skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sniglet and probably hundreds of incarnations before that. It's still kinda neat though.
Any asset that isn't the currency is "a way out"

When people specify Bitcoin or Gold as a particularly good "hedge for inflation" they betray the fact that they failed Macroeconomics 101.

Everything that isn't the currency is a "hedge for inflation".
Who gets to trade fastest? A lawsuit tests who controls the stock market
Thank you for your valuable suggestion. Because the interest shown here, I decided to build an improved version ( I think during the Christmas vacations).
Workplace interruptions may make people feel like more valued employees
Allow me to extend my contrafibularities for creating such a fun little project.
> I'm tired of having to follow trends

Then don't. I have none of those things save for IRC. I get all my work done and live a full life.
See also: The Meaning of Liff

http://liff.hivemind.net/
Thanks for the feedback! This is very helpful, and I'll be sure to fix these things as soon as I get home from work!

Extension-less files should work fine as an alternative to index.ext pages :) The purpose of index in the demo was to show QuickServ behavior. I like the idea about using calculate.py if there are no other naming collisions for /calculate
It is possible to determine, but only in hindsight, which is really the worst sort of possible.
ROI shouldn't be the only consideration. But a student should know it ahead of time.

I was undecided whether to major in either electrical engineering or journalism. I had a passion for both, I was a amateur radio operator who built his own gear and was also editor of my high school newspaper.

When a counselor at my university told me that I was four times more likely to get a job as a J grad in when I graduated vs an ee grad it made my decision for me. I mean after all he was the expert. Four years later however the exact reverse was true ;<).
A few years back, when groups carrying Orwellian names like these[1] started appearing within these massive tech companies, my first thought was: this is a joke, right? But even then it was clear that it was anything but.

Things start making sense if you start looking at these as religious movements and the people initially attracted to it and forming the first inner circles as vicars/priests/imams. You have a Faith. Anyone who rejects the Faith is an infidel. Anyone who questions the tenets of the Faith is a blasphemer. Anyone who leaves it is an apostate. Once the group gains sufficient power, it is in a position to appoint political officers and, through the ability to enforce ideological purity, also determine who runs the organization.

You don't have to refer to fiction to point out parallels -- there are so many real life examples from Communist China to Nazi Germany to Soviet Russia -- but the Night Watch and Ministry of Peace in Babylon 5 is what comes to mind when I look at all the discussion around "integrity" and "misinformation." The greatest power a group can have is the ability to label all opposing views "misinformation" and its opponents "subversives."

[1] Exhibit One: Trust and Safety Council @ Twitter
Whatsapp was $1 a year when they launched, and even that was rolled back after the FB acquisition. Ain't nobody got money for this.
Optimisations in Refterm terminal – Casey Muratori [video]
Don't worry about your worries being wrong-worries, because your worries are real-worries. Those USB floppy drives have about a 1 in 3 chance of actually working. There's last I looked only one manufacturer left and no real quality control on them. I bought a $30ish at one point and it simply just doesn't read floppies. Not sure it even showed up in the USB device tree.

And that's 3.5". I can't imagine how to solve this for 5 1/4" and 8" floppies. Or tape media from the 70s mainframe days, etc.
In many ways, the concept of "printing money" is too simplistic to describe how the banking system and monetary systems interact with each other, especially once you get your head around the fact that money is (almost always) "created" endogenously through the expansion of balance sheets.

You can't just think like a customer going to the bank; you have to think of it like a number of actors in a complicated network of credits and debits as well as global trade with imports and exports.
Most smokers start before 18. Your plan may work anyway, because the way 16 year-olds start is by bumming smokes off their 18 year-old friends. So people would start at 17, 18, 19 as the legal age rose to 19, 20, 21.
I believe several states currently try to ban the sale of sex toys so the tax would be an improvement.
While I don't do this intentionally, I do use a native Android app (fasthub) to submit issues. So far as I know, there isn't any GitHub app that has support for issue templates. Occasionally I'll submit an issue without remembering to check for a template first, though I usually remember before actually submitting.
Our choices are:

1) keep the current system (fixed fines)
2) proportional fines (higher fines for wealthier violators)
3) abandon penalty fines entirely for another system

For most cases I'd like to see #3, since I think fines are basically a bad system of social control. However, there are going to be cases where we want to keep fines there - and for those cases #1 continues to enforce class structures, while #2 applies pressure evenly across class.

