skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be $700 the link literally tells you that. And you could do it for much cheaper by just lower the gas cost. They used 900 gwei, you can get a transaction through most days for 90 gwei. Right now you could do it for 165 gwei.
I believe you can compress into the source buffer and keep the read offset ahead of the write offset, but I don't think you can decompress this way.
Ahead of planned IPO, Knightscope’s CEO discusses opportunity and controversy
Yeah sure, I really don't know much about wireless spectrum. It just needs to be something that existing hardware supports.
Novell was trying not to be the expensive kid on the block. We know how well it worked out for them.
Alternate sort of off topic take: if you have a service that is valuable, charge people money for it instead of depending on ad revenue.

I try my best to stay away from ad supported business models, if there is an app in the App Store for instance that has an in app purchase to turn off ads, I have no problem paying for it if it something I’m going to use.
David Marcus is perhaps the poster child for failing up.
He started a mobile payments company that was acquired by PayPal. The product was later discontinued and generated no value for PayPal.

He ended up as the PayPal CEO. IMHO as a PP employee at the time, he was clearly out of his depth in that job. It was abundantly clear he did not have the toolkit to run a large complex business.
He then left abruptly to join facebook.

At Facebook he started this thing that did nothing but burn money and generate negative headlines.

If there was a metric that was the value created for the companies you work for vs. the money you personally earned I think his would be an outlier.
I am done. I did my part, wore masks (sometimes double masks,) three shots of vaccines and took all reasonable precautions that a sane person could do. But there are still unmasked people and unvaccinated people (sure, blame me for putting everyone in this binary category) and I am done caring about this class of people. I could not see my family for two years due to one or the other international travel restrictions. I am done being a respectful citizen who does their duty towards society. There are "experts" on all sides providing conflicting science mixed with opinions and research keeps changing every few weeks. Call it an endemic and do away with all the mandates they are yet another source for causing division by the political class.

Sorry about this fatalist and flippant tone.
Interestingly, I recall reading that when they've experimented with having people live in caves, absent of sunlight, for extended periods, they did tend to shift their "day" length to 25 hours.
I've experienced some major frustration due to Azure's documentation doing exactly this. Though it may not be limited to Azure. There's just a date on every document and usually it's a month or two old. Many of the examples I've found via Google don't even compile or aren't relevant any more.

I hope this is a trend that can be reversed.
The guidelines mention that such issues should not be discussed here but instead reported directly:

"Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data." [1]

That said, I'd be interested in learning about any existing documented cases (not just from Russia).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I dont have a problem with a natural cause "shaking out some dead branches". That's how things go. Someone else notes tobacco. And that's it, if we are so serious about extending human life, why not focus on lifestyle diseases? And even with that focus I think people should be able to choose their own vices (as long as it does not harm others).
I think parent post is implying that the situation with Omicron is much more complicated.

Alpha, Delta variants, sure, we can see them evolving pretty much site by site to become the things that they are. There are enough uploaded sequences you can basically watch it happening.

I suppose you can blame the unvaxxed for increasing the probability of such variants.

But Omicron turns up with a freakishly weird number of synonymous vs non-synonymous mutations in the spike, lots of adaptions for immune evasion and... it's rooted in the phylogenetic tree back in 2020? So it just evolved in secret for 18 months, becoming incredibly transmissible while managing not to infect a single person who got sequenced? Bear in mind that is conservatively 100 generations, usually. It's super weird. Whatever process produced Omicron, it was radically different than regular infection and transmission.

This is not something we could reasonably have expected from say, increased infections due to some people not being vaccinated.

In fact all the variants from "regular" transmission over the course of this pandemic - the result of hundreds of millions of infections - are being out-competed by this bolt from the blue.
Has the Russo-Ukrainian war begun?
As far as their SE215 model goes, the sound, isolation, and ergonomics are great, but I've always had issues with the cable breaking at the ear curve next to the connection point to the earbuds.
Yea, he is not the first to discover this. I ran into this exact issue (same github repo and software package), back in ~2013. In my case, this revenue sharing was quietly introduced during the plugin update.

So I just forked an older version of their code and ran from that. I also made a post telling the guy it was kinda shady, they didn't seem to care.
> The societies telesilla and Blahah are referring to are not ones where a housekeeper works 40 hour weeks Mon to Fri and gets PTO

Nor is the "high-growth" tech sector, which is notorious for long hours and de-facto little time off. The money might be good, but the lifestyle can be miserable.

You're working for billionaires instead of millionaires, but you're still in a situation where a "?" from the top means you've got to hustle.
> You see where this is going, right?

Yes, a slippery-slope argument that all gene manipulation leads to eugenics.

