skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Backblaze just increased it to $6, which is pretty disappointing.

Their redundancy is only +18% as of their last post about it.

Though don't forget the servers that hold the drives adding another 1/3-ish.
I always forget this name. Was trying to remember it the other day.
> 5. Many US employers ban their employees from bringing company equipment (laptops) into China for fear of corporate espionage.

Even Hong Kong, these days.
Valve wanted me to send them a copy of my ID (amongst other things) in order to buy a Steam Deck. What they actually got was me closing my Steam account almost as soon as I opened it. Their "customer support" whose main training seems to revolve around how to be a smartass to their customers didn't exactly help, not that they were getting a copy of my ID regardless.
> I don't think you appreciate quite how many heads of cattle

Born and raised on a cattle station with multiple STEM degrees and decades mapping the world (large scale geophysical land and ocean survey) behind me ..

I don't think you appreciate how laughably condescending you come across.

Points being:

* I understand the total number of cattle under direct human management,

* I know that cattle can survive just fine without human management .. even in urban environments (ever seen free range unowned cattle in India?),

* I've already linked to what feral cattle look like and the damage they do.
The Origins of Tintin: Hergé’s Masterpiece – Perspective [video]
It’s interesting in that time we almost completely lost interest in neural networks and then came back around to them.
You know whether or not it's warranted before you run the test. That's the whole point of the discussion around when preventative testing is appropriate. The key is that the test is just one additional data point. Before running the test - you want to make sure that the data from the test will be useful for whatever purpose you want the test for (false positives could be ok if the point is to minimize false negatives). That way when you run the test, it's always "warranted" to follow up if needed. We do mammograms for healthy seeming people all the time - it's totally feasible that we'll determine that these new approaches are informative enough to become recommended for the general public, but we're still on that scientific journey
I mostly meant in terms of customization. I updated my wording to reflect my thoughts better. Sorry about that!
I think the general feeling is that even if China continues to rise, “we” don’t really want anything to do with them. Alternatives will be found and China will at the very least be a soft enemy that espouses something we don’t want to be, very much like the Soviet Union and the Cold War.
Robert's Rules of Order is great for making decisions collectively when there's more than a small handful of people involved. Rusty's Rules of Order (thanks IWW!). I also have experience with another system called Sociocracy, which is both a structure for holding meetings as well as a neat structure for organizing decision making authority in a decentralized way among people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociocracy

I've used these methods in non-profits, political party meetings, churches, and political activitist groups. However, I've never actually used these in the workplace! The key difference, I imagine, is in in my workplaces, there has always been a single individual or a couple individuals who clearly have the decision-making authority. They make ask for input from a wider group of people, but at the end of the day, they don't care if everyone's voice is heard, they just to make some kind of choice. Outside of the work I do for money, the other projects I'm drawn to are democratic.
I'm cynical because I've seen SO MANY terms quickly change, only to be told by people who are younger than my career that my use of a term is incorrect.

I'm cynical because I've been forced to be.

"copypasta" used to mean that a programs source code was copied from many places and hastily wired up so it all works without any cleanup or untangling of unnecessary bits of code, like casts from uint16 to uint32 so that one copied method could be used, then a cast back to uint16 so another copied method could be used, then a cast to uint32 again so that the ultimate result could be used.

could those types have been changed in the methods so that the casts weren't needed? you bet. but it is a hastily assembled Frankenstein's monster that lives and breathes but that gives you nightmares when you look at the source code again in 1 weeks time.

today, "copypasta" is often used to mean "I copied a single method from another project, used it, and now my program is legit copypasta, lol."

I'm just tired of people using words and technical terms without understanding them. I know that it's a reality of spoken languages, but I don't have to like it.
Thanks for the response. I wonder what the intent is.

I can see a merchant not wanting to pay the credit card transaction fee if the purchase is so low as to make the sale a wash or worse.

I just wonder if the $10 limit is throwing the dog a bone and small merchants really want/need a higher minimum to protect their margins.

