skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But it doesn't work like this in practice! There is a limit to the number of concurrent connections a browser will make, Chrome for example is <=10 IIRC. You can see this in the waterfall:

In HTTP/2, which our site will switch to soon, the concurrent limit is 100. The world's changed, change with it, and throw away those bundlers.

Either way, you can compare to our direct competitors: https://diep.io https://arras.io

> Finally, why on earth are you redirecting to HTTP after serving an HTTPS response?

This isn't really related to the argument at hand. My app is currently on HTTP for reasons downstream.
> These defi protocols are generating huge cash flows. This is real people using decentralized technologies built on blockchains like Ethereum.

I'm fairly new to Crypto so I don't understand this: it's looking like all cool new things are built on Ethereum (which, itself has grown quite a lot) so why is Bitcoin rising? How are Bitcoin & advances in Ethereum-based techonologies correlated?
Not me, to much effort and everything is botnet. For “privacy” you would need a complete OS in an isolated space. Probably dedicated hardware too. Kaspersky was spot on

Anyway, there must be a market for that. The value proposition could be meaningful
Interesting. Thanks for your reply.

One thing, though:

> He argued that the modern system and the state, with its educational system, dull critical thinking or fail to nurture it in the first place.

I don't disagree. But before the modern educational system, did something do better at nurturing critical thinking? I could see saying that, for example, the New England 1700s education produced critical thinkers, but that's a very small region. Did, say, the education system in 1890-1915 Russia produce better critical thinkers? Or pre-1848 Europe? Somehow I doubt it.

Or is the idea that, say, from 1900 to 1950 the education system produced critical thinkers, but the "modern" (post 1950) system does not?

When was it better than this? It's not good, sure, but when was it better?
Their not that great as far as payment processors go, but a sketchy app is going to chose the payment processor that’s the best fit for them and thus the worst for the consumer.

A larger threat IMO is teaching people to enter CC info or worse banking info into apps.
How stupid did they think the Russians were? You have to wonder if they even did blindly copy this initiative, how many resources they'd invest.
The on chain activity will be rare nerds and major institutions infrequently moving funds.

"why should they use Bitcoin rather than a centralized scheme they all agree on?" because customers decide what they want to own and they dont seem to like the fed printing non-stop thing they keep doing.

LN will be for the rare nerds actually using the chain as payment and want cheap, instant, frequent transactions but on chain settlement periodically just as an institution would.
This isn’t theoretical. A nuclear plant was knocked out of service due to water freezing at the current temperatures.
Slashdot was ripe with memes. One of the more sinister ones was posting a comment link to something mundane looking, but it was actually a link to a .cx shock site containing "goat" in the domain name. Later it evolved into Rick Rolling, but the goat thing predated that by long.

I think the prank / meme became so widespread that at some point they changed the site code to spell out the linked domain name in text after the <a>.
I am, in fact, very disappointed in Elon Musk.
At current energy prices, assuming you need half of the energy needed to do mining to perform a 51% attack and you have access to the needed hardware. You need to burn ~12 million usd daily to take over the network
It’s by design. You just have to look at the grift at the “office of chief technology officer” for Washington DC
This starts to touch on one of the reason every "personal assistant" is crap: they're basically just a verbal command line.

Their only real value proposition is basic interactions when the user's hands and/or eyes are busy with something else.

Until they can get smart or fluent enough that they can rival the effectiveness and accuracy of hands-on-screen interaction, the use cases will remain fairly niche.

More programmable, multi-modal interaction is a step in the right direction, but it'll require a lot more.
> I'm glad you took the time to puzzle that through.

I didn’t puzzle anything through. I just kept asking until you responded straightforwardly.

I just wanted to know what classes of information people thought the journalists might be protecting.

>Nice try

> You want to give your attacker as little information as possible. Even information about the kinds of information you're restricting can be used against you.

At some level yes, but not at the level of this discussion. The ideas we’re talking about here are widely present even in pop-culture.
I imagine plumbing contractors in Texas are rubbing their hands together in glee. Frozen, broken pipes everywhere.
> Yes I agree state's legislatures did not prepare. But maybe that shows why a body of politicians is not prepped for engineering nuances.

The problem is that Texas is an outlier. Other governments, broadly, get this right. Those FERC recommendations mentioned upthread? They're the work of the government (hell, NERC is even a multinational globalist thing). That argues less that "governments are bad" than it does for "THIS government was bad".
I, for one, welcome the revival of old internet culture.
Deadpixi/sam – An updated version of the sam text editor
> But when the price goes up due to the very same influencers, people are smart for buying?

The way I see it, Bitcoin is all about hype and modelling hype, so if you can correctly model a particular influencer's effect on a bunch of sheep, I think it's fine to reward that modelling prowess.

