skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In the example, someone wanted to see a tradition carry on even after they were no longer involved. To achieve that, they accepted a lower offer for the business to sell it to someone who also wants to carry on the tradition. But that is exactly the same, far as the money goes..

It's not exactly the same. People have emotional attachments to things, like restaurants. This hypothetical owner may have made the sale they did because it made them happy to think about someone running their restaurant well after they die.

That is to say, we both took "carrying on the tradition" to mean different things, because it's inherently a squishy and emotional goal, not one you can apply a cold econimic calculus to. "If I sell to Bob for $1MM then I achieve 200 tradition points, but if I sell to BigCorp for $1.2MM then I can use that money to achieve 300 tradition points" is not necessarily how this would be thought about.

> That said, there is a bit of disconnect here as the original comment was talking about businesses, while this has turned to talking about the benefactors of the business. They are not completely analogous.

True, and perhaps that's near the crux of my argument. Private company owners who are involed in their businesses' operation are more likely to make bad-for-profit but good-for-other-reasons decisions, whereas distant public shareholders are likely to chase profit as the end-all-be-all.
I guess there must be a largish market for this since AWS introduced Outpost to provide the "cloud" to onprem industries. I feel like this is competing with that market.

Since many of those use cases probably already run extensive on-prem infrastructure this could appeal to them. AWS outpost talks about industries like healthcare, telecom, media and entertainment, manufacturing, or highly regulated spaces like financial services. I've heard of media companies that process through things like IMAX cameras that have just tons of TB's of data sometimes just for 5 minutes worth of footage. That would simply be too cost prohibitive - in bandwidth alone - to try and move around in the cloud and you don't want to have to wait for things like AWS snowball or whatever.

While I think the space is "niche" those niche spaces are not small. Big companies with big budgets.
The media Tory relationship is very understated.

The media is very much the reason most of the British electorate will still vote Conservatives, even after years of scandals.
How's the Scala community doing? I had the impression a couple years ago that they were losing momentum. But I also heard that Scala 3 fixed a lot of footguns that Scala developers hated, so maybe that gave them a second wind...
The deficit for 2023 is $1.7 Trillion total. Do not conflate the deficit, how much expenses exceed revenue, with debt, the cumulative sum of deficits running back decades. We have only added $300 Billion to the deficit this year.

The US deficit spending this year is 6.6% of GDP. Last year the deficit spending of $1.4 Trillion was 5.5% of GDP. In other words, if there were no growth except that caused by government deficit spending, and that government spending was a wash - $1 of government spending for $1 of economic growth - you'd expect an annualized GDP growth of 1.1%.

Further, GDP growth fueled by deficit spending is still legit GDP growth, the same way that taking out a loan to remodel your home still creates a legitimate growth in your home's value. That remodeling may not have been the optimal investment, it might not even be a profitable investment, but it still is an investment.
Ah yes, because good engineers can only be found in San Francisco and similarly expensive areas.
Hysteria: a powerful, fast and censorship resistant proxy
But what if you can set the CC rates as you please (let's say to 0% because why not and we've been doing that for the better part of last 12 years). And if push comes to shove you can just get infinite "loan" from a biggy bank that you happens to have.
It's been done for the Access Virus, Waldorf MicroQ and some other Motorola 56k synths https://dsp56300.wordpress.com/, all usable as real-time instruments.
Yeah which is crazy because that basically means every major city in the country.
It's great.

Certainly matured a lot in the last 7 years.

Of course, still small relative to other language communities (esp. JS and Python), but for web backends it's wonderful. http-kit is a solid server with a nice simple design and passable performance and features. next-jdbc is similar for relational database connections. In general, the JVM is very powerful and getting better all time, OpenJDK is an amazing project that answered many looming questions about Oracle's licensing plans.

I'd say in the last 7 years in particular there's been a push toward more professional use of Clojure, with things like https://www.whyclojure.com/ popping up, and the prominent use at NuBank driving interest from consumer finance and finance-adjacent corporates.

