skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was a little more than teen 10+ years back, and sure there is a lot of talk now. But definitely much more mature about expectations and timeline. I was expecting a < 25k $ EV with > 300 mile range now. There has been considerable progress in this space, it is probably me being unrealistic 10 years back that 2020 would be totally different.
>There's a mentaly impaired guy on the death row for smuggling 47 grams of diamorphine in order to fund his dad's life saving medical procedure.

Is that an indictment of Singapore's justice system, or of America's health care system?
It's actually in the etymology section on Wikipedia too:

> Legend has it that the name was connected to the Greek word mykēs (μύκης, "mushroom"). Thus, Pausanias ascribes the name to the legendary founder Perseus, who was said to have named it either after the cap (mykēs) of the sheath of his sword, or after a mushroom he had plucked on the site.

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

Even if that's true then it is still a leap from "People from Mushroom City" to "Mushroom People"
Ancient Insurrections–and Ours (Guest Post by Bret Devereux - acoup.blog)
I hope that I'm not following, because what you just described is both crazy and illegal.

Cryptocurrencies are currently considered securities under US law. You can't just pop unrealized securities into existence when a prospective investor asks you for them: it's akin to naked shorting. That's why the stock market has "market makers," i.e. firms that provide low-latency settlement of securities in exchange for a small part of the spread.

I can't find any evidence online that any reputable exchange is using its underlying reserves to cover multiple in-kind balances. If you have links to exchanges actually doing this, both I and the SEC would love to see them.

Edit: I'm struggling to even find links to people discussing this hypothetically online. I found this one on a wiki[1], where it's discussed in the abstract. And I found another thought piece from the Atlanta Fed[2]. But no indicator that any current above-board reserve is currently doing this.

[1]: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Fractional_Reserve_Banking_and_Bi...

[2]: https://www.atlantafed.org/cenfis/publications/notesfromthev...
Ok, I’ll bite. What existing tool does this?
And the giant 'dots' as hooks look barely functional (though to be fair there are plenty of cool-looking but poorly thought out hooks and racks already on the market).
This reminds me of how the scientific community has attempted to handle the public image of climate change or Covid-19.
This is a low effort proposal and the author seems blissfully unaware of the long and varied history of proposed alternatives to email.

Alternate proposals have failed and will always fail due to the ingrained nature of email. Nobody is going to use a new email system that allows communication to zero or very few recipients, and the system can never bootstrap. And that's that, no alternative to email will succeed if its only claim to fame is that is "email done right", that's a much too weak feature to break SMTP's decades of first mover advantage.

To break this clinch, you need to either:

1. deliver a communication product that has much superior features, and incidentally does mail very very well; people will start to use it for the other features, play with its email subset functionally, and in many, many, many years, the email will wither and die. Up to now, despite many claims to the contrary, no one managed to do that. The average lifespan of instant messaging protocols is around two decades (anyone on ICQ or Yahoo anymore?), while email is going strong into its 50s.

2. backport those advanced features into SMTP so that they are interoperable with the existing infrastructure AND, at the same time, deliver a tangible benefit to the people using those features, AND deliver those benefits today, not into some distant future where most people start to use it (PGP, where are you). This is a very hard set of conditions and very few technologies have managed to fulfill them, as a consequence email has evolved very slowly.

So if you don't want to have the old "canned letter response making fun of your antispam system" rubbed in your face, you better start working on number 1. or number 2.
The problem with those packs, especially ones like tekkit is that they just mash in a thousand different mods of barebones compatibility, some adding the same kind of ore or item slightly differently and you end up with a billion items, some of which are duplicates, no idea where to start from or what to use with what, and all in all a general unbalanced clusterfuck.

Create mod by itself is fine as it is imo, no extra stuff required.
Even for large deployments, I've always viewed this quandary as: what is the true opportunity cost of not using this when I have working docker solutions running at scale today? And how much time do I need to invest to get to subject matter expertise parity?

The calculus there has never panned out for me, especially for any service architectures with non-trivial networking constraints. But I still do love playing around with platform to learn about it, some great ideas overall (even if complexity abound).
This is a very sensible comment. The difference between the two abstractions (thus far) is that the traditional financial system attaches itself to the real world through the legal system, and the crypto system does not aim to do that.

Maybe the core question of this entire endeavor is whether the legal system is a necessary component for layering a system of abstraction on top of the real world, or merely a useful one.
mRNA definitely seems like the biggest story in Life Sciences now. Although I remember being very hyped about Stem Cells and their potential 10 years back. I always get a feel that development could be faster but information, money is not spreading as fast as is possible now and probably commercial interests slow down some big changes.
I do all of my side work under an alias, just to keep this from happening.

Making it one-step harder for lawyers is generally all it takes.

