skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yeah, i’m sure it applies to a few thousand peoples but not the millions of jobless people. not everyone even has a dream they are passionate about following in the first place. for the most part people just want a stable job and to be able to enjoy their life outside work. there aren’t millions of new entrepreneurs out of nowhere. it’s a romantic idea
Fortunately there's a lot more to it, the linked article discusses the difference between believing in something and thinking it's true, juxtaposing that with questions of what offers us most comfort in the face of existential dread.

I've just read the entirety of the article looking for the culture war flamebait invective you've described and I'm not really finding it, what in particular is an issue? Conflation of belief in the supernatural with belief in magic?
I have done the McDonald's diet to prove a point, it does work. Where I only ate from McDonald's over 3 weeks at recomp calories and worked out 3 hours a week, and I still lost 3 pounds while gaining muscle.

It is 'calories in calories out', but you have to actively find what your maintenance calories is over 2 to 3 week periods. So you effectively have to do cycles of cutting and maintenance to maintain an effective loss.

Doing this and keeping 30-40% protein in your meals will have you lose weight doing pretty much anything
These types of contacts are very common at US universities. They’re bad in that students might have fewer choices of sugary beverage on campus. But it’s not like these deals are influencing academics or anything. These deals mostly amount to the director of food service getting a better deal when stocking the concession stands and the dining halls.

If you deal in any kind of bulk good, you will typically sign a contract with your distributor with some sort of terms.
Afghanistan Crisis: Unicef Estimates 10M Children Need Humanitarian Aid
Jump to definition is only one part of static analysis. Typechecking is another, performance is a third one.
This is the perfect representative of blockchain technology because it’s a convoluted way to do something that is better done with existing technologies without using a blockchain.
According to who?

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-is-us-most-loved-bran...

Yet again, outspoken privacy critics on the internet (read: HN, reddit, and Twitter) don't necessarily represent reality
Autocorrect for Esperanto I guess.
You are basically chemically altering the structure of a material.

It's like treating steel - much harder than you'd think and yes, there are principles.
Why can't you sample at one point on the earth's surface and sample again at that point's antipode? You would know the distance that was travelled, and have measurements at both points.
Games that emphasize emergent narrative
Those who've signed it are supposedly bound by its framework. Alternatively, they wheel the fact out when it suits them/it's to their advantage in trade negotiations, etc.
Hahahahaha.

No.

You have no idea whatsoever. The financial services industry might as well be a surveillance mechanism for the U.S. government at this point. Compliance/AML/KYC is huge, complex, and a giant pain in the arse.
But even if it grows linearly in transactions, that depends on transaction growth which might not be linear... and that's still independent of what's tolerable for a typical user.

I was going to post something related, which was when I tried bitcoin for purchases, the whole thing involved way too much faff and was too slow for everyday use. Maybe for some purchases but not for everything I might do online. I guess if you had an account in bitcoin but then you're back to banks etc which might defeat the purpose slightly.
Embrace, extend, and extinguish all over again, only now Apple, Google and Amazon seem to do it to this scale too.
My main use of retail banking is for transactions. Having a bank account means that my employer can pay money into it, i can use a card to withdraw cash from it, or make payments from it, i can authorise direct debits against it, and i can use a web interface to make transfers and review my transactions.

When i have money to save, or i need to borrow, i don't go to my bank. I go to whoever gives me the best rate.

I'd be interested to know what fraction of bank customers are like me.

For the features i use, the web interface is probably fairly easy, but all the rest involves integrations with payment networks, which are not entirely trivial [1]. Money may all be digital, but as anyone who has ever worked with computers knows, that doesn't mean it's easy. So for me, the purpose of a retail bank is mostly to provide reliable implementations of a bunch of API clients.

[1] although i led a team which build a large chunk of a system for making transfers, and if i can do it it can't be that hard
Met my partner through okcupid (about 8 years ago I gather it's gotten a little worse since) - at the time it was leagues ahead of the other offerings though.
This is just a python (>3.7) wrapper around postfix and dovecot. It is not a open source email server. It is an open source email server management tool. And that's cool, but not what it says on the box.
Yes! Like having both pattern matching and tagged union type in a language, it is the synergy of the features that makes them significantly powerful.
Kotlin's dependency and relationship with IntelliJ is one of the largest reasons why I don't use it. I really dislike IntelliJ and Kotlin is mostly unusable without it.

