skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's say we have an announced release schedule on may 1st.
With the tools down, there is no way to meet that date. For a 4 billion dollar company, this can make a huge difference in revenue. For a public company, the stock will definitely drop when it's announced the revenue goals were missed because the tools were down.

For companies of size, the cost of tools being down for 3 weeks can easily be in the multi-millions of dollars.
I used to have a couple of filers with thousands of disks on premise, we'd always have a dead disk somewhere. Keeping up with dead disks was almost a full time job, you'd open a case with the vendor, get them access to the datacenter, then be on the phone to guide them to the rack and verify that the new disk came online. To not go completely crazy, we usually batched these jobs once or twice per week. And even with double parity and replicated filers in two locations things can go wrong.

Also a favorite of mine is power cycling a machine. With enough disks, chances are high that a couple won't come back after they spin down.
You're right that ethereum transaction fees are very high (https://cryptofees.info/). imo, total gas fees seem likely to continue to hyper-grow. Yet, per-transaction or per-user gas fees may be expected to plummet due to scaling technologies, especially https://arbitrum.io, https://optimism.io, and https://starknet.io (they do like those io's)
There are several possible ways to quantify expressiveness of a basis.
For instance, you can count how many unique lambda normal forms you can generate with combinator expressions up to a certain size (modulo some terms that take too long to normalize).
I once counted this for various choice of single-point combinator bases and up to size 16, and found that the above S' produced over 2 million normal forms whereas for instance the more well known \x.x S K produced only 244 normal forms.
When you look only at how easy you can recover S and K, then the latter is much superior though (length 16/11 versus 3/3).
Fundamentally, law cares about the beneficiaries and intentions, especially as these pertain to rights and obligations. The mechanisms are a technical detail.
Yeah but your friend probably isn't as good of a writer as Huxley.
He literally doesn't even care
That's what I thought at first too, but no, it's much more ridiculous and openly criminal.

"The document also includes [...] photos of Griffith, clad in a traditional-style North Korean suit, writing on a white board, on which “No sanctions!” was written with a smiley face."

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/04/11/former-ethereum...
My guess is that RPi got the trade-offs broadly right (price / capabilities / software support / availability) and were serious about their education mission which gave them a strong focus. Others seem to have dabbled but not much more.

Plus Upton seems quite driven!
TIL dnf has replaced yum, which replaced urpmi, which wrapped rpm.

I swear, every time I use a RPM based distro, there is a new package manager.
I remember using pkzip's spanning feature to transport MP3 files home from school with a few floppies. I certainly would have preferred using something more like laplink in that case.

There was a very weird period of time there where floppy drives stopped advancing in capacity but the average file size had continued to outgrown them for years. I remember the iomega zip disks, despite their faults, actually showing up in a lot computer labs before flash drives finally buried them.
I wonder if by using the statistically most used words one could automate at least a big part of the guessing process
Our instance is half the size of minimal Data center license. For us and for many customers this is effectively EOL.
I made my first money selling and supporting mods for Garry's Mod. A significant portion of my teenageer-hood was spent as a giant crab throwing popcorn in virtual movie theaters watching bootleg streams and writing code to enable new features and worlds.

The embedded video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJViJbEQEgA) looks like a joke compared to experiences achievable in 2006 G-Mod. Does Mark really think creative scenery will draw people into using his Metaverse? It's definitely not going to be the allure of viewing these creepy avatars.

Compare that video to something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efulzGIVjWE&t=1007s

Which will draw more people willing to invest time into the experiences? Does Mark even know why people play games?
> The idea is that by supporting the largest number of features possible, they'll surely build something that everyone likes because it will tick everyone's boxes.

The idea that the C++ committee are unthinking people pleasers it patently false.

