skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah but Falcon Heavy is a proven platform. It can lift almost as much as SLS at a tiny fraction of the price. We could've done something like Artemis 1 with at most a few Falcon Heavy launches years ago for pennies on the dollar, right?
On a related note, set up a website a few days ago. Brand new domain, newly opened port. But I've rented this VPS for a while so I guess its IP is already on a few lists.

But anyways, it's interesting watching the logs for what I assume are tests of known exploits.

GET /.gitconfig HTTP/1.0" 422 Unprocessable Entity
GET /.git/config HTTP/1.0" 404 Not Found
GET /owa/auth/x.js HTTP/1.0" 404 Not Found
GET /ecp/Current/exporttool/microsoft.exchange.ediscovery.exporttool.application HTTP/1.0" 404 Not Found
GET /owa/auth/logon.aspx?url=https%3a%2f%2f1%2fecp%2f HTTP/1.0" 404 Not Found
GET /system_api.php HTTP/1.0" 404 Not Found
GET /c/version.js HTTP/1.0" 404 Not Found
GET /streaming/clients_live.php HTTP/1.0" 404 Not Found
GET /stalker_portal/c/version.js HTTP/1.0" 404 Not Found
GET /stream/live.php HTTP/1.0" 404 Not Found
GET /flu/403.html HTTP/1.0" 404 Not Found
POST /vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/eval-stdin.php HTTP/1.0" 404 Not Found
GET /?XDEBUG_SESSION_START=phpstorm HTTP/1.0" 404 Not Found
GET /backups-dup-lite/dup-installer/main.installer.php HTTP/1.0" 404 Not Found
GET /%24%7B%28%23a%3D%40org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils%40toString%28%40java.lang.Runtime%40getRuntime%28%29.exec%28%22whoami%22%29.getInputStream%28%29%2C%22utf-8%22%29%29.%28%40com.opensymphony.webwork.ServletActionContext%40getResponse%28%29.setHeader%28%22X-Cmd-Response%22%2C%23a%29%29%7D/

...and the list goes on.
Yeah just listing the countries from the grand-parent comment. Their presence covers a lot of European countries (all the way to Italy and Spain in the west) kind of by definition, since they're a nomad population.
With the hub, you have many more ports - when you need them.

My little Anker has two USB-A, two USB-C (one may be thunderbolt I think), HDMI, and SD card slot.

You're not going to find a laptop with more than those ports. So I stand by my comment that 2 ports (and the optional little hub in your bag) are all you need.

If you somehow need more, then you probably aren't traveling with all that gear... or at least not using it while in transit.
Were you born in 2009? Because if your memory worked in 2008, you'll recall that massive government bailouts were required to prevent full on collapse: the doom you dismiss as though anyone fearing it is no less in control of their critical faculties than a household pet. That happened less than twenty years ago.
How else do you want healthcare to work under capitalism though? This is the system working as intended. There are more mainstream accepted practices without the histerics (eg orthodontist or optometrist) but Dr-with-a-clinic is how medical care advances in this country. Rich patients can afford to attend out of pocket, eg ketamine treatment with therapy, until insurance covers it, which can make it seem more legit because it's in an office, but realistically does telemedicine really change things? Patients still need to see a provider, and they need to sign off on medication.
But the surviving dinosaurs would live on to poop on the mammals' windshields in retaliation for being subjugated in the domination of the furry ones.
This is written from an interesting angle and I'm not sure who it is meant to serve. It "and then's" Savings Plans but for the majority Saving Plans replace RI and are infinitely more flexible and easy to use.

TLDR if you are choosing RI's over Saving Plans the basic info conveyed in this article is probably already know if you don't you should probably just be choosing saving plans.
yes there's a loss, not a monetary/economic loss, but a loss of (potential) power. the fact the loss is "potential" irks me about calling it a 'loss'; it's not quite a loss, but a missed opportunity to leverage more power over.
The more I'm watching this show, the more I think that it's just trimming excess wealth off the middle class.
Design Your Codebase with Low Fan-Out, High Fan-In Classes
State Patrol: 13-year-old Longmont girl caused crash at 287 and Lookout
The fed during the 1970s brought down inflation for a little while, but it spiked again. The hope is that Powell has learned this lesson and will keep interest rates high enough for long enough to stop it from being more persistent.

