skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First CAS (content addressable storage) is nothing new. Torrents aren't new and are basically a distribed CAS database. With a magnet link (basically a checksum) you can find those files hosted by any torrent client on the planet.

So sure things are "unkillable", but depend on someone/somewhere decided it's worth storing that particular chunk. Seems strange to pair "unkillable" which depends on someone somewhere that "might" do something.

Much like how IPFS was easily oversold, great you can find things hosted anywhere on the planet, but if you publish 1M files and expect to magically seem them hosted elsewhere a year later you are likely to be disappointed.

I do wonder if it would be a better approach to replace filecoin or similar complex trust relationships with a simple peer to peer trading program. Something along the lines of "Lets trade 128MB", trust but verify, then watch uptime/availability. For clients up less than a month, give them the free 128MB and watch, 1-3 months trust them enough to store data with a 20x replication, 3-12 months 10x replication, over a year 5x, whitelisted peers of friends/family 3x.
You don't have to remind me. I'm from central US so we have a few dangerous species, but I'm well aware that you Australians are crazy. (If you weren't crazy you'd be living somewhere with a lot less venomous/poisonous things...)
If you're not likely to survive very long with an organ transplant, you're not going to get one. Organs don't grow on trees.

Underlying medical conditions, refusal to follow medical orders, an unhealthy lifestyle (smoking, alcoholism, drug abuse) are all reasons to pass you over for someone more likely to survive with a transplant.

Medical resources aren't infinite, even when money isn't an issue.
Yea pretty much every region has its own grocery brand. There's always walmart/target and whole foods/trader joes in urban areas, but then there's a local brand too. We got Jewel in my area.
Minor error in the video that was kind of funny, at about 1:00 it says you can now load "HUGE images!" but the text added in editing says 1200x1500, off by an order of magnitude :D
>"Going to jail is a lot scarier than getting a bonus clawed back and losing your job when you have enough to retire on already."

Reductio ad absurdum: Getting executed is even scarier than prison, shouldn't we 'spring for' that instead?

I think that a fine which meaningfully reduces an individual's means is possible, and preferable to using prison sentences to instill fear.

My view is that the extreme sentences provided for in legislation are causing many non-guilty people to plead to lesser offenses, which is a real problem. I also think that we shouldn't be crowding jails and prisons with people who have committed civil offenses.

What do you believe prison is for? Do you think it works?
I already posted my concerns with this proposal but I want to add another top level comment in hopes it’ll be seen by the “why not runtime?” crowd: even if this wasn’t addressed very well in the proposal, you’re asking for too much and not enough at the same time. Instead of “JS should check types at runtime”, what I sincerely think you should ask for is “JS should optimistically optimize type annotations at runtime, and allow modules to opt into runtime type checking”. The performance implications of runtime checking every annotation is pretty much a non-starter, but helping the JIT do it for you when you ask for it? That’s a really reasonable thing to ask for! It’s even probably what JS engines will do internally if this is adopted.
> Instead comments seem to focus on how Russians deserve punishment, but how productive is this type of punishment?

Historically, making the people hurt through sanction is the most effective way of getting rid of a dictator

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> I would think it's an important goal to turn the Russians against Putin.

They're paying $150 for days-old individual McDonalds burgers on the web

This is how they get turned against Putin.
I use them regularly being in Japan. I must be having a stack of at least fifty pens + refills. They are fairly cheap (~$2) and available everywhere. I made a lot of engineering notes with these pens.

One observation not mentioned in these discussions is that the ink tends to fade quite a bit over time. Its not just the heat. My rooms are temperature-controlled. But notes from a year ago for e.g are lighter & several alphabets show part erasure. Give or take a few years, they fade away almost completely. Personal observation but restricted to using the fine tips (0.38 & 0.4). Not sure if same problem happens in 0.5 & 0.7 too.

