skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Us -> Europe gas supply is LNG via boat. It can take up to a month to deliver something like that from the US to the shores of the UK/France/etc. Then distribution needs to occur.

Yes, the US can profit HUGELY off this but it seems stupid to hurt their ally considerably for the sake of stopping bargaining (which may avoid a world war). Given that the US can't supply immediate relief the profit over winter is severely limited and Europeans will suffer even with the shipments. I just can't see the US doing such a thing because it would certainly mean being driven out of NATO, and potentially Europe going to war with the US.
It seems like basically the same problem, really. The "some" is a small chunk of the population maybe, but it is the chunk that is interested in this sort of stuff and would normally use this as a stepping stone on the path to designing the next thing.

The hope is that our abstractions are not too good, and the clever kids manage to bash them into something that does what their imagination wants.
CrashLoopBackOff Error: Common Causes and Resolution
No doubt that's what will happen, although it's clear to me that less centralization, not more, would be better for countering this sort of stuff.
CrashLoopBackOff appears when a pod is constantly crashing in an endless loop in Kubernetes. Understand and learn how to quickly fix the CrashLoopBackOff error (diagnosis and resolution).

Read more: https://komodor.com/learn/how-to-fix-crashloopbackoff-kubern...
Sorry but I call bullshit on your story. Just look at this chart: https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/g...

For power generation, lignite and coal stayed about the same, gas increased from 20 to 30, oil stayed about the same. The only thing that went significantly down was nuclear going from 22.4 to 8.1.

It all depends on where your priorities are, and obviously getting rid of nuclear was more important than burning Russian stuff into the atmosphere.
Cameras and Lenses: interactive article explaining how cameras and lenses work
Although it might sound like I'm shilling, HN's 'Who Is Hiring' and 'Who Wants to Hired' has to rate amongst the top 10. The reason? Absolutely zero commercial reasons for anyone to post to it in terms of agency commission and whoever advertises there stakes their company’s reputation when doing so.
Perhaps he didn’t want an enemy who could give him bad PR.
> The whole idea that since they have economies of scale, they must pass those savings on to you is a misunderstanding of how companies work.

Your parent comment wasn't saying that AWS is necessarily cheaper than running hardware yourself. It was saying that AWS is not necessarily not cheaper.
They don't mention at all what services they were using (other than slight mention of S3) which makes it very hard to respond to this. If you are running everything on EC2 then you are going to have a bad time (especially if you aren't using reserved instances).

AWS (IMHO) shines with the various services they provide (S3, Lambda, CloudFront, API Gateway, SQS< SES, to name a few). AWS is a game of trying to reduce your bill and often that means using AWS-specific services. If you want to stay completely "cloud agnostic" you are going to paying more than buying into a "cloud", in that scenario then you absolutely should be looking at dedicated servers. AWS is great because you can bring existing software and just run it in EC2 (or their container stuff if your software is containerized) but the AWS magic comes from using their managed services (also spinning up/down EC2 instances as needed, but if you are running them 24/7 then consider alternatives or at least pay for reserved).
Hey, that's quite an impressive piece of autobiography, but some people actually like interpreting great writers and make a life out of it.
Nobody ever checked my id when starting on a new team.

And I never use my webcam so on remote teams the only think they know is the name I give them and my voice.
This is the second copy/paste of your single-sample, and yes, the whole of the data is in this case one sample. What are your error bars around n=2?
>"dedicated servers don't have the flexibility of an EC2 instance and the integration into other services."

I understand that there are many cases when all of that you mention is needed but for the vast majority of normal businesses having main and standby servers on Hetzner / OVH with on premises backup would cover all their needs like for ever with stellar performance. All at the fraction of the cost. Many business owners just do not know it as they're not technical and their tech stuff for some inexplicable reasons are all for doing "cool" cloud architectures at owner's expense. And of course that magical "cloud" word sells itself. So many times when I come to do something a new client I hear the owner say proudly - we are on a cloud. It takes some careful efforts to explain to them that they're just wasting money while not upsetting them in a first place.
Not to mention having your own datacenter, which is even cheaper (unless you do something stupid).

EDIT: to the naysayers: I worked in various companies (from tiny to huge) maintaining their own DCs and had access to financial data. And I was involved in the setting up new DCs.
But can we trust this post?

How can we be sure that Ken (working for Google) didn't infect the toolchain used for Chrome to propagate that legend?
Precisely because it feeds the destructive attitude that the "get laid" impulse is a sort of mechanical need that can be cleanly isolated from the "find a long-term partner" impulse. Sex work for someone who wants to get laid is like cigarettes for someone who wants to lose weight - it'll work (nicotine is a reasonably strong appetite suppressant), but at what cost?

