skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Presumably this is meant to be a (very approximate) userland-implementation of the declined Pipe Operator RFC[0].

[0]: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/pipe-operator-v2
If there is one thing I have learned MS does not listen to ANYTHING important or critical to the users in the feedback hub.
> let the audience help you by handling a share of the load

So why should we help these for-profit corporations? We're supposed to just donate our bandwidth to them? Are we getting a discount in exchange or are they just gonna pocket their bandwidth cost savings at our expense?

Seeding internet archive data is one thing. Letting corporations invisibly take advantage of resources we pay for is a completely different matter.
Yes it would, but those able to would eventually leave the country and those peope left will tire out, run out of money and will.
I don't know what Putin thinks at this stage, I think he desperately needs a win to restore some credibility back home.

I'd say he's going to invade Moldova in the next few days (once Odessa is taken) and make a big show of how easily they took it to restore morale, and very soon after they're going to plunge in Ukraine's back and make a big push for Kyiev.

I think they might abandon installing a puppet government, but in that case they will bring devastation to Ukraine and keep the whole Black Sea coast, and just let Ucraine fester.
Personally, Im a bit pissed at Sanderson. He has series he hasnt finished-- including teh Alcatraz which has been abandoned for around 5 years. If he has free time, why doesnt he finish those instead of writing new books??
Wipe from the front.

Grab the boys and pull them out of the way

Reach through the front and it's much easier to get everything clean while using less paper.

While we are at it, who uses a wad? Am I the only one carefully folding the paper to maximize padding and hand coverage?

So many questions...
I'm not sure about this...with Russian gas gone wouldn't Germany pay a lot more for energy? I think the best solution is to build nuclear power plants but that is more about long term.
> I'm so tired of companies running our country.

...are you proposing that the government run everything? You might be a bit disappointed with what you receive in that scenario. Choice is powerful.
That's not done lazily which is considered bad
My understanding is that Brandon thinks fans benefit from more flexibility than the standard "publish book through big company" strategy -- he's helped start an audio company, has his own company for merch (Dragonsteel books, etc). I think the Kickstarter is more about giving people unconventional purchase options (pack of 4 books! Monthly swag deliveries!) that aren't possible through the usual "buy a book from amazon" pathway.

More cynically, this means that he can get money directly from consumers without having physical bookstores / retailers taking their cut -- but honestly, I do believe this is more designed for a better fan experience.
There is a very strong selection bias with publishers. Publishers aren't necessarily worth something because they reject bad material.
Protecting the Future of the ISS
> you get these kinds of results from the government

This is basically because the government involved were willing to anything other than actually prosecute Derek Chauvin. As soon as it got to actual court there was no need for further protests on behalf of George Floyd. It is shameful that it took that much street protest to get the government to do something that it should have done anyway.
My anecdotal experience is that this is a personality type. "Some is good, more is better" is just not a valid way to approach things, neither in quantity nor in intensity.
I don't think it needs to be a percentage. Every company has earmarked certain employees as "critical" to their day-to-day functioning. If these start leaving in droves, even if it's only a few, management might turn around pretty quickly.
Brandon is entirely self published (Dragonsteel Entertainment). They cannot print experimental books without selling enough copies first. Also it is kickstarting all the swag packages they send monthly throughout a full year.
On top of record breaking price movement preceding the invasion. In January the CPI rose ~7.5%, the largest monthly jump since the early 80s.
Have we simply stopped the process of innovating new things that solve problems?
Good - it was dumb to take a dependence on them anyway.

