skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Without implying that your purchase choices are wrong by any mean, it's worth reminding that the price difference incorporates several hidden costs:

- general higher costs to manufacture in Europe (including labor rights)
- certifications about hazardous substances, radio compliance etc.
- R&D (clones just download the CAD file and load it into the machines with zero costs for product design, development, testing etc.)
- software development of the cores/board support packages (clones benefit from the upstream development with zero cost on their side)
- software development of the tooling (IDE, CLI...) which is a recurring cost as things need to be maintained (clones benefit from the work done by Arduino with zero cost on their side)
- marketing/adv/evangelism/documentation (clones have almost zero cost as they benefit from the long tail of the promotion made by Arduino)

That said, this is legit and Arduino even encourages it by deliberately making the products open source hardware thus releasing the files that any cloner can use and become a competitor at a fraction of the original costs. Buyers can freely choose if they want to support those costs or not, it's up to their ethics, budget and personal choice. But the prices are different because there are different thing inside.
i thought it meant "you should work on your naivete if you believe the barista sincerely flirted with you"
But micro plastic have been found in newborns, so why not avoid it until science isn't unclear? Seems to be the smart way but I'm no expert.
OpenAI and ChatGPT Is in Trouble
Inability to "split a cheque" is still a very annoying limitation; completely normal behaviour to do this in NZ, still moderately weird in Australia (although it's got better).

The ability to resolve this electronically rather than with cash makes it less bad, but still easier and faster to resolve it in store.
it's useless as a solution to the actual problem because usually the filename and an image preview are the only pieces of information you get about an image no matter where you are and saying "well just display the quality level" is incredibly ignorant of the literal entire world not doing this

uploaded a file to discord? preview and filename

found an image on google? preview and filename

opening a file on your computer? i fail to understand how windows explorer is not relevant when you can't just set the image viewer for save/open dialogs on windows, that's just not a thing that's possible to do

and even then, do i want to know the quality level of an image only after saving it manually? also no

tl;dr when you see a .jxl file you have no idea how compressed it is, but when you see .png you know that it's always lossless. it's not hard to understand how png will stay relevant for at least this reason
I have a few smart power plugs outside that I like being on the cloud so I can control the string lights connected to them from bed without having to go outside and actually hit the physical switch.

It's also super frustrating that they all need their own servers and app and infrastructure. You'd think there'd be a standard by now. Last time when the power went out for several hours I had to resync the switch.
If it isn't plastic then what is it? We have been steadily identifying and reducing the number of toxic agents the public is exposed to. Fifty years ago in the 70s the average person would have regular exposure to lead gas, lead paint, tobacco smoke (even if they didn't smoke themselves - indoor smoking was still legal), potent pesticides, and maybe even asbestos. But there were far fewer everyday plastics at the time.
commendable to plan a few years ahead, but betting on the state of cloud business 26years from now seems a bit over the top
Probably a collection of all available large language models. Haven't managed to access the site but by the name and some comments I can deduce that much.
That's not much of a standard.
Hi, I recently released a very simple ad-supported app for motivational quotes. This is my first app and I would like some feedback. Thank you!
Not exactly. You also need to be aware if your field is dominated by young people or high insecurity.

For example as a JavaScript developer my interests are almost entirely in systems automation with Node and building feature complete end user products. That is completely out of alignment with my peers and what the industry is looking to hire. The name of the game is tools, frameworks, and trends for putting text on screen in a web browser. When you are fresh in your career its all about the literacy of the experience as in how to write code and just delivering anything, but eventually you will grow out of that. When you grow out of that you need to make sure you are in a position where the expectations of your employment grow with you.
> Good code also adheres to established best practices, [...]

Controversial opinion, but in my experience so far people usually say "this is best practice" as a way to avoid thinking, or to masquerade personal preferences. Not always, but more often than not.

As soon as you ask "why is it a best practice?", "what are the consequences of not following this best practice?", "since 'best' implies there's a 'not-best', what is an example of the 'not-best practice' that this wants us to avoid doing?".

The answer is usually something vague and handwavy like "because it's more scalable", but if you challenge that by saying "what do you mean with 'scalable'? can you give an example?", you usually won't get an answer.

Doing stuff without understanding the reason, that's cargo cult.

To be clear, I have nothing against people saying "I understand the code better like this"; it's subjective but honest, and it doesn't try to pass a subjective argument as if it were an objective truth. What I dislike is people saying "this is best practice" like an absolute truth that must be blindly followed and never challenged, without even considering the circumstances of the current project.

