skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, nobody would want that. But why assume the spacecraft will be cramped? They could well be extremely large rotating colonies, with an internal area equal to a large city or small country. And if you can build such craft, then why bother terraforming planets? Mine asteroids or planets for materials to make new colonies, study the stellar system, and move on to the next star when it gets a bit crowded.
They stopped including headphone jacks at some point, IIRC after the 4a.
I'm fine with living to 80 eating delicious salmon instead of living to 85 eating less tasty salmon if there is a taste difference
Totally agree! People might adjust their speeds. Or continue speeding and accept the fines. But getting mad and forcing the law to change seems more likely to me.

But partially enforced laws are the worst.
Why our AI algorithms discriminate against people with disabilities
Maybe this will help spurn some necessary and long-overdue problem fixes with LibreOffice, which have gone ignored after being reported seemingly because just not enough people are making a stink about them. I've tried to get Microsoft Office workers to switch but they won't because of these things. If only the LibreOffice devs would take these problems and inadequacies more seriously. Please I hope the German workers report problems and make suggestions and stick to them to improve the product so we have a good free or non-profit office suite to compete with the billionaire companies.
Look, if you can’t see what’s wrong with that chart, well, I dunno what to tell you. I actually briefly thought it was a _joke_ on first seeing it, before recalling that Musk has no sense of humour.
It means "open source until their VCs ramp up the pressure to monetize and they switch to a more restrictive license, screwing over all existing contributors and the rest of the community."
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Yet a drug—that people willingly and optionally take as opposed to this—must be proven NOT to create harm before it is allowed in the wild. Your argument sounds like it is in bad faith.
Quite limited list from NASA. Here is another option with more for the next 10 years https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/list.html
Well put, that's in essence what I meant.

If you are using AWS anyway and are accustomed to it, obviously, RDS is a good choice. But I don't want to learn what DNS and Filesystem are called in AWS-speak just to shoehorn myself into getting stuck with AWS forever, when all I need is a hosted database so I don't have to worry about backups, etc.

My typical situation sees small to medium (virtual) servers that run software for tens to possibly thousands of users. There are plenty of use cases that aren't "google scale" and can be operated on a simple machine and can profit from a "simple" hosted DB.

Rant: Same goes for things like CDNs, I'd guess that 99% of websites don't get nearly the amount of traffic that a simple linux server couldn't handle out of the box. Let alone need sub 100ms ping responses, yet there is this weird cargo cult that requires putting your terraformed, docker stuff running javascript from with a python container with multiple layers of caching behind cloudflare because people don't dare consider simple architectures.
No they won’t. Emulators are legal. If you’re thinking of Yuzu, they crossed many lines into illegality, specifically offering support for currently sold games/systems, as well as breaking encryption.
What is the Australian citizen’s sentiment toward these speed laws?

And what are the limits on a typical freeway?
This is the only sane way. You are then able to reason about impact and reasonably investigate when you inevitably end up dealing with a incident. Relying on a "trusted internal network" went out of fashion a long time ago.
> Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.

> —Alan Kay, from A Conversation with Alan Kay

Mr Kay got every detail of his simile wrong: "The Egyptian pyramids" have a very diverse internal structure, but assuming he's having "the" pyramids in mind, the three big ones on the Giza plateau, those are definitely not built from bricks, but from limestone blocks that weigh one to several tonnes apiece, and much of their inside volume can be assumed to be made from 'rubble' (of a rather coarse variety, basically the leftover material from cutting the slabs out of the quarries) with a little mortar. Their structural integrity is such that four and a half millennia of visitors, weather, earthquakes, tomb robbers and stone-pilfering have not managed to bring them anywhere close to collapse. Brute force you will need for such a project, but closer inspection reveals an incredible amount of planning, preparation and logistics, from precise measurements, millimeter-accurate dressing of uncounted limestone blocks, timely delivery from quarries—some of them hundreds of kilometers up the Nile river—and so on and so forth. Also, it is not known whether slaves were forced to take part in the construction of the pyramids; evidence seems to point to this being an effort more akin to the United State's Apollo program where hundreds of thousands of people worked together to achieve a singular (and some will say: equally vain, symbolic) goal.
It's really not. What Elon says is whatever is currently floating in his head or whatever he thinks will give him a stock boost.

He's not credible with respect to his companies plans. It's happened like dozens of times when he says something well or will not happen, and it turns out he was just lying.

The default stance of reading Elon today has to be, "this is probably a lie. Put no value in it until it is proven true".
In the US "apartment" is usually understood to mean a rented unit. If its owner occupied most would call it a condo.
I imagine they meant: evidently not, because ElephantSQL is shutting down their service.
Perfect summary, well done.
Systems that have BIOSes but their emulators no longer need them: Gameboy, Gameboy Advance, PlayStation, PlayStation Portable. There may be others.

