skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that's an accurate read at all.

HN appears to me more full of people (like me) who were fired up by the initial promise of (a) blockchain technology (b) intermediary- and free-free transfer of value.

What happened instead was that the technology turned out to be one of the worst threats to global warming since farting cows (yes,yes, i know, ethereum makes it all better), the intermediary- and fee-free part never actually worked out at all (because people need accounts somewhere, sorry, wallets), and finally, bitcoin and others turned into a speculating collectors' frenzy that while technically, perhaps, not as absurd as beanie babies or dutch bulbs, is generally adjacent to such historical fancies.

Given the energy problems (yes, yes, i know ethereum makes it all better), the attitude towards blockchain itself remains remarkably positive. But the quoted position above isn't about blockchain, it's about bitcoin, and you're distorting facts and also "the HN attitude" (which doesn't really exist) by attempting to conflate the two.
No more difficult than it already was to obtain.

The point being, obtaining the popular stuff is no longer subject to DoS because distributed caching is built into the protocol itself.
I've read very little actual evidence for any link between playing video games and violence. You can say that you think it desensitises players, but surely that should be measurable, right?
Same problem here. LMK when you get your kickstarter up, I'll be first money in!
I still vote for Wargames :-)
> I think people have unrealistic expectations about such a young idea.

It launched in Feb 2015.

Things that have launched since then:

The idea of Donald Trump as President of the USA

TikTok

Covid-19

Tesla Model 3

OpenAI

It's entirely possible that everything could change any day now. It's equally plausible that it's just a bad implementation of a decent idea, and something similar could come along and deliver on its promise.
First commercial video game 50 years ago (October 15, 1971)
For context, a typical banana has about 15 Bq of activity (with a dose factor about a third of CS137).
Part of it (perhaps the majority) is excessive intermediate code. But at least some of it is that Rust's abstractions are more complex/involved. The "zero cost" doesn't refer to compilation time.
Finland turns red on European Covid map – Yle Uutiset
Do you have a picture of this anywhere?
If you're interested in the tiling features of Pop OS, they're also available as a standalone extension for GNOME Shell. Very little friction to test them out (if you're already running GNOME).

https://github.com/pop-os/shell

https://support.system76.com/articles/pop-shell/
> I don't think they have a right to "threaten" anyone

Of course they do. As a worker, I have a right to threaten to quit during a negotiation process. As a consumer, I have a right to threaten to cancel a subscription or stop buying a product. I'm not sure where anyone would get the idea that those kinds of actions aren't allowed in a free market.

> and they certainly don't have a right to strike, not being in a union or even trying to form a union.

I also really don't understand what's meant by "right to strike" here. I'm not aware of any strike laws in the US that ban employees of entertainment companies from striking. Without a union, Netflix workers can't call an official strike, but they can still legally refuse to work, and Netflix can respond as it sees fit.

If they don't have a right to do what they're doing, then Netflix can try pressing legal charges against them or at the least can fire them.
My thought is using PGP under the hood where users would never see it basically as a personal ssl cert only invisible to the user.
I agree with you. People don’t want a single, VR metaverse. Even in fiction, like Ready Player One, the metaverse is imagined as a dystopia.

Having experienced Oculus, Hololens, and Pokémon Go, I think it’s much more likely people want AR layers on the real world than to have a VR headset on. There’s plenty of evidence people enjoy owning and designing virtual property, but that can happen with AR or on screens (like it does today in FarmVille, Animal Crossing, and Eve Online). There’s evidence people value an avatar that can enter games on their behalf (Mii, Bitmoji, character builders). I don’t see evidence people want a single company to own a metaverse platform… one company just doesn’t have the skills to pull off enough genres of experience.
To be fair, as regularly seen in smaller economies - regular money also tends to show no limit to how far it can drop during economic crisis.
Responding to the strongest interpretation of the parent I would agree with them.

I know what programs I have installed, and where to find them. I don't wonder about that.

I do wonder about lots of other things, but they're not really relevant to my DE.
> In the end, a lot of the blockchain infrastructure relies on bitcoin hence it moves in sync.

