skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's common for people to take mechanical/technological steps to make sure agreements will be respected when they know that if they just wrote a contract they could not rely on the legal system to enforce it in a reliable or economical manner. This is not necessarily bad.

When I get my car fixed at the mechanic, I am paying for the service but at no time do I transfer ownership to him. One procure we could follow is for him to do the repair, give me my car back, ask for payment, and then pursue me in court if I refuse to pay. But instead, the procedure is that he just keeps the car in his garage until I pay. (If I want to call the police to get my car back, I can, but now I have to explain to them why I'm not paying, and enforcement is much easier.) This forces me to respect the agreement we made - repairs in exchange for money - in a more robust way than any contract ever could.
> One thing that surprised us that our TAM says that on a 1 AZ write-heavy workload normal MySQL would have higher performance as Aurora synchronously write to storage servers in other AZs

What is surprising about a multi-AZ database having higher latency than one that runs in only one AZ?
They're a fairly major graph database product with a well-funded sales team that has been hammering the "I mean, doesn't everything look kinda like a graph? Isn't your data kinda a graph? You should definitely use us as your database-of-record, or for literally anything else you might use a database for, look how fast we are at graph stuff!" line hard and (apparently) with great success.
Very true. If you're running a business that accepts credit cards then it's completely negligent to not block TOR traffic. A lot of credit card fraud comes from people using TOR if you leave that open.
That's not how US civil courts work. If a contract is flawed then a judgment can be rendered based on intent, equity, and other factors. There are centuries of common law precedent for this. The existence of blockchains and "smart" contracts changes nothing.
Unfortunately, we live in a world where public opinion (skewed by fossil fuel companies or otherwise) is a huge driving force. We can lament what the world would be like if only people were more knowledgeable, but at the end of the day it's the ecosystem we have to operate in.

Fusion power has indeed had high R&D costs, but so has any significant project before the ROI starts to kick in. Fusion power (especially the types that don't generate a neutron flux) is safer and more productive in principle compared to fission, and I have high confidence I will live to see a commercial fusion reactor come online in my lifetime.
> You are trading one set of risks for a completely different set of risks that might suit your use case much better; your counterparty being able to contest a contract in court could very well be a "bad" thing for you.

There is no trade of risks. The judicial system is still going to assert their authority over contracts. Your counterparty will still be able to contest a contract in court. The guys with guns the court sends out to enforce their verdict are not going to be impressed with "code is the contract" and "blockchain". They will lead you to a (jail cell) block in chains (handcuffs) if you try to defy the court order.

Instead you are trading specification of contracts in a legal language where there has been centuries of experience in writing and interpreting those contracts, for specifying the contract in a new language that is still evolving and where there is not a whole lot of legal precedent on how to interpret them and how to resolve bugs.

These "smart contracts" are not decreasing your risk, but rather increasing it.
Yes, this is nowhere near it needs to, and will, go to.
I tried to use DT for years, and eventually just decided it was Not For Me.

It got so file-like that I realized I could get almost everything I liked about how it cataloged, say, PDFs by just putting the PDFs in a folder and using regular file system search. Plus the lack of mobile was a problem at the time. Have they fixed that?
Another option for mixing notes and calendar entries is https://noteplan.co/
1) We normally don't talk about the developer / manufacturer getting a cut: we talk about the middleman / sales channel "taking their cut", so inherently the word "cut" is biased to make it at least sort of understandable.

2) And no: developer "revenue" is the full cost of the receipt, and then a cost of their doing business is the cut taken by the platform, which decreases their resulting "income". The word "revenue" specifically is a number from which you deduct costs to obtain "income".
Nobody was even talking about Russia, something has gone seriously wrong if you preemptively have to defend torture in paranoid expectation of downplaying other torture.
> I've a bunch of small sites whose links end in ".php" despite they no longer run on PHP.

