skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone know what the purpose of the base64 encoded strings are in the asset URLs?

e.g.

If we extract a chunk out of:

https://world.hey.com/dhh/a44bf3f3/representations/eyJfcmFpb...

We get this string:

eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdDam9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFLQUIya0NBQVU2REhGMVlXeHBkSGxwU3pvTGJHOWhaR1Z5ZXdZNkNYQmhaMlV3T2cxamIyRnNaWE5qWlZRPSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoidmFyaWF0aW9uIn19

Which decodes to:

{"_rails":{"message":"BAh7CjoLZm9ybWF0SSIIanBnBjoGRVQ6FHJlc2l6ZV90b19saW1pdFsHaQKAB2kCAAU6DHF1YWxpdHlpSzoLbG9hZGVyewY6CXBhZ2UwOg1jb2FsZXNjZVQ=","exp":null,"pur":"variation"}}

Is this for analytics? Or some sort of caching?
Belgium has complex housing and zoning problems caused by 50 years of inconsistent policies and regulations.

One (of many) big issue(s) is that the past has seen unchecked claiming of land for new projects leading to an acute shortage of land, while lots of existing houses and buildings are entirely outdated.

We are talking about houses which are 60 or 70 years old typically located in densely pouplated urban agglomerations and haven't seen little to no remodeling whatsoever during that time. These are hardly isolated, difficult to heat, are entirely outdated in terms of utilities and plumbing and so on.

The idea behind the difference is to incentivize people to buy and renovate older, existing houses and curbing the further occupation / use of free & open space with new construction and urban sprawl.

It should be noted: Belgium is also a country with an incredibly complex fiscal system. There are taxes as well as tax breaks on every aspect of life. Belgium is a complex federal nation with many levels of government. To put that in perspective: it's a country with 6 different governments. All of which turn politics and policy making, unironically, into 5D chess. The fiscal system tends to be the arena where everything comes together, generally as a compromise which is often more founded on pragmatism then necessity.

Historically, home ownership has been, and still is, massively incentivized in Belgium. But just like everywhere else, soaring housing prices and an ageing population are causing issues for younger generations who can't buy property without financial help from their parents.

And so, young people find themselves in a bind. They can't just buy any property, market dynamics and public policies push them towards buying outdated property only to face long, drawn out and expensive renovation projects just to bring everything up to date with modern, strict construction codes.
Do you ever release serious errors into prod?
Would we get guns?
How to Successfully Hand over Systems
> but now I can't do that as I found that most books follow the same patterns and it is all the same.

Most self-help books do; not most books. I’m using that term in a broad sense to encompass books which explore one major “life-changing”/“perspective-shifting” idea, like any by Cal Newport or Simon Sinek.

Those books have little substance. They’re pamphlets padded by examples supporting the one thesis. Find an online talk by the author and you’ll get 90% of the juice without spending a penny and by a fraction of the time investment of the book.
The article is directly mentioned in OP's link.

BTW, that scrollbar though..
The quality of life is not zero-sum, bot on a local level and a short timeframe, many things are indeed zero sum.

The best example is land & desirable real estate. It only takes a few people with "outside" money to drive up prices in the market or to purchase land and sit on it in perpetuity, driving up prices by taking it out of the local supply.
> someone who has been (slowly) working on one myself.

Well... that's kind of exciting! Is your work public? Would love to see it.

> maybe it isn't really that important to follow them so closely... especially if you're aiming for something more like an actually-user-friendly (i.e. with the UI and controls you actually want, not some designer's flavour-of-the-month) hypertext document viewer than a web application runtime/OS. From that perspective, even HTML4+CSS2 would probably be quite sufficient.

Yes. So much yes.
It would be nice if it worked that way.

What happens if your network is interrupted during apply or your STS credential expires? If you are lucky, you may be able to upload the errored.tfstate and plan/apply again. But if somebody else plan/applies before then, the state will be out of whack. Resources will already exist with names that you want to use, and you will have to manually edit the state file, or import the existing resources, or delete them.

