skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would suggest reading Grant cardones Sell or Be sold. Don't like the guy but the book is really good.

The number 1 thing I learned from this book was you have to learn that selling is basically helping people and #2 that your product is the best thing for your customer, i.e. you should be convinced that there is nothing better in the world at the moment to help your customer.

When you truly and honestly believe that selling becomes easy.
I'm not really sure what to put here. I never spoke to them personally (except maybe once or twice here on HN) but their work on SNES emulation enabled communities to spring up that improved my life for the better. I'm not going to touch the debate on whether to hold Cloudflare+1776Hosting partially responsible here (I'm sure others will), but I do know that Near physically moved countries to get away from the harassment they were getting.

Just be respectful, ok?
It's similar to Matrix's experimental Pinecone overlay network.

https://matrix.org/blog/2021/05/06/introducing-the-pinecone-...
Buying from a brand with a reputation is very different than assuming a more expensive item is higher quality.
F-22/F-23 Advanced Tactical Fighter program had no requirements spec
If it’s just pilots and peons in the plane during the test flights, it will only be about saving money.

They need to put an executive in every one of the test flights until it is fully certified. I assure you it will be the safest plane you will ever fly.
Rapes should be reported to police, as soon as possible, not to Twitter 10 years later. If it cannot be proven that either party is right, no one is sentenced.
Office rents will probably take a hit in the new normal but I’m guessing everyone now just waits to see what happens.

What’s clear is that many of us with two people who will work from home a lot the coming years have at least one room too few and are building extensions. My builder bought a $25k load of materials and left it on my lawn before summer for an extension they’ll build in August, because their supplier advertised that prices would increase 50% in July.
Bitcoin isn't that new thing any more, to me it looks like fiat holders have seen too many bitcoin holders gain significant value. Yes, there are also those that lose their BTC for whatever reason but to me it seems to be quite a minority compared to those who actually have made good dough just holding BTC. To the tune of having retired on their stash.
This is an interesting interview with the program manager of the Advanced Tactical Fighter program back in the 80s and 90s.

He says he wrote a simple requirements spec - that each competitor would build two planes, each using different engines, that must be able to fly under its own power. That’s it.

There was also a meta requirement decided by the Air Force that the plane would be a successor to the F-15, inheriting its role as air superiority fighter, and incorporating stealth tech. But there were no specific requirements on how it was to accomplish that.

Part of his reasoning was that creating a detailed requirements spec would lead to Congress getting involved, resulting in everything and the kitchen sink being included in the spec.

And the other part is, he believed having the top aircraft manufacturers in the world competing for this project with minimal guidelines would result in the best possible design outcomes.
Maybe HTML-Sheets-of-Paper[1][2] is for you?

There used to be a package named Markdown-themeable-pdf, which could turn unruly todos and html into corporate, paginated Documents with metric margins to go. That was back when Atom still had an ecosystem, but it's archived over here[2]. An example:

https://github.com/cakebake/markdown-themeable-pdf/blob/mast...

[1]: https://github.com/delight-im/HTML-Sheets-of-Paper

[2]: https://github.com/cakebake/markdown-themeable-pdf
As luck would have it, my blog on Github pages is down. So here's the post describing the four in markdown.

Tldr; Designing Data Intensive Applications, Effective Python, The Google SRE book, and High Performance Browser Networking.

https://github.com/eatonphil/notes.eatonphil.com/blob/master...
That is a convention mostly used in school problems, because manual computations with a temperature of 300 kelvin are easier.

