skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree it is a tragedy when people are forced out of a place, we only disagree on whether to fix it through abundance or through exclusion. Exclusion might work out for beautifully for insiders if it could be pulled off. To have affordability and small-town aesthetics at the same time. But it can't be pulled off. Americans do not get to treat each other as "outsiders" in this way. At least not institutionally. You can't stop someone from selling or renting me a home just because I'm not from here in particular. State borders are open. That's an important part of what America is.

Mass internal migrations, like those that built the West in the first place, are an important part of American history. It is an incredible arrogance towards history to assert that now every town is the right size and everyone is in the right place, no more growth or movement.

It would be convenient if this were a financial problem, but it's a geometry problem. People are moving into boomtowns to actually live and work, they take up space, and if you don't add new space on the dimensions you have (e.g. vertical axis), the only possible result is to squeeze out others.
> Nomad relies on Consul for Service Discovery and K/V storage, and Vault for secrets, indeed ( Vault can use a variety of backends, including an integrated Raft-based one, Consul, object storage, etc.). One tool that does one thing well, which integrates with other tools that their thing well.

You say nope but then you prove that Nomad relies on Consul as I had mentioned, meaning, you need a Consul instance behind the scenes. If the Nomad setup recommendation is anything like the Vault recommendation, the recommendation will be to run two clusters, one for services discovery, and one for K/V storage for Nomad. I've setup an enterprise Vault instance, and their enterprise architect recommended separate instances. Which is totally fine, but it does mean two Consul clusters + a Nomad cluster.

From my experience with Consul and Vault, it is not as simple as you say it is. A team of 3 Engineers took 3 months to set up an enterprise grade cluster. There was a little bureaucracy at the time, so I can't really blame it on that. If I recall correctly, the integrated Raft-based clustering was being worked on and we were made aware of it because there was some pushback from management on separate 2 Consul clusters for K/V and SD, but I never got to see it to fruition and utilise it, so for us it was Consul. Other backends were discouraged at the enterprise level, they never really made it clear if they'd fully support us if we went with a different backend, leading me to believe that at best, they'd prefer you use Consul over something else. I mean why wouldn't they? They'd rather you pay them extra for a Consul cluster.

If Nomad is anything like my experience with Vault/Consul, then unfortunately you are still stuck with the setup I mention earlier, that is 1 Vault cluster, 1 Nomad cluster, and 3 Consul clusters (1 K/V for Vault, 1 K/V for Nomad, and 1 for service discovery). For sure having separate individual tools that does 1 thing may have their advantages, but I fail to see how this is that "much more simpler" than Kubernetes. At best this is marginally simpler.
This is definitely real, I can verify. I am from Seattle, and my mom was working at Microsoft when this happened, and she did not remember anything about it, but then they asked her friends and one of them still has a Microsoft Coffee box! At this point, he should probably sell it as a collectors item!
Thanks for that detailed answer. That was great.
This reads like an obituary
Because with credentials in environment we now have to distinguish between private and public environment vars so we don’t accidentally log something we should not or expose security sensitive info in another way
For anyone wondering (like I was): Why A Blue LED Is Worth A Nobel Prize (2014) https://www.popsci.com/article/technology/why-blue-led-worth...
bonus point: no login
Deploying websites/webapps can take minutes.

But deploying native apps to the Apple/Android stores can literally take days/weeks to verify accounts and approve specific app builds...
I'm really skeptical of this kind of claim. Gutenberg's invention was undoubtedly critical to development of the West but the following "consequences" are anachronisms:

* Protestantism - Luther was the culmination of a series of heretical revolts against orthodox Catholicism that included the Cathari, Waldensians, Hussites, and many others. German nationalism and corruption of the Roman Church were important factors in his success.

* Colonialism -- Practiced by the Carthaginians and Greeks throughout the Mediterranean.

* Slavery -- A long and ugly story documented in texts like the Bible, Homer, and many others dating to the beginning of recorded history. It was pervasive in classical Mediterranean civilizations.

