jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
A quick google search for "biggest bitcoin pools" is helpful- https://btc.com/stats/pool

Most of the pools listed there are easy enough to sign up and start contributing to.
I quit Google in 2017 to go work on something I thought would have a large positive effect on the world: https://www.jefftk.com/p/leaving-google-joining-wave

I liked the startup work similarly to my work at Google, though it was very different. I needed to be much more focused on "what's the number one thing I need to be doing for the company now" and not "how can I design and build in a way that will work for the long term".

After about five months the product failed (for non-technical reasons) and I was laid off. I decided to come back to Google and start earning to give again: https://www.jefftk.com/p/rejoining-google
If we have to build twice as many widget factories to make up for shutting them down at night, that's another cost to society that we should take into account. I've seen a lot of renewables advocates talk about "demand management" but not any estimate of this cost.

There's also heating, air conditioning, street lights, etc. Aluminum plants, which can't shut down more than 4-5 hours without major damage from the metal solidifying.

Before long, electric vehicles charging in people's garages at night; it'd be nice if we used them to supply the grid at night but that would require parking lots full of charging stations where everybody works, plus new infrastructure in people's houses, and some kind of incentive to get people to bother. All that costs money too.
>This is what people like Elon Musk are doing.

Elon Musk signed the most lucrative CEO pay package in history (tied to company market cap, not anything of actual value), SWATed a whistleblower, is being sued by shareholders for self-dealing in Solar City, gleefully built a factory in one state with a horrible human rights record (China) while trying to sell the company to another (Saudi Arabia), and his factories in this country don't look great, either:

https://www.wivb.com/news/former-tesla-workers-describe-host...

He's your example of "good capitalism"? This is what makes Silicon Valley seem so out-of-touch.
The photos taken in this mode are amazing. But I think they are improved a lot if a vignetting correction is applied. Without that correction, the sky brightness is much greater near the center of the field than near the edges.
Not to downplay the issue in question, but you have to be realistic about prioritazation. An exploit of "if I change variable in URL I can see other people data" trumps "if I make multiple concurrent requests with specific input I can give myself monies". I guess not by much, depending on the complexity involved and the know how required to carry one vs the other. Another thing all together is who reported the issue - sometimes it's more of a PR experience, depending on the company
Easier said than done even if you _do_ get the time to invest into it.
> the neurons in a brain are used for the same task over and over again

How does this square with the fact that people can get large portions of their brain scooped out and still retain many of their previous abilities?

This is a naive assumption, but if there were purely a 1 to 1 correspondence between a neuron and any given task, I’d assume you wouldn’t be able to recover from massive brain damage. But it seems like people can retrain the functional parts of their brain after damage to other parts to pick up the slack somehow.
What I do is to have two different SSH keys. The one that is used by the backup script is --append-only. The one that I keep locally on my notebook has full access, so I `borg prune` from there when I see the disk usage reaching critical levels.
> Also, the FBI does not handle most drug related federal offences. That is the DEA. Get your agencies right!

At this point I think you're just trolling everybody.

I'm not talking about enforcement, I am talking about FBI resisting drug law changes.

http://stopthedrugwar.org/speakeasy/2009/may/21/fbi_director...
"the government should absolutely intervene and help the newcomers"

Where do you draw the line on this? Should all newcomers be subsidized? Every YC startup that wants to enter the automobile sector should be federally subsidized? What about newcomers in other industries like healthcare, banking, and mining? Should those be subsidized too?
Has anyone tried a social killfile? Almost all usenet clients had this wonderful feature called a killfile which would simply elide known-bad posters in a newsgroup. The regulars would have a largely (but not exactly) identical killfile, since the trolls were well known. A good group would often leave troll posts totally without responses - since no-one had even read it.

I always used to think it would be handy to have well-respected members of the group share their killfiles with others. Web-hosted forums could go one better and allow the easy sharing of killfiles between participants.

This kind of solution gives individuals freedom to see what data they want to see, but it also never takes away an individuals right to say whatever they want to say however they want to say it, however terrible or useless anyone thinks it is. There are no "moderators" per se, just people you respect well enough to copy their killfiles.

This relates to the OP's article because while it seems like a good idea to write down the rules of discourse, application of the rules will be arbitrary by nature, and so you have to let the community police itself in a scalable way.
wow, 15 whole percent
Does no one read the documentation before deciding to use a platform anymore?

App Engine supports Python 2.5. The Python interpreter runs in a secured "sandbox" environment to isolate your application for service and security. The interpreter can run any Python code, including Python modules you include with your application, as well as the Python standard library. The interpreter cannot load Python modules with C code; it is a "pure" Python environment.