More generally, we should be looking to eliminate technological dependence on autocratic countries across the board (China, Russia, et al).
Nope, there’s no management or oversight of who is in and when.
I'm not sure I agree... It's pure technologist hubris to ignore the rough edges of AI. Have you seen robocop?
Get ready for war boys.
What might be nice instead is of Ukraine can buy a few French Exocet missiles and attack the Russian fleet in the Black sea. That might hit them where it hurts.
It doesn't particularly matter. PayPal is a simple alternative (granted they have their own issues but it's unlikely both Stripe and PayPal will crap out at the same time). For recurring subscriptions it is a challenge since you'd need people to pay manually if you switched payment provider but for e-commerce that runs off one off payments it's no problem.
There are a lot of regions in the world with disputed land and unless there are truly horrible acute humanitarian reasons to intervene, an invasion and a new never reduces the overall suffering. There are better ways to solve problems.
It's not that common IME for there to actually be a real debate but rather simply some sort of power play/expression of desire for personal benefit.

If you expect that literally every business going forward is going to be happy with WFH then you're taking an unreasonable stance. The same is true in the opposite direction - as much as I'd like it to be the case, not everyone is going back to the office, structural changes have taken place that would make that difficult even if it were desired.

It follows then that some people will have to switch companies. This really isn't a big deal, the entire point of having a job market is that people should be continuously doing this otherwise the market isn't efficient.

You can see it in the rhetoric here - "forced to go in". There is no force involved.
It's mostly because it's easier. No additional token necessary, No config, No Service discovery. For small models (less than 100MB), it's generally not an issue to embed them directly in the image.

However, if you're getting GB-size images with less than half of it related to the serving code and its library, then it's time to upgrade.
To get a taste of his writing style, try reading The Emperor's Soul, a short novella.
The nuclear announcement makes nice headlines for nationalistic dreams. What they actually do tells the real story.

> France will also increase its solar power capacity tenfold by 2050 to more than 100 gigawatts (GW) and target building 50 offshore wind farms with a combined capacity of at least 40 GW.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/macron-bets-nuclear-...

So they are adding ~10 GW nuclear (6 * 1.6 GW) and at least 140 GW of renewables. Use any capacity factor you want but the numbers speak for themselves.

The real reason for this is likely continue have an industrial base for their naval submarine reactors by subsidizing a complementary civilian industry.
Its why I like travelling/hiking/skiing. A shit ton of puzzles to solve with delicious treats, treatments, and experiences to reward your success. Something about solving problems in the warm sun, or a calming snow fall, is very fulfilling, the multisensory experience is refreshing.
>In some areas, the burn went as deep as subcutaneous fat, muscle, or bone (photos are not for the faint of heart).
https://www.lawphx.com/blog/2017/march/mcdonald-s-hot-coffee...
That's Rogozin saying ULA only has 24 engines, not ULA. As far as I know ULA took the last delivery of RD-180s in April of last year and hasn't ordered any more.
In this case, I think private initiatives are better. Genuine deniability beats plausible deniability. This is not the sort of thing you want tied back to a government. Having a Russian run this is even better, since it's internal. There's no country to retaliate against.
Makes you wonder if one side or the other will “accidentally” damage those pipelines. Like obviously they can’t overtly do it but you know, stuff gets damaged every day in combat zones… it would certainly immensely hurt Russia’s strategic position to have their gas exports cut off.
Plus think about the precedent being set here. Punishing civilians for the actions of its government is absolutely insane and will backfire badly.

Should the global community have targeted all Americans for the actions of the Bush Presidency invading Iraq under false pretenses? Or how about Vietnam?

Realize that our next Iraq or Vietnam this new standard could be applied to us or any other country. Will bloodthirsty Twitter be cheering on the digital and economic destruction of civilians then? Cooler heads need to start prevailing.
Syria also has kinda become a Russian shpolokhoblast (totally made up word that means a suzerainty)
Ask HN: Is GCP harder to use than AWS?
I’m a dev with 10 years of experience, I’ve mostly used aws services in the past so I kind of understand their authentication models pretty well. I feel like they did the customer centric thing and really dumbed them down. They’re just pretty straightforward to use.

Permissions in GCP seem like a mess, I’m trying to use python to get credentials and there is a whole python library for authentication and getting credentials (google-auth).

