skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you look at it that way, it does seem like a bit of a ripoff.

Personally I don't get super into particular shows -- so, on Netflix I suppose they have The Office (I'm not sure actually it is just an example), but on Hulu they have Mr Mayor... if focusing down to a couple streaming service means that I have to chance the specific "lighthearted, vaguely sarcastic but still comforting workplace comedy" in my lineup, I don't think this is a huge cost.

I dunno. Lots of companies seem to treat their streaming offerings as undifferentiated commodities, so why shouldn't we, right?
Ooh, can I play? "It's a shame you dislike your coworkers so much that you'd like to spend as little time with them as possible."
That's not what I'm referring to; that's just in the headline. The context I'm referring to is in the parent of this comment chain, which describes both the actual image being shared and some of the writings of the accused along with others who they feature on their website. I think there's room for debate about whether that context is relevant, but it's not what I'm responding to.
“Genetics” is the ultimate excuse people love to use nowadays, and I say this as a person with somewhat eugenic views.

The fact is, genetics has a much smaller role than what people think it does. If you make good life choices and stay consistent with optimizing your health your genetics won’t have much relevance. Even if your bloodline is prone to cancers or other diseases you can mitigate dying to those conditions if you have awareness to catch problems early.
What things? I submitted it as an answer on Leetcode and it was accepted.
I'm inclined to agree. How long do you feel this has been the case?
I think you're agreeing with me, but framing it as disagreement.

> the ecosystem (crates on cargo.io) move to use the latest features so quickly

They use the new features in new software -- implying he wants to use that new software. If he uses the old versions that predate the new features, this wouldn't be a problem for him.
I am thinking of using Redis as a lightweight queuing mechanism. An event source will MULTI a small amount of metadata as a hash and append a list. Event sinks will BLPOP the list and retrieve and delete the metadata key. One requirement is the events survive power loss.

Is there anything inherently wrong with this? Gotchas? A mockup I've done works great so far.
What if there were a law that required copyright holders to pursue "original" infringers before pursuing downstream infringers? For example, in this case, it would have required Disney to sue Hogg for his illegal public performance of Under the Sea before they could take down any videos of him doing so.
nice writeup! and i thought RMII was hard to deal with
I’m scratching my head after reading this. Bitcoin doesn’t have “gas fees”. That’s an Ethereum thing (the term and the fee being very high). I’ve read online that Bitcoin transaction fees are in cents. Perhaps someone more knowledgeable can confirm how it is nowadays.
> Rust tends to favor "mostly functional" architectures over "mutable objet soup" architectures. This pushes you to use less-familiar designs for games and GUI libraries, for example.

How is that a con?
The right to free speech is a right to speech that someome might disagree with, because speech that nobody disagrees with needs no protection whatsoever.
> "most of the people throwing their weight behind it today prefer it in its current state."

Based on what? The lightning network is new and growing. And that's just one legitimate project out of dozens in active development (not just Bitcoin). Yes, there are scams. Only scams? No.
> The medications one takes are due in part to decisions made earlier in life, which result in conditions experience later for which the drugs are prescribed.

This seems like a naive take. While it is technically correct, you most likely cannot significantly influence a number of significant illnesses, such as mental illnesses (e.g. Alzheimers), cancers, blindness, etc. You might slow down the onset at best with some of those.

If one doesn't smoke, drink, and walks at least ±2h a week, what else is there to do that has significant benefits..?

> Also, drugs aren't the only solution to certain medical problems. For example, you can take weight loss pills, or you can actually cut your caloric intake.

Drugs and medical procedures tend to be the only feasible solution to a number of significant illnesses (such as cancer).
The scope's sample rate really jumped out to me:

> I configured the oscilloscope to collect 100M samples at 1 TSPS (tera-sample per second, 10^12) ...

