skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Late on the reply, but I don't think your argument matches reality.

1. Storage for 50MB is less than $0.001 per month. So, even if you're storing and backing up every every version of an app, and they update a very high 50 times per year, and they're storing on 12 different locales, that's less than $1 per year for the typical app.

2. "Global distribution" is a one time cost per app update at approximately $0.006 per 50MB per server. For 12 updates per year spread across 12 servers, that's less than $1 per year total. Over 75% of apps are updated less than once per month.

3. Retries, re-downloads and updates are already insignificant transfer costs, per my original comment. Even if you want to attribute 90% of those downloads to being updates from the same set of users, and keep the lifetime revenue per user at a very low estimate of $1, Apple is still taking $6,000 for approximately $105 of hosting costs.

All in all, that matches my original estimate of $100 per 200k downloads for transfer and $5 for server fees. So, as I said, hosting isn't relevant to the conversation, at all.
Distilled water does not conduct electricity. It is the dissolved ions in the water that allow electricity to conduct. You may be able to clean the PI to such a level that nothing dissolves into the water when it is submerged.

https://techiescientist.com/does-distilled-water-conduct-ele...
I see in your profile you've joined HN just a year ago. Welcome! I feel the need to point out that this is not a place to "teach someone values" though, but to have meaningful conversation. There doesn't have to be a winner.

The comments section of the guidelines offers some good rules of thumb: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
To the dead comment mentioning First Generation:

The farmers blocked lanes, not the whole roads. First Generation sits on the ground, glues their hands to the roads, and block entire streets, putting people in actual danger.

It's not the same, please stop pretending like it is.
That is not a realistic proposition. Besides the ridiculous VATs on the masts the angles are all wrong and the wind loading is going to destroy structures like that during the first real storm.
> Safari's monopoly on iOS devices is the only reason a sizable number of developers care about non-Chrome support.

Sounds like you like monopoly.
I believe your use case is not impacted by the changes proposed in this thread.

Additionally, hard disagree on your conclusions since it's not about being responsible or not; it's about the process of cancelling subscriptions being convoluted, unfriendly and filled with dark patterns.

Here's an alternate proposition: what if you could quickly and easily cancel any unwanted subscriptions directly through your banking app? Right there next to your expenses statements? What if we took it even further such that you could not only cancel right there but even request a refund for unused billing periods?

And taking it to an absurd extreme: what if you suddenly went into a coma and woke up 50 years later to a large bill from a subscription service you didn't use all this time? Was it a lack of personal responsibility?
> Turns out, I need a 3A fuse, so I ordered one from Amazon and installed it the next day.

Ummm. 3A is 720W. If that tiny box dissipated that much, the entire closet full of them would be a literal oven. Besides there's not much point in an energy meter using that much power. It defeats the purpose. It's like testing matches :P it'll be 10W at most. Even peak inrush current would be nowhere near that high.

1A fuse would be more than enough.

> To be honest, the whole thing was a bit scary, since I was very close to the mains.

Nah this is all installed very cleanly.
That reminds me of a calculation I did which showed that my desktop PC would be more powerful than all of the computers on the planet combined in like 1978 :D
Sure would be nice if you defined some acronyms.
I’m really surprised the snow bricks hold together so well. I wonder what the optimal conditions are for forming snow balls/bricks/men.
What I do is canceling the trial immediately after subscribing for it. Most services will let you finish the trial period and you won't risk forgetting to cancel it and paying for another billing cycle.
It takes a lot of effort, actually. For instance, Im a minority in my current country: cant speak the language well (Chinese), cant write nor read much, dont look like them at all, work in high level jobs they cant relate to for the most part, and am European to a fault in almost every belief system that matters.

So, what should I or they do ? Tolerate me, they could try, but shouldnt I ... fit in more ? Learn more seriously the language, dress more like them, marry local, put my kids amongst them, or even leave and live amongst my peers ?

I think it s impossible to ask a majority to tolerate me beyond very basic human politeness. My religion, my culture, my beliefs are so foreign for the majority, 1.4bn people, that the most efficient way for us to live together is for me to change and adapt a lot more than for them to do so.
Why not both, right?
a different, related idea could be a hidden page (like https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights ) that lists all the people that have been honored with a black bar.

the black bar could link to that page, or it could remain hidden
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_L._Mills
Nuclear power plants and coal power plants fundamentally work the same way. Generate heat, make steam, spin turbines, make electricity.

Nuclear power plants without passive safety features need extra redundancy on the cooling systems, e.g. you need backup generators. There is no way that should add billions of dollars to the price of the plant.

They cost billions of dollars more because competitors (primarily coal and natural gas) lobby for rules that make them cost more on purpose, because they don't want to compete with a technology that should have a similar construction cost and negligible fuel cost. Especially when they're the suppliers of the fuel.

