skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If your idea of achieving generational wealth involves a bank savings account there are some bigger educational issues you need to address first. Bank savings accounts rarely, if ever, keep up with inflation regardless of interest rates. You are losing purchasing power in a savings account even if the nominal value of the account increases year over year.

I'm not saying it's anyone's business what you do with your money, but keeping more than 6-ish months of expenses in a savings account is objectively burning money and a pretty idiotic thing to do in general. Anything more than that should be invested. Hedges exist for a reason. There are dozens - hundreds? - of ways to hedge your investment and keep market exposure by limiting or even eliminating downside. Hell, Mark Cuban has a great story about after the broadcast.com acquisition where he was fully invested in the market but also heavily hedged in case his stocks tanked. When the market crashed he made money.

All that is to say that yes it's totally your right to keep half a million dollars in a savings account. But it's an objectively stupid thing to do.
Having sat next to / worked with a lot of the rust core people (and Eich) I think while his support was important, that doesn't make him more important/pivotal than people like Dave Herman
Maybe not objectively, but probably for some people. While some could be, many expert engineers wouldn't be expert social scientists or public servants.
Verizon Sells Yahoo and AOL
How else are we supposed to deal with repeat offenders who flout the law?

The idea that white collar crimes don't damage people's lives is easily debunked: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/economic-do...
Verizon sells Yahoo and AOL businesses to Apollo for $5B
Jai can't come out fast enough. Don't think for one instance that the language is only for writing games; it will serve equally well for writing any kind of software where the performance is nice to have.
First impression from someone who implements lots of Web specs: it reeks of bull crap. I don't see the point in standardising a new URI schema. The example shown at <https://w3c.github.io/did-core/#parts-of-a-did> comes with much expense: verbosity, dereferencing (i.e. network round-trip) to get a document with additional required information and drags in the json-ld spec for no good reason.

If I were in charge of minting identifiers, I would always just use the http URI schema; the controller/verification stuff could be simply appended right there. With just a modicum of care and planning, the URIs will last as long as the Web itself. http://enwp.org/PURL http://w3id.org
Stolterman comes from an interesting generation of scandinavian systems designers who thought critically about interfaces very early on. I would recommend anyone to look at the work of Pelle Ehn as well – another very underrated figure.
Tesla’s Latest Solar Stumble: Big Price Increases
“I am shocked, shocked, that gambling is going on in here.”
side note: I found doing crosswords in a foreign language a superb and powerful way to increase knowledge of it at the vocabulary and idiom level. It's more fun than repetitive remembering technique IMO.
Doesn't make it right though.

Every brand must estimate their competitors market shares, sales volumes, media spend, and actively track promotional activity - while retailers have a massive slice of this information, namely Amazon. Not only that they control their own "shelves".

In my point of view they shouldn't be allowed to compete if they are using competitors data without their consent... and that's the catch, it's Amazon data as well, so the only solution is: either Amazon is a market place or a retailer.
That's right, it's a temporarily granted monopoly in return for publishing the tech. The argument isn't so sophisticated.
Does the old software really have to be modified to "mine something invalid under the new 'future' rules"? Isn't it possible to simply craft a transaction that is invalid according to the new software but valid according to the old software?
Go look up changing to the metric system in the US. Failed effort billions of dollars. Definitely agree with the prior commentators statement. Technical solitarily already seems in the wild by enhancing driving capability...
From the comments here it looks like the project is missing a comparison table with other, similar tools. There are already questions about nvm, npx [1], asdf-vm [2], nodenv [3] (which also relies on shims).

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27023701

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27023909

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27023881
> That's just such an american way of looking at issues.

You could not be any more wrong and your rant at then end was irrelevant on what I've asked.
I wouldn’t call myself a tech expert. I’m more of what is sometimes called a prosumer. But I know enough that friends and family often rely on me for light tech support.

As any experienced tech would, the first thing I do in most cases is just turn off the offending device, feature, or program, and then turn in back on again.

