skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's pretty sad webpages now are written for search engines to parse and only incidentally, for humans to read.
James May's Tesla Model S has failed [video]
> Azure has now made it clear that they can and will shutdown services with relatively short notice.

This isn't a new thing - there's an entire Twitter feed dedicated to things Azure discontinues: https://twitter.com/azureendoflife
> Worse by what metric?

The value of the dollar.

> An inflation of 25%/year and full employment and economic growth is certainly better than 3%/year with 10% unemployment and zero growth.

There's absolutely no reason to hold a currency that depreciates 25% every year. Governments may want people to spend it as soon as possible but the fact is there's any number of things people can do that may or may not align with government interests.

This economic growth is presumably fueled by endless consumption by the masses. So what happens when people invest the money instead? Cryptocurrencies are already mainstream. Plenty of stimulus packages ended up getting injected into the cryptocurrency market.

> The problem is not in the "money printing" (monetary policy), but in taking whatever resources the government had and deciding to put them into building a city like Brasilia in the middle of nowhere (economic policy).

I don't see how this invalidates the idea that money printing was the cause. You're essentially saying that when a government has low amount of resources but still wants to spend money the only way it can do that is by printing money.

Money printing was the means to their end: spending money they didn't have. The inflation was basically a tax on everyone who held the currency at the time. The only problem was inflation increased wildly beyond their control.

> It wouldn't matter if JK had the resources already and Brasil was flush with resources, or if he managed to convince people to borrow him the money at low interest rates

Why? Surely the impact would have been mitigated.
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A growing trend of Neuromancer-inspired, utilitarian-looking, retro-themed, console-focused, low-volume or one-off art projects.
Enterprise doesn’t worry too much about changes or shutdowns. We worry about them when they happen quickly, surprisingly or without plans for how we move forward.

I’d be pretty happy if our legacy Mainframe systems got shut down, with a decent plan for how our suppliers would move forward to other technologies. As it stands there are only two national companies left who can handle mainframes in my country, so there isn’t much of a bidding war when we put systems into procurement processes, and it makes things really expensive over time.

I hope most enterprises entered the cloud with a mindset not to get locked in. I know we did, and in that setup, Microsoft can move forward as they see fit as long as they give us time to move on.

Not that I think any enterprise organisations were really using Azure Blockchain, I still haven’t seen a single reason to use Blockchain. Even if you live in a corrupt country, where decentralised trust might make sense, you still need an authority to back it up. This is why Bitcoin works for crime, they enforce it.
This chemicals are terrible but they don't kill quickly, they may not even kill you at all, they just make your health really bad but aren't in general life-threatening.

But like they say, the dose makes the poison, so it might be just a matter of time (they're extremely stable substances)

edit: why the downvotes?
Yes--I'm leary of the Ph.D types whom sailed through school. The ones with a big egos that feel they feel like they are the best, and claim they were never sick at sea. I think we have all met the type?

I don't think those are the type that generally get these positions, however. As you say, a big ego is a big liability. The ones who have "the right stuff" are generally very intelligent, very accomplished, and very humble.
pyodide != pydiode :D
An idea I had was to encourage discoverabily of self hosted posts/articles by integrating a label or tag system in an easy API that would present articles from others, and this could be dynamically added to the footer of your post/article, and likewise, your post will start to show up on other’s footer. Centralized webring kinda.
That is a quirk of Ghost, it took the summary text from the blog homepage and inserted it into the post. I fixed it.

I didn't purposefully use that phrase repeatedly. Thanks for spotting.
Thank you, I was so confused. I was thinking the pilot a genius for bringing and activating a parachute. Now I see it was just great design.

> As of 1 May 2021, CAPS had been activated 122 times, 101 of which saw successful parachute deployment. In those successful deployments, there were 207 survivors and 1 fatality. No fatalities had occurred when the parachute was deployed within the certified speed and altitude parameters
It stands for “The Fucking Article”.
Not quite open source, but SwissMicros provides more evidence of the utility of stand-alone calculators. I love my DM42

https://www.swissmicros.com/product/dm42
Office Space is probably the most representative of this discipline!
Nikon is slowly discontinuing more Nikkor reflex F-mount lenses
It wasn't written for search.

