skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The building was leaning 17" at the top when this work started. Within a year it is now leaning 22". That is a dramatic increase in such a short time.

It would appear the objections to the original plan were sound. The alternative proposal is to drill through the original foundation to set the piers from inside the building. My understanding is this would be more evenly distributed and attached to the original foundation evenly. Then jacks would be used to "climb" the piers to level the building - very slowly over time.

The original fix is cheaper because it relies on gravity to further sink the high corner of the building once the lower side is fixed in place by the piers, then once that has happened piers can be sunk on that side. It also spreads the cost out over a longer period of time.

The other objection to the original fix is seismic: if only one corner is resting on bedrock during an earthquake the building could be severely damaged.
I’ve run into this attitude among artists, musicians, and woodworkers, so I don’t think it’s particularly unique.
"Often" word is used because it also covers the case of small transactions. As transactions get bigger, systems get slower. I have had personal phone calls from bank to ensure I wanted to send big sum of money.
Are the free speech absolutionists against this move or not?
I think it makes sense. For example, Erlang is a kinda weird (to me) language. Back in 2017, I went through a book on Elixir + Phoenix, and then spent some time going through Erlang topics. I mostly spend my day on mobile app and backend programming, in languages like Swift/Kotlin/Javascript/Go.

I believe I learned a lot, and most of the people I encountered on those slacks and forums seemed a lot more experienced and capable. That's also because the language is kind of niche but powerful, so not everyone is starting out their career trying to print Hello World in Erlang. It is a language one would discover when trying to solve a specific problem, in my opinion at least. Therefore, there are less noobs like me and the people I encountered were super helpful and thorough compared to my experience on other languages.
Here's a 6 minute video explaining the sprint missile for those unaware and interested (rather fascinating technology for the 70s) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dl9Ovwmnxw
The chip shortage doesn't mean no chips, just fewer. Vendors like Dell, HP, and Lenovo locked in long-term contracts with fixed pricing which enables them to still build PCs. Store shelves also show anti-survivorship bias where the stuff people want is sold out while the stuff no one wants is still on the shelves.
flagged, I can't read tweets as I have no account sorry.
If someone used Lisp, Elm, Rust, Elixir, Go, or even just JavaScript, they should know that these are SO vastly different in their mental models that "languages are solved" doesn't strike me as a reasonable argument at all.
Rent it out for milsim events
Immutable record types as the default, most-used way of modeling data is a great idea that some languages cater to and other languages force you to do in weird, hacky ways.

Countless systems have been designed around mutable data simply because they were written in languages where mutable data was the default. I personally worked on several Java systems where mutability was used but was trivial to refactor out, because every place an instance was modified, it was simple to construct a new instance instead. On a couple of them I had ownership of the codebase and was able to complete this refactoring with a reasonable amount of effort.

I also created a small codebase in Java with an immutable data model, only to pass it off to someone who immediately added setters for every field because they were "missing." And then of course he started to find uses for them.

I don't have a desire to work in Java again, but I think Java recognizing immutable record classes as a concept worthwhile of first class language support is a significant step forward for the industry.
I remember the license being fairly unfriendly and the functionality not being enough better than my own hooking code to justify paying. In general I just remember not being particular impressed well over a decade ago when I messed with this library.

Did they actually make any significant amount of profit on this? The license situation always seemed out of place somehow.
If there's a chargeback, someone has to cough up the X dollars that the cardholder spent and return it them. That typically isn't the bank. But it also requires Y dollars of overhead to work on the issue until it's resolved.

The cardholder calls their bank (the issuing bank) on the phone, and right away the bank has spent money answering the call.

After the bank tells the merchant that a chargeback is happening, the merchant can dispute the chargeback (make their case that it was a legit purchase), which the bank has to adjudicate.