Japan government entities do not recommend using this pen when filling out any form or making any signature. The person in counter quickly tests the ink every time a form gets submitted.
My wife was working a role that, as one of her more mundane jobs, required grabbing image descriptions from ShutterStock for their purchased images and replacing the filenames with them. It took up several hours of her week and was incredibly boring work. I wrote her a small script that she could simply drop it in the folder where the images were and double click.

I always wondered how monetizable this sort of thing was. I've debated building a marketplace for these things. Let me know if you think this could work!
'Baghdad Bob' Blinken is getting more and more funny every day.

In tomorrow's statement 'The sky is green'
> Amazon is notorious for their frugality and they recently doubled their maximum salary cap to 350k

Does that salary cap apply to regular enterprise developers working for HR, Accounting, etc., too?

If so, kudos to Amazon.
I agree, but it feels like this can be applied for any field in the world. A small minority really cares for the thing they do.

Most people are just... there. They float towards one incentive to another. Get good grades because mom yells at me for not getting good grades. Get a job because bills. Marry someone good at sex and finance. Get more education because it's easier than caring about work. Buy expensive thing so people will like me.
The browser security model is trivially defeated without the usage of https. IT is not an orthogonal or unrelated feature.

Making all new API development available only when content is delivered via a mechanism that provides the foundation for the rest of web security is good engineering practice.
You don't need expensive power delivery for a 60 W i3. A basic $150 B660 board will do just fine.
Ask HN: Strategies for not showing pricing in the early stage
Hi,

We are a for-purpose startup building a marketplace to help people find local physical activity groups, clubs and trainers that match their needs. The idea is to build a resource for people, councils and local healthcare providers looking to help more people get active with plenty of free, low-cost and paid options.

A lot of these groups are operated by non-profits such as ParkRun and associations such as State Football Associations.

Our strategy:
1. Offer free listings for 6 months to get lots of free and low cost providers onboard to establish the marketplace
2. Get help with councils and healthcare providers to promote the marketplace
3. See interest in marketplace, learn and then establish pricing

Thoughts on this strategy? Also, do we need to establish pricing from day #1 or can we simply state we are in a 6 month trial period and we will announce pricing towards end of trial?
> more aggressive DRM

Without legal teeth, they can’t do that with offline consumables. They haven’t been able to even with their current draconian laws.

The client needs to consume the information, and so is in an inherently advantageous position to copy.

> cloud applications

Exactly. And these are popular even with their legal shenanigans. These laws have never helped the consumers at all.
Since Telegram is unmoderated there is all kinds of propaganda on it though. You may not know what to believe is that is your only source.
Somewhat orthogonal comment. Was reading this book "The coming storm" where the author Michael Lewis talks about chaos theory, and how you could go back to one (small) thing that is at the root of who you are. For example, DJ Patil had dyslexia, and that made him not do well in the school, and so he ended up going the off-beaten track and hacking his school systems etc. Years later, he was hacking into US Weather service's data, and many more incidents later, he became "Head of Data Products and Chief Scientist of LinkedIn" and later worked for Obama.

Parallel here is that one guy's mischievous behavior has such a massive consequence.
Pip being good or bad aside, Python does have a very extensive ecosystem. It's very well equipped for many tasks, from machine learning (numpy/scipy/etc) to website creation (Django).

I don't really like Python, but I have to admit that those tools are very convenient.
No need to crush optimism
And these things are bad for us? I mean it's not lead.
> You probably wouldn't even notice if one landed on you.

This is not comforting.
Brain drain when combined with other sanctions makes more difficult the transition to autarky. There are plenty of things that Russia relied on and needs to quickly design and manufacture locally.

Cutoff by Visa and Mastercard has zero impact on local economy. They do not handle local transactions for their branded cards. But indeed, they made life much more difficult for a hundred thousand Russians who are fleeing the country at the moment.
Can you provide a cite for the law you refer to?

