skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Free to read Web serial: Bolt from the Blue. BftB is a project that has taken two years to get to release. Written during the beginning of the pandemic and expanded on since.

Bolt from the Blue is speculative fiction set in the very near future, when climate and demographic changes are wreaking havoc across the globe. When Acacia Fone, a disabled veteran turned private investigator, is hired to uncover the causes behind the death of an environmentalist, she finds herself embroiled in a mystery promising global political consequences.
Wow, that’s even shadier
Ubuntu 22 Is Freezing with Two External Monitors
I struggled with all of this and decided instead of pull back on responsibility because it was making me extremely unhappy trying to constantly equal my similarly levelled colleagues.
Not you personally, but there can be third parties companies reviewing products
That's the impression I got as well. That made me discount Agner's arguments since they apply to Apple's M1, and the M1 is great in both raw performance and power efficiency.
This article has really nothing to do with Bitcoin itself. It is just a story how stupid investors are pouring money to companies that have the Bitcoin in its name, without really going through the business at all.

These companies have been ridiculously lousy investments. Borderline scams, when you look at executive compensation.
YOU give a shit about your feelings!
TLDR people are throwing capital at mining companies because they want traditional financial access to bitcoin gains. Mining companies will reach their proper evaluation when a bitcoin spot ETF is available to investors.
Yes that's fair, but if you choose algos/chains with actual distributed governance then you at least the voting has to happen on-chain so you can sell if you don't agree with the way a vote is going.

You can sometimes do the same with companies but definitely not always.
That was 12 years ago. Do you have 12 year old websites that have never been maintained ever?
It’s fully blocked from commenting on 4chan too.
Thank you both for writing in considerable detail to seek clarification.

I can tell some aspects are still lost in translation, though. It isn't easy.
ahh, fun fail
>So, given that, what's the ethical action

Sometimes the winning move is not to play, there's good arguments for supporting the humanitarian funds, but I disagree that foreign civilians should directly fund someone else's military (and the weapons used to kill others).

Of course I'd rather there not be a war at all and I'm a strong proponent of self-defense (I'm not Ukrainian however and Russia isn't directly attacking me currently), but I don't think it's ever ethical (from a principled standpoint) to personally (as a civilian) fund the killing of others (even if it's an unfortunate reality that can't be avoided).

If my elected government is concerned about the interest of my country enough that it believes it is beneficial to ensure the safety/sovereignty of my country (and/or related allies) to support Ukraine's military is an entirely different situation than asking ordinary people to directly finance weapons that will likely be used to kill (even if in self defense from another invading country).

All of that is assuming the weapons remain in the "right" hands as well. Personally I would feel bad if a weapon I helped fund got taken by the opposing soldiers and used to kill people from the side I were intending to help defend. The chances of ever finding out about something like that happening directly is slim, but it's a distinct possibility.

tl;dr I think it's improper to delegate military funding decisions (and potential consequences) onto normal civilians for something that should be at a greater military / governmental level.
Simple and reliable take a surprising amount of time to get right. We would rather move slowly and cautiously because we have thousands of operations folks who could have a really bad time if we rush something that causes folks to get paged at 2am or lose trust in the system.

Also, we’re bad at talking about the work we do. It’s the classic trap a lot of engineering founders fall into.
They mean there are third party organizations that perform testing. Consumer Reports and such. Or most supplement companies pay for independent testing (some skepticism is warranted since they're the ones paying).
I'd wager regularly consuming sweetened things also makes it a lot harder to quit sweetened things and get rid of the "sugar craving" reported by many.
> he says never invest in tech, never ever.

He's repeatedly explained that he doesn't invest in tech (well, until recently) because he doesn't understand it will enough, but has he ever told others not to invest in tech?
You misunderstood what I wrote. I said nothing about meaning. What I said is that the only thing that can possibly matter to you is how you feel. Talk of anything else is bullshit bordering on religion.
It could, but you don’t get a paycheck from online forums. Remembering that someone is paying you will sometimes work to curb excessive misbehavior.
Given all of the "problems" surrounding BTC/crypto, when will they actually matter enough to make BTC/USD stop being $30k and go to $10k or $0?

It dropped to $25k for like... what feels like a split second and people are still FOMOing into it, running it up to $30k (unless it's some kind of manipulation by whales to trap people's money... who really knows?)
I feel that the AV-receiver market has gone the way of the DSLR market. Compact speaker systems like Sonos (that don't need a separate AVR) simply got good enough. Thus the need for buying a separate AVR to drive your Dolby / DTS / etc. setup has all but vanished except maybe for the most determined audiophiles (and even most of these would do well to simply get a compact wireless speaker setup instead of some monstrosity that they can hardly ever enjoy...because too small of a listening room, and neighbours).

