skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another option is transforming our communities to build workspaces closer to where people live instead of requiring long commutes to get to work.

The documentary "The End of Suburbia" talked about this possibility:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3uvzcY2Xug
The 2-line intro says the format will run on a impressively long list of systems. Is it really that big of a deal that it doesn't specifically mention that it is x86-only? Please.
You submitted an article titled

Venting a Sewage Ejector Tank
You use a tool like cat, vim , emacs, or tail to see logs. You can't physically read the file off the disk, how is this different than using journalctl ?

# journalctl -u ssh
> I don't think it's transactions.

Interesting.

> For example, Monero enables private and untraceable transactions [...]

So so...

> Cryptocurrencies create value by providing other properties such as decentralization, trustlessness, privacy.

Let's add "a largely unregulated gambling area where people with too much money can bet their excess money on being among those who pull out before the music eventually stops" to that list, shall we?

That's also where your frustration comes from: Bitcoin is perfectly fine for this kind of "value proposition", hence it stays King of the Hill.
> “An Example of Terrible UI Design”

> site content is 90% obscured by a newsletter promo and a cookie warning when viewed on a small-screen iPhone
Just awesome (tm).
Very cool. Another piece of "massively multiplayer" Game Boy trivia that might be of interest:

There is a Game Boy game published in 1991 called Faceball 2000. It's a first person shooter that supports up to 16 players with a homebrew hardware connector. This was even before Nintendo's own 4-player adapter was available for any games. The connector was not Nintendo-endorsed so it could not be shipped with the game but the code is still there in the ROM. Disclosure: I was a programmer at the small company responsible but not the genius himself. You can read a short interview with him here.[1]

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20100509163809/http://fb2k.retro...
Mike Nesmith didn't like being in the Monkees. They would headline concerts with the likes of Jimi Hendrix as a support act, while the Monkees would mime their set
on another note, it's pretty concerning that apparently through crypto people can start operating unregulated banks again. govt needs to step up here.
In canada, most places are not 'bad' areas, but just lower income or higher income. The competitiveness to live a richer area to get better schools is not much of a thing, almost a foreign concept.
Speaking of terrible UI design.

Having a website that displays a modal dialogue asking for someone's email address to subscribe it to a newsletter, and making the close button not work properly is truly terrible UI design. Was so angry that it took me 10 touch-clicks to close the pop-up, that I didn't want to bother reading the article!
Sounds eerily like the plot of "On Patrol" from "Tales of Pirx the Pilot" by S. Lem.
Or, crazy idea, we just don't require mass transit to produce a profit and continue to reshape our cities so that mass transit, cycling, and walking become more attractive.
The problem is keeping the adversaries balanced. Otherwise you have one side overpowering everything (and typically not through the "correctness" of their argument, but scale and resources) and the adversarial system becomes detrimental to progress.
ex-lawyer here.

Where big money is at stake most sensible judges will, or will /try/ to, look behind absolutist language in a contract (be it smart or not). Courts are very good at looking at contracts and asking what the parties intent was. They will ask things like "was it intended not to initialize this function?" They may then answer the question with, "No of course not, it was a bug. The person exploiting that bug knew that and cannot reap the benefit". Maybe, or maybe not: trying to guess what a judge will say is a mugs game, but my point is that saying it's a smart contract not operated humans renders it "Absolute Code-as-law" one can't interfere with is unlikely to fly.
Yes, I think that's correct. However, see: https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/issues/90
> traditional fiat currencies are secured by massive banking industries, governments, and militaries

This argument makes no sense. Bitcoin doesn't obviate the need for militaries, banks, or governments, those things would exist regardless of the type of currency being used. Furthermore, these institutions have functions that go far beyond "securing fiat currency", not to mention the fact that bitcoin's existence relies on the massive infrastructure that facilitates the power grid and internet (which are secured by governments and militaries). Beyond that, bitcoin's value is inextricably linked to the utility of government issued currencies since bitcoin is not a suitable unit of exchange in a real economy due to its miniscule transaction capacity. In a world where fiat currencies collapsed the value of bitcoin would also plummet due to the fact that bitcoin's poor throughput could not sustain the the market for staple goods such as food, water, and medicine.
I wrote a bunch of Figma plugins[0] to help me get my work done. I class them all as utility plugins because they’re small and get one task done quickly and easily with minimal interface clutter and complexity. In all honesty, I’d love to be sherlocked because most of this stuff should just be built in.

[0] https://www.plugins.run
I've gotta second this. Maybe it's just being a grouchy pedant, but this "just" produces a polyglot x86_64 executable with a polyglot program header that rewrites its payload into the appropriate executable format for one of 4/5 supported OSes.

It's extremely impressive, and dare I say useful for several cases, but it isn't really like java unless you squint really hard and pretend virtualization/emulators like QEMU are akin to a JVM, which is the way I understand that claim is supposed to be taken.