I just reviewed all the section descriptions in the IRC (USC Title 26, Subtitle F - Procedure and Administration §§ 6001 - 7874) and can find nothing like that.
Why would you pair an i3 with a B660? Get an H610 for ~70$.
The most invasive part is that they send the results to your employer. I initially balked at this, but you effectively don't have a choice if you want to work at a big company in Japan, although it's worth noting the legal requirement is on the employer to get the tests done, not on the employee to do it.
I meant that there should be no agenda set. Each person should come with their own topics. Sorry about that. It’s not fair when say a boss wants a status update when you want to talk about career growth for example.
I have Walnut in an Edison Collier and Dark Matter in an Eco at the moment. Walnut is "bulletproof."

Noodler's Ink Dark Matter is not. It is, however, a recreation of the official ink of the Manhattan Project. The ink wizard behind Noodler's was sent a bottle of the original Manhattan Project ink, and he chemically analyzed it, and reproduced it as closely as he could manage with modern components. Scientists and clerks were required to us it so any materials could be traced back to the project. The bottle has a picture of Oppenheimer on it.

Bottles of 54th Massachusetts and Heart of Darkness lurk in my closet waiting to come round in the rotation.
:) Heh, I know! So tiny, right? I am so deeply honored to be part of such a tiny number of comments! :-)
How big are games exported for web? I am currently looking for something that exports to html5, but Godot builds are at least 20MB with heavy optimizing (I'm ignoring the size of assets here). Then there is Phaser3 of course, but I have my troubles with it, partially the docs, partially because JS.

I used to write quite a bit of Lua in the past, so the choice of language is mostly welcome, and if your binary sizes are nicely small, I only have to wait for the support of grid-based top-down.

Since you have some example games, how big are their downloads?
Is there something like Datomic for Postgres? Having your team learn clojure, datalog, deploying Datomic was a huge pain for us. Not the road we recommend since all we really needed were just immutable append only log of all transactions.
Germany's Military Is Back
Xi has said over and over that if his ends can’t be achieved peacefully he will use force to unify Taiwan with China. He’s said that Taiwan independence is a red line for invasion. I’m having a hard time believing that you’re arguing in good faith while denying these facts, which can be found in Western, Taiwanese and Chinese media.
Where on earth did you grow up?
I tried vegetarian for a year and it was hard (this was 30+ years ago, and so much has improved!), but my current flexitarian diet is easy to maintain and a healthy option.
Which is sad because it is a multi-billion dollar field with room for amazing amounts of innovation and discovery and it's sitting idle right now because, in general, it's icky and people don't want to be associated with it.
Education and the Changing World Order
You can get a B660 for 110$ on Newegg right now, that's pretty cheap.
You might say "We haven't decided on pricing yet." That communicates that you don't know; you're not holding out on them as a negotiating ploy.

But if I were one of the potential users, that would be a bit of a red flag for me. I'm less likely to invest in something if the price may cause me to drop it in six months. Your approach may hinder your growth/market penetration.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonseed_(novel)
The ideas behind Diataxis née [1] Divio's Documentation System are one of the cardinal rules of technical writing. Most if not all professional technical writers divide their documentation into content types along those lines. By the way they didn't come up with that idea; they just have the most accessible explanation of it :D

Are you just mentioning it in passing (because I mentioned technical writing) or is there a connection to erotetics that I'm not seeing?

Another very useful practice is to take an inventory of all existing documentation (in a spreadsheet for example) and mark which ones fall neatly into one of the doc types (tutorial/guide/explanation/reference) and which ones are a mix. The mixed ones are candidates for refactor. This practice also helps quickly uncover content gaps (e.g. "ah, we have a guide and explanation on the login workflow but no reference for the login APIs!").

