skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
adolph that's not going to help him/her.

In more generalized terms, OP what you need to do is called risk management analysis.

At your age, your parents typically do this for you but its never too early to start learning it. It applies to many aspects in life, in chess its called adversarial thinking, or prophylaxis.

To do this, basically, you start by having a goal, something you want to do or have done. Then you start by asking yourself what are the most likely risks or outcomes (what can happen), then you extend that to the uncommon but do happen risks, potentially the risks and the rare risks if the failure is particularly critical as well (i.e. safety-critical, or impacts your well-being).

Write them down, then determine what your requirements, dependencies, and what your points of failure are, how many points of failure do you have, is there a single point of failure where everything depends on a single thing, can that break?

Once you have it on paper, then reorganize to reduce, eliminate, mitigate, or remove those points of failure. Sometimes that means creating redundancy (more than two of a thing to combat a single point of failure) because that provides flexibility. Brittle systems break, flexible systems can cope or gracefully degrade if a leg of the system diagram is broken. This is called system resiliency in IT.

Unexpected things will happen, and if you've gamed out what those outcomes are ahead of time, and worked backwards, and have a plan for dealing with them (mitigating), or have removed the issue by investing more or doing something differently, you are well on your way because you prepared ahead of time, and if something does happen you don't have to deal with the emotional shock alongside trying to figure out what you are going to do because you've written your plan out (step-by-step) and have contingencies in place. You just need to pull out the instructions you made, and follow them, and hopefully you've written the instructions, and validated them ahead of time.

They should be written in a way that you can mindlessly follow them because you won't be nearly productive while you are in it, strong emotions have a way of clouding our thinking and sapping our productive efforts.

When you first start doing this, it takes practice, which is why I said write it out, it can be as simple as a series of circle nodes as long as you account for those previous items how you write it out doesn't matter.

This is used in many different places, and its particularly critical in IT (i.e. backups, business continuity, disaster recovery). Contingency planning (another name for a part of this), means you always have at least one fallback plan. If its not written/documented, its not a plan.
Well the username checksout for the original commenter.
It's not just that it is unpopular, but that it contributed nothing. We all know this code is dense and not what most people (me included) want C code to look like, so a comment just stating so without contributing something more constructive will not do well.
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I thought the idea is the brain is going to be scanned and uploaded to the Matrix.
If you like sci-fi the “bobiverse” series that starts with We Are Legion (We Are Bob) is good and use cryogenics as a central part of the setup.

One question it explores: what exactly might people in the future want to do with the consciousness that have been frozen (hint it might not be good), and why?

Not award winning like Octavia Butler but it’s a fun read.
The last season did
I think there's some chance of success but if you look at what Nintendo brings in annually (~$16B) on something that is much, much more accessible it's a little shaky. Maybe all it will take is the magic game that has everyone clamoring for it but even then people have to continue using it.
I'm not going to attempt to answer this question in the context of "Web3". Personally, I think that anything with that moniker is doomed to be associated with charlatans now. But, for a fleeting moment, it seemed like Hayek was going to be right:

“I don’t believe we shall ever have a good money again before we take the thing out of the hands of government, that is, we can’t take it violently out of the hands of government, all we can do is by some sly roundabout way introduce something that they can’t stop.” – F.A. Hayek 1984
Balls to the wall is not from testicles.
As much as I hate bitcoin and blockchain and think that the technology is simply not very useful outside of speculation (+ bad from ecology point of view + slow + unsalable + often a simple database can be better + ...), the one argument that they they say I agree on. Transparency.

Clearing houses do not provide any real information what they do. Supposedly they are regulated, but nobody really seems to look under the rug - which seems to have a lot of dead bodies (anyone remembers the Clearstream scandals?).

DTCC was accused multiple times during the Gamestop saga for allowing naked short selling + for allowing "fail to deliver" all the time. And the worst is that we really dont know. There were no real investigations, no real audits, no information provided to the general public. We are supposed to "trust" the clearing house, but without the ability to verify what it is doing. So how can we know what they are doing? The things we have dont really show what they are doing; also different thing is that they can claim to do one thing, but do something different in reality.

I bet that clearing houses are allowing naked shorts all the time, because nobody can really control it. Are there any programmers doing complicated code reviews with sys admins? The "big four" audits are a joke, they check some papers, of things that supposedly happened or did not happen.

