skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Correct! But unlike the Tesla example, Bitcoin doesn’t have an FTC, with market-stabilizing abilities and procedures and tripwires. What does that mean in reality for large asset holders, for market stability, for relative safety of investment? What would Ethereum do in this scenario that Bitcoin cannot do? Is it irrelevant that Bitcoin can’t regulate these things and everything would be fine?
Maybe we will finally get some protocol standardization in package distribution.

If you think about it it's kind of crazy that we are reinventing the wheel with every language, OS, game store, extension marketplace etc.

A lot of Linux enthusiasts get lost in the idea that there should be one and only one package manager. But actually it's more that there should be a standard protocol for package discovery, distribution and updating; and package managers can just be an interface to those.
It only gets upgraded if it was designed to be so upgraded, which adds cost/complexity. If you don't manage your backdoor before the probe leaves human hands, you can't add it later.

And, other mechanisms (some described in sibling threads) can help drive the risk of a backdoor very low, & the liklihood of any compromise being widely revealed (if ever exploited) very high.
There goes the baseline... but EVs full speed ahead!

Idiots! Why I left CA and have never looked back!
var is not obsolete. You still need it sometimes for scoping reasons.
Show HN: Who Rules the World in '21. Biden vs. Bezos
Everyone says software monocultures are bad, without evidence. In fact, there seems to be evidence against this: the Linux kernel.
Tether is still growing, and I think you meant to say "supply growth" rather than volume. Tether is still, by far, the most traded "cryptocurrency" asset. It's traded about 2x more than Bitcoin.
Stradivarius violins?
Calvinball. That wasn't your argument; it was that the evidence was "Some spurious web request logs probing for PHP vulnerabilities leading back to Russian IPs that literally everyone also would have in their logs". Turns out, no.
"Netflix original" at this point literally just means "Netflix is showing this show for the first time in this particular territory." And nothing else.
I'm late to this party but I'll chime in anyway - I love event sourcing. So much so that I actually built a company around it (and got into YC S20) - https://batch.sh

Event sourcing is not easy but the benefits are huge - not only from a software architecture perspective but from a systems perspective - you gain a whole lot of additional platform reliability.

There are roughly 3 pillars to event sourcing that have to be built (most of the time) from scratch - storing events (forever), reading stored events, replaying stored events.

Those are the 3 things I've built at several companies and it is always a huge barrier to someone taking up the pattern. Of course there are more things under the hood, but those are foundational pieces that will make the whole experience much better.

Would love to chat with folks who want to nerd out over this stuff :-)
HN has a bias towards WFH but that's definitely not true in my circles. Developer productivity is notoriously hard to measure but by most measures it is lower at home. I'd rather fewer hours of more focused productive work than a low level anxiety about work all day, which is functionally what wfh has become
Should the toolmakers priority not be to make a tool its users will use?

This sort of dictating opinions via tech seems common in the browser world, and it honestly makes me thankful we primarily target pdfs and not the web.
Despite the relatively high level of education here, collectively the community can be extremely doctrinal or knee-jerky on a number of subjects. Most articles that mention crypto bring a cohort of « Ponzi scheme » and « destructive mining » posts, when you'd expect somebody writing a lengthy post on the economics of energy were it to follow the established conventions of the site.

I think the overly trashy environment of the crypto space made it an acceptable target for behaviour that's otherwise seen as childish and unacceptable when it comes to other subjects.
> Like, sure, let's take it as a given that TikTok will become undeniably evil in 4 years. What are we doing now to prevent a grim future?

Simple - not use it. It's entertainment. There are more suitable alternatives (reading books, watching movies, etc.) that have far less evil externalities.

> You need to understand what makes it better/unique to build better alternatives that at least won't be heavily influenced by an abusive regime.

I think the point there is that until a new biz model comes up for social media there is always an incentive to abuse privacy (Facebook/IG) or be abused for surveillance by a gov't.

