skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've invented abstractions that exceed our common ability to reason about their base building blocks. I think most websites should be just pure html, minimal inline styling so you don't get page flicker, and a small sprinkling of <script asyc/defer> to give you some async server functionality. That's it.

This is all possible, it's just that collectively, web developers have tried so hard to make their discipline as 'complex' as other software engineering domains, that we have destroyed our sense of efficiency, speed, and catering to the worst off end users.
"Rusty's Rules for APIs" for those wondering.

(Referenced on p. 40 of Greg K-H's preso.)
Introducing The Medical Record
NYC hit-and-run victim identified by family, pals as actress Lisa Banes
I'm not talking about stray dogs.
> Banes was in the crosswalk and had the right of way, according to police, who said it was unclear what kind of vehicle the suspect was driving.

> “No one knows for sure. Some witnesses said it was a scooter. Some said it was a motorcycle with no plate,” an NYPD spokesman said.

When the light turns red, all vehicles stop, but electric motorcycles, bikes, and scooters keep zooming through at 20 MPH.

Do not underestimate the force of such a crash.
A common occurrence
I don't know a ton about Freddie or his communication business, so want to separate that out.

That said, the Figgers branded devices seem to be pure scamming. Chinese reclones that are outright lying about specs, from everything I've read.
Would it be helpful if we clarified that all three of those assertions are true at the same time?
Email the HN mods directly at hn@ycombinator.com
At a large US cloud provider I formerly worked at our fiber between colos in HKG were all tapped, with unexplained db losses. Seemed to be not a secret this goes on there.
Thats weird i will check it
You aren't alone in that. It's actually prompted me to sit here and reflect on that very thing. Things are definitely too slick and sterile compared to those earlier days of pioneering wonder.
There are no sides to history, winners write it.
Maybe you meant involuntarily? Planned childbirths are certainly invited.

Regardless, it would be selfish if the parent's sole motivation were to produce caregivers. IME many people deciding to have children aren't thinking only of themselves.
HR departments are often charged with helping overstressed workers release some of the stress and tension. That often means crappy pizza parties at the end of a quarter. Sometimes it means off-site parties with BBQ and beer. Sometimes it means renting out a movie theater. Sometimes it means giving funds to 'clubs' at the company to buy some craft alcohol, host a drag event, go play tennis, or anything else.

I don't understand what is political about a drag event. It's a form of performance a la theater, comedy, dance, etc. Can you explain what would bother you about drag queens being promoted? Perhaps drag performances disturb you for some personal reason but to another person a workplace craft whiskey club with a bit of funding from the company to buy a bottle once a month would be disturbing because of the life experience of having an alcoholic as a father or loved one. But I wouldn't expect every event a workplace to put on to appeal to every employee. If that is the goal that is how you end up with the pizza party and that's about it.
will consider, i personally believe in adding more value than charging less so will do something in those lines
The Navy hasn't tapped these cables yet.
I don't know, there is a lot of us who moved to Julia without doing R, or using Python as a stats language.

There is a lot of people wanting to use things like JuMP and handle numeric types where a single value is things like probability curves, and you want to use regular libraries with them, without having to rewrite those libraries.

Julia is really it's own beast, way way beyond R / Python.

It is friendly towards R dev's but, people who normally had to hack stuff in Fortran, C++, etc love it.
Loans and bills would be denominated in the original currency. Bitcoin would only be used for transferring money. It would be converted back to the original currency upon receipt.

If the cryptocurrency infrastructure and exchanges become fast enough, the exchange rate of the cryptocurrency doesn't matter. Users would buy, transfer, and the recipient would sell the cryptocurrency at the other end in however long the technology allows.

This puts cryptocurrency in a weird spot as an investment because the exchange rate doesn't matter as much.

If PayPal announced that transactions on the PayPal network would be denominated in a finite amount of PayPalCoins, everyone would roll their eyes. Call it a cryptocurrency and add some blockchain technology, though, and for some reason it's an investment that's going to the moon.
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That's all well and good, but are any of the people talking about requiring voter ID also talking about reform to make it easier to obtain voter ID? If not, why not, and does it call their motivation into question?
The post actually convinced me against what you're saying.

Something might not work, and if you know it won't and know a way that will, sure interfere (hopefully with tact), and steer the conversation towards a more likely solution.

But, if you only know why it won't work, but not of anything else that could work, than it seems useful to discuss further, but can't it be made to work?
Manually, Twitter, Reddit Hackernews and my RSS.
Got the same problem.
Are there any places outside of PA that do this in modern times?
Or just “what about <showstopper>?”

All you have to do is bring up the issue that you think kills the idea, you don’t have to issue a judgment.

