skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't believe the number of entitled posts here. Do people here think that Gitlab SaaS doesn't have an operation cost (in servers, development, support, etc)?

Perhaps people need to start re-evaluating what "free" means in the context of a cloud offering. "Free" is a marketing strategy, not a charitable act.

In the case of Gitlab there's nothing preventing you from using the self-managed free tier which will effectively remove this limit, but guess what? Running it on your own will also have a cost for you. The same way it does for Gitlab when they give it for free through Gitlab.com
He's generally in favor (why wouldn't he?), but is a bit hesistant when it comes to a perceived "security over all" stance.

There's a quote floating around about security bugs being just bugs, not something inherently more important.
Good article. Some discussion from when it came out: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17275612
This isnt really true. And even if it were, the main reason is limited financing.

Look at Canada, their program is advancing reactors. They are targeting before 2030.

if governemnt actually cared and invested the way they did in renwables these reactors would exist already.

The tech was proven in the 60/70, its just investment that is needed. But reactor companies have a really hard time with that.
No. Why would this be an April Fools prank?
It's all about the libraries. Use Sokol and Dear Imgui and you'll be cross platform.
> I don’t want stupid personal expressions, I want meaningful or beautiful or somehow useful.

I guess I feel that improving our world, ending war, making our society more just and fair, these are meaningful, useful, and beautiful things to do. They might be some of the most meaningful things actually.

> It was counterproductive and distracting and wasted valuable time that we could use to do something better.

This is an argument about context. Security IS important, I imagine we'd both agree, but maybe not in that specific situation. Like if I bring up climate change while we're rushing to the hospital after a car accident. Climate change is a real and important issue, but right now it's a distraction. So is an open source website an inappropriate context to indicate support for movements or disapproval of others? I don't think so, but if you do calling it "virtue signaling" isn't what you mean, and is actually a counterproductive distraction.
I can't find anywhere in the proposed Digital Markets Act where "gatekeepers" are prohibited from taking commission fees for all sales.

The 30%(27%) cut would still apply for all who develop for iOS and iPad.

Direct link to PDF for the Digital Markets Act (one of 2 in the package): https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELE...
That is exactly how MS used to have it. I think they had the numbers on the reality of how many people said yes and I suspect it was terrible. So they forced the issue. Unfortunately not for the better. I wonder if they are really wasting resources though. Would a small variance really hurt what they think is going on? Do they really need a million plus number of samplers? If I remember my stats classes, once you get past 1k or so your well into diminishing returns territory.
Because supporting 4 platforms is harder than supporting 1.

Even a boring business application will have users across 4 platforms: Windows, MacOS, iOS, and Android. It’s easier to point them all to a URL in a browser than to debug issues on an end user PC.
Swapping two Numbers without Temporary Variables
How many lawmakers make their own trades?
Do the trades reported count trades by the spouse of a lawmaker?
i don't think this matters. it's not like starlink is delivering terminals to anyone outside ukraine.
Psychology

People get upset if you try to charge them a monthly fee for a desktop app. Yet they are happy to rent a SaaS solution.

Also, lower support costs. Making your app work on everyone's computer is surprisingly annoying, because some of your users will have Trojans, damaged system files, or an aggressive IT department.
Got it – thank you, that makes a lot more sense. But fascinating, I wonder what those other issues were.
Crows have been seen using traffic to crack nuts. Including using a crosswalk to get a chance to retrieve the cracked nuts.[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGPGknpq3e0
Wait and bleed, but only if the wait was successful.
That's just action. What makes it political is if happens to have an effect outside of your home. (And technically even those restricted to the inside will usually end up having some sort of effect outside of your home.)
These are pretty often contraindicated in cases like this, especially when the patient is also managing anti-depressants and anti-anxiety meds.
1. Great question! Different academic experts claim lignin would be very stable in roads and stay there for a long time, and that when some degradation eventually happens, it will sequester downwards and become part of the soil. Deepdive: We have made roads 14 years ago which are still stable and in good quality today, indicating there hasn't been much degradation of the lignin to speak of. Adding here also a quote from an academic paper: “... the end-product of lignin decomposition in nature contains partially decomposed, fragmented lignin (humus) that enters the soil cycle, and remains in this layer for many years. Release of H2O and CO2 as decomposition products in this layer is extremely limited. Soil bacteria, microfauna, and even physical processes may play important roles in the final breakdown of humus. This is a slow process and some lignin degradation products have soil residence times of centuries (Ziekus, 1981).” - So, while we don't have the complete answer to speed of degradation yet (workin on it!), it seems it would stay beneath the ground far more than long enough to help our planet.
You'd have to convince voters this would save them money. Having evidence that small vouchers changed behavior enough is only one way to do that (and is probably the least likely path).
And nukes! Its been a while since I read "The Radioactive Boy Scout" and after rereading it I'm defintely going to keep my kid close as he goes through TCOR's black powder and other experiments.

