skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The capex to build a low PUE data center is a fraction of the cost of a traditional tier 3. Just think about all the infrastructure you don't have to build out when you don't have chillers. Essentially, all you need is a big box with fans on it.

I know HN hates Bitcorn, but fact is that the people who mine it have developed some really innovative solutions around data centers and cooling designs. We're going to take advantage of that for our new (not crypto) supercomputer. The money saved there can go into buying more compute and growing the business itself.
Because it uses the jobserver protocol which Cargo initializes to the number of cores by default, I'd imagine you could set the new flag to some unreasonably high number (e.g. 10000) and it should limit usage to free cores.
The Witness was announced in 2009 and came out in 2016, and it was a pretty simple project compared against replacing C++. I kinda imagine Blow is what I would be like with projects if I had no time constraints or managers, and that's probably a bad thing, but it seems like it'd be a nice way to exist.
Google is successful because they managed to tap into the biggest money milking opportunity of the century. Not because the supposedly superior management or talents there.
Client authors try but there are still IMAP protocol design choices that cause issues with sync reliability, bandwidth usage, lack of push, etc. You can read the JMAP design rationale for details, they cover it all pretty well. Security issues with middle boxes are well known too, just ask anyone who's worked in IT security how they feel about BlackBerry Enterprise Server. I think it's possible to build something similar in a better way by isolating the middle box bit and putting it in a more controlled environment like AWS Nitro where the client gets boot attestation and the service provider sees only a black box they can bill for, but this would require getting Apple etc on board to modify their clients.
If I were a Mullvad customer this is what I would want: regular audits and closed source until everyone was convinced the code was bulletproof.
Photographers are common, but this sounds like an extreme case.

If you have a sensory disorder or you're prone to migraines, you may want to invest in some sunglasses for such occasions. My wife is sensitive to sounds and lights and always carries earplugs and sunglasses just in case :)
This counterargument doesn't really make any sense. I don't pay for my phone number. I got my phone number for free I don't know how many decades ago from a provider that doesn't even exist today. Ever since, I've been carrying it over when switching a provider and it's still free. I pay for things such as data, but not for the number.
Most likely one of the blog posts I wrote in the early 00s about abortion.

I started writing my blog in 2004, and decided to leave up almost everything from the earliest days when it was on Xanga, then Thingamablog (SSG before it was cool!), and now Drupal.

Unlike most people, I'd rather be an open book. I figure intelligent people can understand how something written in high school/college days two decades ago can reflect on personality, while also understanding that those words are likely not the same words the person would write today.

It's also why I leave up my very early YouTube videos. It's not like everyone who has seen some success in their 30s/40s popped out of the womb the way they are today!
You are about to bite off a lot. I do this for a living.

You have some software experience, this is good. Assuming you have embedded software experience (which is essential for what you are doing and not at all like web programming) you have a foothold to finish this project without going completely insane.

Hardware is a completely different beast. With software everything happens in your head and when you get stuck you can usually think your way out of it. With hardware, you really do need to learn to do things meticulously and step by step. There are many things that can go wrong. You will learn a lot on this journey.

Don't be afraid to ask for help. Finding a hardware community will be essential to do this as you learn the skills you need. You're going to make a lot of mistakes, best to go in embracing it

A good place to start is to join an open source community for MIDI. Two off the top of my head is http://www.ucapps.de/ for MIDI specific hardware and https://www.electro-smith.com/daisy

A large amount of the work you will find yourself doing at the beginning is just figuring out where and who to ask questions about things like the keybed and other hardware issues. None of this is terribly 'hard' but none of it is easy. Most of it comes from experience.

It is almost always best to use someone else's product when you are designing your first. Roger Linn (https://www.rogerlinndesign.com/) gave me some fantastic advice a couple years ago when I was trying to design switch caps: "Do you want to be a company that designs switch caps or one that designs synthesizers?" and that stuck. I don't want to design switch caps, so I bought them off the shelf, contracted someone to design my own, and moved on.