Don't draw lines from your GitHub account that you use at work to the GitHub account that holds your side projects.

Every time I start with a new company, I spin up a new GitHub account just for that company.

Sorry this happened to you.
Those aren't the only two options. You can try to get a team to develop systems that any other capable software engineer can pick up reasonably (such as via effective documentation, and reasonably maintainable nature of the code).

One of the biggest barriers to that (besides teams needing guidance on how to do it) is conflict of interest, which is a factor in the why. I started saying it upfront with founders at my last company, when speaking of who we wanted to hire, and how engineering should be done: "One of the jobs of an engineer is to 'document themselves out of a job'." Then I add something like "And the company has to realize that engineers who can and will do that are generally the best engineers, and extremely valuable to the company."

Though, if the engineers didn't trust management (e.g., not exhibiting analogous professionalism and duty, such only looking at near-term selfish impact), then I can't argue that engineers should go out of their way to be easier for a stereotypical anti-leader to treat poorly. I'd have to appeal to the engineer's sense of professionalism, or of some degree of duty to other team members. I'd also know it's probably only a stopgap, and to give them whatever support I can if/when they look elsewhere for a home for an unusually great engineer.
Types https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/
Prices https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/

Is there something missing from these? Admittedly they can be a bit hard to find sometimes but I think that's a problem with AWS docs in general
But you don't buy property anymore. You are licensed to use it under various T&C. The age of property is gone. I wouldn't be surrised to see our fav OS(ios, macos, win etc) stop working once the cloud account is suspended. For your own safety you may not use a different account either. People traded their freedom rights for apparent convenience so I guess we get what we deserve.
Facebook’s lead EU privacy supervisor hit with corruption complaint
Let's not forget Freeciv!

And if you're old school, xpilot. It was probably the apotheosis of Unix gaming, in that it required a giant rc file to actually be fun.
That's a strange quote, and just wrong. There's the 1/8 Neanderthal (7/8 Cro Magnon?) buried with normal burial rituals in a 40,000yo site. If that's not evidence of 'crossing paths', (three generations of integration into a tribe?) I don't know what is.
My company used to have JetBrains toolkit for every developer and we trialed VSCode for a year. There was no noticeable difference in productivity. We then switched to VScode and canceled all subscriptions to JetBrains because we have no more reason to pay JetBrains anymore.
You should be asking why they are high interest and whether it really should be called a savings account. The key concept here is junior versus senior debt. If you're taking risk for someone else, it's not a savings account, more like a high risk junk bond or derivative.
> only take intel if you need something like SAP

Not even that any more.

From the article: "A key highlight is that M6a instances are SAP certified"
It wasn't the poorest city, but it was a lot poorer than most of the cities it's now richer than.
Yes, sensibly designed deployments are single file. It's super important for maintainability of operation.
Faster and Cheaper Serverless Computing on Harvested Resources
> I wanted the entire house to have power no matter what

Why though? Do you live somewhere with unreliable electricity?
Thirding the Docker Swarm... I wouldn't say "love", more like the "it's a piece of our infrastructure and it chugs along just fine, I guess it's cool?", which is sentiment I've rarely seen anyone express towards Kubernetes.
The block subsidy expires 99% by 2040 and 100% expired by 2140. I have no idea what the tx fee will be after that, but let’s take your guess of $100/tx as a baseline.

Whatever the fee - whether $1/tx as it is today or $100/tx, once the fee is paid, the Bitcoin funds on that address are secured for no additional charge until such time as the funds are moved to another address via an on-chain transaction. So you could be paying $100 to store $1000 or $1 million in Bitcoin for 1 day or 20 years for the same fixed price.

Seems like a good deal to me.
Goldeneye may have been a very good game, but visually, what the Quake 2 engine was capable of on PC, was far ahead of what the games running on the N64 hardware could ever dream of as it was limited to only 4k texture cache vs PC GPUs back then had 4MB or more of VRAM for textures. This is why N64 textures were blurry.

Maybe you weren't blown away because the games you tried were not great or your PC had bottlenecks, since if you do a side by side of PC games of the era that were also ported to the N64, they look obviously worse on the N64.

Goldeneye engine was written bespoke for the N64 hardware and the devs were absolute wizards to make it look as good as it did on that limited hardware, but if you look without the rose tinted glasses, you can see the rough edges of the N64 HW limitations.
Not in Japan. Not in South Korea (the law is still on the books, but no one has been executed for drug offences since 1997). Not in Taiwan (like SK, no one has been executed for drug offences since 2002). Developed democratic East Asian countries have phased out death penalty for drug offences.

