skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Biden administration to forgive $5.8B student debt for 78,000 borrowers
> Why would a mammal's body evolved to use fat cells to store and utilise lipids for energy?

Hibernation?

For short term glucose storage is preferred by mammals bodies that i know of.
> The information gathered in recent years has generated a new concept of coffee, one which does not match the common belief that coffee is mostly harmful.

That's in terms of physical health. But coffee is indeed used to push us to higher states of productivity and longer working hours, which is quite detrimental to building a sustainable culture.
> As far as I can tell, cloudflares DIY lamps/pendulums are not NIST certified.

That makes them by definition worse than the OpenSSL version that leaked user keys on request. /s
This common argument seems like a misunderstanding of how Reddit works. Mods aren't unpaid workers for Reddit, but rather, mods get access to a free platform to create a community on the condition that it follows the rules. That's the compensation. In contrast, one of the forums I'm active on just did a donation run to keep their servers running for another year.
Great change. Should have been like that from the start but would have probably impacted their growth.

Any company can still use Redis for their needs, only leeches like AWS can't.
> meaningless if you haven't in nearly two decades found effective way to monetize that traffic

Sure. Not relevant in the context of $800+ million of revenue [1].

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1713445/000162828024...
> A Fire Upon the Deep (predicted fake news via "the net of a thousand lies")

Predicted ? A Fire Upon the Deep published in 1993, at which date Usenet was already mature and suffering such patterns - although not at FaceTwitTok scale.

But still, I love Vinge's take on information entropy across time, space and social networks. A Deepness in the Sky features the profession of programmer–archaeologist and I'm here for that !
That kind of niche knowledge is what I come to HN for!
"They’re not even connected to anything, but their perpetual swinging action is what keeps the internet safe(r) from hackers and protects your online transactions from fraudsters."

That sentence triggers me on so many levels.
Down below in the article it says that cameras are sampling the motion. So, ultimately the setup is connected to something, and it is being actively used as a quality source of entropy for cryptography. Brilliant, actually, but this is not what "keeps the internet safe". Strong encryption is a source of trust, nothing more. Proper security needs to rely on a few things that we have to assume to be unbreakable. Only then we can build on top of that. Sadly, even unbreakable encryption, if used incorrectly, can bring the whole thing down. I really don´t like articles that sensationalize "neat details" and by that distort the bigger picture.
The fact that we are not passing the laws, elected representatives are. There is a tremendous firewall between us and our representatives, and lobby systems are past the firewall.
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I'm glad it works for you. I'm not keto hating, I just find people advising to do it long term to be on the quacky side (there simply is no such evidence).

> Years ago the American diet was supposed to be healthy

The result of lobbying. True nutrition experts knew all along.
And even then, Malaysia has a bigger GDP PPP per capita than Chile, Bulgaria, Uruguay, and only slightly behind Greece! Quite a bit above Mexico too! They aren't a low-cost country.
> Before Finland joined NATO they used to also violate our airspace on frequent basis, but since then that has stopped.

Probably temporarily. They violate the Estonian airspace on a regular basis with military planes, with their responders turned off. The NATO planes stationed in Estonia then take off and go see them off.
Any advice for those who absolutely hate networking?
I personally feel peaceful without smartphones. And trying not to use it before bedtime
Not aware of this. Any source you have?
I think it's called HTML+CSS...
Distinction without a difference. If the salary was lower, the profit would be higher.

No, the important distinction is "is that coming from cash or stocks". The cash component of salaries goes in the profit&loss account. See https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1713445/000162828024...

Revenue $804m (!), expenses $944m (!). But I'm having trouble working out which of the expenses breakdown entries has the board salary in. And if it's compensation in stock, does that have to be expensed?
It should be a big story, as should be the fact that Russia invaded a peaceful neighboring country and keeps murdering, raping and torturing its residents.

But somehow much of the world pretends not to notice and only does whatever is convenient at the moment (buy Russian oil/gas, do business in Russia, stay "neutral", etc). I find it incredibly depressing, I thought that surely in the 2020s our civilization would have progressed further.

Russia will play the slowly boiled frog game to their advantage — GPS jamming is just the beginning. We will likely soon see further small incursions, each one ever so slightly larger than the previous one. And we'll hear Mr Scholz say something about doing something, but we won't see him actually do anything. Mr Macron will use grand words and do nothing as well. Austria will "declare neutrality" (easy to do when you have other countries as buffers from the aggressor).

