skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve been drumming this for so long now, even before I heard of (let alone read) this book.

I feel that the development of psychology and sociology has been lost on the workplace and it isn’t well applied. Executives want everyone to be widgets except themselves, even when study after study shows that for companies to perform optimally their workers must feel well compensated, well valued, balanced freedom in the workplace, chances for advancement etc.

In many respects you could apply psychology and sociology to how products should / could behave etc. as well, which I’m sure due to the monetary component some companies have taken seriously at least in some periods of their lifecycle, like Apple under Steve Jobs in his comeback
Those are the best coding session. Headphones on, full focus and just code and code. Rage doesn't need to the motivation but "I'll show the others this can be done and ready in 6 hours, not 6 weeks" mantra works, too.
The sham legacy of Richard Feynman [video]
This ain't Lua, Pascal, Basic or Real Life :)
It's Zane Lowe who was a highly respected music presenter in the UK.

He's very knowledgable about music, great interviewer and seems to be in his element.
It's always a balance between how much fraud you allow and how many real customers you reject. They set their threshold at an interesting level, but maybe they're happy with that choice.
> This creates a perverse scenario where business owners must extract dividends or sell shares every year just to cover their tax bill. With dividend and capital gains taxes at around 38%, you need to withdraw approximately 1.6 million NOK to pay a 1 million NOK wealth tax bill.

Why wouldn't you just take a loan against the assets? A few percent of interest is a lot cheaper than 38%. In Canada you used to have to pay taxes on unrealized option gains, standard procedure was to take a loan to pay taxes. If the options gains disappeared, you'd use your next years tax refund to pay back the loan.
blockchain nodes
You do realise they were taxing the entrepreneurs before their companies made a profit? What sort of "justice" is that?
I have 2 services that run above those figures:

1. the demo instance of my OSS software which is a bring your own storage Dropbox like UI for SFTP, S3, FTP, and every protocols imaginable: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash People tend to come in the demo to upload / download tons of stuffs

2. the docker registry for my oss stuff since I was kicked out of the docker open source program and now need to find a new place to store all the images. 10 millions downloads over the last few years, it does add up very quickly way above the 20TB limits if your image isn't super slim and try to selfhost everything
Yeah, we're well past a point where "phones" have NPUs powerful enough to locally process "sensor" input and produce decontextualized probabilties of potential interests.

It's going to happen sooner or later and people will accept it, just like they accepted training of AI models on copyrighted works without permission, or SaaS, or AWS/PaaS, or sending all their photos to Apple/Google (for "backup").
With a sufficiently broad definition of "database", yeah, that's my understanding.
Fossil footprints in Kenya show two ancient human species coexisted
Yep. Same thing happened to me. I was not able to get my account working. Ever.

I have all my stuff on vultr now.
Duopoly in connectivity.
The scale is also completely different. In terms of storage Wikipedia is not that big. Around 10TB for the English version. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia). That is relatively small potatoes. Hosting costs in 2022-2023 were around 3 million (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2...).

They say no ads (https://www.thekeyword.co/news/bluesky-says-it-has-no-plans-...). Seems like they will pivot to subscriptions (https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/24/24278666/bluesky-working...). I remember reading somewhere they also wanted to add payments from user to user, so they could take a cut from that. If that is enough to cover their expenses is left to be seen.
Signature in the cell - Stephen C. Meyer

The Divine Reality - Hamza Andreas Tzortzis
> Apple subsidisies Apple Music with profits from other parts of the company.

No evidence of this and it doesn't even make sense.

EU would have a field day with it and Apple likes making money wherever it can find it.
It seems plausible that social media is part-cause, part-symptom of a larger shift away from "real" socialisation. I don't have any scientific evidence for it, so feel free to debate. In general in doesn't seem like a controversial opinion to notice that how we are, socially, has changed over time, probably not for the better. It might be that it's hard to pin down one major cause, because the whole system is moving in tandem.
It's amazing to me that on a startup-oriented forum like this one you see these kinds of socialist comments when it comes to something that is harmful to startup founders and the entire ecosystem. Honestly curious to see what people who are hostile to entrepreneurship are even doing here.
Also it's kind of hard to find definite statements to agree or disagree with. I mean it's all like "the arc of the moral universe had turned in part because of the supposedly liberatory power of technology". What does that actually mean? What is the arc of the moral universe? Which way did it turn? I wasn't aware it actually had an arc.
I'll add touchDesigner to the list of things other people are mentioning here. It's probably the most expansive software piece of this kind.
qntm, There is no antimemetics division.

