skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got this from Mr Wizard as a kid and use it infrequently but regularly when making things and needing to split a piece of material in two. I know it's the CG and not the geometric center, but is often close enough with reasonably uniform material.
Here's another one:

You can download 1TB of data for free from AWS each month, as Cloudfront has a free tier [1] with 1TB monthly egress included. Point it to S3 or whatever HTTP server you want and voila.

[1] It used to be 50GB per month for the first 12 months. It was changed to 1TB free forever shortly after Cloudflare posted https://blog.cloudflare.com/aws-egregious-egress
we just built a new feature for our pretty bandwidth heavy SaaS on R2. Works pretty damn good with indeed massive savings. We just use the AWS-SDK (Node.js) and use the R2 endpoint.
What scenario(s) would you be willing to pay to cover Google's costs, rather than your viewing being subsidized by other users/visitors who are 1) paying, or 2) watching the ads?
Why don't they just splice the advertisements in with the videos and play that instead? I know that would take a lot of crunching on the servers as different advertisers come and go, but it seems like a simple "fix", at least from a business point-of-view. Maybe they need to be able to align products with individual users.
Why do i get this faulty patch if i'm not even using Bitlocker ?

Also how the heck does something like this happens ? Did MS forgot the size of the WinRE partion which THEY created ?
I wonder if they QA with different ad blockers. This would be much more interesting if we knew the exact mechanism of the slowdown.
Yes, they really are that bad. Go in there and "unsubscribe", and change your interface language to Chinese while you're at it. Now they spam you in Chinese.

Doesn't exactly inspire trust in this company's willingness and ability to protect extremely personal information.
Wealth taxes used to be quite common before the wealthy figured out how to use powerful propaganda frameworks like neoclassical economics and neoliberal ideology to make sure they keep getting even wealthier and more powerful.
> ...turning it towards defense might help strengthen the west's place in the world and be a major contributor to lasting peace.

Power differential doesn't lead to peace but more oppression and injustice; or rather, might is right based world order. The West isn't immune to corruption from power, nor its democratic institutions immune to consenting to atrocious crimes in their name. You'd appreciate that such power has often meant peace at home and mayhem abroad.

> Almost eighty years without an existential threat

Unsure why everything has to be viewed through a dystopian lens; presume the far worse from others but think of themselves as holier than Jesus Christ. Drumming up threats feels almost like a self-fulfilling prophecy. The new globalised world order demands co-existence and not pursuing the next Loch Ness monster.

> War is avoided if one party is so strong that an attack is futile.

Not really. You avoid true wars when both parties could inflict disproportionate damage on each other (exceptions exist, but they're not the rule). Guerrilla warfare and terrorism is a response to that power imbalance.

> Does that mean they have an interest in prolonging war like this article claims?

Anyone part of the military industrial complex has every incentive to agitate for war. Those 100x returns won't show up if there's no use for all that tech.

> Venture Capital rarely creates trends - it follows them, and arguably amplifies them

Exactly.
Wayland, and the entire Linux Window manager situation seems like a massive mess from the pov of an outsider, a widely used, stable and open-source app that can bypass this unnecessary complexity could be a great example for other apps to follow
> I'd be incredibly surprised if Linux kept a copy of my unlock keys around somewhere that were available to anyone except me

You can set it up to auto unlock:

https://devicetests.com/decrypting-luks-encrypted-filesystem...
And so is Oxfam. Oxfam always pumps out propaganda like this, year after year.
Whats your point? It would help instead of being sarcastic to get to an idea. Thanks.
The MSRP for the N100 is $128 and I don't see any GPIO pins. It looks to be more of a budget desktop PC than a hobbyist board.
> Pirates get a better product.

Your comment reminded me of this classic article: https://blog.codinghorror.com/oh-you-wanted-awesome-edition/

"If I choose open source, I don't have to think about licensing, feature matrices, or recurring billing."

That is, it's not just pirates who get a better product; open source users get a better product too.

(Going back to the context of this thread: those who chose an open source alternative to the products in question have avoided all of this mess, even if they had to forsake some useful features for that.)
Where I looked they're in stock and can, according to the site, be delivered in a week or so.
> private operators

This also somewhat prevent having unified ticketing systems like you have in Switzerland.

The ticket you can buy in the train station is also valid for the local buses. Or even better (from a practicality point of view), you can use an app that track your start and end point and automatically bill you accordingly (you rare have to stamp your ticket when using public transport; you just come and go and there's sometime controls by agents).