There’s also not a uniform page for every service where I can go understand authentication/permissions.

They do have a ton of docs, but it’s kind like a document dump.

Sorry for the rant! I want to know if it’s just me and whether I’m missing something!
While France is aiming to significantly reduce the number of nuclear power plants they operate, building any nuclear power plants is seen as a good sign by the industry.
1 and 2. UN asked NATO to do so.

3. Solved with zero deaths in less than two weeks, and removed missiles fron Turkey. Nothing to do with NATO.

Meanwhile I'm 100% sure that NATO has already avoided a bloodbath in Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia, in the light of current events. Ukraine handed nuclear weapons to Russia in exchange of a promise to never invade them, and look where we are.
Honestly, I'm not sure about G. R. R. Martin. On one hand, he's taken 11 years and counting to write one book (Ok, he's also been busying himself with countless side projects, but that's not what the fans really want), so my confidence for him meeting a Kickstarter deadline is pretty low. On the other hand, the above-mentioned fans would probably do anything which is likely to speed up the release of the two last books, so a Kickstarter might still be successful...
This is nonsense. Do you believe that water forms a cliff at the edge of the beach so that its curvature tangent to the center of the body of water is zero? Hilarious
Alternative hypothesis: It seems to me that they're being drawn to these power cables like moths to a flame.

There's a comment above in which some guy observes that the strength of the EM field emitted by these cables is similar in strength to the Earth's EM field.

The article also mentions that these crabs migrate. Presumably they migrate using some organ that is sensitive to the earth's magnetic pull.

We know what happens when moths--who use light to navigate--encounter artificial lights. Their navigation hardware can't handle it, and they end up circling the light. This seems like the same kind of thing.
>Social justice movements are their own worst enemy. We all want change, but when a leaderless group of people make too many people nervous about the randomness of the results they achieve, you get these kinds of results from the government.

If it weren't for Black protesters and BLM "making people nervous" and forcing them to actually pay attention, George Floyd's killers would probably have commendations now, and the racist narratives that defended his murder would be accepted as status quo truth. Progressive change never happens when the powers who govern the status quo are allowed to remain comfortable.
I'm fairly sure water follows the curvature of the earth...
They will have even more of it in the future as the world will stop buying.
Extend that to all political causes of the day: breast cancer awareness, Earth Day, some guy getting killed by police, ... it's pointless posturing to make people think you care, when you don't really.
It's something like what burrows is saying. I don't know if I'm implementing it as intended, but I first heard of "labeling" when reading The Mind Illuminated by John Yates. It seemed silly/trivial at first, but I later started just trying to categorize my thoughts. I found that there were actually surprisingly few buckets that my idle thoughts fell into.

I'd say that when I'm meditating, 90% of my out-of-the-blue thoughts fall into categories like:

- A: seeking out little acquisitions (life/work hacks, low hanging fruit, new tech skills I could tackle today to improve my life)
- B: chores I need to do and social debts
- C: money, and whether I have enough
- D: what will the future be like?
- E: food, sex, safety
- F: "this is nice, I'm not thinking of much"

I don't feel like these are good or bad thoughts, since they all have their time and place. But I do expect/hope that as the session progresses, more and more time is spent in state F.

I think one benefit of these labels is that instead of trying to re-articulate what you're thinking every time, you just drop it into buckets A-F (or whatever your personal buckets are). Making that task lightweight keeps me from overanalyzing the thought, at the risk of maybe oversimplifying my thought landscape.
Tesla sold almost as many cars in China as it did in US in 2021. Meanwhile Gigafactory Shanghai produced almost half of all Teslas globally.

Who? Those who want to make money.
It's his turn for "They will greet us as liberators."
The GP is stating that China is dependent on Us aligned country
There are. They are still denominated in yuan though so you have to fx them through an illiquid fx market that suffers from currency controls.

