skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this suggesting we could actually live without Facebook, Google and Twitter.

Many of us did that for many years of our lives. At the time, I never anticipated with the internet and eventually the web is that people who had never experienced life without it could so easily be caused to lose sight of what is possible, in favor of the mess we have today. The biggest impediment I see to positive change is that younger generations are being indoctrinated into a world where "tech" companies, intermediaries supported by advertising, are perceived as an essential part of using the internet. This is of course patently false. But these companies are ultimately surveilling and controlling the dialogue. After all, internet subscribers use these "tech" company intermediaries to communicate.

Before advertising took over the internet, the inter-network's user base was relatively small. Folks who used the internet recreationally during that time were likely to be technically minded people who enjoyed computers, the type of people many of which who are working with advertising supported "tech" companies today. Few of them are going to portray an advertising-free internet as a viable option. Their livelihoods today depend on advertising. Supporting Big Tech is their "work".

Anyway, it is good to see at least one commenter can contemplate a better course for the future.

It is possible to communicate and share over the internet without the use of Big Tech. However, as long as advertising-supprted "tech" companies sit between users, operating as intermediaries, that truth will keep getting buried deeper with every new generation.
>I wouldn't respect or legitimize a violent insurrection.

You know that's how the US was formed, right?
> But if it will just be an unstructured free-for-all I doubt it will result in any improvements.

For a functioning addict, drugs not being illegal is itself an improvement, even if overdose rates stay completely unchanged.

When you have an addiction problem, getting the legal system involved typically results in you getting two problems around your neck, instead of just one.
Years ago my entire family got sick and I was determined not to contract it through distancing and frequent hand washing and sanitizing. It worked until I bent down to tie my toddler’s shoes only to look up and mid-sentence have him cough directly into my open mouth. All it takes is one mistake. Needless to say I got sick shortly after.
Next time you're at a national park, national forest, BLM land, or some other federal facility of that sort, check out the brand and types of trucks they have.
> Or, is "flow of time" just something created within the brain as a way to keep track of changes in things we experience?

If it wasn't, odds are somebody would have built a computer by now that "remembers" the stock prices for tomorrow.
Idaho votes republican right? And Oregon is a swing state? So moving 5 republican counties from the later to the former would be a good move for anyone opposed to Trump 2024...

As an old style Liberal, it's nice to be able to have my cake and eat it, though I'm not actually American so...
> At the risk of sounding butthurt, it's kind of strange and unfair to claim that "boomers are the entitled generation." They merely happen to have been born at a time when the social and economic situation for future generation changed due to changes in ecology, world economy, and in this case the demographic of industrialized countries.

Also, it is good to remember that the "boomer generation" is a mainly american phenomenon. Most other western countries had a period of rebuilding after world war 2, which was not a time of economic prosperity.

A good example of this is the late 1940'and 50's. American's wealth grew quite a bit during this time. Most (western) european countries had wage freezes, a corve system or even rationing during that time.

Western european economic power started to increase in the late 1950's and early 1960's. (wirtschaftswunder etc)

Ofcourse, eastern europe was far worse off considering the lack of marshall aid and heavy restructuring of the economy to a soviet style command economy.
I've never heard of a company accepting and paying for alcohol treatment? It's 100% fire rate in my opinion.
>Same with emergency services, they were waaaayyyy better in my (very small and poor) hometown in terms of response times (or responding at all), and I can't see how that would cost more than running the same services here.

It matters on a per capita basis. What's the ratio of emergency service workers and their salaries to residents in your small and poort hometown compared to the bay area?

Also infrastructure (roads, running water, electricity) are much more expensive on a per capita basis than less dense areas
I know. I just... I keep hoping that by pointing out the obvious silliness of the phrase "American Values" that maybe, someone somewhere will read it and be like, "Huh, you know, maybe what I meant to say was, 'My values'...."
> How can I be legally responsible for my parents?

Well your parents are legally responsible for you for a period of time. There are many countries (I am most familiar with Germany in this regard) where the children are considered responsible for the parents. I was not aware this was the case in the USA.

In some countries it's quite difficult / impossible to disown or disinherit various relatives.
m5 has more memory, if you application is memory bound stick with that instance type.

I'd recommend just using a standard AWS application load balancer in front of your Node.js app. Terminate SSL at the ALB as well using certificate manager (free). Will run you around $18 a month more.
Science is based a lot on assumptions and beliefs.
A scientist who does not consciously say: „We have observed that… which makes us believe that…“ still ultimately becomes a victim of his unconsciously formed belief system, a pseudo-religion.

