skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indian government launches Koo, a right-wing Twitter alternative, amid protests
But the smart contract solution still needs a notary? It just can now be an unregulated third party. What problem has been solved here?
saying "300%+ gains" and "_usual_" in one sentence is only to some folks out there usual :)
I can't say I'm surprised. The incentives are for them to provide a mostly trustworthy service, and certainly one that looks like it, but to monetise it there are compromises. Nothing overtly bad, but certainly... selective. I mean companies could also flag positive reviews they feel are fake, right? But it just so happens that they will likely flag negative ones - that isn't Trustpilot’s fault, right? Ultimately it means that any score is biased upwards.

Depressingly is also means the most shady companies that will abuse systems like this, will also seem to have a sparkling reputation - actually harming customers if they rely on these sites.
Sorry, I forgot to spell out that side since it's _very_ deeply ingrained in me: that would just be bad English. (For the cases where it's possible; there are enough where it makes the quote nonsensical or overly long without bracketing something.)

Coincidentally, I'm a German native speaker :D
I don't think this is any way similar to gun legislation. If you lose a bunch of money investing in a scam startup, you might lose your money and be sad. If you buy a gun, you can use that to kill me and my family.

Believing that the government should restrict access to guns has nothing to do with being "babied and coddled by people in power" and everything to do with not wanting to be shot by someone else.
GoldenEye HD, as told by its directors
The family is not likely to prevail, although they might bully a settlement out of Robinhood. You can sue people for any reason at all, including word salad 'reasons,' but it doesn't mean that the suit will survive a motion to dismiss.
We should have put more thought into it.

I personally thought he was just having fun with doge (smoking pot, listening to Darude and tweeting..) while in actuality was a cryptic sign that something much more substantial was going on under the covers..
JavaScript ORM hatred is well deserved. None of them are great. TypeORM is probably the best but its documentation leaves alot to be desired and there are many rough edges you have to watch out for.
The first thing I'd tell you is that people who are looking to learn python with 0% knowledge of python are most likely not using linux as an operating system.

Windows/Mac instructions up front make a lot of sense.

Other hangups newbies have: where to type things? Where to run commands? Hell, what's a command? These are the things one of my kids asked me when I was showing them python last night.
>It doesn't actually matter; it uses energy, increasing the total energy demand of the world. Other uses (like charging up EV's) also need energy.

This is only partially true. One watt of hydro electricity might equal to another watt of coal electricity, but it's also locked to a particular region (because there's no global electricity grid) and a particular point in time (because you can't "store" electricity cheaply like oil).
Moderation isn't the Problem
It all hinges on whether or not you can protect the populace and effectively prevent spammers from causing harm. If you can't protect people, you will lose their faith.

As someone who battles spam on the small business front lines, I hate it. It fills me with fear and a sense of loss-of-control, that spammers may be commandeering our systems at any moment, possibly causing us to lose money, time, and reputation, cutting us off from vital services.

It takes hard work for me to overcome that and to recognize the humanity of spammers. Even now, I'm wondering, "Is sneak a spammer?" Rationally I don't believe it, but that's the kind of resentment that builds when people are left unprotected.
Note that I was only talking about the uniformity of the UI here. Stability-wise, every DOS Windows was pretty bad.

Win98SE's toolbar were those big mozilla-ish ones, right, with both text and icon and no button border? Other than that, I can't remember anything distinguishing about the 98 UI. Were gradient in the window bars introduced with 98 or SE?
Musk has just found out that it's easier to manipulate the markets by being a meme edgelord.

The cult of personality surrounding him by other memelords creeps me out, as it's not like he's really cares about anime cat girls or doge coins, those are just means to increasing his monetary/cultural/marketable wealth.

I don't blame him, that's an incredibly smart move of his, but I'm saddened by the vast amount of sheep that think he's the second coming of Christ because he said we're going on Mars and has mentioned the defunct dogecoin meme and "gamestonk!" on his Twitter.