If people can’t see that it kills the idea, then either you are wrong and it can be mitigated, or again you are wrong and it is not the issue you think it is, or you are right but you are dealing with a group of people that can’t see reason, which is something you would want to know anyway.
will definitely work on it,

can you explain Please allow the plus (+) symbol for emails? please
By 2050, substantially less of Bangladesh will be below sea level than the Netherlands today. Much of that was reclaimed from the sea using 19th century technology.
Thanks for taking a moment to review the spec

> Which keys are mandatory and which are optional? I think that the pictures, long descriptions, web page URLs, and possibly some others, should be optional. It might only be a podcast and not a web site. Maybe the FeedURL should also be optional in some blocks; if a LOUD feed program downloads it, and possibly extracts it from the full feed, then it can fill it in if it is omitted.

Optional and required is something that until now had not been considered, but it will be. This is an important point. Thank you. What was meant by "then it can fill it in if it is omitted" this is the only part that was unclear.

> Also, you might want to allow floating numbers for time rather than being limited to integers, since the duration might not be an integer number of seconds.

Can you elaborate on this? Do you mean a granular measurement more exact than the span of a second? For some context, the reason why it is a number of seconds, currently, is because of the way you can link to a specific timestamp in URLs for audio files using the #t=NNN format, and it works for the most part regardless of which browser clicks the link. This is used in the current implementation of loudreader, a CLI LOUD feed reader with subscriptions. [0]

> Also, for the list of audio files you might want some way to include the information about quality and file format, as well as to specify the file formats, character encodings, and languages of transcriptions.

This is a good suggestion, thank you.

> Again, like the other comment mentions, there will need more description of the formats of some of the string values. The examples help a bit, but examples are not good enough; a proper specification should be needed.

This is the part where the most help is needed. All roads point to the need for a formalized spec. That area, or process, is the least familiar unfortunately, though contacts have been made with regard to pursuing this: Jamie Zawinski advised, when asked candidly about the process of making LOUD a standardized spec, that "it's a multi-year process that involves collaborating with a lot of people." which can't be ignored.
Currently, the time for that pursuit isn't there, but that's not to say that can't change, which is a big reason behind the MIT license. This is something that is needed, and it can be awesome, but it will take more than 1 person leading the charge, which currently is all that is available.

> Other thing mention in other comments also are issues with this format. I think it isn't good enough, for those and other reasons.

Thank you for this feedback

[0] - https://github.com/loud-feed-format/loudreader
Great i should focus on corporate licensing then
Call it "FUD" if you want but in this case Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt are all very much justified.
> Mild disappointment at how the demo page has been minified info a single gigantic line so there's no easy way to View Source and see how certain things are done.

Have you tried the Inspector, rather than View Source? That (re)formats the code.
You argue it is stable by arguing you never need to convert it to fiat. If your economy is running 100% on Bitcoin it doesn't matter what the exchange rate to USD our any other currency is. (Note I'm not actually arguing this is the case in El Salvador, just pointing out that there is a theoretical argument that could be made.)
I still don't understand how the lightning network works and maintains the important blockchain feature of bitcoin.
Whiskey is not a political topic.

Drag queens are a subset of LGBTQ+ which is a political topic.

That's why. If I am working hard in a manner relevant to creating value for the company, while someone in HR is not working hard due to being distracted away from work by organizing a company-irrelevant event and using company resources to promote the event...

I find it grossly inappropriate and offensive.

I will not work at a place where I am expected to work hard in my department, while people in other departments cavort with drag queens to help them promote events using company resources.

I'm already exhausted enough by the culturally degenerate neomarxist woke-ism outside of work. Having it foisted on me at work is too much.
I probably wouldn't be too interested in taking advice from Hitler about how to find happiness
I'm Portuguese, and to me, on time means on time.
I had hoped that after many years of laptops containing Intel/nVidia hybrid graphics, this setup would largely work, but was disappointed.

Both the proprietary nVidia driver and the nouveau driver would not work reliably for me. I ran into kernel error messages and hard-freezes, with even SSH sessions to the machine breaking.

Nvidia GPUs are still the number one problem. Buying anything with Nvidia in it is a waste of money. Closed source binary drivers that only work sometimes is acceptable for gamers but not if you want a reliable, controlled machine.
This isn't inherent in the definition of legal tender, for example large denomination paper notes (100/200/500 euro) are often rejected for fraud risk despite being legal tender, and the latter two ceased printing because legal vendors so rarely accepted them meant that illegal activity was a high proportion of their use.
It may be extinct in some places, but in many others HTML knowledge is quite alive.

React is great for some tasks, but it's ridiculous for others. Its use can be overengineering, and it presumes that JavaScript execution is always allowed for all websites (which is not true).

Plain HTML, pre-generated as a static site or generated server-side at runtime, is a better solution in many cases. React is great for the things it was designed for.

