skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not a fan of the British crown (why are they exempt from taxes during record high inflation) but who should they return the diamond to - Afghanistan (it was the Durranis that looted it from Nader Shah after he looted it from the Mughals), India (Maharaja Ranjit Singh took it as tribute from Shah Shuja after conquering Kashmir from the Durranis), or Pakistan (the Sikh Empire capital was Lahore and the Durrani Empire capital was Peshawar until the last Sikh-Afghan War, thus any claim India or Afghanistan has on either Empire's legacy is also owned by Pakistan, even inspite of Partition or the Durrand Line).

On top of that, if it goes to India - should it be owned by the Central/Federal government, the Punjab government (the state that is the core of the former Sikh Empire), Jammu Kashmir's Government (because of Shah Shuja and Raja Gulab Singh), Delhi Government (the Mughal capital), or Andhra Pradesh Government (the mine is located there). And is it worth putting a logjam into the Free Trade Agreement India and the UK are currently negotating?

If they give it to Pakistan, should it go to the Pakistan Federal Government, Punjab Government (the state that is the core of the former Sikh Empire), AJK Government (because of Shah Shuja and Raja Gulab Singh), or Khyber Pakhtunkwa Government (the state that is the core of the former Sikh Empire and former Durrani Empire)? Is it worth putting British Humanitarian and Military Aid at risk?

If they give it to Afghanistan, is it to the Taliban led government, or the government in exile? Is it worth putting British Aid and potential recognition at risk?

It's a conundrum and an complicated legal question that honestly isn't worth it for any of the countries, all of whom have bigger issues to deal with, also it can be argued that the Sikh Empire handed it to the UK fairly.
This reminds me of the scandal where Youtube science channels did glowing paid reviews of Waymo’s self driving cars without acknowledging they were paid for it. And technooptimists like Scott Alexander or Ray Kurzweil have a common tendency to shift the goalposts and declare they were right with their predictions. Current AI certainly doesn’t demonstrate proto-AGI capabilities.

That said, we shouldn’t miss the forest for the trees. We can be skeptical that current The pace of AI progress has been immense and problems that previously seemed difficult (e.g. computer vision classification, or beating top players at Go) have fallen one by one. And AI-skepticism’s have themselves been moving the goalposts in response. I see no reason why composition won’t be the same with time. Indeed, a decade ago machine translation used to struggle to understand the relationships between things, but now seems to be reliable at preserving the compositional relationships post-translation. 2029 is rather optimistic, but AGI does seem to be approaching in the coming few decades.
You could discriminate against people with dyed hair colors, but I find it hard to believe that any court would say that a person's natural hair is not a physical characteristic of a national origin group.
How can you tell "absolutely not" without going through the 37 pages of their policy, to make sure you understand exactly what you say "no" to ? Maybe there is something different about this specific website that might make you say "I usually say no, but this time, I'll say yes".

So, please read those pages - on every website - then systematically click on "Reject all". That's what the law asks you to do, and it is indeed absolutely nuts.
Discussion on the NY Times article posted yesterday about this announcement.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32842357
With the exception of Raspberry Pis, the KXII is pretty much golden for this as well. There's the small downside of needing to use a Java app for remote access but the interactivity is amazing.
Because if Coinbase did that, nobody would use them, but people do use Ethereum.

Btw, Binance has done this with BNB and their USD stable coin, and they are top ranked coins by market cap, so in fact sometimes it is the case that having a highly centralized and liquid coin backed by a major player is good enough.
Just make a hidden $1 subscription and cancel it without reversing it, then deactivate the item.
You can say the same for whether or not you will net a subscriber next month or have cancellations. What I'm saying is that if your license is priced correctly, that revenue the consumer pays up front can go into a fund that exists to perpetually support this software indpendent of having to maintain an appeased subscriber base in perpetuity. It's this idea of having a growing pile of money that exist because of what already happened, versus having constant revenue that must continue to be depended upon indefinitely.
Ask HN: Does IndieHackers have a broken web architecture or is it just me?
Initially I thought I had a FireFox compatibility issue but I've been experiencing similar bizarre behavior in Chrome:

I click on a link, the URL changes in the address bar, but the page doesn't change. Sometimes it changes, occasionally it changes after a bit, often it doesn't change at all but does after I refresh.

