skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ITT = In This Thread. ( I had to look it up )
The real fraud here seems to be the telephony industry's concept of a premium number. That there isn't an enforced standardized way to tell that a phone number will incur extra fees to contact is a failure of the industry. This shouldn't be a hard problem.
Comparing the Octatrack which just had it's 10 year anniversary with newer devices seems a bit unfair. I think it was a nice machine for it's time (and at second hand going rate around 500-600 euro still a good deal).
There's an advantage to not having to connect and configure multiple boxes if you just want to make some music.
Parallels Desktop Now Fully Supports M1 Chip
Didn't expect that, the list seemed so similar to the ones I browsed twenty years ago I assumed they had the same source. I guess the collective nostalgia is very similar to my memory at least. Thanks for the answer!
The article is written on a false premise. Each new era shakes the social foundations of the previous one, and life for the average person doesn't get better immediately. What we, in our distant collective memory remember is the great thinkers and the revolutionaries who laid the foundations for a new order. If you took a sociological perspective for the situation back in the day, you would see a divided society, violence and uncertainty.
I don’t get why people like scripting it, declarative is fantastically simple. I don’t want to trace through loops, if statements, functions
It does from these files declare my infra to these scripts when parser thru define my infer

I get Logic in yaml/json is less ergonomic but templing makes us for it
> his previous persona is known to be

As with most human beings Linus is a person with different responses to different things and is generally not a complete lemon.
Actually, yes. Nice call on the -time- also ...

re: reporting, if -anything- this will get them more attention, not less? (I'd think ...)
SQLite can handle concurrent access but it needs to be used correctly. Each connection should only be used by one thread.
I’m not employed at all right now. Barely have been for the decade due to mental health issues that have finally been fixed up.

It was funny to see me being described as saying extremely privileged things regarding money.
Is there another search engine you recommend instead?
Terraform (core) doesn’t follow semantic versioning, so pre-1.0 does not mean that. Ever since 0.4, the number of production users made working on it rather like changing the wheels on a bus while driving down the highway full of passengers!
I want rust to be a popular language, but I can see how C and C++ are so easier for beginners if you considers the basics: you first learn C, and then you go into C++ and you use what you need.

I'm very curious if there is feedback of uni teachers teaching rust as a first compiled language to students, especially when dealing with borrowing etc.
We are building machine learning products for a fixed weekly fee. We saw that search engines are the most requested type of product.

Nowadays, with https://streamlit.io/, https://typesense.org/, or http://jina.ai/ (which are open source) and some coding skills you can build state-of-the-art quality search engines. 10 years ago a team of engineers was required for this.

Some examples,

You can search documents: https://pinksearchengine.link/example_search.html (code here https://github.com/kstathou/vector_engine)

You can search webpages: https://pinksearchengine.link/example_search_web.html (code here https://github.com/typesense/showcase-recipe-search)

You can search images, using textual queries: https://pinksearchengine.link/example_search_images_with_tex... (code here https://github.com/vatsalsaglani/CLIPSemanticImageSearch)

You can search images, using images as queries: https://pinksearchengine.link/example_search_images_with_ima... (code here https://github.com/thoppe/streamlit-CLIP-Unsplash-explorer)
Not sure if large car companies or clothes manufacturers (just two examples of large companies) were ever able to ignore legal rights of their customers. This has only become possible with digital services where companies refuse to acknowledge local laws and regulation.
Good point. Currently I think good submitters are rewarded by karma/likes etc, maybe rewarding good reviewers would useful too.
Show HN: Tool for modding the OP-1 synthesizer firmware
Registration-walled and complains if you open it in private mode (how?)
How many is a lot? I've been around a lot of people that do psychedelics, and have done them myself quite a bit. No issues to report.

It is a crime that they've been locked away for so long due to Nixon and scare mongers. So many people in jail because of it. Legalize it already, sheesh.
I also did that with my friends all the time with early smartphones.

Then in the University we started giving signals to computers using missed calls before using SMSs later, as they became cheap or even free in bulk.
The problem for everyone else is that the vaccines aren't 100% effective. Also, we're not vaccinating children yet, and there may be some people who can't get the vaccine for medical reasons.

Another consideration is that if the virus is allowed to continue to spread, there's a real chance that it may mutate into a form that isn't stopped by the vaccine, and then we're right back where we started.

From a public health point of view, I don't see things getting back to ordinary people (and not just the foolhardy) having lunch with coworkers around the same table without masks on unless there isn't any significant amount of community spread going on.
Life of peasants greatly improved in Western Europe after the 14th century due to plague killing half of the population, leaving to survivors more land and food and scarcity of work force. And then later in 15th century with the invention of printing the literacy and education became available to common people which again significantly influenced and improved their lives.
Yep.

