skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody is getting "trickle down"-level rich from it. It's an organically grown company that bootstrapped without any big high risk/high reward investment that expects massive returns in absence of failure. Basically a mom&pop from what in the US would be considered flyover that just happens to have found its way to large scale competetiveness. Through a unique combination of frugality and decisive spending I think.

Early example: a weirdly memorable ad captaign around 2000 that for many years occupied the single most expensive computer related print ad slot in Germany (decisive spending) with a series of ads that seemed not quite "high production values", but also not deliberately grungy, a weird "definitely trying to be high gloss perfection, but somehow not quite there" (like in-house best effort or some local design house, certainly not the big-name agency you'd expect for ads on that slot). More recent example: their hardware seems to be a continuation from early-Google style "desktops on shelves" that's now a custom rack design (still noticeably lower density than typical 16") that's all about finding good price/reliability spots in cheap CotS parts, e.g. according to certain "begins the scene" blogger visits they sort for publicity, price-optimized custom versions of desktop mainboards (same PCB but not placing any parts they don't need). Chances are company with big investor backing would either go all standard rack parts (from a supplier like Dell or something like that) or go all in designing their own.
Not to mention that thinness is not a thing in case of Mac Mini.
> Only a handful of games in the history of gaming have had open source / openly available multiplayer servers.

It was actually the norm in the 90s. Other comments have cited examples but it’s worth noting that consoles supported running local servers too.

What changed was subscription based online services and stupid loot (et al) boxes meant companies could extract a continuous stream of money from gamers without having to put out much, if any, additional content. So everything became online first.

Source: I ran several games servers in the 90s and early 00. (Still do in fact but only for Minecraft these days).
Brave search is quite good and the support for DDG's bangs is icing on the cake.

Yandex also gives a different perspective on the same queries.
Gotta “Save Our Democracy!” unless it’s something I disagree with then it’s “problematic.”

HN needs to take a hardline stance against anyone engaged in this “narrative control” garbage we’ve seen in this thread. There is 0 substance provided and it is entirely politically motivated.
I absolutely love using Hetzner. Top of my wishlist is Managed Databases and Managed Kubernetes. This is the main of the reason why I'm using Digitalocean for production and Hetzner for more stateless use cases.
Supreme Court to Hear Case of Web Designer Opposed to Same-Sex Marriage
I also own a Tesla. Over the 6 years I have owned it my automotive costs have decreased by some 80% compared to the ICE vehicles I owned prior. Significantly, the “no oil changes/no weekly fill up” costs immediately saved me around $2800/year. Maintenance costs have dropped to next to nothing, primarily being around tires and windshield wiper fluid.

There’s also no risk of getting a catalytic converter stolen.

What are your expenses that are so dramatically above the norm?
I could have said this on any ChatGPT post the last few days, but I'm simply not seeing the accuracy of it in such a way that anything is threatened.

ChatGPT is a plausible idiot. It gets just enough right, saying just enough words, to sound plausible and authoritative to anyone who doesn't know the subject matter well. But it also gets enough wrong that you cannot rely on its accuracy, and if it is talking about a subject you know well it is sometimes laughable how wrong it is.

It is impressive. But not trustworthy.
Amazon shipped fake product, refuses refund until 'correct' item returned
I literally just started asking ChatGPT these type of questions too. This stuff is gold!
It's just a minor gripe, but... a simple bash script (like Linode's start scripts) is a lot easier than what Hetzner offers-- a custom ISO? Nah. I'll just scp my script when the server is ready and run it myself.
Nothing about mainline Linux support, or support out of the box from a distro like Alpine, which is where the RPi excels for all its flaws.
Motorists and street furniture in bike lanes are not the only things helmets protect you from. Pedestrians, other cyclists, mechanical failure, rubbish in the road, oil patch, black ice; any number of things can result in you hitting the ground even when entirely separated from motor vehicles. Meanwhile, more and more people are using e-bikes and spending a larger proportion of their time on the bike doing 20-30mph or more.