Audits are done by accounting by graduates, who barely understand basics of accounting and here we talk about inspecting complicated software of some clearing house that does a million things per second. Everything is done inside some complicated operatically tool - and I doubt big 4 has any chance to understand it, if even they investigate it, because probably it is outside of scope - they just investigate the print outs, or Excel files "provided by customer". Everyone who works in finance knows that audits are a joke; the auditors barely understand what normal things are doing - and they can barely keep up with the financial part; here we talk about actual checking if the business side isnt cheating somehow inside its software.

A clearing house can just run two sets of books; also how can anyone know it isnt front-running, or naked shorting? There is a lot of money on the table in that and I bet someone tried to skim some of it from time to time. And as I said, we will never know, since this information is hidden from public. We dont really have any way to check it and very doubt if those who check really do.
Years ago when I was in medical school, I concluded to improve quality of life, no matter how finite, is a better endeavour than to prolong it. There's something tremendously philosophically satisfying to recognizing that death is just the recycling of life so that new life can happen.
I think you're right. Most of the top google results seem to be from people who can't mentally separate c and c++. So when i tried to look it up around the time of the comment, i didn't get clear answers.
Amazon prime might, they get a big discoverability bonus from the fact that so many people have Aamzon Prime for other reasons already.
I don't believe it's been consistently the fastest way to copy memory even post-ERMSB. (It would be great and convenient if it were!)
Users flagged it, software marked it as a flamewar, and moderators downweighted the thread. I don't know in what order these things happened, but as the article seems like garden-variety political material (not to mention flamefodder), it's not particularly on topic for HN.

p.s. Number of comments doesn't make a story rank higher, nor should it.
This is good to know - thanks! I will look for something like this for Android.
I use zstd in my btrfs filesystem as a transparent file compression. I can still seek inside files.
They have a water gun. They chose not to stand at a safe distance shooting water into a burning building. Because... water is too expensive to waste on these people who didn't pay their taxes or whatever. Instead, they chose to stand at a safe distance, not shooting their water gun, and just watch the building reduced to ash.
Sorry, my description wasn't clear. When a house is built and sold for the first time, the initial owners have to put money into escrow equivalent to 30 years worth of projected energy use (at current rates for electric and gas). They aren't pre-purchasing energy. The escrow pays out at a fixed rate over 30 years to whoever currently owns the house. No need to track energy usage.

More efficient houses (insulation, solar panels, etc) will have much less projected energy use, so far less money needs to be put into escrow, which would make new efficient houses cheaper than new less efficient houses. Unfortunately, it does nothing about existing stock.
This can be fixed by an app update as they may check each time you open the app whether they have the required permissions or not.
Most likely not, mostly due to lack of discovery.

When you start off an an empty instance, the only thing you see is yourself. There are no trends, there are no posts, and everywhere you click is just you.

You have to start following people for it start populating, but that requires knowing strings to follow. And then you can you see is stuff in your bubble (maybe a feature?).

But it really missing the dopamine response, as after you read the stuff people you follow posted or boosted; there is nothing.

A dedicated person can push through this initial period. But for mass appeal, people will quickly bounce if they feel like no one else is there.
Just to say it out loud: there are plenty of geeks w/o a VPS, either because they hack on things that don't generally need a server (like hardware, or radio, or any number of other geek pursuits) or because they've historically used local gear for their compute tasks.

If you have a VPS, I agree, adding a cronjob to it is both cheap and easy. But it's silly to assume that anybody who is a geek has a VPS already.
I've seen that very thing in Prime Video. There was a show where the first episode was free, but after that had to subscribe to (I think) Paramount+, which you could do via Amazon.
Yes.

A non-trivial number of them. Thousands, out of millions, at least.
You're both right! Cell mobility is enhanced in wet / moist environments, as are the ion gradients that help guide cells to wounds. So during the initial phase of healing keeping the wound moist promotes healing, however it will never "close up" except in dry conditions. The promotion of the formation of scar tissue and other outer layers of skin is triggered by air + dry conditions. (When you get skin cancer you learn all sorts of fun things, wear your sunscreen kids.)
Your body can't fill gaps if it's dry. Look into wound-vac tech if you're interested in wet healing of wounds
Highly encourage folks to take a look at Valetudo. I recently installed it on a Dreame Z10 Pro and it works well. Even without various integrations, I added a DNS record for it and can happily go to http://vacuum/ to control it locally.
In my entire long career in software, faster memcpy is a constant topic. I remember using the IBM PC DMA chip to make it faster.
When we talk about scale, are we really talking about bottlenecks?

What fascinates me, is that LetsEncrypt has 2 beefy servers and that's it.

