skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Morello research program hits milestone with hardware now available for testing
> I hear from hundreds of publicists, record labels, band managers, and other professionals who want to hype the newest new thing—for the simple reason that their livelihoods depend on it.

Well, maybe the reason should be the love for music as an art form?

> So the problem isn’t a lack of good new music. It’s an institutional failure to discover and nurture it.

This is absolutely true. Most of the stuff that's pushed to the top is a bunch of lifeless, riskless, perfect crap. Moreover, everyone involved knows it: musicians playing the parts (if there are any), producers, sound engineers, label representatives, artists and, sometimes, listeners.

I agree with the main idea of the article: music is treated is an asset and it does no good.
They're probably not pushing even hundreds of Mbps - it's a 2MB site in total, and almost all of it is static, and will be cached by various proxies/etc.
They might PEAK at a Gbps for the first few hours, and then fall off to a long tail of basically nothing.
It's just not big - no serious images, no video, etc.
And it's US only, not global. And most people will only hit the site one time, order and it's done.
And even so, $2500/mo is 'free': just the paperwork to put the money on contract to the provider probably costs more than that by an order of magnitude.
> As it is, my child is coming to the conclusion that school is boring/easy and that she is smarter than her classmates.

Both of those things are objectively true, so this is a fine conclusion.

> Worst of all, she's realizing that her teachers and principal don't actually care whether she learns anything.

This is also true.

Perhaps you could look at getting her private tutoring and making peace with the fact that school is mostly for socialising. Modern schooling is primarily about beating you into the shape that bureaucratic life demands of you, so in essence the impression she is getting now is one she will probably have her entire life.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220120092324/https://old.bigca... Not on a floppy disk but kills the curiosity
Same boat on turning off reddit years ago. I hope significantly more people do the same.
The aid is not gor these "criminals". The aid is for the Pakistani government to help spread the "democracy".
My hope is that phage therapy can solve the issue of drug-resistant bacteria. Also we really need to get our things together and work against misuse of antibiotics.
"Note: by default, Notabase has a cap on the number of notes you can create. You can circumvent this by inserting an active subscription for your user id in the subscriptions table."

Not really "self-hosted", then.
> lots of people know Office Space

Do they really? I expect most people on HN to know it, but I’m not so sure about the general population. It’s one of my favourite movies and I often found myself referencing it in office settings, but had to stop because nobody got them, not even once. Most people hadn’t heard of it, and the few who had seen it didn’t like it.

I think Mike Judge is an absolute genius, but none of his movies have performed well commercially. Maybe they lack mass appeal, most people simply never experience toxic work environments, or they do, but fail to recognise it as such. Or the movies were just under-marketed. Whatever the cause, these things aren’t exactly household names.
> independent and unaccountable entities like it in our discourse

Those are basically your only options, sadly. It's been absolutely incredible watching the billionaire-funded UK press struggle with the 10 Downing Street revelations. The revolving door between the Sun and the Tory party has been particularly bad - one of the parties was a leaving do for the director of communications moving from one to another.

Similarly the attempt at smearing the Labour party by bringing up old links to a Chinese spy fell apart when it was revealed she'd also been paying Tory parliamentarians. Then there's the £160k game of tennis, etc. https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-report-donors-boris-j...
Most likely a similar reason as to why Potwin got so much attention: https://theweek.com/articles/624040/how-internet-mapping-gli...
"Damn. It's been 20 years. I feel like I should be a coding God now. It's funny because I don't expect myself to be Shakespeare just because I've been writing words my whole life..."

Thats actually a good point, why do we have this assumption in tech?
Aaaaaand it's gone.
Raspberry Pi Brings Apple CarPlay to Tesla
And how would it be universal basic income if you're still having to work? No play, no pay.

The big story in play for play, has been Axie in the Philippines. Many Filipinos can't afford to buy the required assets to play, so they get into "scholarship" arrangements where they play for a manager who splits the income. You have to apply for scholarships, and if you don't play, then the manager will want to assign the asset to someone else. Play hard, then the manager may give you more assets. Sounds like a job to me, and without government regulations to protect the workers.
The fact it exists is creative and interesting. One could even argue it's a piece of performance art.

The fact the link doesn't work is, as you point out, inevitable. But that doesn't detract the artistic merit of the submission.
I agree with you, but if that is their standard, I’m expecting to see "Missing context" labels on almost every news article being shared on facebook, as headlines are almost exclusively clickbait to some degree.
The thing is there's not exactly one unified EU legislation. You would need to abide by the laws and regulations of the country hosting your server, yes. But that country may have regulations that are incompatible with EU laws: for example France's data retention laws are illegal by EU standards (like many other human-rights-infringing laws in France).