Also, sorry, I don't accept that last point. Nobody is going to stop making money because their parking tickets go up in cost. That's not how people work.
>Split up ingredients into more parts.

I wrote a service called Zestful that does exactly this.[0]

It's an interesting problem. It's hard to train an ML system on the distinction between a preparation instruction like "finely chopped" and a note like, "just the white parts." My system treats "just the white parts" as a preparation instruction, but it throws away as irrelevant things like, "My favorite brand of black pepper is Smith's Fine Peppers." But I've looked at thousands of ingredients, and there are lots of wacky edge cases.

I created the service by adapting an open source project the NY Times published and then abandoned.[1] They were trying to index all of their old recipes for what would eventually become cooking.nytimes.com. Their repo felt very experimental and half-baked, so it was interesting to turn it into a production service. I wrote about the process of creating the service on my blog.[2]

[0] https://zestfuldata.com/demo

[1] https://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/09/extracting-structu...

[2] https://mtlynch.io/resurrecting-1/
Sure, but that's normally the sort of adverting that goes along with a big advertising spend. I had imagined almost all their advertising exposure is from giving product away for people to review, and of course the charity aspect got headlines originally. I suppose you might say the silly low price of the pi zero was a form of advertising. I don't think they'll do a stunt like that again.
I don't have examples at hand but I've worked in large Swift, Typescript and Rails codebases over the last seven years and the Rails codebases were the hardest to maintain and had the most errors in production. Have you done extensive work in a strongly typed language?
I got pre-cognition. Ahem.
Show HN: Type discriminator converter – TypeScript to C#
Hey all, I wanted to share with you this cool platform for developers that lets you build conversational AI apps in a matter of hours.

At Dasha we use communication between applications written in weakly-typed and strong-typed languages. For example, TypeScript and C#. Sometimes we need to pass typed messages from TS to C#. This is usually a problem. And here's how we solve it.

Why is Dasha unique?

* Even a non-developer can build a demo app in less than 2 hours.

* We have our own intuitive programming language - DashaScript. It's an event-driven language intended to describe a conversation script.

* We created Dasha Studio, an extension to VSCode. You use the studio to create your conversational script, it gives you syntax analysis and highlight. There's also a visual graph editor.

* Dasha CLI that lets you log in and get your API key that you can then use to execute conversational AI apps, and get diagnostic information about current usage, queues, and limits on Dasha Cloud Platform side.

* Dasha Cloud provides conversational AI as a service, which means that you don’t need to be a machine learning engineer to use machine learning when building Dasha conversational apps.

* We use GRPC for communication between SDK and the Dasha Cloud
Token of Eden: NFT genetic algorithms that grow into plants
It's not currently possible, partly because it complicates the deployment model quite a bit. Dynamically bringing SQL pods up and down requires a technology like Kubernetes. It takes some serious operational know-how to keep it running smoothly, which is why we thought it would be perfect for a managed Cloud service.

What would be your company's reasons for wanting this available in self-hosted CRDB? What kinds of use cases would it address for you?
I think about it this way: Apple collects data about me in the Apple Stocks app so that it can serve relevant ads in the Apple News app.

This is fine and expected, I’m using an Apple app, I expect it to use my behavior to influence other Apple apps.

Candy Crush is blabbing all about my behavior to Facebook, which then uses that data to inform my ads on different and wholly unrelated applications.

This is creepy and intrusive.

Another way to put it, if I don’t want Apple to know anything about me it’s clear what I need to do: don’t use Apple devices, services or websites.