And it should go without saying that Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan have not been overrun with addiction epidemic or withered and burned to the ground as a result of not having death penalty for drug offences. The cruelty of death penalty is unnecessary. It makes politicians look good to a certain audience, but beyond that, it doesn't do much.
Henry Winkler is auctioning off his Fonz jacket and more Happy Days memorabilia
A starting point would be to stop trying to eliminate menubars and awkwardly sweeping the remaining unremovable menus into “junk drawer” hamburger menus. Under macOS the menubar is a huge boon for a few reasons:

- It improves discoverability for any given app’s functionality immensely, as the menubar acts as a universal searchable index of functions

- It provides an easy way to see the key shortcuts for any function

- It provides a hook-point for the system to allow the user to set custom key shortcuts for any menu item in any app, even if the app’s developer never provided that capability

GNOME is pretty great in a lot of ways but its phobia of menus can be grating as a power user.
I don’t use Forkyz but The Guardian has an introductory cryptic every Monday (the “Quiptic”) which is somewhat easier.

I also find it depends on the setter: Qaos (one of The Guardian’s setters) is a mathematician and software engineer, and his clues tend to be a bit more analytical and attuned to my sensibilities.

The Guardian also has a blog with a number of explainers and guides for those getting started: https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/crossword-blog
I think big technical leaps have slowed down in "tech," meaning anything with computers.

However, giant leaps are happening and will happen biologically.

I think 2020-2050 will produce radical breakthroughs in biological—everything.
If Ethereum had as much use as Bitcoin it would use as much energy--probably more because of the extra processing power required by smart contracts. So this argument reduces to "Ethereum isn't popular so leave it alone", which doesn't make sense because you all are trying to make it popular. None of the PoS networks are popular outside of the crypto space, and almost certainly never will be. Most institutions are busy working on their own, highly centralized coins (e.g. Libra, whatever the PRC's coin is, etc) and aren't gonna adopt one of these anyway, so they're irrelevant. But if they were, they would have the same problems that any PoS network has: rich people control them. How exactly does that improve on the existing system?
I gave up on the official site and now use https://ec2.shop — really nice for doing a quick price comparison
> Everyone knows this.

Not everyone knows this.
how much "moral progress" is simply due to having choices due to technology?

Pretty much every culture around the world in ancient times had some sort of moral explanation for why infanticide was allowed. Now that extra mouths to feed aren't an imminent threat of everybody dying, the practice is considered immoral

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

we aren't genetically different from those people, we just happen to live in a time where we don't have to make as many tough choices
Used it in a previous ops support gig to build up a mini knowledge base of canned issue responses / topical oneliners - we couldn't install software but could save network drive files; tiddly kept my response system flexible & portable between systems - definitely recommend for this use case
Salt Grain-Sized Cameras
What happens if the Supreme Court overturns Roe vs. Wade
Currently the cheapest spot instances with >30gb are

a1/32gb/16vcpu (early graviton) @ 8c and

M5zn/48gb/12vcpu (late Intel) @ 12c

I think the intel is better value. What are those graviton instances with better value (given that they are probably much slower than Intel)?
Do you base this opinion on any evidence?

Because all I have are anecdotes, but all of my anecdotes are on the side of shared knowledge being heavily biased towards safety and consensus building demanding a lot of time. That happens even between two people that mostly agree, and only increase with more people or different opinions.

Of course, some times a bias towards safety is exactly what you want. But on informatics projects, that happens very rarely.

Once in a long while two people can have complementary ideas that make them faster. But it tends to happen more often when one is the clear owner of the project and the other is advising. Shared ownership seems to almost kill those chances.
You're not going to be disappointed when you give them a try then. They match your requirements so far.

Sure, they have problems specific to them (e.g. losing encryption keys, some WiFi sticks unsupported by policy), but every ecosystem has rough edges you won't find elsewhere.

BTW, there are more Linux-focused companies. Those two are just the ones I remember from the top of my head.
Most "monthly" users are also "daily" users, so I don't know what point you're trying to make there. Signal has tens of millions of active users.

This has nothing to do with call blocking or anything like that. I've had Signal for years and the the only spam in my message history is from more than a year ago and was sent via SMS.

It's all just network effect and WhatsApp being the same company as Facebook and therefore having a marketing budget that a non-profit doesn't. The fact that Signal has grown by a factor of nearly a hundred over the past two years despite WhatsApp's network effect implies that people strongly prefer it.
We wouldn’t want a world where IQ fetishists were to be even more discriminatory against people with lower IQs. (Or supposedly lower IQs.) It’s bad enough as things currently stand.
I was looking to get a dedicated Waveshare GSM HAT for the Pi but Twilio is so dirt cheap that I never really got into messing around with a DIY solution.
so what exactly are the rules? This story has more information than the previous one which is why I decided to post it.

