skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I ran a server there for years. Eventually it developed a fault on... either the PCIe bus, one of the paired NVMes, or something in that vein. This manifested as poor performance, followed by the NVMe falling off the bus, often followed by the machine rebooting. Upon doing so it would stall at the BIOS, complaining that it had been overclocked. It had not been overclocked... as far as I know, at any rate.

I went back and forth on this with support for several months. They were not able to reproduce (it was a rare fault, happening on average only about once every few weeks), and blamed me for 'overclocking'. Eventually I shut off the account.

Hetzner is cheap, but you're on your own if you need any form of help.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overscan: “Overscan is a behaviour in certain television sets, in which part of the input picture is shown outside of the visible bounds of the screen. It exists because cathode-ray tube (CRT) television sets from the 1930s through to the early 2000s were highly variable in how the video image was positioned within the borders of the screen. It then became common practice to have video signals with black edges around the picture, which the television was meant to discard in this way.”

Basically, you couldn’t trust two televisions to show a picture at the same size, or even a single television to show an image at constant size if it heated up.

Computer users would object if their screen chopped of some letters at the edge of their screens, so they had to accept the reverse: wasted space around the screen’s contents.
> "I'd rather spend the money locally than pay a premium to Amazon."

I wish that could be the case with me, but I mostly order very specific items that I can't source locally (even in a large city) and need them ASAP. Amazon does that VERY well. I can order a weird camera accessory at 4pm and have it at my door at 7am the next day.
Now updated with a TamperMonkey script that adds these functionalities in a nice UI just under the text input box.
> And no fleets in North America are ready to figure out converting a 2000 mile long haul over the road route into 5 400 mile EV relays.

If there are genuine advantages to EV trucking, then I don't see how any of this matters. This isn't a heavily regulated industry and there's very little barrier to entry. If you can save money on shipping by buying a bunch of Teslas and converting long hauls to relays, then someone will just do it regardless of whether the existing players are "ready to figure it out".

Now, are there advantages? We'll see. A lot depends on what happens in the fuel markets in the coming years. But the long term trends point away from diesel for sure.
Jacques Lacan: A Real, Imaginary, and Symbolic Psychoanalyst
I already opt out of the scanners, _every time _. I’ll gladly opt out of this as well.

I’m an old grumpy man and I’ve got time on my hands. Some of y’all should join me.
I guess one way to look at this is that it's risky having a higher-performance brain. Kind of like how a sports car breaks down more often than a basic sedan or wagon.
There is a good argument for it being reverse cultural appropriation. Which I thought was supposed to be a bad thing.
I would say machismo is live and well everywhere, family is just not a "man" thing culturally. Even though it's very normalized taking time parental leave as a dad here, there is still so much things you are supposed to do as a man that are not part of family stuff to be considered manly, hunting, sports, nerdery. When things are about the house it's often the technical aspects that are supposed to be highlighted, not how it benefits the kids, family and feelings. We have had advertisement campaigns about these stuffs since the seventies in Sweden, but you still get flack for wanting to talk about feelings, diapers and cooking. See:

https://www.reddit.com/r/sweden/comments/13ojmn/reklam_f%C3%...

Machismo in Latin America is a lot more toxic and hurts the men much more over there, they just don't see it.
This doesn't seem to be the original meaning of the term "revenge porn". This is a dude who willingly took pictures of his hog in various situations, and then later those pictures were accessed by various unrelated parties. "Revenge porn" is more the situation in which an innocent woman is pressured by her creepy boyfriend to take videos or pictures that he later personally posts to public sites in response to his disappointment with their relationship. In the latter situation it's clear who is taking "revenge" on whom.

I mean, I guess it's ok to expand the definition, but let's be clear that's what we're doing here. Also, it isn't particularly rhetorically effective.
Not sure what you mean by this, "we" here means anyone who could use Google and open a Github link.
Strategy as Tetris rather than Chess
Your understanding is correct, but how does that relates to my point about compelled speech?