Does it, though? I’m on the sidelines, but it seems like all the excitement/money flowing into crypto these days is into blockchains with higher transaction throughput and more advanced smart contract interpreters. I know there are some maxis trying to build things like DeFi and NFTs on Bitcoin but it seems to have really taken a backseat in the latest crypto hype cycle.
Lol people paid for it? That was in the era of WinRAR and WinZip. There must be dozens of people that paid for those pieces of software
LaserWriter II by Tamara Shopsin – novel set in 90s Mac computer shop Tekserve
Tether is a fraud and everyone knows it. More than half of all crypto trades involve tether so the fraud is pervasive.

But the most damning aspect of all is the fact that despite common knowledge of the pervasive fraud, USDT maintains it's peg.

This indicates collusion by the market making exchanges in perpetrating this widespread, pervasive fraud. This essentially makes the entire crypto marketplace as we know it one big huge fraud.
Almost none of the blockchain infrastructure of other crypto projects relies on Bitcoin directly beyond it being an investment in the same general sector.
Fun retro-Mac site for new novel by Tamara Shopsin set in 90’s at legendary Macintosh repair shop and precursor to the Apple Store: Tekserve. Makes me think of Douglas Coupland's 'Microserfs' but from a bizarro/different computer shop/Apple dimension.

I know it's fiction and probably not overly technical but more of a snapshot of a weirder time in history when Apple was rooting around in the darker corners of Microsoft's shadow and handing around with designers and musicians etc hehe -- and also the wide weird world of computer repair shops.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.northjersey.com/amp/7724380...

Basically, the state doesn’t want towns to have the ability to limit traffic on their roadways.
I always got the impression that they want to close the deal as soon as possible. They won’t make much more money if you squabble over 5-15k, so they will usually advocate that you just accept the initial offering by telling you ‘this is a great deal’. It’s much better to let them know ahead of time what your salary range is because they don’t want to deal with the negotiation, I think. They just want to close.

Just make it clear so they don’t waste anyone’s time trying to land you in a gig that doesn’t fit your expectations - all that work for nothing is no good.
They are not at github even, doh...
I'm not really in the crypto scene so it's hard for me to tell. But of everyone I know in bitcoin, they just use it as an investment. Sell when it gets too high. Buy when it crashes. Sell it when they need to buy a new car. That's pretty much it.

Maybe they're the minority. But if they aren't, I think there's eventually going to be a rude awakening.
I remember the whole Rambus fiasco, but I don't really understand why they would keep this secret.
> mind blowing if you remember how powerful computers in 1994

In 1994, SGI workstations could pull off this kind of stuff rather effortlessly, the only "tricky" part was to get the LOD algorithm right.

So not that mind-blowing in practice.

It would only amazing if Terravision ran on a stock PC (did it?).
I don't know...but I can't imagine large numbers of Americans being willing to die for Taiwan, let alone blow up the world.

I think that the general who was afraid President Trump would start a war and reassured China proved what I have believed for a long time - when the chips are down, the people who actually have control are sane enough not to destroy everything, so MAD is a fiction. Unless there is some misunderstanding or screw-up.

However, if that's so, then many things must flow from that, logically. My mind is blank right now.
... and it uses a manually implemented post-processing step. You can't just run the sort program with GNU parallel and expect to get a fully sorted list.
Link to full paper: https://ide.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/How_Fast_Do_A...

If you prefer video, I've made a short summary video: https://youtu.be/R0k80fSRLts
Exactly. The streets are public. They are paid for by the taxes collected by the town. And now Google is using them to increase the utility of their app, which benefits Google and their shareholders. The increased traffic causes wear and tear on the roads to increase, and quality of life to drop dramatically. A five minute drive to the store takes 40 minutes now. What does Google give back to the public in return? They don’t even pay their taxes.
Oh, I have another question or two if you have a spare moment.

Have you ever used the SEE ALSO section in the git man pages to find related information? Could you have missed the links to non–commands merely because you already knew some git commands, so you never ran “git help” without one and thus you never saw the links to the tutorial? Or is there some other cause?

