skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is unlimited but the carriers either throttle the data after you use over a certain number of gigabytes, meaning they slow your data down after $x gigabytes or they “deprioritize” your data. Meaning that if you use over $y gigs and your local tower is congested, your data may be slowed down to prioritize other users.

For T-mobile, they deprioritize your data at 55GB. I’ve never seen it in practice. My older son who doesn’t live with us uses his phone as his only internet connection and easily uses 80GB+ a month. We were at an extended stay for 6 months while we were waiting for our house to be built, and we were going through 70GB each between my younger son using tethering for his PS4 and us using our phones as hotspots for an AppleTV.
Calling bullshit on this. First, there's the US law and the SEC. Those are two things. The SEC doesn't produce laws; it merely follows and interprets them. Most laws that it interprets predate most blockchains. There is not much the US government has actually agreed on in terms of financial legislation recently other than to deregulate a lot of things.

It's true that the SEC is very strict on regulating securities (especially given recent history with e.g. mortage companies, enron, and other financial scandals). This has made the crypto ecosystem hard to navigate for people operating outside of the traditional financial system. This has not been helped by them evolving their interpretations and thinking over time. Call it progressive learning. So, it's hard but not impossible, and certainly not illegal.

This is why some of crypto companies with unicorn style valuations are operating in the US with money from US investors. I'm talking about companies like Coinbase and Stellar.

Stellar is a blockchain platform backed by US companies like IBM. The main use case for that platform seems to be stable coins. There are actually several companies offering USD backed stable coins. The point of these coins is not speculative trading as a security but value exchange via p2p transactions between trusted parties on the network. This is also the main use case for Ripple.

So, stable coins are very much legal and practical; and somewhat of an early success story for utility tokens. If you don't believe me, the top trading compant on stellarx.com (today) is a token by a company called stronghold.co: a USD stablecoin. There are five such coins on stellar currently. Stronghold.co are hiring in SFO and presumably operating there under US law and working within the rules set by the SEC.

The reason that Stellar is popular for this stuff is that the people behind it designed it such that it supports the use case well. E.g. it has a lot of built in stuff for dealing with AML that companies like stronghold.co can use to clear transactions or that others can use to clear transactions with them. AML is indeed not optional.
Ofc everythink is IL but working with Options in C# is not fun at all... same with F# async and C#...not belding well into each other- some things I meant when saying that interop is not good imho.

I am with you in thinking, that there should be only one mechanism and that C#s async is superior...
>Black Friday is spreading internationally despite these still being normal working days for the rest of the world. //

My feeling, in the UK, is that it's not stuck. Peak seemed to be 2 years ago, last year was big but more organised to avoid the violence (!) of the previous year. This year ... some kids in my city had the day off school, other than that it seemed calm, some companies definitely avoiding it, perhaps it's moved primarily online?

A UK consumer rights company "Which?" published price comparison info showing most items are cheaper at other times of the year. I think this realisation may in part be why the super-hype is not working.
I’m staying at a hotel in Hong Kong right now with horrible, shitty WiFi. So not just a “west” problem it seems...
https://fable.io/repl/

This is a F# -> Javascript compiler and environment, itself running in your browser (in Javascript, obviously).

https://github.com/kjnilsson/fez

This is a project running F# on BEAM (Erlang).

So yes, of course you _can_ write a compiler from F# to whatever platform you choose. It's just a really major effort, in no small part because F# is a way, _way_ higher-level language than C (you'll remember 'worse is better' - a big deal with C is that it's easy to write a compiler for).
Not like snopes (a random internet website) is some expert authority on such matters.
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The fundamental problem is that capital is permitted to cross borders, but people are not. Not in the same way.

So, corporations can vote with their feet, but people cannot.
I hope that comes to market sooner than later. Caffeine has its uses, but I love the hot morning beverage part of it more often than I need the jolt.
Note that the donation form is in USD, though it doesn't seem to say so. A bit confusing for those of us in other countries with "$"; the form knew I was in New Zealand.
It's often free, but protected by this combination of number and name. Just check that before trying and you're not really hurting anybody.
The Ford F-150 now has an aluminum body, and uses a turbocharged V6 instead of regular V8 to generate torque, and it does a good job of it.

Even so, the actual gas mileage owners get is lower than advertised, but still higher than a decade ago.

The increased fuel efficiency standards have actually lead to higher costs of vehicle development to lighten the car and make the engine do more with less.

