skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the james webb mirror is soooo much larger than the hubble's (6.5m vs 2.4m diameter). if i recall, the hubble telescope fits in the Orbiter cargo bay
I had to check.. $179!! That's amazing.
If I had $500, I'd get a second hand ThinkPad. Gets you a lot more computer than a $500 semi-disposible thermally-crippled mehbook.

My T440s is still going strong, and that was second hand back in 2016 (I did upgrade to an FHD matte screen).

They're not quite as good as they used to be though, the T580 definitely feels like a step down in build quality.

I may consider a Framework next go-around but for now, that's my strategy.
For most people, you'll have to take it to the mechanic and it'll cost you an arm and a leg... wait that sounds familiar...
I think that would be a tough argument to make (in regards to image generation). The same could be said of just about any computing technology. The problem is we lose out on a lot of potential good.

Either way it doesn't matter, you can't control bits like you can enriched uranium. It's just a matter of time. In the grand scheme of things Open AI will be irrelevant.
The Elixir/Phoenix framework is quite good.
MidJourney does give you 25 minutes of free compute time though. Which is enough for at least trying it ~40 times

I've checked out Disco Diffusion but hadn't heard of Visions of Chaos, thanks. The biggest shortcoming to DD is there's simply not yet a sufficiently trained model to produce stuff to the level of MidJourney or Craiyon
That is pretty powerful. I didn’t realize we had so many tools already that something like this looks.. easy?
> "You do wonder what effect that might have on the chance of the economy then recovering again within a reasonable timeframe."

Yeah - my take on this is if the government has failed the people to this extent then the people have the right to exit and the government should not be able to hold them and their wealth hostage. Naturally if the government can, it probably will, which is why the capability of self custody provided by bitcoin (and other cryptocurrency) is such a powerful thing.

Sure you could get this by hoarding cash or gold in theory, but in practice that's way harder and it's way harder to safely move it, especially across a border.

With BTC you memorize 12 seed words and you're good, can go anywhere and recreate access to your wealth on the other side safely.
You need people willing to pilot the product before it’s even ready. Some of the best enterprise companies were started with a slide deck.
Migration paths and assistance have been repeatedly sent out though - you’d have to literally not care about the system to have this impact you.
I feel like I am missing a step. Do they write to md1 and read from md0? Or do they read from md1, and under the covers the read is likely fulfilled by md0?
I enjoyed the article, but I’d like to push back on a few of the rules.

Rule 1: Working at the population level can be like the story of sheep going over a cliff. This is not necessarily a biologically protective trait for the individual. Expedient yes, but not necessarily advantageous.

Rule 2: Getting trusted information from other people requires that first one knows the provenance of the information. A cult is an example of “trusted information” within a group originating from one charismatic source. In this case the “weird idea” is actually normalized within the group.

Rule 6: If one is to consider a fraction of weird ideas, then one has the capacity to consider all weird ideas. In fact, there is something to be gained from considering everything and using the knowledge gained in other ways.

Rule X: if a weird idea looks like a horse, smells like a horse, and it whinnies like a horse, then it’s probably not a zebra.
> Metal bends

Aluminum bends and flexes. Magnesium alloys would shatter (if you could even apply enough force). The chassis chipping or flaking seems preferable to bending and flexing for the longevity of the internals.
They finally posted to their status page about it: https://status.heroku.com/incidents/2451

> Beginning at approximately 21:54 UTC Aug 15th, routing availability for US Common Runtime-hosted apps dropped below acceptable levels. Engineering was notified and immediately began scaling up capacity to address demand needs.
> lightweight

> golang

yet another terminal discord client that will be abandoned shortly
> There is no way the M1 gets nearly as hot as my Intel machines.

Maybe that's why it's breaking.
There is. If you find a defect, just hold a heat-gun near your screen for a while. Apple will not be able to explain the cause of the resulting damage. You will get your money back, as you should. Here is a script:

You: there is a crack in my screen. It appeared spontaneously.

Genius bar guy: that's a point contact crack; it's caused by the user.

You: well, how do you explain this burn mark behind it? It's more likely that it overheated and then the screen snapped.