* Democracy -- Classical examples of full democracy: Athens, Corinth, Megara, Syracuse, Rome. Medieval examples of proto-democracies: Swiss Cantons, Venice, Hanseatic League cities, etc.

What Gutenberg did achieve was lay the foundation for widespread literacy by making books cheaper and more available than at any previous point in European history. That alone is a major accomplishment.
The problem is, Tesla does not posses magic.

We know (from introspection) how trained skills work. Everyone knows the feeling when that bunch of neurons which you trained to semi-autonomously do something for you (e.g. switch gears, write letters, type words, observing traffic, staying in an imaginary lane etc.) raises their hand so that Daddy AGI (our conscious) can come have a look at that weird situation it doesn't know how to handle.

Tesla can't do that, either, and literally no one on this planet has the faintest idea how to do anything like it.
Man who thought opening a TXT file is fine thought wrong
If you add confidence interval estimates to each task and a way of inputting the amount of time you can allocate to grit-managed tasks, you could calculate estimated task completion dates: https://www.liquidplanner.com/support/articles/statistically...
OP said this:

> After not paying attention to cryptocurrency for a few years and then opening a Coinbase account earlier this year, I was SHOCKED how fast and easy everything was.

I read this as having just created the account and impressed by the platform, not a comparison between the past and now shrug

They've definitely done tons of work to try and address scaling problems, have solved many and will continue to do so, but it's not like you just "solve" scaling once and never have to think about it again. The scale they are seeing now is nothing like they saw in previous runs, so it's always new milestones, something new breaks and then something else to fix.

There's also been a lack of a clear vision from engineering leadership at the top for many years which hasn't helped either.

> We recently know that Coinbase has had bad behavior of manipulating the price and find a measly $6 million for market manipulation, so it seems not outside their character.

My understanding of this is that a couple of internal systems accidentally interacted in a way that was later deemed bad, not an intentional manipulation. And when the COO noticed this action was taken to replace the system with a version that fixed this issue [0]. This was in 2015-2018 when they company was significantly smaller with less expertise on that front. If this had had a significant impact on consumers I would expect to see a larger fine, but I'm not at all well informed on the topic.

Having worked at various startups, the old adage of "don't ascribe malice to what can be explained by incompetence" resonates with me. You so regularly see wild speculation happening on the outside when inside you're just like "wtf that was just a bug, not some grand conspiracy". I expect that this issue falls under that category, lack of knowledge rather than part of their "character"

[0] https://decrypt.co/62155/coinbase-fined-6-5-million-over-tra...
> I don’t have an account

You do now :-)
They seem to be in line and comparable to other post-viral complications, see e.g. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.12.21253448v... ; prevalence is 13-14%, distribution of specific complaints is somewhat different.

They are definitely real, and can be serious and long term, but they likely aren't novel; I suspect ME/CFS, "long lyme" and a variety of other conditions often dismissed as psychosomatic by practitioners who can't find a test for them - are post viral/post infectious syndromes, and they will be joined by "long covid".

Perhaps some good will come of this - those "long sequelae" diseases will get more and proper attention.

But none of the data I've seen so far about "long covid" puts it out of line with what we've known about post-viral sequalae for ages.
So, how do you know when the NFT is invalid? Can Mattereum just freeze any token at any time? If I transfer my token back to them and they don’t give me my thing, how do we all know? What if the thing is damaged? What if my country holds it up at customs?
I have a feeling that anybody in physically based engineering will never lose use of his knowledge. You don't spend time using trendy inventions at the pace of computing. Many programmers fiddle with plumbing onto <framework-of-the-day> until they get a new position. Not a lot to remember beside social reflexes and 'best practices'.
> very hard to do on a geological timescale.

Yes, but geological timescale (millions of years) is an absurd straw man. We have no influence on what happens with anything on that timescale. Civilizations come and go in thousands of years. On scale of millions of years various different disasters are much more impactful and inevitable, both human made (nuclear war) and natural (volcanoes, tsunamis, asteroid impacts). Little waste contaminating ground water a little is of NO concern to us.