As I doubt I have to tell hn, that solves a great number of issues, but you rarely know why. The person I’m helping will ask what exactly was wrong in the first place, and generally all I can say is: “Dunno, something must have glitched.”
Posted here earlier:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27024022
I believe that there's evidence that the best legal system is one where there's a high probability of lawbreaking being punished, though not necessarily harshly. In contrast, the situation prevailing in the US, where there's a high probability of not getting punished at all, and a small probability of getting the book thrown at you, is not a great way of administering justice.
I don't have a great grasp yet of how PoS and other non-PoW consensus protocols work.

But if I ever grok the building blocks fully enough, I'd like to see if I can devise a system based on "proof of receipt" in which the act of receiving X coins grants you the ability to "settle" a set of blocks totaling a*X worth of transactions (for some constant a).

Like in other blockchains, the node selected to settle a block of transactions gets to keep some or all of the transaction fees for that block. But instead of continually getting selected by virtue of continuing to hold a large amount of coin, you could only continue to be selected by continuing to receive coin (presumably in return for goods and services).

The transaction fees and the constant $a$ would have to bee chosen such that you couldn't turn a profit by sending lots of money to yourself. But I think that would allow for a fair system with a good incentive structure.
Brie Larson Pivoted to Video
Grind it off or use some kind of paint remover.
Amazon the marketplace isn’t terribly innovative. It’s a marketplace supported by fantastic logistics, and most of it is backed by USPS anyways. There’s only so much you can do to remove the pains from buyers, sounds like we’re there.
RMS is right about many things but not this one. Competition naturally leads to few companies capturing a market over a long period of time. What's however important is to prevent actively regulatory capture of said markets.
Worst case I guess you could use paint stripper on it before use?

But I expect rebar-sealer exists for exactly this use...
The flawed specification was done in-house by Boeing employees. That design wasn't outsourced.

I think you may have glossed over this point of the article:

If you separate the thinking about things from the doing of things, then innovation will suffer.

The article is arguing that the specification might have been flawed because the company doesn't have in-house manufacturing expertise any more -- there was not enough knowledge left to validate the designs.
Luckily this isn’t an issue in the UK.
We have that in Luxembourg. Problem is finding the site. You have to know it is there.
I wrote the book on user-friendly design: what I see today horrifies me
> nvm allows to install and switch node versions, volta does it automatically. It creates a proxy executable which checks package.json, nvmrc, and automatically chooses proper node version

NVM also changes the runtime automatically based on the version in .nvmrc, as volta does. NVM does not read the engine version from package.json, as that version is not the _required_ version but rather the suggested version. Just because the author hasn't updated the version since version 4 while you're on version 5, doesn't mean it doesn't work on version 5, just that the author hasn't updated it.

> remembers the version used when globally installing (npm -g)

That's actually a pretty nifty feature, sounds like a good idea and might give Volta a try because I've ended up in that situation many times (or worse, upgrading node and now missing bunch of binaries without thinking about it).

> Nvm is macos only

NVM is also cross-platform (works on Linux too), just happens to not work on "standard" Windows as NVM works via environment variables (and aims to be POSIX compliant), something Windows is notoriously shitty at. Although, many Windows devs use WSL, which NVM also works with (and supposedly MSYS and Cygwin too, but I never tried that).
Why the Camp Grant Massacre of Apache People Matters Today
Show HN: An Alexa tutorial application. It interfaces Alexa with eBay's API
Cars won't save us from cars. Having widely available self driving car would save some lives but also set off another front in the culture wars and won't lead to significant changes in our infrastructure or how the burdens of mass driving are distributed.

The common point that you won't see huge structural improvements until human driven cars are gone is true and it's going to be a WHILE.

Even if you had perfect self driving technology the cultural and political capital you'd have to expend to get rid of recreational cars is just astronomical. At that point you may as well ban all of the fucking things, the electric ones aren't better they just shovel the suffering around a bit.
Nice list!