C++ does have a lot of cruft, but mostly because it aims to:
i) support new features
ii) maintain pretty strong backward compatibility guarantees

In general the new features are actually pretty well liked, but in conjunction with (ii) it creates a big language. There's a reasonably decent subset that can be carved out, but it's also clear why newcomers without legacy baggage (e.g. rust) are making inroads.
I think for more complicated examples like RL control systems a neural network is the natural choice. If you can incorporate physics into your world model then you'd need differentiable programming + NNs, right? Or am I misunderstanding the question.

If you're talking about the specific cannon problem, you don't need to do any learning at all you can just solve the kinematics, so in some sense you could ask why you're using any approximation function,
How do we solve this problem? In other industries based on physical products there is a big incentive to buy goods as locally as possible because of reduced shipping costs, shorter shipping time, no import taxes etc.

But with software it costs nothing to spin up new instances, costs nothing to deliver half way across the world, and has no delivery time. How can you convince a manager to use a software solution provided by a local company when a company in a completely different country 600 miles away offers similar software with 5 extra features?

It seems like the internet is now perfectly set up to create, for each software type, a single company that has a global monopoly.
Not to beat a dead horse, but nuclear?
All I can say as an Attlassian Server products user is that the moment they say it was Cloud or nothing, I choose nothing.

I much rather running Gittea on a raspberry pi that I CONTROL than having to have the impotence of doing nothing for more than a week. + having work at cloud companies and having been requested to "collect customer data" to hand it over to the government I would NEVER move critical pieces to anyone else's infa...

(Note: I am not supporting crime, but I rather to have privacy and criminals than living on an authoritarian regime where a dictator who knows everything abot everyone keeps "peace".... Yes I am looking at you China!)

If mistakes will be made, at least I wont pay others to do them for me....
I mean it's all in software right? So if a system crashes and there is a relay that tells the motor to spin, not spin (which is probably not how variable speed works) but follow me = then if that subsystem crashed (some exception is thrown) and the code cannot be recovered - then whatever relay state the vehicle was in may just stay that way.

ICE vehicles may be much more complicated, and we all know they're going away, but let's not dismiss these real issues.
If you don’t want to build one of these on your own you can also buy them in many places, at least in germany.
That’s just an automation issue. It’s not like you have to write a bespoke database migration script per DB.
I don't know how they mitigate the radiation losses (huge amounts of insulation?), but it appears that graphite has some interesting properties when heated, like it gets stronger 1000-2500C and doesn't expand much when heated [1]. Perhaps those properties help it to store heat effectively at those extreme temps.

1. https://nucleus.iaea.org/sites/graphiteknowledgebase/wiki/Gu....
Teams and audio problems is pervasive. Since a few months I cannot use Teams on the iPhone any more [1] because they changed/broke volume control so that even the lowest possible volume is way too loud (and interestingly, Teams somehow manages to circumvent the hearing protection settings in iOS). The audio quality on iOS is also very jarring, regardless of connection speed, basically to the point of it hurting in the ears even if you reduce the volume to a safe level (e.g. by dangling the headphones in front of your ears instead of putting them in, which is absolutely ridiculous). Similarly I had issues with Teams mute control on a dedicated, certified headset, where both the mute button on the headset and in the Teams UI did nothing, only the special Fn key on the laptop worked. "It magically fixed itself at some point".

[1] I really liked to walk'n'talk for a few recurring meetings. Unfortunately, Microsoft does not like people touching grass.
This reminds me of one of my favorite HN comments of all time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16424423
So what? That's a total non sequitur. The measles vaccine is highly effective at preventing infection and transmission. That situation doesn't obtain with SARS-CoV-2. The vaccines are pretty good at preventing deaths but they have only a marginal and temporary effect on preventing infection and transmission. For the foreseeable future, every time you interact with another person (or certain other mammal species) there is a significant risk they will transmit the virus to you. That is our reality and wishful thinking won't change it.

