skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Past related threads:

WebAmp: WinAmp 2 in Your Browser - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17583997 - July 2018 (41 comments)

A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16333550 - Feb 2018 (208 comments)
There's still the Sybil problem.

And good submitters != good reviewers.

That said, a variant in which less vetted content has to be reviewed by more vetted reviewers, before gaining wider disclosure, seems to me to have merits.
Early on coinbase made it very easy to buy, even if it meant taking losses. They allowed people to trade with funds that were not yet cleared. This was a long time ago. Some ppl could withdrawal the coins and then cancel the deposit by contacting the bank. that did not last long.
" for spreading bullshit disinformation"

Why do you suggest that criticizing the government is BS and disinformation?

That's not what is made illegal.

Legitimate criticism is.

There's a world of difference.
Yeah, why does it do that? Seems kind of weird that if you have my phone number you automatically get this notification that I installed an app. Not upset or anything because I don't mind. It just felt a bit skeevy.
this is nonsense. WebAssembly is strongly typed.

either you don't understand type systems, or you don't understand WebAssembly. in either case, I can encourage reading the article, because it sheds some light on both topics!
Companies are under no obligation to not ostracize potential customers. Do you also think that luxury car companies are shitty and ridiculous because they charge more than cars that "do the same thing"?
I don't have access to a broker that allows orders with no time limit... unless you're joking

And of course I was not joking... you should have tried it yourself... only bankers get the best price.
>It might surprise you to learn that this site and its newsletter costs about $130 USD a month to run; I don't make any money off the site, so this comes out-of-pocket. I'd really like to keep that cost as low as possible

http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/

I really don't understand why something like a blog needs to be much more than this to be honest.
One of my products involves providing a lot of dense data to traders overlayed with performance measures based on proprietary models.

We are working on automatically extracting some insights for the user and using NLP to present them like news articles.

It wouldn't take a huge lift from that to use TTS to provide another way for user to digest the data.

Would make for a cool demo but wonder how sticky it would be.
The same thing anyone else does with a billion CPUs: Hashing things and looking for collisions, or variants on the theme.

Nowhere else could you get CPUs as cheaply as you could buying the cheap banner video vast+vpaid and simply not calling adImpression.
Dup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26812047
An updated version got "leaked" about two years ago, then they decided to release that for real. https://winamp.com/
I meant in this case. The article implies the human police deescalated the situation. A robot dog wouldn't make this any easier, and seems more likely to escalate the situation.
Unfortunately some people have no respect for open source maintainers time and do open issues with little to no context.

Take a look at the issues of any popular Github project to see this phenomenon exacerbated.

Coincidentally I stumbled upon an example today while randomly browsing Github projects. A project with 9k stars and someone opens an issue basically saying: "commands do not work":
https://github.com/walkor/Workerman/issues/611

I don't mean to do finger pointing at this person. It's a common behaviour.

For maintainers it's exhausting to pursue each and every issue, asking for context. And if you don't keep a tight leash on them or use a bot they just pile up to hundreds of issues.
Sybil problem.

Per-account limits don't apply to those with unlimited accounts.

Some form of payment (or hash cash) is an option, but hugely favours those with the ability of those who can pay (or hash). This correlates strongly with current sources of disinformation.
So, there's like, a few things here. First is, technically they both do use the same notation, &T, where T=str and T=[u8]. This is the whole "unsized types" thing. &Path is another example of this, String : &str :: PathBuf : &Path.

Beyond that though, &[T] implies a slice of Ts, that is, multiple Ts in a row. But a &str is a slice of a single string. So &[str] would feel wrong; that is, a &str is a slice of a String or another &str or something else, but isn't like, a list of multiple things. It's String, not Vec<str>.

Basically, Strings are just weird.
> The base salary for our CEO was $200,000 for 2020 and is set at $350,000 for the year 2021; Our CEO is eligible for a bonus award of up to $70,000 for 2020 and up to $2,900,000 for 2021.