Seems like not allowing merchants to decide how they accept payments is an overreach by the government.
Why would I want to travel somewhere where the government thinks I, as a person from "the west", am the literal embodiment of satan?

On a more personal note I've had a family member recently return from living in China. Harassment from local law enforcement had a large part to play.
The iPad software has been lagging behind its hardware for so long now.

My iPad and laptop both have an M1; the laptop has more RAM but they are effectively equally capable on paper. And yet, due to a series of entirely artificial restrictions, my iPad is useless for entire categories of applications. That power sits unavailable for me to ever utilise.

I’m sure the iPad Pro can live up to its name if you’re an artist or designer or maybe even something that involves 3D modelling, but outside of that absolutely not.

It’s a terrible shame because I think there really is value in a computer that fills the space between a phone and a “real” computer. Especially given its modularity (though the obscenely high pricing of Apple’s keyboard cases is another problem).

At this point the thing most holding the iPad back is Apple itself. Anything to do with software development is impossible or involves remotely interfacing with a second computer. The things it does support are tedious and frustrating, like file management (Files.app is hopeless) and multitasking (Stage Manager is a convoluted mess).

What the hell was even the point in splitting iPadOS out if it’s just gonna have the exact same limitations as iOS. I got a good deal on a used iPad Pro but when it comes time to upgrade this thing I’ll just go back to the middle of the road model for a nice, but ultimately unnecessary consumption device.
Healthcare in Canada has many problems but being "public" is not the cause of them. For decades conservative governments have underfunded the medical institutions in my municipality as a way of making true on their promise of lower taxes. Now the hospitals here are understaffed for the wave of infections every year and the staff is overworked. Things could be better if people stopped chasing lower taxes every election and actually thought about where that saved money was going to go. It doesn't need to go private. Although the Ford government in Ontario seems set to lead the province in that direction by continuing the legacy of conservative governments.
Nobody is suggesting that words be outside their definition. It's that the definitions are not super super narrow. And the other issue is that one person's interpretation of a word's most narrow definition is not going to be objectively right.
Kinda; actively sucking current/voltage difference away from a circuit breaker can allow you to interrupt a long DC line/part of a larger DC mesh without interrupting sufficiently distant users.
Think train line/streetcar grid.
I can’t help but think that if you’re doing business in China from abroad, it’s good to know Mandarin. Seems like a weird take to claim there’s zero value in it.
Yeah, kinda of. Not a lot of sunlight in Northern Europe. Not a lot of wind in some areas.
Even in places as English friendly as the Netherlands or Germany, working with locals is going to be smoother with a grasp of native tongues of the people you’re interacting with.

And if you’re actually interested in riding the ranks as a career it’s a must that you can be able to work in the language comfortable for your superiors (in some places that’ll be English, of course…)

It’s possible to not have it, but every successful outsider I’ve seen in foreign countries learn the local language even if it’s “unnecessary”
Monet's daring exploration of space and light in his Mediterranean paintings
"In fact I don't particularly care why they did it, I'm just interested in what precedents the case has set and whether the typical comments thrown around regarding the case have any merit."

What are the "typical comments thrown around". Perhaps could provide some references.
Legalized yes, legitimized, certainly not. This is not a copyright issue, this is a loyalty issue: Betraying the people who helped you get where you are is the kind of move a company makes when they no longer care to be perceived as ethical. This is not an important factor for everyone, but it's usually a pretty big deal in the open source world.
I just don't get the need to figure out a system that represents the true way of taking notes. Everybody is different: different in skills, needs and working styles. Some want a diary, others a 2nd brain. It doesn't matter which system you pick, the result will be: it fits somewhere between 50% and 90%.

To take clothes as analogy: when you buy a shirt off-the-shelf, you can (usually) choose between XXS to XXL. Let's assume you want to wear the shirt for the rest of your life, wouldn't the natural conclusion be: a tailor-made shirt?