I mean, the analogy works, and I respect why the author believes this is more practically useful than Java, but it's like saying (IMO) that Linux binaries are a universal standard because you can just virtualize or emulate a Linux kernel on the cheap, a la Docker for the Desktop or whatever it's called.
Data Mules on Cycler Orbits for High-Latency, Planetary-Scale Data Transfers [pdf]
Walmart and McDonalds think they are buying commoditized labor, but as In-N-Out, Costco, Dick's, Burgerville and many others have shown, paying above average wages and focusing on worker retention produces a better quality product as those employees gain experience and are emotionally invested in performing their job well.

Boeing is a great example where management has spent the past couple decades getting rid of their competent employees to move production to cheaper areas that produce planes which have all kinds of quality control issues (metal shavings left throught the plane, copious wiring faults, numerous structural issues, etc). The new Boeing workforce has minimal experience in aerospace and is not paid enough to stick around long term.
Sorry if this is obvious, but... What is ClickHouse?
If you want people to pollute less, charge more for generating the pollution.
many folding solutions are Minecraft screenshots.

e.g. https://whuts.org/unfolding/124

We are living in a very interesting time
The difference with PoW mining is it involves more than just clicking a button.

Conversely, with PoS, people — and particularly insiders who are in on the ICO, pre-ICO or premine — can click a button and earn X% per annum in perpetuity. Which they do.

Bitcoin has many problems, it just doesn’t have this particular one.
> fyi my line of thought is a bit Marxist, you should get paid based on your labour, time, mental energy etc put in the work as much as the result.

You can work very hard (dig useless ditches with shovels) or on very tricky things (write about things nobody cares about, nobody understands and do not matter) and not make things of much value. A society that does that in aggregate is a society that either dies or falls behind.
Great, the pandemic showed that relying on centralized mass transit is a mistake and we should rethink the way we're doing public transit.
In a nutshell: like MySQL but for analytic applications
That’s also how you would submit scores to the GamePro magazine scoreboard back in the day.
I created 2 things which I'm really proud of, because they solve the exact problem in elegant way.

First one is ProxyAV [1] - reverse proxy that scans any uploaded file with ClamAV. That tool/microservice was created, because backend developers didn't have experience to work with antivirus on their side, so the "mitm proxy" way allows to integrate antivirus scanning without bothering backend devs, they always receive clean files

The second one is etke.cc [2] service. I love matrix, but self hosting of matrix homeserver requires good level of expertise, even for skilled sysadmins. I just wanted more people join matrix with their own homeservers, so etke.cc service is perfect solution to that problem - you want your own matrix homeserver - you order it on etke.cc - you get your matrix homeserver, on your domain, on your server, with full control of it.

[1] https://gitlab.com/rakshazi/proxyav

[2] https://etke.cc
You know what's weird? On one hand I agree with you about not being able to listen to Bill Cosby anymore. But on other, literally every comedian is playing a character. I'm not even talking about the obvious ones like Larry the Cable Guy. Jerry Seinfeld, Louis C.K., John Mulaney.

Except maybe the late Arty Lang. He was pretty up front about being a piece of shit.

Reminds me of an old joke. "What's the easiest way to tell a comedian has made up a story? They start with, 'now this one really happened to me'."
> he respect that a lot of software engineers enjoys in US/EU

And then you go on describing the average attitude towards software developers I perceived in the Netherlands… :)
As explained elsewhere, lots of the land cows and pigs and sheep and etc. inhabit and graze on is unsuitable for regular crops due to the terrain, fertility, or simply crop rotation.
That's exactly the situation I'm in at my current work environment now. All Azure, and everyone in Engineering/Devops hates it. It's a business decision though.
Beauty Market is Conquering E-Commerce
Vulnerabilities in Exim mail server leave web, cloud operations exposed
The "most efficient" cryptocurrencies on this list are the least secure, ie. the ones where double-spend attacks are the least expensive to conduct.
At least one study was done in Florida comparing counties that had mask mandates vs those that did not. The general conclusion matches your observation, mask mandates did not appear to have a material effect on any covid related metrics (infections, hospitalizations, deaths, ect.)

This is a bit nuanced because lots of people wore masks without a mandate, but it is also true that many people are pretty anti mask and definitely won't wear one if not forced to.

From my perspective it is pretty clear that masks did not have a large enough protective effect to show up in aggregate data.

As far as lockdowns go, they work until you end them, at which point you have just delayed the inevitable.

If you want to look at the data yourself, I would highly recommend the following site run by a prof at University of Illinois (use the population normalized graphs): http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/

Having a hard time finding the primary study I mentioned but I have provided links with some (population normalized) data below.