In most technical contexts, room temperature means either 25 Celsius degrees or 20 Celsius degrees or more seldom various other temperatures between 15 Celsius degrees and 25 Celsius degrees.
Daiso has a presence throughout Los Angeles, and it is definitely a different animal than your typical dollar store.
I somewhat agree with you but I really do like some kind of curation, even if that curation is done by the market. There's nothing inherently good with a surplus of bad goods. I'd prefer a copy of "The Library of Babel" vs. all of the books inside of it.
Coinbase fact check on the potential environmental impact of Bitcoin mining
Not the reason for OPs question...
> Maybe, they mean that it will be not broadcasted on TV

Hopefully they mean daily numbers will be broadcasted like flu etc, not spammed hourly and only when providing meaningful, non-fearmongering, reporting.
2 issues with that - ‘best’ is subjective, and techniques advance over time as trends take hold and innovation happens (both in equipment and techniques).

It’s easy to think of something man has been doing for thousands of years as a ‘solved problem’, but it’s an art, not a science.
Either "programming" is not using "mathematical structure" to instruct a computer, OR printf("Hello world\n"); is a "mathematical structure", OR it is not programming.

Which one?
It doesn’t really motivate, it’s a feeble attempt to boost motivation via extrinsic motivation.

Unfortunately (or fortunately), extrinsic motivation doesn’t work long term, doesn’t work if the extrinsic motivation stops, and most importantly, kills intrinsic motivation.

See Alfie Kohn’s book Punished by Rewards, containing dozens of pages of research proving the above.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punished_by_Rewards

Extrinsic motivation is short term, naive, and harmful - but people trying to control the uncontrollable still like it and use it because it gives them the illusion of control.

It does not serve the learners.
Sure, but I think most people expect sessions to be tightly tied to identity - especially given the common login process.
I will respond to the other comment in a second, but the things you are concerned with are not what I am advocating. The nit picky stuff doesn’t expose one’s mental model. It exposes some modicum of taste.

What I’m advocating is to probe how people structure the problem. There is a noticeable percentage of people that manage to have technical competence but map problems in a complicated way.
You realize that you just listed a handful of rules of thumbs. All of which would be taught in an introductory shop course, but not everyone pays attention or understands to implications of those rules as they might apply in every scenario.

The caution is warranted here. Shop machines literally can flense, main, or kill you. Even at low speeds.

I would say everyone should try these things if they 1) find a mentor to help do it safely or 2) read enough in advance to become subject experts, before ever setting foot in the shop. Under no circumstances attempt to learn by blind trial and error.
Like iMessage?
> It feels like The Block isn't entirely sure what Binance can or can't do at the moment.

I'm sure also Binance and the FCA aren't sure about that. The regulatory uncertainty in this space is huge. Even after this statement it is very unclear if there are any effective sanctions FCA can enforce on Binance if they continue doing whatever they are doing. Or they might just stop advertising, and start some stealth advertising campaigns after an year os so.
I'm not sure you want to put nuclear fuel on average cargo ships. What happens when one gets hijacked?
> so what is the point of cryptocurrencies then?

Buying or selling services governments or payment processors don't approve of. This includes drugs, pornography (cryptocurrency is the only payment method available on PornHub at the moment), and distasteful speech (Gab has been banned from various payment services).
seems difficult for a country to become an impactful chip maker when they make it so hard to buy & use chips. it'll be interesting to see if more normalized markets ever emerge for Chinese cores.
Credentialism is such BS.

Anyone can look at data and present an argument, to look at credentials and outright dismiss discussion is about as bigoted as you can get.

Anyway, I minored in BioE and have sat in on or taken many graduate level genetics, immunology and neuroscience courses. Further, I read papers relentlessly from all fields and my day job is reading research and debunking or implementing it (in CS, but also other fields).

I think a better use of time would have been commenting on the content — which was US CDC and UK NHS data, as well as good old news stories.
Just to be clear, the plant in Finland isn't just "planned". They started construction in 2005, and it was supposed to be operational in 2009. They've just loaded the fuel for final verification tests, so it should finally go online next year.

The delays and budget overruns for that project have been quite something.
In fact I do not.
I'm never going to grok the fetishization of types. If you're a theoretical computer scientist, great. But it seems to have limited applicability to day to day coding in which we are trying to take actions, rather than merely apply mathematical operations within constraints.

