skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Meanwhile you would expect an equilibrium here. The price going down forces some providers out of the market, but providers leaving the market brings the price back up.

Bringing the XIXth century equilibrium economics here is kind of hilarious, when it has been far out of the equilibrium price for the past two years. Node runners are already losing money, and have been doing so since the end of the bull run. The value of the FIL token isn't so much derived from an equilibrium in the supply and demand for storage, it's driven by the supply and demands of the coin on the crypto market, and if nodes start to give up in any meaningful fashion over the course of a few days or weeks, the crypto market will likely negatively react, driving the price of the token even lower. In the crypto markets, Keynes' animal spirit is in charge, nobody makes rational utility calculation.

> At which point the defector is found out, you can prove it, and their reputation is in ashes.

If I can make more money out of a single adversarial attack than it costs me to build up reputation, then who cares, I'll be doing it over and over again any day.

> It seems to be storing more than a exabyte of data for someone.

It is in fact storing a exabyte of “data” for “someone”. Compare that with BitTorrent, that was used by everyone and their mom before governments started to fight it. BitTorrent was voluntary only and was a massive success. Filecoin is for profit and a failure.

> It's fungible because a used hard drive is a commodity product with a wide customer base.

Try and sell 10PB of PoST-worn-out hard drives and see how long it takes. It's far from liquid.
This is unhinged, I'm sorry but that writing categorically cannot be the output of rational thought process. Implementing comprehensive and strong public health protocols during a once-in-a-century pandemic is exactly the type of responsibility government exists for. Right up there with building roads and national defense.
I don’t see what YT did wrong here even remotely. It’s their platform. There is no right to access. It’s not a public place.

The hard core libertarians who say that Brands “free speech” is being reduced… well YT has freedom too and they should be free to deplatform.

We have freedom from government oppression but when you are on someone else’s property, you should have no/low rights.
Evidence Suggests Ukrainian Missile Caused Market Tragedy
Yep. And PHP is possibly getting an optimizing compiler:

https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/16hu7dq/php_is_getting...
I worked at a place where we used a text convolutional neural network to jointly classify the combination of a cell and a column name so this takes me back to those times.
> Who made YouTube judge and jury?

Non-sequitor. YT does not need the power of a court decision to take this action. It's basically the same question of "Who made YouTube President"; it's irrelevant.

> Let's say, for the sake of argument, YouTube demonitized all Irish because they unilaterally decided they're all plonkers and they're a private company and they can do what they want. Because that's the level of absurdity here.

I mean YT could decide that your country isn't eligible for YT depending on local laws and block content. Which they do.
Google Maps has also become extremely cluttered and filled with ads.

I was a heavy user of their biking directions and those became significantly worse with a single update overnight a few years ago.

Google Maps is still better than Apple Maps (and outside the U.S. the competition isn’t even close) but Google seems to be going out of their way to reduce that gap.
Does anybody think that limiting email to 500 miles might be a Good Thing?

I don’t have a very well-formed use-case in mind, but I strongly suspect there is one: suggestions welcome.
This has been discussed on HN before and the overwhelming HN response was “why would you care, it’s not an actual nude?”

Lots of tasteless people doubled down that they wouldn’t even care if it were their own children or wives (let’s be real, it’ll be 99% women and children) being portrayed like this against their consent (“consent” doesn’t exist in such a context, the argument goes).

The only defense against this, which is already too late for most extant children to employ, is to never post photos of your children online. But hey whatever it takes to avoid scrutiny and regulation eh?