If I don’t want Facebook to know anything about me, it’s not at all clear what products or services I need to avoid. I need to setup a pihole or something similar, and even then I’m not confident I’m blocking enough stuff, or not otherwise leaking my identity.
I'm a big fan of this one. https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/snarry/eyJ3IjogInNuYX...

snarry
very angry, angry, or angry
"“Don't worry,” Mark read from the snarry voice"
Fun fact, pidgin was developed by Mark Spencer, who also wrote Asterisk PBX and currently builds open source flight avionics.
dipman
dip·man

a man who dipped his penis (of the head) into water
"chad became a dipman (especially during the American Revolution)"
Toward Hermes Being the Default
Everyone always talks about Florida not having seasons. That's a lie. We have four seasons, just like everyone else:

first summer, SUMMER, second summer, and sprautumn.
This NFT is not real.
Well, there's limb loss due to ischemic peripheral vascular disease, lung carcinoma, various other upper airway malignancies, ischemic heart disease, obstructive pulmonary disease...
I think the other lesson is, send text messages if you are a rescuer trying to get a hold of someone on a hike. The constant spam calls pretty much DDOSing our phones makes traditional phone calls nearly pointless. No one answers anymore.
disabling ssh would violate GPL licensing, right?
What Safari is shipping behind a flag is not anything like the current version of WebGPU. I don't think it supports WGSL, for example. It's going to be a long time before all three browsers have shipped implementations that are interoperable and not behind flags.

I don't think WebGPU is the biggest thing that's going to let mobile game devs start shipping on the web. WebGL 2 can do graphics well enough today. Other things hold the web back.

Monetization is the big thing that people always talk about. The lucrative interstitial app install ads that mobile games have aren't on web, and in-app purchases have a lot more friction. Handling large binary assets is also a place where the web is lacking and WebGPU won't fix that. Finally, there's a lot of ecosystem and tools stuff that needs to happen too. The engines need to add web platform support which goes more than skin deep. Shipping a game as one giant binary is not good enough for web, you need to split your code into dynamically loadable modules and stream your assets. You need Basis Universal compressed textures. Etc.

Fix all of the above and then web games can shine, with or without WebGPU. Realistically, fix monetization and the rest will follow. Big caveat though: I think many see the monetization techniques currently used by mobile games as exploitative. It's not clear that you could do web game monetization competitively without the same level of exploitation.
Why is Oracle worth $260B?
This looks really cool. But...[0]

I've tried a number of recipe apps, etc. and I got to tell you, most are just work. The worst are the ones that make you use a GUI with dropdowns for things like teaspoons or tablespoons.

I use a wiki. I can cut and paste a recipe into it. I don't even really care much about markup; I can read it just fine. I can access them from laptop, iPad, etc just fine and I don't have to have the software installed on everything.

[0] I know this isn't an app, it's markup, and like I said, looks really cool. Just seems like it would be more work than just using a wiki.
Coming soon!
Promo video: https://youtu.be/gfe6e12ZkOs
One aspect of this defense was failure to mark: A previous owner of the patent produced processors covered by the patent but did not mark them as such.

It turns out that systematically not marking your patent on your products invalidates claims for infringement unless it occurred after the owner notified future infringers of the violation.

The striking thing about this for a patent troll is (if I understand this correctly) that it's easier to shake companies down if your patent has never been used to ship anything.

That seems odd.
This is a useful technique. I have used it in at least one application before. One of my favorite things about it is that you can use it even when you don't own the application writing to the database!
Needs a link at the bottom to register it a domain :)
> > Even if the RAM modules are not faulty, ECC is not officially supported by your CPU and motherboard, right?

> Correct.

I should also add to this for the record, that my mistake here was that when I bought the system, I checked to see that Ryzen 7 1700 supports ECC RAM, but that I was unaware that the motherboard also needed to support it in order for ECC to work.