Here's the counterpoint: The Nazis (and eugenicists / race-scientists in general) used the authority of science, but didn't actually do good science (and slipped in a lot of stuff that was pure ideology); so actual science is automatically different.
MinIO raises $103M to expand its multicloud data object store
The vast majority of people isn't going to get a specific, probably expensive medicine for what amounts to a cold for most people. I certainly won't. If anything they'll take some aspirin/paracetamol and rock on.
HN rewrites page titles too.
How to get rich:

1) Create a nice plugin to serve ads

2) Bury a complex revenue sharing logic in the terms of use that nobody read anyway

3) Profit
You may be able to go the Webauthn route instead. It won't completely eliminate sessions, but you could instead sign short lived JWTs. The main benefits would be the ability to use any compatible device (ios and andriod natively support it backed by a secure enclave) and the ability to attest that the authenticating device is from a trusted manufacturer, such as Yubico, Apple, Google, etc. I'm not sure if it's possible to sign a request without user input, but if so, you could include a signature with every request.
There's Mithril Capital Management, the VC firm.
Valar Ventures, another VC firm.

And they all share one thing in common; Peter Thiel as a co-founder or investor.
Ah, I don't want to be in violation of guidelines. If this question is against HN guidelines then the admins can feel free to close this question.

UPDATE:

Upon reading the rules, I'm not trying to insinuate any particular person, because it's totally fair that I might be wrong. I was asking a more general question, hoping to get an answer from a mod or something.
What’s your perspective on small kids too young to be vaccinated?
Fascinating. Such a great study!
It is listed as MIT in the package.json, the LICENSE file, and the plugin.xml file. That’s more than reasonable enough to consider it MIT, and that’s where license information would be picked up by e.g. any license-scanning tools.

With the multiple contradictory statements, even just within the README, though, my company’s lawyer would say we can’t use this dependency at all if I showed it to them.
It's a dying breed, but there are still many phones with audio jack. I don't think it will disappear completely.
Let me introduce you to the concept of "shareholder value".
Regarding one of these examples:

How to Fix a Broken iPhone Screen [Tested by Experts] - Phone Fixer

->

How to Fix a Broken iPhone Screen - Phone Fixer

Tested by Experts is obviously clickbait; nobody's going to say [Tested by novices].

Same for things like [Updated 2022] - there are tons of websites that superimpose [updated <currentyear>] even if the article content wasn't updated.
I took a look to see how this works, expecting a super-complex parser/compiler - and it's mainly some straight-forward regular expression replacements! https://github.com/dcmoura/spyql/blob/4b5ea3ff52875d2c1a544f...

I'm very impressed - this is some very neat pragmatic software design.
Thanks, see you there!
> Even the US has large regional variations in wages, standards of living, and economic productivity

... and you think Canada doesn't?

They have HCOL cities too, yet on average people in Canadian HCOL cities make less than their US counterparts.

US wages. Plural. Wages in the US in across multiple locales vs wages in Canada across comparable locales.
Remote hiring process: how to onboard engineers you can go to cosmos with
Maybe. That’s a very… programmer-like way of looking at licenses, though, and it’s not necessarily compatible with how licenses are interpreted by judges.
1. This was in order to track pirates of the software and revoke their license. Nothing out the ordinary :)
It would be more democratic if the people were making the decision themselves by directly voting the laws. With the elective system we delegate decision making to people we choose from a very limited pool of candidates which aren't selected democratically. In a way "elect democratically" is a bit of an oxymoron.
That's what happens when you freeload. I think we're seeing more pushback now against people like this abusing free software from the developers who break their back to provide it.

If you want to use it, PAY. FOR. IT.
Bluetooth is such a fussy, unreliable protocol.

I’d love to have a new, modern protocol that simply requires some kind of basic, physical connection to pair two devices. That way, I’d always know exactly which two devices are connected and a third couldn’t break it so easily.
They have always been lots of startups and small companies in defense, but very often focusing on one very specific thing leveraged by a main contractor that interacts with the government.

For example a company of a dozen people that make just a laser sensor which is then integrated into defense products.

What would be nice is more like defense contract interaction as a service. How to navigate the defense contract acquisition and compliance environment is hard and boring and part of why defense systems actually work and why they’re so expensive.
Try to move up in management at a coal or oil company.
> and I am done caring about this class of people.

And their response will be "Finally! This is all we've wanted this entire time!"

I don't think most here understand just how much "this class of people" value freedom over safety.
I'm gonna read the whole paper I swear, but I do hope they get around to treating the converse: loss of trust due to hiding true information also causes harm, by reducing the chances future true information will be believed.