I'm not saying market for Onkyo, Denon, Sony, Yamaha, etc. AVRs is a goner, but I am suggesting it may have peaked and that going forward there will be less and less demand for AVRs, especially in the low/mid range of things.
Average firm size has increased as well (both in terms of employees and market cap) so that explains some of it.
Lisp has the property that the 'AST' is effectively 1:1 with the program code.

In Algol-descended languages like C, Java etc, the expression tree can look quite structurally different from the program due to precedence rules etc.

I think a tree-style editor for a more conventional PL would have to apply some transformations on the AST for display purposes, for programmer comfort.
Managing decline is not a plan for survival. No matter what you think of Trump, this was one of his primary policy issues, and is the basis for the "Make America Great Again" slogan.
Yeah, I reached out to their support a while ago to ask about it and they made me aware of the CardDav/CalDav instance at cdav.migadu.com. But yes, my understanding is the same as yours in that it is an unadvertised beta feature.

I can't remember the ports but if you point a CardDav/CalDav client at cdav.migadu.com they pick up the settings automatically. I've done this on iOS, Android, MacOS and Linux and they all seem to work perfectly for me with Migadu.
What can you do with Proxmox that you can't do with `kubectl apply -f blah-pod.yaml` or whatever?
No. I listen to music via headphones while falling asleep, and require my phone to charge at the same time. The dongles available are complete garbage: they only work with the connectors in certain orientations and sometimes just don't work outright. Designers that remove useful features without a consistently working replacement are selfish assholes and should be fired.
Probably a result of the stock market flying high for so long. Share based comp will do that.

I wonder what the average pay for top developers has done in the last 10 years.
> As of writing, there are 1,960,775 bitcoin remaining to be mined.

There will be more: https://henvic.dev/posts/bitcoin/#scarcity

They'll find a way to convince more suckers to adopt the shitcoin.
There's usually a x-year non-compete agreement when this happens... I know a guy that does exactly what you describe, starting a new garbage pickup service every 3 years, when the agreement elapses. He then works for ~3-4 years to build it back up. Sold twice already, and on his third.
I'd be curious to hear what workers think their CEOs compensation should be. I hear a lot of "a CEO doesn't do 100x the work of their workers." Well, what multiple do you think is more appropriate? What is the mechanism for determining that multiple? Direct democratic voting by the employees? Why stop at the CEO?

Maybe everybody should vote on everybody else's comp. I'd love to see how that plays out for a company. Anyone know if it has been tried?
You mean this function: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER_...? I don't get that Postgres RDS only allows you to import from csv, while the exports are strictly parquet. I know that Postgres implements the COPY command using csv or binary, but i would expect some end-to-end lifecycle implementation by AWS and parquet would at least enforce some schema and reduce some errors including those which caused yours.
https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/use-apps-in-full-sc...
Not sure why you think I want to convince anybody. The original poster asked why people seems so conformist IRL, as oppossed to online. I just explained that most people learned that being Don Quixote is dangerous.
Can you provide a non-theoretical example where an extant inertial body actually does no work? I believe this is impossible. You’ve just moved the assumptions to where they frame your perspective better than that other thing which competes with your perspective.
Interesting brand of ethics, if someone invades my house and threatens to kill my family (or worse), I would personally fight
If Roe vs Wade is defeated, it goes to the states to decide.
Cheap is relative as the labor market is not globally uniform.
I don't know about noise-cancelling, didn't even know there were headphones doing that.

But I have the Jabra Engage 75 (not Engage2) and I'm very happy with them. The mic doesn't pick up other voices in the house, since it sits 1 cm from my mouth and is fairly directional.

Also, the phones and base don't seem to communicate over Bluetooth because the range is great: more than 10 m through a thick house wall. I also don't notice the lag. The base is connected to the PC via USB. It also supports BT for connecting to a phone. And the volume controls on the phones affect the volume reported by Pipewire. The only thing that doesn't interact with PW is the Mic mute button. I don't have any kind of Jabra software installed - and there isn't any for Linux (they only have an SDK).

My only gripe with them is that they always prioritize my phone, so whenever I get a random notification they will cut the audio from the conference on the PC in order to play the "ding".
That was done on the cheap; there is a finite number of spots the pidgeons used to occupy. Pigeons also have a relatively fixed height when stationary. The camera was in a fixed position. I mapped the area the camera was observing manually: railing, base of the terrace, etc. I was contemplating using two cameras but the cheap setup worked nearly flawlessly when it comes to triangulation.
> No. See Bridgeman vs. Corel. That was settled years ago.

That's a US judgement. Both of the organisations in this case are British.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeman_Art_Library_v._Corel...

> As a US court case, Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp. is not binding upon UK courts.

And the UK government has a different opinion, which matches what I said.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/copyright-notice-...

