skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who runs a currency data API [1] I can confirm this is strongly the case - even to the point where relatively often I get messages to the effect of "we believe our company uses your service - how do we access it and can we use your logs to help us identify where in our infrastructure requests are being sent from...".

Users from clearly legitimate businesses sometimes sign up, start the billing and then just disappear. No response to emails, support tickets etc. I'm often tracking down billing teams 18 months later trying to convince them they really do use our API, and that if I can't get them to renew their billing details I'll have to eventually disable their access due to non-payment and then their infrastructure will no longer have up-to-date exchange rates! In these situations I sometimes disable access for 24 hours and then re-enable it to see if this drums up a dev I can speak to. It's quite a process but I've won some "customers for life" by saving them from downtime they would have had if I just cut them off.

[1] https://www.exchangerate-api.com
I agree so much I wrote an article about that https://link.medium.com/eQqVhuvRtkb

"You really can replace Kafka with a database."
I literally have no idea what you're talking about. I'm just really pissed off at your comparison to concentration camps.
Cheers!

…

It is probably the first time I thank someone for showing me a duck’s penis. Feels a bit weird.
Informed intuition.
Not true. Go on Youtube and look at the number of people (a lot of them younger) that still enjoy the movie thoroughly.
There are a few scenes that no longer hit as well as they did 30 years ago, but the majority still works.
I have to admit that I am a bit allergic (hence may not have paid proper attention) to anything ending in "-ism" :-). btw that includes Graeber's "anarchism".

To me it seems far more important at this stage to have a more informed "natural history" of economic / social organization that spans out the "phase space" of possibilities rather than strive already for a coherent framework that puts everything in its "proper place".
> Don't forget that the universe itself has undergone a phase transition, after (or during, depending on who's lecturing) the inflation period (very shortly after the big bang).

I prefer calling it a vacuum collapse, 'cause that's what it was. "Phase transition" sounds too clinical.

Always wondered if there's any chance there may have been some form of life existing prior to reheating. It's not as though we have any way to find out, unfortunately.
I love this movie, I feel it defined the whole spoof/slapstick genre. The bar scene with the girl scouts fighting and then everyone starts disco dancing is great. “… it was worse than Detroit!” Haha
Ransomware Attacks Against Water Treatment Plant
> It's when we saw the 12" Macbook as the crusade for thinness at all costs (terrible performance, only one port, a terrible version of the macbook Air)

Honestly, I'm kind of surprised they haven't brought this back with an M1 in it. It was mostly terrible due to compromises forced by the terrible chip it used; an M1 would be within its power envelope.
Life and Death According to Hacker News
The beginning of Lockdowns in 2020 is when there was more mention of death than life on HN.
Any comments on hyperswarm vs libp2p (ipfs)? Why would I choose one over the other.
I found this [1] from MS very useful when I designed some PCB inductor coil for a project. It was only 2D, but some 100 lines of code made the development so much easier.

[1]
https://maker.js.org/
Try a decent parametric CAD package like Fusion360 or Onshape.
Error on URL!
See:
- https://doc.huc.fr.eu.org/en/monitor/goaccess-openbsd/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_moment_gyroscope

Perhaps? The ISS uses these.
since when has Apple made a major dent in the PC market? They are a minor player all things considered.
This story has me feeling really sceptical. A metal object that survived rust in seawater, not found by someone exploring a wreck but simply lying on the sea floor, and it's an exciting weapon rather than a boring everyday object. Can anyone with more expertise tell me if I'm wrong to be doubtful?
It don't "prove" anything. The observation just doesn't refute relativity.
If Apple can implement Rosetta 2, then surely Microsoft can do it as well (they’ve actually done it, just with terrible performances).
I would presume because it turns out, in many cases, you have some tasks continuously running that don't require that much CPU, but a nonzero amount, and this way you can shove them on the LITTLE cores while the big core(s) go to town on single big tasks.
The tests are about the presence of Fungi. Any food, raw or naturally fermented might have had these fungi. To connect that to beer seems a bit of a stretch.
Without wanting to speak on their behalf, I think that's exactly vidarh's point. That simulation is indeed unfalsifiable and therefore mjburgess' conjecture that it's false doesn't hold.
Yes, the article uses those words. But an understanding of elementary physics tells us that momentum is conserved in an isolated system. Spending the reaction wheels can cause the outer frame of the satellite to rotate in a certain fashion but it cannot possibly alter the overall momentum or angular momentum of the entire satellite unless it somehow interacts with an external force.
The easiest way to monitor your app in production is email?
A Meta-Scientific Perspective on Thinking: Fast and Slow (2020)
Work queue with per item deadline?
I don't understand how you can seriously think that having two databases instead of one would make it any easier. OK, if we had two databases the overlap would be, let's say, 50% and there would be another 20% in the database A that doesn't exist in database B. Still 70% of information stolen.

