skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Taking investor money means users will required to pay, one way or another.

Without an explicitly capped profit, I can't see how this doesn't eventually lead to exploitation of the users.

I would like to see a donation/optional subscription model with tiered features as is seen in Patreon/Kickstarter etc. with the distinction that the tiers are community wide instead of being bound to the individuals donating.

Display an income bar. If it drops to zero the servers turn off. If it drops below 1 nobody can post. If it is above 1 you have Direct messaging, above 2 you have more features, etc. Keep the communication clear as to what is being provided and how it is being paid for.

Most people won't pay, but if nobody pays there is no service. Its survival would depend upon providing a service that satisfies enough people to sustain the support. This certainly wouldn't be as lucrative as a exploit the users model, but the idea is not to make a fortune, but to simply run a sustainable enterprise.
Sounds like they're a customer of the vendor, so they'd be pwning themselves if they did so.
Box<str> is used pervasively in the rust compiler instead of String for exactly this reason. Basically every string of code the compiler looks at is, unsurprisingly, constant.
I've heard of people transplanting the X220 keyboard into X230, but don't knwo how polished that can turn out.
Considering that the order would be fulfilled by Threadless (an Actually Good™ company) and not by Ello, why do you think you wouldn't get the tee?
that hasn't been my experience.
Federal Officials Crack Down on Funny Highway Warnings
Distributed ledgers at scale have no value? I have a hard time believing that.
Liquidation preferences rarely kick in until later rounds. Most seed rounds are just 1x.
Crypto helped me a lot to store and transfer money in some situations, like moving to another country or being unbanked for reasons beyond my control.
And ransomware deployers!
27 is pretty old for a mathematician too.
Because it's exceptional - most 27 year olds are not doing anything as impactful, if they've even figured out what to do at all.
For those who want wireless CarPlay in a car that only has wired CarPlay, there are devices that do this. I got one off Amazon a few years ago. Plug it into your car’s USB port, pair your phone, and you’re all set. It’s been a real game changer for me. I used to only use CarPlay if I was going to be in the car for several hours, but now I use it for every drive.
Honestly? No not really. Not until he gets his parole I guess. The stakes are way too high for him to be honest. He might very well be, but the phrasing is just very "list checking" to me still. As someone else said, it's like the generic stuff you learn from therapy (at best, if we assume he's honest).
Miralax is frequently prescribed by doctors for long term use. I believe the OTC directions are not because it is known to be dangerous for long term use, but because the symptoms it treats should be evaluated by a doctor.
Is he a diagnosed psychopath? I'll grant that murdering one's wife seems like good supporting evidence, but I'm not aware that he's known to be one.
Careful with that FUD! You're going to piss of the believers!
> White space in variable names is a bad idea.

Pff. You can have your cake and eat it too: disallow whitespace in variable names except no-break space. ;)
Are shares assets that can be used as security in economic transactions? They sure are. Does that give such owners of shares massive economic leverage? It sure does. Do people without such assets find themselves worse off in economic transactions? Of course. I think you understand those things quite well.
I don’t get how this “scheme” works. If I’m getting hired why am I supposed to pay them for anything?
> The voices in our heads are real, we are not alone in our own minds.

The way I think of this is along the lines of "Alien hand/Dr. Strangelove syndrome"[0], but in this case thoughts/voices are considered to be of another rather than self.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_hand_syndrome
Why not? Seems easy to teach the robots to not harvest on the road
> We’ve mounted the AX102 with 128 GB of DDR5 ECC RAM. In addition to the classic ECC (error correction code), which protects data both on the memory module and during transfer, the new DDR5 memory generation uses the on-die ECC method. This method carries out independent error correction directly on the DRAM chip, giving you greatly optimized reliability and data integrity.

