skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of us have calculated it... and it is frightening! I have an Excel sheet of all the cars I've ever purchased or leased, and the cost per mile of them, and it is staggering. Thankful to have enjoyed some fun cars, I cannot imagine just how much of this economy is powered solely by this car dependency we have in the US.

I've also estimated my cost to commute to my tech job in the suburbs (thankfully full-time remote now), and it was staggering how much that was including insurance, maintenance, tolls, electricity, etc., compared to free options/transit/corporate bus/remote work/my daily mortgage cost.
> Wasn't Parler an example of infrastructure being used to editorialize _against_ specific opinions and ideas?[1] As I understand it, they were kicked off of AWS and refused by multiple infrastructure providers for hosting content that was perceived as offensive and potentially dangerous. Is that not an example of infrastructure being part of the platform?

Sure. Businesses have always tried to have it both ways, and really like being necessary infrastructure while still having the option to refuse service. And, to be fair, AWS (and Cloudflare) aren't quite at the point where they are going to be publicly regulated utilities that no longer have the option of refusing to provide service (like an electricity or phone service provider).

But they are getting closer to that every day, and eventually we'll stop talking about IaaS and start talking about IaaU (once most other providers give up the Tesla-vs-Edison fight and concede that AWS has defined the APIs that have become the defacto standards they need to copy).

But even in a hosting-as-regulated-utility (or common-carrier, which is the relevant term from the transportation and communication industries) world, there are still exceptions and there are lots of things that in the name of public safety etc. you aren't allowed to do when using these services, and limits that are imposed. I don't really expect utility services like compute, storage, edge caching, content replication and distribution, etc. to be exceptions to that.
> this means you spent about $0.02 per use, 2 cents every single time you use your phone. That seems like a way better deal than the $14.05 McDonalds meal that you just bought last week

What? Why would you compare a "use" of your cellphone to a really big McDonalds meal? I mean, I should stop eating because there's no way I can eat a meal for less than the cost of using a cellphone one time?
As another data point, I have one Firefox window right now:

$ ps -eLf | grep firefox | wc -l
569
$
This is completely backwards.

Always think in absolute dollars and not in rates. $1000 is $1000 whether the cost per use is pennies or tens of dollars. Thinking in terms of rates is how people would fall for predatory installment purchases in the old days (you can have a new computer for just $2.5 a day!)

The other obvious problem is looking at cost absent of a market. It's not just how much it is worth it to you, but what the competition is offering it for. I personally pay less than $400 a phone and keep it for over three years. Paying $1000 for a phone just two years is not an improvement.

Edit: I spoke very dogmatically above. Using rates can be OK in certain situations where the analysis becomes equivalent to using absolutes, but it's not at all rare for rate analysis and absolute analysis to differ, and people make the mistake of using rates there. You will never, ever, go wrong by looking at absolute amounts, though - and it's usually the easier way to analyze.

In my engineering undergrad, Engineering Economics was a required course. I remember a fellow student said "I often return other engineering textbooks to get some cash, but this book is more useful than most of my engineering ones." Decades later, I can say he was definitely right. All too often I see engineers making poor financial decisions based on heuristics when they're quite capable in doing the (simple) math. But a lifetime of being exposed to flawed ways of thinking of money provides a convenient shortcut.
Doesn't work for me (macOS, Firefox)
They do make some money!

> Here are the combined financial figures for all 29 Hollywood blockbusters (budgeted over $100m)…

> Total combined budgets: $4.37 billion

> Total combined costs (including budgets, marketing and all other costs): $11.52 billion

> Total combined income (from all revenue streams): $11.95 billion

> Profit across all movies: $428.9 million

> An average profit of $14.8 million per movie

The whole thing is an interesting read!

https://stephenfollows.com/how-movies-make-money-hollywood-b...
I wish they’d go after corps for violations with the same vigor.
Hmm… with general AI around the corner, he should be getting paid more than steph curry.
The cost of a bitcoin transaction is not adequately captured by transaction fees. There's two alternative ways to look at it:

1. Divide miner revenue (fees + seignorage) by the number of transactions, yielding the total amount that miners extract. It was $34m today, with ~261k transactions, yielding a cost per transaction of $130. [1]

2. Estimate energy cost at 1,173 kWh per transaction [2]. If you assume cheap electricity at say $.09/kWh you get a cost of $105 per transaction in electricity alone, which ignores hardware capital costs, etc.

Either way the cost is over $100 per transaction, and would be reflected in a falling value of BTC. But it may be masked if there's an influx of new money into the system.

1: https://ycharts.com/indicators/bitcoin_miners_revenue_per_da...