Your lamenting the surge in trucks and SUV ownership is ironic since the increase is actually a direct result of the newer mileage standards: if trucks are now rated similar to where cars were rated 15 years ago, then why not go for the more utilitarian vehicle?
This theory comes from a TV documentary broadcast in 2017 that's been pretty thoroughly debunked:

http://wormstedt.com/Titanic/TITANIC-FIRE-AND-ICE-Article.pd...
Thanks. Excuse me. But comments are a very important part of the concept - discussions happen to be incredibly interesting on HN, it feels like I've probably learnt more useful stuff from the comments than from the actual news here.
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I had to doubletake reading the title. For a split second, I thought there was a new release of "Plug-and-Play" Linux out there! It was one of my first Linux distros.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasil_Linux/GNU/X
Fantastic news for construction: hempcrete - https://www.google.com/search?q=hempcrete
I know. I should ha en put it more eloquently. But as you said, there were some people that idolised him. I found that for a long time people trying to learn lisp were confronted with really bad attitude from a loud minority.

It really didn't really make people feel welcome. I am but a visitor in lisp land (I work in CL a couple of times a year), and things have become noticeably nicer since 2010.
Tim Cook was openly critical about the Amazon circus.
To be fair the CAFE standards have severely limited the choice of small trucks the US consumer can buy, but I agree that they have nothing to do with the Obama mandate as they are by now almost 40 years old, just with fuel economy standards in general.
UMTS is basically being capped though.
Well, they're selling them in Australia:

https://www.ford.com.au/commercial/ranger/

And in China soon if not already:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ford-motor-china-idUSKBN1...

https://www.ford.com.cn/performance/raptor/
And many states in the US compete in the same way eg the states that have much lower state income taxes its ok for them.

Its the same in the EU where Ireland had very low CGT - that's one reason Google has a big office there - access to an educated English speaking work force is another
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I built this little script a few years ago if someone finds it useful. Works for MAC and it changes your MAC address. ~>

https://github.com/otobrglez/mac_changer
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Make your Slack clone more HN-like (I mean threaded discussions) and it'll be more useful than the original.
I did not know these existed, thank you so much. I was going to try and write an runtimeClass-compliant operator or a containerd v2 runtime for LXD system containers one of these weekends.

kube-lxd and lxdlet seem pretty old though containerd has moved at breakneck speed in the last year... Looking through the code it might need some TLC
I've been using "Classic Start" ever since it came out, and I wish there was a way to make Win10 feel more like 2000/XP/Win7 visually. Having a functioning start menu is good enough I guess.
I think all the icons up to Win7 were pretty good. It was 8+ that started the horrible "flat" trend for everything.

It's not just icons and UI elements; all the general art at MS seems to have this bland lifeless style now. See https://blogs.business.microsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/azur... and https://uploads.fireside.fm/images/0/04cfe804-4075-406f-9c32... for example. Even anime has more depth than that.
Check out this blog post[0] for data on at-home decaffeination by steeping. It requires a much longer steep than most people think.

Related note: An interesting paper[1] found "no observable trend in caffeine concentration due to the variety of tea", meaning that green tea doesn't necessarily have less caffeine than black tea, for example.

[0] https://chadao.blogspot.com/2008/02/caffeine-and-tea-myth-an...

[1] https://academic.oup.com/jat/article/32/8/702/829967
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Which given FANG salaries they will do.

And the state and NYC preying in aid the problems with its tube system is deeply cynical, maybe try to be 1 less corrupt and competent
> The whole pickup truck class mostly doesn't exist outside of the US.

Exactly. Just owning a 4-liter or a 5-liter engine (never mind the 7-liter engine present in some of the higher-end trucks) is price-prohibitive for tax reasons in almost half of European countries (if not more), that's before we get to the price of gasoline at the pump. I think China is the same. Yeah, there are some crazy people who still buy them over here in Europe, but imho they have more money than sense, the same way that there are crazy people who buy a second-hand 10-year old VW Phaeton with the W12 engine, a great car in itself but which will leave a even greater hole in one's pockets.
A better way to exact your dose is through edibles, like bite-sized candy. Most are 10 mg THC each, which is pretty low, but you can just eat part of a gummy if you want.
I wonder if it would makes sense to enforce hooks being called through a top level React function. To make some of the ordering more explicit

function MyReactComponent() {
const [
[width, setWidth],
[name, setName],
] = React.use(
[useWidth],
[useName, 'alice'],
);
return <div>{width} {name}</div>
}

admittedly, this is much less clean looking than the current proposal, but, in my mind at least, it makes it a bit more clear that you have to pass the functions in with a specific order at the top of the component.
Hi Luis,

Thanks for your response, agree website can be improved to explain it better. Your feedback is definitely valuable, we will take it into account! Softr enables non-technical people build web & mobile applications.

It's a visual programming platform, where users describe what needs to happen, not how.
1. Using drag & drop, pre-built templates (e.g. for e-commerce, social network, etc.) and pre-built components (profile, login, messaging, payment, etc.) you build your frontend part.
2. You define the application workflow (business rules, what is happening after each action, which events are generated etc.)
3. You connect the frontend components with backend APIs, algorithms, database models (either generated or user created).