At the top of the FIRST page of documentation: http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/overview.html

Google Apps domains do not currently support HTTPS. HTTPS support is limited to apps accessed via .appspot.com domains. Accessing an HTTPS URL on a Google Apps domain will return a "host not found" error, and accessing a URL whose handler only accepts HTTPS (see below) using HTTP will return an HTTP 403 "Forbidden" error. You can link to an HTTPS URL with the .appspot.com domain for secure features, and use the Apps domain and HTTP for the rest of the site.

HIGHLIGHTED on http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/config/appconfi...

A request handler has a limited amount of time to generate and return a response to a request, typically around 30 seconds. Once the deadline has been reached, the request handler is interrupted.

and

While a request can take as long as 30 seconds to respond, App Engine is optimized for applications with short-lived requests, typically those that take a few hundred milliseconds. An efficient app responds quickly for the majority of requests. An app that doesn't will not scale well with App Engine's infrastructure.

http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/runtime.html#Th...

I could go on and on.. reading this I see "I wasted 15000€ by not reading the documentation"

I usually think the title technical architect is a bit stupid (my business card says I'm one, so I can say that) but this guy needs a good technical architect to make platform decisions prior to wasting that much money
I've got a friend who's the youngest deacon in the Catholic Church in the diocese that includes Syracuse. He practices what he preaches, so he's had 11 children.

He tells me that each child has an individual personality once they hit the ground. Some kids are easy to discipline, and other ones aren't. Overall, parents of ADD kids use harsher discipline than other parents, however, it appears that they're driven to do that by their children's behavior, not that harsh discipline causes ADD.

My 8-yr-old can sometimes be the best behaved and charming child and sometimes he can be a total embarrassment. We've had arguments in public escalate to having the cops show up and having child protective services knock on our door, so I know that harsh discipline isn't a viable way to get perfect discipline in public.
I joined it way back when, somehow they send out mass emails to everyone on my gmail list about how I wanted them to join.

Needless to say I have not used linkedin since.
I'm confused about the nitpicking in this thread about who the boogie-men are -- the Fed, Congress, the rich, etc.

We do know these are all the same group of people, right? Same social strata, same schools, same manners, same wealth, same worldview, etc. Party makes little difference here -- R's and D's are just two right-wing parties who mainly serve special interests (industry). Clinton gutted working people as much as Reagan did -- wages continue to stagnate under allegedly liberal presidential administrations, too.

For all this to be true I don't even have to appeal to the fact that since the 70s the institutions we're talking about are all revolving doors facing each other -- work in government, then work in private industry, then back to government, then I'm Janet Yellen charging Goldman six figures for speeches but pretending they don't influence me.

It's a bit reductionist, maybe -- but by and large they're all the same people and they serve the same interests.
> A context switch takes around 0.2µs between async tasks, versus 1.7µs between kernel threads. But this advantage goes away if the context switch is due to I/O readiness: both converge to 1.7µs.

This is a big surprise.

If you look at the Techempower web benchmark [1], the performance of actix-web is about 20x higher than that of Rocket.

The common explanation is that actix-web is async and hence much faster than Rocket which relies on kernel context switching.

But if Rust async and kernel thread has the same switch time as shown by this benchmark, then why is actix-web so much faster than Rocket?

[1] https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r20&hw=...
>In reality, once Bitcoin becomes a mechanism for the early adopters to wield wealth over the later adopters, everyone who didn't get rich early on will switch to playing a different game. No reason to go all-in on Bitcoin if the system is stacked in so far in favor of early adopters that you'll never be one of the wealthy ones.

Where I live, this is how some people my age are starting to feel about real estate. Maybe that's why cryptos are so popular, for better or worse, among younger people.
> Meanwhile, the complexity of our technology goes up and its reliability in practice goes down.

I don’t agree with this at all. Reliability in practice is improving at a phenomenal pace. 10 years ago maintenance outages were a normal feature of every service, and unplanned outages were perfectly ordinary occurrences. Consumers today expect a much higher level of availability and reliability, which they receive rather consistently. Today it takes much less resource to produce a much more reliable system then you would have been able to produce in the rather recent past.
That's only for sending money, not receiving it, right? But in general ACH has no security.
Exactly. I am Caucasian with European ethnic origins, but I was raised in the Middle East and have a thick accent. I would never call myself "white".
It's possible you're coming from a very different background than me... I can understand your point of view if your context is being raised under real impoverished conditions; I agree a parent should do anything they can to meet a necessary level of stability for the child.

But this comment makes me think of what is more likely familiar to members of this forum, where parents use their children to serve their own ego, trying to do everything to yield the best "Success" for their child where success is defined by the parent. For so many of us (professionals in the tech industry), the "wellbeing of your child" is not really a question--we know we'll be able to provide food, shelter, etc. People will say they do other things for the "wellbeing" but what they really mean is living out their own failed life goals by putting that baggage on their kid.