Credit card processing is a high-volume, low-margin business. The bank's cut is roughly 2-3% of the purchase. For a $10 purchase on OnlyFans, the bank is only making like 20 to 30 cents off that transaction. If a chargeback happens, the required manual work will cost them many times that. So, in order for it to be profitable, banks need chargebacks to be rare. If they're frequent, it's less profitable or even unprofitable.
Almost certainly because of better tooling and probably better peripheral support.
https://www.trustedreviews.com/news/google-ignored-a-key-vul...
Or you could... not buy QLC.
Somehow you replied before my edit. I meant unequal contracts, where one party has more power and the other is screwed if they, for whatever reason, cannot fulfill it.

Which is to say, most contracts.

The requirements and punishment for breach of contract are rather nutty even compared to the US.
Ask HN: Where do you find out about emerging technology?
What feeds, lists, sites or people do you follow to learn more about emerging web/programming technology? Examples: Crypto, ML, XR ...
It's worse than that. Most people do use their drives so it runs out of SLC cache and most QLC drives are low end and don't come with DRAM. The systems they're put in are usually equally low end with low system RAM so the OS is going to page a lot. QLC has atrocious write endurance so these devices are going to eventually run out and either die or go RO. QLC devices in consumer electronics are essentially just ewaste and waste wafers. SLC->PLC is a case of diminishing returns in terms of storage/area. I do actually think we need to attach warning labels for QLC drives/devices. Same for SMR HDD's.
Anyone interested in learning APL, I can recommend https://xpqz.github.io/learnapl

Disclaimer: I'm the author
This is the Guardian getting causation extremely wrong.

I don't think causation runs one way. The financial industry & "Government" aren't clearly delineated. You can see this all the time in "compliance." Banks will commonly cite "compliance," essentially blaming the regulator for various policies. If you ask the regulator itself, they'll generally consider a lot of that stuff bank policy.

The way in which banking regulation works in practice creates a ton of ambiguities like this. "Compliance" is basically the area between regulation and internal policy. One firm will adopt a policy, which has all sorts of compliance implications. Another will copy them. The regulator grows to expect it, and it develops from there.

Market centralisation encourages this a lot.
Rsync-sidekick: Quickly propagate file renames, movements and timestamp changes
Hi! I am actually directly involved with Pocuter. Amazing to see it posted here! The ESP32 alone doesn't have enough pins to handle all of the features of the Pocuter, so the SAMD21 was selected as the main MCU to supplement this. We are looking in to upgrading to the ESP32-C3 in the near future.
> The point of this post is not JSX.

> Show HN: ReactJS with JSX without bundling or transpiling

The title of the post does mention jsx without transpiling and does not mention es6 modules.

ES6 modules are a great feature. If you’re still using a transpiler which could have abstracted that away, it’s a poor example of using them.
The only way to realistically enforce this is through software developers refusing to implement, like that’s gonna happen, or by whistleblowers, but by then, it is already too late.
part of the reason for the Concorde's decline was the fairly tight cabin, which was likened by some to be almost bus-like.

With the advent of lie-flat business class seats in the late 90s and early 2000s, Concorde became much less appealing since one could just fly a redeye to London and have a comfortable sleep than be cramped for a shorter period of time.
Pretty much! :D
Yeah this piece seems to forget that the Guardian[1] was also very critical of Pornhub when the NYT story came out. It seems like their position is that neither a completely hands off approach or a complete ban is acceptable, and that the only moral path is to allow the good and police the bad with perfect precision and recall.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/16/pornhu...
they aren’t manufactured domestically. TSMC is in Taiwan. I doubt very much that Tesla will want to own fabs.
As an example, someone once had to write me a check for $10,000. The bank transferred the amount incrementally to give the originator time to object. The first day it transferred $100, then $200, $500, $1000, $3000 and so on until the full amount had been paid.
OpenAI Codex.
All manufacturers multi-source parts.

