skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would using Redis add significantly to the cost?
> But the comment I was responding to was asserting that going without a smartphone is difficult. It most certainly is not. It's less convenient, but not difficult.

QR codes for vaccines.
Broken and laggy scroll, hijacked back button. Why can't we have normal web pages again?
This is a textbook example of the widespread "juniorization" issue Lego had for a while 15-20 years ago. You'd get a Town car set, and it would have about 17 pieces, because the entire chassis would be one piece. You have linked a set explicitly in their Junior product offerings, bridging between Duplo and real Legos.

I think things have actually swung too far in the other direction now with their main-line sets. As much as 25% of the part count typically consists of tiny 1x1 or 2x1 plates and tiles, or 1x1 cheese wedges. There are often many cases where they will use more smaller bricks rather than a more structurally-sound brick - 1x3 bricks and the corner L-shaped bricks in particular.
Isn't this a sample of one person with a very skewed perspective? "... moved from Melbourne to escape never-ending lockdowns..." seems like this person was already of a frame of mind to avoid the mitigation measures so is ripe to provide a certain perspective. They also seem determined to rail against these measures. I think Australia and NZ have to come to terms with COVID for sure, but having lived through two long lockdowns and seen what the virus could do if it overwhelmed the health system, one shouldn't be so flippant as to restrictions. Some people don't have the luxury of being angry like this. They are would get critically ill or die if exposed. In countries where the health system is more fragile (NZ and Australia might be in this camp...) its really important not to let this get out of hand before there is a good number of vaccinated people. It's easy to have an angry uninformed opinion about this stuff. Its still unprecedented to a large degree and public health people are working it out as they go still.
You're saying my basset hound is inbred? I don't buy it.
That’s a very googleable question, but in a nutshell it is a series of smart contracts that reward token holders for holding a staking a token.

It incentivizes investors to buy and hold instead attempting to trade the asset and create unwanted volatility.

It can also raise funds through a small fee structure that can be applied on deposit of non-native token pools.
Ironic, the author designed a page that can't be read because of the massive blitz of ads and the crushing impact it had on my cpu
Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
My sources are that I am very involved in the 3D industry groups.

Blender is gaining ground, yes, but most studios are very much Maya based still with Blender used sparingly.

The one major Blender studio (Tangent) has also shuttered and were mid moving away from Blender at the time. I think the next biggest users of Blender are a division within Ubisoft, but it's not the primary DCC for Ubisoft in it's entirety either.

Where Blender is gaining most traction is freelance artists and people who don't need to work with a pipeline. Blender is slowly getting better for Pipeline integration, but it really doesn't like to play well yet within a studio where you're dealing with many different artists working on a shot, in possibly multiple DCCs.
100%.

The context has changed, we live in a different world and have different expectations. If you've spent years studying philosophy you'll understand Kierkegaard, if you've listened to music from the 50s you'll understand why the Beatles were so revolutionary, if you watched sitcoms from the 80s you'll understand why Seinfeld was so off the wall.

We as a culture have absorbed these great works into our expectations. Most people couldn't explain existentialism, pop song structure, or postmodern humor but they understand it now at some gut level.
The weird thing is who pays for all these ads and who take compulsive buy decision based on them ?

If we could someone boycott every company we see in these ads maybe they d stop?

I really dont think we should pay royalties in excess of cost of production + margin for future investment, and that copyright is an abuse itself after a few years of existence (hell I dont get paid a share of every revenue my work is contributing to and Im fine, I just create every day and if I dont like it Ill cut hair or clean dishes)
I can't speak to e-ink but regarding screen time addiction, I used Gray-Switch (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vegardit.g...) to turn my phone display black and white, and immediately my phone use decreased by 66%.
awesome, you should make a demo site, so that people can test it out.
Thanks for giving this to the community. Will definitely be looking at you for a SASS app i'm building.
I think the variations are intentional. If I were a designer and looking to match backgrounds, I wouldn't eyeball it. I'd screenshot the target and eyedropper the color - that's independent of panel differences. But maybe I'm old fashioned and not a designer anyway.

"Dark themes" are the new sexy right now and everyone's having a play at making their design palette stand out. I think good usability is taking a back seat to artistic freedom and expression.
It seems like a weird complaint for this specific set, because this is one of those huge and expensive display pieces aimed at rich adults. I would be genuinely surprised if even a small fraction of these kits were ever disassembled -- it's not the sort of thing where you just break it down and throw the pieces back into a box for reuse.