Kudos for maintaining that compatibility, but it seems that this kind of thing is addressed in the linked document:

> File name extension. This is a very common one. "cgi", even ".html" is something which will change. You may not be using HTML for that page in 20 years time, but you might want today's links to it to still be valid. The canonical way of making links to the W3C site doesn't use the extension.
So are you saying sales works?
I might have to try this again but I think I tried this at some point and I failed to get it working but it might have been making a mistake.
or put differently - learning how to code is table stakes. It's boring and not impressive.
Also, they have a large rural population that is unused and not very productive. Using that population can more than make up for aging workers.
He missed what happened to me and took weeks to resolve - [attempted] DNS theft by a malicious third party
Great opportunity to be a consultative partner to your client and get them out of GCP.

At a minimum get a paid support plan and leverage that. Show them what support will look like before they are too far in to move.
Oops, you're right. I misread.
Mark Cuban 'Hit' by Titan Crypto Crash as Coin's Price Falls to Near Zero
Which, to the parent's point, makes the restriction itself pointless? It also seems like the kind of "workaround" that will one day be patched, and suddenly your app stops working.
Reviving extinct species may soon be possible
Set aside that this was a handpicked taskforce the notion of any independence is not visible, nor is there indication that the things proposed in this report are needed or wanted by the "experts" that contributed.

To top it all of the cover page looks like it was hastily made in powerpoint.

I urge anyone to read as an example of how NOT to prepare a task force report:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
A Ponzi scheme without anyone running it isn't a Ponzi scheme.

> new money is needed to pay old money

WOW that's a broad definition. Turns out my 401k is a Ponzi!

Do you know the difference between, say, a pyramid scheme and a Ponzi scheme? Or is "new money is needed to pay old money" the most nuanced understanding you have?
Ah cool, thanks for the update. I haven't looked at their stuff in over a year. Congrats on the launch, looks really slick.
With the exception of IRC (and given the popularity of IRC that's not a huge exception) no one will use your chat app if it's not on the iPhone.
What's New in Tailwind CSS v2.2
H3 tags on this could really use a bump in size and contrast from the regular text.
Yeah, he did get a good settlement it seems. So maybe not a bad idea if your initials are AWS :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_v._MikeRoweSoft#Pres...
I just hacked together a workaround for this very thing myself. You can call play() in a click handler but immediately pause(), and then call play() again on the same Audio element later when your scanner succeeds.
That's reasonable. :)

Those things should already require authorization to access their streams, and your creds for e.g. meet.google.com shouldn't be available in other tabs/windows at other domains to send along, but it still would likely be reasonable to default to preventing access to/from domains unless they are marked as safe, in much the same way accesses are already requested/allowed.

I acknowledge that a feature like that would take real work to write and support and keep secure, but control over access to data should be the user's choice, not the server's.
Your move, Apple.
Eh, BioNTech got about half a billion from the Germany govt. You win some, you lose some.

Like, should the German government have had its on-staff wizards look into the future to decide which on the face of it very similar mRNA vaccine to fund? They funded two, one worked well and hundreds of millions of doses have been administered. That seems like reasonable value for money, to be honest.
I think you replied to a sarcastic comment. But honestly I'm not sure.
New word of the day! This one is going to come in handy.
This article is nonsensical - yes outdated VPNs are bad but
1. Don't have an outdated VPN
2. An outdated VPN will get you remote or not - it's just a matter of time
> He would still demand rework after doing it his way

I sometimes do that with contracts drafted by junior lawyers — and often it's due to having had additional thoughts after seeing an actual "product," in sort of a fail-fast mode of drafting. Could that be part of the explanation in your case?
> Then, what'd you say are key differences between meshcenter.org and syoisp?

No big differences, everything is applicable to both. In practice 'Mesh' has kind of become associated with 'non-profit, volunteer staff,' and SYOISP makes the implicit assumption of a for-profit entity.

