skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> some amount of collective bargaining being applied here instead of me making the purchase as an individual.

The whole point of the article is that Google's pricing is terrible compared to the open market. If they actually did any bargaining they did it this way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPqAcOnEBUI.

Having competitive rates and having HR helping out the family when an employee dies can be completely orthogonal.
It may take less time actually since it can be parallelized. PNG's big problem is it's serial.
Dorm network SMB. There was a brief period of time, when mp3 were already a thing but before they were made truly ubiquitous by widespread p2p filesharing, in which every group of young people living together in ethernet range developed a habit leaving the PCs with the nicest music collections running through their nights. The idea of a play counter would have felt like a natural refinement to everyone involved. Not much different from the website visitor counter gifs that were still not entirely gone.
Serverless vs. Microservices: Two Sides of the Same Coin
This is simply terrible analysis. The likelihood of death analysis is beside the point. By enrolling every employee in a group life policy, Google is able to get a very favorable rate from an insurer. Googlers in general are going to be younger, healthier, with greater access to health care than the general population, let alone people who are seeking out life insurance who don’t have access to one through their job (or union).

There is no way an individual would be able to get the same rate Google is paying.
We were getting spammed by hundreds of eu.org subdomains. We had no choice but to place a ban on the entire domain as banning a few just led to more popping up.

We ban as we see spam. Most free shorteners end up getting banned as there is no need to double shorten a url other than for double obfuscation which is usually shady.
First of all, 8 pins are used for power delivery for just VBUS & GND.

Furthermore, you need the two CC pins or otherwise you won't get any voltage from USB-C chargers. USB 2.0 data pins are needed for backward compatible charging (otherwise a compliant device could only pull 500mA from a USB-A to C cable).

The spec defines such a receptacle connector for USB 2.0-only support (also including the two sideband channels, but that's only 2 out of 16 pins, so probably not noticeably more expensive).
Yunohost.org is completely FOSS and a Debian based distro. It has no crypto apps. It is quite polished over many years including backup, lets encrypt, DNS, NGINX, fail2ban, diagnosis, and a nice web UI.
Buy Now, Pay Later sector to be regulated under Australian credit laws
This is a niche that datasette (by simonw on here) could fill very nicely. If you can wrangle it in to a csv, then datasette can publish it as an api with an sql interface.

I'm not sure how this could work with things like photos etc (though there are plugins for some of this)
This issue of "definition" is missing what's at stake. The issue is modelling nature in such a way that plausibly includes subjective experience. And then validating this model. But subjective experience is intrinsically inaccessible to empirical validation. We can test the physical predictions of the model, but how subjective experience fits into the model is an orthogonal question. If we are to answer the question of subjective experience, we need to embrace "speculation" without empirical anchoring to guide our investigations. Shutting down speculation is just to shut down any investigation at all.
Anyone with common sense knows that Musk doesn't care about free speech.
Should also mention that the site that posted this _sells_ insurance packages.
I'd add, don't go to an agency until you have budget allocated and clearly defined marketing goals/plan. If you can't articulate the above you're way too early.
living my dream! I've been driving for 25yrs now? never got to accelerate out of an accident even once. would've been really cool lol what was the situation like? like people swerving into your path?
We're going to showcase the physical notes in person at Consensus, which is arguably the last major Bitcoin conference of the year (certainly for US market).

We've found that having notes in person helps folks to understand the concept more easily.
> Should we start by stating that "qualia" or "consciousness" or whatever is a placeholder name for "whatever dark (unknown, black-box) mechanism explains the observable phenomenon named as such", then we might have a chance at actually forming a coherent theory thereof. IMHO.

Perhaps, although in the case of qualia I’m not sure what the phenomenon is that we need a placeholder explanation for. For dark matter we’ve got certain observations of galaxies. For qualia we’ve got, what? A lot of people who feel very strongly that they are unable to deny the existence of something that they cannot describe beyond that claim of undeniable existence? If that’s how astrophysicists explained dark matter I’d be inclined to think that maybe it just doesn’t exist.

