skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've used Poly.market a few times and been pretty happy with it - they use a second layer network, so after depositing, trades are fairly cheap (you just pay a market maker fee, no crypto miner fee as far as I can tell). Downside is that the outcome is provided by the poly.market creators, but your actual bets are non-custodial.
Windows 3.0 Buzz
30 people and counting have died in Texas, with millions in damages likely due to burst pipes and other weather-related catastrophes. But none of those costs will be borne by the power companies, so cost/benefit analyses by those power companies will say, no, it's never worthwhile to incur extra costs, ever.
Thanks. I saw the pricing in the comments. It wouldn't be affordable for me for the project I wanted to do above (I am not getting anything from it). Nonetheless, good luck. It's a real problem.
Show HN: Dabble, a Chrome extension making online furniture shopping suck less
"...borders will stay closed even with widescale vaccination"

It will be interesting to see how long that policy holds when hospitalizations become minimal and deaths become incredibly rare. At a certain point, the borders will be closed to prevent the potential spread of the 10th or 20th most dangerous pathogen in a world full of pathogens.
>Working on something that turns out to be total crap or a fraud is actually very demoralizing, not to mention not great for your resume.

Too bad most people here have worked on startups that failed then.
People in places like the UK just need a quick and easy way to evade website blocks.

> Access to this website has been blocked under an Order of the Higher Court.

> Any TalkTalk customer affected by the Court Order has a right under the Court Order to apply to vary or discharge it. Any such application must:

> (i) clearly indicate the identity and status of the applicant;

> (ii) be supported by evidence setting out and justifying the grounds of the application; and

> (iii) be made on 10 days notice to all of the parties to the Court Order.

> For further details click here. https://community.talktalk.co.uk/t5/Articles/Blocked-website...
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/metaculus-monday and https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/metaculus-monday-2821 mention a few other markets.
I didn't see an anti-wind rant. She criticized an energy-only market, which ignored capacity, and as a consequence promotes deployment of wind and solar. Further, by ignoring capacity, Texas is now in this dire situation.
It's not weird - every developer wants to 'just code' their features/business logic without having to deal with the pain points of the tech. They choose web tech for their app because the opportunity cost of learning a desktop-native language is the time that could be spent bootstrapping an electron app and getting the product out the door earlier.
Two potential reasons spring to mind:

A) In order to drive Tor adoption and increase the feasibility of normal people hosting sites on Tor, it is necessary that normal people be able to connect to hidden services, even if they themselves are not necessarily reaping the privacy benefits.

If Firefox and Chrome both supported the Tor protocol out of the box then I would be more likely to host content on Tor, because I wouldn't need to tell my family and friends to install a new browser just to access that content.

B) Even though Brave's Tor features are inferior to the Tor browser, they still probably offer some privacy benefit over normal browsing (assuming users are not assuming that the mode is perfectly private).

That being said:

A) It would still be better for Brave to fix issues like this over time, and the leak is worth taking seriously instead of brushing off as a known issue.

B) A warning on a FAQ is not sufficient to handle point B. Brave should be looking into UX methods to make it clear to users that visiting a Tor site does not make them anonymous. Most of the people installing Brave are never going to see that warning.
For some reason this scares me at a core level more than anything else. Seems inevitable that Skynet will control the factory sooner or later.
We've had about 60 years and multiple huge attempts at it, and IMHO HTML & CSS _are_ the easy to use cross-platform GUI platform. Nothing else stuck--flash, java swing, qt, etc. were all super capable and promising but failed to gain mass usage. HTML & CSS is the way. Nothing in existence has as much capability, developer usage and talent pool, accessibility and internationalization features, etc. A good GUI system is much more than just getting boxes and text on the screen.
Always happy to learn, thank you! Clojure is my only real venture in to lisp land (I know some don't consider Clojure lispy enough to be a real lisp)
I've long suspected that many high-value art sales are a form of money laundering, so it does not surprise me at all to see the idea become blockchain-ified. I wish I'd thought of it first! I expect it will continue to be a resounding success.
Ultima IV and XIII are both in my favorite games of all time. They are very different but I thought XIII was the coolest game I had ever played at the time. My first CD-ROM game as well.
Inhaling products of combustion is a bad idea and we should do as little of it as we can. If we're going to burn stuff, let's do it at power plants with centralized monitoring and mitigation, so that we can all avoid breathing exhaust. Burning things in the home has nothing to recommend it besides having an independent means of heating in an emergency. Gas plumbed to the house doesn't even have that in its favor. It's bad for your health even when it doesn't cause house fires or explosions.
Oh, it definitely did. Maybe not to the same degree as the crypto markets (never looked at them), and there were certainly spikes this way and that, but you could get Trump NO cheaper than 90c well into December.