On mobile, I open my browser (FF, iOS), try to visit the IH homepage, and get temporarily banned by CloudFlare for exceeding a rate limit.

WTF is going on here? Is it just me?
It depends on lens and perception.

Sweden in past and US today are gynocentric societies. They take "women have always been the primary victims of war" quite literally.
No enterprise can be good, if it leaves widows and orphans behind.
travel speeds and throughput aren't necessarily related. Recall that car spacing is usually instructed to be "2s". the throughput is 1 car/2s. thats regardless of speed. Speed dictates the length of the yellow light, often about 1s for every 10mph, but the actual throughput is the same regardless of speed.
“And just as with ethnology, which plays at extricating itself from its object to better secure itself in its pure form, demuseumification is nothing but another spiral in artificiality. Witness the cloister of Saint-Michel de Cuxa, which one will repatriate at great cost from the Cloisters in New York to reinstall it in "its original site." And everyone is supposed to applaud this restitution (as they did "the experimental campaign to take back the sidewalks" on the Champs Elysees!). Well, if the exportation of the cornices was in effect an arbitrary act, if the Cloisters in New York are an artificial mosaic of all cultures (following a logic of the capitalist centralization of value), their reimportation to the original site is even more artificial: it is a total simulacrum that links up with "reality" through a complete circumvolution.

The cloister should have stayed in New York in its simulated environment, which at least fooled no one. Repatriating it is nothing but a supplementary subterfuge, acting as if nothing had happened and indulging in retrospective hallucination.”

Baudrillard - Simulacra And Simulation
Blu-Ray may be a bigger leap in quality, but it's kind of DVD but better. DVD vs VHS gives repeatable high quality video and audio, no adjustment or cleaning, chapter seeking, mailability (which enabled netflix and others to offer a huge rent by mail catalog), durability in a reasonable size. Laserdisc had some or that, but the size was cumbersome and the capacity was too small.

Some DVDs are poorly mastered, and modern encodings are better than mpeg2 at the same bitrate, but 480p DVD should compare well to bandwidth limited 480p streaming.
Also, any efforts by the powerless to redress the balance are generally labeled terrorism.
We have modelled our company/product specifically on JetBrains. We're also bootstrapped, self-funded, etc.

We build a tool for Apache Kafka (https://kpow.io), it's not a SaaS product, it's a single docker container or JAR that runs in air-gapped environments, our users install it in their own network and it just runs. That's what we thought engineers wanted, and tbh it turns out we were right in plenty of cases.

Our licensing is an annual subscription however - but then again so is JetBrains (well at least for the Intellij product that I happily pay ~$150 a year for).

I think for us the recurring revenue is really important, we wouldn't be able to sell you a perpetual license as we have commercial costs that are ongoing and related to maintaining the quality of the product. Not only is it better for us commercially, but also we have only had one customer in the last three years request a perpetual license, and we we explained we don't offer that model they bought a subscription.

So I completely agree on the non-SaaS JetBrains model, and I love that you mentioned that company. We often get asked about Confluent in our area of expertise but quite honestly from day 1 in 2018 we've been aiming to be the JetBrains of distributed systems. We even followed their dark branding style.

Edit: Just to add one more bit of context now I think of it. Don't underestimate the power of the hive-mind.

We have spent four years building a boostrapped non-SaaS product. We spend all our time talking to customers, shipping features, squashing bugs - living the dream basically. That's a really rare path to follow this decade.