If this had shown up in one of the smaller kid-focused kits which are building playgrounds, yes, that'd be a problem.
This is a reasonable concern for oneself, if not a reasonable criticism of others.
My understanding is that Apple (claim to have) optimised their implementation for energy efficiency, and feel that they would get the blame if using e.g. Chrome resulted in lower iPhone battery life, because users wouldn’t realise it was due to Chrome — all they’d know would be that they weren’t getting the advertised battery life.
Yep. Getting boosted (getting a booster) confers secondary immune response. The initial jabs only confer primary immune response.

See this for more info: https://bio.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Microbiology/Book%3A_...
Why is a Chinese hegemony impossible?
Ask and you shall receive!

https://anchor.fm/deepdreams/episodes/Episode-5-e1b6trr

With a new voice, as well!
Interesting read! Here's the the template mentioned for powerful antagonists:

“Antagonists should be hyper-individualistic bullies. They should threaten the social order and induce righteous indignation in protagonists, incentivizing them and their peers to band together, fight back, and finally affirm their prosocial values.”

I disagree. The above describes someone like a Bond villain, which are easily dealt with, or whose legacy quickly dissipates after they are dead. The really dangerous antagonist is one who creates powerful memes and bands together their followers against the established order.

Defining them this way dissociates antagonists from simplistic , because the "evil" antagonist of today is tomorrow's charismatic leader, as happens many times in life.
California’s Western Monarch Butterflies Are Making a Comeback
Dog breeding is mostly a net-negative for the society. Kind of like jewelry and luxury cars.
It's fine as it is, do we really want it to go the direction of Reddit with broken navigation, live chat, typing notifications?
This is one of those things that's getting lost in the intention. I've been in an interview where I used we and the interviewer was fairly blunt in asksing which things I directly did, which I collaborated on, which I reviewed, etc. It becomes clear very quickly they aren't trying to figure out if you are sociable, but to understand what you do and do not know how to do. Shifting into that mindset it becomes easy to say things like "three person team. We collaborated on x,y,z. A and B were my primary responsibilties and I think my most important contributions were blah blah".
Space Debris: Space Station Avoids Collision
Soooo... things like "5g towers cause covid" should be allowed?
You remind me of a quote I heard at a conference (paraphrased badly).

The Data Revolution is like going from the bronze age to the iron age.

It will get industrialized eventually, but that time frame will take much longer and will look completely different from what you expect.
Hmm, I am not experiencing this though I am using FF with some anti-click jacking plugins...
Polly supports ssml tags for nuanced vocal inflection and emphasis. Gpt-3 could probably output high quality tags if you run your content back through with an ssml prompt.
By now it should pretty clear that covid spread will not be stopped and that it's another seasonal disease.
Because Redis' database is stored exclusively in RAM, which is an order of magnitude more expensive than even SSD.

Also, long-term maintenance effort and costs would be substantially higher. (Redis persistent-to-disk options, namely AOF and RDB, are notoriously unreliable.) These issues would persist (ha) even with a clustered setup (actually, especially then.)
As a owner of a smart and a dumb dog.. the smart dog is a lot lot lot lot more work. Dumb dogs make so much easier pets..
I'm noticing a lot of interesting extensions coming out for Blender, especially in the Retogo and skinning area which was always a headache. I guess being able to code in Python instead of MaxScript or MEL (althought it looks like Maya does support python now?) gives you a healthier ecosystem.
> That’s because more than 60 percent of Americans looking to buy something online start their product search on Amazon, rather than a search engine.

> Steve has tried to escape Amazon’s grip by selling on other platforms. But he’s had no luck generating more than a trickle of orders on these sites.

Kinda gives the game away, right? You're either sharecropping on Amazon's land or Google's. There is no scalable way for companies to reach their markets that doesn't involve something being the portal that people use to do product discovery. Whatever business finds themselves in this position will by its very nature wield disproportionate market power. You can't "break up" Amazon, Google, YouTube, Apple, and the countless other people who act as discovery portals into different markets -- you can only regulate them.

> It would help if he could lower his prices on these sites, he says, but Amazon effectively blocks him from doing so under its “fair pricing policy.”

You can't get the benefit of free marketing by being listed on Amazon and then try to screw them over by lowering prices on your own sites. This isn't monopoly power inasmuch as businesses not realizing that they're trying to get advertising and discovery for free without paying the piper.
Is it closer to the firecracker VM or a unikernel in Go or Rust?
Your dad makes his own decisions. There's nothing you can do about this.

I had a similar story with my grandmother. Eventually, she fell in the stairs (93 years old). At that stage, she had to move to the first floor but after her accident, she lost her autonomy fast and had no other choice for her other than going to a retirement home. She declined and died within a year. Quite a common story I believe.
So, another thing Millenials will be blamed for?
How does Godot handle terrain ?

Unity is mainly useful since if you're willing to drop a few thousand dollars on assets, plus about 200 hours of your own personal time, you can have a shipable game in a month or so.