Surely, a few million packets of highly compressible text over the pipe isn't that much of an issue? Is it? I've never done it so interested in hearing thoughts.
> Yeah, but what if that decentralized network of trustless computers already exists, and transactions costs relative to costs you would otherwise incur are very low?

Sure and what if unicorns were real? Horses would seem pretty boring then I bet.

> The premise of your argument is that building a clearinghouse is cheaper and easier than using a blockchain. That seems laughable, honestly.

I guess it’s good that we are both laughing at each other then.
I haven’t seen any implementations yet, and given their patent licensing situation, they’re probably not first in line for a rewrite in Rust.

There’s rav1e for AV1 encoding.
Accepting for the sake of argument that it is actually neo-Nazi content, isn't that still protected speech in the US? And isn't the government pressuring someone to censor a violation of the First Amendment?
Kidding aside, I think this is an excellent point.
I tried this with quinoa today. It did not puff, but it tasted fully cooked with a nice carmelized flavor similar to popcorn. It worked really well on top of a salad. Here's my recipe:

- Heat one cast-iron or heavy bottomed pot under medium heat.

- Add 1/2 cup quinoa (work in batches for more)

- Stir consistently for 1-2 minutes, until quinoa turns medium-brown or smoke begins to appear

- Remove immediately from heat.

- Add 2 tsp oil. Mix in pinches of salt, garlic, onion powder, paprika.

- Let cool 3-4 minutes and serve.
I find the meta implications on this thread quite interesting:

How cheap can you run this cron job, the basics:

- 8,765 invocations a year

- Lambda: $0.20 per 1M requests

- Cloudwatch Events: $1.00 per 1M requests

$1.2 / 1,000,000 * 8,765 = About 1 cent

Is anybody going to host that as a service for this price? Absolutely not.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

The claim “firefighters wouldn’t come if someone’s life was in danger from a fire” is extraordinary. The evidence “firefighters didn’t come when no one’s life was in danger from a fire” isn’t.

Come up with real evidence or quit bellyaching.
When library 1 through 10 take this approach to wrapping a common exception you get the above behavior. Obviously a single library should have a coherent internal story
The article refers to cryonic storage units as Dewars:

The vacuum flask was designed and invented by Scottish scientist Sir James Dewar in 1892 as a result of his research in the field of cryogenics and is sometimes called a Dewar flask in his honour. While performing experiments in determining the specific heat of the element palladium, Dewar made a brass chamber that he enclosed in another chamber to keep the palladium at its desired temperature. He evacuated the air between the two chambers, creating a partial vacuum to keep the temperature of the contents stable. Dewar refused to patent his invention, and the flask, as developed by others using new materials such as glass and aluminium, became a significant tool for chemical experiments and also a common household item.

Dewar's design was quickly transformed into a commercial item in 1904 as two German glassblowers, Reinhold Burger and Albert Aschenbrenner, discovered that it could be used to keep cold drinks cold and warm drinks warm and invented a more robust flask design, which was suited for everyday use. . . . In his subsequent attempt to claim the rights to the invention, Dewar instead lost a court case to the company.
I’m the late 90s it was common to write programs to help you cheat at Physics exams. Might be horribly counter productive to actually learning the content.

Well anyone who is a software engineer would probably see it wasn’t.

By writing and endlessly debugging a program to solve physics problems, you ended up mastering the material. I’m not sure whether physics teachers turned a blind eye to this “cheating”

I’m imagining a similar “lengthy” chat interaction with ChatGPT to craft the perfect essay. Reading it, asking for edits, and tweaking it and so on. Maybe this is the optimistic take, but it could be students actually use it to produce, study, create, and “internalize” deeper arguments.
This is the mindset of most of the medical field so basically you bought into the status quo. Nothing profound about that. Those that are interested in longevity reject such notions because it leads to very little research in how to prolong life, or see death as a disease worth curing.
That's besides the point. someone might think of testicles if you were ever to say such a thing, which could be psychologically damaging to those that have a fear of balls.
I hope this kicks off a trend of more HFR movies. Imo people are just used to movies looking like 24fps like they are used to interviewees sounding like AirPod quality mics but after the adjustment period it’s pretty obvious that higher frame rates just look better.
Check out Eleven Table Tennis!
From the article it seems as if it just got them more compute in a timely manner (not compared to the other cloud vendors but compared to local government bureaucracy).
+1 for The Odyssey. I started it during an off year, almost as an intentionally-irrelevant book to pick up and forget about, but it ended up being a genuine gem; one I remember fondly, and often.
It’s ok, just add a bit more orange juice or whatever. ;)
You’ve had a limb removed and recovered from phantom pains? How interesting!