Edit: thanks to autocomplete we were briefly embroiled in an argument about the existence of quails.
I first learned of Eric when he made a surprise appearance on CuriousMarcs YouTube channel. He’s a smart guy and I stared following him on Twitter(TubeTimeUS), for his deep dives of retro computing. No doubt this book will be awesome!
Porsche doesn't dream of making something like the FP3 because their 'elongated beetle design' is still curb stomping almost every other competitor into the ground. McLaren is essentially their only real competition, if we aren't counting multimillion dollar vehicles like a Rimac or Bugatti. Porsche still holds the Nurburgring lap time title with their GT2 RS; and their GT3 and GT3 RS (multiple generations) as well as the ol' 918 Spyder are still among the top times posted. As far as I'm aware there's not a single ferrari that's cracked 7:00 on the lap.

FWIW, I think the GT3 RS is probably the pinnacle of functional design (among commonly-known models). It's aggressively winged, but the original design is literally decades old. Timeless and elegant. I'd take the Porsche 10000 times out of 10 over a Ferrari.

Edit: You are also aware that the V10 in the Audi R8 is the same engine that powers Lamborghini's, right? Like almost all engines (e.g. The small block LS, the ford 5.0, the subaru 2L boxer), it's an older design that's been updated as needed.
https://hypertele.fi/

Various forms of computer art. Visual, music, literary.
> Everyone I know who has done an exit

Sounds like survivors bias in a few words. Presumably the folks who had no market fit never got anywhere near an exit? I'm not sure I'd use this metric as a guide telling me to ignore the market.
It's accessible by tor because it's primarily a bitcoin/lightning node. If you're not interested in that core value prop, umbrel isn't for you.
What is W2 work?
> I've never been able to find a version if basic that had that graphics capability.

If you are looking for a retro BASIC, then BBC BASIC had line and filled triangle drawing built in (or it was in the system ROM and BASIC had hooks for it). There was an extension (IIRC separately purchased for the Model A & B, built into the BBC Master) that added rectangles, circles, and ellipses.

BBC Basic was the best of the 8-bit offerings for learning on as it supported named procedures and functions, and a few other structural features (some BASIC implementations at the time didn't even have ELSE with their IF statements). There were significant limitations, but it was massively ahead of the GOTO/GOSUB (which it also had of course) that were your only option in BASIC interpreters on other home micros. It also supported variable names of reasonable length (40 characters IIRC, you could actually use more but any after 40 were silently ignored and you didn't want really long variable names anyway as they would take too much program space to store) where some other BASICs limited you to just a couple of characters. It even had a built-in multi-stage assembler for when you wanted a bit more oomph than interpreted BASIC could offer.

[caveat: one or two of the above features may not have been present in the very original version, though I think they were all in BASIC II that appeared in 1982]
Please Intel... I still want it: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/03/intel-thunderbolt-op...

Side note, there's some really really cheap fiber optic DisplayPort cables out there. They work, they're whatever length you want, mine were ~$0.60/foot. My monitors are 4k60 & 2k170; all resolutions run great. I feel like we're not too far off from fiber maybe happening for real.
>That's the critical part. PNG is an archival format for me. Image formats come and go, but as long as the archive image's format is lossless it can always be converted to another format without degradation if need be.

Why not BMP then? Maybe I'm misunderstanding but I thought it was relatively free and relatively simple -- I thought you use things like PNG when you don't want a literal 1 for 1 (100% lossless) file.

I thought if you use compression, you'll always lose at least a small amount of data.

Or is that a fundamental misunderstanding? (If so, sorry to wander in like this, I'm not trying to sealion[1] you.)