Hitting concrete with your body at speed is not going to be great for you regardless of the exact cause or exact body part. Just wear the helmet, pity's sake. Why be a meat crayon?
In winter, when the solar panels in Sweden will provide roughly zero electricity, this will be much closer to your definition of "off grid". But hey, during that season one can be "off grid" on the Bahamas.
Are you sure the bot doesn't speak your language?

I tried Hungarian, which is only spoken by 10 million people, and it's speaking it great.
Jabal: The new wheat scientists say can withstand extreme heat and drought
In this outlet, the story might as well be like the steady stream of now-familiar US political party base-rousing:

Subtext: "Those darned anti-piracy things are so unreasonable! This justifies pirating! Let's pirate harder! Don't forget to use our affiliate codes to sign up for a piracy-friendly VPN scam!"
"Love affair." It's clearly a joke. The blogger is a joker.
Hetzner has been around for 20 years, IIRC. Their cloud offering is newer, though.
> Yes, but: Tesla omitted crucial information, including the truck's empty weight — an important consideration for measuring its efficiency.
A Tesla Semi "fully loaded" with Doritos can go farther than a truck packed with cases of Pepsi.
"Not very impressive — moving a cargo of chips (average weight per pack 52 grams) cannot in any way be said to be definitive proof of concept," said Oliver Dixon, senior analyst at consultancy Guidehouse, per Reuters.

Garbage. Tesla published uncut video of its Semi carrying at least 44000lbs worth of concrete blocks 500 miles going up and down 6 degree grade, in traffic and ending up on the same elevation as the starting point, with charge left in the battery. Pack of doritors my ass.

EDIT: oh and thanks for mentioning Reuters — they published news about Musk and Cook fued days after they had settled their conflict.
After a year and a half of usage, on a 2-TB SSD:

Percentage Used: 2%
Data Units Read: 1,118,827,429 [572 TB]
Data Units Written: 432,707,145 [221 TB]
Power Cycles: 484
Power On Hours: 1,106

The power-on hours, during which the read-write activity happened, correspond to only 46 days, because the rest of the time the SSD was presumably powered-down by the OS, due to inactivity.
Wow, the cabin even has a kitchen? What's worth the read here? Living off grid doesn't involve eating raw meat all day?
> There are only upsides to it e.g. no SD corruption, power adapter compatibility issues, overheating problems

Boot your Pi from USB and there is no SD corruption to worry about. This has been out of beta and officially supported for over 2 years now. I've never had an issue with power adapter compatibility but understand some had issues when the RPi 4 was released due to it requiring more amperage than previous models. Not really a concern with modern USB C adapters and if you are really concerned just buy the official power supply or one of the multitudes sold on Amazon as for the RPi.

As for overheating, I have had a RPi 4 stuffed in a crowded wiring box with no air flow in my unconditioned garage running non-stop without overheating for a few years now. I live in a climate where it is over 90 degrees Fahrenheit every day June - early September with a good part of late July - late August being over 100. I also have a 4 node RPi cluster which has been running for years without any overheating issues. The cluster nodes do have 5v fans running at 3.3v to reduce noise. I installed these when originally setting up the cluster but would be confident removing them. At this point it just isn't worth the effort to do so.
It literally happened to HN's drives which is kind of ironically funny.
So a pay phone? I took it to be some sort of transaction place.
Playtest your games using AI
Bacteria-eating viruses used to create food decontamination spray
the rational, socially optimal approach would be to have open source, standards based, self-sovereign platforms built around organizations like [0]. Private enterprize would have to compete on providing value-adding tools within these platforms, with access to user data monitored and strictly limited on a need-to-know basis.

[0] https://www.documentfoundation.org/
Method for solving notorious calculus problems speeds Feynman integrals
I don't spend huge amounts of capital for no reason, so why would a low-margin trucking company?