Further the rules for whether you can or how much you can repatriate the proceeds from this bonds changes ~yearly at the whim of an opaque bureaucracy and they are very new instruments comparatively.

All that’s to say the yuan needs to be liberalized or companies have to invent new finance operations before China takes over the finance sphere. That doesn’t happen fast.
https://www.brandonsanderson.com/state-of-the-sanderson-2021..., search for "Alcatraz Series".

The final book will be coming out September 20, 2022.
It would be a set back for sure. They would have to organize like Americans did for civil rights protests and Vietnam war protests.
Debian still works very well on 32 bit. There will probably be an unofficial "port" even after they finally discontinue official support.
You don't understand where you are in the business lifecycle.

You're very early. Paying customers are the most important thing for you to get.

However, it doesn't matter how much the first 1% (of your target market) pay, now or in the future. (If you're successful, they're only 1%. If you're not successful....)

Let's assume that success is 100k-1M paying customers.

Anything that gets in the way of someone being one of your first 1,000 paying customers is bad. Not telling the price upfront is one such thing. Trying to charge "market/what it's worth" is another.

Now is not the time to optimize pricing. In fact, you should tell the first 1-2% of paying customers that they will always and without any effort on their part get better pricing than anyone else going forward.

Yes, you should ask them what they think other people should/would pay....
I only hate it because there's no support for AOT (ahead of time) compilation and it needs a runtime.

A native code compiled, statically linked Java or C# desktop app would be the ultimate C++ killer. It would also lessen the need for languages such as Rust.
This is an interesting approach to the general problem. The general problem being that whatever data source you use is inevitably going to be polluted by players who wish to be top of the rankings in a search engine if your engine is used. Maybe this solution - serving a very small niche will work, but I'd be really interested to know if you guys have spent any time trying to SEO your own search engine? Hire an intern whose sole task is to get a page to the top of a fairly common search query like replacing some common python package with your own one?
Sweet, thanks for the link.

I was looking for something like this. Tried mitmproxy but it was useless against cert pinning. So I went with decompiling the app to extract the auth keys and urls for the internal API it was using.
Libshipkore: Shipkore's Open Source courier tracking library and CLI
Yes, which happened 30 years ago, so there's an entire generation that grew up with the borders we have today.

We don't want to go back to the borders of historic Armenia for the same reason we don't want to go back to the 1988 borders — it's history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenia#/media/File:Arshakuni_...
> The US didn't shut down independent media outlets that were opposed to the war.

Only 3% of media coverage was anti-war, they didn't need to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_coverage_of_the_Iraq_War...
Looks very interesting. Is there some example Adama application source I can browse to see what typical code looks like?
Okay so this is clever – it's a polyglot, both a valid bash script and a DSL which is interpreted by some binary written in Rust and called at the final "eval $(argc...)" line, where "argc" is the name of the rust binary.

Thinking loudly: I was just wondering about debugging (kind of "does this lack source maps?"), but shell never prints out lines at syntax errors, so it does not really matter. One can write "set -e" anyway at the start of the functions in order to catch errors early.
Have you been dual-booting? What's your experience been like, generally? I built my current desktop something like 5+ years ago, and have been thinking about building something new, with Windows kept as a second fiddle for when the few games I still play don't cooperate on WINE or Proton.
Raspberry Pi Alternative Banana Pi Reveals Powerful New Board
This guy sounds like an asshole. (Apologies for assuming gender but it also sounds like a guy) life is too short to work with assholes.

That being said, if the docs were in Confluence I’d never have been able to find them. (I guess I wouldn’t be an asshole about it and politely request the link again)

The weird thing is being an asshole doesn’t seem to be a permanent condition. I worked with an asshole once. He was bright and capable, but short with anyone he considered beneath him and quite mean about it. I ran into him years later and he’d acquired a healthy dose of humility. I wish I knew what taught him that.
Right, people here seem to think it's putting money into SWIFT or some alternative system. SWIFT doesn't hold or keep money, it just process them.
.. why do you, a Canadian, with a billing address in Canada, want to pay Amazon in USD instead of CAD?
For the Atlas V it is just one RD-180 engine per launch "The Atlas V first stage...is powered by one Energomash RD180 main engine..." [0]. There are additional solid rocket boosters (supplied by Northrup) on the first stage. And Aerojet Rocketdyne provides the engines for the upper stage.

