skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How far does the FUP go on that 0$ offer, though?

It doesn't say on the pricing page, VPS info page, or the various pdf documents with terms and conditions. Maybe you need to sign up and get to the ordering page before you can see the conditions applying to your VPS or maybe I overlooked it, but this is where I stopped looking
Flipper is fun, and cool in a very cyberpunk way (even the name makes me think of the dolphin in johnny mnemonic), but what kept me from buying one, is, while cool, it's aesthetic was really the most unique thing about it. My use cases for it were covered by things I already own, and it is somewhat expensive given all that.
Hopefully they increased the size of the fleet to coincide with this. The wait times in Phoenix have been 30+ minutes in my experience. But the experience was much better than any standard Uber I’ve been in.
Does I2P torrenting operate at remotely comparable speeds to without?

I recall hearing that it was vaguely frowned upon with Tor back in the day for saturating the networ and it didn't seem like there was much reason to use it over basically any VPN, especially speed wise, assuming your motive was to avoid copyright notices.
The only mention they have of cost is

"Since the chemical components are cheap, a scaled-up industry should be able to produce batteries that cost less than their lithium counterparts."

They do not mention its a half to a third the price of the two prevailing technologies and they they have weaselled it with "should". It does cost less already, you have been able to buy sodium ion batteries on aliexpress for months and the cars are already out from BYD and many more are scheduled later this year and into next.

The article is mostly about the geopolitics of the materials.

So I stand by they don't mention it, I read that article and I felt this was the key missing context as to why Sodium batteries are going to matter.
i have been arguing since the days of ICQ that instand messaging could be done over SMTP. people yelled at me then that that would ruin email because it would be a different way to communicate that doesn't work well with email clients.

they were sort of right of course, because it's the client that makes the difference, not the protocol.

and deltachat today proves that i was right all this time.

it's really just about sending and replying to messages.

you have text, voice, video and physical messages.

they are synchronous or asynchronous.

instant messaging, as much as it is instant is still asynchronous because i can reply to a message hours or days later. they are only synchronous in the same way as an immediate email reply is synchronous.

maybe IRC can be considered only synchronous because it doesn't feature an option to reply to specific messages, so there is no threading. just a linear stream.

for asynchronous messaging each protocol (like SMTP, XMPP, mastodon, NNTP, etc) needs to be implemented
but only a single implementation of the backend to manage the actual messages is needed because most features of all of these protocols can be mapped to the same primitive in the backend/database.

each message has a sender, recipients, the content of the message. a parent messages that is being replied to. some messages further have a body or attachments. and some have a subject/thread topic.

that alone covers the majority of messaging protocols out there.
This is going to be a huge trend in the next couple of years. It will put pressure on the software development and start to take more and more low-budget projects away from programmers. If course this is already happening.

For example, you can easily pay $10000 to a trendy developer to build a chatbot for your data, or you can use one of dozens of web applications to do the same thing for less than $100.

Vercel now has a system for generating React UIs which could literally replace hiring a second developer in many projects (you would still need a human programmer for some things I think).

I have built web apps that can iterate on programs or shell scripts and directly launch servers in VMs for you.

The trick is getting this stuff to be robust enough in the face of infinite potential requirements. When you narrow the scope down and add a bit of an error correcting loop, GPT-4 can absolutely create working applications.

I am working on an agent framework and hosting system that will have agent that can build agents or apps.
There are a couple things this article glosses over. With Vercel vs. Netlify, be mindful of the many other fees they charge besides bandwidth. I wouldn’t be surprised if the costs are comparable when that’s accounted for. Sometimes the answer with these things is just to be diligent. Don’t be surprised at what you get if you stick your hand in a meat grinder. Put up guards in your CI process if you have to.

The other thing is that I’m not sure how willing I am to jump to endorse an efficient cache policy as a blanket prescription like they seem to. I suppose I’m not opposed to the advice, but it has very strong “draw the owl” vibes. Project requirements vary, and I’d even argue that sometimes minimal or no caching is wise when requirements are subject to change or you’re doing a lot of static deployments because the savings can sometimes not be worth the headache. End-users are very demanding nowadays. Sometimes “it’ll roll over soon” isn’t good enough. Caching is tricky. Make sure you really get it right in addition to doing the math on the cost-savings if you go down that road.
Wouldn't an employee making that $201k salary in another country be responsible for paying all the taxes to support the socialized healthcare, etc? In other words the take home pay may be significantly less.
Boo hoo! A bunch of liberal whiners. There is a good old fashioned saying: If you do the crime, you do the time. Also, if somebody that kind of looks like you does the crime, you do the time. Furthermore, if someone that does not look like you at all does the crime but the AI system decides that person is you by a process so complex that nobody, not even the people that programmed the AI system can understand, you do the time.