The truth is far more bizarre: the Golf Manor Superfund cleanup was provoked by the boy next door, David Hahn, who attempted to build a nuclear breeder reactor in his mother’s potting shed as part of a Boy Scout merit-badge project.

[...]

David Hahn taught himself to build a neutron gun. He figured out a way to dupe officials at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission into providing him with crucial information he needed in his attempt to build a breeder reactor, and then he obtained and purified radioactive elements such as radium and thorium.

[...]

David’s parents admired his interest in science but were alarmed by the chemical spills and blasts that became a regular event at the Hahn household. After David destroyed his bedroom—the walls were badly pocked, and the carpet was so stained that it had to be ripped out—Ken and Kathy banished his experiments to the basement.

[...]

Kathy then forbade David from experimenting in her home. So he shifted his base of operations to his mother’s potting shed in Golf Manor. Both Patty Hahn and Michael Polasek admired David for the endless hours he spent in his new lab, but neither of them had any idea what he was up to. Sure, they thought it was odd that David often wore a gas mask in the shed and would sometimes discard his clothing after working there until two in the morning, but they chalked it up to their own limited education. Michael says that David tried to explain his experiments but that “what he told me went right over my head.” One thing still sticks out, though. David’s potting-shed project had something to do with creating energy. “He’d say, `One of these days we’re gonna run out of oil.’ He wanted to do something about that.”

https://harpers.org/archive/1998/11/the-radioactive-boy-scou...
Hopefully it goes to MDN. I do wish there was a way to fund Firefox directly, but I hope that MDN plus resources are for MDN, not Firefox.
Show HN: A simple text to speech synthesizer
You should see a doctor and maybe get an MRI.

Also, do you take notes? Do you do any kind of spaced repetition/actively review things from the previous day/days?

I had a similar issue that had more to do with my own aversion to writing things down and reviewing them - yeah it sounds weird, but in the same way people avoid recalling bad memories (and others recall them too often) I had a similar aversion to reviewing things I wrote down especially because sometimes I didn't remember writing it, and that's kind of scary. I needed to get over that mental block, and I still am not great at following my own advice, but using external memory/finding a trusted method is a starting point for self-medicating at least for me.
A formal alliance is far more likely (it's basically already happening), this would mitigate the need at risking any conflict, by giving China access to that territory in exchange for economic support for Russia. And before you suggest they won't do that 'because sanctions', sanctions against China would hurt the West far more than they would hurt China, and they know it.

I'd be more concerned about Malaysia, Indonesia and so on. The dragon is far more likely to march south. And it will have a nuclear bear along for the ride.
This is why the runtime libraries __have__ to be shipped by the OS vendor. It isn't good enough that Windows (or OSX for that matter) includes only stuff for it's OS. It should include a standard that is compatible with every other major platform too.

We don't even really get that with Electron either; all of those apps are 'fat' in that they ship the entire standard library for doing anything with 'Hello World'.
Eh, there have been quite a lot of good Electron apps lately.

Where do you draw the line exactly?

edit: spelling
I like the idea! While I do not need these premium features I wanted to hit the "sign me up" button instantly just to support them. But then I found out that there's no such button and my country is not on going to be supported anytime soon.

And if MDN people are reading this: consider adding an "enterprise" option with centralized account management.
You did such a service to society by patenting this. Bravo.
Your healthcare cost a lot more than the 20 euros or “free” that you said. In the US it’s a bit more transparent since you’re receiving the bill. In a shared public healthcare system everyone foots the bill via their taxes. I’m sure hospitals make out more in the US — the entire system is designed to create profit at every stage - but saying things are “free” elsewhere is disingenuous.

