skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do something similar.

Even before the current EU Energy madness, the price of storing <=10TB in the cloud was less than the cost of a dual bay NAS with 2x10TB drives plus the power required to run it[1] for 5 years. Currently the power alone costs more than the 10TB cloud storage.

Considering that the cloud has way more resilience than anything i can reasonably cook up at home, the major threat in the cloud is loss of privacy and/or loss of access.

Loss of privacy can be somewhat countered using Cryptomator (https://cryptomator.org/) which end to end encrypts your data, and works as a regular drive backed by whatever cloud you chose. It's open source and free for desktop usage, and mobile versions costs a one time fee.

Loss of access can be countered by keeping data locally, so, 4-5 years ago i moved everything to the cloud, and instead sync data locally in realtime, from where i make a local versioned backup as well as a versioned remote backup to a different cloud than my primary cloud.

I do have a couple of bidirectional synchronizations going on, but the newly added "rclone bisync" (https://rclone.org/bisync/) works wonders there.

[1]: You can get around 10TB of cloud storage for €22/month.
The price of a synology DS-220 2-bay NAS is around €550 (amazon.de), and a 10TB WD Red is €588 (WD Store on Amazon.de), so €1726 for the hardware. A DS-220 uses 14.96W by itself (idle), and a WD Red 10TB uses 2.8W idle, so an idle power consumption of 20.56 W, so around 180 kWh/year, and just over 900 kWh for 5 years. Assuming a €0.5/kWh electricity price, which is currently in the lower end (prices here are above €1/kWh). Adding it all up, you get €1726 + €450 = €2176, which means an average cost per month of €36 for hardware and power (over 5 years).
So funny. Kudos to you.
1. No, it's not. I can open a coibase or kraken account from my home without going to a bank branch to present myself.

2. Yes there are high fees. I wouldn't mind paying them.

3. Convert the stablecoin through currency using the ATMs. But only convert the amount you need, the rest is safely stored in the stablecoin.
Java has made progress in reducing unnecessary incantations, and it's not more verbose than C++. On the other hand, Java has probably been the most successful language in history in maintaining large codebases over years (although I guess some would say that's not a good thing).
I don’t have experience with JWTs, but if you can encode data, why couldn’t you encode a “freshness” time stamp and just invalidate the token after an elapsed time. Does this compromise the encryption?
Honest question - no snark... How can a company claim back your bonuses? Bonuses are wages and I just don't see how anyone could take that back without a court order. Typically, the law has been very clear that businesses cannot mess with your pay. I would assume that applies to the $15/hr person and those with the $500k salary.
Saying that theobromine and caffeine are pesticidal isn't particularly informative. Most secondary plant metabolites are likely to be pesticides, since there's a tremendous benefit to discouraging small animals from eating your lignified cells. Ascorbic acid is also a pesticide and fungicide, can dissolve bones down to calcium carbonate, yet it is critical to human life.
Tried to use QT for a new product based on a STM32F769 MCU some time ago. I got laughed at and waved off when asking for the budget needed to buy/licence QT stuff. To be fair, they need a business model, but the target audience seems just to be automotive or anyone who's planning to roll out something with at least a million pieces in mind.
Saltie: A new app to help manage diabetes and diet
I don’t think quantum computers get you past the halting problem.
For those of us still using Java 8, ImmutableMap.of() (from Guava) is similar (and probably the inspiration for Map.of()), as long as you don't need your Map to be modified later.
Can you test again, we made an improvement and should be better. Thanks again
> I wonder what sort of hit to their userbase they'll experience when it finally happens for real. The internet is unbearable without ad blocking.

close to zero, as there are perfectly fine ad blockers that still work?

case in point: been using safari with an ad blocker for years now. no change in web browsing.
Schools in England warn of crisis of ‘heartbreaking’ rise in hungry children
My guess is the economics of news on the internet were unknown at the time, so people invested in it (willing to eat losses in short term) thinking ad supported news could take off and paid for quality journalism. Now no one is that naive and we have just clickbait factories.

