skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can confirm these are dangerous. There are several of these in Berkeley and I got knocked off my bicycle on one of them for exactly the reason you describe.

I am from the UK and it makes me wonder why road design in the US is so bad. Just one minute of thinking about this as a lay person would reveal the problem with the design.

Is there some structural reason in the US that would cause it? Perhaps some lack of standards or approval process? Perhaps iteration speed is slower so they don’t get better? Some other incentives going on?
It’s unfortunate and kind of dystopian. We have an opportunity to properly archive all of the worlds online data and catalog it for very very low cost (historically), so that the future of our planet will have a much better reference point for the past.

Instead of that, companies are sucking up as much crap as possible, and tokenizing it and then scrubbing it, and adding “safety” to it.

Reality is always much stranger than fiction.
I think “writable snapshot” is (close to) what you’re after. I think they always encode the ‘branch name’ in the file path, but if you don’t do that, how would you refer to them?
Game UI Database slowdown caused by relentless OpenAI scraping
To be fair, part of the feel good for consume is the recycling centers in the west that are largely complete scams. Because they just aggregate the waste to ship to the third world for """"recycling""""
Trillion-dollar companies that produce this crap are sitting back in their skyscrapers saying "not our problem, something-something the market "
1k rps per bucket though ...
Wow, I just saw "Hetzner goes Singapore", have been waiting for a decade.
It will teach you anything in any language step by step and answer every single question directly without having to google stuff and find only semi adjacent question and answers. It has completely replaced the need to google things in many instances. I think this is pretty game changing and it’s available to billions of people.
What do you mean by heavy though? Plasma is feature heavy but definitely not memory heavy.
Facebook and someone who’s using a Firefox UA are the big hitters for me today, each at a sustained 6 req per second for the last 24 hours on one site.

Today is actually pretty good, there’s some real looking UA traffic in the top 10.
Pretty new. I enrolled in the beta a few weeks back, they will go GA later.

I'm a big Hetzner fanboy, quite sad that pricing is't that competetive...
Maybe just make it part of the car inspection. The car already has to have things like headlights and wiper blades checked to be working to get a license.
AI's Big Gift to Society Is Pithy Summaries?
Will they delete the entire account if I store the banned word "bitcoin" as an object? (They probably will.)
You can't throw things away. You can only move them somewhere else.
> Does that mean that other countries can impose tariffs and sanctions on the US to punish this obviously anticompetitive and anti-free market behaviour?

Of course they can. They already do.
Oh that’s fun. I can see heztners brand of cheap but decent doing well in this space.

Keen to see what is available to protect public buckets though to prevent huge bills from malicious actors
Show me a production website that does not use things like Caching, CDN's to serve static content or other optimizations to enhance performance
It's the same as any other public facing service. I don't know what you are yapping about.
I'm more concerned about bursts, not sustained throughput. When handling large files a single client can load at 1 Gbit/s if the other side supports that.

My suspicion was also that they're intentionally targeting a different crowd than S3 and focusing on their niche here.
in a philosophical question, would it be ram if your hands/tools need to move around like a HDD head? it could be argued there is seek time involved.
Mystery Island for me.

It had a complete recipe for making nitroglycerin. From scratch. Starting with the blubber of a freshly killed seal!
If "sq" is pronounced "seek", then is "jq" pronounced "jeek"?
To a degree. But it can hurt your domestic industries to a degree which may not be acceptable.
I don’t think I am your intended user, but can you elaborate on what the scenario is where pausing and screenshotting (space, cmd+shift+3) is more of a hassle than the three-step process described on the landing page?
Yeah… In 2019, the world wasted more than 59.1 million tons of electronics. That's the equivalent of around 350 large cruise ships that are completely filled with e-waste. Most of it used to be due to slow and/or bloated software, but more of it is now batteries. There’s also a bit of just poor manufacturing/design where a device was never good, and therefore as soon as its owner could get better he/she did get better.

