skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To make an analogy, long distance travel also has a checkered history over the past 300 years. Today, most people hop on a plane or a bus with little thought about its safety, and manageable concerns about its arrival time. Likewise most of us expect our salary to hold steady in between payday and when we spend it, with manageable expectations about what it will be worth in six months.
>That's how Nintendo of EU gets away with not refunding. You started downloading it so no returns.

Sony too.

https://www.playstation.com/en-ie/support/store/ps-store-ref...
It's not unavoidable, a lot of people don't do it. I would say they are making a mistake though.

The thing is that people on the other side should either recognize what you're doing or appreciate you relieving the tension in their internal politics enough that your emotional labor is rewarded with a positive atmosphere.

If that doesn't happen then you can only hope they're paying well. Doing this comes naturally to me though and I struggle in environments where you need to be a self-promoter so maybe it's a "horses for courses" situation.
Doesn't Google reduce the quality of them all when they're uploaded? Not that it's really material in most use cases but I find myself having to do manual backups from my phone.
IMO this was plagued from the start, including the HPC accelerators (Xeon Phi or whatever those were called). Intel put too much emphasis on x86 compatibility and even then couldn't keep up with Nvidia, neither in performance nor software support, except for a few edge cases. Even back then, if you want to build a compute coprocessor, it needs to be a thoroughbred optimized for throughput at various floating point precisions depending on target market. Nowadays the entry bar is set at being able to reuse your ALUs at multiple bit widths to boost both NN and classic HPC applications with the same silicon.
Use Synology with its built in AWS glacier backup.

Use the Synology Photos app on ios to automatically backup media from my phone.
for context this article is from 2018 when Bitcoin was crashing, author was obviously trying to dunk of the crypto community at the time. The entire crypto market is now over 5X larger since he wrote this. Author is also the founder of a traditional FinTech company with 68M raised, so he has obvious bias

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/true-link-financial

most of his complaints about crypto being hard to use could easily be applied to the internet, cell phones, and computers in their early days. Almost all technology starts off with a niche community that is often mocked before it improves and becomes mainstream. Crypto gets even more hate because people who think they are smart are seething about missing the train and the cognitive dissonance demands that they write off the entire industry as useless
Been using containers and fighting this problem for a long time...
I never thought of this simple solution, thank you for sharing it!
It's not unavoidable no, but it certainly makes you a better consultant. I found this out only a few years ago and franze is right on the money.

I'd say it goes beyond consulting, too, and that knowing how to "take the blame and distribute the praise" is a superpower. Especially that first part. Knowing to take responsibility for things, sometimes even things that are outside your control, puts you on a different level to many people who will simply try to dodge it as much as possible.

As a consultants, clients aren't (generally) stupid and can smell the bullshit. What they'll see, if you do this right, is someone who is effective and professional. This inspires trust and gets you re-hired.

If this sort of thing makes you miserable, IMO then yeah it's not for you. Personally, I'd advise introspection: Why does it make you miserable, exactly?
For the sake of numbers, how much do you earn?
And knives can kill people
The problem with a high flat tax on the first dollar earned over UBI is that it creates stronger disincentives to work.

As to point 5, I would exclude citizens not living full time in the country and possibly include non-citizens who have qualified for permanent residency and have lived full time in the country for N years.
I find it funny that I shared this article because I was proud that someone talked about my little library Umbrella JS, and so far 5 out of the 5 top-level comments are people recommending their/other libraries or ways of avoiding jQuery (and not 2 agree with the best way of avoiding jQuery!).
Isn't the answer to Nakamoto's quote _more_ regulation instead of no regulation?
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it depends on how you can use the space. 4 people can mean three bedrooms. in some parts of asia the average 3-bedroom flat is 150m². a few years ago i did a search in a european city and likewise was unable to find 3-bedroom apartments with less than 120m². 4 was 150m² minimum.

the problem is huge living rooms that can't be divided up and repurposed to make living space for more people.

work from home doesn't need a lot of space, but with young kids i absolutely need a lockable room. my current office room is 5m². plenty of space. but finding an apartment with that kind of room is rare.
> That's security by obscurity

Exactly. And in instances of securing physical objects, depending on the threat model, obscurity can an effective barrier.
The one key rule that you should always follow is to have your water-impermeable layer on the warm side of the insulation.

So, I'd recommend against breathable internal insulation, because that will make your solid wall (water-impermeable layer) colder, but still exposed to the humid inside air, and this could cause condensation on that cold wall. As an example of this, I have rubbish double glazing, and when the temperature drops outside, if I have just the curtains drawn (which don't really provide any insulation) then I'm fine, but if I lower the thermal blackout blinds, then I get loads of condensation on the inside of the windows, which I remove with a window vac in the morning.