My personal interest is in Clojure's use in data science, which is related to web backends in that it can be used to tell a more complete full-stack story that can include analytics, prediction, etc... We're finding in our work that a functional approach to data science saves a lot of headaches, and Clojure's inherent orientation toward data eases a lot of pain we've encountered doing data science in non-functional ways in the past.

Could probably try to pinpoint where Clojure is on the Gartner hype cycle today, as I certainly see less activity and frothy hobbyist fervor here and in other places; but that's a bit of a futile exercise. If you peel one layer off, you'll probably find that some of us just grew up and now are just happily and productively making money and things and helping people, with the immense leverage we always knew Clojure had.
Would also be interesting for household garbage recycling at the recycling plant. If you can ask your garbage "what are you" and it responds "I'm a polystyrene yogurt cup with an aluminum lid", separating it gets really easy.
I'm sure there is more adjustment than in your caricature, but it is interesting to wonder how exactly a medical procedure contributes to GDP when every patient gets a different price and a significant fraction skip the bill (7% of people currently have significant unpaid medical debts).
Thanks for the tip! Fixed this; just missed this when writing the example.

This error would only be found if you wrote a test for it. The framework doesn't have an AI integration that checks whether or not your types are consistent with real world applications... but could.
We do not currently have plans for a GPU-focused product, but it is on our radar.
Well, isn't it called 'lithotripsy' and exists for quite a time?
> Only problem is that in the short term NB-IoT/LTE-M devices are rather expensive.

I never heard of those before, but maybe LoRa gateways could work as a low-cost solution if having a very low bandwith isn't an issue?
Generic DTLS wrapper for UDP sessions
Similarly in Polish ("judasz"). The more formal term is "wizjer", though that can also refer to "helmet visor" or "camera viewfinder".
Yeah that’s a decent translation.

Cool discussion btw.

i guess the infrastructure being almost nonexistent is a huge blocker.
Ain't it funny how the raw potatoes dug out of the ground are just as cheap as they were 5 years ago here in my state, while potato chips have doubled in price? Even the supermarket brand chips are still only a couple dollars.

That sound like "Inflation" to you? Steak is still $8/lb but my sugar free soda is suddenly twice as expensive
> Huh? What user?

You. You are the user.

So, imagine the hardware DRM exactly the way it is now, but with my modifications. The super bad-guys in Shenzhen dismantle my iPhone and try to turn it into a new phone. Oh no! The DRM on the other person's phone says that their parts are paired to my iPhone. Since I never manually un-paired those parts with my iCloud account (or Hardware root-of-trust), they cannot perform the evil deed of scrapping my iPhone for parts. They are thwarted by the exact same system, in the exact same way, except hardware owners hold the keys instead of Apple.

> The exact point of “hardware DRM” is that it allows me to retroactively revoke my consent for the parts of my phone

Minus retroactive control, that's the point of my implementation. The same DRM system that you are describing can be designed so the user can authorize repairs and de-couple parts without Apple's blessing. The only difference is that it would proactively lock all parts to your iPhone and only uncouple them when the user authorizes it. In that way, it's almost more secure than Apple exclusively holding the keys.

> the true point of Apple’s “authorized repair” program, was to penalize any repair shop who knowingly purchased parts from a “phone chop-shop” by disallowing them from ever again purchasing genuine parts

Fun fact! Secondhand chop-shop components and genuine Apple-issued replacements are not the only two options. You can buy a lot of Apple components from TI and Foxconn if you browse their piecemeal catalog. On top of that, there are many people who sell hardware as "for parts" to be used as donor hardware by third parties. It almost feels like Apple created this system to punish anyone who competes with their first-party offerings...
Also because you can be fired at any moment.
Cameras.