2: https://fortune.com/2021/10/26/bitcoin-electricity-consumpti...
Liberals' latest 'censor the internet' bill sparks Canadian YouTuber backlash
I think this has to be seen in the larger context. The broadcaster was trying to be helpful, but broke the rules. No conclusión presented if he was actually helpful.

But aside from intent, if the government didn’t enforce this strictly, it would open up the opportunity for all number of ‘helpful’ folks to chime up in the future, which could have a slippery slope. They don’t want to be in the business of carving out a ‘helpful’ exception and then have to draw the line on how helpful is worth it. Seems like a recipe for inconsistent enforcement.
He was licensed, had a commercial business operating equipment, and interfered multiple times during a public emergency. The intent might have been good, but this is a "fuck around and find out" fine to discourage other people who should also know better from trying similar things in the future.
Doesn't work for me (Windows, Vivaldi)
The primary safety feature on a modern table saw is the riving knife, which helps prevent kickback. My old Craftsman contractor saw doesn't have one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riving_knife
> what you'd have to do if you wanted to optimize your personal expenses.

Yeah, it's called budgeting and being poor. Some of us try to maximize this satisfaction and lifelong memories while avoiding incurring significant personal debt on a low salary. Tradeoffs and opportunity costs abound. Of course not everyone should or would be better off being cognizant of these costs and quantities, but some of us have to be by necessity.
As I understand it, the maker has always been open about the recipe. I've never tried making my own Sriracha, but I've made several other pepper sauces and found them easy and delicious.
How Google Meet's noise cancellation works (2020)
It's entirely rational. He's on the hook for $1B. He is highly incentivized to obfuscate, lobby and otherwise delay making that payment any way he can. It's not about being right, at this point.
n@ai is also a valid email address. Owned by a guy named Ian.
Substack is the new Medium.
Works for me on MacOS Chrome
Works fine for me (macOS, Firefox)
Same.

It was just a few months ago that he had to sell stock to pay his taxes and he played it off like he was doing it because of some ridiculous online poll. I think this Twitter play is just more cover to sell more stock.
creative!
try: http://ai. (note the dot on the end)
Works for me on Firefox Android
yes are people using editors that don't let them have multiple views of the same file or something?
It seems that 75% fall into the bucket you mention:

https://www.thedrive.com/news/26907/you-dont-need-a-full-siz...
Thanks a lot. It's appreciated. Would like to try to introduce my kids to Basic using this application.
I think in a couple ways: Verbally, spatially, non-verbally. The former is who’s talking to you right now. The latter is smarter and wiser. I practice silence and patience to hear what it’s trying to communicate. Difficult strategic and troubleshooting problems get solved this way. I can only really tell it’s working because sore mental capacity is not available while it’s going on. I’m distracted but not by anything I can put my finger on. For this reason I avoid social drama at all costs. Too often I tie up an important mental resource figuring out a lie or minor disagreement. I like to preserve that capacity for important tasks. When it’s working correctly difficult answers simply pop into my head without effort.

My spatial thinking is both pathfinding (which direction is north right now, how can you rotate a shape to fit), but also mechanical aptitude. If you ask a master mechanic how to do something complicated he won’t be able to tell you in a smooth and useful way. He’ll be able to do it without missing a beat though.

In the same way I can spend 6 hours working in the garage without a word passing through my brain. It’s wonderfully refreshing.
Do Kwon Deliberately Raised Terra Interest from 3.6% to 20% a Week Before Launch
Installing and managing anything computer related is so hard these days. Take programming for example.

I started many years ago on C. I could literally copy a compiler executable out of an archive and it's ready to go.

PHP was an apt install command. Want to use it on the web or with a database? A couple of more install commands. Guides were simple to follow, and they worked.

I'm trying to install Python for my daughter, and f me it's like pulling teeth.

The official installer is apparently the wrong way, you should use xyz package manager. The guides that people recommend just don't work, weird errors show up. Searching online leads to others with similar problems, but the always recommended guides are never updated. It's frustrating spending an hour fixing one error message, then another pops up. All I want is to install the damn thing.

I've worked as a software engineer and as a documentation writer, and I struggle to deal with this stuff. Nothing just works, even a simple website now is a massiveness stack of stuff that breaks for weird reasons and is really hard to diagnose if you don't deal with it all the time.

Right now I'm trying to set up Unity3d to build to iPhone... It's like researching an arcane magical spell. There seems to be no clear guide to how things are supposed to be set up. I'm now watching bloody YouTube videos on it, and despite following the exact same steps using the same software versions suddenly they have settings I don't, where did they come from who knows. It's never explained and you end up trawling through forums to find the nugget that explains exactly what thing you have to do.
In Europe we did call the music of that time "Beat Music", in germany we had many pop music tv shows that were Beat this and Beat that (using the English word)

I met Rod Davis in 2016, I should have asked him, but I always assumed they were named after their style of music.
this is what :[v]split is for.. .
That's very weird, since it's such a useful unit. I've also noticed that the decilitre also seems to be underused outside of Sweden.
Doesn’t work for me on iOS Safari.
> The Matrix team blogged about a spambot attack last year on this very question: https://matrix.org/blog/2021/06/30/security-update-synapse-1...