I don't see why I should force my company into vendor lock-in (IntelliJ/Kotlin) on what is otherwise an open platform (Java/OpenJDK).
A New Covid Testing Model Aims to Spare Students from Quarantine
this >> " trying to please execs"
The gateways are indeed centralized (though there are several different public gateways). But anyone who installs IPFS on their computer can access the content directly. Also some browsers support IPFS natively, e.g. https://brave.com/ipfs-support/

From what I understand, the notion of sci-hub/libgen "not being welcome" was only about discussion on the official forums. See https://discuss.ipfs.io/t/mirror-of-sci-hub-in-ipfs/1613 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25209246. But IPFS is a protocol just like bittorrent or HTTP, and the software is open source; it doesn't and can't enforce copyright restrictions.
Short answer: no

There's a lot of blogs that go over this in detail for our usecase at home. Your can do it but you will not see much improvements if any at all.
Why do people continually post this? We all know what is meant by the phrase "Year of the Linux Desktop", and it has nothing to do with one random individual on the internet using it.
If you come from typical oop background like java. Imagine there is a function has 5 parameters, and you need to to provide the first 3 first. Then later on you are using this partially applied function somewhere else. You can even reuse it later with different 2 params. Compare to class, it's just like how you initialize an object with certain values, then do something else with this object.
Singularity is near
The Peter Principle [audio]
They colocate these servers inside ISPs typically. Would be interesting to know, for the traffic that does go to a Netflix primary pop - how much the hottest one consumes.

It feels like a luxury that they can fit their entire content library in all encoded formats into a single server (even though it's a massive server).
Yes you can. Most of those refusing the vaccine will eventually catch this and have natural immunity.
Man, I seriously miss cassettes and cartridges, especially for video games. I recently bought a Nintendo 2DS for my young kids--having missed out on it during its original run myself, and observing that the children grow rather extreme behavioural issues if we let them play on iPads--and even those tiny little cartridges just have something to them. It makes the games feel more real to me, versus downloaded apps just taking up an icon on a screen.
git rev-list --count ${GIT_HASH}
This is about Bitcoin SV (BSV), not Bitcoin (BTC)
Percept.ai (YC S17) Is Hiring a Back End Engineer
It would still make sense, as long as when coding in the "crippled" C# one can still take advantage of the entire Java ecosystem.
And what about all those poor government contractors, installing toilets for stormtroopers, blown to hell by some left-wing radical in the name of some mysticist religion... /s

I think there is a lot of revisionism around, about how "good" the original StarWars movies were. Yes they were fun, did worldbuilding very well and all that, but they weren't exactly particularly clever cinematic masterpieces. What followed them in many cases was much worse (the prequels are atrocious), but still, I don't see them as particularly better than stuff like The Mandalorian.
I'm glad I hit the reload button before writing my comment, I was going to say the exact same thing.

EDIT: Okay blockchain zealots, downvote and flag my comment all you want, but if for once one of you could actually show a project that uses a blockchain (other than so-called "cryptocurrencies" which are essentially used as a speculation asset) and which cannot be implemented better and more efficiently with other technologies, that might be a little more interesting.
Maybe we need a service that takes a function, and returns a lot of unit tests.
> What the conspiracy theorists miss is there doesn't need to be a unified agenda behind this process

There doesn't need to be a mind behind a process. Many things, including some of society's worst troubles and the confluences of malfeasance in politics, are simply emergent properties of large social systems. No intent necessary.
It's not true. I checked and I see plenty of Yabloko candidates being suggested
Is it just me or did we notice that there is a missing something to “push” the repo to its offsite repo?

Edited: the columns are clickable.
He'd still be right. Or are you saying kids without comorbidities are at a serious risk of dying? Because that would be literal misinformation
There is no proof, stop with the conspiracy theories. Do that somewhere else. May I suggest Reddit or QAnon they seem like your kind of places.
Capacity isn't indicative of bandwidth peak - but I'm sure peaks are well past the terabit measure of each server is being designed for 100-400Gbps.
No it was purely a university political issue, not a state funding issue. The UF CISE was a revenue a producing department and more than made up for its costs in tuition and grants.
Some of the vaccines, like the Johnson & Johnson, are single dose. It's possible that the mRNA vaccines at a single dose are better.
> The author is unwilling to attempt that.

That makes her... an anti-vaxxer.
The answer is "carbs". Let's not quibble with the details.

EDIT: /s
How about this: what is "OpenJDK"? It used to be an independent open-source clone of the Sun-then-Oracle implementation of the JVM/JLS/JSR specs under a liberal license. Now it seems to mean something different - like a working group that manages the specs, but no longer has a build of it's own. By convention, it seems that Oracle's "OpenJDK build" is the "default" OpenJDK build, but Oracle also provides a "commercial build", which is also, confusingly, an implementation of "OpenJDK".

Meanwhile other vendors have "OpenJDK" builds: Amazon (corretto), Red Hat, etc. This means that they offer binaries that implement the OpenJDK specs.