Something about the math still doesn't quite add up though. I wonder if the 24 engines are still the ones sitting on the shelf, while others have already been integrated in to the first stage of the rockets.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_V#Vehicle_description

Edit: It's also a bit odd because one RD-180 engine actually has two nozzles.
Ukraine’s Telegram channel of dead Russians may violate Geneva Conventions
This might be the first real-world use of HTTP trailers I've ever seen
It turned out, there weren't many market consequences for excluding black people in the American South because they lacked purchasing power (on account of the years of oppression leading to wildly-unequal amounts of resource ownership). There was just suffering and exclusion.

History suggests the market can't solve everything. History also suggests the majority is not always right, which is why the US government is structured as a system of checks and balances and not a simpler-to-implement mobocracy.
This comment is misleading.

Trump didn’t call Putin genius, he called Putin’s tactics genius. Which (at first) it definitely did seem like.
I think it's a nice thing for Gitlab to have done. It's not a big showy gesture, but it's enough to serve as a reminder that Ukrainian devs are in our thoughts.

If it really bothers you, in your browser open up the developer tools (cmd+option+i or F12 in most), find the Network tab, find 'https://gitlab.com/uploads/-/system/appearance/header_logo/1...', right click it and click "Block Request URL" (or something similar. That's what it is in Chromium). Refresh your browser and never be distracted by the colors in the logo again.
The problem with a creative endeavor is that the quality is often (though not always) tied to the creator's interest/passion towards the project. If he hasn't finished Alcatraz yet, maybe he doesn't want to, or maybe he's hit some kind of writer's block for it.

I guess the question would be: if he writes a book solely out of obligation and his heart is no longer in it, do you really want the end product?
Yes, I literally think that. It's not a coincidence that some of the claimed sanctions or support for Ukraine had to be walked back (jets) -- it's a direct consequence of lacking preparation and coordination.

One example of something that wasn't prepackaged or prepared in any way: There are reports that only Lindner and Scholz knew about the 100bn EUR fund beforehand, the rest were surprised.
All that interactivity can happen over remote meetings no?
Linked this in a related discussion yesterday, he has a page specifically for this question: https://www.brandonsanderson.com/where-do-i-start/

"The Cosmere" is his overarching fantasy universe, with The Stormlight Archive as its big fantasy epic (beginning with The Way of Kings). That series has references to his other fantasy work, including his other big series (Mistborn), but you don't necessarily need to have read anything else first. I think there are 4 books now with 10 planned, I haven't read the latest one yet but I enjoyed the first three.

It's been a couple of years but I remember really liking The Emperor's Soul, and it's a $5 ebook novella so you're not investing too much time or money to check it out. DRM free from Kobo, not sure if that's the case via Amazon/Kindle.
It is also worth to mention that before that 300,000 Armenians were expelled from Azerbaijan, and people from the regions around Artsakh were expelled during a war which have started because Azerbaijan have attempted to deport the remaining 160,000 from Artsakh too.
You can work the ISS voice repeater with a handheld and it is around 400km away. Line of sight is everything and more so as you increase the frequency.
It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for, so please don't post like that to HN.

The element of personal attack (bringing in someone's name in in that aggressive manner) is particularly unwelcome.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think so. The system for authenticating to GCP is an order of magnitude more complex than that for AWS.

I think Google has a culture of "we hire the best and brightest so we can afford to squander 70% of their IQ with unnecessarily complexity" which contrasts to, say, Facebook wanting new hires being able to commit a change and get it into production on the first day.