So to that end... just buy a couple keybeds from Fatar or someone else, or just grab a synth you already have or buy one off ebay and harvest the keybed from that (often times much cheaper than buying direct!)

Don't be afraid to spend money on tools. If you find something difficult, like soldering, I have not once regretted spending money on better tools. They grow with you and save you hundreds if not thousands of hours of unnecessary frustration. When you know you need a tool, find a way to get it.

Maybe I should make a blog post about this... hmm

Hope that helps!
I'm not debating whether it's useful or not -- I'm debating whether it brings a net positive to society. So far, its been used to avoid sanctions and currency loss by nutty regimes running countries -- as well as massively used by criminals to conduct fraud -- not to mention the few exchanges which are shady as hell one of which has just been revealed to be a giant scam (FTX). It turns out that regulation can come in to be useful when stuff like this happens -- no? I've personally seen a few firms attacked by ransomware criminals demanding bitcoin as payment and I've seen countless of new outlets reporting corrupt regimes using it to fund their programs (like North Korea using it to fund their nuclear program: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/06/north-korea-hackers-stole-cr...) with none of the crypto-enthusiasts reporting on this. Add in the enormous energy expenditure used to keep the charade up and you have a worthless pyramid scheme being hyped up and branded as 'the next Rosetta stone' of asset-classes or currencies or whatever it is that they're branding it as by people who have 0 understanding of how economics nor money nor banking work. These days though all the above doesn't matter. As long as someone gets theirs and 'stonk only go up - GME and AMC' wave of 'investors' is here so I'll just watch this and take notes, but mark my words: this idiocy will be branded as one of the most illogical and delusional pyramid schemes ever crafted by man when we look back through history.
That didn't seem to work for Microsoft.
Why is it absurd? I use the remoting feature all the time - got probably 10 remote windows being displayed from various machines across the network right now.
Are we living in an uncertainty epidemic?
Just to add some color on this from a lighting point of view. The film lights used look like Maxibrutes[1], which are 12,000 watts of old school, non-LED power per fixture. Looks like they used six lights, so 72,000 watts.

Now in a past life, I've stood a similar distance in front of a giant, super diffuse 72,000 watt light, while wearing full body welding protective gear/goggles, and it was cooking hot right through all the leather gear.

However, this looks even worse - it looks like they are using very tight beams on those fixtures. From the photos on the ground with the lights, it looks like only three and half windows are getting lit up. That's an insane amount of power being concentrated into a small space, and yeah, I'd believe it could wreck some damage.

(Hah, just read the AAIB report[2], yes, they are indeed Maxibrutes)

[1] https://www.filmgear.net/index.php?route=product/product&pro...

[2] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6544b3089e05f...
It's a bit like the people who watch South Park and think Cartman is the hero.
I interpreted it as +100C compared to the temperature of the rock
Here in the US, in many places, attempting to steal someones package off their porch will get you shot. Rightfully so.

Places in the US that have high level of porch piracy also have high levels of gun control, and low levels of gun ownership.

You have to really want my $5 towel to risk your life doing that around my parts of the US
I'm genuinely not sure how that changes anything. You can appreciate something while disagreeing with the politics of it—or of the author, which are often separate. You can especially like certain aspects of something without liking the politics of the entire thing. I assume that's what happened here.
EU AI Law Foundation Model Rules Threaten to Block Adoption
> Nobody is going to stop using Meta products or looking at ads because they can't post selfies with artificially beautified versions of themselves.