No, not really. The whole point of buying Samsung SSDs is that they're guaranteed to contain a Samsung controller and Samsung NAND. Likewise with Hynix or WD/SanDisk.
Would you happen to have a source or link to an article mentioning about this?
YouTube Premium is $12/month. If we don't pay for content, the only stuff that will be left is crap.
Or 574,718,687 Turkish Lira today
This story has nothing to do with reliability.
Here's the discussion of this Electrum vulnerability from back when it happened: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18770577

Looks like this guy installed an old and vulnerable version.

Electrum has a history of severe security bugs. If you want to store crypto safely, I recommend a Trezor hardware wallet. If you want crypto exposure in your portfolio without the technical/security headaches, I recommend Grayscale's investment products. GBTC, for example, is backed by Bitcoin and you can buy it through any investment account.
> Keeping your coins in a self-hosted wallet is like handling millions in physical cash or precious metals.

Definitely not. I'm sure that for someone who has middle-level skills at basic IT and basic understanding of cryptocurrencies, safe storage and handling of cryptocurrencies is 10x safer than handling the same amount of physical cash or gold at home. Considering also that you want to use your assets.

If I were routinely transfering tens of thousands worth of cash from my home to somewhere to spend it would surely catch some attention, I would guess. With crypto I can just use it from safety of my own home at online shops and similar.
You can read tweets without an account.
I could not vouch for the computer and it's USB stack, so no, but in practice I would use a sandboxed runtime for the program, a virtual machine for example. I would also air gap the computer.
A typed programmatic interface to contracts on the blockchain
Demystifying De-SPAC Squeezes
In regards to those living on the streets, the main cause of them being homeless is substance abuse and mental illness.
Wonder if they considered Sun City. Moving seniors around might be a worthy market segment.
My way around fees is to greatly increase what I order to dilute the fee, e.g. I might order 3-4 days of stuff.

Even before apps, e.g. back in the day when ATM fees kept increasing, I kept doubling the amount of cash I took out so that the fee change didn’t matter.

In general I think businesses count on most people not noticing or finding it too inconvenient to change behavior. Probably the same principle behind forcing people to spend hours on hold to make companies do things they don’t like, such as cancelling things.
That's just a different link to the same subreddit.
Tautologically so
OpenBSD has a WIP driver for the NVMe controller on the M1 chip, but AFAIK it's not working 100% reliably yet.

https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/1c31dbaaf6000562ff37f7...

https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/0ccab0b00204b8c23f121d...

Patrick Wildt posted an early video of OpenBSD booting on the M1 Mac Mini back in January. A lot of the internal hardware is supported now as of 7.0-beta, such as the Broadcom Gigabit, Wi-Fi and USB.

https://twitter.com/bluerise/status/1354216838406823936
Once again: Crypto currency is about tearing down the old rules and institutions of banking and finding out one failure at a time why each rule and institution exists.
Exactly: a base set of rules for what constitutes fair play.
Only an extremely strong version of the hypothesis is discredited, and that's because humans can create new languages to help their thoughts. But that's not an argument for a single static language being sufficient.
Valkyrie was a different class of bombers, one that never came to be. Rather than the Blackjack, the Russian answer to Valkyrie was actually the T-4. The SR-71 was a spyplane, but there was also to be an SR-71-class interceptor meant to shoot down incoming Valkyrie/T4-class bombers. That entire field of mach-3 bombers and fighters was stopped by advanced in missile tech.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_T-4
I miss that internet dearly. I haven’t personally adjusted to the change and find myself still trying to produce long-form content that just gets drowned out by all the tweet-to-single-paragraph noise that pervades the web today.
Did you steal that sick burn from Greta?
Do works of fiction have indexes?

They may have a table of contents with each chapter name sort of indexing into events in the book - in which case you’d look for a chapter whose name hints at Elizabeth getting angry with mr. D’arcy.

Indexes are more suited for facts and figured.
Had no idea about this until recently, but for 4chan. "Saturn Cube" and Esoteric Nazi beliefs is an entire rabbit hole you can go down into. Cube with magical powers is a world wide belief, and most people aren't even aware.
Wow. The desktop application allowed random nodes to trigger popup alerts that could just say anything they wanted. It sounds like that was a super old version? It's a bit unclear which version of Electrum was the last to have that issue.

