skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Teenage Engineering is a frustrating company. On the one hand, they set out to create some of the most fun music equipment you can own: their Pocket Operator line is awesome for beginners of the hardware world, and they've consistently innovated with their grooveboxes. The problem? They have absolutely no respect for their pricing model. The OP-1 used to cost $800, which was already a big ask for a microprocessor, OLED screen and plastic enclosure. A great machine, but a hard to swallow price to be sure. Once YouTubers started picking up on them, they chose to increase the price (blaming it on a supply shortage, since we all know how hard it is to find ARM cores and OLEDs /s), leaving the OP-1 at a bewildering $1100 total.

If you, the reader, has $1100, pick up an Octatrack. Elektron is one of the few companies that pushes the envelope of digital sequencing and hardware production, and the Octatrack is the pinnacle of their work. At $900-1000, you'll definitely get more mileage out of it than an OP-1, and you don't have to support Teenage Engineering's shitty pricing schema. Even at $600, you can buy an Elektron Digitakt/Digitone, which will probably serve you better in the long run.
It'll go down. I say short it.
That is a false choice. Prevention is better than cure. Supporting safe sex or sex in steady relationships seems to work much better so far than his ideas that nothing can be done we should all just chip in.
We had two books when I was doing my bachelors in CS many moons ago (late 90's). One was by Silberschatz & Galvin and the other by Ullman. The first one was used for relational algebra, various normal forms and introducing table design, keys, constraints,etc. The second was used to teach the theory for internals on how a DB is implemented - B+ trees, deadlock handling, etc, etc. That was a hard course and it was mandatory.

I can see not electing to have databases as a course for masters though. Masters is to allow you to specialize and be more choice driven.
Unraveling Service Meshes: When and why do you need them?
lol Yes! I feel like a member of the economy now. A guid in a database somewhere...i have value.
You only need one account on any instance and you can rate/comment on any video in the federated network. However there are instances that don't follow each other and for those you would need a separate account.
Julia isn't named after anyone in particular. The founders claim it was "just a nice name".
It's a tiny bit pedantic, but the Coinbase offering today was not actually an IPO, I learned, but a DPO (Direct Public Offering). It was not a fundraising event for Coinbase, only a liquidity event for shareholders, and unlike an IPO no explicit valuation process occurred to select an offering price.
Our existing systems already generate echo chambers (due to the emergent properties of algorithms and/or the choices people make when they consume media), and that's in the best case where your horizons aren't just set by the political leanings of the employees of the companies that run the systems that provide most of the content.

As long as people could choose different communities that had moderation policies which suited their members, it would allow those who wanted to hear other perspectives to do so, and might make people aware of what sort of echo chamber they are in.
That's not universal at all. Many languages have spelling reform every couple of decades. French spelling was updated in 1991 and German in 1996. Dutch was reformed in 1996 and 2006.
Speaking of Portuguese, I've always found the usage of "ç" to be interesting. I've never studied the language but just from looking at words it's clearly the way to represent the soft "c" sound before a "fat" vowel (a/o/u). How did those words ended up with a "ç" instead of an "s"?

This thread finally made me remember to go look it up and it seems like the "ç" used to be a different sound (/dz/). I guess it evolved to the "s" sound we hear today sometime by the 1700s.

I wonder if that means only words older than the 1700s have the cedilha and newer words would just be spelled with an "s"?
>It’s pretty clear now that the broken windows theory applies to community sites as well. The theory is that minor forms of bad behavior encourage worse ones: that a neighborhood with lots of graffiti and broken windows becomes one where robberies occur. I was living in New York when Giuliani introduced the reforms that made the broken windows theory famous, and the transformation was miraculous.

The success of "broken windows" policing is not supported by much evidence, so the rest of article based on this concept is suspect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory#Criticis...
Udemy and Coursera and a lot of those I consider to be very good training.

I have a theory. Have you somehow been led to believe that you are supposed to remember everything? Because a big part of many software engineering jobs is literally Googling and then "training" yourself quickly on info relevant to your task. And also referencing things.

So the next time you feel like you wish someone walked you through something, go on Google and type "walkthrough X". That is what your colleagues are doing, unless it's just something they are already really familiar with. But it's normal to not be familiar with everything because there are new technologies being invented as fast as people can type them in.

To me reading comprehension is a big part of problem solving for most projects because you are never starting from scratch, and you are never going to be an expert on every new subproblem. Unless you deliberately write the same type of computer program in the same framework every single time.

I'm not saying there aren't core skills and knowledge that can apply over the years. But you are definitely going to need to be able to train yourself and use google when you can't remember something. Or use Udemy or whatever for more fundamental skills.
Battletoads
And everyone in your contact list, who has Signal installed, gets a message:

Vzaliva is on Signal!

