skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That is not true, given that I was replying to you, and you were replying to the person that said _this_.

a) Oops! Not sure why I thought that diognesofsinope's comment and your comment were written by the same person, my bad.

b) You've either made the same mistake I did or you've excellently satirised my mistake, as you were replying not to me but to somebody else :P

So fair enough, sorry I thought your comment that I replied to was the owner of the original belief that salaries + pensions = enough currently, and then expanding on that belief.
>Europe is, in the end, too afraid to do it (bar some relatively minor extra taxes that Big Tech is all to happy to pay as long as it's not made legally liable in other ways),

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antitrust_cases_against_Goog...

$8 billion afraid.
If you consider that 'minor', i rather suspect you are being anti-EU just for the hell of it.
There are two issues with OP.

First, is that this optimism is indefinite in words of Peter Thiel. It's gonna be fine but without any directions how to make that future actually happen. Can we just sit and wait?

Second, it addresses factors that just aren't important.

Doesn’t she know that Christian nationalism has largely taken over the Republican Party and that the Enlightenment values of freedom of inquiry, tolerance, and reason are being threatened from the political Right as well as—to a worrying extent—the political Left?

These are downright silly concerns in the world with collapsing birth rates on the verge of a world war with Russia and China trying to use their last gasp for empire building.

Living five years longer in a larger house with AC is nothing to sneeze at but perhaps not quite the win in the world of record-breaking obesity and drug addiction. We're trading biological capital for material comforts. And not even at a good exchange rate.
Isn't everything metered with Backblaze (ie. no unlimited)? I think only things such as delete aren't metered. But in order to delete something you must have first uploaded it (which is metered).

If everything is metered it seems kind of odd to complain about a lot of activity. Since it's literally the thing you make money with.
The Invisible White Empire
Saving few bucks to degrade viewing experience may not be a good choice for most people. You know you can save 100% when living in the tent in the forest
Don't overestimate the importance of North American market.

Chinese OEMs don't need it and nobody wants to end up like Huawei.
Singapore to Repeal Ban on Sex Between Consenting Men
I can give one example. In US it is absolutely normal to arrive to the conference room, sit at the table and wait for a boss to come. In Japan to sit at the table before the boss arrives and sits would be an offense - I was actually advised to stand up and wait for the boss standing as all others did.
Yeah, and potentially the 3-5 other people who interviewed them as well! That would get me a bit fired up if they didn't ask me that until the end of the process.. as bad as when people tell me they want a remote role when it's clearly advertised as an in-city office-first role!
I often did run around completely naked at beaches. I don't do this anymore because now everyone has a smartphone and much more people take pictures now.
I'd be working if it wasn't for Long Covid that ripped me out of the workforce at least a decade before I would have thought possible in 2019. The segregation of society into "essential" and other workers didn't help matters either. We all saw that the essential workers who actually keep the lights on, store stocked, etc... get paid shit wages and are not shown any respect.

We also learned that it's no necessary, and for the most part, a huge counterproductive scheme to have people crammed into offices after hours of commuting. So much wasted life force, money, fuel, all propping up a system that is infested with layers of grift.

On top of this, as mentioned, the demographics are such that a lot of people were about to retire anyway. This just accelerated the timelines a bit. We're going to be in permanent labor shortage in the US for a few decades now, especially as deglobalization hits and we're rebuilding our manufacturing base here at home.
I don't see this as related - your account triggered some abuse detection - did you ever go to them and validate what you're doing is covered by the terms you're paying for ?

I mean it sounds like a dick move by Backblaze, but comparing it to what OP is describing is downplaying how bad this looks for GCP IMO.

Going through with official contact at GCP, being assured he did everything right and that it was taken care of - and still getting shut down. In my book that's just inexcusable - if you can't count on that kind of support to work then how can you rely on that platform for anything ?
Is there no model of service where Google can't make real human support possible at scale for profit?
Were you able to get back online? Have they responded since the suspension? It's early Monday morning now.
Yes I recently changed to a 4 day job with higher pay. Right now I have a week off while taking up only two vacation days, because I worked the last two Fridays. Pretty neat.

It's pretty common in Europe I would say. In Germany you even have a right to reduce your hours after half a year of working somewhere, and your employee has to accept it unless they have a very good reason to reject it (e.g. it would be devastating for the company).

Good software developers are still scarse and lots of companies are competing for them, so generally companies are very accomodating for these wishes.

I said working 4 days does not necessarily make me less productive. And on top I use the extra time I have to become better at my work and contribute to open source (which is true).
Just like you setup multiple instances across different availability zones for redundancy, you also need multiple billing contacts in case one of them fails and causes an outage.