Imagine you met someone who says "yeah, I used to really struggle on Tinder, so now I've uninstalled the apps and just hire a prostitute every Saturday". Does he seem like a healthy guy whose needs are being met?
Ask HN: I like studying the concept of abstractions
I've just finished reading SICP and the content within the first chapters of abstraction and how to write general programs was something I really liked thinking about.

I bought "sequel" to SICP, Software Design for flexibility, but the amount of scheme needed will take me a while to be confortable with.

What else do you guys recommend me to study? Books, courses, blog posts. Anything goes :D
India's Semiconductor Failure [video]
You might argue that getting this molding "for free" as it were, is exactly the reason we don't need to study them.
Where "it's just work" often breaks down is when you get to the question "if someone can take a sex work job but chooses not do, can they get unemployment".
> The only real option Apple would have...

TSMC has a market cap of $356B and maybe $30B in cash. Apple has a market cap of $3.25T and over $200B in cash. Surely you are overlooking a possible option here, which is Apple acquiring TSMC. I don't see it as likely, but it is an option.
I tend to do rm **/.DS_Store . I know it’s slow when there are lots of files, but it is still quicker than opening a man page or Stack Overflow to figure out what the hell the syntax is to do it with find.
I'm not convinced of this as a universal rule, rather than the results of specific details of our economy. A core assumption of capitalism is that capital is distributed. But our economy is highly centralized by design.

Specifically the government creates a bottomless supply of money to loan out, but only to highly-legible highly-centralized entities. As such, big business has an endless source of cheap capital to draw from to invest, whether it's devouring other businesses or building out thousands of cookie cutter stores. Small businesses can only access the money trough by going through a consumer bank with its higher fees and scrutiny of business plans. Individuals can only access the money trough by taking out collateralized loans on legible assets. For the individual market we can readily observe the resulting destructive individual-disempowering dynamic for the markets that have been financialized - chiefly housing and education.

A significant raising of interest rates would reign in this effect. Unfortunately it would take a long and protracted timeline for actual reform, as our economy has come to rely on the bottomless source of easy capital. But it's still worth keeping in mind the warped foundation our specific economy is built on, rather than characterizing the current moribund state as an inevitable end result of every market economy.
> you can basically instantly tell if a photo is a stock photo, making anyone using them look like a complete fool

I find this to be a highly interesting take...

The whole point of stock photography is that you can buy images to use various projects, quite often one-off or short-term ones. Because for the project, taking your own photos or paying a photographer to take them would be too expensive or time-consuming relative to the estimated value and return of the project.

I feel like once someone has made the decision to buy or use a stock photo, they have already decided where they want to stand on the scale of authenticity and originality. Deliberately seeking out "stock photos that don't look like stock photos" just sounds too much like trying to be something you're not.
Borrowing rates will have to rise, as they have done already in the US, as everyone has been fully aware for sometime.

My confidence in financial institutions ability to see what is clearly in front of them has been severely tested over the past few months.
> Sync propogates accidental deletion

This is true, but it's so worth noting some sync products (e.g. Seafile) can keep a history of changes, allowing you to restore deleted files.

Sync is not backup though, as you allude to.
Stupid question: why isn't there a credit card company that simply does not support chargebacks? Or only take debit? Or something?
My guess would be AMD; they'd love to have server processors even farther ahead than what Intel is able to fab themselves and the large margins for server processors are able to absorb TSMC's asking price.
> I'm also a bit blown away that anyone is surprised that AWS is expensive. Sure you can express a lot of the costs in small numbers per hour or $0.08 per gigabyte of bandwidth, but those things all add up quickly at scale.

Could it be magical thinking based on marketing hype and autoscaling fantasies?
If you squish the browser window enough it'll go into a mobile view where she jumps to the bottom
Was? It's still going. Gravity has finally stopped looking the other way though, especially to YouTubers that play on them.
It’s okay. She’s got a copy of “The C Programming Language”. We’re in the clear!
1-2 developer hours?!

Anyone looking to hire an ML guy for 250-500$/hr flat fee, hourly rate, no taxes, no healthcare, cancel any time... get in touch!

For that money I'll gladly bark like a dog, walk on all fours and fetch your slippers.
Its not just creative commons images. In case you havent noticed, those billions of search results have max out between page 20 and 40 for a while now.
That is fundamentally the same for Posits. If you want constant quantization you should use fixed point, or you could switch your inputs to be +1/-1 for symmetry in this specific case, but I doubt that this is much of a practical issue.
Miro is a collaborative online whiteboard tool. ClickUp is entering that market with their new product, ClickUp Whiteboards.