> Also, has Facebook's foray into the space with https://telecominfraproject.com (and Google's too with https://opennetworking.org/) change the landscape? They're going after 4G/5G like deployments, which is in sharp contrast with what starry and meshcenter are doing?

Unsure yet what these efforts (and I'll add Microsoft's Airband) will amount too. I will say that I don't really see them tackling the actual hard parts of improving connectivity, which is primarily the actual building of physical infrastructure. I mean, other than Google obviously doing so with Google Fiber. Software can only get you so far in this effort, which is I think a lot of the reason that the incumbent providers have maintained such a stronghold over modern tech companies.
Ask HN: Is Flow (JS type system) dead?
The community seems to be coalescing around TypeScript, to a point where even third-party projects like Deno support it exclusively. I haven't been keeping up with Flow for a few years, but I never hear about it anymore and last time I used it it had lots of issues.

Is it in maintenance mode, or is it still hoping to compete one day? Does it have a dedicated userbase or just legacy code?
Yes. You might be underestimating just how bad Microsoft are at this.

I was originally going to say that although the links on the Microsoft page currently work they can't be expected to stay working. They had worked when I last needed them after all. But that was at least a year ago and so I followed one, and sure enough meanwhile Microsoft had once again re-organised everything and broke them all ...

Even the link to their current list as XML (on Microsoft's site) from this page is broken, it gives you some XML, as promised, but I happen to know the correct answer and it's not in that XML. Fortunately the page has off-site links to the CCADB and the CCADB can't be torched by somebody in a completely different department who wants to show their boss that they are an innovator so the data in there is correct.

Microsoft provides customer facing updates for this work by the way. The current page about that assures you that updates happen once per month except December, and tell you about January and February's changes. Were there changes in March, April, or May? Actually I know there were, because Rob Stradling (not a Microsoft employee) mirrors crucial changes to a GitHub repository. Are they documented somewhere new that I couldn't find? Maybe.
- Not the same bakers (wasmtime is supported by the Bytecode Alliance nonprofit, which is behind the wasm specs, whereas wasmer is a startup)

- Not the same implementations, so not the same optimizations performances everywhere (you can see that a bit like clang vs GCC).

So which one to use depends on your tradeoffs. For me personally, I saw firsthand what an ecosystem tool could become once owned by a startup, and I would be very careful about this path.

There are more technical comparisons here and there if you look a bit (for example in /r/rust).
Replace "Republicans" with "Politicians" (at the state and federal level), and the statement is just as correct. I believe the problem is allowing private money to affect government, but I have no idea how to fix it.
> Series F

Yikes

> largest investment in a private database company

I guess this is one of those PR moves that is trying to make something lame sound good? If your customer portfolio includes Walmart, Volvo and AstraZeneca why are you raising money a 6th time?
So it becomes unusable if you don't keep it connected to the internet?
Series F? Is that a bad smell or is it considered normal nowadays? Genuine question.
Note how despite not coming with the OS, `python3` is still placed in the Apple-only `/usr/bin/` directory. And a binary exists at that path either way, it's just a stub by default. Because none of this is confusing at all.

I don't like how Apple handles this. If you have the developer tools installed, it's not especially obvious what is part of those tools and what is actually bundled with the OS. And so it's not surprising that some scripts I've come across will silently break in semi-odd ways without the dev tools.

Also, why is Python a developer tool, but Perl isn't? Or ZSH, for that matter? Does the distinction actually make any sense?
How did that happen and why did it take weeks to resolve?
What number are you seeing on that page? The one they give me (1-800-654-2533) is out of service when I call it.
I think revenue is money you get your hands on, and then pay costs out of. If you never get your hands on it then it's not your revenue, it's someone else's revenue that they're paying their costs - your developer fee - out of. Like a singer's revenue is not all record sales as they're not selling the records they've just licensed someone else to do so and they're getting a cut (wait... so that's cut the other way around...)
>but they are from one party (and not the one trying to block municipal broadband in OH).