No? But if they're anxious about posting with their own appearance then they might just look for a different app altogether.
AI summaries of the factors that will determine if some future event happens
Blatant fear mongering seeing that no solutions are proposed in the article. Just a bunch of "what if" scenarios and speculation without addressing the issues with thoughtful solutions to the issues they present.
aws ec2-instance-connect doesn't use docker, it just sets up a short lived ssh key in the instance metadata that you can use to connect. You can connect either via a public ipv4, ipv6, or a vpc private endpoint.
Russia has put a lot of effort into developing the ability to cut and disrupt as well as intercept undersea cables, so the increased dependence on Svalbard for satellite traffic is a control point all the interested countries should be looking at. They have already demonstrated that they are willing to hold world commerce at ransom, so even as they recede as a naval power they are upping their asymmetric capabilities on the world's oceans.
I was doing slomo capture of objects being dropped into a small fish tank. I only had a small lighting kit where my largest light was only 750w. To compensate, I placed the lamps mere inches away. By the end of the shoot, the heat melted the top frame of the tank that would normally hold the housing for the tank's light.

Some productions can bring out 10K lamps and larger. They definitely get H O T.
True but in the context of the quote I don’t think Einstein would have viewed them as people that made valuable contributions to society. Probably would have placed them in the former category, honestly.
I think it's partly jealousy and partly a feeling of abuse. They want to want the laptop but Apple doesn't cater to them. In fact it feels like Apple is being extremely hostile to them by selling an amazing laptop only to laughably cripple the RAM and force people to upgrade for stupefying sums. It feels so rude. They don't have to do it but they do it because they can. I'm a Mac owner and I paid outrageous sums to upgrade the RAM and hard drive I hate Apple for it.
The aggression in both sides of convo here makes me feel bad to see on HN :(
Funnily enough (?), according to the article’s screenshot, the web service behind this is actually called ShadowService
Are we talking about not criticizing Wheel format?

Because, if so, I'm not buying it. Wheel is an iteration after Egg, that was created in a world full of package managers, packages of all sorts and flavors. Wheel authors failed to learn from what was available for... idk some odd thirty years? (I'm thinking CPAN).

But, it has problems that just show how immature the people who designed the format were when it comes to using existing formats. For example, the Wheel authors were completely clueless about multiple gotchas of Zip format (even though they've been using Egg which is also based on Zip for... what a decade? I mean, come on, you had to be blind and deaf not to know about these problems if you had anything to do with packaging).

But, the most important problem is in the name format. And it's not about knowing gotchas of other formats. It's just total lack of planning / ability to predict the next step. For instance, some parts of the Wheel name are defined roughly as "whatever some function in sys module returns on that platform". So, it leaves this part of the name unpredictable and undefined, essentially. Wheel authors cannot make a universal package because in order to do so they need to have knowledge of all existing platforms and all future platforms... which, of course, nobody does.

And they've done it because... it was easy to do. Not because it was the right thing to do or the smart thing to do. The consequence of this decision is that implementing a PyPI competitor is virtually impossible because it's a layered crap-sandwich of multiple layers of mistakes that support each other (various parts of the name format were modified multiple times over the course of history, and weren't immediately supported by pip). Similarly, implementing a viable alternative to pip is equally almost impossible because of the same historical crap-pie of multiple mistakes on which Python package publishers built their whole infrastructure.

This led to the situation where today the whole Python packaging is locked into using PyPI, setuptools and pip. Those who are intimately familiar with the subject know that they are broken beyond repair and have no hope of getting better, but the mess is so big that undoing it just seems impossible. And, of course, PyPA is blissfully unaware of all the nonsense that's going on in its tools keeps adding new worthless features to polish this turd.
this wouldn't actually fix anything because that's not how politics works. politicians set constraints that maximize their PR points then the job of everyone with a brain is left to scramble for a solution. they also don't actually care about preserving encryption and they generally don't care about collateral damage unless said damage has enough clout to make trouble.
In your example, the 2€ deposit works as an incentive to bring back the glass. Without this incentive, the token on its own is useless. The token merely serves to prevent some side-effect of the deposit (e.g. people could try to return glasses from other patrons or other bars).

