skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was just hoping that OP could clarify what didn't seem like parody to them. ;)
I thought this was done?
The population is also larger than it was 50 years ago
Nice strawman. I never said you can't operate more efficiently.

Every service on AWS charges egress fees that's my comment. There are other cloud operators that do not. I can safely run some static compute / storage / network at a fixed cost, you can't do this on AWS.

If too many people come to my website it won't wipe out my credit card. The site might go offline but I'd rather take that than a huge bill.
It doesn't mention anything about what a write unit is, except to say you can reduce write units by batching inserts (that part I guessed already.)

There's no way to think about what an actual write unit means. You could measure the costs on a sample workload, but that's far from ideal. Some transparency here would be nice.

I understand the answer is complicated, based on hairy implementation details, and subject to change. Give me the complexity and let me interpret it according to my needs.
I disagree: instead humans should drop base-10 entirely everywhere and use base-2 or base-16 instead.
A collage of prior works is protected as a transformative work, regardless of if you’re able to recognize the seams between the pieces. Even use of trademarks is not protected in works of art if there is no clearly defined trademark violation; for example, putting fries in a box that looks identical to McDonald fries box and offering them for sell would not be legally justifiable by just saying it is art.

Ethically speaking, for the second time, you ignored that within art world, or real world for that matter, making derivative works is completely ethical if done within any related legal constraints; as such, to me, you’re not making a good faith effort, which is actually unethical if intentionally done, so I will not be replying any further.
That’s not true. There are plenty of studies (see reply on, for instance, childhood ADHD) showing the benefits of homeopathy as a placebo. The whole concept of homeopathy has always been a mental effect with increased safety over allopathic medicine—and as such, homeopathy remains valuable for home treatments.

Better and safer than vitamins and most allopathic medicines precisely because they don’t have real effects. People aren’t machines and treatments don’t need to be rational to be helpful.
The regulation around adopting GSM as a standard for mobile networks was very positive for Europe. It can be good at times.
I never advocated to consider everything a test of courage. I only said it's certain that confronting evil requires it.

As I see it, the "roll over" contingency are emotionally weak, demanding to be coddled by Ukraine sacrificing itself via a land swap, as if this would pacify Putin.

If you want to roll over for tyranny, it's your choice. But it's uncivilized to insist other people do so, so that you can avoid even contemplating hypothetical nuclear war. Suggesting people vote on their own genocide is insanity.

I can only imagine Musk and the "roll over to Russia" contingency are deeply ignorant of Russia's written intent to commit genocide --> that Ukraine does not exist, Ukrainian people and language do not exist - anyone asserting they do, and want independence from Russia, are Nazis and must be murdered. Or maybe worse, they are aware of it and just don't give damn. I'm not sure who having this discussion is unaware that Ukraine already had the election he proposed, but it's pretty damn ignorant to wade into the discussion not directly addressing the election, as if it doesn't matter. And not addressing the Budapest Memorandum, as if it doesn't matter.

https://human-rights.cmc.edu/2022/04/14/russias-genocide-han...

https://twitter.com/carlbildt/status/1576472432445095938
I have, for more than two years, and my remote backup has been an encrypted ZFS for a year and a half. [1]

The scripts in that post are a little outdated, so if you would like to see updated ones, contact me [2].

The end result is a setup that:

* Has parallel upload to saturate my slow upload connection.

* Allows resume with `make -j<cores>`

* Allows me to backup things that are only on my server, such as my Gitea instance [3], to my desktop, thus having my server and desktop serve as backups to each other.

* Allows me to delete snapshots older than a certain number of snapshots (set to 60).

* Has automatic loading and unloading of encryption keys, to reduce the exposure time. (However, I wish raw sends on encrypted datasets worked. But it is nice that I can load the keys and download individual files instead, which I've already had to do.)

Perhaps I should add an update post to [1]. If there's enough interest, I will.

Edit: I should make clear that my ZFS is only my home directory. I do not use it as a root or boot filesystem because it runs off of a mirror of hard drives, and my root/boot drive is an SSD and can be destroyed without pain because all of my configs are in a repo in my home directory. Thus, it would be trivial to rebuild my system.

[1]: https://gavinhoward.com/2021/02/adventures-in-backing-up-dat...