Did you even read the article you linked? There's clear Republican involvement...

"“Big Tech companies are stifling American innovation with their monopolistic behavior,” said Rep. Lance Gooden (R-Tex.), who co-sponsored two of the bills.""

"Bipartisan movement

It’s unclear whether any of these bills will pass. The last one, the Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act, appears most likely at this point since it’s a relatively incremental piece of legislation that already has bipartisan support in both chambers. But the fact that the other bills, which garnered bipartisan support in the otherwise highly partisan House, suggests that a major overhaul of antitrust law may be imminent, even if these specific bills don’t survive."

>Except reality[0] doesn't comport with your statement.

Let me know when they pass....
I don't remember if there's a way to lock a specific token but I've read the contract and 1. It's behind an UpgradabilityProxy so it can be changed and 2. It includes functions to blacklist addresses and even temporarily pause all transactions.
Actually, I think the biggest obstacle is that as cool as scheduler activations are, it turns out that not many applications are really in a position to benefit from them. The ones that can found other ways ("workarounds") to address the fact that the kernel scheduler can't know which user space thread to run. They did so because it was important to them.
Also as I mentioned we did get through to someone via the Swiss number, they did not help.
I think it ultimately boils down to

https://github.com/IronFinance/iron-polygon-contracts/blob/m...

> uint256 private constant PRICE_PRECISION = 1e6;

yikes :D
There's lots of non-english codebases out there, supporting symbols for their languages is a big deal.

In a way, it's in part a job for the dev tools. Autocomplete engines should be able to complete these symbols from an ascii-only hint. 'a' should offer "α" as one of the completion options, and 'bla' should offer "BLÅHAJ".
Where would one derive the authority though to proclaim that the mind does not conceive in any meaningful way?
I don't want the perfect to be the enemy of the good, but road shoulders aren't safe cycling/pedestrian spaces. Roads have the shoulders as a run off space for cars travelling at speed, so only having the option of cycling on the shoulder (car run off space) is a bad option that cities need to remedy. Painting the shoulder a "cycling lane" doesn't solve this either, it doesn't change the infrastructure at all it just reminds drivers of their responsibility to safety.
has anyone thought about bufferbloat in wisp setting?

my experience is that some manufacturers are way better than others and there is no way to compare them based on any specs.

OpenWRT is the gold standard for fighting bufferbloat, but not many manufacturers even consider using algorithms and driver patches that can help...

For example, Ubiquity still uses ancient 2.6 linux kernel with some backported funcionality while mikrotik has the same base but don't even try.
NYC lags behind other US cities in getting workers to return to offices
Mao and Stalin both managed to elevate the standard of living of their respective nations significantly during their lives. If you had engaged with history instead of VCF propaganda, you would have realised this.
KaleidoPaint – Create colorful symmetrical paintings based on tiling patterns
The impression that I get is that wasmer is more targeted towards people who want to embed a wasm runtime inside an existing application that they're building, whereas wasmtime is more meant to be used as a standalone program that runs WASI binaries directly. I think both projects support both use cases, but they seem to be geared that way.
Tropes and Networked Digital Activism #1: Trope-Field Fit
Yeah but you also have to factor in the ecosystem lock in and monopoly factor here.
I absolutely do! Thank you.
For developers who don't want to use AWS Credit for normal business operations, has anyone figured what sort of crypto mining on AWS has the highest ROI?

Seems like you could convert AWS credit to crypto to 'cash it out'. Do you get 10% of the face value of the credits or more or less?
Ask HN: Why Doesn’t Amazon Prime Violate Net Neutrality?
I was talking to someone about this last night and wanted to get input from HN.

When AT&T was offering HBO Max for free as part of your cell package, they weren’t allowed to do it in California due to the California NN.