Edit: and let’s not forget the deprecation of older standards like 2G and 3G cell networks, or the rise of USB-C.
I was riding my bike with some friends and one of them launched a challenge. This was 30 years ago and I was 17. We were climbing up a hill. Who was going to reach the old church at the top of the hill first?

Fast forward to me being ahead, miscalculating a turn before the church, and heading full-speed straight for the edge of a cliff. I couldn't brake because I'd lose control. I couldn't jump off the bike because I'd start rolling. I remembered Jonathan and how he learned acrobatic flight. I didn't have wings to barely bend but I slightly, slightly, lightly than a feather, turned the stem, and got out of trouble right at the last inch in the fastest turn ever performed on a bicycle.
'Nature is free, and the best kind of medicine': walk to improve mental health
Yes, as far as I know. I thought this was a nice overview: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6300652/
I live in an area with many A, B, C as you call them. Assuming we're going backwards, where A is right most lane, with these three lane roundabouts it's always A can only turn right, C an only turn left, B is for going straight, but can also turn right or left.

There are variations on this, sometimes, B can only go straight so that C can also go straight. C can also be used for a fully controlled U-turn. In fact, C is has the markings such that one can just go around and around and around forever in if one chose to do so.

All of the roundabouts here have overhead signage leading up to them that indicates which lanes are for each direction of travel. There are also lines on the roads themselves have solid and dashed lines. Never cross solid lines, optionally cross dashes. We get snow so lines aren't always visible.

I've been through many different roundabouts countless times and there is occasionally someone that doesn't get it right but the traffic is moving slowly enough that it unusually only leads to honking.

One strategy is to watch the faces of other drivers, people will be looking in the direction they will be turning.
Lol! Upvoted for creative thinking.
They said they lived in the UK
The biggest failing of the fediverse seems to be societal - federation is split along political boundaries even before the system really caught on. How can we possibly get out of digital feudalism if Eve will only let us talk to Bob if we don't talk to Alice. We need an open system that is actually universal like phones or email - both of which would be shut down or severy limited today for allowing all kings of unfavored characters to send heretical messages to each other, if they were not alredy well entrenched before the latest cultural shift.
I'm guessing that's because it's in beta, they want to set some low limits and incrementally increase it, is my bet.
Who is "they" here? There are completely separate committees for each subject's Nobel prize.

Edit: the individual committees are even not all run by the same institution [0]. The medicine prize committee is run from the Karolinska institute, whereas the physics committee, for example, is run by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

[0] https://www.nobelprize.org/the-nobel-prize-organisation/priz...
I guess we are probably in violent agreement on most of this.
I would ask his mom first.
I lived through that.

I don't remember how I found out what was going on, and the university I was near still had their power station up, so I may have had better local comms (it was small and not real tied to the grid, mostly used for heating).

I certainly didn't spend time huddled around an AM radio.
Linode also has S3 compatible storage now, Backblaze B2 buckets have S3 access too
Yes, this leaves me with an uneasy feeling:

"Drivers going northbound on SR 203 traffic may need to yield twice – once when entering the roundabout and again if traffic is passing between the two islands. If you think about it, that’s just following the same rules a second time." [my emphasis.]

Firstly, of course, if you are new to it and have not heard about it in advance, you won't have much time to think about it. Secondly, if your mental model of a roundabout is "yield to enter, then you have right of way", this will seem counter-intuitive. I hope they put up a yield sign and corresponding road markings at that point, but the latter are not there in the accompanying aerial photo.

I am also curious as to how navigation systems will tell drivers how to negotiate this roundabout. They have trouble with a somewhat similar roundabout in Kingston NY, at the intersection of Albany ave., Broadway and Colonel Chandler drive.

