skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regardless, there is a cost associated with having that harddrive (on or not) sitting in a server in a datacenter with air conditioning and resilient power. My point was not accurate to the exact operating cost per drive, but if you want that, here it is:

1) 2.5kWh per month of drive-on power. Datacenter grade power: 30-40c/kWh normalized =~ $1.00 in power per drive.
2) 60 drives per 4U space. 10 storage pods per 1 rack. 600 drives per rack. full rack in a colocation facility: $250-$500 =~ $0.40-0.80 in physical space.

Total cost per year to keep that drive up is, very ballpark, $16-22. The cost of running the drive is minimal vs the initial cost of $500 for the drive and storage server/rack/installation/network equipment etc. Network costs to transfer data from/to that drive are obviously nontrivial but again, the majority of the hurdle is outlay for capital.
Pretty sure they already canceled it, because there were actual humans that could be talked to.

Now imagine this scenario in a world where governments look at Google and Facebook's moderation technique. That's where things start getting scary.
Ummm, we've discovered tribes that were/are still at that level of technology. They definitely engage(d) in warfare.
Some people want to tan; others are trying to avoid it.
Top GraphQL Myths Debunked
True. For added perspective, the top 100 largest land owners possess about 40 million acres throughout the US [0].

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-largest-landowners-i...
I think we agree, but I expressed it poorly.

Focus/Attention and patience are the skill that is degrading and proficiency in it is probably the pre-requisite for any successful growth in most other academic skills.

I'd be curious to see if those skills are being explicitly taught in preK and Kindergarten.
https://www.coursera.org/learn/crypto2
Is this it?
You can plug your phone into your laptop, and then you don't have to worry about the battery. Why waste money and resources on duplicating something you're going to have on-hand whenever you're using your laptop anyway?

Apple has made it a particularly seamless experience between macOS and iPhones, too. As long as you're on the same iCloud account (or iCloud family) as the phone, the phone will always show up in the WiFi list as a hotspot. You can work off your phone's internet without even pulling it out of your pocket to set anything up.
Haha, I don't mean offense, but your comment sounds like "back in the day we did things better". There's a huge variety of really games available on iOS that cater to all but most hardcore gamers. Even the games that seem trivial on the surface (Candy Crush) can provide hours of deep entertainment, and best of all you don't need to commit 30 minutes to 1 hour to it in a single sitting.

Personally, I think the best games on iOS are better than the best games of the 90s. Reasonable people may disagree, however, it's definitely not far.

> For anyone that does mostly mobile gaming: I’m curious if you feel it’s enriched your life or has just been there to pass time?

Yes.
But that was before what the OP article is claiming.

> However, The Record contacted the individual who was renting access to the RENAPER database on hacking forums.

> In a conversation earlier today, the hacker said they have a copy of the RENAPER data, contradicting the government’s official statement.

> The individual proved their statement by providing the personal details, including the highly sensitive Trámite number, of an Argentinian citizen of our choosing.
Correct. I enjoy video games (my favorites this year are Psychonauts 2 and Metroid Dread), and it's disheartening to see exploitative psychology-hacking games become so dominant.
This banned in California last year as a boon to unions and it completely decimated the ability to ship products from warehouses in California. They destroyed the economy through legislation.
That's really interesting. I've a similar anecdote from a different industry: pizza delivery.

I'm old enough that my first job was right at the cusp of computerized order entry (as opposed to handwritten tickets) at the small pizza shop I worked at in high school.

Prior to the computer order entry system drivers would routinely "lose" one or two tickets a shift and just pocket the cash for the order. One of them told me that the computerized ticketing basically halved their actual take home pay.
RedHub: A simple framework for Redis server, pure fun
High-performance Redis-Server multi-threaded framework, based on RawEpoll model.
I will happily do them so that I don't have to compete on wages with people who just got a degree in college and feel like the salary is now owed to them.

I enjoy LC, I'm good at it, and I find most of the people complaining about it to be the same sort of people as parents who would complain about how their kid "was very smart, but just not a good test-taker" if only those elite colleges would just take notice.
So according to you, the 2008 recession was caused by... gap between productivity and hourly compensation?

also, comparing productivity to hourly compensation is a bad comparison because it entirely omits other forms of compensation (stocks, healthcare). if i try to compare total compensation to productivty using FRED, I get: https://i.imgur.com/ohabUFu.png, which seems to say the opposite? Total compensation seems to have outpaced productivity growth, at least starting from 2000.
To add to this, prior to the internet it really wasn't that bad of a "password". Once upon a time vacuuming up batches of SSNs for nefarious purposes wasn't a realistic attack scenario, let alone a "just assume every criminal has your SSN" one.
So one thing to keep in mind, the pressure to spend due to an inflationary monetary system influences people's behavior; perhaps the poor spend all their money because of inflation. When rent goes up every year and consumer prices increase, of course people who are just making ends meet never get to save.