Which btw. can see better, further, and in a lot more spectra than the human eyes. Oh, and they can record what they see, and send it back for thousands of pairs of human eyes to examine back home on earth, where the users of said eyes are not constantly in danger of dying to explosive decompression, being frozen to death, or killed by space radiation or microabrasive silica dust.

And the best part? I don't have to waste tons of payload capacity on food, water, air and toilet paper, just to keep the cameras running!
By a private cloud making sense, I mean the lower bound for being an Oxide customer, i.e. having the budget to buy the infrastructure with enough headroom for usage spikes and expected near-term growth. The reasons why you otherwise would go public cloud when you’re still small. The reduced need for an ops team with Oxide was already factored in.
Genetic link between skin tone and ancestral origin complicated by new discovery
Microsoft will do anything to bribe the regulators in their favour. Hardly surprising.

The EU is known to have plenty of corruption scandals. Just add another Big Tech bribe in the mix for more of the same old issues.
They clearly are shifting this, but it takes time for a huge company to shift gears like this.
the barycenter of human civilization has lingered over this broader area for millennia. It is sad that in modern times it never managed to gain at least some basic stability, if not a revival and renewed contributions to the human storybook.

maybe its the curse of the oil. maybe its something else.
Well it would be the phone manufacturers at that point
nah, not really. we hoped it would. it didn't.

your sysadmins are now Cloud Admins and can get an extra 50k in the market with a GCP or AWS certs. you're going to bump up their salary, right?

the useless offshore team is now a Cloud useless offshore team, and also wants their 20% bump. And bet your ass that Tata or Cognizant will get blood from a stone to make it happen, cuz as useless as they may seem you still need them.

change control meetings haven't gone anywhere, and if anything they're more important since now your entire infrastructure is a long one-liner away from being borked; cloud is an API, basically. just because you're not racking and stacking doesn't mean the demand, architecture & design, review boards, implementations, and due diligence steps go faster.

now we need an entirely new strategy to handle costs, since our architects and procurement can't track day to day cost changes easily, so when SuperDev decides he's going to #yolo 6 VMs and a few dozen containers into existence to test a few things we now have launch a technical and financial investigation into 1) how that happened, and 2) how much it cost.

still gotta use fortigates or palo altos, and internal networking hasn't changed too much overall; lean teams to begin with.

so in exchange for shoveling huge quantities of OpEx to companies that don't deserve more money, we don't really cut labor, and lose control of practically every other facet of our infra. Hope that Azure AD doesn't fail again, cuz the dashboard says 100% green but nothing is working and the execs are concerned.
People don't think of inflation quarter to quarter or even FY to FY. They think of it in terms of what they are calibrated to think normal prices are. For most people that's going to be pre-pandemic. Since prices have not returned to pre-pandemic levels the economy is bad. Especially so since their wages haven't gone up comparably to match.

This is why the numbers are largely useless at gauging public sentiment. Nobody cares that this quarter the rate of inflation has slowed. They care that chicken breasts cost double what it should. They care that a Ford Mustang GT can cost $50k when they were pretty sure they were $30k. They care that fast food costs as much as a sit down restaraunt should and the sit down costs as much as a nice one should.

Now you can all explain that with numbers and reports but sentiment doesn't care about that. Public opinion is an inherently irrational thing. But it is still incredibly important because elections are decided by it. It doesn't matter if GDP is positive and inflation is good right now if everyone thinks we are in a recession and the prices of everything are too damn high. You will get voted out. I'm not sure why this is a hard concept to grasp.
> You know, the US spends most of our government money on old people too (social security, medicare, etc.).

My whole point was how these issues are less of an issue for US, again comparing with UK

US has better age demographic distribution than UK

The net tax burden on an average UK person is way higher compared to US while having worse average wages. Quick googling shows per capita income tax collected in US is $15K, while in UK it is $21K

GDP per capita of UK is $46K compared to US's 70K

If even after having high taxes, a country is having problem funding social services, then that's a big issue as the high taxes are meant to take care of that. US doesn't have this issue as taxes being lower, people can use the money not spent on tax on funding the social care things for themselves.