Incidentally, info is a different way to read documentation, one incorporating hyperlinks and a much more book–like organizational system of chapters, sections, etc. It’s a better way to document really large programs like Emacs. It’s available on most OSes, except apparently yours, and like man it allows applications to install their own documentation. It can also read man pages; it doesn’t change them very much (they don’t have chapters, for example), but it does turn references to other man pages into actual links.
I have been gather companies which use on-prem heavily.

https://github.com/viggy28/awesome-onprem

Would love to see more companies on this category.
Is that a single vault? Looks amazing!
If I were to look at replacing a Linux distro in-place, would it make sense to try doing most of the configuration in a VM?

That is, if I did replicate the more important pieces of my current environment, could I then install NixOS and replicate that state to bare metal with minimum downtime?
It has honestly surprised me that a bunch of people I thought were smart really think NFTs are a good long term investment. It clearly has no value beyond speculation and the bubble will pop.
Roger made a major contribution, in a quiet way.

Thoughts are with all those who miss him.
Hmm, tech from '95... using VESA BIOS extension and high/extended memory modes, you might be able to modify Doom source code for the optimized 3D operations, but you'd still need to create a LODed-megatexture database and an API to serve it, unless you want users to "Insert CD 23 and press Enter".
> there is a excess of 500 million dwellings

Do you have a reference for this?
We Document Software Projects
I worked on a project that did this for the Navy while I was in university 20 years ago. Handheld units and buoys could get other's range and send text messages with sonic clicks.
How do I put this? We are all going to be forgotten, utterly, along with every last thing we do, within no more than three generations (one for most of us). That makes everything we do both utterly insignificant and unfathomably important at the same time. Please make sure whoever is reading this, particularly if you're in your 20s, that you do what makes sense for you, and those around you who are important to you, for your very, very short now.
Ask HN: When is client module needed for a REST API service?
I run a weather service that allows REST API access to time-series weather data (historical & forecast).

I've tried to make it as intuitive as possible without too much abstraction, where the query basically answers the questions where you'd like the data for (location), for what time period (start, end dates), and what weather parameters (temperature? wind speed? etc.) they might be looking for:

https://oikolab.com/api-details#api=weather&operation=weather-data

General feedback is that the API is easy to use. However, I do have developers who go silent during multi-day email conversations when I ask them to try it out, rather than me having to go into in-depth explanation or provide sample data.

Wondering the what the recommended practice is to create say a Python wrapper/client to make it even simpler to use for such service. I remember there being many wrappers for Dark Sky API and wondering if this was one of the things that made it easy-to-use/popular.
Thank HN: 7 years and $7M later, it all started right here
At BEE we develop visual builders for emails, landing pages, and more. We recorded over 5,214,407 sessions of our builders in hundreds of software applications last month. As a company, we recently passed $7m in annual recurring revenue. And it all started with this post on HN exactly seven years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8474744

The Hacker News community took time to look at what we were doing, and provided honest and useful feedback that got us going on the right track. And we want to say THANK YOU!!

Our website looked very different back then, but the 'core' was there: a visual builder to let anyone design an email, easily, quickly, with no signup, nothing to fill out, just the product. That experience remains the same today, and we stuck with it because of comments like this one we received that October 18, 2014, right here on HN:

"Massive props for letting me play around with it without having to sign up or enter any data."

Now there are more features, more things you can do with our products, thousands of customers that have chosen BEE, but the core remains the same. You can still go to beefree.io (https://beefree.io), click on 'Start designing', and get into the product with 2 clicks.

And today there are over 600 SaaS applications that have embedded our visual builders into their product because we took to heart some other feedback we received that very day on HN:

"I've been looking for a good email editor for a while now. Any chance of BeeFree being embeddable, either as a service or open source?"

We could keep going, but you get the idea: we're truly, deeply grateful that many of you, on October 18, 2014, took time out of your day to check out what we were doing, and share your thoughts.

We never forgot.

From all of us at BEE, thank you so much!!!

Massimo Arrigoni
CEO
BEE Content Design, Inc.
I haven't bothered to have a beef with systemd, but some of us have discussed https://github.com/InitWare/InitWare to support non-Linux kernels. That would be really fun.
https://archive.is/5Ulwa
It's not all about performance; fixpoints are consistent and predictable, which is very much not true of floats.

We should all be grateful that most banks still run Cobol, which has native fixpoint support for good reasons.
The best recipient of a belt and road objective might be Cuba.