It's pretty crazy the number of people who bought Bitcoin/crypto at such an early stage (e.g spending >$1000 on something nearly worthless and very obscure) yet are very bad at the security of this. You would think the first step to recovering >$10M plus would involve a Google search or two.
Show HN: 10 months of startup life blog posts
Just a few from the top if my head:

- Banks limit the amount per single transaction

- Limit on total daily amount one can transfer

- If a limit has to be exceeded for a large purchase they have a 24/7 hotline to authenticate and authorise such a one off transaction

- Additional checks on source of funds when someone pays in a lot of money

- Need for multiple extra factors of authentication when making a transfer to a new payee

- Extra checks including money laundering checks when making transfers abroad

- … and much more
>Host managed SMR is fine for data-hording if the savings in size/price are forwarded.

Exactly. When you architect your tiered data storage solution to take advantage of technologies such as SMR/QLC it works great. This is absolutely not the case in consumer applications. Consumers will use QLC for their boot drives and fill their NAS boxes with SMR drives and have a horrible experience.
FedNow would also make this theoretically possible, no? No middle man, just transfer money between accounts.
Bank transactions are reversible.
This is smearing code around to distract from what is likely short-sighted IAM data architecture.

"Admins are Users except not really"

If Admins are really Users, then create a User first and then elevate to Admin with ACL assignments, etc. There should probably be accompanying inverse procedures too.

If Admins are not really Users (i.e. there is a strong segregation between internal "users" and customer "users"), then avoid coupling their logic at all.
Ah yes, Unilever. I always loved the dissonance in messaging between owning both the Dove and Axe product lines.
> I can imagine on Linux you can talk directly to /dev/eth0 if you would want to (in the same way that you can talk to /dev/sda), and then you would be back at square one regarding root privileges.

It's a AF_PACKET, SOCK_RAW socket rather than a device file, but yes.
Maybe someone adventurous could reach out to the Russian government and request that the site be taken off any lists that may or may not exist, and invite them to their housewarming party?

Though Russia seems like a country that would say "sure" then add it to the list if it wasn't already just as a joke.

Though China might just nuke the site just to be sure.
Rian Johnson confirmed that in some commentary/interview about Knives Out
I wonder if Elon has plans to tackle semiconductor manufacturing and re-thinking the entire industry from bottom-up? I've worked in semiconductor industry and it is super old school stuck in the cold-war era management, procedures and culture.
Without the missile I am not moved by the price decrease.
Yes, fair. Still, his writings were published after his death by men who felt that what he had to say was important, and that it should be disseminated, and they had access to the means to do so. We only have two copies of full manuscripts with the work, I believe. Without the people who owned and duplicated those books in medieval Greece, who were almost exclusively the elites or hired by the elites, we wouldn't have it today.

When pressed for scrap paper, they chose to use something they considered to be B-grade, rather than Meditations. Though who knows if what they tossed was really inferior. Julius Caesar, Aristotle and Archimedes wrote several books which were not considered quite worth preserving. Lost say 1500 years ago because no one bothered to copy and further distribute them. The great editorial filter all of our history went through.

(There has been some recent fascinating work on recovering the writing from painted over and re-used and re-scraped papyrus and parchment. Some of Archimedes's works were rediscovered this way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes_Palimpsest )
But using thermite as the igniter ....
What has really helped me to relax with my crypto holdings was reading couple of cancer stories. Basically as how nature is, cancer can come any time and take anyones life away. Just treat Bitcoin as the nature, but a less severe version as you won't die if you lose your crypto.