TBC, I’m not saying it’s obvious how to regulate/control/mitigate it, but that’s a totally different argument from the one I encountered which was “there’s no relevant concept of consent.”
It's good to be careful with this logic, because it's now common practice for one large holding group to own all of the differently branded stores to create illusion of choice.
Much like delivery vehicles clog the streets today in most major cities!
How the Most Useless Branch of Math Could Save Your Life [video]
I don't think you remember well how you triggered this error, since Java just doesn't allow you to reference a non-final variable from an inner function. It sounds like you're talking about code like this, but this just doesn't compile:

for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
callbacks.add(new Callback(){
public void Call() {
System.out.println(i); //compiler error: local variables referenced from an inner class must be final or effectively final
}
});
}
for (var f : callbacks) {
f.Call();
}

Note that code like this works, and does the expected thing:

for (int i : new int[]{0, 1, 2}) {
callbacks.add(new Callback(){
public void Call() {
System.out.println(i);
}
});
}
for (var f : callbacks) {
f.Call();
} //prints 0 1 2
I'm not sure I understand your question. <img> is the tag you use for an image, and there are tags to embed video.
I had the exact same experience. At minimum, the references to Terraform should be clickable links to save me a few taps.
I believe the model did change.
It certainly looks like hobbyist drones/model aircrafts are going to be regulated out of existence almost everywhere (maybe still permitted at registered club sites, but nowhere else?). Especially now the world has seen videos of weaponised FPV drones in Ukraine.

But I don't see drone deliveries becoming a big thing outside of niche cases (e.g. medical supplies to remote locations with no easy road access). Payload capacity is very limited, wind/weather will ground them, and delivering to arbitrary homes/businesses (without dedicated landing/drop-off zones) isn't a solved problem. Then there's the safety/liability issues when they drones fail/crash. And the inevitability of Americans shooting guns at them.
Cats are a bigger current disaster for bird life.
Can I help you build a food zip line system? :)
They've been working on those things in Tallinn for years, and I've only ever seen them operate in a very limited area, and even then it's not unusual to see them seemingly stuck at the nearby rail crossing. Meanwhile a human on a Bolt scooter ate their and their investor's lunch IMO.
No, you're actually right.
Ask HN: Is this behavior disrespecting our profession?
I've observed a concerning trend on LinkedIn lately that warrants a discussion within our profession. It appears that individuals with relatively minimal experience, typically in the range of 2 to 4 years, are increasingly adopting the title of "Senior Software Engineer." This practice is concering, as it may dilute the significance and respect associated with the senior designation within our field and it's inappropriate for this title to be used so callously. By prematurely adopting such titles, individuals may inadvertently undermine the true value and recognition of seniority in our profession. It's essential for the software engineering community to maintain a standard that accurately reflects the level of expertise and experience that comes with the senior role. This will not only ensure that employers can make informed decisions when hiring but also help in maintaining the integrity of our field as a whole.
I tried it and it's awful.

I asked it about the latest bill with some company, it told me it wasn't sure but I should call a number which was obviously fake. Told it to check my emails and it couldn't find anything. It is not a common name of the company at all, and I have recent emails.

I'm making some prints of pictures of the sun (plug: https://www.theremarkablz.com/thesun) and a friend was selling them at a stall recently. Asked bard how the sale went, and it told me to go and check someones onlyfans page who has the same first name. I told it to check my emails and it brought up info on a house sale from someone with an entirely different name.

Has this been even vaguely checked?

Dupes / same underlying story:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37574089

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37571228
The fact that Russel Brand hasn't been gifted a cable channel is a real shame isn't it.

Or do you just mean YouTube when you say video?
Depends on perspective. You could say it's a glider with a quadcopter bolted underneath for VTOL capabilities.
Does the same thing applies to Budweiser and everything tainted with trans when right wing machine targets them?
> Yeah the hold and drag interaction model sure looks fancy but isn't very ergonomic.

I beg to differ. I find hold-and-drag menus faster to interact with when using a mouse, trackback or a touchpad. But it is possible to support it, while not requiring it. On button down the system enters a state where one of three things can happen.

1. The button is released. Then the menu should togle open and wait for another click and relase to select an entry.

2. The pointer moves more than a threshold. Then the hold-and-drag behavior is initiated.

3. 50ms or similar pass and the hold-and-drag behavior in initiated.