See: https://www.wsj.com/articles/jerome-powell-should-learn-from...

But then you have those that argue that inflation is a bit more transitory and different than the 1970s, as it is more supply chain induced. And if we keep interest rates high for too long, it will hurt the economy, as cheap money isn't the cause of inflation.

See: https://www.wsj.com/articles/inflation-isnt-transitory-but-i...
> somebody is paying for it

Ok, and what if it was the investors who were paying for it?

VC funded startups have been a very successful method of transferring wealth from rich investors to consumers.
There is no game to be given away, this is not sports and these are not teams to be cheered for or jeered against. The modern version of the Godwin's law is people bringing up dog-whistling in a conversation.
K8s Love – 2POD Feat. Replicated
is this in the same vein as professional Go and Chess players having and existential crisis over AlphaGo/AlphaZero/MuZero attaining superhuman playing ability with zero supervised learning in something like < 72 hours on non-supercomputer hardware.

i suppose we'd all feel uneasy when AI eventually becomes better than humans at creative tasks which pay our bills or differentiate us within a profession.
>At some point some AI is going to spit something out too close to something else and the courts will probably have to decide.

People have been spitting out stuff too close to decide and letting courts decide for well over a hundred years. This is nothing new.

If people make art that is in the style of someone else, by hand or by AI, it's generally fine to do so. If it gets too close, then courts can step in as always.
For $100k, you can get 1/8 of a tiny home for a homeless person in LA.

In other words, if you leave it to the government to pay for the work, you will just be astounded by how much it costs.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-03-05/lopez-co...
The DoE didn’t free that tech to the public, the US government’s using licensing to actively prevent American companies from competing with the Chinese one they allowed a sublicense to be granted to (from your link):

> Forever Energy, a Bellevue, Wash., based company, is one of several U.S. companies that have been trying to get a license from the Department of Energy to make the batteries. Joanne Skievaski, Forever Energy's chief financial officer, has been trying to get hold of a license for more than a year and called the department's decision to allow foreign manufacturing "mind boggling."
> The high-melt year of 2012 applied in perpetuity yields an ice loss commitment of 782 ± 135 mm SLR, serving as an ominous prognosis for Greenland’s trajectory through a twenty-first century of warming.

It's been a decade now and we haven't had any years really even close to 2012 in terms of minimum sea ice extent.
$13B isn't that big of a government expenditure, all things considered.

That pork pays for a lot of engineering salaries in places like Alabama. Senators will fight tooth and nail to keep it.

With only SpaceX, there's a risk of the technology becoming expensive or not doing what the government wants. This hedge de-risks that scenario and is worth the cost alone.

Once we have several commercial rocket families to choose from, we can reconsider. In the meantime, we've already paid for SLS and it isn't going away - and that's not a sunk cost fallacy. There are mission specific payloads SLS will be better suited for.
Well up to 25 dbHL is considered "normal" hearing for an adult. Without a hearing test I wouldn't have known I had any hearing loss.
Another example to consider as an intuition pump might be to ask how many engineers are going to publish their FOSS with a “using this as AI training input is forbidden” clause, or otherwise battle against training Copilot and other code authoring systems.

Art is typically quite style-promiscuous, and mostly protected by copyright. It’s also quite analog/continuous. Code is more discrete; you can diff it and easily see if an AI copied a particular block that doesn’t appear in other projects.

Personally I don’t think there is a strong argument that training an AI on art is problematic, as long as the AI doesn’t then commit copyright infringement. I think this process is equivalent to art students consuming art and synthesizing their own styles.

I think it’s more problematic if AI starts regurgitating discrete chunks of FOSS code, since that’s probably a license violation.