I'm sure that there's some exception in Japan, like JR West, Central and East are technically different companies but the tourist JR pass allows you to go wherever, but it's hard to beat the convenience of the Swiss transports.
That's a shame, because there's a lot more to Commodore than just the 64 (even if that _was_ the best microcomputer of all time).
Woman defrosts frozen kitten, nurses it back to health [video]
up your network mojo (not the tcp/ip kind).
They subtly write it as if it were a zero-sum game.
"Poor man wanna be rich. Rich man wanna be king." Bruce Springsteen
Or more likely they don't test for Windows 10 regressions as much.
Okay if all those things happen no amount of money will change the situation. It’s just fear mongering.
That sounds like Boeing saying its not their responsibility but Spirit AeroSystems instead...ICL was part and branded Fujitsu since 2002. Also if you read the article you will notice this was a president of the company for 20 years. The current president refused two BBC interviews so far.

On a corporate Japanese culture that primes on going to the finest details, you can't have it both ways. UK Fujitsu Services Ltd posted in 2002 revenues of £1.3bn. That is almost 8 to 10% of Fujitsu global revenue.

The though of a company president for 20 years, knowing zero about a major scandal that puts its subsidiary in the news for more than 10 years is well...
I use ublock origin on Firefox along with a few other privacy extensions. I do not use Adblock. YouTube doesn’t even finish loading the page for me but videos do start playing after 10 seconds or so. I tried without blocking ads but I gave up because the experience was even worse with how many ads there are now.
I believe it is a coping mechanism for many people.

Software engineering is a field in which many revel in its perceived complexity, the 'status' that comes with doing a job that brings so much to the table, yet is not understood by the average person.

Now, all of a sudden, there is a tool that is starting to bite into that and it is very easy to dismiss it using phrases such as "half broken garbage".
I had thought about this. The way to address this is to take out (through competition) other businesses that the VC is involved in while also lobbying for policy changes that make it harder or less profitable for VC scum to profit from war.
Can an internet outage kill you and your family?
Annual Review Framework
This is a notion-based framework I use/build to review last year and plan ahead as a founder. Highly recommend, if you wanna find some clarity amongst all the chaos.
Instagram is a horrible place if you just want to follow your friends without distractions. Meanwhile you can create alternative feeds only including selected accounts, you can't set them as the default feed. You will also get tiktok-like shorts (called "reels", but generally the same thing: overprocessed 8 seconds long videos with little to no added value) in the default feed, in the "discovery" tab, and also in a dedicated reels tab.

If you want to socialize more, look for an offline hobby and save your nerves.
The only other thing that underlies in mystifying things like this is the old "you don't get fired for IBM/Accenture/etc" thing. Large vendors exist as career insurance policies for upper middle management. Executives can't question them, regulators can't question them, etc.

The kickback aspect I've always wondered about. It was also rife in things like medical device / drug sales, and probably still is. US Government jobs are so underpaid in DC that of course it must happen there as well.
Selling weapons far away is less use to a capitalist than improving the society around them. Weapons someone gives you resources, so that is nice, but if you build something enduring for the same amount you get positive externalities as well from a rich society.

$1,000,000 in weapon sales is less useful for a business owner than $1,000,000 in building out, say, a good plumbing system. In the first case they get the million, but in the second case they also don't have to put up with as much disease in their local community. So the basic incentives here is not to put money into weapons unless demand is already there.
Basically a normal 401k averages 9% historically closer to 10% these days.
There are people out there that work as many hours as your average CEO, doing actual physical, back-breaking work, but are also losing wealth.
Certainly an interesting one.

IANAL, but I believe the terms of the purchased license would be to use the product with only the license key provided. Therefore using an alternative key would be a breach of the license terms, meaning you're using unlicensed software and subject to all relevant laws.

I can see an argument that the vendor is in breach of contract by failing to provide a valid key with the license, and therefore the contract is void and the vendor should refund.

And yet again, I can see an argument that the license has been paid for, and a different key is used in the interim to access the paid for software, therefore no loss has occurred to either party rendering the whole argument moot.

Would be interested to know if this has been tested in the court system.
This is a feature. It's gives you more time to close the tab.

The content was a advert anyway
Had the journalist tryied Linux, would have known that it gives much better error messages than some random looking number.
As unfair as this may seem, your problem may be UX, rather than content. There is no focal point and ironically the shear volume of experience makes it hard to get a quick picture of who you are. I’d recommend a punchy executive summary at the top.

In my experience the 1 page constraint is less important so long as it’s easy to get a good picture of you on the first page.
It doesn't matter if cars are more comfortable.

Cars are a massive waste of energy and resources compared to other transport options we have now.

Societis/cultures who ignore efficiency will be eventually forced to adapt against their will. It's just market economics.

(E.g., you can be obstinate and waste a significant chunk of your income just for the perceived comfort of a car, but over a few generations these people will lose in economic competition to people who act rationally.)
I'd pay for YouTube Premium if it was un-bundled from Youtube Music to make it cheaper.

