skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reduction of complexity somehow yields mobility and fractionalization of a complex physical asset? Why is this a good thing when you skip all the protection, nearly 500 years of property law and understanding all so you can digitize something into meaningless bits?

Replace NFT with deed, and what you think we can’t execute the transfer quick enough? No we can but we don’t because, we want to title search, violation search, inspect, appraise, survey the freaking thing you are about to blow your life’s savings on.

There is a reason why people continue to lose millions and billions on NFTs and crypto and why systems to slow and prevent rampant fraud exist.

There is no real technical problem with a real estate transaction that has not been solved. I closed on my house remotely, in 6 weeks, never having met anyone except my broker. 6 weeks were spent doing due diligence inspections.

I have an NFT of the Brooklyn bridge to sell you, cheap, 200 million dollars.
I appreciate you engaging in a two way discussion.

As a general comment, you still jump to many exaggerated conclusions apparently without seeking to understand. For example, your conclusion about an elevated class of engineers that use magic, which you explicitly said is an assumption.

Having worked with these processes and techniques myself for many years in other industries, I know from daily firsthand experience that this is not at all a fair characterization. What they do is one piece of one layer of defense. One aspect of their job is to say no until they cannot say no anymore. The new techniques are for finding more things to say no about.

However, you erroneously concluded that they must be concocting new ways to justify increasingly risky behavior. If you still feel this to be true, the burden of proof has firmly shifted back to you, for the purpose of this discussion. To be clear, I don't expect you to trust me for the purpose of changing your own opinion.

I don't have time to address everything you've written. Maybe the next thing to reflect on is what out-of-spec truly means and implies. On one hand, you're afraid of cost pressure. But on the other hand, you want to create larger cost pressure through a rigid system of rules that you alone adhere to. Something to consider revisiting yourself.

As for general concerns about nuclear, I think the public messaging needs to improve before a real discussion can happen about accepting new developments. Old technologies and risks still dominate the psyche, and new technologies are varied with different concerns from each other.
His MLM analogy does not fit, but I think the point is that Python got where it is because of luck. If the scientific computing and research community (and plenty of physicists) had known a better language, they would not be using Python now. Maybe it helps that Python was installed by default on many Linux systems, and Ruby was not.

Much of the success of Python these days is related to non-CompSci users. And no offense, but many of them are focused entirely on results which have very little concern for code quality, maintainability, or other software engineering concerns.

So now we have startups galore who want to be "AI" or "data science", and their PHBs gravitate to Python because Python is the machine learning language. Or so they've heard.

Ironically, and perhaps one thing the parent poster was alluding to, most AI/ML/data science companies actually end up doing very little of those and instead just doing normal software development. Maybe they have a small sprinkle of data analysis.
Not sure. It's likely a lot of small low power CPUs can beat the likes of M1 on perf/watt tasks though. That one was just the first hit I got.
We're also seeing increased errors in S3 and DynamoDb.
I have a degree in finance. Never heard of Cede & Co and I just read the wiki. Cool. Thanks for the fun fact.
sun@. would likely blow up even the best email checking regexes.
$200 after tax, the least power hungry Motorola I could get. It's got a huge, but lower resolution display (which is fine, my vision isn't the greatest), so the battery lasts a few days. Mint mobile, not much data - 4gb, but $15/month!
Safari on macOS will not load this address. It does resolve, weirdly, "host" in the Terminal works and I can see Safari's requests being answered by my home DNS server in the logs.

But Safari just throws an error: Can't connect to the server "ai".

Update: It works if you include a trailing dot: http://ai.

Update 2: HN's URL parser does not include the dot in the hyperlink. Frustrating.
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good = good. Now ask a non-leading question.
I have a feeling, even if the information was helpful, the net result was not. Having someone else on the radio net providing information of unknown provenance directly to firefighters screws up command and makes everyone nervous. It's a big distraction at a time no one needs it.
I have a very short email address (in the form a@aa.aa) and I haven't found anywhere that doesn't accept it - except for humans, who often refuse to believe it is real and will insist on a longer one.