My mental model is currecntly: So there's a spec and an implementation, OpenJDK can refer to both, and a vendor can have multiple implementations of OpenJDK (spec), and some of impls can be closed/commercial, as in the case of Oracle (and maybe Red Hat?).
To be fair, that's spring boot. It's a bloated ecosystem. If you write using lean libraries (which you'd want to do for lambda anyway) then you're looking at 0.1-0.3s jvm startup times. If that's supposed to be serving a user then it may be taking too long, but in that case use an EC2 instance rather than trying to be serverless.
>But IPFS is a protocol just like bittorrent or HTTP,

Yes, but it's a protocol with a centralized single group doing development who can change whatever they want without the users' consent. Take a look at what is happening to the Tor ecosystem on Oct 15th this year: all tor v2 routing support is being dropped from the main client and infrastructure (for security reasons). Entire communities built on onionland and other tor v2 features, as well as all URLs/links, search engine databases, etc, will just go poof when the devs drop support.

Unfortunately being a protocol isn't enough. It has to be a community protocol, not a proprietary one where everyone follows one group's code. HTTP and bittorrent are safe from these kinds of attacks. IPFS isn't (yet) and that's why their butt-covering anti-sci-hub/libgen stance is worrying.
I think that is some combination of naïve and optimistic. Steam Deck's OS is just Arch with KDE and Steam on it. It might have games working well enough to make the product itself a success, but there's no reason I can see for people who use a Windows desktop computer to switch to using a Steam Deck as a replacement or to install Steam OS.
Seems like one of the typical arguments of the form "change the denotation, but retain the connotation." I had an on-line discussion with a pro-abortion person a few months ago, in which the central point turned into a debate over the meaning of "parasite." The other person's claim was that a fetus/ unborn baby was a parasite, by (her) definition. My reply was that defining a connotation-laden term like "parasite" so as to include fetuses was evading the real question.

And in this example, it's defining a term that more or less all of us agree is fakery ("magic") to include belief in a higher power. (And without any reference to Clarke's third law.)

So yes, flame bait.
It's not a reasonable reason.
More generically, “But my content is already encrypted!” I’m surprised it isn’t already there.
If driving on a highway is any indication, then yes
"But because it's privately owned, it isn't"

So if the city officials sell public squares into private ownership you loose the right to protest. Its not sensorship!

Very convenient, I am sure it will never be abused.

Lets try a different example - what if oil companies pay twitter to boot off all climate activists, is that cool?
Defaults matter. Like, a lot.
> Nobody is explaining how to build anything

Because people can write whatever contracts they want that allow of group users to execute actions. The contracts do not need to have any financial incentives at all.

No one tells people how to build/run a company (and neither does the law in any particular jurisdiction, though they may set some boundaries, just like the evm sets a different sort of boundaries), people come up with their own methods for doing such and spread/share those methods with others.
Right - but why can't you issue your own card, on your own bank, and process your own payments?

People will do a lot for good porn.
iOS 15 Reviewed for My Family
> I still think we can & should do better

Totally! And I really like

> Maybe part of what we need are defined "stakes" levels and corresponding criteria for acceptable practices at each stage.

I think I'm going to start testing this with the TPMs and Engineers I work with. I'm going to ask a more senior TPM on my team to think about this and how it should be incorporated into our specs. My hypothesis is our engineers would be happier knowing about the risk profile of whatever failure modes we've id'ed, and they can design accordingly.

That said, I don't really work on high risk software, so this is all relative. Most of our stuff is in the "push the button again" category if it dies.
By that logic the poor in the US have the most power? As they pay generally close to zero direct taxes (indirectly they pay the corporate taxes and gas taxes and such as hidden costs in their daily consumption)...
How many hackers would it take to compromise a trillion hosts?

the hackers are better than I thought!
A house is leaking from the roof.

If the language designers allow methods named "!^", then someone will actually name a method "!^".
The Type of Ubuntu We Need as Developers and as the Human Race
It’s a bit like a child: if you train it well it will behave it self. If not it will magnify your own biases.
If there is not an extreme pivot in Firefox's adoption in the next 5 years, I believe it will be a dead browser. One thing I have noticed is that developers have slowly been forgetting or not motivated to work on ensuring Firefox users have same level features. For example, there are browser extensions for chrome that do not exist on Firefox.

These can range from popular extensions to smaller, more specific productivity extensions. As a specific example, there is a Zendesk extension that can help load all links you click load in a single instance rather than having multiple tabs. It uses Zendesk's built in tabbing system for tickets and is very helpful for workflow.

The problem is this is only a chrome extension, and no such thing exists for Firefox. This is one example but there are so many more, and more of those situations are happening over time.

That is a worrying trend. It means that the chrome browser has such a massive market share, that in a lot of cases worrying about Firefox compatibility isn't even a productive concern anymore. This will eventually end in life support compatibility such as developers putting up splash pages or in-page notifications for users to switch to a more compatible browser. I have already seen extremely rare instances of this, but not enough where I would consider it a concern yet, just an asshole move.
For those reading, this appears to be vaporware. The idea is in the readme, but it's not been built yet.