That said, if the price of diesel keeps up, there is a chance that Tesla trucks plus all the charging infrastructure will be worth it economically for short haul fleets.

I'm honestly surprised they didn't try to launch a truck in Europe first, it seems like a better market.
I have a bunch of 3.5” external spinning hard drives, which are about 5 years at this point. Contrary to internet legends that that’s a recipe for data loss and really they should be in a NAS checking their integrity 24/7, they exhibit no data corruption whatsoever. (I do verify that periodically.)
Given the critical urgency of climate change, there is no situation where burning oil is the ideal choice.
Board game designers using ChatGPT.
But if AI can be better than humans at driving a car, then it can also be better than you at driving a bicycle. Will you accept AI-augmented tools on your bike? I see automatic braking and speed limiters as very easy first steps. Then geofencing to prevent bicycles on pedestrian paths. All of that is dead simple with curret tech.
just to verify the code for an enterprise sized system is likely going to take longer than building it.

Also consider how long it takes you to bake a feature into code you have never seen before to code that you wrote.
Ask HN: Do you measure and/or mitigate CO2 in your living space?
If so - how?

Also - has anyone moved away from gas stove since recent articles about the issues with fumes they emit into spaces?
still blurry to me
Why would it? Women without torn hymen don't pass genes because they didn't have sex, not because they possessed a hymen. As soon as they have sex, the hymen tears - so it poses no barrier to passing on genes.
It’s also impossible to imagine correctly. Back in 2009, I was completely convinced that we’d be able to go into a car dealership and buy a brand new vehicle which had no steering wheel because the self-driving AI was just that good, within 10 years. Seemed reasonable at the time on the basis of the DARPA Grand Challenge results, but even 13 years later, it didn’t happen.
Company close to where I live has also been selling semis with a 1MW battery pack for a while: https://www.designwerk.com/en/high-cab/
You can ask it to write like a teenager etc. It should be fairly trivial to make a script that removes ' and some . and maybe adds some writing mistake.

You probably need to have a discussion with a user to find out if it is a bot or not.

Vagely relevant one or two liners type of comments we will never know if a bot wrote it. The kind of noise people post on Twitter, Facebook and Reddit.
This appears to be a scam?

After providing my email address, I am sent a JSON true result (in the browser).

Then I get the confirmation email and click to confirm, whereby I am sent to an incorrectly rendered page with a link to download the "database". Clicking that link sends me to a gumroad custom 404 page.
I think its an issue of inter cultural communication.

My impression is that in Germany you bear the burden of proof that you actually have a problem, that its not your own fault, and that you did your part trying to fix it.

You usually can get good support in Germany ( even at government offices ) , IF you show up with your Leitordner ( legendary German ring binders) with all the receipts, all the possibly relevant account numbers, transaction ids and a detailed analysis of your own problem.

There is nothing that signals to German support staff that you have to be taken seriously like a ring binder, preferably with color coded markers at the margins and lots of punch pockets.

If you think this is satire, try it the next time you have an in person appointment...
Isn't the vast majority of trucking 'short haul'. At least in Europe on a long haul, you have to stop quite frequently.

I do see an issue that these truck stops will require massively more electric power and some investment. (Please lets build more nuclear plants).

And in terms of maintenance and fuel cost these trucks should outperform diesel trucks by a wide margin and make up the capx different multiple times over.
Let's be clear, it's not me insulting "everyone else", it's the people who moved from the lower 48 up to Alaska and say "They'll never go back because it sucks down there". It's an extremely, EXTREMELY common sentiment across Alaska. I personally think that means there must be something to it.