As for the sheep themselves, they might win or lose, it's a coin toss, but at the end of the day, they're just sheep.
Working currently with a cloudsecurity project, the sheer amount of surface area that AWS exposes combined with the amount of asterisks I see in various types of policies is terrifying. Enumeration is incredibly dangerous when there are so many poor service roles blindly trusting an entire AWS service, not realizing this is trust across accounts.
It's a matter of externalized costs - the company could have taken slightly less profits - accounted for the known coming of climate crisis weather shifts in the decades they've had and made the proper decisions. By deciding the way they have, they bring higher regulation on themselves.

I expected the correct maintenance costs to be taken on to maintain a better than third-world power grid availability.
-15C the other night, watching the wind turbines in Southern Ontario spinning away.

It's probably that theirs are cheaper because why pay for more hardened tech if the typical range isn't this?
Why? Because an application thats important to people uses mostly renewable energy?
> why do we need a separate currency at all? Stablecoins already exist

Monetary policy
There's some old school technology to solve that problem. For example, I stayed in a friend's ancient family home in Maine that simply had a bedroom over the living room wood stove, and an open vent between the two floors to let the heat through. There are also non-electric fans to help distribute heat from a wood stove.

https://www.amazon.com/PYBBO-Improved-Fireplace-Magnetic-The...
Bitcoin _is_ money though. It's only logical that buying into the concept will have returns.

Yes people speculate on it, does it mean no one really believes in it's value propositions? This argument has very little weight when you compare it to anything else. Is the majority of the stock market all about profit? There's very little of the traditional stock pricing going on anymore.
My gas fireplace still requires electricity to run. I know I can start it with a match if needed (and it has a pilot of course) but I'm not 100% sure if I can manually override the gas valve to open. It opens when I flip an electric switch.
I didn't think about heat pumps that makes sense. I had electric heat pump for heat when I lived in WA state. Worked well with cheap hydro power.
Accessing transactions in the traditional system ostensibly requires a subpoena, and is limited by jurisdiction.
I've also noticed the trend that "Full Stack" now really means back end in job descriptions.

Front End has to be explicitly called out for developers that will be responsible for developing rich UX features.

Front End is gaining more prominence, as more companies are moving to Cloud services and want to leverage Front End for custom business logic, which in a way is moving the stack to Front End. In near future, there will be a job description for Front End Full Stack engineer. I'm all about it.
In a word: greed.
It's been over 2 years since segwit was released.

It turns out that people were right when they said that it would take a long while for it to be adopted.
>From what I understand the average low temperature in Texas around this time usually doesn't go below 30-35 degrees. Meanwhile the average high temperature around this time doesn't get above 20-35 degrees in Minnesota.
To demand every state spend the same resources that Minnesota does to winterize their infrastructure is completely unrealistic.

I don't recall saying every state, I said Texas. Because this type of weather happens on a somewhat regular basis.

>Not according to this professor of meteorology:

I guess finding a soundbite from one individual isn't very interesting to me. The entire state of Texas was told in a report in 2011 after a similar storm that they needed to winterize their power plants and chose not to. If by "historic" you mean "first time in 10 years" - I guess? I don't really consider that "historic".

>Ed Hirs, an energy fellow in the Department of Economics at the University of Houston, blamed the failures on the state’s deregulated power system, which doesn’t provide power generators with the returns needed to invest in maintaining and improving power plants.
North Atlantic Rail Proposal
That’s rough. I’ve bundled up without power with little ones for 4 day, but it was mid 20’s. Keep warm however you can, safely...and good luck, don’t wait and cross fingers, take action.
For static pages, the "front-of-front-end" developer is broadly the "web designer" and does CSS most of the time. As JS sites get more complicated, those buttons need behaviour which is generally also that person's job, so now they do JS.

I'm a small operation, but I'll spend entire days on the "frontend" where I don't actually open a web browser. I'm writing the code that does all the client-side computation from the data it gets from an API. I definitely see the distinction in my own projects and as teams grown, specialization becomes more important. So I can definitely see the distinction.
Parts 15 and 16 of that PDF are, in polished up polite speak, particularly scathing in terms of what's being recommended.

The summary is: Regularly inspect and maintain your equipment, here are the obvious things that must be done. (Unstated: We feel a need to say this, because obviously it didn't happen in at least one place...)

Probably got cut by the bean counters and a cut-throat market that didn't require safety and availability as considerations.
I don't know why power demand is up in TX generally, but I do know that right now a big reason for the demand is because a lot of residences have electric resistance heat only-- which is great for electric blankets, but not so much for heating all the air in your home when it's extremely cold.
You can definitely get a passive house in the US; but it's fairly expensive and takes quite a bit of time to pay off.

It also requires somewhat specialized (read: niche and expensive) heating and cooling equipment, since there is so little air movement into and out of the house, and requires so little energy.