Isn't on-die ECC necessary just because DDR5 is less reliable than previous generations, especially at higher frequencies and density? Makes me wonder whether they use an actual ECC DDR5 memory.
If a house was on fire, what would you consider a win to put it out? Or would you do everything possible to put it out? As the climate continues to rapidly change, the tolerance for extraordinary measures would rise I would imagine (especially amongst youth cohorts who will inherit the cleanup over the next ~100 years).

Shareholder value had a cost (industrialization in general [1]), and now it must be paid back.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/contributed-most-global-co2
I didn't say heat of the moment, I said emotional state.

If someone plots the death of a person who sexually abused their child no one would claim that it being premeditated implies they were not in a heightened emotional state.
> But if you find a niche market

Therein lies the rub. If the market you find is too niche¹, then any product you produce for it will likely be unprofitable, so defining exactly what niche means in this context requires bounds.

So now it's a game of shopping around for the right niche market. If you're lucky, then you'll find one which aligns with what intrinsically motivates you. If not, then it'll be a grind to become enough of a SME in that niche market segment to produce a product which meets the needs of its participants.

I therefore argue that step 1 is to be a normal enough person to have some niche interests, but ones which are not so niche that you only share this interest with— at most —a few thousand other people.

[1] The owner of The Laserdisc Database, lddb.com, doesn't make enough solely from this venture to support himself.
Yeah, if we're going to talk sci-fi, at least nanomachines are much less ghoulish than the implications of legalized human cloning.
It's gross domestic product, not net.

The problem is that anytime someone attempts to quantify the cost of climate change, no one is happy with the numbers.
This is a bit exaggerated. I've had a 1U or 2U server box colo'ed for the last 20+ years, and it's been consistently in the $80-$100 range. Double my total costs if you add that I'm replacing a $5K server box every 5-7 years or so.

The duct-tape-maintenance vs your-time criticisms are 100% dead-on though.
Open domain coding with gpt4 with human in the loop
Hey all, I built this little experiment to see how capable gpt4 is in coding. It's a right pain in the posterior, lazy, omits code, etc. I have done some clever prompt work to make it usable. It's extremely slow, but you can still make cool things with it.
I read the article and browsed a lot of comments. I did not expect to read such an article when I opened the site today.

The article and a lot of comments really touched me. I gained a completely new perspective. Reading about the feeling of loosing a child automatically sparks the imagination about my one feelings about such a tragedy. Only thinking about it is somehow horrible. It really puts every other daily concern about the children and every dispute one might have with them into perspective.

Thanks everyone for sharing your thoughts and stories. I am moved.
Isn't this the opposite of good samaritan laws? If you see something, say, nothing, do nothing.

I wonder, if it's illegal to find these problems, would it be legal to notice there might be a problem, stop, and short the company stock?
You don't have to be an elected official to wield political power, at least in the USA. Wealth is pretty much frictionlessly convertible to and from political power through donations, lobbying and other means. I am sure that Bezos, Musk, Ellison, the Kochs, and so on can have the ear of any State governor or US representative within 30 minutes if they wanted. And no legislator will support legislation that their major donors oppose. Everyone is aware of the huge problem outsized-money plays in politics.
Ground fire ladders are about 35’ max. Aerial apparatus (trucks/quints) around the US are normally around 80-110 feet in length.

My current tower rig is 85’, our next will be 105.

Consider that is ladder length and the “true” height is really a hypotenuse on a right triangle with one side the building.

We can generally reach most of our properties just fine, as our tallest is about 5 stories. However there are some across a river with access harder in front, and a ladder across the river is the way to go.
In fact the article is bristling with evidence and explanation.

It's very simple. Ships manifests were completed before arrival at Ellis Island. If names were changed, they were changed in the port of origin.

