skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Free to you, but HP is likely paying Ubuntu. They wouldn't be paying much, but they're probably paying something.

The Ubuntu license says that if they make any modification whatsoever, no matter how trivial, they can no longer call it Ubuntu. Just adding a driver is enough to trigger the clause, AFAICT.
Does that mean if my webapps get DOSed or something like that, and I can‘t react very quickly, I could face a bill potentially in the thousands of dollars?

Currently considering switching from Heroku, but fixed pricing is a must. I‘d rather they shut down my apps temporality in case something is out of control, then get broke ;-)

Any other recommendations besides fly.io?
Your GP comment is written in the flamewar style: escalating, sensational, and indignant. That's the opposite of what we want on HN, particularly on divisive topics, as you'll see if you read the site guidelines at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Note these:

"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

"Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity."

I'm seeing lots of comments like that in your feed. Examples:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31384784

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31381302

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31334684

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31286305

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31243595

This is not cool.

In addition, you're using HN primarily for ideological battle, which is a line at which we ban accounts, regardless of what they're battling for. If you don't want to be banned on HN, we need you to stop that as well. Note that this is a different line than the one I'm describing above. For more explanation about it, see https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme.... HN is definitely not a place for political or culture warriors, regardless of which side they're on or have a problem with. It's a place for intellectual curiosity, and those things are profoundly incompatible.
Curious what would happen to trendy names like “.io”. Most names are country specific, e.g. I can’t imagine people outside of Japan wanting “.jp” domain, others can transcend the country.
Sure, lots of engineering needs, but I work with some software PMs in the industry. Reach out.
Every acquisition is different. To the layperson, every acquisition is a success and people think that almost everyone in the company is "set" after an acquisition. However, the reality is, in many acquisitions, nobody makes money -- not even the founders. A lot of times, the founders even lose their dignity. I had a classmate who had the highest of aspirations. He wanted to build a billion dollar company just like every other founder these days. His company was acqui-hired. He always took it as almost an insult when other "more successful" people in our circle congratulated him on his acqui-hire. In regards to the company being acquired by a larger company, the product sometimes heads in a very positive direction, and many times, the opposite happens as well. This post asks us to answer a question that is so broad that it makes no sense.
> What was the 'terrible commercial mistake' that the sriracha guy made?

"He does not bother going after restaurants and other businesses that use his sauce in their dishes and products, even though he could make millions from them in licensing fees. His company's advertising budget is nothing. He hasn't even bothered to trademark the name "sriracha."
I just want a laptop with an ortho keyboard (grid layout instead of staggered rows).
And this is why we must never give up and "be pragmatic". We need to get things done today, sure, but we must also never stop pushing for a freer tomorrow.
Alternatively, we can be happy that some legacy systems actually die when they're no longer useful. My general attitude toward retro-computing is that the good old days weren't actually that good. I, for one, don't care if the original meaning of "PC" passes into irrelevance.
If you're saying what I think you are, it's that as soon as we define what can be done in a "pandemic", every cold and flu will suddenly be labeled as such and let governments have absolute power over what people can do again. This should be a huge concern, after all the success of waving the magic wand of covid to bypass any objections, the real "new normal" will be special interests constantly using "pandemics" to get their way.

Rather than enshining version control, I think we need to make the limits on government power clear, and (unfortunately) revoke a lot of powers, like vaccination and limiting gatherings, that a responsible government might have needed to invoke on a more serious public health crisis.
That's really not how programmers are paid though. They're paid high salaries only when working at certain companies in some cities or countries, and mostly because it's hard to hire devs. Programmer pay has nothing to do with multiplier, but purely offer and demand in my opinion.

That's why I'm not sure why it's any different for CEOs. I've rarely seen a CEO repeat success from one place to another, granted I don't pay that much attention. But I doubt if you moved Tim to Microsoft that suddenly he could revive Windows Phone and overthrow Apples smartphone dominance.

I feel the evidence that a CEO has any significant impact on company output seems lacking. Yes they have impact in that they make important decisions, but compared to the decisions being randomly made or made by any other person that could have made them, can you really single out one CEO as being consistently beating others?

