skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> (worth noting this would be difficult to do in FIAT due to the amount)

Difficult how? Wire transfers are a thing. Or are you just hoping that doing this with a token lets you dodge taxes somehow?
Carbon tax only works if everyone agrees which is the actual crux of the issue. If you enforce new legislation to tax carbon-emitting industries in the US, all you are doing is offshoring that manufacturing to some place where the tax does not exist.

Not saying that it's inherently a bad idea, but there are no silver bullets on that issue. I'd like to see more work done on point source capture of carbon/methane. https://netl.doe.gov/carbon-management/carbon-capture
> If you are trying to avoid fish oil, you could try krill oil

Curious - what about fish oil is to-be-avoided but lets krill be a suitable substitute?
Is this a good thing? We already have a shit ton of useless software out there.
> A dual core CPU that is usable today I suspect will be unbearably slow for the web in ~5 years.

I will go out and say that it's not CPUs which are ageing poorly, it's the web that is getting too bloated for everyone. Hacker news is the signature example of how much utility you can get out of simple HTML/CSS. I really see little need for the behemoths that are Facebook's and Twitter's modern interfaces (which in turn make old laptops feel slow, even when they're not).
I’ve always imagined that an iPod-something would be my child’s first camera/media device. We’re not ready for that leap yet (at only 3 1/2 yo), but I’m curious — what are others opting for in this use case?
Isn't a new Coke flavor supposed to taste somewhat like Coke? It doesn't.
> And it's free!

Because the magazine is owned by a billion-dollar hedge fund and doesn't need to worry about turning a profit every quarter.
I can't find any reputable source or even credible estimate about the total number of videos on YouTube.

What I did find, though, is that YouTube currently touts[1] "500+ hours of content uploaded every minute", which means 43.2 million minutes of video per day if we take that claim at face value.

And a study finding the average video length was 11.7 minutes[2] in 2018.

So, naively doing the math suggests that YouTube is currently adding ~3.7 million videos per day. Or another billion videos every 9 months.

Keep in mind this doesn't account for a ton of variables and the math is pretty hand wavy. But it's the closest thing I could do to a sanity check on the numbers in 5 minutes.

Conclusion: yeah there's way more than a billion videos on YouTube.

[1] https://blog.youtube/press/

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1026923/youtube-video-ca...
> Having 1000 NPM packages is better for your reputation than having 100. And having all 1000 packages with lots of weekly downloads is better than having just a portion of that.

Should we treat them as spammers and polluters, then? Because if what you describe is true, that deserves to be called out and mowed to the ground.
> Setup went from intro chem to quantum mechanics

Doesn't really seem fair. On the one hand you might need to do a bit of work so that you can say `docker-compose up` or `nomad up` or whatever, but at the same time there are plenty of issues with running binaries/databases directly on a laptop - version skew, for instance.

> So long for understanding our systems

This is fundamental to all asynchronous systems. You don't have backtraces anymore. If your service has concurrency primitives you probably already have to solve this problem with tracing, microservices just give you another asynchronous primitive.

> If we can’t debug them, maybe we can test them

Bringing up your entire application is what you'd have to do in a monolith as well, I don't understand this criticism. Also, "teaching" your CI to do this is 0 additional work - it's gonna be another "docker-compose up" or whatever, generally speaking.

Our microservice codebase runs on laptops just as it runs in the cloud. It's pretty nice.

With regards to "That is probably a bit too much effort so we’re just going to test each piece in isolation" - again, this is the same thing with your monolith. You'll just do this at the module level.

This is really a "right tool for the job" situation. And that's hard for people to understand, since oftentimes you don't know what you're building upfront.
> I wonder if anyone who wants to bring back the monolith has ever worked on a true large monolithic codebase?

Probably not, that's really the point :)

Although I think the limit is significantly higher today. Monorepo tooling is orders of magnitude better than 10 years ago.
One would think people write these missives, but on further thought, it might be OpenAI trained on 1000s of previously similarly obfuscated press releases.
I'm not any kind of an academic on the subject, but I'd guess a combination of lack of resources, and general lack of scale.

Japan simply was not that big a country and even if you assume they had a disproportionate amount of intellectuals or amount of advancement per individual, they're a tiny tiny fraction of the size of the US, the US simply could be working on a lot more projects at once, and even long-shot ones that might not bear fruit, and they were working on the shorter-term ones at the same time. And that size factor also translates into much poorer availability of the strategic materials that are necessary for a lot of advanced research.

After Midway the Japanese military really shifted into field-expedient mode, you can see it even in things like the quality of their small arms production, they started cutting every corner that it was possible to safely cut and then some. At that point I imagine that a lot of the advanced research was cut hard unless it was really really important (iirc they still had, for example, a nuclear program) or seemed likely to bear immediate fruit.