Genius bar guy: err, ok, we will have it fixed.

You: sorry, but I lost trust in your brand. The device could have started a fire. I want my money back.
"In 2018 she received a total of $2,458,350 in compensation from Mozilla, which represents a 400% payrise since 2008.[14] On the same period, Firefox marketshare was down 85%. When asked about her salary she stated "I learned that my pay was about an 80% discount to market. Meaning that competitive roles elsewhere were paying about 5 times as much. That's too big a discount to ask people and their families to commit to."

In 2020, after returning to the position of CEO, her salary had risen to over $3 million. In the same year the Mozilla Corporation laid off approximately 250 employees due to shrinking revenues. Baker blamed this on the Coronavirus pandemic."
I think Nebula is the current favorite, but it's not as plug and play as Tailscale.
Doesn't do spelling correction.

Not as good as google at figuring out which terms are important.

lucene explain api

weights API heavily, and doesn't return reasonable answers. For google, it's the first hit.
I do the same thing. A few of them (Adobe, linkedin) have gotten hacked and spammed to the gills (so I black hole them) them but it’s often rare and I’m realizing it’s not worth the effort to micromanage email aliases in this way.
I've been a defender of GCP in the past, and I've been quick to point out that while Google has a reputation for killing products, GCP has been fairly stable. This, however, changes my opinion.

I've been successfully using Cloud IoT for a few years. Now I need to find an alternative. There's a vendor named ClearBlade that announced today a direct migration path, but at this point I'd rather roll my own.
Framework is my dream machine, still waiting for an Australia launch.

Also hoping we'll see them execute on some additional keyboard layouts (or someone will) - avoiding Mac-like keyboards is one of my primary desires laptop wise.
AWS doesn't do this. AWS keeps around old deprecated services that they aren't developing new features for, in perpetuity (e.g. SimpleDB). They might not launch that service into new regions, but they will keep it around in existing regions to not break customers who depend on it.

This is a reflection of AWS being "customer obsessed" where Google is not.
What user data is being stored in the cloud? Can they decrypt it?
No it doesn’t read that way, but it raises the question of whether he really knows what an unequivocally good tech product is and whether he will stoutly refuse to compromise for the sake of growth.

I think any amount of time as a corporate decisionmaker can skew your moral compass, and he was at three companies that have history of being particularly damaging
The Tahoe-LAFS decentralized secure filesystem Version 1.17.1
> Is it necessary to fully replicate the persistent store onto the striped SSD array? I admire such a simple solution, but I wonder if something like an LRU cache would achieve similar speedups while using fewer resources. On the other hand, it could be a small cost to pay for a more consistent and predictable workload.

One of the reasons an LRU cache like dm-cache wasn't feasible was because we had a higher than acceptable bad sector read rate which would cause a cache like dm-cache to bubble up a block device error up to the database. The database would then shut itself down when it encountered an disk-level error.

> How does md handle a synchronous write in a heterogenous mirror? Does it wait for both devices to be written?
Yes, md waits for both mirrors to be written.

> I'm also curious how this solution compares to allocating more ram to the servers, and either letting the database software use this for caching, or even creating a ramdisk and putting that in raid1 with the persistent storage. Since the SSDs are being treated as volatile anyways. I assume it would be prohibitively expensive to replicate the entire persistent store into main memory.
Yeah, we're talking many terabytes.

> I'd also be interested to know how this compares with replacing the entire persistent disk / SSD system with zfs over a few SSDs (which would also allow snapshoting). Of course it is probably a huge feature to be able to have snapshots be integrated into your cloud...
Would love if we could've used ZFS, but Scylla requires XFS.
I hate the current trend of smearing your business logic across dozens of third-party providers with various business goals that rarely align with yours.

I'm also not confident that the constant churn of keeping up with API changes (if not outright deprecations like this) and costs of the third-party services end up costing you more than just doing it yourself.