Also, OP, you cannot post your own stuff to HN without "Show HN:" at the beginning of your title.
It's not that easy, because not all groups are affected equally by all policies. With taxes, for instance, the analysis would suggest that nonprofits are the most powerful group in the country - businesses can occasionally bring their income tax down to $0 with tricky accounting, but nonprofits are exempt as a matter of right! I don't think that's a reasonable conclusion, and I'm pretty sure it's not the one you had in mind.
This is interesting. As a non-Google PM, whenever I face legal or compliance-related pushback on what I think are fair uses of data and reasonable risks, I think to myself, There is no way I’d be facing this constraint at <big company>! But perhaps that’s been a bad assumption.
We use this exact stack, but we generally would not rely on tfstate. We will remove everything and regenerate it. It’s not an operation done too frequently that we have a big problem. Also, helm we use as a separate layer that is applied after terraform and can be repeated many times. This changes often.
There is a Village Global podcast episode where Eric Schmidt is asked this question [1]. He basically says that leadership did not "get" messaging platforms. I think of this as similar to how RIM/blackberry did not "get" the iphone. Nor did Steve Ballmer. It's equivalent in screwup magnitude to Microsoft not getting mobile. This requires massive leadership oversight.

Now, having worked at Google during these times (including the Allo launch where the team went around Google trying to rally the troops on why it was going to work), I can say that the PM structure at Google meant that a ground up led effort to build a competitive messaging platform just wouldn't happen. PMs basically rotate products every few years and nobody really has passion for the thing they are working on it. Its a very mechanical role oriented around features, roadmaps, growth bookkeeping etc. None of these things would yield a competitive messaging platform without a mandate from the top.

Now why was there no mandate from the top? Well, I think that leadership was confident that Google already had what it needed to build messaging into their dominant platforms. Between youtube and Android it felt like that if the competition in messaging were to grow in feature set, it would become more like these platforms (facebook turning into youtube with video, etc). Google could then add messaging and meet them at some point in the future. Schmidt also references youtube as a messaging/social platform in the podcast episode.

[1] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/village-globals-ventur...
I don't think anyone in the UK sees "Yes Minister" as a manual. Its comedy derives from exposing things that everybody perceives to be true (politicians want to have morals but are forced to let them go during election season, civil servants know they're supposed to be supporting the current government but will also need to work with the other party when the political tides change again, etc) but saying so in public is "not done".

It doesn't need to be a manual because it is accurately describing human weakness in the face of a complex world, and the results are (as in the real world) often highly absurd.
The same number of people have died in Sweden and Norway over the last four years [0].

For some reason more people died in Norway than in Sweden in the couple years before the pandemic, then Sweden caught up during the pandemic. They are tied over the last four years.

More people may have died of covid in Sweden because there were more old vulnerable people in Sweden.

[0] https://www.news-medical.net/news/20201116/Study-compares-de...
1. Use a unique key check that will fail if there's already a VM with the given key.

2. The OP mentioned that you can snapshot the database and restore it to a known-good state if anything goes wrong. State databases are probably not going to be humongous in size–you can imagine snapshotting them hourly for quite a long time.

3. How do you solve this problem today? By running Terraform applies locally on your machine to test out the modifications and then approving the PR?

4. That's exactly where foreign keys come in, they are exactly what enforces correct handling of dependencies between resources. E.g. some time ago one of our PagerDuty service monitors was renamed in Terraform. The plan destroyed the old monitor and created a new one with the new name, losing the linkage to the old incidents and making it look like the service had no incidents. Now imagine modelling this relationship in IaSQL and failing to destroy the old monitor because of the incidents.
Even all the people complaining about them in tech circles seem to either be delivering second-hand complaints, or are buying like huge amounts of SD cards and got one supposedly counterfeit batch one time. I am fairly convinced that the counterfeit goods thing is something that happens vanishingly rarely, probably similar to the people who get an expensive camera box containing nothing but a rock.
..are there 18,116 billionaires and near-billionaires?
Again, you are just saying the same thing but not actually explaining why you are saying that.
Well, maybe it is a drunk "alternative thinker", but in front of his PC, not at a party...

It may be remarkable that Sweden is only the 40th in case-fatality rate, but this statistic has not one, but two "moving targets": first, the number of cases (which is probably why Peru has such a high rate - underreporting of cases) and second, the number of deaths (which every country handles differently - dying of Covid vs. dying with Covid etc.).
The Czech Republic was often held up as a big success during the first few months of the pandemic, and had much lower deaths than Sweden for a while. Then last fall, things quickly changed.

A good reminder that people need to be patient and stop prematurely declaring victory or defeat.