skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your math is off by an order of magnitude. That pricing is for web apps. For streaming, look towards Bunny CDN and similar for wholesale pricing.
Exactly. The comic is content-agnostic.
It is a statement of fact. Everyone is free to make their own conclusions from that fact.
>Also, uh, don't drink your mouthwash, spit it out.

doesn't cut it for me. someone I know who doesn't smoke or drink and was sub-40 years old got diagnosed with tongue cancer. Cancer specialists were miffed at the cause. The only thing that stood out: he was a meticulous user of mouthwash 3x a day since he was a teenager.
We had some scandals here in Sweden also - mostly around military airports (perhaps normal airports also) that practice with putting out burning airplanes.
> The interview went well, but then communication fell silent. One of the teams rejected me saying I was marked in an HR system as "bad culture fit".

"bad culture fit" sounds like using how they use the "Do not fly list" against political dissidents. I'm really glad I am providing my services independently, free from control, and not have to deal with Corporate Culture. That culture is a poison to the human value of independent thinking.
"Real impostors don't have impostor syndrome"

To me, that is even better.

It means that you care and you are in an uncomfortable zone, which means you are probably growing.
NFT Problems
Searle is a physcalist though
As shown by his actions of firing people from SpaceX who disagreed with him on Twitter. Lawsuit pending.
Since exercise intolerance is a symptom of CVD, wouldn't we expect similar results even if physical activity had no protective effect against CVD?
Podcast to help devs/programmers create info product/online education businesses
57.43% in the US
Defining the 15-Minute City
To be honest, I've been given similar advice for high levels of iron once from a doctor. Let go of a few gallons over a year and my iron has never been that high before.
I think it spoke to the desperation of the situation, not that it was a solution worthy of being called "a cure".
Another story about the case says "up to 20 years" but I assume that comes with all the usual caveats, e.g. they may have just totaled up the maximum sentence from each individual count as if they had to be served consecutively.
"The end point of ad blocking is neural networks analyzing the final rendered image before being shown to the user."

This is an endless cat-and-mouse game, where advertisers could start using DRM that prevents the viewer from interposing anything between the browser and the digitally-connected monitor.

Maybe eventually users will start wearing AR glasses that filter out ads for them...

Until advertisers figure out a way around that too.
When it comes to recorded lectures, even just HLS is probably overkill in my opinion. All modern browsers support video playback of simple H.264/VP9 files natively anyway. Stuff like HLS only tends to break the browser's native download button.
Are they observer independent? From the article:

"Of course it is simplest to build a computer where the high voltage states correspond to 1s and the low voltages states 0s or vice versa. But there is no requirement that we build our computers that way. We could build a perfectly valid computer where the high voltage states of even valued registers correspond to 1s and where they correspond to 0s in the odd valued registers, or a computer where the mapping flips on every 13th clock cycle. The system only “computes” because of the way we have encoded information."
When 75% plus of visitors to consumer facing sites – shopping, media etc – are on mobile devices then it's pretty clear to me that mobile first should be the focus.

All too often I come across sites that were designed on desktop and mobile was an afterthought, and it quite clearly shows
Yeah, I spent some time imagining how terrible this was for the manager. You are totally right that I am an unreliable narrator here.

I agree with you that we shouldn't draw conclusions about Spotify as a whole here. It's a big company with lots of different approaches within it.

What I disagree with is that firing me was an overreaction. I think it was sensible, since we both knew at that point we could not work together.
It's either that or pumping for breast milk. Since we have no idea what gender "superkuh" is, the latter may not be an option, despite their username...
Couldn't you give them short-lasting keys, that they can use to sign session keys?

e.g.

1. Connect to Mullvad over Tor, authenticate with real-world user ID

2. Use this to sign a blinded token

3. Use this to connect to Mullvad anonymously after some delay

The first run would be kind of dodgy, but after that you could get new session keys on a fixed schedule and switch them out at a random interval.