I think Bryan Cantrill's talk from 2018 encapsulates things pretty well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjFM8vw3pbU

Bryan is a hardcore C guy, and can write safe and reliable C code. But he has reached the limits of what C can offer in terms of composability and abstraction.

Like Linus, he wants and needs the kind of high performance and dependable behavior for systems programming that isn't possible with a garbage-collected language.
What event sourcing isn't about
No, they are saying that lockdowns do nothing and any appearance that they do is backwards causality: "restrictions are follow[sic] the case numbers, but we have convinced ourselves it is the other way around".

They're wrong, but that's what they're saying.
In a Ponzi scheme, you can transfer your funds right now in USD as well. Exactly the same situation.
Ask HN: How much do you read and what do you get from it?
During lockdown over the past year I've seen my pile of books grow, but my time for reading seems to have been swallowed by the endless work/tv/sleep loop that the pandemic seems to have cemented. Looking for some perspectives on getting back to reading.

When are you all reading? Are you reading non-fiction or fiction? And finally what are you getting out it?
Your dog drives?

You drive your dog?
Sure, that I can agree with.
> 1ms

Where do you get this figure? It seems quite high.
Interestingly ships get cut in half and reassembled "all the time". Certainly way more than people think.

See for example https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/photos-fincantier..., where an entire cruise ship was cut in half and an extra section was inserted into the middle before welding everything together again. I will also never forget the training ship of the Dutch Navy, which was shortened by cutting it into half and removing a section from the middle. Sadly this messed up the hydrodynamics fiercely and it was extremely seasickness inducing in even moderate seas. The ship certainly was effective as a training vessel though.
Given the labor market they sure did
Well yes, that is how you can buy influenenza and many other shots in many many EU countries. I once drove to another country (yo Portugal) to buy a specific vaccine for my sisters kid. Their region had ran out. After getting it from pharma I drove straight to the nurse where they were waiting to get the shot but the kind pharmacist also told me I can store it ik my fridge.
When I back up a database, I expect to get a consistent snapshot of the database, which includes all committed transactions. Uncommitted transactions can't be included in this, since there is no guarantee they'd ever commit.

From your answer it sounds like I'd get such a snapshot (even if it relies on recovery from a journal internally). So I don't understand why you see a problem here. Is the recovery process unreliable?
When you are building wealth, you are likely to be young (so often healthy) and there is so much information online, libraries cost nothing. So I don't think this is a valid argument.
I recently changed my shell to elvish because of the data structures and extendability. It has a lot of sane defaults that make it very appealing to me. https://elv.sh/
I don't even live in Germany or Europe, so why am I happy about this?
The market manipulation is not the issue here. The issue is that Bitcoin acts exactly like a Ponzi scheme in practice, even if there is no central fraudster driving it.
I think we don't differ all that much. I also find the people and quality of discourse the most valuable thing on HN. However, I also claim that these things are not orthogonal to the topics of discussion!

Some topics (like politics) naturally induce more impulsive, emotional reactions than others (like innards of Erlang's BEAM runtime). The more you allow the former to dominate the latter, the worse average discourse gets, and the faster good people leave - it's a feedback loop that quickly grinds a community down to the lowest common denominator.

That's why stable, quality communities either expel (like HN) or contain (like plenty of forums limiting politics to only the Offtopic board) such topics. And it's not like it's a new invention - a lot (possibly most) societies have a long-standing custom that says not to bring up politics and religions in typical conversations between strangers (or at dinner with extended family).
Well, it is demand they created themselves. It also has a path to being so wildly profitable it probably exceeds all the other revenue from space by all other companies put together.

It has been known since the 60's that if launch rates go way up, the cost per launch can be made to go way down. It has been known since the 90's that there is market for a massive internet constellation, but it won't be profitable at current launch prices. Neither problem could be solved, because they depended on each other, and required massive, tens-of-billions-of-dollars level of investment. You can't really spend big money to make a very efficient launch system that is not suitable for current market and hope that customers will come. And you cannot really spend big money to build the infrastructure to turn out satellites like cars when the launch costs would still sink the whole project.

SpaceX managed to collect enough private funding, that they could do tackle both problems at the same time. If they succeed, they will be the most profitable aerospace company the world has ever seen. Which is probably why they have so little trouble raising the funding.
That year was in the sixth century AD, and while it is considered one of the start points of the middle ages the myth is that the following millennium was just as bleak.
Be the change you want to be! wxC did exist but grew unmaintained, split into several variants (I think at least wxHaskell and wxErlang had their own versions) and withered. It shouldn't be that difficult to revive it but, well, somebody does need to do it.

It's a bit funny that people don't realize that "they" are "you". wxWidgets is an old school open source project, people are supposed to contribute to it because they have their own itch to scratch.

FWIW wx has always been very friendly to new contributors, so I'd really encourage people who are annoyed by something in it to just propose changing them on wx-dev.
I don't understand the colors in that map.