Glad you calmed down there a bit, makes for better discourse ;)
Just like there is a difference between interface and implementation in OOP languages, here 'theory' is in the heads of the original builders of the software, and the 'implementation' is the code written in particular languages.

It is easy to debug and fix when one has that 'theory' in one's head.
I do not. Biden was running against one of the most controversial presidents in US history, during a crisis he was thought to be handling poorly, and with widespread mail-in and early voting making voting more convenient than ever. A large voter turnout is not surprising, and neither is the result. Additionally, election fraud on this scale would require a massive conspiracy of people from multiple economic classes, political ideologies, government branches, and specialities. It is incredibly difficult to imagine that working.
I managed to use JavaScript to fly a drone with my mind
This would be more credible if you hadn't tried to present a technical argument about Crowdstrike's analysis that was trivially refuted in a 2-line reply.
>Now you know what it is like to be a black person

What makes you think this person isn't black?

Maybe the first step we can take to ensuring all people are treated with dignity and respect is to not assume Group X is that group other there, an other. Maybe we can instead assume Group X is everywhere.
This was made on Glitch too https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27929278
Building a Switch Component
I own a company that makes specialized hardware using raspberry pis (https://icryptonode.com/). This is very helpful.
> Of course this is true, but that isn't evidence that hackathons are inherently more productive if they're in person. In some ways, they're less productive in person.

But human beings aren’t robots, and we value a ton of things other than pure efficiency and productivity.

And I’m the OP here, fwiw, I think the hybrid approach where people go to office 1-2 times a week will be the most universally accepted.
You should add for context that the two things it collected in the past were IP adress and a timestamp
Kind of old school, but if you were going to give out usb drives at a trade show with a demo/app/video of some sort on it. A lot of rural America doesn't have fast broadband, so this would make it easy to distribute something without worrying about the internet.
For substantially more risk…
There's no such thing as "the SQLite" that you could even theoretically bundle.

Which version do you want to bundle? With which compile flags and which extensions? Do you have a checklist for bug-for-bug compatibility? Because you'll definitely need one when a future SQLite releases a security patch and breaks a million webpages.
Delta Has Changed the Pandemic Endgame
He missed the elephant in the room that due to further digitisation people with less social kills came into positions with power to decide what is good and bad for society. Furthermore due to labour shortages the culture of those companies got bad

Second thing is that the quality of the universities especially in the us are declining to the woke/BLM movements
I love absurd ideas like this because they sort of push the notion of what is possible. Some of my favorite projects have started out with "Crazy ideas but..."

Thanks for sharing. Love it.
The “good” news on this front is that RMS has been allegedly removed from GCC’s steering committee as a side-effect of the flames of April. Emphasis on “alleged”, since some heavyweights say he was never there to begin with.

https://lwn.net/Articles/853230

Somewhere down the thread there are questions about AST, I think.
AFIK no detials have been relseased about how it was done
When did you make your tests, and with which browser ?
Did you use a prepared statement to fetch your results ?

Raw sql.js is limited by the browser's wasm memory limit, but 80Mb should not cause an issue...
Why?

They have a mature product with a userbase that tends to spend an absurd amount of time on the site, that SELF-SORTS into advertising categories. There is no reason that they shouldn't be able to pay their own way.

Even more, if I was an early investor I would be annoyed at the more recent changes, and the amount of user unfriendliness that is in the site now. There are very few other sites that purposely make it impossible to continue casually browsing like reddit does.
In my experience, TownePlace and similar brands tend to be located slightly out of the way, often in large commercial developments. Not always walkable or in the heart of where you want to be.
That's really cool. I used to use github1s where you can replace github url with github1s and it loads vs code in browser. However you're unable to edit it so this is definitely a step up

https://github1s.com/
You might be surprised at how many people on Hacker News believe the stolen election narrative.
As far as I’m able to discern, the value prop to investors pouring money into “smart contracts” is just that they’re unregulated.
Trains are nice too. Cheaper, and you get to move around and mingle at lot easier. Maybe try one of those? Busses are cheap as well, but you can't walk around as much. But I know some people think trains and busses are gross and "lower class", which is why they have so much trouble getting funding. It's a catch-22: people won't use them, so lines don't get funded, so people don't use them.

