skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When companies sell us digital goods

Google is not selling you any digital goods. They provide services like GMail for free to people. That is a big part of the problem: users are not paying customers and so have no leverage, as they would in a proper customer relationship. Instead, users are the product, and the actual paying customers have all the leverage in determining how the product is treated.
That used to be true, when AWS only sold AZ-specific RIs, but for a long time now AWS have (by default) sold region-level RIs instead, and these do not include a capacity reservation. You can now purchase Capacity Reservations [0] on their own.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-capa...
Why bread loafs in UK are fluffier? Chorleywood bread process
Where can i get up to speed on what’s coming down there pipeline in this ai/ml image making scene?

(And learn the agreed upon terms)
I guarantee you that the footage would be a viral sensation online. King World productions would decline to air it, okay. But if it leaked, it would be viewed by millions.

Are you saying that a production company not airing craziness is the same as being arrested for calling your leader a cartoon bear? Is that the equivalency I'm supposed to be drawing? (https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/tweets-01232020164342...)
> intellectually-qualified

What could this possibly mean?

Your argument doesn't really make sense since debt in now way held back enrollment numbers at college (if anything, just the opposite). And even if we wanted to make college free today, it doesn't solve the problem of what to do with existing debt.
We think alike. I started out with Hugo because it's very popular and relatively easy to use. It has a bunch of features that I had to read about but didn't have a use for -- overhead.

One of the most annoying aspects of working with hugo was the friction from idea to publishing it.

I decided to go a completely different route and built https://prose.sh

With prose all I have to do is to create a markdown file and then `scp` it to prose.sh. The platform takes care of the rest and I can still enjoy my own editor and terminal tooling. Even better, authentication happens via SSH so the friction is extremely low.

It's a nice balance between writing a blog on a platform that does everything for you and being able to use my own tooling to write content.

Another big issue with Hugo is when I want to make edits to the content. My brain is weird and I only scrutinize my content after it has been published. So I end up making a lot of edits after an article has been live for a few minutes. It's a terrible habit and Hugo required deployment for every little change.

I've thought about converting prose to be SSG -- we could generate the html when a user uploads the file -- but honestly the site is fast as it is so I don't see the value in that added complexity.
I realize this is the way the headline is written in the original article, but I at first read it as an electric vehicle, perhaps some sort of weaponized drone, firing on ships and ferries...
“Behind” implies that they’re following and moving in the same direction. Unfortunately, I don’t think that’s the case.
The people with a billion dollars have millions in cash on hand and can get millions more without significant problems by selling a bit of their stock. I think people overestimate the illiquidity of billionaires' assets. But yes, it's a side point, the exact amount does not matter.

Yes, if everyone gets UBI, some inflation will happen because more people have money. The assertion that the inflation will be so great that it will completely cancel out the benefit of UBI for the lower classes is a far stronger claim that I've seen dozens of times, but which I've never once seen anyone attempt to justify.
I wondered tho: was it really necessary in this case, since the underlying philosophy was already public knowledge?
Yea, I'm not denying the quality of deposits are down, costs of processing are up, or that it's hard to make the tech work. I'm just saying that we haven't seen the dire need that would cause big changes because the industry's unique R&D and CapEx requirements to change. Dire = severally decreased production of vital end products because of mineral costs/shortages (ie the 1970's oil crisis).

Generally, there are known technologies already past the prototype stages just waiting for the prices and other factors to make them viable, and once they are they then ride the experience curve to better productivity.

Re: supply/demand shocks - Interestingly, this is where the state can have a good roll in helping smooth these out. For instance, Biden's recent bill included guaranteed oil/gas purchases that the oil industry needed so they can justify running their refineries on with uncertain future demand, with the USG taking the risk on via filling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve with the excess. [1]

I'm reacting to an effect that this chart [2] highlights where academia / industry is being overly conservative in their predictions. In this case, every year they predicted PV was about to run out of steam, when it was actually growing exponentially. I think this paper is doing the same thing by ignoring tech development increases in its analysis.

Are you aware of any systematic study of new mining tech development, economics, etc. that has a thorough analysis of this? This isn't my field. I'm in manufacturing, but follow the space because it's adjacent and has some things in common, so I'd be interested to get your take / sources.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-gas-prices-energy-oil-...

[2] https://zenmo.com/en/photovoltaic-growth-reality-versus-proj...
I’m afraid I can’t.
The ransacking of pre-Turkish Asia Minor continues...
Jokes aside the compiler-checked acknowledgements are kind of clever. The example in the docs is deliberately confrontational, but there's a kernel of a neat idea there. Imagine needing to write:

// I acknowledge that the internal structure of this data is subject to change without notice
x = foo.state

Or perhaps:

// I acknowledge that this data is a complicated graph of pointers and is easy to break in subtle ways
foo.xyz[0].bar[1] = &foo.asdf[3]

Or perhaps:

// I acknowledge that this data is heavily cached and I need to call rebuild() before changes take effect
x.something = "Hello"
x.rebuild()
A lot of these large population datasets are not obtained with consent for this sort of research and part of the ethical oversight is to ensure that harm to the subjects is minimized.