Perhaps in a disinflationary environment more poor people would save money and there would be more upward mobility. Of course, rich people would use hedges to make more money rather than just hedge against inflation, so that investment wouldn't go away. People that hoard currency lose out in all but a deflationary environment.

Either way the idea that a class of people who take their dollars and put them in deflationary or disinflationary hedge investments lose while a class who keep cash in their mattress (if they're lucky enough to have savings after prices rise) win in an inflationary environment is missing a lot of economic behavior and dynamic and IMO is oversimplified and wrong.
I've been using Nim for hobby programming for a few years now. I'm maintaining the Norm package, it's an ORM for SQLite and Postgres. Not a huge project but not a hello world either.

Style insensitivity has never caused a single problem for me. Honestly, this is the most unimportant language feature, I don't get why it causes such fuss every time Nim is mentioned.
Nice. I tried playing with it but I have multiple file types in my repo, not just Kubernetes. Can I still run those in Datree or will it fail?
Is it just me or does it seem.. cruel, enlisting youth into what is a hard, and soon to be a dead-end job? They're saying "shortage of truck drivers" but that's just another way of saying "the pay is too low".
The decorators proposal has been stalled out for years! It's actually a bit scary as Typescript forged forward with the original proposal (Angular, NestJS apps have almost cemented these in many prod apps). So there stands to be a lot of breakage if the newer proposal is adopted. I'm sure there'll be codemods, but this is what happens...
Not just games, both apps and games in the appstore today seem to follow the "gym" model, where they count on your signing up and forgetting about it.

A perfect example of this is an app called "DayCount". The app's concept is very simple, enter a date, and the app will tell you either how many days until this date, or how many days have passed since this date. When you open the app for the first time you're immediately presented with a "Pro" version, for $3.99/month.

And almost every app does it now, many are "free" but as soon as you open it you realize that you actually have to "subscribe" to the app. Now don't get me wrong, some apps work great with this model. I just happily paid 1Password for another year of service, but 1Password is a genuinely useful application, and they keep my passwords, and paying them $2/mo to take care of this is a great deal in my opinion.

But what kind of value does a "day counting" app add that would warrant an annualized price of $48? I will say that DayCount is better than others, because it actually does something. I once saw an "Emoji Keyboard", a re-implementation of the default emoji keyboard, offered for $9.99/month.

Apple needs some more rules around what is and isn't allowed with iAP purchases. Subscriptions should have extra scrutiny put on them, make sure they actually add value and don't just extract money from users.

Hell it might be a good idea to nuke "Subscriptions" entirely. I get Netflix, Hulu and other services that give you ongoing value. But the notes app you threw together in half an hour using tutorials on Youtube does not deserve to charge $4.99/month for it's "Pro" version.
Because they wanted to? Not sure why it matters.
It's an extremely difficult and dangerous job. The drivers deserve to be paid more than the current wages. Driving ruined my dad's health permanently - the long term costs aren't even factored in usually.
Many will as that kinda processing power and more so memory interface speed - it will seriously blur a lot of lines.

More so, it has really got the processing leaps and jumps back into life again and not really seen much of that for well over a decade now.
This. The MacOS <-> Linux <-> Windows swapping isn’t too difficult, just takes a day or so of training that muscle memory.

I should note to the OP that I almost exclusively use my HHKB[0] for all of those operating systems, which places the CTRL key where the Caps Lock normally is, abstracting caps lock functionality to a function key.

When I do use a different keyboard (or the laptop’s native keyboard), it takes a few minutes to adjust and every now and then I’ll accidentally tap the wrong key, but overall I would say negative impact is negligible

[0] https://www.hhkeyboard.com/uk/products/ (I have the Pro2, and for some reason the official site is not loading for me. This keyboard has lasted me 4+ years and I use it for gaming, coding, and everything in between. By far my favorite keyboard I have ever used, the toupre keys feel soooo so satisfying. Amazon link here:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07K9QHF4P/)
Sure, but there's obviously extra space inside because of the SOC. M.2 drives are miniscule, if Valve could fit one in the Steam Deck, Apple has no excuse.
That's a Goldratt Theory of Constraints kind of solution right there.
Looks like it's to post pictures of the dog.

Why shouldn't one crate an account for a dog?
I don't mind STEAM, but I am biased as a designer who knows how to code and I think it leans into things a lot of kids are interested in making like videogames that have an art element to them.

There is also "STEAMS" STEAM + Sport, which makes no sense to me.
Thank you to share you first hand insights.

