skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m excited about the possibility here but as a dev I’m waiting for that self-serve functionality. I would have paid a modest fee for a month or so to try it out and maybe converted to a prod customer if it met my needs.

There was a great thread recently on developer marketing here: https://twitter.com/nickwritesit/status/1402318187299934212?...

You should post again here and on producthunt when there’s self-serve signup and live demos.

The videos look good!
Can you explain why? If the government values this type of ongoing research by a variety of organizations, doesn't it make sense to fund that? Isn't that how research has always been done? I get that the guy who owns it is rich, but the government has always funded projects that yield R&D returns in a variety of ways. Doing this allows them to affect Blue Origins direction instead of stay at the whim of a billionaire. We should be applauding the government taking moon shots (literally), not hating it. Would you rather the government spin up another NASA type org for research? They already give funding to huge amounts of companies and labs in the form of grants, loans, and contracts.

I get short term it can affect prices, but long term it accelerates technology. And these types of investments, even though they don't always yield the intended results, have had a massive impact on GDP. The thing we really know is that investments like this pay off, so I really don't get the hate on this other than the fact that the owner is rich.
I can't speak for this projevt specifically, but you can do GC in a real time system. IBMs metronome garbage collector is a real time garbage collector.
> you’ve negated all the features of Bitcoin and may as well be using any random currency with the government as shared banker

Since the goals are to 'give people without bank accounts access' and 'To make it easier to send back remittance payments'. I suppose they are just negating the value of bitcoin in general, though not for their specific use-case. Especially give the fact that the current legal tender there is currently USD which anyhow does not give the country any control over monetary policy.
The Scopes trial was weird and intense
I made this and now anyone can upload to x0.at via SSH
Some pastebins let you send stuff via netcat, so I thought why not do that, but with encryption? -> SSH
But Bitcoin is so volatile. You deposit today let's say 10k of your USD and in one week if the market doesn't like the twits of the day you find yourself with half that.
No, you said (in fact, declared without evidence) that we have to decide on one of two mutually exclusive goals, and further resolving which goal had to be the very first thing we discussed. My point is they don't seem to be more than tangentially related. It's entirely possible to make the rich poorer and the poor richer. Therefore we have to answer two different questions: to what degree do we want to make the rich poorer (or richer)? to what degree do we want to make the poor richer (or poorer)?

I didn't set up the false dilemma. If you want to discuss them as two different propositions (as you seem to), that's fine.

Your link discusses the Scandinavian countries. Those have a GINI (income score) about half that of the US. Of course they have broad-based taxes. That seems to be a requirement. It's just not an argument that they are prioritizing minimizing the degree to which the rich are made poorer.
Yup, been like that for a while. The vast majority of transistors in a CPU are dedicated to memory. Only a real tiny fraction are dedicated to logic.
Before they can even pay $10 per transaction, they need to buy Bitcoins first.

The problem of the unbanked isn’t that they don’t have access to financial services, it’s that they don’t have enough money. They live paycheck-to-check, if that. There’s no point in converting what little they have to Bitcoin and paying fees on the conversion, and then more fees when spending it.
> There are only two clear, non-arbitrary rules: Search engines are only allowed to show a list of links, or search engines can show whatever they want.

Ohio is asking for a third option; common carrier status. Search and other monopoly infrastructure would be run at arms length from the rest of the business, and anyone could pay (the same as google) to integrate it into their own offerings.
Congrats on the launch.
We have been using Chatwoot (https://chatwoot.com/) - an open source solution for customer messaging. Great to see all the open source project. How are you differentiating Airy?
A Celebration of Roguelike Games
Good point. I currently do that with ZM. I suppose it is a bit more work for LE to request footage from individual camera operators.
Maybe it won't! It's a potential disaster, not a guaranteed one. You can read Tim May's Crypto-Anarchist Manifesto for a slightly more detailed argument, and there are decades of cypherpunk stuff to read on the subject, mostly from the perspective that destroying the welfare state would be really super great.

I don't agree, but the immediate and pressing problem for most people (especially in El Salvador) is not the potential collapse of the welfare state but the depredations of kleptocracy.
Over are the days where supply and demand controlled allocation of resources to get the goods to every man, woman and child.

Big demand, lack of workers? Price and pay rise to meet the challenge. This part of market economy always made sense to me. Like a muscle growing stronger in response to increased exertion.

Now the wealthy have decided that this is way too boring because what good does it do them if people actually attain wealth for themselves? There'll be no motivation to run faster in their hamster wheels to create more wealth to be siphoned off.