As someone currently living in the EU close to Ukraine, I find all this very sad.
One Thing Most Countries Have in Common: Unsafe Air
Some birds can see magnetic fields.
"Stone Soup" refers to the Stone Soup folk story, where people contribute their supplies to make a great soup for everyone (it is developed by many people who contribute to the open-source project started by Linley Henzell as Linley's Dungeon Crawl).

Still a better name than NetHack (which is not a game about hacking networks... "Net" just refers to collaboration over net to improve the game Hack). There is also BrogueCE ("Brogue Community Edition").
https://archive.ph/0sLVa
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Populations in poverty have much higher fertility rates. I have seen that fact used as both a qualifier and cause for artificial political divisions and even ethnic cleansing.

For example Israel claims opposition to granting citizenship to Palestinians because they are an impoverished people with a much higher birth rate. Past Israeli prime ministers have stated the fear is that they would eventually achieve population dominance and thus Israel would no longer be an officially Jewish state. This ignores the political realities of the wealth divisions to maintain an argument favored by the politically dominant segment.

Similar arguments were made by Serbia to qualify their invasion of Bosnia, north Sudan against South Sudan, Germany against Poland, and so. As such we should to see greater wealth disparities due to differences in birth rates and that as justification for future ethnic cleansing.
Why not Threads?
It's baffling how shareholders are so tolerant of a CEO looting the company for substantial fractions of its total value annually. But it's very widespread.
Steel bikes are more typically extremely cheap bikes nowadays. Too cheap to bother repairing in any way that the material choice would matter.
Netherlands is on a sweet spot for cycling.

They don't have 40°C in Summer like in Southern Europe, or -20°C like in the Alps.
€250M is a rounding error for Google. It won't change how they are doing business.
Mona: Australian art museum sued over women's-only exhibit
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This is certainly an issue, that companies can sell other people's IP in this way, ie sell UGC.

Seems like a loopholes that civilised society should close.
This is like seeing an employee of Philip Morris pointing out that they have employees volunteer to tell kids how smoking is not healthy or like when British Petroleum funds research on green energy... I'm sorry but you're a cog in a machine which is fine but we have structural problems at play here that can't be swept under the rug
> But arguing everyone at any [un?]profitable entity should be paid less until the venture is profitable, irrespective of any other facts, is silly.

This is the argument usually made for redundancies: reducing the overall payroll.
I'm not an EE, so please understand this as a sincere question: wouldn't the code and its comments become documentation that would otherwise be in the well-drawn schematic?

As an outsider, my assumption is that the schematic would become less of a design document and more of a simple visualization.

What am I missing?
DARPA would like a word...
What virus ever gave you the option of "oh in that case, no thanks, I'll do it some other way" ?
I think the “does it pipe toxic spill-prone chemicals through your drinking water supply” question is at least relevant to the legitimacy of someone’s stake in the situation.
Ones on Indian treaty land done by Indians.
(prepare to die a lot)

No thanks. Repeatedly punishing you for stupid shit isn't a fun game.

Like the Sims will burn you alive for not buying a smoke detector and then having the audacity to make toast.
It's almost all stock with an estimated fictional value. As stated in the article.
What are you talking about? Canon was making copiers, printers, scanners, video cameras from the late 80s on.

So they were already making digital hardware and so presumably had the internal expertise on how to product manage that.

https://global.canon/en/corporate/history/04.html
> the argument usually made for redundancies: reducing the overall payroll

It’s for increasing profits. Redundancies are reduces at profitable and unprofitable firms alike.
The exhibit is an incredibly fun idea and does exactly what Art should do, but the court case proceedings described in the article are just as wonderful. It's filled with quotes and anecdotes that all fit very well in the hacker-ethos.
Ray Kurzweil at SXSW says 500 year lifespan possible in 5 years [video]
with respect, we don’t know if he was spot on. Companies shoehorning language models into their products is a far cry from the transformative societal change he describes will happen. nothing like a singularity has yet happened at the scale he describes, and might not happen without more fundamental shifts/breakthroughs in AI research.
The thing is, none of the systems I have the luxury to run a filesystem which can randomly explode any time because I pressed a button developers didn't account for, yet.

I have bitten by ReiserFS' superblock corruption once, and that time I had plenty of time to rebuild my system leisurely. My current life doesn't allow for that. I need to be able to depend on my systems.

Again, I believe BTRFS will be an excellent filesystem in the long run. It's not ready yet for "format, mount and forget" from my perspective. Only I'm against is, "it runs on my machine, so yours' is a skill issue" take, which is harmful on many levels.
> One point this article misses is the size of the cities. Until mid-1800 cities were at most 1-1.5 km long, usually just 2-3 streets.