Most 16-bit and earlier systems don’t have a BIOS.
I guess I'm not really sure what you're advocating.

These measures sound good for you, but what percentage of HN readers can do that? How many threats does it eliminate in practice beyond what you'd get from basic VPN + firewall?

There's always additional security measures you can take, but the costs go up and the marginal benefits go down.

It's a bit like saying it's not sufficient for other HN users to deadbolt their doors because it's weaker than the armed guards that patrol your property 24/7.
Is there any attempt to organize mathematics kind of like the OSI model? On the bottom we might start with the physical layer that can be paper+pencil marks on it or a soundwave, the next could be a shape, next could be what the shape stands for and so on. Further up we could find things like isomorphisms.
Ask HN: Why is ZFS considered hard?
I use ZFS pools for some time now - it took a bit of searching and a few quick commands to create a mirrored pool. I check the status regularly, and even had accidents like one of the mirrors going offline for some time - on remount resilvering was quick and effortless (had verified it with other tools). I read about "better defaults" that improve performance/space usage but I never had issues.

So the question is, why is every thread saying ZFS has a steep learning curve? Or does that relate to large scale/enterprise use? I honestly worry that I do something wrong or ignore things that could lead to data loss.
Both humans and computers can absolutely simulate Turing machines. What are you talking about?
archive link: https://archive.ph/ewpvS

between this and the robotaxi thing, woof.
> must be proven NOT to create harm before it is allowed in the wild

This isn’t how we regulate chemicals in America. Perhaps it should be.
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XIX: nineteenth century; XX: twentieth century; we're in the XXI now (even if we don't seem to be acting much like it)

[nb. this notation is (without red ink?) unsuitable for dates before the Age of Pisces]
Not from Lago, but from my own experience I'd guess it's due to the requirements to set up payroll in different countries. If you hire someone, even as a remote worker, in a particular country, you need a payroll processor to make sure the employee is paid with the correct tax deductions, pay those taxes to the local government, and so on. You also need to make sure that you comply with local labour laws. Doing all of that is far from trivial, so there's a high cost to taking on your first employee in any given country.

Intuitively you might think that the EU, with all of the freedom of movement laws, might make this unnecessary, but it doesn't. At least as far as I know, it's no easier for (say) a German company to hire someone in Italy that is is for them to hire someone in Japan.
Can confirm, in my city it is pretty popular and I personally had a great experience while using it for a few month while my own car broke down.

Only reason I bought a car again were regular, multi-day trips to other cities (where I couldn't return the car sharing car). Apart from that it would have been much cheaper to go with car sharing.
Hetzner unfortunately only offers VMs in US, not bare metal servers. We are evaluating potential providers. LeaseWeb is one strong candidate right now.

If Hetzner offers bare metal servers in the future, we would definitely prefer them as well since we are already using Hetzner in EU. However, at the end, the goal is being provider agnostic as much as possible.
AArch64 NEON has the URSQRTE instruction, which gets closer to the OP's question than you might think; view a 32-bit value as a fixed-precision integer with 32 fractional bits (so the representable range is evenly spaced 0 through 1-ε, where ε=2^-32), then URSQRTE computes the approximate inverse square root, halves it, then clamps it to the range 0 through 1-ε. Fixed-precision integers aren't quite integers, and approximate inverse square root isn't quite square root, but it might get you somewhere close.

The related FRSQRTE instruction is much more conventional, operating on 32-bit floats, again giving approximate inverse square root.
Is it a Renault Tweezy or equivalent?

There is no way the owner makes any profit from that for 30k+ USD car.
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Since it happened, I've said that the “Year of Snowden” turned “It's theoretically possible to backdoor the firmware of a hard drive” (for example), into “Somewhere in the NSA, there's a Kanban board with post-its for each major manufacturer of hard drives, and three of them are already in the 'done' column.”
quite common in the Netherlands and in Sweden. many services have no membership fees. pay per minute+km. works perfectly for the one time a month I need a car.
I have used this library for a few years and is reliable. As someone mentioned, sometimes 2 things that are not related can have the same cosine similarity. Easy to use and get started with.
I like the note that the author makes:

* Vegemite is very salty.

* Vegemite is very salty.
While this is good news for the retro gaming community, I'm really struck by how deep the collective Stockholm syndrome is that this is exciting.
I mean, everyone on this very website claiming that these things are good learning tools.
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There’s this multi-emulator called Delta that already exists: https://faq.deltaemulator.com/

Then there’s PPSSPP, the PlayStation Portable emulator. The dev said they’ll try submitting a port to the App Store.
> Seize the assets and auction them to companies who don't do crime

Like one of the dozen other companies that manufacture PFAS, which continue to be totally legal in America.
I think that's a reasonable position. My desire for legalization is more around an edge-case scenario, because I think the "do it yourself" approach for most people isn't actually that difficult if someone is actually committed in the same way they probably should be to demonstrate sufficient consent and have it done by a government-licensed doctor, and so the bodily autonomy arguments aren't really persuasive.