At least if you're using the default settings, which is safe to assume most installs will.

On the plus side, Signal is now common enough that it's no longer "Oh. That weird encrypted app that probably means you're a hacker." On the minus side, it's still a centrally managed service, and as most intelligence agencies will point out if asked, the message content being encrypted doesn't really bother them. Who you talk to, how often, and with what patterns? That's good enough for most of what they need to know, and I'm far from confident that Signal encrypts the metadata well enough to deter analysis.

Matrix at least has the advantage of spreading the traffic out and making it a bit harder to analyze...
On that topic, Fred Brooks, author of The Mythical Man Month, said "Show me your flowchart and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowchart; it'll be obvious."
I think the big issue is that people are afraid of the active risk of the vaccine (more so than the passive risk of not getting the shot). I think that even rational people have this fear to some degree. We need to help people deal with that fear. Something I see very little of.

I know that kind of fear personally, I’m on meds with risks orders of magnitude worse than that vaccines and that have been (and still is) a struggle for me. I can do the math, and I understand the risks, but taking an active risk is just hard.
The actual trend with religion is precisely the opposite.
It's just rails built in go. Why do we keep doing the same thing over and over again but with our favorite language? It's as though we are just doing these things to be the first one there and build a new empire around ourselves. It's like digital colonialism...did we learn anything from the old world before forging ahead into a new one?
The only reason this guy got charged is because he was a plain scam artist running everything out of his personal bank account.

Unfortunately, the highest levels of financial crime are tied to lawmakers and corruption of the highest authorities of white collar law enforcement.

It's usually outsiders and smaller operations that get caught. Corporations are in charge of a corporate oligarchy, which is the United States.

These entities are "too big to fail". They are so essential to the economy that the best you can hope for from the government is maybe a scapegoat going to a comfortable prison or a hefty fine.

TL;DR

Bringing down the largest corporations for crime is like trying to arrest the US president for war crimes.
Historically, a large part of it goes back to the Treaty of Hildalgo.

It obligated the US to enfranchise Mexican citizens living in the seceded lands of Alta California.

This immediately threw a wrench in antebellum politics which only allowed "white people" the vote. Eventually the US invented a racial category based on speaking Spanish...well actually two, one black, one non-black.

Fundamentally the identity of people with cultural affiliation to Spanish speaking cultures is complicated by the sanctioned narratives of US history which do not allow for the US to consider its Latin American heritage.

You could sleep in a hotel in Santa Fe and eat in a restaurant when the Pilgrims came ashore at Plymouth Rock. And when "fulfilled manifest destiny" reached the California coast, there were churches there where people went on Sunday...and chattel slavery had been banned for two hundred years.
> imagine a society where people are actually held accountable for spreading bullshit disinformation, wouldn't that be a net good?

Sure, but who cares? Just doing what is a 'net good' isn't a good enough yard stick for whether you should actually do it.

Imagine a society where the weak or infirm are culled at [or before] birth. Wouldn't that be a net good? (Answer: we already went there. Hitler thought the American idea of Eugenics was such a great idea that he made it a major priority of his government)

> we don't have a hardline free speech movement like the USA

A lot of places have movements where people want more free speech. Just like us. The difference is, we were lucky enough to actually succeed. And it really was luck.

There is this myth that we have always just naturally revered free speech. The reality is that our country has only recently evolved its position. Up until the early 20th century, Americans were regularly convicted for defamation of the government (or speech that wasn't in the government's interests), particularly through and after WWI. Then one Supreme Court justice changed his opinion on free speech, and set the whole country on a course to re-interpret the limits of the First Amendment. We can only legally say "Fuck the USA" during wartime, or even salute a Communist flag (at any time), because that one Justice changed his mind.

If one person changing their mind moved us forward, it could also go the other way. And the same could be true for your country.
> The government. This is basically a lese-majeste case, so the person you're criticizing has the authority to declare the criticism slander.

Not true. Defamation suits still have to go through due process in the courts.
Isabelle/HOL Has Schemes
A curious case of AWS NLB timeouts in Kubernetes
Teenage Engineering also makes a little device called the PO-33, which gives you the sampling capability of the OP-1 in a much smaller (and much cheaper) form factor. Check it out if this stuff interests you.
Parallels 16.5 with native Apple Silicon support 30% faster than Intel
feels a bit to me like selling pick axes to gold miners
This idea is very similar to Solomnoff induction, which is fine, but... what stops a more “powerful” entity designing a simulation from “counting backwards from infinity”? The crux of your argument seems to be that we can’t (currently) think of any other way to do it.
This is literally what https://shadow.tech does

I used it for about a year and it's fantastic if you have really fast (preferably wired) internet
You are welcome to help. I have very little time but managed to get a working android client running and published: https://github.com/sschueller/peertube-android
This makes me really wonder how much some of the other exchanges should be valued.

