skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Shout out to companies with very strict assessments, who actually pay attention and weed out companies with bad practices.

We do B2B software. All of our customers (small community banks) have been incredible hard-asses regarding PII visibility. As they should be.

Even in cases where our customers use a "cloud" solution, it's with some niche 3rd party vendor that would never grant access to someone outside the secret club. Every one of our product installations is effectively an "on-prem" deal.

All of the logging information that we get to see is redacted for PII by the customer's instance before it leaves their secure context. This is a zero-tolerance policy too. We anonymize even the most generic facts and ensure our hashes are salted as specifically as feasible. There are some cases where this burns us (e.g. knowing that the SSN contained a non-numeric digit could be very helpful at troubleshooting time), but on the other hand everyone sleeps better at night knowing that PII is not leaking out into 3rd party buckets arbitrarily.

I would say that being very cautious about PII has opened up more opportunities for us. Our organization operates under the pretense that if any one of our customers were to become compromised by way of our product (or consultation per the product), we are instantly dead and put out of business. We don't sell ourselves exactly this way on sales calls, but we do make it clear that PII is the #1 concern in our minds. For us, it is analogous to safety on a construction site or nuclear power plant.
LaMDA's internal state is static, which is why the API has to add context metadata to each query. I'd expect fused training/inference for sentience.
I can't tell from the article whether we are talking about state paid charging or private charging (the article implies both).

For privately funded charging, I don't see why it would be the state's business.

For publicly funded charging, I don't see why taxpayers should subsidise your Tesla.
This was pre-COVID in suburban midwest, if I recall. On the low-end of the estimate, and nothing happened that required intervention, but certainly possible in the market location. Major city? Good luck.
A cloud datacenter is about 50x larger than this, for starters.
I just read the EPA recommendation for dealing with old batteries [0]. Shocking quote: "In most communities, alkaline and zinc carbon batteries can be safely put in your household trash."

[0] https://www.epa.gov/recycle/used-household-batteries
That's like asking what the benchmark for an engine is. It all depends on what you're trying to do with it. There's no single metric to compare a diesel semi truck engine to a 2 stroke golf cart. You need multiple measures and the importance of each is dependent on your workload.
From the product homepage:
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Run multiple apps in parallel with 16GB DDR4 3200 MT/s
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See code clearly on a 14”, 1920x1080 FHD, 1000 nit display
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All that for $1099.
Is that take home per month or pre-tax and all that?
> Classic Mac OS had a healthy browser ecosystem which also included Cyberdog, iCab, Netscape, Opera, and WannaBe

Ehh...

Cyberdog was never widely used. It depended on the OpenDoc framework, which most users didn't even have installed, and was only available as a beta for a year or so. It was never a serious contender.

iCab was a latecomer -- it was released in 1999, long after most of the mainstream browsers. It was used by a few people, but was never particularly popular either.

I have never even heard of WannaBe. Based on what I see online, it looks pretty obscure.
> But Democrats said it was unnecessary and even out of line for the Ohio Legislature to pass this resolution. Rep. Latyna Humphrey (D-Columbus) said questions about religious freedom are important. But she said Canada, not the state of Ohio, should be addressing those issues.

It's like a drug abuse intervention. "Hey Canada, what you're doing is messed up."
>...though I don't know what even plays a role determining that.

Age is definitely one big factor. The longer they sit the lighter they get. But I suspect diet also plays a big role, and to a lesser extent, lifestyle/overall health
I've worked at smaller orgs and my advice would be to first ask yourself if it's worth the cost, they are large time-sucks and cost intensive.

If this is still something you want to pursue, hire experienced help. A majority of time spent in audits is figuring out what the auditors are looking for, and having someone experienced can save you a lot of headache.

Be aware that compliance is more than a one time thing, and during this process you will have created either an entirely new department, or at the very least multiple work-streams.
This is brilliant! It reminds me of the anecdote Steven Levy relates in Hackers about Steve Dompier of the Homebrew Computer Club writing a program for the Altair that created music through electrical interference[0]. Awesome!

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers%3A_Heroes_of_the_Compu...
is there a cognate in an indo-european neighboring language, perhaps by loanword?
Not GP nor an Icelander, but I literally just left Keflavik this morning, my first time in the country. Had a great stay there. My Airbnb host said that August to April is peak aurora borealis time, but May to August is the warmest weather - likely 50-60°F most days. He said 8-10 days for the ring road is good. Don't do much less than that or you'll be rushed.
They touched on the America Rescue Plan Act:

—

Uncle Sam has been on a unique path because of Mr Biden’s excessive $1.9trn fiscal stimulus, which passed in March 2021. It added extra oomph to an economy that was already recovering fast after multiple rounds of spending, and brought the total pandemic stimulus to 25% of GDP—the highest in the rich world. As the White House hit the accelerator, the Fed should have applied the brakes. It did not.