Are we living in Idiocracy yet?
The biggest cost of having physically separate networks (or at least network separated) is the HR cost of increased staffing and on-call requirements due to not being able to support the system remotely.

For a small city, it's non-trivial.
You said you understand the intention, but then said that the intention is to avoid hurting feelings. You let reason slide for a moment to get an antagonistic jab in there.
If this is true, then we should disarm every cop.
I just picked up an InkPlate — a recycled Kindle screen on a PCB with an Arduino, Wifi, and an SD card slot. Supports C and Micro Python out of the box. https://inkplate.io
I looked once, but couldn't actually find VMs available for $1/month. Where did you find such things?
At some point one has to stand up for something.

Everyone else should of course feel free to use a prepaid card.
It sounds like they were just waiting for a reason to get out of the business. Sometimes you just keep something running because it handles itself, but isn't really bringing in any considerable amount of money. But once you hit a hiccup like this, it's not worth the time to fix it, because it wasn't really a revenue stream in the first place.
> intentionally designed dopamine machine

Sounds nefarious, but can't you say the same thing about say music?
Glass Delusion
This analysis is spot on, and well worth the time to consider.
Given your premise, I agree that is an acceptable cost. I also agree that your premise sounds difficult to back up in the space of a comment. I've found that most people, myself included, have some kind of pet political issue that they believe to be the real cause of all the problems in the world. I'm not dismissing it out of hand, but I think you'll agree that it's an eyebrow-raising claim if you've never heard it before.

Bitcoin's share of carbon emissions is about 0.1% by my rough calculations (based on https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption and https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions). My position is that stopping the worst effects of climate change is going to require lots of relatively small changes across all sectors of life. Bitcoin is nothing compared to, say, heating and cooling homes, but we can't just get rid of heating and cooling. We can distribute more efficient appliances, build more insulated homes, influence behavior to lower usage somewhat. Each of these might give us a .1% improvement. Find a hundred things like this, and we've cut 10% of global emissions, that's pretty good.

I know bitcoin is here to stay, and I'm not suggesting government should try to ban it or something because it's bad for the planet. But until I'm convinced that it's the savior you say it is, it's not something I personally want to be involved in, and not something I can celebrate. Even ignoring mining, the cost per transaction is an enormous hurdle for me that I will need a lot of incentive to get over.
The semantic analysis is by far and away the hardest thing day to day. Parsing is easy
One value of fast frameworks is simplicity.

I read once on HN that a lot of modern day deployment strategies and tooling seems like it was created because of very slow apps. When you're running a rails app, you need to scale horizontally, and so you need to orchestrate that, and so you have autoscaling instances, kubernetes, and so on.

But if a single, beefy instance can handle all the traffic your app can reasonably expect to see (think, StackOverflow on just a couple instances), then a lot of operational complexity just dissolves away.
It's great if you're happy having (effectively) one SSH keypair to log into _every_ service you might potentially log into.

The minute you "wrongly" "ssh -A" into a pwned box, forwarding the agent - it's game over and they've now access to _all_ your infrastructure.

Using different SSH keypairs "per environment" might be more fiddly (but "ssh-ident" helps) but ensures a wrong "ssh -A" to a pwned box can only potentially cause a _part_ of your infra to be pwned.
Be warned that some of the books are ancient now
> Actually, Yelp doesn't remove legitimate reviews.

They say that, but they decide which reviews are legitimate, and they're more likely to decide that positive reviews are legitimate, if a business is paying them.

On the other hand, my experience pre-pandemic was that Yelp had the only reliable database of local USA businesses' hours of operation (there is probably now no way to know other than phone calls).
i think this is the way the internet will go eventually. The huge software vendors we've been enjoying for free thus far e.g. Microsoft facebook etc. will eventually start charging for all their services being able to due to their monopoly. they will become the "brick and mortar" of internet. Over time alternatives will be developed as the big tech becomes increasingly outdated and obsolete. The internet will reset itself.
Yes I’m not a disinformation spreader or online troll - I’m just part of the anti-censorship community!
Overhyped cryptocurrency fueled by an overvalued EV startup... Bravo. These two seem to love each other...