Now, you might ask yourself whether anyone or what sort of people are going to consent to participating in a research study that is designed to discover racial or other superiority/inferiority.

But it really doesn't matter when you skip over informed consent to build genetic databases.

Just because the genetic database exists it doesn't follow that any uses are ethical or were consented to by the "participants".
Of course it's a group. As seen recently by the alzheimer's research debacle it's a group that is subject to intense social pressure.
Kudos for the design
I empathize with how you're feeling... There's a constant argument about which frontend framework is the best(react? vue? svelt?), which CSS solution(tailwind? bootstrap? MUI?), which DB scheme, which host, "can I just go serverless? If so, which service do I use?", "what about edge function!?". And of course, startups come along here and there with an attempt to unify the options(RedwoodJS, NextJs~), but eventually, new disruptive tech comes and breaks it apart now the cycle starts again.

I think as engineers, we are trained to do things the best way, the right way, or the most efficient way. But when it comes to hobby projects that don't quite have a hard deadline, that mentality can get us trapped in the research phase for way too long.

I think the antidote here is the good'ol Nike slogan... "just do it". Understand that you'll never have complete information and that ultimately you're making a bet with your decision to go with one solution or another. With side projects, almost all of your decisions are *reversible and have low consequences. So just keep moving, and if you make the wrong move, take a step back. Or just start over!

(personally, with simple web apps, I'm a fan of the t3 stack. TS, React, Next-Auth, tRPC, Prisma)
I've been extremely sensitive to caffeine and so coffee doesn't work for me. Recently I've been enjoying the ritual of preparing white tea from one of those hard tea disks. I have a special tea knife that lets me pry away layers, I then put them in a small tea pot (8oz) do a first rinse, and add the specific water temp and the specific time. I've found the ritual itself to be quite tactile and pleasing and the caffeine to not be too overpowering. It's a lovely way to wake up or take a work break.
No, not talking about overlapping.

Just talking about being able to grab an icon and position it anywhere I want on the screen (possibly snapped to a grid).

Right now, icons have to be aligned in rows anchored in the top left corner, so that whenever you insert a new one, all the ones after that get pushed right or down, messing up your entire layout.

We've had this ability on desktops since Windows 3 thirty years ago, and Android has had it since day one. As does macOS. Why not iOS?
What sort of TV shows are censored in the West?
We merged https://zulip.com/integrations/doc/slack_incoming (thanks to the contribution from cheald down thread), which lets one migration many incoming webhook integrations by just changing the URL.

See also https://zulip.com/integrations/ for native integrations that often provide a better experience, taking advantage of topics to thread notifications together nicely.

Can you provide a link to the 4-year-old GitHub issue you found? I'd like to clean it up to reference what has changed since then.
This seems to be a person selling a service to stop this problem. I would not trust them to tell me if it is a problem or not.
God bless them. I don't what makes people want ivory in the first place. Pure evil
It's right there in the URL: "the_cup_holder_joke"

Besides, the top of the computer case, usually mere inches away from the CD tray, is a whole lot more stable, and doesn't run the risk of knocking the drink over when software closes the tray unexpectedly.

The only people who ever used the tray as a cup holder, did it for the obvious meme. Note that "holder" makes it obviously a joke since the hole isn't even big enough unless it's like a shot glass. And they were much to soft and flimsy to use as a mini table.
Scientists Move Closer to Unlock Secrets of Immortal Jellyfish and Human Aging
> What you describe would be hell for them, they would keep tinkering and keep creating new frameworks, languages or even whole platforms just for given problem, because that's fun for them. That's how it all started anyway.

I think at that point the people you describe will move to a newer field where things are still changing quickly.
MPAA ratings are not government censorship, they're cartel censorship.

The reason corporations follow the cartel's rules are financial agreements and the fear of PR backlash for not letting parents outsource parenting.
It absolutely backfires. No one is as successful at selling US culture as the US, except all those countries that censor exported/imported US culture.
Tell all that to my elevator button. It shocks me every other day in my brand new modern building.
My experience launching on Product Hunt
My experience is what inevitably happens is the ops team goes an writes a layer on top of Kubernetes, and now instead of dealing with Kubernetes you're dealing with a half baked poorly written abstraction with zero documentation and no StackOverflow on top Kubernetes. So you need to become an expert in both.

Most organizations don't have the resources, mindset, or skills to support a software library product and should only do it as a last resort.
Why? Many country do this. You need a number to value somehow the property, it is fair that a 15m2 flat pays less taxes than a private hotel of 5000m2, no?
Rubbish needs to be removed, water needs to be provided and treated, police is needed to protect properties etc....
Sure a totally unbiased source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah_Carl
Seems like tilting at windmills to me.