And can you ignore the executive staff and everyone else as well? How much is it the CEO or the particular set of people in the executive decision making branch, along with all the consulted employees?
The Srinivasan article for background:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21173564
> why education is so poorly funded and constantly under various attacks in the US

It’s not poorly funded. The US spends the second most in the world per kid, we just get so little out of each dollar.
My guess is that those computers are missing Linux drivers for modern devices like a camera or fingerprint scanner or something. Those wouldn't be expected to be supported in FreeDOS, but would be in Linux.
Betteridge's law strikes again! acquisition is always about capital concentration and thus more efficient use of said capital, and rarely about whatever crack they sell to the underlings. When economy reaches certain scale the products are interchangeable and it's 90% in capital and finances. it doesn't matter whether you're selling fish or chips.
Right, that’s mid 20th century. There was immigration restriction in the US starting in the early 20th century, which caused the foreign born population percentage to drop under 5% in 1970 (compared to almost 15% in 1910 and almost 14% today). But prior to 1920 or so those restrictions weren’t there.
People have been saying this literally since the first ASIC came out. And guess what. People have made a lot of money buying these money printers.
"SurvAI takes the difficulty out of creating survey funnels. No longer do you have to painstakingly build your survey funnel from scratch."
"This is amazing best way to chip the ice with prospects and give them exactly what they need."
The WHO report actually agrees with you on food cartel issue
> My point is that daytime utility power that comes from a solar farm will always be cheaper then rooftop solar.

If you ignore the cost of maintaining the grid between A and B, yes and if you ignore the value of people having storage in their house being able to optimise their in house consumptions to match the solar production, yes (this would be possible with pricing signals but it is not done, also there are slight psychological differences for the user) and if you ignore communities having access to power in case the electricity grid is under attack due to foreign invasion, yes.
> You’re desperate to get back to running an in-person event, but you know it isn’t quite safe yet.

> Maybe you’ve seen in-person events in your community lead to large-scale COVID outbreaks or even deaths, and that terrifies you.

This kind of alarmism destroys any credibility the article might have.

(Edit: I posted the above comment two days ago, interesting that the story has been revived and the comment is editable again)
Now apply it to businesses that have an open-source model...
Here's something that's fascinating.

A type of therapy that's become more popular recently is called Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR).

You lie down, while the therapist asks you to follow their index finger with your eyes as they move it back and forth about 12 inches in front of you. So it's recreating those rapid eye movements. At the same time, you're asked to recall a traumatic event, bringing back the images, any sounds, thoughts, in detail.

This is a fairly new form of therapy, with both strong supporters and critics. But a lot of evidence points to the fact that, for whatever reason, this technique allows people to more safely access their trauma, process it, and take control of their thoughts.

I first read about in this book The Body Keeps The Score (by Bessel Van Der Kolk, MD), which by the way is absolutely fascinating. In a nutshell it's about trauma. But talks about different types of trauma, the effects it has on your brain, childhood vs adult trauma, treatments, his experience treating it, etc.

It's an exciting area of study and there's evidently something about REM (Rapid Eye Movement) and processing memories/trauma.
I love this project! In the spirit of sharing ideas, I would have probably done this full analog. I’d set up a rudimentary analog break beam detector (like what they use to detect if a garage door is cleared to close) beaming across the balcony, and if so, trigger the relay to shoot the gun!
Healthy immigration isn’t going to last much longer if the cons get back into power in 2023-2024, as seems likely at this point. Closing the borders will be a fantastic way to curry favor with the MAGA base, and the cons will have no excuse not to do it with Democrats completely out of power in every part of the government.
someone told me this so I'll pass it on.
When you feel the world hates you, go get some sleep.
When you hate the world, go grab some food.
And drink plenty of water in between.

Worked for me.. and don't binge on the news and food too much lol
> I would never move to a country without a clear and simple path to permanent residency.

Much of my family left Bangladesh and ended up in Canada and Australia rather than the US. I’m not sure how it’ll work out for Canada and Australia in the long run but it’s clearly better from the immigrants’ perspective.
Obligatory XKCD:

https://xkcd.com/993/
Yeah and the discount brand uses worse eg pig parts chicken things et cetera.
What Counts as Fresh Food?
It's easier to rotate the grating. That's how we did this in labs in undergraduate (we did a session on imaging the sun with a high res spectrometer). Or put it on a stepper or servo motor and sweep it in several positions. We used an SBIG camera and a micrometer-adjustable spectrometer. It seems like SBIG got bought up by the folks that make MaximDL. They used to sell these instruments off the shelf for $$$$.

It's more complicated to use multiple cameras on one grating because you'd need far more light shielding.
This guy made an autonomous drone swarm of 12 drones similar to what you describe.

The overral objective was for any drone within the swarm to immediately chase and ram into the first human it could locate. The processes were automated and could be triggered while unattended.

For reasons the video explains, letting 12 drones all try to independantly do the same thing at the same time was not going to work, so he came up with ghis structure.

1 server that processed the video feeds from the drones using AI trained to recognize humans/human faces
1 C&C computer that sent master commands and stuffs .... and maybe the computer flight code ...?
12 drones assigned to their own LAN making them a virtual group
4 of these drones were designated as flight leaders. They sent data from their cameras to the video processing server and recieved targetting results back. Sent target and flight instructions to the two drones assigned to them.
2 drones are assigned to each flight leader drone forming a single unit. They only communicate with their flight leader. They do what it does.