The Texas v. Pennsylvania case getting swatted down by SCOTUS was probably the last of the cheap shares where it was worth depositing money just to play, but if you already had some money in your account it was worth taking the obvious bets all the way to the end.

edit: went back and checked one of the markets to refresh my memory. Yep, check the 90-day chart. Dec 6 "NO" on a Republican win was only 84c!

https://www.predictit.org/markets/detail/2721/Which-party-wi...

edit2: here's another hilarious one.

https://www.predictit.org/markets/detail/5554/Will-Donald-Tr...

Yep, "Will Trump win the popular vote" closed on Nov 24th while still trading at 8 cents. The popular vote. Jesus Christ. For reference he lost the popular vote by 7 million.

I'd actually be curious to know if there was a crypto-market equivalent to that one, because I want to believe most of that pricing was due to PI's limits. For example, one Trump bettor maxing out his $850 limit of 7c shares, requires 14 Biden bettors maxing out $850 of 93c bets to be his counterparty. With a 5,000 trader limit that means that there might be just a handful of Trump-won-landslide bettors vs a few thousand No-he-didn't bettors with a lot more invested, all maxed out and unable to move the price further. But I don't know if that shook out differently in the crypto space with no limits.
If you zoom up a bit from the level this article is in, as I understand it, while Ultima was on the rocks anyhow, it was Ultima Online that comprehensively killed the franchise by being too successful. Rational business logic said to pour the effort into the moneymaker UO and the single-player Ultimas couldn't compete for resources.

IMHO, there would still have been a lot of winds against the series anyhow. The exponential increase in the difficulty of technology was not playing well with Origin's high level of aggressiveness on that front. And perhaps a bit more controversially, the series just wasn't headed in a good direction; after the impressive founding of the series' reputation on the virtue system in 4 and 5, the series was headed ever faster into a nihilistic undercutting of its own foundations. (And I'd highlight the undercutting aspect over the nihilistic aspect; while I'll cop to being less impressed with nihilism than probably the average HN reader, nihilistic RPGs aren't intrinsically a bad thing, but in this particular case it undercuts the foundations.) Even a fully-realized Ultima 8 was never going to fit the series very well, and IMHO could even have ended up with a worse story in some aspects than we got.
Probably it would just be better just to create a Basic compiler to WebAssembly, for the dialect being used.
> After acquiring Origin in late 1992, so the story goes, EA forced them to abandon all of the long-established principles of Ultima in order to reach the mass market of lowest-common-denominator players to which EA aspired.

/me raises hand, I'm one of those lowest-common-denominator played who discovered Ultima with VIII and loved it a lot
fallocate(..., FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE) will do that but it comes with limitations such as alignment requirements and limited filesystem support.

You could also try creating a new file and use copy_file_range to copy the tail of the file to the new one, then move it over the old one. That might reuse a good chunk of the storage on a CoW filesystem.
If you do have a Scylla use case, please also feel free to let us Scylla monsters know: peter at scylladb dot com. Very encouraged to see such a great convergence occurring between NoSQL + ML. The camps between data scientists and data engineers have been pitched too far apart to date. My best wishes to all those who helped bring this to fruition.
"The majority of the true cost is born by a tiny minority of people"

Do you truly believe that the millions of workers in food service, hospitality, etc are a "tiny minority"?
They are not talking about a specific person, so how is "they" wrong?
It didn’t take long, this approach was around years before Electron came in. But the reason Electron picked up is precisely the stable APIs with cross-platform compatibility that comes from bundling chromium. You won’t get that here.
This comment breaks quite a few of the HN guidelines. These, for example:

"Don't be snarky."

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Would you mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting to HN? We'd appreciate it.
There are also a lot of people who don't vote for anything. Maybe they should and maybe next time they will.

In any case, ERCOT and the PUC have enjoyed bipartisan support in Texas for many decades. The GOP may have their hand on the controls right now but they're not the only ones to blame.

Someone else posted "The Second Battle of the Alamo: The Midnight Connection" here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26161121

It was basically required reading for anyone in the energy sector 20 years ago, probably still is today. Maybe give it a read before you get too excited about what Texans are for and against.
As a Go user and former contributor, it makes me pleased that the rigor of the Go team occasionally gives the Linux kernel developers heartburn. As long as everyone stays professional, the end result is better for both groups.

Linux gets feature velocity by playing fast and loose sometimes with stability. Demanding users like the Go authors are a necessary and welcome counterbalance.
very true. wind turbines work fine in very cold climates (see the Netherlands) but you have to get the "winter" package with de-icing capabilities but it costs more. Typically, you wouldn't need that in Texas but this wasn't a typical weather event by any stretch.
Is it true that everyone who browses Tor needs 100% privacy to maintain safety? I'm not very aware, but I've heard that a good part of Tor consists of regular boring pages and blogs that don't involve transactions and aren't necessarily illegal or shady.
hard disk storage has been static in terms of drive size of the last couple of years.
12TB is roughly the maximum economic size you can get right now.
> Have you... actually ordered from a restaurant that's done self-delivery for more than 5 minutes?