Tamsin Muir, Gideon the Ninth

Iain M Banks, The Algebraist

D F Jones, Colossus

James S A Corey, The Mercy of Gods
Could it be because "modern cars" are worse in some ways?
Don't worry, mobile applications, which are basically another nightmare, are slowly eating the web for general purpose/public applications.

And now we have 2 oligopolies instead of 1 monopoly, but in practice it's basically the same thing.
There are many data streams you may want to process that take lots of network traffic. CT logs, monitoring aggregators, web crawlers, etc. For the traffic you initiate, there's no proxying/caching you can do.
It’s kind of not the brightest to both raise prices and reduce services at the same time, who’s in charge over there? Maybe I’m missing something ?
yeah we're the same, our java looks very much like C

unfortunately all the data from outside our strange world still needs to be brought in and cleaned up :)
Previously didn't last long (3 points, 4 hours ago, 2 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42267273
Yeah there's no real upside to that demographic decline. Travelling in some more remote places outside the major cities this most recent trip and I did see examples of abandoned and derelict homes. It is very bad and worse for society than high home prices.

The Canadian government has recently been savaged by the media and opposition for their immigration policy, being blamed for high home prices, but I suspect the policy people in the government are looking at Japan and Italy small towns emptying out and are terrified and hoping to avoid that.

It should be noted that while the population of some rural and remote towns in Japan may be declining severely, the population of Tokyo is increasing. That Tokyo is still so much remarkably more affordable than the other great major cities around the world amidst this shows that they are doing something right policy wise beside the demographic issues.
> It's a tautology. Replicators which do not replicate do not persist in the environment and so are selected out of the pool of replicators. So whatever genes persist in the environment are tautologically the ones that managed to replicate and persist. The people who do not have children are selecting themselves out of the pool of genes that make copies so will be replaced with ones that do make copies

That's.... not how humans work. If people choose to have less children, which has very little to do with their genetics, there are fewer children to replicate, not "replacement" with children who are genetically determined to be fecund.
> I don't know how they're still in business.

They have 400 GBit/s of DTAG transit.

Showing that they are rich as fuck without saying it.
It does make sense: The average was low enough that a 20TB cap worked. Then marketing started boasting about the 20TB limit and attracted a bunch of high-bandwith customers, thereby driving up the average making 20TB decidedly "not fine".
Is anyone old enough to remember 1and1? Similar arc?
In other words, you're doing your own moderation; that's great.
> It's basically only suitable for a specific type of application and environment.

Absolutely. This isn't a replacement for SemVer, it is alternative to be used in cases where SemVer doesn't really make sense.
Did you honestly buy music so infrequently, or did I buy music more than the normal person? In high school, I'd buy an album/CD a week. That wasn't just new releases but also meant including back catalog to fill in the collection.

Are we just opposite ends of the music acquisition spectrum?
I'm mildly affected by "modern web" issues, and I reckon that the imaginative part of my brain is in a coma whenever I browse these sites. The minute I'm outside of an internet connection, a whole lot of emotions, ideas, plans come back at once. And very very rarely can I browse the web while not losing that. This is something I didn't experience before... say smartphones, even with a good dsl line, i wasn't dilluted in pages likes that.

ps: now that I think about it, it started around the ajax era.. as soon as a webpage could change parts in the blink of an eye your perception of the web is altered IMO.
You can always join another PDS or host your own, and still be on Bluesky. So not really banned in the same way as being banned from Twitter.
I came here to specifically comment on this statement. I've never heard some much spin in one statement.
Amecdotally, I was behind a Tesla 3 performance at a recent track day; it was lowered on eibach springs, but had more mass than my stock height 2004 bmw 3 series.

It couldn't handle the Gs on a slightly negative camber straight, as opposed to I could floor it there. I definitely expected it to clear me on the straights faster.
The article mentions the existence of such a tax.
I’m oscillating between “this is mind blowing” and “this is similarly impressive-looking-but-not-usefully-smart as other LLMs”.

The tone and expression is novel and it _looks_ like there’s something fundamentally different about reasoning but… also it keeps repeating the same things, sometimes in succession (a paragraph about “foreign languages” then another about “different languages”), most paragraphs have a theory then a rebuttal that doesn’t quite answer why the theory is irrelevant, and sometimes it’s flat out wrong (no Rs in “fraise” or “fresa”?).

So… holding my judgement on whether this model actually is useful in novel ways
If they took a loan then they would have to stay and waste this perfectly good excuse to do what they wanted to do anyway.
yes, perl, python and ruby, for example.
And a lot of them are suffering who definitely could have voted, but decided not to.
53 days ago there was a thread about the best book we've ever read. As I have re-read the book this year I will link my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41758060

For a general recommendation for a book to buy for Christmas I'd say the Annotated Alice by Martin Gardner is quite wonderful, if you'll pardon the pun.
Any decommissioned office PC from eBay will be faster than $5 linode. For example search for optiflex https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=optiplex+pc&_udhi=30 They're not too power hungry either if you make sure not to go for i7s
'Built to fail' by Alan Payne painted such a richer picture than the binary "netflix came along" argument. The writing had alot of emotional investment since the author owned so many shops in the blockbuster franchise.