That on top of the fact that having two separate databases means twice the probability of different bugs in two different systems.

We must all move away from using PI as passwords, that's all we need to do. Then this problem will go away.
I also hate it when he starts making jokes about people's appearance. It drags everything he's saying into the gutter
Oh really - we both know perfectly well what this is about.
Nope, it's not about rendering a single texture/vector globes, those have been done way before.

One of there earliest globes renderings* im aware off, all complete with weather data in late 60s:

https://twitter.com/wallacetim/status/908531916315471872

* for the sake of visual impression, 2D orthographic/stereographic projections are equivalent on-screen with proper 3d-renderings.
Long-term NAEP scores for 13-year-olds drop for first time since testing began
Other FreeBSD Version in ZFS Boot Environment
Simulation being unfalsifiable is indeed the main problem with the theory.
A better headline would be “doesn’t prove Einstein wrong”.
Thanks, that’s a good reminder. And now I see it does look like there is a way for a program to say that it is notch-aware.

I use full screen mode most of the time and do prefer to have the menu bar suppressed as I don’t use it much. I’m normally more short of vertical space than horizontal.
I'm French and I also find Airplane (and also other ZAZ movies and many 80 and 90's American comedies) to be way funnier in the local dubbed versions. It kind of add a layer of absurdity, dubbing writers and actors were really creative.
I think that this is driven by joint FB-IG campaigns. Before this change, if they believed that it was the same user (presumably through some kind of model), they counted a pair of accounts as 1 person.

After this change, they would count them as 2, given that the accounts aren't officially linked. To be fair, I suspect that an awful lot of accounts (at least in my circle) are linked as I see a bunch of posts on FB which come from IG.

Overall, this seems pretty sensible. All other things being equal, you'll see an increase in actions per unique people, but given that most advertisers use CPA to track performance, this shouldn't really be a big deal.
I’ve worked with CUE in production.

It’s a very friendly Googler’s fever dream.

It’s HCL without a Terraform command.

You will be invested in the workflow and toolchain building.

Barely anyone uses it, so have fun training up new hires.

Some folks just straight up left the company rather than get sucked into a new DSL

Frankly, the AWS SDK works great. The documentation includes working examples, is available in familiar syntax, I avoid CF’s opinions, and state is stored in the release branch.

I can successfully rebuild any version of our infra by checking out a git hash.

Meanwhile month old Terraform and cue break because a middleman had a brilliant idea at 1AM or some reason.

IMO devops as an idea jumped the shark almost immediately. Folks decided developer habits were to be added to ops habits, but on the ground it just meant “use source control”. No other wisdom, like don’t repeat yourself and write less code, came along.

I think SRE was meant to fix that but the same people and perspectives just took that over with DSL hell too

I’m don’t burn out on tech work. I burn out on tech worker bullshit
I had to read the title several times to make sense of it. It could have been clearer. For example, “2,700 years ago in present day Austria, people drank beer and ate blue cheese.”

The order of the title makes it sound like present-day Austrians were around 2,700 years ago. The “present day” is applied to the wrong object.
A simple observation, but one that sounds useful and which I had never heard of before.
I'm taking "being a simulation" to mean something like "implementable by a universal Turing machine".

If "simulation" is just an alleged property everything is meant to have (ie., sim = "seeming-as-if real but actually being a... dream, ...").

Then the argument against it is simply pragmatic: rather than add "seeming-as-if" to everything we say, drop it.

Adding it can make no difference, which is stipulated by this definition of "simulation".

You could also make a kind of rationality argument: consider the family of all such seeming-as-if properties, say S; and the family of all real properties R.

Given conditioning on S essentially makes all claims false, eg., P(I am a human awake on earth | S) = 0

Ditching the S properties is equivalent, essentially, to reasoning being possible.

So if we are in a simulation essentially every judgement we make is false. So to beleieve we're in a simulation, ie., to condition on being in one, prevents any thought/reasoning/etc.

To actually believe we're in a simulation, in this sense, you'd be completely incapable of essentially any thought wahtsoever.
SoftBank’s COO Clashes with Masa Son over Latin American Spinoff
Well no language is perfect, but Nim can be used in almost every domain because of it's compilation targets(C, C++, JS) and it's fast compile times(who needs interpretation when compile times are that fast!):

* Shell scripting, I still assume most people will just use Bash tho: https://github.com/Vindaar/shell

* Frontend: https://github.com/karaxnim/karax or you could bind to an existing JS library.

* Backend: For something Flask-like: https://github.com/dom96/jester or something with more defaults https://github.com/planety/prologue

* Scientific computing: the wonderful SciNim https://github.com/SciNim

* Blockchain: Status has some of the biggest Nim codebases currently in production https://github.com/status-im?q=&type=&language=nim&sort=

* Gamedev: Also used in production: https://github.com/pragmagic/godot-nim and due to easy C and C++ interop, you get access to a lot of gamedev libraries!

