skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are some answers to that here: https://forum.heroiclabs.com/t/why-cockroachdb-not-postgresq...
Extensive discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26407323
Here's a Nakama+Defold :

https://defold.com/2021/03/02/Creating-online-games-using-Na...
Are you potentially confusing the concept of "dollars" with the concept of "money". While there are multiple currencies named "dollars" the term "dollars" is not generally interchangeable with the word "money".

Under your scheme, if a Polish person exchanges Euros for Yen in Japan and then buys a beer in Tokyo, did Japan just "earn dollars"? Because I think it's pretty clear that nothing referred to as a "dollar" moved hands here.
I had a look at your referenced twitter thread but it's written in a style that I abhor. Lots of exclamation marks and patronising of the reader. A "I am the enlightened expert come to inform you" posture that is very off-putting.
> Roblox has a single version which works seamlessly across all platforms. In Minecraft, kids can only play together if they have the same edition, and modding can only be done via the Java Edition.

This still saddens me everytime Minecraft comes up. I bought Minecraft when it was in Alpha and it was immediately apparent how social the game was as we all sat in the dorm rooms sharing servers over the LAN. Then Microsoft came along and trashed the whole interoperability aspect and now I have to explain to others why anything other than the Java version of Minecraft is a lesser version.
> It is the way of standards warfare.

Is it the way, or merely a way, and only the way so far in our brief history? I hate to see defeatism around gross inefficiencies like these.
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> Are you equating consensual pornography between adults (presumably legal, free expression) with speech advocating violence?

Uh, yes... because they're both legal and they're both free expression.

If I tweet out, "We should burn all this shit down some day and execute the people responsible!" in regards to the corruption of our modern institutions, that's 100% legal, and the reason is because it doesn't pass the imminent lawless action standard, because I didn't say, "We should burn all this shit down and execute the people responsible for the corruption of our institutions on July 4, 2021 at 2:19 p.m. EST!"

I'm advocating for illegal action at some future undefined time in the first example, which therefore does not meet the imminence requirement.

Also, there's no such thing as hate speech... there's only speech you don't like. Or more accurately, a bunch of self-appointed, self-aggrandizing, self-righteous jackasses in Silicon Valley - many of whom probably post here on HN - may think there's a such thing as hate speech, but it doesn't exist in America, because, as actor David Margulies so eloquently said in Ghostbusters 2, "Being miserable and treating other people like dirt is every New Yorker's God-given right."

Just expand "New Yorker" to "American".
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It's great for you, I love Bitcoin, but there are a lot of other exciting things happening in the world that people should invest in depending on their understanding of the world and their priorities.

I'm also very excited about Moderna's mRNA pipeline for example, building new vaccine for cronic illnesses (vaccines are trivial important application at this point of course), and Tesla's mission of decarbonizing the world and getting rid of air pollution. It's just Bitcoin is what I believe will give me the highest ROI right now to invest later in other important technologies.
Just one country? That seems a bold assumption.
> However with these internet companies, they usually do not turn a profit or if they do, their PE ratios usually lingers in from ~100 to 1000. And the market considers that normal behavior now.

That's not normal, it's pure stupid. So if you don't think there are people sitting on the sidelines watching idiots bid up shares way, way beyond the replacement value of companies, you're not watching the same thing happen that others are.

Do people even understand what these numbers mean? It means after expenses, assuming no future growth, that's how many years it would take to make back your investment.

Do you know why a P/E ratio of 15 was historically considered high? Because even with modest growth, no one wants to wait 15 years for corporate revenues and acquisition costs to break even. News flash, 15 to 25 years isn't normal.

The average company doesn't even make it 15 to 25 years these days.
In that sense I guess you are right,
One could also argue that it is possible to write JavaScript in such a way that gives some of the same benefits as TypeScript, but that requires more discipline, and it probably scales badly with larger teams.

I guess i might just have to go on the same journey as OP...
The evolution of chemistry kits over time is really highlighted by the ones my grandfather, father, and myself owned.

Grandad's had all the ingredients, and told you how to make, a couple explosive compounds.

Dad's had the ingredients, but not instructions.

The most dangerous thing I could do with mine was probably eat the copper salts.
I really enjoy working with the go-gemini library:

https://sr.ht/~adnano/go-gemini/
Transaction costs just go up.
This is, unfortunately, the bane of microaggressions. A lot of inappropriate behavior slips under the radar: anybody who calls it out is accused of making too big a deal of it. A man might be slightly more effective than having you call it out, but it would have to reach a fairly high level of impropriety.

It may help when somebody says, "Hey, X was talking, and I want to hear it." Fixing it immediately helps more than a talking-to afterwards: the odds are good that they don't even remember interrupting you, and if they're not intent on taking it to heart, they won't. They'll often feel the callout was a disproportionate harm, way worse than whatever it is they did.