Quoted from the second tweet in the Twitter thread:
https://twitter.com/glance_fyi/status/1575132450602323968
Many religious conservatives aren't worried about the safety of sex workers. They believe the act is sin and shouldn't be tolerated in any context. Nevermind the fact that many religious historical figures were themselves prostitutes.

Many conservatives, regardless of religion, believe sex work damages the traditional nuclear family structure. This is similar to the Roman decadence argument.

Many liberals believe sex work is degrading to women. Nevermind the fact that legalizing it would empower workers, make it safer, and decrease trafficking. Nevermind the entire LGBT spectrum.

There is entrenched opposition from all points on the spectrum. It's maddening that "vices" like sex and drugs that don't hurt anyone are so denigrated.

The time is overdue for moving past these taboos.
That was also confusing to me as Cassandra is a NoSQL DB last I checked. I found this [0] online that indicates with some extra software you can talk to it like S3 but yeah...

[0] https://dzone.com/articles/s3-compatible-storage-with-cassan...
Their explanation of the background subtraction methodology seems pretty clear to me, and I don't see how their statement in the first paper could be construed as misleading nonetheless deceitful.

They are able to show how they went from the raw data to the published. Unless you are claiming that the raw data itself is completely made up (in which case why not just make up data that gives the result they want with a different background subtraction method?) then I don't see how the validity of the raw data is in question.
I've been somewhat thoroughly testing Google text/image search by coincidence. I'll share my experience about some oddities here.

I do somewhat unusual things, like search for parts of a joke or a string of semi-randomly generated words for part of an AI type thing I'm working on creating to see if these are either unique or original and how they may appear in the context of the internet. Often times, if anything, there's something like a banned twitter (bot?) account only available through a cached backup that said it once in some bizarre context.

I've noticed it significantly can change search results depending on if you're logged in, or the country you're searching from (via a VPN). Different countries have different levels of success for different types of searches, but I don't have any sort of solid guide to map this out in any shareable way.

Boot up a virtual machine on a VPN if you're curious to take a look yourself. You may need to manipulate it so you don't bring in any suspicious cookies or other identifying information to show your actual country. Some VPN IPs are well known, and your results may be manipulated anyway.

Some results literally will never show up if you're searching from the USA. If you switch to Hungary for example, suddenly things could start appearing. Even if the matching result is a Chinese site that should have relatively equal relevance to both countries.

Sometimes I use Bing. It's not exactly better, but it's also not really worse. It's just different. In my non-scientific opinion after seeing so many of these differences, it's because it feels like they just forgot to enable (or haven't yet gotten to enabling) the kind of filtering Google has.

If something is no longer showing up in Google search, using Bing feels like going back 1 relative year in time before Google nerfed your active search. Sometimes I suspect Google is breaking down searches to parsable keywords and then sometimes adding those to a blacklist.

DuckDuckGo seems to sometimes filter things too, and some of the other commonly recommended alternative search engines. I don't know if they're actively doing this, or if it's a byproduct of forking off some other engine. I don't have much information here because I've largely given up bothering with these.

There's some other large engines not widely discussed in the US I am currently looking at as well. I don't have enough experience to form a solid opinion yet, and I have suspicion of their privacy so I don't want to be loosely associated with recommending it until I know more.

Miscellaneous other thoughts around this topic:

- Google has been heavily pushing some results more than others obviously. Pinterest and Quora are always at the top of searches now. I think this is pretty common knowledge.

- Chrome has a right click -> Search with Google Lens button now. Are they working on AI object detection of images more so than a visual match now? Could this factor into image matches?

- TinEye - When looking into this question myself, a lot of people recommend TinEye. I've literally never had TinEye actually match a picture by the way. Am I using it wrong?
Purchasing bonds (increasing demand demand) makes bond yield lower. Lower the yield - less government has to pay for debt servcie[1].

[1]: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/debtservice.asp
When I was shopping for a replacement refrigerator, I found that there were very few models available without an ice-maker. The store carried about 25 models of double-door fridges, but only one was without ice & water dispensers.
The accessible record of political bleating is compiled by partisans and selectively weaponized against the "other side". We all lose, because neither political party or their media arms have any incentive to hold their own side accountable.