> they don’t have any permanent storage location for that.

But it is very little, when compared to other kinds of waste. We can continue storing it at few special sites/pools/warehouses for hundreds of years like we do now. Of course, at some point putting the hot stuff in the ground becomes preferable.

France does not have Cigeo yet but it is in the works. "Permanent" is a bit too ambitious word, but long-term storage is planned. It is long-term, so there is no rush.

> into exclusion zones for decades of not centuries?

I meant in terms of deaths. Direct deaths due to Chernobyl are in the order of 60 people. Long term impact on deaths is very unclear and estimations are contested.

Exclusion zone due to Chernobyl accident was defined as 30km-radius disk centered at the plant. Radiation contamination is going down and overall long-term effect on ecosystem there is deemed positive by scientists expert on this area.

Creating an "exclusion zone" isn't exactly the worst thing that could happen in an industrial disaster. For example, the Bhopal gas disaster directly killed thousands of people and harmed half a million. Much more devastating.

> That’s both wrong and irrelevant as lack of deaths are just one aspect of safety.

Are you sure you want to subscribe under this ridiculous statement? If it is one aspect of safety, a very important one I might add, how is it irrelevant? Also, where did you read this fact about deaths/kWh of nuclear energy is wrong? It is a broadly accepted easily findable fact.

> The world is not just 8 countries. Especially Africa will play a huge role when its population will get wealthier and consume more.

"Will". Do you realize most of coal/gas power production happens in nuclear weapons wielding countries? What will happen with Africa is not clear now, they may build more nuclear or more coal/gas, time will tell.
I should get around to doing one of these tests soon. The information on caffeine metabolism would be one of the most useful data points!
I believe I remember hearing some time ago that the most common and reliable symptom was loss of smell and/or taste.
Yeah, they already have the asset when you click buy. On "consumer", the blue one, when you click buy it literally does a direct market order off of Coinbase Pro to purchase the asset, and since it's on Pro they already have the crypto on platform.
With mpg123 or mp3blaster (or mocp even) it would run much better.
I found for 5x 10TB disks TrueNAS needs more than 8GB.
> Maybe read a few more books, but probably watch more television, take more naps, and play more single-player computer and video games.

You are just describing the 70's, 80's, and 90's. Take away "video games" and you could go back several more decades.
Yes, I carry a large bottle of saline for my contacts all the time. They test it by placing the bottle on a table, opening the top, then gently squeezing it while holding a test strip above the top (so nothing touches the liquid opening). Never have had an issue.
You could use [1] pug, which is a simple templating library.

A raw pug file could contain variables and calculations, which resolve to HTML when compiled

[1] https://pugjs.org/api/getting-started.html
has wfh made a measurable impact on the amount of atmospheric carbon over the past year?
Why not use a database? If I hold an Matterum NFT, I'm trusting Matterum to make good on the deal, so it's not like the trustlessness of the blockchain actually comes into play. It seems like using a blockchain in this case just adds transaction costs.
The difference is that many places have more bodies of water for people to live next to. In Egypt, you've got the Nile, the Faiyum, and a smattering of oases.
The contrast and distinction between the different UI elements is immediately obvious. No mistaking a button for static text, and vice-versa. Also, no hidden scrollbars or other auto-hiding UI elements that are difficult to discover and irritating to use even once you know about them.
I liked how everything seemed intentionally rectangular. Perhaps made it easier to organize things mentally. It was also nice having full menus at the top of windows.
https://www.niaid.nih.gov/news-events/novel-coronavirus-sars... says images from a scanning electron microscope. What is the difference between that and an "actual picture"?
My personal rules of thumb are:

1. Keep the business logic as un-indented as possible.

2. If there are several branching happy-paths, give them the same indentation.

I generally choose the "early return" pattern if there is (1) more than one precondition that must be met before executing a (2) medium-sized "happy path" code body. In these situations, having the meat of your function inside a deeply nested flow control structure is unwieldy, and for indentation-sensitive languages it is far too easy to lose track of which condition body you're currently in. In Python, this has bitten me more times than I can count.