And I get how that type of bundling violates it…I just don’t understand how Amazon isn’t doing the same thing by including Prime video with a package when they are charging lots of other customers like Netflix for that same bandwidth. It seems like the same thing only the fiber coming out of AWS data centers isn’t treated the same as the fiber on AT&T’s network?

How are these different?
https://www.cncf.io/the-childrens-illustrated-guide-to-kuber... is a famous example.
Say more about this? You're probably right but I haven't thought about it before and I'd be happy to have you do that thinking for me. :)
Good prices are what consumers determine are good prices.

Sometimes that's razor-thin margins. Sometimes it lets you get away with high margins.
While it would last a long time at current levels, the supply of fission materials is quite limited when you’re looking into interstellar travel etc. That’s really the promise of fusion it’s an unimaginably vast energy source for the future.

As to more sort term concerns, fission has a lot of very expensive requirements like 24/7/365 security which make it difficult to integrate with vastly cheaper renewables. Baseline power sources like nuclear and coal wind are at a massive disadvantage when integrating with significantly cheaper wind and solar. They lose significant amounts of money during part of the day and need much higher premiums the rest of the day to make up for it.

In today’s energy market there is definitely a place for fission. However, with a 50 year payback period you need to project into future energy markers with even cheaper solar, wind, and batteries. That’s why electricity companies generally view it as a dead end. Fusion is a larger unknown, it’s probably not going to be cost effective but it’s also the kind of long shot that might just pay off.
Some potential things to watch for:

- try not to obtain and initialize the audio context until the triggering event has occurred

- make sure the audio context + playback occurs directly as a result of the triggering event. If the event just sets some state, and then something else is periodically watching for that state to change, it may fail. A workaround here is to just mute+play some sound on that first tap, then you're good for any later Audio contexts created+initiated however you'd like.
I've started learning it in March when the pandemic hit and I lost my job, so I had free time. I just started by making a side project, a static site generator of course. Now at my current job I was able to use Rust for an IoT data acquisition project, and feel like I'm more productive than I am with C++, which I have 20 years of experience with.

The other day the partner company which is using the output of my software admitted to me that they are chasing some weird heap corruption error in QtCore.dll, and therefore cannot hit a deadline.. I was relieved that this is a thing of the past for me now.

When I run into a memory error now, it's somewhere in the unsafe code blocks I have in the wrapper around the shitty C libraries by other partner companies, that didn't document the conditions of their API properly.
Might incentize some new spendings on AWS service.
It's an opinion, it isn't right or wrong
Maybe I misread him, but I read it as "it is better to have just the right, critical set of features", instead of "adding more bells and whistles will always makes it better!"
I know from my own code, that whenever I introduce too much flexibility, I invariably end up with fragile complexity, and using it to shoot my feet from various angles.
And I have also met a colleague or two who so far haven't reached the same conclusion, only the fragile complexity part (i.e. they still see it as a positive thing.)
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> Sure, but if you both sign a legal contract to obey the outcome of the smart contract then no one owes anything,

You are begging the question by presupposing that for every smart contract there could be a possible legal contract that can bind the people who sign it to the results of the smart contract.

If a smart contract is illegal, then any written contract that binds people to the results of that contract would be similarly illegal.
> GNU is the predominant standard

On Linux, sure, but not on other Unix OSes (like *BSD)
cypher is really cool and with neosemantics[1] you have the best of both worlds - labeled property graphs and rdf* they even have a cool reasoner and sparql.

that being said I thought about porting it to postgresql with apache age vs. using neo4j for a project because it's faster at least for this usecase. Easier said than done, through.

If you want to play with graphs and linked-data it's super cool. There is also structr[2] that builds CMIS / Alfresco ECM like functionality atop neo4j with graaljs scripts.

1: https://github.com/neo4j-labs/neosemantics

2: https://github.com/structr/structr
Bombshell Report Finds Phone Network Encryption Was Deliberately Weakened
I'm 85% sure I read somewhere on their subreddit that they will keep Panda as it is now for people who prefer it that simple.