The pacific front was really over when Japan didn't get the US carrier fleet at Pearl Harbor and it was definitely over after Midway, everything after that was just stubbornness. Same as the European front - there was really no chance of victory once the US shifted off a market-economy to a command-economy focused around war production and you had an industrial nation 2-3x the size of everyone else sitting 2000 miles away (which, realistically, might as well have been on the moon as far as Axis force projection) pumping war materiel into the battle. The US could build tanks faster than the Germans could blow them up, they could re-tool the Russian industry to modern standards, and they could build ships faster than the Japanese (or German u-boats) could sink them, all at the same time.

In that sense even if they had gotten the pacific fleet, the US probably still could have won in the long term, it would just have taken years longer. It's a "what if the germans had actually taken moscow" counterfactual... it probably still wouldn't have changed anything given the biggest factor, which is an untouchable foe sitting on the other side of the planet pumping out war materiel while you run out of your own resources.

But yeah in general the role of the military in Imperial Japan is very interesting... the army and the navy both had their own armies and navies and air forces, and they basically were in competition for the favor of the emperor. It wasn't quite what we think of as a modern professional military where everyone is at least theoretically "on the same side", the armed forces VERY MUCH did not like each other and would go out of their way to screw the other over. I could definitely see some disdain for eggheads, or refusing to adopt a technology because it came from the wrong branch too.
The first time the phrase was coined, it meant SOA using REST instead of SOAP.

Today I don't know wtf it means. I guess it depends upon who you ask.
And when they lose all their money in crypto, it'll be just like when they walked away from that essential oil company, and that house they were going to flip, and their beany babies, and that .com company and the herbalife in their garage and the ...
I think it works, toxins can transmit into the body not just through the ingestion route but also skin absorption among many other routes. So if there's toxins in the sand of the kind the skin is vulnerable to then that sandbox would be poisonous to the occupants.
https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/skin/default.html#:~:text=D....
Designing a video compression algorithm is a purely mathematical task.

However you are right that for comparing different compression methods and for deciding which is the best method of several alternative methods having the same compression ratio, it is far better to do experiments with humans, instead of relying on some mathematical criterion, e.g. the distance between the original signal and the decompressed signal, according to some simple metric.

So I agree that a new video or audio compression algorithm may incorporate some new knowledge about a physical system, i.e. about the perceptual abilities of humans.

However that would justify patenting only some features of the algorithm that have the clear purpose of taking advantage of some characteristics of the human vision which have been newly discovered and described by the patent authors.

The valid claims cannot cover any mathematical tricks to improve the efficiency of the algorithm or any characteristics of the human vision that have already been exploited in the patents for older video compression algorithms.

I am pretty sure that no patent for video compression algorithms restricts itself to such reasonable patent claims.

Regarding software, the main problem is what makes you think that the fact that you happened to be the first to write a program that solves a certain problem, gives you any right to forbid to everybody else to solve the same problem.

It is guaranteed that there are thousands of other programmers who would solve the same programming problem as well as you or even better, without knowing anything about your solution, but they just happened to not face that problem before you.

Any kind of software is a combination of known elements, which have been used for the first time in the early times of the computer industry. Those early algorithms were much more innovative in comparison to the existing practice, than those that are patented now. Had they been patented, no software company, e.g. Microsoft, could have ever appeared and grown.

All those who have patented software in recent years stand on the shoulders of the early programmers who have not patented much more valuable ideas, which are now freely incorporated in the patented software.
Red Arrows' red, white and blue trails are going green
It's even worse. The Max turbo power on these CPUs is 157W. So if the cooling can keep up these will draw much more than 55W.
It's not a new one. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30403848 was exactly the same exploit.
So, a few reference points. In 1980: the median household income was $17.7k. The median income for one individual was $12k. $80k in 1980 is roughly equivalent to $240,000 in 2020.

That was top-end middle class, absolute minimum.

https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/1982/demographi...
This sorta thing would mean the world to me and my team at our little bootstrapped startup. We may go broke before we turn revenue and we're now blowing enough smoke in front of mirrors to get VC funding.
Don't forget workstation laptops that are basically always plugged in.
> We should treat things like operating systems do: have collaborative security assessments for each package BEFORE it is published.

This would not work for small open source projects, and every successful open source project starts out as a small project that nobody vetted yet.

I have smaller, but popular open source packages that I know are used by many people,and most of those projects (even now, after a year being public) get zero actual contributions. If my most popular packages don't receive pull requests, how would I find a trustworthy expert committee to judge all my other silly little packages for free?

Also, why would I make the projects I work for fun and for free purposefully a painful, sluggish, bureaucratic experience for everyone involved?
The end of an era for sure.... hope the iOS keep coming out for as long as possible.
Warning: Compilation times suck for Elixir/Erlang. I'm frustrated almost daily when I make changes to my code and have to wait for 66 .ex files to compile after changing one single line of code in a heex template.
Common Lisp has a very sophisticated type system. The only thing it doesn't have (among things that are currently fashionable) is compile-time typing by default.