Another possibility is due to success of newspapers, the craft of journalism was still known and practiced with skill, these days it's basically just fresh college grads without any on the job training cranking out stuff they read on social media and whatever a PR rep emails them that morning. But that's also related to the economics.
Ah, so you are arguing that it is feasible the US will keep paying all the interest payments on its debt? If so I misunderstood. I thought you were arguing that the US debt levels might drop at some point.

Fair enough. I don't think it will play out that way, but do admit it is still arguably possible.
No, it's a powder of a bunch of "superfood" greens (mine is "Green Vibrance". I mention this because I did a lot of research to find a reputable brand that isn't pure garbage).

Funny enough, I was actually experimenting with matcha+coffee before going no-coffee. It also greatly improved by mental abilities. This reinforced my thinking that it was the anxiety all along that was causing me to feel mentally cloudy.
As a comparison I looked up London and they had 81 deaths in 2019. 75 pedestrians and 6 cyclists killed. Still less than NYC. Paris had 16 pedestrian deaths in 2019. I think 58 in Rome in 2018.
I wrote a lot of Java in the 2000's and the early 2010's. The verbosity of the language was always my #1 complaint. The amount of stuff I had to type vs the productivity of those lines was always out of whack. Maybe it's better now?
What are some good things you have seen that are specific to remote companies to build up culture?
Some added context: Many may be reading this the first time and wondering, What gives with the NVIDIA drivers (Nouveau)?

To put it simply, NVIDIA screwed third-party drivers by requiring a ever-changing encrypted and signed blob, hidden deep within the proprietary driver package, to be sent to the GPU every time it boots. Otherwise, you can't change the clock speed of your NVIDIA GPU from the boot clock speed, which is almost unusably slow.

The message from that is screw NVIDIA - not that third party GPUs necessarily are that horrible to implement.
been using ad blocker on safari for years now. no issues.
Depends on what you want to do. At its most basic level, you can still build and host a site exactly like you could in the olden days, there are still plenty of traditional hosting companies you can upload your work too, and getting a domain for such a site is easier and cheaper than ever. Plus SSL certificates are cheaper and easier than before, since Let's Encrypt has driven down prices in that market by offering a free solution.

It's also easier from a CSS perspective too, since flexbox and grid have taken all the stress away from designing traditional 3 column layouts, and making them work on multiple device sizes. No more floating divs for you this time!

But there's a difference between what's possible and what's expected, and I think that's where the confusion lies. If you want to make a 'web app' in the style of Google Maps or Gmail or Airbnb or Netflix or whatever else, then yeah you're gonna need to go down the long, somewhat confusing road of JavaScript frameworks and NPM and what not. And there are user expectations that a popular site will probably have many of the complex features that such frameworks enable, as well as a 'fancier' visual design than the sites of the 90s and early 00s.

So the skill floor has stayed the same, but the ceiling has risen tenfold, and that's where the complexity can come in.
Atlassian Exceeds 99.9999% of Availability Using Sidecars, Fault-Tolerant Design
This whole linux on Apple M1/M2 thing is the best proof that Linux is always a very good fit fort next gen hardware/software/developers.

new hardware, arm based apple silicon here, is now challenging the monopoly of x86. after such a long waiting, we finally have a mature alternative platform to choose from - and it is performance is pretty good.

new language, rust here, is getting its way into the linux kernel. this new GPU driver is written in Rust!

the work is based on the GPU hardware analysis of Alyssa Rosenzweig, who is a very talented young lady who started when she was in high school I think. the author of the driver, Asahi Lina, also seem to be very young.

