skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that the additional safety tip there wont help because the botulism spores are in the garlic itself.
I don't understand what you want to say here.
A decentralized app will come under the same pressure from lawmakers as a centralized. Other ways of delivery have to be established for both. So in the end, you can just ignore that argument. What remains is that Signal is more popular with the average person who needs safe messaging. A fact that will remain even if this law passes.

PS. https://signal.org/android/apk/ it updates without play store access too.
You mean necessary burden.

Especially since times got morr tense between the west and Russia and China.
Exactly. This continues to tell us absolutely nothing.

"Who are you?

We are cyber security researchers, living in the UK. We built cyber scarecrow to run on our own computers and decided to share it for others to use it too."
Absolutely right. If you keep worrying about whether 1 is actually 1, you’ll never get any math done.
* The technology just got mature enough that it's not exciting to write about, but it's still really widely used.

That’s it. Full stop.
What would surface area needs be like for over-provisioning needs in the US? What if we want to scale energy production by 2x or 10x or 100x for advanced industrial and commercial usage needs in the future? I think then the solar panel approach becomes limited on earth.

You’re right that the panels don’t degrade a ton. I read online that after 20-30 years they might drop 15% efficiency. For residential usage that might be okay, but it does mean needing upkeep and worrying about baseline potential dropping, which in some climates could be bad.

I do think a combination of the technologies is best, since scaling up energy production will be simpler and easier and more resource-friendly with nuclear than with more solar. Moving up the Kardashev scale will require capturing all the energy that can be captured from all sources so why let any go to waste. :)
Mock API Endpoint your JSON
> Order confirmation emails and sms messages are triggered by the order submission, and again usually sent off to a 3rd party bulk email or SMS service. Twilio or Campaign Monitor or Mailchimp will have queues and retry mechanisms, but again the website devs are just firing off an API call to some 3rd party that's dealing with that.

In my case, I need to compile templates for the e-mails to be sent, which is somewhat slow. Even if I have an in memory cache for the compiled templates that can then be quickly filled in with actual data, I don't want to make the first user to request them after a restart/flush wait like 4-7 extra seconds upon clicking on the confirm order button (in addition to any other 3rd party calls, checking payment status etc.).

Ergo, I need to carry the actual e-mail preparation logic (regardless of whether I send it myself, or use a 3rd party service) out into a separate thread. The problem then is that I most likely don't want to create a new thread for every e-mail to be processed, so I need a queue for the requests and one or multiple worker threads. There is functionality for this in the stack I'm using so no big deal, except I can't pass live DB entities across threads, so I also need to serialize the data before passing it off to the queue and deserialize it inside of the queue (or just pass some IDs and do DB calls within the queue).

Essentially I've created a simple queue system in the app code, since processing that data definitely shouldn't make the user wait on it. I can see why some might also go the extra step and opt for something like RabbitMQ, since at the end of the day my queue system is likely to be way more barebones than something that's been around for years. But until a certain point, YAGNI.
Yes, live your life being afraid about what-ifs.

Or, recognize the situation you're entering and take appropriate precautions.
Would be helpful to have a comparison against SymmetricDS if anyone has experience with both
> These are all constructions though. They don't say what the natural numbers are.

A construction is exactly what would tell you what they are.

> The natural numbers is a set with a starting element and that has, for each element, a thing immediately following.

OK, but, like, which one? There are lots of sets that this describes.

> Things like 0 in 3 make no sense since 0 refers to the first thing in whatever representation you have, not a particular one.

If 0 and 3 are sets then we can legitimately ask whether 0 is a member of 3 or not. If 0 and 3 aren't sets then what are they? If the natural numbers are a set then 0 and 3 should also be sets, since set theory only talks about sets.

> N is defined by its properties not its representation.

Then what is it? If you say it's a set with those properties, then it should be a set and we can ask set questions about it. If you say it's somehow all of the sets with those properties, or some other concept that somehow encompasses them, then you still haven't explained what it actually is.
I've only taken one, but it drove at the posted speed limit on the roads it went on. It kept more distance than human drivers.
Depends. No work is involved if problem is easily reproducible. Just need to describe the bug & environment to the "bounty hunter" and they will take care of the rest. Anything more than that would necessitate filing the actual issue yourself.
> It is just the same crap, but distributed.

Yes, but also - more difficult to refactor, more difficult to debug (good luck tracking a business transaction over multiple async services), slower with network overhead, lack of ACID transactions... Microservices solve problems which few projects have, but adds a huge amount of complexity.
Of course you can also have shoe stores, barbers, maker spaces, furniture stores, plumbing supplies, etc. But we have moved to megastores. We want to go to a single million square meter store that stocks everything. Or we just order stuff online.