I’m a software engineer, I work scientifically, but I don’t own the truth. I own the thought process which works on top of assumptions. But I don’t want my own work to feel like magic, and to avoid that, I observe and try to understand it. But at the end of the day I have to say: „I assume that my program is bug free because I have observed many test runs in which the program behaved correctly. I belief it will work well at the customer.

Same has to be said for above study. Otherwise we wouldn’t find studies which even claim the opposite. These other studies are just based on different assumptions and belief systems.
I also abandoned Slack completely due to its horrendous performance and UX. I find comments like the parent above you utterly perplexing.

There are Slack gateways that exist for native applications. I currently use a Slack libpurple plugin with Pidgin, and although threading is slightly cumbersome, eliminating Electron and/or a browser has greatly improved my experience overall.
I had a chuckle a while back when here on HN, one poster replied to another with the words: Oh, fuck off! The next sentence was That's amazing! Turns out that they were quite happy about the information in the parent post. Something like "I wish I had known that five years ago."

I thought to myself, that has to be a Brit, but admittedly I'm not familiar enough with the way various native speakers of English use the language to know for sure. To us furriners, it can sure be a bit confusing some times :)
It definitely works and you can measure the effect. There's official documentation on what it does and how to tune it:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/processo...
How much carbon is emitted by traditional payment processing?
What people want is incompatible with cryptocurrencies existing.

Maybe some use will be accepted, just like some level of murder is accepted. We sacrifice some lives for the benefit of not living in another type of dystopia.

But no, there's no harmony there. There is no right amount of AIDS in your blood.
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That's the exact reason why this rule was introduced into the standard: it was so C compilers could compete with Fortran compilers (Fortran has similar rules and at the time they were beating C compilers on equivalent scientific codes by 2-3x).

Fortran has even more restrictive aliasing rules than C: a function is allowed to assume that any two array arguments passed as arguments do not overlap. If they do, the behavior is undefined.
Another way of reading this is to conclude that you can have a fun life full of drinking at the cost of 0.8% more brain degradation while you age. I wish they would put at least some effort into explaining their numbers, because that sounds like nothing, but I’m sure the authors have reason to think otherwise
Did you consider wrk2?

https://github.com/giltene/wrk2

Maybe you duplicated some of these fixes?
I bought a 512GB SSD for around 60€ some time ago. Let's be generous and assume 40 days pay back. It could be 90 days and it still would be worth it. I don't know how fast SSD wear out when used for Chia though, it could be unprofitable for all I know.
I rarely run into projects using just git these days, and
I don't seem to have confused anyone by slightly shifting the topic.
I'm not talking about who owns the coins. I'm talking about the fact that people will just use the managed nodes hosted by exchanges to stake because there are penalties for poorly configured or offline nodes. As a result you have a huge chunk of your network controlled by exchanges who besides controlling the ramps for fiat money and custody of your coins now they also become the heaviest validators.

Tell me how this is not a weird clone of our current financial system.
I'm curious as to what you think Ford was supposed to do. Were they supposed to tell Biden that the batteries hadn't charged enough for him to drive it? If anything, conservatives who like the F-150 will just ignore him driving it and purchase the thing anyways.
Ok, so say that. Or connect them to "American Values" concretely somehow.

Because right now they are just saying their opponents are "un-American" which means whatever it needs to mean without actually saying anything of substance.
That sounds fairly confrontational to me.

I only had phrases like "look at you with your fancy words", which (in Britain, depending on tone) can mean something from "I'm impressed you remember words like that", to "I don't understand you" and "you seem to think you're better than me".
What is the theoretical max req/s for a 4 vCPU c5n.xlarge instance?
Richard "RichiH" Hartmann's thread on Twitter.[0]

[0] https://twitter.com/TwitchiH/status/1395303820046045185
This article is from the Financal Times (FT), but posted here with a link that does not require a FT subscription.

Some key quotes from the article:

> The bulk of Japan's ultra-reliable railway network operates without a single yen of public subsidy. Pricing is straightforward, and apart from consumption tax hikes, JR East has never raised fares once in 31 years as a private operator.

> "The basis of railway companies in Japan is they think they will contribute forever. They feel they have a responsibility to local societies," says Hironori Kato, a professor of civil engineering at the University of Tokyo. "This kind of mindset is quite important to make a successful railway business."

> even for last minute booking or at the height of the rush hour, companies instead operate a simple, distance-based fare. On the downside, since there is no way to ration scarce peak-time capacity by price, everybody tries to get the 8am train.

> This competition between railway areas is linked to another vital part of the business model for Japanese railways: real estate. "The railway is about one-third of our total sales," says Mr Shiroishi. "By name we're a railway company but that's just one of our functions." Another one-third of revenues comes from real estate development along the Tokyu lines, especially at its Shibuya terminus. The final third comes from services to passengers such as supermarkets, convenience stores and hotels.