Also, if no crime has been committed, but the AI system decides to hallucinate up a crime and decides that you committed that imaginary crime, you do the time.

How hard is that? Just simple old fashioned bedrock morality!
Simple personal
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solar is getting cheaper so fast that we'll be able to do desalination in a few years
Replace "somewhere in the country side" with "some other place where the cost of living is lower than the highest one in the country" if it makes you happier.
Bandwidth is rarely an issue if you're transferring mostly text, often an issue if you're transferring images (except for highly cacheable static images), and always an issue if you're transferring video or game assets. That's just how it works because the orders of magnitude differ so much.

An image resource can easily be 100x some text (or HTML or API response), and a video can easily be 1000x an image.

Another factor is cacheability. If you're a B2B SaaS business you'll have few clients and can take advantage of caching much more typically. If you're B2C that flips and caching might not provide much benefit.

Anecdotally, on a medium sized ecommerce store, AWS egress for product images was a huge cost.
We're talking in circles.
Show HN: Script connecting Bluetooth thermometer to Artisan roasting software
Uses the Thermoworks Bluedot thermometer and sets up a websocket server for Artisan to communicate with.

Would love to say hi to others that also roast coffee!
The energy cost of desalinization is a solved problem, thanks to very efficient modern membranes and solar.
> Please answer both questions.

Which costs more?

1) Indiscriminately handing people $1k/mo

2) Developing a means test, applying the means test, setting up a system for verification that people meet the means, distributing the money to the people that match the criteria.

I mean I can't tell you because there are dependent variables on what those means are. But two cheap options are #1 and #2 with a means that is so high that you don't pay anyone out but instead have that structure where we're still paying people (we could adequately call it a jobs program at that point).

But let's think about this from a different point of view that I don't think many here are, despite that this is an engineering perspective: failure modes. #1's failure mode is that people that don't need the money will get the money (we'll include things like drug addicts and irresponsible people here for simplicity's sake), #2's failure mode is that people that need the money won't get the money while minimizing the number of people who take advantage of the system (non-zero number).

Truth is we need to balance these two: cost and failure modes. From the high level perspective that this entire thread is at and really the entire comment (and basically every conversation had on this subject) is nowhere near the resolution where we can remotely say that 1 or 2 is better. All we can say is #1 is easier to implement. #2 is undefined because its parameters are undefined. Having a conversation at this level is just idiotic. There's very little for us to reasonably discuss and impossible for any real definitive answer to be made. The way these discussions are being framed can only lead to fighting because there is no means of determining better and there can't be (until we define and get more detail).
US still has 2nd highest murder rate and highest incarceration, so just statistically, absolutely ANYWHERE BUT America if you are at the bottom, US is great for the middle and upper classes.
I see. The important distinction that was a bit ambiguous in your post is that the Starship /program/ is better suited to LEO constellation delivery, not that the Starship rocket itself has some flaw that makes it ill-suited for Mars or the Moon.

Frankly, as someone very interested in Starship (and SpaceX in general), I don't disagree with you. But this isn't really a revelation - the strategy has always been Starlink first, HLS (NASA Human Landing System) second, Mars third. Due to delays and NASA-driven deadlines, it's arguable that HLS has moved into the top spot and limited launch activities will need to focus on fuel depot milestones instead of Starlink launches.

The Starlink business model is impressive. Two million people worldwide (as of Sept 2023) paying $200/month grosses $4.8 billion in revenue - about what NASA paid for HLS, IIRC. I don't see why pursuing that is a problem, and spending $5B on Starship to get a 30,000 satellite constellation in orbit to expand the capacity to 20 million subscribers per year or more is a slam dunk financially.

As for Mars, we know one thing: nothing will happen without a new heavy lift rocket similar to Starship. Once that's in place, doors will open - one may be to Mars, but I agree it's much further down the road than people think.

But I do believe that Musk's goal is Mars, and he's willing to spend a large percentage of his fortune to get there. In the meantime, he's betting that a lot of people will come along for the ride and address the challenges of a Mars mission (not even "colony") with new innovation.