Finally, what we've seen with Okta, Twilio, most recently MailChimp (which was used to attempt to attack DigitalOcean customers among others) clearly shows that these companies aren't magic and may not actually be any better than doing it yourself when it comes to security.
A Boy Scouts Have Sold 110k “Neckerchiefs” Containing Toxic Lead Since 2018
This is lazy trolling - maybe it’s true in your personal experience but there are tons of people who can say anything you want for n=1-2.

If you want to do more than rehash 4 decades of “PC/Macs suck” forum posts, try finding some hard stats on resell value or enterprise fleet longevity.
Did you take it in?
As in "the second AWS product launched", and has been deprecated since 2013, which is around the time GCP became more than just App Engine.
It is. I snipped some parts of the story to simplify it for the comment, and left out an important step:

The Jamaican example "grabbed the attention of Hawaiian sugar cane planters, who also suffered from the rats. Bringing mongooses to Hawaii as natural pest exterminators seemed such an elegant idea. "
This is the stuff that can cause or facilitate revolutions.
Well, I spent my twenties (in the 80's) in school, or working for 30K or 36K/year. You can work out what inflation does to those salaries vs. what purchasing power gets you today. Anecdotal, yeah, but it's all I got. And albums cost $4-5 in the mid-70's and I did ok on $20/week for food and stuff in school.

And there was no internet and the only computers filled rooms (but were still fun). One did social interactions F2F, which might actually have been a little more expensive.
This doesnt pass the sniff test.
Many faults like this are caused by some behaviour of your friend that none of Apples internal testers did.

For example, maybe your friend used a specific app that no tester every used.

I remember once a big company doing an emergency product recall because they hadn't tested putting the product in fleece lined pockets. If you put it in fleece lined pockets, it wouldn't boot anymore due to the static discharge of the fleece rubbing on the plastic surface as you walked around.

Yet they had 1000+ beta testers, yet were somehow unlucky that not a single one used fleece lined pockets!
The bar for “actual tech” must be extremely high if Twitter-scale ML, Facebook-scale infrastructure and Microsoft IDEs and Technical Computing group don’t count.
Well yes and no.

It is rather sad that the internet that we have, what 50-70 odd years post invention is so stifled with nonsense about addressing schemes and that.

You seem to use the term "static IP" as a talisman. I have zillions (possibly gazillions) of them on IPv6 and roughly a few 100 or 1000 on IPv4 (I own an IT company).

Dynamic DNS is a thing, so is ULA for IPv6 which looks quite like IPv4 RFC1918.

We have the tools but you do have to use them.
I break things infrequently enough that it's cheaper to keep the money I would have spent on protection plans in my bank account, and then just pay out of pocket when I do.
Though the article is probably incorrect, it lead me to think about how the Big Bang is mostly built upon a paradigm of the understanding of the time.

We understood explosions and how atoms would interact based on that.

It is similar to how in the 1800s we thought of the body as a connection of pipes and fluids because that is how we understood things. Then as we built a greater understanding of electricity, we now see the electrical components of the body. Which doesn't negate the plumbing version, but we now have a greater understanding of how muscles and the brain work.
There's a lot of money in IoT; it's just not rapid growth. It's a business line that will require years of enterprise sales followed by the integration work. This video of from 2019 shows Volkswagon starting a rollout of AWS's IoT cloud for 122 factories world wide. I don't think Google is good at running a business with multiyear sales cycle followed by multiyear scale-ups to starting making money.

https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/volkswagen-vid...
a. Sure I do. It's pretty easy to reckon. I don't see "most" people traveling across the country and countries on a regular basis.

b. Sure, but again, that's a minority of even the professional demographic. Now, if you're thinking the developer demographic, sure I might agree with you, but that's not what OP said.
I am sure she did nothing wrong, but after so many stories like this in the last decade or so, why would anyone who is employed ever post to social media? Only one of two things can happen:

1) Nothing.

2) You get fired.
Really interesting to hear so many people having had experiences with Apple support.

I recently bought a 10 year-old iMac second hand from Cash Converters, which I promptly softbricked the day after purchase (bad Bootcamp install + firmware password).