People's reluctance to believe this is wild.
Seems to be District Court. Seems to be somewhat similar to Finnish system. Where district court basically deliver most random and weird decisions. Then they generally get appealed to court of appeals. Which is more logical place. Likely this will be overturned there. And then end in supreme court...
I priced this out somewhat recently, and the lowest price I could get renting a server with >=2TB of storage is $11/month using the OVH Eco line, and that's without ECC (which I consider to be non-negotiable), FS-level compression (IIRC you can't change file systems with OVH), or redundancy in case the server/disk fails. I'm currently working on a DIY setup with two nodes equipped with 8GB ECC memory, 2TB of storage (with Btrfs compression to get even more storage out of it), and considerably more processing power than the OVH servers. My total up front cost is going to be about $400, with an estimated $25/year in electricity. The most comparable OVH offering would cost $403 in the first year (with RAID but without a second node), so my DIY solution basically pays for itself after that, and I can upgrade the hardware anytime I want.

Of course, there is an obvious argument to be made that my time is worth more than the cost savings, but I've been learning a lot so I instead consider it a free education. :)
This comment would be significantly better if you had stopped before the personal attack. Maybe take a second to review the community guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Isn't Greenpeace's ideology aligned with degrowth nowadays? I remember reading how they were against carbon capture (and, of course, geo-engineering).
If you're following the law, western union could do that for you except more reliably and cheaper.
You think telling companies to leave a bag of cash under a tree in the park is a feasible MO for ransomware attackers?
Interesting takeaway was: defective mitochondria extended life

From article:
"Yet for some reason, gumming up the smooth functioning of the mitochondria compelled the worms to live longer."
What do you call "lock screen customisation" ?

> even work profile was first available on Samsung devices

Work profiles are available since Android 5.
> A man dies only once

Interesting words from a man who has died but of whom we still speak. And fitting that they come from a person who some say invented history; there wouldn't have been counterexamples.
Reading the article, none of that seems to be in scope for the decision. The decision seems to focus on the fact these new locations didn't adequately meet their existing impact analysis requirements in the first place, not that the impact was deemed unacceptable.
A more recent example of excellent work with Zig on improving state of the art parsing can be seen in this fine presentation of a SIMD-heavy project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN8LDpWuPWw. It shows SWAR-techiques for embedded devices to be used in place of SIMD are useful + feasible and missed out LLVM optimizations on non-x86/x86_64 besides technical background and theory on simplified examples.
Feels real. And the Vision Pro I’m going to buy using crypto proceeds also feels real too.
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.08500
Blob: https://www.codium.ai/blog/alphacodium-state-of-the-art-code...
Putin approves. Emissions will stay the same, but you'll by the oil from Russia.
In general short term goals (like current GDP) often takes a hit when long term goals (like the cost of the externalities) gets added to the mix.

But you can't just max out that credit card all the time you know.
Do you think they planned the changes in the award program, company financing, marketing, and policy, but missed transferring points, just happening to change a $x liability into a $0 dollar liability by accident?
> If you dogmatically reject the idea that political economy could possibly involve the concept of class,

Class is a suitcase word that may refer to different ways of classifying people but often does not clarify which dimensions and clusters are being used in a particular context. Maybe Pettis does a better job than other authors. Perhaps you or the sibling comment author can provide an example?
I think the URL is amie.so
There have been plenty of bootstrapped billion dollar outcomes. Mailchimp ($12B) is one recent example.
How is raising just one round different from venture backed, as someone else said ?

stonogo said, here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39047023
yea 21k lines of code is like a tinymicro project :|
this looks like it is print publicity for a new book.. the 2013 slides for "Men with No Name" had five other UC San Diego researchers, not just this one person.
I'd think you could recapture a lot of the energy as it drained right? Proposed solutions involve a lot of pumping and seem to rely on it. Hydroelectric efficiency is over 90%.

The salt water would be largely contained so I'm not sure why it would be so bad for the ecosystem.