The real solution is to take one note taking system as starting point and adapt it to your needs. There is no shortcut, it will take a while till you've figured out what your needs are and how you can adapt the system you chose.
High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups from 10 to 10k People
At the time I worked in Machine Learning (94-95) I was unaware of AD and my professor who built the objective function also determined its analytic derivative manually. I didn't learn about it until a few years ago and was amazed because I spend much of the late 90's learning enough Mathematica to make my own analytic derivatives.
Tech billionaires reportedly backing mysterious Solano County, CA land grab
How to Roman Republic, Part IIIc: Ten Tribunes, Two Censors and Twenty-Six Guys
I know, I linked to that blog over in my comment chain already. :)
> Cows absolutely have a place in the grasslands cycle

> grasslands are naturally occurring in every continent

Not all cattle are equal and not all grasslands evolved with cattle.

In the US bison and cattle aren't quite the same, and in Australia there were no cattle until introduced by Europeans .. now Australia has feral cattle damaging the natural grasslands:

https://news.csu.edu.au/feature/are-feral-cattle-the-brumbie...
Can this be avoided if you simply walk across the open border area? https://nypost.com/2023/08/22/border-patrol-admits-its-respo...
ACL tutorial is a treasure trove. Thank you so much for sharing.

Do you have any thoughts on how to handle real-time streaming data refreshes in such a system?
Has anyone REALLY followed the naming convention in the past 30 years? Nobody is going to visit your blog if it ends in .blog. People expect .com or at the most radical, .net. Raising prices x10 ain't the answer. All it does is make it harder for the little guy to get a not-spammy sounding website up and running.
As an American born person with some Chinese heritage, it's interesting to see this trend play out in myself alongside wider society.

When I was growing up, my parents and relatives would constantly try to convince me to learn my ethnic language, half to know my roots and half to catch the "China train".

In university, I took it upon myself to take Mandarin courses for several years, but only got to middling competency.

Now, as the years go on, I find that once innate desire to "one day learn Mandarin" gradually fade away. In terms of usefulness:
- it seems less and less likely that I'll ever live in China for a significant length of time due to all the common reasons others in the thread are mentioning
- I have many international Chinese friends, but our friendships are based on cultural affinity rather than linguistic affinity, so they're perfectly fine switching to English whenever we need to talk about something complex.

It's interesting, but many of my American peers of Chinese heritage are actually learning Korean or Japanese, which would have been extremely rare 10 years ago.
You are 100% correct in your thinking (I'm a medical doctor btw)

For some reason many people will argue ad nauseum that this very obviously true and simple fact isn't true
> Depending on the model...
Graphene Could Help Generate Hydrogen Cheaply and Sustainably
> Children can be very aware and it's often disregarded

Agreed. I like to think the boy who cried wolf is not about a dumb kid but a kid trying to do right thing with the only language a child has and warn about a wolf the adults were too arrogant to believe they’d missed and a child noticed.
7. I have no desire to be a political prisoner abducted to leverage a concession from the west. Same reason I would avoid Russia, North Korea, or probably areas of Mexico with cartels. See Michael Spavor, Michael Kovrig, and Brit Gringer.
Charles Martinet, the voice of Nintendo's Mario, steps down
Yes, our medical system is still in the stone age when it comes to correctly handling statistics

(source: am doctor)
Yes, but Apple Records aren't going to be phishing Apple Music customers.

Phishers won't be applying for trademarks to impersonate Apple.
I'd hire a Chinese student who graduates from a US university. Their understanding of Chinese & American culture/language would be far better than an American who studies Mandarin for a few years.
> No, it's not at all a weak justification, and it is the primary reason you shouldn't get these scans done.

Yes, it is weak. The so-called downside is that you might need to do intrusive procedures as a followup.

But guess what? You don't HAVE to do that.

> The cost of a false positive imaging flag is far worse

Now think about the costs of not detecting a true reading. Most cancers start having visible symptoms only when they are far too advanced to be cured.

So the status quo is: you wait until you get an incurable disease, and then use MRI to solemnly confirm that. And then use it to give you estimates on how soon you'll die.