> However, there is a degree of uncertainty regarding whether copyright can exist in digitised copies of older images for which copyright has expired.
It's an allergy to equating a higher IQ score with being smarter.

Being smarter can result in a higher score, but so can practicing multiple choice tests, and being more familiar with the language used by the test. I won't get the same results for a test in English as one in French.
Sounds good, keep up the good work!
Ask HN: I need a node/graph based backup solution
A network diagram of sorts, with the central node is the Backup Router.

Connected to it are all my devices.

I can drill into the Router for various endpoints.

I drag a device/folder between any node or drill-down-folder to drop a sync-link between locations.

Right-click on object for sync details.

Scroll out to select pods, racks, clusters, whatever.

DropBox on DMT.
rainforest is a single word. it probably removes all spaces before checking for words.
I don't drink and I don't like dogs, which is just to say that this kind of stuff appeals to some people and not at all to others. That sounds like my nightmare office.
Then the competition moves money from profit markets to undercut you... making it impossible to compete... your competition subsedize the costs and effectively sell for 20% below cost until you agree to sell or close shop
This is why Bitcoin miners located in Kosovo where electricity is "free". They're supposed to pay, but due to the political situation the power company can't disconnect deadbeat customers.

https://balkaninsight.com/2021/05/12/in-north-kosovo-mining-...
This is a great read. What could someone starting a company today do to address the problems brought up in this article?
First receiver I ever bought was an Onkyo ... in 1985. It still works.
Good points, but I think that if you want to consider the "ethics" of cryptocurrency mining, you have to acknowledge that currently there is a lot of hype around crypto that will eventually go away. There are a lot of irrational actors.

If you want to make a statement about the nature of bitcoin, I would consider an "equilibrium" situation where:

* The cost of specialized hardware is stable (e.g. what are the economies of scale as t->infinity ?)

* The price of bitcoin in terms of energy (BTC/watt hr) is stable

* Miners are rational actors

It seems to me like the most concerning aspect of cryptocurrency mining is that the hashrate is dependent on externalities like the price of bitcoin, rather than the necessary hashrate to defeat a 51% attack.
> Yammer was collecting revenues in the low eight figures and burning through a bonfire of cash every quarter. Microsoft, by contract, practically ran a printing press in their basement.

Funny typo (if it was indeed supposed to read “by contrast”).
From my experience headless browser scraping is in the order of 100x slower due to increased bandwidth, cpu and memory. I would seriously suggest the other, start with traditional scraping and if you can’t make it work then go headless. The difference in speed is to the point that going a longer route (maybe having to scrape 10x more pages for example) to the content that enables you to not use headless will probably still end up quicker.

On the memory side, headless you end up with far more memory leaks, having to manage stopping and starting new browser instances while maintaining scraping state. The devops overhead is probably 10x more with headless.
That's a very weird example - the majority of people buying Vitamin C at a US drugstore could just as well light their money on fire to no discernible difference in their health.
The Alder Lake node is about equivalent to TSMC's N7, maybe 10% better. N5, the node Apple is using for M1, is about 1.8x the density of N7 with 40% lower power usage.

AMD and Intel are on similar nodes at the moment, but Apple has a very notable advantage. It's not "secret sauce" so much as paying many billions for exclusive access.
Also curious about this

Similar to calls for paying “fair share” of taxes
Electrons themselves being just easily-measured boundaries around littler bits we’d be forced to acknowledge that our entire modeled reality is constructed.
NASA has a good map of places and times to see the eclipse.

https://moon.nasa.gov/news/172/what-you-need-to-know-about-t...
... because they're not douchebags?
Excel is the most important piece of software ever written
If I have two internet connections, how can I use both to increase my bandwidth?
What renders this whole calculation wrong is that it doesn’t account for transaction fees AND transaction fees growth which was also supposed to be growing exponentially, had Bitcoin not been artificially limited to ~ 2 MB blocks every ten minutes.

On an actually uncapped Bitcoin instance, Blocks (Block size) and transaction fees will grow exponentially, rendering all such “Bitcoin is environmentally terrible” and “Miners aren’t profitable” calculations absurdly wrong.

Other instances exist that are chugging along flawlessly and are set to help miners grow their revenue with on-chain transaction fees growth: DYOR.

Of course, BTC Maxis lead by companies set to profit from such an artificial limit on Bitcoin (hint: they often peddle L2 solutions) would hate for you or anyone to understand and study those facts.
The one you mentioned is flagged, for some mysterious reason...
What might reverse late-night TV’s decline?
Glossary of Railroad Lingo (1945)
Given this is about shareholder value and the supposed evils that come from maximizing shareholder value, if you believe everything you read here, then you could just never take the company public.