Update: The accompanying video shows there will be yield lines at the point I am concerned about, but it is also ambiguous about how the rules of the road apply there: "The circulating roadway goes around and between both central islands... Those drivers already in the circulating roadway have the right-of-way."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07_m7HHiZRw
In my last job, we observed ByteDance scraping TBs of OS testing data using the restful API that our OSS community front-end was using to serve it's CI result to the OSS community. The scraping was so relentless it was causing performance problems. We were also worried they were going to cause us large network egress fees as well. We specifically locked down the API after that, and anyone who wanted to use results had to ask explicit permission and be granted access.
A lot of the items on the pictures look like 15+ years old equipment. People don't use CRT TVs or cassette decks, but not because they broke down on schedule. Not saying that planned obsolescence is not an issue, but even if a piece of equipment serves you for decades, you still need a good plan on how it could be disposed of properly.
A very good and solid guide.
a few months ago there was an article linked here on HN (iirc about rust game dev) that argued that while rust is great, it's virtue of being mostly correct every time can also be a weakness.

the argument was that in early dev and prototyping phases you don't want to write good, clean, correct code but move fast and break things while not caring about edge cases - and this, the author argued - is relatively hard in rust.

making the good way the _relatively_ easy way
"This can be surprisingly hard with some frameworks that just assume that you are buffering the entire response in memory. Usually, if you look hard there is a way around this."

This is the #1 most common mistake made by a "web framework".

Before $YOU jump up with a list of exceptions, it slowly gets better over time, and it has been getting better for a while, and there are many frameworks in the world, so the list that get it right is quite long. But there's still a lot of frameworks out there that assume this, that consider streaming to be the "exception" rather than non-streaming being a special case of streaming, and I still see new people make this mistake with some frequency, so the list of frameworks that still incorporate this mistake into their very core is also quite long.

My favorite is when I see a new framework sit on top of something like Go that properly streams, and it actively wrecks the underlying streaming capability to turn an HTTP response into a string.

Streaming properly is harder in the short term, but writing a framework where all responses are strings becomes harder in the long term. You eventually hit the wall where that is no longer feasible, but then, fixing it becomes very difficult.

Simply not sending a content-length is often the right answer. In an API situation, whatever negative consequences there are are fairly muted. The real problem I encounter a lot is when I'm streaming out some response from some DB query and I encounter a situation that I would have yielded a 500-type response for after I've already streamed out some content. It can be helpful to specify in your API that you may both emit content and an error and users need to check both. For instance, in the common case of dumping JSON, you can spec a top-level {"results": [...], "error": ...} as your return type, stream out a "results", but if a later error occurs, still return an "error" later. Arguably suboptimal, but requiring all errors to be known up front in a streaming situation is impossible, so... suboptimal wins over impossible.
Fun project! Did you look into NTN (Non-Terrestrial Networks) capable modules as an alternative to Iridium? I haven't played with NTN myself, but it seems modules such as SIM7070G-HP-S support LTE-M/NB-IoT as well as NTN networks, and could in theory serve the purpose of your Iridium tranceiver as well as your LTE module. This technology hasn't matured yet, and I suspect the roaming tarriffs are expensive, but I don't know how it compares to Iridium.
The sq and jq tools are both neat command line gimmicks but in my workflow their usefulness is very short. I can't imagine using sq on a query involving a handful of tables and some inner/outer joins. How would I know its outputting the correct SQL? If you mess up joins you end up with bad output.

Here's my theory: some developers see simple languages that are easy to learn and want to build something more complex to output that language. Maybe its a sub-conscious thing.

HTML is another one, if explained simply, HTML and CSS basic use cases should be easy-ish to pick up by nearly anyone. The fact that we have so many over-engineered frameworks and libraries out there that generate these is evidence of over complicating simple things. Maybe its called resume driven development? Maybe people see genuine useful frameworks that get wide adoption and are wannabes?
Did some benchmarks, not too bad.

