skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe try meat-only? Some people seem to have benefited from that.
Ask HN: What is your experience with the new internet computer protocol?
Is it just hot air? Some big claims... I want someone to try and scale it til it breaks haha

“ Internet Computer is a digital token that runs on its own proprietary protocol called Internet Computer Protocol, which is supposed to let anyone build software or publish content on the Internet without using services from big companies like Amazon, Google, or Facebook. The protocol, according to Dfinity founder Dominic Williams, provides a “hackproof platform,” reduces costs “dramatically,” and is interoperable. He also says that the protocol is intended to make the Internet “fun again,” by allowing people to build a “new open Internet” and give users a “better deal.”

The idea is similar to other blockchain cryptocurrencies that use smart contracts, or computer codes that serve as a kind of agreement between parties, to exchange currencies.”
Any plans in the future to include a discrete GPU option?
We dogfood regularly on Ubuntu LTS and Fedora, and we've been working with the team at Fedora (and have provided them a pre-release unit). In general, the only issue we foresee in the near term is that the fingerprint reader likely won't work out of the box in Linux. There is a driver though, and we're working on making that setup as easy as possible until it is in mainline.
Well if we followed this rule I think we'd all still be using punchcards? Or FORTRAN?

It really depends on what your Enterprise looks like but I do agree that many corporations are going to be better served by more mainstream languages.

That said, if you're worried about creating good maintainable software then types are the way to do it -- a lot of the changes that are landing in Java/Python/Ruby/etc came from the niche languages with the good type systems. The renaissance of typing (typescript, mypy, sorbet) is people essentially collectively coming to their senses and realizing that they want to know what their function is expected to be fed, at compile time.
I think this is a new Walmart policy because the local Walmarts here just started doing this too.
>Describing the book's content as DDD/CQRS is too specific (...)

We'll just have to disagree here. You can combine 10 guides into a "book" and if the whole thing ends up being about building an app using a certain approach, then in my eyes that's what the book is about.

Perhaps my standards are too high - still felt like clickbait. Especially considering that you're requiring signing up to a newsletter to get access to it.
Python _absolutely_ has lambdas and functional programming.

And I would argue that concurrency, at least, has no business in a textbook for true beginners.
> most software seems to typically get only heavier over time!

It's often the case for end-user applications, but I find that most languages/runtimes tend to get better with time (and work of course !). There's a similar trend with the PHP runtime.
How do you know that? What evidence is there that it's any more secure than it used to be?
This looks really great! My team wanted a CMS but didn't find the budget. We manage our copy in JSON files in our apps, much like this seems to do, so I actually think this would be a very straightforward transition, though we'd need to overhaul our copy keys.

Just need to sell our product org on the UX of Ditto as we would be buying into Ditto as a major part of our development lifecycle.

I see the pricing is just based on users. Do you have any SLAs on the API?
Generics are about algorithms, not modeling. Not having generics becomes especially tedious in Go when you start trying to handle channels properly (e.g. proper prioritization and cleanup).
They are being stolen, so selling them for more would just make it even more likely to get shoplifted.
The Fed's primary concern with interest rates is the US Government going, essentially, bankrupt. The stock market is much further down the list.

4% * $50 trillion = $2 trillion in just interest per year. The US Government will be at roughly that debt level perhaps within a mere 12 years at this point (assuming one normal recession in that time).

So as you can see, the US Government can afford no meaningful climb in the average interest rate it's paying on its swelling debt. Normally as a massive borrower gets more shaky in its finances, the rate it would expect to pay would climb at an accelerating pace with its fiscal implosion. To avoid that fate, the Fed has to step in and become the primary buyer of the garbage US Government debt (which will be endlessly recycled as they will never pay any of it down now). The financing problem with the US Government is so enormous at this point that there are no other nations or private pools of capital large enough to keep up with it on a consistent annual basis, currency debasement - eating the value of anything held in dollars, including most US assets - is all that is left to fully fund the government (and the entitlement costs will only keep spiraling higher this decade and next).

The stock market is a laughably trivial concern next to that problem. Which is also why one of Biden's immediate priorities is raising taxes (if they don't, the Democrats know it'll put the welfare state & entitlement programs they've put so much effort into building over many decades into jeopardy sooner (collapsing demographics may take care of that regardless)).
It's important to not conflate deaths in that time with deaths caused by the flu. Most of the deaths turned out to have been caused by bacterial pneumonia: https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/bacterial-pneu...
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> If I had a dollar for every time someone proposed a Python speedup ...