So, my standard "early return" pattern follows this prototype:

if (!discriminatingPrecondition) {
// Some cases we ignore intentionally.
return false;
}

if (!criticalPrecondition) {
std::err << "Error: Precondition not met!" << std::endl;
return false;
}

if (!fixablePrecondition) {
scheduleRemedyForPrecondition();
return false;
}

// Happy path

return true;

However, for code with a single precondition statement without specific remediation logic for each precondition, I might occasionally prefer:

if (preConditionA && preConditionB && preConditionC) {
// happy path
} else {
std::err << "Error: Preconditions not met!" << std::endl;
}

In the above examples, single entry/exit forces a structure like this:

if (preConditionA) {
if (preConditionB) {
if (preConditionC) {
// happy path
...
...
...
} else {
std::err << "User not authenticated!";
}
} else {
std::err << "No server connection!";
scheduleServerConnection();
}
} else {
std::err << "No network connection!";
scheduleConnectionCheck();
}

Now, outside of "precondition" checking, it makes sense to use if/else or switch statements when conditions lead to similar happy path bodies. For example:

if (shouldStand) {
stand();
} else {
// No implied difference of statement body importance based on indentation
sit();
}

Versus:

if (shouldStand) {
stand();
return;
}
// Hmm, is this path significantly different from the one above?
sit();

So, in the "branching happy path" situation I opt for the former.
I agree. To say we're able to influence the system is to assume free will, which I believe is an undecidable problem. Ultimately this is just a matter of semantics, which makes this thread rather pointless.
If you return the property you stole, can you deduct that as a loss? And if you steal the same property after declaring a loss are you then subject to “wash sales” rules? Asking for a friend...
That's true, credits do obfuscate cost which is something I don't like about them. If a dollar balance is used and the majority of transactions do correspond to $1 spent = $1 balance, then that's intuitive (as you said) since we do that all the time with all our purchases. There was a time in the 2000's in New Zealand where some mobile phone companies would let you buy like $200 credit for $40, and then pricing of call's was some high rate like $2/minute. That's something I really really want to stay away from, since at that point it's very difficult to know what anything even costs. I'll definitely take your feedback into account, thanks!
In some senses that's not an inaccurate interpretation. Religion means a lot of very different things to different people.
Aρσεναλ vs. Λιβερπουλ, αμφίροπη σύγκρουση στο Έμιρεϊτς
Μια αναμέτρηση για την έναρξη των διαδικασιών μετά το τελευταίο διεθνές διάλειμμα πραγματοποιείται στο Στάδιο Έμιρεϊτς το Σάββατο, καθώς η Άρσεναλ φιλοξενεί τη Λίβερπουλ στην Πρέμιερ Λιγκ. Δύο θέσεις και τέσσερις πόντοι χωρίζουν τις δύο ομάδες στην βαθμολογία, με τη Λίβερπουλ να κατέχει την έβδομη θέση, ενώ η Άρσεναλ υποφέρει στην ένατη θέση πριν από τον 30ο αγώνα του πρωταθλήματος. Οι άντρες του Μικέλ Αρτέτα κατευθύνονται σε αυτό το παιχνίδι από μία ισοπαλία 3-3 με την Γουέστ Χαμ, ενώ η ομάδα του Γιούργκεν Κλοπ ξεπέρασε το εμπόδιο των Λύκων 1-0 πριν από το διεθνές διάλειμμα. Ας δούμε άμεσα στα σημερινά Aρσεναλ – Λιβερπουλ προγνωστικα στοιχημα.
Finn here, can confirm. My username even reflects it.
Clever. I really like the dodge around the "how this works" button.

What the site almost certainly does is hide the real cursor and display a "ghost" cursor that it then can move arbitrarily. Once you approach the edge of the site, the illusion breaks down, because your cursor will reappear when the real, not the fake, cursor leaves the site.