Then of course i can see valid reasons not to obey unjust laws whether that's in Europe or elsewhere.
The speaker literally posted Zoom link and password on her Facebook page two days before the event. I'm surprised it only happened once.
I did the same in 1996 (hosting at my univesity). On an Amiga. Which didn't even have a TCP/IP stack (I think you could get a commercial implementation).
Very easy to be popular when you control the media and can just have the opposition poisoned. Stalin was (and to some people still is!) overwhelmingly popular.
To clarify when I thought about bombings and civil deaths that have been nearly forgotten I thought about my home town in Austria and not Switzerland.

My point was that the sentiment wasn't just positive for America, something many Americans seem to ignore.

Ps: thanks for the indept details!
It's true, there are fundamental problems with the concept of "fact-checking".
Often the "fact" is just the majority consent, as e.g., demonstrated by the banning of the Wuhan lab leak theory prior to it becoming mainstream.
But more broadly, there is a stark imbalance between the resources of the fact-checker (a few minutes or hours to decide) and the author who (e.g. in this case) conducted a month-long, in-depth investigation.
The same is true for the author who can be highly specialized in a given topic and the fact-checker who necessarily has to check a wide range of content.

Given that, "fact-checking" necessarily has to be overly broad and erring on the side of censorship.
If you borrow it from them then yes they pay for it.
Fat fingered! Great catch!
All the health agencies in the world know this is a problem, but are there any actual changes being made to prevent the worst-case scenario?

I worry this is the same situation as Covid, where health agencies knew for years hospital capacity was stretched thin, and lo-and-behold, thousands of people die unnecessarily when a new virus arrives because hospital capacity was overwhelmed.
While this is surely feasible (especially in London) I wonder how many of those outliers are marketing baits for recruitment agencies to collect CVs.
I think almost all of these will allow password reset by email. So you should be able to get in again.

I'm more worried about the Google services that provide absolutely no support for migrating between different accounts.
I know what they were. My point is that many people use this and don't seem to properly understand it and appear to be think that it means definition #2 or #3. See the example I gave: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29992408
So two opinions/speculations, basically.
Pragmatic approach would be host it from floppy disk, but have some caching proxy before it. It could cache into RAM, most modern machines have enough memory to cache many many many floppies. Even Raspberry Pi.
I did it a few times. Was interesting, but not what I’ve read. No out of body experiences, or other stuff like that. I took no substances, though, maybe they are necessary.

Maybe it’s also a question of quality of the tanks themselves, as I cannot say I was totally sensory-deprived during my time in the tank.

Still a nifty way to rest, I’d say.
I understand about shorts, but it's not offensive to compare ethnicity with sandals.
He is nitpicking in a funny way that the word 'eyes' was used when 'gaze' was meant.
Yes! I completely agree. I also notice more and more that I prefer a book more to the same old discussions online or the same old TV series and YouTube videos.
Inoreader provides more value than Feedly at a fraction of the costs.
This is political/legal distinction.

Perhaps Facebook now is a publisher and needs to increase censorship even more.

Or the law can be changed to differentiate based on the scale of contributions and the corresponding complexity of moderation.
> Our approach can be divided into five broad components: number of deaths where infection played a role, proportion of infectious deaths attributable to a given infectious syndrome, proportion of infectious syndrome deaths attributable to a given pathogen, the percentage of a given pathogen resistant to an antibiotic of interest, and the excess risk of death or duration of an infection associated with this resistance

The headline that you wrote phrases this as "died of superbacteria", does this relate to the number where an infection played a role or the number attributable to a given pathogen?
I used to think digital was just a fad.
Only operational risks as far as I know (uptime, routings, network speed, tls certificate validity, ….)

How hard it is depends on how many nines you want in the uptime guarantee.
I'm not a computer person, certainly not a networks person, and I know nothing about any of these things, so everything you say might very well be true, but it amounts to days even to work out what you're saying. It's very likely you could talk me through it all, or I could embark on a course of finding out about these things, but I really just don't have time. I'm already over committed.

You say:

> ... look at the SPF/DKIM/DMARC related DNS entries with dig ...

I don't know how to do that.

> ... verify that they are correct.

I wouldn't know what it means for them to be correct.

As a further example, in trying to use postmark's service I get this:

In order for us to send you email digests,
you must set up a DMARC policy associated
with your domain. This allows us to collect
reports from the major ISPs about your DMARC
alignment.

OK, that's fine. Then:

Add this TXT record to your domain’s DNS at
_dmarc.solipsys.co.uk. with the following
data:

...

I have no idea how to do that, and suddenly I'm down the rabbit hole of things that other people think are obvious and easy, but leave me with no idea of what to do.