Not sure how to mitigate these risks for providers that only support one "project owner" with a single billing address :/
> I laugh thinking that it cost them more to charge us a penny than it would've been to just roll it over

In the long run it's not them covering those costs but you and other customers.
Here is a working implementation: https://github.com/pebal/sgcl
Its generaly attributed to Sir William Garrow a British barrister who made the notion that people should be innocent until proven guilty in trial in 1791. before that the justice system was guilty until proven innocent, so the salem witch trials in 1692 would absolutely be under guilty until proven innocent and unfair trials like that are what changed people mind to mob justice where guilt is assumed not proven.
Yeah. I know.

I am the author of a similar source available package and selling to developers has been such a painful experience. They (we) have one of the most privileged situations when it comes to finances but they are so reticent in buying software.
It's not that the software might not be good, or might not help them, but "it should just be free".

That has been my experience.
Since my indie developer endeavour, I changed the way I see other solopreneurs and their businesses.

Let's support each other through projects like these and these types of licensing and stop taking things for granted.
I'm kinda surprised they don't voluntarily allow courts to make these tricky decisions for them.

Perhaps even offer to pay court costs.

They can say:

> We suspended your account for violation of XYZ rule. You can appeal internally, and if that is denied, you can ask a court to rule on if you broke this rule. If the court finds you did not violate the rule, we will reinstate your account. We will provide any data from your account to the court to make its decision, including proprietary data that we cannot reveal directly to you, for example data about other linked accounts.
This is hard to read. Seriously, both the author of the review and of the book (assuming the reviewer accurately portrays it) seem confused about evolution and have an incomplete or total lack of comprehension of ideas; like fitness landscapes, that evolution is not the result of a design process, and that traits can persist despite being neither adaptive nor maladaptive. Regarding the latter, there's a concept in cancer genomics – passenger mutations – which provides a DNA level example of this on a much faster timescale.
A warning for those interested in the camera. I recently got a bit interested in photography and bought myself... an Olympus Pen EE2! However, selenium expires with exposure and mine was a dud. (Couldn't test since bought online). If you want to buy one make sure the selenium is still working.

And yes, I took it apart to look for other faults. even tried a recipe to reionize the cells, but it was completely dead. If you buy one a good sign is if it still has the cap.
You have a person to reach out to if things go pear shaped, and N(weeks|months) to sort out payments issues instead of having everything get suspended by robots.
Not the same person, but this sounds very similar to an experience I had. Payments fail all the time for various reasons, that isn't really the issue. It's what happens after that.

In our case our bank blocked transactions to AWS and Google one night. I contacted the bank and Google, made arrangements and successfully paid the account within a day. I just retried the AWS payment and had no further issues with them.

I had issues with Google for months. Google kept sending me threatening messages about how our accounts suspension is imminent. We'd then follow up with a human, have it resolved, only for the same thing to happen weeks later. Note that there were no outstanding payments, and no failed payments again.

After ranting to friends in startups it became apparent that this was not an isolated incident, and it's always Google.
>24FPS is always choppy

Have you been to cinemas?
Just wanted to say I loved readin Johnny.Decimal and it made me feel good about some of my crazy ideas on organisation!

Can’t say I love Canberra but it’s always lovely seeing a fellow aussi on HN.

Keep up the excellent work mate!
For cars I assume one factor is resell value. "Neutral" colours seem to appeal to more people and thus selling a bright yellow car will either take you longer or won't get your as good of a price.
oh
https://twitter.com/TaylorOgan/status/1557766646026084359
Discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32539444
Forking Ethereum
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu1sSM0lvjz/

this is a BALLER shot amigo
It's not a "chance to present my own full offer" when the role explicitly states full-time. That's called trying to re-negotiate and it's not great. Also, there's no way I'll let you convince me of formally hiring you at 32 hours because of the hassles involved on my side, and more importantly the slippery slope - say the next guy thinks he can do it in 16 hours, the next person is remote, the next person doesn't want to join Zoom calls because they're more effective async, another want to only work at night when they're "in the zone".. not everything is up for negotiation (even though in reality, you should try and have flexibility in the roles in day-to-day practice because we're all unique humans and stuff comes up etc. but you get my point). I think people in tech have gotten a bit precious and spoiled TBH :)
I'm pretty comfortable with uMatrix and for whatever reason the uBlock filtering UX just completely flummoxes me.
The claim was that: "Actually an ordered dictionary has improved performance over an unordered dictionary"

Having a dense array is not, as it seems both you and chippiewill imagine, somehow a unique property of ordered dictionaries. An unordered dictionary is free to use exactly the same implementation detail.

The choice to preserve order is in addition to using dense arrays. The OrderedDict must use tombstones in order to preserve ordering, and then periodically rewrite the entire dense array to remove tombstones, while a hypothetical UnorderedDict needn't worry because it isn't trying to preserve ordering so it will be faster here despite also having the dense arrays.