What do you think about this YouTube video that has over 4m views? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQXVgniI-hw

Basically, this guy says take it on the chin for a year or two and keep a clean record. Then you can easily change companies and earn a solid middle class salary. Do you believe it or think his wages are bit "bubbly"? Honestly, I'm not involved in the logistic industry, but his video looks "no-BS" and straight forward. If was looking for solid working class / middle class job, I would be watching this video for tips!
This is especially lucrative in corporate America. I spend maybe 20 hours / week doing actual coding / technical things. The other half is meetings that could be emails and daily standups that don’t need to happen. Oh and explaining to a CAB group why your changes need to go into production (because your company asked for these features….?)

So it makes it pretty enticing to get a second full time job, learn how to do it well, automate some of it and then only work about 20 hours a week. As long as you’re meeting the deliverables for both organizations, on time and in full, what’s the problem?
Algolia is adding hooks to their react-instantsearch library
It’s not the regulations causing problems - it’s the price pressure seeking lower and lower standards. The rest of the drivers on the road don’t want to share it with a truck driver on two hours of sleep, steering 15 tons of truck and cargo.

Nor do they want to be around vehicles that have skipped their brake maintenance because they pushing operational hours to the edge.
I subscribe to the view of the world in the show DEVS. Basically, given enough processing power to simulate every particle in the Universe, there is no randomness.

I have a pretty crazy opinion about all of this, where I think creationism and science do not contradict each other. The book of Genesis and science describe the same exact thing, but in different languages.

And it explains how, in the Bible, this God "person" was able to predict the future without fail, with unlimited horizon. It's like a video tape - fast forwarding and going back to the original point does not change the plot.

See? I figured it out. Next question.
> Python is such a joy to write

Try out Ruby: so many Python syntax decisions make no sense after you see the Ruby way.
Zoba wants to help micromobility companies get more rides, increase profits
I half expected it to be Sun Microsystems and the Motif GUI based on the funky capitalization.
In a universe without inherent meaning, define best, optimal, and true.

We all choose paths forward with uncertainty both about what is desirable and about how each path might get us there. The perceived trustworthiness of the people pitching each path factors into that decision, precisely because of the uncertainty involved.

Calling people "rational" or "irrational" doesn't make sense if there isn't an end goal to measure us against.
Why can’t we say ‘woman’ anymore?
You handle that by creating a new basic block.
Probably so for anyone who didn’t grow up reading the old Hacker zines. Phrack (and the Hacker Manifesto) are iconic in the scene.
> Missing brackets in languages where they are optional for single statements (C) has been a source of serious bugs.

This is why, in languages where they are optional, a good autoformatter will automatically insert them. If you've got it set to run every time you save the file or run tests, it's likely to do so long before you have a chance to produce the next Heartbleed.

It's not perfect, of course, but it's as good a protection against this sort of thing as I've ever seen.

> Also, in Vim, indenting/dedenting a block is just highlighting the lines and using > or <.

But, excluding plugins (which aren't available/consistent across all the editors where I use a vim editing mode), I don't know of a quick vim command that lets me quickly select, delete, replace, yank, or change the full contents of a scope in a whitespace-sensitive language. Or quickly jump to the beginning or end of the current scope. Stuff like that. Versus, with curly brace languages, vanilla vim gives me an experience that approaches the ease of paredit.
Agreed, indeed says that Pepsi pays 65k and that’s one of the top employers in the industry.
I never had any issues with it when I was hackintoshing. I stopped around Catalina though, so ymmv I guess.
Yes, this is true, but I think the effect is overstated, and an environment where people could save money without it devaluing would have more of a positive effect on those people because they wouldn't need so much debt in the first place. That's my view on this anyway.
There's a good post to be written about this but I don't think this is it: it makes a big claim for costs but has almost no technical information and the conclusion is basically treating it as a lead generator for their sales team.

The thing which would be more interesting would be talking about the cost savings (~$16/month) relative to things like risks: mostly noisy-neighbor and the administrative concerns of coordinating changes to settings or the security considerations of someone being able to compromise multiple sites rather than just their own. There's no wrong answer there but it's an engineering decision which will lead to different results depending on your environment, budget, and projects.

Speaking of engineering, it sounds like they're using some Go code to avoid hitting the limit on certificates and target groups. That's certainly effective but I do wonder how many organizations have enough applications/certificates which are appropriate for shared infrastructure and hit that limit. If your sharing is within that range, the potential cost savings are going to be lower as well.
pg has an excellent essay on how to fine niches or startup ideas in general.

My thumbrule:
1. Pick a market that already has money-making companies. If you can beat them by price & quality, even after considering the first-mover advantage - go for it.