Please spare me from turning a simple HTTP CRUD of 4 endpoints into an overkill Icosahedronal Architecture with a reason like "when we need to write an v2 this will make it easier without needing a rewrite!"; because I know that when the time comes for an v2 you'll rewrite from scratch anyway because then you'll want to use the new and better(tm) Perpendicular Riemann Zeta Architecture.
A lot of these discoveries were also published in the same year (1905):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annus_mirabilis_papers

(General relativity was 1915.)
The ^H^H^H^H above was for human readers though.
LLM Censorship: A Machine Learning Challenge or a Computer Security Problem?
CDC says Polio is "99 - 100 % effective" against paralytic polio [0]. So essentially perfect efficacy. Covid vaccines look like a failure in comparison (<60% effective against hospitalization, much more significant harms)[1]

To me the problem wasn't that the vaccines didn't perfectly to prevent infection and transmission; the problem is that the messaging from the medical field was that the vaccine _would_ prevent transmission and harmful reactions would be rare. No matter how much one squints, neither of those look remotely true.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/polio/hcp/effectiveness-dur...
[1] https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/covid-19-vaccine-compariso...
> when something goes wrong, it's not just one thing, there's bunch of things broken at the same time and their status page will show everything green

How dare they use AWS' patented approach to having a service outage.
Perhaps he was an avatar of one of the universe simulator's programmers, giving us a nudge to move the scenario along.
So it’s worse than what the media is saying? Because the state has exerted even more control over local authorities? Not sure what you’re getting at here.
If you lose a single instance on RDS and you don't have replication set up, you'll also have downtime. (Maybe not with Aurora?)

And +1 to the sibling comment; Fly makes it very clear that single instance postgres isn't HA, and talks about what you need to do architecturally to maintain uptime.
When I was visiting CERN, the whole accelerator was in maintenance mode. We have seen a detector (IIRC it was ATLAS) which was disassembled in layers, so we were able to see almost all of it.

Our guide explained that whole schedule for maintenance and operation is set in stone and whole schedule is planned almost to hour resolution for the next six months or so. Also it's worth noting that, there is periodic maintenance that needs to be done, and that's also planned in advance.

Because of this stringent requirements, "several weeks" of shift is indeed a major problem, and by several I guess they are looking to ~8 weeks, if not more.
CMBlu Delivers First Organic SolidFlow Energy Storage to Solar Park in Austria
Please check this little known but excellent book by John English [1].

This book clearly explains the basis and the fundamentals of operating systems concepts using two of the most popular OS namely Linux and Windows as case studies.

This book is going to be 20 years old next year, but since not much has changed for OS (monolithic) in the past 20 years it should be fine for the introduction to the main OS concepts.

p/s: If anyone here know Dr John English, please request him to update his book for the latest information on OS.

[1]Introduction to Operating Systems: Behind the Desktop:

https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/introduction-to-operating-syst...
This is a pretty reasonable approach -- I guess relying on the platform to supply the same import for the same identifier (URL/file path/etc in the browser) is enough for state, but I really wanted something a bit more declarative somehow...

Feels like almost all of the world is now wonderfully DOM-friendly/not hidden from HTML but maybe it just doesn't make sense to try to make state declarative in terms of the display layer anyway.
Retro Useless Operating System for the PDP11
“built” and “usable” are two very different things. The resources on an Arduino are so small that you wouldn’t have a usable system. Which is what the other comments on those links you provided also, rightfully, say.

I remember seeing a post where someone has ported Linux to a hobby CPU, might have even been built in Minecraft, but it took several days just to boot. That’s the kind of distinction I’m making here. Just because you can compile to the right instruction set, it doesn’t mean you have anything that is even remotely usable as an operating system.

The key thing you’re missing here is the size of the kernel, which is bigger than the cache size of the chips. And that’s before you factor in the GNU userland. And without an MMU, addressing all of that is going to be painful on such a low footprint system.
Quite frankly to list the Atomic bomb, Hollywood and social media among the "advances" is cringe to say the least.
Not to invalidate your point, but some countries have the concept of "utility" defined in law. This adds a bunch of gates that must be passed before the provider can cut service. Your power can only be cut after months of non-payment and not, e.g., because you are racist to their worker.

Also, the power going out doesn't break your legacy door locks.
I've been using Supabase for authentication/authorization in my recent side project.

The main app is node/express running on Digital Ocean and it connects to directly to the Supabase hosted Postgres for most operations, but then uses the Supabase auth API for auth related stuff.

Saves a lot of time sending password reset emails etc and the entire project costs less than $5/mo in hosting costs.
i'll guess they pick optimized components for it.

like the longtime workhorse was a high performance skylake desktop cpu w/o ecc ram
I have no idea about this stuff but wouldn't it be fair to say that those ... byproducts.. haven't been found in humans, so at least it isn't comparable to plastics?
Why Men Get So Few Matches on Dating Apps [video]
No, it isn’t. Open source and free software define the same thing in different ways. FSD defines the user’s freedoms, OSD defines what the license cannot forbid. The end result is the same though.
Knowledge is all you need.