From there, you're not beholden to shareholders to maximize their value by paying employees poorly, etc. You can pay them whatever you want, although you are still beholden to math and accounting to pay wages that keep your company profitable, at least.
>How does one even know if the Vitamin C is Vitamin C?

Good question. For the last few years I've subscribed to Consumer Lab. They have a rigorous testing program for vitamins and supplements.

https://www.consumerlab.com/about/
https://labdoor.com/
Maximum eclipse at 4:11 UTC (11:11pm ET)

Full time details here: https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/lunar/2022-may-16
This is an excellent overall comment. One thing: As a sibling has pointed out I do enjoy not getting harped on so usually its either a small enough task so ill just do it or it’s difficult enough that I give reasons why I can’t do it (or need some dedicated time to get it done).

Ive had managers who have understood this dynamic and others who have ignored and try to use force by continuing to harp after Ive provided reasons. Generally I haven’t lasted that long under the latter.
You seem to be assuming that we don't enforce HN's rules. We do enforce the rules, but only on the posts we see. We don't see every post—there are too many.

You, or anyone, can help by flagging posts that break the site guidelines, and in egregious cases by emailing hn@ycombinator.com.
If you aren't moving your position and you have a topographic map of your territory, and you have a line-of-sight weapon that doesn't need wind or range adjustments... then you don't really need to know where your target is in 3 coordinates, you only need 2.

I would expect that ambient lighting changes are harder to compensate for when selecting targets.

It is, however, terribly irresponsible to do this, since temporary reflectors like water puddles or a misplaced water glass can be inadvertently weaponized.

For small areas, an overhead water sprinkler would be much, much safer and not need aiming at all.
Maybe they're buying it to adjust the acid balance in their homemade wines (like me)?
How's the mic on those? I have the WH-XM3s and boy do they suck. I've never managed to get good audio from their mic, be it on Linux, macOS, or iOS.

I bought them for listening to music, so I don't really mind, and for this they are absolutely great, even on Linux.

Never had any issues with them and didn't have to jump through any hoops.
> Their theory, in a nutshell, was that there was an inherent conflict in business between owners (shareholders) and managers, and that this conflict had to be resolved in favor of the owners, who after all owned the business; and the best way to do that was to find a way to align those interests by linking managerial compensation to owner success.

And all along the real solution is so obvious: make the employees and customers owners.

The co-op ownership model aligns all interests in ways that actually make sense.
Energy is always conserved. Just define the computer to be the system in which energy is conserved, and there you go.

A "computer" is a formal pure-mathematics notion, it is just a certain sort of "discrete mathematical model". One can define a computational model of any physical system, and hence, find computers in which energy is conserved.
An easier to interpret description: https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/lunar/2022-may-16

which given your location tells you what to expect. For me the news is bleak: full eclipse begins at 05:23 local time, and sunrise is just 4 minutes later, so the darkening of the moon's face probably won't register against the rapidly brightening sky. But the site overall is a go-to for easily digested information on all things daylight.
Proxmox supports virtual machines and is a web-based frontend to KVM/QEMU.

Kubernetes is a scheduler for containerized workloads.
I thought that was fixed with Kernel 5.15.35

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux-51...

Did you have this kernel, or an earlier one? (Perhaps there're still many problems to fix)
Start a co-op. Make your employees and customers owners.
Then there is another aspect to considering, which is what protection copyright actually provides.

EU laws says that copyright owner has the sole right to “(re)produce” and make available to the public. (Paraphrasing).

Considering that the image is medical, then there are in part, a lot of other laws that restrict any potential copyright owner (eg: the dentist) from making the image available to the public, due to the sensitivity.

Which might mean the copyright owner might only have the “right” to create more copies, which one might ask what purpose it would have to create more copies of a piece of work that can’t be viewed by anyone else than the patient, and other medical staff connected to the patient.
I feel a 1.25x to 3x multiple from the next highest paid employee sounds reasonable to me.

I think with CEO I don't understand how the demand and offer works.

Wouldn't there be tons of people willing to do the job for way less? So why is it so high? Is it true that there are very few qualified individuals that can do a good job at CEO?
Neither of these areas are my field, so I could be entirely misunderstanding this preprint [1] from 2021. The preprint mentions using Zipf's law in the objectives section on attempting to deciphering Linear A.

The literature survey section mentions there have been good results using computational methods in 2020 to automatically decipher Linear B. The discussion section mentions "To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to discuss and show computational analysis of Linear A."

Again, neither of these are my fields, but it looks like if these linguists have tried to use Zipf's law or other computational methods unsuccessfully in deciphering Linear A, the results weren't published. (Or a poor literature survey, or other explanations...) I'm not an academic either, so I don't know what the practices are for publishing unsuccessful results.

[1] https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03207615/document