> With this offering, we plan to allocate more resources towards payroll, as well as to sales and marketing. We hope that these activities will help us to reach our revenue targets.

> GenesisAI has not yet generated any revenue

I think it's clear where the money is going in this offering.
Interesting. If this is really automated, the implementation seems to miss a bunch of corner cases: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Glotalization of T https://linguistics.byu.edu/faculty/deddingt/t-glottalizatio...

My anecdata says we covered this dialect in intro linguistics back in the 80s. I have been hearing it from New Jersey natives for a long time.
I've needed support maybe four times in my 8 or so years using them, and each time they've resolved my problem quickly.

The complaints I've seen about Coinbase support are usually people who withdraw coins to the wrong address or something and are upset that Coinbase won't reimburse them for their own fuckups.

I have had several cryptocurrency exchanges straight up steal money from me and then ghost me. Coinbase has been a pleasure to work with relative to everything else in the crypto space.
This line stood out to me:

Among Netflix customers, the top reasons cited for subscribing to Netflix were “broad selection of content” (55%), “good original programming” (51%), “adds content I like” (49%) and “no commercials” (46%).

The other side of "no commercials" is the Netflix subscription fee really is quite reasonable.
Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile kill RCS plans
I have my key on multiple devices (e.g. my phone where I use the Password Store app). Then I have backups of the key as .asc on USB drives as well as printed on paper at two different physical locations.
its not interesting this is just another way stock markets are more about gambling instead of a way to raise capital. Previously you had startups doing their best to get sold to big companies instead of becoming profitable companies. Now they are going this route.
ik that the US is the country, that wasnt my question ... But whos country is it? The "white man"s? It just struck me as a very strange thing to say.
And with that approach there wont be in europe anytime soon :)
RCS = Rich Communications Services:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Communication_Services

Aka, SMS/MMS 2.0.
There is 20 trillion of negative yielding debt floating around in govt bonds, luckily we can hedge against these horribly mismanaged house of cards before they fall on us. The demand is real.
Criticizing the government is not lying.

To the contrary, government control of the 'truth' is quite corrosive to freedom, discourse and everything else.

What we need are principled institutions that don't lie.

Edit - adding a reference [1]

"Those who criticize the government or the judiciary, or publicly discuss race and religion, frequently find themselves facing criminal investigations and charges, or civil defamation suits and crippling damages."

[1] https://www.hrw.org/report/2017/12/12/kill-chicken-scare-mon...
Binance is a total mess compared to Coinbase in terms of usability.
Does the limitation resets if you move the funds publicly?
Do you think that the "organ on a chip" method could help?

Having tiny human brains (or brainlets) would be a closer model than using any animal, or not?
The point I was making is that there could be no Internet Explorer without a license to Mosaic, either from NCSA or from Spyglass. Similarly IMO it is arguable there could be no Chrome without Google first having employees work on Firefox.
"string slice" is just the name of the one thing, and "slice" the name of the other, and they are different things with similar names and related features.
I don’t feel that an Octatrack/Digitakt/Digitone is quite a replacement for an OP-1. They may be better sequencers (I don’t have the relevant knowledge to claim whether or not they are), but I’ve always gotten the impression from professional musicians and composers that the appeal of the OP-1 is a combination of form factor and portability. It has keys in a piano layout which makes it easy to play on and it is in a small enough size that you can throw it in your backpack when traveling.
Aren’t they firing a lot of folks due to the pandemic?
There isn't one. That's not really a concern these days. COIN is worth double ICE, the parent company of the NYSE. I don't know how you justify that.

Coinbase is, in spirit, a modern pets.com.
Would you return stolen goods to the thief? How about return it to the owner/authorities. May not be simple but certainly better than sending it back. If all else fail there are black hole addresses to forever lock the BTCs.
I had actually read the article and here is my take:

1)Almost any mathematical abstraction can be used to match existing understanding of physics. Graphs, or groups or cellular automata. It is not wrong to try different kinds of those abstractions and there is nothing wrong with Wolfram's ideas in this department.