What happens if someone changes the bucket without using Terraform? The bucket's changes are blown away on the next terraform apply. Or the apply will sometimes just fail, and you'll have to fix the state or resource by hand.

What happens if someone has applied a different change after your change? Reverting the commit may now impact something else somebody since removed/added, running into naming conflicts and needing custom code changes, and sometimes moving around of state (happens often when a commit changes whole modules).

Or say a code change changes the provider version. A revert may not work and you may need to remediate the infra and code yet again.

Or say someone applied Terraform with a newer version of Terraform. Now you need to upgrade your version of Terraform, and change whatever code you wanted to revert to the new Terraform version.

Or say the resource + action require delete before create, and your reverted commit tries to do create before delete. You'll need to modify your Terraform code after reverting it with a new lifecycle block, or apply will keep trying to do something impossible.

All of this is happening in production. How much downtime is ok while you fix all of those problems by hand?
> Young people’s view that housing is out of reach helps explain their drift towards “millennial socialism”

And? Is socialism bad per se? Or is it just something that The Economist doesn't like?

> In Britain areas with stagnant housing markets were more likely to vote for Brexit in 2016

Ah but which is it? This comes just one sentence after the previous quote, making it seem brexitism is a variant of socialism. Is it?
I think it’s fair to write a post criticising systemic, terrible things like racism, abuse, toxic work culture.

But this just reads like a shit deal in a tech company. To his point, others could have different experiences.

So why write it at all?

Submit the glassdoor review and move on.

OP I know you’ll probably read this - so don’t be too hard on yourself in regards to my reply. You’re starting a new adventure and I’m excited for you.
Flow failed because Microsoft enabled TypeScript by default in VS Code. It had nothing to do with OCaml in my opinion.

However, TypeScript is now suffering from long compile-times because it targets JS. If it was implemented in a language with more control over threading etc. I think it could be faster.
Yep I've done it. Suuuper tedious. Which is why I suspect even though you can do 2 or more bar phrases, single bar loops (vamps?) are pretty typical, instead varying the filter envelope and distortion over time.
> SO used to have really god content for really some fundamental questions which gave it some credibility.

The moderators' refusal to allow "opinion-based" questions has been very harmful to the usefulness of the site. Now you can only find best practices if someone happens to add them as a tangent. Or if you happen on an old one that got 1000+ upvotes before the mods decided theory was off topic.
I've plugged in SNES cartridges that are 30 years old and the save data still persists. I'm guessing they got the same man who designed the everlasting Casio digital watch battery to design those.
oh boy rrdtool and perl, I feel like I'm in 2002 again
Cap 12 years later: how the rules have changed (2012)
Also given that the median house prices are just below a million in Melbourne, and "slightly" above a million in Sydney, it makes saving up 20% for a deposit quite an endeavour. Then you need to account for all the other fees and stamp duty as well adding a few more percentage points of savings required.

The big problem in Australia is that nobody really in the government wants to do things to make houses more affordable. Anything that would immediately lower house prices would be a disaster for the political party and somewhat for the country. In fact the government has been doing all it can to keep house prices rising further and further.

First by adding a first-home-owners' grant, which just increased the prices of cheaper property, and most recently by allowing people to take money out of their retirement savings to buy a property. All this does is just add more fuel to the real estate market so prices would increase.