Breathable external insulation is less of a problem, because it warms up the wall, while exposing it to the comparatively dry air from outside, so you shouldn't get any condensation.
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Awesome blog posts! I also posted about how I built my own hardware development kit at https://nestenius.se/2022/01/18/how-i-built-my-own-sega-mega...
It also seems broadly ignorant of technology in the last decade that has done far more for unbanked people than crypto currencies.
What comes to mind is studying Category Theory and Abstract Algebra.
I think it's pretty likely that some country will actually try it. Most likely one of the oil-rich welfare states in the nordics. I doubt it lasts very long though especially after they start seeing an explosion of immigration. From my experience, the citizens of those north European countries don't like people that don't look like them.
I use Google Photos too, as simple as that.
If the only thing that makes BTC "break" USD is that users want it to succeed more than USD users want USD to succeed, it is a wonderful story of adoption!
The incentive to freely review others' work is that others will also freely review your work.

This is quite separate than the exploitative aspects of the big scientific publishers. Reviewers are certainly exploited by publishers, because publishers make money from reviewers' free work. But reviewers would do the work for free anyway because that's what they expect others to do.
Just like leaving the gold standard, moving to crypto currencies will also be very controversial. But it's needed. You just can't look at the past 10 years and say that the banking system is working.
It had severe launch issues that was long ongoing even for 1-2 months. It's much better now though and they are still optimizing it with the latest row currently in testing, which I think may solve these issues for good.

The problem as I understand it was an architectural decision to remove the realms (regional groups of servers like USEast/West/EU/Asia) of Diablo 2 "Classic" so that everyone can play with each other. More fun that way, right? However, Diablo 2 has pretty lousy netcode (consider it's two decades old!) and turns out that one does not simply rewrite it to sync your heroes regularly to a centralized location as you played, turning out to cause a terrible bottleneck. Many such sync requests seem to have just straight out failed at peak hours, with characters losing hours of gameplay or even losing the characters altogether!

This is, again, much better now thanks to more or less emergency mitigations. But it took them a few months and it's of course a major goof up to not think this through better. By the time it was fixed, many had started losing interest in the game.

It's hard to extrapolate networking from testing to massive scales, I understand that, but these are network architects with years if not decades in the business of launching games and MMORPG's. _Someone_ should have been waving a little red flag here and told "hey, you do realize we're centralizing a core part of the game that was never planned to be centralized, and if these sync requests fail it's going to ruin their gameplay. So we're taking a risk and with very real fallout as well."

But maybe someone did... Maybe many in fact did. Such warnings may not be the end of the story unfortunately.
City of Munich regularly buys up paintings from local artists (through an art jury). Not sure the price paid.

Because they have collected many paintings, the city has an Artothek, similar to a library, where you can step by, borrow ant take with you any painting for a nominal price (3 EUR / period of time).
This may work wonders for others, but it would be terrible for me.

This would make me think (obsess) about running out of time and on toiling to make a "legacy". I like the exact opposite, _not_ thinking about mortality or legacy. This gives me the freedom to just enjoy every week and try to do things that make me happy.
Ah thanks, I forgot that it was the bare legal minimum...
(Which they only first did after being threatened being kicked off the Australian market, I guess that the extension to 14 days happened later for the same reason for the EU market ?)

Do you think that Steam is even failing that, with the extra requirement of maximum 2 hours of online play ?

(Compare with GoG, where there are no online play requirements, since you can just play and even install all games offline.)
> Meanwhile 1.7 billion people around the world do not have a bank account.

Do you know why the majority of those people don't have bank accounts? Because they have no fucking use for it! They either have no money (how does crypto help those people?) or they use banking services through their family/friends.

Do you know what 3.7 billion people don't have? Access to internet.
> I just tested simple concatenation and bat is over 10x slower

Seems like a recurring thing[0] with the modern alternatives.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29616727
Don't forget the more likely situation of absent leadership and the resulting "Lord of the Flies" situation that results.

FWIW, I had many friends spend time at Activision. Lord of the Flies is an apt description of their internal politics.
Have you not ever read financial history and what things were like without central banks?

No one that knows what they are talking about can possibly think we were better off without central banks. It is a childish and clueless view.

House Of Morgan, History of Interest Rates from Wiley. Try reading some books instead of looking up things on wiki to back up your already nonsense beliefs. You can not read those books and come away thinking getting rid of central banks is a good idea.

You are just making the old clueless gold bug argument repacked in digital form.
I love the lectures, though it would be great to have some practice to go along with them. Are there any open resources or does one need the books?
I have to admit I have no deep knowledge of amber screens, I just thought of them because the first computer I’ve seen had one (and even now I prefer amber on black to green on black).