Partisan capture of media is a disaster. Once CNN/WaPo/NYT followed the Fox News model of catering to partisans and ideologues, things got worse. Fox News was a short term benefit to GOP, long term disaster (turned them into whacko echo chamber). Increasingly, we see this for Dems not realizing that NPR reporters aren't great proxies for working class voters (shocker).
My first PC was a 286 with a SVGA.
Google Image Search is deteriorating in certain areas for years. Namely:

* Reverse Image Search (sometimes no matches although image is for sure out there). I wonder if Reverse Image search sometimes broken because of copyright?

* NSFW images (I'm really old enough and I don't need to be protected by Google or anyone else, I think it's a kind of censorship)

* And now also Creative Commons as pointed out by Op

The best alternative (tested them all) is in my opinion

https://yandex.com/images/

Chrome extension for reverse image search supporting Yandex

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fast-image-researc...

Android app supporting Yandex for Reverse Image Search

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thinkfree....

P.S.: I know Yandex is based in Russia, I only use it for specific image searches and I'm happy we have a good alternative based outside of USA... I wished there were more in the World.
Got to love Geoblocking, especially this one.

what would be accomplished by geoblocking a states's tourism site?

Isn't the core point of state sites like this to attract tourists? Does geoblocking them help with this goal?

Some years ago Arizona paid to put very large advertisements in downtown Toronto (Canada) to attract cold candians in the winter... things like that may work, geoblocking certainly wont.
>> One of the biggest issues we face in the industry is the lack of reusability in software

> The biggest problems we face are that every developer is coached into believing everything they make needs to be unicorn scale and quality

I kind of disagree with both of these statements. Reusability/DRY/etc. is just a useful technique or pattern. If you can do it, cool. If it's not worth it, factoring in complexity and cost, carry on.

Building something stable, reliable, and dependable, which is what I take "unicorn scale" to mean, is not necessary, it is simply good engineering. If you're thinking this is necessary for every project, you're not necessarily a bad developer, just a specialist, and the only real problem is if you don't realize that.

Software is a blend of engineering, art, and craft. Knowing what mix the current problem calls for is really the core pillar of being an effective developer. Too much engineering in your prototype and you've undermined it's flexibility. Too much craft in your production service and you've created a maintenance nightmare. Not enough art in your API and nobody wants to use it.
The most troubling thing, that is somewhat observable in today's threads, is that ostracizing sex work is almost entirely normalized. People favor legal structures analogous to Don't Ask Don't Tell. This tees up a system of cascading effects:

- Sex workers must now navigate a very fluid monetary system. Sex workers must be paid in cash, Bitcoin, etc. Then they have to somehow represent this money to the federal government to pay their taxes.

- Everyone around sex workers are considered criminals. Unknowingly rent a property to a sex worker? You're a criminal. Date a sex worker? Suspected to be a criminal. Lend money to a sex worker? Criminal. Use sex work services? Definitely a criminal.

This system shoves sex workers into an intentional class system that prohibits them from owning property, prohibits their use of public services, prohibits their utilization of our monetary system. All of these things, when used, don't just benefit the sex workers - they benefit you.

One of the uncomfortable conversations that many people don't want to have is that sex work is heavily used by society and yet neglected constantly, thereby making it dangerous for both sex workers and the users, even making it more dangerous at times.
> although you should NOT! use a UUID, only the format or better something else

Why? Even the document you linked recommends using them...
> Enough of the "smaller" players will eventually want and pay for it.

At the right price, everybody wants it, but TSMC wants a high price now, to recoup their investment on the new process. If they drop their price now, that will take a long time, and may even be never, as, over time, competition will drive down margins.

Apple may be fairly unique in having a “right price” that is a lot higher than that of other players while they also are willing to order hundreds of millions units.
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This is very much like this in Australia. I had friends warning me against setting up my own pendant light because of insurance and other blabla and was denied to buy some electrical cables at the local hardware shop as I wasn't certified even though I hold a bachelor in electronics .... Compared that to France where I spent time at uni building my own guitar amplifier for my bachelor thesis, manipulating 300V-500V and blowing a couple valve along the process, ha fun time
By which factor greater than 1 is Lexington superior to Louisville? I’d say 5x but I’m curious to get a Louisville resident’s opinion.
That's easy: try it with Firefox.
In early modern venice, the state operated and promoted a special place for prostitutes to work (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponte_delle_Tette - "Titty Bridge") because they were afraid that men not getting enough sex would turn them gay!

The history of sex work is fascinating and wildly diverse.
Guaranteed that if they're interacting with a bank or card network, there's KYC involved (in the US and most western countries). So that defeats the whole "fully anonymous" bit.

I still don't understand the "anon" value prop of crypto. We've had anonymous payments for goods (like groceries) for a long time - cash.