Fortunately for them nuclear is scary and then you can lobby not just for safety measures that make sense but also for ones with poor cost benefit ratios that only serve to make the plants uneconomically expensive. Then the coal companies shrug and say the market has decided.
Immutability is, quite possibly, the dumbest “silver bullet” solution ever to be praised as a solution to anything.

Congratulations, nobody is going to sneakily update an object on you, but also, nobody knows about your updates either.

It’s not a worthwhile trade off given the massive extra work it causes.
This is fascinating! I did not know this about british plugs.

Why is that? Is it a safety measure?
CSIS is more analogous to the CIA. It's an intelligence service, not a police service.

But the US have a lot of specialized police agencies -- the RCMP is also the DEA, the Secret Service, the US Marshals... probably many more I'm forgetting or don't even know about.
If Barron knew anything about the stock market they would have made money
Briefly, the way you make sense of this is by being consistent with notation and being aware of definitions. f is a function. f(x) is not a function. f(x) is an element of the range. Unfortunately, I'm sure growing up your teachers probably referred to f(x) as being the function. If you just simplify the function composition and clearly label objects, I'm pretty sure you won't have this kind of confusion. It really shouldn't be this complicated.

While we're at it, it's probably not the best idea to represent derivatives as fractions either (for the sake of notational consistency). But that notation will never die.
1cc of hay dust per liter of milk is actually a lot of hay dust. does the hay need to be from the barn, are we talking barn dust here?
Detectors detect, they don’t prevent. All detectors suffer misses.
Correct, since its only on a 3A fuse it would have blown as soon as the owner tried to make a coffee, if the house power literally ran through it.

Most likely this is just a current clamp style meter. Most of these kinds of meters are.
Now tell us where to find the ladder with all the steps in order.
(I don't work for Google)

Much of what you wrote here seems familiar with those who work for LARGE orgs or companies. The individual simply cannot have much influence when your org is > 10000 people.

I suspect the thing unique to Google is how (or so I hear) the technology stack is more or less a monolith, always designed to scale, and you can't (or are discouraged to) start "small" projects, so you're basically stuck with the huge orgs and don't have a choice to run/join a relatively small and isolated operation where you have more control.
It seems like the short stories mention the narrator's name (Freddy) one or possibly two times- it took me at least until my second read-through before it leapt out at me. This leads to a tidy resolution in The Big Kerplop! incidentally, which is one of the reasons I'd recommend reading the books in order of publication.
Getting it that clean is hard. There's stuff like residual flux under the ball grid arrays and other surface mount components.
I meant in air. I made a while ago an Unmanned underwater vehicles (UUV), the on-board SBC (nvidia jetson), despite having a waterproof case I still did have heat shrink tube on it and the connectors as an extra measure, obviously it’s not as sophisticated as the OP coating tech, but the there were an around 45% thermal increase, would be interesting to see some benchmarks numbers on that!
Netflix Documentaries Are Hits. Scientists Hate Them
I’m an American who likes trying new things and I could list at least 2 dozen types of cheese I’m familiar with. That’s about it though unless varieties with flavorings or smoking makes them count separately.
With internet fragmentation, I wonder if a generic sports magazine isn't going to be nearly as useful as something focused on a specific sport. "What's happening in the sports world today? Oh yea a magazine that gives me all sorts of sports news. How incredibly useful to me."

Maybe it was only popular because it was the only game in town 30 years ago, and the auto-renew subs for doctor and dentist's offices stopped when those doctors and dentist's retired.
Was recently furniture shopping, and of course browsed multiple places including Wayfair.

Wasn't long before I saw an identical sofa to one I just saw elsewhere. Hey wait a minute! A reverse Google image search on most sofas showed up in multiple places with multiple brand names. And Wayfair was rarely the cheapest.

I have no idea if they offer anything useful, but in my short stint it seemed to be a marketplace for marked up white labeled...junk.
https://archive.is/w722N
I'm not arguing from a dishonest place. I'm asking how this philosophy of history relates to actual historical events. We live in a world where modern governments routinely use concentration camps and genocide to consolidate power, and erase ethnic and racial minorities. I'm trying to square what you're saying with all of that. It doesn't seem to me like we're identifying with victims vs. victimizers any better than Marcus Aurelius would have.
The rearing costs were probably lower due to multigenerational households, elder siblings, and the entire community being involved.
I wasn't sure why you were comparing the San Francisco Bay Area to Shenzhen. Then I realized you mean the bay area that's ten times the population of the San Francisco Bay Area. Now that's a bay area...
Ashton Kutcher raised a $243M investment fund in just five weeks
Increasing less fast is not the definition of slowing down, it's the definition of increase increasing less fast.
You know, they pivoted.

Non-production tenant PIVOT Satya’s email inbox. Like that.
Does a European start up have more stability than a big American tech company?