For digital artists, lots of skills are going to become irrelevant; the raw skill of pixel pushing and line work may well become obsolete. But the hardest part was always having good taste, composition, ideation. These are not going away any time soon.

And if you enjoy pushing pixels around, nothing to stop you doing that; we still play chess for fun even though computers dominate humans at the task. Indeed, computers make very scalable and accessible coaches; one could argue that chess is more fun, and easier to learn, now that computers have superseded humans. Perhaps the same will be true about art, and later, coding.
Gaijin (foreigner) is considered a rude word, just to put it into perspective.
Really? What exactly is that?
Yeah, I found the taking issue with copyright as the primary reason for being averse to AI to be almost breathtakingly hilarious (I at least exhaled through my nostrils once I read it). This quibble to me seems like the most anemic criticism one could muster around the ethical considerations implied by this new generation of AI.
> If the way out of shortages is to invest in more production, higher interest rates will be detrimental in the face of that type of inflation.

Do you have numbers that show that's what people do when interest rates are low?

I don't have numbers - but my suspicion is that they mostly just speculate on asset prices.

Where was all the investment in the last 20 years that low interest rates should've brought on?

What it did bring on was companies borrowing money to buy-back their shares to return >100% of profits to investors.

And don't even get me started on how negative real interest rates are a negative wealth tax.
The telecom provider assured that all the users' data is safe and secure as it has stopped any potential harm the billing vulnerability would have caused.
Pick another word; vegan isn't good here. At best you could use it to not depict cruelty to animals but... just doesn't work.
I don't know if that's true for everyone. If someone doesn't believe that an idea should be the property of the first person who thought of it for an innate moral reason, they might still believe that it's unethical to take that property away after it is guaranteed by the state. A utilitarian who is pro-copyright because it encourages creation and innovation might not be concerned with works that were published without that encouragement.
whatd we miss in the 60's
> Sure, if you can articulate charges and bring evidence then prosecute away.

Agreed. I'm hopeful we can get Trump here (Jan 6th + these documents seems like enough to reasonable assume guilt though that as always needs to be determined via due process), start with the worst offenders. Enough is enough. Then we can build from there.
I think both Instagram and Discord is quite bad on the UX-front on iOS. Strangely enough Microsoft’s Outlook is quite decent while it still looks a bit distinct. It is not generally true of google’s iOS apps that I assume started using Flutter and it feels from time to time (mostly not-smooth scrolling)
>How do you work in software for years and not find some little hole you want to fill. That’s not a judgment call, that’s an honest question on my part. I want to understand.

Because most people (myself included, 16 yrs professional experience) don't want to do unpaid work outside of work hours. How do you not understand that?
So since that is true of nearly every society on earth, does that make the world societally insane or sane?
It's obviously "no" even without Starship, since Falcon 9/Falcon Heavy result in cheaper architectures.
I honestly highly recommend the approach. Anytime I get excited about a new technology, I rewrite my blog in it. Gives me a simple live project with real traffic and all the right moving parts.

Last time I did it was with Elixir + Phoenix + PostgreSQL, without any standard or reasonable approach. It was a lot of fun and still using it today.

https://www.brightball.com/articles/insanity-with-elixir-pho...
Regurgitation, in a technical sense (yes, it appears in papers) is under 1% and can be filtered out in post processing. It happens when an images is repeated many times in the training set, say, Mona Lisa in 1000 variants.

If the outputs were sufficiently different from the most similar training examples would it be exempt from copyright liabilities? On the other extreme, a single copyrighted image in the training set could spoil the whole model, it would be impossible to make sure the training set is 100% clean.
Simonw, we are about to have much worse problems from bot swarms. Sleeper bots trained on “get more upvotes” will amass karma points and then be unlesshed as implacable crowds of “people” pushing public opinion around. They will amass capital and social capital to the point where regular humans represent a vashingly small sliver of online capital.

This idea of CAPTCHAs and “human only, no bots” networks is only for a decade or two, until bots just become more desirable members of every community, to humans and other bots.