[2]: https://gavinhoward.com/contact/

[3]: https://git.yzena.com/
This is out of context and has nothing to do with what they said. The comment is about how companies were already region locking content using technical means on DVDs, not anything to do with government involvement.
This isn't such a sin for a young project like this - Making code configurable adds overhead and it's often right to avoid 'over-configuration' along with 'over-abstraction' and other 'over-optimization efforts'. What is important is to isolate functions for orthogonality which will allow a project to be refactored according to priority needs further down the line.
Gordon Peterson, the chief architect of it, told me that he had a standing bet with his QA engineers to buy them a steak dinner if they found a bug. He didn't need to buy very many.
There wasn't a mandate - the EU asked the manufactures to adopt a standard "or else we'll look at regulating it", and that worked great, everyone adopted microUSB and then switched to USB-C just fine. Except Apple. And since Apple continually refused to get in line, we're now getting that "or else". Apple is who got the whole industry in this situation.
Highly recommend reading the brief. It's actually pretty hilarious.
It's pretty believable to me that _some_ Java deserialization library from the early oughts totally does this as a default behavior.
If you arena allocate (which would probably be typical in games), then GC isn't as much a problem.

Most MMOs aren't a graphics problem (usually not pushing the edge) or performance problem (high FPS for twitch isn't as big a thing), they are a database problem.
When Texas Cowboys Fought Private Property
Companies are now disincentived to innovate because there is no guarantee money spent developing a new standard will result in something allowed to be sold.

No one can predict new technology. Ideally the law should have an end date or require regular renewal.
Targeting DNS providers is only worth it because of the growing power of resolvers like Quad9 and 1.1.1.1. Otherwise they would have to go back to getting orders against every ISP in a jurisdiction, which should be near-impossible in a free country but admittedly European countries have disappointed on this issue. Web browser vendors and Cloudflare decided for some reason that everyone needs to use DoH, and while I'm still waiting for news of an actual attack happening to someone that DoH would have foiled, Hollywood isn't waiting to use this increasing centralization for their attacks on web users.
> Why would you index into a "character array"?

Obviously, because you need to examine characters. Here are a couple examples:

* You're implementing any software that deals with rfc6531 compliant email. You'll need to parse strings as unicode to understand where to route mail, for example to understand 你好@example.com

* You're implementing a database, or any software with a search function which indexes unicode fields. You'll have to understand the logical character structure of the data, or your searches won't match properly.

> Also, what is a "character" to you?

Characters are defined by the unicode specification. In UTF8 they can be represented by multi-byte sequences. Using the example of 你好@example.com, the @ is the seventh byte position, but the third character position. You cannot implement software that handles internationalized emails without parsing and understanding strings like this.
You definitely can still get suspended, no matter where you are or how you’re hosting, depending on how edgy you are and how much attention it gets.
Sure, you can now carry 1 less cable. That's a win, but it's not some monumental change people try to make it out to be. When I travel I will still carry multiple cables since I need to usually charge more than one device at a time. But now they can be the same cable.
My company doesn't expect ICs (or even most managers) to travel for cross-site events. I doubt they want to pay for travel.
This sort of thing does have a chilling effect. I've had issues with Sony and google. With a physical store? I'd have simply done a chargeback. With my them? I'm basically guaranteed to be banned from their services. That sort of thing doesn't happen in physical stores. One doesn't get barred from walmart if you have a beef at the return desk.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33080933
I have a task:

URLs to 10M images.

I need to create a thumbnail for each of them.

I.e. I need to download each image, resize and save in the webp format to the S3.

Right now I am doing this locally and it takes forever, as my images are in high resolution their total size is a few Tb.

Is there a tutorial that will describe how to do it? I was thinking about using AWS Lambda + SQS, but if DStack is an easier solution, I would be happy to check it out.
None of the links concludes that interactions with groups above the size of the dunbar number are detremental. None of this says that large gatherings are "unnatural" and certainly does not provide arguments why we should not allow gatherings or interactions beyond a certain point of people involved. It states that there is a certain number we can actively and comfortably manage, but nothing about the quite wide reaching things you postulated.
For years I paid for “unlimited” LAMP shared hosting from one of the many providers for about $150 a year. This was great for hosting personal stuff, side projects, proof of concepts, etc.

Recently I started rebuilding some stuff in React/Python and went with Heroku for my backend (before they announced they’re ending the free tier).

Professionally I’ve used both AWS and GCP for real/big stuff but I’d love to pay $150 a year for a “personal” instance that has predictable billing at the expense of “pro” feature/uptime.

Where are the PaaS flat rate providers for hobby stuff?
Shoelace, a Framework-Independent Component-Based UX Library
The public outcry being massive isn't going to stop companies from trying to exploit people. Companies that seemed consistent in the past have changed many times. Apple is actually a great example in that they were a privacy-focused company but have more recently forayed into scanning devices against customers' will and have now created their own ad business. That decision was made under the assumption that they own the devices they sell to customers for thousands of dollars not their customers. If the economy gets worse, you can bet they will look for additional ways to make money off their customers. Once you buy a decent amount of movies they will have lots of leverage over you. Look at Tim Cook's response to fixing the texting issue. They don't care about public outcry.
If you live in a country with strong free speech rights such as the US, not really.
> What exactly is genuinely innovative about the iPhone connector at this point

The way they fray near the connector. It is truly inovative how one of the worlds most inovative companies has been unable to figure out how to wrap plastic around a wire.
> Additionally, the use of belladonna and nightshade in the production of many homeopathic products should be considered the same as if something was made with arsenic.

