skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
V2 is a garbage fire and that was before I knew it didn't scale to zero.

It doubles the cost of V1 and they have the gall to say:

> most Aurora Serverless customers can lower costs by moving to v2 due to a lower starting capacity of 0.5 ACU (vs. 1 ACU in v1)

Oh, why thank you AWS, how kind of you. I can go to 0.5? That doesn't matter at all, the price is the save as 1 ACU on V1.

D1 is interesting but if you want Serverless MySQL then check out PlanetScale [0]. It's free for hobby projects (it will turn off if you go 1 week with no activity) and then it's a flat $30/mo and you can have 2 production branches and 5 development branches. I've been very happy with them so far. The usage-based pricing is a little scary (I know I don't think in rows read/written) but the limits are super high and so far my usage has been barely a blip.

[0] https://planetscale.com/
Yes, if you have manufacturer software to factory format blank drives. Heating up heals cells being written (probably filled as writing empties cells while erasing stores max charge value), but also speeds up data degradation in all the other cells not being written to.
Yea, there is no reason they should be asking you to take PTO then, IMO. It all kind of becomes moot if you go and either get dismissed or are only there for 2-3 days since you'd be working the other days anyway.

FWIW too, a lot of newer managers, and younger people just don't know these laws/rules simply because they haven't ran into them yet. So it is common to have them make, sometimes odd, requests with no malice or bad intentions, just out of a lack of knowledge.
I think I read about some mealworm-y bug that can eat styrofoam (however the microbes in that worm's gut were doing the actual digestion of the styrene)

Edit: found this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uoOUAfY6Cc

and Thoughtemporium: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS9PWzkUG2s
I'm beginning to think that impeachment is in order. If we don't have the political will (that is, if Senate doesn't swing left this November) then that and court-packing would be out of the question. Beyond that, the perverted modern interpretation of the second amendment very well may be the final option. But that would almost certainly devolve into civil war at this point.
I sort of wonder if there's some cognitive bias in perception of record highs. I'm not sure people understand what to expect with them if climate were constant. Athletic records keep happening, for example, so I could see people expecting something similar, or at least happening at a constant rate.
I don't know if it works for their wireless mice, but it does show up under the G Pro X wireless mouse.

https://support.logi.com/hc/en-us/articles/360059428653-Down...

Need to select Windows 10.

"Onboard Memory Manager"

Can set profiles, basic macros (I have my G502's "sniper" button set to "T" for PTT audio, though I used to use "F24" for this case as well), LED.

Does not need to install. Does not need to run in the background. Can read existing profiles on the mouse's onboard memory.

For me, this program was the deciding factor of choosing a few Logitech G___ mice over any other mouse.
Sounds like a missed opportunity for polymorphism. The whole point of OO and polymorphism is to do let the dynamic dispatch call the right method body for you.

Implementing that by hand using reflection just sounds plain wrong.

Would love to hear of a concrete real world example where this was an issue
The US has a large subset of the population who strongly believe that civilian gun ownership is an effective deterrent to government tyranny. Whether this is true in fact is irrelevant, the perception is what matters. These people are not ever going to be convinced by body count, because their highest ideal is the idea of liberty.
Registering for an Aussie GST number requires installing a keylogger
Yup, most of the talent has left, retired or flat out moved off of the area of research.

What I’m hopeful about is some new innovation happening in certain corners. Companies such as SpaceX, often made fun by people that are resentful as “Cowboys”, forget that the entire Apollo program was more “Cowboy” than anything SpaceX is doing today.

Read “Failure is not an option” by Gene Kranz if anyone is interested in the old school Cowboy culture of NASA. Warning: It might make you an optimist.
It will for unvested past grants. New future grants are named in $ not shares, so have to be explicit.
Speak for yourself. I feel like I have riches of new tech at my disposal.