Benchmark finished! block-size: 4.0 MiB, big-object-size: 1.0 GiB, small-object-size: 128 KiB, small-objects: 100, NumThreads: 6
+--------------------+--------------------+------------------+
| ITEM | VALUE | COST |
+--------------------+--------------------+------------------+
| upload objects | 207.02 MiB/s | 115.93 ms/object |
| download objects | 405.78 MiB/s | 59.14 ms/object |
| put small objects | 278.4 objects/s | 21.55 ms/object |
| get small objects | 498.5 objects/s | 12.04 ms/object |
| list objects | 40977.06 objects/s | 14.64 ms/op |
| head objects | 1995.4 objects/s | 3.01 ms/object |
| delete objects | 312.1 objects/s | 19.22 ms/object |
| change permissions | not support | not support |
| change owner/group | not support | not support |
| update mtime | not support | not support |
+--------------------+--------------------+------------------+

Currently have a project using OVH, which is slower, but than I guess there's currently less load on Hetzner.

Benchmark finished! block-size: 4.0 MiB, big-object-size: 1.0 GiB, small-object-size: 128 KiB, small-objects: 100, NumThreads: 6
+--------------------+-------------------+------------------+
| ITEM | VALUE | COST |
+--------------------+-------------------+------------------+
| upload objects | 80.82 MiB/s | 296.94 ms/object |
| download objects | 274.61 MiB/s | 87.40 ms/object |
| put small objects | 31.6 objects/s | 189.98 ms/object |
| get small objects | 145.1 objects/s | 41.36 ms/object |
| list objects | 6293.39 objects/s | 95.34 ms/op |
| head objects | 177.7 objects/s | 33.76 ms/object |
| delete objects | 136.6 objects/s | 43.93 ms/object |
| change permissions | not support | not support |
| change owner/group | not support | not support |
| update mtime | not support | not support |
+--------------------+-------------------+------------------+
Unfortunately their signature dirt cheap bandwidth isn't so cheap in Singapore, you only get 1TB inclusive instead of 20TB and the overage rates are 7.4x higher than their EU and NA datacenters.
My current mobile phone has an FM radio, works well.

An AM radio doesn't even need a battery, I built a crystal set as a child.
We had a big poster of the Long Room in the Harvard Law Library. (Employee, not student.) Gorgeous. Always looked at it walking past.

My only experience with the Book of Kells that age was working in an absolutely disgusting nightclub named after it. I was rather surprised to see how beautiful its namesake book was
It is for people using hetzner for stuff.

I run minio on hetzner and wouldn't send stuff across some other network to backblaze.
Ask HN: Platform to create stories like Instagram
I am looking for a solution to create Instagram-like stories on a WordPress website. I know that there is a WordPress plugin operated by Google, but I'm looking for alternatives.
Funny, I live in the US and I treat about 90% of stop signs as yield signs. My ex-wife would complain about it to me all the time as if I’m doing something wrong, but I never stopped lol
> When you have fender bender claims costing 20-40k USD to repair, how do you price that risk?

This is a solved problem. Ask any actuary who specializes in casualty insurance, or read a standard textbook about non-life insurance mathematics.
I know a large retailer that sells electric screw drivers for €19 a piece. I also know from the chinese manufacturer's backwaters that it's deliberately designed to last for 12 minutes. That's roughly two years in the hand of an average non-professional, who will probably go back and buy another since it was so cheap.

These tools don't have a second-hand market. The expensive built-to-last ones do.
My understanding in America is that FM is full of pirate transmissions blocking real channels and thus reducing usefulness of FM for the majority.

American culture leans “against the feds”, it really is wackamole trying to shut them down, on the other hand it drives more subscriptions to satelite radio which is good for the gdp, so win win.

Hell I believe this is even the case in London, just not as extreme.
Exactly. We are on Hacker News, after all. If there's any place that should be understanding of the need for ears on amplitude modulated frequencies, it should be us.
I tried reading VALIS and ended up in an existential panic for a few months. Didnt help Iw as binging amphetamines, but yeah, PKD can really fuck with your head
> The action of a comet rather than straightforward miracle
was an attempt by the materialists and deists to reduce God’s direct influence over the
world and attribute everything to the secondary causes of natural law.

There is a lot to unpack there.