Works as intended.
See also VentureBeat article about this:

Battlefield 2042 to debut on October 22 on consoles and PC

https://venturebeat.com/2021/06/09/battlefield-2042-to-debut...
If you come up with an actually pronounceable name (so not USAer or USAian), we'll consider it before dropping your suggestion in the paper shredder.

It's quite presumptuous to demand the people of another country refer to themselves in a particular way. You are free to call us whatever you want amongst yourselves. We do it with Germany/Deutschland and they don't seem to mind that much. But we're not demanding that they refer to themselves by our name for them.
The point is that landlords will be able to suck up the income that you spend on non-essentials and luxuries.
If you run a node on lightning, you would know how much transactions you've forwarded, so you can make estimates, especially if you run a large node (say Bitfinex that runs their own nodes), but lightning isn't public the same way blockchain is.

The 1MB block limit makes it highly likely that there will be transactions in the mempool, you still need to open/close channels (even batched ones) and presumably large transfers for cold storage still happen on the blockchain, but then again it's very difficult to say what happens in year ~2140, we'll all be long gone by then.
Simone Biles, Mesmerizing in Slow Motion
That was a joke, right?
I read the article and then I did some more research. His government was elected with a significant majority. Per the constitution they have a legal right to replace judges and even though the article skips those facts they never actually claim criminality - since there is no evidence of such.

Looking back at history, El Salvadore was devastated by a 12 year long civil war [1] in the 1980’s funded to the tune of $1-2 million USD per day by the US Government (Carter and Reagan administrations) funding child soldiers and such - let’s talk about that criminality.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvadoran_Civil_War
I guess I can sort of see it for a cryptocurrency that exists solely to send tokens back and forth, but what about Ethereum where the miners are running some global VM, one function of which is to send tokens back and forth? There you're not paying a fee necessarily to the miner to transfer money for you, but to execute some opcodes and update the global ethereum state. Maybe you're registering a new domain in their DNS equivalent.

He mentions Ethereum offhand in the post, but I feel like that's a legally harder case to prove. Do the servers that transmit, say, wire transfer packets have to worry about KYC?
The Cooperation Economy
That's really interesting. Is that a common design in headphone and other consumer amps?
The move BlackRock will do, based on their history, is to incentivize increases in adjacencies to drive value. What I mean by that is that they will, for example, encourage new office complexes in locations favorable to their new rental domains. Think SF bay area’s natural and warped logic locating massive complexes on the peninsula or ST instead of Fremont/San Jose.
Another discussion on front page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27447757

And this one 4 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27408683
Blackrock is not abandoning anything or massively shifting strategy they have always been a real estate focused investor and have a multi decade history of residential single family investment. This is not evidence of coming inflation.
This is exactly the kind of stuff that rich people can get away with, that HNers keep claiming is “totally legit”.

Just make some contrived legal changes, and end up with a zero tax bill.
If bitcoin becomes the world currency, nation states can mine in order to protect the system.

I think an equilibrium would be reached. For example, the US is probably OK with Russia having 10% of hash power if the US has 10%, and so on.

However, that particular example may be unrealistic, because the US would probably choose poverty over accepting bitcoin.
I read the speech that the president gave on this to a cryptocurrency conference. It seems .. oddly advised.

The speech itself seemed to contain a very basic 1% fallacy - "Bitcoin has a market cap of X billion, if we can attract just 1% of that to El Salvador as investment...."

Oh well, good luck to them I guess.
> have to sell your house

Not particularly, if every other house is too expensive for a normal person to afford.
Hi Explo team. Congrats on the launch! My previous company and my new company both provide insights as a service, so customer facing dashboards are the core product, and therefore this is very interesting to me. A few questions for the team:

1. I see that startups pay $500/month. How do you compare that to Metabase which is $85/month (or $385 if you remove the Metabase attribution)?

2. Do you, or do you plan to, offer the ability to embed individual charts instead of whole dashboards?

3. Do you support custom chart creation via python/R?

4. Do you think Explo is a fit for our use case or a different tool: we're experts at SQL, good with Python, and looking to rapidly create and embed customer facing charts?
Could you perhaps change the title?
I have read several articles about it but I could not remember its name. It will probably get more views if you include "Alzheimer" in the title.
there are treaties that deal with crimes in international waters, so you'd probably get a visit from the navy of the country you pissed off the most. But they might just go after whoever is giving you internet instead as that would probably be easier.
Ask HN: How to scale or rearchitect a single portal site to a multi-tenant SaaS
I don't even know if I worded that title correctly but here is my case in simple English.