Ah sorry that's a spambot attack, the spam on telegram is 99% Indian/Nigerian origin of people literally just signing up to go into group channels and spam whatsapp channels/msg me for how to make riches/join this trading signals channel you'll make millions.

If you're lucky they'll personally message you with something like 'hey' and then wait for you to respond, initiate a convo and try and get you to fall for their classic HYIP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-yield_investment_program

Searching for Ban on a random group channel this is how common it is: https://imgur.com/kOtilgL
All this and more. I'm fortunate enough that while I could afford to hire trades to do all the things I've done in and outside of our house in the last couple years (gutted/rebuilt kitchen & bathrooms, built phase one of a three phase deck/backyard oasis) I have to keep telling my spouse, yes, we could hire someone, but I really LIKE doing this stuff. Like really like.

It's now got to a point that the requests, and "He can build that" comments to friends are not accompanied with the trademark eye roll.

All the points the author hit ring true - planning, design, tool choice, etc have similar parallels to code and systems I work with during the day. But, I can cook meals for my family knowing that I built that space, then sit on the deck watching the wind in the trees knowing how many pieces of pressure treated lumber are holding me up and how it felt putting them all together. I never get that visceral connection using a web app.
"Server Not found" for any of:

- https://ai/

- https://www.ai/

- http://ai/

- http://ai.

- http://ai

and http://.ai/ gets redirected to a search engine searchfor ".ai" by firefox.

But http://www.ai/ works for some reason.
Ask HN: What are your favorite tech/business podcasts
Hello HN,
I would love to hear what are your favorite go to podcasts which have been valuable to you in terms of knowledge
That's a complete but quite a long explanation, and talks in terms of Squeak which I'm unfamiliar with. I'm much more familiar with JavaScript WeakMaps, where I would probably describe it something like:

A WeakMap M is a table of entries, each of which maps a key K to a value V. If you have the M and K in hand, you can use them to look up V. (And if you don't have either one, then you can't!)

From a GC perspective, each entry is an edge that says that V is alive if both M and K are alive[1]. (And if either of them dies, then the entry no longer serves to keep anything alive. Note the parallelism with the above parenthetical.)

They're mostly useful for associating a value V with some other object K without modifying K. They're sort of an annotation mechanism. If you tried to do that with a regular Map, then you would have to manually remove any Ks that you wanted to go away.

In implementation terms, ...y'know, why don't I write it up as a blog post: https://blog.mozilla.org/sfink/2022/06/09/ephemeron-tables-a...

[1] Note that WeakMaps are not "weak" in the sense of weak references; the name WeakMap is a bit of a misnomer. Normal weak things can be skipped during marking. After liveness is determined, you'll check to see if they're still alive. You can't skip ephemeron edges like this! They're strong edges and it's invalid to throw away a V if its M and K are live. But EphemeronTable is a bit long...
Apple digs into its pile of cash to fund new Pay Later service
https://archive.ph/Fdlco
> “Like I was Googling Roth IRAs, mutual funds, so of course Google and Facebook have to be in cahoots with each other because all of a sudden you start seeing investment things advertised on Facebook.”

So he was trying to search for a normal investment, and FB via Google convinced him to give crypto a chance with his life savings. Thats messed up.
Tech CEOs can suck one.

The power relationship has been far too one sided for far too long. Get used to the new reality where you have to pay more than lip-service to the idea of treating staff like human beings, and where a quick dosh-splosh to a PR company isn’t sufficient to wipe away a multitude of corporate sins.
6s for a blog post isn't "reasonable", and we shouldn't give them the benefit of pretending it is.
My issue with S/MIME is that (unless you use GitHub's smimesign) I cannot use nikolay@users.noreply.github.com fake email - my actual Actalis S/MIME certificate reveals my email, so, I can't use it to sign with git. I wish the fake GitHub email had a feature to show you the email received in the last 15 minutes at the no-reply email!
Interesting, most timer crystals I'm familiar with are 32768 hz.
The "most painful" part of any interview process is just the part that you happen to be the worst at. Personally, I don't find leetcode to be painful at all and would be much more enthusiastic about something that eliminates any part of the interview where you have to talk about yourself.
This is the most plausible explanation that we could find:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7TIpSzymoY

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> The set-up will allow Apple to earn interchange fees from each transaction as well as give the company more control over data and help accelerate the international expansion of its financial products. However, if a customer fails to pay back the loan, Apple must swallow the loss.