Well, that's just the thing. Many have tried, many have succeeded, but their work hasn't been upstreamed so adoption is almost nonexistent. This is different. It's finally a mainline project. That's noteworthy, and long overdue given the plurality of proofs-of-concept.
Could you elaborate on where you see the hardening taking place?
Colonial had a threat actor in their network and by paying the ransom, they supposedly left without doing any more damage. I don’t think they patched a lot of systems or hardened their servers.
I played some of these for fun with a few friends (more playtime in Yu-gi-oh than pokemon, granted).

What I've found fun, especially as the game has evolved to well past the number of mechanics we would nostalgically like to play with, is to build sets of balanced decks that we can each randomly play to pick with, facing pre-builts of similar power against each other, so it's back to being a game of chance and basic strategy at playtime.

We do miss (and sometimes use online players to do so) playing with deck design as part of the competition, since using digital cards we aren't as limited by wallets.
True, crypto is the new UBI
I agree that it is helpful but I also think it is more nuanced than that. What if there is a Goldilocks phenomenon? Someone with knowldege on the "life on Earth goldilocks with the Sun" could share their thoughts on such a comparison :)
>The reason it is so feared is because it's next to impossible to contain once it starts without causing massive economic hardship.

What's the process for containing inflation, and what's its mechanism of action?
My point is that if people were that bothered by ads, they would be willing to pay ad-free alternatives and we wouldn't have ads.
For some things you can actually choose between free ad-supported or paid without ads.

Besides, I really don't see ads in my life - but that's because I use adblock and similar software. I don't live in a big city anymore so I don't see physical ads as well.
Tears that float away from your face as a perfect lil' sphere ... that's what encapsulates it all for me.
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Hey this looks great. Looking forward to Linux compatibility statement.

The site looks like it's getting the hug of death, which is going to be hard dealing with on Rails unless you have some kind of caching. It looks like you're on Cloudflare. I would recommend doing site rules and turn on static html caching for a lot of front facing pages. Basically anything that isn't the laptop build page.
And we need an effective regulator. For example, I am baffled by the level of oligopoly allowed in the EU cellular/telecom industry. It is quite obvious that prices are synchronized between providers if you watch their dynamics over time. They are currently killing prepaid cards as well.
For new customers, the advantage is that they can get the same kit (say body + prime + open telephoto zoom) that weights a lot less, so it's more likely that they will take their kit out.

For existing customers (like you), the disadvantage is that they may have to throw their kit away and start over, for some advantage in weight and in body technology, but need to pay a lot of money too.
In the EU there is a (little known) law that does as you suggest -

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32...

This regulation specifically looks at platform-to-business relationships, and requires actual disclosure of reasons, notice periods, etc.

What we need to see are cases using this law (as it's pretty clear from article 4 what business' rights are), so it becomes too costly to trample over businesses in an unaccountable way. Once the cost of human intervention and support is lower than that of their legal bills and penalties, human support and intervention will return. Platforms are getting away without humans in the loop as a result of the lack of cost impact to them of a mistake. Once it hits their bottom line and gets their counsel in a pickle, it will start to change rapidly to preserve their bank balance.
The really sad thing about this case is that there is _no way_ that Google made anything like $100M from the charging station finder in Google Maps in Italy. That functionality reeks to me of something made by a small group of Googlers because they legitimately care about promoting electric cars and making life easier for their owners, not because Google particularly cares if they dominate the electric vehicle charging station finding market. Now that the functionality has cost them $100M and however much effort it takes to make a regulator-approved SDK for Android Auto, I'm worried that the lawyers at the company will just shut down that feature and others like it, which would be a net loss for users.
What was it about? Link?
Yeah it is definitely just weeks old at most, from what I can tell.

I don't go super often, but definitely a few weeks back it was still the old way, and this week they were moved.
45. Because you have experience to tell you what happens when you don't, lol. I have a foot ache. Hmm, stop applying footgun to foot.
That assumption is as old as time. Whether true of false Bret Devereaux did an analysis on it and it made for an interesting read: https://acoup.blog/2020/01/17/collections-the-fremen-mirage-...

As far as we can tell, historically your assumption is wrong. Hard times do not really breed hard people it's a myth that comes from the antiquity and was used by philosophers and elites to link the moral corruption of a people with its inevitable downfall.
Somewhat related, the NTSB released a preliminary report on the Tesla crash in the Woodlands, Texas:

https://dig.abclocal.go.com/ktrk/PICS/MAY2021/051021-ktrk-nt...

Some findings:

- The driver did start off in the driver's seat

- The NTSB tested in the location with another car, and Autosteer would not engage, but that Traffic Aware Cruise
Control would

Discussed here recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27112010

HN original discussion about the crash: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26852399
Not the parent, but I do, yes.

Every country does protectionism in some form, it's the only way to prevent monopolies. Even the United States, where politics are led more by the free market than by citizens, throws around embargoes and regulation when important parts of the economy is threatened.