Could you, in theory, do just as well and have a greater understanding that code is completely correct, by implementing a rigorous type system? Probably. Are you going to actually get things done faster or better? Seems unlikely, especially in a world where requirements shift every five minutes and are ill-defined in the first place.

In fact if we're talking about "getting things done", regardless of which of the three activities you're undertaking at the end there, you're engineering.

(To those below - I'm not saying types are all bad or all wrong, in fact my current favoured languages are Java and Go, which both make use of types, I'm also a big fan of using type hints in python. My reaction is against the idea of relying on types for more or less everything, and viewing programming entirely through the mathematical lens of type transformation. I view this paradigm as overly abstract and mathematical and removed from what I'm usually trying to achieve - an action, rather than a calculation)
My parents' generation was far too trusting of the government. The government is just as trustworthy as it was then, but we're aware of some of what it's up to now. I still trust the FDIC and CFPB to protect my interests more than cryptocurrency pushers.
I am shocked that dollar stores exist in 2021 given all the inflation that occurred in the last few decades!

A testament to the world’s supply chains and manufacturing automation :)
In reality it will be a webview wrapped as android app and then executed on a subsystem on top another subsystem that is a virtual machine. Lets hope that the CPU architecture matches between the app and your machine so no emulation is needed.

It’s going to be great.
Palm Jumeirah, Dubai's iconic man-made islands, turns 20
Sounds like a cool idea, but how do you fix bugs in functions with lots of callers?
> You absolutely have to trust whoever manufactured the tpm module not to have back doors.

Why? What would a backdoor in the TPM do?
Sure, if you already have a rich social life. Otherwise, yeah, spend some time with others.
If you prefer imperative infrastructure creation to declarative then I think you're doing something wrong. Both Terraform and CloudFormation are quite easy to manage compared to writing and managing scripts (bash or otherwise).
Swarm Makes Internet Decentralized Again
Was I just unlucky to get Covid after double vaccine?
Anti money laundering is (rightly or wrongly) pretty incompatible with crypto. The question "where did these funds come from" is something no one using crypto can really answer honestly and it's the core question in AML.

I like crypto. I like defacto drug decriminalisation and sanctions busting. But it was never gonna make it past AML.
There was no rape accusation, full stop.

Here are the allegations:

He had consensual sex, and the condom broke. He didn’t tell the woman after the fact, but she found it in the trash. She wanted him to get an HIV test. He refused. She tried to get the police to force him to get an HIV test.

To her dismay, they decided to charge him with rape. This is all in the UN special rapporteur’s report, and apparently uncontested by everyone involved.
I am confused.... if the recipe itself lists an inaccurate time, that is still the recipe "lying" even if another part of the book says onions take a long time?
It does. If you are using that rod to measure something else, or calibrate another rod, you are supposed to keep it at a given fixed temperature.

Also, the standard of length was changed quite a while ago to one based on the definition of the second, and the speed of light.

Edit: here are the latest standards https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_redefinition_of_the_SI_ba...
Only goes so far. As a person who organizes things a lot and invites lots of people to things, you probably get three shots, max. One or two is more the norm.
I care about these people. I don't have a time machine to go back and save the Native Americans or Greenlandic Inuits or Jews from the predations of world powers. It's not awfully convenient for me to care about the genocide of a million people. If I was alive during World War 2 and I received multiple, independent reports that a genocide was being committed by a foreign power, I would be agitating for that foreign power to be held accountable just as I am today.

I dearly hope we've moved past barbaric eye for an eye justice.
While I appreciate clean code when I have to work on it, it's somewhat orthogonal to my requirements when we're talking about running systems rather than building them.