I doubt it. Once money dries up a start up has to close up shop no matter where it is located.
I was born and raised in France. At 26, I emigrated to China, been 9 years.

How much do you think I have to conform vs being myself ? It s not that they re mean in refusing to accept my Frenchness, it's that they cant even care, and if I want anything done, I need to meet them halfway: learn how conventions work in China to not brush them off, how to speak their language, how to dress and behave in a way they can recognize, so many little details that transform me from an alien ghost-faced weirdo to a surprisingly enjoyable human to hang around with.

I wonder if it wouldnt be the same for other groups: maybe minorities in general would enjoy life more if they were given more chance to conform, rather than given more space not to change ? Im not even trying myself, Ill eat my croissant in secret if I want, but for most people, I m a rice noodle eater like every "normal" person here. I hate it, I still do it: I conform, and life goes on.
Still for sale?

https://uk-metering.net/products/netthings-energy-manager
That’s great to hear. I’m glad you’re finding it useful!
"Sugar Alcohols Ruined My Health: Learn from My Mistakes" [video]
Ah, I see, thanks for clarifying what you meant

Does that mean a police information check is the only way to search for charges against a person?

Charges are usually registered with courts too, and those courts are usually searchable as public record I’m assuming.
I expect you to take personal responsibility for your belongings while you're at the office and someone wants to rob your house

Don't expect the police to track the guy down
Last year, the university where I work signed the Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) [1], which recommends, among other things, that institutions "[b]e explicit about the criteria used to reach hiring, tenure, and promotion decisions, clearly highlighting, especially for early-stage investigators, that the scientific content of a paper is much more important than publication metrics or the identity of the journal in which it was published."

We were the first university in our country to sign DORA, and I was very proud of that decision. If more institutions followed those recommendations, there would be less motivation for paper mills and other abuses.

[1] https://sfdora.org/
I don't think that's charitable. They are stating that iOS enforcing the second browser to exist makes at least some space for the third to exist and preventing Chrome from completely taking over.
Richard Thaler, the behavioral economist, is pretty sure this is because the incentive structure goes bad. An executive who goes for a new project with a 50/50 chance of either (a) making $3m or (b) losing $1m -- note the expected value of $2m -- expects a pat on the back, maybe a couple months' salary as bonus, in case (a), and to be fired in case (b). Naturally, the business would love to pursue all these opportunities, while any individual manager would almost never choose to pursue one.

This is a variant of the principal-agent problem.

Thaler's book is titled "Misbehaving" -- well worth listening to the audiobook if you have a commute!
> If you took monthly payment from your elderly neighbor to shovel their walk and it never snowed, it would be shameful to keep taking it - people's opinions of you would change negatively if they heard about it.

Except the neighbour did buy something. You being available to shovel their driveway. You having the equipment to shovel their driveway.

Which is why you pay for snow removal services even in months without snow.
I've done the same thing for years. I've never seen collections.
If you're just a "researcher" and you're not a cop then your job isn't to get convincing evidence of anything.
Pure (eg. Distilled) water isn't a very good conductor at all. It's only when you add contaminant ions that it starts to conduct electricity in any meaningful sense.

Most people's experience with water rapidly destroying electronics is probably with highly ionised water such as sea water or water in the washing machine which has washing powder added.

Of course, it's worth pointing out in this case that as per the comments HZO claim they used water straight from the tap, so it's probably still an impressive enough achievement.

I'm curious how they went about sealing the external connectors (usb, hdmi), because surely those would need to be exposed and with the voltage present would act as points of corrosion. The pins on the Pi connectors are quite tightly spaced too. Maybe the AC nature of most of the signals helps there?
I would think re-writing witness statements is a crime.
Which is a weird thing to see. I used Netflix on Apple TV or on a mac. The likelihood of a malware on the latter is low but nonetheless it was an old pass from few years back and I have stopped Netflix subscription long ago.
Users clamor for return of physical fingerprint readers
What infuriates me is that the courts decided to convict people when there was no evidence of malpractice other than that damn software. What happened to innocent until proven beyond reasonable doubt? Where the fucking proof?

Why are judges ignoring the very foundations upon which our justice systems were built?
This material sounds like a hoax reminiscent of the Sloot Digital Coding System[0], another supposedly groundbreaking "lost invention".

An amateur chemist is unlikely to be able to invent such a material. It's also odd to keep the recipe a closely guarded secret instead of patenting and selling it.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloot_Digital_Coding_System
Is this meant to just run old Flash or will it make folks create new animations etc?
I'll play along. If the comments on any forum regarding the Vision Pro are anything to go by, you're part of the herd of sheep in this case. Most comments are people making themselves feel better about not having expendable money for what is obviously a luxury purchase. That is what it is isn't it? If you had ~4k to burn like many people around the world do, wouldnt you? Stop. You're thinking about all of the other things you could do with that money. I get it. But assume for a moment that a lot of people that bought the headset also have FU money to do those other things. Their 401k's are stocked and their biggest problem is finding a place to park their money to beat inflation.