Godot looks really neat, but at least with my skill level I need a starter kit to get going on most projects. Then again, I know Godot's gotten a ton of funding lately so we'll see what happens.
Right there with you, dude. I just bought an H753ZI (1), hope it's enough, we'll see.

1: https://www.st.com/en/evaluation-tools/nucleo-h753zi.html
Because hiding behind the "you can just send your tweets in the mail" argument is obviously self serving. Three companies get to control 90% of what people are allowed to say in the digital era. If you don't see how that is a problem for free speech then I can't believe you care about it.
Yes, it's 'moving with the projectile'. How does that make it easier?
The statistic that stood out to me:

"For every $100 sellers earn in sales, Amazon is taking $34, up from $19 in 2014."
What are the use cases we could use a direct plugin to database for GraphQL? I mean where do we write business logic before data becomes GraphQL?
Haha! Article doesn't mention whether he ended up getting the jab in his real arm though.
Others have replied well but I’ll add my own answer...

In order for your flight search product to be useful, you need a database containing effectively every flight in the world - all the airlines, all the destinations - and you need to update it every time a fare or seat availability changes. Then you need optimized routing algorithms to find routes that accommodate a vast array of consumer preferences. So, there are giant costs just to get access to all the data in the first place, then write the code and run all the servers.

ITA Software offered this as a service via an API, but since a couple of years after Google acquired them they stopped offering access to outsiders.

Now the GDS companies (Amadeus, Sabre, Travelport) offer API products, but they are still very costly, so big transaction volumes are needed to justify it.

There is now one way small/niche businesses can offer flight search and transactions fulfillment; a YC company called Duffel. They still only offer a narrow selection of airlines, but it’s growing.

Some other companies like Skyscanner offer access to their API, but only if it’s in their interests (ie, if you generate sales for them; you can’t make much revenue for yourself that way).
Reminds me of that intense/ silent scene in that George Clooney / Brooke Shields (?) movie with the trash crashing into trash in orbit.
https://sethares.engr.wisc.edu/prelude.html

this work claims that the 12 tones system (IMO not a scale) seems "universal" is in fact so widespread because of the timbres in the instruments used (i.e. the haromic spectrum of strings, wind instruments, and human voice, etc).
Jimmy Wales is selling his first Wikipedia edit as an NFT
Depends, there are legos: technik, Duplo, standard, space, etc.

But multiple lego bricks are just lego
I blame myself for not having watched Breaking Bad yet.
Unless your monetary resources are infinite the bank will be your bank pressure then.
I'm starting to think of Follower Count as being some sort of mental prison.
Perhaps there might be a market for alternative Lego designs? Like a Lego modding guide. Which is kind of ironic as the entire point of Lego is to build what you want… so modify the design!
I have wondered the same thing myself in the past.
Pretty recently, as of 2.0, hasura has added support for multiple databases.
The idea of pure breeds is a relatively modern phenomenon and not a very good one. The number of people that I have heard talk about how they cannot "trust" a dog if they don't have papers is staggering.

Every mutt I have ever had ended up being a great dog with a great personality and disposition with minimal training required. All lived into their teens with only minor health problems towards the end of life.
If this article is correct, you are not "feeding the beast" by subscribing to Prime, you are taking food from the beast, since Prime is subsidized by Amazon.
Yeah they seem to reuse hotel door keys idk why but I’ve had it happen too
Is it time for personal nanosatellites – CubeSat?
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Maybe now it is to early for this project. Perhaps, it will be actual in future when Starship will decrease prices for rocket launches to 100$ per 1kg.
We will be appreciated do get feedbacks about this idea!
Multi-generational households are a non-starter when you are a child of divorced parents.

My dad and step mother, mom and step father, and my mother in law, step father in law, father in law and step mother in law are not going to be living in a shared household ever. And if that somehow happened, I wouldn't want to be anywhere near it. :)
They still do this. I have a 341-piece LEGO kit of a Space Shuttle on a transport truck from a couple of years ago. It also includes instructions for building two additional models that use nearly all of the pieces: a jeep with a camper trailer, and a flatbed truck with a helicopter landing pad with the helicopter. I don't think the set has any specialized pieces at all.
No, as the link states, Jack Thorne is the youngest living member.
What does intuitive in the context of a complex app like blender or 3d max even mean? You need to seriously learn the interface for either one before you can do anything. To me this is sort of like saying the interface of a boeing is more intuitive than the interface of an airbus, really quite meaningless for anyone.
Are you referring to the Chinese clones?
The closest English equivalent then might be sniffing glue (intentional) or maybe huffing paint (unintentional)?
Columbia University PhD Candidate Dies in Stabbing Near Campus
I find it easier to identify Unity games by their lighting, but for either engine the camera is another thing that tends to give it away to me. And even when it's a AAA game with access to legions of artists and programmers, if it's not the lighting or the camera or some gameplay element like jumping, there's often a commonality in bugs. "Freaking Unreal!" is something I've said several times this year across several games. It's nice to play games that use their own custom engine, there's still a lot of them. Though it might be time to retire some (ahem, Halo...) and get on the Unreal train anyway.
You can get rid of "5g towers cause covid" but you also get rid of the Snowden leaks at the same time. I'd argue the value of the latter is worth the cost of the former.
But very few interesting real world objects can be consistently described across different pieces of software like a Point can, which is where it ties into the article.
Security definers are a powerful feature of postgres that allow a lot of business logic to live in the database. With an extension like this, I reckon postgres can theoretically become a first class public api for a surprising number of use cases.
Or our universe may literally be a game of dwarf fortress running on commodity hardware.