Wow! Sampling at 1000 GHz? I wouldn't have thought that was possible! Does anyone know how the scope can even do that?
I honestly don't know the answer to this, but: Has somebody asked the person who got arrested whether the swastika means something closer to "I think nazis are good", or instead something closer to "I think some people in some political groups who align themselves with the LGBT community share some attributes with nazis"?

There's an odd mindset around this sort of thing in some internet circles, in which for example a book that contains a fictional evil person is assumed to be the same thing as an evil book, almost by definition. Isn't that part of what people are reacting to when they are outraged when this sort of arrest happens?
But they have ~500k users now, with 20% of satellites deployed, and there are something like 600k subsidized households if I’m reading correctly. I think it’s safe to say that in 2024 they will be able to handle 600k extra users. (If they actually try and don’t oversubscribe!)

The 100/20 was observed early on IIRC so they have demonstrated it’s possible if they don’t oversubscribe. (Which is more than can be said about previous satellite internet services.) But yeah, they certainly aren’t currently in compliance. Given Musk’s general approach to regulatory bodies I can’t blame them for applying skepticism here.
I guess I was thinking about examples like f"{3­:0=­+5}­".
Money may make the motivation much of the time, but that doesn't mean that OSS isn't where much of the innovation happens.

The same is true of games. Counter Strike started out as a free Half-Life mod. DOTA started as a Warcraft 3 mod. Both spawned entire subsections of e-sports that are still wildly popular today (tactical FPS arena and MOBA respectively).
The term to google for is cogeneration. Sometimes all people need is the correct search term.

The problem with cogeneration is its usually incredibly heavy and there aren't many uses for very low temperature process heat in most real-world applications.

Another problem with cogeneration is you might get a small percentage boost by connecting a backup generator to the HVAC system but the capex can be VERY high if done safely and reliably, and system complexity seems to scale at an exponential rate. It seems a no-brainer to dump the radiator heat from a backup generator into an office building thereby burn less natgas to heat the building; however you factor in that you have to frost-proof it all and its going to be hundreds of gallons of anti-freeze in those pipes which is expensive and all pipes leak eventually with has ecological issues, and you can't have exhaust leaks into the building and over half the time you need cooling not heating anyway and the HVAC cannot be made smaller because you still need to heat even when the gen is off and the HVAC system will be less reliable because it'll be more complicated and the backup gen will be less reliable because its more complicated, perhaps making the backup gen less reliable than wall power. So shrug shoulders and dump the gen heat using an air cooled radiator, even in the winter.
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> should be absolutely terrified of their government, because they've given their government the power to arrest them for literally no reason at all

Would this opinion change if you learned that in the UK people are generally trusted to make correct and true police crime reports?

Say you lived in a place where actually 100% of reports to the police, were truly people who felt like a crime had taken place. In that case, wouldn't we be fine with cops following up all reports?

So if people in the UK generally trust each other to be making true reports when they feel like a crime has taken place....why wouldn't brits empower the police to follow up on serious reports?
I have never seen this- where have you seen it? I know some places pay a % of their sales to their landlord, but I have always seen that included in their advertised price.
One of my favorite things to do with this game is to set up a huge map and either do one turn a day with friends or against AI.
Unreal Blueprints isn't low code, it's just code, and it doesn't need to replace "real" coding because it is real coding.

It does raise the question where the line is. Something that I'd consider a low code / no code platform is webflow. My non programmer CEO used it to create our marketing website, and it solved something for us that normally is a very highly technical problem. He had a couple small visual glitches, he asked me to help and I discovered that it actually was a pretty thin abstraction layer over some good practice CSS, and so the glitches were easily fixed by me thanks to that.

Blueprint makes a programming language easy enough to use that a non experienced programmer might have a go at it, but in the end it's really just the outstanding library that makes it so powerful, you still need programming skills to solve programming problems with it.
Library books also work on Kindle ereaders. I’ve borrowed a few that way.
But, do we know the speed of the natural thing?
I "could" sprout wings and become the Queen of Sheba, but you know what? I probably won't.
The magic will always be in deciding where to stop using low/no-code and start using actual code. domain specific and opinionated low/no-code tools with clear boundaries on what the tool can and can't do would be a good thing but the markets would be small and that's a bad thing.