So yeah, you got downvoted. It's possible you meant to make a more sympathetic point, but my first impression is that the comment espouses an actively harmful idea about the relation between parent and a child.
Any analysis of current housing policy & trends, alongside public education policy & trends would lead to the conclusion that the motives haven't changed much.
Probably the best post I’ve ever seen on HN. You’re a really good writer too, which is very rare for developers, so you’ve got a huge differentiator there!
Subscribed! Bloom is really cool, what's the current status on it?
Great product. At first I was kinda skeptical about it. My initial reaction was "hmm ok, another one of this no code tools competing with Webflow".

The market is slowly getting crowded. Webflow has been growing like crazy. And Wordpress creators are not falling behind. Divi and Elementor are constantly improving their products, they have a huge community, and they just work.

Spoiler: Weweb hits the problem very well.

I've been lucky enough to play around with it for the past few weeks. The number one thing I looked for was not all the fancy tools for Vue js, design systems and headless integrations (even though my team needs them). It was not feeling overwhelmed whenever I'd need to use it.

That's what happens to me with tools like Wordpress. Every time I have to update a Wordpress site at scale I'm like "shit, here we go again".

They nail it at this pain point. Weweb is dead simple, and it just works.

I'm excited to give this a shot at scale, using a large design system, updating data regurarly with a tool like Airtable, and using custom components with Vue Js.

Great work Weweb folks!
> A little strange though that he mentioned Java and C# as inheriting the legacy of Pascal...

Java? That boggles my mind. Pascal was about simplicity, and Java is... very much not in the spirit of Pascal in that regard. Or so it seems to me. I would have expected Wirth to shudder when he looked at Java.
Recent research indicates that methylprednisolone is more effective than dexamethasone as a steroid treatment.

https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.02.03.21251088
I suppose you might argue that the amiga paved the way for the architecture of the PS2 - the copper chip ran a rudimentary display list, the blitter hardware accelerated graphics operations. But I wouldn't say there is a direct relationship... wait you're not talking about the CDTV, are you?
Eastern front dogfights were generally fought at lower altitudes, where GLOC is much more dangerous.
What me frightens a little with this move (OK, I acknowledge that OpenID2.0 is deprecated and should be updated to something new), is that Google talks only about "Google+ Signin". And OK, as I read in previous discussion, Google will also in the future support logins from people with normal eMail account.

Still, I am worried, since Google does not clearly communicate these facts, but when you look at their communications, you read only about "Google+ Signin" and you have to search to find that you do not need Google+ but just the new protocol OpenID connect.

I don't like to see such communications from a company, that once claimed (long, long time ago!! Do you remember Google?) "Don't be evil".

It is OK, when they move away from an old protocol, but it is not OK, when they (and it very much looks that way to me!) use it as vehicle to market their products. Google has troubled people enough with forcing G+ on them -- so I even find it more troublesome, how they do it now (as it seems to me currently).

I fear, Google is still hunting after Facebook and is by the way inheriting its bad habits.

As I see now, they also want that a new button is used -- something with G+ on it. I see, they really lay the pressure on the people -- many people will think, that they need a Google+ account to use this feature (even if not required). I would say, Google you are going to hurt yourself!

I myself, was thinking about using a "Login with Google" button in my application ... but now, with things changed, I will think twice, before I do such a move!
Unfortunately, yes, sorta.

What most science is about is building a mathematical model of the thing under description.

As software engineers, we know that models and other abstractions break down around the edges, especially when the abstractions leak.

No difference in scientific models. Just because he has a PhD in physics and a white coat doesn't mean that his models (in physics) aren't just as leaky as a software model. His are just better-defined.
With SaaS I think there is always a danger of developing an unhealthy dependency, and some Facebook users are beginning to recognise this phenomena. As Stallman says, with SaaS the user has no access to or control over the program, either at source code, executable, or often even the raw data level.

Potentially this can mean that the user is totally disempowered - effectively they're no longer using a "personal computer", and their computer might be operating primarily for the benefit of someone other than the user.
>and most glee clubs probably don't make videos either so it seems fairly moot.

Half of them are carrying video recorders in their pockets. Sure, it's very low-fi stuff, but you're remarkably out of touch if you think that teenagers don't record themselves performing and upload it to YouTube and Facebook.
I work constantly on projects with developers across the seas. I very rarely experience any issues with language, culture, feedback, timezone, network, etc.