[1] wondermark.com/c/2014-09-19-1062sea.png
Also a bit of survivorship bias. No employee who literally makes use of the perk is around to say how useful it is. Thus we debate how valuable it is if you never actually need it.
In general insurance has a slightly negative expected value (that plus the time value of money) is how insurers make money. You are paying to reduce variance.
If you're not even slightly familiar with that branch of mathematics it's still a perfectly good and descriptive name, because you can search for the term and get loads of relevant information from the programming side of things.

(The mathematical basis helping you get deeper insights into it is just a bonus, albeit IMO a valuable one.)
2,000 years in the future: a brain is indispensable for AGI
Why doesn’t “buy it yourself” solve the problem?
Yes, if performance is the main concern, Rust looks good. However if I can get by with GC I still would choose something like Go, as I am just getting to a working solution faster.

And I spent way less time learning Go than learning Haskell.
Indeed. It's also not pulling down with that same weight on each of their internal organs.
These are gorgeous and the idea of physical tokens has a rich history in Bitcoin. Some users love them but others not so much.

There are two problems to solve: (1) securing the cryptographic material (aka "private key(s)") stored on the physical token; and (2) securing the cryptographic material not stored on the physical token.

I can't speak to (1), but (2) has throughout Bitcoin's history been a very hard problem to solve. Even if the token is the only place that the cryptographic material is stored in all the universe, proving that fact is practically impossible.

Unfortunately, the page is light on details and the comments haven't answered al my questions so I'll speculate a bit.

It appears that this approach goes in a slightly different direction than others with "multisig." This implies to me that both issuer and user generate private keys. This could be a 1 of 2 (either user OR issuer must sign) or 2 of 2 (both user AND issuer must sign). If 1 of 2, the note issuer can in principle always spend the money at any time. If 2 of 2 the user needs to secure the private keys or risk being locked out forever.

Either way, we're right back at the fundamental problem: how to secure those keys. If the funds can be lost through loss of user keys, then this offers little practical advantage over bill-less bitcoin. If the issuer can always sign unilaterally, then users become dependent on a trusted third party, which is exactly the problem Bitcoin was created to solve.
Does anyone have more information about how this is enforced, and how non-compliance is penalized?

Can a manufacturer be non-compliant and pay a per-device penalty?
It's one of the many marketing channels. SEO is a long term strategy and paramount to ongoing leads. Once you get it right, the pipeline of leads opens up and your CPA (cost per acquisition) drops (compared to paid media channels besides email marketing)

Should you rely on just SEO? hell no.
No. Type C is limited to 2.5 A ungrounded appliances. For regular (16 A, grounded) sockets, half of EU use type E and other half type F. Fortunately, there is CEE 7/7 plug, which is compatible with both type E and type F sockets.
It sucks. It is no longer reliable. And the fake Chinese names of products is stupid. I don't buy anything you can't pronounce like a bunch of letters. HUTRDJK every product I search for in a name brand another fake name comes up. Don't even den get me started on Prime shipping and products. It is bad and Walmart is just as bad.
That still leaves it open to reverse engineering though. You would atleast have to bomb the place.
There is already a comment there? And the implementation doesn't look too hard. I don't feel like this is an example of a hard to understand Haskell function.
Aren't you concerned with IR or ITSM tools (ala ServiceNow) just copying your patterns and adding it to their existing Slack Apps? Slack already has public demos with pretty much the same pattern you've adopted.

Have you got a bigger end-goal, because this is trivial to copy well. You need a moat, or you need to seek acquisition quick.
Small correction, the "250 GTO" was a specific racing model, while the "250 GT" was a series of models encompassing both roadgoing and racing cars. I'm assuming you are referring to the roadgoing 250 GT models, such as the 250 GT Pininfarina Coupe, 250 GT California Spyder etc.