I've seen teams spend a lot of time in low/no-code tools and either it grows more complex than actual code or they resort to the escape hatch (node that executes user defined code) and the visual tool basically becomes a container for actual code.

Also, the dream usually is put the effectiveness of software developers into the hands of people who are not software developers. However, it never seems to fail that the low/no-code work ends up back in the lap of software developers because of the typical product/project delivery lifecycle.
No, Lightning Network is a distributed protocol. Here's a good intro: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/understanding-the-ligh...

Technically, Lightning Network is fascinating and quite ingenious. Practically, the blogpost above was written in 2016, so more than 6 years ago, and LN - in my impression - hasn't really taken off yet... I wonder if it's due to its complexity, plus the potential need for watchtower services when using a node that isn't always online.
In case the event sink crashes or the connection to Redis is lost, you could lose events. Redis Streams are better designed for use cases where more reliable delivery is needed and have a ton more features, though it comes with more complexity.
It depends, if the world contains only the two people, sure. But there are other people: teammates, managers, executives. Being able to say "look I'm happy to compromise when I think its not important, but in this case it is important" is compelling, and having a pattern of actual willingness to compromise goes a long way towards convincing third parties that you're not being obstinate for no reason.
There are so many levels of mind-boggling engineering between the analog electrical signal going into the PSU to the packets travelling across the wire/air that I take for granted. This post really helps me visualize how complex even the simplest of network processing truly is.

Thank you!
I dunno, I'm skeptical that if merchants actually saved more money now they'd pass along those benefits to consumers. Maybe if we were at the beginning of the adoption of cards, but with those costs baked in I'd bet it'd just be pocketed as profit.
> Some old way of hiding the file?

An old way, but also it's still the way to hide a file, on *nix systems.

(Hence the "mistake", and the countless hours mentioned in TFA are still adding up, as people forget them when they shouldn't, or don't exclude them when they should…)
I take a view that is pretty close to my HN username. Comedy is about pointing out weakness, and laughing is a reflex that you have when you recognize prey. PC comedy is about self-deprecation, where you pretend to be prey yourself in order to stimulate the audiences hunting instinct, rather than telling stories about prey or picking members of the audience to make look like prey.

The humor is in the hyperbole about how weak the prey is. The setup of a joke sets people up as a familiar level of prey, and the punchline is about someone (or everyone) in the joke being far weaker than you could have predicted. The punchline in this joke is about Jimmy Carr being stupid in a way that you wouldn't imagine someone could actually be.
You don't need a third-party, you can run your own node. It's a state channel. Visa could participate as a liquidity provider to help route payments but it's totally peer to peer.
That sound you hear is my laughter on the wind. I'm still laughing.
Much in the same way git is distributed.
If you are in higher position, you are the one to decide whether it will be a lot of "closed doors, based on friendship, access and nepotism" or a little of it and transparency.