Someone in a sibling comment pointed me to some links and gave me some info about some UEFI settings to try along with some kernel boot arguments and I've applied these. Hopefully it will be enough to take care of the issue, or at least to improve the stability a bit. But if the system continues to be unstable then I will probably try and save up a bit of money to replace the RAM that I have with non-ECC RAM instead, or alternatively that I save up money for a new motherboard which supports both ECC RAM and my current CPU as well as being able to host a newer generation of Ryzen CPU that I can then buy further into the future.

Also, I went to an electronics store today after reading your comment and bought a new SATA cable that I now use instead of the one that I had.
> No society can outrun living beyond their means, no matter how deep their reserves are

Which is why we have inflation. No reserves needed. The price levels incorporate the distance between the means and the living.
I had the same take away from that founders letter as you did - full of arrogance, as well as very chilling and creepy in my opinion.

Somewhere in this thread one of them is commenting, and made a point to link to that same letter saying how proud he was of it.

Just a complete disconnect.
So like.. lawsuit? I'd definitely be calling up a lawyer (in addition to the city/police)... that's _seriously_ effed up. What if you had a home business selling honey/beeswax? That's just the most obvious example... not to mention the human-hazardous aspect of spraying this stuff!
Both of these look like “cool hacker names” from a movie…
That moment when after 20 months of nothing happening, other than human rights being abolished across the planet, you're still scared of a common cold virus.
> Kids or coworkers are not going to make fake fingerprints to mess with me

> Biometrics against sophisticated attackers is not good idea. I don't encounter in my life "sophisticated attackers" that would spend time making copy of my fingerprint.

You don’t yet, but we’re talking about a new form of currency in this thread, not unlocking your phone to text your spouse or show your kids a youtube video.

Money is power, which will draw in sophisticated attackers who want to amass more of both.
1. I'm not sure about this premise: "leader of the production-ready frontend-as-a-service space." They def seem like a good fit for some frontends -- but they're certainly not a good fit for ALL frontends generally. (For example, sufficiently small sites should probably just go with static hosting, and sufficiently dynamic web apps still will want a SPA.)

2. At the end of the day, web backends are just a lot more varied and complex than web frontends. On the technical side, a web frontend is always just bundles of JS, HTML, CSS, that have to be transmitted to the client. And functionally, there's a relatively large set of common things they pretty much all do (routing, serve images, etc.) Therefore, it's relatively simple to build an opinionated framework that can still cover a good number of situations.

By contrast, a "backend" is really a lot of different things (like the four you mention, plus various types of storage and caching), which can use many different languages/technologies, all working together in different ways. It's hard to conceive of a universal "backend" framework that could cover all of that complexity.

3. There are some efforts to do this kind of thing (to some extent). Google's Firebase and AWS Amplify are the two that I think are closest -- they try to give low-configuration generic backend building blocks. (I'm currently using Amplify for a project -- still too early to tell. It also works with Next.js!) There's also platform-as-a-service options like Heroku.
Sounds like something straight from the Don't Starve (videogame) cookbook.
Well I mean, let's add up all of the news organisations that have joined together and pit them against their single largest competitor. They're still less than 1/10th the size of their neartest competitor (facebook).
As a long-time paid MobaXterm user, it feels like it's becoming less relevant as Microsoft Terminal and WSL advance. That said, it still offers a lot of convenience... a lot of things that you can do with WSL with some setup are one-click in MobaXterm. The MobaXterm developers also seem pretty responsive in making improvements, so it's not unusual for newer things to show up in MobaXterm first - for example, before WSL MobaXterm was by far the easiest way to get a mosh client in Windows.

I guess the question is whether or not MobaXterm development will keep ahead of Microsoft Terminal. The main downside right now, I would say, is that MobaXterm feels slower. But that comes with the benefit of a lot of conveniences.
We are going all in on swcpack (spack) as well. One of the benefits of swc-as-platform is the rich ecosystem of tooling we will see develop from it. Transforming, bundling, prettifying, optimizing… all at peak performance.
Is this a desktop app, a hosted solution, or self-hosted?