"iterating an array of 100 items that fits in one cache-line will be faster"

On today's hardware a cache line is 64 bytes, so fitting 100 "items" (each 3x 64-bit values, so typically total 2400 bytes with today's Python implementation) in a cache line would not be possible. A rather less impressive "almost three" items fit in a cache line.

But to be sure the dense array is faster for this operation, the problem is that that's not an optimisation as a result of being ordered. It's just an implementation choice and the UnorderedDict is free to make the same choice.
Will Tech Products Need to Work at Higher Temperatures Due to Climate Change?
Recently, there was a heatwave in Europe, with various places there having higher temperatures than ever before. During this heatwave, lots of articles were published about the maximum temperature devices like the Nintendo Switch could operate in, with Nintendo saying the system could overheat if played in places hotter than 35 degrees celsius.

So this made me wonder something... will max temperature requirements for future pieces of tech (like games consoles, computers, etc) be higher in future to deal with rising temperatures due to climate change? Will say, future iPads and Macbooks be designed to work in 40-50 degree temperatures so that people without air conditioning/those working outside can still use them on hot days?

Or is there some technical reason this can't be the case?
Ohh, interesting. From the foto [1] this appears to be the same AC057TC1 panel that the Inkplate 6COLOR [2] uses.

[1] https://core-electronics.com.au/media/catalog/product/cache/...

[2] https://www.crowdsupply.com/soldered/inkplate-6color
Living in an area with an above average number of hyper-cars on the road. There is every possibility that they will be banned for noise or pollution. The roar of a Ferrari engine is unmistakable even at low speeds (especially when compared to the noise of an EV or hybrid)
According to Bruno Jarrosson, the Egyptians had a marked preference for some classes of fractions, e.g. those with unitary numerator (so that, for example, representing a quantity as a composition (e.g. sum) of more fractions of the form 1/n was preferred to using single fractions of the form m/n). So, that fraction may have been privileged over others in this framework.

(One immediately notes that 256 and 81 are simple powers. As just a possibility, it could have been found intriguing that (2^8)/(3^4) could "reveal some underlying structure".)
I loved making gears. Getting the machines set up, making the first test cuts, then watching as a blank slowly became a gear that would outlast me was an amazing thing to get to do on a daily basis. Involute gearing is simply astounding in the ways it can be applied to transfer and transform mechanical power.

I hated the pay (too low) and the commute (too long), but making things is awesome for your soul.
I wonder how many 0-/1-tap RCEs you are vulnerable to at this point. 10-20 or so?
As far as I know the barrier reef is already dead because we emitted enough GHG to force sufficiently high water temperatures that the reef can't survive. It's only a matter of a couple of decades before the temperatures catch up with our emissions.
SSB in Your Pocket
Haven't you people been saying this for 2 years now?
I actually used that but its filter selection of packets is also unknown.

It said so in the article you commented on:

iOS doesn’t let you record a packet trace directly.
I drove on back roads, not the freeway. Most cars had a very easy time passing me or going around me as traffic was light, and there was plenty of room on the road.
While I think the figures might be a little conservative (or might work for the mean, but not the peak) it is a little odd to imagine why an expenses app would need a database that syncronises via a private blockchain to track expenses. It would be interesting to understand the rationale.
> Until you encounter a billing issue with AWS and move again to Azure and then to DO.

You have to be joking or ignorant. I have never met someone who had a billing issue with AWS that wasn't able to be resolved without shutting off access.

I have never seen a story bubble up on HN about someone who had their account terminated by AWS for no obvious reason.

Perhaps Google is subject to an ongoing smear campaign, or they just attract people who don't know how bill paying works and Google has been completely reasonable. What I do know is that both AWS and Azure have been completely open, honest and will send engineers, account managers or whenever was required to get problems resolved without business impact when I was at both large corporation and early stage startup.

I have never encountered this with any interaction with Google, so it can't be part of their corporate culture, which makes it very unlikely that Google Cloud can be much different.
Trust me you can tell the difference between 60 and 120. Whether or not you care is another question.
But is a better screen nonsense? If that was so we'd still have 20 inch black and white monitors.
This is what OP should really have done. All of the big cloud providers allow this. We had the same thing with AWS. As soon as you contact your account manager with things like this shit gets done quick. If you are on Pay as you go with a CC your messages just fall into a black hole.
It looks alright with dithering even with such low amount of colors

I also keep hearing griping that the color dithering is all patent encumbered and/or that there's few open-source options available. Bother.