I'm quite fond of Amtrak's Adirondack. It is a lovely way to visit relatives during Thanksgiving and see the foliage. Cheaper than planes and less stressful.

https://www.amtrak.com/routes/adirondack-train.html
At first glance I couldn't figure out if Kind was meant to be a "modern-proof language", or a "modern proof-language".
Like this:

>
Why we need donations

Thunderbird is no longer funded by Mozilla. Fortunately there is an active community keeping it running and developing it further. But to survive long term, the project needs funding.

Thunderbird’s funding goes toward the significant infrastructure and staff that must be maintained to deliver the application to our tens of millions of users. For Thunderbird to survive and continue to evolve, we need your support and ask for your donation today. All the money donated will go directly to funding Thunderbird development and infrastructure.

They aren't receiving any funding so there is no expectation of profit. I assume the project will be around so long as enough donations keep coming in to make upkeep worthwhile.
I mean, we can split hairs over the words to use, but ultimately "immoral and unethical things are being done by big companies that hold all your stuff". The sentiment is the same.

What I'm getting at is that the things Google and Microsoft are doing are entirely irrelevant to the conversation at hand.

Apple is going to compromise your device's privacy in the name of child safety, and will - invariably - eventually cave to pressure to extend that capability well beyond it's originally well-meaning use case.

Stop bringing up what other companies are doing - it is, as I said, entirely irrelevant.
In semver terms that means increasing semver-major. Instead of 0.x.y you do x.y.z. There's no rule in semver that says you need to stay on 1.x forever.
My understanding of the argument is that the way Uber's elastic pricing works means that once supply reaches some critical upper limit, there's so much competition among drivers that the payoff for any individual driver gets too low and they are forced to go elsewhere.

Personally, I don't think the pandemic timelines align well enough to support the idea that this is specific to the pandemic (though I do agree with it being a thing outside of the scope of the pandemic). IMHO, there was a period of time
when prices tanked because rider demand cratered but drivers were still relying on Uber as their safety net, but as the pandemic went on, drivers - especially the full-time ones - were forced to find work elsewhere because there was simply no income to be made from Uber rides. This conversely meant that when riders started coming back, the driver supply was simply not there to match the resurgence in demand.

The thing about Uber is that it's roughly equivalent to fast food worker type of work: for most people, it's not meant to be a long term career, but rather just a crutch to try to get onto the next rung in the ladder. If you are indeed going to do this sort of work full time forever even despite a market saturated with drivers, employers like McDonalds have much better propositions, e.g. in terms of job stability.
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28156831
I am familiar with Nolans article, I created PouchDB (the project he is discussing), you seem to have misred the post as it discusses the technical nuance and tradeoffs involved in the decision at many points entirely agreeing with the position against WebSQL. While Nolan came to the a different conclusion than I did (a point he made in the post) he laid out challenges very well and made it very clear there was no obvious technical answer.

Regardless of how you view it, the benefit of hindsight shows the exact thing that people warned would happen did in fact happen (a widespread venerability in SQLite exposed across various browsers). Its also a fairly strange point to be personally insulting people involved in the process whose careers are doing perfectly well.
Yes, this is a good reason for people to think twice about using non-copyleft. However, if they choose non-copyleft anyway, it's a bit presumptuous to then say the authors are stupid or misled to choose it.
0) sepect random parameters for body size/shape, fin size/shape, etc.

1) draw fish outline

2) complete rest of the fish
> there were too many teams spending time on projects of dubious ROI (there was even an internal joke about how people would build things first and only then write the RFC for it...) and eng spending was kinda out of control.