I'd actually like see entrepreneurs take a run at that retail space. It would be cool to live in a place with a produce stand on the ground floor and a deli around the corner with a small DMV office in between. It would be nice to see an intelligent analysis on why your area can't seem to fill up that retail space. Ditto some initiative to change the situation.

Sometimes economies of scale seem to favor three giant guitar stores versus 15 small ones. It would be fun to see people who are smart enough to make small neighborhood shops competitive.
Discussion (37 points, 6 months ago, 20 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38673887

Story of Vitamin D toxicity (152 points, 3 months ago, 156 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39744878
Napoleon: An Extraordinary Rendition (2010)
I cannot stress this enough: anti-matter is not a power source. It never will be, on account of "it doesn't exist in our universe naturally".

You cannot mine anti-matter, you cannot even efficiently make it and you certainly can't store it.
The Force Was with Them
IMO, many "microservices" just needed a way to do async processing without needing to hold on to connections, and landed up leveraging msg queues for such use cases.
Now this is mostly getting replaced by new orchestration workflows like was step functions/temporal/orkes etc
This is good - in that it aligns with my understanding (though my knowledge was not that detailed on timeline, context, and figures - thank you for those).

I know living, brush, or ha-ha type fences would have been possible - but agree all of those were easier with some metal utensils.
Oh sh, how are supposed to know this. Two kids, never heard about it.

Luckily we've followed the old common sense that small kids should be spared the fancy and sugary foods, the simpler the better. However, many people don't, apparently.
But what amounts to excess exposure is also getting lowered all the time.
Also people grew lettuce to obtain lead. People like the taste of foods high in heavy metals, their absence is the reason why vegetables turned into tasteless plant mass.
"bad assumption + confirming response = uh oh"

100%, but as a rational being, my action on that response depends on the severity of the consequences of a wrong decision.

Hyperbolic example: I think I have cancer and suspect I might die in a year. I go to the doctor, she says "yes, you have cancer and are going to die in 6 months."

What do I do? I, personally, go get a second opinion. Even upon hearing a second time that I will die soon, when faced with death, I'm probably going to spend a little time doing my own research to see if there isn't some new trial out there for treating my condition.

On the other hand, if I ask a friend if the green apple lollipop they're eating tastes good and he responds it's one of the best flavors he's ever experienced, I'm probably going to give it a whirl, because the worst case outcome is just a sour face.
Mailer.Gold Review: I recently had the opportunity to dive into Mailer.Gold, is a platform that promises to enhance email marketing efforts for online businesses. As someone always on the lookout for effective tools, I found myself intrigued by its bold claims, especially the high conversion rates and potential for substantial passive income.
That’s not the main point either.

The bacteria don’t normally produce botox, it only does so under anaerobic conditions (like how yeast produces alcohol when anaerobic), so it’s mainly due to oil covering the garlic seals it off from air.

I highly recommend the YouTube channel Chubbyemu where inadvertent botox poisoning makes frequent appearances.
In some ways they’re still popular, but the abstraction has changed.

AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, etc often resemble message queue architectures when used with non-HTTP triggers. An even happens and a worker spawns to handle the event.
I think commercials like a local politician looking over a cop’s back saying “I need some dirt on Citizen Z, he fixed my plumbing last week and overcharged me, let’s see what we can find on him”. Then show his plumbing business shut down a week later because of some obscure local law about using imperial wrenches instead of metric.
Congratulations to the translator, very nice and clean. Will you release a version for iOS or Progressive Web App in the future?
For simpler games with simple state which can be expressed in relationships, it is definitely a good solution. However, as games get more complex, modeling the game state in just relations is harder. Its much simpler to model state in an object like structure. At least for me.
hmm, so, if i get a 360-watt solar module for 30 dollars and set it up someplace with a 30% capacity factor (like in the north of argentina where it's sunny) it will produce an average of 110 watts, which is 950 kilowatt hours per year. if i demand a 10% return on my investment, i'm getting 950 kilowatt hours for 3 dollars, which is 0.3¢ per kilowatt hour

this is already better than wholesale electrical prices, which average about 4¢ per kilowatt hour, but of course that involves all kinds of auxiliary equipment and batteries and whatnot. so let's assume generously that you're saying that nuclear energy has the potential to produce electricity for a wholesale price of 0.004¢ per kilowatt hour, which would be 2 orders of magnitude cheaper

why would you think that it has that potential? you cited crawford and devanney, but they don't say anything that even suggests that they think that. at the extreme they think that you can get those same 360 watts from nuclear power for 360 dollars. what are you basing your estimate on?
In that case, it is not open source. Part 6 of the open source definition by OSI (the only commonly accepted definition) includes this requirement:

> 6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor

>

> The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.