Without Starship, there's no reason to research ISRU technologies like efficient Sabatier reaction equipment, or automated assembly, or million other Mars-specific technologies because we have no vehicle to get there.

With Starship, he's able to pull an entire industry forward. Maybe it is made of crazy dreamers, but crazy dreamers are often needed for a step-change level risk.
You’re lucky if it works with an iPad and that it doesn’t make you sign your life away to Verizon or T-Mobile the ur-Carrier (sic).

I alway get voted down when I use words like “phonish” or “phonishness” but I feel that smartphones made life worse not better and made people serve computers than the other way around. Here’s to the next platform.
That's right up there with changing the purpose of a column in a SQL table, after a certain date.
"This is a pretty cool mod if you can't live without buttons in your car, but it obviously defeats the whole purpose of minimalism."

I don't even agree that the tablet is minimalism. The tablet interface is complicated, dense, and compact. That is not even what minimalism means, it's just the arrogant vision of one stupid futurist. (I know Musk is intelligent, but not nearly as much as he thinks he is, which is how I like to define stupidity. Perhaps I'm using it more as an opposite to "wise" than "intelligent"?)

Minimalism is about having less detail. I mean technically minimalism is an art movement, but using it in the modern sense, minimalist car UI design would have to remove options that control things precisely. So unless the Tesla's tablet interface has fewer capabilities than a traditional dashboard, there's nothing minimalist about it. In some senses, it's less minimalist than a good traditional dashboard because it adds a very stupid layer of complexity.
Nothing makes me more upset, as a builder/tinkerer, is when I spend money on a expensive/luxury technical product that I have to iterate on to make it acceptable for basic functions.
That's a fair question. I'm sure some attendees are pro-Palestine, but many of the important organizers might not be. I've seen a few things over the last 2 weeks that led me to this impression:

* While speaking at an off-campus event, Cornell professor Russell Rickford described the massacre of Israelis as "exhilarating" and "energizing". You can find plenty of citations (including video) by Googling his name; most of them come from right-wing news sources, but unfortunately the liberal newspapers didn't deem this worth mentioning.

* Many examples of the protesters chanting "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free". Wikipedia actually has an article about this phrase, which originates from before Gaza and the West Bank were controlled by Israel. In other words, the term "Palestine" referred to something other than West Bank/Gaza when that slogan was originated. In the true meaning of that phrase, "Palestine" refers to the entire region of which modern-day Israel is a subset, and "free" means "no Israel". All of this lines up with the Hamas worldview.

* Black Lives Matter tweeted a picture saying "I stand with Palestine" that had a picture of a man on a paraglider. [1] That's a reference to Hamas terrorists using paragliders to cross checkpoints at the Gaza border, and then murdering innocents (including women, children, and babies). Again, the words-as-written on that tweet just reference "Palestine" while the picture makes it perfectly clear who they really stand with. Also, I'm sorry for citing exclusively right-wing sources. I swear this really happened, and is being reported correctly here; it's just that liberal sources won't cover it.

[1] https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-blm-chicago-deletes-i...
I guess I might be often missing the part that like even if you're the poorest here, like you're technically still richer and have better qol that many other jurisdictions. Reminds me of Dracula where he's in the shitty ghetto apartment that is depressing af and he's beaming like "Kings never knew such luxury"

Still though particularly in places like Appalachia or rougher cities, its terrifying. America is realky liberty or death with few in-betweens
> Like humor, humility seems to be in short supply these days.

Hmm...maybe I should have referenced:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_cow_(idiom)

> The motto of the satirical magazine The Realist was "Irreverence is our only sacred cow".

Humor does seem to exist today, it just has a narrow band-pass filter, with apparent focus on "organic" product marketing.
LOL - it did for me. It's also here, though it looks like it's 14mm now.

https://www.floorcity.com/collections/calypso-laminate-floor...
Man, some of the early "Google before they had their own DC" stories are epic, if you can get an SRE talking at some point.
And then he sold out and it sucked.
breaking apart the salt into sodium would be very energy intensive I think.
Customer trust is one of the most important assets, it's hard to earn, and once lost it's incredibly hard to get back.

Hosting your own infra makes that risk much higher. Especially if you're providing a critical path service.

I'm not saying that you need some overkill multi-region globally backed up setup, it definitely varies and depends on the nature of your business. If what you're doing works great for you, keep doing it!
Capacitive buttons aren't just on touchscreens. It is now very widespread for cars to use capacitive touch sensors behind static labels. They're reliable in a way that touchscreens aren't and at least have fixed locations and functions, but the lack of tactile feedback still makes them an abomination.
What's cool about the article's take, though, is that it's based on an actual usability study and not just something someone said.
> It's a pretty massive resource and logistical problem.