Hyoscyamine has been prescribed for decades

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyoscyamine
Lightning has the springs in the port, if the springs wear out you have to replace the device. USB-C has the springs in the cable, the cheap part to replace.

Then USB-C went and added that "tongue" in the port to break.

Neither standard is very good...
They added those things to indicate age my mimicing older formats. They wouldn't add those effects to mimic older formats if older formats never existed.
I think we're seeing the "Mary–marry–merry merger" (specifically the Mary–marry part). [1] claims about three quarters of American English speakers suffer from it.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-language_vowel_changes...
Not all are compatible. There are at least two different diameters of pin, not to mention several variations on three pins. I hit this myself this week.

The type G plug is the best design available, by a very long way. If anything, that should be adopted by the EU and indeed the rest of the world.
A project I led shipped a system based on multiple RPi's used basically as web kiosks to drive large TV's monitors. We also built another Pi-based system used for monitoring equipment remotely, but I wasn't part of that effort.

I've come across a commercial HVAC system (like the big units on top of office buildings) based on the RPi Compute Module. Actually seen that from two different companies.

There was a subreddit that's now subsumed into /r/Raspberry_pi that was all about sightings of Pi's used in commercial products like airport displays, billboards, kiosks, etc.
I read it and didn't agree with it. When I'm on the Onion site or reading one of their books, I know it's the Onion. That doesn't make it less funny.
Thanks, I agree batching inserts would indeed be a good idea and it makes sense that's recommended. However that link you mention (as of now) does not specify what a write unit is. So if that could be clarified, that would be great. Since from your reply it sounds like one INSERT would indeed (at a minimum) incur one write unit. And thus 100 writes could indeed cost $1.25. Which could get expensive, fast.
Meta is rescinding intern offers, which offers were for 2023 start dates
The 1 in 100 is what keeps my wife busy with family law. The odds of ending up marrying someone vs having a healthy relationship are 2 very different things.

My wife and I dated through undergrad, broke up at "get married or break up." And ended coming back together as adults with more life and relationship experience. Based on plans, we never should have been back in the same city. And when we started hanging out again, neither expected a relationship, just a friendship still being sick of each others' sh. But we had both grown up. We're 24 years into our relationship now. I think it's going well.

That's all purely anecdotal, though.

I don't think real math could be done with this. Success isn't measurable. People often split due to $ or tragedy. People stick it out, miserable the entire time. It walks into Aristotle's eudaimonia. You can't know until it's over. Even then, quantifying quality is folly.
The Lunar Library
Related to the thread, How practical is it to setup the distributed routing stuff of fly yourself?

Seems you have to buy an anycast-ip from somewhere or become your own ISP/network provider, configure a bunch of bgp routers & routes but that seems impractical for most. Stuff like Akamai, Cloudflare, Route53 have anycast-dns but that seem specifically for dns queries, not responding to a query and routing it somewhere.

Is it a problem that's just too big and difficult that you can't really self-host/spit-and-duct-tape your own system?
Thich Nhat Hanh wrote a book called "The Art of Living: Peace and Freedom in the Here and Now" which is pretty excellent. I listen to it every once in a while on audiobook and learn something every time.

https://www.amazon.com/Living-Godfrey-Robinson-Stephen-Winwa...
Curious. Where does the 100B spending go to most to build a chip factory.
My oldest one is 25 years old and still works with no issues. Technically every physical object breaks down over time, but I expect that with proper storage and handling with care, a pressed DVD could last 50 years. And then you can also rip the bits and store them.
Europe does it again, first with micro-USB... nice. It is currently not as big of a problem though? Unless you use Apple, maybe...
Looks like Tocify to me http://gregfranko.com/jquery.tocify.js/
> if the distributor simply added the Blu-ray you bought to the blacklist of your DRM compliant Blu-ray player, I'm not so sure there would be the same level of outrage

I don't see what leads you to that conclusion. I've also never heard about that happening, and I don't suspect this would happen unless something actually illegal was happening (illegal copies and such). The justification for actually blocking you from watching that movie for which you own a digital copy would be pretty hard to find. And the work around is relatively easy - dont connect your blueray player to the internet. With streaming services, you're at the mercy of the service provider to just lose a contract with a studio and stop providing their content.

> less about some deeply ingrained sense of natural rights

At this stage fairness is proven to be deeply ingrained, even in animals. There is something deeply unfair with losing access to something you were supposed to own, just because they can, and some corporate bean counter decided to not renew some licensing contract on their catalog because the competition offered a percent more.