What people don’t get is that their individual decisions in their own self interest doom the group. Dad works 10 hours a day to provide for family. Then mom does too. Now they both neglected their kids and each other.

Similarly, you choose a bot for its wittier comebacks and impeccably romantic style of talking. Your husband chooses a bot for its better sexual techniques and never complaining. Ultimately, neither of you needs the other and you’re one step away drom NO ONE IN SOCIETY needing you.

You would become the Borg. Except why have the drone bodies at all?
We do, but you certainly share more genes with people who have lived near you for centuries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_distance
There are animation agencies all around the globe, I have worked with several from different countries on videogames/XR projects. They are used to quotes from "crazy artists" and will be more than happy to get projects from outsiders. They don't really care about "you", but will try to sell all their services desperately, agencies live in a rough battlefield in every city.
That only covers a subset of iCloud functionality though. Remote file storage sure. What about things like like backup the entire device with the ability to restore on a new iPhone, browsing history, app data (first and third-party), passwords, etc. AFAIK solutions aren't nearly as integrated. Which is why it would need Apple's support.

Then there are services like email, iMessage, reminders, notes, etc. The latter there may be some service that does it but not in the default apps. The former I don't know of any plug-and-play solutions not cloud hosted. For example, many privacy concerned people use Proton mail but that is cloud hosted and subject to search without the user's knowledge (hopefully provided a valid warrant, but I don't think that takes away from the point).

I'd also rather services like find-my-iphone, recent locations, and other map data be handled on a server I control without Apple having any potential access.

I'm not saying there are no solutions but I am saying that they involve tradeoffs that a first-party solution could make a lot smoother. I'd gladly pay for a home Apple server that could replace all iCloud functionality without having to change my habits. I suspect I'm not the only one - just look at their recent privacy focused offering that turns off a bunch of features for "at risk" individuals.
> the most elaborate historic reenactment in history.

Not accurate. It will be new history because we will have the first woman and person of color on the moon. A giant leap for diversity.
I think your experience actually proves the point and touches on why many dangerous and crazy POV have also been getting so much air time in the news.

Let's say you have 2 opposing POV: A or B

"A" has a silent majority so only 5 of the 5,000 people post a comment about A being the right POV.

"B" is a passionate minority so 5 of the 50 people post a comment about B being the right POV.

To the viewer, it looks like a balanced discussion and a topic open to much debate, both sides have equal voice but in reality "A" is by far the most accepted position.
Something like a weekly digest of most popular HN posts in the epub/pdf format would be great.
On behalf of HN (which I have no authority to speak for) please disregard that bizarre rant by our resident curmudgeon.

If you really did all that in 2 hours, that's quite an accomplishment! But I think it's a little early for a Show HN. It's tough to use without any kind of instructional text. Repost when you've got a more usable interface, and I think you'll get more traction here.

I really like how you don't require people to register. I do the same thing for all my apps, and it's great for getting people hooked. No one likes a sign up form. Just store people's data in a cookie, or localstorage until they make the decision to sign up.

Your Anki comment is spot on. When I downloaded it (a few weeks ago actually), I spent 5 minutes making sure that website was _really_ the Anki I heard about on HN.

asuth was around 15 when he built Quizlet and now it's (somehow) worth a billion. There's plenty of room for a newcomer in the market especially since Quizlet started putting things behind a paywall. Good luck!
Social media should be considered common carriers, like telephone companies, delivery services, or transportation services.

An airline or UPS cannot just say "We don't like your politics so we will not ship your packages."

Social media is extremely similar to all these common carriers in that they are a "content" delivery mechanism. They do not decide what item is in a box or what message is in a phone call, they just distribute the box or phone call from the originator to the consumers. Similarly with social media content the social media company distributes content they have little control over through its distribution network. There is little different from a social media account than a (teletype?) conference telephone call with answering machines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_carrier
There are a LOT of old-school computer shops which trade on their reputation.