For work use, we need on-premise only and can’t have internal tools exposed/captured by external tools.
There's an interesting-looking build tool called Bun. Not sure if it's actually released yet, but the development tweets by the author look very promising:

https://twitter.com/jarredsumner/status/1390084458724741121

> Early benchmark from a new JavaScript bundler. It transpiles JSX files:
> - 3x faster than esbuild
> - 94x faster than swc
> - 197x faster than babel
It's considered our "API", which is part of the "Firebase Alternative" marketing idea, but your point is duly noted and I'll pass it on to our devrel guys. Thanks.
Mommy usually buys coke with her vagina. Or at least that's what my ex-drug dealing friend told me who "sold" a lot of coke to rich bored house wives in NYC.
Toward the end of my smoking I was like this. Before I only smoked when I worked on cars - always my house or a friends'.
Oh yes! We won't care about the middle east, so none of that bizarre cowtowing to the Saudi king that the US Presidents always do (I think largely to get on the post-term massive slush money that flows from the Saudis to former presidents, which I have no direct knowledge up, but seems obvious)

The Navy will lose a huge reason for its existence: securing the seas for supertankers. There are so many countries we won't care about anymore. Iran. Iraq. Venezuela. Nigeria. Really, by extension, Israel, Egypt, Jordan, etc. Then again they'll just keep building up the China boogeyman to keep their money, regardless of its validity.

As you pointed out, Russia will face an existential crisis, I think oil revenue basically keeps Putin afloat. A total collapse of Russia is pretty risky due to the nukes, but we'll see.
It depends where you live. The UK was an early[0] leader in sequencing a lot of their cases. They hit 600,000 sequenced cases in July[1].

That said, if you just want to know what proportion of the population has delta, you don't need to sequence that many cases. The point of sequencing a large fraction of cases is to catch emerging variants, that wouldn't be likely to be caught otherwise. But to know whether Delta is 30%, 50%, or 70% of cases, you just need a good random sample, not a particularly large one, and I imagine you can do that at the labs where the PCR tests are being run.

(at one point, I recall that the UK had a test that matched on three distinct sites on the virus, and they found that one of those sites would turn up negative for a particular variant, so they were able to use that as a proxy for the spread of the variant. I don't remember if that was Alpha or Delta though, and obviously it's no replacement for sequencing)

[0] https://cen.acs.org/analytical-chemistry/sequencing/200000-c...

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-exceeds-600000-covid-1...
In theory, yes. But it would take an infinite amount of time, unless you're like SUPER lucky and get it on the third refresh or something :D
UK publishes detailed reports on variant surveillance via genetic sequencing, https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/investigation-of-...

US does statistical sampling and also prevents patients from being told about variants, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28419280
They sample the swabs and do full sequencing for those selected.
Newfound baby exoplanet photographed from more than 400 light-years away
You are conflating schizophrenia with multiple personality disorder. This is a common, but harmful, mistake.
I know everyone's going to post their favorite word but this one made me chuckle:

adjective.
refereeless
having or showing good judgment
"the refereeless refereeing of the 1968 Summer Olympics"
Having a counter, I think it's easy to found some source around, for example in surplus stores, etc. For example, old naval compass and clock are treated with tritium. You could find also rocks near the rivers with some interesting material.
Author here. :)

>I have used it in at least one application before.

Good to know that other folks are using this technique!

>One of my favorite things about it is that you can use it even when you don't own the application writing to the database

Great point! Hadn't thought of this.
> Expand the money supply without expanding the value that money represents and the money now represents less value than it did before

Prices are a function of money supply and velocity. Inflation can rage while no money is printed because velocity surges. Just as deflation can fester while central banks print as velocity toys with absolute zero.
Then why do so many websites allow them to flow out of where they should be and cover the whole page?

I didn't want to push the limit, but I think my comment with the diacritics could have covered other people's comments or the entire page.