Just amazing!
My personal approach might be too simplistic for some, but this is what I did for my webpage, though I already had some HTML & CSS experience:

>No website generators, no frameworks, no nothing (not even JavaScript)

>Just design the site on the go through some trial and error using vim, CSS and HTML documentation always at hand

>A single .css file to style the entire website--I even threw in some cool animations, which took a while to get right, admittedly

>Publish it through GitHub Pages in under five minutes

>If I want to upload a new blog post, for instance, I just make a copy of an existing one and manually edit the content, then push it through git after I've edited the blog index accordingly

Reading terms like "static site generator", "content management system", "templates", "analytics" or "deployment" gives me an instant headache, especially since it's so easy to open your favorite text editor and design your own website by hand, so to speak. I've self-hosted eepsites, gemini capsules and many other sites this way and the process wasn't remotely as contrived as some approaches I've seen out there for publishing a personal blog
That is a really complex feature. XKCD 1425
static should be removed from Java. static is bad, not always but because it can be misused and because it makes debugging more difficult and most important of all, it makes testing impossible and PowerMock is to be avoided at all costs.
Have you forgotten Snowden's revelations? They spied like crazy on EU politicians. Germany is not even a 5 eyes country.

That's an example that they're both able and willing to manipulate German politics and keep Germany in the dark about it. They would probably have needed Sweden's and Denmark's cooperation, but again there is recent history they are very willing to give the US whatever covert assistance they ask for.
Show HN: I made a JavaScript fly swatter mini-game
Inspired by the minigame in Mario Paint for SNES. Made with JS + CSS.

Source: https://github.com/iamjohnmills/flyswatter
18 minutes from report to resolution! Amazing.
> then breaking them so my life is harder.

just use a different ad blocker or a different browser.
Do you recommend any songs or artists? I've never heard of Shoegaze music, but I might have a listen over the next week. Always nice to find new stuff
Make-A-Video: An AI system that generates videos from text
Interested to know more about your experience with uncompressed audio generated from pseudorandom numbers. Do you know what PRNG you were using? I would think the simplest common ones would indeed be terrible but it could be very interesting to study if something like the Mersenne Twister or better could be detected as "not truly random" in this way.
> Mostly the same here, except there's a specific problem around giving up caffeine - a clear reduction in motivation.

Haha, I definitely agree with that! Coffee is certainly a great way to get your brain in the mood to do work, any work at all.

One thing that really helps (really the base "pillar" which all health-optimization rests on) is making sure you get good sleep. I aim for 8-9 hours of being in bed per night. I've spent a lot of time working on getting good sleep.
You will almost always use one or two fingers to unlock your phone due to the fingerprint readers position and the police might be intelligent enough to ask you to put that exact finger on.
Hello, I’m the developer behind Saltie. I’m happy answer any questions.

Last December, I left the b2b saas company I co-founded to work on an app to help my wife and I manage our 6 year old’s T1D and food allergies. Before this, we were using paper logs to keep track of his diet and how much insulin we were giving him, however the high cognitive load and constant second-guessing was burning us out. Saltie has made it easier for us to meal plan and make diabetes-related decisions, and make those decisions with less second-guessing.

Bigger picture, I believe that by making it easier for people to enter high quality data, and by having a dataset of high quality glucose/insulin/exercise/nutritional records, that should allow for a high quality AI that can accurately predict what any particular meal will do to your glucose and the optimal way to bolus for it. There are a number of clinical studies aimed at improving our understanding of how blood glucose levels work in people with diabetes, but most say something along the lines of “more investigation is needed”. Beyond helping others in a similar boat, an important measure of success for Saltie would be its use in a clinical study.

I’m looking for beta testers to try it out, so if you know anybody with T1D - in particular, parents of kids with T1D - please let them know. Thank you!
Not one mention of wattle and daub in history. This is a clumsy mess of writing.
It’s weird to me that she’s using such a high-pitched voice, because there are many successful VTubers with lower-pitched voices.
Tablets existed before the iPad. I owned one in 2005. I also think Microsoft itself entering the hardware biz was an important point in the history of computing. Apple Watch also wasn’t the first wristwatch computer but it got a mention as well. Seems like a trend on the whole piece. Then there’s the G5, which the history notes was “ hailed as the first true 64-bit personal computer.” That toes the Apple marketing line at the time precisely, but there was plenty of 64-bit hardware available before the G5 came out. Windows XP 64 bit edition was released prior, while OSX hardly even supported 64bit computing when the G5 was released. It was pure marketing hype.
Iirc the FTC sat on them pretty damn hard.
> One of the biggest companies in Germany (Bosch) spends lots of money for research in Homeopathy: https://www.bosch.com/de/stories/robert-bosch-bildung-und-ge...