I suggest you try it. Get some on the ground perspective on what it is people are passing judgment on. Maybe there's something you're missing.
I lived half my life in a detached house in countryside in Poland, then I moved to several big cities and lived in modern and communist-era commie-blocks. There are positives and negatives. I don't have problems with neighbors, but then I'm a pretty heavy sleeper. My wife had some problems sleeping when neighbors had a party at night, but that's still a pretty minor and rare inconvenience. On the other hand everything we might need is a 15 minutes walk or less, we barely need to drive a car. The air quality is much better in the winter, you don't need to mow the lawn or shuffle the snow. I wouldn't want to go back.
This was a thing in the 1970s in parts of Germany. Busses used those battery trailers and swapped them out at charging stations. Diesel got too cheap and batteries where not good enough back then to make it worth the effort.
Asking it to convert 32 to binary was a bit of an eye opener. It gave me multiple completely incorrect ways of doing so (resulting in 0100 or something each time) despite me informing it it was wrong. It'd say things like 'the 24th place, then the 23rd place are 0's which just made no sense in terms of the query (I suppose technically correct if you really want to pad left) - but I had to think about it because it was saying superficially plausible things (like '24' seems somehow relevant because it's 8+16, but of course that's totally irrelevant to the actual question).

That said in other respects it is pretty amazing, so I'll definitely not dismiss it, it can replace Google for a fairly decent set of queries so long as you know the subject matter well enough.
I had a weird performance issues on Hetzner virtual machines where network bandwidth would drop to 50mbit/s like it was being throttled. My application had a tendency to use very little bandwidth most of the time but when updates were available we needed 10-40GB in a day or so and I always suspected we were getting throttled but support never admitted it. On average we were below their resource limits but clearly at times we were above the average. Support was pretty dismissive and arrogant and I don't regret moving off to netcup who in comparison the experience has been flawless.
I have one Pi 2, two Pi 3 and one Pi 4 and I hold on to them for dear life. I bought them each when they were first available. Never could get my hands on a Zero though. And now it seems impossible to buy any Pi of any kind.

An Orange Pi Zero 2 is around €50 on Amazon, or €30 on Aliexpress, which seems expensive for what it does.

If a €10 Zero existed I think it would sell like hotcakes; I can think of so many use cases! But maybe it's impossible to do, IDK.
Quite impressive the numbers they're doing

78M profit on 290M revenue

(See [0] above)

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This is what a walk down the street in Urumqi looks like: [0].

It's possible to talk about Xinjiang without going over into hyperbole.

0. https://youtu.be/_OMaUIC4Om8
The only people whose minds this is "blowing" are people who have never had to build or maintain question answering systems.

ChatGPT is like having a bunch of 8 year olds who know how to use Google hanging around.

Sure you can use them, and their skills might surprise u every now and then, but that has nothing to do with how much time you are going to waste on the answers they will get wrong.
That's why researchers also lecture. They get paid for the latter (in a closely aligned topic), with some small amount of time to perform the former.
Until someone adds "in the style of a StackOverflow answer" to the prompt.
I don't know what the nazis thought (or think) about Atlantis, but who cares? If it ever existed, and Graham is 100% correct, how is that fact not infinitely more interesting than what race they were? I certainly don't think about my own ancestors, which were verifiably "uncivilized" up until the 13th century AD, as being lesser than anyone else.

He's clearly wrong, and it's easy to discredit him scientifically. Why not do that instead of playing the race card? Everything's a nail when you have a hammer I guess.
Thanks for the recommendation, I'll buy that.
I read it differently, especially in light of Schrems II. EU-datacenters from any of the big US-based providers does not automatically make you comply either.
Replying in case someone still reads this: in the PSD2 text I could not find anything on the prohibition of mobile auth. Note that I do not mean SMS texts, but using an Android/iOS app as two-factor.
On the other hand, if you went to a sporting event or a show and due to some computer error on the organisers' part you were wrongly denied admission - you would expect a refund.

I can't simply start a fake theatre, sell tickets for $100 each, then turn away all ticket holders at the door even if legitimate theatres do have the right to (e.g.) turn away drunk patrons without breathalysing them.
I think writing a simple basic for it would be easier. The machine has enough memory (“4096 8-bit bytes for programs and 4096 4-bit nibbles for data.”), but the instruction set is lacking compared to a 6502, so it would be a limited one.

