skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You'll hear Herb Alpert's "Rise" live on today sampled (not trumpet, guitar) in Notorious B.I.G.'s "Hypnotize," with enduring appeal. I went to dig up the connection and it's a lot more interesting than I first suspected. "Rise" was actually composed by Herb's nephew, and the article goes into why the Alperts rejected many sampling requests before accepting Notorious.

https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/hip-hop/7709057/n...
The wikipedia article could in no way be summarized as "we let Korea print $100 bills". A first sentence is "A superdollar (also known as a superbill or supernote) is a very high quality counterfeit United States one hundred-dollar bill,[1] alleged by the U.S. Government to have been made by unknown organizations or governments". The body of article follows this. Only dubious allegation that North Korea (among several groups) print them and no allegations that the US allowed this.

Link if it gets lost: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdollar
I would not say anything you've said is facts, they're just incorrect statements. (Sorry to be blunt.) You're saying it's coercive when they're part of a job requirement? No, I explained this farther down. Please check my other post, thanks. If your presence being there is going to cause the company's insurance rates to rise to the point where they can't afford you anymore, then they're going to dismiss you. That's unfortunately the way it's been at a lot of companies I've seen for a very long time, for many other things besides vaccines as well.

Also that paper seems to suggest that mRNA could generally be used as a component in gene therapy. It does not say that mRNA vaccines are gene therapy. You're getting several things mixed up. Let me know if you want clarification, or if you want some helping finding a biologist or doctor who could answer more of your questions. But mRNA vaccines are probably not "coercive experimental gene therapy" unless you really want to stretch that definition.
If WV and MD approve, why wouldn’t Congress?
Correct. There are 31k US post offices across the US, so roughly 18,300 post offices where there are no banks. Makes sense to extend some operating procedures and point of sale systems to offer banking services at that scale.
oh— for regex performance Perl blows Swift, Java, Python, Ruby, Go, and C++ out of the water. For simple string manipulation— substring replacement, string reversal, etc. it's never the worst but never the best. Scroll down to the bottom of this paper where they test actual regexes though and the difference is pretty stunning.

http://jultika.oulu.fi/files/nbnfioulu-202001201035.pdf
Reminds me of reading 'Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain'. The way that book tries to get you to un-hook the judging and structuring parts of your mind so your hand can form shapes with NO WORDS to describe them.

As soon as you say 'I'm drawing an arm' your brain tries to define 'arm' and what it would mean to appropriately outline the parts of one on your paper… and the image you'd ideally produce might bear no resemblance to the 'arm' definition your brain gives you. It's an elaborate process of shutting down certain kinds of 'smart' that are overly naive and reductive, to get to images that are available but undescribable by analytical words. The perfect lines of an elbow are not 'triangle' or 'circle' or even anatomical parts: they're the image one's eye understands immediately, but getting it on paper is a whole other story.

I find when I'm live-coding audio DSP and getting close to dialing in a tonal detail that I'm trying hard to capture, or even rapidly debugging and evolving the code of the program to do it, when I'm most effective I lose the words to explain what I'm doing. It becomes 'and now I this, to do this, and then we ah… you'll see, it should… there. That.'

I'll play the sound, and my model will exactly resemble the thing I'm trying to make it sound like, but I'm miles away from being able to articulate what I did. Or, more likely, I could tell you 'I subtracted the thing and it needed to be 1.52 rather than 1.5, and that and the other idea got it to where it sounds like that. Because the filter's lower, and it's interacting with the input sample in thus and so a way'. The tangible STUFF I'm doing is rarely that complicated.

But being on the point of knowing to DO that stuff and exactly that stuff to get there… is what Graham is talking about. I don't know if it can be learned but it can damn well be trained. People as disparate as ad guy David Ogilvy, and writer John Gardner, have understood that.