2) What matters is if you can deliver new insights from your model - be it general relativity, quantum mechanics or hypergraphs. Here his theory is extremely weak. Only two numerical values have been offered and they are experimentally non-testable as they are 50 orders of magnitude smaller than even corresponding Plank units (!) There are plenty of fringe theories with better predictive ability.
>also airbnb is not dependent on the value of a speculative asset.

What do you think US real estate is?
Thanks for the recommendations, I will definitely check Greg Egan, never heard of him. I agree with the rest :)
CloudFlare Free Plan: $0

Email: $5-$10 FastMail plan, up to 16k emails a day

VM: If you manage to spend $120 here, you've fucked up somehow since you're hosting a static site with a like button.
Nicely written!

I wish I had this article when I first started Rust. Would have saved me some trouble.
Send a disposable non-lethal robot in first so that any misunderstanding or ambush leads to a broken robot, and not dead residents or police.
I don't see this brought up very often, but you have a huge world of flexibility in choosing growth rates beyond just adding constants for an O(n) amortized append time or multiplying by a constant for O(1).

E.g., if you choose x -> x(1+1/log(x)) then you get an amortized append time of O(log(n)) while paying a memory overhead approaching 0% for large datasets.

The distribution of (and SLOs for) appends relative to other operations can make that kind of idea more or less attractive, but even common data structures have a lot of room for improvement if you can tailor them to your use case a little bit.
My tiny brain still don't get why people like terraform. Do people need to look at both terraform docs and aws/azure/gcp docs when writing a .tf file?
The fact that terraform saves/remembers the resource states is like a double-edged sword: we cannot manually fix some minor mistakes of ours when creating resources because that'll mess up terraform
rent scales with land(finite resource) price. If everyone in the country made a million dollars, rent prices would not be where they are.
In particular: strings aren’t actually simple arrays of characters in Rust like they are in C, but there is an underlying array on the heap, and the notion of “slicing” that array of characters still makes sense semantically.
You just washed part of the BTCs which is now owned by the miner.
I had the same idea, and it would be funny, but investigators wouldn't have to unravel the whole thing.

They'd just have to look at anyone unwise enough to use the money instead of turning it over to authorities (or abandoning the wallet).
Indeed &str has as_bytes which returns itself as &[u8]

But, str is a subset of &[u8], the type's contract is that it is unsafe to have non valid UTF-8 data, hence https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/str/fn.from_utf8.html can error, offering the unsafe variant https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/str/fn.from_utf8_unchecked.htm...

This is all very different than &[char] which would be an array of 4 byte characters (or, a UCS4 string)
So, just to share the thing I do:

I let Firefox save a lot of passwords, and for those that require more; I have one encrypted Linux volume on my computer. In that volume, name of file is name of service or website, and login and pass are written however.

To speed things up a tad, I have a custom command that points fzf with preview to it, with a little oath2 script in the preview to handle 2FA.

I've been hearing stuff lately about how I should perhaps be concerned when copy-pasting? But for now, these feels pretty good.
It's easier to write a bad comment than a good one, so I don't think that downvoting bad comments should be more difficult than it is now. HN software already has little nudges that make it easier to gain karma than to lose it:

- You can earn points but never lose them by submitting URLs for discussion.

- You can't lose more than 4 points per post, no matter how many times it is downvoted. There is no upper limit to points gained from a single upvoted comment.

- There is only a 24 hour time window in which comments can be downvoted, but they can still be upvoted even months later.

The expertise problem is harder. Sometimes I see a post that has more misconceptions than sentences, but is grammatically correct and written in a confident tone. Only people who actually understand the subject matter will spot the problems quickly. It's tedious to write introductory level corrections for commonly repeated mistakes. For some of them I have considered keeping a mini-FAQ locally and pasting standard responses to standard misconceptions, but HN also discourages repeating identical posts.