(I have a backup longer one.)
Okay..WTF? http://ai. Didn’t work on Chrome Mac but it works in Safari for iOS. Is this a bug or how the hell is this possible? It’s flipping everything I thought I knew about domains upside down.
> After police officers removed elderly Korean Americans from a McDonald’s in Flushing, Queens — managers claimed the group overstayed their welcome, buying only coffee and french fries

Before you judge McDonald’s… this is a thing in Asia. Talk privately to someone who works in a Shanghai Walmart, IKEA, and so on, and you will learn that massive groups of these freeloading aunties can shut down any business with a free place to sit for hours. They will buy as close to nothing as possible, are rude to employees, and are not averse to clotting up a business for half the day or more.

Sounds vaguely comical but it’s severely not fun if you’re an employee or prospective paying customer who just wants to park the kids, grab a bowl of noodles and rest your dogs for a few minutes.
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His examples are getting a little dated, but reading this, I can’t help but think of Spolskey’s “Architecture Astronauts” essay:

“When great thinkers think about problems, they start to see patterns. They look at the problem of people sending each other word-processor files, and then they look at the problem of people sending each other spreadsheets, and they realize that there’s a general pattern: sending files. That’s one level of abstraction already. Then they go up one more level: people send files, but web browsers also “send” requests for web pages. And when you think about it, calling a method on an object is like sending a message to an object! It’s the same thing again! Those are all sending operations, so our clever thinker invents a new, higher, broader abstraction called messaging, but now it’s getting really vague and nobody really knows what they’re talking about any more. Blah.“

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/04/21/dont-let-architect...
It goes further than that. Pollution can also be racist as some races pollute more than others. I’ll let you guess which one.
I just said I thought it was a waste of time and effort to keep printing Bibles in a country where Christianity is already culturally and politically omnipresent. I never said anything about making anything illegal.
Apparently all of amazon.com is static pages
https://twitter.com/amilajack/status/1484970825568505856
Doesn't work for me on firefox or curl. dig can find it but only with +trace, host reports SERVFAIL.

"Valid domain name" seems a stretch.
A few facts for US developers to keep in mind:

- India will have 5.2 million software developers by 2023.

- Average salary of software engineer in India is $7,750 per year.

- English is a primary language in India

- Indian software developers are professionally competent.

- All Indian software engineers will work for US companies remotely…from India
Postgres doesn't help with scenarios where you don't want your sovereign foreign reserves seized.
It does not seem to even be the same ball park.
A home sale is often more complicated than that. In some places, you can buy a house “as-is,” meaning that effectively the seller is largely not on the hook as long as they didn’t egregiously misrepresent the condition of the house.
> Why doesn't he provide a real world use case for DLT? I'm still waiting for that.

Payments?

So why is Stripe [0], MoneyGram [1], Checkout.com [2], still using them? They seem to know that some of the ones that they chose have a use case?

Downvoters: What are these three examples of companies actually using this DLT technology doing then?

[0] https://stripe.com/blog/expanding-global-payouts-with-crypto

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-29/moneygram...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/07/checkoutcom-jumps-into-crypt...
http://ai. Works in safari for iOS, shockingly.
We used to actually run an RFC3161 timestamp server in addition to the transparency log but recently turned it down because no one was using it. I'd like to bring it back for stuff like this.

https://github.com/sigstore/gitsign/issues/22
I think of things as puzzle pieces that fit together to form all the things I know. In the background, any new thing I learn is checked against all the nearby pieces to see if there are inconsistencies, or something new to try out.