And you can be a literal writer and still have important parts of your process locked away in that no-words zone. At those times, you are the writer. Your literal writing ability and vocabulary, are the stenographer. It's waiting on you having something to say. That 'something to say' may not be coming from a 'words place'.
> BTW what's wrong with this? Honest question!

In the context of the article, I imagine it's that some Kubernetes expert couldn't design and sell them an overcomplicated microservices-based solution which would basically only really be useful at Netflix-scale.
You can use a smaller charger; it will just charge slower.
YouTube is too big.
also submitted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28952954
The most interesting part of that article was this:

> On 21 December 2011, the Irish High Court dismissed the US application for Garland's extradition,[4][25] as the alleged offence took place in Ireland and was therefore not subject to extradition.

I wonder why the UK doesn't have that clause but Ireland does?
I've also been hit by not being able to withdraw more than about $5k cash as a retail customer without multi day notice. I do wonder if it's not all nefarious as cash has become drastically less common over the past couple decades.

Still, it's especially interesting because the numbers even 15 years ago are much higher in real terms than today.

This is another advantage of inflation.

You can set rules like, you have to declare more than $10k worth of assets traveling with you on flights, and every year, the plummeting value of that dollar metric includes more and more people and activities in the surveillance state.
> ignoring the advice of an expert is not good.

If the person actually is an expert, yes. But actual experts, at least outside hard science domains where we can run controlled experiments to nail down theoretical models to the point where the actually do have high predictive accuracy, are much rarer than most people suppose.

For example, the author says he ignored his doctor's advice; but that only counts as ignoring the advice of an expert if his doctor actually was an expert. Most doctors aren't--in fact, one could argue that no doctors are, since nobody has a really good predictive model for medicine. Many doctors know more than at least a fair number of their patients do, but that's a much lower bar to clear than "actual expert". And given the current state of medicine and the availability of information online, it's pretty easy for a reasonably intelligent person to know more than any of their doctors do about their own particular condition--since they both are more interested in accurate information, and have more time to devote to finding it out.
Maybe the people there would attain more at lower altitudes
Yeah but we generally don't work with philosophers, we work with sales people and marketers. I respect their skill but they generally aren't the types to be interested in learning new things
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25863731
Make crypto no more than 25% of your total investment portfolio if you are under 30, no more than 10% if you are over 30.
I wonder how hard to diff the feature back in.
Yeah I suspect they're comparing to cutlery knives out of the box - without any extra sharpening.
I find it strange that people trust the banks with their money, given their history and their behavior.
How sure are you that you can get your parser and validator correct in every case? And how sure are you that you can correctly define and then notice "quasi-valid" at the edge of the defined spec and implementation? How sure are you of your version-specific bug-for-bug compatibility, beyond the edges of the spec?

I find it helps to remember that a firewall should be just one layer. You should have others, each of which blocks things detectably malicious and lets the rest go. It's not reasonable to expect a firewall to stop any and all potentially malicious traffic. It's not a replacement for input validation and good development practices, even though I have had coworkers who thought this.
I can't stop thinking about the design for Indiana.
I'd refactor it. Offer a subscription service with zero ads, and an actual help desk. Offer the users a chance to be the customer instead of the product, at $5/household.

In Facebook Prime, you'd get your feed with no sidebars eating up the screen.
> I'm sorry, but have you seen hospitals being overwhelmed by the flu as they are by covid on the same scale?

In bad flu years, hospitals were overwhelmed to the point of taking pretty significant measures not dissimilar to what has been done during the pandemic, like cancelling elective surgeries. See https://time.com/5107984/hospitals-handling-burden-flu-patie...

I cited a source in another comment indicating that ICUs at level 1 centers were typically running at 80-90% of capacity even before the pandemic.

Obviously, there are no ideal solutions here, but shutting society down every time hospitals near capacity isn't a realistic approach indefinitely.
What's the PM2.5 contribution of automobile exhaust in a city like Denver, 5-10%ish?
And it works like garbage.
Linux has famously bad power management in mobile.