This page describes Robert Bosch's (1861 - 1942) support for homoepathy, not the company's.
I haven't heard of this genre before. Are there a few tracks or artists you could recommend I start with?
Make-A-Video: AI system that generates videos from text
The Signs of my Burnout [image]
That's great, but for the past 15 years or so, the portion of people using the Java platform through other languages has neither increased nor decreased (around 10%). There's a segment of programmers who prefer more feature-rich languages than Java, or perhaps different programming paradigms, and we're happy to have the platform accommodate them.
Just to add to conversation, IMO the smol web is mostly in need of great content, and discoverability.

When I say great content, I mean something that can federate a large audience and serve as a reference and inspiration for others.

Today most of content creator are producing for the rich web, so most of the interaction happen there, and as a result most of the new content is formatted for the rich web.

From the top of my head, Phrack Magazine [1] is the only examples I can think of text based good content. It is mostly aimed at a very specific audience, but I am sure they are other examples out there.

Which basically lead to the other question of discoverability...

1: http://phrack.org/
> good to support the place

British people's taxes support the place. Giving them extra money is a bit like throwing some extra cash to help support the police whenever they stop you...
State, while necessary, is the enemy of sanity. It should be kept to a minimum and be well marked as dangerous.

The change I would most like to see in a new Java syntax would be to make final and immutable the default. Force the programmer to make clear where state lives.
The producer would have to agree that the stereo to "magic AI" upmix is what he wanted? Get it? A human would have to agree that the upmix makes or does not make sense to him or her because ultimately it is his or her work, not AI's work. This is easier with chamber music or orchestra because it is just natural instruments at some defined position but electronic music is just a big mess positionally with no rules that AI can tackle sanely...

The analogy here would be if we started converting 2d paintings to 3d scenes and then we would claim that it is what the artists imagined. It is not!
I've argued that digital media should only be allowed to be called a "sale/purchase" if they have the license to continue to provide it in perpetuity.

That doesn't mean they have the license to continue to "sell" it in perpetuity, just that people who "purchased" it can continue to access it. Conversely, I shouldn't be able to license you the right to "sell" a digital good and then take away your ability to provide it to your customers who already purchased it.

If, I as the IP holder, don't want to provide that right, I shouldn't be able to license this "right of sale" and my "middle-man" licensee shouldn't be able to market it as a "purchase/sale".
LMAO, this stunt is a lot less psychologically damaging than my first job I worked as a teenager for $6.15/hr. At that job people lobbed personal insults at my daily, I was treated like human garbage, I was touched inappropriately many times, and I was always getting a raise "next week."

Get over yourself.
Nice, i should try that out. Is half-caff decaf, or is it a third class?
Markdown was love at first sight. I've been using it a lot since then, also for my blog: https://github.com/labarilem/labarilem.github.io
> There wasn't any evidence of any bank actually doing anything wrong though.

There wouldn't be. That's the entire point of using chat.

> They could still just talk face to face if they wanted to coordinate crimes, the SEC isn't making every bank employee wear a microphone yet.

Of course they could. We can at least keep corruption moderately inconvenient.
Not the OP, but I also find it weird - content is broken based on text length, not logical separation and scrolling down at some point is freezing the page with a prompt to login or create an account (I don't have one and I don't want one). The freeze for login is the more annoying one.
The landing page should show me what i can expect, not to sign up to discover the product
Thank you for this. I've always been quite bearish on the idea of the Metaverse - it seems quite silly that one would think that it's somehow "the future of the internet." It's good to see some real-world use cases presented.