Peridot is "novel" in that it introduces user-level compiler optimizations into a language that does have compile-time typing by default. But that's kind of like Chevrolet making a plug-in hybrid version of the C8 Corvette (which they recently announced they are going to do). Neither the C8 nor plug-in hybrids are new. A plug-in hybrid C8 will be new, and when it happens it will be a Big Deal to a niche market: the intersection of C8 fans and plug-in-hybrid fans. But it won't change the world.

(For the record, I happen to be a member of the niche market to which a plug-in hybrid C8 will appeal, so I am very excited about it. So I get that some people may be excited about Peridot. I just think it's important to keep things in perspective.)
You're basically talking about reypothecation[0]

[0]: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/rehypothecation.asp
Check out EWG's sunscreen list, it rates sunscreens based on toxicity and UV protection.

https://www.ewg.org/sunscreen/

They rate most products found in North America. It is my go-to resource for sunscreens
Is what they learned factual? Because none of the supposed wrong doings was judged wrong by any court.
That doesn't explain why anyone would choose Eve over Tetris, or you know, gathering 'virtual points' in real life pursuits.
I’m sure I’ll regret wading into the epistemological debate over your faith-based belief system, but here we are.

Over the past few months, I have received two completely incorrect fire evacuation notices from our local emergency services.

This occurred as a result of complaints after our last major fire; people complained that the alerts were insufficiently broad.

In response, our emergency operations center sent out over-broad alerts that inaccurately geo-targeted recipients.

Should I have immediately acted on those alerts, loading my possessions and pets into the car and hightailing it out of the area?

Should we be forced to evacuate based on the invalid geotargeting? Should communication providers and social networks censor contrary information?

I’m just trying to gauge what degree of uncritical trust and faith you think we should place in fallible authorities and institutions, and how strictly we should enforce your orthodoxy, rather than requiring presentation of evidence and leaving open the door for critical scientific examination.

To be very clear, I’m on the local fire department and the invalidity of the evacuation notices is beyond question. They were incorrect and counterproductive.
My 2012 i7 Mac Mini is still alive and kicking for its intended use, which is basically media playing and launching Homekit automations. Lots of Youtube content these days, but it saw quite a few torrents and Soulseek downloads on its day. I cannot justify replacing it, even if it is running an unsupported OS.
> I am not sure how comfortable I am with passwordless login unless the keys are kept purely in hardware such as a TPM.

Shouldn't this be something for the user to decide? Using a TPM as a key is a bit silly; it amounts to turning the computer as a whole (strictly speaking, its motherboard and/or CPU) into a big smartcard/FIDO key. If that physical device breaks down, the associated identity is toast. A purely software-based key you can always back up.
It's like a TikTok video plot: Tell me you are discontinuing a product line without telling me you are discontinuing a product line.
The issue has been publicly known for years.

The more focus we can get the better - hopefully NPM will add MFA at some point...
Part of the reason why I gave up commenting on video codec. 90% of what you wrote here is inaccurate to say the least.

The terms for HEVC on MPEG-LA and Access Advance are freely available on their website. If any one wants to look at the cap aka the limit on per company / entity basis you are free to do so.

One could be against patent as an idea or its system all you want. But an objective truth does not change simply because you are against it.
That’s because they are vetted by ONE organization, that privately owns the store. It is actually an example of private capitalist ownership, again.

In science, no one “owns” physics. No one “owns” articles on wikipedia. The ideal is to have multiple reviews represented and all of their major legitimate concerns should be addressed before publishing something to the public. Think of concentric circles where the inner circle isn’t just Apple or Google but a good mix of experts with different views.

The hard part is resolving disputes between experts, or determining if a criticism is legitimate. This is what “edit wars” are like on wikipedia. Perhaps in this case, both points of view should be included side by side.

In a capitalist market system, though, explaining nuances of WHY Trump’s or Biden’s administration did something, or including the entire context of a gaffe video, would make it uninteresting to their audience. Imagine if Fox News would fairly report the results of studies about single payer healthcare around the world - their audence would bounce. They face intense market pressures to cater to their audience, this is WHY they report as they do and WHY they tell their straight news anchors to “rein it in”.

The one exception may be Tucker Carlson over there, who is able to somehow maintain a show while going against the entire military-industrial complex and establishment, unlike Sean Hannity. It is a rare phenomenon to see someone with such a highly promoted time slot have such a contrarian position. But if it sells to an audience, I guess it works. CNN totally jumped the shark when they discovered they can cover the malaysian airline flight for months 24/7 and their ratings went up. They went from being a straight news network to pandering for ratings too. None of the open source platforms or wikipedia would sell out like that.
I just hope the titanium dioxide is as non toxic as we hope, since it's damn hard to avoid, including in stuff that you put inside your body as opposed to just on it. I failed to get a toothpaste without it, but it's in other stuff I consume, too (for no particular reason other than optics).
Totally agree with this article. It's not just about funding methods, but also playbooks for these types of businesses, and best practices.