As for recalling events, it's about 70% visual, 30% facts about things.
Especially given the big pitch was that he'd clean up the bots. If there are loads of bots, that would make it easy to get a cheap win and look like a hero.
Huh. It does not work on my iPhone. Same error. I wonder what the difference is.
This is actually tiny compared to their statutory authority of forfeiture, which is $22,001 per transmission. Instead:

> of a $10,000 forfeiture for each of the two days of apparent unlicensed operations30 and a $7,000 forfeiture for each of the two days of harmful interference),31 for which Frawley is apparently liable. We caution Frawley that future violations of this kind may result in significantly higher forfeitures or revocation of his amateur license.

He's free lawyer up, but the first round of litigation is before an administrative law judge and all that's required is the preponderance of the evidence, as they are not seeking a criminal conviction.
Informational message: Increased API Error Rates
Jun 9, 2022 at 22:38

We continue to work on addressing the error rates and latencies for AWS services in the US-EAST-1 Region. The issue initially affected the Elastic Load Balancing APIs, with some impact to other services, including Elastic Container Service, Amazon Certificate Manager, and Directory Services. At 7:46 PM PDT, other AWS services began to experience an increase in error rates and latencies. Action was taken and error rates started to improve at 7:55 PM PDT. This issue also affected access to the the AWS Management Console for the US-EAST-1 Region. Error rates and latencies for services in the US-EAST-1 Region remain elevated for a number of services, including Connect, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, EC2, CloudFormation, CloudFront, amongst others. We continue to work towards resolving the issue.
Weird. `dig` on macOS does not resolve it but `host` does.
The bluff is that the bot issue is of any relevance whatsoever. It’s nonsense.
As others have mentioned, the absolute nonsense of needing two or three streaming subscriptions to watch all 82 games of a team's season is infuriating. Particular with the garbage streams on TSN - some games were a full 20% of pixelated smear - on a wired connection getting well over 900 Mb/s, and surprise, never any dropped streams on other services.

The kicker of course, was the influx of gambling ads on TSN this season, thankfully, at least on the NHL app for the other games the ads are replaced by the gentle ice making video :-)

Yes, the VPN will work in some instances, but despite being savvy, my spouse will never fart around with the hoops to get the VPN on the Apple TV which is where most games get streamed.

The whole thing needs to burnt down and re-built with a model that doesn't suck so bad.
> That the Ashmolean assumed the Scots relic was a cast of theirs, speaks volumes both for indexing (or lack of it) and assumed supremacy of the Ashmolean over other historical collections.

Why would the Ashmolean assume, without evidence, it was a super-rare original which happened to from the same period as the Ashmolean's piece? A cast seems much more likely to me, but I don't work in that field. Do you? Maybe I just don't understand some context.
Steam has steampowered.com and steamcommunity.com
Medium has bigger issues than its implementation. It quickly turned into the platform for relatively vacuous and self-gratifying posts that are basically “This is the deep insight I would share if I gave a TED talk”. I generally avoid going there since the quality of content is down there with long form LinkedIn posts.
Bot Sentinel – Inauthentic Twitter Accounts Database – (FAQs)
Just paying it forward! Standing on the shoulder of giants.
He might think the bot estimates are wrong, but his opinion seems to have been exactly the same when he made the offer. So that's not a reasonable way to get out of the deal.
That's interesting. dig works for me.

I suspect all these difference depend on what DNS server you are using.
I looked at Medium, Substack, and ended up on Hashnode for a bit (Medium for devs, markdown blogging with a platform/feed).

I just recently setup a Hugo blog and hosted it on Netlify in an afternoon, doesn't look as "pretty" but loads much quicker.