I think there was the thing where a green screen requires less beam energy for the same brightness, but while I can see why this might be relevant for oscilloscopes, which use electrostatic deflection (and indeed almost universally have green screens), for a large terminal screen with electromagnetic deflection it shouldn’t be that important. And besides, colour TVs existed (if perhaps not in a very affordable form) long before the 70s, so one would think that by the time of the VT100 it should have been possible to make a screen of whatever colour one wanted. Yet that is apparently not true?
The solution is an old financial trick that has fallen a bit out of fashion: saving. Not spending everything you earn. It's easy given the very decent consulting rates in software. Sometimes I wonder if everyone is financially illiterate now...
I've worked with docker swarm extensively. I've managed it but also automated the deployment and implemented several features to ease deployment using the swarm API.

Swarm pros:

- Easy to setup

- Easy to run

- Relatively easy to debug

Swarm cons:

- Many problems persist for years. Some because of lack of resources, others because the problem is simply too hard.

- The community and automation around swarm is small

- Problems solved by third party tools, apps, etc. in kubernetes require in-house workarounds or solutions (e.g. there was an API to perform autoscaling, but we had to write the python app that will read data from prometheus and scale-in/out the deployment)

What I found it with Swarm is that it was extremely resilient. At some point the swarm cluster was running on AWS for ~2 years with minimal maintenance. That would have been impossible even for a managed EKS cluster for example. There are simply too many things that can go wrong.
Using org mode for literate and scientific blogging
> the whole "30 days offline" thing - this was well known way ahead of launch

"The clause about the rights to dating your sister was well known way ahead of launch"
Apple should really make a native tiling feature. I just don't understand why they can't seem to do that yet.
> What does it mean that there is too much liability? What liability do you have for saying true things?

Problem is, in many countries, it's not a fact until a court has made a judgement.

Bearing in mind that the accused employees are technically and legally innocent, you are introducing a few problems. First, the disadvantages of calling these people criminals:

1. They can (and probably will win) sue you for calling them a criminal.

2. The resulting news that a court found against you is a bigger problem. You called someone a criminal, they sued you for it and won. Now you have to deal with the fact that as far as the public goes, you just fired and shamed innocent people.

3. Finally, after the news gets out, all the employees who were laid off in the same round and with same accusations now have legal precedent to challenge your accusations of criminality. And due to precedent, they will almost surely win.

Now, the disadvantages of giving only their start/end dates and job title when called:

[uhh, I can't think of anything ...]

It all boils down to "there is some risk in badmouthing them" vs "there is literally no risk, 0% risk at all, is saying nothing about their behaviour".
I agree and I think it's true because of the way how working communities(i.e. a team, a company etc) are structured.

Just think about how a hiring decision is made in first place.

Someone in a company needs something get done and they are going to do it with someone else's money. Their interests are structured in a way to produce KPI specific to their job and their risks are loss of reputation.

It's extremely profitable(in a sense of career KPI) to get someone from outside get things done with the money of the company as long as the outsider transfers the success to you and assumes any blame for any failure. The only catch is, the consultant needs to have a track record that makes the successful outcome plausible at least on surface because the person who hired the consultant must be able to defend the hiring decision.

You know the “Nobody ever gets fired for buying IBM”? It's the same idea. With a plausible hire, the success is owned by the person who managed the process and the failure is on the person or company that executed the task.
I tune out after a certain point with these types of long Twitter threads. It's like reading a magazine conveyed via telegraph.

People are correct to point out it helps material reach a wide audience, but that's not the point. The point is what could be better?

The original argument was to keep communication brief, shorter is better, etc. The fact it keeps being circumvented in this way suggests sometimes a longer format is necessary.

As a practical matter, in this case the person could have linked to a long form blog post and used Twitter as a sort of comment discussion section?
A real paradox is if you can reach two mutually-exclusive conclusions. In the special relativity theory, the order of events depends on the frame of reference. It is not much unlike 2D space if something is left or right to each other depending on a rotation.

"I don't like how does the special relativity/quantum physics works" is not a paradox on its own. In this case, it just challenges our pedestrian view of time.
Noah Allaire on metaphors of taste, eating, and online consumption
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Well free does not exist only if logic is bound by what the human mind can conceive. It may be possible for something not be random, and to have no antecedent at the same time.

Also, the concept of free will is bound up with the concept of consciousness. What is the entity that may or may not have free will? Until we define and understand that, free will will be an ill-defined concept not amenable to proper analysis
Ah yes, its more of the same so let's just keep doing that because its been... Good?

How about let's not
they are worth it in cold climates if you use fixed or very fancy casement windows with maintained seals. Double-hung will just leak around frames and sides.