Similarly, having job tokens independent of any kind of deposit or incentive will not prevent anyone from spamming applications.
I'm not sure what the AWS services not supporting IPv6 has to do with charging for public IPv4 usage. Private IPv4 is still free so can access services over endpoints. NAT gateways cost the same and can access services over public IPv4 network.

AWS also added IPv6 NAT64 gateway so it should be possible to run IPv6-only internally and still access AWS services and the rest of the Internet.
That's a big "if."

> Randomized, temporary IPv6 public addresses are a nice feature, and mostly turned on by default

I really do not want this.
Aircraft windows are double paned. On the inner pane, there is actually a small hole that allows air to pass to the outer pane, and makes it so that the outer pane is holding in the pressure during normal operation.

If the outer pane is cracked (or lost entirely), then the inner pane will take on the pressure. The hole in the inner pane is small enough that the aircraft’s pressurization system can still maintain pressure even if that hole is leaking air.

However that hole likely makes a lot of noise if air is actively rushing through it, and also without the outer pane, there would be less insulation against the cold air and noise outside, and also the missing pane would create an aerodynamic change that I think would cause a lot more noise from the wind.

edit: actually per the AVHerald article, some of the windows were missing both panes (although from the pictures it looks like the inner pane is still intact?), so it must have just been that the pressurization system was just strong enough to keep up with the hole in the fuselage.
I hate it :(

At least with the tools, if you pick a brand like DeWalt or Milwaukee... they have been around for decades and will stay around for decades, and the tools don't just die if the company gets bought out.

Well, at least until 'smart' tools start getting forcibly pushed into the market. But Internet connectivity is bad enough in many construction environments that it might never happen (we can hope...).
maybe we should build the mind ray just to see if it has any applications though
Does it detect academic back-biting?
Inverse square law should apply to the lights too. The lights may be bright and very hot but each meter away from them would mean a significant drop in the transmitted energy.
I must one day tell the story of how I got moved from open prison to closed for doing a Debian update.
> The point is that science fiction is _fiction_, and devoting huge amounts of real-world resources to build a fantasy isn't going great for solving the actual, real-world problems we face.

Science fiction is a great sales tool. We can wrap solutions for actual problems we have in a shiny spacesuit to make them more palatable to investors and the general public, knowing that delivering the shiny products would have solved a number of real pressing problems.
Export your last 6 - 12 months of transactions from your checking account, savings account, and/or credit card. Just getting the data is a good start.

Then you can bring those sheets together. What I did was combine my expenses across my debit card and credit card, then sort them into categories. Subscriptions, grocery (I shop at 2-4 stores regularly), hobbies, restaurants, etc.

I made a calculator in the sheet to convert my biweekly pay into monthly income. (there's slightly more than 2 pay periods per month, because a pay period is usually 28 days. I don't recall the exact number.) Once you have that, you can normalize all your expenses as well. For example, add up everything you spent on groceries in a 6 month period, divide it by 6. That's your mean monthly grocery bill.

It's a bit of work to get it all down but once you build the calculator it's not as much work to maintain it every month or six. I was able to figure out what it costs to maintain my lifestyle more or less, and then determine an amount I'm comfortable having automatically transferred to my savings account immediately after every paycheck comes through. (For me that also includes an amount that will go toward rent as I pay rent out of my savings account to ensure I never accidentally don't have money available.) Now I don't have to think about my savings often, I know it's going up at a certain rate. This also allowed me to take on some significant extra expenses to support my partner for a period of time without any fear.
Yeah the base model MacBook Pro being gimped goes back even further than the recently discontinued Touch Bar pro.

When said Touch Bar pro was the top of the line, the cheapest pro was the one without a Touch Bar, missing half of the USB C ports, basically a MacBook Air in a pro shell.

I’ve never understood why they do this but it must sell well in some markets or something.
That's a lot of new things in 2 months.
I've wondered about that, too. Probably came at the wrong time, with the Crimean thing, and so on. IIRC Russia even protested officially, via diplomatic channels, whatnot, while the series aired.