Republicans are members of the Republican party

Democrats are members of the Democrat party
> Uses commonly accepted approaches, libraries, style

I would argue NOT to do this if you're writing Java. Java paradigms are awful, lead to way too many layers of abstraction, and code that is impossible to debug because your stack traces are just 30 calls of ".invoke()".

> Readable by programmers who'll work with that code in the future.

And yet Perl became popular.
The Artist Is the Void
> For example, the joke about the Chinese restaurant ("I'd be more concerned about what they're passing off as chicken")

That same joke is made about a lot of food chains, especially fast food, like McDonald's. Replace chicken with beef and you have half of all the jokes ever made about Taco Bell (with the other half being poo jokes).
A better question would be, is there a map that shows the extended inland reach of the more violent storms that we will get with a warmer atmosphere?

Planning on the basis of the ocean being a mill-pond won't go very well.
I worked in Azure for four years in a couple different teams. I didn't see a single line of F# code while I was there. I don't think they have any plan beyond supporting it as somebody's side project.

Edit: I forgot about https://github.com/microsoft/qsharp-compiler. IDK if any server code is in F#, but at least the compiler is.
Imagine the bubble we live in at our house: everything, phone or otherwise, goes through the pi-hole. You can come to our house with your random phone or laptop, ad blocker or not, and you won't see ads, either, thanks to network-wide DNS blocking. And we both mostly WFH, and therefore rarely venture out into the wild, wild Internet outside of our home network.

And then I have to look something up while we're camping, expecting the same experience as I get every other day of the week, and...I would seriously curtail most of my non-work-based Internet use in a major way if that's what I had to put up with every day.
hard to conclude there is a lot less creativity being shared today on social media, than the haphazard, disparate websites in the 90s. I remember pages full of glitter, and hardly readable nor user-friendly marquee text with blue underlines in technicolor with no synchrony on how to navigate them
I don't see any point trying to justify or argue for extreme Chinese-style censorship. But there are still useful debates to be had about censorship in Western liberal societies.
I studied this a long time ago so I am rusty, but the meaning behind it from what I remember was that if you meet the buddha you kill him, because its killing your own biases, expectations and conceptions. The buddha on the road is supposed to be yourself in this situation.
Many companies already have photos taken as part of onboarding, usually no professional photographer involved, or require photos to be provided by remote employees if in person onboarding isn't required. They are used for company badges and uploaded to company directories. The directories are often tied into cloud services such as Slack where the picture becomes the user profile for that service. For Slack their SCIM API can be used to do this.
They are always the same? Obviously not so you're wrong
The currents would be much less than 4mA.

I’ll try to estimate the most current we could expect. Some googling throws up that a human body has ~30pF of capacitance, and that static electricity can be up to 20kV in very dry conditions. That’s 600 nanocoulombs of charge. If we guess that you’re building that up once once every minute (what a terrible existence, getting a big shock 60 times an hour!), then the grounding strap would be carrying ~10nA continuously.
So trade functionality for fashion? Hard pass.
This is a smart move and goes to show people move so quick on this. I wonder how long before these models overtake stock image websites, get used in games or video production, generate T-shirt prints and whatever other usecase people can come up with.

On that note: Iirc back when I learned about GANs, when they were still rather new there was a clear path towards improvements of them by making the model bigger and feed it _much_ more high quality training data. When I look at the outputs of stable diffusion or Dall-E there are still often visible artifacts and most prominently faces are often weird. Is there a clear path towards improvement here aswell or are we hitting a wall with the "just more" paradigm somewhen?
> Yes, the United States government has kept them prisoner for 20 years, at great inconvenience and expense, because they just want to be meanies. You bet.

So there are no political prisoners in China?
Symbian wasn't originally from Nokia, rather from Psion, it was born as EPOC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPOC_(operating_system)

Symbian C++ had a couple of issues, namely several restrictions of accomodating C++ for a microkernel, before the days of C++98, and organically growing from there.

So there were several idioms and restrictions on how the language could be used, and the toolchain went through several iterations, MS-DOS batch files, Perl scripts, Metrowerks based compiler, eventually replaced by an Eclipse based IDE (after a false start), Carbide.

Qt came later into the picture as Symbian was being modernized, and after a POSIX compatibility layer (PIPS) was added into the platform.

You had the security rules that iOS "invented", C++, Java and Python toolchains, being able to run http server on the phone, 3D support for C++ and Java applications.

But Symbian C++ was a bit of a pain (see link below), it was being modernized via PIPS and Qt (as mentioned), but then Elop came to Nokia, the famous burning platforms memo came out, and everyone went away.