I took it in to the Apple Store, and despite the fact that it was 10 years old and used, they contacted the engineers in Cupertino to get the firmware unlock key, reformatted it and updated it to the latest supported macOS, and didn't charge a cent for the service.

I was blown away and told people I knew about the experience. Apparently they did something similar for a friend's iPhone 6 a couple of years ago. Didn't charge a cent to service a 5 year-old smartphone.
> Shouldn’t the burden of proof be placed on the individual rather than the group?

Yes, but don't cover your ears and yell "burden of proooooof" so loudly that you can't hear them out.
i always heard it called the birthday problem:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem

[weirdly, someone discovered an birthday overlap today at work and i just re-google/wiki'd this today]
Penrose has a crazy theory where he considers what the universe looks like after the heat-death. After all the blackholes evaporate and photons are the only thing left.

Since photons travel at the speed of light, neither distance nor time are measurable. All that remains is the relative angular concentration of photons. If you imagine the universe as a sphere, the relative concentration of photons represents the pattern on the surface of the sphere.

However there's no longer any way to determine that sphere's size nor whether it is expanding, contracting or even the existence of time itself.

The crazy thing is how close this is to the early universe. You start with the cosmic microwave background pattern and that's basically also exactly what you end up with: a pattern/projection of photons where space and time basically become meaningless or cease to exist.
How to solve funding for open source
What if users pay a single subscription for all open source tools they use?

Proposal:
Users install a plugin in their repositories
from this, every quarter the user is sent a random subset of included packages from their repo. The user is asked to estimate how “useful” each one is.
These scores are normalized per dev and averaged across the firm.
Their employer receives a bill, containing weighted donations to all the used packages. the sum is constant (e.g. 20$ per month), so the dev doesn’t have to ask for permission to “purchase” or “donate” to new software any more.

why would it be cool:
It could help generate income for open source projects. But it could also be an easy way with which for-profits sell software products.
Projects could even be published under a license which makes such a subscription mandatory for users from non-profits. This license creates a nice growth model, since any new subscription benefits all packages, that a given user likes.
SLS is ready. It doesn't mean it's the best solution.
What does `ToS` stand for?
Yes. I have two unifi AC pros and two inwall APa. For the longest time , I had the controller as just an app that I launched on my desktop whenever I needed to change something or apply an update the APs. Then I would shut it down. Now I run the controller in a docker container , so the APs autoupdate. But to your original question, always running the controller isn’t required.
In other words, it's an abusive copycat pricing model (if others are thieves, we should be, too). Except there's a lot more infrastructure and personnel behind a text message, so, tru.ID are bigger thieves! Also, the vast difference is that tru.ID requieres an app and SMS does not, so, you should not compare apples to oranges! If you really want your customers to install yet another app, then good luck! In fact, their app is a bit finicky as I installed it and starts with a Java error and then a endless spinner on a blank screen! Not to mention, they have 2 QR codes next to each other for download on their web pages, way too close to each other, and not sure why they don't have a simple device-based redirect with a single QR code, or use another abusive service to do this trivial job if they are not up to the challenge themselves.
Just one of many examples in my 20+ years of using Apple computers and hardware, personally and professionally, for my company employees.

First Cinema Display 30". In my country of origin, at the time, the cost was comparable to a second hand good car. Only 5 displays were sold, 4 of them for a local telecommunication provider for their luxury offices. One for me.

The screen was unevenly lit and on white/gray background introduced a visible pink to blue shift. After several unsuccessful attempts for calibration with the Spider Pro 2, the local Apple authorized representative filled the forms for replacing the unit.

Thanks to AppleCare+ after 3 displays with the same problem, finally I had a luck and received the perfect display. Still using it in my art studio to this day.
Apple tells employees to work at the office three times per week starting Sept
It seems that tunesmith has stumbled upon the paradox paradox.
I am glad that we’ve agreed that I did not drum up any hate. Thank you for clarifying this.
I have two similar commands, both written as zsh functions but easily adaptable to shell scripts, other shells, etc.