If they see that user A authenticates and 10 minutes later, key A comes online, that can be traced, but if you then wait a week, authorize key B, and then wait a few more days to start using it, you should be good.

In practice, this has way too many issues to work in practice. It still requires you to trust them not to e.g. log IPs and correlate it that way, so it's all just snake oil.
ISS Debris Avoidance Maneuver
How about peer-to-peer delivery like with PeerTube? It introduces a 30s-1m delay, which may not be acceptable for some streamers, but in exchange the users watching also participate in distribution.
"Polar bear population discovered that can survive with little sea ice"

What polar bears "need to survive" either is misunderstood, or these bears have evolved.

Either way, scientistific claims need to be questioned, because to the common person it's obvious that bears will adapt, and that "needing sea ice" to survive is a simplistic notion.
It'd likely involve a huge amount of latency, but any chance you can get a livestream working with torrent.js in the way PeerTube does? Maybe using HLS or something? Would certainly address some of the bandwidth concerns.
Back in the 60's, many full time jobs came with a defined benefit pension. Health care was not nearly as expensive, even without insurance. Last, houses were cheap, college was almost free, and there were many more good public schools, so living in the very best school districts wasn't as important. In other words, many of the things that today's households making > $150k spend money on were vastly cheaper.
there is no way anything "automated" would not ban gayle rubin
> The problem is common and well-known, but hard to prevent and does not have any mitigations built in to the AWS platform.

Does anyone know if this is fixed by AWS now?
You know it’s legit by the incredibly legitimate domain name.
Been using Mullvad for a year, give or take, and I'm very happy. Zero care to find another VPN provider. Simple, fast, and anonymous sign-up. The apps function perfectly. Never experienced a bug in the Android or Linux apps. And the Wireguard profiles work perfectly. Connections are fast and not throttled (IME). And the UI of the website and apps is minimal and to-the-point.

I hope Mullvad keeps on its current course. It's one of the most respectable companies right now, with a respectable product, and its one of the few I care to pay for on a consistent basis.
Thanks for this great right up! I am slowly making my way through it :)
Exactly, I mostly write in Latex and one-sentence-per-line makes so much sense for that.
I spent a large amount of time years ago reading the LOSSAN reports [95] and it would have been interesting to see things noted as "for certain will help" and "most likely will help" etc. Many of the improvements were things like "double track this single-track section between two double-tracked ones" which would almost certainly help; others were things like bridge replacements which wouldn't necessarily help but would prevent maintenance issues in the future, to things like station improvements which would only really help travel times if travel volumes got above a certain amount.

For example, this project: https://www.octa.net/LOSSAN-Rail-Corridor-Agency/Central-Coa... doesn't really change average transit times, but would allow two or three trains to "start" each day at the farthest north.

Of course US passenger rail is in such a state that there's almost always very obvious low-hanging fruit.

[95]: https://www.octa.net/LOSSAN-Rail-Corridor-Agency/Overview/
> Since an iron bar over some time period has a finite number of states

Citation needed.
Your job as a hired contractor is to advise the client of ways to advance their business. If they don't listen, or do listen but don't like your advice it's a tough pill to swallow.

I had a client once who listened but declined every single suggestion to improve things - including the most basic "Perhaps stop sharing the same root password to all servers and each developer has their unique login?"

It's rare but some businesses just don't want to change if their current legacy processes have made them so wealthy.
> Mostly blob based game assets is a system motivated by consoles, then reused on pc to keep build process consistent.

No, packing individual files into archives makes sense on PCs too due the native filesystem usually having a much bigger per-file storage overhead as well as non-negligible open() times - the second is especially true for Windows with "Anti Virus" software installed.

> You'll see older pc centric game engines use loose files.

Some maybe, but packing game assets into archives is as old as Doom and has been the norm all this time.

> Steam and EGS updating handles binary diffing wonderfully.