I'm Canadian so "Canada computers" comes to mind. They are almost always price-competitive with Amazon, and you can check their stock online before you go (they do ship as well)

They have been around for a long time and built a reputation of not selling crap.
You can go there and know that what you buy will be a decent product. Maybe not as wide a selection as "amazon" but they carry the top of almost any category.

Newegg has been great for at least a decade as well?

The fake stuff isn't amazon or walmart, it is almost always "third party sellers" which many stores dont offer for obvious reasons (reputation damaging fraud).
Video Game and Tech Workers ‘Drop the U-Word’
That’s pretty funny. A sizable chunk of leaders I’ve encountered left a wake of discontent behind them. And it’s always in the form of pettiness and grudges. Some people just have weak morals. I imagine that’s why they chase power for so long—to prove that they don’t.
The reason we got Hatsune Miku, a virtual singer who doesn't sound quite human, rather than a perfect Vocaloid-based recreation of a well-known actor's voice, was that no actor was willing to volunteer to have their career destroyed by the latter. Therefore, they fell back on sampling an actor's voice to produce a new, distinct character, not one that sounded just like the actor.

For “machine learning”, though, it seems the big players aren't even going to pay artists for the work they use, let alone try to avoid hurting their livelihoods.
Some vote ring in action ??
FTC sues data broker for letting people track health clinic visitors
Murdering (or being complicit in the factory farming model), and then consuming another living conscious being is on a very different moral plane than remixing intellectual work.

It's hard to imagine the mental gymnastics required to think the two are in the same league.
A Datalog engine for GPUs (2013) [pdf]
When the government gives money to NASA, where does it go? You all make it sound like it goes to about 5 greedy old geezers in a cigar smoke filled room. It mostly goes to tens of thousands of scientists, engineers, and laborers.
I have been using ReScript for (almost) a year as a production programming language. There were a few limitations and confusions at first, (and I don't think it will be replacing TypeScript in any near future) but I can't even think about going back to a work environment uses TypeScript, the dev experience is so good :)
Burden of proof should be on the person asserting the claim, not the other way around.
Interview with employee 20 at Coinbase, Dan Romero
(Disclosure, I worked at GitHub at one point)

> Github is a great example in saas area. Utterly trivial for most customers to switch away or self host. They have no moat so they can't really jack prices.

I'm not sure I agree with this. It may be true for single developer code hosting, but GitHub as a business is much more than just that.

GitHub makes money off three things, only one of which is the "core" code hosting business and two of which have solid moats:
- GitHub Enterprise {Cloud, Server}
- Actions (Azure compute minutes)
- Advanced Security (code scanning, secret scanning, etc.)

For customers operating in this environment, it's _extremely difficult_ to move because the latter features are built in to their business process (e.g. a compliance requirement that there are no known vulnerabilities dictates the use of GHAS, and they've already gotten signed off so switching to a different provider requires going through a more stringent audit in the future). GitHub doesn't have to raise prices, they just slowly add new functionality that boosts the usage of Actions, GHAS, etc. which both provide actual benefit to those customer segments and increase revenue (and eventually get new, larger customers on board).

That large scale usage also offsets the cost for their free tiers, which in turn keeps the single developers hosting their code on GitHub. Even though it's fairly easy for them to move their repos elsewhere, the halo of other features plus the community (which is really the asset) keeps developers on the platform.
If you can build a OSS-ish company like supabase or n8n, good for you.

Notice that one of the first things you'll find at the very top of these company's web sites is *Pricing*.

These are primarily service providers --- with a limited/non-tested/demo/??? version of the source available --- mainly for marketing purposes.
> but even there the compiler basically trusts you

Yeah, I'm ok with that. I'm more after expressivity than safety or efficiency. Sometimes they're not separable, but confronted with the usual "we don't know how to efficiently compile that, so we won't allow you to express it", my response is always "the language is not the right level at which to choose such engineering tradeoffs - give me finer-grain control, and in program portions where it matters, I'll trade expressiveness for efficiency or safety... after maybe first trying caching and cloud parallelism and patience and external analysis and ... ".