With having knowledge in different domains, one should learn to interconnect Domains in a chain-of-thought.

This isn't easy. But can be trained. Just like with different languages. You may be able to speak several languages fluently. But to speak with the grammer of the first, using the words of the second and "thinking" in third - fluently - isn't as easy, if the third isn't your mother language. But this can be trained. I needed like 2 months with each day talking am the phone to reach that ability. So. I'm smart now :)

The same applies to technical knowledge, that needs to be interconnected with economic knowledge. One's need to train train train.
Social Acceleration
How does it compare to Arrow, other than not being purely tabular?
"skip the boilerplate" but it's an npm package requiring a build system (:
I work with control systems and have a similar mantra: "You can't overcome physics with software." It's super common to have someone ask if a mechanical/human/electrical/process issue can be fixed with software because people believe that programming time is free. Sometimes it's not even that it's impossible to do in software, but adding unnecessary complexity almost always backfires and you'll wind up fixing it the right way anyway in the end.
Not at your volume. It would probably cost you more to switch than you'd save, considering the time and training investment involved.

Assuming $250k per year at $15/transaction gives ~16,666 transactions a year. With base Stripe pricing, that means you're paying $5k for the $0.30 per transaction fee and another $7.2k for the 2.9% interchange plus fee. So $12.2k in fees per $250k processed, or 4.9% of processed dollars. Adyen is probably going to be about the same given your volume.

It's important to know that Stripe charges the same fee even though the fee for processing American Express is different from Visa, which is different from Discover and all are more expensive than debit cards. If your business skews highly towards American Express, than Stripe is actually giving you the best rate you could hope for. If you're volume skews debit cards, than Stripe is giving you the worst rate.
What do you propose exactly? What should we monitor?

By the way, I worked at CERN for a few years up to the first months of operations of LHC. Furthermore, I've been living in the region since then; for several years, my home was exactly over the LHC tunnel.

I've never got a nightmare from that!
IMO, the only problem I see with the game is the lack of a map screen. The acts being a single map with no barriers of travel makes the game feel small when the goblins can't find the "hidden" druid alcove that is 1min walking distance away

The world feels too dense, the plot is about traveling but it doesn't feel like you are traveling anywhere, it feels like you are playing in a kids playground where all attractions are right next to the other attractions
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Companies with large turnovers (above Rs 50 crore - 6$ million) are mandated to have a route to accept digital payments

https://incometaxindia.gov.in/communications/circular/circul...

Besides this, stakeholders/partners of the NPCI are mandated to offer UPI services. I'm not sure if signing up was optional, but it would honestly be suicidal for a bank not to, given that there are so many competitors offering the same.
> Science requires a substantial amount of creativity.

I would argue that creativity is where all science begins. What more is a hypothesis really, than a science fiction story that has yet to meet reality?
What a thread. None of this sniping about people's personal situations belongs in an HN discussion.
I can't find what you're referring to, but I would be interested if you could share it.
That's how it works in the EU.
Or even more, you're arrogant :)

But that should be a compliment in one's eyes. If the not so smart ones think your arrogant-> achievement unlocked
Took a tour in local university physics lab dealing with helium. My takeaway is that liquid nitrogen is essentially free. And used to protect or keep helium parts colder. So anyway in process you have so much of it that simply having it boil away or be discarded is not big deal.
I understand that too, but you also need to understand that the public for such articles are the people that wonder exactly how does Oppenheimer ranks among the scientists of his era.
Ecto: A toolkit for data mapping and language integrated query
The logistics of combining fields in indexes and identifiers is relatively complex, while the logistics of indexing a single field is comparatively trivial. This is also why you don't ship timestamps using separate fields for second/minute/hour/day/month/year, but a single ISO-string or UNIX timestamp as representation: it makes querying and interpreting the value more consistent.
Well, the power company is a third party. The city water supply has lasted more than 10 years.

Perhaps we can get IoT services regulated the same way.
I think by "that" he means the author's:

"All I could think was how repulsed she would feel if she ever saw [real me] ... I just could never get past how I feel about myself, and see myself, relative to her"

That's not healthy, it's almost uncertainly untrue (we all have bodies!), and it's something therapy could help with.
this model doesn’t seem at all representative of real-world outcomes.

That made laugh. Like you said, it doesn't pass the sniff test.

That should be the first thing any scientist does with their results - Does this match up with what we current know about X?

If it doesn't, you need to go back and find out what's wrong with your model.
Don't you think the Swiss and French governments wouldn't have thought about safety almost 70 years ago?

Safety is an important part of the collaboration, which is evident when you work there.