> Rather: you'll pay the price in follow-up imaging, which won't be as benign as the MRI, or worse, in unnecessary intrusive diagnostics.

Or you can just wait for a bit and do another MRI to check if there's any worsening. If you can afford an MRI, you likely can afford a second one.
Beardyman still uses a laptop running Ableton as the central hub for his rig. It's 5 ipads and a laptop. The iPads are all just controllers.

You can see it in this short explanation video at the very start. And when he goes into the explanation, the very first thing he says is that the iPads control Ableton.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=yp5ICEWmtuQ
Ask HN: Care plan template for elderly parents – can you suggest improvements?
Hi HN, my elderly parents have dementia and cancer, and I'm learning about how to write a care plan template for my family members and caregivers.

I'm sharing a first draft, and I'm seeking constructive advice about what to add, to make it more helpful, thorough, and easy to use for more people.

https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/care-plan

So far, each item in the plan is because of an actual communication breakdown or problem-- what I'm learning is elder care is challenging. I'm hoping this free open source care plan template may help people.

AMA & thank you!
The German wall socket (Schuko) is actually rated for 250V 10A DC.
Or 250V 16A AC.

A DC plug isn't hard, considering this already assumes the user will pull the arc by ripping the plug of an e.g. flaming appliance.
It's technically a butterfly roof.

When the building was built in early 1880s Harrison was a major railroad line. The front of the building, as far as I can tell from contemporaneous surveys, was occupied by a small grocery with a shopkeeper's apartment in the back.

One theory is that the butterfly was used to accomplish a false front (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_false_front_architectu...) that was common in the West for commercial buildings.

Another is that the roof was used to channel rainwater into a single downspout that could be easily captured.

Either way, it is unusual. Butterflies didn't really emerge in the US until the mid-century modern movement in Southern California and then they were mostly style.
Porting Stunt Car Racer to the Commodore Plus/4
That’s why I like my Surface Go 2: it lets me carry a real OS in a tiny tablet form factor. I take it everywhere and it has been my only travel laptop for a couple of years. I have even done local Rust development while on flights.

If only it wasn’t so frigging slow… it’d be awesome.
I prefer to focus my imagination on picturing how angry Larry must have felt after becoming the owner of MySQL and learning that, even after spending a couple bullions on it, he still couldn't kill the thing.

And I always forget Hudson's name, but not the product.
> Rather than write down the seed phrases, Prime Trust opted to laser etch them into a piece of steel ... which ... it lost

So, someone or someones have the steel piece(s) with the seed phrases on them.

And that person or persons will be able to retrieve the funds at a future date, when the timing and location seems suitable. Maybe in say, Switzerland, when the prices for ETH, Bitcoin (etc) are high.

That's pretty incredible.
Ask HN: Who uses ChatGPT more than Google?
I find ChatGPT is becoming my starting place for most things.
I think Java, Haskell and C# are the main languages where you have both boxed and unboxed values (C++ if you start doing smart pointer stuff I suppose, tho "String" could be considered a very fancy boxed char*).

Python, Ruby, and JavaScript all have exclusively boxed values. "Everything is an object".

I'm not sure what languages you use but that pretty dramatically covers most of the mainstream (top 10 at least).
I’m reminded of the dotcom bubble when companies would proudly show off their “we’re in the big boy club” server rooms with millions of dollars in Cisco and Sun hardware, Oracle and BEA licenses, etc. and hope you wouldn’t notice that they had three customers and no sysadmins. Around the time you’re paying someone to metal etch your encryption keys, anyone with a shred of ethics should be asking whether that’s anything but marketing to the gullible – or a sign that your underlying technology isn’t a good choice.
I am going to climb onto the reasonal branch of "mfs still got multiple concentration camps in 2023" as a intuition for peeps not learning their language
Hilariously, they felt it necessary to point out to the bankruptcy judge that this was "extremely unlikely to happen again." You think?
> maybe it could via an emulator

As a programmer with serious mobile experience I fully understand it. But it sound a bit crazy that a powerful and more superior (and open! In both hard and sometimes soft - if with an opensource OS) platform need so _emulate_ an embedded one (mobile, usually at least partially proprietary one) to provide turn-by-turn nav: what appears to be a first-order need of anyone in the modern world.
It's somewhat implied by the first example on the Untouchable number page.