The edge-case is that the person wants to become an early suspended customer of a cryonics organization. Already there have been successful suicides from people who stated they would have preferred to be suspended and have the very small chance of actually getting a second chance at some distant point in the future, but there are various legal obstacles as well as practical ones to that, and so these people are just as assuredly gone forever as anyone else.

Besides being complex, it's also an old issue. You might enjoy reading this case report from 1993 about a suicidal person who wanted to be cryopreserved: https://www.cryonicsarchive.org/library/complete-list-of-alc... He did eventually shoot himself, and unlike others there was at least a brain preservation in the end, but it's pretty far from an ideal one (and no one knows if even ideal preservation is good enough for future reanimation/emulation; I'd bet against it but obviously wouldn't rule it out). More recently, in late 2018 the first person was cryopreserved while using California's new end of life option act to hasten an otherwise painful demise from stage 4 cancer. (Short version: https://www.cryonicsarchive.org/library/complete-list-of-alc... Long version: https://www.cryonicsarchive.org/docs/alcor-case-report-a-199...)
Ah yes, the UNRWA, the notoriously unbiased UN agency when it comes to palestinians.
Well what are you advocating? It seems like you are suggesting that device security isn't important because it is hard to do and a firewall will solve most problems.

But at the same time we are looking at a vulnerability that works through a firewall.

I am just suggesting that even in a presence of a firewall we should expect appliances to be secure on a hostile network. That is the standard we should hold vendors to. Much like Android, iOS, Windows and macOS hold themselves to this standard.

I'm also not saying that you should test this standard, defence in depth is very valuable. But I don't think saying "it is hard and a firewall solves many issues" is a good reason to forgive these vendors for shit security.
‘easy’

Remember, you can’t stop the engine while it’s running or everyone starves to death, and not figuring out useful alternatives (and getting them setup and working and all the major kinks ironed out) will stop the engine.
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Small fonts, very wide lines, small and non-obvious links for actions, bright backgrounds. I use https://www.modernhn.com/ to improve HN readability.
Ahh yes. Another subscription based “disruption” to a market that’s already too expensive for the middle and lower classes.

We all know how this works and have seen it countless times

Step 1) identify a market that needs “disruption”.

Step 2) introduce a subscription based model where the price is “too good to be true” (I.e. sold at a loss backed by VC money).

Step 3) Capture said market by underpricing most/all of your competitors.

Step 3.5) introduce ads. (Optional but highly encouraged)

Step 4) raise the subscription fees.

Step 5) lower the quality of the service to save money.

“You will own nothing and be happy”
LLMs are idiot savants that can do a few things very well and fail horribly at others. And they require careful prodding to correctly process tricky logical questions, exposing what they are at the core: text expanders and parroters. Highly useful of course to save typing effort and to aggregate insights over large context lengths. If anything, dealing with LLMs has helped me appreciate the capabilities of people more.
For an approximate (very rough) answer, as opposed to one accurate to the nearest integer, a right shift by half the number of bits of the leading 1’s position will do, and of course nearly every processor has a shift instruction. I’m not sure how often processors haven’t had something like FLO (Find Leading One) or FFS (Find First Set) instruction, those seem ubiquitous as well.

The super rough approximation for some uses can be approximately as good as an accurate answer. When you just need a decent starting place for some further Newton-Raphson iteration, for example. (Of course the right-shift trick is a nice way to seed a more accurate square root calculation. :P)
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I know that a lot of what I'm describing above is already used by a big fraction of tech companies. But the information asymmetry is huge, making it only profitable for one side, therefore it's not really solving any of the abovementioned problems. It's hard to google (replace with your preferred search engine) "a company which hires tech staff this way", when this approach probably doesn't even have its own distinctive name.

IMHO, we need more of the stuff I'm describing. And that includes making people very well aware, where they can find stuff like this, without subjecting them to pointless and time-wasting fortune games, which classical recruiting model is alarmingly too close to, at least when used to find and hire tech people. Of course, some of us may have adapted to this model, possibly throwing away doubts like what I'm describing long time ago, but it doesn't change the fact that possibly we're making a huge waste all the time, and are currently failing to notice that.

Please also keep in mind, that I'm strictly talking about purely technical positions! I'm aware that it'll be the exact opposite for say, a CTO position, or any other position where it's not even really certain what exactly a person will need to be doing.
Shout out to Dublin, that closed all its Victorian public inner-city toilets b/c it couldn't be bothered to police them (much as it doesn't police ASB anywhere), shifting responsibility to local businesses, most of which are now "Toilets are for customers only" as a result..
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Posts bitching about both the conditions of the cars and the quality of users/drivers on my local subreddit are an evergreen topic. And yet the car sharing service persists year after year.
Please "f off" with your "dishonest" and "f off" statements.