Oh, and ironically, when the power's out in a passive house, you need to open a window to ensure you don't over-humidify the house with your breath.
> To get access to a wealth of libraries, support, documentation and tools, that D is sorely lacking in.

Libraries have never been an issue for me. You get all C libraries trivially, so to the extent that C has libraries, so does D. I also embed R inside my D programs, so I get access to every R library. And if you want to object that "R is slow", I'm not talking about only calling R, I'm also talking about calling R bindings to C++ libraries without having to involve R. I suppose there would be some marginal benefits to having everything written in D, but many people seem more than happy to use languages like Python that access functions written in other languages.

> And most importantly, to be able to use a platform that has pretty strong guarantees about backwards compatibility and that is able to run code from 10 years ago without modification, as opposed to D where even a minor version update can end up breaking D's own standard library.

Breaking changes are not that frequent. You're right, though, if you have a zero-tolerance policy with respect to breaking changes, you can't use D or any other language that has breaking changes.

> it was released as a proprietary compiler that ended up quickly resulting a very fragmented community with a lot of infighting, many missteps and mismanagement made on the part of D's leadership the result of which is that D lost on the order of 5-10 years worth of progress for nothing.

You're referring to things that happened before the pyramids of Egypt were built. Why would someone that has no interest in the language spend time writing comments about ancient, ancient history on Hacker News?
I've read that most mining pools are consolidating now, and if they control a majority of computing power it leaves Bitcoin vulnerable to attack. Or what about the hard fork ? My skepticism is not w/ the tech (which is great) its with Bitcoin adoption by non-tech people who have no protection via regulation.
> the point is that you can't trust and then verify in these situations. You have to assume that everyone is hostile unless proven safe.

Are you getting this from somewhere or are you explaining how you perceive the standards?

The laws I'm familiar with generally have to do with pretty specific criteria for delivering software that touches specific types/classifications of data. None of that would've caught how the JetBrains software was allegedly used to exploit the SolarWinds product. This was some pretty sophisticated stuff.
Can you clarify what the distinction is that you see here? Ultimately, whether it's fines/regulations ("stick") or bonuses/incentives ("carrot"), you're still going to have a bunch of budget-focused politicians pulling the levers.

Their incentive structure rewards short term budget savings at the expense of long term preparedness. The real fix is to have a non-partisan body staffed by actual engineers setting this kind of policy, isn't it?
A understanding/wealthy parent. (Yes—it’s always conveniently left out.)
The answer is you get stuck maintaining a cache and playing whack a mole with whatever performance metric execs care about this month
In retrospect that whole case was a wash and wasn’t a good use of the Government’s time nor an appropriate use of its powers.

Apple and Google were legitimately more competitive in digital music and web search/web advertising respectively without government intervention. They would also both go on to wreck Microsoft’s WinCE business under all of its various names and guises on both the high end and the low end. SanDisk and Yahoo were their biggest competitors in music and web services during this time. Microsoft’s attempts to purchase Yahoo were rebuffed by Yahoo management’s overvaluation of themselves.

Your premise for this alternate history is flawed.

I stand by my statement: this isn’t the government’s problem, any government’s problem, and especially not any American government’s problem.
These mind games would have been played both ways, cold war was a hysterical time. Maybe it was the Russians instead who played the double game and saw the opportunity to divert American resources to places they don't work against them.
I honestly dont know if BTC will really fully replace the dollar. Probably not. It will most likely be a value store that some people choose to spend.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing twice and expecting a different outcome. When another option works and the current implementation fails, then it's time to change to the workable option.
> Also a surprising number of people in the US believe that poverty is a moral failure of some sort. I never actually understood this.

A lot of what people take as "morals" is actually good economic sense wrapped up within a moral code, and even those who advocate it in that form can still sniff out the good sense from it.

Strip away the morality (as we should) and the "good" behaviour is supported strongly by research, as this[1], from the left leaning Brookings Institute, shows:

> poor children are more likely to make bad decisions that lead them to drop out of school, become teen parents, join gangs and break the law.

> Let politicians, schoolteachers and administrators, community leaders, ministers and parents drill into children the message that in a free society, they enter adulthood with three major responsibilities: at least finish high school, get a full-time job and wait until age 21 to get married and have children.

> Our research shows that of American adults who followed these three simple rules, only about 2 percent are in poverty and nearly 75 percent have joined the middle class

By cutting out those bits from the whole piece it makes it sound overly harsh but still, let's not throw out the baby from the conservative's bathwater.

[1] https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/three-simple-rules-poor-t...
And fun, when you start finding links between different theories.

Eco wrote novels about it.
literally every game approximates human behavior with simple equations
Yes, in Gitlab you use plantuml to write your sketches. It’s easy

Mostly UML courses focus on classes, which is a shame as OOP is more about relationships, activities and user stories.