A little more dense: "Chip War" by Chris Miller... a macro economic/political picture of silicon valley growth that fills in so many holes in popular lore.
Not surprising that an Atlas Shrugged reading entrepreneur dislikes taxation.

But government services cost money, and by other accounts [0] Norway are doing pretty well:

Norway performs well in many dimensions of well-being relative to other countries in the Better Life Index. Norway outperforms the average in jobs, work-life balance, education, health, environmental quality, social connections, civic engagement, safety and life satisfaction.

[0] https://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/countries/norway/
A decent article, although it doesn't touch on why or how the reader who wrote in developed those feelings of guilt, which is the more important issue.

The article covers the cursory salient points within philosophy relating to Kant, although I would have liked it more if they had also covered the salient points of altruism which are particularly relevant.

There is an important distinction between altruism and charity and many people seem to conflate the two as interchangeable.
Ok you can have your radically skeptic hard materialist rhetoric. I just don’t take it seriously, and I don’t think you do either. It’s like those people who insist there is no free will and yet go about their day clearly making choices and exercising their free will. If you want to say technically everyone might as well be a philosophical zombie just reacting to things and your internal subjective experience is an illusory phenomenon, fine you can say that as much as you want. In turn I’ll just give up here because you don’t even have a mind that could be changed. I can sit here and claim you’re the equivalent of a void that repeats radically skeptic lines at me. Maybe a sophisticated chatbot or program. Or maybe you’re actually a hallucination since I can’t prove anything really exists outside of my sense. In which case I’m really wasting my time here.
This article is from today, but this was discovered/reported in 2009 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/feb/27/earliest-human...
The references to Atlas Shrugged and the trains not running on time, and the bit about healthcare costs do not bolster any argument against a tax on unrealized gains, so this comes off more as ideologically motivated bit, rather than than an argument against the specific tax. Taxing unrealized gains is really problematic, as anyone in the startup scene who's been granted stock options in a rising startup in Silicon Valley can attest to. Paying a million dollars to the IRS because of AMT means you got a big payday, except for the fact that if you don't actually have a million dollars, you then have a problem. Most people don't have a million dollars to begin with so you can't pay that bill and you take a loan from sketchy loan shark, whole repeating the mantra, 100% of $0 is $0. 70% of a big number is still a big number.

Looking at the US, rasing taxes on the rich and doing more against unrealized gains won't happen for at least four years, so we don't have to worry about that, at least.
They still exist, called ionos now: https://www.ionos.com/
There is a tendency to make store names possessive even if they aren't.

I usually hear about this in the US, I can't recall a lot of UK examples, but I think we have it here.
yes, for python, from 1.5 or early 2.x versions onwards, iirc. I've used py a bit from 1.5 and much more from early 2.x, is how i know this.
Same with me a few years ago. Their support told me that they didn't want me as a customer. It was my first interaction with them. I swear I'm just a regular nerd with a credit card :D

They are bizarre.
I mean, I get it, the story got bigger with every book and he hand to ground it again.

But somehow this "let's go on an adventure and do some beaver shenanigans" felt strange, lol.
You really dont though, turbos cut the noise in half in the recent years and it's considerably nicer to watch a race.

Recently, the gt3 Porsche cup at an F1 event; you need earplugs for the gt3s 1000' away, but the F1 cars you can have a conversation, not damage your hearing (because of the turbos)
Cool
Good to know, I won’t mention it to you again

Maybe you have ondansetron around
The bet itself would make Earth less hospitable on a long shot. It's like shredding a winning lottery ticket in the hopes the shreds will win an even bigger lottery someday in the future.
I need 5 years and a research team...
This documentary explores this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l11zPNb-MFg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aftermath:_Population_Zero

Aftermath: Population Zero - The World without Humans
What would happen if, tomorrow, every single person on Earth simply disappeared? Not dead, simply gone, just like that. A world without people, where city streets are still populated by cars, but no drivers. A world where there is no one to fix bridges or repair broken windows…
It’s amazing to me that people think this is what socialism is. This isn’t seizing the means of production.
Keep in mind that arodynamic drag is not a function of ground speed, but airspeed. If you ride slowly in a relatively windy place, your airspeed can easily be twice of your ground speed.