Coinbase has less than 10x the volume of Binance. It's not even in the top 3 by volume.
Windows Terminal Preview 1.8 Release
fortnite in the terminal you say...
The one from (exactly) a year ago has much more content than the "update."
No it isn't.

If you did down enough, you'll find some form of code generation in your environment of choice. If nothing else, compilers, but it's not limited to them.

The largest difference between that and copypasta is - generated code can be easily updated, by regenerating it.

It's also an implementation detail. I've read elsewhere in this thread that code generation is bad and language supported features are good. I'm not sure it's so clear cut. It shouldn't matter if the generated code is mostly invisible (when it's baked inside your binary by the compiler, due to language support), versus code that is generated in the source language and then compiled.

One thing that's always bad is mixing generated and non-generated code. You have all the disadvantages and little benefit.
"An intensive care doctor has warned that only five to 10% of intensive care beds are still available in parts of Germany."

In most countries, running at 90% ICU capacity is the normal state of affairs, Germany being an exception.

Of course you can always warn that the health care system is just about to collapse.

In 2015:

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/sep/19/nhs-collapse...

In 2016:

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/sep/10/hospitals-on...

In 2017:

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/feb/20/nhs-at-break...

In 2018:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/06/nhs-fa...

In 2019:

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/dec/02/nhs-winter-c...

In 2020:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/21/doctors-warn-c...

In 2021:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/09/nhs-counts-the...

Spoiler: The NHS did not collapse. Working right at the brink of collapse is normal.

> It didn't help in the sense that hospitals are overcapacity and new cases, hospitalisation and death rates were still exploding until the recent pseudo-lockdown.

According to your own source, hospitals are not over capacity. If you had a few super spreader events, that could obviously change rather quickly. Whether a "pseudo-lockdown" meaningfully slows spread is not so obvious.
"We kill people based on metadata." ~Michael Hayden, former NSA and CIA director

(https://www.justsecurity.org/10318/video-clip-director-nsa-c... if you're curious as to the source and context)
Cardano is PoS and has been live for a while now.

It's slowly chipping away at Ethereum's use case and with smart contracts coming soon that are backwards compatible with Ethereum solidity code, it will overtake Ethereum over time.

There's other PoS blockchains that work and solve the concerns you have outlined.
Staking rewards for new block generation is inflationary, so you are just not losing value by staking. Additional value is generated by fees and store of value.

With PoW coin you are constantly devaluing your share of the blockchain by paying some third parties operating giant gpu farms and hydroelectric dams.
It really is a shame Spanish didn’t become the lingua franca since it does have almost a 1:1 spoken and written.
This is one of my favorite recently-discovered blogs. His posts are so in depth and the whole thing is beautiful and slick.

I too prefer for my blog to be closed-source, for many of the same reasons.

Mine is decidedly less sexy, it's just Laravel + Markdown, but I did write about it recently: https://aaronfrancis.com/2021/blogging-with-markdown-in-lara...
Of course you can. You just need to look at the number of possible states of the universe in order to make something possible. A universe with very simple rules doesn't need much to come about. A universe with complex rules is way less probable because it requires so many things to happen for it to start existing. Of course, there is a disclaimer: low probability doesn't mean that something is impossible. that's why we can only talk about what we expect, not rule out something as completely impossible.
> I still have many English words I know (and use correctly in writing) that I'm not sure how to pronounce.

Do you mind sharing some examples? As a native English speaker, I'm so curious! Do you think that if you heard them without seeing the word you'd realize what the written form was? Or might there be words where you know the written form and the spoken form and don't realize it's the same word?
If you want to go that route, it's fun to imagine a "unified Germanic" achieved by systematic reform to bring the main Germanic language closer together.

Start by purging English of French influence, starting with words where words of Germanic origin exists with a similar meaning. Simplify German grammar. Undo some consonant shifts. E.g (the German and Dutch I had to check/adjust w/Google translate; no guarantees for accuracy):

Swedish: En dag kan vi alla tala samma språk

Norwegian: En dag kan vi alle snakke samme språk (or "det samme språket")

Danish: En dag kan vi alle tale det samme sprog

German: Eines Tages können wir alle dieselbe Sprache sprechen

Dutch: Op een dag kunnen we allemaal dezelfde taal spreken

English: One day we can all speak the same language

Now consider "speech" as an alternative to "language" in English (alternatively: "tale" is valid but archaic in Norwegian in this context and we have the English cognate "talk"), and undo that D->T consonant shift in German (e.g. compare Tag to Low German "Dag"), and replace "the" (compare det/de/die/das/der etc.).