Instead of trying to avoid infection and most likely failing, a more productive approach is to focus on reducing the risks of a bad outcome when you inevitably do get infected. For most people that means getting vaccinated plus resolving any major risk factor conditions such as obesity, type-2 diabetes, and hypovitaminosis D.

And you didn't answer the question. Which specific "experts" claim it will be possible to avoid infection?
Because crypto hasn't proven itself. I won't fight your battles for you. Call me when I can buy coffee at my local diner with crypto.
You don't, but all of this makes it harder to track.

Even if the government can track you through all of this, you can setup your private keys in a way that your family can still access your money if the government arrests you.
Software QA Tooling in 2022
Facebook: Releases a tool that makes amusing image mashups
Google: Makes revolutionary progress in one of the hardest problems in chemistry
The national ID link happens at the exchange, via the normal KYC process. You prove your identity to the exchange, and you prove that you have the private key for the wallet by signing a challenge message. That's it. The relevant proposed regulations can be found here[0] (linked from [1]):

> (29) This Regulation applies not only to transfers of crypto-assets where both the crypto-asset service provider of the originator and beneficiary are involved but also to transfers of crypto-assets to or from a distributed ledger address not linked to a crypto-asset service provider, so called “unhosted wallets”, as long as there is at least one crypto-asset service provider involved in the transfer of crypto-assets.

> (29a) In cases of a transfer of crypto-assets made from or to a distributed ledger address not linked to a crypto-asset service provider, the crypto-asset service provider will have to obtain information both on the originator and the beneficiary, usually from their customer. However, the crypto-asset service provider will have to verify the accuracy of only the information on their customer and not on the originator or beneficiary with the distributed ledger address not linked to a crypto-asset service provider.

So when a transfer is made to or from an external, non-hosted wallet the exchange is responsible for identifying the wallet's owner.

Also note this clause in the proposed text of the regulation (under Article 2 paragraph 4):

> This Regulation shall not apply to person-to-person transfer of crypto-assets as defined in Article 3(14) of this Regulation.

So transfers between two unhosted wallets are unaffected.

This regulation has been widely misreported, so don't believe everything you read, especially if it doesn't cite the actual text of the regulation.

[0] https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-14259-2021-...

[1] https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2021...
I’d say citation is not needed when the person has experience in the field, can cite himself telling you their opinion and that will suffice. Your opinion may differ of course
Are you assuming that they record the events in a way that can be played back?
I'm wondering if you are sure it was LSD?

Did you test it yourself?

Also, what context did you take it in?

Did you have an intention for the trip? Were you with a trusted, experienced sitter?

Did you combine the substance with any other drug?
From the auction site:

5 Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) aluminum sample stubs, each topped with approximately 10 mm diameter carbon tape containing Apollo Moon dust,

So, this is truly a vary thin "layer" of moon dust. Maybe less than a mg per sample. I wonder if there's even enough there to smell it.
You'll quickly run into limitations of how many tcp connections you can hold open. Unless you also want to run separate app servers for each customer, which will cost a lot of $$$

Oh, and just forget about allowing your customers to share their data with each other, which most enterprises want in one way or another.
Demystifying Sparse Merkle Trees
> The most accurate term would probably be "tertiary structure".

There’s an AlphaFold variant that can predict quaternary structure: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.10.04.463034v2

> They could have named it AlphaTS.

TS looks more like “transition state” to me.
> Because they're not actually doing that?