> more about what kind of actions feel familiar and which feel unfamiliar

9/11 was a one-off, I didn't get familiar with this type of terrorist event. On the other hand, school shootings happen so often that I'm not surprised by them. Both still trigger outrage.
So, like in the realm of something that doesn't happen but we're going to say it totally happens because of... reasons.

It's not even in the realm of hyperbole, is it. It may want to be, but it's not. And unless this is something common to "relatable family diner(s)", singling out Applebees is also a head scratcher. The "joke" here is "fucking liberals". When the "fucking liberal" in this case is just a random ass pull.

It's a combination of odd reaches and odd selection of targets that makes one more say "what?" than anything else.
I am the founder of a VC backed company

If you don't meet the income requirements for being an accredited investor, the easiest way want to become an accredited investor is to become a licensed investment advisor. Someone wrote an article about their experience becoming licensed[0]

In terms of investment amount, most seed stage companies are willing to take checks as small as $10k, sometimes even lower. If you want to invest in companies that are series A or later, it's unlikely you will be able to participate

[0] https://www.natecation.com/accredited-investor-investing-sta...
I'm curious what the alternate theory of Nord 2 sabotage is? Does anybody other than the US benefit?
I think you are arguing against something I didn't state - or maybe you replied to the wrong comment. My statement, backed by papers, is that puberty blockers given to older children and younger teens has a negative impact on fertility that needs to be known.

I make literally no statement on what is worst (trans suicides are a thing, and infertility is a thing also). Its a tough place for parents to be to help their children.

What does not help anyone - including yourself - is making up statements that you then get hot and yell about. If you scream about dog whistles / terfs / transphobes it has the impact of shutting down conversation.

Lets be better and lets trust the science.
I agree with the majority of what you're saying. Knowing what you'll enjoy relies on enjoying the component parts of that activity. Finding new activities that you'll enjoy requires you to look at the reasons why you enjoy that activity at a granular level.

Where I disagree is the claim that you don't enjoy programming. If you enjoy most of the component parts of an activity, my claim is that you actually do enjoy that activity.

Let's take hiking as an example. I can claim that I don't actually like hiking, I just like being outside, being in the forest, and walking. Hiking is therefore just one of a multitude of activities that could meet those desires. However, because my "likes" comprise the vast majority of the appeal of hiking, it is fair to say that I actually do enjoy hiking.

Ultimately, this is a semantic distinction. My claim is that by the commonly used definition of an "enjoyable activity," I would classify programming as an activity that you at least moderately enjoy.
Well it depends where you live, if you happen to live in Germany (I guess they ship to the EU as well), there are quite a few on stock right now at BerryBase, according to rpilocator.com
If you tell me that you believe in democracy, does it make sense for me to accuse you of supporting the horrors perpetrated by USA in Vietnam, all of latin America and the middle east?

Soviet union and CCP were never communist, they used the term communism for propaganda purposes. Communism stands for workers owning the means of production. This was never true in Russia or China. Your local labor union is more communist than the CCP. The collectively owned Amul dairy(India)[1] is more communist than the Soviet union. Communism at a state level has never existed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amul
Two things:
Just to be pedantic for a second - this is actually tautological, because innovation is defined in terms of making changes to established things.

So by the EU establishing a thing, any changes you make to it are ... by definition ... innovation :)

Once they establish a new standard, the thing that they established is no longer innovative, it is the new baseline for the next innovation.

At least, as innovation is actually defined (the colloquial usage is very messy, as you can see in this thread, making it very easy for people to talk past each other).

But let's be practical for a second - what exactly are you looking for?
What is this next physical connector innovation you are worrying you need that won't exist now?

I ask because almost all desire in phone connectors has been the same since the beginning of phone connectors. It is not new. The change in connectors was not driven by change in desire, only around capability. people want them to be reasonably sized, easy to put in/take out, not easily fall out, not break ever, charge the phone fast, and send data from the phone to a thing fast (audio/video/etc are a subset of this).

That's it. That's always been it.
For a long time, tradeoffs had to be made, and you could not achieve all desires at once.
That hasn't been true for a decade.
At this point, all desires are fulfilled.

Over fulfilled in fact - the capability of the connectors have well outstripped the need of phones.

There isn't anything left to do. It's done.
Unless new customer desires come along, and they haven't for decades, there isn't innovation left to be had. The closest you come to difference is "should i make it be held by a magnet or by itself", which, while some are vocal about it, is a very minor preference (again, at least by data).

It's also easy to claim things like "well you don't know what will come along", but as i said, what comes along is driven by customer desire. What is the unfulfilled customer desire that physical phone connectors can innovate to achieve at this point?
‘Spooky’ quantum-entanglement experiments win physics Nobel