Any responsible individual who bought a Vision Pro also has the expendable money to purchase the Quest 3. Many who did already own one.

From that perspective, you're the one with a lower societal status. (remember, this is just a game). Does it matter to you? It's a rhetorical question since you answered it with your previous post. Have a nice day. :)
Even if this device (presumably with known vulnerabilities) isn't directly reachable via the Internet, could the device be bumped off the WiFi and onto an impersonating AP, where the device can be taken over?

The photo on the retail box has a tablet camera hole. Does this particular unit have a camera and mic, placed in a living area?
Having read about the Internet in magazines since its launch in India (Aug 15, 1999), the first thing I did on the first day I landed in a city with the Internet was going to a cybercafé[1] to create my Yahoo! and Hotmail ID in 1999. I still own the Hotmail ID but lost the Yahoo! Re-taking back the Hotmail ID was also a nice story from the past. ;-)

My recollections of the actual events could be clearer, but here it goes. I started with Blogspot[2] before Google bought it. It had no commenting options. A Russian developer contacted me to try his commenting script, which works with Blogspot. I'm either the only person or part of a few people using it. He helped me set up, and we emailed regularly, and that's how comments started on my website. I let go of my comments recently (they are in the 5-figures after removing spam.) I searched my blog but I either deleted it or have forgotten the name of the program that powered it but it was a good thing. Thanks to another nice person on the Internet.

Then, Blogger to Movable Type to WordPress (before it even had options to create pages). Now, I'm in "plain-text".

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_café

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogger_(service)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sage_Weil right?

https://ceph.com/assets/pdfs/weil-crush-sc06.pdf
Just guessing but perhaps with a phishing attack on a Microsoft domain.
Copy and paste in google colab works correctly with chrome and not firefox.
Nothing to do with talent, it’s always about money and government red tape. The US simply is the best place with potential money. Europe is poor in comparison
> Probably don't need to be so worried here. If it's a 3A fuse, the entirety of your apartment's mains power is not running through it.

If it's a "3A fuse" that doesn't blow at 6A or worse, then it will get very hot (fire hazard) if/when there's a short regardless of the distance to the mains power.

If it truly is a 3A fuse, then great. If it's bought from Amazon then I doubt it's truly a 3A fuse.
Well, actually, that was the end of the sentence. In fact the “dream” sentence you quote occurs two paragraphs later!
so like 6 million KG of lithium. or enough lithium for 750,000 EV cars
fair enough, I was only speaking for the US, which has a slower pace and lack of motivation throughout k-12 + calc series. I still have no idea why they don't teach basic algebra with matrices, so it doesn't seem like a giant bad of tricks, or why linear algebra is so separated from multi-dim calculus, it really makes it more difficult with busy work and you never really comprehend anything.
230 billion tons in sea water isn't even a single PPM, doesn't seem feasible to me.
May be you need to start with some high level overview:

- What is the purpose of this group?

- Why do you think it is a great use of anonymous strangers time?

- Why do you think the anonymous stranger would be craving to come back and attend it consistently?

- What is the anonymous stranger expected to bring to the group?

- What is the anonymous stranger expected go get from the group?

- What are the needs of this anonymous stranger that are unmet through his self study, online forums such as r/machinelearning, ML conferences, unlimited ML videos, going through hugging face paper digest, company research blogs etc.?
https://archive.is/ANBJx
For Go I'd say there's a single synchronous runtime built-in. People say that Go is async because the implementation of goroutines is async internally, but the implementation of threads on every OS is async internally too. The only real difference as far as sync/async is concerned† between goroutines and threads is that Go's implementation of goroutines is in userspace, while the implementation of OS threads is in kernel space. Both are equally asynchronous under the hood.

† Yes, there are other differences between goroutines and typical OS threads, such as stack sizes, but I'm only talking about I/O differences here.
You’re absolutely not wrong - but asking a devops engineer why they over engineered their home cluster is sort of like asking a mechanic “why is your car so fast? Couldn’t you just take the bus?”
Wikimedia's operations team go through a full-datacenter failover regularly. That is, once every 6 months or so. It takes several hours of intense all-hands-on-deck operations. They do this repeatedly in order to be sure that all of the procedures are practiced and documentation is well maintained.
There’s nothing subtile about a rocket either. He’s not waiter or a safe cracker.
It’s at least 20ish years ago: I remember an old sysadmin talking about managing petabytes before 2003
Steve Jobs used dealership plates. If you have a metal plate with tape over the numbers, there is a 100% chance that you're breaking the law.
You can't remove the connector without breaking the coating
There is no @dang. I don't know why people keep doing this. This isn't Twitter.