Example: with Softr you can build AirBnB, Facebook, Amazon, ProductHunt type of web-apps.

Hope this gives more context. The prices are 10x cheaper compared to the cost and time spent on building the same thing when hiring an engineer/freelancer.
Airplanes have a very narrow band for the Internet, and that limited connection has to be shared between the passengers.

Airplane WiFi isn't expensive just because. The more people are on it and the more people exploit it, the shittier it becomes for everyone. It gets drastically worse when flying over water, because ATG (air to ground) transmission isn't possible, and they have to rely on satellite connection exclusively.

The only real solution for in-plane WiFi would be to allocate more frequency space for the purpose. Until that happens, we're doomed to the current situation.
How do you guess the device type based on IP?

Do we have any sense how often a mobile device is on wifi? For my brother it's 0%. For me it's 90%.
I believe you mean corporation tax, not captial gains tax, as CGT is well above the European average here in Ireland, while corporationtax is quite low.
Is it the same as or similar the Waterpik product?
This forces you to allocate it on the heap... The C init function didn't require this.
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The ‘error’ member variable would take an additional space in the object that otherwise could be as small as a byte. C++ is carefully designed to avoid unnecessary overhead.
A common problem for Australians too.
But that would give up states rights - and it doesn't stop bullying by central government to place offices in "for the governing party" desirable areas.

Why do you think BT has a big engineering presence in all 4 parts of the UK? or why the BBC was forced to move to Manchester
The time spent to learn Kanji via RtK is in my experience only a very little part of the time spent on everything else related to learning Japanese. The RtK way (and I don't do flashcards) is actually a fun diversion, and I find that I enjoy drawing the characters. And that's from a guy who can't stand writing by hand in general.. I started using a typewriter at 14. And I can't draw pictures to save my life.
Unlike the previous time some years back, this time I'm using a cheap click-to-erase mechanical 'magic' drawing pad. Much better than the stack of paper I used back then.
Business travellers typically have a contract thru their employer with the hotel that covers the wifi. They almost never pay for wifi as an additional charge. The wifi charge is because these business type hotels attract few people who would pay for wifi, so might as well make them pay for it. Free wifi, in essence, is not a marketable amenity for these hotels.
Funny enough "learning characters/words in the context of the vocabulary they are in" is exactly what NLP machine learning models use to learn "rich" word/text representations based on the "distribution hypothesis" which states that the choice of words in the same context share a common meaning.
In my experience disastrous projects come of spending too much time thinking through requirements and not enough time actually validating them - what's perceived as "changing requirements" is more often than not actually a case of misunderstanding the requirement in the first place. Dozens of people in months of meetings can very easily specify something that is obviously impossible as soon as someone spends 5 minutes with a working prototype.

That's why I've found Agile so much more effective - if you get a system that works end-to-end at the earliest possible stage it becomes so much clearer what's possible and what's not, and your design discussions are much more productive. You still have to make design decisions and tradeoffs, but you get to make them much later on when you have much more information to work with.
It's 2000 + 18 and people are still using ifconfig :)
as an aside - the 2011 machines at this point have good support for Linux, you should be able to eke out a bit more time with your machine and still receive software updates and fixes if that's the route you wish to take.
It was not hammered, it went way too high in the first place. Imagine someone wants to buy your house for twice the price because they expect the rent to double up. You'd happily sell it wouldn't you ? Then they realize the price isn't doubling up anytime soon ; they would either have to hold it for a very long time or sell it again for the original price. Yet nothing changed about your house, it's still brick and mortar.

That's what happens with those stocks. Companies like NVidia expect it to happen from time to time so the price itself doesn't mean much (if anything they will buy their own stock when at a low price and sell it at a high price). It doesn't change the value of the company (which may or may not be priced correctly by the market at any given time).
Will changing MAC work if there is a password for login for internet for 2 hours?
Aside from Scenic (https://github.com/boydm/scenic) and Nerves (https://nerves-project.org/), Phoenix LiveView is the new Elixir thing I'm most excited about.