He also built an x-ray machine, but his charges per the article were for a CT scan and staying at the hospital. A CT scan is a totally different beast than an x-ray machine, and staying at the hospital means you’re actively under medical care the entire time. It’s all very clickbaity.
You can password protect them and optionally load them to agent at logon.
hah, yup - that's literally why this is news right now, somebody went past talk and acted - and people are upset
Thorium for military kind of sucks. If you want to build a substainable long term program you dont want U-232 around.

The only real advantage of Thorium is that you can use it in a thermal breeder. If you are not building a thermal breeder using thorim is mostly pointless.
"The machine had three modes of operation... A "field light" mode... Direct electron-beam therapy... Megavolt X-ray (or photon) therapy, which delivered a beam of 25 MeV X-ray photons"

So, still x-ray radiation, but at much higher voltages than diagnostic x-rays.

(The accident was indeed overexposure to the electron beam, not to the x-rays, but the electron beam was part of the process for producing the x-rays in normal operation)
It's great to see this all in one place. The text follows the audio reasonably well, and the UX is spartan and functional. Is there a version that includes videos of the lectures as well?
Classic tomography does not necessarily use IR light. One needs radiation that penetrates the object to be imaged, hence X-rays.
The article already points out that a 17 hour job at a site can be done in one hour at a factory. That's a huge savings factor right there!

You don't need economies of scale to make SMR's profitable. They already are from the get go.
I haven't tried it but Chrome dev tools supports debugging C++ compiled to WASM with DWARF debug symbols.
AZ is the first state to put its driver’s license and state ID in Apple’s Wallet
Living and human civilization are high energy activities, and becoming higher energy over time. Just the number of electronics I employ in my day-to-day life has made electricity alone more central to my life than it maybe was 20 years ago even.

So plants and energy transmission lines and such are going to be built, especially as more battery-electric vehicles become available in more model lines and at more varied price points for people to buy. If I had a personal preference, I would prefer that electricity to be coming from nuclear and solar plants, but I’m not willing to condemn the poor to raise prices and make those the only options. What gets built will be what makes sense according to the knowledge and expertise of people who build plants, i.e. what is economical in the context of the market which is just trillions of accumulative transactions happening across society made by people; and we’ll make decisions about where to import/export energy from in geopolitical and military contexts where those decisions rightfully belong which can and does inform markets.

The harder we make it to build nuclear though, the less likely nuclear will be chosen. In California for example there is a flat prohibition on new construction, so we’re going to keep building gas-fired plants alongside whatever renewables because that is what we have chosen to do, until we make a different choice.
The real scam with private school vouchers is making tax-payers foot the bill to send your child to a "private school" that isn't, like what often happens in Florida, or worse, to a "school" that is really just a religious indoctrination tool.

You shouldn't be allowed to take money from the public coffers because you want your child to only think things like evolution are not settled science or "just a theory".
> Does the money go to Firefox or to funny projects and (what I consider) insane exec salaries?

Serious question: do you ask other vendors (Google, Amazon, Wapo, whoever) you use about HR and internal budgeting choices before deciding to do business with them?
I use Personalized PageRank giving disproportionate voting power to a bunch of people whose entire identity is their passionate dislike for the commercial web. To get a really high rank in my search engine, you need to convince a those people to link to your site.
I'm not familar with SSH certificates, but I do know the fundamentals of certificate-based authentication. If you don't have a way to revoke the cert, then the server will assume that your properly signed unexpired certificate is valid. You will need some way to let the server know that the previously issued cert is not valid anymore.

This is how this type of authentication works, and the article did not address the important case of wanting to revoke a user's credentials.
How many people are needed to staff a modern data center?
Single X-ray session costs 4$ in my state in India
Thank you for clearing this up! I knew I should have found my source before posting.

I remembered reading https://rjlipton.wpcomstaging.com/2012/03/01/do-gaps-between... which I suppose only says this _could_ be very bad.

Very interesting and great that it was resolved in the negative!
I personally never understood this logic of "trying to disprove me means I'm right". Where does it come from?
Why? Caplan suggests it’s because no one believes quantitative social science is meaningful. Maybe, but I suspect the explanation is simpler: There’s not much glory in checking someone else’s work.

This is probably wrong. There is tons of glory in checking someone's work and finding a mistake. Look at all the controversy and major media coverage over the the Reinhart and Rogoff paper, which was undermined by some majors data collection errors that were later pointed out. This was a major deal at the time.