The last case is to avoid flickering in case somebody has a slow click and release cycle.

This or similar behavior used to be (still is) default behavior of many desktop UI toolkits.
This is the real answer - we'd think it mad if someone proposed that children play with pedal cars on open motorways. And madder still if someone else proposed the solution to the danger was to make motorways 'safer' for children in their Smobys at the expense of every adult motorist.
Sure, I understand why you’d want real-time. I guess the OLAP part is the one I’m not sure about here.

Most of these use cases seem more “pull all data for a specific user/post/company” and less “do analytical queries on millions+ of column values.”
Two recent policy choices we made in germany to keep things this way:

1. Preventing the EU ban on combustion engines. Britain now wants to delay this ban from 2030 to 2035, US manufacturers protest against the delay. Germany prevented an EU level ban in 2035.

2. Quitting nuclear and firing up coal plants again. Note how good France looks compared to Germany.
See point 8 in the official FAQ http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail-faq.html
This is what Competition law is primarily about if I want/have to use App X, App Y should not be forced upon me. It was the problem in Windows/IE or Android/PlayStore ...

Google, Apple, MSFT are abusing "monopoly" in one area to extend their reach in other areas.
NYC does have delivery tunnels! Or tunnel, probably. There’s a tunnel in manhattan under 9th avenue that connects the Morgan postal sorting facility to the Farley post office!
More like a billion small snippets of tape and a pattern matching machine that chooses which order to mix them in. But really the memory is not “exact” but able to morph continuously based on the input (differentiable).

The real way chatbots are a scam though is that they are able to get enough empathy from people that many people assume the glass is half full when it is really half empty. If it was an ordinary computer program that could sort a list of numbers 95% correctly people would not be impressed but ChatGPT will apologize for the mistake and people think it is sincere so some people are impressed.
Arguably, org-mode provides a "better markdown", but it's decidedly more niche.
A global enterprise can pay a whole team of senior engineers in Warsaw or Cluj for a million a year.
So, That's around 0,3% of the 280bn quotes in the PDF. The equivalent for Person with an income of 100k would be $3. Yes, you reading that right.
Freeze it first? Keeps it firmer too in my experience
What I find ironic was that in 2006, Rails was the shiny new kid on the block. These co's picked the "new" way of doing web dev compared to the stodgy Java/C# types. And yet, by recommending Rails for a new startup in 2023, they're actually more like the stodgy Java/C# old school paradigm camp, that the Rails startups avoided! A startup that would've used Rails in 2006 is more like a startup that is using things like NextJS in 2023. We see that in the stacks of new YC companies
This happens because you can't get hired unless you have the senior title on your resume. HR will throw you out.
But more books was the intended effect of the Gutenberg press, we were discussing unintended consequences.
Thanks for the kind words!

The initiative will have a steering committee composed of individuals from the main backing and involved companies and projects.

As interim technical lead I'm mostly responsible for the technical side of things and getting the project up and running in this first phase. This also includes the feature development process and similar things. Interim means "until we figure out the exact details of the governance process", so a couple of weeks, most likely.

Representatives of the main organizations backing the initiative are collaborating with the LF to iron out the governance model. In practice, all of this is a collaborative process among the main backers.

The initial steering committee has already been selected and was to my knowledge a prerequisite to even being accepted to the LF. Currently each of the following organizations has a single seat: Gruntworks, Harness, Spacelift, env0, Scalr. There are free seats reserved for future joinees.
Common Framework of Belief-Consistent Information Processing for a Set of Biases
See the official FAQ, point 1: http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail-faq.html
You missed my point I think.

Terraform is immensely valuable.

The open source bits is 90% of that value.

An enterprise will _already_ have a team managing terraform infra. Them building the parts they need from that remaining 10% may be cheaper then paying HashiCorp. This is a difficult sell.