I built a site for a school to manage their alumni association. So it's a complete site with a dashboard that exists at say example.com where they can create new campaigns, add pictures, add news posts etc. After a while, some other schools also wanted the same portal as I built for the one school. I don't know how many more will want this kind of site, but many more will it seems. So instead of building out each site individually, I want to build a SaaS of sorts. So that each school can sign up and spin up it's own such alumni association site. All the portals will be accessible from one TLD, so the url will be something like example.com/school1 or school1.example.com.

I have never built something like this, so I have several questions:

1) I'm guessing I can use the site I have as a template to spin off new sites in the new SaaS?

2) What is the correct term for this multi-tenant setup so that I know how to speak when I ask questions or do consultations?

3) What resources can I use to learn to build such a multi-tenant infrastructure? I have not seen any literature on such indulgences. I'm looking for books, blog posts, tutorials etc on architecting such kind of software or something close.

4) What technologies am I looking at utilizing to build out such and what expertise should I be looking for? Is this what stuff like Docker/Kubernetes/containerization is used for in isolating stuff? Or I should be looking at something else?

5) What are some potential pitfalls and points of concern that are unique to this endeavor that I should keep in mind when planning this out?
My recipe to monotony of early game was to design a really small starter base (~20 red/green/black/blue science per minute) with the explicit target to produce construction bots. With bots, things become easier.

That being said, I understand the sentiment. I have been playing lots of modded Minecraft and Factorio over the past decade, and lately I felt a bit of guilt because I feel I could be working on some other, more meaningful, project.
> Home equity is the main financial element that middle class families use to build wealth, and black rock, a federal reserve funded financial institution is buying up all the houses to make sure that young families can’t build wealth.

Faulty logic. First, though historically people have used home equity to build wealth, that hasn't been the best method of building wealth. Most of those people would have been better off continuing to rent and investing in the stock market instead.

Second, building wealth through alternatives to home ownership may be better for a large portion of the population that finds the very fact of their residence decreases the value of a home relative to other homes.
Book recommendation: Cadillac Desert

Lots of good info on the history of water rights and issues in the western US. IIRC it mentions a bunch of alfalfa (very water intensive crop) being farmed with coveted water from the Colorado river, among other peculiarities
> obligates business to accept it

That's annoying.

So the money you make in a day is suddenly down 15% and takes time to exchange for fiat, meanwhile you're just trying to pay rent, payroll, bills and purchase orders in a timely and efficient manner. Great.
This should be considered "on purpose behavior", as Fbook is a cult training system. (Fratnet) People are complicit in using Coupon Book as a dependency for communication with friends & family in this system. These are people who choose to sell themselves out, and sell their contact list out by structural intent. Of course they are going to compromise their accounts, they have compromised themselves and Society by the choice to use this system propagated by digital illiteracy. How is this even surprising or news worthy at this point?
Except when they are affected by the real-world outcomes of political systems manipulated by bad actors. But that never happens, of course...
This is a very useful guide. I'd add one additional step that can sometimes be useful if you're doing a more complex change than adding a field to an object. For example, sometimes you may want to read from an entirely new schema or data source, while ensuring that the user-facing behavior stays the same.

In that case, you'd want to add a step between steps 2 and 3 where you double-read, either inline or within a shadow workload, and add telemetry to alert you if there are discrepancies between the two versions.

Only when you're confident that the two data models are producing acceptably equivalent results would you cut over the primary reads to the new model.

This pattern often comes to play when you break off a piece of state from a monolithic database into a dedicated service.
Lol just throw that shit away unless your worked for the government. All that stuff could have gotten lost in the mail, what are they really going to do about it?

They pretty much told you they don’t care what you do with it.
It's about 65%
Salvadoreans have the Strike [0] app available to them, on which payments are practically instant and free.

[0] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/strike-launches-bitcoin-light...
LN doesn't reduce on-chain Bitcoin transaction fees, but instead attempts to move most of the transactions off-chain. With LN you would open a channel using an on-chain transaction, conduct any number of off-chain transactions in that channel, then "settle" the channel by closing with another on-chain transaction.

There basically are two different views currently on the future scalability and funding model of the network.

The LN/small block view is to keep that layer limited and small and build on top of it and the idea is that with such limited transaction volume these "settlement" transactions will eventually cost a lot. I don't really see this working since to compete with block subsidy rewards you would need very costly transactions.

The big block or "Bitcoin Cash" view is to scale the block size up and eventually you will have very high volume of on-chain transactions.
hey artificialLimbs! Yes, a Teams integration is on the roadmap, as we plan to support all conversational channels and our data model already supports it.
We are working our way through potential channels as we speak, the Teams API was in beta until recently.