Nobody googles titles like 'what I learnt'

The blog post shares every single insight I learnt reviewing landing pages and running my business without any SEO implemented at all.
Well, yes. In that case every abstraction costs because at the very least you need to develop it and it costs.

I think there are two major contributors to cost of abstraction.

#1 is performance. Does it add stuff that is not strictly necessary but is just side effect of abstraction mechanism? Does it affect memory layout to be less than ideal? Does it prevent generated code to be ideal?

#2 is leaks. Leaks are cost. Leak is when the user of abstraction needs to be aware of more details than just the official abstraction. For example, regular expression is a leaky abstraction because, except for simple regexes, you need to know a lot about actual implementation of the regex so that you understand how to write so that it does not require infinite memory and finishes before heat death of the Universe.

Traditionally, "zero-cost" refers to #1 and I think this is very useful definition.

It is difficult to impossible to prevent #2. Using #1 as definition of zero-cost describes tools with which you can use to create your solution without hampering your performance (significantly). These tools do not need to be simple or even intuitive (and Rust is neither).
> Dissatisfaction is not a limited resource

It is, though. When outrage is misdirected, it lets the true bad guys get off scot–free.

Sure, there are some people who can be angry about everything all day long, but everyone else grows tired to listening to them, and they lose credibility for when it counts.
Casting practices has changed drastically and there's been major increase in diversity of characters in movies/tv.

There's even been a huge increase in diversity of, ex, contestants on game shows/challenge shows.

There's just simply much, much more media made now too.
>Why do people in the Python community get so excited over announcements? I'd rather see working code, but no one cares about that in the Python universe.

Because almost everything you've seen as 'working code' started its life as an announcement.

And because to coordinate and discuss future work, there would need to be some announcements.

And because some announcements (based on the persons, e.g. here GvR is involved) or the funding (e.g. here MS is involved) or the specificity (e.g. here 3.10 timeframe is discussed) are more important than others.

>Meanwhile the Erlang people quietly produced a JIT without any advertisements.

Good for them. That's maybe because much fewer care for Erlang (and thus for the advertisements) related to Python (which has a much larger dev base), so the advertisements of the former are posted fewer times and discussed by fewer people.
Reminds me of the "World's Best Cup of Coffee" scene from elf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUPDRnUWeBA
I don't find any good reason to use .C instead of .cpp, .Cpp, .cxx, .Cxx, or similar. That two characters more of information helps compilers and other persons a lot.
This brings up a good question. How do you migrate a blockchain from Azure to somewhere else?
I don't understand how any neck holds up to sustained use of devices with this screen placement.
17R is shorter and narrower than 17L. If the pilot mistook 17R for a taxiway, it would have been a mirror-image situation to the relatively recent one at SFO, were an airliner was making its approach to a taxiway.
Water's not that easy to come by on mars though! Sounds like a pretty miserable existence either way.
Hi, author here

I shared what I learnt across the 200 pages I reviewed and my focus is on landing page conversion. I am working on the assumption there is some sort of product market fit.

I also included techniques to generate insights - like exit intent, review analytics and heatmaps, introducing a cycle of testing - rather than just telling people what they should do.

Finally, I don't look at naff tricks on the visitor. It's all focused on proven concepts for relaying what makes your business great.

However if you can find anything in the list you feel is some sort of bizarre manipulation or trick I'm happy to look again.
`.cpp` is very common. I never understood the point of `.C`; even ignoring issues with case sensitivity, it is too easy to visually confuse with `.c`, and doesn't even have much of a mnemonic connection to the name C++.
Don't a private blockchain need that anyway to manage access to add to the chain?