Also, a ton of Terraform's value comes from the fact that there are modules for everything. Some or developed by HashiCorp but most are developed by vendors or even users who want terraform support.
That is one example, why I have the impression that MacOS is gowing downhill for advanced users for several releases now.
And walk around with a years salary in your pocket? Doesn’t sound like the best idea
The sleep is probably to prevent endless revival of the script when you try to cancel it with Ctrl-C. But yeah, it's not ideal considering you can't make more than one request within a second.
This is so true. I see a lot of bad APIs and returning something like a 200 response + a message body saying something like "Psych! Actually it'd broken" is a surprisingly common anti-pattern.

Reminds me of Petet Gabriel's Worse Is Better[0], one of the insights of which is that it's often better to fail for edge cases than try to handle every single one.

[0] https://dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html
Isn't this just like netcat?
How to build Cybertruck [pdf]
What a weird statement. Here in Switzerland, public transport is great and arguably preferable to using a car (although quite expensive as everything here is).
It's always a question of how much is invested. If, like in the US, little is invested in public transport then it is inevitably also going to be pretty bad.
The fundamental issue with comments in programming is that they're part of the code, which is a ridiculous hack that somehow survives unquestioned. This is not how comments work in Google Docs, Microsoft Word, etc.. Maybe the idea of implementing comments as a greyed out part of the main text did not occur to the designers of these apps?
While I agree that the design is very clear for the cases illustrated here, and I am a bit puzzled on why the Go designers chose to change these as well, the design is not at all clear for the other case:

for i, v := range []int{1, 2, 3} {
funcs = append(funcs, func() {fmt.Printf("%v:%v, ", i, v)})
}
for _, fun := range funcs {
fun()
} //prints 2:3, 2:3, 2:3

The reason why this happens is clear. But, it's not what people expect from the syntax, not at all. And it's also a behavior that is never useful. There is 0 reason to capture the loop variables, as evidenced by the fact that none of the languages that have started like this and taken a breaking change to switch to the expected behavior has found even a single bug caused by this breaking change.
I am a conservative. Not that I want to flaunt my political affiliation, because I know no one cares, but in HN "X is one of the most progressive countries" could sound like an endorsement, and I wanted to make sure that it didn't sound that way.
Slightly disappointed, I felt hungry reading the name
Quality diamonds are rare. This discovery relates to quality diamonds.
Just leave some empty electromagnetic waves in the cables before your message, got it.
“just”
For me, it’s not that Im tasteless, it’s that I don’t think consent is needed to make an image with my face put into a naked body. At least if it’s for personal use.

In the US at least, there are laws that prevent commercialization of my likeness, or harassment, or defamation. And those can be applied if someone sells images of me on a nude bode.

But for personal use, it seems as pointless to outlaw as someone imagining me naked. Is that “tasteless?” Perhaps. Of my child, that’s gross.

Im not sure how to stop this though as I think any control to try to outlaw perverts from staring at people, or drawing images of people, or using these apps without consent would cause more harm than the harm they seek to prevent.
Don't build scenarios out of aligned facts :

> but if I so choose, I can completely zen out within 30 seconds and enter a state of total relaxation.

Sometime peoples just want to have own time and relaxing in their own preferred way

> In this state I may acknowledge her talking to me but have little or no memory of any conversations after.

It happened to his wife to come and start talking to him in this state, but him being able to acknowledge her without remembering the conversation causes her great frustration.

>> He hasn’t shown up again in this bizarre thread, heck he’s probably doing it right now!

Given the number of totally unjustified judgmental, misread based responses, no wonder one would shy out. Assuming that checking for answers it the sane behavior in the first place.
> with rmq you can reject/nack a message and have it put back on the queue

I know other systems have semi-similar mechanisms, however most of them retain the “someone is the sole owner of this message” style design, which I think is fundamentally limiting. Owning application dies, is it acked or not? Acks but never gets around to putting it back on the queue? Who takes priority if 2 separate applications wish to watch the same stream of events?