Nokia development culture was pretty much anti-MS, so most went elsewere, instead of bothering with Windows Phone 7.

http://symbian.tomuta.ro/GUID-C3206E31-251C-4AFC-90C2-04B38C...
I've listened to enough Richard Wolfe debates to know the talking points. Dropping a book link isn't really helpful in the context of this discussion, I'm not going to go read your favorite book before I reply to you.

Yes I'm aware that corporations set up a legal hierarchy in which management has more power than labor within the corporation. I'm not going to go through your specific questions one by one, since they're largely rhetorical, though some of them don't have the answer you hope for. Some people seem to interpret the lack of formal, democratic processes with a totalitarian dictatorship. I've personally witnessed the firing of C-suite execs in response to employee revolts.

A totalitarian system requires complete subservience. Depending on your position in the labor market, your leverage may vary. My objection isn't to the notion that the employer-employee power balance is lopsided in many cases, to the point where some sectors of the economy are exploitative, but rather that an office by it's nature is akin to a totalitarian dictatorship. Maybe you're just using that phrase for effect, or maybe you genuinely think that working at Google and living in Egypt under President Mubarak is a good comparison. To me it comes off as a bit out of touch.
It's an digital image. Not very interesting to be honest.

Art is more deep. Has meaning. It doesn't matter how is it done. I mean... You wouldn't find something like that in art gallery on wall.
Really? Are Iranian scientists studying plants subject to liberal social preasure?
Emojis didn't exist back in the 90s. This is an anachronism.
That isn't true, I am very disagreeable and argumentative and post before I think, and still maintain positive karma without any issues.

Edit: It works since to downvote you need 500 karma, but everyone can upvote, so getting many upvotes is a lot easier than getting many downvotes.
Being a good programmer can also be situation dependent. The ideal author for code that powers a nuclear reactor may be different from the ideal programmer making a consumer product.
_daisyyyy_ _daissyyy_
I didn't have any particular expectation when I opened up this link, but because I was curious about the authors I clicked on one and found they had also published one titled:

"Evidence for a connection between coronavirus disease-19 and exposure to radiofrequency radiation from wireless communications including 5G"

Which I guess in some sense might also possibly be true, but I gotta say it's a pretty bad opening sign.
It always amazes me to learn these *tiny details that Apple takes care of and makes me wonder how many more are there that we do not know.

(My favorite is that if you copy something on your phone, you can paste it directly on your Macbook, it works with images too, so it's often easier than Airdrop)
You are way overthinking this and going down a rabbit hole of your own making. Facial features are correlated with and coevolve with other group/tribal characteristics. See the proliferation of blonde hair, tallness in the Dutch, prevalence of epicanthic folds, stockiness of bodies in colder climes, etc...
The article also notes that the similarities surprisingly end at the genome. Unlike twins these folks don't have especially similar microbiomes or lifestyles or other environmental factors. So the similarity is strictly genetic which is actually a little unexpected. With a large enough sample set these folks might actually be a useful population for study. People with the genetic similarity of siblings but not environment.
> I know for a fact that this isn’t true.

Some Australian companies that used a VPN service that had a Russian exit node got hit with termination notices. There were a couple of reports from people in the UK and the US as well with similar patterns.

> I seriously doubt this too, but maybe my last name just isn’t Russian enough.

Admittedly that is one of the shakier ones, but there was at least one report from France that had a customer who had nothing to do with Russia beyond a very distant family member that caused them to have a Russian last name being hit with a termination notice.

Sorry for not having any references, this all was like... 6 months ago. I found the decision awfully shortsighted and made very ad-hoc rather than properly thought through. (Hell, the termination itself was ludicrously short-notice; people had less than a week to find a new registrar for their domains. Most companies give you at least the time to sit out your renewal period/contract expiration before they tell you to shove it.)
There is also the shape of the individual waveforms to take into account a piano has a more or less sinusoidal wave and a violin is more of sawtooth (due to the stickslip of the bow moving across the string(s)).
> I've heard the creator of Clojure all but say he has put no thought into package management. Nice language, but it's not worth the cost of having to change how the rest of us work when there's existing environments that address the very basics that a developer needs.

Clojure relies on maven for this. Maven is a pretty accomplished package manager in the Java ecosystem. If Rich Hickey said that I assume he meant that he did not _have_ to invent a package manager as it comes for free from the underlying system.
"The herbivore Ectoconus (a member of the Periptychidae, which may be related to living hoofed mammals, the ungulates) reached about 100kg (220lb) within a few hundred thousand years of the extinction. In geological time, that's the blink of an eye."

It's interesting how fast evolution can move when there are open niches.
You are correct, you cannot sell Convertible RIs on the RI Marketplace.

I think it is going too far to say that RIs are a trap: the rules are pretty transparent. I agree with you that if your infra is elastic or evolving then you need to be very cautious about making large or long-term commitments.