No reason YouTube Premium should be more expensive than Spotify or Netflix.

As an additional note - I have previously subscribed to YouTube premium and constantly had issues with it repeatedly logging me out, and reverting back to showing me ads. Frustrating! Sure it wasn't intentional but felt like double-dipping.
Looks like an interesting development. What’s its relationship with existing cloud IAC solutions like terraform or AWS CDK? Would be a PITA to migrate from existing stack.
War happens for a variety of reasons, the relative strength of the parties involved is just one factor. Plenty of actors have attacked a clearly stronger party. I think this article does a decent job of outlining some of the reasons war can occur.

https://mwi.westpoint.edu/the-five-reasons-wars-happen/
Any specific questions? It's a home/office automation project, it's for fun and learning, we started it during a hackathon at my company. It does things like close the window blinds or turn off the lights with funny remarks in response.
Thiel isn't a Republican anymore. He's actually been a bit all over the place in the last two years. His most recent political position could be described possibly as "globofascist," though that term has obvious negative connotations.
IKEA?
I live in Eastern Europe, close to Ukraine. Never did I think that I would be pro-military complex until March 2022 but here we are.

Also San Francisco used to be one my favorite cities on Earth to visit. Never did I think that I would be pro-cop until quite recently but here we are again.
The incredible shrinking podcast industry?
You mean 90's Linux?
> "Electric cars" are a patently ridiculous concept

Weird take when electric cars are widespread and are for many people the best form of travel available (e.g. particularly people who live rurally with rooftop solar)

They might be overhyped but to call them a "ridiculous concept" is at this point itself ridiculous
I don't understand why people get so confused and wound up about this - yes a branch is just a ref; yes something can be 'on a branch', by which we mean 'in that history'.
If you optimize for "different kinds of people" you cannot at the same time optimize for academic performance or IQ. You have to choose less capable people just to get more diversity. There is plenty of evidence that intelligence causes success on all kinds of measures, but I have never seen a study about racial/ethnic diversity causing success.
Concentration of capital isn't polarizing, it's a perfectly cromulent criticism. What's polarizing was the promotion of an economic/politcal system which to date has had a perfect record of turning into a totalitarian dictatorship.
Except you’ll likely be living in extreme luxury if you split any expenses with at least one other person.
This article does not mention leveraging AI at all, to my knowledge.
Multiple people together in a car is definitely not the norm, statistically.
> Everyone has batteries these days

No. And definitely not ones that charge a laptop as those can cost 10x as much.
Ask HN: Help me solve a dilemma, study in the US or take a job in the EU?
Hello HN,

I'm 20M from South Asia (not India). Got a near full-tuition scholarship from a T200 public university to study undergrad in the US. Total costs would come out to about $20k USD/year according to the university. (Somewhat common scholarship, and would still need help from family to cover the complete costs)

I have about a year of experience under my belt and recently joined a non-tech-focused startup in Brlin for work under the condition that I'll move there soon. And, I'm really confused on which way to go. I do not have a qualification yet, moving to a place where everyone has a Masters and I don't speak the language feels like it'd be a massive footgun in case I get laid off or if the startup has to liquidate.

The traditional wisdom that I'd read repeatedly until last year was job experience triumphs college and the opportunity cost is not worth it which is why I took the job, but I'm having second thoughts. Does that also apply to Europe?

Would you say this is still the case considering the events of last year? Does the compensation and tax differential across the pond make the investment worth it to join the US labor pool down the line?

I would like to be close to home and Europe would be more amenable to frequent travel, but I've read many European developers lament how they could effectively retire and return after working for just a few years if they could work in the states, how realistic is that?

Objectively which do you think will be the better option? The analysis paralysis is crushing me and any advice would be greatly appreciated.
It is unusual. I'd even go as far as to say that it is an awful and stupid decision to do this at a time when USB-PD operating at higher voltages is finally becoming somewhat commonplace (common, as in: we might have extra junk laying around that can do it), but I'm not trying to make 90,000 widgets per month and build them down to a price.

But a casual Google search where I am located at least two alternative suppliers that are already shipping appropriate power supplies that can do 5@5.

And the usual (US) distributors (places like Adafruit and also places like Digikey) are selling the official power supply for $12, which I personally consider to be very cheap.

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And remember, wanting peculiar power supplies is normal in the RPi space. The very popular Pi 3 was weird (5.1V@2.5A over MicroUSB, with many unofficial recommendations suggesting 3A), for instance -- in a world where common "high-power" USB power bricks topped out at 5.0V@2.4A on a good day, with the wind from the South, and under the direction of an unladen sparrow.

Many of us are familiar with the struggles that this entailed as we worked on whatever we were working on. But other suppliers did come to the front and offer alternative products that reliably delivered 5.1V@3A, and there's no indication that this won't be the case for this round as well -- especially if they're able to produce the quantity of RPi5s that they say they will.