That said, given how many of us are overweight, worrying about a couple of kilos on the bike is funny talk anyway.
I don’t think “differential linear algebra” really counts as “backprop”.
So anyone who uses the phrase "genuine understanding" is secretly a wannabe power-hungry authoritarian? Dunno about that one bud.

And anyone who calls out vapid conspicuous consumption, or the greedy exploitation of the planet for personal gain, that's not obviously perverse to you; it's just one person's opinion and easily disregarded - because they're not the final word on genuine understanding?

Well, pick your prophet; pick your genius; they all say the same thing:

"It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God."

- Jesus.

"By his craving for riches the foolish man slays himself, as if he were slaying others."

- Buddha

"The mutual rivalry for piling up of worldly things diverts you, until you visit the graves."

- The Qur'an

"He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have."

- Socrates

"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."

- Seneca

"The more you have, the more you want. The more you have, the less you are."

- Tolstoy

"A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness."

- Einstein

"Wealth is like seawater: the more you drink, the thirstier you become."

- Schopenhauer

"A small terrace by the mountain stream, living at ease, free from the burdens of the world — this is better than the glory of an emperor."

- Zhuangzi

Etc, etc, etc.

Some people, really, truly, have a genuine understanding of this concept. And many, probably most incredibly wealthy people, with every possible opportunity, can't grasp it for the life of them. That's not really "my opinion"; it's the opinion of anyone worth listening to.
Oracle has people jumping all kinds of hoops to get that service too. Just like Hetzner. Took me a few tries with different credit cards then tried to get one for my friend with their card and nothing would work. Great free service though. That ampere vm with 24 gb ram is quite capable.
Discussion (246 points, 10 hours ago, 380 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42264733
When I ordered a VPS at Netcup (a Hetzner alternative) they called me and asked me for the name of the hotel next to my place to check if I really lived at the address I provided. I guess that if i would have needed to look it up, that is, struggled a bit with the answer, they would have denied me as a customer.
Holy shit, this blog tries to sell me the the right to highlight text!

This gotta be the most extreme instance of NFT brain I've ever encountered...
Yes, I should have been more clear. It was another Germany? based provider that gave excellent, even free prices... until they didn't.
Well, if you want to be optimistic, I think we got coal from lignin/wood being uneatable for hundreds of millions of years (I think).

So wood would stack up, not rot, get covered by dirt and turned into coal due to physical processes, not biological ones.

So coal deposits of the existing magnitudes couldn't be created now.
I have one big complaint and one little one. The big complaint is that they didn't even give one business day's notice, and the little complaint is that they raised prices at the same time they cut what they were offering by 20x, instead of doing one at a time.
I'll add, Dr. Sal Mercagliano has an excellent YouTube channel that covers shipping (a topic he's a qualified expert in) and he has a video discussing this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJmqCKtJnxM

The bottom line is that the alleged incident occurred in deep water, making an accidental, unnoticed anchor runnout *very* unlikely. He describes it as "A coincidence, and a very strange one," that this one vessel was seemingly over both cables just at the time they were severed, and gives a visual of maritime tracking to illustrate this.
Without neither DNA analysis nor taxonomic studies, is most probable that they are from Earth, but there is still a small doubt
As a Hetzner bandwidth enjoyer affected by this, this is why (HN cough) multi-cloud/dedi k3s is great, because if you get rug pulled you just migrate to another provider with better prices.

That said, $1/TB for bandwidth overage seems pretty fair. I empathize with the complaining but if the new price is such a ripoff everyone should be recommending what cloud VM provider they're migrating to for a better deal.
Besides needing it: Not having to fear that an attacker spamming the machine with Mail or web requests or something incurs a bug traffic bill gives better sleep at night.
Taxing unrealized gains in a blanket way is bad but a more targeted threshold, such as taxing them when used in loan arrangements in which someone borrows against their holdings to avoid paying taxes on realizing the gains, seems like it would achieve the spirit of such a tax
Sure, you could. But that means every team effectively writing their own custom authz instead of a common description language. And then paying extra per call for it.
Always felt like they were in the business of blaming and hating their customers. Cloud providers that nitpick and judge every aspect of their customers’ business details and technicalities are a huge operational risk. This archaic practice is the reason generic cloud orchestration was a must, and it’s just not needed anymore.

I don’t care how cheap they are. You get what you pay for.
They recently entered the US market, so almost surely there was some honeymoon period (ie. investment to gain market share), but likely there's a significant difference between how the IXP/bandwidth/peering market works in the US compared to their home market (EU).
I found “Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" - Autobiography about Richard Feynman very interesting
Careful, did you pay him the three dollars it costs to quote his text?!
What led you to assume that GP misrepresented their identity? The way I read the comment - they put their real info but was accused of putting fake info.

How would you even attempt to rectify that?