(I am not against Cryptos but e.g. ETH seems way more usable to me and I am not against EVs but the price tag on a TSLA share is ridicules)
Maybe they’re compromised but data seems intact, as in it’ll be irresponsible to keep serving on the Internet but most of it are probably not maliciously altered?
You only need an async executor to deal with threading issues; you can completely side-step it if everything's single-threaded (coöperative multi-tasking) or thread-agnostic (Send + Sync). And an executor like smol has no compatibility issues with anything; you just run it.

Python has an async executor, yes, but only to let you do things you can't do with coöperative multi-tasking.

JavaScript has an executor, too. The only difference is that you can't turn it off. It's actually less capable than (most of the) Rust implementations, because JavaScript's single-threaded. (Python's an in-between case, thanks to the Global Interpreter Lock; good JavaScript engines should be able to match Python's concurrency capabilities.)

Executors are only important for things like timers. JavaScript's promises rarely make use of them, except when they schedule their callbacks based on something external to the JavaScript (your “primitive” promises on top of which everything is built). Both Python and Rust work the same way.

The only difference with JavaScript is that it Just Works™ (or, rather, just works; because it does) – but that comes at the cost of sticking JavaScript with a permanently single-threaded runtime.
Apparently from original reviewer:

I didn't lie in my review of Sommerfield Browne and them suing their own client for gain shows everyone what they are.
Their friends and family will back them up, as will the other lawyers.
I submitted my case based on written law and the judge said it did not apply to me and ordered me to omit the law from my submission, before the trial hearing.
The fact is the judge put £6,000 costs on me before the case was even heard - I was literally priced out of justice. I could not attend or I would be accepting these costs. I cannot fight a rich solicitor in front of a biased judge. Seeing there was no justice here I decided not to give the court legitimacy by attending.
Seeing as you've brought up an '-ized' word... Can you explain the US usage of the word 'Burglarized', when 'Burgled' is perfectly adequate?

I know online dictionaries say both are correct, but irregardless[1] it's one of those words that really irritates me.

--

[1] Yes, using that word is an attempt at written humour.
The picture thing is a no-no in the US, due to discrimination fears, but is reasonably common in Europe.
>but that "pseudophilosphers" tend to equivocate between "truth as some property of the universe" and "truth as it matters to us".

Which he fails to demonstrate - besides them using the same term for both (which everybody does).

He also fails to realize that "truth as some property of the universe" in many cases is only available through "truth as it matters to us" anyway. In which case, it's wrong to extend your claims to that too.

This is not just the case for things like morals, social norms, politics, etc., but also seemingly "hard fact" things.

For example, X historical event might or might have not have happened. Or might have happened in X or Y way. How exactly it did happen is "truth as some property of the universe".

Lacking a time machine though, and going through history (the academic endeavor), we only have access to it as "truth as it matters to us" - even sources of the time are subject to distortion due to power relations etc, and how we accept or not some source as valid and accurate is also subject to modern power relations, ideologies, and so on.

This "truth as some property of the universe" historical happenstance is thus not that objective in the end, in the sense that it's not (and will never be, without a Delorean) availabe in any objective form in which we can obtain it and use it.
The crux of the article is that "[Brackets] are ruining your perfectly good quotes!"
throwaway may have a good point. Also, kudos on joining VMware.

I'm not doubting your experience here, but financial security firms vary hugely on their opinions and eventual implementation of compliance.

In my experience, dealing with a business like Monzo and dealing with the back-office department of JPMorgan (these are not exact to me for security reasons), are worlds apart.

There are financial firms I've dealt with which will simply not sign off on something like the highest-of-high level build chain tools.
Did this really happen? I thought they didn't care about credentials as long as you know your stuff, deliver a comprehensive answer and can provide sources.