Steam handles binary diffin now, but it was not that long ago that it re-downloaded the whole changed file.
Anyone run a service with millions of users from one home computer?
Wonder if M1 Max folks can now run scaled up services from home on a single machine
16 June 2022: "...This afternoon, the International Space Station’s Progress 81 thrusters fired for 4 minutes, 34 seconds in a Pre-Determined Debris Avoidance Maneuver (PDAM) to provide the complex and extra measure of distance away from the predicted track of a fragment of Russian Cosmos 1408 debris..."

Kosmos_1408: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmos_1408

"Analysis of the Cosmos 1408 Breakup":
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29294360
I don't think this is true. There were massive investments into the Ticino regional rail network over the last 10-20 years, partially driven by the NEAT extension, which shortened travel times between regional centers (Lugano - Locarno - Bellinzona) dramatically.

What doesn't seem to work well are interconnections with neighboring Italy, but that is likely not due to underinvestment on the Swiss side. Road traffic is therefore still a huge issue in Ticino, as many Italian workers cross the border twice per day by car due to the lack of adequate public transport options.
SO TRUE!

It is not about what you do, it is how you do it, and in particular what expectations you set.

If you sell it like a regular product, without saying clearly up front that it is not supported, then people will legitimately not like you.

IF you are just selling a kit without support, SAY SO. Then the people you want will come buy it, and if you did well on the parts that you claim to do well, you'd have happy customers (modulo the few Kens & Karens who expect everything for nothing).
For a while there was a Hungarian one called iWiW which IIRC stood for “internet who is who.” But pronounced like “ee-viv.”

Wikipedia says the first “I” was for International but actually I don’t think anybody knew/cared at the time. I didn’t use it much but it definitely felt like a new thing, and it’s unfortunate all these specific niche networks seem to have died out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IWiW
I think others have addressed the differences between Python's class system and CLOS, both of which are very flexible, as I understand.

However, as far as optimization, the point is that Python's class system is implicated in almost every line of code. Most operators are actually invocations of corresponding "dunder" methods on their operands, which can be potentially changed, and whose invocation is actually surprisingly complicated and difficult to optimize.

Common Lisp, of course, does not have operators in the same sense, just functions. However, the analogous functions, like +, *, aref, etc. are not generic functions in the sense of CLOS. They only take built-in data types as arguments and cannot be overloaded. This lack of extensibility makes it easier for the compiler to know what actual code is being invoked and to optimize their use. Arguably, this makes Common Lisp seem like a less flexible language, and in some ways its design does pay more attention to optimization than its reputation would have you believe. On the other hand, the lisp syntax means that there's no such thing as a finite set of operators that you'd want to overload. If you want a different type of multiplication, you can just use a different function.
I remember a Swedish consumer advocacy show on public TV (Plus with Sverker Olofsson for all the Swedes out there) did this test some time in the early 00's, sending the same person to like 10 different dentists, including also public health care ones that don't have a profit motive, and they all had different results.
Fair enough, but I still think the user could benefit from a gentle nudge here:)
And The Facebook. Even the wall wasn’t there at launch. You had some form fields to fill out, a picture, and that was it.
They could just flag the accounts of educational institutions as educational. I sincerely doubt the Cornell University Library is going to pivot to pornography.
Except in this case it wasn't "people listening" it was probably an AI who flagged it and a mindless human drone who clicked "OK" when prompted to block the Cornell account. Or alternatively, one or more asshole(s) reported them to Google and a mindless human drone agreed with the asshole(s). If the enemy of my enemy is my friend, is the asshole of someone I consider an asshole a non-asshole?
Not evreyone can invest in SpaceX. More capital isn't always the best thing or necessary and it still involves a lot of risk. This is just an ignorant comment imo.

That said I'd love to buy some SpaceX stock if only I could!
Monero has the largest anonymity set of any cryptocurrency, so the statement is true.
It's really interesting no other comment is talking about the LGBTQ community because as far as I know founder is gay and living in Turkey and that means they have a bit closed community, general public doesn't accept them.