But a lot of men won't even notice. I've missed a lot of them, or rationalized "that wasn't so bad" and quickly forgotten about it.

You're correct that we should focus on minimizing and preventing harm, but it's just really hard.
The internal problems may be shared.
Also the whistleblower efforts to get problems recognized continued for a decade.
I am really surprised so many people actually use recruiters :O Why not just look for a job yourself? They are so annoying to me, I can barely imagine anyone actually taking them serious...
>Investors mostly want to do the right thing for founders.

See, that's an important difference between investors and VCs.

A VC firm or division gets (say) $1B, and a deadline: invest it all by end of quarter. All they can invest in are what come through the door. They know most of those have no future. A few do, but not enough to absorb the whole allotment. They can't not invest. What to do? No choice, really; invest it all, with 9 of 10 expected to flop.

Having identified, at the outset, which should flop, start milking them. There's no reason to waste that money, even though it's lost to the actual investors. Make them spend their nut where it will do somebody some good. Maybe make them hire a crony, who will hire more. Make them use a pet staffing agency. HR pros are (to first order) all grifters, so provide them one of yours. Make them buy software from one of the not-flops from this round or last quarter's, or somebody you own part of, personally. Be creative. You can draw it out, deposit more cash from next quarter's infusion, and extract that. Maybe they can build, code, patent something of value that can be bought for pennies at the bankruptcy.

There are a million variations on this, all used.
Isn't this true of any asset? You’re not really addressing GPs concern that the term “store of value” usually applies to more stable valued assets.

> You have arbitrarily chosen a frame of reference which fits your existing world-view

It’s not really arbitrary. The earth and things anchored directly to it is an obvious frame of reference for objects moving in space because it is by far the largest gravity well compared to anything you’d be referencing it against.

The US dollar is the world’s reserve currency, and fiat currencies have armies and police backing them and their use for paying taxes in addition to massive distribution, velocity, and proven utility.
If the intent was to circumvent the paywall at "Continue reading" (which is fair enough for The Air Current to do) then this archive.is link does not do that.
Meh on the websites offline.

What about the seedboxes??? The private VPNs? The FTPs? The ownclouds?

Anything big would have had some redundancy, but the little guys didn’t.
They work for the companies selling the UI?
Resource forks attract unresolved clutter.

It's like having an attic or a garage where you can put stuff while you (do not) decide what to do with it.

Then you carry around this clutter everywhere.

Developers might add something to a resource fork that should go in the file.

Utilities have to deal with files AND resource forks.

You have to backup a file, but then you also have to back up the resource fork.

If it goes to another filesystem you have to figure out how to deal with it if the filesystem deals with only, you know, files.

so what if the file and the resource fork are separated? Then you have a file that might not work.

this burden is carried by the developers, the administrators, the users.

There are plenty of analogous situations to this, like ftp

ftp used to have two connections - a control connection and a separate data connection.

Then when you had a firewall, you had to deal with an outgoing connection, plus an outgoing or incoming data connection.

Then they added passive mode, and you only had to deal with two connections in the same direction, but there had to be special firewall logic to track them both.
> Gopher on TLS.

Going through the docs, it's apparent that Gemini is a bit more than just that. A description that is almost as succinct but more accurate would be 'A Gopher inspired protocol, over TLS'.

It is worth noting that using TLS doesn't seem like an afterthought (it's required, not optional), and more closely resembles SCP rather than HTTPS, with the use of client certs a first-class feature for example.

It would be an interesting project to implement a REST-like API over Gemini.
OVH Definitely hosts a lot of seedboxes.
Its almost as if we should allow people to consume whatever they personally feel appropriate and only interfere when laws are broken...
Nice article! You mention doing more events earlier, is there anything else you’d do differently?
I have a 3D printer, and I don't get it at all. I have yet to need to print something remotely, and can't think of a scenario in which I would want to.

I guess if you have reason to want process pictures?
You can impart the concept on those without experience, but what you get is cargo culting. Often better than nothing when used for good, but causes sub-optimal (at best) solutions in some cases where people refuse to acknowledge or don't even see better ways to do something because it goes against what they were taught.

That's not to say I'm free of this. I doubt any of us are truly free of this. That said, recognizing it's a thing means you can try to put something into your design practice/workflow where you sit back and think if there's a better way that's a "hack", and try to honestly examine the pros and cons and whether it's actually the better solution.
This happens all the time. Governments regularly change DST start dates with little to no warning.

If you think this is a problem, you don't deal with dates.
New window function features in Trino (formerly known as Presto SQL)
Viable depends on your resources and execution capacity so most people building their ideas don't really have a viable business idea.
The source in this video, a former FAA inspector, gave figures in years rather than pressurization cycles.
No, but (at least in this sub-industry) it is more unionized than in the US, with greater deference given to seniority. I've only been out of college for a few years, and am very much at the beginning of my career.