You won't be on the hook for a DMCA violation if you give up the right to control what's on your website?

If you don't post this thing on your website [read: restore the content], you are violating the law?
Finding good people is difficult, especially back in 2021 when everyone was scaling IT like crazy. A good bonus is a good investment in employee retention. On top of that having employees participate in business success aligns incentives. It's just good business sense.
> Sure, but you should stop selling your product like it can do all of those things and more. Its outright lying.

This is the response I hate. Detractors say that to argue against any adoption. It's not a claim any sane proponent (Musk is not sane and no one should listen to him) will make. Will it work eventually for (most) use cases? Yea! But likely not everywhere. Just like there are edge cases Gas or Diesel still don't work well. That doesn't mean to ignore potential where it makes sense.

I bought a commuter car. That's it. When I bought; was more of a novelty as I didn't know anyone else with anything similar.

I repeatedly got angrily shouted at while driving (in a relatively major city), coal-rolled; and heckled by strangers and family members around the dinner table about how poor of a decision I made. 3 years later; I have a nice/fun/convenient commuter car that hasn't needed any maintenance and the trade in is higher than I paid for it. Is it for everyone? No. But that doesn't mean there is a void in value.
The problem with that, is that “Theranos makes compelling equipment even if it is a little rough around the edges. It's ok because it's a step in the right direction.” wasn’t true, and that’s why Elizabeth Holmes was convicted for fraud.

Now, I’m not happy that Tesla is still calling the driving assistance software “autopilot” given some governments are criticising this name choice as misleading, but it’s not like the (limited and not ready) software is completely fictional — it can actually get people from A to B by itself, even if though it really isn’t at the quality level where this is a generally wise replacement for most humans, but only for, e.g. impaired humans in a medical emergency and even then it’s really only sane on highways (old story, but probably still illustrative based on the published safety statistics): https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/08/tesla-mod...

However, considering Tesla as an EV company rather than as an AI company: it does what it says on the tin. There’s no secret gasoline tank hiding inside the batteries.
Any plans for Hetzner dedicated servers in USA? This looks like it’s only the cloud offering.
At no point did I say or imply anything to that end. I found it curious, as their other DCs offer servers with Intel and AMD processors, while in this new DC they specifically call out using AMD processors.
The fact that both developers and users thought that a lifetime deal was possible just speak to how much our field doesn't understand how to do business.
It was a pretty bad situations since some moderators have been instrumentalized for political purposes. And there is nobody that really called them out for it. This should have been the press and their silence is pretty loudly screaming about how you can depend on them. I don't care which political party was worse here.

We had content manipulation for political purposes. There is no guarantee that this will stop now, but changes were certainly needed. It isn't too great that it is now in the hands of Musk perhaps, but he at leaset has a different goal. Even if that is just a pretense it would still be an improvement. And no, some alleged bots are no excuse to just editorialize topics.

This inhibits people forming their own opinion if they will be fed with preapproved messages. So yes, it was a severe problem. Even European leaders called out Twitter when they banned Trump. And it was certainly not because they liked him.

I do believe that flagging is abused on HN from time to time. It just doesn't happen too often and HN isn't too relevant for public discourse. Twitter sadly is since a large part of journalism is about the latest Tweets people can be enraged about. Overall HN is tolerant of diverging opinions as far as I have seen.
YouTube is equivalent and worse than regular TV now, completely in the tank for corporations and hostile to individual creators.
I'll add a +1 to managed database product. We've migrated all workloads except main application servers to Hetzner. Having a managed DB service (with backups, point-in-time recovery, etc) would have us quitting AWS in an instant.
250+ comments already so I fear my rant will disappear to the void, but I experienced this exact same thing with Apex Legends. I was fortunate to get my account back eventually, but the experience is the same.

I don't really care that much about my crappy in-game cosmetics, but to have access to the game ripped away from you with no actual explanation to what you did is a pretty big gut punch. The result I took from the experience is that EA/Respawn are untrustworthy and will never receive another penny of my money. Their steadfast "you cheated, no appeals, now shut up" attitude seems like poor long term planning if regular players are going to be randomly harmed by whatever happened.