Also ensure you use a good brand which will be around when you need a replacement and hope to get an actual match.
I trust survival of the fittest on my digital data, scattered around a small pile of old laptops, a box of unordered hard drives that used to belong to a RAID, and the current working computers.

Life is already complicated as is.
Many good consultancies prefer fixed price for fixed scope because the margins are higher. You are of course owning the risk, but if you know how to write a contract and manage a customer, fixed price work is much more profitable and even easier to deliver.
I've heard consulting is again stressful as you need to occasionally deal with bad clients, payment issues, and regularly need to scout new clients to keep the money flowing.
My read is either the FAA or the airlines or both want money re-allocated from the FCC spectrum sales or the carriers (or both) to retrofit their dated equipment.
Bitcoin is an immutable ledger of ... kWh wasted on calculating hashes.
What do you like to report? That cell signal was available somewhere?
I would expect that there is a problem on your end if you have to refund everything you buy. I can't remember the last time I bought something refund worthy, thought I was tempted the last time I bought a game on steam that required uplay.
Ask HN: Do you know methods for improving predictability of time series data?
Indeed, it is near impossible to escape the rule of the nation state. It would require you to bootstrap from zero in a place where no one else rules. Those places are no longer found on earth. And once the Musk colonizes Mars, space won't be the place for freedom either - look at the Expanse series for an example on how "free" the people are who try to setup their space homestead. Perhaps a Star Trek society can offer this "freedom" again. But then, to paraphrase Life of Brian: what has ultimate freedom from society ever done for us?

It looks like sovereign citizens want to have their cake and eat it too: not to pay taxes, but travel the roads build with the same taxes. Not to pay for medical insurance, but being able to get the best treatment from the cursed oppressive state.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.softwareba...

I've used it successfully in the past to serve different Linux ISOs on the fly. It relied on certain kernel features / permissions to act as a USB mass storage device.
Wouldn't the same apply to Hawaii? Which it would be hard to argue they don't have ethnic cuisine.

This makes me curious. At what point does a culture start to to mature it's "cuisine"? Is it driven by commerce? Can family cooking alone drive cuisine forward?
We were already on the internet blogging and chatting on IRC when Twitter appeared. Posting "Enjoying a coffee on the beach right now" on that new platform wasn't much of a revolution.

Using short video for content instead of text is a massive paradigm shift [1], let alone VR/AR so popular for people to routinely consume content that way. The information density of text is unparalleled, the best video platforms can hope is for video to work alongside text, not to replace it altogether. Same story for VR, and this one doesn't have the technology yet. It is too bulky, too slow, too cumbersome. One day, but IMO it's a decade away still before it's ubiquitous and replaces scrolling your twitter feed on the toilet.

1: "What about YouTube?" — YT replaces TV, it's not replacing text or blogging. The point of my comment is disagreeing with the idea that facial credibility will be the future of media. I don't know where I'm going exactly with my rambling, but I feel I would loathe a future where the "news" is delivered in 30 seconds viral-made video snippets.
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I think that art is also about ideas and experiences that can stimulate another ideas. Can takes you out of your usual context of thinking. There is no demand for it. How can be there be demand for something that do not exist yet. But it can influence generations. Not every value can be directly purchased.
It's an entirely different game (more of a CRPG than action), but the more modern Divinity Original Sin games are excellent too. DOS2 is my favorite RPG, and it can be played by itself (its story has basically no links to DOS1)
I have a 4 Tb disk in my main PC with every media on it. It's mirrored to a 1-disk local NAS. I rotate the disk on the NAS about once per week, putting the other disk in a big old safe that was already in the house when we moved in.

So at any one time there are almost complete 3 copies of everything.

There is no off-site backup. The safe is probably not super theft-resistant nowadays but it should provide some protection in case of fire.

I'm reaching near capacity on 4 Tb and don't exactly know where to go after that. I could upgrade all 3 disks to 6 or 8 Tb but I resent discarding the 3 4s that are in perfect condition. So IDK.
You might have an approach that is unlikable.

I say this because I am exactly that. I often cut straight to the point and can't really read the room. I think I'm helping and being brutally honest when in reality it comes off condescending or arrogant.

I heard a quote that I really like, honesty without kindness is cruelty. That helped me rethink my approach towards how I communicate.
How does crypto solve that problem? Bitcoin has had a 1 year minimum of $30,000 and a maximum of $68,000. Etherium has had a 1 year minimum of $1200 and a 1 year maximum of $4800. I don't know about you but putting all my savings into a "currency" that is so volatile. "Stablecoins" don't seem all that stable either. Plus you have the high cost of transactions for many of these "currencys".