Not sure about lawyers, but Canadian doctors certainly have a lower salary cap (meaning for surgeons/specialists) than they'd have in the US.
> That's easy to say in hindsight.

This was in response to someone claiming the response was correct in hindsight.

It was not.

Furthermore, there actually was information available beforehand, if nothing else than at least the data from Chernobyl, where the negative health-effects of the evacuation also vastly exceeded the negative health-effects of radiation. In fact the same study concluded that only a fraction of the evacuation was justified (though more than zero as was the case in Fukushima).

And that was with a reactor without a proper containment vessel. Last I checked, the Fukushima primary containment vessels weren't breached (the hydrogen explosions blew the roof off the secondary containment, which I think was designed to fail first in order to protect the primary containment vessel inside it from overpressure).

So the risk was far less. It was also a fairly slow-moving process.

> The better-safe-than-sorry approach [..]

...is exactly what got us into trouble, because we have a skewed, non-reality-based perception of what "safe" is in the context of nuclear power. I can't really tell, but it seems that the danger from the nuclear plant is perceived to be something akin to that from an atomic bomb: sudden/immediate, very lethal and horrible.

It's not.

Even in the (initially expected) worst case from Chernobyl, the expected health effects were an increase in cancer mortality in later life that even in that worst case would be extremely hard to detect statistically, stemming from prolonged exposure to slightly elevated levels of ionising radiation.

The actual measured health effects were far less pronounced than that initially expected worst case. The WHO did a report every 10 years after the disaster. Each time, as actual data came in, they massively downgraded the expected death toll from the accident.

> But there should be efforts to set up evacuation plans that's not as panicked and doesn't lead to so many deaths.

Yes. And those efforts need to balance the actual risk of staying in place, which is often small to negligible, against the very real consequences of the evacuation.

UPDATE:

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/03/physician-has-studie...
For me it is the only reality that exists. I have been using Bitcoin for a long time, travelling a lot, and I see a lot of currencies, and none of them feel close to my ideology. I accept them at the same time, and work around the tax laws imposed by my country by getting a loan against my BTC (which I wouldn't need to if I would live in another country).
Meh, my three year old phone has 8GB of DDR4 RAM and 8x cores clocked at over 2ghz. In the time it takes my brain to send signals to move my muscles to move my mouse to a different tab my computer has lived multiple lifetimes of operations. For handling unbelievable load at scale, sure processes will kill scaling. But for handling a user clicking and touching their inputs of dozens or hundreds of tabs.. I doubt anyone will notice on today's machines.
I wouldn't be surprised if part of what drives school start times to be earlier is the prevalence of dual income households, where both parents need to get to work, and (particularly with younger children) children need to be cared for.

This brings to mind my own memories of childhood; I have a sense leftover from that that afternoon daycare is relatively common, but early morning daycare perhaps less so?
I love how pwned corporations can now use their loss as a marketing story. "We got hacked but our product saved us! Here's how you can get hacked and live to tell the tale too, first step is just Trust Us."
EDIT: reading the comments here now, and CF is astroturfing the thread. LOL.
What is the maximum number of cycles, then?
But unlike Apple or most other replies in this thread, your case has a valid justification: omitting scrollbar increases information density and usability, which are good things. I'm also guessing you train new users, so that there's no possibility they won't realize some table isn't scrollable just because there's no scrollbar.
It's funny that I got into Lua via a Minecraft mod: http://www.computercraft.info/
"Top of the sky" means equidistant from sunrise and sunset.
On the other hand, if this is important to you, it is generally quite practical to choose airlines that do not fly 737s. For example, JetBlue and not SouthWest.
If crypto increases energy demand and new energy capex that is most efficient is as green energy, then you are all wrong and crypto is good for the environment.

Not to mention that it directly couples energy and monetary value
As an aside, I do get amused when Person A makes an argument that may not have explicit references, Person B rebuttals with explicit references, and Person A responds by instructing Person B to go look up their own references for Person A's own argument.

Reminds me of the "All Birds are Cats" sketch by Clarke and Dave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIl1VuGTk3g (Relevant bit starts at 51s)
Still better than Amazon where their status page describes little and fat chance of anyone official sharing anything on social media either.

I wonder if a server fire would cause Amazon to go to status red. So far anything and everything has fallen under yellow.
Price is one factor, but ultimately the actual price is secondary to the fact that miners are incentivized to hash as much as possible because more hashes per kWh means more earnings, regardless of the actual price, yet this increase in hashes per kWh doesn't actually provide more utility for the network.
This really just highlights the difference between the artificial coding interview via some web based half-assed IDE, and being watched coding on the job.