The only real way to lower prices would be for a genuine crash to happen, one where the government would be incapable of doing anything to prevent. The other would be to get rid of negative gearing, maybe just for existing property initially, so that people won't leverage up the eyeballs buying more and more investment properties.
This is mostly applicable to white people. I would not move to some of these places as a person of color.
you don't. each team keeps track of its own set of micro-services.
The biggest difficulty I've experienced is "librification", where some common code ends up in a little library, and soon that library is not so little any more, and not long after starts to look like half of every service. I can maintain discipline when working on small systems alone, but on a team there will always be one lazy person or urgent need which means eventually some shared component gains enough gravity to start sucking code out of their nice isolated homes

Giving up and dumping everything into a monorepo, that's not going to help at all. At that point probably better off just giving up any hope of carefully split up and individually managed services
Same. 30 minutes in, and this acid is better than a lot of #acidtechno on Instagram. It's just missing having more accents on the 303 :)
I would also add that the "best" label is so overused by marketing best-of list sites on the internet these days that its very presence is a little suspicious. I would consider different wording. Perhaps "richest," "most worthwhile," "excellent," etc.
I agree - one of my goals for my new personal site I’m building is to be able to see a whole article in an RSS app.
Hi HN,
We released our latest Shotstack demo along with the open source code to create slide show videos from the Pexels image library. Just enter a keyword, title and soundtrack and the app will search Pexels, grab 8 random images and create a slideshow complete with some cool transitions and the title and soundtrack.

The demo shows you how easy it is to start building video apps with the Shotstack video editing API. The demo is open source so you can use it to start building your own idea.
For the past more than 10 years I could see more than 50 APs from my room in my 12 floor building, and this even before IoT was so popular. Wifi has never been reliable for more than browsing or chatting.
Average is "sum(x)/length(x)".

If all you have is 50 averages, there is no way to combine them to get the average of the underlying data, because you don't have the original "length(x)".
Look at Ark Invest: https://research.ark-invest.com/hubfs/1_Download_Files_ARK-I...

- Bitcoin

- Crypto in general

- EVs

- 5G

- Biotech

- 3D Printing
Sound like the National Defense Medal you get in the US Military if you served during an ongoing war, regardless of what you did. I think it's the only medal you can get before you even finish boot camp.
I'm really fascinated by the resurgence of some of these old languages. I vaguely understand that the paradigm behind Prolog is quite different compared to oops or functional languages. Can anyone please help me understand where is this really useful? As everything is data oriented these days, is Prolog a good language for doing statistics or ML or scientific computing?
Sorry, I'm not well versed in the network model; most of my work has been on the new ptrace-based syscall interposition. That sure sounds like a bug, though.

We recently added a discussion section to Shadow's GH repo: https://github.com/shadow/shadow/discussions. That'd be a good place for your questions. More knowledgeable folks are pretty responsive there, but aren't on HN :)
Beautiful vocal harmonies.
First world problem... what makes me chuckle is the need for someone to start a dev rant site. Sigh.
That one wasn't "self-inflicted".
Many employers weren't convinced of remote work. The pandemic has changed this so I expect to see an effect. Also, rural areas often don't have very good internet for remote work, so moving toward cities helps.
Thanks :), do you have any tips on curation? I could use them :)

Great idea! I'd love to do author readings/events. I am hoping I can start peeking at what that would require later this summer. I felt like they would be ghost towns if I didn't have a way to get them in front of the right traffic/readers. I am aiming to ship true topic pages this summer and I felt like then I can show events to people who might be interested.

For example, I recently attended a paid online talk by an author called Guy Walters on the real life Great Escape During WW2 (https://www.crowdcast.io/guywalters - he does these talks often and they are awesome). I felt like I couldn't effective promote it unless I have a topic page about World War 2 to gather signups.

What do you think?

How would you connect raw traffic to events they are interested in?
> US college admissions today are basically a joke though, given universities mostly admit upper-middle class kids with perfect grades who can write an essay where they pretend that their life was hard.

I didn’t pursue a bachelors after high school. For a couple reasons I regret this now and tried to apply to a handful of state schools.

One thing that felt very clear to me was that if you don’t fit that archetype, they don’t really want you. I have a feeling they cared more about my high school discipline record than my industry and open source experience.
"The Chinese government owes the world complete transparency at the Wuhan lab. We need to know how to make virus research as safe as possible."
We don't know the origin of covid but we already know how to fix it? That looks biased.
Sometimes, though thankfully less frequently (and for a less-disastrous definition of "serious") than I used to.