We've also had four years of often well-meaning people trying to intro us to low-information 'startup investors' or god-forbid another startup 'accelerator'. We stopped talking to all of them about two years ago, but for a while there we got told repeatedly to build a SaaS product.

And the single worst piece of advice I've ever received which nearly made me puke, when we were in year one of our product and already had a reasonable number of users / clusters:

"Just grab all their information and stick it in an S3 bucket, that information is what everyone wants! Number of clusters, users, version, etc - you can sell that!"

Some people just don't understand that you can sell a tool that does something valuable without making your customer base some side product that you sell on the open market.

It has been hard at times when we see startups raise tens of millions, but we're now in a position where we are miles out in front of the pack, have a rock-solid product, a great roadmap yet to go, and s stack of great customers who we respect. At no point would someone else's cash or terrible advice have left us in a better position - though we might have ended up with a SaaS product instead..
Well, the person who claims it's terrible is the author of the very thorough article we are discussing.

> You should probably avoid java.util.Random if you care about the quality of the randomness it produces.

That's pretty much the definition of "bad" ;) If you don't care about quality, I assume you could use a string of numbers without any randomness at all.

As for games, it depends. I'm sure one could make a guess it's bad for some kinds of non-betting games and simulations as well.
bc Rounding Errors (2014)
Cool!, but that doesn't include ABCD.

https://pbxbook.com/other/dtmftone.html does. I'll try a company I know takes at least 40 minutes usually :

Also, something that annoys me about VOIP is that they don't take into account the different tones in different regions. Here in the Netherlands we use 425Hz fo dial tone etc. It always feels very emulated because it's a different tone.
Several orders of magnitude over, yes.
Or just use cockroachdb on free teir.
I've been interviewing users of vector search and am cataloguing my findings in this repo:

https://github.com/esteininger/vector-search

feel free to watch for updates :)
Distance between A and B are subjective according to each voter.

If you are (hypothetically) a binary thinker and think A and B are far apart and absolutely prefer A and hate B. And if I am (hypothetically) a nuanced thinker and can see plusses and minuses to both, and after careful consideration I choose B. Then should your vote matter more than mine?
I'm very excited for Godot 4 beta.

I shipped games on Godot 3 and the idea of having Vulkan and better culling is really attractive.

When I tried the alpha fairly early on the editor was completely unusable on macOS.
While you _can_ tack all of those things on to your API, many people (myself included) prefer to separate those concerns. A dedicated API Gateway can prevent a lot of additional load from hitting the backend services. A gateway can also be a nice abstraction of the public interface from the underlying service(s).
Harumph.

> Torvalds also told me in our interview that another reason he wants to see Rust in the kernel is to encourage new developers to start working on the kernel. "Rust is one of those things that I think might bring in new faces," he said, and, "We're getting old and gray."

And, wow, what happened to Linus. Love it.
Hardware Trojan for Ring-Osc-Based TRNGs (2019)
Yes, it's certainly not impossible to display white backgrounds well on CRTs in general (consider upmarket late-'90s CRT monitors in particular, still overall decent displays by modern standards) but it wasn't to be taken for granted on early-'80s CRTs. White-background display conventions more or less came in with the Engelbart/PARC GUI and IIRC (I think Levy's Insanely Great or https://folklore.org discusses this?) Apple put a lot of effort into making the original Mac's (and I assume Lisa's) monochrome display pleasant to use in that manner.
James Acaster does a great job highlighting the absurdity of the British refusing to repatriate stuff taken from the empire.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x73PkUvArJY
Yes, but VHS resolution was not necessarily that great in practice, due to it's analog nature. And, of course, tapes are much larger and you have to rewind them. DVD is much more ergonomic, not even counting extra features, multiple languages, higher quality and more channels of sound, etc.
>> I fail to see how the housing issue in SF and the issue you mentioned in Orlando is related to capitalism.

Then I can only logically concede that you are either blind, or intentionally ignorant of the blindingly obvious correlation.