Going into it with conviction that closed doors are correct default way ensures your company will on high level of it.
Isn't the entire point of SGX to keep the owner of a device from being able to access certain data on it? How is that anything other than DRM? And I know it allows access that was intended to be blocked, but my point was blocking anything on a system from the owner/administrator of it shouldn't ever be done anyway.
That wasn't the implication. Limiting birth rates would be a reduction in quality of life. However, there's a trade off. If there are multiple daily quality of life restrictions, then those could outweigh the singular restriction on reproduction. Also, the reproductive choice has consequences, potentially negative ones, on the others who are already living. If we want to discuss limiting diets, vehicles, housing, and all other things that are tied to consumption, then perhaps reasonable limits on reproduction should be discussed as well.
Excellently done. I applaud your skill at rebuking all these right-wing free speech assholes. We need not discuss whether this person should have been arrested when we can much more productively discuss the fact that he is a piece of shit. Who cares if a piece of shit gets arrested? The proper fate of such pieces of shit is to suffer. I mean, suffer the proper and just consequences of their own hate. Who would want to live in a society where everyone can just post whatever hateful garbage they want?
It might be due to dynamic IPs. As they rotate around, I could see that service picking up results from a variety of users.
Transferring money across countries without the government seizing or controlling it. Can you list what non-cryptocurrency technology provides a better solution for that? There are several countries with permanent or temporary restrictions (I think Russia and Ukraine are recent examples).
A framework to analyze opinion formation models
Yeah. A couple blocks away Sonic has wired up the entire neighborhood. I've been begging them to wire up my street for years with no luck. I used to be a customer but switched to Monkeybrains because I couldn't take dsl speeds any longer.

Monkeybrains is my favorite ISP, I currently use them. Affordable and reliable. A couple hiccups over the past few years (my internet speed was cut by 80-90% for a day or two) but resolved with a phone call. Nothing so bad as Comcast regularly becoming nigh-unusable at peak times.
Well, except the illegal ones.
Sharn't as in "shart".
Not so impressive. All they have to do is ping-pong packets from the first satellite, via other marine subscribers' terminals, to other satellites in range of those, until they get to a satellite in range of a shore hub. I.e., "it's only software."

It will mainly depend on having enough marine subscriber terminals in place, scattered around the world on shipping routes, to ping-pong the packets through. Presumably they already have authority to route other subscribers' traffic through "your" terminal.
There are loads of council-run cameras all over the UK, and they cooperate with/escalate to the police.

A map of them in Southampton: https://www.southampton.gov.uk/council-democracy/council-dat... ("Comprises over 300 cameras, covering car parks and public spaces in the city and district", "Control room staffed 24 hours per day, 365 days per year")

320 in Plymouth: https://www.plymouth.gov.uk/crimepreventionandantisocialbeha...
By fascism do you mean some guy on the internet posting things?

What, precisely, do you mean here?
I can buy a pizza with my credit card or send $5 to my friend using his email address. It's all automated, instant, and can be done using third party clients thanks to open banking.
It’s not. No other country has such an ironclad freedom of speech protections as the US.

If it was that easy to move to the US, I’d be on the next plane to Miami.
Yes, mens rea (state of mind/intent) is part of many crimes.

But we're not talking about murder, we're talking about a social media post that "caused someone anxiety." Whether intent matters for other (actual) crimes is irrelevant.
Changing that is very much a non-goal. Just ask Treasury.

Countries on the up-and-up are welcome to use Wise. [1] The ones that aren't are broadly cut off from the global financial networks for very good reasons. Either way, if you disagree with those reasons you're free to lobby for changes - but the ability to exclude them is overwhelmingly a good thing.

[1] https://wise.com/
I wonder how much of this work to make "crypto" part of the economy is regulatory instead of computer science.
It could, in a fictional parallel universe occupied by crypto-enthusiasts.
In this reality it won't.
It's a lot of money, but for about $1300, a 13" iPad Pro + Apple Pencil + paper-like screen protector + Concepts or Notability or GoodNotes or Muse or even OneNote basically gets you there too. The drawing tools are great, the handwriting recognition is pretty amazing, and it's easy to scan documents or add photos with the device's camera.

With focus modes, you can hide everything else and make the iPad into a dedicated note keeping device.
> For serious engagements, pricing should be defined as a function of the value gained for the client from the engagement. For example, if the client saves $250k as a result of the engagement, then you should charge a percentage of that savings.