# wait on a path and do something on change, e.g. `wait_do test/ run_tests.sh`

wait_do() {
local watch_file=${1}
shift

if [[ ! -e ${watch_file} ]]; then
echo "${watch_file} does not exist!"
return 1
fi

if [[ `uname` == 'Linux' ]] && ! command -v inotifywait &>/dev/null; then
echo "inotifywait not found!"
return 1
elif [[ `uname` == 'Darwin' ]] && ! command -v fswatch &>/dev/null; then
echo "fswatch not found, install via 'brew install fswatch'"
return 1
fi

local exclude_list="(\.cargo-lock|\.coverage$|\.git|\.hypothesis|\.mypy_cache|\.pgconf*|\.pyc$|__pycache__|\.pytest_cache|\.log$|^tags$|./target*|\.tox|\.yaml$)"
if [[ `uname` == 'Linux' ]]; then
while inotifywait -re close_write --excludei ${exclude_list} ${watch_file}; do
local start=$(\date +%s)
echo "start: $(date)"
echo "exec: ${@}"
${@}
local stop=$(\date +%s)
echo "finished: $(date) ($((${stop} - ${start})) seconds elapsed)"
done
elif [[ `uname` == 'Darwin' ]]; then
fswatch --one-per-batch --recursive --exclude ${exclude_list} --extended --insensitive ${watch_file} | (
while read -r modified_path; do
local start=$(\date +%s)
echo "changed: ${modified_path}"
echo "start: $(date)"
echo "exec: ${@}"
${@}
local stop=$(\date +%s)
echo "finished: $(date) ($((${stop} - ${start})) seconds elapsed)"
done
)
fi
}

# keep running a command until successful (i.e. zero return code), e.g. `nevergonnagiveyouup rsync ~/folder/ remote:~/folder/`

nevergonnagiveyouup() {
false
while [ $? -ne 0 ]; do
${@}

if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
echo "[$(\date +%Y.%m.%d_%H%M)] FAIL: trying again in 60 seconds..."
sleep 60
false
fi
done
}
> No one in their right mind would run RHEL on a desktop.

I worked somewhere where we ran CentOS on the desktop. That seemed to work pretty well. I don't see why RHEL would be any worse, apart from being more expensive.
Interestingly, Grey Poupon, while being marketed as french mustard, does not sell in France
This analysis is laughable. On what metric are Mensa member underachievers? Waving your hand saying "everybody knows" is not science. It's just an opinion.

I will grant you that Mensa did absolutely nothing for me, and I stopped renewing years ago. I had no desire to participate in their various groups. I have friends and a wife and children and grand-children. I don't need a social club. But I'm sure some people find value in it.
why, it won't make it through peer review. high frequency light arrives first because it interacts less with matter. remember, c is only constant in a true vacuum. the speed of light varies as it travels through matter (refraction). there is a lot of "stuff" to interact with between us and a galaxy 14 billion light years away

i wonder if the energy of empty space (yes, empty space has energy) plays a role in slowly dissipating the energy from light.
Indian Point power station in New York has >1500 tons of waste in holding pools, which need to be maintained for hundreds of years, or until another storage method is devised, or until a permanent facility is built.
Spoiler alert: this has nothing to do with who the news company is (or their political affiliation) and was just the result of a mundane & boring policy breach.
Insurance is never a good idea in general, except if you can't risk paying for it yourself.
Fwiw, Andrew Chen led Uber's Rider Growth when the company was in hypergrowth. His book, The Cold Start Problem, is great, and anyone building a two-sided marketplace should read it. This guy knows referral programs. Highly credible advice. Probably one of the best business books I ever read:

https://www.amazon.com/Cold-Start-Problem-Andrew-Chen/dp/006...
FLOW sounds like an an adult college dormitory. Tenants would rent/buy a private bedroom & bathroom. Living room, kitchen, offices, recreation would be common facilities.

This probably wouldnt work for adults who wish to raise families.
Posting guidelines on HN generally require you to not editorialize titles, so most reposts have the exact same title (since it's the title of the original article).
the point was that "the unpopular, unconvincing hypothesis is right" need be treated as a possibility only if the probability is high enough, and knowing that the vast majority are wrong is an important bayesian input in properly estimating that probability