skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might be ridiculous, but how about uploading a computer-generated video of a human saying 0 and 1 very quickly, to encode binary file.

Or better yet, the file could be one third the size if the human says the numbers 0 to 7.
How could you make the same argument? CNN and Fox News are allowed to report on things that the Government does not want it to and they can say things that the Government would not want them to say. I mean CNN and Fox News are on different sides and report on things very differently, whereas Russian state propaganda follows the exact same line and messaging. I'm sure you would agree CNN and Fox News do not have the same messaging or agenda?
My Dad sends me money via Zelle. It shows up instantly in my account, with zero fees, even if it's 10pm on a Sunday.

https://mashable.com/article/ethereum-gas-fees-skyrocket-bor...

> If you were trying to complete a transaction on the Ethereum network last night, you might have been taken aback by the ridiculously high gas fees you saw. For example, one user purchased a $25 NFT on Saturday evening. Their total price? $3,325. That's $3,300 just in fees.

I'll stick with USD, I think.
Leopolds are great! High quality no fuss builds.
Inversely related to mortality. I.e low pesticide intake reduced morality.
>I have a different theorey. The US and other developed countries have been loosing ever greater amounts of wealth. Wealth per capita has decreased dramatically over the last 50 years. The causes are too numerous to go into, but there are MANY.

I find this hypothesis very intriguing. I too have found it troubling that the narrative against billionaires doesn't quite seem to line up with the envelope math. That said, I wonder about the optimal parameters of the inevitable pareto distribution of wealth. I think the effect on money velocity and total wealth generation among other things is worth considering. In history, it does seem generally like conditions have been good when inequality is relatively low. (At least within a window of time next to that time.)

However, I'm really hoping you could elaborate more on what you're calling an apparent loss of wealth since I'm very much curious.

What information is that conclusion based on?

Without delving into a description that is TOO laborious, could you give a 100,000ft summary or list of things you think that have contributed to that or where you think the wealth has gone?
Evidence suggests journalist killed in targeted attack by Israeli forces
100% agreed

"Piloting a passenger plane should be easy"

"Performing brain surgery should be easy"

None of that should be easy. AWS is not meant to be focused on ease of use in the first place. It offers brutal power to those who know how to operate it and brutal ways to fuck up if you don’t.

The shipping of applications mentioned by the comment in this thread is not a valid statement either.. there are countless services by now attempting exactly this (Firebase e.g), yet, demanding that AWS or GCP should be child's play to use shows a complete disregard for what they actually offer.. I feel like this is similar to saying "we want to build a spacecraft to transport satellites into space, but we'd love to just have two buttons to start and land the rocket"

And then, even if you manage to abstract everything away to just those two buttons, someone will press it in the wrong moment and the rocket hits a plane flying above and you realize the expertise required is always required and someone who has this expertise doesn't need all of the abstraction in the first place.
Stripe Apps
Some NICs and managed switches can do it as well. Well, I should say that most can do it (as in the hardware is capable) but only some actually expose the functionality.
Yeah, throw an entire overpriced keyboard away because a single switch died. It's great for the wallet and the environment.
Looking at correlations between vocalizations and behavior is one thing primate researchers have been doing for decades. It seems implausible for there to be a large skill set that has so far escaped their notice.

Whenever one group of humans has met another, it has rapidly become apparent to both parties that the other has a language, no matter how long the ancestors of the two groups have been isolated from one another. Given how long humans and chimpanzees have been coexisting, if they had comparably effective language skills, it is implausible that either party has not recognized it in the other.
A lot of Linux-based DSP solutions do this. You either purposely tell the kernel that you have less memory than you do at startup, reserving the rest for the DSP, or you load a kernel driver which can allocate contiguous memory. This driver never actually uses the memory, it just scoops it up before anyone else can.
Industrial farming is a wrong idea.
> Elastic Email for sending transactional email.
> Fastmail for sending and receiving support email.

As a SaaS newbie, is it preferred to have two different email providers for transactional and support email? Why wouldn't one use Elastic Email for support email?
RIP Bill Slawski
Lol,

To be specific - you invested in EU taxes, while others invested in cable.
I'm still confused. Morality or mortality?
Does it work with browsers?
It has to do with how we carry words from Chinese to English.

``Is Daoism the same as Taoism? Traditionally, yes. The difference in spelling is a problem of transliteration from Chinese to English, where the Chinese pronunciation is somewhere between “Tao” and “Dao.” While it’s far more common to transliterate it as “Taoism,” it is actually pronounced closer to “Daoism.” "[1]

[1]https://daoism.org/dao-or-tao/
Three hardware buttons on the touchpad, Linux: wonderful.

Only 13" screen, 1 TB SSD, 16 GB RAM: too little.