Just don't cite "Hard Core History" or "Guns, Germs and Steel" as your source.
It's also worth noting that UK libel laws are considerably more liberal than the US libel laws. A statement that would be fine in the US could result in a life-shattering judgment in the UK.
I like Mongoose for MongoDB. For my dinky API and mobile app, it does exactly what I need it to.
I thought the whole point of the idea of "the autistic spectrum" was that everyone was on it to some degree?
My then-wife was watching over my shoulder once as I typed something into the address bar. “Freshmeat.net” auto-completed, drawing a suspicious look from her.
If you write off the "JSON", sure, there's a bajillion options. But that's not always possible or desirable. None of those bajillion options have the combination of support and mindshare that JSON has obtained, for better or worse.
> gradients

aka "the spectrum"
Satellite startup Swarm kicks off space-based Internet service
> know nothing about Linux

Given the name "nosupportlinuxhosting.com" I would expect many using the service to ba capable of knowing/understanding "apt install nginx php-fpm" and so forth.

Though obviously cPanel and its ilk still offer some time-saving convenience even if you could setup everything yourself.
Quite the opposite: I've an opt-in email list of thousands that I've never sent a single mail to because I haven't yet crafted a draft email that I consider to be sufficiently valuable to warrant appearing in someone's mailbox and requesting a few seconds of their time. I've also run my own mailserver since 1997, and have lost dozens of days in my life over the decades to battling spam.

I hate spam; I just hate violence more.

I don't consider solutions to problems that involve violence to be solutions. Violence is, after all, the last refuge of the incompetent.
You might be interested in the tildeverse[0] or sdf [1]. Both options offer basic Linux hosting and shell access on a shared machine, though they're more of a social network based on old Unix services than a real website host. Well, SDF is robust enough to use as a real host.

[0] https://tildeverse.org/
[1] https://sdf.org/
Tesla skips 401(k) match for third straight year
Who? Where?

Asking for a friend...
Oral Ketamine Experiment Reduces Suicidal Thoughts in Two-Thirds of Patients
And the same is true for frontend.
Came here to say this. I have no idea how an insane person with a gun is equivalent to voluntarily trading. Should I accept that gun-toting idiots are an inherent risk in my life, even if I never purchase a gun?
3 is no more of a disgrace than 22/7, in my book.
Does HN recommend a particular "getting started with Matrix" guide?
N.Y.’S Vaccine Websites Weren’t Working. He Built a New One for $50
The most complicated web development stuff is the easy technology taken to extreme levels of pseudo-sophistication.

The technology that's unpopular because it's too complicated to learn is actually easier to build real projects with, and maintain long term.

The reason is because the easy stuff its too simple to have an architectural foundation or engineering vision. Easy to learn, hard to use. Sort of the learning curve version of a stitch in time saves nine.

It's exacerbated in frontend because it attracts so many beginners. When the loudest voice is the junior developer, popular tech != good tech. That's why frontend is so chaotic and confusing.

This is all sort of obvious, but nobody want's to hear it. When I've tried to state it in online forums, I'm either a troll or a gatekeeper. shrug
My impression is that backend changes more slowly (and is easier to control) than frontend. At least when you're doing backend you can choose your whole stack (vs. frontend where you have to deal with a huge array of different types of computers and such).

Plus IMO you set up your framework for building once or twice and just reuse it everywhere, so doesn't end up as difficult as the faster changing front end work.
It's baffling that the facility is even able to reach that number. There's absolutely no reason for a water treatment facility to put that much sodium hydroxide into water, so there is no reason to create hardware that can handle it.
How soon can we achieve immunity through vaccinations? This calculator can help
That is considered a lie in the UK? In the US that would be considered an obvious equivalent of "shitty and only out for themselves". Everyone already knows lawyers are master of screwing you over with contracts legally.
This is a good reminder of why DevOps is not necessarily a replacement for a security-minded systems administrator.
2.1 stars out of 5 on TrustPilot? Would not choose to do my business with them!
I disagree. Still you didn't answer the question
Having been around since the pre-CSS days up to the time of attempting to hack my own build pipeline with the YUI compressor, using npm is like a dream. The first batch of tools like grunt were very rough around the edges and hard to use, but the pace of improvements has been extremely impressive.