Most fascinatingly, because it's possible that an excessively cautious attitude towards dangerous information can cause harm, this paper is a potential example of dangerous information. I hope the authors considered that before publication!
Florida have had way more deaths after vaccinations were widely available. Also don’t compare to NY… New York is such a unique state due to how it was hit so hard right away.

Compare Florida and California. Florida has 50% more deaths per capita. That’s a lot!
Good portion of Anduril C-suite is from Palantir and Oculus.
I'm not aware of a metric that accounts for purchasing parity between say Edinburgh and Gairloch
...and no need to keep a python interpreter in memory :)

Good tip, I would like something that that's offered by my $distro.
This would be a lot more constructive if you included a link. Or at least explained more.

Not everyone reading will have the same background you do, especially when the issue is something technical like discounting a serology study because you know of more convincing ones.
shady, but then again good enough for apple so..
I wonder how the saving of user names and email addresses into Git repos (which is a similar hash chain) interacts with things like the GDPR.

It's impossible to remove a person's personal identifying information from a Git repo without completely rewriting it.

I imagine it's covered by some kind of legitimate interest clause, but I have no actual idea.
A) This is probably casual, because sleep is good
B) The most interesting part is that sleep the night before exams wasn’t associated with any change to grades. This actually suggests to me that sleep in and of itself is less casual and more correlated to general lifestyle choices. I recall my college freshman year in particular to be full of temptations and distractions.
Nice one! I like the SQL extension to denote the output format ("TO json"), great idea! It's also interesting that you allow calling python methods on values, really neat!

If you're interested in tools like this, also make sure to check out OctoSQL[0], which has an extensible plugin architecture and lets you work with both files (JSON, CSV, ...) and databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, ...) - even use all of them in a single query.
It also supports working with streaming data sources, with Kafka available soon.

Other than that, check out all the other notable tools in this area: datafusion, datasette, dsq, q, textql.

Disclaimer: I'm the author of OctoSQL.
Also, a lot of government employees' jobs now depend on keeping these systems in place in one form or another...
1/59th the price isn't as clear.

If even a person asking how it works knew how it worked, how confusing can it be?
The waste is the point. One might as well wonder why I keep my password secret and force hackers to break it.
Thank you! I know DSQ, great work! Unlike q and others it manages JSONs, which is great.

Yes, there are a number of tools that use an in-memory DB. I work with JSONs and CSVs with several GBs, and loading them to sqlite is not an option, it is too slow and it uses too much memory. Sometimes I just need an average or a sum of a coupple of columns (eventually grouped by another column) and there is no need to load the entire dataset into memory. Also, this way you can tackle streaming data. I have compared performance with q for CSVs and spyql is several times faster. I have compared with jq for JSONs and performance is head to head, with spyql typically requiring less memory. I will be presenting SPyQL at FOSDEM22 where I will show performance comparisons against awk, jq, pandas and "pure" python implementations from scratch (https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/event/python_spyql/). I can put some numbers here if you are interested.

Regarding the parser. First, I am not properly proud of the parser of spyql, it's a mean to an end. I started with a standard SQL parser but it was becoming too difficult conciliating with the python syntax. I could follow an AST approach but due to lack of experience I was unable to estimate the effort and eventual hurdles. I also want spyql to be compatible with different python versions that can have different ASTs. So I went with a basic approach based on regex and alike. It's definitely an area for improvement and if anyone finds this challenge interesting then please hop in!!

I had to avoid collisions with already existing functions of python... `sum` in Python sums lists/iterators, while sum in SQL is an aggregation function. I am adding the `_agg` suffix to aggregations to avoid collisions, but I confess that I forget to add them many times when writing my own queries...

I have included a PARTIALS modifier that simplifies window/analytical functions based on the premise that the window is defined by the order of the input. It makes so much easier writing running sums, differences between consecutive rows, etc. This is also not standard in SQL. It is also super useful for stats on streaming data.

There's a lot of space for debate... I am super happy to hear feedback from you! Great constructive feedback, would love to chat more :-) Thanks
>Please don't speak for everyone. It's exactly this patronizing we-know-better-than-you attitude that makes users hate their corporate software vendors.

I'm not speaking of corporations here, this is basically every current desktop environment that is shipping on Linux right now. They are all either using polkit or they use something very similar to it because the idea of it (user asks to perform an action, show a prompt) is very straightforward and pretty much universal for GUIs by now. Some of them may be business-oriented but some aren't. If this doesn't fit the definition of "everyone" using desktop Linux then who else are you considering? And just to clarify, I would say using sudo with a fine-grained config is roughly equivalent to polkit, although less convenient for GUI users because it doesn't have pluggable authentication agents.