So I think orkut means a lot for the LGBTQ and Activists community would be great to hear the thoughts from them.

Some ref...
https://gay.blog.br/en/geek-en/orkut-social-network-was-foun...
Advice i was given once and try and follow..

> If everyone just sucks it up then nothing gets solved

Fight Twice. On Record; push back against something you disagree with (Be it Style or design decision) Twice. If the other side (especially if they are above you in the food chain) still persists - Suck it up and do the work.

If you can't live with that situation - look into moving on (while sucking it up). Continuing to push a beleaguered point (even if you're "Right") will inevitably lead to nothing good.
Good luck!

A quick question - I worked briefly for a group doing job-re-entry work for folks with records etc. Such critical work, some very positive stories.

However, on the admin side, a fair number of scams and accusations. Curious how your work addresses this (for what it is worth this was in CA) or you'd suggest folks approach this.

Workers comp:

We had to make sure to not let folks into building for final paychecks (if they were a no show quit or had other issues) because there were repeated workers comp claims from the 3 minutes it took folks to get their last check. Bumped knee on desk, trip and falls and more. Workers comp overall was tough. Out of work injuries etc etc getting reported as on-job injuries, and there was an industry that seemed to serve these claims so they went on forever. Our x-mod was horrible.

Age / race / etc discrimination claims. Just basics like showing up to a job, on time. If you can't do that it's not (necessarily) a discrimination issue always.

Unpaid time claims - often for very small amounts. This was fully digital clock in / out system with careful timesheet rounding settings where CA has some rules (ie, OK to round to nearest minute in a fair way and not always pay to the second).

Stolen checks, reports of stolen paychecks. We couldn't investigate all, but some seemed pretty thin based on cancelled check images. Some were probably very real.

Admin issues we were OK with but worth thinking about.

-> Relatively high number of child support orders. The calculations can get complex in CA with multiple orders.
-> Lots of ed debt collection orders, there must be some industry that get's people into debt here or a way to use ed debt to fund living expenses? I didn't investigate but caught my eye.
-> Some bad dysfunction at state agencies dealing with folks (so folks not paying attention can easily double pay).

This wasn't NOT the rule by any means, but out of 100 folks, 10 maybe still "hustling". If you are not setup / used to this it's a bit of a shock. We had to do everything from signing to pickup a paycheck to many other controls (full positive pay on all accounts used to write checks to staff etc). Also went to a full contest mode basically, where every bogus claim was fully contested - including the unpaid 15 minute claims. That's a loser economically (ie, the cost of just paying the 15 minutes is nothing compared to cost to fight with no recovery of costs to fight). But it ended up being critical to slow the pace of claims to make sure there weren't "automatic" rewards for things.

At the end I found it incredibly rewarding and the good far outweighed the bad. Folks need a path back into the working world. But I'd have loved it even more if there were some things to do to weed out the 10% or so still hustling.
Is this project affiliated or owned by Facebook / Meta? In the HTML source:

<meta property="article:publisher" content="https://www.facebook.com/"

Maybe a copy and paste leftover. I noticed it when I pasted the link in Telegram and the preview displayed the Facebook URL.
Well, there is still random quantum behavior in a complete vacuum a.k.a. empty space according to quantum field theory's findings.
So yes, empty space is a computer as long as you notice that physics law is doing math all the time.
Canada also has a high number of people with criminal records -- about 10%.

This number was shocking to me. I only looked it up last year when one of our politicians made a bunch of noise about criminals getting vaccinated before citizens.

The UK number is ~16%.

I think the bottom line is there are lots of folks with criminal records, it's not just the US.
Texas Republicans Approve Platform Declaring Biden’s Election Illegitimate
They still use a subscription model it's just a non-recurring one.
> As a society, we may need a platform where educational/government institutions can upload content (with content warnings, if necessary) because Youtube is a terrible fit for content like this.