Luckily, a good CI/CD pipeline makes reversions just as easy as deployments. So even when you have errors, it's easier to correct than if you suddenly discovered "our deployment bash script / ansible playbook isn't as reversible as we thought it was"
I guess you could use OCR and object detection to identify books from their spines and link to Google Books or Goodreads.
There is an interesting question about whether they will contribute valuable work, knowing that they probably won't be that professional as you say. When I don't care about quality I can often produce really good results early but that might not be conventional or that maintainable. Maybe it's healthy diversity in approach for a company, better at writing interesting prototypes than a final product?
It's good that you have the choice to rent and I and the other commenter have the choice to buy.
A small SaaS for yacht charters
I broke Giant’s handheld scanner system by only buying two things (2020)
Well written article.

I don't know if the title reflects the content. I would probably describe it something closer to :

"Summary of what we know about the origin of COVID-19"
Open-Shell-Menu (Previously: Classic Shell)
Well that's not what I was hoping for. I want to see bookshelves - like in the physical store. I want to go to a section (sci-fi, fantasy, cooking, whatever) and browse the bookshelf, with a rendered cover.

Then, I want to click on that cover and read the back of the book, on the book jacket. A sample of a page or two would be nice, but for me it's unnecessary. Finally, buttons to purchase the treepub, epub, audiobook, etc. are all fine - keep that experience digital.

I keep visiting physical bookstores for this reason. Book discovery online is nowhere near as fun, as it was in a physical store.
RTFA. (written by no-one, literally, no byline).
TLDR: the elites want you to own nothing and like it.

Anyone who doesn't see in this and COVID passports and only electronic money the clear beginning of an elite-driven fascism is beyond help at this point.
Wild mammals have declined by 85% since the rise of humans
Classic Shell – Start menu and other Windows enhancements
Yes, those look like folded dipoles for VHF, which is the band railroads use.
With requirejs, that work can and should be done at build time. There shouldn't be a dependency waterfall. https://requirejs.org/docs/optimization.html
Would be great if it is followed by a more advanced class.
When my dad was starting his first business, back about 30 years ago, the business environment was wildly different than today.

There was far less venture capital floating around, things like “crowdfunding” were non-existent, websites were incipient, social media wasn’t a thing, businesses nearly always had a “brick and mortar” store presence etc.

Today, your options for starting a business are endless...
Money definitely goes up, it also goes down. What's important is what you compare it to. The USD has been going down for a long time, compared to EUR for example.
As a British citizen I think that was a terrible idea!

While the US has a great deal to offer, Brittan would be worse place from such a union. Food standards, welfare, employment rights, medical care and politics are just some of the things that are better in the UK; maybe not perfect but definitely better. Many of the "freedoms" in the US are actually worse than here or in Europe!
It would seem that the problem is the notion of composition is underspecified in this domain. My intuition would be that one needs a different mechanism of composition aside from the most obvious “use basic logic operators to combine two unrelated logic statements”.

It’s unclear what “the composition of the two systems” really means. Are they running in parallel with no interaction (akin to two AWS instances in different data centers running each program)? Are they running in parallel with superficial interaction (two threads in the same process)? Are they running concurrently with mediated interaction (coroutines)?

The nature of how the programs are composed necessarily would influence the nature of how the specs should be composed, I would think.