Currently have 10 gbs fiber internet for $45/month, in one second I can download the contents of my first hard drive. My laptop has 64gb of ram and 8tb of ssd. I don't even know what to do with that much compute as I mostly use Emacs and Firefox for everything. Meetings are completely online, so I no longer need to travel to visit other offices to exchange data.

My phone is an embarrassment of riches, it covers most of my digital needs (music, hd video, note taking, internet, email, etc.) but is mostly ignored because it's really just a distraction.

In the garage, a tig welder, cnc mill, vacuum casting table, burn out kiln and countless other tools. Due to the previously mentioned internet connection I can watch videos that teach me how to use all of this equipment. Most of the software to run the CNC mill, do CAD design or CAM is all open source and free.

I can also purchase solar panels, heat pumps, lithium iron phosphate battery banks for ridiculously low costs compared to what I would have had to spend back in the 90s when I first wanted to get off the grid.

All in all, it's all there for us to live the solar punk lifestyle we've all wanted...just takes doing it.
This really only applies to POW coins, not so much stablecoins
Even if we abandon the word "hypocrisy" for the sake of this discussion, being unable to care about an issue unless it directly effects you is just as bad, if not worse in some ways.
Geometry got smaller, thus wear endurance got a LOT worse.
It's not guaranteed to perform well with unknown or new codecs - true. But, the implicit assumption is that YouTube will use codecs that preserve what videos look like - not just random codecs. If that assumption holds then the image recognition model will keep working even with new codecs.
Salaries at FANG have been cut 50% in the past 12 months? I have to give that a massive Citations Needed.
The planet clearly is warming but I also agree this method is useless by itself.

For Los Angeles (my city) the data goes back 145 days a year. If temperature has not been increasing (and therefore each individual day follows an identical distribution) that would still mean that 1/145 days we'd see a record high in Los Angeles - so about two highs a year. Highs in Los Angeles are obviously going to be correlated to highs in San Diego - but not exactly because of cloud cover and stuff so its reasonable to think that even if we were in a boring unchanging climate we'd still see hundreds if not thousands of records set every day across the country.
Read your question again and then realize you just wondered if it would be possible to engineer a virus to kill all of humanity, with no possible immunity.

See the problem?

This is why people hate (software) engineers, they are oh-so-dumb on the "empathizing with humanity" front... pie-in-the-sky ambitions that are more likely to be shitty solutions replacing ones which worked well enough, to blow up, potentially catastrophically, or cause various humanity-ending apocalypses, than to actually solve the problem in most cases...and what do they have to say for themselves?

"Oh I didn't think about that".

-_-
Iron was explicitly under-collaterized, and it was also trying to lure stakers by providing yield-farming. DAI is the opposite, stakers pay the stability fee to open a vault.

It did have a yield-farming component (you could mint DAI at 1% fee and put it in the DSR that would pay 2%), but that got completely knocked out in 2020. That crash was already a quite expensive lesson (tens of millions USD) for the MakerDAO team, and a lot of the investors had accepted a haircut in order to bring DAI back to the peg.

To repeat: I am not saying that DAI is bullet-proof. What I am saying though is that all the reasons you are using to make your case do not apply to DAI as it currently works.
YouTube doesn’t serve ProRes though. What if you try uploading an h264 video and re-download?
Thank you so much, this is a very valuable roadmap and I feel like I can get things going fairly quickly (based off myspace experience...). It's a good thing that I love simple websites!
Source? Everything I read tells me that’s just a guess.