See perhaps:

> Marchetti's constant is the average time spent by a person for commuting each day. Its value is approximately one hour, or half an hour for a one-way trip. It is named after Italian physicist Cesare Marchetti, though Marchetti himself attributed the "one hour" finding to transportation analyst and engineer Yacov Zahavi.[1]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marchetti%27s_constant

* https://archive.is/edypl / https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-08-29/the-commu...
Reddit has huge value in hidden marketing. Many users, subreddits and moderators are paid by companies. These create a lot of good content! It's not obvious bland marketing it's good and engaging.

They work to promote people, products and companies from the boring to the new, the safe to the illicit.

It's exactly the same with Musks twitter: getting the power users who are paid to tweet to pay the platform.
Aiven is a good example - I don’t know if they contribute to Redis, but they appear to offer a managed service based upon it.
Those actors usually exchange some of their up-front payment for a percentage of the film's profit. In other words, they are taking on some of the risk associated with film production and betting on their own appeal being enough to turn a profit and generate income.

It would be like a bricklayer not taking any payment until the house was sold and therefore taking on the risks associated with the housing market. Most probably wouldn't want that. You can't have your cake and eat it too.
Usually the BMS in such packs does have control over the flow in and out of the battery: it can isolate the connections if there's an overcurrent or over/undervoltage (or overtemp). That's usually the main contribution to safety. And it's also pretty typical that the BMS is what defines the charging profile: the charger basically just follows instructions from the BMS (and if it doesn't, said isolation comes into play as protection). This doesn't necessarily all happen on one chip: in the larger packs this is likely distributed between a few different components, including a chunky contactor for the isolation.
Big fan of Nango. Love what you are doing in the unified api space by providing customisability past the lowest common api denominator.

Reason I did not include you in the open source list is your github only seems to have "integration templates". I may be wrong but these look like helpers for your customers to understand your integration formats. All your integrations do not seem to actually be open sourced. Especially

I agree that AI agents can always misunderstand and call the wrong api. Thus I believe having an open source configuration standard, interoperable with OAS, which AI agents can parse would be hugely beneficial. Audibility of course is also definitely crucial with any AI system.

The fundamental issue I see with API abstraction over the core system is the inability to fully interact with the underlying system for bespoke requests that may come up. Also the issue with the AI systems calling the wrong api (POST instead of DELETE), can still arise with any system an AI interacts with tho I agree that besides securing with appropriate oauth scopes, integration platforms could help with additional guard rails
Yes, indeed, once you, specifically, buy a thing all iteration on the thing should stop.

... Eh?
404 page?
You dodged the core part of my comment and question. Why?

Amazon isn't running and charging for redis as a platform to make redis in the world a better place.
If it works for you, then it's great. However, this doesn't change the fact that it does not work for many others.

If I'm just not gonna use BTRFS' RAID, I can just use mdadm + any file system I want. In this case, any file system becomes "anything but btrfs" from my point of view.

I've burnt by ReiserFS once. I'm not taking the same gamble with another FS, thanks.
It is interesting that you consider invasion of Taiwan by China as inert, but involvement of others, that 'risks WW3'.

Seems to me that invasion of foreign countries is pretty provocative.
By React-like component approach, do you mean using functions instead of templating language?
> What about on the countryside? Villagers traveled to church and other villages regularly.

"Regularly" may have been once a week (e.g., Lord's Day / Sunday). Otherwise people lived either in villages themselves, or in hamlets (collective security at night) and 'commuted' to their fields. Or on-site of the land owner if they were workers (earlier: serfs).

Living on a farmstead wasn't really a thing until relatively recently in history.
But there's a chance that any survivors learn to hide from planes and you've now given an evolutionary pressure to cows to hide when hearing airplanes or helicopters. Along with that a pressure that makes the ones that blend in less likely to be spotted to be bombed. So yes, you're right you probably won't get cows that can survive napalm itself but now you've got cows with camouflage and an instinct to hide.
Spotify is used as a case example in scrum training.

No correlation implied.
> “There’s no silver bullet,” said Bhattacharjee. “Social policies to improve birth rates such as enhanced parental leave, free childcare, financial incentives, and extra employment rights, may provide a small boost to fertility rates, but most countries will remain below replacement levels. And once nearly every country’s population is shrinking, reliance on open immigration will become necessary to sustain economic growth.

We should NOT be aiming for economic growth! That is fundamentally unsustainable. It is good that the population growth will slow down. What we should be aiming for is using LESS energy every year, and looking for new ways to become a "steady state" population that does not NEED economic growth to survive.