At a projected 90k units per month, then: Every 7 seconds, an opportunity to sell another RPi5 power supply opens up.

(The Pi 4 has a different version of the same story.)
Steam's end of service on Windows 7 and 8 is based on CEF, just as it was for XP and Vista. I don't see Google/Chromium dropping Windows 10 support at Microsoft's EOL especially given how much market share Win10 still has -- it would be shooting themselves in the foot.

In the meantime, instead of ditching Steam, ditch Windows. Steam works amazing on Linux, and with Proton, the vast majority of Windows games Just Work(TM). You don't even need SteamOS (although it helps).
It's so interesting to hear ideas that feel so timeless today - "unit testing", "refactoring" - were of course not.
https://archive.vn/dynNQ

(qsantos does not load for me)
Read the book “How Asia Works” by Joe Studwell
I just came back from Switzerland spending 5 days with this framework. It gave me a ton of clarity and hope it helps other founders too. This sis a job filled with noise and chaos - I find this really useful!
Well, then they can flip a coin for which mantra to follow. If you pick "cloud bad" you'll get stories also about companies that refused to go to cloud when it makes sense to.
If Google gave a legally binding guarantee that they won't reintroduce advertising to paid tiers later-on.
> As a society we should aim for everyone having this thing. The best state is for everybody to be idle because they all own enough capital not to have to work.

By "capital" do you mean "intelligent robots"? Because otherwise, who is going to do the work when everyone is idle?
I thought they had many computers of various configurations they test on. And wasn't there a release note describing what could happen? So some part of the org knew what was going to happen.
How many batteries you need for a week?
Planes make contact on the ground at O'Hare
>As a society, we should prevent "escape capital" to be a thing.

It should be impossible to survive from saved money? Wouldn't that mean that everybody has to work until they die?

>I totally fail to understand why this is a polarizing issue as 99.5% of people are on the same side of the threshold...

For me it's mostly the "work until you die" part. ;-)
no amount of money will change the situation

Of course it would. If you had $500M instead of $500k then none of those things would affect you in the slightest. Inflation could run at 20% for a decade and you could lose 80% of your capital in a series of bad investments, and your day to day quality of life would still be just fine.
If you are reading this and getting upset at the lack of information, remember this is just CNBC. So its more like an introduction to the concept of AI job loss for the target readership. (Which probably isnt as technical or complexity savvy as the average hacker newser)

Granted, I would not have considered this worthy of posting.
It seems corporations are the ones influencing laws with spending. Even then, it's the constituents that are the problem. Are they really so gullible that a new attack ad funded by donations to the politician will sway them? Are they even paying attention? It's the attention and strength of the constituency that will make a democratic society better.

If you really want to fix the voting in a somewhat realistic way, you will completely do away with campaign spending, allocate a government website with a page for each candidate to display their positions, have the site searchable by your address, and have an alternative that you can request by mail if you don't have access to a computer. You also need to ban the news from reporting on the campaign to get around this, including the observation biases that come from all those early polls. Suddendly campaign funding becomes a non-issue, and we're likely to see less manipulation.

Even if you eliminated the wealthy altogether, you could still have outsized impacts by many groups due to the most extreme people being willing to donate more. This is essentially what we see primary elections due to the low voter turnout - the most motivated/extreme people have a larger say.
> Because one day it could be you on the other side.

I appreciate the sarcasm of your comment, but seriously though... if I end up with Bezos wealth, found myself on the other side, I would part with $176B if you just leave me the remaining $0.9B.

I mean I might bitch about it, but, yeah, I'll survive.
I'm confused what the voice actors would have wanted? It seems like they're the ones in control of their likeness still. I assume the preference would have been to ban AI voice acting entirely?
I never expected them to go that far, amazing!
Devils advocate here. If you don't let your send your kid out in the fastest car you can afford, with the highest acceleration possible, then it's your fault if the kid gets rear-ended or sideswiped by another car.

You should start funeral planning if you buy the kid a Chevrolet Spark, with its 0-60 of 11 seconds and top speed of 90mph.
It needs a 5V 3A charger. It throttles the max power delivery of the USB ports unless you use a 5V 5A power supply.
I wonder what the response would be if, in return for the IP and other user info, the IP and user info of the employees, including (most definitely including) their managers up to the boss (basically everyone involved at said company), were then also made public. They get our info, we get their info. In my mind's picture, the employees et al. would refuse, and it could then be posed to them, "users refuse for the same reason".
Is it reliable? A VM is fully isolated, apart from maybe network and IO.
Lets say they have a contract with a company for X months, what would they do after those months? Iterate every video file and remove the old ad? Imagine the scale of this when you have millions of videos and thousands of advertisers