As long as we're on the subject why was this post of mine https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29275416 flagged and this one to the exact same url https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29286088 posted 8 hours later not marked as a dupe?
The only concern I always thought about was whether speech recognition would every be accurate enough using low processing power. The development beyond popular languages seem to have plateaued. I am sure speech recognition specifically is much better and looking at OpenAI demos blow my mind even now, but I have personally not observed significant difference in voice recognition on my Android smartphone - 2013 vs today.
>because that's how inductive proofs work.

Well, anyone who's seen a field of horses knows that "assume any set of n horses has the same color" is not valid.

So if what you say is true, then that implies the entire field of inductive reasoning is horse shit. But I don't think that's the case, so something's missing.
Not when you clarify that you mean "not computable at all" by adding the "at all", as the reddit poster did.
1. I'm not acknowledging anything. I think the switch happening is very up in the air, and the switch happening without irreparably destroying the community is also very up in the air. I think ETH devs agree, which is why it's been postponed so much.

2. If it's just as bad as what we have now, seems like a lot of effort for no reason right?
And became relevant again the moment people stopped using HDs in devices that run Linux
;)
> However exponential tech that takes us to something like 'singularity' does not seem to come up any more.

I don’t know who else was saying this, but the story of exponential growth leading to a singularity is/was the schtick of Ray Kurzweil, and it’s a narrative that was never true.

Kurzweil was one of the people trying to sell the idea that we will eventually unlock human immortality through technical progress. Along the way he made many dubious and false claims. One of them, for example, a key component of his story, is that human longevity has increased by many years in the last 200 years of human history. He does this by showing a graph of life expectancy that starts at a low point when disease and war was rampant, and by omitting data points immediately after world war 1, then “fitting” a completely misleading curve to the cherry picked data. The life expectancy plot at the very bottom of this page is complete bunk: https://www.kurzweilai.net/the-law-of-accelerating-returns
Cool New Features in Python 3.10
So a misinformation generator, staggeringly inefficient transaction databases helping ruin the planet and fund crime and ransomware, and immutable brittle smart contract "laws" to try and run society with, which cost hundreds of dollars for a tiny transaction?

Humanity could be aiming a little higher.
I'd love to get a setup like this with voice calls also supported. I'd like to be able to recieve my calls and texts on any device as I can with email/irc/matrix etc
The whole book of essays is incredible. He wrote this just a few weeks after 9/11. I'm amazed it was published at the time. https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/david-foster-wallace-on...
Kubernetes is like a Rube Goldberg machine. It’s complex to setup, very satisfying to watch in action, and gets the job done even if there’s a few extra moving parts.
Yep, this is the irony: the Internet (and WWW) are still mostly decentralized and distributed in the classical fault-tolerance senses of the words. They're held together with patch cables, anxiety and pager calls, and they still work better than anything the cryptocurrency space has managed to produce in the last decade.
That sounds like an excuse to completely ignore any evidence and just try whatever interventions you feel like. A far better approach would be to quantitatively evaluate the different possible options, and then take the one most likely to have the biggest impact. Maybe you pick the wrong one due to some complex effect you didn’t account for, but it is still better than picking at random!
This feels like spotting people at the beach. The crowds and breakthroughs always look closer to each other from a distance.
My company was a straight up full JetBrains shop. To the best of my knowledge we didn't have the need for any support from JetBrains at all. Do you mind sharing which aspect of support were you refering to?
Where are all of the consoles? How gamers are handling the global shortage
Many of these will be incremental but add up to massive changes, like most cancers being treatable with immunotherapy.
Agreed, there is an essay collection named after Consider the Lobster that has some great ones. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consider_the_Lobster
Get paid to contribute to open source software
Prisons transcribe private phone calls with inmates using speech-to-text AI
> I find this fascinating because I never realized science could be so political.

Surely we already know that there was research (whatever its quality or rigor) back pre-WWII that was supposed to defend racist theories. And that’s political. So I don’t understand why we would be surprised that there was a (political) backlash once millions ended up dying in part because of that kind of research.
You might be interested in these:

- https://github.com/fiatjaf/tiddlywiki-remotestorage-server

- https://github.com/fiatjaf/tiddlywiki-remotestorage

A TiddlyWiki plugin for saving tiddlers to https://remotestorage.io/ and also a server to fetch them from any public remoteStorage on demand and serve them as HTML to visitors (for sharing).

I think my server at https://tiddly.fiatjaf.com still works. You can just open it and start creating your tiddlywiki with auto-save (it will be saved on localStorage by default).
I have some respect for the gum ban. The tile surfaces outside Wimbledon Station are ruined by gum stains, and it lowers the feel of the area. Each time I notice it, I admire the Singapore ban.
I think we are good at identifying primary impacts of innovation but average person is not able to understand secondary and tertiary impact. As a personal anecdote, living in third world country and going to college today vs 2005 I can easily see how much easier it is for a poor but motivated person to learn today using free resources. Something that was difficult even a decade back.