One recent example is the American attempts at sabotaging the new gas line from Russia to the EU. Companies get threatened with embargoes, insurances get cancelled, all to maintain the European dependence on the US energy market.

Protectionism protects not only the local economy, but also protects countries from foreign influence. All the major world powers want their own version of important economic and digital infrastructure to protect themselves against the other powers trying to sway public opinion. Google and YouTube are major influences in the world and without an effective ban they will continue to do so. People want convenience above all else, their own long-term interests be damned. Ignoring the threats of a globalised industry benefits no country.
Not even that.

Well, all we really know for sure is that they paid a penetration-testing firm a consultancy fee to identify THAT the network needs to be hardened.
What you're talking about is the difference between hard sci-fi and pop sci-fi. The pop stuff is intended to have fun Hollywood physics and not taken too literally. But hard sci-fi is intended to be more theoretically plausible.

The issue with Interstellar was it set itself up as a hard sci-fi with some Hollywood sugar with the way it depicted a future Earth, black hole physics (for the most part) and time dilation. But then it took a dramatic left turn into ridiculousness at the end. This really broke immersion of the film for me. Whereas films like Guardians of the Galaxy (and it's ilk) make it clear from the outset that it's a fun distraction from reality. So it's easier to suspend disbelief while watching.
No comment on the content yet, but its refreshing to click 'Download' and actually be given the book, rather than begged for my email.
25 yo can also means that he's working for at least 6 years

thus what's so weird?
My nitpicking is about its offering only Intel CPUs. Hello? Why do Intel at all, these days? What everybody is desperate for are AMD laptops, which are barely available from the volume makers.
Thanks for your patience! We're upgrading infrastructure further, but the website is very much still struggling under the load. On that note, we're hiring a Backend Engineer if anyone is interested! https://jobs.lever.co/framework/6935fb47-2921-49df-b94c-e45c...
F# would probably sit in there somewhere too a little more on the app than system side, although you don't see many uses of the more low-level stuff that's been made available in the later releases of .NET, it's there for use in F#
Indeed. People properly wearing and using N95 and above level protection would likely have fared better than people wearing fabric masks, back then.
Hypersonic flight: A new fuel for jets and missiles is on the cards
Nice template: make an outrageous statement, get press time, create an issue for vacuous debate, ride the wave on misconceptions about worker efficiecny while WFH, gaslight everyone back into overpriced real estate, make bank.
Yeah sorry I wasn't trying to call you out just point out an additional complexity to the numbers. If Starlink was going to sell an "slot" to a competitor (not that they would need to), they'd be selling an orbital plane rather than a single satellite's position. The cost of that plane wouldn't be some fixed value but the gross revenue from all the subscribes covered by that plane.

The planes that cover mostly empty ocean would be far less valuable than ones that covered subscriber-dense populations. But of course that's in a world where somehow a competitor needs to buy a "slot" from Starlink and not just orbit a few miles higher in the same plane.
Totally. I'm maybe a week or two away from buying a Model 3, but the thing I keep coming back to is the whole "everything is controlled by a touchscreen" crap. Even when physical controls are not designed perfectly, you can still get used to them to the point where they are muscle memory and no longer a distraction. No matter how awesome they are, touch screens will never not be a distraction.
Love the idea here, but I'm underwhelmed by the CPU. Such a shame.
What is an MCU?
Link to the said paper, please?
The problem is that there isn't enough investment despite the corporations having huge piles of cash. The billions in stock buy backs in the US are a testament to this. Your argument is valid in a world where savings are scarce but we have a global savings glut.
I was a kid when Pokemon first hit the states. All of us that collected them knew how to play. The game wasn't difficult and it already attracted a nerdy crowd to boot. At that, "house rules" are typically more fun than original. A digital version would stifle that.
> This has even been true with aliens. The science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson reminded me that in the early 1900s it was widely but mistakenly believed that we had visual evidence of canals on Mars.

I wonder how true this is. Whenever I read old science fiction it does seem like aliens on Venus/Mars was believed to be a real possibility. So while we now think that aliens existing would be this huge existential crisis for humanity… maybe we would just accept it without issue as speculated by the author.
I, for one, really enjoyed reading your advice and mostly agree with them. It's like that book "Don't make me think".

I've had some of the most confusing times when a HN link points to a landing page. I personally prefer getting a readme on github. But some of them completely forget to describe what the thing is/does/improves, too.

I really dislike landing pages. But I also realize I'm probably sitting on the porch shouting and waving my cane :)
There's a whole "loss prn" subset on wsb and some crypto subreddits where people proudly show their losses, the bigger the better.