The roadgoing 250 GT series was produced at the tail end of the "coachbuilt" era of automobiles, where the manufacturer sent the bare chassis and engine to a artisan shop specialized in the design and construction of the body. So you're correct that, from Ferrari's perspective, the design of these roadgoing models was secondary to the racing models. However, because it was not Ferrari's primary concern, it could be contracted out to coachbuilders such as Pininfarina. These firms were highly sophisticated designers and artisans and indeed produced some very beautiful work.
How much of our lives is spent filling out forms? They usually ask for the same data (much of it unchanging) for a lifetime.

So: this: Each of us may acquire a single-purpose, secure personal-storage device we can easily backup (but with a different key). A query from some org will ask for a list of particulars. If a particular is already on the device, it may be routinely added to the output queue, else it asks us if we wish it to be queued. We can choose to add a missing particular, or edit an existing one. Click, click, gone, done. A particular which requires an official confirmation (e.g. birth certificate) will include a DOI. Org must swap-certify with issueing agency. (It's not my account number.)

Etc. etc. If it does not recognize our voice input on insertion (or detects a rubber hose), it warns the carrier, signals Skynet, then bursts into flames.
Agree. I have definitely dealt with that stuff at my work. My goal is to try and frame it in a way, that gets people discussing it productively.
Bristle cofounder here. In short, we found that people using an electric toothbrush have increased commensal species in their oral microbiome compared to those using a manual brush. We looked at potential confounders, and found that this effect was negated if you only brush once per day.

We also found that bacterial species that cause bad breath (halitosis) were higher in people using a manual brush, but only people under 30 had reduced scores when using an electric brush. Surprisingly, people with existing gum disease did not benefit as much from an electric toothbrush.

Our data suggest that an electric toothbrush is better at removing biofilm than a manual one. Additionally, accumulation of biofilm seeds an environment for slow-growing anaerobic species. Frequent efficient removal of this biofilm is important for growth of commensal species, and reduction in pathogenic anaerobes that can cause disease.

TLDR: Brush 2x per day, and use an electric toothbrush, especially if you're under 30 and don't have existing gum disease.
Sometimes you need to support something more flexible than JSON but just can't hand your (non-dev) users all the footguns that come with a Turing complete configuration language. "Key/Value" makes the problem sound simple, but maybe you're writing a rules engine, and the values are expressions that will be evaluated at runtime. It's uncommon, but the need isn't impossible to imagine.

I'm personally of the opinion that using a scripting language is the worst option. Going that route is giving up on most forms of static analysis, since you can't inspect configuration values without executing untrusted code.
>This is a strange test to do. The image he used is not really suited to PNG. It is more like a photograph, which is better in JPEG format, than an illustration, which is better as a PNG.

Isn't your comment why they used Lenna[1] so long -- it might be male gazey etc, but at least everyone is using the same male gazey softcore photo rather than sidetracking with arguments over image choice?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna
No, because this entirely ignores the dimension of quality. I mean maybe they are right, but it's not considered in the analysis.

The author recommends I buy Geico life insurance for $156/yr.

I have Geico car insurance and have filed claims when people broken into my car. You would not believe the lengths this scum bag company goes to in order to not pay you the money you are entitled to. I don't want my family subject to that if I die.
As I recall, it was much less that previous centuries.

I'd start the 19th century after the Napoleon wars for this argument, of course.
Yup! It’s hard to keep spammers at bay, but not impossible. Takes a lot of effort. A big reason to stay away from shorteners that don’t have legit companies/orgs behind them putting in the effort.
I could just as easily alter the variables for various mortalities to make $150/month seem expensive by that logic. Paying $150 vs $300 per month for life insurance doesn’t suddenly make it “worth it”
This suggesting is frightening.

The whole point of decentralization is to stop centralized power from abusing their ledgers. Yes crypto is a record of transactions (a ledger) and yes any single company can provide the same service by “simply” recording transactions in a digital ledger, but then you end up with exactly the situation we’re in: companies devaluing balances or making them expire (air miles), companies freezing accounts to save themselves (paypal), and all sorts of other feckery.