The comparison would be more direct if the surgeon was asked to operate on a dummy using a kitchen knife in front of the interviewer.

Then there's the problem that there's no way in hell a software company is going to let another company watch their employee work on proprietary code.
I would really like to see an open source IDP that can be run as a Lambda or similar for small scale employee OAuth, etc. without a permanent VM footprint. I’d write one, of course, but I’d be nervous about doing security critical code as a hobby. Do any exist?
> Well in that case even bits in a computer aren't binary. Because bits are represented by physical states we can measure (such as a voltage on a wire), and since said physical states are analog, there are certainly exceptions where you can't be sure if it's a 0 or a 1.

This is a baffling take. The analog nature of binary physical state is a fundamental limitation/impediment of hardware advancement. It’s part of why die shrinks are increasingly challenging. It’s part of why some techniques increasing density in SSDs make them less reliable. The closer one bit is to another, the more likely each bit's physical non-binary-ness can be ambiguous. Binary—in computers, in biological sex, in gender—can sometimes be a useful abstraction, and sometimes it can be harmful, and in no case is it technically correct.
She brought diverse skin tones emoji to the iPhone. Now she's suing Apple
I guess its really "zero trust" for everyone but the security cameras from a 3rd party vendor that are on a network which can be leveraged into remote shell access to the cameras. Like.. you forgot to zero trust the cameras?

Maybe before selling us on the product, try Verkada? They seem to have a need.
But what portion of the meat products?

Traditionally pet food was made from that part of the animals that were not favored for consumption by humans.

The abstract did not really mention that.
I assume pets are mostly getting the parts of the animal that humans don't want to eat, so this doesn't necessarily imply that pets increase the scale of animal agriculture.
Last few years I've been using a similar workflow with something like https://www.npmjs.com/package/pg-template-tag in combination with `pg`. I'm never going back to ORMs and query builders.
Aren't a lot of them 'waste' products that humans wouldn't?

I mean, I know Labradors will eat fucking anything.
You should also think in terms of CPU caches.
Yeah, the retry piece is a bit more controversial. Some people think that it's cleaner for code that's probably already nesting loops, but I tend to break it apart in different ways. That one I generally don't push too hard in review, but require more tests to shore up confidence.

And frankly, the fix_left style code you see just isn't modern idiomatic C, IMO. In a code review I'd have them either combo of write a block comment explaining why it's necessary to be weird and a lot of test cases for when someone inevitably tries to rewrite it, or just rewrite it in the first place.

Some of the areas of the Linux kernel aren't exactly known for being the best written C (unfortunate as that is) and you're seeing some of that.
Sure I'll just `npm install`.... damnit! Hacked again.
The great thing about truck-sized units is that they can be modular, so we can easily mass produce them. The challenge with stationary units for power plants is that each one has to be custom-designed from the ground up. Plus, you have to put in tons of capital up front for a power plant, whereas our units are very cheap to make. That's why we think mobile carbon capture is the more scalable approach.
I suppose you could argue over whether ST or DST is "better" for Florida; you could probably make the argument either way. But certainly in the states in the southern US, it likely makes more sense to pick a time zone and stick with it.
After a recent discussion with our home heating oil provider, seeing this post got me thinking - could a similar system be applied to the exhaust of a household furnace that is burning No. 2 heating oil?

A typical household in my part of the country runs around 1000 gallons of oil per year (which I realize is less than 10% of a typical long-haul truck annual usage) but for larger sites like greenhouses/breweries/etc that have both heating and CO2 needs, I could see there being significant gains to having an on-site capture system.

Even at the household side, it would be great to capture this tailpipe waste as a marketable resource... with the benefits of grid power and less concern over the size of storage/compression/regen equipment, I could imagine that the break-even point might be favorable.
The salary quoted here is definitely a low salary in Montreal too for anyone with more than 2 years of experience.
I'm showing evidence for how censorship is happening today in Bitcoin and therefore we cannot claim it to be "censorship resistant". Whether miners co-operate or not with the prosecutors is beside the point. The example of miner co-operation is just to show how easy censorship can be, but from the government's point of view it is just an optimization, not a necessary function.
So it might not be the shoes, but it's still the shoes, because they don't have a day job where they can get sick or injured.
Hah, I thought I recognized that username!
Thanks for the support, we appreciate it! :)
Nothing about Rust async depends on closures or functions being first-class. It's literally just a state machine transformation.

But now that state data that previously lived on a nice last-in-first-out stack has a different lifetime. Since Rust fastidiously encodes lifetimes in the type system, using async can result in having more complicated types to talk about.

To me it's just the price that must be paid to use a language that doesn't constantly spill garbage everywhere, necessitating collection.
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