>> Applying the classifier to the type of telemetry packets the app was sending

Are you sure they’re not? The used these algorithms on telemetry packets sent from browsers. I see no reason to give companies whose revenue is built on ads the benefit of the doubt here.
What about "roach motels" - they check in, but they don't check out (if you are lucky). Due to sticky instectecide. Believe me you don't want to have roaches, no matter what your feelings are for lovely insects (I like butterflies, bees, dragonflies, ladybirds and such).
This device doesn't really change the energy landscape. Let's rephrase the title: "A new heat engine is as efficient as a steam engine but needs a thermal source 1,800 degrees celsius hotter to work". The device described in the article is interesting in that it has no moving parts and might have an application one something like a nuclear powered spacecraft. Actually trying to harvest energy from TEGs is exceptionally difficult, since renewable energy sources aren't nearly as energy dense as thermal fuels like hydrocarbons or fission. The thermal gradients produced through renewable sources like solar are tiny [1]. It could be used for something like geothermal power, but again it needs temperatures way hotter than conventional steam engines which already work fine for geothermal energy production.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tdge8vEODeY
I still don't know how professionals keep making this mistake. Having used Discord for so many years, this has never been a problem aside from a select few people who had very clear reason to mute themselves. Meanwhile in professional settings, people seem to be falling for this over and over while lacking the common curtesy of not letting random environmental noise bleed through (read: their mics are barely ever turned off).

Not to mention push-to-talk has solved this issue for almost a few decades now.
Yeah, sure. Guess how Kim Jong Un financed his nukes and ICBMs. Aided by people like this guy and through state sponsored ransomware attacks. Now imagine Russia using the same strategy. They're already using weapons from Iraq smuggled through Iran against Ukrainians.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-backed-militias-in-iraq-r...
Yes, I tried it , it seems really good . I mentioned it on the github page.
Thank's for the information.
Well, I'm within a year or so of being forty. I've have been on about 75 dates over the last two years with women aged 29 to 50s.

IME, often the desirable ladies in their forties have been those who stayed in a dead end relationship for (way) too long. If someone has never been in an LTR by the time they're 35, they were always quite odd and I learned it's a good idea to double click and ask questions to learn what might be going on there.
That is certainly possible, and might be the only explanation that makes sense.
> I've bought handmade things on Etsy that are a) very high quality and b) obscure/weird enough that I wouldn't know where else to go for them.

And my experience with Etsy is that it's a crafty people selling low quality handmade stuff.

Etsy is the last place on the internet, where I would got looking for quality stuff.
> Inflation is nearly at a 50 year low.

I think this is a typo?
I'm no lawyer but I can only dream that they might find more stuff to throw the book at him but somehow i doubt this.

How you go and help a country that your own country is at war with, starves women and children, sends a prisoner's entire family to prison camps for three generations where do all sorts of horrible things and spend only 5 years in prison.

People have been sent to prison far longer just because they had a bag of weed on them.
Do you even need to sue to prosecute the crime of unlawful/unlicensed public performance of a copyright med work.
multiple drive failure... i wonder if they were all the same brand / model / batch
Inflation in the form of government spending on infrastructure or wealth transfers to poorer citizens is not 'clearly' bad, there's significant academic debate on the subject. Disincentivizing cash-hoarding drives economic growth, and has done so for the past 50 years.
This article fails to recognize the value (in a Ui perspective) for detecting surrounding audio when you are in mute.

I do find it useful to know I tried to speak, and the audio bars visually indicate that I just spoke.

Hence the need for audio listening even if you are on mute.
I mean, you're going to get biased results, no? Only companies who are confident in self-hosting will self-host it. You won't have any real data about companies who are not confident in self-hosting maintaining their on-premises version of the software.
Thanks for this, makes total sense that depending on where they are on that timeline they'll be in different places typically.
In a relationship, you often get to chose between being right _or_ being happy.

A lot of people don't realize this but here it was again. The author wanted to be right ("my view is correct, glass near the sink is not important"). The author lost being happy at the cost of being right since their spouse left.
He was presenting his "crypto knowledge" to the totalitarian state.
> and consequences if they don't.

And these consequences usually just amount to getting some percentage of your service fees back. I'm sure the affected customers will get their entire monthly Atlassian Cloud fees back. Since this is so severe maybe Atlassian will even give them credits for some # of free months.