I really appreciate your feedback, and I'm passing it on to the people I pay to do this for me. The thing is, that's my ISP, and you tell me I shouldn't trust them.
This seems like a very good curated list:

https://onlinedegrees.sandiego.edu/top-cyber-security-blogs-...
Having images was a bit too optimistic I guess, ASCII drawings would have been more appropriate.
I'll check back in a couple of weeks...
How do you avoid land value taxes? Oh right, by preventing them from being implemented in the first place, because that is the only way.
Surely a website that doesn’t exist but is left to the imagination of the reader

Is the final stop
[Article author here]

I used to, yes. In what way do you feel it is a hit piece? I certainly did not intend for it to be one.
Not sure if he is an originator, but I heard this phrase from Alan Watts recording [0]

I recommend his lectures to all, especially if you don't want to take psychedelics. He mainly speaks about buddhism, altough he was connected to counter culture movements in the 60s and with LSD

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-A3C8FEscw
For many of us internet wasn't available until middle teenage and then it was first only available on a few select machines on the school. I only realized forums existed sometime after I was 21. And I am born in the eighties
In central government, there need to be a common language for communication. Which one would you prefer? Two primary choices seems to be either English or Hindi.

I recall talking to an Indian woman, who was doing PhD Engineering in Japan, on this topic couple of years ago. Her take was very interesting when I mentioned that more and more decent jobs in India require command of English and if this trend continues, the Indian languages will go extinct. Her response was it is just part of evolution, cultures, languages are just part of that evolution.
The accusation is that Hunter Biden was merely the proxy to buy Joe Biden.

>That's certainly not something that has been happening for the last half decade...

So, then what's keeping the 'liberal' media from reporting on the Biden/Burisma connection with the same zealotry the media showed when reporting on the Trump family's dirty dealings? Instead of that, they killed the Hunter Biden story in the run up to the election.
Monitoring Linux Audit
I think the implication (and no idea if true or not) is that he is also helping his Dad enrich himself. Plus there are some weird sexual family dynamics hinted at as well.
Facebook should be banned from allowing any content about COVID in its network, for public health reasons. They are a shit company that leeches on the free content of their users, who would expect any kind of good to come out of this. No need to sue them , investigate them etc, just ban anything that mentions covid on their network
IMHO people don't need most of old attachments, and it creates possibility for ADs-based service.
My first three months with a Nokia dumb phone as a daily driver
[Article author here]

True. Although IBM has sold off a lot of its consulting business, you know.

https://newsroom.ibm.com/2021-11-03-IBM-Completes-the-Separa...
The military-industrial complex you refer to would be the war efforts of allied nations. Those war efforts didn’t start in earnest until the Munich Agreement in the case of the UK and quite a bit later in the case of the US. Your writing seems to paint this in a negative light and this is an extreme position. One may view current military spending in the U.S. negatively but to view the WW 2 efforts thusly is bizarre.

As to them being men and white it is a historical fact that at that time white men dominated in science and economics. That is not the fault of the referenced men and it’s not as if in hindsight we are glorifying the male scientists while diminishing the contribution of their female counterparts. There were very few of them. Marie Curie is still the only person to win the Nobel Prize in two separate fields so it’s not as if female contributions were always ignored or downplayed.

I don’t think your take is cynical but rather somewhat pointless. I can’t see what point you are trying to make or highlight.
> Also we really need to get our things together and work against misuse of antibiotics.

Too late for that, we already have the superbugs. Not to say that reducing antibiotic usage in farms is not worth the effort (because it is), but we need to ramp up investment in basic R&D for antibiotics again - there is almost none of that any more since it is extremely cost-intensive and the medications are low-revenue [1].

ETA: Additionally, we could curb human antibiotic usage by making rapid tests for common viral infections more available. Routinely checking for strep throat and the various flu viruses both at-home and in clinical situations could save people a lot of completely unnecessary antibiotics courses - as well as teaching basic life education like "if it's not a bacterial infection behind your sore throat, an antibiotics course won't help at all, it will go away on itself after three to four days".

Lateral flow rapid tests are incredibly cheap to manufacture and (as the last two years have shown) capable of being self-administered - making them account for multiple sorts of antibodies is already done for COVID tests.

[1]: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02884-3
Cold-weather residential heat pumps have gotten a lot better in the last 10 years or so.

Mitsubishi's residential air-source ductless mini-split heat pumps that have their "Hyper-heating inverter" technology are greater than 100% down to at least -13℉ (-25℃), although their capacity starts dropping fairly linearly from 100% at 23℉ (-5℃) to 76% at -13℉ (-25℃), so unless you oversized your system a bit you might have to put up with your house being a few degrees cooler when it gets very cold outside for a long time.

Their efficiency remains above 180% down to around -5℉ (-20℃).

In most of the major cities of Texas these would have worked fine and remained around 200% or higher efficiency and around 90% capacity. Only a small number of people would have had them get down to 100% efficiency.