Finally, maybe the fault lies with the logic system, rather than the problem?
Does Munin itself use up a lot of resources? I am curious to try it out
The mountains of North Carolina are almost certainly what you are looking for. You will get all four seasons and have lots of diverse beautiful nature around you. I recomend you start with Asheville (probably way too big for you to want to live in since you want to avoid neighbors and HOA) and then start moving WEST on the map from there and you will find what you are looking for.
Google amp is not designed to be simple to implement to my knowledge, just to be fast to load and to tie you to google services.
It wasn't about UX. When Android users join iOS conversations, they lose the ability to use stickers, high quality pictures, etc... But instead of bringing iMessage to Android, Apple has intentionally created a way to get teenagers to look down on non-Apple users (yes, it's seen as a major status symbol, too) to promote their products.
The Future of NFTs (there are a lot of cool applications coming)
Unfortunately it's not absurd. Police in the US are extremely dangerous. They have by far the highest killing rate of any advanced nation, and can do so basically with impunity.

Also you do not need to be driving. I've had extremely frightening encounters with police when walking in a public space in broad daylight. The only times (yes, plural) I've ever had a gun pulled on me was by US cops...
Same here. You might been interested in learning about the lace lock[0] as well, if you haven't already.

[0]: https://youtu.be/LXjOLWgWq9k
Have you lived in any of these places? I grew up in Fairfield County and you seem to greatly exaggerate its dystopian qualities. What's more, industry's flight from the area has nothing to do with folks coming from NYC.
It's not the "being with your children" aspect so much as it's the "being with your children while simultaneously guiding them through a remote education experience no one was prepared for and working remotely at a job that was formerly in person in an office."
Ok, this is much better. Thank you.

So...Steven Hawking?
Yep, this is a starting point and I am working toward the goal of building an experience that is like wandering through a bookstore :). I will never replace local bookstores and my hope is to help them get more business. I've been talking with authors about ideas there too and as this project gets further along I am hoping to extend the recommendations I am collecting for them to use in their stores along with the materials. Plus I am hoping to figure out ways to get them foot traffic.

Great idea!

How would you identify the other side / challenges to that book list?

This is something I am thinking about a lot as I want to combat social media who serves up the same worldview to people without challenging it. Here is a preview screenshot of the related book list feature I plan to add to every list next month too:
https://forauthors.shepherd.com/related-book-lists

Please let me know what you think and if you want to take this to email I am at ben@shepherd.com.
Hey vfc1 great work. Couple of thoughts just on the landing page / proposal:
1 - It's an extensive landing page with a lot of scroll, I guess this might be because you're trying to talk about all the things you can do / will do which is extensive and great but I wonder if you can shrink the page to make the core points and drive to the call to action as a pose to scroll and depart.

2 - I suspect you'll have fairly long sales cycles right? It takes time for people to build their materials, gather resources, polish their words. I wonder if you can make them start with an initial step that builds ownership, e.g. upload a logo or something along that line that get's users along the way.

3 - It maybe apparent to users that you are new. Being new comes with advantages but people may feel the risk of you disappearing and or going bust. Is there a way you can communicate trust / long term support? Sometimes people do this with testimonials or perhaps some kind of of guarantee, maybe a lower priority one for consideration.
You'd expect that to use a different antenna, something directional and for higher frequencies.

E.G. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-03-08/the-gazil...
Rendering 796M points (12.7GB) in real time with compute shaders
Exactly, but it's difficult to combine them to create your own personalized atmosphere.
I upvoted not because I agreed (I found the naming conventions distracting and inconsistent) but because why the fuck was your perfectly innocuous comment downvoted?
F´ Open Source NASA Flight Software and Embedded Systems Framework
Love your sound experiments
Very strange to put that in the mods control. Why would the mods have any idea or care for what users search for? Reddit has all the data about what users usually want and users know what they actually want, I don't see where mods come in
> Cape Cod MA

I used to vacation there.

As one of those clueless people who can't buy marijuana in a legal state, I am equally clueless on the signs of terrible addiction if I drove through Cape Cod, MA today.

I'm not sure what makes me more sad -- the existence, or my incapability to notice the existence.
What is "financial freedom"? You still have to work, use state currency, pay taxes. Did you mean owning your own home is the first step towards being wealthy?