I've pondered over the issue too, and ultimately I think the entire circus could be avoided if they were willing to discuss the specifics of banning. The notion that they don't need to tell you how you were detected as though it is some sort of protection for their anti-cheat methods is a disservice in customer relations. For me, I tried appealing a case against something I had no evidence for, so to ask a question about how I can make things right in an appeal (what logs do you need? what proof can I provide that this was a bug) ended up just flagging my account so I could no longer open tickets. I had found other users on Reddit who received the same ban (and consequentially, received unban at teh same time too, so it was a system bug). We were all treated the same. How to fix this? Have confidence in your anti-cheat to the point where you can say "we caught you doing X" so I can provide evidence to the contrary.

I suspect it is because they'd need to hire more staff to work customer service. They'd also need to give those staff the necessary tools to respond to customers which I can tell they do not have at the basic CSR level.

In the end, they lose a customer permanently. They also gain a vocal proponent against their services as I write similar rants every time I see a topic of it discussed. They don't really care much about me though. That's important to remember. They are willing to bulldoze the individual in hopes the larger reputation they maintain about being hard on cheaters doesn't backfire.
Agreed. When things are web hosted, there's all kinds of processing. Still. Spam filter, searching email history, even loading an email is considered processing the email.

I believe both Google and Microsoft try to firewall any Enterprise or business data from their consumer lines. This means none of it will get fed into AI filters for the most part. Though I'm guessing marking things is spam still is a global thing.
I think it's not getting that the friend who has two tokens is the same as the one you owe a token to. When you change the question to make it clearer, it responds correctly.

"My friend has two tokens and I have six, but I owe one to the same friend. There is a toy that costs 7 tokens. Can my friend and I afford to buy it?"
While classic Pebble used TLCD, Pebble Time used actual e-paper. Also, note how this "trade names" section has no references, and includes an entry called "sunlight readable lcd". There are no trademarks involved there.
Sci-fi illustrations by Shigeru Komatsuzaki (1915-2001)
Great breakdown of CRDTs vs replicated state machines (like Raft or VSR) and the difference between eventually convergent and globally orderable workloads, thanks for this Paul!
It's old timey internet slang from the 1990s for "I Am Not A Lawyer"

And for everyone else, don't give me push back for "old timey" - there's people out of college now that were born after 2000. Plenty of people weren't there.

The adage of interaction on the internet: others are younger and less sober than you assume
It kind of feels that ChatGPT is "just" missing some kind of adversarial self clone that can talk back to itself and spot errors. Most times when I spot an error and mention it it seems that it already had some notion of this problem in the model.
> If something is good for business and cheaper to buy than develop in-house, business will buy.

Sure, but "free" is frictionless for most developers at any business while "cheap" would still incur going through the purchasing process (at bigger corporations and/or governments) or asking your manager to pull out the company creditcard. From my experience with bigger orgs, it would be MUCH cheaper for the organization to write most dependencies in-house than to go through the process of buying it off the shelf. Even if the OSS dependency would only cost 1 USD for lifetime use or something.

This goes for most small-ish dependencies like test runners, API clients and even simple ORMs. Very small things like left-pad or faker.js would be much simpler to write in-house.
Recently cancelled my prime membership. Not a huge expense in the grand scheme of things but I could no longer justify the cost for only expedited shipping. Have also tried to cut back on my spending on amazon with sheer amount of crap that gets sold on the platform at elevated prices. Definetly had me thinking about my own level of consumerism and realizing there was just no need for that level of Amazon in my life.

Not sure how many others have gone through that thought process or if the average consumer thinks about it even. With most stores offer instore/curbside pickup I wonder if it will eventually eat into any of Amazon's marketshare.
What we have today followed adoption closely, and that existing infrastructure is ripe for adjusting as EVs become popular. Especially the larger truck/interstate stops, that have Starbucks, Subway, showers, etc.
> Pretty embarassing when your own source doesnt even back you up

That is quite combative. Especially given that all of the numbers that you pasted are well above the $120k that you quoted (from where?) in your original comment.