The choice of keyboards is small and don't include the ones I use (US and IT). And I don't want to rent.
I know the stock photo isn't the one, but just look at the roads that the Chinese built (on the left part of the stock photo)
The last 10 years or so have been very good for startup financing. It's been relatively easy to get funding. That's changing. Investors are going to be more selective about what they fund so you'll see lots of companies slowing their hiring. But that does not mean it will all fall apart. There are still plenty of startups that are doing good work. My advice is to keep trying and don't give up. Be flexible about what you accept and after you have a job keep an eye out for a better one. I would focus on the bigger companies that have a steady profit margin. They will be more likely to weather the coming slowdown. These things happen. You just have to make the best of it.
The expectation is that FV consumption decreases all cause mortality.

This agrees with the observation that low-pesticide residue FV intake was inversely related to all-cause mortality.

If High-pesticide-residue FV intake was unrelated to all cause mortality it could mean that there is a detrimental effect in High-pesticide-residue FV that offsets the expected benefit of FV.
I really want a wrapper around the terrible in-app payment APIs of Google and Apple. There are some companies doing this (RevenueCat) but in my experience they are super buggy even to this day, which sorta goes against the entire problem they are trying to solve. The APIs that apple and google provide are a mess and full of weird edge cases and hacks (like polling for changes rather than webhooks), so a wrapper around it with proper webhooks and a well designed API like Stripe’s existing products would be amazing.
Nothing is a sure bet but leaving Russian aggression unchecked destabilizes the region. The world counts on the US to maintain the peace and status quo. As long as there's still confidence in that, the US currency will continue being the world's reserve currency along with all the benefits that come with that.
This is probably a cliched comment by now, but it never ceases to amaze me how quickly many crypto users appeal to centralized authorities as soon as they accidentally lose ownership of an asset. From one of Seth Green's linked tweets:

> Got phished and had 4NFT stolen. @BoredApeYC @opensea @doodles @yugalabs please don’t buy or trade these while I work to resolve

Just a continuous, incredible endorsement of the fact that in certain situations intermediaries, however imperfect, are actually very desirable...
Most of these are just "do a thing you can already do with money, but shittier"
> doesn't seem too important or interesting in my day to day app and distributed systems development.

Makes sense to me. At Google we were told to stop thinking about all this stuff, that the storage hardware and software people were responsible for hiding things like wearout from application developers. This article is really "things you should know if you plan to directly access an NVMe device" but there is a huge class of programmers who are better off not knowing.
I'm seriously surprised by the number of people here not understanding what free software / open source means.

The tag line is literally "free as in freedom, not as in beer". How is it possible to miss this?
Hi, Edwin. I'm in the process of integrating Stripe to https://iko.ai. I recently discovered Portal (https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/integrating-cu...) and I thank you for that. Less code for me.

I'm a bit ashamed to say, but I'm having trouble with checking if the customer has a valid subscription. I'm currently only storing the customer_id in the database and retrieving the information from Stripe to have it as a single source of truth and avoiding putting the Stripe info in our database and having to make sure it's synced.

On the other hand, I can't make a request to Stripe with every request, so I'm thinking of memoization or something.

I could find guides on how to accept payments and create subscriptions which are trivial, but no examples on what happens after that.

Suppose I have an API with a single endpoint and set up a subscription for a customer, how do I not hit the Stripe API with every request to check if the subscription is still alive without storing customer info in my database and having to sync it (i.e: keep everything in Stripe)?
Very neat.
This reminds me a video I watched last week[0].
The video goes about "geological formations" that behaves like islands(primarily the effects it casts over the fauna) but aren't classified as such.

As far as I understand this sinkhole could be also classified as an "island".

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OqUjXEqUtc
What is Coca-Cola besides a recipe, a brand, and some business deals?
(Second YT search hit so there might be better ones ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtEw19JX-UE
I'm considering moving to Hetzner. Would love to know if this is Hetzner's fault i.e. downtime? Also, is this Hetzner Cloud US or Europe?
High tech surveillance in Post-Roe America: Chilling report of a possible future
Why only 8? Why don't they put like 100 in there?
I've spent a huge amount of my life typing on a keyboard, and I've never had a switch fail. Is this a legitimate concern?
Plug and play implementations like this is really how decentralized tech should be done and promoted.
Your response on VoC propaganda is to double down on even worse FLG propaganda?
Single-Pass Online Statistics Algorithms (2013)
Having spent alot of time in controlled environments, the name is misleading. These are chip making clean facilities. I'd guess >99% of CE facilities have to spray pesticides.

Thrips, white flies, and other insects are _very_ common.