Keep in mind that Dow made billions on CFC replacements.
If you think those comps were only from last two years - I suggest you go back in historical data. $400k+ wages have been a thing well before the pandemic.
> Software companies, even FAANGs, can be very relaxed and comfortable places to work

And government can be very not relaxed, in both the same and different ways to high-pressure industry jobs.
Look up how DWDM works; they don't need more than 8. The optical gear that goes on land, keeps getting more capable of driving ever more bandwidth over the same fiber...
Here's a pointer to past explanations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29370676.
He Heckled a District Attorney on TV. Now He Faces 10 Years Behind Bars
There are a lot of humans on the planet, and too many of us striving to live like royalty, leading to imbalanced resource conversion. Long-term, the planet is still a ball of elements orbiting the sun, but our potentially extensive story is shorter that it might have been.
Un-paywall: https://archive.ph/duyEN
You are lucky getting a response, I have been ghosted by FAANG twice past 3 months. Reminders didn't work either..
>Would it be unfair to say the incredible demand for animals is what creates the risk?

A poorly regulated market which takes known risks (selling wild live animals kept in dense, squalid conditions for human consumption) creates the risk.

>Wouldn't PPE be somewhat useful in protecting this 'ancient forest' from diseases the researchers/visitors may be bringing to the area?

No. The remarkable part is that it is in a sinkhole, the ecology of it is likely entirely unremarkable. This is not a fragile super-isolated ecosystem (there are a few of these in caves or islands which are and do sometimes merit special protections because they've actually been well isolated beyond just being in a hole)

>That describes every industrial farm/mega farm.

The wet market risk comes from live wild-caught animals, squalid conditions, sold to eat. Industrial farming is a controlled closed environment where diseases are known and managed, it's not wonderful, but it is nothing like the wet market risks coming out of China and a few other places around the world.
This is a good opportunity to remind folks that the same person who invented chlorofluorocarbons also invented leaded gasoline.

Thomas Midgely Jr has been described as having had more adverse impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in earth’s 4.5 billion year history.
I have yet to see comp go down at the high end.
Pascal was the preferred language for original Mac OS development. Ada was used in DoD (and elsewhere) for more than a decade.

Both use a lot of "english" phrases which makes it easier for the novice to understand basic control structures.
On my Keychron K3 there is a key combination that deactivates the light-pattern-changing key. Now, if I accidentally hit it, it just flashes a couple of times and goes back to the setting I had it on. Check your manual.
Freewaytopia: How freeways shaped Los Angeles
Upload videos as data, then build an app that streams and decodes these files back into videos. Voila, popcorn time.
Im in this boat. Give me a tkl and I'll buy it.
You'd have to rob a lot of banks to get to $100K, however. And the FBI is very effective at catching bank robbers. It would be pretty low on my personal list of illegal ways to get money.
For leeks to have a white portion of the stem (usually the part that is eaten), you have to bury part of it underground or it turns green. Presumably they use something like a soil fumigant to prevent spoilage of this underground part. Pretty nasty stuff if it actually renders the plant toxic for 6 weeks.
Healthcare is another safe bet.
sounds great! the question about Nomad was not related to Fly Machine

btw., i've sent a mail already (mish at ushakov), but only got an automated message

i'm already using free fly.io for wikinewsfeed.org and very happy so far

would be awesome if you could send me a tip how i could use fly.io to deploy instances for my customers?

in my use-case i want to run many instances of Chrome at the same time

running like 100x instances of Chrome on a single machine is too resource-intensive and having a bigger host machine won't do the job, so your only option is to have a dedicated vm for each Chrome instance
Check out PlanetScale [0] (MySQL). It's free for hobby projects and then a flat $30/mo (+usage if you go over their very high limits). You can run your dev/qa/prod environment all on one "database" using their branches and you also get zero-downtime schema changes which is pretty sweet. I've been very happy with them so far.

I migrated from RDS Aurora Serverless V1 after being frustrated with the high prices (V2 is even worse) and the annoyance of sleeping DBs (for my dev/qa environments, I couldn't afford $45x3/mo). Now I get all 3 for only $30/mo and safe/easy schema migrations. It's been a joy to work with and their support has been very responsive. This week is a "launch week" for them so you'll probably see a few posts about it this week and I encourage you check them out if you are looking for scalable managed MySQL DBs.