It was a bit more obvious for me because my default cursor looks different from the graphic the site uses for their "ghost".

With a user gesture (which the click on the button would be), the site can also take a pointer lock: https://mdn.github.io/dom-examples/pointer-lock/
(but this shows a browser-controlled "this site is controlling your pointer" message).
The Top 150 Intellectuals, Selected Competitively
I don't know but since they spent a lot of time developing real-world legal contracts, I suspect there are decent answers.

Art vaults/registries have similar issues and work fine for much more valuable items, so Mattereum isn't breaking completely new ground here. They just have a more convenient way to transfer ownership.
> Only maybe this time we could skip the WWW part and focus on store-and-forward mesh networks, for better resilience and corporate profit-seeking resistance.

The dreaded "rewrite but make it better this time" :)
Vault has a nice trick where they can create a temporary DB credential to hand to clients. If that cred is stolen, it's no good later. You have to convince Vault to give you a new cred if you want to talk to the DB.

https://www.hashicorp.com/resources/securing-databases-with-...
You’re barking at the wrong tree, I’m buying a condo and the outside walls and the roof are common goods. I don’t have a technical issue but a human one: what in the neighbor’s mind? And how is their wallet feeling about huge work right now?

Then we can talk r-values, zoning rules, permitting and planning.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m a technophile, I watch American construction shows, and I bought a bunch of books on renovation at the same time as the condo, but it’s only a small part of what has to be done.
What reason is there to think that people of 100k years ago would have any spiritual needs? What other animals have that need?
Yes, the whole problem is that Mac still doesn’t have serious competition, at least in certain areas I care about like the trackpad. So when they start shitting up their hardware there’s nowhere to go.

All you can do is wait for Apple to hopefully recognize their mistakes, and in the meantime, read blogposts that are like “well the trackpad support sucks, but... <lots of prevarication>”
I miss an excel that loads fast* and doesn't want to know who I am.

* For it's time. I'm sure it wasn't instant on a pentium 1 even if I remember it that way.
How vulnerable was Windows 95 to computer viruses?
This is basically where we will end up when the tech industry gets its head out of the clouds.

The carpool lanes will be converted to rail tracks. You can pay extra for a rail-compatible car if you want and sleep during your commute.

As implausible as it sounds this is still way more likely than driverless wheeled vehicles becoming both safe and useful.
> I love tax law, honest to goodness, and the US's tax code is so fascinating.

And on the bad side, it is a very big barrier for a legit commerce, and foreign business entrants.

You never know how many tax laws you break every day even if you run a lemonade stand.
The release was painful even at the time: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lAkuJXGldrM
Hi OP, considering your constraints I recommend NOT engaging in any of the high variance activities like poker or crypto trading because it may well take you in the opposite direction.

Can you share a little about where you’re from so you can benefit from some country specific advice?
Common opinion agrees that windows 95 was the culmination of good UI. We've been down hill since then.
Forget recycled phone numbers, I get this same problem with email for a domain I bought around a year ago. Just the other day I had an email with an attached transcript for someone's recent Medrite visit. The domain I bought was at one point used for some corporate email, almost all of the emails I get for it are not business related though, it's basically all personal stuff. There needs to be a method to declare "This identifier has changed hands" for phone numbers, domains, IP addresses, street addresses, etc.
Egypt is in an ideal location for solar-powered desalination... if they can afford it.
technically we can have every cent tracable and accounted for but that would give to much power to productive people.
I think the right answer is that the courts should come down hard on parallel construction. It’s perjury and obstruction of justice. No pension for you, agent.
The pros of being an oily middle eastern.
This seems like a decent first survey of a couple of axes of violent dissent (far right political and religious), but possibly misses a trick by not examining the radical left that caused so much mayhem over the past year.

It would be particularly interesting to know if those extremists on the left share common causal or behavioural factors with their political opposites (while in some qualitative way maintaining differences with the religious extremists).