Yes, of course. Aside from the example I gave where I used their self-delivery for 10 years before switching to this new gen.

And I suppose I’ve ordered from about 500 self-delivery restaurants, although I don’t keep a log.

It sounds like you’ve had some bad experiences and they aren’t like mine. I have had really bad experiences with doordash and grubhub where they wouldn’t fix problems, but Uber is about 75% responsive that is so much better than self-delivery.

From first principles it seems like self-delivery can’t compete unless they are really into delivery. Because they can’t scale well beyond their drivers on hand and it’s not possible for them to send out 10 orders at once, etc
One pretty low risk way to share back is to just publish the issues somehow.

I guess you could still get criticized for not fixing them yourselves though.
I am not sure where you might've heard that but the video is not expected for a couple weeks as they indicated prior to landing. Right now the team would be downlinking the thumbnails from the various cameras during the descent. Afterwards they will be selecting photos that are of immediate interest before requesting the remaining set for downlink, processing them, and compiling them into a video.

https://twitter.com/elakdawalla/status/1362836610077782016
I'd just like to point out the 'played UO' and 'working on EVE' =]
I love EVE, I just can't find the time to work on it anymore.
Quite possibly, though there are/were good reasons to be wary of nuclear energy as well. I do personally believe that the risks from global warming outweigh those from nuclear plants at this time, but I don't think this was clear at all 50 years ago.
The issue would occur if the auto-updater itself broke as a result of an OS upgrade
Krisp nearly triples fundraise with $9M expansion after blockbuster 2020
I am always wary of these websites that ask you to upload a photo so they can add some cool effect. Most of the time they don't have a clear privacy policy and who knows what the owners will do with everything uploaded. This is a little different because it is run by NASA and we can probably be confident they won't do something nefarious with it. However it did get me thinking if one could submit a FOIA request and get all the photos that have been uploaded.
The Tail of a Recusion
You did it again.
> "Prediction markets" is a fancy word for gambling.

Hard disagree.

Gambling is set up with the principal aims of a) making money off the spread and b) getting participants as "gamified" as possible with exciting events and the ability to bet lots of money.

Prediction markets are set up with the principal aim of crowdsourcing intelligence from a diverse set of minds. They can be set up by academia, think tanks, research labs, etc. And while (arguably) necessarily tied to real money, they also often limit participants and the size of bets through various mechanisms for a host of reasons (one being to make corruption non-viable as you mention).

Gambling is more often related to entertaining events like sports and national politics; prediction markets are often focused more on niche or technical outcomes though they also often expand into national politics to garner participation and scale.

Obviously any market in practice can lie somewhere in the middle. But that doesn't make the distinction any less important. They're not just the same thing.
Could you link to the science behind those limits?
Computer Programming in the Punched Card Era
How is this not exactly what the parent comment says?
> UUID collision is not possible in practice.

UUID is a loosely defined concept. There are many implementations. Some of them have no chance of collision at all, some have an astronomical chance, and some have very real odds that you'll receive a call at 3AM during the new year's celebration.
Ask HN: Editing Comments on HN, what are the norms?
Fixing it doesn't have urgency to the right people. Kids are too uninformed, adults are too busy and if they're fat, it's easier to cultivate acceptance rather than actually change your lifestyle, corporations profit from consumption so if anything they benefit as obesity and overconsumption is normalized, and people in positions of power and authority have no way to force people to eat healthy.

Health and nutrition are one of the topics where people don't want to hear the truth or know the solution because it's inconvenient and difficult, even though it's straightforward and doable for a lot of people.
I wonder what would the trend be without the push for the huge megacorps that couldn't do without microservices (MAGA mostly) that decided to start selling their cloud services.

Would they have kept them for themselves (including k8s), would microservices be just as fashionable? I'd really like to know the answer, while watching my friends startup of 4 people running they 14 microservices on a k8s cluster.
https://xkcd.com/557/
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Sends Sneak Peek of Mars Landing
You've got the "large number" and "tiny minority" switched, I think.
> If 5% more of the population goes down each time they get it

Is there any reason to believe the 95% who didn't "go down" after the first time have the same 5% risk if they get it again?

Not saying you are wrong or that the article is right. It's just something important to consider. It's also important to remember that even if the 95% face zero risk after they get it once, 5% of the global population is still a lot of people.
> assassinate Musk.

Would this cause Tesla stock to rise or fall?
[Oct 2020]
This is basically what happened with Irish indentured servants, right?
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured both Curiosity and Perseverance under their parachutes.