I guess it could be preferred as a second-order factor.
I’m only having a gripe. I use terraform because it’s the least bad tool, not because it’s the best. I wish for better.
The same way we do now: release a new version and tell people to migrate.
Sure, but the fact that one can play "six degrees of Kevin Bacon" with Wikipedia and get from Langlands to mirror symmetry is not evidence one problem is actually the other in disguise. Already at the first link, it's unclear that resolving the usual Langlands program would say anything about geometric Langlands.
The PDO approach impairs competition by making it impossible to legally refer to food with a name that people understand.

In the US we see similar complaints arise from time to time when various agencies declare that you may not name your product "oat milk" because milk is defined as cow milk that is fortified with vitamins A and D (skim milk that is not fortified, for instance, gets to be named "imitation skim milk" or "imitation milk product"). Similar complaints abound around labeling meat substitutes as "burgers" (Tofurky had to sue the state of Louisiana over this one). French wine regulators have even sent sternly worded letters to the maker of "Cat Wine," an artificially colored liquid catnip product sold in novelty bottles (they objected to "purrsecco", I believe it was?)

There is something real all these product-identity labels are protecting — it's just that over 80% what they're protecting is some producer's grasp on the market; actual customer benefit is a distant second.
I generally love it but had some weird bug a month or two ago where something in the distro (AWS Linux 2) added a log trimmer config for squid that made systemd restart the squids, not reload but restart, every thirty minutes, on all the hosts, so all the clients got connection reset every thirty minutes. The signals to restart came from PID 1 but the fix was commenting out the log trimmer config for squid. Hard to debug - turning high level of debugging on and PID 1 logged restarting the squid but not why.
Awesome, but how does it even work with so few tests
I'm a big proponent of Sandler's methodology. The book is cheap and an excellent read. I use the things I learned in it every day:

https://www.amazon.com/Cant-Teach-Ride-Bike-Seminar/dp/09671...
Ah got it.

Thank you. Yes indeed there is a Firmware option there.
It's a terrible idea. Sooner or later there will be identifiers with homoglyphs. Good luck debugging that!
Sometimes it does. If you rarely use bleach, what is the point of buying a 5 year supply for $X when you can get a 2 year supply for $x/2?
So lie to yourself and others. Yeah that's why we don't like sales.
> If you see a character, you should just be able to type it.

How should we do this?

I am imagining that we have a "char-bank" that lives on a little touch display at the left of my keyboard. I can add chars to my bank by highlighting them and pressing a 'yank' key. I can scroll up and down through my charbank and type the chars with a tap or rearrange them with touch-and-hold similarly to apps on a phone's homepage.

If I want to map a char to my keyboard, I can press and hold a "map" key, tap the char, and press the key I want to map it to. If I want to map the char directly from the screen I highlight it and press the map and yank keys together.
They did a full UI overhaul a year or two ago.
> To Washington, Brussels' insistence on protecting GIs smacks 0f arrogance and greed.

The hubris is strong in this one. Too bad, Brussel does not have any natural oil reserves.
Delete Coinbase
If Airbus hadn’t made a detour with the A380, it would be almost comical how much better their product portfolio is now compared to Boeing. The A320neo vs the 737MAX and the A350 vs 777 and 787…
Boeing needs a win, quickly.
What? I have used BTC for years and never had problem answering that honestly. I would argue the opposite, most BTC users are very straightforward investors, they bought BTC, maybe bought something with it along the years, then held the rest, then when the value went up sold some.

Maybe the ones who have something shady going on are just the noisiest?
Here’s another uncomfortable question not mentioned there…

I wonder if this alliance will quell handwringing about Apple having some sort of “monopoly” simply by its choosing the contrarian path of designing, building, and marketing a full experience for those seeking one.

Dominant desktop platform + dominant mobile platform + dominant online commerce platform & cloud platform … versus a firm doing it differently: FAANG becomes FANG aligning against the odd A.

Quick, don’t let the market decide, ban Apple’s UX design model and the business model that sustains it?