This is evaluated by people who understand physics, chemistry, and biology, and it is the alternative science people that tend to not want to believe that and keep warning of dangers that don't exist.

It is good to always remain critical, but after a while you've used up all arguments to explain that the radiation in your microwave is not radioactive.

I guess the scary part is that they called it a leak instead of a hole. I am sure if I say there is a leak in my sock that some will start to worry.
Besides helium, what substances are you worried about leaking?
> Honestly, it would have had them either way.

The pre-soviet famines were of natural causes - crop failures due to droughts etc. After soviets took over the country, these were still ocurring, but were dwarfed by man-made famines, caused by idiotic economic policies (mainly by forced collectivization, which decimated productivity).
I like tools and I like them to be simple and reliable. When it comes to tools in use by others (such as heating, lights), I also want them to be easily serviceable without me. This rules out any home automation I've seen. The cloud-shite, well, an obvious no-go. Roll your-own server and integrations: complicated and looking around user groups, pretty fragile. Simpler off-the shelf stuff: barely does more than what I already can accomplishment with non-automated tools.

Anyone I talk to doing this, seems to be using it as a toy first and last. Which is fine, but to me, not ready for anything other than wasting my time. I'm not wasting time of others in my house with it.
Does that deserve a copyright strike?
If that’s the joke then bravo, that’s hilarious.
I am curios about this, and might be misunderstanding what you mean.

Can you layout a demo architecture where you use multiple keys like you propose?
How does a US resident get US dollars out of a decentralized exchange?
I'm a chemist and I'm not sure what the problem with polymers is? Many of them are some of the most inert substances we know of.

Maybe you could share what these chemists told you?
100% of substances are bad for you under some circumstances.

You have breathed in millions of liters of nitrogen. It is as safe as any substance could possibly be.
Surely IoT without the Internet is a NoT.
> The probability of a collision is roughly the same as the probability of a fully grown dinosaur spontaneously manifesting in your bedroom due to quantum fluctuations.

I'd love to see the math for the probability of the second option.
Couldn't agree more, I think Hetzner is probably Europe's best bet on a hyperscaler. One of the more telling indicators IMO is their growing market share outside of the EU/DACH.

To add on to the comments about Hetzner building their own custom hardware, they also custom built their own software stack. They rejected the hype that was OpenStack and worked diligently on their own hypervisor platform (that they are incredibly secretive about) and that appears to be paying off in spades for them. Most sovereign cloud plays end up being suffocated by the complexity, and incoherence, of the OpenStack ecosystem. It just becomes impossible to ship.

For a fascinatingly different take on how to build a datacenter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eo8nz_niiM

* Edit: remove speculation about Kubernetes and Hetzner, that was based on hazy memory.
1,000,000,000ng is 1kg, so that'd would be as much plastic as solvent by mass.
Why is American Express so expensive?
Not sure if this previous thread from years ago will be of any use, sharing it just in case any of the alternatives are still relevant or could be of use for you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22596082

Mentions Adyen, Braintree, and Paddle
Do people actually do this - do people really hear up food in plastic containers?

I suppose people generally aren’t concerned about this sort of stuff.

People still eat off Teflon cookware, which I would never use.
This is an extremely important article to read for professionals of all sorts, not just freelancers.

It's an issue that I struggle with nearly daily. I can't convince customers to pay me what I'm worth, because they can't judge my true value. Meanwhile, they'll happily pay Deloitte or Accenture 3x as much as what I charge, and then take the misguided ramblings of a junior-sold-as-senior at face value, not knowing the difference.

> I’ve noticed that in nearly every skill tree I’ve climbed, there comes a point where you begin to notice certain nuances of skill that novices not only don’t notice, but that you cannot articulate using the commonly accepted vocabulary of the skill.

This happened to me just over the last month or so. I was trying to explain to a CTO how horrifically wrong it is to plumb their entire cloud network through just a pair of virtual machines for "security". I just could not make him understand that 5 milliseconds of additional latency in the era where microseconds are an eternity is a disaster for a veritable smorgasbord of upcoming projects. It just. Would. Not. Sink. In.

To some people, "micro" and "milli" sound the same. Latency just doesn't compute as a thing to be concerned about.

I've spent my career performance tuning, but then how do I explain this to people who think a 60-second timeout is a performance problem best solved by buying another million dollars worth of kit?

The article jumps between martial arts and the world of finance, so I'll jump to another example: AI playing games.

When I watched AlphaZero play chess, I was just a tiny bit impressed. I watched it beat the Go grandmaster and I was not very impressed. Then I watched it play Dota 2 -- in which I've sunk several thousand hours -- and holy crap. Wow! It was suddenly terrifying how good it was, because I could judge the nuance of what it was doing.