> Unless you're really invested in the product, it becomes hard to maintain enthusiasm.

+100 for that one. I spent a lot of time working on some absolutely bleeding edge crazy tech for a shitty client who made some stupid luxury product for rich people. Now I'm working on some 10 year old crufty web app for a non-profit that produces something of genuine public benefit and I'm more satisfied with my work than I have been in a long, long time.
Sea Shadow, an experimental stealth ship
I’ve looked elsewhere and “the four stages of the currencycycle” seems to be a talking point in bitcoin world. And it appears to be nonsense taken from a misread of Jevons.
In my opinion Rummo is more commercial than Cocco, and despite being a very valid product, doesn't have the same quality.

Basically Cocco bought the old bronze machinery from De Cecco, when it still was a relatively small family business and not the huge company that it is today, and keeps using them... with an overhead that justifies the premium (if you like good pasta).

Anyhow, as I said, I mostly cook with De Cecco because it's easy to find in the supermarket, sometimes I go to an Italian shop that's close to where I live, and buy some artisanal pasta, and on rare occasions on holidays, I make home-made pasta (tagliatelle or pasta alla chitarra, and ragù as a sauce... it's really not that difficult, and it tastes much better than anything you can buy)
> The definition of what is true (and thus what is not) is based on power relations. We're speaking about social and political truths, here, dummy author, the kind people actually disagree about, not whether fire is hot or Australia exists

I think 'dummy author' has your number. From TFA:

"When challenged, the obscurantist will typically retreat to the safe house provided by the trivial interpretation of his claims, only to reoccupy the controversial ground once the critic has left the scene."
The closest thing to an archive are the weekly "Sunday Digest" posts, in which people nominate their favorite answers of the week. It's eclectic and scattershot when it comes to topic, but the answers themselves are often interesting and well constructed.
I think you have a very cartoonish view of things, one that, like many purists, leads you to in effect support the system you claim to decry. That may preserve your feelings of purity, but it doesn't do a thing to actually solve the problem.

The truth is that many politicians don't like the fact that they have to spend so much time fundraising to pursue their actual goals. They don't like the influence fundraising has on politics. They would rather focus on solving issues. It's possible to make progress on this issue, just like has been done before.

You may be a person who slavishly follows their economic incentives, in which case I'm sorry for you. But don't make the mistake of thinking everybody works like that.
I'm enjoying the read. Having written a fair deal of Haskell, I'm really grateful for what leaning Haskell told me about programming at large. Snoyman has written amazing libs and acute articles, and I appreciate this series a lot.

My interest though are: what's next?

Can Haskell evolve? Can we move to a better standard lib? Here Snoyman has put forward a great effort by releasing his classy-prelude, but iirc he also stopped using it.

So what can be done? Could we come up with a new Haskell-spec version that fixes some of these, flips some pragmas to be on-by-default? I can imagine that laziness is not going out, it too much at the heart of the language: or am I just assuming that? But besides laziness there is a lot to fix by just setting a new standard. It will help newcomers, an eventually even old codebases may make the jump.

Some part of this article talks about partial functions. To what extend can we do without? Can we build a checker [1] for that and simply disallow it?

1: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42151927/what-is-haskell...
I'm honestly suprised this hasn't happened already. Just imagine the levels of absurdity that the hype could reach.
I agree, at least for the hard sciences.

Would you argue that, although philosophy used to concern itself with how to live a good life (for example, Stoicism) these questions are now better addressed through science of the type done in uni psychology departments?