenCV processing - but not too much) and identify it and doesn’t require expensive hardware. Most of our instances run on ARM-64, which at least at AWS, is 30% or so cheaper than x86-64. The s-expression structures align to document structures nicely and allow a nice representation that doesn’t lose fidelity to the original layouts and hierarchies.

The article also mentioned they have 3 programmers and 100k lines of code, that sounds impressive.
What is seen is a generally workable GNSS solution, especially after the removal of selective availability (note: this is a good thing, but by no means necessary; BeiDou still suffers from intentional degradation).

What is not seen is a potentially better service that doesn't cost $1 billion a year which wasn't created. GPS radios are fairly power hungry, slow to sync without ephemeris, and accuracy can vary especially near buildings and terrain. But it works well enough and is entrenched enough that a private improvement would struggle to make financial sense.

A utility of this scale also creates a single point of failure, which came to bear during the Galileo outage a few years ago. What some call needless competition is seen by others as redundancy & robustness. The water provider in Flint, MI should have gone out of business and been replaced for pumping lead into peoples' homes, but instead the situation became a political football. The only cost to bad actors was the expenditure of political capital; all but one minor charge was dropped.

There are lots of trade offs, so the ways we'd be better off change depending on the way the system is defined. I do think the consideration of what might have been is interesting nonetheless.
An IDE can show you stuff like that. Visual Studio underlines uninitialized variables with a squiggly line for me.
They've already made a ton of money [1]. I'm sure there will be a few more false starts to grab some more, and then it will just end up in the grift recycling bin for reuse in 2024.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/technology/spac-tied-trumps-new-soci...
But those would then be immigrants, right? And likely will need to come in under H1B or something. How will owners of that platform react to hiring to immigrants?
For violence? Really? When was the last time you found yourself defending a coworker who beat someone up in the workplace?
We thought the opposite last year. We didn't think that over 2% inflation would happen until around March of this year. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/T5YIE
These are the same arguments that people have made about outsourcing for thirty years, and we've only got more programmers who are paid vastly more money because of it.
>As a reasonable person, I think that overt racism, opposition to public health measures, attacks on voting and democracy and unwillingness to accept responsibility for damage to the environment we all share are simply not reasonable points of view.

That's a reasonable position to take, IMHO.

However, that position is irrelevant to the law in the US. In the US, the government (except in very narrow circumstances[0]) may not censor or restrict speech.

However, private actors are not restricted from censoring or restricting speech on their private property.

That's how the law in the US works. If someone doesn't like it, they can try to get the law changed. For those who advocate that, good luck -- you're gonna need it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce...
Your options are “durable copies” and “lots of copies”. Some out-of-the-box ideas for these:

For durable copies, use clay tablets, or (better, I think) write it in large print (kilometers per letter, preferably) on the surface of the moon.

For lots of copies, put it in every block-chain you can find or write it (say in Morse or in ascii bits) on or in small durable objects that have little inherent value (you don’t want your writing to be recycled for its resource value) such a as glass beads, produce billions of them, and distribute them over the surface of the world.

Launching a pioneer-class probe with the text on it every year or so also may help, in the (not highly likely, IMO) case there’s almost total collapse of society where we have to leave earth and then invent much faster space travel than we have now (so that we can catch up with old, slow probes)

I think your biggest challenge will be to make your progeny interested in reading what you wrote, though. Why do you think they would want to read your page, and not watch videos of adorable robotic kittens?
You want a reskinned mastodon with winking Trump and MAGA plastered all over it that badly?
The Saga of Highleyman's Data
I might have been an international Reddit employee also had the recruiter not ghosted me when I gave times available for interview!
I assume a lot of heat related deaths are mostly due to heat stroke and cardiac stress caused by it. People can easily live in high heat conditions (see deserts, for example), but if they're not used to it, it quickly becomes problematic. You can see the effects any time a heat wave hits a usually mild climate.

Cold can kill, too, but it usually hits the very poor and those caught in a bad situation ; heat stroke, on the other hand, can be pretty subtle. I can imagine someone who thinks of 20°C as hot is rather vulnerable to it.
You can use satellites in many ways without realizing it.

Examples:

* Rural cell towers that use satellite backhaul

* Airplane wifi over the ocean

* Newscasts which use video uploaded via satellite, from places like Afganistan
He's getting paid subs from substack now (and they gave him a good first-year deal), but it's mostly people who pay out of goodwill (there are a few sub-only posts and comment boards, but it's 90% free conent).
Docker Compose Specification
X11 is not really a viable solution anymore. The API has some pretty major flaws that there are no plans to fix. Or rather, the plan to fix them has been to ship Wayland as the new API. It should continue to be backwards compatible because of XWayland. Also I don't believe X11 has any API for kinetic scrolling, that typically is implemented by the desktop environment so I'm confused as to what you mean.

"I consider Wayland (and GNOME) a deliberate act of sabotage."

KDE is actually fully behind Wayland as well. It's not something that GNOME is doing just to inconvenience you. https://community.kde.org/KWin/Wayland#Why_Plasma_needs_Wayl...
Off the top of my head, googles Display Product has quite a few.
- Magnite (Formerly, Rubicon)
- Xander (Formerly, AppNexus)
- GumGum
- Index Exchange
- Facebook
- Sovrn
- Unruly
- Sharethrough
- Triplelift
- OpenX
- Amazon A9
- Conversant
- Yahoo (AKA Gemini)
- Outbrain
- Revcontent
- Medigo

That's most of the bigger players, but there are hundreds. Many aren't worth the time, and are spun up when one rep takes some budget from a large brand and does "Direct" deals and tries to start their own shop with "Guaranteed CPMs". It's all bullshit
U.S. Issued $100B in Export Licenses to Suppliers of Huawei, SMIC
I was a big champion of sous-vide but I've realized that, while it can produce very precise texture results, it just doesn't develop as much flavor as something braised in the oven.

The evaporation\reduction that occurs during a long braise in the oven significantly concentrates flavors in the meat and there are a lot of delicious Maillard reactions on the sides of the braising pot as well as on exposed bits of meat that just don't occur in a sous-vide bag.

In fact, the bag prevents evaporation from occurring at all, and a quick sear post-bath doesn't quite achieve the same result.

Water baths have their place, but I've gone back to traditional slow cooking if I want that deep flavor. Also, the house smells so much better!
Has probabilistic programming been shown to solve problems better than machine learning or deep learning approaches?

I remember it being pretty hyped 5-6 years ago …
It's not even available yet, is it? If he's not even providing it as a service it's a bit difficult to say he's violating the license until he takes it live.

Besides, we all know the first people to sign up will be those pathetic betas that'd sit there refreshing their feed over and over to be the first one commenting on Trump's Twitter feed.
I think you vastly underestimate the cost of redesigning / rebuilding all of our coastal cities to adapt to the fact that they are now below sea level.
This may have been true last year but is no longer true - see comment by lastofthemojito
Most professionally recorded music is recorded and mastered at 24-bit resolution, which has a theoretical maximum SNR of 144.49 dB.

Fresh virgin vinyl has an SNR of 70 dB, which reduces each time it is played.

Even 16-bit audio (96.33 dB) exceeds the SNR of vinyl recording.
How would ending copyleft license hurt Hollywood?

I am not talking about copyright, which you are correct would be massively disruptive. I am talking about copyleft such as GPL, etc which as far as I know have never been really tested in a US court of law.
On advertising and what it does to us
Does this person actually know what the problem is? For example see https://news.yahoo.com/lazy-crane-operators-making-250-20010.... The symptom might be not enough space for containers, but the root cause could be something a few degrees removed, or a combination of things.