Also, overall US is still an attractive place for high earners so it will keep on attracting people from those segments which will boost its tax revenues and lead to decline of Europe. As while western Europe might be still a good place for people on median wages or below, USA might be much better for people on the other end
I fail to imagine a 8k-token-length piece of text that has just one single semantic coordinate and is appropriate for embedding and vector search.

In my experience, any text is better embedded using a sliding window of a few dozen words - this is the approximate size of semantic units in a written document in english; although this will wildly differ for different texts and topics.
Unfortunately it's all for nothing when your account is randomly deactivated for a TOS violation that can't be precisely named
GCP is the best of Google's offerings and they still manage to do this. If you're using Google APIs like Places, AdWords, Geocoder, etc, they frequently make breaking changes with no announcement.

I've had many, many days in my career of having to drop everything to patch mission-critical glue code to keep up with Google APIs.

Also keep in mind that the documentation for their SDKs is frequently outdated and incorrect, especially around authentication and to the point that I often just deferred to reading the source code over reading their docs. And that's even if their SDK was in a working state, because often their own SDKs would lag behind their own API changes and you'd have to try out ruby, python or php to find one that worked properly (although golang always works, because that's what Googlers actually give a shit about).

Maybe its gotten better in the last few years, but that was solidly my experience from 2010-2018 and those were a lot closer to "Peak Google" than now. Now I write less code against their APIs, but I also have about 10M/yr in GCP infrastructure that I manage and it's also a treadmill even though we stick to the basics (VMs, GCS, Cloud SQL, GKE).
Not trying to detract from your point, and maybe I’m “out of touch” but I don’t see hardly anyone but a rare few folks actually using touch screen laptops.

I see many people with laptops, but other than one person I know who exclusively buys Microsoft Surface laptops, the average laptop user I know is just typing and clicking away like normal.

How many folks actively go looking for touch in their laptop? I keep hearing about it on YouTube reviews, but even in families with kids, the kids don’t even use the touch features even if the laptop supposedly has it.

I’m just amazed how much “touch on laptop” comes up and I quite literally never see it in reality.
This is the library that probably does it.

https://github.com/aaronsgiles/ymfm

He pulled a lot of the ymfm chips out of MAME put it into that lib then put that lib back into MAME.

The analog chips are a bit more difficult as they in MAMEs case need a netlist made usually. Those can be tricky to get to have any sort of performance. They are fairly accurate though.
There are musicians that would love to use hardware-based emulation for recording and would happily settle for current software-based solutions for live performance. Many professional musicians already do this. Musicians such as Floating Points have studios filled to the brim with large, rare, expensive synthesizers[1] with which they don't travel. Existing VSTs and reproductions get you 90% of the way there, but MAME emulation may be able to bring higher-quality emulation to a wider set of musicians.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75iX1rnW9WQ
Words have meaning. When we use 'indentured servitude' in the modern context it means that it is not easy for a h1b worker to change employers as easily as someone with residency or citizenship. This is irrefutably true.

When people cannot easily change jobs they deal with worse working conditions and worse pay. I have seen people work for the same employer for over a decade because they would have to restart their greencard process otherwise.
Yes, when I think small not at all overrated game studio producing very original gameplays I really think Nintendo
Like the time it was propaganda that Russia was going to invade ukraine?
> afford tent

What an appropriate typo.
If I remember correctly, a thick layer of soil would protect people from a GRB - if most of the Martian colony (or Lunar colony) lives underground, they would survive - and there is no large-scale biosphere that humans depend on for survival on Mars or the Moon.

As long as those colonies are self sufficient (the biggest handwave of the whole deal), they would survive while the majority of Earth would have a rather bad time of things.

Then again, it's likely that more humans would survive on Earth than elsewhere - nuclear submarines, underground government complexes, maybe even the Antarctica base depending on the angle.
Ok, so don't change or upgrade anything for years. Sounds like a good solution. /s What happens when your VM host craps out and nobody knows how to restore it?