These people have long suffered, due to our political differences.

SMIC in Cuba might offer tangible benefits to people who could greatly benefit from it.

This would be an interesting move.
Latency Exists, Cope (2007)
that’s a false equivalence. employment law recognizes the difference between contracting (many-to-many) and employment (many-to-one) and the power and leverage therein. it’s simplistic takes like this that derail genuine and productive discussion.
Since becoming a student of Buddhism and other related philosophies, I have more or less lost any desire to strive for particular outcomes. I was a workaholic much of my life.

Here is a sermon that I like. It might seem contradictory at times, as it uses terminology specific to Buddhist and Taoist philosophy:

https://youtu.be/e_DzXYI7xRU
That didn't run on a PC, it ran on Onyx servers, which had over 10 graphic processors.
Or - and hear me out here - you're simply misinformed.
Crypto is a speculative asset. It was made and promoted itself as money but failed completely in that aspect.
More about the book from publisher:

https://www.mcdbooks.com/books/laserwriter-ii
Sure they are but the significant difference for the consumer is that Apple has way more than one product.
We've banned this account for posting flamebait comments.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
You don't lose authorship, you lose ownership, which arguably you don't have under the regular internet either, ie. Once uploaded, anyone can mirror your content. Arguably under ipfs you literally cannot lose authorship if you put the author in the content because then authorship is part of the content hash used to address/load it.
> sells my data for marketing with an “accept all cookies” button

most likely just poorly implemented gdpr.
https://archive.is/RgHLQ
The virtual world you are envisioning and the one that will be built can be two very different things
Samsung Cloud Terminating Image and Folder Sync in November
Thermal storage in hot sand seems superior. Sand is cheaper, capable of operating at high temperature, and allowing heat exchange to the working gas by direct contact in a fluidized bed heat exchanger.

https://arpa-e.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2021-03/07%20D...
This will sound a bit harsh, but I would seriously question if games are worth this kind of time sacrifice. They're an incredibly saturated market, and Unity / Unreal dominate the engine space so will be difficult to compete without brilliant marketing, business skills, partnerships, etc. And it doesn't sound like there's much time in the schedule away from coding for developing those kinds of skills.

I'd question how much benefit games are doing society too (or at least whether it needs more of them) and whether your passion and focus could be put to better use?

Full disclosure, I spent a lot of time myself on a game that didn't get much traction - I'm proud of it and it taught me a lot, but I do think, even if successful, I could have done something more beneficial with that time (it took a lot longer than I expected).

Like someone else mentioned, there's a high chance, just due to market realities and the crowdedness of the space, that this code ends up forgotten in a github repo somewhere, even if it's technically brilliant. Be sure to get people involved early and ensure that it's getting some traction, and that the market exists (financially or attention-wise) - and give yourself some go / no-go decision points along the way so you don't sink too much of your life into something perhaps nobody wants. The book "The Personal MBA" has some good heuristics for navigating that kind of stuff.
I’ve made a note to get back to you on this.

Personally, I started a BFA in graphic design, then switched to interaction design which has a heavy UX/User Research… the programs are very similar at their cores because the thought process is very similar among different design disciplines. That’s probably not feasible for most, however, and I should have a better answer for this excellent question.
One of the nicer things about Zig is that the unoptimized debug binaries are still pretty fast, often only 2 or 3 times slower than the optimized ones rather than 10+ times slower. Presumably because Rust and C++ have a lot of abstractions that have to be sent through the optimizer to be truly "zero-cost".

That, combined with generally really fast compiles (again relative to C++ and Rust) is a nice combination for game devs.
Could you please stop posting flamewar comments? You've been doing it a lot lately, and we ban such accounts regardless of what they're flaming for or against. I don't want to ban you because you've also posted good things, but we've had to warn you about this multiple times in the past and that's not cool.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
If this is really the case and not just an opinion, you should be able to easy show that Tether is not a fraud.

Can you do this? I don't think so because Tether itself has never shown as much.

Calling me "misinformed" without any easily verifiable basis in fact would suggest that perhaps you are a participant in the fraud somehow.
i may have read too much into it, as it seemed to be making the same trite argument (that many others are making) that the employees should just quit, as their only recourse.