ETA: to add info for you. CE usually implies the control is from inputs (water, nutrients, light) not physical access.
Generally, this seems to be rather asyncronous in large companies / "enterprises". I've seen entire departments that are not doing anything relevant. In less severe cases, there are still mostly a few people that do a lot of work, and many that are doing very little. Sort of like the pareto principle of productivity.
That author missed the significance of a detail that illustrates a major difference in the expressive power of C++ vs. Rust.
What about the scenario your parent describes, but free redemption is 30 days and faster redemption costs (some basis points) ?
CActiveScheduler ran your CActive::RunL(), IIRC
Yup, I had a (tiny, spinning rust) home server that was slowed to nearly a halt. SSH logins would take minutes even when limiting IPFS to 2GiB of the 16GiB of RAM. Stopped go-ipfs and it was instantly snappy again.

My impression of the IPFS project is that the goals are excellent, the core protocol is quite good however they like rewriting the higher level layers far too frequently (for example they have deprecated UnixFS which seems to be the most used format and they keep switching between JSON, Protocol Buffers and CBOR) and go-ipfs seems to be a pretty garbage codebase.
Hunter X Hunter Creator Joins Twitter, Reveals Manga’s Long Hiatus Is Ending
>I can't wait until vertical farming becomes cheap enough to overtake traditional farming methods

There was a recent post about "World’s largest vertical strawberry farm" that recently opened[1], and the price quoted for the product was "$20 for 8 strawberries". That still seems terribly expensive, at least compared to conventional produce. What technological breakthroughs are on the horizon that would reduce that price to levels that are comparable to conventional produce?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31454883
Both can be true:

a.) A tiny number of billionaires have reorganized society in ways that cause benefits to accrue to themselves.

b.) The net size of those benefits, distributed equally over all people, is tiny.

All this means is that people are being used in absurdly inefficient ways, because that benefits whoever is in charge.

For example, plantations are arguably like this. They are less productive, per acre, than smallholdings. But they scale: A single owner can make the plantation arbitrarily large. "Who cares if the country grows half as much per acre as it could, if I get to control 10x the acres? That's still 5x the wealth for me!"

Surely we in software, home of the Mythical Man Month, know all about this? It doesn't matter if the microserfs are less productive, if you can have all of them to yourself.
The downside is that you need a commit which serves no purpose other than to increment the number. The only content which is different is is the version number; you're effectively tagging the same software with an incremented version. Why tag the same thing with two different versions? You're only inviting merge conflicts with changes like this.

Unreleased software doesn't require a version number at all.

What you can do is incorporate some build identifier into local unreleased builds. It could be from the git sha, plus some indication of whether it was a dirty state or exactly that git sha.

The command does it:

git describe --tags --dirty

It will produce a string consisting of the most recent tag, the number of commits since that tag, a portion of the hash and the word "dirty", all separated from each other by a dash. If there are no uncommited changes, then -dirty is omitted, and if there are no commits since the tag (we are at the tagged commit), then the count of commits and hash are omitted.

You can incorporate this sort of identifying string at build time; nothing is checked in. If you build the tagged release in a clean repo, the string will just be the tag. Only if you make new commits and/or have uncommited changes do you get a different string without having to commit anything.
It's easy to look down on others from your high horse, but you probably have no idea how damaging social media is to children. Rates of self harm and suicidal ideation among adolescents has been at sustained epidemic rates since 2007 when the iphone released.

You can talk a big game about moderation, but the truth is children shouldn't be using social media at all. It takes all their awkwardness and self-consciousness from puberty and amplifies it on a global scale. It creates attack vectors for child predators. It turns bullying from a school time hazard to an ever present threat.

If legislation was introduced to make all social media 18+ only, I would vote for it.
Nope - it's something created by AWS: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ri-marke...
> Remix is basically a compiler for the patterns we could achieve back in the days of React Router 2 and 3

Well, Remix and react-router are by the same people.
"our analysis shows that misinformation about COVID-19 was disseminated overtly on both Twitter and Facebook by verified, high-profile accounts."

My view: bots make a lot of noise, but they are usually not very persuasive. Authentic accounts spreading misinformation are much more influential than bots. This problem would worsen if Musk buys twitter, because fewer authentic accounts spreading misinformation would be sanctioned. Real people are a bigger problem than bots.
So the financial system is mostly reluctance ?
Given the amount of microplastics humans consume, could humans one day evolve to eat and digest plastic?
To give a different point of view, the message I got out of this was exactly what you were intending. I didn't come away with "go find opprotunities to be a hero". I found the opposite in fact, that you're saying ~don't~ go looking specifically for those heroic opprotunities. I feel that you reinforced this point in your closing statements quite well:

>It isn’t about creating bigger and bigger opportunities for yourself — it’s not about selfishly inventing self-serving projects. Rather, it’s about getting better at recognizing and taking advantage of bigger opportunities which are already there and just making things happen.
https://twitter.com/balajis

https://twitter.com/naval

https://twitter.com/cdixon

https://twitter.com/punk6529

https://tim.blog/podcast/
IT Job Titles We Miss (2013)
Gauss's Day of Reckoning
So if they only have specific wavelengths, how do they keep them in the pie slice of cable they own? I just realized they likely don't own a cylindrical section of it somewhere because the light has to go in and out of it, only thing that makes sense is the long pie slice.
The biggest drop in wealth is Shelter and Medical. 50 years ago land was much cheaper. A 300K house (non-land cost) costs 310K (maybe 10k for the land). Whereas today, in states where much job creation happens (i won't name names), a 300K house costs 600K or more. You could say, the previous land owner made all that money and it's true. But, it's just a one time wealth transfer from the latest generation to previous generations of land owners. The problem is, going forward from here, there are no more winners in this game. By, charging vast amounts of money for land that should cost very little, we're simply depriving human being of wealth. Even CA, has more acres than people and yet, even in the country side where there is miles of empty land in every direction, we see houses huddled together, a mere few feet apart like some kind of nazi concentration camp. going forward, this is a game with no winners. the wealth is simply denied. conversely, by denying ourselves this wealth, we can create the wealth out of thin air by allowing the land to be developed OR simply by moving jobs (where jobs go, people follow) to areas where there is sufficient developable land (politically achievable).

Also, there's a huge laundry list of regulation, and zoning that impact numerous industries like housing and transportation that make these things more expensive than they need to be and pass those costs onto consumers.

Just for comparison, i once, calculated that in my area, it takes roughly 80,000 man hours to afford the cheapest house in my suburban neighborhood in the bay area. And yet, in thailand (Jon Jai a humble farmer with no education and no construction training and youtuber), has demonstrated that he could build a modest home with just 200 man hours! He'll tell you, that despite the fact that he lives in country where economists say his per capita income is more than 20 tiems lower than US, he's easily able to afford a house, 1 acre of land and enough food for his family of six and only works 15 min a day (2 months full time out of the year). too much to explain here, but you can visit his channel on youtube for details. I was blown away. and of course, he has the freedom to do so, because less regulations and zoning to get in the way. Sure, he doesn't have many gadgets or cars and even a rice cooker would be hard to acquire but he has the essentials of life: shelter, food and water in abundance: and that's what freedom is largely about.
I think it's more that they don't want people creating NSFW images of copyrighted material. How do you even begin to protect against that litigation?
Nokia really had to open source 15 years earlier at least
Of course regular people are seeing benefits to increased productivity. The question is whether these benefits are really benefits at all. The average adult spends over 12 hours a day consuming media [1]. It's worth noting that much of this is passive consumption like radio in the background, but active consumption is undeniably increasing as well, most notably smartphone usage. I think the problem is that the more optimized our society becomes, the less true the economic assumption of rational human behavior becomes. Google Maps, for example, saves me time looking at maps rather than doing browsing Hackernews. However, when I think about it rationally, I was no less happy spending a few minutes planning my route before a trip instead of browsing HN during that same time.

[1] https://www.nielsen.com/us/en/insights/report/2020/the-niels...
This is the premise of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World. Dinosaurs and other ancient beasts kept isolated in the crater of an ancient volcano, the slopes of which are almost impossible to get over.
Casimir Pulaski served with remarkable distinction in the American Revolution. See #2 on this list:
https://www.history.com/news/6-foreign-born-heroes-of-the-am...

... as did his countryman, Tadeusz Kościuszko, #4 on that same list.
This year so far, you'd have been better off putting your money into Turkish Lira than BTC. You'd be better off investing in Russian tanks than Luna.
If you eat low-pesticide fruits and vegetables, you're less likely to die.
If you eat high-pesticide fruits and vegetables, your chances of dying are unaffected, which is surprising because you would expect that increased fruit and vegetable consumption would decrease your chances of dying.
So, it seems that the potential health benefits of eating fruits and vegetables is negated if they contain high levels of pesticide.
Reminds me of a guy who stored data in ping messages
https://youtu.be/JcJSW7Rprio
I don’t think it’s going to die for another decade, but we’ll see.

If the push comes to shove, I think I can solder a single switch from a major manufacturer. I’m not the one to shy away from a soldering iron at the end of the day.
But how is this productivity measured across an entire country? How does unemployment factor in? If I'm making the workers twice as effective but we then lay off 50% of the workforce -- how does that factor in?

I've made many jobs disappear.
Could you please some advice regarding this for someone with 2yoe mostly lamp stack? Where do I find clients after incorporating

> My advice here is to keep looking, but start working on something on the side that will generate revenue