skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where Does Complexity Go?
> I feel like a lot of this comes from an "Ultima fan" perspective

I think that's selling The Digital Antiquarian (filfre.net) short. It's an impressive body of scholarship. If the author has a fandom bias, it's for text adventures, not Ultima.
I used to use an Electron wrapper for Google Play Music (may it rest in peace) and the developer of that did this. The default colour scheme for that product was a harsh orange, but the Electron client allowed you to override the CSS to change that base color, as well as switch between light/dark mode.
How many Electron applications do you honestly have running on your computer at any given time such that 100MB each is so concerning?

Right now I'm running VS Code and PyCharm, each with an one open project and one open editor. PyCharm is eating 1.8 GB while VS Code is only eating 130 MB. Funny enough, I see people complain about VS Code being a resource-hungry Electron app all the time but I've never seen anyone gripe about the resource usage of JetBrainz IDEs.

This isn't an excuse to Electron all the things, but browser-based GUIs do have their place.
People were saying this about Gamestop, and I need to remind you that the value can go down as well as up: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9219447/GameStop-lo...
Apple hardware comes to mind here on this topic ...
Fever monitoring is a pointless waste of effort. Those thermometer guns are generally inaccurate, most infected people don't have a significant fever, and those who do have a fever often knock it down using OTC medication.
There were presumably computers there before on the other rovers. They either had Windows or a third OS or no OS according to the title.
SaaS metrics: why activation rate is so important
I share some of my learnings from building Split:

- why NRR is the most important SaaS metric
- NRR decays with activation.
- Quicker you activate, the higher your NRR
- If you want to improve NRR, improve your activation rate.
Thank you so much for the information.

In case you have any links to share about how DSN works, I'd appreciate.

And thank you also for mentioning coherent averaging. I'm more or less familiar with the concept but I've been trying to find out the name of the thing so that I could google on how to implement it (I've been collecting some information for assessing the feasibility of a project involving high-loss antennas).

Besides, I've never wondered how they tracked spacecrafts, especially those ones as far as new horizons and voyagers.
> The higher the price, the more miners compete to find a block.

But only if it's profitable to miners coming in. Ultimately mining pressures miners into finding cheap sources of electricity. Yes, many just take advantage of subsidies (governmental or environmental) to lower their costs, but as mining difficulty and competition increases inefficient are kicked out.
Until the mid-2010's the US's creedal flavor of "nationalism" was arguably the most principles-based in the world; something I take great pride in as a brown American son of immigrants. It was a paragon of what nationalism should look like.

Unfortunately, in 2021, we've lost that collective nationalism, and I'm not sure we're better off for it.
> Amusing and mildly racist use of the name Raj

Interesting. My gut reaction was that they must have initially published his name and silently redacted it. Your gut reaction is that HN is seething with many racist commenters who use R__ as an epithet for any Indian contractor.

Wayback Machine if you haven't already figured out which one of us is right.
A lot of those are exchange wallets, and the wealth distribution of fiat currency in many societies is not much better.

There are tons of valid criticisms of Bitcoin but this one doesn't amount to much.
This makes me feel better about abandoning my own plans to do the same.
I concur, I had 140 btc 10 years ago. Sold it all when it reached $800, which I though was peak.

I doubt the guy who sold the 5000 btc pizzas still have them.
Call me old fashioned but I feel like bitcoin is similar to fiat currencies simply because it's not backed by anything. It has invented scarcity. If I just created giraffe coin and there were only 5 coins it doesn't mean it has any value. Would someone please explain why on earth I want to own bitcoin? I really don't understand the bull case for it.
Did you ever here of rare pepe coins? https://rarepepewallet.com/
>The psychological toll is from there being a deadly global pandemic

My friends and I could not possibly care less about the virus even if we tried, and half of us were even infected with Corona. The only thing affecting anyone in my friendgroup mentally are these lockdowns that are keeping us from living our lives, because I can guarantee you that every single one of us would rather be sitting in a crowded, closed space without even wearing masks than being forced to deal with god-knows how long of not being able to do anything, so I really wouldn't say the pandemic has any effect on us other than the fact that it brings with it lockdowns that none of us want.
Agreed, there are many issues, and I believe that many will be taking advantage of this system. But it will all be sorted in time, and I do think there is a huge future here.
Never seek wisdom in comment sections.
The guy featured in the viral “7 minutes of Terror” video from Curiosity days, Adam Steltzner, gave a talk about those previous landings which is an absolute gem. Fantastic speaker. He goes through the technology in some detail at semi ELI5 level but enough to be good. Once he seems to be finished with the main topic, stick around for the personal and inspirational stories in the Q&A segment, well worth it.