There are a whole lot of simple spelling and sound changes that'd bring the above languages a lot closer together very easily.

Of course it's easy in theory - in practice I've lived through multiple Norwegian language reforms and know how excruciatingly slow it can be to get people to adapt (e.g. Norway changed the spoken form of numbers above 20 in 1952 from the equivalent of "four and fifty" to "fifty-four"; my parents learned the new forms in primary school, yet I still picked up the old forms from them in the late 70's and still switch back and forth between the old and new forms now)
It's a false equivalence (energy consumption, therefore bad). What if Bitcoin is solving a true market need (that is, preserving wealth in a truly decentralized way)? Would that make it worth the energy consumption?

You only need to look at what the current monetary system is based on -- the petro-dollar. Backed by the might of the US military, consuming crazy amounts of energy. What if Bitcoin eliminates the need for this?
The article: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/13/climate/nft-climate-chang...
Stack Overflow is certainly one to talk about this.

Last time I tried (a few years ago), voting in either direction required a minimum number of points there also.

These days, I accept the votes on S.O. for what they are, and hit the "End" key to read the least-upvoted answer first.
Shadow Cloud Computing
First thing I thought of was Sun Rays and the magic of taking your smartcard around with you and wherever you say down your desktop would follow you around. Magic!
Documentation too.
Eventually management solutions pop up to solve this problem. For example Playnite for games - https://playnite.link/
He is uniquely self centered, its beyond what any writer would create even for a caricature of a character.
Because, to be honest, it was entirely foreseeable. It's awful software engineering practice to just gloss over and ignore the privacy implications of this sort of feature!

These risks should've been brought up during code review (if not when the feature was designed and specced) and there should've been an opt out added to the Privacy settings dialog.
These issues should solved by making problematic AI-use in breach of individual rights (e.g. privacy), rather than regulating the technology itself (with govt. exceptions) – which increases the power-imbalance between the state and the citizen.
>I can’t recall ever seeing a single negative voted comment in all the times I’ve visited Hacker News

That's interesting. I wonder how that could be the case.
> I think the test here could/should be of visible and definite authorship

I see an additional test for the sharer as to whether they had reasonable expectation of knowing the information they were sharing was false and misleading.

Sharing from “Totally True News” (where sensational articles have no author and no source are quoted); that “you as a public figure are drinking the blood of babies.”

Comes to mind as probably valid ground to seek redress for defamation.
No. The point of an investment portfolio is not to outpace inflation. The point of investing (in general) is to trade an amount of present consumption for a greater amount of future consumption. This is true whether the inflation rate is positive, negative or zero. If you simply save and hedge against inflation (i.e. you invest in something that provides a real rate of return of zero), then it means you're trading an amount of present consumption for the same amount of future consumption. In other words, you lose because you're not getting compensated for delaying consumption. At any rate, neither gold nor BTC are considered good investments by people who know anything about economics and finance, since neither of these assets provide income, but of course feel free to invest your money in whatever you like.
Waiting to see that option chain...
I guess one problem is that everyone has an IP, while only ones that really care puts in proof of work.
If you check the main read me proprietary formats are specifically not allowed, with notable examples of PDF, and excel
Not really. Know what you do well. Selfhosted is generally about providing it for yourself and possibly for a small number of friends / family (the exception might be a blog).

Dealing with collaboration and HN/Reddit level of traffic coming to your server is best left to the big collaboration platforms.
It seems like as soon as spacex has more polar satellites they'd be able to match this service with lower latency because they'll be closer to the earth. The only thing spacex can't handle is dense areas of usage like a big city, but Alaska doesn't have that kind of density. These can be targeted to a specific user or area they say, but still seems like Spacex could cover a lot of their use case. What are their advantages then?
Buy a different groovebox then. The Novation Circuit is a wonderfully capable and easy to use device, and it retails secondhand for less than $200. For $50 you can have a PO-33 sampler, or for $700 you could have a Digitakt. Lots of options for cheap grooveboxes out there!
Yeah thats true - so you explicitly mean CDNs that serve a single thing only.

Using a CDN for your static files is just as fine as it always has been.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26805369
That would be a lot more today...it was $400M in August last year. That 30% fee is now worth $2.3B.
Yeah I believe you mean BSC
My mistake! I must have been stuck thinking on the email analogy
The “more fundamental” equations replace the “less fundamental” ones, which can then be derived as approximations or limiting cases valid in restricted regimes (Eg: Newton’s laws of motion + gravitation from the weak field approximation of General Relativity + the low speeds regime).
Any idea where I can keep my money and generate 10 - 20% passive income like you can with DeFi in the traditional system? Most savings account have negative interest rates currently.