For instance, Germany and France, colors vs. percentages, don't make sense to me. Are my eyes the problem?

It would be kind of ironic that it was a bug.
However the schema does look like

type schema = {
field1: any,
field2: any,
...
}

AFAIK the column types are not really enforced and you can even leave them out.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2489936/sqlite3s-dynamic...
It is unconstitutional because it treats people unequally. New people will not find any rentable properties, and will have to stay in hotels paying 10x more.

It is just another form of xenophobia.
Can Clubhouse Keep the Party Going?
This is covered early on in the article.
A better question would be did you short Deliveroo on IPO day or buy ETH with >10x leverage? before April.

As for the $COIN direct listing pump and dump, that went as high as $424 and the employees, investors and founders sold around less than 10% of their shares.

As expected.
Renaissance was a golden age for some things like arts, not necessarily for life conditions. Who said that?

Commerce, liberation from the feudal lords and the Church are the staples of Renaissance that set the basis for the following western world development.

The author seems to have an agenda and it shows.
Yes, and the same rules apply:

- Don't invest more than you can comfortably lose.

- Don't throw away the entire concept just because it's not perfect.

- Get better at telling who's full of shit, or delegate it to someone you trust.
That’s why it’s bad but not why it was found unconstitutional
Ford’s hands-free BlueCruise driving coming soon to F-150 and Mustang Mach-E
The lie is that your bitcoins are worth, today, 62000 USD each.

Again, this is not an organised Ponzi scheme, but it is functionality identical anyway.
There are very few significant differences between EU and other parts of the world in regards to the environment, and the few large differences to do exist (e.g. GM foods) are pseudo-scientific excuses for defending local industry that would otherwise find it hard to compete for social reasons. Consider that total installed capacity of renewables is by far China, electric cars are being driven by the USA, and the country in Europe that has done best at reducing carbon emissions and coal burning (taking coal to zero) is the UK. Germany's energiewende meanwhile has been a failure. The EU has no notable wins to its name in the environmental space.

As for employment standards, that's a double edged sword; making it harder to hire people also locks young people out of the job market. Where do ambitious smart young people with no familial ties go to seek their fortune? Not Italy.
I use passphrase2pgp[1] so I can recreate my GPG key anywhere. I need to remember three pieces of information:

- passphrase (long sentence, but it's easy to remember)
- uid (Name <email> - easy)
- timestamp (10 digits - kinda hard to memorize but you can have it noted is plain text since it's not sensitive information)

[1]: https://github.com/skeeto/passphrase2pgp
Same here. Pulumi got some things spectacularly right. Their Crosswalk for AWS [0] is magical, especially if you're building serverless apps using Lambda or Docker-based services on top of EKS/ECS. I'd suggest sticking to the TypeScript runtime and major clouds where the support is the best.

_Full disclosure_ - Marcin at Spacelift here, and we chose to support Pulumi in addition to Terraform, so this opinion is necessarily biased.

[0] https://www.pulumi.com/docs/guides/crosswalk/aws/
The comparatively low salaries are not just Software Engineering positions, either. Doctors in Japan apparently earn about $120K to $150K on average [1]. CEOs of large companies only make 10% of their counterparts at US companies [2].

I actually think it's a good thing for Japan that inequality hasn't reached the crazy levels that we see in some other countries. But it certainly does make it hard for Japanese companies to attract top international talent the way FAANGs can.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1116124/japan-average-an...
[2] https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Japanese-CEO-pay-roughly-10...
Well that's very disappointing.
Thank you, I didn't know about this!

I've added a section on it:

https://www.baseclass.io/guides/string-handling-modern-js#ta...
That is a horrible argument, because the same can be said for land ownership. Isn't it unfair that when I move somewhere, I discover that all the land in that area is already owned by someone else. Why should some old history entitle someone to exclusive ownership of any piece of land, and the ability to charge arbitrary rents for it?

The fact of the matter is, first movers have all sorts of unfair advantages over latecomers, many of them from luck, or from circumstances of birth - and I doubt you are seeking to overturn all of them.
Not OP, but there can be a few things they're alluring to.

Some disassociatives are often put into the "psychedelic," and they can cause addiction. Ketamine begin an example. People begin chasing the previous high, which often means higher doses and more money.

Some more ignorant people put MDMA (and family) of drugs into this category as well. These drugs are highly neurotoxic, and require a lot of "prep" to take to reduce their neurotoxicity (it's arguable to what degree this prep helps). Moreover frequent user of this can in some people (ie people succeptible to depression) cause a long-term disbalance in their serotonin system (some people take weeks to recover from even one usage).

People who have some mental "precondition" (eg such as psychosis, etc) can have some extremely severe response and permanent "side effects" (for a lackeof better expressions) from psychedelics, and never recover.