Whether it’s Disney and projects across the highway or something like skid row in a state with the largest collection of wealth in the country, it all boils down to the same ‘I’m comfortable and I don’t want to have to think about not being comfortable’ attitude that allows this country to have billionaires and do absolutely nothing to help these people.

Communism isn’t a perfect system, but fundamentally; it’s supposed to care about the individual in a way capitalism has shown it is fundamentally incapable of.

It seems we currently have no political system that seems to balance progress with the needs of the people - but this preposterous 1%-bullshit capitalist system is so destined to collapse that if it wasn’t for said 1% so desperately clinging onto it so they can maintain wealth and power, it would have long ago.

It’s only greed and selfishness that powers the current American political and economic system.

To say it’s ‘disturbing’ would be an extremely shameful understatement.
It uses images for the upvote/downvote arrows, the Y in the header, and the spacer gifs in the table layout (yes, HN uses table layouts)
While Figma is a great vector tool it doesn't hold a candle to Photoshop when it comes to image editing. There's a reason photographers use Photoshop for retouching photos.
Hah there is actually a good example of a horse riding an astronaut there, just a different kind of riding… https://nitter.net/Plinz/status/1529018578317348864#m
You can turn these off on iOS. All four types.
I guess hydro/geo is better than them firing up a coal fired power station to do the job. But all the "mining" nonsense just sucks up clean power than could be used in the real world which hopefully pushes out more polluting sources.

All to supposedly create artificial scarcity for .jpg files.

At least that illness is over now somewhat. Hopefully all the miners go bankrupt.
FUD. The author has done nothing to prove they are being “suppressed”. You can’t tweet the same thing on two different accounts and claim one is being nefariously suppressed because it has fewer impressions.

There are a billion more reasonable causes than implying some kind of shadow government/thought policing/etc.
Probably not. Despite the clarity and obviousness of the statutes, courts have been pretty unwilling to consider discrimination claims put forward by white/male plaintiffs.
I kinda feel that it would have had a much better chance if it started in the US in industry rather than UK from an academic angle.
Archive links:

https://archive.ph/axa4q

https://web.archive.org/web/20220915134116/https://www.nytim...
The ads keep HN alive. But because each one only needs to sell "one product" (the job they're hiring for) nobody hardly notices them.
Gamer sentiment is generally very anti micro transactions, all the crypto games I’ve seen so far are micro transactions front and centre on steroids
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> True random number generators (TRNGs) are essential components of cryptographic designs, which are used to generate private keys for encryption and authentication, and are used in masking countermeasures. In this work, we present a mechanism to design a stealthy parametric hardware Trojan for a ring oscillator based TRNG architecture proposed by Yang et al. at ISSCC 2014. Once the Trojan is triggered the malicious TRNG generates predictable non-random outputs. Such a Trojan does not require any additional logic (even a single gate) and is purely based on subtle manipulations on the sub-transistor level.
> Sport is competition. Rivalries ? I don't think so.

What do you mean?

I meant that Federer-Nadal, Federer-Djokovic, and Nadal-Djokovic were each classic, all-time great rivalries, matching any of the great rivalries in tennis history. I would say that only Evert-Navratilova is in the same category.

It certainly wasn't a free-for-all era of equality. The "Big 3" have won 80% of the grand slams since 2004. There was a period in 2001-2003 where 11 straight different men won a grand slam, but that's unusual.
You are right, not Switzerland but Germany.

https://www.manager-magazin.de/karriere/homeoffice-sturz-auf...
I suppose I'm overlooking something, since I cannot follow this line of reasoning.

When I buy a book, I usually don't know its contents beforehand (the exceptions are I had copied it somehow in my earlier years, and now I want to buy it to come clean, or it is a classic I just never bought yet).