[0] https://planetscale.com/
WordPress 6.0 “Arturo”
> 30 years ago in order to navigate somewhere you had to ask someone for directions and write down notes. If you missed a turn, god help you. We fundamentally move through the world vastly differently thanks to digital maps. Many people (and in a few years, the majority) are doing so in cars that use electric motors instead of internal combustion engines.

Honestly, it seems like you're just picking some incremental or marginal technological changes that happened, then promoting them to something more fundamental than they really are. Electric cars? Come on. They're barely even a change from a consumer perspective. Someone from 1950 wouldn't even notice the difference, unless you told them exactly what they were looking at.

And some of those other things are debatable. For instance: I deliberately stopped using GPS for several years, because I realized it was preventing me from building up geographic/navigational knowledge, and instead was just training me to follow instructions blindly and never learn anything (e.g. by picking weird routes that were marginally faster but very difficult to systematize). [Edit: The following is about non-map online information.] The computerized "knowledge at your fingertips" is a common slogan of computer-age propaganda, but it's probably true that a greater fraction of that "knowledge" is in fact garbage and overall may just be a marginal improvement.

Sufficiently advanced marketing is indistinguishable from technological progress.
> you don’t do that (aka keep it on), there is far less total heat to move, unless you’d have it sit so long that you’d get the same total heat transfer.

I think you're a little confused. I'm a little lost at even how to minimally explain it to you. The rate at which heat leaks into the refrigerator declines as the refrigerator heats up, so this metric too improves with time.

> Which if the insulation is good, may take many weeks.

Implausible. "Many weeks"?

The best 20 cu ft refrigerators use about 375 kilowatt-hours per year according to energystar.gov. At a coefficient of performance of 10, that's an average of 400W flowing into the fridge and needing to be removed by the refrigerator.

At 20K of temperature difference, that's about 20W/degK. The contents will warm very quickly, absent phase change.

Having ice in there will slow things down until the ice melts; then it will warm very quickly. The typical numbers cited say you have 2-3 days with a full freezer without power before things have mostly thawed and become unsafe-- this is well over half of the way to room temperature in terms of energy budget (and in the best case of a full freezer where there's the most thermal mass inside).

(Specific heat capacity of water ~4200 J/(kg*k); heat of fusion of water ~334000 J/(kg*k)).

None of this changes the energy balance of the problem, though.
USDC has monthly "attestations" of their assets. This is less than an audit but it isn't nothing: https://www.centre.io/usdc-transparency

I don't think even banks do monthly external audits.

USDT does quarterly external reports: https://tether.to/en/transparency/#reports
Agreed, but as long as the people you interact with are above board, it's on them if they use it wrong, no? You could make the same argument for physical treasury bonds, or gift card codes, or generally any interaction with crypto currency, but I don't see any bank having an issue with that.
I think there is just no way you could have a traditional bank provide the capabilities that tether provides. It acts like a bank, but it certainly does things that banking regulations to not actually regulate, and there is no way tether would have been granted a bank charter. Like it or not, waiting for regulation is not a way to build something that is new. As for forgiveness, not for permission.
I also love Rush :). And no, I'm not Canadian.
How to set SaaS price for startups like loom?
We see many hot SaaS applications every day.
like loom, MilkVideo, and Descript.
But I'm curious how they set their prices and why does it make sense? 8$/month or 20$/m seems too cheap. If they use Google's speech to test API, probably they can not make any money. even if they have their own API, there are another costs like AWS and others cloud services.
GPS is nice and all, but I would not say we move vastly differently compared to 30 years ago or even 70 years ago (basically, since interstate highways were developed). And electric motors are just a horizontal change in technology. They may have better acceleration than ICEs, but we're still going to be fundamentally traveling the same way. Only if and when self-driving becomes a thing, or personal drone transport vehicles become widespread, or cheap tunnels enabled by electric vehicles, would you be able to argue that a fundamental shift in how we move has occurred. That may be all just around the corner, or those dreams could go the way of the dream of the flying car in the 50s.