Why do people feel the need to use work as their place for hobby projects and time wasting bs. I don't even care about wasting company money and time. Feel like it's disrespectful of co workers time when people are just off doing what ever dumb thing they feel is absolutely important
It said emissions from activities relating to loans are 700x direct emissions, 1.04 Gt / 700 is 1.5 Mt.
Yeah I can relate. I've only really worked at startups but from conversations I have with friends at larger companies it seems turnover at startups is more the default course and almost expected at times.
Choosing a Secure Cryptocurrency Storage Option
they really are keen on annoying investors aren't they. i wonder for how long tencent and the other conglomerates will obey these orders
How green is blue hydrogen?
Overly simplifying my memories as a west coast US teenager in that era, the very late 1980s were a time of cautious optimism with news such as the solidarity movement in Poland and the fall of the Berlin Wall. However, 1989 in many ways felt like the peak. Soon after, such global optimism was soured by the Gulf War, Serbian civil war, etc. We weren't as aware or focused on other positive changes that may have been happening elsewhere.

Edit to add: in many ways, the apparent close of the Cold War just removed that one bilateral threat from center attention. In its place, we gained a new awareness of much more fragmented conflict scattered all over the world...
The rationale isn't ageist.
No, BnB means you get breakfast in an inn, often shared with other people you don’t know, in a place that other ppl live in. AirBNB means you have an entire place to yourself.
This is great. Where did the inspiration come from for this project?
> Is there a specific genre name given to movies that have only a few people throughout the entirety of the movie in a closed environment?

I seem to recall ebcountering one that is somewhat more specific than TV Tropes’ “Closed Circle” [0] but less specific than “Ten Little Murder Victims” [1] that fits this, but can’t put my finger on it right now.

[0] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ClosedCircle

[1] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TenLittleMurderV...
> We also rate them High for factual reporting due to proper sourcing, a clean fact check record, and adherence to scientific consensus.

Thanks for providing this! Good to know this is a reliable source!
The appeal of ammonia is that it is easier to transport than hydrogen, and ammonia transport infrastructure already exists. So it's seen as potentially an effective way to deliver hydrogen to where it's needed. This reported technique to liberate hydrogen would make the final delivery step more efficient.

But making ammonia is hazardous and tricky, and uses fossil fuel inputs.
While in-memory databases have their uses, it kneecaps
SQLite into something far less useful. To build any
kind of app with it, we need the ability to write and
persist.

Another approach than writing the data to a server could be to allow the user to store it on their own hard disk.

This could be done via the File System Access API:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/File_System...

The API already works nicely in Desktop Chrome:

https://googlechromelabs.github.io/text-editor/
It's been a tactic since the days of "Jewish Questions." Why are you angry, we're just asking questions, what are you trying to hide?

But even a disingenuous introduction to matters of digital privacy and mass censorship is an education. 1/20 of them may enter into a relationship with the subject separate from the people clumsily manipulating them. Part of the right-wing revival (really a Eustace Mullins revival) amongst average people is a sense that they are being deceived and a consequent lust for secret, forbidden knowledge. Real conspiracies are going to be more interesting to the smarter ones than the ancient, fake conspiracies that are constantly being pumped by people asking for money.
I think the original poster meant that Slovenia and Slovakia would never think of renaming themselves, especially not for the absurd reason that the Romans attached an unflattering association with their name.

Edit: read my original sentence as "and after the insult they should also be thought considering changing their name?!".
> It's a question to approach head-on in the interview.

I like that advice, transparency goes a long way both ways in the interview!
Nooo don't compromise your vision for hacker news commenters!