What resource and logistical problem? The US isn't a command economy, and it's not a social welfare state that extends its largess to anyone within its borders that has a pulse.

Immigrants, legal or otherwise, have to earn their keep, same as everyone else. And there are no natural shortages of... Anything in the US.
> I believe Tesla thought they would be further along with FSD than they are

Well Musk has been promising that it will be fully ready next year for the last decade. Which sounds like a horrendous expectation to work under as an engineer.
Yikes ignoring that there can be different severity and type of downside
Because those things cost money. Tesla went with the touch screen as a cost cutting measure.
We started drinking 0% Wine when my partner started breastfeeding. Even with the little alcohol our daugther got indirectly from a glass of wine, she got hyper-active and could not sleep well in the night. Especially white wine can taste very similar, rose is ok as well, red wine is way to close to grape juice for my taste. We loved the whites in the summer mixed with soda or water.

My Mother recommended the rum or campari without alcohol, she loves them because they make you awake, and you can easily drink them during the day.
Can you elaborate on your system? What brand is it and what size CO2 container does it take? I have a RO system that I barely use and love carbonated water. I currently use a sodastream and despise constantly refilling the tiny CO2 bottles.
PBS Nature (in the USA) has a great three-part "Wild Dog" series, including footage of a communal tanuki "toilet", thought to be a way for them to get information about each other and minimize conflict, as the city-dwelling ones in the video live in closer proximity than they otherwise might.
Google Fiber offering 20Gbps in early access
Cool idea. Is there any way to steer the image generation? I couldn't find any way to. (p.s. site is pretty slow right now. not sure if that's due to high load or something)
Understand that, they're about half the cost of lithium currently, but they don't have nearly the same scale benefit as lithium does. It's likely that cost could half again if they achieved the same scale.

And recall that, early lithium batteries had a fraction of the longevity that current designs have, so, it's likely that sodium batteries have plenty of room for improvement in that regard as well.

In my mind, the likely application is grid-scale storage where density doesn't matter as much but upfront cost does. Not really so much for renewables, but more so that you can store your unused base load during offpeak hours for later use.
Next.js Learn: Course for building full-stack apps
That's interesting! Do you guys planning to integration with other tools like Notion or smth?
It kind of can if you want to add programmability to your switches. So on top of traditional switches, you can add a cluster of DPUs in order to add networking functionalities to your switches. Microsoft has done just that. https://www.usenix.org/system/files/nsdi23-bansal.pdf
No. We've never wavered from the original talk.
Lifetime analysis matters a lot for way more than just garbage collection.

File handles, iterators, mutex guards, database transaction handles, session types, scoped threads, anything where ordering or mutual exclusivity matters.
Tell HN: TurboTax Desktop will require Intuit account for 2023 tax season
From their email to customers:

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Your license code will then be stored in your Intuit Account, should you need to install the software again.

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Kanban. I always have three side projects and make consistent progress on two and I am happy with that.
> Logic as I know it can't be made up. It's already well defined and the basis for all other formal theories.

Of course logic can be made up, and in fact, all logics are. First-order logic, simply-typed higher order logic, dependent type theory, all made up.

My favourite made up logic is Abstraction Logic (http://abstractionlogic.com).

But I guess what you mean is that you are a mathematical realist. That's good! I am too.

> Yeah but I would want to prune all that other stuff away and focus on a theory on the best way to organize and abstract programs. The primitive most important for that is the function because that's basically at it's core all a computer does, just calculate stuff.

If that's what you want to do, then that's what you want to do!
Governments must not rush into policing AI
It sounds like you prefer that 'academic' style that rests heavily on browser defaults. I personally like that style too, it's not an uncommon preference for HN users. But you must realise it's very niche? Most users of most websites find that kind of design difficult to read and use, so it's rare to see it outside of academic/engineering circles. All you're doing here is asserting your own niche preference, and making out that it's what the majority of people want. It isn't. That's why designers design things the way they do, not (in general) because they are incompetent or malicious. And that's why it's great that you have the option of using extensions/reader-mode/copy-pasting/whatever, so you can effectively redesign anything just for you with a small amount of effort. If you expect everything to already be designed for your own unconventional preferences, at the expense of most other users, then that is unreasonable.