Whoa, did not see that coming. I wonder if Apple will only make the feature available for a subset of purchases? Like if my credit limit is $5k, will they let me BNPL for a $5k purchase, right off the bat? Or will I have to prove my creditworthiness over time, either with traditional usage or with BNPL specifically?

Seems like a choppy economic time right now to be taking risks on people paying back their credit card debts...
Thank you. This seems quite reasonable.
Access to AWS Console is down: https://twitter.com/mikecedev/status/1535097378218418178
Musk is not on the hook for $1B, Musk is on the hook for $44B. Delaware has significant precedent for forcing consummation of business deals in cases like these when the acquirer has the means, which Musk clearly does.

https://www.axios.com/2022/05/14/the-musk-twitter-endgame
Same for me: cost per use is helpful to get you thinking about total cost of ownership and product lifetimes.

It's a really good way to evaluate how much you should pay for the second purchase of a tool - also whether the price is worth the warranty.

My Bosch laser Level for example cost $150 more then the alternative, but came with a 6 year as opposed to 1 year warranty. At a total price of $600, I was buying it at $100 a year guaranteed availability. Whereas the cheaper option actually cost me $450 for only 1 guaranteed year of service.
Only http://ai (with or without trailing dot) did not work for me using DuckDuckGo browser on Android phone.
It reminds me of something I read about the debate over string theory in physics. One side says "by the standards of our discipline this has not, and never will accomplish anything" ("not even wrong"), the other side says "but this is so different and amazing none of the existing rules matter!"
> The changes themselves might be small, but it’s a huge cognitive burden to alternate/iterate through them. I’d love to have a view which temporarily projects those targets as if they’re isolated files without changing the actual structure on disk.

This is exactly how vim buffers work (for instance in a split) work.
This one works for me. But I don't get it. Can someone explain? This isn't browser trickery, nslookup succeeds for "ai." but not "ai".

> ai

** UnKnown can't find ai: Non-existent domain

Server: UnKnown

Address: 192.168.86.1

> www.ai

Non-authoritative answer:

Server: UnKnown

Address: 192.168.86.1

Name: www.ai

Address: 209.59.119.34

> ai.

Non-authoritative answer:

Server: UnKnown

Address: 192.168.86.1

Name: ai

Address: 209.59.119.34

>
I was mistaken.

Thanks for the -30 downvotes HN.
I don't know that I would count on that.

If forced to do so, then they might only do it for jobs that are officially located in the state.
Almost none of the plaintiffs would ever pay. Like this case, Nintendo is supposed to get ~5 times the amount of money they claim he made. How would he ever pay that, more so while in prison?
Pollution captures a very wide range of things true, but it's a pretty common term and I don't see it as particularly political... To whom/where would you say it is?

It's also very commonly agreed which ones are the concerning ones in day to day life - the WHO (first result on Google for me when I google 'air pollution') lists exactly the ones I think of when I hear the term: "Pollutants of major public health concern include particulate matter, carbon monoxide, ozone, nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide." (Although I think it's better to use "Nitrogen oxides" or NOx instead of just saying nitrogen dioxide).
FLOSS Weekly is about the only one I listen to.
> it argues that the entire technology field is worthless and cannot be used for any practical purpose

Which I concur with. Cryptocoins are worthless, the idea Bitcoin has a market cap of $5-6 hundred billion is absurd, and maybe the increasing fed funds rate etc. will pop this speculative bubble more than it already has (Bitcoin had the even more absurd market cap of $1 trillion toward the end of last year).

Why is a Bitcoin worth anything? I know why my M1 Mac is worth something, I know why a box of raisins is worth something, I know why a bar of gold is worth something. I see no worth in a Bitcoin. I ask why it has any worth and the bag holders cast around looking for an equivalent, and only seem to find that dollars have been unmoored from value for half a century and the response is it's like the dollar (of course the dollar is implicitly, not explicitly like before 1971, backed by tens of thousands of tons of bullion gold among other things, but that's another tangent...)
I find video games to be quite boring and useless. But somehow my opinion on the value of entertainment is ignored, and all the energy used on video games is fine.
Freedom to Seek Matters
I'm fine with that. I just don't think we should give any deference to cryptocurrency projects because they're purportedly solving an important social problem. They should be held to the same standards everyone else is. Finance is intensely regulated (many will say not enough; I take no position on that). Crypto should be as well.
The page itself has a (hidden) link to its mentions in popular news and elsewhere

www.ai/publicity
Have you seen cloudron.io? They are spot on solving the problem you describe
Linked to the outage in AWS us-east-1 by chance?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31689517
Video Implicit Neural Representation for Continuous Space-Time Super-Resolution