> If you want to cat bunch of files at once you can this command

You can use cat itself for this (and save typing a few characters):

cat *
Right, often those sites have customers with different SSO systems. I type my company mail address and am redirected to company SSO.

I like this more than other sites where I have to find the right button between different login options (sign in with google, sign in with facebook, sign in with sso, ...) and then have to type the company name ... whatever might be the choice the admins did there that time ...

I also think that approach was initially created by Yahoo! So they could shown the user's avatar on the password page to prove authority. Not sure whether that still is a thing somewhere, considering that a recent trend is not to verify whether an account exists ...
Indeed, but if the doctrine started becoming more widely applied I imagine that they would start actively trying to avoid having it apply to them, e.g. by not using their hardware monopolies (patents) in ways that create software monopolies.
Hindsight makes history look easy and obvious. It is far from the truth.
Realistically, only processes that are scheduled on sibling hyperthreads, and hyperthreading can be restricted to processes that have the same privilege level, which is done on ChromeOS. The amount of microarchetectural state that sticks around after a context switch is finite and whenever there's a new avenue found like this, usually easily fixed by ucode update and kernel fix.
Products more expensive is better?
How is Dogecoin better performing than Bitcoin, even on a decade timescale?

BTC was $1 in 2011, so 50,000% gain in a decade.

Definitely not better performing of all time, as before 2011 Bitcoin was also worth pennies at various points (just like DOGE). Except now BTC is worth $50k and DOGE is worth $0.30.
Same in Peru, really unfortunate outcome
Alice, Bob, Eve, Mallory, and Trent
Isn't the topic of conversation that Amazon's successful software projects have had potentially disastrous side-effects?
Level 4 aerial autonomy: Drones can now fly themselves
It's a 1:1 framework, because it didn't evolve.

There's nothing fundamentally limiting SMS to being stuck to that. That SMS didn't add better 1:something capabilities is an indictment of post-1995 cellular carrier pricing models and greed.

They could have prevented and owned the entire messaging space, all of which is essentially an attempt to recreate basic messaging functionality that SMS lacks.
>but all this "i can fill my SUV in three minutes" stuff is... dumb. know what's even more convenient? never stopping at a stupid gas station ever again. i wait 0 minutes for my car to charge because i plug it in when i get home and then go inside and forget all about it.

If all you life consists of is driving around locally, then yes an EV would be convenient. Luckily, there is way more to life than that.
> I had one time a talk to a director from an important online shop (top 3 in the country in that specific field) and "this sort of things" was exactly the reason why they chose to use MS Azure instead of AWS. Imagine how deep it can go

This seems to be very common. https://www.forbes.com/sites/bobevans1/2018/07/18/walmart-ci...
If you don't die from lung cancer you'll die from some other terrible thing. I don't smoke but I can see why, if it gives someone satisfaction and/or relaxation, they would be willing to risk that kind of death in exchange for a lifetime of mental hacks (though there are arguably safer methods of similar efficacy).
How often are USPS on time for deliveries vs Amazons drivers?
It seems to me that you overestimate the cost of people making all that happen currently, and underestimate the difficulty of automating it (and maintain that automation).

A lot of work isn't impossible to automate, it's just not worth the cost. Lots of people unfortunately earn very low salaries, they're cheaper than a machine. This is the case both in manufacturing, and administration.
The use that makes most sense, I think, is word processing. We don’t need much to write - George R. R. Martin still uses WordStar, Arthur C. Clarke wrote 2020 on an 8-bit Kaypro and Jerry Pournelle used his custom built Zeke II for far longer than it’d be reasonable. Being offline also removes a lot of tempting distractions, which, for me at least, is a killer feature.

I also have an unhealthy love for physical terminals. A lot of what I do could be done on those.
> I keep getting phishing calls every other day to give my SSN, does that mean the social security program should be canceled for this very reason?