Fad engineering is just that, a fad. All technologies have situations or cases where they should not be used. People should never use a technology until they understand at least some situations where it should not be used.
Um, because they also were proto-socialist, had better healthcare and hygiene than Europe of the time, and had social norms stressing unfailing politeness? I mean, it’s true their morals seem alien and inhuman to us, but that doesn’t actually make them bad people as such, and I certainly wouldn’t reduce the whole of Mesoamerican civilization to ‘those nasty guys who sacrificed people’.

(Further reading: someone at a forum I belong to who is well-read in this area has been doing an excellent series of posts on the Mexica: https://www.verduria.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=712, which if you ignore the long discussions between posts is a really readable introduction to Mexica society.)
> Wow, this seems like an incredibly shitty situation for the people of El Salvador.

Indeed it is. The government just mandated that everyone in the country is obligated to use a startup's app, more or less. This has to be one of the most egregious examples of regulatory capture I've seen in a long time.

"Legal tender" means that people are legally obligated to accept this as payment. Maybe the law will be broad enough that the buyer can set the terms of how the Bitcoin is delivered, but given how prominently this Strike app and their founder are participating in the launch, I suspect it will mostly just drive users to this startup.

Forcing everyone to accept Bitcoin, maybe through a specific startup company's app depending on how this is rolled out, is a weird juxtaposition to the libertarian ideals of many Bitcoiners.
No they aren't, you are misunderstanding that link. It gives an 'estimate' of 1 satoshi per byte. The actual current block is 12 satoshis per byte. Transactions are not a single byte of course. This is why the average transaction fee is $7 right now and was $60 a few weeks ago.

https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-transactionfees...
I wouldn't know how to tease apart specifically Mozilla's management from the technological currents that shape the browser wars. So I just assume they're trying their darndest to have the best browser. Every ounce of market share they pry from Chrome is market share they get to charge Google rent on. Google happens to benefit as well (as already mentioned), so it seems win-win. I don't really view one as having the upper hand on the other.
We already have these problems in the normal stock exchange -- they're called "whales". In order for whales to capture the best value to _them_, they trade carefully and slowly so as not to shock the market.
Maybe you should try to actually read up on what the lightning network is before you argue against some ill-informed strawman version of it.
It sounds like the machine that the DB VM was running on was being taken offline or restarted for maintenance. The default behaviour for GCE is to live-migrate the VM to another machine. So I guess Cloud SQL uses the default here. (It may well be the best option as failover isn't instant either.) Live migration is usually much faster than 90s at well but if you are making heavy RAM updates that could definitely slow it down.

Either way I agree that some full-stack integration is needed on GCPs part to at least get that into the maitnaince log. It would also be nice to make most of these happen during the maitnaince window but IIUC they don't always have 24h notice of a machine reboot.
when did you tell them to buy back?
Plenty of wrong in here about Colossus, which makes me suspect the rest of it could be wrong, too. For instance, the article suggests that atomic rename in Colossus may be possible within a "volume", which is not a thing in Colossus but the author seems to have meant either tablet or node (tablet server). That is a misunderstanding of Bigtable, which not only fails to offer cross-tablet transactions, but also does not offer multi-row transactions even within a tablet.

All the stuff at the end of the article descends from this misunderstanding and is therefore tainted by it. And what's with the obsession over atomic rename? It's a crutch. Bigtable doesn't need it therefore Colossus doesn't provide it. This is clear from Denis Serenyi's 2017 keynote at PDSW-DISCS, which states both that Colossus semantics are derived from Bigtable's requirements and that "Directories unnecessary". It's not hierarchical, it's a big flat namespace where you can put in some slashes if it makes you feel better.
In this situation you would use an exchange in a friendly country.
The beer will always be worth what you paid for it. The money you still have may, however, fluctuate in value.
Sea has proven easier to control than heat.
There's also the "That Won't Work" person's sibling: the "I Don't See a Use Case" person. In my experience, "I Don't See a Use Case" people require more sophisticated tactics if you actually want to get something done while they're around, not least of all because they move the game to a harder field: "that won't work" at least states a fact, whereas "I don't see" moves us firmly into "belief" territory, and "a Use Case" invites us into the trap of dreaming up our own strawmen for them to tear down one by one.

I wonder if they started out as "That Won't Work" people, but evolved better defenses?
El Salvador President Would Submit Legislation to Make Bitcoin Tender
Care to argue your point rather than just continuously layering on the snark?
Why does it matter how many dollars the beer is worth? It is worth the same number of bitcoins yesterday, today, and tomorrow. That's the only stability that is relevant.
> A currency needs stability.

The word “currency” is inherently a tautology. How does something become a currency?

> Speculation only works when there's a stable currency to dump your value into when the the security is going in the wrong direction.

Precious metals long predate government monies. Gold and silver couldn’t have become currency under the definition you’ve presented here.
No, that graph only shows a discontinuity because the definition of M1 money supply was changed on that date.