—

I didn’t see any of the others mentioned.
I think that's only for making hardboiled eggs.

The whites don't separate from the shell well if they're too fresh
Bringing government spending under control is politically impossible. A lot of Reagan Republicans are now stuck in the Democratic Party, at least at the national level. And a significant slice of the old FDR coalition, working class people in rural states, are now in the GOP. Immigration has thrown a wrench in everything, because both parties now have an incentive to push government spending (as both Trump and Biden did). Democrats, to keep immigrants, who lean socially conservative but like immigrants in the past value social services, in a coalition with white social liberals. For Republicans, abandoning fiscal austerity is a way to peel off the more conservative segments of those same voters.

It’s the same play Tories have run in the UK, for much the same reasons—winning minorities and working class rural people away from Labour. And it’s resulted in exploding government spending there too.
My definition: Financial engineering is the quantitative isolation and amplification of financial risk/reward, usually through leveraged/synthetic derivative products. There's no perfect source, but you can see similar definitions here [0] [1] [2]

To give you a crypto example of this, Aave is financial engineering, because it allows users to make a bet that they can execute high-volume short-duration trades that yield more than Aave lending fees.

In terms of what is financial services, my definition is: Any action taken that allows capital holders to better deploy their capital into the real (read: goods and services) economy. Again, no prefect source, but [3] [4] [5]

Again the key nuance here is financial services primarily focus on supporting the real economy, while financial engineering is primarily focused on risk/reward

And to be frank, I would absolutely love it if cryptocurrencies supported the real economy in literally any way shape or form. I would get "BTC4Life" tattooed on my forehead, I would dedicate my life to working for the innovators in the space, but unless you've got some secret, I don't think you can give me an example of literally anything cryptocurrency does to support the real economy that a centralized solution couldn't also do.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_engineering

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/financialengineering.as....

[2] https://www.iaqf.org/what-is-financial-engineering

[3] https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2011/03/basics.ht...

[4] https://www.cisa.gov/financial-services-sector

[5] https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/uscode.php?width=840...
Some UK primary school pupils unable to say their names, teachers report
Show HN: I made a integration platform with user-friendly monitoring
As a long-time developer, I participated in many integration projects and we always had a recurring problem: monitoring and sending integration error alerts to end users. Based on 10 years and hundreds of projects, I created a platform that helps solve this, with several accelerators and cool stuff for developers. Some feedback would be great, if the tool makes sense and what we could improve on.
It's not hard to hire an engineer that can take a ruby on rails project and run with it. There's mountains of tutorials and books about it. You don't need the best of the best for this.

Some people have decided that that isn't good enough for their company though.
“Why does Mail have to be so fucking complicated?”
Did they sell diabetes solutions? “Eat your own dog food”…
I don't disagree that it's a best practice, or that those best practices are a good idea.

Expecting the police to follow those best practices every time is not any more reasonable than expecting any other profession to follow best practice every time. The reason we don't legally require them to prevent crime is that it's an unachievable standard.
Using Sound to Unlock Instant Logistics at Scale
He mentions gitaly in the blog post.
I want to believe this is some kind of dry sarcasm but cars don't subsidize pedestrians. If anything, urban walkable, bikable neighborhoods subsidize cars and suburban areas.
A red herring is information that is intended to distract or deceive.

It is not a red herring to state that videos of infants being violently raped by adult men are being shared through Amazon’s chat service. The claim is, by definition, not a red herring. It is absolute truth and is an issue about which we should be concerned and, indeed, very upset.

To my ear, describing it as “kiddy porn” sounds as if one imagines it to be Playboy-style erotica and not literal rape of young children too small to not be physically damaged.

Go search for “Peter Scully” for just one example of what is being produced for and propagated by the monsters you call “perverts.”
Google, Facebook, Twitter to tackle deepfakes or risk EU fines
I use them as a convenient way to guarantee protein and calories, and use them as a way to help hammer out my hunger after the gym. 2-ish scoops, whole milk, mmm. Drink it fast, because it is not meant to be savored.

600 calories, tops.
Sorry to be so off topic, but the bloody hands image is hilariously morbid.
Are professional communities memberships still relevant?
I've recently been asked if I'm part of CIISec in an interview and while I can understand the logic of joining such an organization I'm still unsure what one is supposed to get out of it in 2022.

Are any of those communities relevant/valuable to you in cloud/cyber space ? or IT in general ? In what way ?
> since EV charging takes longer

This is an interesting second order factor for public charging. The critical part may not be cost of electricity but the extended parking space required. If a ICE refuel space is used for <10m and a EV recharge space is used for 30m then the station's total capacity was just cut in third.
https://youtu.be/HX55AzGku5Y?t=161
> that they can actually receive donations directly, unlike the browser project.