But if I can, I skip all that and just hack
Your comment made me feel compelled to mention a Blizzard talk I came across recently on the ECS (Entity Component System) architecture they used for Overwatch. It looks suspiciously like a function first architecture in that they don't allow mixing of data and functions. I'm not sure how purely functional it is, but it certainly strikes me as the kind of architecture that Carmack would appreciate in dealing with complexities that lead him to a more functional programming style.

This talk is 3 years after release, and includes all the hindsight they gained from that. Also, the parts talking about the netcode are quite amazing, and the precision of their predictors that they attribute to using ECS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3aieHjyNvw&feature=youtu.be
> I would love to make billions writing a chat app

In 1998 I wrote an IRC client for Linux/Gtk+. Really the first graphical app that wasn't Tcl/Tk or Motif based. Even back then people were saying "yet another IRC client", due to the fact that there were dozens of them around. I was often embarrassed to talk about my work because it just felt a bit lame and overdone. But in reality, I wasn't thinking big enough.

Since then: Twitter, WhatsApp, and Slack all came along and made billions. And also Line, WeChat, Snapchat, and more.

This all came after AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo Messenger, and others died off.

Slack was not even 10 years ago. I'm still baffled at how Slack happened. Any one of us could have created it, but did not. What you should realize is that the marketplace is fluid and changes based on technology, incumbents losing their mojo (see AMD vs Intel right now), and various other factors.

People often talk about first-mover advantage, but I've never seen the relevance. Facebook came after MySpace, Friendster, and others. MySpace was vastly more open, and yet Facebook, with their restricted profiles and limited availability eclipsed MySpace. Slack came into an environment with Skype and Hipchat. Microsoft and Atlassian both had deep pockets and first-mover advantage and couldn't win. Google was up against Lycos, Excite, Yahoo, and even offered itself up for sale to AltaVista for $1 million. But in the end they had the better tech and the better user experience.
vs say AWS is very heavily invested in Rust
Please, the anecdote alone is worth far more than $20.
Searching the web for his real name would reveal his pseudonym even before all this. He chose to keep using the same pseudonym because he didn't want to lose his audience.
Frozen wind turbines aren't the problem.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/16/texas-wind-turbines-...
SaaS Churn and Short-Term Customers: The Contrarian View
What McDonald's Shows About the Minimum Wage
Not at all, you're just wrong.
> Even nuclear went down due to frozen pumps.

That doesn't sound at all like a potential disaster. Presumably the emergency cooling pumps didn't freeze.
I believe the bulk of mining already happens at places where electricity is extremely cheap?
I only have n=1 experience here, but I've been using a pellet stove for years, burning a ton (50 bags) of pellets each year. I buy quality pellets which avoids having clinkers and keep them dry in the garage.

It does require yearly maintenance to grease the motor and I had to undergo some repairs when we bought it (used, it came with the house) because the previous owners did some really dodgy stuff like using a completely wrong sized fuse and taping it in with duct tape, mangling the fuse holder, but it has been reliable for over a decade now.
Want more than 30 news on a main page, because on my vertical ultrawide it looks half-filled. Also remove limit of comments on one page for same reason.
BTW, the HN is the least pesky web-forum I've ever seen, you will have hard time to improve it.
Too late to the party, but just want to mention Enlightenment DE (a nice DE also worth trying) since you mentioned EFL.
Nobody is disputing that fossil fuels and their chemical derivatives provide utility
Those folks are paying their time into the game sure - but casual games in IAPs can drain bank accounts surprisingly fast from folks that'd normally consider themselves above microtransactions. There is a lot of very sneaky psychological tricks that go into trying to get folks to spend an insane amount of money - I'd compare that to something like CS:GO which is trying to get everyone to spend a little bit of money but is less oriented to harness big spenders outside of the marketplace which isn't all that promoted in game.
This is why russian-style stoves have a whole labyrinth for the air to blow through, warming up the large brick structure. It can hold heat for a while even after it's done burning.
I don't use Clubhouse, but I'm curious - is there a way for you to flag "Millionaire Secrets" as a poor recommendation? Something like a thumbs up/down?

If so, maybe it's just a matter of time before those recommendations are eliminated for you.

If not, well, I think that's the problem. It's probably too soon (not enough data) for CH to make good recommendations without active input from users.
let's not forget how big vscode is, 260mb

to have an interface where you type text
Wind forces are defined by dynamic pressure q, which is proportional to speed squared divided by density. At 1% the Earth's air density, a 100m/s wind on Mars (half the speed of sound!) exerts the same force as 10m/s breeze on Earth.

So far the fastest winds observed on Mars are about 30m/s.

So, the thin air that makes it hard to fly on Mars makes it safe to stay on the ground.