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/n%C3%A9e (my fancy word for the day :D)
Oh, I'm not faulting you for the mistake.
I'm just using it as an example for why/how MPG is a bad unit for what it's typically used for.
I won't argue this topic since this thread is about AWS, but the article that you quote says "Experts calculate the excess death rate by comparing figures for a given period with the average for that same period over several previous years."
That's not how experts calculate excess deaths, since that algorithm produces totally bogus answers. Here is how real experts compute excess deaths, compensating for seasonality and population changes: https://euromomo.eu/how-it-works/methods/
Which is why Noodler's Ink issues a free fountain pen (The Charlie) with the 4.5 oz. eyedropper bottle. You can use that, or you dedicate an inexpensive pen, like a TWSBI Eco or a Pilot Metropolitan to the ink. (Many do this.)
"Instead, the program aims to fund new managing organizations that catalyze community-driven development and growth of OSEs."

I've been writing free software since 1997. At no time was there any need for a "managing organization". The notion that it can "catalyze community-driven development" is utter nonsense.

This NSF effort is obviously being driven by people who have no idea about self-motivated software development.

As a free software developer I need hardware and I need funding for travel to conferences.

The only "managing organization" that makes any sense would be a small group of accountants. Their job would be to act like a University provost. They manage grant funding, dispersing funds, manage receipts, and handle taxes. Most government and business organizations won't give grants to free software developers because they don't know where the money goes.
Putin’s Strategic Error
It’s odd that they forgot to make y’all sign something. I wonder why they played it that way.

But let’s say that they were in a rush and forgot. Then, why the anger when an apology and a sincere request would have been just as good.

And why was Jobs such a dick about it afterwards?

To me, it seems that he was angry that someone was making money off the artists before he was.
I feel like this submission was some kind of troll attempt, but I learned something from it.
> What's the point of cloud if we have to manage robustness of their own infrastructure.

Worth deliberating on. I’m curious as to what the lifetime cost of ownership for an on-prem data center is relative to lifetime cost of operating in the cloud.
What a labor of love. It's a good thing that money is not the only motivation for people to build software, because things like this might never see the light of day!

Very sneaky, embedding that YT link as a screencap of the video player...
Sacre bleu!
> Consider: not working for an unethical company.

You mean one of the companies Amazon is driving out of business? For some reason they aren't hiring.
Given the M1 Ultra has a 2lb heavier heat sink just to dissipate the extra heat, not sure that’s a safe bet. There are other ways to reduce noise than just using lower RPM fans.
This used to exist in Postgres, Postgres held all history for all time and you could rewind etc. The reality is it was a huge pain to maintain and no one ever really used it so it got pulled out.

Now days it's far better to look at tooling outside and around Postgres to give you that. Under the covers WAL is effectively this, so with tools like backrest you can maintain backups and WAL forever then have ability to restore and old point as you see fit. On managed service providers a lot of them give this out of the box though only for a limited period of time.
That would pretty much mean that most countries would be starting off from a level playing field in producing their own chips. With South Korea being top dog for a while.

Within 5 years or so, China would become the biggest producer as it has the money available for the greatest investment. The US would continue its decline from being the top dog in the 1980s to becoming pretty much irrelevant in chip production, though they would still be amongst the top designers for a while longer.
Or that they all employ similarly effective techniques.
I particulary like Edward Teller's foreword insights. It seems the USSR was well equiped to start and survive a nuclear war. Luckily it never happened.

If you look at the poor state of some shelters in Ukraine (part of the USSR until the 90's), they should brush up on their survival skills.
We also scan pdf417 from ID cards. In our case, it was much easier to just use hardware 2d scanners. We are a b2b SaaS and they are scanning IDs all day, so a hardware solution makes sense.

The weird thing about pdf417 is that there is a lot of helpful info our there, up until a point. It's like everyone is collaborative and asking/answering questions up until the point they really figure it out, but those last few steps never much make it into open code.

A couple times a year I go searching to see if anyone has implemented solid pdf417 in WASM yet. It seems like a natural fit to me, and I am sure people have done it, but I have yet to see anything publicly available.
I think this article gets to the real issue; all the procedural problems are because everyone thinks the planes are a suboptimal idea that isn't worth the escalation risk, but no one wants to tell Ukraine that.