If you don’t want to wait you can also build your own custom source for Teams in Airy.
Take a look at our docs to get started: https://airy.co/docs/core/sources/introduction

We can also jump on a quick tech demo if the need is urgent.
I binge-read the RAQs a few months ago. So much great information. Thank you!

I also appreciated the consistent URL scheme because it let me easily scrape all the PDFs to read them offline. The one bummer is that the links at the end of the PDF versions seem to be broken now.
Yeah, I feel no sympathy for him, he was one of the 9-6-6 work hours system supporters, I'm not sorry he can't get away over there with things billionaires get away with , over here in the US. His end is not sad, nor fair. A fair end would be he loosing everything and the people that worked their ass off to make his wealth possible getting compensated.
Strike is custodial...

Yes you can run LN in a non-custodial manner, but the user experience is really bad.
Have a wallet and a seed phrase for said wallet in a safety deposit box or even two. Boom, all set.
i am confused by your first sentence. what do non-homeowners sell?
That won't be the case forever, as the market cap gets larger and larger, the fluctuations get much smaller.

I mean fiat currency and gold's value still fluctuate on a day to day basis, nothing is set in stone.
government, for example, by taxing the externality
its one of the most corrupt countries in the world, so I have a suspicion the people who voted for this have been compromised by Big Bitcoin
Even more annoying is that people downvote you making it unreadable so I have to upvote hopping I can read it.

This elitist UI thing of forcing deliberately blind schemes is trash
Peter Schiff at Occupy Wall Street “I Am the 1%. Let's Talk” (October 2011)
Yeah, that one caught my eye (and then moistened it).

The way he breaks his slump by sharing Factorio with his son -- what a wonderful, unexpected benefit of working in games. How many of us will get to do something like that?
> This hurts people who already own houses, too - property taxes are assessed on the appraised value of the home,

Actual asset values increasing aren’t a harm, and there is basically no place in the US with property taxes high enough that them increasing due to market value can possibly offset the utility (and realizable benefit) of the increase in value, even without the (common, if not usually as ridiculously low as California’s) caps on annual assessment increases that assure that properties that don’t change hands are systematically undertaxed when rapid sustained market increases occur.

Modern financing provides plenty of ways to access equity, so this is very much a non-issue. Though its an issue the property-rich like to pretend is real, because it supports policy that cuts them more breaks and makes things that much worse for everyone else, e.g., CA Prop 13.
I've never liked this reasoning but somehow seems acceptable?

"Because I'm rich, my businesses employ many people who in turn pay taxes and enriches their lives. Therefore I should be exempt from paying taxes"
He's generally a "good guy", but if you haven't figured out he's a cowboy, just read more of his shit.

Any of it, really.
And not just because they’re declarative. I’m currently working in an ecosystem of ~decade old JS projects. The imperative DOM stuff is of course a hassle, but the data flow is (predictably) all over the place. It takes a lot more discipline to keep data flow reasonable in an imperative UI. Modern declarative frameworks are generally opinionated about data flow (sometimes that’s their only opinion!).
Oof… trading food for shelter seems like a problem I wouldn’t want to think about
This problem will not go away unless we change our food production methods.

This is a global challenge. While it might centralize in specific regions, food production destabilization in one region affects others obviously.

Today, we have technology that can replace soil based farming. Aero/hydro farming is already here; I purchased strawberries from my local grocery store just the other day, and they tasted great.[1] There are other, far larger B-corp certified solutions such as [2]. The economics of it still has to be figured out in some cases, yet if we invested and developed in this technology it would be far healthier for our environment in general, I believe.

1: https://www.plan-berries.com/
2: https://www.aerofarms.com/farms/
> it's kind of like a kickstarter

But without taking orders years in advance.
I mean, I love this idea. And I love your newsletter!
IANAL but I don't think this would pass the Constitutional Court. Voting wasn't what killed the Mietpreisbremse - if you tried this probably we'd get some housing constructed and then immediately any limit ruled unconstitutional.
China is vaccinating a staggering 20M people a day
Understand what web developers can and can't animate
There are surgeries and drugs for this. Cannabis makes me forget to eat...and use cannabis, which is interesting.
To me the odd question is why in a language with almost no popular use.. why JavaScript, fortran, basic or c?

How does this handle endian, word sizes, and dreaded alignment? Is packing enough?
> paying double for a house

Are you talking about monthly payment or lump sum? When the lump sum doubles yet the monthly payment is the same, has the cost really changed? To me, no. I was never going to buy lump sum, so I only care about monthly payment.
Not that risk really matters much because Blackrock is too big to fail anyway.
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