They explained it fully here: https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2021/01/whats-behind-the-rec...

Sharing the graph without the context is misleading.
Perhaps they were mistaken.
Since a source was not linked, I googled it and found this article:

https://research.msu.edu/workplace-negativity-can-hurt-produ...

Is this the one you're referring to? It states that:

> Employees who point out problems in the office may help the company improve, but could be hurting themselves in the process.

Couldn't find the link to the actual paper though.
That is only true if the entire global economy is running 100% on bitcoin. The second you need to trade with another economy (like any nation needs to in order to import/export goods), you are bitten by the same issue.

The US is El Salvador's largest trading partner - so Bitcoin's price relative to the USD does matter.
This is a review of linux on the laptop, as the problems of graphic, TouchPad and battery are from OS side more than h/w
It's concerning that the government has partnered with one particular startup company with a specific Bitcoin app for this. Depending on how the laws are written, essentially forcing people to use a specific startup's app to transact in the country could be the most egregious example of regulatory capture we've seen in recent history.
When I hear this phrase, I think of GNOME. Can't count how many times the developers of GNOME have knocked back perfectly sensible pull requests or feature proposals on this basis.

...often only to implement the exact same feature later when it appeared to be their own idea instead of coming from the outside.

It's just an excuse to be insular and shut anything down, which is their default response to anything coming from the outside.
A Video Game That Looks Like Reality
Not really. At least not in the 1Password case.

Having access to the 1Passswrd Master Password and your entire encrypted vault still doesn't get the attacker what they need. To decrypt your vault, you also need to know the 128 bit secret key which is also used in the encryption strategy that is stored offline (e.g. on a piece of paper in your safe or via another already authenticated device)

https://support.1password.com/secret-key-security/
I find backgrounds distracting. The edges of faces don’t look right and end up looking a little off.
You've gotten a lot of pushback but I just want to say I totally agree with your POV.
Hmmmm RA has been good with me, unless I’m doing something with Arrayfire or PyTorch which are both sensitive to $PATH. RA is seriously the real deal, so I suggest wrenching around until it works. I had to modify my $PATH in VSCode to fix the issue - do you know what library you’re using that causes the issue?
Kind of a tangent but (for reasons) I have a workstation on which I didn't want to install a full-fledged browser so I'm using Dillo, https://www.dillo.org/

> Dillo is a multi-platform graphical web browser known for its speed and small footprint.

> Dillo is written in C and C++.

> Dillo is based on FLTK, the Fast Light Toolkit (statically-linked by default!).

Dillo doesn't have a JS engine. (This is a "pro" in my opinion.)

Using it the web is divided into three equivalence classes:

1) Works. (defined as, the site loads, the content is accessible and it looks more-or-less like the author intended.) As a rule such sites load lightning fast.

2) Broken but the content can still be read. Usually the site layout is messed up.

3) Broken completely. Typically a blank page, or garbage without visible content. (There is a new failure mode: sites that won't reply to browsers without server name indication (SNI https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ssl/what-is-sni/ ) Dillo doesn't (yet) support SNI, so those sites are "broken" too. Typically these are Cloudflare-protected sites that give me a 403, but e.g. PyPI recently adopted SNI and went from category 1 to 3.)

(HN is in category 2 FWIW: you can read the content but the "bells and whistles" don't work, login, voting, etc.)

I don't really have much to add, just that A) enough of the web works that I find it useful to use dillo for my purposes, B) the web that does work with dillo is much less annoying than the "modern" web, C) it kinda sucks IMO that most of the web is junk from the POV of dillo user agent.
Ask an interviewer, be graceful and supportive when that happens, and affirm to the candidate that it's OK to pause the interview and then calm things down and restart.
This appears to be a game (in development) for a handheld device I hadn't heard of. There are a few other posts about it on his blog.

I didn't see any code, but it sounds like the post was detailing how he marks (manually) which section of his models will have a dither pattern -- basically just masking.

There are a a bunch of posts about it if you go to his blog index, there are only 7 pages so it's easy enough to flip through them, they're all labeled with the DailyDriver name. There might be something in there about the render process.
> not by the developer being smart really but by the language (read fortran) being dumb,

That's definitely a valid approach, but it's far from the only one employed in HPC.
It's fair that you don't pay tax when don't make a profit after taking depreciation into account.

Depreciation isn't a cheat code that lets you avoid tax on profit. If you depreciate the building more than its actual market value depreciation, you owe back what you deducted when you sell the building.
… which doesn’t do any business with any entity participating in that financial regulation system

… whose customers either don’t intend to ever do so or have lowered their price to reflect those restrictions

Again, note that I’m not saying it’s impossible to work around the edges of the system but it will have real costs which many people aren’t interested in dealing with or will want to be aggressively compensated for.