Big shout-out to https://github.com/janraasch/hugo-bearblog and https://bearblog.dev/ as they are amazing examples of how to have a blog that is JUST a blog.
Machining and metal work is the same for me. And now we have a lathe and mill and lots of precise measuring instruments. It is fun to re-create things like stirling engines and steam engines and work your way through the technology of the industrial revolution. Machining and precision are more fun than wood work for me. It made wood working seem rather easy by comparison as the level of precision required is often less by an order of magnitude or more when wood working. If your goal is just to build useful things MIG welding is very accessible and with a bit of practice you can fabricate useful strong things with metal as well. Wood work and metal work can also be combined of course. Metal working and machining definitely gets more expensive than wood working though.
Thanks! We just switched to Docusaurus, would absolutely recommend. We started w/ a separate marketing site and docs site, but since our team are basically all engineers, we just decided to use Docusaurus for everything.
The sad thing is when people don't lean towards a particular political orientation based on what they believe but choose what to believe based on their political orientation.
During the time I did a contract for Apple Retail Software Engineering in Cupertino, I saw 20% rent increases in a single year. And among all the people I talked to, that seemed perfectly normal and had been going on for decades.

No wonder that a postage stamp of land costs $600k, and that's with the value being depressed by $120 for the shack that is not suitable for human habitation that is currently located there and will have to be torn down.
People who flaunt protocols to offer unsolicited “help” are usually the type who are annoyingly full of themselves, who are more likely to just drain limited resources or worse, make a mess of things. Don’t be that guy.

One would hope $34,000 is a powerful deterrence.
I'm guessing the parent poster really meant something like "hyped snake oil".

There is absolutely nothing about Python which makes it especially suited to scientific programming or any other kind of programming. In fact, it is poorly designed for most software engineering goals, short of just simple one-file, few line scripts. But those could just as well have been written in many other languages.

Python just happened to be installed by default on most Linux systems, and it was more powerful than *sh. Just maybe one could argue that it was more accessible than perl because it had fewer $#!@$ symbols. If Python had not tried to offer OOP features (entirely built with duct tape, hotglue, and post-it notes) maybe Python projects wouldn't be such a mess. Simple procedural code would be better than the @decorator littered mess which is required to make Python have OO features approximating (but not fully supporting) other languages.
It works? I keep it on at all times, but somehow I can still hear noise from wherever my colleagues are.
I’ve seen commercial banks reverse wire transfers within the first 30 days.

When you are moving large sums of money between well known institutions the money is very illiquid, mostly to prevent mistakes, fraud, etc. It’s why most fraud that you hear about involves movement of money overseas or into another type of asset or more liquid form, e.g bills, physical goods etc.

No one sits their stolen funds at chase bank… Makes blockchain and NFTs the perfect gateway for fraud.
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A Strange 'Twin' Radio Signal from Deep Space Has Been Discovered
If you’ve ever advertised on Twitter, you know that an overwhelming majority of the clicks are fake.

Not like, 5% fake. Not 15% fake.

No it’s more in the range of “most clicks are fake but we just live with it anyway.”

If you run PPC campaigns you also know how easy it is to spot this crap.

I for one am interested in learning what’s going on there. I don’t buy the “it’s soooo complicated oh it’s just impossible to know for sure!” Narrative that Twitter is peddling.
Why is anyone still listening to Cramer? The fellow's a hack. See the Jon Stewart interview of him if you haven't done so.
I'm curious to hear more about what kinds of intentional action you take to develop your passion. What does that look like practically?
By this logic, paying $10k for a day of "enhanced air" (whatever that might be) is a great deal. After all, you breathe something like 20,000 times a day.
Why Does Everything in Tech Feel Like a Scam?
> It says I can continue to read if I sign up. So that's what I did. But then... I have been tricked into creating an account! This is a dark pattern, and I don't like it.

The screenshot literally says, “Read the rest of this story with a free account. Already have an account? <sign in>” and prompts you to link your google or Facebook account.

The Wikipedia dark patterns linked describes them as, “A dark pattern (also known as an anti-pattern or ‘Deceptive Design’) is ‘a user interface that has been carefully crafted to trick users into doing things, such as buying overpriced insurance with their purchase or signing up for recurring bills.’”