I understand Cornell using YouTube as a mirror for the content - especially considering the content is probably more "discoverable" there. However, I find it ridiculous that a large, well-funded institution with such a large catalog of public video content can't stand up their own host. Relying on YouTube to host their content is just negligent.
therefore renting a dedicated server from a provider with 100TB traffic included is still useful - there are many of them [1] around ~70€/month

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=100+tb+trafic+server
there is irrefutable evidence that they take monero
Been using PIA for the past few years. Tried Proton but this looks really good and having the entire thread sending +1s is major. Will def give it a try.
> I usually start flossing much more diligently a couple of weeks before my dentist visits, so that my teeth have the appearance of being better-maintained. I believe this results in more honesty from the dentist. In other words, my instinct is that they rely on their gut feeling quite a lot for making their "diagnoses." If your teeth look healthy, they are more likely to tell you they are healthy. Don't know WTF they are seeing in those blurry x-rays.

I don't know. What you just said 100% resonates with me. But I'm not a dentist. I'm (was) a physicist, and I know the absolute garbage HN constantly writes about physics, so this might just be gellmann effect...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#GellMannAmn...
Of course, it depends on the context. As a casual chess player, it's fine that I don't really know what I'm doing, and that I'm apt to be roundly beaten 7 times out of 10. There are no consequences to being bad at chess, except for feeling a bit sad if I lose too many games in a row.

As a senior DBA, it is absolutely unacceptable if I do not know what I am doing. I look after software which runs a fairly important part of the machinery of government. There is not much tolerance for incompetence in my little niche, although granted that no-one dies if I get it wrong, the consequences for the end-consumers of my little bit of the world can be life-changing.

Same applies (in a more important sense than just DBA work) for e.g. paediatric heart surgeons, rail drivers, airline pilots, people whose incompetence can kill. Skill and professionalism are very much key, and cannot be hand-waved away with platitudes to make people feel better about their own inabilities.
It's not the simple. Sure Amazon has a bunch of no-talent garbage engineers (typically driven by SDMs who have been ordered to hire at any cost and BRs that either aren't strong enough to argue against the SDM or have likewise been told to pump conversions -- there are tons of loops that don't even have a BR interviewing), but some orgs are actually good at hiring and only hire talent. Applying URA at a director-level is injust and there is no cross-VP-org calibration that happens. While I agree that the URA target is likely lower than it should be for how bad some of the hires have been (e.g. L5s who refuse to use the command line for anything and have never written a test), there needs to be a better mechanism for identifying who is actually below bar.
I use source-based instead.

GraphViz is a traditional choice: https://dreampuf.github.io/GraphvizOnline/#digraph%20G%20%7B...

However, I'm the author of a finite state machine with a graphviz-like language that uses GraphViz as a renderer, and I personally prefer that language: https://stonecypher.github.io/jssm-viz-demo/graph_explorer.h...
This "greatly", in case of zstd, is where citation is needed.
Just nitpicking, but...

> As one Google rep emailed me in the 1990s

In the 90s Google was a small and unknown startup that wasn't in the business of censoring anything. I doubt author would have any reason to exchange emails with them.
Days of Work over a Half Century: The Rise of the Four-Day Week
For me visiting peoples profiles was much more addictive than the feed. I think it is a bit like the slot machine phenomenon, where you do something repeatedly and you can never be certain if there is some reward or not. Facebook (or national alternatives like StudiVZ) were great because almost all of your peers were there (StudiVZ means literally student's directory - when I first heard about it I thought it was something official). Especially if you were an introvert it was great to look up people in your social circle and to connect.

Feeds on the other hand feel tedious. In the end, Facebook felt more and more like work and less rewarding.
Europe has courts, subpoenas, warrants, police, and all that too so I don't see how that affects the question? The US as mutual legal aid treaties with most European countries as well.
While I agree that it's not cheap, no idea why one would choose Cloudfront for live video which is pretty down there in the choices of a CDN for live video.

With Bunny you'd be at what, not even a $100.