But yeah, it's an OK show. Not mindblowing, but OK to watch.
Thanks! Do you know if KeeperFX uses assets/mechanics from both?
We [1] just went through a process to remove public ipv4 IPs for some of our internal facing EC2 instances.

Just in case some people are on the same boat. Here's a simple process [2] to remove public ipv4 IPs from existing EC2 instances (no need to shutdown / reboot) -

1) Create a new elastic ip with autoassigned ipv4 IP - https://us-west-1.console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home?region=us-...:

2) Associate this new elastic ip to an existing EC2 instance. This will replace existing public ipv4 ip of this instance.

3) Create a new network interface - https://us-west-1.console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home?region=us-...:

4) Attach this new network interface to the EC2 instance. Now the EC2 instance has two network interfaces, thus two private ipv4 IPs.

5) Disassociate the new elastic ip & release the ip - https://us-west-1.console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home?region=us-...:

By this point, the EC2 instance doesn't have a public ipv4 ip anymore.

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[1] https://www.listennotes.com/

[2] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38533725/can-i-remove-th...
I totally get this, but my question was not about trying to reverse the trend, but how are we preparing to handle it if we fail to reverse it. Since no country has been able to reverse it so far, it doesn’t give me much hope that we can get there, and I think we should prepare for the worst.
I actually meant this old USB issue:

https://hackaday.com/2019/07/16/exploring-the-raspberry-pi-4...
This is fair, but it's an oddly mixed bag on Playstation for legacy reasons.

Free-to-play games can be played online without a subscription, but paid games require a subscription - I imagine as a holdover from pre-Fortnite days and cross-platform play.

I'm a subscriber for the game catalogue and only really play online multiplayers that are F2P anyway, but yeah it doesn't seem at all justifiable. It's a strange decision too - I can't imagine the subset of people who are NOT subscribers for the monthly games and/or catalogue AND are playing games online that are NOT f2p is big enough to be a significant impact to their bottom line. If anything it would be a deterrent from choosing the platform.
To a first approximation, Finland is on average a swamp. Thousands and thousands of lakes everywhere.
I'm not a big fan of Instagram, but the HN title is missing the "lawsuit alleges" part of the real headline.
I think he was just making a joke
If I recall, he attacked the guy who created home-brew or cocoa-pods (?) because the guy had failed a job interview where he was asked some algo question that he didn't know.

He then posted something like "<Company(Google?)>, where they reject you for not knowing <X> algorithm, even though they use and depend on your open source software".

I think Blow said something along the lines of "well the dumbest comp sci 101 student would know that algo, so I'm not sure what kind of coder you are?"

This is vaguely from memory ~10 years ago but is what I remember about Jon Blow too.
Obligatory self promotion I just lowered my gateway fees so whatever.
Keep using large corps or support the small guy.
Nah someone with Wikipedia database access probably looks for obscure article hits and submits them to HN for the karma.
Why don't they bake the actors then?
Tech layoffs: Google, Amazon, Snap and Zillow announce new job cuts
Your example is nothing like the scenario the article discusses.

A better example would be a company has rights to every bit of code you ever write, because you worked for them, at one time.
Good essay/speech.

Pedantically, I wonder about: "the readers Gernsback was cultivating didn't ask about the politics of radio" with this coming back to haunt them in the 1930s.

Both radio enthusiasts Gernsback are talking about the politics of radio and regulation as early as 1912.

Yeah, US Science Fiction, and US literature generally move in the direction of being increasingly willfully blind to politics, but I believe that's more of a post-war/cold war trend.
I'm sure if you asked Peter Thiel why he pumps the blood of young men into his body he'd say something similar, so maybe it's just one man's dystopia is another person's power fantasy?
Surprise, surprise!

Onestone's answer: What we need is communitarian technocracy!