And lots of suicidal kind of messages when the whole market crashes. So I'd say losses are as vocal as wins depending on which forums you go to.
This low effort spam is more suited for LinkedIn than HN.
I think suicide is a mental health issue more than an occupational hazard. Re: the downvotes, they’ve been going up and down. +2 to -2 to +2 to -1 again. I just said something people have feelings about, that’s all.
So in the context of the larger debate, this answer falls in to the "C is simple, until you try to use it, at which point you start writing your own programming language in C to write your application in," category. In this perspective C is simple mainly because it's missing the already-written code that you have to benefit you in other languages.
Was curious how the document conversion happened: It's using Pandoc to convert .docx files downloaded from Google Docs into markdown files.

Hadn't seen Pandoc before. It's a Haskell library/cli that supports a large number of input/output document formats in varying degrees of completeness: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc
Maybe worst for you. For many like me avoiding 3 hr of commute per day even for 2 days a week is better than no remote at all.
Almost all wage earning activities have had downward wage pressure on real wages for the last 5 decades. The only exception to this sees to be highly defensible businesses/monopolies and the talent pool these businesses draw from.

I wouldn't be surprised for more daytraders to emerge playing games like GME/TSLA/BTC. With infinite printed money there never needs to be a greater fool. Shorts who go bust get bailed out, banks who bet long can pump the stock on near negative interest, Individuals can drive momentum to the point that other players leverage the money spigot.

After all as long as the money doesn't get withdrawn it doesn't impact the real economy right?
> Once they received the payment, the hackers provided the operator with a decrypting tool to restore its disabled computer network. The tool was so slow that the company continued using its own backups to help restore the system, one of the people familiar with the company’s efforts said.

I thought the protocol for these attacks was to send the decryption keys, not provide a "decrypting tool."

If some kind of software was provided by the attackers, and Colonial installed it, this could be far from over.

Also, if the company has backups, then why not use them instead? If they're incomplete, then that's the real problem.
The visuals are stunning to be sure, and there is good reason to watch the movie. The physics, which was the focus of this list, was not one of them.
Hey this is Tejas. I remember exploring the product and chatting with Jess way back in August 2020. Great to see Ditto here on HN. Congrats on the launch :)
I use `git clean` maybe once per year on average, so very low risk for me. And if that ever happens... that's why I have hourly backup snapshots! If I didn't trust my backups, I'd definitely address that before worrying about dotfile management. If you don't have a good safety net then you end up reinventing the net 100 times in other ways and everything gets more complicated.
This article doesn't even pretend to provide any supporting evidence for its bold headline assertion. It just gives a bit of background info about masks in 1918, and ends.

Such writing is irresponsible in a pandemic.
Fair enough, but it looks like you are misquoting them. They never say anything about "100% pure Swiss security".

Their messaging seems to revolve much more around an anti Silicon Valley proposition where you could substitute Swiss for European.

Is Switzerland actually known to screw these kinds of things up more than other countries?
Thought this exactly.
Well, I'd rather provide a letter than put all my transactions in public eye.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence_in_depth_(non-military...

If its just a steering wheel check then all he needs to do is put his foot on the wheel, which looks like what he did.

If it had a weight sensor in seat then he would also need a heavy enough weight.

If there is also an attention tracking camera then that has to be fooled as well.

No system is perfect it also doesn't mean more couldn't be done, the more friction you add the less people will do it, especially just casual offenders who just jump in the back seat and use a foot to try it out.

How much should be done is an open debate, I am just trying to find out what a Tesla currently does.
You missed that boat - Tamron was doing that eons ago with their Adaptall systems. It was easy to do when everything was mechanical - aperture setting tabs on the lenses telling the body what was going on, basically an all-or-nothing lever arrangement doing the stop-down, manual focus, etc. With everything being electronic and "you'll need to reverse-engineer that" proprietary, a simple swapable arse on an otherwise generic lens really isn't in the cards anymore.
Canary Trap
A few people have said exactly that! We will keep it that way
Python 3.10 will have pattern matching
There's a movie called Time Trap that sort of uses this as a plot device. While the time slipage isn't caused by the effects of a black hole, it is still an interesting sci-fi. Not a big budget film that I had never heard of, but the pandemic has allowed me to watch a lot of stuff I probably wouldn't have had time for before.
Endless money printing distorts value in weird ways in my opinion.

But I think what you're seeing is lots of fomo and people who had savings because they were forced to save (couldn't spend it), they should be back to their jobs when the market inevitably crashes.
According to chart[1] that Musk himself posted, Bitcoin electricity consumption skyrocketed since Tesla made the investment.

[1]https://cbeci.org/
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Putting a sufficiently heavy object on the seat will take care of that.
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