I don’t want to defend Medium, but their approach hardly strikes me as deceptive or particularly tricky. Annoying? Yes. Dark pattern? No.
> developed a passion for that and computer programming and became a voracious reader of everything I could find on it in the school library, acquiring knowledge far beyond my grade level

This is a huge amount of “preparation”, as far as I am concerned. It’s not as effective as working with an expert tutor/coach, but it still adds up over time. (And good job preparing yourself without much help!)

The wealthier kids in your town who spent their time on whatever else were less well prepared than you (academically; they might have been better prepared for schmoozing or playing sports or whatever).

But if you had wanted to be a child prodigy or world-class competitor in something as a teenager, you likely would have needed significant expert help.

> No matter how much time you spend preparing the dumb kids they will struggle

If the kids are dramatically struggling, they are likely significantly under-prepared for the work they are expected to do. But it is not true that no matter how much time you spend you cannot make a difference. Kids testing in the 10th percentile can if tutored 1:1 for a year or two surpass the 80th percentile kids taught in an ordinary class. Regular 1:1 tutoring is extraordinarily much better than other methods of instruction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom%27s_2_sigma_problem
Let's all take the cue, we could stand to get off the population Ponzi scheme.

Ethically, it's the extension of life that's posed the biggest challenge, because of the resources required to live and thrive past the productive years.
this is marked dupe, but I can't find alternative post by searching `aws` or `us-east-1`
Wind turbine blades are next to impossible to recycle or (at the scale we're talking about) re-purpose.

'What What happens to all the old wind turbines?' (bbc.co.uk) [2020]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22265321
We ran that experiment of dramatically shorter copyright terms, and it produced much of the culture you know and love before 1975. Copyright has been extended in 1976 and then again in 1998 mostly at the behest of rent seeking corporations who bought the culture after it’s creation and after paying the authors handsomely for it. Calling Disney’s business “marginalized” seems ridiculous to me?
'I'm Drowning:' Amazon Contractors Are Paying the Price for the Labor Shortage
The period forces it to actually do a lookup. Without it it may be only asking the local dns server or appending the default domain.
I agree with everything you say (in fact another post I made on this page deals with "it should be NumPy to Python" because so many people learn the language through some popular library)

I agree with your points, but the only counterpoint I will make is that Python was created as a simple scripting language that could utilize lower language code. Basically it's a convenient wrapper for faster c code. So the fact that Python is populated with scientific libraries that are optimized in c is not purely luck. That said, like a lot of things in life, it's the combination of viability and luck that lead to success.
Imagine at your job there is a crisis. Everyone is overworked, on edge, every minute counts. Then a random person appears and starts giving you and your co-workers 'information'. Whoever they are, GTFO! And probably your crisis isn't life and death.
That's fair. Excess power can be driven into the ground, and at small scales it can be sold to the grid.
These studies sound trivial in the headlines because the headlines take out the quantitative degree of the effect, which was the hard-won part of the study. An excerpt:

>Utilizing this data, the researchers calculated that a reduction in NOx emissions of around 50% in each region would improve yields by approximately 25% for winter crops and 15% for summer crops in China. In Western Europe, yields were estimated to improve nearly 10% for both winter and summer crops.

Now it is possible to put a number on how much NOx is costing farmers.
I wonder if it was automatic because the link is https://health.aws.amazon.com/phd/status -- perhaps I should have posted it differently?
Sorry but have you tried hosting your own video?

There's only really one set of codecs that works across all devices. Video Player libraries that work really well with features like captions/subtitles, speed controls, automatic resolution shifting are hard to find, much less if you are not technical.

If you want to cater to an audience outside the western world you'll want a video processing pipeline to downscale your videos to lower resolutions.

Ideally you'd want to chunk up the video into something like HLS playlists so navigating around the video wouldn't require someone to wait until the download caught up to the middle of the file... the list goes on.

Video is still hard. The big players make it seem easy, but it's not, in my experience, that simple.
For non-necessary payments I think of it in cheeseburgers. Would I rather have this five hundred dollar phone or eat a cheeseburger a hundred times?
corps?