That being said, I still don't think it's going to "change the world" in the way that The Artist Formerly Known As Facebook seems to be putting all their chips in on. It will definitely have its uses, but as for being something that everyone will want to get in on, I'm still not sold.
years of no ads on Safari. are we inventing problems now?
CDI and modern Java are both great, extraordinarily productive, run an order of magnitude faster than dynamic languages like python JavaScript and ruby, and are succinct compared to the mass of footprint of dynamic languages on a system. Your program runs at near c++ speed and does not need a gaggle of various system chances to run.

Jvm developers also take backwards compatibility seriously which is a concern for companies that will be around for more than a year or two.

While I reach for Python for one-off and random small stuff, the lack of types, it’s lack of performance, and the significant spacing make it challenging to share code and maintain.

Java certainly has its place and the changes in this article certainly expand its footprint.
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Attempting to doxx vtubers is in worst taste, just fyi.
For productivity I've also tried binaural sound, and found it can help me focus (or at least make me imagine it helps me focus, which is close enough for me).

There's a great website that allows you to customize quite a few parameters and also adjust the 'wave' frequency for different scenarios (from 'sleep' to 'focus'), it's interesting to play around with if you have headphones: https://brainaural.com/
What we need is a highly technical VTuber that's good with audio to work on this problem for us!
lol. They just had a multiple week outage this year. No, they cannot claim this level of availability until around May 2023. This is marketing nonsense trying to cover their massive April mistake.
That's a great point I hadn't considered. I guess they are redirecting all pages to this announcement and, by using a 503, the search results will not be impacted.
I doubt it. Like noise, it might reduce sensitivity to stimuli, though, which can reduce distraction and thus make it easier to focus your attention as a side effect.
NASAMS remains deployed in the US Capitol region, in plain view.

If you’ve landed in Washington, DC you’ve been painted by a NASAMS surveillance radar. There are also a few smaller point air defense installations.

More info here - https://jalopnik.com/americas-capitol-is-guarded-by-norwegia...
var and static must die.
From TFA: “ There isn’t likely to be any danger in listening to BROWN NOISE for, say, eight hours at a time, Dr. Berlau said, unless someone plays the sound at unsafe volumes (listening to noise above 70 decibels over a long period of time can damage your hearing).”
More non-IT workers say they're having to do IT tasks at work now
Exactly! It’s a big turn off
hard agree
The banks/markets are in failing mode since 2012, with constant bailing out, quantitative easing. In USA, UE, UK... Causing banks addiction, and inflation

2020 was record money printing, causing inflation, so Liz Truss set a plan to reform quantitative easing to try reduce inflation, and the markets reacted bad

The age old question, are banks to big to fail? What will happen to saving, mortgages, pensions etc... if you start restricting bailouts? Maybe some will just take their money to EU where they still have a cushion, in the always win casino

But no doubt reform is needed
only SMIs are passed by value (because they are actually encoded in the reference data type)

It might be a bit outdated but here's more https://github.com/thlorenz/v8-perf

Also the https://v8.dev/ blog is awesome.
Currently building a self custodial and distributed cloud storage solution using blockchain tech (don't hate me). There is no doubt, FHE is what we need to get to for post-quantum but with the current tech we find ourselves sacrificing speed and a good user experience if we were to implement anything lattice-based. For now we're rocking with an integrated encryption scheme based on AES and the elliptic curve. Fingers crossed we can have some breakthroughs in the next few years with FHE, but in the current state of FHE, it cant be used commercially yet in our opinion.

If any encryption nerds have suggestions for us ⬇

https://docs.jackaldao.com/docs/protocol/encryption

https://jackaldao.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/JACKAL-PROT...
Clojure is a wonderful language, but not so wonderful that I can tolerate its slow startup and compile times. I think lots of developers think the same way. Imo any language nit facilitating fast startup and compile is stillborn. Imo the same goes for any language requiring you to setup a "project" or something to get started.