If I downvote a misinformed post the original poster won't know where they went wrong, and people who see a grayed post won't necessarily understand what's wrong with it either. The saving grace of the downvote is that it affects comment sorting order, so at least misconception-heavy posts that are downvoted won't dominate the upper reaches of the discussion page.
Lambda GPU Benchmark Center for Deep Learning
honestly, just use mintmobile.com its $15/mo for 4gb of data.
for what it's worth, I would not invest in it
Why would you give money to a criminal?
Maybe you are just cheap?
I see. I knew bandwidth there was more expensive, but I couldn't have fathomed how much more expensive. I am surprised that one would be willing to put up with that for software as simple as a blog, but obviously a lot of people are.
> The thing is, we have to make sure we're OK with the consequences of going this way. Would people be happy to wait for days, maybe weeks, for their video to be approved for upload to YouTube?

People will eventually be fine with however the system works. If that's how it works, they assume that's how it has to be. Most of users have no idea how this stuff functions. We're in it now because the expectation has been set for instant uploads, so there would be outrage, but eventually it becomes "the way things are." As an example see any change users hate - users complain, TPTB either concede completely (rare) and revert, make minor concessions but change little, or apologize for the inconvenience and do nothing. Eventually nobody cares anymore and forgets they were angry.

Most of this stuff barely matters. Frankly it might be good if my nephews had to wait longer between any number of irritating youtube videos they binge and parrot.
Locks Aren't Slow; Lock Contention Is
I can live in a house. I can't live in a Bitcoin.
Colombia gives nearly 1M Venezuelan migrants legal status, right to work
HN is divided on divisive issues. It's that simple.

People overgeneralize about that because of cognitive bias: the bad (what you don't like) stands out more than the good (what you agree with). What's negative (to you) is what you're more likely to notice: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu.... That's why people with the opposite tastes make the opposite generalizations.

For every comment like yours ("constantly attacks Tesla and Elon") there's one of these: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26506294 ("Musk fanboys and Tesla apologists").

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26803359.
https://www.amazon.com/Modeling-Essentials-Third-Graeme-Sims...

My favorite. Not an easy read, it took me weeks to complete it.

https://www.amazon.com/Date-Database-Writings-2000-2006-Chri...

Relatively unknown but great book if you want to read the thoughts of a DB heavyweight Christopher Date who collaborated with Edgar Codd.

https://www.amazon.com/NoSQL-Distilled-Emerging-Polyglot-Per...

The best book to start exploring the land outside the relational world. An easy read, can be completed in two to three days.
There's something pretty surreal about an actual multi-billionaire running the youtube investor guru schtick.
https://github.com/jberg/butterchurn
This is the visualizer that they're using.
> Bitcoin kicked off blockchain as a technology

"Started at the bottom, now we a little bit above the bottom"
The basic difference:

In an IPO the company puts private shares in the open market and gets money from it, priced at the IPO price. Whoever has (private) shares now has public shares and can trade whenever they want.

In a Direct Listing the company often already traded shares "openly" but not in a "public" way, but now wants it listed publicly so retail investors can trade it, and there's no immediate need of capital so the objective isn't to get a funding from offering shares in an IPO.
> It feels like it'll take a decade before I'm in any reasonably healthy state to build something, which really doesn't seem worth it.

A decade from now, would you rather still be in a place where you're not reasonably healthy, and not able to build something? You're not at a good place. But if you want to go somewhere better, you have to start from where you are.

But I worry a bit about your focus on building something "meaningful". I mean, yes, working on something that matters is better than working on something that just makes some money. But I recently read Ecclesiastes, and it talks a lot about how futile and empty it is to build something that matters. It's never big enough or important enough or lasts long enough. If you chase it, it will never satisfy you.