Salaries vary by location, title, and the outside options of the individual. Here are the first ten salaries that I see for Berkeley. The first number in each row is the gross total:

2021 Berkeley PROF-AY-LAW 364,403.00 333,000.00 0.00 31,403.00
2021 Berkeley PROF-AY-LAW 319,002.00 277,083.00 0.00 41,919.00
2021 Berkeley ACT PROF-AY-LAW 306,489.00 185,933.00 0.00 120,556.00
2021 Berkeley ACT PROF-AY-LAW 310,961.00 205,517.00 0.00 105,444.00
2021 Berkeley PROF-AY-LAW 376,450.00 290,450.00 0.00 86,000.00
2021 Berkeley PROF-AY-LAW 383,400.00 260,500.00 0.00 122,900.00
2021 Berkeley PROF-AY-LAW 395,038.00 308,642.00 0.00 86,397.00
2021 Berkeley PROF-AY-LAW 536,833.00 402,000.00 0.00 134,833.00
2021 Berkeley PROF-AY-LAW 301,407.00 269,208.00 0.00 32,198.00
2021 Berkeley PROF-AY-LAW 396,965.00 270,508.00 0.00 126,456.00

Note also that the UC system is famously cash strapped relative to Stanford, and that Stanford ranks above Berkeley in law.

Edit: Ah, I see that you searched for “professor of law” without restricting the search to Berkeley. You got salaries for UC Hastings. Very illustrative that even the wrong reference point produces higher numbers than $120k.
I don't think this is quite correct. Current AIs can consume two difference concepts that have never been combined, and then combine them semi-coherently. That would be considered somewhat novel if a human did it.

I'm also not convinced that "new ideas" are not also just statistical reasoning, so it too could fall to AI advancement.
If you are watching any sort of financial YouTube videos, you'd probably notice the amount of fake bot conversations in the comments section, usually trying to promote scam services.

It scares me that in few year I wouldn't be able to tell if something is fake or not most of the time and global mind set will be controlled by even more fake content.

We may need to figure out a way to identify genuine human-generated content.
A position of radical tolerance is tactically convenient when the view that you hold is unpopular; Moral Majority crusading is convenient when it's popular.
That's not what we wrote. The support team replaced the server after a lot of cajoling. That experience needs to be fixed.
What a strange website. The article was written in a unique voice, so I wanted to find more from the author to get a better picture of their perspective.

But all bios (that I checked) are dead ends (leading to general social media accounts). There is one employee at the company on LinkedIn.

Are these people real? This is now more interesting to me than the article itself. There are 13 years of content, but I can’t tell much more.
The concern with cryptocurrency-related services is probably more around scamming and illegal business operations than mining as -- as you say -- mining should be relatively easy to detect.

I'd say if you want to run gray area services like crypto, porn or gambling, you should probably ensure in advance that the provider is okay with you running your service, not just that they don't explicitly list your use case in their ToS.
Can't upvote you enough. I'm buying RaspberryPi' since they first launched and I've never seen such a shortage. I lost my stash and somehow I can't find any respectable device for my PiHole setup.
A ban would simply result in them creating a new account. Stopping future copystrikes is just enough pain to keep them where they are while preventing more damage.
Looking outside of software:

Hydrox came before Oreos and yet Oreo is the default "sandwich cookie" for most people. If they've even heard of hydrox.
What's unfair about banning malicious scripts exactly?
On the topic of gas stoves, it is mindblowing that building codes (even in CA) allow for stove vents that do not exhaust outside the house.
Modern homes are so well insulated that it sometimes happens that a family will host a big holiday party, use their fireplace for the first time, and then get dinner started shortly thereafter; the first time their nearly commercial grade overhead hood fires up, hot embers will be blown across the floor of the room with the fireplace.