I think Kafka’s “nobody owns it, acks are consumer group level” give you the same advantages for the application itself, without a number of the more difficult complications.

> rmq also does a publish once and fanout to multiple queues to support this

Which is probably fine for small volume or velocity topics, but is going to cause all sorts of load issues at higher scale.
it really depends. there are so many providers in the UK that you can find all the possible combinations (high FX rates, high FX fees to mastercard/visa FX rates, no FX fees).

> Some debit cards (or pre-paid 'charge cards', such as any specifically marketed for travel)

for anyone checking this thread, these two are not the same. debit cards are different from pre-paid, and some shops will have issues with pre-paid.

> not 'helpfully' converted for you (at a terrible rate) by the merchant's PoS provider

oh yes, this is one of things travellers always need to be aware of: never select currency conversion by the PoS, always charge in the local currency and let your bank to the conversion.
How I limit social media: screen time limit.
- Instagram 15 minutes
- X 5 minutes
- Facebook 10 minutes

And no access between 9:30 PM and 7:30 AM.

Works very well for me and my wellbeing.
Search "open source chatgpt client" and you will get dozens.
> It’s not lawyerly nitpicking. The US has a tradition in rule of law, and it’s a social convention that applies broadly.

I think this is pretty much objectively false.

Cops are constantly accused of uneven policing.

Court routinely give lighter sentences for the same crime to different demographics.

Sports are not ruled by the rulebook.

Pretty much every business uses a super vague ToS that do not define concrete rules.

Did you give your kids the Codes of Marcell that they have to abide by? With everything they have to abide by?

Society runs off "at our discretion".
What’s the mafia angle? They’re a respected university?
This is an interesting idea- I'm not sure I understand it fully though. Do you have much luck with static type analysis? I find in Python, nothings ever certain, but mypy with good type hints solves a lot of these kind of None based shenanigans.
Nothing is more permanent than an temporary fix.
Came here to say that (i think their operations in Africa are quite impressive) but it seems as their "Zips" are a different kind of breed and more like a drone than a plane.
Is this published paper about AI or not?
Author here. We thought it's funny and hacked that together.
We would be happy to include more ambiguous papers!
Easily getting to 300k using this strategy, not yet breaking into the million bracket.
Highly recommend the above. Moving to a launcher, defaulting to Firefox (yay adblocker), and replacing the default search with Kagi creates a near distraction free experience on Android.

Unfortunately the Reddit / X changes this year should remind us these sort of 3rd-party workarounds will only exist for so long.

I know it's a dream, but I'm looking forward to simple Linux phones. Moving to GNOME / arch on my Desktop lets me do what I want to do and somehow, magically plays any game from Steam without a hitch.
Rp2040 runs unmodified PalmOS 5.2.8
Let's see:

- silent propeller

- advanced computer vision

- miniaturised compute power

- precise civilian positioning systems

- batteries with good-enough densities

Of those, batteries are indeed the biggest blocker but let's not pretend there hasn't been any progress in the past 20 years.
Not an angel but... the valuation of your actual company is
1) your actual results ==> 0 because it's an MVP ?
2) your potential results ==> tbd... but low because you're pre-traction
3) your investments ==> low because it's an MVP...

Without more specifics (like your previsional results and your market and how your're positionned and...), I would say that your business is not worth a lot. Let's say $10k.

If I give you $120k, it means that I would own 92% of your company... that wouldn't have any sense as I'm "just" an investor, not the business owner.

Actually, as an angel, I wouldn't take more than 20% of your equity... but I would give you maybe 5-10% of the money because of risks. So I would only give you $120k if your company is worth at least $1.2M (and ask for 20% of the equity, so $240k)

But I'm not an angel...
What train wreck? Everyone I know is overjoyed for Ahsoka this week.
https://www.engineering.com/story/can-swarms-of-cheap-drones...