This app looks really cool and I'm glad OP made it. I'm just asking that the inaccurate "open source" descriptor be removed. Don't let my comment discourage you.
You're not responding to the argument I'm making, but seemingly to other arguments that have been made over things like 4chan trolling that got people to cook their phones in microwaves.

I'm not saying that users are the only responsible parties here. I'm saying that the humans, including both the users and Google ('s managers and employees), are the only parties that can possibly be responsible. The LLM is not responsible. The LLM is incapable of having intent, as far as we currently know.

I've never used Gemini so I don't know how the user interface comes across, but it might be completely appropriate for Google to be facing liability lawsuits over things like this. What doesn't make sense is narratives that push any of this shared blame onto LLMs or "AI" itself, when the real world effects hinge entirely upon how humans choose to attach these algorithms to the real world.
In that transmission is very expensive and inefficient in ways that are challenging to improve because of physics? Transmission isn't getting a lot better very quickly, and certainly not by waving a magic wand.
It reads as if written by ChatGPT. Numerous, shallow paragraphs and no real continuity.
Stora Plans €100M Investment in Wood-Based Batteries
Is chopping off shoplifter’s hands next? Good grief, let’s not do a new wrong thing to fix an old wrong thing. That biblical stuff needs to stay in the fairy tale book.
yes, but the nuclear ingredient continues to be insignificantly tiny. 10 new nuclear reactors per year is maybe 20 gigawatts per year. they installed 216 gigawatts of solar capacity last year, and that's a number that's rapidly increasing. i think the reason they're building nuclear plants is the same reason so many nuclear plants were built during the cold war: to build nuclear weapons
My only issue with concepts such as the Darwin Awards is that they do not reflect upon whether or not the deceased has reproduced. To attribute darwinism to lethal mistakes is meaningless unless we know whether or not the deceased has a child.

Some person with children who dies on an idiotic way has done more for evolution than the still alive and childless me.
Before looking into the actual bitcoin block structure, and realizing this wasn't possible, I thought that maybe hashes were a hash of a hash.

A hash is essentially just some random bytes, there is a small chance that the first hash bytes would randomly all be printable characters that fit the submission format, given that the bitcoin network has already done most of the work finding the small hashes, scanning through the blockchain trying to find a hash with a plaintext that fits the submission criteria, should be much less work.
You mean like profiles? Monolith can run like a front service or background worker depending on the config?

In a technical sense it is a complexity, but IME pales in comparison with the alternative of having to manage multiple services.

I actually really like this model, it's pretty flexible. You can still have specialized server instances dedicated for certain tasks, but you have one codebase. What's very sweet is that for local development, you just run a single application which (with all enabled profiles) can fulfill all the roles at the same time.
> Supporting nuclear" isn't supposed to mean splitting the atom at any cost. The point is if we would just stop regulating the industry into oblivion

Sounds to me like just that.

If deregulation is the only way you could make nuclear work in the 21st century, then it rightfully is on the way out.

> Keeping a weather eye on China, if they do their usual trick and start learning how to build nuclear cheaply they could leapfrog everyone else on energy tech in another industry.

Oh, China learned to do all kinds of things cheaply. They are famous for their tofu dreg and the catastrophes connected with this meme, which is a result of regulative negligence and corruption. I would question the theory that this model should become an example for the rest of the world and especially in technologies which are as dangerous as nuclear power generation.

But there are actually fantastic news coming from there with much lower risks where we could learn from:

https://cleantechnica.com/2023/02/06/renewables-in-china-tre...
It's a cost, but far from the only cost. Construction is truly expensive.
I was annoyed at first but I think JonChesterfield was joking
Related

https://fly.io/phoenix-files/single-file-elixir-scripts/
The experience curve is asymptotic[1].

What do we get if we look at say, FLOPS per US $ over time? This[2]. There is no reason to think batteries are any different, the only margin you have is to argue over which part of the curve you think we're in.

A sigmoid curve[3].

[1] https://www.extension.iastate.edu/agdm/wholefarm/html/c5-208...

[2] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Number-of-flops-per-Unit...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmoid_function
you'd think it would turn out to be a huge chunk, but it turns out to be relatively marginal. also power producers bid on day-ahead markets generally, not month-ahead markets
Any change on an fdroid release?
No, mining profitability and money supply are distinct concepts. In fact, mining profitability constantly fluctuates depending on many factors aside from the block reward (e.g. electricity cost, total hash rate, equipment depreciation, BTC price, etc.).

Bitcoin could have been designed with a different money supply mechanism (e.g. no halvings) but it would still have required mining. The hash rate has basically no impact on the money supply. That's because mining doesn't solve the problem of limiting the money supply, it solves the problem of decentralized consensus, aka the double spending problem.
If there are a large number of these machines out there then could it be a viable business model to provide third party OS support?