The difference is in management and due-diligence when choosing the developers. Every developer I work with overseas is someone who has come highly recommended or with whom I've worked on a project in the past. And that is a great way to do things, whether working with overseas developers or local.
If you don't like the job because it doesn't use version control or is forcing you to work 80 hours per week, then find another job. It really is that simple. No unions required.
This article is using some anecdotes, a few outdated statistics, and poor mathematical analogies. The reason CS majors declined from 2004-2007 is because the stigma of outsourcing and failed dot-coms were still in people's minds. I know because I was helping recruit new CS majors at my school during that time, and jobs were the big thing we had to stress because parents were worried about that. According to people in my university, enrollments are back up in the last couple years because the tech market is still healthy.

Also, saying that you get 50 MBAs and 18 lawyers for every science/engineering PhD graduate is misleading. An MBA is a 2 year degree consisting of class work, a JD is typically a 3 year degree with some mock trial work and lots of book knowledge, and a PhD is typically a 6-year degree but that requires you to have successfully developed something novel enough to publish in peer-reviewed journals and/or conferences. Most people never finish a PhD, but that has little to do with them not liking science; it's about them not being able to take living in poverty any longer, when there are high-paying jobs in the real world they can jump to at any point. It'd be more interesting to see how many masters in STEM areas are given out relative to MBAs and JDs.
Also another takeaway would be that advertising revenue can work pretty well.
I agree but why would microsoft not grab the chance to get the bing and maps to millions of people in one go?

War at the PC vs Mac/iPad front is a different thing, IMO.
Some notes after doing a few steps of tutorial:

- a simple command history feature in the shell would be really nice

- I wish the notification that I don't follow tutorial didn't appear there each time I try to play with the shell - well, I like the tutorial but I want to play on my own for a few moments, and this message is quite a distraction

- also, proceeding to next step of the tutorial could be done in some other way - e.g. I see logical operators and I try some of them, and they all disappear when i type one; it would be much easier for a newbie to learn some erlang if they stayed a bit longer on the screen

- there should be a 'back' button in some visible place too - e.g. next to clear window and reset - I can't find it at the moment

EDIT#1: formatting

EDIT#2: well, it seems that history is there - it just didn't work for some reason in my browser when I started. At the moment I am stuck in lists and tuples - whatever I do in 'Building a list' section I got a message it is not I am meant to do - is the tutorial bugged (or is it my browser again)?
Some years ago I wrote custom software for voice/memo and messaging (incl. storage) for a cellphone-based intercom system used in one or more of PricewaterhouseCoopers' establishments here in Sweden. Their offices residing in public complexes prompted the concern for privacy, and they wanted a communications system of their own rather than relying on GSM intercom or buying in on other solutions available at large on the market. I chose Blowfish because I knew I could make it run faster (read: lower power consumption) than AES or any other applicable cipher, which was a priority for their handheld devices, and because I knew that it wasn't at risk of being broken.
Congrats willbrowning, this looks lovely!

I've been using Mailinator for this sort of thing but I'm finding most of their domains have been increasingly blacklisted on many lead capture forms. And their paid plan that allows custom domains is not priced for this kind of use case.

(Frankly I'm worried your pricing is too low.)

Looks like it's time to go dust off one of those domains I've been sitting on... :)
Uno Platform attempts to make WinUI cross-platform.

https://github.com/unoplatform/uno
this is just cool as hell. congrats OP.
You're right, it's from a mix of time periods.

What stuck out to me and got me looking for timing information, though, was that it doesn't feel well integrated. There are ways to update old articles so that they are fully current, but this one is mostly taking an old article and adding more examples without thinking about how this affects the overall argument.
.. but if you discover you need something, you have to go back to (a).
Each time a new email is received Postfix calculates its size in bytes. A column in the database is then simply incremented by that size when the email is forwarded or a reply is sent. At the start of each month your bandwidth is reset to 0.

Yes the size does include images and attachments.
The real fix is to set

export HOMEBREW_NO_ANALYTICS=1

in your .bashrc or similar prior to installing homebrew, otherwise it phones home during install before you can run the analytics off command. Do not use or recommend the analytics off command; homebrew will still spy on you before you get a chance to use it.

The claim that it is anonymous is also a lie: your IP address is transmitted alongside the data to Google, who absolutely knows who that IP address belongs to. Additionally, homebrew generates a unique tracking identifier on install, to track you across IP addresses (so Google receives your travel history, too). It is absolutely not anonymous.

This sort of nonconsensual tracking is deeply unethical, and the developers of this software should be ashamed of the fact that they are making spyware.
>In which society would you like you and your children to live in, the one where heroes are acknowledged or the one they are dismissed as dumb and irrational?

I would like to live in the former, but you have to face reality: we do not live in such a society, we live in one where heroes like him will only be murdered, and no one will really care as it'll be forgotten quickly.
Sounds like flash with extra steps :(