Aug 2012: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MRO_sees_Curiosity_landin...

Yesterday: https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/25610/hirise-captured-persev...
If natural immunity from COVID-19 only lasted 90 days we would see millions of cases of second and third re-infections by now. Studies have found only a tiny, tiny number of confirmed reinfections within ~10 months.
This is called the German Tank Problem[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem
Why I build zeeSQL, SQL and search by value for Redis
Blitz comes with a forms library -- react-final-form by default, but you can also use react hook form or formik
The link should probably be replaced with this https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-perseverance-rover...
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_17_...

Here's the EU's fine for them lying about account linking, at the very least.
The Afterlives of Fascisms
> why we don't tackle that with urgency is beyond me

When you see a person not doing something and are confused, a good first step to understanding the situation is to map out the steps that would be required. Then, go through and start listing the risks and impediments to executing those steps.

It is a lot easier to see a good idea than to implement it -- especially if you're willing to distrustfully ignore difficulties as "excuses".
Doesn't RSS include shared mappings? That's why metrics like PSS and USS were introduced.

But that aside, yeah Discord is pretty heavy. My current instance which is only connected to a single server is eating 555 MB PSS, or 846MB RSS. Definitely not a lightweight at all.
No worries. I agreed with your comment. That rhetorical style I find myself doing a lot, until someone pointed it out to me. They showed me there’s a better way to be constructive. Just jump to the point. Compliments are fine at the end.
Why do so many people do their jobs so poorly?
It does not matter how much $ you offer

how qualified they are

incentives, etc

Some people will just never put in even 80%. They make objections to your requests, they have excuses, unresponsive etc. You cannot easily screen these people out because often they are qualified on paper but just suck at their jobs and have a crappy attitude.

how do employers deal with these type of employees? firing them is sometimes not an option because their abilities may not be easily replaced
Your position is that everyone should have generators instead of having infrastructure that doesn't require everyone to have generators?

Some people have generators no matter what, but it seems a stretch to think you can't rely on your energy infrastructure a bit more than that.
If an enemy attacks the US, and the silos are empty by the time the missiles arrive, then the enemy is dead. The only way for the enemy to live is to destroy all of the silos without being detected. Having a large number of silos makes this basically impossible.
Sure, I also think the way alcohol is treated is problematic too! This article was about Heroin, though.

(Alcohol) prohibition ended, not because people changed their minds about alcohol being problematic, but because it failed, basically, and I think such an arrangement is politically unpalatable in today's world.

I think that Dr Hart makes a lot of good points, but he also makes some dubious ones. For example, his point about the "normal range" of height. Its a fine thing to point out, but it is such an incomplete picture that its borderline preposterous.

Lets say you are 6'5". If I take a chainsaw and cut off 7 inches of your feet/shins, does that mean you are just fine? You would still be within the normal height range, after all! In fact, theoretically you might be better off, because before you were outside of the normal range!

This is intentionally absurd, so no need to point it out, but that is my point; the way some points in this article are made, it really makes me worry how many people who are on the border of being sure they have a problem are going to keep going down their destructive paths.

To be honest, I bet my brother in law would have said the same thing about himself -- he is "fulfilling all of his obligations", after all! He did work, aside from periods when he was homeless/unable to hold down steady work/keep himself from spending literally all of his income on drugs. But, the last few years, he has been working and had an apartment, all while using.
1989 was 30 years ago. I was in Dallas and remember the 2011 event well, it wasn't anywhere near the same. The major problems in 2011 were trees falling on power lines it wasn't core generation facilities failing.
1. electoral-vote.com is first read every morning for high-quality political commentary

2. old.reddit.com

3. news.ycombinator.com

4. earth.nullschool.net for weather

5. fivethirtyeight.com

6. nytimes.com

7. Youtube, Google maps and mail, Wikipedia as utility services

(this morning I was trying to open a bottle of liquid soap and the damned thing kept just spinning without popping up, so I googled “how to open a liquid soap dispenser” and first link was a Youtube video that explained you just have to screw the outer ring down tighter before twisting it open. Amazing)

Less than daily,

8. xkcd.com and oglaf.com about once a week

9. slatestarcodex.com, paulgraham.com, maybe lesswrong.com for spelunking through archives
CA Governor Recall Has 45% Rejection Rate vs. Presidential Only Had 0.6% Rate
shenanigans?
https://www.scilifelab.se/news/a-majority-retain-protective-...
I agree with "Scorpia" that Ultima IV is the greatest game of all time. I
only played the occasional pirated games my brother cadged, so missed
Ultimas 5 through 7. Ultima VIII did come my way, and I remember already
being turned off by the 3dness. I believe I played it all of ten minutes and
gave up.