If you’re actually comparing the two genuinely, I encourage you to read more on the topic.
Same, Nebula/Curiosity Stream, plus YouTube and Crunchyroll (free tier) is more than enough to entertain me when I need it. I don't want to buy content by the "channel" and I'll do literally whatever I need to for it to stay that way.
Not a cinematography buff but these shots are still impressive when you try to wrap your head around them.

I wish there were a breakdown as to how these kinds of shots were done using the technology they had at the time.

Edit: This tweet[1] suggests that the camera was being passed around.

[1]: https://twitter.com/indiarama/status/1451251934879387651
beware mastodon downloads and mirrors all federated media to instance users, which is whatever,
but the admin tools do not correctly keep track of removing old media. hell, if an instance goes offline without nuking itself proper, mastodon will leave all of the media on your drive. it requires a ton of babysitting to run on bound storage, and the issues around this are still open.

i highly highly recommend pleroma over it, it uses 1/10th the system resources and doesn't download federated accounts data locally
Hah, Wojcicki being the next CEO would be the end of Google. Who needs a CEO that is despised in their organisation and utterly ignorant to what is happening on YT?
Depends on the scenario.

If it's a societal event, then yes, you can't rely on safe deposit boxes, just like you can't rely on your bank account. You're better off shoving cash under your mattress and stacking brass and lead.

But if it's an individual event, then your home itself might be a target, and safe deposit boxes might mitigate your risk.

It's all about tradeoffs.
How to Enable Crosshair and Trackball in Blazor Charts
https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=fastmailstatus.com
Of course if you have the server config and database you could impersonate it. However, phishing would be nearly pointless as most phished sites aren't/hadn't been compromised. (Well, pointless in the universe where entering a password into form elements and not the browser chrome isn't common and taught as a faux pas to users.)

Also, as it is you can brute force hashes offline as well. Yes, the original specification has become weak over time, but so have 3des and md5. SRP never was heavily used and as such new versions arent common; it's not inherently a problem with the concept of password-based mutual authentication.
>Why does there need to be one uniform solution?

Because free discourse cannot be completely stifled by the powers that be if there exists anywhere where people are allowed to express their honest opinions without fear of retribution.
This is my life at the moment. Even when I think I may know what is being discussed, experience has shown that a lot of people will try and fake it and being the idiot who doesn’t have a clue and needs it explained is useful for everyone.

I don’t know what it is about the IT trade, but so many people seem to find it difficult to admit that knowing everything is impossible.
Twitter’s own research shows that it’s a megaphone for the right
Their are a few rays of hope.
1. Htmx
2. Alpinejs
3. Express
I really wish this myth would stop.

Ive was not unilaterally responsible for deciding what constitutes a MacBook Pro or frankly any of the products Apple created. And he never dictated anything to anyone other than the Design team he managed.

Major product decisions are always made across many parts of the company e.g. Product Marketing, Design, Hardware Engineering, Operations etc and are signed off by the Senior Leadership Team.

MacBook Pro is a critical product for the company and the idea that one person is simply making all the decisions is just laughable.
> I find it helps to remember that a firewall should be just one layer.

totally agree.
Honestly, I don’t really care too much about representing the states per se. It’s the people of the nation that the federal government should respond to, not the divisions.
I would not say anything you've said is facts, they're just incorrect statements.
Exactly. To be certain, most people/firms would prefer to hold another stable coin vs tether, but if I have to have some tether exposure to earn some returns (as sometimes is the case), then that's what I'll do.

Regardless, for the tether skeptics, they should put their money where their mouth is and short it.

PS: I personally think tether is sketchy, but it's not something I lose sleep over. However it is prudent for one to think about what will happen in the case of a tether depeg (both minor and major), and plan accordingly so you won't become destitute if it happens.
Excellent interview series
Ah, if the cells going out of balance even slightly will brick the BMS, that is something else. In that case "lying" to the BMS is a good idea and at that point you might as well add your own balancer.