Most of the time, I rely on a friends reference, or a review online, or maybe I just buy by chance. And in either of these cases, there is a less than 50% chance I perceive the book as good. Which, to me, is a gamble. So I suppose there is an edge I don't get?
If you want a device you can hack, don't play games on it. Within a few years, Pluton will give us airtight anticheat.
California Governor Signs Sweeping Children’s Online Safety Bill
You can't reasonably measure this by the kg. Pulling down a single 10000 kg satellite is fairly cheap; all you need to do is latch onto it and deorbit. This can be done with a single vehicle. Deorbiting 10k 1 kg fragments would be vastly more expensive. 1 million 10 gram fragments would be more expensive still.
I think that because it's exactly what I got on many of the videos I made. Midjourney just really likes a woman looking away.
What is there to deal with? No one cares about leaks, and at most you give out some cheap credit reporting nonsense. A data breach is hardly news anymore.
The same shoes I use for almost everything: flip flops. I do 5+ miles a day in them and have for years.

Nothing fancy, just whatever is cheap and catches my eye - I usually go through 2 pairs a year.
Gmail integration live on Pipedream
They stole it fair and square. If somebody is mad about it they should steal it back.
Even if the arbiter is pure and just the company will learn how to represent its side in the best light before the arbiter; it has many chances to learn.

The other side has one chance to learn.
The command line ought hybridize some, please. Having better self describing interfaces, machine to machine capabilities... humans are awesome enouhh to whip up super wild magic on the fly ("spellcasting on the fly") but these same tools are much weirder to use as you descend into scripting, as you start bringing "real" programming languages in (which have their own alternate realities: "standard libraries").

The command line should/ought bridge & integrate better. Making it more usable from these higher (more pre-baked/automated) levels is one side. And then reciprocally, how wonderful it would be to see execution flow expressed less in terms of stack traces & more in terms of networks of communicating processes. Create boundary layers, make the cli tools visible & known operations sequenced by (but still visible within) higher level systems.

Cli on and on!!
The status quo in gaming today is that people work thousands, or 10s of thousands of hours building, collecting, exploring, etc, and it's all owned by some emotionless gaming company that might just decide to delete all your stuff, or just disappear all together, without notice. Giving players control of the things they worked hard to get just seems like the natural progression as we assign more and more value to the lives we live in virtual spaces.

Vitalik famously was first inspired to build Ethereum when Blizzard nerfed a sword he had in World of Warcraft.
$20b is an offer nobody can refuse. Bird in hand and all that
PS2 was always backward compatible with PS1.

PS3 was originally PS2 backward compatible, then they removed that feature to shave a few bucks off the BOM.
So apparently it tracks pressing "CTRL+F", but it you select "find in page" from the menu in your browser that's fine. I guess there's no way for a website to track that anyway.
This seems sound for one off transactions, but I'd be interested in how to make this work with subscriptions, assuming you don't want to take the PCI burden of holding the raw card details - is it a case of asking all your customers to resubmit their details to the new payment processor?

I guess in the case of the orchestrator you linked they retain the card details and can then charge using any of n processors, though I'd be interested in thoughts from the overall thread where people are advising to be ready to change payment processor
Arguably, the money game is exactly what Figma was playing all along. Dylan's good at this game, as are the VCs he partnered with.

Figma's flagship product was private equity. The design tool was secondary.
This could be a simple regulation - put a burden of proof on the company, and a prescribe escalation process with comment from the customer at each stage.
Is that a phone in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
First time I've seen the term "snooker" used outside of the sport Snooker.
No, not really. Just those efforts that aim to terrorize.
Giant lasers! Pew pew pew.

cue Tears for Fears
(I assure you I'm not picking on you or your answer!)

I seem to remember the article which I unfortunately cannot conjure up right now demolished java.util.Calendar as well (again, as in "wrong", not as in "difficult to use"). I'm pretty confident of this because I never used Java 1.x at work, and when I read the article it was relevant to my day job.

Alas, memory fails me.
Visualizing how S3 deletes 1B objects with Athena and Rust