Or how does a private blockchain manage who has write access to it (since it's supposed to be private)?
Hi, I'm with Lisperati and we're working hard to manufacture these. Feel free to ask any questions. No, we don't know when they'll be ready, but when they are ready we will sell them directly (no presale/crowdfunding/etc)

Also: we already have DIY build instructions with STL files available at lisperaticomputers.com. However, the official device will have an aluminum enclosure.
Web browsers don't have widely known glaring security holes in them even though their vendors don't approve the content that's viewed through them.

On the other hand, you can't be completely sure that sandboxes on mobile devices don't have actively exploited security issues as there are many ways to bypass app review from discovering the true functionality of an app.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27121918
So I murder someone you love, serve my time and get out of jail, then immediately get a job at your company, working directly with you, you have no problem with that?
Rebekah Jones, the Covid Whistleblower Who Wasn’t
The problems start whenever a program asks the user for a file name and it then saves that raw users input.

For example lets imagine some sort of batch processing application that runs user defined scripts.

To define some batch process, the user provides the name the script to be run, so they enter 'MyScript.py' even though the file lives on disk as the 'myscript.py' file.

That batch processing application then saves the user supplied file name 'as is' and everything works fine in default Windows file system mode.

However, flipping that file system option to make it case sensitive suddenly the batch processing will fail.

As Windows applications don't have to deal with case sensitivity, they don't do things like check if the user has entered the name correctly in terms of case.

The just ask the file system if the file exists and likewise, Windows is not checking the case when it does that 'exists' check.
The user is feeling the pain, you are amplifying it.

Yes it sound stupid but it's only about evoking a feeling the visitor already has.

Here's some examples - they are everywhere

https://twitter.com/helloitsolly/status/1391668206755106816
I have a feeling that the Casio post not long ago motivated this submission. Or maybe it's the Zeitgeist
Heres home-manager repo you could try to learn from: https://simatime.com/git/ben/cfg.git/
I often take the excessive focus on things like the landing page, design details to be a sign of inexperience/immaturity on the part of founders. Once you have a selling product, by all means, do optimize at the margins. But at an early stage, it’s just a distraction.
> Microsoft's product page for Azure BaaS lists GE, J.P. Morgan, Singapore Airlines, Starbucks and Xbox as customers.

The article says that these enterprises are using it
When discussing short term changes, it's logical to compare to short term pasts.
Constantly testing!
> European with E (e.g. EF for Europe-France).

EF is Finland actually. The first letter is region code, and Europe is divided into multiple regions. Northern Europe is E, Southern Europe is mostly L (so France is LF).

Wikipedia has a nice map showing the different boundarys on it's ICAO airport codes page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICAO_airport_code#/media/File:...
Dark patterns are:

a) UI

b) explicitly designed to mislead or confuse you into conflating things

This is simple persuasion, not deception. It's also not UI.
For a more sensible answer, I use "The Featured Article"
It generates word of mouth and share-ability but agree it's not for everyone.
It's amazing how much of our digestive system isn't known.

Having had a bad flu years ago, it had a life altering impact on my own system, where I now have to be very particular about what I eat, because I lost so much of that good bacteria.

This in turn has an impact on my SO, since she eats mostly what I eat. My son has a bit more diet diversity, since I worry he'll end up in a similar condition.
95% of the internet traffic is now TLS according to Google:

https://transparencyreport.google.com/https/overview?hl=en

Most of the most severe attacks require HTTP and physical proximity. So we’re fortunate of the huge drive towards HTTPS since Snowden’s 2013 releases when it was around ~55% (I’ve seen the rise in numbers correlated before).