Great product design is a mix of flexibility and opinionatedness. You have to find your "users" and then build the thing they want. If HN commenters give you crap about it they're not your users, at least not yet, and that's ok. Your product doesn't have to appeal to everyone at the outset.
first thought, was there a "standard" for key/value stores? mongodb the reference implementation?

overall, if you looked at HN like five years ago, every DB headline was key/value, mongodb, maybe some cassandra / couchdb, links to the "web scale" cartoon.

these days, it's SQL SQL SQL, with a heavy dose of SQLite and PostgreSQL. SQL survived the key/value fad despite the nebulousness of a workable "standard" (yes there's a SQL standard but no vendor DB implements all of it or doesn't add many many features, syntaxes, and behaviors on top of it). In particular SQLite recently seems to look to Postgresql for guidance on new syntaxes such as how it implemented upsert, it's RETURNING syntax is explicitly from PostgreSQL, and it interestingly uses the same "VACUUM" term for db utility cleanup.
> It doesn't leak memory (https://feaneron.com/2018/04/20/the-infamous-gnome-shell-mem...), it doesn't crash, it doesn't change (UI/UX is a kind of stable, too), and it can seamlessly restart itself in place without any disruption to the actual user session.

None of that was true when I last used i3. YMMV.
I absolutely love extended stay hotels.

But also if I'm going to a national park with friends - AirBNB has unmatchable options.

Perhaps that market is too niche to justify its investors goals (I'm sure most travel is still business travels) but AirBNBs fill an amazing niche.
A Simple Introduction to Kubernetes
Really great breakdown of the payments ecosystem. Excited to see what happens in the space as Lithic becomes a bigger player!
Observed years ago by Don Lancaster: https://www.tinaja.com/h2gas01w.shtml
Permawar: I don't think lives lost by war and violence have diminished. If our leaders want us to support wars, they need enemies, and we're encouraged to hate them. The number of civilians killed in just Iraq is comparable with the number of combatants+civilians killed in Vietnam. But the Vietnam war lasted about 12 years, then it ended. It was confined to Indochina. The "War On Terror" has killed huge numbers of people in Afghanistan, Iran (if you include the effects of sanctions), Libya and Pakistan.

We now make bigger, more-accurate bombs and missiles, but we sprinkle them around just as carelessly. We still have to be made to hate people if we are going to support a war; and we don't pay a lot of attention to the casualty-count of people we hate.

Music: If you're referring to the 60's and 70's, I agree - the seventies were my formative years, musically. But we're speaking of 1991, I think. [checks 1991's hits] In among the dross, there are some good tunes - Clash, Should I Stay Or Should I Go; James, Sit Down. And there was some great Acid House, which didn't make the charts (clubbers didn't know the names of the songs or the artists).
Not knowing the mechanism by which something happens doesn't mean it's not happening. I'm not sure what you're asking.
If you’re technical, read Mastering Bitcoin and Mastering Ethereum, both for free on GitHub https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook, and https://learnmeabitcoin.com/technical/

Reason being is that how most of crypto works is a derivative of bitcoin or ethereum. And, it’s fairly normal in a technical sense, just applied in a unique way that needs to be understood via good ref doc.

Once you wrap your head around those two anchor protocols and get a sense of how it relates to its comp sci primitives (file systems, p2p, cryptographic certs), it can be really demystified - ie “blockchain” is stored as blocks on a file system, in the comp sci sense.
Your wish is granted. MSVC already supports LLVM as an out of the box option.
For me, it's definitely Blazor: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blazor

Initial load times could be still better (.NET 6 should improve that) and Visual Studio's Razor syntax support could be improved, but other than these, as a hardcore .NET guy, I find a lot joy in working with it.
This article repeats the story about the loss of the Mars Climate Orbiter because of a mix-up in units. That's not really the story. The navigation team had figured out the problem well in advance, and requested an additional course correction maneuver that would have put the spacecraft back where it should have been. Their concerns were either ignored or overruled by management. https://spectrum.ieee.org/why-the-mars-probe-went-off-course

See also "A critical flaw was a program management grown too confident and too careless, even to the point of missing opportunities to avoid the disaster." https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/809121
Is your point that DoD shouldn't address threats until we have socialized medicine and end racism? This thread is nothing but straw men and moving goal posts.