> Integrated rail and property development is standard in Asia, but Britain is going in the other direction, with Network Rail selling off the arches under elevated railway lines in London.

> One more feature of Japan's railways is noteworthy: the ability of rivals to co-operate. Touch-and-go payment cards work interchangeably across the country. In Tokyo, suburban trains now run straight into subway tunnels and out the other side of the city; a single journey may use the tracks of five different railway companies. Even then, the companies do not run rival trains, but share rolling stock and run a fully integrated service.
Gentrification in Ancient Angkor
It's more than just Berkeley.

The risk, on the landlord's part, of accepting a partial amount of rent is that you're altering the terms of the lease on the fly. If it persists you wave your ability to enforce the original agreement as you now have a history of acceptance of an alternative agreement.

There's also the discrimination aspect of it. If a landlord accepts partials from one tenant but not another, there's potential they'll have to explain themselves in court.
This was in the Linux kernel, which is compiled with special kernel flags which make dereferencing null pointers legal. In the context of that code, dereferencing a pointer and later checking it for null was absoutely meaningful. Optimizing the later null check was a compiler bug that was acknowledged and fixed. The compiler here didn't respect the semantics it had promised to kernel code. This was entirely uncontroversial; it was not a case of "unwanted optimization based on undefined behavior", it was a case of "compiler bug breaking well-defined code". Again, all this in a kernel context.

In user code GCC will still happily remove the null check because in user code this is an actual bug in the user's code.
Gold mining is similar, although obviously not to the same extreme. Only 8% of the output is used industrially. https://www.statista.com/statistics/299609/gold-demand-by-in...

So gold mining is only 90% waste, whereas Bitcoin mining gets close to 100% waste.

Then again, perhaps printed dollars could perhaps also be considered highly wasteful?
On AWS, yes.

On Scaleway and Hetzner, there is unmetered 100Mbps bandwidth.

On Linode, Vultr, and DigitalOcean, there is a 1-month 1TB limit.
the UK is considering one of the most liberal economies in europe with very little if no state involvement of the economy.

Most of this happened after thatcherism ofcourse.
yeah "i have a doubt about this particular issue" doesn't seem wrong.
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> I'm not allowed to hook a debugger up to anything in the staging environment

That seems crazy to me. What bizarre excuse does your organization have for that policy?

To me, part of the point of a staging environment is to provide something as close as practical to prod in which to test, reproduce, evaluate, and investigate issues, be they performance, correctness, or what have you.
Point 2 and 3 are baffling to me. Garmins mounted on the windshield have been a thing in vehicles since the early 2000s at least.
That's how every road in California works.
My frequency of colds has increased 10x since I've gotten married and had kids.
I suspect that the web server's CPU usage will be pretty high (almost 100%), so C-state tuning may not matter as much?

EDIT: also, RSS happens on the NIC. RFS happens in the kernel, so it might not be as effective. For a uniform request workload like the one in the article, statically binding flows to a NIC queue should be sufficient. :)
>Unless you're working as a web developer (in which case, may god have mercy on your soul), you're probably going to end up using an x86 machine. Hell, my best friend is a die-hard Apple fan, and even he has admit that he can't really upgrade his Xeon iMac unless Apple offers him an upgrade within the x86 ecosystem.

Why can't he upgrade? (Genuine question)
> Both sides have appeals to emotion and appeals to logic in their platform. For instance, what basis is there for universal healthcare other than 'we should help each other'? You can't make the argument that it would 'save the government money' to the right ...

You're right, you don't say it would save the government money. You make the argument that it would save everyone money. No one has any incentive to care about the price of healthcare, currently. Not the suppliers, not the providers, not the insurers. And the consumers simply have no choice.
Can you send a link? I'd like to help.
Aren't masks mostly/also about decreasing the area of the air that you pull in (closer to you, or in other words the distance from which you pull is smaller)?

like take a piece of paper in front of your face and breath with mask and without
His broken promise that FreeNode will be run independent of his control is pretty objectionable. Like others have pointed out, you can even find hackernews posts from him saying that. The fact he’s now asserting control to self appoint what would essentially be the leader of a decades-long group of volunteers without their say-so is pretty ridiculous.
Did you say BA on purpose or did you just generally mean undergrad degree?

Yes, stupid question, I know.
I'm not into tea, but my wife is and she swears by this kettle.
Could you please elaborate more or provide links on below?

> The VC playbooks for growth are now mature, standard and effective. So being able to leverage the funds and execute a standardized revenue generating plan is important.