But it also recommends upgrading your router. I wonder how many routers and IoT device companies are actually releasing firmware updates. And quality ones at that…
Came here to say that. He’s a great director.
Yes. From the same site's review of a different device:

"Cyberdecks are, almost by their very definition, mostly about aesthetics. There are very few of them that are designed to serve a real, practical purpose that can’t be done better by a modern laptop or tablet."

https://www.hackster.io/news/the-griz-sextant-is-a-raspberry...
This is how you architect a boring web.
The ethics scandal of paleofeces studies:

Because feces aren't considered human remains under U.S. law, Warinner says, there was little discussion early on about the ethics of the research. But when the group reached out to several dozen tribes in the Southwest, some said the samples were a link to their ancestors and were upset they hadn't been consulted earlier. The study now includes an ethics statement, a first for a paleofeces paper.
Banking systems are complex. You can't build a single centralized system that works for everyone, let alone get everyone to trust each other on the system. The solution needs to be decentralized, trustworthy and provide built-in checks for integrity.
> the US is also probably the most effective country on earth at being able to evacuate their citizens from areas that turn hostile

Countries turning hostile is a low risk for expats. And whenever major natural disasters have occurred in recent decades, it is often reported that smaller European countries evacuated their citizens better and more kindly than the US.
Their responsibility to "the taxpayer" is a few orders of magnitude less acute than their responsibility to the owners of the company they've been hired to manage.
This is a common concern with this form factor, but I think there's a lot of variability between people on how comfortable they are with a "book reading" posture, such as required by a cyberdeck. It will work for some people, not so much for other people.
Brain Immune System Linked to Psychosis
I wonder how it looks for the subset of the US that generally isn't fat, affected by opiods, or unable to get basic healthcare. Obviously it'll be higher, but is it still growing or has it also stalled?
While not a perfect film by any means, and more aimed at a younger audience I suspect, I found Time Trap[1] to be fairly interesting overall.

Similar in theme, I also enjoyed The Endless[2].

[1]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4815122/

[2]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3986820/
Does Driving Wear You Out? You Might Be Experiencing ‘Accelerousal’
I was okay with this list until I saw "Gravity" on it. It's preposterous and silly.

Astronaut Chris Hadfield Reviews Space Movies, from 'Gravity' to 'Interstellar': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RkhZgRNC1k
Delta, American Airlines Stocks Are a Trap
Agreed. Plus ". . . in their lifetime" is a pointless affectation.
I found out from a colleague today that I’m not the only person who has no idea what happened in Tenet... and loved it anyway. Seen it a few times now.
Thank you for the elaborate response. So I think the question is how near time your view data needs to be. Especially for reporting purposes (which is probably the most common use case of data lakes) it’s often acceptable to have data ready per T-1 (in terms of business days). For financial reports, last day’s close prices of assets is usually what’s being used. So, being able to relax requirements in this manner can reduce a lot of complexity.
>decline in human sperm count and sperm quality over the last few decades

Dogs too:

"Study demonstrates rapid decline in male dog fertility, with potential link to environmental contaminants"

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/160809095138.h...
> "which left hundreds trapped in elevators"

My worst nightmare
You rebuild it, same with any public cloud that isn't using an open standard. That is why people should only invest enough effort into a cloud to deploy an agnostic solution like Kubernetes.
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> I too believe that the blockchain is mostly useless outside of buying drugs online

Decentralized financial tools like Uniswap and its ilk have finally changed that.
Partially true. TLS stands for "Transport Layer Security". TLS certificates are used on servers to encrypt communication. The certificates on the smartcard are used for digital signatures, encryption, and authentication. All of those certificates follow the X.509 certificate standard.
Hi, rescuetime user here. Yes, I want apps to be able to track my usage if I ask for it.
I bet Shift plus one of the two sides of that spacebar would do nicely.
That's true, but if you look at old movies you'll see the men aren't in nearly the same good shape that men in modern movies are - if we used movies to determine what we think the population is like we'd assume there are way more 6 packs now.
AFAIK microsoft has never had a C compiler. C is enough of a subset of C++ that you can use MSVC to build most programs, but MSVC doesn't officially support C to this day. C++ tries to bring in everything of the latest C standard, but sometimes that isn't possible, or C++ has a better way (better generally because of some issue that doesn't exist in C in the first place). The C standard committee is aware of C++, and tries not to break the ability of C++ to use new C standards, but nobody is perfect.
My guilty pleasures for this genre are "Hackers" (Hack the planet!! WOOO!) and "Office Space".