AS for the battery fire, that is why I suggest using a second BMS and running the phase wires from there - a good BMS such as the one I use will cut off the power when there is an even slight imbalance, which is my cue to investigate it and avoid a battery fire :) - while that second BMS would handle the balancing.

But paying for 6$ cells, my oh my, that does make it worth it :) I paid all in all 70 cents a cell and even then I was quite skittish :P
DC statehood is all about tipping the scale to the Democrats in the Senate. Retrocession of DC doesn’t allow that.
You are confusing the mind-trick "wisdom of the masses" with "superorganism." They aren't the same.

Mankind is a superorganism, at least as far as the planet is concerned. Look at the Earth and what Humans are doing to it. No moral judgements, just the provable. On the grand scheme, human populations have mastered all the points on any given "what is life?" list. We consume, reproduce, excrete (the big problem we have as a population now... pollution!) etc. Look at how a single organism changes life in a Petri dish. Find the differences. Can you tell where the singular and the group functions become separate and distinct?
If you really want silence, you're best off with the fanless MBA. Though Apple noted that in non-intense use the MBP should be silent, you can also see from their performance graphs[1] that the M1 is more efficient than the M1 Pro and M1 Max at low power levels. (<12 watts or so, from eyeballing the chart.)

Makes sense when you consider that the M1 has more efficiency cores than the M1 Pro/Max.

I'd actually like to build myself a home NAS/server with only Gracemont cores if we ever see Alder Lake-L available in a mini-ITX form factor. (Was going to try with Jasper Lake, but that seems to have been effectively cancelled with the chip shortage.)

[1]. https://www.anandtech.com/show/17019/apple-announced-m1-pro-...
Don’t forget the + $.30. That is the most material part of transaction fees on small purchases, such as $.99

If not for the bulk discounts they must get, they would lose money at 30% of a $0.99 sale.
Can you provide some guidance on how a web developer can transition into the field of embedded development?
Good luck to the FastMail team! Long time user, there is no better email service! Hope whoever is attacking them gets struck by lightning.
Brigading much?
> I wish "non-tech/well-rounded" were better valued or even understood in the mainstream. People mention them as cultural virtue-signals, but it's not part of any interview or screening I've been a part of, and I've done dozens in the last year.

> I don't feel that "soft skills" are sought or even desired in an engineer

An engineer who can communicate well will never be out of a job.
Some of these are significantly less readable than the existing plate designs, specifically at a distance.
now mix it with pion and we're cooking
From the status post, they use the term "primary" which implies they might have more than one network provider. Unclear whether Fastmail is the target, or if the attack is against someone else network-adjacent to them and is just large enough to congest the provider. If the latter, wonder what prevents just withdrawing the announcement and resuming service using the secondary or tertiary provider?
>I'm a happy Fastmail customer, but the number of outages recently has been a little concerning.

From that thread 9 months ago, who goes on to complain about not having post mortems sent to him via Twitter.

I've been using Fastmail since 2014 and can't remember a time I couldn't log in and access my email. I'm sure the service has gone down in the past 7 years, but I can't tell any difference from Fastmail's uptime vs Microsoft's for Outlook 365 and Google's for GMail.

I just read some emails before opening HN and seeing this, in fact. Their caching works well enough that I didn't even know they were down. Now it's showing that it can't connect to the server. Well done, Team Fastmail--that's pretty slick.
The first part that shocked me was when they went over the metal thing around 0:51, and then again when they went into the building. The effect they produced here without any CGI or drones is pretty amazing in my opinion.
Deposit insurance?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deposit_insurance