I would look at Apple’s first Basic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer_BASIC) and trim away all but the bare essentials. Some possible simplifications:

- only support variable names of length one

- remove the exponentiation operator

- only support 8-bit integers

- only support line numbers between 0 and 255

If, then, there’s program space left, add in features.
Just as a FYI, Blender runs their own PeerTube instance (that you can subscribe to via ActivityPub/Fediverse (so Mastodon and all of those others)) which they fully control: https://video.blender.org/

Reason they created that in the first place was because of a similar accident in the past. Maybe hopefully soon they'll stop using YouTube fully as YouTube doesn't seem to care about solving the core problem of driveby copyright strikes.
> At one point they had said the would, but never did to my knowledge.

I think autocorrect or something mangled your sentence beyond recognition.
The bot got it unequivocally wrong here.

When it said that the vast majority of the population of what's now modern-day France spoke modern French as their native language, that's categorically false and shouldn't be treated with leniency or open to interpretations.
People want point of care testing, and everyone is at risk of dying of cancer. 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. Nothing wrong with that, or is it wrong to have ideals? Oh wait...
Web development workflows honestly are often already at the stage of stitching together the output of large language models (Stack Overflow being the most well known such language model). I'm still surprised it pulls the salaries it does.
I am quite certain it will damage internet anonymity and search engines immensely. Pseudonymous things will be fine for some time, but will probably start requiring some identity verification.
No I just assumed it did not ... I guess I am on the same side of the fence then.
Presumably with a full replacement we would also replace all the stop signs and lights.
It’s not “common” but it’s definitely frequent for critical pieces of hardware where the cost of 2 days of labor for a second trucker is irrelevant. (e.g. Getting a replacement industrial component blocking a business from resuming operations.)
> Microsoft also plans to deploy its EU Data Boundary, though which EU customer data can be processed in compliance with data regulations, by the end of 2022.

IMHO that's the root of the problem. Why does MSFT need to process customer data? Yeah, we all know why, but I'm really getting tired of this shit!

It's not a problem paying for your product but leave my data alone, it is mine and that's it! No searching for emails, no training AIs on my code, no scanning images for "child porn", no reading my documents for "national security", etc... all the customer data you need to process is my email to send me a payment receipt or the size of the data I've saved to see if I'm over quota or whatever on that line.

And the same applies to all players in this field, not just MSFT who isn't even one of the worst offenders.
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Judging from the linked post, you don't appear to address the difficult issues of rounding and conversion to and from strings in any meaningful way. To have an "approach" you need to know how to round intermediate and final results and how to convert every input and output.
Never worked for Google, but.

This shouldn't be surprising. Perhaps comparing it to Oracle might not be quite right, I leave that to people who know, but Google is pretty obviously not the startup/disrupter of 2000-2004 any more. It is now 20+ years old and huge, and that means it is going to be somewhat like any very large organization: internal politics/empire defending, standardised compensation and management, mission, vision and values, etc. Your experience likely varies greatly depending on where in the org you land and who with - some people will come out writing blog posts and some people will find their happy place and never leave.

The interesting part around Google is that they had a kind of mythical status amongst techies that's lasted quite a lot longer than the early days. But they're just another big company now.
What timeframe are you talking about?

I could be mistaken, since I no longer have the files from close to 30 years ago.

But I did think I saw a case in which it would try to email corporate about using too many seats.

It was memorable because that's the first time I saw that, and it seemed clever but invasive.
The entire sales pitch for SAP is that Oracle and Microsoft based solutions tend to fail even worse then SAP based ones, and that there is no real success stories where a smaller vendor/startup have manged to deliver anything that comes near handling the complexity the old mainframe/minicomputer systems people are trying to replace can.
What's the next big thing in the field?
Since you chose to ignore most of the content of my comment I try again in a shorter way:

- in your country, do you have the FREEDOM to tell lies about whoever you chose to whoever you want? Like the media or police for example?