I know ... it isnt anywhere near what would be required for combat use, but come on... in the last test, his drones did what they were supposed to do; every single one of them automatically attacked the first human being they detected immediately. Better yet, they did it in unison. More better of all, all of them him.

This guy did this with cheap, off the shelf parts, by himself, during his downtime at home as a joke for Youtube.

https://youtu.be/Hu3p5ZR_i5s
Neat, I'd say that is absolutely HN frontpage worthy!
> Why can't the network accept the power?

The network can but it doesn't want to for a variety of reasons.
I think a more relevant criticism would be that the article lacks information on the underlying costs of electricity, so we don't know if Tesla is passing along costs or increasing profit.* Nobody needs a journalist to tell them stuff about gas prices they can see by literally driving around any neighborhood on the planet, unless the goal is just to defend Tesla (which is not journalism either.)

I for one am glad to learn about the price increases from this article, because I probably wouldn't have thought to check before my next trip.

* Unfortunately this is difficult, since Tesla is probably the only reliable source for its own cost information and they fired their PR department. https://electrek.co/2021/04/28/elon-musk-no-new-tesla-pr-dep...
Which issues do these methods cause?
"Be stupid"

I realized that super-dumb and super-smart people often get to the same conclusions.
So often times, when I find myself stuck, I remind myself to think stupid before making a decision.
I’m a big proponent of this idea, having seen the radical changes getting enough sleep has made in my own life. I’m also concerned about the prevalence of sleep deficits in the US population, and how much this is contributing to social problems.
For sure flagging goes both ways on political/ideological flamewars. How could it be otherwise? That's not what HN is for.

The thing to do with egregious comments is not to feed them by replying, but to flag them (and in particularly bad cases, to email hn@ycombinator.com to make sure we see it).

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I have one from about 8 years ago. It’s good. But it has one infuriating issue: nothing tells you anywhere that your Component input (my Wii) will not EVER output to HDMI for the TV. I killed countless hours troubleshooting why I’d never get picture.

(yes there are technical excuses. This is a product design failure)
This is the reason I use Heroku and would never on a personal level use some of the bigger solutions, or apparently Fly.io. As an individual and despite being generally careful, I just cannot have a tiny risk of having a $100k+ accidental bill. I'd rather my project goes down if there's a DDOS attack, or if I made a typo and created an infinite loop. If I take some of my hobby projects to the "next level", it'd be def behind a LTD company.
No, we don't bill people for traffic from attacks. We also waive fees from big, legitimate bursts. The intent of our bandwidth pricing is to allow high usage, sustained bandwidth workloads. It's not to sneak one over on you.
Quite infamously the Ukrainian ambassador to Germany claims a minister had talked to him like Russia had already won just after the invasion began: https://news.storyua.com/news/2517.html

The whole government (or maybe a specific chancellor from a party with a history of ties to Putin ...) is still dragging its feet and only slowly coming around. It still feels a bit like they want Ukraine to lose already so they can finally stop caring about it.
> Elon calls them out on that ridiculously low number, says the deal is on hold until this fraud is verified.

This is a fantasy because that's not how any of this works. He can't put the deal on hold, the number of bots on twitter doesn't give him an out, regardless of wether it's five percent or 35 percent — in short, he doesn't have a position of leverage if twitter wants to pursue it legally. Read Matt Levine's latest columns for a complete and thorough breakdown.

This whole debacle is not some kind of '5D chess' move from Musk, it's just the inevitable outcome of a fickle, ego-driven billionaire throwing his money around, and possibly (deservedly!) losing a huge amount of his fortune.
The idea is to get the most productive years out of someone then send them home.
To be fair, I was unable to find the original document, so we don't actually know how many watts the algae generator can provide, we only know how much the computer that they used consumed, also they did note that after 6 months the algae was dead.

That being said, I'm sceptical about the scalability of the algae generator because it's efficiency would have to increase by about 1000x (if we assume that right now it can generate what the computer used while calculating).

Today an average AA battery has t the capacity of 3Wh some even 4Wh. And at 3Wh you could, theoretically, charge your phone at 5V 1A for like half an hour or there about.

Our in other words, what I'm talking about when I question the scalability is energy density. That's the reason why you can do more then 700km with a car that runs on fossil fuels and maybe 350km if it's not too hot and not to cool with an electric car.

Could we engineer there algae to be 1000x times more efficient or even just 500x more efficient, since as long as the algae is alive you don't really need to charge anything. You do need the sun though, these are, from what I understand photosynthetic algae.
On the 15, in a year and a half.

I was really hoping the 14 would be the one.
The use of mining for hashes in general seems such a completely arbitrary thing to select for Proof of Work. It may have suited the academic cryptography/CS mindset back when the whole thing was an intellectual exercise on whitepaper, but now, as a victim of its own success, it is a threatening technical debit burden.