2. [From pg's essay] Just experiene more in life, with different people facing different kinds of problems from different sectors. That's a sure shot way to eventually run into a market with less competition.
Start on a job board. Get a freelance gig with your skills. Anything.
Turn off javascript to read.
I think that’s my main issue with them. You shouldn’t need to write your code in a particular style to make a core language construct useful because of how often you deal with code that isn’t yours. Having to carry around a bunch of adapter functions kills any readability benefit.
Operating machinery in general will surely still be a thing by then, which shouldn't be too hard to pivot to.
pg has an excellent essay on how to fine niches or startup ideas in general.

My thumbrule: 1. Pick a market that already has money-making companies. If you can beat them by price & quality, even after considering the first-mover advantage - go for it.

2. [From pg's essay] Just experiene more in life, with different people facing different kinds of problems from different sectors. That's a sure shot way to eventually run into a market with less competition.
Please tell me there was more to that last story? Having someone come in and have a strong opinion on a topic, and have the gumption to state so in an interview, is exactly what I would look for.

Did you poke them for more? Did you ask how JSON compares to XML? If they only answers "Well, I've never used XML, but I was trained on JSON and won't ever use XML, I don't know any of the downsides of XML", then you were correct to pass on them. But if they responded "Because of reasons X, Y, and Z, JSON is better than XML, and all XML interfaces are equivalent in this way, so I can't really answer your question because while I know enough about XML to know that it's bad, I can't tell you exactly the difference between different interfaces, as I've avoided them." That would be an answer I would accept.

> got the answer right away

This is the major critique of asking these interview questions. There's a small subset of them, so candidates train on exactly them, and only know how to do these, and when you hire them they won't be able to actually code anything. Using ML terms, they're 'overfit'. Getting it right away is actually a bad thing, but then you get candidates who act like they are going through the process just to look like they are learning on the spot... it's a tough problem.
Prisoners of Experience
I thought the same thing.

Current major players in the market I'm going after offer their products/services for free, and niche players offer their products for $5/month or $20/year.

Charging $47+/month is a nonstarter as customers are price conscious.
Obligatory https://xkcd.com/927/
Nowadays I use Poetry and PyInstaller, which make things easier.

For some of my projects, I produce a "compiled"/bundled executable that takes all the pain out of distribution. Here's my config, maybe it will be useful to you:

https://gitlab.com/stavros/harbormaster/-/blob/master/.gitla...
Tao: Facebook's Distributed Data Store for the Social Graph
Structuring, testing and debugging procedural macro crates
Apple Music's New $5/Month ‘Voice’ Plan
You might like bech32, which encodes data (nominally hashes) into strings which include error detection and error correction, while being optimized for human use and typing by avoiding homogylphs and capitalization.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bech32
Could ask the similar questions about police sirens while the car is traveling at high speeds. When I watch a police cruiser shoot down a residential street crowded with cars and pedestrians 60-70 miles per hour (or faster), running its lights and sirens at full blast, I often ask myself if the immediate risk of hitting someone is worth whatever advantage of time they achieve by arriving at the scene 2-3 minutes sooner.

A few times, I've seen police or ambulances race up to a building where they've been called, then get out and loiter while waiting for something else--immediately burning off whatever time they'd saved by speeding and running their lights.
I have spent a little over a year traveling every few days/weeks with a 35ft fifth wheel RV.

I hope to high heavens that you didn't have a normal bumper pull with a length of 35 ft. That would be utterly crazy!

It is completely uneventful if you have a proper truck and hitch, even with a 30 mph crosswind, though I have never gone over 75 mph with this setup. If you EVER feel like you are not in control or the vehicle is unstable, your setup is fatally flawed, and you need to reconsider your hitch and truck setup.

Open source OSMAND has truck navigation with weight, width, and height restriction considerations.

Truck stops and rest areas should be your last resort. You need to make phone calls and strike deals with potential places to stay at discounted rates. Being nice over the phone goes a long way.
I did, but so many Ruby syntax decisions made no sense to me.
Sure it did. That's why there's been a big lawsuit by the trucking industry to get it overturned, as it outlaws a longstanding business practice.

https://www.caltrux.org/ab-5-faq/
The entire Apple Arcade collection are games without invasive ads, arbitrary timers, or IAP models.

You pay the arcade subscription ($5/mo or Apple One) and the games are all free downloads.
the "bitcoin will save us" at the bottom...
> Python is such a joy to write and such a nightmare to set up, package and distribute.

Agreed. Though I would not call it a "nightmare," the python ecosystem and runtime are cumbersome and annoying to work with when compared to some other languages that have put in a lot of thought into DX.

Still, it could be worse.