> The number 4 is not untouchable as it is equal to the sum of the proper divisors of 9: 1 + 3 = 4.

If repeated divisors were counted, that sum would be 7, not 4.

Another way to realize it would be to notice that 1 is a very special case if repetition counted. Would 1 be represented as a proper divisor infinite times? that would make every sum infinite. Or would there be a special case for why 1 is only counted once, but other numbers can be counted multiple times? or do you just exclude 1 from being a proper divisor?

If all the sums were infinite it wouldn't be interesting.. I suspect with the other 2 types of rules, almost none of the numbers would be "untouchable", which also makes it not interesting.

Count 1 only once and allowing repetition is this way. I found that 2 is "untouchable" since sum(1) = 1, sum(2) = 3, sum (3) = 4, sum(4) = 5. It's easy to see that every other sum will be larger than two.

All other even number is "touchable": for even n, take the lowest prime less than n and then multiply it by 2 a few times. With the 2s and the odd prime and the extra 1, it can be equal to n.

Similarly all other odd numbers are "touchable": for odd n, take the lowest prime p less than n and either multiply it by 2 if p = n - 2, or multiply it by 3 to make it even, then multiply by 2 one or more times and with the 1 it becomes odd n.

I suspect excluding 1 in the sum but allowing repetition is similarly trivial.
a true mathematician in the making
As another wrinkle, it's public property.

I may or may not have eaten mulberries from a tree that sits on a public property boulevard...
> The U.S. actually has unusually strong protections against the police in this regard and in others.

Uh, what protections exactly? The article explains in detail how nobody has any protection against phone searches at the border, including lawyers with privileged information.
I think we could collectively more constructive and sober conversation if we kept that 2015 bit of work as a sort of baseline.

The new stuff is better, by a lot, and with implications more to come.

But those of us paying attention then had a frame of reference where “so much better it’s crazy” still stops short of “it’s out of control”.

It’s a lot better.
I think what gives a kind of credence to the atomic void is that we see it at other scales as well.

For example, our solar system is mostly “empty” with the mass mainly concentrated in the Sun (and Jupiter). The galaxies are mostly empty as well, so that two galaxies can “collide” without a single star hitting each other.

So there is a certain intellectual pull to try to extend the analogy (wrongly?) down to the smallest level as well.
I loved Factorio, but only played vanilla.

I find that every time I mod up a game (e.g. Fallout 3, NV, 4), I find the bugginess and lack of consistency just inevitably ruins it after a few cheap thrills. So I wasn't about to do that to Factorio.

I'm super excited for this expansion--I miss the days playing til 5AM with my friends (and we all have work the next day at 9AM), because we literally couldn't put the game down. Brings me back to childhood.
He also made claims about reusable rockets and electric cars. "Mars man bad" only makes sense when you cherry pick Elon quotes.

You can say Elon is an asshole. You can say he exaggerates. You can say he lies. You can say he makes the world worse. But you can't say he isn't trying for Mars or self driving. The fact that the $1B+ he has directed towards a Mars-oriented vehicle hasn't gone to Mars _yet_ doesn't mean he isn't working towards it. Similar story with the $1B+ spent on self-driving.

Maybe it will fail, but saying its all BS is self-delusion.
carbon filters do filter out quite a bit, but not all, so it's hardly "not much". A quick search will show you filtering down to 1-5um sizes
https://ia600100.us.archive.org/29/items/gov.uscourts.cand.3...
Yes, but does the difference matter? Either 750GB per day or 2.25TB per day would provide a good amount of time to find rule breakers before the costs approach $72. And the limit doesn't have to be exactly the same.