If you haven’t seen 7 minutes of terror, it’s a must watch (a little on the laughable drama side but hey it’s deserved!), but no need to hunt it down because it’s included near the beginning of his talk in the link below.

https://longnow.org/seminars/02013/oct/15/beyond-mars-earth/
I don’t know how many times this needs to be said, but the lack of winterization in Texas’s energy supply chain was and is a known issue.

Other comments, which are worth reading, go into detail about how this event isn’t even close to some “all contingencies” handwave. (It got cold. This isn’t aliens invading.)
Microsoft’s LinkedIn to enter the gigwork market with LinkedIn Marketplace
Is there really precedent for companies taking over open-source upstreams and turning them proprietary? I expect the corporate users appreciate the price & freedom at least as much as everyone else.
"The New Kornshell" (2nd ed) was published in 1995, when POSIX.2 was a thing, and there was a separate "Shell and Utilities Language Committee".

In 1997, that committee (the 1003.2 committee) merged with several other committees (including the 1003.1 committee) to form a unified committee called the "Austin Group". The Austin Group publishes a their work as a combined 1003.1; there is no longer a separate 1003.2 standard or committee.

There are still several other separate "1003.x" standards+committees for languages other than C and Shell that did not become part of the Austin Group (such as 1003.5 for the POSIX Ada interface). But 1003.2 is no longer one of those separate standards+committees.

If Korn were to write that sentence today, he might instead write "ksh is intended to conform to the Shell Language Standard developed by the Austin Group and published as IEEE POSIX 1003.1 Volume 3."
If you are using a database, a server and clients, you already have a distributed system.

You'll also likely use multiple databases (caching in e. g. Redis) and a job queue for longer tasks.

You'll also probably already have multiple instances talking to the databases, as well as multiple workers processing jobs.

Pretending that the monolith is a single thing is sneakily misleading. It's already a distributed system
Web notifications do exist, they're horrible though
As a long-time OSM contributor, 1 is the only one that bothers me.

We've had a bit of an issue in the UK with Amazon Logistics mappers blatting away some of the nuance in rights-of-way mapping (which is quite a complex subject in UK law) as they map driveways for their own use.

That's not a massive problem in itself - OSM has reasonably good communication mechanisms (particularly changeset comments), and there's a clear Organised Edit Policy which most of the big guys follow. It's just a challenge because of scale: it's hard for part-time, unpaid volunteers to spend hours chasing after the countless Amazon contractors who are sitting editing OSM all day. I know we've lost a few individual contributors because of this, though more in the US than in Europe.

But this is mostly growing pains. With goodwill from all sides I don't see any reason it won't be resolved.
Why not just create views and query those with jOOQ, then?
I think this can be done reasonably.

I believe the most-essential factor is this: loss-of-control over the behavior in question.

IOW, when the behavior takes places in spite of the individual wishing to stop, or committing to stopping -- then it is almost certainly "an addiction". It is the behavior that is most important, not 'substances' particularly.

The trouble is that it is very, very difficult for someone to recognize AND admit that they are unable to control some aspect of their behavior.

Most of us will create elaborate explanations to avoid admitting (to ourselves mostly) that sometimes we window up in a situations where we are completely powerless to control our behavior.
Probabilistically, you probably can estimate that. Is a permanently dormant address just dormant or is it "burnt"?
For me it is, as I don't live in North Korea
The AND data was imported into OSM in 2007, it's safe to say the Netherlands has always had alot of available data.
Very slowly, given the bandwidth is about 3Kbps (https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/spacecraft/rover/communicatio...)
Definitely. Blockchain is incredibly attractive for this type of fraud because wallet addresses aren't bank accounts. Anyone can create new wallets or even use tricks to hide the source of funds (send to exchange, withdraw from exchange to different wallet).

Cryptocurrencies are a dream come true for perpetrators of fraud like this. Buyer beware.
Huh, I thought I saw 35 percent APY but admittedly I wasn't playing as close attention to the numbers as I would if my own money was on the line.
My understanding is that people in those other countries have not been lead down such a path, even though they know that sometimes people get away with stealing elections in their countries. I believe they use reason and inference when judging what is real, because all relevant hard evidence is not always available to them.
> save regulatory capture somehow forcing the rest of society to buy into it.

That's what happens, some little scheme gets too big to fail, so the taxpayer bails it out. Those that are in the schemes win, those that felt the scheme was stupid lose.

I remember seeing adverts on the London underground for icelandic banks offer 5% more than any other savings account. I chuckled and thought "surely nobody's that gullible".

There were many. Both individuals, who got bailed out by me (the taxpayer), and many councils (who lost money which belonged to the taxpayer)

For 20 years I laughed at these various get quick schemes. Then I realised that they don't fail. Profits are privitised, losses are socialised, and they taxpayer always loses.