>I knew someone would immediately reply with this straw man as soon as they saw mention of old Windows. I said user policies are pointless for a single-user desktop.

This itself is a strawman though. Polkit and sudo and such are not strictly about user policies although you can use them for that.
You'll need [services] to accept public TCP traffic, just set `handlers = []` to turn off our TLS and HTTP layers. We do run a proxy so we definitely mess with your TCP traffic! You can enable PROXY protocol to get some of the original connection info (ip, port, etc): https://fly.io/docs/reference/services/#proxy-protocol
> Unfortunately, instead of seeing the absurdity of that situation, many people have gone all "no true Scotsman" on it. "If you were a real Unix Developer then you wouldn't make mistakes like that." We don't need no stinking tools, we're Real Programmers.

That is the problem. Unix, and the 'philosophy'.

I used to like it, but it is over half a century old and as well as everything 'unix-like' it was not designed for security, especially the C programming language. Thus, with everything 'unix-like', they have imported all the mistakes with it. The same with the legacy like X11, allowing root to modify system files, etc.

Unix is dead. Might need to move on from such prehistoric systems to ones that are designed for security that are not 'Unix'.
I thought this last spring. Then, way too many people decided to refused to get vaccinated.
>Reminder to Silicon Valley: there’s an even chance that many governments in the world will be run by authoritarian movements in the future. Your window to deploy surveillance-resistant systems is running out.

Tech companies don't have a great human rights history when there is money to be made.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
> “The only way to get compliance from people and get accommodation [is] if we demonstrate the ability to withdraw these [mandates] in the same manner in which we put them in,” Gottlieb added.

Nope. That line was crossed a long time ago. I can't imagine people suddenly regaining trust in pharma companies and health care agencies now because they backed off at this point.
Don't forget elf on a shelf.
The affirmative response is downloading and using the plugin.
I think people should be able to choose their vices. Suicide (slow or fast) is by it self not immoral to me.
No, I'm not. I'm satisfying the other person's request for sources with examples I've come across in the past. In this case it was not about cgroup-less kernels but about Poettering's and Sievers' attitudes towards fixing the issue.

This is why I don't like to talk about systemd on any internet forum; it always leads to people like you ready to attack any position around the subject, and me having to defend a position I don't even hold (I don't think systemd sucks, I think its developers could do better though). I am done with this thread.
Analysis: Will the games stop? SEC mulls crackdown on trading apps
At least in the case of gaming, I think (some) people actually enjoy this aspect. It's a waste in a lot of systems, but in an "art", I think it can elevate the experience, at least for certain games and genres.

An interesting inverse of the norm is the Roguelike ADOM. Most similar games from the same time period like Angband, Nethack, and DCSS were open source, while ADOM was a free, but proprietary game. The other games' secrets were open-book, with no real secrets to speak of as the source code is scoured by players. ADOM remains sort of interesting to me as there are red herrings in even the machine code to throw off reverse engineering, and genuine secrets that open source games simply can't have. I've always appreciated that you can't simply look at the source to know everything, anyway.
> But there are still unmasked people and unvaccinated people

I'm not sure how you're convinced it's only the unmasked or unvaccinated people that are responsible for the spread of the virus at this point. In many countries they are not allowed to go anywhere.

How is the virus crossing oceans so quickly if the unvaccinated are unable to cross borders?
It looks like they no longer offer it: https://www.howtogeek.com/402888/looking-for-a-microsoft-sig...
> another part is that applications started using the higher level D-Bus APIs (like udisks2, timedated, networkmanager, etc)

Not the applications that I use! The machine in question doesn't have dbus or systemd. It only has one user. That layer of complexity is of zero value to me, but it's the very devil to get rid of it all.

> Sorry but I don't think any usage of the terminal is a counterexample.

If, on Windows, you have to perform a task for which there is no pre-made GUI app you can install, then you have to run-up powershell or cmd. My case is identical. I specifically referred to one-off tasks.

It's not my use of terminals that is the counterexample; it's the fact that I run a desktop without polkit (or anything-kit).
This is about the window buffer, not the source and destination buffers. They are still distinct, but you can combine the uncompressed buffer and the window buffer, if you have, or are going to have, the entire uncompressed data in memory.
Exactly. Not even a better Heroku, just a cheaper one is the main reason why people switch from it.

I've said it many times but a startup whose elevator pitch is "Heroku, but cheaper at scale" (and I mean exactly the same UX) would be worth billions
Shortage of Raspberry Pi in Sweden too it seems
HN is very focused on interesting topics and polite discussions.
I'm constantly learning new little things here, also I already bought ~10 books based on local recommendations.
I don't view HN as a waste of time at all