I don't doubt it would be very expensive, everything about that canal has been. But if this turns out to be the new normal, rather than just a weather abberation, it will be cheaper than re-reouting all of those ships, whether the pumping is done with fresh or salt water.
still not following
What a dreadful headline for an interesting scientific discovery.
I'm amazed by the number of people who trust websites like this with their memories/diaries etc. I mean, I understand why, there's an expectation when you start with these sites they'll be around forever - most people don't have the time, the knowledge or the desire to "do it themselves" - When livejournal was all the rage I decided to do it myself with Postnuke, then (and still!) Drupal. Going on 24 years now.
That said, LiveJournal is still going, but owned by a Russian company I think, and it could turn off tomorrow.

I guess the flipside is, if I die tomorrow and then there's a PHP error on my website, no one's ever going to know how to fix it. So my memories and diary entries die as well. My "fix" for that is to export the ~2400 diary entires every few months into one massive PDF file.

Edit: I understand why this is being downvoted, I just want to clarify that I didn't mean the opening sentence to read as if people who trust 3rd party websites to their hosting were silly/dumb, though I realise now that's how it scans. What I should have said was "It's very unfortunate and a sad state of the current Internet that people trust websites like this..."
On the flipside, crypto value is real whereas beanie baby value wasn't "real"

I don't have a dog in this fight but it's an easy argument on either side.
Wow, glad I avoid native app development. The eternal dictatorship.
How long does the Kite and Dyneema rope last before either breaks and one or both need replacing? Their site https://thekitepower.com/the-hawk/#space_requirements mentions the lifetime for the battery and ground station, but I'd be most curious about the durability of the whole system.
Its funny how things always seem to be set up like that...

Oh, sure, you want the state to stop doing bad environmental things? Well, ok, as long as you pay for it!
SpaceX is privately held. He's got shareholders, but not many of them and they know how to find him. So while starship might or might not be the space cybertruck, it's not a publicly traded company with pension funds as investors that you're monkeying around with.
Would be nice to show some screenshots in the README :)
> IDF is mowing down their own people

I wouldn't put it like that, but for what it's worth:

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-01-17/ty-article/.p...

> 'Unlawful, Unethical, Horrifying': IDF Ethics Code Author on Alleged Use of 'Hannibal Directive' During Hamas Attack

> Asa Kasher, the philosopher who wrote the IDF's Code of Conduct, tells Haaretz that incidents in which the infamous operational order may have been used on October 7 must be investigated immediately: 'There is absolutely nothing [in the code] to allow someone to kill an Israeli citizen, in uniform or not'
I think allowing other languages besides English could be a good idea.
I haven't had Hue login troubles, but the quality of the light control has gone down a bit. If I tell it to turn the lights to the fireplace mode, that gets turned into multiple instructions to the light bulbs, but sometimes it drops some of them for no reason. So I get half-brightness daylight-white instead.
Yes. Multi-stories are generally an issue with people with people in the case of fire.
They can "push" for whatever they want. I think this is the trap a lot of founders find themselves in.

I know someone that did a couple rounds (2 plus a bridge) and pretty much just stopped listening to the VCs after that. They essentially pivoted it into a lifestyle business with no dreams of IPO or exit. They pay themselves (and a small handful of employees) a nice salary. The company is minimally profitable and very stable. The VCs are never going to see a dime of return. I think its kinda hilarious.
I did once work with someone who intentionally found a job far enough from home that he could justify a "bachelor pad" in town and just go home to the family home at the weekends. I wonder what proportion of weekend commuters do it out of a desire to stay away vs. financial reasons.
I would strongly support focusing on getting rid of wood / coal burning first instead of going for much more efficient gas.

An import tax on coal burning countries (especially China) would push the incentives in the right direction instead of outsourcing the climate externalities to them.
Odd shapes and constantly starting/stopping the plougher/seeder/harvester mean you get less ROI on your equipment. Farming is super tight margins - if your machines waste 20% of the time starting and stopping every time they pass over a road, your farms profits are wiped out.

This is true whether the machines are robot driven or not, and it's the reason most commercial farms have huuuuuge fields rather than lots of small ones.
Hey, this is one of the makers here. Feel free to ask me anything.