I once had a contract job at place that hadn't updated their systems in over 5 years. One server, a VM like you describe, had a 1500 day uptime. The VP/CIO was in a panic because nothing was supported anymore.
I highly recommend John Ousterhout's lecture on insights learned from this class: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmSAYlu0NcY
After 28 years, SSLv2 is still not gone from the internet
HN insists on breaking the correct hyperlink.

https://isc.sans.edu/diary/After+28+years+SSLv2+is+still+not...
Just use Firefox...
It isn't about operating systems
> Article 7: All organizations and citizens shall support, assist, and cooperate with national intelligence efforts in accordance with law, and shall protect national intelligence work secrets they are aware of

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

https://thediplomat.com/2019/02/the-real-danger-of-chinas-na...
NASA saying there is a “research gap” and that it “needs mitigation” is very different from it being an “unacceptable risk” which implies that no mission can happen until it happens. if there was a ship ready to go with a hab and propellant for the return trip sitting on mars, I can guarantee they would take the very next transfer window, kidney stone risk notwithstanding- particularly if the chinese or russians were about to do so and might get there first!
DietPi released a new version 8.23
DietPi is a lightweight Debian based Linux distribution for SBCs and server systems, with the option to install desktop environments, too. It ships as minimal image but allows to install complete and ready-to-use software stacks with a set of console based shell dialogs and scripts.

The source code is hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi
The main website can be found at: https://dietpi.com/
Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/DietPi

The project released the new version DietPi v8.23 on October 21st, 2023.

The highlights of this version are:

Raspberry Pi: Raspberry Pi repository migrated to Bookworm
ROCK4 & 5B: New option to update the bootloader in dietpi-config. This enables USB and NVMe boot on these devices
VisionFive 2 (RISC-V): Kernel upgrade to Linux 6.1 allows booting from NVMe SSDs, USB, eMMC, SD cards and DHCP/TFTP. Added FireFox as software option for RISC-V. Added the DietPi-Dashboard for RISC-V (experimental state)
ADS-B Feeder: Improved uninstall procedure
Fixes and updates for Raspberry Pi, Sparky SBC, DietPi-DDNS, DietPi-Config, motionEye, frp, Home Assistant

The full release notes can be found at: https://dietpi.com/docs/releases/v8_23/
> Many wifi and 4g/5g radios could be turned into very general purposes software defined radios if they were completely open about the software.

Which is why those things are usually independent subsystems. You can be completely open about everything else and still keep tight control over those things.
The quality of those images (from 50-60 years ago) really makes me wonder what level of quality/detail can satellite imagery reach (particularly us government spy satellites).
God, you don't kick out US army in one shot. You build your army up to the task and then elbow the others out.

I mean, it's going to be a lot of expenses, but it's the crucial first step if EU wants its own independent policies.

That said, just my personal opinion. I could be wrong. Maybe it's perfectly fine to have someone else's army on your soil. Maybe you already have independent policies but just happen to agree to the other side more or less. I'm not of EU or US citizen so I could be wrong.
There are certainly trade-offs to consider which is one of the reasons UX design demands so much expertise no matter how many HNers dismiss it as some trivial practice (that they, conveniently, never want to do).

Maintaining N versions of your application has costs that aren't necessarily great for your customers either. In my experience it usually cashes out into one version (either mobile or desktop) getting all the support and features while they slowly drip down into the other versions. Meanwhile a responsive design can have the upside of forcing support and feature rollout for all devices simultaneously.

None of this is easy.
Is this an argument for doing more or doing nothing?
If people listened to the author of the web page, it would stop an ad-driven web. Because the world continues to use Chromium skins, we are inevitably going to get some technology that ad blockers won't work on any more. See FLoC, Web Bundles, or Web Integrity.

How do you all use a browser that comes up with these adversarial technologies?