At their best, regulations stop the outright theft that companies are capable of (let’s not talk about the worst of regulations). The point is that any central authority can and will use their position to further their own profit margins at the cost of their “customers”.
Having this be a universal policy has a big clear benefit--when someone at the company dies, their family's immediate needs and expenses are taken care of. It avoids the awkward "passing the hat" to the company or fellow employees for support. There's no need to make special exceptions, determine how much to help out in a crisis, etc--it's taken care of automatically, to a pre-determined extent. No one can complain that an employee died and big rich Google did nothing for their family. It saves a lot of potential handwringing, bad PR, and employee dissatisfaction, etc.
CUE has been an absolute joy to work with on configuration problems. It’s a typed language which is something that’s been a massive gap in the config language space when looking at yaml, toml, json, etc...

https://cuelang.org/
Cartels are bad, but they really want to do more business rather than less, import more into the US. More ordinary trade there is, easier it is also to smuggle drugs I would guess.
250 GTO is certainly beautiful; I’d put the 246 Dino right up against it for aesthetics among their road cars (meaning, setting aside the 335 S).
You will lose the benefits of both type systems if you try to combine them. Rust doesn't really track effects, while Haskell doesn't care about memory.
> Lightning happens all over but it is relatively rare on the US west coast, particularly in the Pacific Northwest. We had an actual thunderstorm in the fall of 2019 and everyone was talking about it for a couple of days after, it was so noteworthy.

Thanks for this, descriptions like this help a lot more than raw stats, I had to hear a few sources of info say basically this before I grok-d it.
Not yet but that's a good suggestion! The core client code is Rust so additional languages are (mostly) just native bindings to Rust. We will be releasing the Rust SDK publicly soon and welcome contributions!
> We could do something crazy like invest in high speed rail.

Ask CAHSR how that’s working out for them…
Reminds me of how, for Cuba-loving leftists, the first thing they cite is how under the Castro regime the literacy rate hit 99%. Hey, that's great. But if there's no freedom of speech, what are people going to read besides state propaganda?
I’m thinking, that since your battery has passed its cycle limit, maybe the increased internal resistance of what odd causing all the heat issues. Maybe, change the battery?
In C++ you get the great https://github.com/nlohmann/json

In Rust you have the amazing serde with serde_json but at this point, you can use toml which is also based on serde. I consider serde as being standard.

In C you have the lib jason which is very good.

In Elixir, I use the compile-time configuration (config/config.exs) with environment variables for production, but that's because in the end, my Elixir system is in a Docker container, running on Kubernetes, with a ConfigMap defining the environment variables, so in the end, it's YAML (or JSON).
We have on a limited scale...honestly grass growth has been a problem. With corn...works fine. With bush beans the grass grows too much and we are forced to weedeat/cut etc. since we can't put animals in with it. Squash we got a decent first and second crop but a third (which is pushing it anyway) had issues with a lot of rain and too much grass growth which caused mold. With pumpkins we have had better luck using a tine plow and planting between the grass furrows then moving the pumpkins onto the dirt as they mature. The biggest issue we have had is an over abundance of grass with no till since we don't spray a burn down on any of our cover crops.
You can make digital optical logic gates - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS1zAAD1nXI
As measured relative to the destination, yes, but if so then that means the passengers get crushed under infinite gs.
Well, on the other hand I also roll my eyes pretty hard whenever I see a post that pretends that subjective experience is some esoteric concept.

The question is simply "Will robots feel just like you do, or will they merely be pretending?" - it's something any child could understand. Answers could be something like "No, because they lack X", "Yes, but only those that have X" or "Yes, everything does (panpsychism)".

Do you care about potential AI suffering? If you care about animal suffering, the answer to the question would have pretty obvious and major ethical implications.

Now, I'm not convinced that humans can ever determine an answer, so I can understand thinking it's just navel gazing, but I imagine the same applies to knowing what happened before the big bang. I think it's quite evident that this doesn't mean either question is malformed.