No, but according to some people's logic it's a reason to ban telephone calls.
For fun, a while back, I built a small-scale crossword solver. It used Moby's thesaurus, pre-trained word vectors, and Wordnet to guess probable solutions and used an SMT solver to arrange those solutions on the grid.

Github: https://github.com/pncnmnp/Crossword-Solver

Blog-post: https://pncnmnp.github.io/blogs/crossword-1.html
Even if he is right a lot (not a point I'm conceding by any stretch), why pick such an asinine thing as "11% market share means we should treat this market as a regulated utility?" It's an extremely fringe belief, which is saying something given the source.
People hold dollars to

1. Have liquid cash for spending
2. Emergency money where you're willing to pay the interim exchange for security
I think it depends how broadly you define class of vulnerabilities. As I understand it any processor capable of speculative execution is vulnerable to the broad class of Spectre/Meltdown vulnerabilities, which includes all commonly used processors implementing the ARM instruction set.
That's smart! I use en_IE for the same reason. I for some strange reason assumed that en_CA used non-metric measurements and crazy American dates. Thanks for enlightening me!
http://mediablog.prnewswire.com/2019/05/28/summer-job-blogs/
Then you have to either leak a list of each customer to the client to verify there or send each key stroke and consider latency ...
I Got Worms...it's a worm farm!

- Lloyd Christmas
Price dumping is already illegal.
Not sure if it can be called a pivot when it was in the original release of the software.

Payment channels aren't in the white paper but they were in the first public release and had dedicated opcodes. That first implementation wasn't very practical nor was it secure.

The fact that modern payment channels are implemented with other opcodes may be a pivot in implementation but not in concept.
How to connect to ClickHouse with Python using SQLAlchemy
It's funny how the weird behavior is a "glitch" until you narrow down exact circumstances when it occurs and then if the issue can be reproduced reliably, then it's a straight-up bug.
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Are these changes being mainlined anytime soon?

BTW, a Pinephone running WebOS is very tempting. WebOS was so much ahead of its time it’s still ahead of ours.
I keep seeing stories like this that prey on readers' ignorance to push an unfair agenda.

Retailers using their data as an advantage to improve sales of own brand products, at the cost of suppliers, is totally standard. It's happening right now in every supermarket (and plenty of other places). Pretending otherwise is silly.

Amazon having a policy of not doing that is exemplary. Amazon failing to meet that in one case is amazon meeting it in 99.9999% of cases.

But people are very quick to see the devil in amazon while others (Walmart for instance) are much worse and get a free pass...
That's an interesting idea! Do you know if anyone has explored this further?
I'm sorry to say that I have no intention to escalate this thread. So, I will not reply to your arguments.
>I used to do NYT crosswords with my American partner (I'm British) and the wordplay never made sense to me

Can't say I've ever tried an American cryptic [I regularly do the UK Guardian and Telegraph ones] but the ones quoted above don't make sense to me either:

>Q: “It may turn into another story” A: Spiral Staircase.

Would be "...turn into another storey". In a UK cryptic there'd have to be an indication that there was a homonym involved story/storey.

>"Pasta dish at the centre of a murder mystery...The answer was poisoned penne.

Ditto. UK version would need to indicate a homonym was involved pen/penne. And, as someone else points out, a 'Poisoned Pen' is a letter, not a murder mystery. Very strange clues indeed.

Some freely available UK cryptics:

* Guardian Quiptic: https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/series/quiptic/latest

* Guardian Everyman: https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/series/everyman

* Chambers: https://chambers.co.uk/puzzles/cryptic-crosswords/

RANDOM ASIDE: My favourite anagram, which has been involved a couple of times in UK cryptic clues is:

VINDALOO AND RICE which is an anagram of LEONARDO DA VINCI
Agree. I expect 2050, easily, before there's even the remotest hope of even parity with human drivers.