An extremely small percentage of people have what's called Hallucinogen persisting perception disorder (HPPD). Some people find it fun, some don't mind it, while some can't function because of it.

Quality of substance you acquire can also vary. On the black market things are often mislabelled or cut with other substances that are easier/cheaper to produce. One notable examples is NBOMe being sold as LSD. NBOMe is more dangerous for a few reasons that I won't be getting into in this post. Always test your stuff with test kits, or if you're not comfortable with that, sense a small bit of your batch to a testing lab (there's a few anonymous/free ones in Europe).

Lastly, there's always ignorance or
risk of being too "casual" about taking psychedelic due to familiarity with them. This leads to accidental drug combinations (eg some antidepressants + some psychedelics) don't combined well. Aimee just diminished the other, but people reported more severe symptoms. People also combine things recreationally without researching things properly, which can be a bad combo. Speaking of antidepressants and psychedelics: a notable thing to mention is that Lithium salts and LSD have been reported to lead to terors, seizures, and maybe even death (as reported on erowid).

I'm not trying to discourage or encourage people from psychedelics. In my personal experience, they can be wonderful and provide healing experiences. However, we need to always be careful when using them, because they have such a profound effect on our minds, and we still understand so little about the mind itself. With that in mind (no pun intended), treat them with respect they deserve!
Absolute nonsense.
Full text of the court decision (German): https://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/SharedDocs/Entscheid...

Shorter press release (German, too): https://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/SharedDocs/Pressemit...

It's a classical application of the "federal law breaks state law" rule, which I think exists in the united states as well.
Because 'Kite' should be spelt 'Kait'. The English I/E/AI vowel sounds are a massive mess. I realised this only after starting lessons in Japanese, where the vowel sounds are almost entirely regular. Ke always sounds like Kelp, and Ki always sounds like Kit and Ka will always sound like Kart.
Those are the true native style for Windows, yes. Microsoft's subsequent efforts aren't as good and they've not even fully committed to them themselves. WPF is on life support.
I'm very slow to read text, but audiobooks and podcasts have completely consumed my free time.
That is very cool!
I think the double-presses and three-button presses are pushing it for usability. I wonder if there is a version where you can keep the general form and idea and increase the ease-of-use.

I'm thinking add a 5th side-key and a second top-key and use the top ones solely as toggle, not as letters. This way you have 3*5 keys total and fill in the rest with a predictive model, maybe?

Or how about a layout with a second side-key column on the side that faces outward. You'd get 2*10 keys with just those columns and the toggle (or 3*10 with double toggles).
in a dogative style
Keep in mind that when they say Berlin's rents are soaring, it's still comparatively cheap for large cities in Germany.
I wish Berlin would just build more housing instead. For example when I cross the street there is a supermarket. It's a single story building with a huge parking lot around it. Why not make it a multistory building with apartments on top of the supermarket and skip the parking space or put it underground? Why does the city give out building permits for such buildings? There could easily be room for thirty families on that lot. A single parking spot is like 12m^2, two parking spots and three storys above them and you have an apartment for two to three people.
Because a better country eventually makes a better world for everyone, and a worse country eventually makes a worse world for everyone.
STOP USING NUMBERS !!!

Feelings is all that matters.

Make America Gawful Again, and all that.
This was a bit confusing for me to read at first.

DDF is of course a search engine and doesn't need to be installed.

DDG now also has an extension which blocks FloC (a feature which the uBlockOrigin extension seems to not have full support for - correct me I could be wrong, but that looks like an open issue?)

So you can install the DDG extension now, or install the uBlockOrigin extension - but possibly have to wait for full integration.
The homelessness is a West Coast thing caused by not having enough housing and banning cheap fixes like SROs. A lot of other things like mental health problems too, but many of those are caused by homelessness rather than causing it.

Even NYC doesn’t have as much of a homeless problem because they’re better about putting the people in homes.
It uses filesystem locking mechanisms to synchronize concurrent access from multiple processes. One writer, multiple readers.
Will this affect people who have started living in Berlin under the rent cap-system? I hope they won't have to move out all of a sudden, facing sudden, higher rents.
It depends on their age, doesn't it? 1 hour isn't fine for a toddler, 1 week may be fine for a 17-year-old.
Irrelevant unless compared to local salaries, which as far as I know, are still lower than the rest of German cities.
Instead, now we have this new myth that because the 12th century wasn't so bad, neither was the 6th...
No, it’s unconstitutional because the Berlin government was passing a law which conflicted with federal law (BGB) which regulates rents in Germany.

Also, the Berlin government was retroactively changing (rent) contracts which normally invalidates any contract as this will always put one contract party at an unprecedented disadvantage.
wxWidgets wraps GTK on Linux (see also https://www.wxwidgets.org/docs/faq/gtk/ ).