You don't get to call people "dishonest", tell them to "f off", call them "shitty", then get pious and offended when someone takes exception to that.

> We do better here on HN, as a long term member I'm disappointed in your behavior.

You've been here since 2013. I've been using this account since 2010 so you can "f off" with that, too.

> If better options were available, people would choose those.

"Better" according to who? You?

If people can't get food, they start eating rats and shoe leather. It doesn't make it "better".
Yes, thank you, that’s the video
Yep, that feature of getting the frequency domain representation through optics is pretty convenient for the various microscopies and spectroscopies performed at light sources.
> I can imagine a (probably not steel, but hopefully more wood than straw) neoliberal capitalist might reply with something like “but if the result is subpar, then the market will respond by purchasing from alternative providers; and it will self-correct.”

Eh, I don’t think that works. This only really works if the market _knows_ the result is subpar _in a timely fashion_. If you plough a few years and a hundred million VC cash into your robot dentist or tax advisor or whatever (real examples of things that people somehow think these things are appropriate for!) then by the time you realise that it’s totally unfit for purpose, it’s far too late.
One year ago I created this list and demo of databases that are "free forever". I wonder how long it will take until none are left.

https://free-databases.vercel.app
Can you book an AirBnB in the frequency domain?
On 8/8, a number he's had a strange fascination with recently.
I always wondered how Marmite was made and how it was invented and now I know both after reading the article. I'm tempted to give it a go!

My family would say I'm obsessed with Marmite. I had Marmite on crumpets for breakfast. Only about 50% of the people in my family like Marmite - it is that sort of thing. Either you love it or hate it!

When I was travelling I could only get Vegemite and I came to appreciate that too. It's not Marmite but it is quite similar and will certainly do :-)

My father and sister used to enjoy eating Bovril ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovril ) which is similar to Marmite/Vegemite but made with meat extract instead of yeast extract. I've never been a big fan, and jokingly we used to call it BSE ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovine_spongiform_encephalopat... ) in a jar.

The Marmite shortage in the pandemic was terrible but luckily I managed to score a catering sized tub which lasted us out the shortage.
Also worth noting that while there are "Employer of Record" and "Professional Employer Organisation" businesses who essentially have branches with payroll etc all set up in a bunch of countries, and can hire people there and act as the nominal employer while the employee actually works for another company, but at least the last time I looked they were very expensive -- at around thousands of $/€/£ per employee per month.
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I been writing Node.JS forever. I finally spent some time looking at what the Deno ecosystem has to offer. There is no going back for personal projects.
I'd assume they mean time to export, while 2TB is a substantial database, it's not pushing postgres limits.
Copenhagen has a couple of these companies. They don't have a subscription fee, only a usage fee, which is much more suited to my twice-a-year car needs.

One of them only has EVs: https://www.greenmobility.com/dk/en/

I've never had a dirty or poorly-maintained car.
Not Quite - only if risk is spread across the whole pool does it provide the value you describe.

If risk is assessed perfectly, they know that Alan's & Charles' houses will not have a fire, but Bob's house will burn. Alan and Charles (and all the others) pay only the $0.25 overhead/profit, while Bob must pay the $125,000 ratings +profit.

Insurance basically disappears, as it adds no value, and we go back to being self-insured.
These are great in vegetarian 'minced meat' dishes like chili, to add a meaty umami taste.

Having said that, Marmite is clearly vastly superior and has a deeper umami taste than the slightly fake industrial plastic taste of Vegemite.

Careful though, I bought a jar of New Zealand Marmite once, thinking it was the same thing as real Marmite, given the same brand name, but, it was barely even passable as 'cooking marmite', let alone on hot buttered toast.
Working on a chrome extension that can message live support on a bunch of websites. Recently got a new version through app review, and have a pricing model now. Let me know what you think!
Doesn't it happen? People abusing their tourist stay, Work and Travel program, etc.
There are lots of folk who are unable to have mri’s due to implantation already.
Morning standup at a state sponsored hacking organization.

Bob: I hope everyone had a good weekend. I’d like to start out by giving some kudos to Fred and Jane for the D-Link NAS back door!

A round of polite clapping.

Bob: Let’s start with Igor, how's it going?

Igor: Bah, my target is running web server on Commodore 64 so I spend all weekend to write 6502 remote exploit for Contiki OS. Unfortunately, I found out target keeps secrets on ZX81 but I don’t know Z80 assembly.

Bob: Fortunately we’re a state sponsored hacking organization so we have considerable resources. Federico, do you think you could give Igor a hand?

Federico: Certamente!
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