I mean, I already 'bought in' to the ecosystem for many other reasons, but these are / could be huge extra reason because 1) they solve problems I'm facing, and 2) the potential popularity might alleviate the mild nervousness I have about investing so much into what is still a very young and small ecosystem. As it is, I still hesitate to use Elixir/Phoenix with many of my clients.
FAILED IT! - (good ideas but not deep enough)

The Children's Machine, Rethinking School In The Age of Computers - (uprooted my mind completely about kids)

Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas -

Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams: Explorations in Massively Parallel Microworlds - (helped me to start thinking about phenoms in a decentralized way, a delightful perspective!)
Sure, I just think it’s funny that he chooses one of the worst user experiences ever invented to do it.
Well, since caffeine is a pesticide, wouldn't it do similar damage?
Except the site specifically tries to debunk incorrect narratives.
I've stopped reading all those "fact check" web sites. They seem to be literalists who can't hear the actual meaning of things being said. Everything is just about measurements while ignoring reality. (Now that I think about it, that is also a common problem to technical people too. Failing to recognize the shortcomings of data and measurements.)
I think that the blue gradient title bars came in with Windows 98. I remember marveling at how smooth the gradient was!

Before that, the Office 95 applications had a curiously black-to-dark-blue custom drawn title bar.

Then Windows 2000 introduced the subtle mouse pointer shadow, and translucent fade-on-click effect on menu items.

Agree with you about Tahoma being pixel perfect, at 8 point I think. Then came the marvels of ClearType!
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Ask HN: Where do you go to request code reviews?
I'm not a professional developer but I'd like to:

1. Contribute to open source
2. Have someone tell me if and how my code sucks so I can improve.
3. Learn more Golang and move from basic/medium to advanced Python.

I'm having trouble with point 2. Yes, I can look at code from rockstar golang devs and read style guides but it's be so much more efficient if someone could review it and suggest improvements.

Is there a "as a service" for this? Some opensource organisation that does this for free in exchange to gathering metrics about people's code?

PS: I have a particular Go toy app I built, it's around 500 lines of code and on github.
Of course you didn't have stuff like White Widow or whatever in the 70s but getting better and stronger weed only requires you to grow enough plants and get enough variety that you can start noticing characteristics and then interbreeding and crossing strains to isolate them so your offspring express them reliably. You do not need high tech lab equipment to see which variety grows faster and produces more branching or bud sites or thicker buds or more thc glands etc.

If you just sow a field full of random seeds and just forget about them until harvest instead of maintaining them, removing the males, etc your quality will be worse.
If anything, I'd like to see something similar to KDEs Kate editor (especially the vim support). Way more lightweight than vs code, but usable for large projects if desired. They could add support for their text editor protocol for the rest. There would be almost no overhead since the servers won't start unless you use them.
I am unsure how you are supposed to use LXD since from the readme is seems like it is only a REST interface? Why not use lxc directly? But I am a big fan of lxc. I have most of my stuff in containers now-days and it has been a very pleasant experience using lxc.
> Adtech loses income, not money. There is a vast difference.

Placing bids is (potentially) spending money. A bug in your adtech platform can absolutely bankrupt you in the very direct way of spending more money than you have.
That seems like a good idea for certain use cases. That sounds like a good feature that should be native to slack. Ie email address per slack channel that emails everyone in the channel.
Yes, that would be a tool that would be very appreciated and I think even companies would like to adopt it.

Changing maintainers behaviors can maybe be difficult, so starting from a normal user could maybe be easier?
But it is as if Snopes carefully sets out the reasoning, evidence and sources used to reach its comnclusions. Which means that you can look at the evidence and decide whether you wish to come to a different conclusion.

Do you?
Canada too. It's one of many Americanizations that we have to tolerate daily online. And if you think it's bad for the Kiwis or Aussies, because Canada is in America we are regularly grouped into "America" or "North America" for things like online store region. Leads to confusions on a regular basis.
I have been using VSCode with the Golang extension for around 2 years now and have been exceptionally satisfied with it.

I did use the JetBrains Goland for around 3 months since I heard some praise from my co-workers but found that it'd didn't contribute much.

The debugging works as well in VSCode as it does in Goland but yes, delve (the debugger backend) crashes sometimes when debugging goroutine heavy code.

Completions, refactorings, renames, linting and goimports all work flawlessly.

Would seriously recommend VSCode + Golang.

For JavaScript and family VSCode is the best from what the Frontend team in my organisation tells me.
I have a load of L-theanine capsules, i will have to try this.
If it’s still available - why not use it?
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I think you're quite a bit delusional here. Construction industry and the software industry are asymmetrically different from each other in the complexities you'd need to deal with.

For example, there might be many ways to do the same thing in the software industry, but you might have already dedicated yourself to proving that a given solution works "good enough". So hitting "delete" on that solution would require unmaintainable at that step amount of coordination between many teams who are using your code.

Construction doesn't deal with constant changes to the laws of physics, but software industry has a churn rate of APIs of about 1 new version every 6 months, all of which need to be constantly overseen and accounted for.

Did construction industry have anything like GDPR happen to it in the last 20 years?
They're also called tisanes or teasans.
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Not as much interesting, but was astonished to know that we know the name of the Titanic paper boy. There’s a incredibly sad story on his death too:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6364763/edward-john-parf...