Optimyze (later acquired by Elastic) initially tried this pricing model and found that enterprise orgs simply wouldn't go for it, despite the cost being effectively "free".
While I like the idea of having the tax shown on the price tags... tax rates change a lot in most places in the US. The cost to change all the price tags in a store everytime the rate changes, and to do it overnight, would be crazy. Maybe once everyone uses digital eink price labels...
I don't know if this exact solution is the correct one, but political campaigning is special as it is a fundamental part of democracy. So it does make sense to give it special treatment. Everything needs to be logical and explainable, rather than a mysterious black box.
Yes, I agree. I thought that was obvious in my response. Modern cars are "low code", so mechanics don't need advanced degrees to fix them. Also: "the complexity is eventually abstracted away", which is exactly what you are saying.
I don't even think of it as about meritocracy. I thinking about it as transparency and better decision making vs nepotism and a lot of intrigues.
No, the Lightning Network is a free and open payment network on top of the Bitcoin Network.

It's a so called "layer 2" network (Bitcoin network being the layer 1).

Everyone can run a Lightning Network Node on e.g. a RaspberryPi.

One opens "Channels" to other Nodes. Multiple nodes and channels build a network and can transfer Bitcoin/Satoshis for relatively little costs from A to B.

Network nodes can charge a fee for routing payments (or data more generally speaking).

There are different implementations of a Lightning Network node. LND is probably the most used one today.
But there is also C-Lightning.
I recently thought it would be awesome to have DragonFly BSD working on Raspberry Pi (or any other modern ARMv8 machine) but it's not implemented yet - there is a small code bounty[1] but I would be happy to extend it for a couple $k. If you would be willing to help or know someone - feel free to contact me or leave a comment.

[1] https://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/developer/Code_Bounties/#i...
Meanwhile France, a famously pro-nuclear country, has to shut down many of its nuclear power plants in summer because they can't cool them adequately.

(Yes, I'm sure issues can be fixed. Point is, nuclear has an awful lot of practical problems for supposedly being miraculous.)
Crypto and by extension Web3 may never take off because humans will always meddle.

If there is a transaction, someone wants to be a middleman. If there is a flow, someone wants to be a middleman. . it seems universal.
"We have to do something. This is something. Therefore, we have to do this."

Never mind that it doesn't have any positive effect, and a lot of negative effects.
> So what do the police do?

Focus on solving crimes like theft, not investigating meme retweets.

Why would they even need to interview him to determine if it was a crime or not?
Pretty much everything is on Github: it’s a requirement to be open unless you have an extremely good reason to be closed.[1] The only closed source project I ever worked with there was fraud detection for identity verification.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/technology/making-source-c...
I noticed that abroad too that no one batted an eye at using a credit card for tiny transactions worth ~$2, but in the US an independent merchant would either have a $10 minimum or charge a ¢50 fee or both.
For me, for the future, I'll likely do something like a Framework without an eGPU and just use a SFF desktop for gaming. I don't do much advanced gaming anymore so I don't need a lot of power for something bigger than SFF.

Just to note - those thunderbolt eGPUs are a bit more limited in performance than Asus's solution because thunderbolt only provides 4 lanes of PCIe, while Asus's port provides 8. So far as I know, USB4 and TB4 didn't expand on this, even with the new PCIe mode. All of that is to say Asus's connector allows for the 3080 Laptop GPU to be used likely near 100%, while TB likely would not be able to, so you'd be limited to lower end graphics. This is what drew me in to the Asus solution.

Maybe it's worth pointing out the eGPU does NOT use the USB-C port on the Flow X13. The proprietary connector includes a USB-C connector along with the PCIe extra connector. The USB-C connector can be used separately. But in terms of the dock, the USB-C port on the connector is used for port expansion (the dock has 4 USB-A 3 ports, ethernet, and power, along with the display outputs).

This is where I think things could end up deprecating Asus's solution. Future TB may provide higher end PCIe (ie: upgrading to a higher level, adding more lanes). There may be other standards based technologies coming as well.

I could probably be fine with a 4060 in a TB enclosure in the future. But at the moment, my needs are met, so I'm not planning out my future technology stack just yet.