My parents rely on an Apple laptop that’s now ten years old. They would very happily pay to keep it ticking over especially to avoid the massive capital cost of a hardware upgrade. There must be many others in this position but I have no idea of “financially prudent, retired Apple laptop owner” is a market worth going after or not in comparison to how much it would cost to build a team of experts capable of supporting someone Apple’s software.
The Framework Laptop 13 is about to become one of the first RISC-V laptops
> And the next generation reactors are 'passively' safe, in that a lack of coolant flow leads to shutdown of reaction unlike current reactors.

That's already true of current Gen III+ reactors (dating to the 90s), e.g., AP1000 (the recent reactors at Vogtle). But it's true that many of our existing reactors are older than that.
Sooooo the natural next step is to take essential services and infrastructure out of the hands of private companies that have a desire to extract profits by screwing with quality of service.
Koike and Renho take aim at Tokyo's declining birth rate
What is NVidia worth beyond the current hype? Are we talking about real value or perceived value?
Instagram Is Not a Cigarette
keep in mind though that pg&e is kind of a pathological case
I like a lot of the answers, but something else I'd add: lots of "popular" architectures from the late 00s and early 2010s have fallen by the wayside because people realized "You're not Google. Your company will never be Google."

That is, there was a big desire around that time period to "build it how the big successful companies built it." But since then, a lot of us have realized that complexity isn't necessary for 99% of companies. When you couple that with hardware and standard databases getting much better, there are just fewer and fewer companies who need all of these "scalability tricks".

My bar for "Is there a reason we can't just do this all in Postgres?" is much, much higher than it was a decade ago.
Truly asinine take. Blaming the individual instead of the trillion-dollar scam industry.
probably in some places people will figure out how to provide a cheaper network, even if society fails where you live. hopefully you can move
> My favourite thing about microservice architecture is how simple individual microservices are to understand and contribute to.

Whether this is good depends on the type of changes you need to make. Just as you mentioned maintaining modularity in a monolith can be difficult with entropy tending to push the code to spaghetti, there is an equivalent risk in microservices where developers duplicate code or hack around things locally versus making the effort to change the interfaces between microservices where it would make sense.

Ultimately microservices add structure that may be useful for large enough teams, but is still overhead that has to earn its keep.
With these clarifications I realise we are in violent agreement and indeed the misunderstandings were on my part. I apologise, and an grateful you took the time to expand!
If you own NVidia stock, you can trade it for real money.
To be fair, even a heavily segregated city like Chicago seems to be devoid of other races in black neighborhoods, but everywhere else the neighborhoods are pretty well integrated, including black people in those neighborhoods.
Drones in Ukraine Get Smarter to Dodge Russia's Jamming Signals
Ah heck yes! This was a great part of elementary school!
I was again 5 years old for a few minutes after clicking on this. Thanks OP. That brought back a lot of good memories.
Well that was quite a rabbit hole on bookmarklets! Not sure how I went so long without learning about them, and now I'm not sure how I managed without them
Lead is an essential nutrient. Among other things, it's essential for calmodulin, which is a highly conserved protein. There is no eucaryotic life without it. This, and the absence of other "heavy metals" is incorrectly blamed on global warming.
https://archive.md/mhvFS
That’s an easy one to shoot down because it would lead to endless harassment of innocent individuals and suppression of popular opinion or critical thought. It goes counter to everything that the internet is about. It also would lead to mass genocide by governments seeking to kill of any resistance.
This was in the Bay Area, which has OK but not great transit. I used to live in Berlin though that has great transit, which I rode a lot, and it's still much slower than driving or taking a Taxi.

Ultimately you just cannot get around the physics of it. If you have a 50 person vehicle, the average person is going to need to wait for 50 people to get on or off during their ride. In order to do that, they're going to have to make a bunch of stops. To do that, the vehicle has to slow down and speed up at a reasonable acceleration rate, so the average speed is necessarily much slower than the maximum speed.

With fixed routes, you also cannot get around having to walk to and from the station/stop, and you can't get around having to wait at least some time for the vehicle to arrive. For most trips you also can't avoid having to do a transfer with more walking/waiting.

The solution is less passengers per vehicle so there's less stopping, and dynamic routes so that there's less walking and less waiting. You can't really do door to door dynamic routes with lots of passengers, because you'd be going too far out of your way and it would be slow.

This wasn't possible before because you had to pay a driver, but if a driver is low cost, the game is completely different.
Ask HN: Are other Chinese nationals losing FaceTime?
Yesterday police came to one member of our family in a house of 5 in a major Chinese city. That is the only person using FaceTime with someone in the USA. The person was asked politely to delete their FaceTime app, which of course they complied with. Anyone else in China experiencing this?