* Embedded: this is a domain I know very little about but for example https://github.com/elcritch/nesper or https://github.com/PMunch/badger for fun Nim+embedded stuff!

Most of the disadvantages come from tooling and lack of $$$ support.
A Roadmap to XML Parsers in Python
If it is a straw man, it is a straw man that dominates, that has become the default way of seeing history, that the majority of people embrace, including here on HN. See Steven Pinker, Bill Gate's embrace of Pinker, neoliberalism, the fact that both of the dominant American political parties are essentially conservative (one just less so than the other)...

Who are the people that criticize Pinker, et al? They are all thinkers the mainstream would consider radicals, Graeber included.
At most one, I think. It's also possible (likely, even) that they are both wrong.
I guess the motors are lossy and some of it gets converted to heat if they speed the wheels up and down
Those are problematic as well, because they're very costly. One country that implemented authentication and signing this way (I think it was Estonia?) had to recall and replace every single smart card after someone discovered a way to clone the RSA chip on them. With some bad luck, you're replacing these multiple times per year because smart card vendors often overstate the security of their products.

You could, of course, use real passwords, like every single service out there on the internet. Force some level of 2FA for security as well and you should be fine security wise.

Incremental plaintext numbers are not passwords, though. European countries have solved this problem in a variety of ways (that have been made cross-compatible and federated, even) and none of them use numbers on identification as a security number.
Aunt Dinald's Duct Tape Diner
CPU % in top and similar tools isn't a great proxy for energy usage anyway, it's a lot more complicated than that.
FWIW, the best intro to CUE I’ve found so far is:

https://bitfieldconsulting.com/golang/cuelang-exciting

…which does a nice job of starting from the problem, and building up from "how could we improve JSON for use as a config language" to arriving at CUE.

(Those types of explanations happen to resonate with me, including understanding the "why" first at least for me helps the mechanics and details later make more sense and feel more intuitive…)
> The SHEARING LAYERS that develop between them are like fault lines or facets that help foster the emergence of enduring abstractions.

Very wise. All too often, people try to come up with abstractions at the start of a project, when the only real way to find the "right" abstractions is to discover the natural fault lines during the development process.
Everyman luxury brands are possible. I'd argue Starbucks is one.

Cost-of-ownership for Apple products is usually pretty great anyway; often they're the $500 vs $50 boots.
NASA's Perseverance Rover Captures the Sounds of Mars
syrupous?
>stay away from the "quick mozzarella" recipes

Ah there goes my hopes for Queso Oaxaqueno for dinner!
Funny detail: I really did not understand GCL until I read about CUE and also JSonnet, which I believe are both by post-GCL ex/Googlers. Once I understood those languages, I started to get a handle on GCL. "GCL is like a fucked up JSonnet" is a better angle than "JSonnet is like GCL if it wasn't torture"
I don't have any experience working as a consultant, but how do you define obviousness?

IF there's plenty of prior art, then it's easy to define why something is "obvious" - it had been done may times before.
> “Most of the Control Team were working from home at this point – I was following operations from the train!”

The future is here!
> Specifically, if large-scale mandates did work then it would be clearly visible in the case curves of each country that introduced them, by definition, because creating clearly visible drops in those curves was the only reason they were introduced. Yet no such drops are visible. You can't look at a country's data and work out when masks were introduced or removed, it's impossible, people have tried. Thus mask mandates failed on their own terms and no further studies or experiments are actually necessary to answer the question of whether they're effective.

I am sorry, but this is a BS argument. First of all, COVID-19 (classic variant) had a 7 to 14 days incubation period. Upon infection rate curves it acts as a low-pass filter (aka smoothing filter). You will not see sharp drops even if contagion abruptly stops. The curve will decay over one or two weeks. Also, mask mandates were not introduced at random moments of time. Typically they were enacted or enforced when infection was on the rise. At best the expectation was that masks will slow down the up-trend.

Obviously, masks do not fully protect against inhaling the virus. But they do limit the blast radius from infected people coughing and sneezing. This is why in Asia people are routinely wearing masks during a regular flu season. Masks do not stop infection but they reduce spread to some degree. Common sense is oftentimes better that shaky science on top of questionable data.
Excellent question and it turns out there's a whole article about the solution! https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Operations/Rescuing_Int...

> By using a specially designed sequence of manoeuvres, the control team realised they could redistribute the angular momentum stored onboard the satellite using two different reaction wheels spinning in opposing directions, causing the spacecraft to flip.

> "So at this point we knew we could control the build up of energy absorbed from the Sun, and christened this new manoeuvre the z-flip".
This is a country where when they installed license plate scanners on highways they accompanied them with large screens that show the plate that was just scanned.