Which makes it look like the US just bit the bullet on that and stopped playing the deflection game everyone has been playing.
This is a pretty big claim to make. Do you have any sources that back it up?
That sine wave shaper is fascinating. Typically OpAmp-101 circuits integrate the triangle wave, but this is a poor approximation of a sine wave (since it is a quadratic), unless the output is filtered (but then the filter needs to change with the frequency, which is complex). The diode/resistor ladder is very interesting.
I already responded down thread because I didn’t see this comment first. But I’ll add that your console log example is more analogous to the JSX control flow question as:

someBool && console.log(“anything”)

Hope this helps.
People die some day because of some disease. This is natural.

Give people a heart from other species, this is unnatural.

I'd rather transform my brain and thoughts into a robot.
I've had intermittent issues with my motorola's camera app. Sometimes it picks up qr codes at restaurants, sometimes it refuses, maybe because of lighting issues, though turning on the flash doesn't help. I ended up downloading BinaryEye from F-Droid and I just default to that now.
There are 4 types of bosses. Here’s the one you want to work for
The main thing is how little is growing on it, since that makes invariably wrecks look unrecognisable, and usually hastens their degradation

(the Titanic isn't spectacularly rusting because it's sat in water with very low oxygen contect, it's spectacularly rusting because there's a microbe feeding on it. The well preserved wooden wrecks tend to be submerged in mud or in zones with relatively little life too)
I appreciate everyone dropping in with comments and advice on how to do this. My basic takeaway from this is that it is absolutely not worth doing for the average person. I might give it a go though just to see if I enjoy it as a hobby.
interesting whether he has something, in particular about Russian cyberspace, to make a deal.
Season 1 of The Terror TV show is fairly faithful to the book too. It's a pretty fascinating read.
Imagine continuing the argument when you've been repeatedly, definitively, and elaborately told you're missing the point
We ended up going with the purpose-built barcode sleds from Infinite Peripherals. The Linea Pro, I think. Extra battery, onboard illumination/laser guide, _really_ fast barcode engine in any orientation, and a few pretty simple SDK options. We ended up using "our custom webkit browser will fire a custom JS event on scan", which worked perfectly for our purposes.

Everything else is measurably slower: waiting for focus in a dim room, low framerate, weird other issues.
It's also a part with Performance cores only, which is bad for most applications but might improve compatibility with older software (esp. games) that doesn't cope well with having both P- and E-cores, and sometimes might even fail to run altogether on these asymmetric machines.
This. We literally take iron as a supplement because it's an essential mineral for the body.

K.I.S.S.
And the pig's family.
Men are expected to find a 300-lb woman beautiful. Anything else is misogynistic.

Men are also expected to accept that they're a gonk for being 5'9" instead of 6'2". Anything else is entitlement to sex from women.
PayPal is around 2-3%, credit/debit around 0.5-5% depending on where and whether you have a physical card reader.
ACH is, to my understanding, cents or even less than one, but suffering from an utter lack of security/authentication.
Good question. It happened even with Frixions that never left my house (which is the majority of them) here in the northeast USA. 90F/33C+ days are not uncommon here in the summer, but the Frixion writing in my notebooks ever went "invisible", so I think we can rule out a heat issue.

The ink in most of the pens was still visible and hadn't gone "invisible", so I don't think it was working but laying down invisible ink. It felt like the balls in the ballpoints had locked up.
There's lots of great tools there!

The RealThunder development branch fixes one of FreeCAD's main weaknesses -- the topological naming problem, and is worth checking out as well.
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I think they're quite common in rural villages in Korea, but I never heard anyone poisoned by them. You are probably safe. (Now, murder hornets are a different story...)
Nice. Next time I get pens I'll pick some up, and remember that tip. Thanks!
"We'll fix it when it breaks."
Indeed I do.

It is public information within America that we are to be at “Shields Up” readiness.
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