Could be there’s room to let this one play out with Apple back to its innovation integrator chasm-crosser zone as niche underdog, rather than trying to preemptively pop the zeitgeist bubble stressing people out.
Why would people not accept fuses in plugs? (Apart from the size issue & in reality you could probably fit a fuse into a modern US plug without making it much bigger than it is now.)
I recommend Kathy Sierra’s Badass, making users awesome.

The gist is, no one cares about the thing you're trying to sell.

anyone considering your offering is trying to get something done. Help them get their job done so well that they feel awesome about it.

The book is not fluff. Highly recommended.

Also look into the job at o be done framework.
Ask HN: How to prevent link rot/best practices
As the internet has grown older, an increasing number of links have become out of date (known as link rot). Out of date links are not going away, so I was wondering if there were any recommended resources on this topic? What are the best practices to prevent link rot?

I know some people create permalinks in the format 2021/06/27/<name-of-article> for something posted on June 27, 2021. What do you do if there's a typo/you want to change the name of the post? What if you create an updated post and want to send people to the new version from the previous link?
If you don't want to self-host then Element is not paid either.
> Waste heat in a computer is largely resistance, power conversion inefficiencies, and cooling. Heat generated by the actual computation is known as work https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_(thermodynamics)

According to ctrl-f, the word computation never appears on this page. The word information never appears in this context. Same with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_heat

> What you call "clever" and "unclever" are (essentially) ways of describing how entropy was changed. Another way of thinking about it is there is a very specific order to where energy needs to go and how it needs to be arranged to be "clever" and calculate something vs unclever and not have the answer to the number crunching problem.

None if this explains why the portion of heat in a clock cycle is different if we consider the clock cycle to be doing something clever. If some of the energy is not waste, it must have taken another form. What exactly is it? When we switch a transistor non-cleverly, presumably the energy never takes this form, and thus the actual switching of the transistor took more energy . Which makes no sense.

> All work will result in heat if you follow it long enough, some energy spent doing that will not go towards the amount of work done but will still end up as heat.

I'm not convinced this is true. It seems equivalent to the claim that all macroscopic objects moving through the universe will eventually stop, which I would ague is an assertion beyond science.

> Waste heat is not just "heat I ended up with at the end".

Fine, but we have to be able to point to where the other portion of energy ended up in the interim. Suppose I push black and white boulders up a hill. This leaves them with potential energy, which is somewhat less than the energy it took to get them there. We can agree that at some point in the distant future, the hill will decay, and the boulders end up back on the ground. Thus all the work eventually ended up as heat.

I can choose to arrange them randomly, or I can arrange them to create binary numbers. It seems as though you are claiming that if I create binary numbers with these boulders, the energy it took to do that is more than if I arrange them randomly. I want to understand how exactly it took more joules to do that, and where this extra energy is stored.
https://github.com/zadam/trilium
"The State can be replaced democratically."

Tell that to my friend who had his family's fortune wiped out in Argentina twice due to government seizure and hyperinflation before fleeing the country. Are these people just supposed to just take it on the chin for generations until their governments/societies stabilize?

I don't know how anyone can see no value in a medium of exchange outside of government currency controls.
Yes.

Using terraform for this is great is because it removes the unwanted alarms.

I had to create alarms when the instances auto scale and wrote a python script using cdktf and now the Jenkins job handles it. It even updates the cloudwatch dashboard.
Are they sending rockets to Mars? Did they invent some new Fusion reactor? No, they take existing technologies and leverage the billions they have to expand their Empire. Understandable that the Indian community wants to celebrate their own but lets put everything in perspective.

No different than calling Warren Buffet a Genius.....
I would rather have complexity in the engine code than in the unit files. A clean implementation is less important than a clean interface.
I’ve stopped drinking Red Bull/Powerking. I used to drink two cans per day (66 cl), plus coffee. It wasn’t reasonable. I took a week off from work and paused all caffeine (including tea) for ten days. I made sure to have people around me the whole time, so that they would hold me accountable.

It worked. I haven’t touched Red Bull for over a month. I drink coffee again, but with more moderation.