When you realise that, you have to look at dodgy schemes in a whole separate light. Sure bitcoin is stupid, but as it gets larger and larger the chance of it failing without bailing out large institutions reduces, meaning the chance of me riding on the coattails increases.
The GPL will soon infect the whole galaxy.
I think we should be clear. The lockdown, in more or less its current state, is necessary. Without it we will see a spiralling death toll, the collapse of health services, and many people saddled with chronic conditions for life, yes even the "young". I personally know some. Their lifestyles will never be the same.

However, it didn't have to be this way. The UK practically beat the pandemic over summer, and then snatched defeat from the jaws of victory by persistently ignoring reality. Reopening schools, Eat Out To Help Out, failing to stop international travel - these are the things that led to the current situation.

Get mad, by all means. But place the blame where it belongs. We are doing the right thing now, in order to deal with the idiocy of before.
For context: global equities market cap is $89.5 trillion

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-worlds-10-largest-stock...
You should try adding everyone to lists. Then instead of checking your feed you check the individual lists. It’s a nice experience.
Ask HN: Feedback on our CLI and API for email automation?
We're working hard on making email easier to program against. There are a lot of solutions out there to send emails programmatically (sendmail!), but not that many for inbound.

Would love some criticism and feedback on our https://docs.mailscript.com and our API playground at https://api.mailscript.com

If you're a dev who wants to hack around email, how can we make life easier for you? How can we improve our tool to facilitate that?
Did you know about D anonymous classes?
> In prediction markets or sports betting, the gamblers aren't betting against the casino.

Are you saying the crowd has an edge over the house? Sports betting platforms, poker sites, they are in the business of profiting off people who think they have an edge (aka ppl believe in the non-zero sum nature of these markets)
Anyone finding themselves interested in this stuff should pick themselves up a copy of Daniel Ellsberg’s book The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner. He elaborates a lot of the history of our nuclear strategy and development of arsenals, and why land based missiles don’t make sense.
There's a vague prescription in Thinking Fast and Slow that an objective person attempting transparency should present both versions of the numbers.

Example:

.15% or half a million Americans died. What policy changes if any should we enact to try to compromise between lives lost and GDP, as lower GDP compromises (for instance) our influence in the international community.

Versus:

Side 1: it was less than one in 800 people. This is hysteria.

Side 2: What do you mean hysteria, we lost HALF A MILLION PEOPLE and it could have been 3 million if we had done it your way.

Side 1: 1 in 800 is not that many.

Side 2: 1 in 800 is a lot, actually.
> Where else can the average person make 6x's their money

Go to Vegas, bet on red three times.

Or, if you don't want to get on a plane during a pandemic, trade on margin.
By the book it will be...

But USD being such a big saving currency internationally, US will have really hard time to dial in inflation level.

It may be 5-6% or it may hit 10%+. Nobody know how both people, and bankers around the world will react to first significant USD weakening in decades.
Is there any good information on what set off this current bull run? The timing with the US election seems odd, but I can't see any causal mechanism that could link the two.

Is it Robinhood adding crypto?
this also frustrates me
Its also 2nd planet that has more machines then people :)
And Bitcoin isn't a currency
Yes, get an atty, (and I am not one), and make sure they are a really good one, specializing in your type of case (not just a random general practicioner. Get recommendations from the best attny's you can contact in your network.

Meanwhile, preserve and start collating every record you can, system logs, application logs, phone calls, pictures, locations, etc. Get every receipt. Try to reconstruct every bit of time you can. You don't know the date/time of their events, and if they are at times T1, T2, T3+++, and you can establish that you were out on a hike at T1, fueling your car at T2, and had shut off your computers at T3-20min, you start to establish your innocence.

And, of course cut off ALL contact with everyone there, and log every contact they attempt to make. Resist the temptation to defend yourself to them personally.

Good Luck!
i love this idea! i think i'll do that as well just to test it out.
No worries, it's just that your title reminded me of that website which I used to visit a lot more often in the past.
I decided to just go for it, I mean if there's free money like this article suggests, why not take it? I can throw the minimum 250 bucks at this and expense it on the company card for research purposes.

There's literally a market for whether Donald Trump will be president on March 31st of 2021 with offers available at 98 cents, so presumably I can make a 2% return in a month right?

Okay well I signed up, I had to buy USDC and that cost me 8%. In the future I should use Coinbase to cut that down to 0.50%, but for now my motivation is just to see if this thing is for real.

After a fairly smooth sign up process that took about 10 minutes, involved confirming my e-mail address, an SMS and then verifying a credit card transaction, I got the 230 USDC sent to me and immediately used it to buy NO on Trump being president.

I wont lie, this was easier than I expected, the whole process took about 10-15 minutes tops and as far as I can tell I do legitimately have this position.