I would love to donate to the browser, while my small donation won't make it independent from Google's money it might be a small step towards it.

I don't especially mind their political agenda, however that's not what I want to donate to, I have other political orgs I prefer.
FTC Launches Investigation into PBMs
“Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.”
There is also immersion cooling. The liquid is not water and it seems is pretty efficient:

https://submer.com/immersion-cooling/
In what places do you sleep, shower, and work while traveling? Do you pay for hotels? I've considered a similar lifestyle, but paying for hotels all the time isn't enticing.
The part I don't understand about the article is why software companies and builders of durable consumer goods care where the fabs for chips are located. Does it harm Windows or Visual Studio if the processor is from China? Can Tesla not build cars with chips from wherever can build them?

Losing the semiconductor industry is bad all on its own. We don't need to pretend other industries can't go on functioning on chips made in South Korea from ISAs developed in the UK.
Oh man, TV Tropes is fantastic! It always sends me down a rabbit hole!
Elms is the first SPAC-born electric-vehicle maker to fail
Nimble Storage devices warn you if you try to administer them with Firefox instead of Chrome.
Meta Is Investigating Ex-Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg
The problem with gas stations becoming EV charging stations is that EV charging takes substantially longer than filling a gas tank and no one wants to hang out at a gas station.
Someone actually paid for it though, so maybe chicken.photos is on to something.
Yeah, the NFT nonsense really sours what is an otherwise amusing project. It's not enough to make something cool, we have to try an monetize it through an obvious ponzi scheme.
Show HN: My first JavaScript project (copy-to-clipboard with alpine.js)
For a long time, the Mac version of IE 5 was one of the best browsers on the market. It used a completely different renderer from the Windows version; as a result, its CSS support was quite good. It even supported transparent PNGs, which the Windows version of IE struggled with for years.
People are not getting out of crypto to pay for milk and bread, they are getting out because it's falling and they want to put their money in other things.

I said 'pay' I meant to say 'invest'.

BTC should be counter cyclical to stocks, but my bet is that they won't be.

It'll be up during 'fun times' and down during 'scary times' whereas by design it should be the opposite. That could change if something about BTC becomes institutionalized, i.e. everywhere starts accepting BTC for Oil or something but I doubt that will happen.
It is surprising that no one will sell me a reasonable pixel density ultrawide. I have 2x 27" 4k monitors, which look great, but that setup is overwhelmingly large in my home. I got a 34" ultrawide and it's a nice compromise between screen real estate and desk real estate, but the resolution is mediocre.
> But to argue that Bitcoin is a better currency because it doesn't get used to fund military spending

I don't see anyone arguing that. The contrived argument I made was that USD requires a military to be stable. Bitcoin only requires proof of work. It's not a straight forward argument and I don't think it's quite a genuine argument because the US would have a military regardless (I think?) but it does stand to reason that without the US military the USD would not be the reserve currency of the world and therefore would not be nearly as stable.

Do keep in mind the context I proposed the argument was not intended to be a genuine argument, but rather an example of someone making a more all-or-nothing, bad-faith argument.
Except a gas station can currently serve X people per hour with fuel tanks but Y per hour with electric charging. Under the assumption that Y is not only less than X but substantially less than X, they'd need to find a lot of methods to extract money form those customers, which ends up with their own risks and costs.
Are there are citations/verification for the "used by" logos?

Basically they have every FAANG there, they're claiming that these companies use this, yet certainly at least for Google they have their own very active research and products going on in this area (DeepMind, wavenet etc) so it feels fairly implausible to me that they'd not be using their own tech that they are actively researching themselves, and instead use this?

Feels a bit fraudulent to splash these names and logos around without any proof?
I wouldn't be so confident on pinning US COVID policy as the root of supply shortage issues consider supply shortages and soaring costs are currently worldwide problems; Other causes have been cited more commonly by economists & institutions.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=b1JlYZQG3lI
That’s probably the emergency animal hospital. Sees the pet same day 24/7, pet waits with you in parking lot until they’re ready, and is taken immediately back to you when they’re done. Prices are high, and non-emergency services aren’t available. For instance vaccines/microchipping.

I do not know why such places don’t offer standard services. The one by my house was nearly always empty, but still would not give my dog vaccines.
> Oh, assuming it lets you listen 'offline' with a local copy :)

It does but downloading is buggy and it seems like the position doesn't sync then, which is annoying

In theory being able to listen from multiple devices is nice though
Fair Results from a Biased Coin
It's more like "If you don't want us handling your data in a specific way which we do for everyone, we will gladly oblige by not letting you give us your data".
This is utterly insane, and absolutely amazing.
This will backfire anyway, because the printed amount will be very low.