(Or, those homes correctly have a "make up air" duct installed, which resolves this scenario)

We recently rebuilt the wall that houses our hood for our propane kitchen range. It's 4 inches, and I asked how difficult it would be to move to a 6 inch duct, since it's far more volume of air to be moved. Of course, the answer was a logistical difficulty and out of budget.

On particularly damp days in the winter here in New Hampshire, if someone accidentally leaves a bathroom fan running, and perhaps the kitchen hood, it can be nearly impossible to get a wood stove fire going. So although these electrical systems are not drawing what seems like a lot of air, they have practical effects on unrelated systems.
B-21 Raider Test Pilots Talk About Its Upcoming First Flight
Due to complexity of the biology, nobody can tell: they could have all enough "cell space" to reach their "reproduction and transmission" threshold. This is impossible to tell unless there are obvious and extremely dominant biological parameters which would give such predictions a very high level of confidence.

Click-bait?
It would help to cite some evidence and not just call it “craptastic.”
He would Make The Thumbs Down Great Again and fire half of the staff randomly by Tweet.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/02/millions-americ...
RIP Dean Allen. :(
The spins on most media coverage of this story are insane. Somehow they seem to suggest that it’s okay to lie (repeatedly saying he lived a frugal lifestyle) and steal (claims he didn’t know what was going on) as long as you give the money away to “good causes”.

I put good causes in quotes because it is debatable that that is where it went.

It wouldn’t surprise me if “Effective Altruism” is itself a concept that was invented by billionaires to hide behind and somehow make up for all the bad things they have done.

It should tell you everything you need to know that Julian Assange published government secrets and is being prosecuted by the espionage act and is locked up in a maximum security prison, and Sam Bankman-Fried stole billions of dollars from regular people and is still invited to speak at events while the media covers for him.
Naturally the coding wizard is named Raistlin.
Estimates of the risk from swaps tend to miss that there are many offsetting swaps. That is, if I am a market maker in swaps my positions mostly cancel out. That $80T might really be $2T or $8T. It is still a large amount but it isn’t really $80T.

The trouble is we have no way of knowing how much the real liability is.
Multiple cases have been documented of children strangulating themselves wearing a bike helmet while mucking about on playgrounds and the like. Entire education campaigns have set out to prevent the wearing of helmet in activities that turned out to be made less safe by them.

But I agree with your general point, if the marginal safety gain during cycling was enough to make them mandatory, few activities would remain without mandatory protective headwear (my last bike-related head injury happened while walking through the kitchen during maintenance).
Starting with Anglo-Norman “gobeling,” there are some interesting specializations. “Redcaps” are goblins wearing hats dyed with human blood.
This is why just about everything I see on the web that isn't static is just stupid mush.
Highly unlikely.

“Bogotá has an oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb) bordering on a warm-summer Mediterranean climate (Csb). The average temperature is 14.5 °C (58 °F), varying from 6 to 19 °C (43 to 66 °F) on sunny days to 10 to 18 °C (50 to 64 °F) on rainy days. Dry and rainy seasons alternate throughout the year. The driest months are December, January, July and August. The warmest month is March, bringing a maximum of 19.7 °C (67.5 °F).”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogotá

Berlin is literally a furnace compared to this, with average daily maximums well above 30 °C in the summer.
What do you expect a German company to do with a copy of your drivers license or passport? Is this one of those situations where it contains your your social security number and it therefore becomes direct access to your bank account?

The only thing I imagine someone could do with the copy of my passport is pretend to be me when they sign up for a similar service.
Surge in Russian Bombers at Air Base Not as Unusual as Reports Claim
Strong copyleft licenses like that don't get a lot of love these days. GPL has something similar.

One problem is that to enforce these kinds of clauses, the original rights holder needs to go around suing everyone as it's a contractual thing. It isn't a law.
My bad, thanks for the clarification, even in rereading sentence, didn’t notice the error.