We definitely communicate vastly different than 30 years ago and prior.
And now I have tape, all over my face.
Adam Neumann’s New Business Plan
The syntactic sugar is the entire point. If you don't have it it just sucks as a technology.
Heckled a DA who was prosecuting him in three different cases. That does seem ill advised.
I think the first recommendation would be the SEP (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) article on Type Theory written by Couquand [1]. It is a broad but well founded walk through the basis of type theory and it’s usage as a foundation for both logic and mathematics. It also contains a section discussing Univalent Foundations, which is the foremost area for type theoretic foundations at present. The papers listed in the reference section contain most of the fundamental research results of note. I do think Aczel’s “The type theoretic interpretation of constructive set theory” (1978) and Bell’s “Types, Sets and Categories” (2012), which are both cited are good papers.

1 —- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/type-theory/
I emailed back and forth with Leslie a lot about this, when I first read his paper. There is an earlier analysis of the same phenomenon by different people (the arbiter problem) which I discovered later.

At first, I had trouble to believe it, and tried to find counterexamples, until I realized that the composition of continuous functions is continuous. I still wonder sometimes whether an infinite composition of continuous functions has to be continuous (limit of a sequence) if it represents some real world evolving process. Can it produce a discontinuity in the limit?

Anyway, Buridan’s principle informs our consensus process in Intercoin Protocol[1] [2] — it is why the consensus groups are always of a bounded finite size, so we don’t approach the errors in Buridan’s priciple (I think this is also called unstable problems).

1. Beyond blockchains https://community.intercoin.org/t/intercoin-technology-conse...

2. Experimental improvements https://community.intercoin.org/t/experimental-improvements-...

Anyone who reads the above … I would be very interested in your feedback on our forum.
Back in the day, when protocols were more trusting we would play games by storing data archives in other people's SMTP queues. Open the connection and send a message to yourself by bouncing it through a remote server, but wait to accept the returning email message until you wanted the data back. As long as you pulled it back in before it times out on that queue and looped it back out to the remote SMTP queue you could store several hundred MB (which was a lot of data at the time) in uuencoded chunks spread out across the NSFNet.
Getting a PhD for this reason is an absolutely terrible idea. A PhD is an apprenticeship to be a university professor. It's only sometimes, incidentally, helpful for the would-be engineer, and it's very rarely more lucrative than staying in the job market. And, it's generally absolute hell for a few years. Most people don't make it through.

If the OP had any business doing an PhD he would already know it---he would either have a burning desire to become a professor, or he would have a burning desire to do intellectual research. In the latter case, a modern PhD will probably still be a huge disappointment.

There are tons and tons of pieces online arguing exactly this; I would encourage anyone considering a PhD to seek them out and consider their observations carefully.

This comment is pretty US centric, but also applies to some extent to other countries.
I thought vaporizing oceans was only when trying to communicate with whales from space.
This was very true in Japan where most of phone supported limited internet access even in 2001. Careers ordered phone manufacturer to what to develop, and most phones have zero compatibility for other career feature because every phones were locked.
Oh I see! Fly Machines are lower level than what most people use us for. They're designed for people building platforms.

Most people run "apps" on Fly. You control which regions they run in, we load balance to the nearest. We have guides for launching some frameworks here: https://fly.io/docs/getting-started/

The difference between us and a VPS provider is: your app runs in as many of those regions as you want. So does your database, if you're using our Postgres. And we route writes to the appropriate place: https://fly.io/blog/globally-distributed-postgres/

The other difference is probably CPU. The 4 cpu, 8GB RAM instances are 2 dedicated AMD EPYC cores + hyper threads. They're relatively expensive. You may not need them! VPS providers typically run cheaper CPUs and over provision them.

We're shipping shared CPU options with more memory soon. They should be closer to what you see from VPS providers, though still more expensive.