It seems like most countries have an equivalent of FDIC.
If you believe so then it would help to demonstrate why. Otherwise let me know if you want some clarification on what I said, thanks.
Oh, man! Falling asleep to youtube is (was) my PRIMARY reason for watching youtube. The recent creep of ads considerably reduces the soporific quality of dozing off to a Malcolm Gladwell conversation or a Royal Institute lecture.
You can search within the youtube app for youtube content.
Yeah, the smell that comes with it in the fall and winter is something else. I like Denver, but the brown cloud is no fun. It’s a downer coming out of the hills on I70 into the city and seeing it hanging there.
It's a ponzi scheme. Seriously, it is not an investment, it's a scam. It may increase in "price" and you could make money, same as you could in any ponzi scheme, mlm etc, but it's not real. Just don't.
CFPB orders Apple, Amazon, other tech giants to turn over payment products info
There has also been a shortage of metal coins, because physical exchange isn't happening as much during covid.

Although, I still personally believe that coins at least up to the US quarter should probably be abolished. Quarters are really the only thing semi useful as a medium of exchange, and even they are starting to lose their utility. Maybe dollar coins can still be useful.
Ask HN: Is starting a web design and hosting business viable today?
Hi everyone,

I and my wife are thinking about starting a web design company, which would target smaller businesses. We would provide custom web and mobile app designs, custom website development, but I was also thinking about providing simple web hosting as well (for small wordpress sites or something similar).

She is great with digital arts and recently started learning web design and UX and she loves it. I'm currently working at a FAANG as a software engineer, but I'm getting more and more bored every day.

However, we are a bit worried whether it is even worth starting a business like this nowadays, because there are countless businesses providing the same services, and I'm not sure if we could get enough clients. Also I've done some research, and found many landing page and website builder tools, some of them are even free.

Is there anything that could make us stand out from the crowd? Is there anything missing in this web design/development space? What could we do to siphon some clients from big web design/development/hosting companies? (other than being extra cheap)
Heh. Could not log in, check HN, it's the top story.
Don’t. Sorry but if you don’t understand an investment, don’t make it.

If you do, consider whatever money you put in to be lost and plan accordingly.
If tether majorly depegs, let's not kid ourselves, it would absolutely devestate the crypto ecosystem.
On my Linux 10980xe server, I have only been able to do this via obscure command line tools or the BIOS.

It's definitely not as seamless or effortless as what you get on a Mac.
I've actually pedaled without the battery but with the motor in place.

Let me tell you, the added weight is nothing... On a hub motor when you don't have a connected battery, say because the BMS tripped as you ran dry, the motor converts a signficant amount of your kinetic energy into electrical energy and then to heat. You can really feel it cogging. I could swear the two weeks I ran it without a batteris saw my thighs get significantly bigger!

Thankfully in my city there are plentiful subway stations with elevators, so when I did run dry once, I was able to pedal my bike into the subway and take it home.
Your friend was stolen from. The cabbie isn't running the meter because they know the price was going to be less than $15. It also means they won't take a credit card for that ride, because the ride was illegal and it requires the meter to supply the price.

It's funny to me that you see this anecdote as something that reflects well on the taxi industry in NYC.
Making Intelligence with Basic Switch
Url changed from https://phys.org/news/2021-10-anonymous-social-media-account..., which points to this.
I think he is talking about the reletively high number of people that buy and sell gold for cash as private parity sales.
Generally, I have been gold authenticated by taking the density with a good scale and water displacement. Though that technically could be faked it would be very hard. If you wanted to do it quickly you could probably cut a corner off because the stuff in circulation is normally high enough grade that it's almost soft.
Gold Plated lead would feel off to anyone that's handled gold before from density alone. Gold is nearly twice as dense. That's why it made a great coin in the past. It's far denser than anyother common materials.
Shouldnt they be using some sort of ddos protection?
Yeah. It's not an either/or situation. It's a both/and.

Tradeoffs generally require hedging your bets.
Fastmail was pretty good while I was a customer, but this sort of thing is partially why I switched to Google Workspace. Google might be terrible for privacy but at least I can trust them to not get hacked or knocked offline. If they ever decide to randomly lock my account or anything I can always just point my domain back at Fastmail. Good luck to them and hopefully they'll be back online soon!