I guess the only concern left is whether there's some loophole that will cause this market not to resolve at all/become invalid.

I will do a few more transactions later today since the site is literally displaying some fairly significant arbitrage opportunities. I will do it with just a couple hundred dollars at a time as a proof of concept, and if this works out then perhaps I go a little deeper, use Coinbase Pro to buy and sell the USDC.
Not sure if it means anything, but the first thing I do when reading about the price of say some huge tunnel built in Europe is mentally convert the quoted Euro price to USD. Doesn't make the Euro any less real as a currency.
Wonder what the speeds and delay/latency is like? Did they achieve near theoretical limits of light between earth and mars, or was it a different transport layer?

Would love to one day communicate with a person on another planet. Maybe this is something 3 or 4 generations from now will be able to do.
The status quo is (roughly) to resist adding capacity to the osm.org servers anyway. Not so much to push people to commercial offerings, more to avoid growing the resources required to operate the foundation and site.
Yes, there is an effect, but it's nowhere near as strong as you think:

>“Each point increase in IQ test scores is associated with $202 to $616 more income per year,” he says. For example, a person with a score of 130 (in the top 2%, in terms of IQ) might earn about $12,000 more per year than someone with an average IQ score of about 100.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11711-smarter-people-...

I'm sure IQ has some effect on inequality but I'd bet money it's logarithmic rather than exponential.
sudo apt upgrade --high-gain
That's because it was a helicopter and NASA didn't want it to crash.
A Georgia lawmakers also sued Tennessee to move the state border so that they could siphon water from the Tennessee river: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/01/tennes...

Georgia and Atlanta have unsustainable growth which their natural resources can't support and are trying to pass off the externalities onto their neighbors. I am biased as a former resident of both Tennessee and Florida.
The big curse of microservices is the word "Micro". It should have just the right size, be it big or small.
Treaties are compromises among all parties involved, using a variety of interests. That includes many different kinds of costs.
Thunderbird is the only one with that default and it has a <1% market share.
Unfortunate things about performance reviews
Are you implying that the total number of infections is held constant somehow, and restrictions merely move them around? Because that's false. Restrictions work.
Even if it wasn't smart you'd still get a huge benifit from not context switching to/from kernel/user space for a standard copy implementation. Far fewer syscalls. There's a real performance benifit to be had there.
> platforms allow the NFT owner to borrow against them instantly so people can use NFT art and property as a store of value

Presumably the lenders are aware of the high risk of wash trading in these securities.

If someone takes an NFT and "buys" it from themselves with 100% of their crypto cash, they are now "worth" 2X: They have their original cash, and an NFT that was last priced at 100% of their original cash.
One concurrent insertion, or one network partition.

UUIDs can be generated on many machines with no awareness of each other and merged later.
And they self-replicate - but we're working on that too.
Based on the fairness argument of OP, this seems even more dystopian:
1. Buy a 'good product' which only wealthy people can afford
2. Buy stock because exposure to 'good product' implies you could improve your fortune
3. ... hodl
4. Profit

40% of the US can't afford a 400$ emergency. Someone who had arguably more than that has improved their position from hodling... by 400x.

[1] https://abcnews.go.com/US/10-americans-struggle-cover-400-em...
The US Dollar is backed by 20 aircraft carriers, thousands of nuclear weapons, 350 million Americans who think they have a manifest destiny, and a government with a long history of invading countries that threaten the dollar.

What's bitcoin backed by?
Bitcoin is valuable as an investment in the same way that gold is valuable. It is scarce and the benefit it currently has over gold is it is completely portable and can be instantly be used as a means of exchange if necessary. Bitcoin has very little value as a currency.
if you would link to that comment it would be helpful
> Because that's an average middle-class income in much of Eastern Europe. There the poverty threshold is much lower, but would also be considered middle-class in India.

I honestly wanted to believe you were making an off the cuff uninformed remark, so I did a little digging and found this gem:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_countries_by_...

Holy Christ it is worse than I imagined. Wow I never realized there was such a STARK difference between Western Europe and Eastern Europe with regard to wages. WOW.
I think the expectation of the article is that the reader knows who the author is, and therefore expects the article to be pro ETH , insofar as it mentions it.
Depends, if they can get to zero covid internally with a vaccine, but some new variant that the current vaccines don't handle well is circulating internationally it makes sense. Only time will tell if the above happens. There is great concern about a few variants, but nobody is sure yet.
> store of wealth

It's funny how people keep saying this as if it's true. 99% of the market isn't buying crypto to "store value". This along with the idea that somehow it's a great currency bcs "no gov't" etc. is also a lie no one believes. Most of the market isn't actually making real-world transactions or storing value but somehow other people will start doing it in the future for some reason so gainz etc.