Huh, is it? I am using python to dither images just fine
Except not providing a headphone jack has been a clear regression. Other than saving the manufacturer a few pennies, what benefits do I get from not having one?
I guess a broader point is that while the universal approximation theorem is a get-out-of-jail-free card for Neural Nets, nobody said "how quickly". A bit like trying to approximate sin(x) with a Taylor series for large x is suboptimal – Chebyshev polynomials are better (and Padé approximants probably better still), but both "work". Unless you have data points on the boundary of the domain, or some analytic knowledge that the solution space is bounded somehow, expect weird shit...
As I understand, when the sync is enabled for a directory, all changes there are recorded and synced automatically, without any need to do anything. No commits, no pushes, no pulls, no merges. Just synced storage with a time machine view. Looks like a nice idea to me.
Generally, all cloud providers have two ways of engaging with and billing customers. One is using a credit card, which is very easy for getting started. The other one is having an established relationship with a sales / account team and setting up billing by invoice. Smaller companies sometimes don't understand that and stick with credit card billing for too long. Once you move to production and have your own customers that you can't let down, you should really make the extra effort and move to invoice billing (with all the upfront overhead that entails).
A spreadsheet.

Columns - daily / weekly goals, rows - days. Every morning I fill in the previous day and reflect on the upcoming one.

I've tried a bunch of tools and also develop some of my own, but so far (~20 months) this simple solution has been the most effective and sticky for me.
I fully agree that automakers should be held responsible. However, I am feeling a bit of negative sentiment here. What does 'properly' mean? There has been court cases that have been decided against them. Sure there is always more. But this sounds a bit like whatabotism. Also there is a high probability of defeat devices in Citroen, Dacia, Fiat, Ford and Honda cars as well. It is however true that the EU create a huge grey zone. But what does that mean in terms of court cases against cloud providers??
Ask HN: Best Product Onboarding Flow
What products or services have you used that have a great onboarding flow for new users? What made them stand out to you?

My company's been thinking about the product onboarding flow and looking for inspiration.
It may not live up to Google Translate (yet), but there is an official translation addon:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firefox-trans...
Expect to have issues with colo as well, unless you own the building.
Exactly! You may have noticed that this forum is not an IM chat. Glad you noted the difference.
I didn't get a pejorative vibe from the title and the abstract

> The recurrent invention of the trick across independent societies, as well as its cultural inheritance and diffusion between groups, indicates that it likely appeals to certain universal facets of human psychology, where experiences of sickness and pain commonly induce one to seek interventive cures from specialists, who in turn may use deceptive displays to give the appearance of greater skill and powers.

But now you've mentioned it, I can see how it would read that way. I think they're just being straightforward though.

I think some would group some modern surgeries in this area too, thinking particularly of back surgery that may be a very complicated and dangerous placebo in some cases.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/back-pain-try-some-placebo-s...
The cost to provide proper support for the 99.9% is much much larger than the benefit of bringing on the possibly 0.1% who don't trust Google and avoid their products. This minority cannot be the solution to the problem.
> What I’m afraid of is equifax will simply create many companies and divvy up it into equifax backend web services llc that has fewer than 150 employees.

I'd argue that if the split child company ends up only working for the parent, it is easier for the governments to prosecute them. So the child company would have to get other customers and act as a real independent unit or would have to shut down altogether and the parent company would have to go back to the market to find a proper "web service" provider.

I'd also argue that there is no way that a company like Equifax would be able to exist only with 150 people. The whole national level corporation would simply be broken down into many localized offices. Their databases would no longer be shared. The damage that each unit could make would be reduced, and their customers would be much closer to the managers responsible in ensuring that their data is managed properly.

In other words, my argument is that Capitalism and market forces do work. We just need to have these systems deployed in the correct scale.
> one can't dismiss regulation as just being bad

No one said that.
I've always worked 32 hours. When I got my first job in 2001, I told them I wanted to work 4 days, taking Wednesday off (giving me two two-day work weeks with a mini-weekend in between). All my later jobs were also 4 days. This was never a problem. I once spoke to a prospective employer for a really interesting sounding job that really didn't want people working 4 days per week, and couldn't be budged no matter what arguments I used (they understood, and agreed, but still wouldn't move), so I had to let them go. Never regretted it.

For the past 10 years I've been freelancing, and still 4 days a week. It's a good standard, and it has never been a problem for any client.

It probably helps that I live in Netherland, though. Part-time work is completely accepted here. Lots of parents work 3 or 4 days to have more time with their children. Before Covid, lots of people had one WFH day. Nowadays, many teams have one office day.

Work-life balance is important. Don't sacrifice it.
It's not the only thing.
I’m in a similar situation and the Firefox translation add-ons simply don’t work. Chrome is where it’s at.
Inside Russia’s cartoonish propaganda website made for kids
I just had an idea! They should embed the adaptor inside the body of the phone so it won't get lost and then the people complaining about adaptors can shut up about them getting lost!