Where can I find this standardized revenue generating plan?
I guess they'll just have to try and block it. The matrix devs aren't going to give in to government nonsense. Too bad they want to make 1984 a real thing.
I know a guy who elicits this sort of worship here in the USA.
Your reading comprehension skills are terrible.

1. In this hypothetical situation, the cheaper food comes from abroad, now that there are no import tariffs.

2. I never said subsidies aren't necessary: I don't know how you can infer that point from what I wrote. I said that subsidies exist to protect American farmers, so American farmers should stop complaining about those who fund them. American farming is as profitable as it is now precisely due to those subsidies.
The costs of living are higher in CA too
The US constitution requires that, for this to happen, Congress, the Oregon legislature, and the Idaho legislature must all agree. There's no provision that it is a matter that local country residents get to decide.
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Elastic Tabstops is similar to what you propose, but using tab characters to form the tables: https://nickgravgaard.com/elastic-tabstops/#solution

But it's 15 years since that was proposed.
> It just depends if you need a higher level of trust or not.

I need trust. And blockchain doesn't provide it.

> It just depends if you need a higher level of trust or not.

And yet, all you can come up with is "a bit of a stupid example obviously". The moment I propose to you actual real-world problems, your entire argument breaks down into piles of "could be"s and lots and lots of words how blockchain magically solves everything.

> you've got some global blockchain network that can record arbitrary data and run contracts attached to the data

Why?

> then you could start to record things like land ownership

- Ahmed pays local authority to record him as an owner. Where's your solution for that?

- Ahmed is an atual rightful owner, but then Mohammed pays local authority to register him as the rightful owner instead. Where's your solution for that?

> this contract is signed with people's private keys

- Mohammad is now registered as the owner. 5 years later, after a prolonged court battle, Zahra proves that the original record is incorrect, and the court rules that the property is now Zahra's. Mohammad doesn't give up his private keys. Where's your solution for that?

> dictates the rules for transfer of ownership, time-limited ownership, death, loss of key, etc.

Ah, yes. Instead of contracts written in plain language, we now have a complex programmable system written in an esotheric language that requires programmatic access and integration to dozens, if not hundreds of other such systems. And all these contracts are guaranteed to be correct, foolproof, without omissions, and to 100% correctly represent the interests of the parties that sign the contract. Because blockchain.

Well, except the time when they are hacked, and require a hard fork and re-writing of history. So much for "non-tempering": https://www.coindesk.com/understanding-dao-hack-journalists

> Unlike a paper contract signed in handwriting, this contract is signed with people's private keys and the rules aren't enforced manually but automatically.

Ah, yes. When a person dies, they automatically register their death from beyond the grave. Or when a person sells property, this is automatically entered into the system through the celestial sphere. Court orders are automatically applied to ownership simply because blockchain.

> And you can trust in the data and the enforcement of the rules because you can have trust in the network to do so.

Ah yes. The rules are enforced because some numbers in a highy ineffecient, slow distributed append-only log say something.
Well if the government mandates that the thermostat must be set to 72 degrees no matter what, that switch from Fahrenheit to Celsius is going to be pretty uncomfortable.

Yes in general we care more about what we can buy with our money than how many pieces of green paper it takes to represent that value, but there are many laws on the books where something bad happens if you have too many or too few pieces of green paper regardless of what they're worth.
Let people enjoy things.

If you don't like the Kardashians, fine. I don't either. But clearly some folks do and are willing to help propel them to fame (or notoriety).

I know your comment is being glib, but it's emblematic of HN crowds saying, "I don't like this thing, therefore this thing is funny/bad." It costs you nothing to post your comment and just let people like the things they like.
The counties that make up Jefferson could also be absorbed into Western Nevada, but that's not as sexy as becoming your own state.
I think the large part for me, is that I don't see these tools as useful. regex101.com , the "history" command and Mackup provide these things for me and they are free. How do these paid apps provide more value?
Most health plans will cover at least a portion of substance abuse treatment. Things like HIPAA are there to keep your employer out of your business. You might be surprised how many of your co-workers have been through some kind of substance abuse program.
Looks like he had bipolar disorder. Manic episodes can produce imprudent behavior such as this.
...and yet the article completely ignores the "with unpredictable results" part and instead spends a lot of time discussing all the other valid consequences (which are also only mentioned as examples, at least in the common understanding of "from ... to ...").

Downthread commenters go into more detail regarding the "ignoring e.g. the possibility of signed overflow may mean to assume that it never happens" reading, so I won't elaborate on it here.
I'm sure these are solid founders, but I have to ask: how on earth did this idea get into YC? What was the rationale for thinking this would be a great portfolio company; splitting bills? I'm sure it was a lot of work to set up 5,000 major providers but... why???

https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/