Fujitsu and Daikon have similarly performing heat pumps.
We're at early stages of planning an architecture where we offload pre-rendered JSON views of PostgreSQL onto a key value store optimised for read only high volume. Considering DynamoDB, S3, Elastic, etc. (We'll probably start without the pre-render bit, or store it in PostgreSQL until it becomes a problem).

When looking at DynamoDB I noticed that there was a surprising amount of discussion around the requirement for provisioning, considering node read/write ratios, data characteristics, etc. Basically, worrying about all the stuff you'd have to worry about with a traditional database.

To be honest, I'd hoped that it could be a bit more 'magic', like S3, and it AWS would take care of provisioning, scaling, sharding etc. But it seemed disappointingly that you'd have to focus on proactively worrying about operations and provisioning.

Is that sense correct? Is the dream of a self-managing, fire-and-forget key value database completely naive?
I hope the app is open source, or at least the method for reading it. Apps on the App store are very much ephemeral.
web 3 is going great

https://web3isgoinggreat.com/
The idea behind "fact checking" is that facebook wants to push the burden for the crap they broadcast to someone else, and it works, lawmakers go along with it.
Yes because countries like France or Germany have such a better record when it comes to censorship! /s

Germany famously hunted down Indymedia and tor supporters a few years ago, and privacy-friendly ISP Freifunk had to fight its way through constitutional court. France had trials against alleged contributors to self-organized media outlets (from reseaumutu.info federation, more specifically iaata.info instance), had many many films censored (such as Afrique 50 or La bataille d'Alger), and has strong regulations outlawing critiques of police and/or president.

Creating a broader power never results in mitigating power abuse. If anything, it helps it foster by piling on layers of abstraction/bureaucracy which diminish accountability in the long run.
Honestly I don't mind the idea, the product seems good and interesting enough to catch the attention of kids. I mean, if there was an 18-34 version I'd download it immediately.
"I see that you don't have a wife. Do you need assistance with that."
Clippy set a precedent. Things will only get worse.
I don't understand these negative comments about what "computers/internet" has done to me etc.

Yes, there are certainly aspects of computers, the internet and especially social networking and instant-texting that have a net negative impact on our lives.

But this argument strikes me as a "I'm such a victim" argument. Surely if you allow some device to have such a massive negative impact on your life then this would be the case even pre-90s before computers and the internet became mainstream?

- Maybe you might have spent too much time hanging out at your local bar? - Perhaps you'd have been addicted to television?

The one area, where I wholeheartedly agree and recognize the serious dangerous of the internet and computer devices is in children. The threat of cyber-bullying and indeed, rather more subtle, the attention-seeking culture of always producing content at a young age is IMO, very scary when thought of in the context that these will be future adults who didn't know better. We need to guard against these enabled social pressures like we protect kids from smoking, drugs, alcohol and even to a lesser extend (i.e. it's not illegal) addictions to things like TV, video games and other behaviors that they might fall prey to.

I guess, summed up what I am saying is: It appears that there the internet has developed a predatory nature on one's attention that extends to threaten one's social status and reputation.

Where I disagree is that - as adults - we know better and can combat this with self-discipline and by choosing our friends/social circles wisely (I don't engage with friends who constantly text or post online. I'm happy to meet but they know not to expect my participation there).

Where I agree is that, children are vulnerable to this and must be protected AND TAUGHT how to treat / interact with the internet.

Unfortunately, since this is relatively a new thing in society. We have not yet developed a solid culture around what is acceptable and what is not. Just like it is inconceivable now to smoke inside a closed room, or someone's house, I do hope that in the future it would be inconceivable to upload compromising information/pictures to random servers in foreign countries. But alas, we are not there yet.
SUSE is owned, through various companies, the Wallenberg Family nowadays, isn't it?
May I ask where this quote came from? It seems utterly nonsensical to me.

Edit: maybe it’s Politics with an uppercase P rather than politics with a lowercase p? That would make more sense.
> Hyperinflation happens when you print USD to pay non-USD-denominated debt, because you'd have to print an infinite amount.

Why is hyperinflation limited to that single scenario?
Very good point. That’s exactly what was happening in the Soviet Union. People craved banned things. Books, ideas, articles, authors, items from the West, etc. Being banned automatically increased their appeal.
AI Predicts How CEO Personality Affects Company Performance
no it's just down from too much traffic
For baking, precision is important, but subsequently most recipes are precisely specified, so the conversion should be followed pretty exactly. For most non-baking recipes, precisions is much less important, so a 'recipe translator' could either perform some rounding (maybe there should be a 'level of precision' metadata element for recipes), or, I could just do the rounding in my head and use my critical thinking facilities rather than following the recipe blindly.
He's poking fun at government bureaucracy. You tell them there's an alien invasion and they send you their latest helpful brochure. In other words totally ignore you and instead perform some default function.