There seems to be an understanding that if second causes are involved, then no miracle (or, at least, a lesser one) is occurring. But is not the existence and continued functioning of second causes miraculous? Or, why do the laws of physics remain constant (apparently)? There can be no physical reason for that without creating an infinite regress.

The deist position that God is uninvolved in the clockwork universe he created is incompatible with omniscience. If its entire unfolding is contained within his thought, then his continued involvement is contained within the initial creative act. (Beware, also, of discussing time too literally in a context external to the universe.)

Here is a relevant teaching from the Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), a document which is still in use, with some ammendments, by many denomnations today:

> 5.2. Although, in relation to the foreknowledge and decree of God, the first Cause, all things come to pass immutably, and infallibly; yet, by the same providence, He ordereth them to fall out, according to the nature of second causes, either necessarily, freely, or contingently.

> 5.3. God, in His ordinary providence, maketh use of means, yet is free to work without, above, and against them, at His pleasure.
Yeah - I understand GP's point. It was just too good an opportunity to meme :)
In this case, the phrase micro does mean the metric prefix 10^-6, but just "smaller than mRNA". The important unit in biology is nucleotides [1], which are the elements specifying the composition of proteins (loosely speaking, the "atoms of biology"). mRNA typically has on the order of thousands of nucleotides, whereas miRNAs have about 20 nucleotides. The physical size of miRNAs is actually ~3nm. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleotide
[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3500609/
As long as your puny little working set (2^16 small keys) fits into L2 cache and get is perfectly covered by the L1 dTLB you won't see the cost of touching random pages in a big hash table larger than the last level TLB coverage and on chip caches. There won't be any TLB stalls waiting for the page walkers and you won't miss the lost spacial locality in the key-space preserved by B(+)trees if everything is in L2 cache. At the very least it proves that hash tables can be a good fit for point queries of datasets too large for linear searching or sorting + binary searches, but not yet large enough to exhaust CPU cache capacity.
Don't be so modest!! You are the creator of the Gleam language as well.
nice to see that you have no problem seeing things from another person's POV
Imbesi's Law of the Conservation of Filth: In order for something to become clean, something else must become dirty.
And browsers don't support them either, at least in any useful manner.
> As Allen sees it, a rule establishing a review process requiring an Examiner to determine which parts of the work are human-authored seems "entirely arbitrary" since some Copyright Examiners "may not even be able to distinguish an artwork that used AI tools to assist in the creation from one which does not use any computerized tools."

The art community has already solved that for the time being: ask for WIPs, sketches, or a speedpaint video. A proof of process, rather than of work.

> "Théâtre D'opéra Spatial" is a wholly original image expressing his idea, Allen said, and to produce that human expression, he dedicated more than 100 hours to refining Midjourney text prompts through an iterative process that he estimates took more than 600 prompts.

Then his work are the prompts and the idea, not the image. He can copyright the text he input into the machine, and perhaps patent a description of the iterative process he employed - but not the graphical result.
This is awful on so many levels. These images should be postered around the headquarters of all major electronics manufacturers. They should be used in courts as prosecution evidence to force these companies to comply with repairability regulations, and force governments to enact stricter regulations and higher fines. They can start by making planned obsolescence illegal.
This is why the “MKBHD” etc type youtubers who worship “new tech” and do unboxing videos have always bothered me.
Presumably it's built on top of their existing VPS and dedicated server boxes, which AFAIK only have 1gbit uplinks, so they'd only be able to exceed that speed when the bucket is split between multiple boxes.
Can you get root with only a cigarette lighter?
If "finance, insurance ... " and "Government" are actually the drivers to GDP growth then one has quite a bit more to worry about than the fact that this number is a mere 2.4%

I was more referring to growth in the value of the companies in the snp 500.
https://insight.factset.com/are-the-magnificent-7-the-top-co...

Why I responded initially was because the focus on GDP per capita. This isnt a great way to compare living standards and it isnt a great way to compare economic prowess.
There's a special ring of hell reserved for drivers that stay in the middle lane.