Florida counties (scroll down to second graph near the bottom for the start of the discussion): https://rationalground.com/after-nine-months-we-still-know-m...

Various graphs showing infection rate pre and post mask mandate: https://rationalground.com/mask-charts/

More mask graphs, mostly US states: https://rationalground.com/post-thanksgiving-mask-charts-sti...
Interesting, I wonder if this is due to a difference of counting compound words?
Yeah, I get where you're coming from but I can't really agree that incentivizing raw labor is the way to get there (to a more equitable outcome for labor). The capital/labor struggle is a deep deep topic, but I think we can say at this point that with automation becoming increasingly common, labor is losing it's leg to stand on. We're going to get a lot farther by reining in capitalism than trying to return to piece work payment.
Time Management for Engineering Managers
A bunch of work is coordination, and it requires everyone to be available simultaneously to coordinate. The fully async engineer with a round trip latency of 3-4 days is frankly the unproductive one in aggregate in their organization. Software is one of the biggest teams sports out there.
> focus on writing content

Cory Doctorow has a good take on this recently. It isn't just writing content but getting ideas out there that can later become something more. [1] Doctorow calls blogging like a Vannevar Bush Memex but publishing as a series of entries that can start to create a better idea and "nucleate".

>If you’re a writer or an activist or anyone else engaged in critical synthesis, then the news-stories, ideas, sights and sounds you encounter are liable to tug at your attention: this is a piece of something bigger, and maybe something important.

>Every day, I load my giant folder of tabs; zip through my giant collection of RSS feeds; and answer my social telephones — primarily emails and Twitter mentions — and I open each promising fragment in its own tab to read and think about.

>If the fragment seems significant, I’ll blog it: I’ll set out the context for why I think this seems important and then describe what it adds to the picture.
These repeated acts of public description adds each idea to a supersaturated, subconscious solution of fragmentary elements that have the potential to become something bigger. Every now and again, a few of these fragments will stick to each other and nucleate, crystallizing a substantial, synthetic analysis out of all of those bits and pieces I’ve salted into that solution of potential sources of inspiration.

Publishing is better than note taking and there is a rigor to make it readable. However, these don't always have to be complete ideas, they can be part of the idea that is interesting. From there other iterations of new parts of that idea emerge. The writing helps you refine the topic, idea and focus. Similar to how spaced repetition helps you learn or comments help you refine ideas. [2] The ideas are sketches like pre-production, entries are inking like production and then one day a fully fledged post-production quality researched idea/product can emerge.

[1] https://doctorow.medium.com/the-memex-method-238c71f2fb46

[2] https://ncase.me/remember/
I would argue 500 million years ago is not ”not so long ago”. The Cambrian period also didn’t have more than a microbial soil crust living outside of oceans.
Consider first the bicyclic monoid, which may be presented as < a,b | ba >. That is, the elements are lists of the symbols a, b, such that you never see a b followed by an a, so elements have the form a^n b^m, and indeed the numbers n,m are sufficient to describe an element of the monoid.

One way to look at it is as parenthesis balancing: replace a,b with (,) respectively and then the monoid is strings of (,) except any matched pairs () are removed.

Now change ( for lots of different elements you might want, say integers for their place in the string maybe. You get a presentation like < p, x \in X | \forall x \in X xp = e >, that is if you see an element of your data set immediately followed by a p (for pop) you can delete both. This is the stack monoid and elements may be described as p^n s, where s is a list of elements of X and may be read as “the stack operations of popping n times and pushing a,” or “the tree traversal of going up n nodes and then going down the path s.”
I mean, they basically say that in the article. They got the idea by seeing other spicy snacks from smaller companies clearing out the shelves and started buying them up to figure them out.
What you're describing is a single writer distributed system, which is one way to achieve consistency.

Since you can't write directly to server B, the system is unavailable for writes when a writer happens to live on the side of the network partition where B is located.

Often when discussing "availability", it's very important to qualify for whom and for which operations.
A friend of mine bought a cafe once, it's a common trope that people want to start these kinds of businesses, and it almost always ends in tears both financially and emotionally.

I don't recommend it, unless you are a hugely passionate chef and willing to put in big hours at big risk.
It's out there. It's also not hard to take raw data and divide by the population size which is publicly available for all counties and cities.
That’s not a problem as it’s not a zero-sum game. Everyone could get their pay raised at the same time and the overall productivity would go up accordingly, until some point of equilibrium.
Let's all move into reinforced bunkers underground, WW2 showed that building cities above ground was a mistake.
Actually, if I'm not wrong your example 2a and 2b is about simple present vs present continuous not gerund. Isn't gerund something like "I like swimming" or "I like to swim" (where both works) or while "I enjoy swimming" only works with gerund?