So as to... I don't know, brag that you're collecting all this information, that is to be inevitably leaked in a while? To make people feel safe, while clearly indicating the highway exits to avoid if you actually steal a car?
Are you saying that instituting the Carousel would simplify things?
This is something that I would like to consider this one if the UI looks more of a modern minimalist touch.
So basically all of the stuff that they won't let their competitors do.

This is 100% gonna get litigated by the EU, and I really hope they lose, because the principle is really really important, regardless of what we think of adtech.
The General Research Terms and Conditions say "Any information provided to the Participant ... shall be kept confidential by the Participant. ... If the Participant breaches the confidential provisions of this Section 7, the Participant shall pay JetBrains a contractual penalty of USD 20,000".

My reading of this survey says that if anyone copies&pastes one of the question ("information provided to the Participant") to HN then JetBrains may require them to pay a penalty.

Did I misread that?

Because I can't see why I would agree to that clause.

Also, the Terms say that JetBrains may share "any feedback that the Participant has provided to JetBrains with its Affiliates outside the EU solely for purposes of carrying out the Research. For the purposes of this Agreement, Affiliates are companies controlled by, controlling, or under common control with JetBrains.

However, I can't find where where the Terms allow JetBrains to share feedback (in any form) with the PSF or the public.

Is my legalese comprehension that far out of whack today?
Yeah, these kind of statements feel very “empty” to me. That’s probably true that you could do everything with Nim, it’s also true that you can do everything with every language. Should you? That is another question.
> We must all move away from using PI as passwords, that's all we need to do. Then this problem will go away.

You make it sound like it's an easily solved problem, which it apparently isn't.
Can you use an iPhone without an Apple account?

The only real comparator here is Google, who have similar information available to them on Android.
Toynbee Tiles
From the article.

> The root of the problem is a loss of trust. Comedy is ultimately about trust. The TreePeople audience laughed at my joke because they trusted that I hadn’t actually molested young boys. My kids laughed at my jokes because they love me, and they know they’ll be beaten senseless if they don’t. Without trust, audiences begin to question the intentions behind every joke, they take jokes literally, and they use their collective voices to bully comedians and pressure studios against taking any comedic risk.
Yes seriously. Does nobody remember MapQuest? Even that was revolutionary compared to what came before, but had no ability to move the map dynamically, and this was the state of the art until Google Maps launched. I remember sitting in an office with two other students and my graduate advisor the first time we used Google Maps, and our mouths were literally agape. My advisor said “the people who can make this work are going to run the world,” which was sort of accurate. Same feeling the first time I used a good capacitive-touch display with snapback and inertial scrolling: ideas that may seem obvious when you’ve used them for a lifetime, but sure aren’t obvious beforehand.
They use other apps you have installed, which they have blocked for everyone who's not Apple.
Sounds like something a shell script could fix.
> It isn’t really known whether QM is deterministic or not.

But we do know that there are no hidden variables - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_theorem
The issue with the many-worlds interpretation is that it only provides for a local absence of randomness.

The process of splitting into many words, as well as necessary limitations on measurement, i think both leave you in non-computable territory.

You'd model this by generating an infinite number of Turing machines for each quantum event, but you'd also need to do something about the time horizon on prediction.

Ie., chaotic systems aren't long-run deterministic because of measurement limitations. So there's something like many uncountable infinities of Turing machines out there. As for each digit in X there is an infinity of many-worlds in Y (the nature of chaos).

I dont see this many-worlds vision giving you anything you can simulation. Rather its a useful conceptual heuristic when interpreting QM probabilities.
That won't solve the conservation of momentum problems though, it'll just use more energy to get to the same state. If you could demonstrate controlling the rotation of a spacecraft just by using more inefficient motors you would upend a large portion of modern physics and could probably go and collect your Nobel prize within the week.
> As far as the modern ideological narrative goes, you are committing transphobic violence by denying the existence of Mola.

The simple fact is, you are wrong. The only people who claim that this is "transphobic violence" are people who reject the notion of transgender individuals. You're pretending right wing talking points are actually true. Nothing in this situation has anything to do with transgenderism.
> To me, this is the future. I wish we had a set of APIs to allow connecting to a public key instead of an IP address

INET256 is working on exactly that. It's a set of APIs for connecting to addresses derived from public keys.

https://github.com/inet256/inet256
We Are Starting Our Algorithm Problem Solving Club Today at 17:00 UTC
Sperm Count in Western Men Has Dropped over 50% Since 1973, Paper Finds (2017)
https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/q...

You certainly shouldn't be able to hear DAC differences through earbuds, but they shouldn't have issues being driven either unless they're really exotic. If I had to guess, I'd say the plug wasn't seated properly, or there was an issue with the in-line microphone.