I'm always astonished at how those most skilled at software, turn around and explain how software is better than humans at task $x. Yet, I've never used a piece of software without bugs. I've never seen a piece of software, not real world capable, which even remotely close to dealing with things, as well as humans.

And the more complex the software, the more bugs. Bugs abound in complex software. Full self driving is as complex as the linux kernel, easily.

How many bugs are in the Linux kernel? Right now?

To even hope, even begin to hope that things will be mostly bug free, bug free beyond human "bugs" when driving, we'd:

- Need to 100% freeze the platform, so the car has zero changes. Ever. Like a Volvo, 10+, 20+ years with only fixes for flaws.

No change in drive train. No change in how the car handles, etc.

- A 100% feature freeze fix for years and years, only bug fixes, no feature add.

It's just not happening overnight. And when it does, cars are going to require an addition of massive sensors, it's not going to be camera or radar, it's going to be camera, radar, lidar, motion, wind, and 50 other environmental sensors.

It's going to be mainine computing power in triplicate. Connectivity and sensors in triplicate. 100%, no way is the AI CPU even slightly network connected. No over-the-air updates.

Bugs cannot happen. Bugs kill. Bad hardware kills.

I do get that having a car self drive, in the desert, in constantly warm temp is an easy thing. Try it at -40C, in a snow storm, with a snow filled road, in the country with no ditches, no lines to see (due to snow), in the dark, when windy, periodic white-outs, and more.

Heck, I'll say there's a chance when AI can drive on a frozen lake. And yes, humans do and can.

So far, all AI driving is monoculture.

Not to mention, how about a 20 year old car? Or even 10? "Buy new?" Now you hate the environment! And 20 year old cars are driven daily by humans, no they aren't the primary cause of accidents, because, when driving you notice issues in the feel of how the car drives.

Can AI "feel" that? Sure! But that means loads and loads of sensors! And cost! ANd repair bills!

To be honest, my 2050 thing is likely mostly due to this. Cost.
Not directly but their work needs to benefit an ad company to be allowed to continue.

Or else it exists in some intersection of corporate benevolence and the work not actively harming the ad company. Which is just not an arrangement I trust sorry.

Plus I mean that's two people. How many people work at google and fb and how many who do get to decide they're going to do something more important than ads?
That was a nice right up and very revealing of how things actually work hidden from the larger public.

Once I met Cory Doctorow at Judge Business School at Cambridge where he gave a very eye-opening lecture on DRM. Got an opportunity to do some small talk with him. It was very interesting.
So many wrongs with this comment (bypassing the obvious cargo-cult of "curl | bash needs to die yugga yugga")

So your assumption here is that you can take control over the distribution channel that lives on get.volta.sh. Ok, what other distribution methods can you think of that A) allows easy distribution of binaries and B) when the distribution channel is taken over by Alice, doesn't allow Alice to send malicious binaries?

If you were to use APT and you had control over the keys for publishing to APT, the same thing happens as if you were to do "curl | bash", just via APT instead.

> if I can take over that server, I have a direct channel into all their customers

Volta is open source and I seem to find nothing to suggest you can pay for anything, or even donate. Calling the "users" customers is really weird.

And even with that, if you take over the server you don't get a "direction channel into all of their users", you get a channel to people who installing Volta. The first would be a huge deal, the second is a big deal.

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I really wish this "curl | bash needs to die", would die. People are just echoing what they've heard others say, without really considering how hard the "if I can take over that server" part is, and how that applies to any distribution channel, not just "curl | bash" part. It might be a leftover since the http (without TLS) days, but it should hardly be a criminal offense.
It's also quite a common idea in that industry that aircraft manufacturers make more money financing aircraft than selling them.
I had same approach for 2048, ruzzle and a few others things https://caub.github.io/misc/#some-scripts (marked [AI])
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Hello World Program in C
"Innovation" refers to practices like staying in the red for a decade and bypassing antitrust laws by owning (rather than monopolizing) markets.

It has little to do with technological innovation.