Let's say a customer charges for an hour at 5 kilowatt, so 5 kilowatt-hour. So the restaurant subsidizes less than a dollar worth of electricity. And not everyone uses an EV, so the bill would say something like "10 cents of your bill went towards subsidizing free charging for customers with an EV". Everybody will compare this to gasoline prices and conclude EVs are cheap to operate.
Paywall bypass: https://archive.ph/fL5om
SambaXP 2022 talk videos posted
The community was there, at least that was my feeling when I started learning Python around 2003. What wasn't there was of course almost anything web-related, for my first "website" in Python I had to resort to using mod_python, which was a perfectly fine project in itself but which wasn't giving you the same instant gratification as PHP did when it came to the web. (there was also the Zope ecosystem, but that's a subject in itself).
Wow. How loud is it?

Also, why didn't he use any SSDs? (j/k)
Those must be in horrible condition. You are telling me that no one ever cleans sidewalks there? Or repair the broken parts?
Why stop at EV charging? Require restaurants to disclose how much of my bill goes towards subsidizing free ketchup and mustard.
How you do know you are not even more glorified key-value store? Afterall, you also went to training (called school) and respond with sentences that are expected by others almost all of the time.

Even this response of yours is heard by hundreeds of thousands of other people before you said it here, why do you claim its your thought and not just a lookup ?
Depending on what you define as water cooling, Google most definitely uses watercooling in all their datacenters.

https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2012/10/17/how-...

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/03/google-flushes-h...
Maybe we should try insurance for people going to doctors and see if that turns out any different, oh wait lol....
Recreating the famous LaMDA interview with GPT-3.
These days TruffleRuby can run Ruby at incredible speeds. It unfortunately can't run really huge apps at the scale of GitLab though.
Yolk color is a function of xanthophyll in the diet. Backyard chickens tend to get food scraps that contain more xanthophyll than there is in commercial feed, which is why backyard eggs yolks tend to be more orange. If you want more orange in your yolks, you can feed your chickens stuff like marigolds or cooked carrots.
I was naïvely hoping that this was going to be some sort of mistake, but it seems like they're simply mad that Canada took Covid seriously:

> Rep Reggie Stoltzfus (R-Paris Township) said religious leaders who violated COVID protocols in Canada were jailed. And he says that's not a behavior Ohio should condone. ... [He] said this behavior is "very similar to what we see in Communist-controlled China."
Interesting a relic card of all things could break the all-time record.
Gems can have multiple accounts able to push, and MFA tokens are per-account, not per-gem. So what's the issue exactly?
Once inflation gets out of the bottle, it's very difficult to get back in.
Phases of Database Growth and Costs
Bing does it too
(I do agree that LaMDA output doesn't prove its sentience one way or the other.)

I could say that the rock is falling because it has a purpose - it's trying to achieve the minimum potential energy. What's the meaningful distinction between that and a plant?

BTW, the plant example is also fascinating in that it shows just how vague the line is - is it the plant as a whole that's "trying to find nutrients", or is it individual cells or groups of cells within the plant? With many plants, you could reduce it to tiny bits of the whole, and those tiny bits will still try to grow roots. If we treat them as possessing separate (if identical) purpose, but previously treated plant as a whole as a single entity possessing a purpose, when did the change occur?

And why can't the same be true of ourselves? Maybe we really are just arrangements of broadly independent components, each with its own "purpose" (ultimately boiling down to physical processes), which communicate to create a delusion of self because that's what their individual "purposes" effectively added up to?
In recent years, the rise of the “gaming history” genre has exposed me to many Western-centric Sega post mortems that essentially blame the fall of Sega on conflicts between Sega of America (and SoE) and the Sega of Japan mother company - with the vast majority of the blame being placed on SoJ for being ridiculously overly secretive.

Very interesting to hear the other side of the argument in this article. Paraphrased: SoA was a marketing division that kept biting off more than it could chew and was negatively impacted by proximity to SV and the “move fast and break things” ethos.

The prototypes shown in the article demonstrate that SoJ clearly had no lack of creativity or desire to experiment with unique hardware concepts - but they were extremely cautious not to release anything half-baked. Meanwhile, SoA kept announcing (and sometimes even releasing) hardware that was inferior to similar concepts under development in Japan.

The SoA “Sega VR” vs the SoJ “Virtua Visor”, the SoA 32X vs the SoJ Saturn, etc.

SoJ still likely deserves much of the blame since they repeatedly refused to share information on internal prototypes to SoA, but the issue is clearly more nuanced than the “stodgy Japanese vs dynamic Americans” explanation I kept getting fed.
People say this as a gotcha but it's really not, "small government" has always just been a euphemism for austerity and anti-welfare politics. It's like "family values" or "states rights", you're not really going to get anywhere useful by taking these euphemisms at face value.
uh, so used to careless naming that looking at primary didn't even occur to me. Lazy me.
It's nice to see that Gary Larson is still going strong, I think should make a cow tools site next https://twitter.com/Bondcliff2008/status/1530207754358431744