These are all similar to the epistemological arguments of unknowable truths. Interesting but ultimately fruitless.
Wow, with Relay built-in. Looks great!
Israel's enemies attempted two wars of annihilation against it before there were any settlements, unless you consider the existence of a Jewish state within the 1948 armistice lines a "settler colony" (which admittedly some do).
Interesting idea. But no responsive design?
I tried the demo site, this could use some work, just about as responsive to platform changes as as an image map. Without some sort of system that allows you to automatically or pseudo-automatically generate mobile versions or versions for different aspect ratios, you'll have people complaining about your site not working on their 5x4 monitor or old phone because a design team wasn't well-equipped enough to cover the multitudes of different screen sizes and ratios.
SeBS, the Serverless Benchmark Suite
My opinion is 10 is about perfect, big enough but not too big. I can appreciate the perspective, I take a lot for granted in the city and detaching my family from a major metropolitan area will be a living shift.
Thanks for the heads up - it's definitely our intention to demonstrate the potential value before asking for payment. We try to make the app as accessible as possible at $5 for the first month. We're offering a personalized onboarding call with a coach to everyone who onboards which is why we paywall upfront.
For the right group, that sounds ideal.
Not random, but functional equivalence is fine.
2018 is was around 6m requests/day https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26469566
Hardware used at 4m/day was two machines but it runs on one machine https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16076041 So maybe double that now.

(update: I mixed up M5 hosting company with AWS M5 instance types)
ContentID wasn't built because Google thought it would be a great service for end users. It was made in response to a lawsuit by, IIRC, Viacom. There's no practical way for a competitor to operate without their own version of ContentID as it is a function of copyright law and not market forces.

Even so, I would bet the vast majority Google's customers that are aware of ContentID like ContentID and want it to spread everywhere, to all companies in all nations. I mean, how likely is it that Ford (a big customer) would move to UpstartVideo.biz because they don't automatically analyze uploaded videos?
The GDPR is very poorly enforced and regulators have shown no desire to enforce it. At least in the UK, the process requires you to try and get in touch with the company to resolve it and give them 30 days to reply, providing evidence of your attempts (a bit difficult with online forms as opposed to emails - I guess you have to take screenshots of the contact form before you submit?), and if you still don't get a satisfactory response you can raise a complaint with the regulator where from my experience it just goes to a black hole where you're lucky to get a (useless) response in a few months.
I was getting really frustrated with Xcode (I was originally a front-end developer) so built a tool for building apps using only JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. It's called Electron.

Joking aside, if enough work is put into it, SVG might be a solution one day to build a website. But right now it causes more problems than it solves.
It applies to hand assembling electronics with through-hole resistors, also. Install them so the color code reads left-to-right in the most usual orientation of the board. Yes, it does not matter electrically which way you install them, but it makes it easier to read off values. Yes, I thought my boss from years ago who insisted I do it that way was crazy. Once you learn to notice it, though, resistors installed in inconsistent directions will bother you.
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but the snowden stuff isn't untrue
I'm sure many companies could do low power performant and cheap chips when high resolution small screens, lithium batteries and large capacitive touch surfaces matured enough to be harvested.

The thing is only Arm did actually designed appropriate chips at the right time and licensed those designs in the best way possible. Arm was IBM PC of the smartphone era and I don't understand how people might not appreciate that.
Just Homestar is enough to make your opinion objectively correct.
Sure, but if I see that and start a conversation with my wife or I don't know, turn on the news and someone unmutes me, and I'm walking around the house with headphones on then I wouldn't see that.
Money is nice, but if you counted where the Internet's websites are hosted you'll probably see a different picture.

AWS solves mostly an accounting, not a tech problem.
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"It's messy and things change and that means that yesteryear's statements just might no longer be true. "

Trust the experts, but dont hold them to anything that would be wrong!