My working theory is that a system could be devised that re-defines Proof of Work to align with some demonstratable real world physical benefit like planting a tree or recycling waste or placing a renewable kwh on the grid. Yes there are tremendous process invention challenges on a Manhattan Project level scale but the stakes seem able to justify a Moonshot approach.

Mining under existing Proof of Work conditions is a weird arbitrage at scale of physical compute cycle cost/performance and raw electrical overheads measured against the perceived speculative value of the minting benefits returned.

Even reducing mining to a barebones fintech set of transactions would make sense at this point. A single Cash (as proof-of-work) account where each miner adjusts their relative position in real time in response to market conditions. An opensource code as law snapshot Lottery system that mimics the existing minting benefit and proportional voting rights distributions on chain. Yes it interrupts the purely distributed zero trust consensus mechanism, but, there are other compatible mitigation and trust designs, and, as an overall step change, the ability to grow without consuming nation state level power resources in this day and age is well worth the tradeoff -- if not absolutely mandatory.

Also on HN the other day [1]

frankenst1 reply to mondoveneziano :

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> For Bitcoin, the most popular one, on the order of 100.000.000.000.000.000.000 of hashes get calculated to mine a single block, multiple trillion per second. Within ten minutes, only a single one of those 100.000.000.000.000.000.000 hashes is actually used, depending entirely on luck. The rest are thrown away entirely. They do not form part of the final hash or anything else, the energy spent on them is lost.

You need to dig through 1 million gram of ore to find 1 gram of gold, depending entirely on luck. The rest is thrown away entirely. The energy is of course not lost but was necessary to find something of value (which also creates a lower price boundary). In contrast to gold, Bitcoin mining ensures provably fair probability of winning, has a tremendously lower barrier of entry, provides incentives to be run on renewable energy and produces far less waste.
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[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31376647
Basically depends on expertise. The parent commenter probably comes from a team of good well paid ops engineers who understand and set up k8s well. In any other org it’s the show you describe.
> California went extremely socialist (not claiming that’s a bad thing) in the past 50 years and it’s due to immigration.

Extemely socialist would be: the state directly gets involved in construction, knocks down old buildings disregarding all cultural heritage to make space for giant butt-ugly apartmenment blocks to house everyone, public toilets, etc. that's what USSR/China/etc. did

Instead there seems to be streets filled with tents and teams of people hired to pick up human excrement.
It does not look like any kinds of socialism any real socialist would recognise.

> Using race as a proxy for culture it’s gone from ~90% white to 60% white in 50 years (2 generations). That’s astounding.

Most likely the reasons are economic -> half the jobs anywhere are service jobs and lower-end jobs. In California and megacities like London the ratio of rent to wage in such job is >100%, so you can't have a life. Why would anyone with any other options or privilge put up with this exploitation?

> freeze 100% of immigration for at least a generation (perhaps two) to stabilize the country

You must also consider that it would destabilise the economy - all these people grew up abroad, someone else paid for their education and childcare, they pay for their own tuition. The undocumented workers, on the other hand, are being exploited so that the corn syrop can be $0.01 cheaper per tonne.

All of that will have to adjust.
Agreed, but the horse has already left the barn. Take a look at the 2000-era definition of pandemic vs today and the detailed history of revisions, including WHO changes and Bush-era copy-and-paste U.S. state health legislation developed by a health policy advisor to Clinton and WHO.

The Model State Emergency Health Powers Act: Balancing Public Safety and Civil Liberties, https://scholarship.shu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2019...

> The CDC, in collaboration with health law scholars from Johns Hopkins University and Georgetown University, drafted “The Model State Emergency Health Powers Act” (from here on, the “Model Act”) in 2001 as a nonbinding blueprint for the states to follow when revising their public health emergency laws. The Model Act’s drafting was motivated by the 9/11 terrorist attacks, SARS outbreak, and anthrax scare, which alerted lawmakers to holes in the public health infrastructure ... Lawrence Gostin, public health law scholar and the Model Act’s leading author, has identified four purposes for the Model Act ... As of August 1, 2011, 40 states have incorporated a version of the Model Act’s provisions into state law.

2002 objections: https://fee.org/articles/a-model-for-medical-tyranny/

Unfortunately, most countries are poised to move further within 10 days, by extending the scope of existing global IHR regulations. This should be covered by all major media, but so far it's been mostly fringe sites tackling the topic, with a distracting amount of unnecessary ranting, given the seriousness of the topic and copious public documentation. Better sources welcome.

https://cairnsnews.org/2022/04/09/who-ihr-treaty-will-overri...

https://jamesroguski.substack.com/p/pandemic-treaty
Well my productivity just plummeted.
Worth checking out: https://hackaday.com/2021/04/23/pi-based-spectrometer-puts-t...