One also cannot mention these without adding the excellent "Sneakers" with Robert Redford.
>The US does have an extremely good network of embassies

The only reason most citizens would go to an embassy is to renew their passport, so these embassies are needed once every 5-10 years. Do you really think that US embassies offer such high level of service coverage and quality that it is worth paying through the nose for?

>US is also probably the most effective country on earth at being able to evacuate their citizens from areas that turn hostile.

This is hardly a real benefit if you don't actively travel to unstable areas. How often does the need for evacuation from hostile areas come as a total surprise?
Show HN: DatoJI – create, read, update, delete and search JSON data
Bitemporal Information Modeling
> It's effectively become a casino for millenials and zoomers

Mark Cuban and Elon Musk are also investing in cryptocurrencies and neither of them fall into those age groups.
> We worry about them when they happen quickly, surprisingly or without plans for how we move forward.

This change has a 4 month notice period and the plan to move forward from MS seems to be literally "you should switch to something else." So this change doesn't seem to tick any of the boxes you mentioned.
Also, it compiles very quickly compared to most other statically typed languages; especially compared to more advanced ones.
Thanks for the tip! I think we already use xelatex, as the book is created with pandoc (https://pandoc.org/).
Thanks for mentioning this experience -- I was really excited about Go early on but went with other languages after a while so didn't make any huge projects with it (and definitely not at a large employer/go shop).

Did you have to do a lot of stuff that is DDD-related? Like building out abstractions for adapters and connection points, or did you use libraries that did that part for you mostly? I know of some stuff out there like go kit[0] which is quite pragmatic and does some of the 80% use-cases (serialization, transports, etc) DDD stuff for you.

I think for the most part it's rare to actually need to write a lot of your own DDD pieces for CRUD-y apps, and the parts where the complexity would be worth it are often already done for you by the libraries/frameworks used.

[0]: https://gokit.io/
Can't forget Decay, the independent zombie movie shot by CERN employees at the LHC in their free time :)

https://www.decayfilm.com/
I’d rather pay for the book than give you my email.
Having large multinational corporations is hugely beneficial to the Irish economy, through direct employment. Sure any company that is just a brass plaque and funneling money through Ireland is of no benefit, but most of the big ones have significant high quality high tech jobs here. Apple, Facebook, Google, Intel, you name it, they all have huge operations here.
> we're working hard to manufacture these.

Really exciting!

Assumedly it's Linux under the hood, and you'd be able to install whatever packages normally available through, say apt? So this could this be used for writing LaTeX, for example?

Also and tangentially, has there been any progress with Walking Dream?

http://walkingdre.am/
Elon Musk: Bitcoin's energy usage trend over the past few months is insane
Getting started: https://pyodide.org/en/stable/usage/quickstart.html

PyOdide on GitHub: https://github.com/pyodide/pyodide
Also no unicode support which is a huge con.
Anyone know of a TLDR version? Top 10 on one page? Would love to watch all 20 minute videos but just not at this time.
Dystopian
Also watch The Devil We Know, which you can watch free at ThoughtMaybe: https://thoughtmaybe.com/the-devil-we-know.

The Intercept and New York Times cover the issue well.

Robert Bilott's book Exposure https://www.amazon.com/Exposure-Be-Confirmed/dp/1501172816 covers the story of the lawyer who successfully sued DuPont and is continuing that legal pursuit.

I also recommend my podcast with Robert Bilott: https://joshuaspodek.com/guests/robert-bilott
OpenSSH specified and implemented it first. The section on U2F describes it https://www.openssh.com/txt/release-8.2

Not sure if GitHub have pushed their server side code upstream, I think they were using libssh.
Good! I've been waiting for this feature for a while. I think truly was the last bit of functionality I wanted to give my Yubikey. Fantastic.
I've had the same experience building both big and small systems. It's a feature of go, not something that's missing imo.