That said, crypto loss is very preventable. Lots of people have put lots of effort to make holding bitcoin/crypto more secure.
Turn off the tv. Get outside you’ll feel better.
I somewhat agree. That's why I chose Bash in teaching people deployment. It's better to go back to basics, and then if you know how things work, can choose (or write?) a higher level tool you like.
I'd highly recommend learning lisp and writing some higher-order functions with macros. You start with an instance of a lower-order function, insert a few backticks and commas where appropriate, wrap that in a defmacro, and boom, you're a metaprogrammer. You can certainly do similar stuff in other languages, but it's almost always a cludge.

The rest of lisp is pretty easy if you've done any sort of functional programming, and view the code through a lens that translates (foo ...) to foo(...)
FWIW, virtually nobody pays the sticker price for a single article. Many researchers have some kind of institutional access (e.g., through a library).

If you don’t, shoot one of the authors an email and ask for a copy. Not only will they certainly send you one—-they don’t see a penny of that money—-but you’ll also make some harried grad student’s day.
Depends on the bank, account type, and the destination for the funds.

My bank requires in-person to send a wire transfer, meaning in person identification at a bank branch with photo ID and PIN.

You can only transfer money on the app within your own accounts or to payees that are in the system (e.g your utility company, insurance company, etc.) or by using interac e-transfers with a limit of ~$1500.

Even if you’re trying to pay your taxes to the Canada Revenue Agency the bill payment system has a limit that I have hit. You can bet that a review process is triggered when that happens as well.

Any deposit of >$10000 from a wire transfer usually triggers a phone call as well where someone will politely ask you if you were expecting the transfer.
The study is looking specifically at hostility in the context of political discussions, not just general internet misbehavior.

In any case, The Penny Arcade comic seems to depict the mismatch hypothesis which the study found little evidence to support:

> Overall, however, we found little evidence that mismatch-induced processes underlie the hostility gap. We found that people are not more hostile online than offline; ...

And while they're not ruling out the mismatch hypothesis entirely, they do offer an alternative which they call the connectivity hypothesis:

> ...Thus, our findings suggest that the feeling that online interactions are much more hostile than offline interactions emerges because hostile individuals–especially those high in status-driven risk taking –have a significantly larger reach online; they can more easily identify targets and their behavior is more broadly visible.
Digging a bit more, I don’t think so. The company that owns PornHub does about half a billion dollars per year in revenue: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MindGeek

That includes revenue from other brands too, but I believe PornHub is their top brand, and likely accounts for a good portion of that. Also, how much money flows through PornHub that doesn’t count as revenue? I don’t know much about their business model, but say if a content creator generates $100 in total revenue on PH, and $40 goes to PH while $60 goes to the content creator, I’d guess that’s $100 in payments processed, but only $40 in MindGeek revenue?

Based on that, I’d estimate the volume of $$ flowing through PH at somewhere around $100,000,000-$1,000,000,000 annually. Even on the low end of that, around a billion should have flowed through them so far, over the lifetime of the site. And I think multiple billions is quite possible.
Do you flag every paywalled article posted as well?

https://archive.is/76qc7
I think that those who get the jab are the ones that make emotional decisions because their motto is “do it for the people around you if you don’t want to do it for yourself”, nothing can be more emotional than that. I don’t care about others, in the sense that I am responsible for myself and I expect others to do the same. So if you feel you’re in danger (both for unvaccinated people or covid) you have a free and pretty safe options which is the jab, if you don’t then do whatever you feel like is best for you.
Which is fine, but if you can't use it as a designated driver, to the airport, or to most locations near you, it just isn't much of a taxi service.

I think the real answer here is they clearly don't really want people to use it yet. They just want to say they are the first robotaxi.
Pornhub launched in 2007 according to Wikipedia. Mindgeek (Pornhub's owner) had a reported $460 mm in revenue in 2015. (https://www.luxtimes.lu/en/luxembourg/mindgeek-porn-empire-r...) Pornhub is privately owned, so how much of that $460 mm is Pornhub vs other properties is unknown, but Pornhub having made a billion dollars over its 14 years doesn't really seem that far fetched.