We need to become minimalists, seeking for satisfaction beyond growing this horrendously unsustainable economy, or else we will surely end in disaster. We should:

* Reduce our dependence on global supply chains

* Become more sustainable locally with locally grown food through sustainable farming which includes vastly reducing meat intake

* Use MUCH less energy

We have more than enough resources to do it, only the wealthy don't want a world where their portfolios aren't always growing, which is one of the main obstacles to sustainability. (But if we are smart, we will take them down by force in the same way they have pillaged the ecosystem by force.)

Economic growth is a recipe for disaster.
>They can do another blackout since the last one was so successful and achieved all its goals

Gotta start somewhere.
Holy fuck I completely forgot about that game. I spent hours and hours and hours playing that game as a kid.

I probably logged 50 hours just in the free demo level.
I'm stuck halfway through Deepness in the Sky, I should pick it up again.

Also stuck on book 8 of the Wheel of Time series, I was like 5 chapters in and didn't pick up a single thread I cared about from the previous book.

Agree about the expert omission part.
SSPL achieves your goal far better than AGPL, as already enumerated in this thread.
> Also, not enough standardization of measurements to make interchangeability to work.

A good book on increasing precision in history, The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World:

> The rise of manufacturing could not have happened without an attention to precision. At the dawn of the Industrial Revolution in eighteenth-century England, standards of measurement were established, giving way to the development of machine tools—machines that make machines. Eventually, the application of precision tools and methods resulted in the creation and mass production of items from guns and glass to mirrors, lenses, and cameras—and eventually gave way to further breakthroughs, including gene splicing, microchips, and the Hadron Collider.

> Simon Winchester takes us back to origins of the Industrial Age, to England where he introduces the scientific minds that helped usher in modern production: John Wilkinson, Henry Maudslay, Joseph Bramah, Jesse Ramsden, and Joseph Whitworth. It was Thomas Jefferson who later exported their discoveries to the fledgling United States, setting the nation on its course to become a manufacturing titan. Winchester moves forward through time, to today’s cutting-edge developments occurring around the world, from America to Western Europe to Asia.

> As he introduces the minds and methods that have changed the modern world, Winchester explores fundamental questions. Why is precision important? What are the different tools we use to measure it? Who has invented and perfected it? Has the pursuit of the ultra-precise in so many facets of human life blinded us to other things of equal value, such as an appreciation for the age-old traditions of craftsmanship, art, and high culture? Are we missing something that reflects the world as it is, rather than the world as we think we would wish it to be? And can the precise and the natural co-exist in society

* https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/35068671
Sure, CDDA is a roguelike -- the word was supposed to mean primarily a specific way of controlling the character, introduced in Rogue. Everybody in the roguelike community calls it a roguelike.
> But also, wow, what a messed up place the US is...

Quite a lot of the things that would simply be untreatable in many places are treatable in the US, but it's expensive.

I don't know if that's the case here, but knowing that can help you understand that the place where a lot of things originate (and start out expensive) is the place that eventually commercialises them to the point where other countries can buy them as a package.
That's why it's dual licensed.
Imagine the first llm to suggest an improvement to itself that no human has considered. Then imagine what happens next.
Well, I suppose the keyword here is "most?" because the burden of proof lies with the prosecution, the legal gymnastics of coming up a reasonable argument to this will be interesting.
Totally agree with you, the most probable candidate is the linux phone, but unfortunately I find it lacks maturity.
> If you've read the book, Vinge had literal human LMs in the novel to decode the Spider language. Maybe he just didn't anticipate that computers could do what they do today.

I mean, I don't think LLMs have been notably useful in decoding unknown languages, have they?
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> Do you have a second example of deflationary collapse?

The Great Depression.

Here is a paper that argues deflation is fine: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w10329/w103.... It’s incredibly convoluted and unorthodox.
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Pneumatic tires are from 1888. People rode without them for half a century. They even rode without solid rubber tires.

https://onlinebicyclemuseum.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/05...
Google balks at $270M fine after training AI on French news sites' content
Yeah, i know the risk, that was my point. Given the difference in frequency (say, ~every day vs. ~once a year) and level of attention, the risk to others is at least comparable.

Given how popular DIY phone battery replacement is, you'd expect there to be at least a few incidents reported if it was a major risk, but I just don't see them. On the other hand london fire brigade reports 200 candle fires a year...
They already had a way to set spending limits. It’s still there I believe.

You mention auto recharge. How do you enable this? It would make me much happier to have credits refill as I’ve seen on other SaaS platforms.