Work on something that matters, but do it because it helps people, not because you need it to validate yourself.

I apologize if that comes across as too harsh. But I see a danger that I'm prone to, and I want you not fall into it.
I remember hesitating on a ETH trade because of Coinbase's high fees and losing money because of it. Ever since I've felt like Coinbase is a scam wrapped up in pretty UI.
Ewwwwww
> I ended up leaving after a pretty gruelling death-march (full backend replacement, with a "big bang" switchover). That switched a lot of things to .Net, which is a path I didn't want to go down in any case.

God this made me nauseous just reading it.
Me too, and I thought the combination of trains I had to use for the same trip was tough work :( I am really looking forward to reading that.
But some General Relativity predictions which differed from Newtonian gravity where verified fairly quickly (precession of Mercury's perihelion in 1915, deflection of light by the Sun in 1919).
No you cannot verify by trading lol, any more than you can verify the payout ratio of a slot machine at a rigged casino. They can synthesize opening and closing the orders, matching them internally, based off a feed from a legitimate exchange. Since they control everything they can easily ensure they don't accidentally get matched to an external order. This gives the illusion of liquidity.
When the topic "Commission" is trending, it's always full of furry porny stuff, I have no idea why
people need shelter, they do not need crypto . There is huge demand for housing in metro areas even in spite of Covid, and regulation and other restrictions make it hard to increase supply, and landlords generally want to lock-in long-term rents with good credit scores due to difficulty of evicting, meaning more demand for short-term rentals. .
Monero tackles this problem. Coins are fungible and transactions are private.

https://www.getmonero.org/resources/moneropedia/fungibility....
Maybe because "V" and "B" used to be pronounced the same ;-)
Yeah, the whole point of stories was to get away from "Software Creationism"

the belief that with a sufficently detailed specification, a normally talented group of engineers can magic a perfect solution without any customer interaction.
> DuckDuckGo finds it especially concerning that getting tracked via FLoC is not optional – all Chrome users are automatically opted into it.

Is not clear to me that when Chrome will get updated with FLoC:

1 - FLoC will be auto-enabled for current users/new installations but will be possible for a regular user opt-out from the Chrome settings panel.

2 - Idem to 1 but users will not be able to opt-out at all.

Someone can clarify that?

1 is already a terrible way to introduce the "feature" but 2 is even worse.
This is a textbook example of a straw man.
The obvious and simple answer is: always, yes!

You should not take their input at face value though (try to figure out what problem they are attempting to solve since they'll usually propose tooling that solves their problem), and focus on things affecting your customers most heavily (however you define that: highest paying customers, largest numbers, most influential to get word-of-mouth recs...).

But sometimes you should take their input at face value too ;)
> i had to pull the state and change the provider field manually to avoid recreation of some resources.

Terraform CLI introduced an upgrade command (can't remember what it's called) that automatically does this for you.
They might find idjc really helpful.

http://idjc.sourceforge.net/index.html
Many Electron apps are sluggish and use more resources than necessary for the problem they're trying to solve.

For example, IRC was doing most of the things Slack (desktop client in Electron) does, but 20+ years ago when computers were a thousandth (or less) as powerful. IRC clients were snappy to load and interact with, didn't use a gigabyte of RAM, and didn't eat a CPU core.

From https://tonsky.me/blog/disenchantment/:

> Your desktop todo app is probably written in Electron and thus has a userland driver for the Xbox 360 controller in it, can render 3D graphics and play audio and take photos with your web camera.
Surface Connect is a lot more than just MagSafe. It’s much more akin to thunderbolt with a magnetic plug. It combines power delivery and data transfer so you can power the laptop or plug in a full docking station using the same port. Sure it’s proprietary but I wish it was more widely adopted.
From management consultant to independent
I think any person newly diagnosed with alzheimers would jump at the chance to stop its progression.
I guess if the point was to get rid of people then reducing the financial disincentive is a prudent move.