But there's no way the amount they'll get from Atlassian is going to come close to what they're losing in productivity by not having access to Jira & Confluence. At my company, getting an entire free year of Jira wouldn't be worth Jira being inaccessible for a week.
This wasn't Google, it was DeepMind. Google doesn't get any credit for this. I tried to start this project at Google but it conflicted with the Google Health team's goals.
True. But then you have an additional problem ...
Where "high quality positive news" is a tweet of a drone video, and "low quality negative news" is an LA Times article about ridiculous racism at Tesla.
The vast majority of clocks in the US use 12 hour time. 24 hour time just isn't used here outside of limited applications (military, computing, etc).

People generally aren't used to seeing time expressed in a 24 hour format. Most would choose a clock that shows the familiar 12 hour format over a 24 hour one that requires them to subtract 12 to get the time.

I think it would be similar to selling a Fahrenheit thermometer in Europe. Most people could learn to do the conversion, but they would probably just buy a Celsius thermometer instead.
Thanks for saying this. I spent years worried if I took an hour or two or a day during 'busy' times, and it turned me into a liar, because I said I do things or be somewhere and often times I did not because of work. It is always a 'busy' time.

It took years, several jobs, and therapy before my eyes were open. Nobody cares, you are a human and have a life, if your employer does not understand that you need a new one.
Could be...think about this: a niche search engine that tells you which individual products are in stock, and where they are, could be very valuable indeed. How many times have you thought, "I need to buy an X right now, but I don't know which store(s) carry it?"
OK I can't spell insectecide.
good ideas, thanks!
>Stallman is the FSF and they're irrelevant without him.

So will the FSF just cease operations when he dies?
Five years seems pretty mild when you consider the chief purpose of sanctions is to provide an alternative to war as a means of settling disputes. And this man is willfully undermining the ability of his country to levy sanctions.

Surely actively undermining the security of ones country is a serious offense.
I was part of the decision to purchase Atlassian tools at my company. We had been using a variety of self-hosted and SaaS tools which had varying abilities to integrate with each other. We’ve had very positive feedback from users since switching to them. We were also able to move some of our help desks to JIRA Service Management, and away from another self-hosted product which is still used by a good portion of our business. The self-hosted product is honestly a nightmare to maintain and keep secure. According to the vendor, the “fix” is to have 1-2 people dedicated to that product, which simply isn’t something that my team has the bandwidth or will to do.

JIRA does try to be all things to all people…and mostly succeeds. For instance, we use the same workflow and mostly the same nomenclature across our development and helpdesk teams. Some of our software projects use Kanban-style workflows, while others use sprints, but we can keep track of a project across multiple teams using the same tools. I’m sure other products also offer this, but we liked the integration and overall capability for the price.

There are definitely issues: some feature requests and bugs have languished in their backlog for years. But you can get started very quickly and we’ve had great feedback from users.
> shard your customer databases 1:1

What are the downsides to this?
Wow. I never considered this before:

Explaining certain kinds of behavior as the result of society-wide (patriarchaic) conditioning may be sexist itself, because it denies the womans individual agancy.
I'm guessing it's a sort of a nerd shorthand for "various means that are accompanied with self confusion of users but not with strong rational or scientific or technical basis"
Is the 40% an estimation from your side ? I could not find the efficiency numbers on the official webpage...
I agree; it's also nice for writing little obfuscated signatures, such as

%!PS % -John Tromp http://tromp.github.io/
/t{dup 1 sub gsave dup 0 gt{[.4 .2 -.2 .4 .4 .2]concat t currentgray
.8 mul .2 add setgray -1 1 scale t -1 2 translate t 1 -1 scale t[0 1
1 0 0 2]concat t pop}{0 moveto 1 0 lineto 0 2 lineto closepath clip
fill}ifelse grestore}def 10 10 translate 600 600 scale 5 t showpage

for producing a pinwheel tiling [1].

[1] https://tromp.github.io/img/pinwheel.pdf
I'm not sure about the exact threshold, but in this case we have definitely crossed it.