Most people probably already expected Caplan's thesis to be true or took it for granted as true, so there was no compelling need to check. People will only check if the the conclusion goes against their assumptions or something commonly accepted to be true. So a paper which claims to refute the premise of Keynesianism is something that economists are probably going to be be more inclined to check than a conclusion that affirms the orthodoxy.
Unfortunately, it is not open source :(
fwiw. i paid for mine (whole thing, not just the deposit) and never received anything. there is no way to contact tech support. through a friend of a friend who worked there, i got ahold of someone in the fulfillment team. my order had been canceled, no refund, no explanation. i was about to hit the "credit reversal" button on my bank's website when i got an email from them... they added my order to the end of the queue. expect my terminal in 2023. after another week of emails and phone calls i was able to get a refund for the whole price minus the deposit, which is non-refundable.
Reproduction is a baseline biological function and I will never agree that participating is "selfish." We're not going to see eye-to-eye here.
I don't really have a big problem with this, but in a weird coincidence, I just decided this morning to spin up a self-hosted instance of GitLab and migrate all of my GitHub and GitLab repositories to it.

This just adds a little impetus to that decision.
Dan Luu's extended remarks on his experience at Centaur suggest to me that what Intel wanted was their superior debugging skills. Intel has had a growing quality problem that would be very hard to fix relying on in-house work habits. Bringing in a different culture of zero-defects sticklers might help get them on track.
You too. I didn't wanted to say the name but you did it for me.
Our Last Common Ancestors were 250 million years ago in the Triassic. Amazing how intelligence can evolve multiple times.
The US spends the most per-capita on healthcare in the world.
Nobody said anyone has to work for free. In general (not picking on Mozilla), I think it’s hypocritical when non-execs are told they should accept lower pay than they would make at a for-profit because “our mission!”, while execs justify their out-of-proportion pay by citing how much they could make at a for-profit. Shouldn’t executives be __more__ committed to the mission?
Thanks, freedombox.org does indeed look cool!
The USA has the highest spending per student in OCED but we do not have the highest test scores. When increasing funding does not improve results, funding is not the issue.

At a more basic level, school has a big issue with consent. We force kids to attend at the barrel of gun, we force adults to pay for it at the barrel of a gun. How bout we chill with all this non-consensual educational activity. If you have to force someone to use/pay for your product you are not adding value.
yes! i signed up for an account here just so i could say this. we got refurbished computers for my children just to play Minecraft. Minecraft didnt work in windows, so i set up a dual boot Ubuntu system (while biting my nails i might totally destroy the os), thatnwas working well for months. when they had to migrate their account, somehow it switched my daughter's local login to a Microsoft family login which screwed up her other apps (like adventure academy). im tearing my hair out trying to figure out how to switch it back to a local login. i already have two other apps for monitoring computer time (which already don't always work out as well as youd think, so i didnt want to really have to deal with a third one.) i guess ill eventually figure it out, but found this page looking for a solution. (and im not that techy right now, so it takes a good chunk of time.... sigh
I enjoyed his main channel content, but found the first few episodes of the podcast to be a little rough going because they had a strong focus on complaining about the people complaining about their lack of safety measures. (Which just wasn't interesting listening to me.)

Have the more recent episodes moved past that? I'd like to give it another shot.
I think the game not having an online component is one of its charms. Simplicity in nature and execution is the obvious goal.

Have you seen the leaderboards of any online game lately? They usually get wrecked by cheaters and defeat the whole purpose.
15-inch MacBook Air could be the perfect machine for many users
>I know there's a lot of hate in here for Electron, but it truly makes cross-platform desktop app development achievable for small companies and indies.

So does Qt
If they were nonprofits working for the good of humanity, and yet had exponentially increased their executive salaries over the last five years while market share went down, then yes.
> Because supporting 4 platforms is harder than supporting 1.

True, and yet completely irrelevant, because every moderate-size app (and even many small ones) have at least three clients already: iOS, Android, and web (which may then be bundled into a desktop psuedo-app using Electron), and so they already have three different platforms to support and end-user devices to debug, in the exact scenario you said that they're trying to avoid.
If you want people to use your stuff, which you probably do because you put it out there, be professional.

If you don't care, then do whatever the hell you want of course.
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