Admittedly both are subtle and somewhat confusing to non-native speakers.
The better workers move on to better restaurants where pay-for-performance is somewhat implicit, like tips in restaurants. You want your highly tipped waiters because they are the salespeople of your restaurant, and their commissions are a measurement of that.
Just opensourced a library to assemble SQL queries as composition of basic python data structures: https://github.com/simonacca/dict2sql/
I tried, and was never able to get the accuracy of results I expected when searching a SaaS address book. I had better results doing the search in SQL FWIW (though that was slower)
In my experience, in EU it’s just the average perception and you’ll find a good section of big companies having better views. In Japan it’s more like finding exceptions to the rule.
He could scale beyond just software testing, maybe make a product or two leveraging his investment in a better-than-normal engineering base by copying more best practices from silicon valley while leveraging the language barrier that prevents these engineers from moving onto FANG in the first place.
'Map' of JavaScript
> I've written a bit of code in Go, and the problem I have with it is primarily it feels really outdated for a "modern" language

Go is a language to get the job done. It's for the masses. It's this type of language you write a blog post on how you have done this and that and why instead of a scientific paper. It's really the boring mortar.

OTOH it will pay your rent.
kudos to you, I love Webtorrent. Thanks for making such great app!
Basically, yes. There are minor improvements to be made to keep the reward for miners as low as possible. In the end the energy consumption comes down to burning energy proportional to the block reward.

https://blog.libove.org/posts/the-cost-of-proof-of-work/
You could clink on the link and find out.
I have a Asus PN50 4500U running Manjaro for work.

I drive a 4k screen over displayport.

It's _really_ good!
Discussion is in another entry:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27163388
The criteria for a person to star a repo likely varies person to person. Therefore I’m not sure it’s a useful metric of anything in particular? Some crude popularity metric maybe? I don’t star repos myself. Feels more like a social networking feature.
You are absolutely correct. The Netherlands is a tax avoidance haven since many years. There seems to be a global consensus to keep it this way.
No it's not - reproducibility doesn't defend you against malicious repository at all. You still need to trust every single maintainer of your packages and the repository owner to not serve you backdoored package.
Delphi probably would have gotten you there in two hours.
In PoW coins you permanently lose the "stake". So that just means that to achieve the same level of security in a PoS coin, you have to stake a lot more (since you are only losing the time value of the stake).
Yeah, you're correct.

As for how this actually pans out in practice: I don't know. I'd guess that having people also fill in a name isn't impossible either, although it certainly makes it a lot harder.
Go namespacing works quite well in my experience. As well as Python. No idea what you mean.
It sounds exactly the same to me - the repository owner is the one signing packages and has to be trusted not to modify it before delivering data. Where's the difference?
All this talk about UAPs reminds me of growing up in Texas in the 80's; kids claimed they saw a black planes flying at night. My older cousin claimed one flew over his head at low altitude and we all just wondered what was going on.

I didn't really know what to believe as a kid, I thought people were making it up because the pentagon had recently admitted there was a new jet in the USAF arsenal.

Eventually, the first gulf war came in the 90's and all was revealed. I learned my best friend's father (and neighbor) was a machinist for Lockheed Martin making parts for the F117.
Azure Percept Obstacle Avoidance Lego Car
Author here. The people who make virus scanners are going to have their heads explode when they learn about redbean's new StoreAsset() function https://justine.lol/redbean/index.html#StoreAsset where the executable edits itself as though it were MongoDB. It took a pretty heroic hack to work around ETXTBSY where the executable unmaps itself from memory after loading and then remaps itself so it can restore the original APE header and modify the ZIP central directory. https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/b8f38cf55d84bac7d7... That said, I still upvote on VirusTotal each executable I publish, so you can verify they came from me, provided the executable is byte-for-byte identical to its original form. After you've modified it, it becomes yours, and you can upload your modified version to VirusTotal too and upvote that. In the future, I'd like to have smarter tools for verifying the authenticity of the non-zip bits of APE binaries, but that will come with time.
I should have mentioned that I'm not a fan of systemd, since it's not clear in my comment.
Officially, it's a column-oriented database. This means that, internally, it stores columns together rather than rows together. In practice, it means that it's optimized for calculating analytics over large datasets.

I've found, from personal experience, that it makes a good replacement for time-series databases, even though it's technically not a time-series database. My employer migrated our KPIs and other metrics from InfluxDB to ClickHouse a couple of years ago, and the drastic improvements in performance were well worth the time it took to migrate our data. It also helped that ClickHouse uses a subset of SQL, unlike InfluxDB which uses a superficially SQL-like but practically very different proprietary language.
If you continue to see users as the enemy, it is likely you will not have much business success. In my experience, organizations that follow on that path don't bring marketable value for much longer.

So, what is the alternative? The same as it was with software ever since the dawn of computing: Sell major versions. Provide bugfixes in minor versions. Be more like GoodNotes, who follow that exact model.
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