Did you do mirror therapy or anything like that?
Yikes, please don't break the site guidelines like this. We ban accounts that do that.

Your comment would be fine without that last sentence.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Just wanted to say that I’m a big fan of temporal. Looking forward to taking a look at this product and seeing how it compares to temporal cloud offering
The NSA should be required to give you all public information that they have on you... it would be a convenient place to get everything.
Years later i still disagree. But I also don't like HD.
Yeah, you can only do it with hot foods that are effectively being constantly sterilised.
> The downside of lz4 is that it can’t be configured to run at higher & slower compression ratios.

lz4 has some level of configurability? https://github.com/lz4/lz4/blob/v1.9.4/lib/lz4frame.h#L194

There's also LZ4_HC.
That info won't be coming out for a while...

I can say though, that Manuka's a CPU renderer only (it used to be a GPU renderer as well, but that functionality was removed years ago).
Cheap?
Elephant in the room but going to mention it anyway: shared Apache host usually has cron+php+db.
Be interesting to see if Wētā becomes a bit more cavalier in their subject matter given that they can command a larger amount of compute.
I rarely see this discussed, but in this case, and many others, I think a large portion of AWS's adoption stems from how taxes work.

Because AWS can be written off as an "operating expenditure" immediately, it is far more tax advantageous than a "capital expenditure" that must be depreciated/amortized over several years.

I'm not an expert on movie financials, it could be that the way graphics/vfx houses and production companies are compensated to do films this doesn't actually matter. But I feel like this point is generally under discussed for how much of an impact it has on companies choosing whether to go cloud or buy their own hardware.
Russia's CPU Substitution Plan Hits a Snag
Postmortem Examination of Three Cryonic Suspension Patients (1984)
This was also my favorite 2022 book.

I don’t think it would have been on my list without others recommendations
Yeah, no. Have you looked at the way education is performed and assessed lately?

> The whole point of testing is to put them in hypothetical situations and grade their progress with purpose of being aware of their development so we can improve it.

Yes, that is the stated purpose, but it does not match reality. I have only seen a couple of examples of this approach to assessment in all of my years of education. Most teachers optimize for their time commitments and "coverage" of the syllabus material.
I'd rather they grow us more fruit and let the 'wet' states grow the almonds. This Almonds in a desert seems very inefficient.
Chrome issue: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=124697...
Tiktok has demonstrated the upper levels of dissociation possible on a phone. The logical next step for the app purveyors of the world is a device that affixes itself to your face and keep reality out entirely.
Oh; I've been meaning to subscribe to whatever service had Better Call Saul to binge watch it (now that I'm getting bored with HBO Max, and they cancelled / concluded most of the recent shows I watch).

Thanks for the heads up.

(I can't see the Discovery acquisition going well. The whole premise is that they'll cut 3 billion dollars from the production pipelines of the networks that were involved, but will somehow maintain / grow their revenues. I don't see the difference between this and attempting to improve GM's margins by firing all their factory workers and focusing on collection interest payments from existing car loans.)
If you're interested in a better version of that I have a project that works with all players that support the MPRIS DBus interface: https://github.com/mariusor/mpris-ctl. I'm using it for keybindings to play/pause and show song information with a tiling windows manager.
Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34039816 - Dec 2022 (332 comments)

(We've merged this thread thither)
Why would you expect any of this to be rational? It's just people trying to exert power over others, because we collectively let them behave in this way.
I’d imagine natural selection plays a part. Eventually after all the taverns in dangerous (for taverns, not individual humans) locations are ransacked, the site of locations the survivors were built in will enter the zeitgeist as “This seems like a good spot for a tavern.”
Join something like sdf.org and pay the $60 or so dollars for lifetime membership and you’re all set.
It can preserve flavor, but it becomes concentrated as the water evaporates away, so i wouldn’t say you should ever grab a bowl of just that.

Master stocks are used as a base in Chinese cooking the same way a lot of recipes already start from a stock; but it is rarer and rarer for home cooks to make stock from scratch and not just use a box from the store in the US. I have a lot of friends that categorically do not cook meat with bones in it. The Chinese one is also different from hunters’ stew in that it is a specific soup used as a base for future versions of said specific soup
That's not how that works at all. CapEx is more advantaged than OpEx. OpEx does not get written off at all. CapEx can be depreciated.
http://web.archive.org/web/20221219160303/https://itcommunit...

https://archive.ph/8puIG

https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/stanfordlanguag...
How Naming the James Webb Telescope Turned into a Fight over Homophobia
Never go full Sapir–Whorf.