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.08500
Blog: https://www.codium.ai/blog/alphacodium-state-of-the-art-code...
"Math's" Game of Life? Conway's name probably deserves to be in the title :)

(he is named in the subtitle at least)
> An arrest record is still particularly damming to one's life.

The solution then, IMO, is that if you're arrested for being suspected of a crime, and later found innocent or the charges are dropped, then the arrest should be removed from your record.
They could have changed their names, but they would have recorded the changed name on the passenger manifest before setting sail, or after arriving and being processed. Ellis Island, the facility and staff, didn't determine anyone's names, it only cross-checked the names on the passenger manifests. Ellis Island didn't change anyone's names.
That's already what it does (except when shrinking)
Partial explainer of Zoomer girl derangement, from a Zoomer girl
jailbreaking your iphone voids the warranty, replacing the the bulb with a 3rd party brand does not.
It does not seem so, the artcile indicates the court focused on procedural issues related to the impact assessment required for the permits to build the new oil locations. The issues seems to be focused on the fact they weren't done, or were incomplete. I would imagine only pump locations with similar deficiencies would be in trouble.
Great way to stop companies from sending you even that, unfortunately :/
Being against Carbon Capture and geo-engineering is just following the science.

Carbon capture has constantly been shown to just not work at any scale. and geo-engineering causes so many extra problems and will absolutely lead to termination shock at some point.
I've seen many instances of Bitcoin called "anonymous digital currency." I'm pretty sure outside the HN bubble, a lot of people thought one of the aspects that drew people into BTC was the fact it was 'untraceable' and 'just a bunch of random addresses', not requiring you to have a bank account, postal address, etc...
> I don't see creators clamoring for micropayments.

How do you know that? I 'd use micropayments any day, but they are practically a nightmare to implement so we have to use third parties or subscriptions in order to justify the transaction costs.

It's not either-or, subscriptions have always existed, but the current (lack of) payment tech makes them more useful.
Exactly. If a service crashes within a second ten times in a row, it's not going to come up cleanly an eleventh time. The right thing to do is stay down, and let monitoring get the attention of a human operator who can figure out what the problem is. Continually rebooting is just going to fill up logs, spam other services, and generally make trouble.

I'm sure there are exceptions to this. For those, set Restart=always. But it's an absolutely terrible default.
Nah, L&S got bored running an advertising company and moved on. Around the time when they did the Alphabet transition, I attended a few TGIFs where S was there and speaking, and people had tough questions about the whole Alphabet thing (in particular the PA I was a part of, Access & Energy [which included Fiber and what became Google WiFi] had been spun out as a "bet" but nobody could answer basic questions like: how will perf, payroll, GSUs, transfers, etc. work. And S just seemed like a deer in headlights about all this stuff people were asking about. He seemed to think the only things being spun off into bets were groups building rockets or doing genetics and stuff.

Anyways, that's about when they started moving on. They got bored.

Nothing about whatever social/woke stuff you're intimating here. Sounds like you have a hammer and you're looking for nails to hi.
Be careful because there are two many out of pocket amounts. One for in network and one for our of network. Most ACA plans that I can get in my state do not have an out of network max. That's a huge risk because most hospitals have out of network contractors. That means if you stay in a hospital that is in network, you'll still get billed separately for out of network care. And half the hospital staff might be out of network. So you can still go bankrupt in an in network hospital. The ACA really didn't do much to protect people from bankruptcy.
Submarine basically transliterates to “undersea-er”. In a hodge podge language like English it doesn’t seem strange.
Usually the cancer cells are throughout the body, even if the tumors themselves have not spread. This is why you might cut out a solid tumor, and then give chemo
This presupposes that you need autoscaling. I suspect the vast majority of applications have pretty predictable resource requirements / growth characteristics. Over-provisioning your hardware a bit to handle anticipated spikes is probably fine for 80%+ of use-cases.