I've bootstrapped IPinfo.io to millions in revenue and a team of over 20 - so we're squarely in the "Middle class", and there's a tension between the "bootsrapper advice" (which mostly applies to optimizing for lifestyle and eliminating any risk) and "VC backed advice" (which mostly seems to optimize for scale and speed) - and a lack of advice for anything that balances those 2 (let's be ambitious and serve a large market and create the best products with great people, but let's run this as a marathon and not a sprint, and let's not risk everything on a big outcome).
I've never paid a publication fee for any publication. Very dependent on the journal.

(Also, journals charge for things like color images, etc).
> I’d think nothing would excite fellow programmers more than the ability to build their own systems and mod it into a “world” without any limits/permissions on it :

You don't need a blockchain with global consensus to do that.
> artificially inflating the price with stock buybacks.

Returning money to investors isn't artificially inflating the price, it's literally the whole point of public markets...
how about an iPad? mini if the size is a concern for you guys, but the camera is pretty solid, performance means it’ll last your kid years, and there are so many edu-tainment titles on the App Store. i think especially the Pencil (or the child-oriented Logitech alternative) would be great to encourage a growing child’s creativity, as well as apps like iMovie, GarageBand…
useless to who?
Time for another reminder of a study I saw long before the COVID-19 days - study done referring to software enabling distributed knowledge work.

Remote work improves the results of good managers, and makes bad managers' results worse.

Apparently because good managers manage for results, and bad managers manage only for indicia of sork, such as butts in seats, screen time, ability to walk around and interrupt to micromanage...

If a company at this point, with solid results for as-good-as or better results far lower costs (e.g., reduced office costs), and becoming more competitive (e.g., ability to hire workforce from entire continents and not just 50km from your offices), fails to be moving to substantial if not complete remote work, this is a negative sign, and you can safely avoid them if at all possible.

This goes for applying for jobs as well as investment.
100% been vegetarian for 10+ years and didn't realized I needed vit A suppl. till just a few years ago.
This suggests a good answer for why he’s so sensitive to shadowy conspiracies and bad faith actors (re: the mob rant): he was indulging in some of it himself. Not that we should assume this absolves Stripe. There seems to be some circumstantial evidence for their ruthless behavior beyond what Breslow has offered.
There's a russian artist who's made a couple of albums about "singing bronze". He plays the bronze plates, they sound a lot like bells.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsZ5RIZrNKw
I'm getting a 526 (Invalid SSL certificate) error for that site…
> $100k watches are enough to start a new life on, in some random part of South America, Africa, or Asia

Not trying to derail your overall point, but are $100k watches ever actually fungible to this extent? I figured it was just conspicuous consumption by people with too much money and not an item with a solid re-exchange rate to cash. (I did know a guy who had an enormous belt buckle made of gold and it seemed like a more rational way to move amounts like this.)
For what it's worth, Debian packagers check signatures when downloading from PyPI.
like it, the zero version, vs the new coke zero which was a downgrade
I started using my 6th gen nano again just a couple of weeks ago, after my last-gen iPod classic finally gave up the ghost. I don't know what I'm going to do long-term - the capacity of the nano just isn't enough. It's heartbreaking watching functionality regress like this :(
Raising a $2.3M Seed – After Being Rejected by YC and Leaving Behind $345,000
This is where micro-services come in for me. Except, for all intents and purposes I'm a one man development shop.

APIs.

I've deployed about 10 or micro-services for use cases where a simple API is required for my applications. Maybe it's literally querying a row in a table and returning the result in JSON format. Or maybe it's to generate a JWT to access Apple Maps.

Just craft it up in NodeJS, deploy to Lambda, and those little services haven't changed in years but they just keep cranking away.

We can have both monoliths and micro-services where appropriate.
Best way to do it would be to tax anyone flying on PJs. You could buy an annual private jet license and it would be very expensive.
I'm on the other end of this. Recently moved to VSCode from Doom (before that neovim), it was just so slow for me. With default settings, switching between projects can take up to 10 seconds, which is instantaneous on VS, and can get actual latency between keypresses. I just didn't know what i was missing.

Anyone who hasn't looked at VS in a while I'd highly recommend it, just spending some time removing the bloat can make for a real clean experience.
The ACLU Has Lost Its Way
Spammer tricks.
Agreed. My point is it seems worse now.
I'm assuming just a smartphone without a SIM. That's essentially what the iPod touch was.