skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Podcast: Vercel and PlanetScale CEOs on the Next Wave of Web Development
I used to take vacations to go home, where I'd sleep by a river throughout the day. I'd just take books, go read under a tree by the river and take a nap as well. I have to walk about 4 km to get to the river bank, so that might account for the fact that I sleep really well there. But I have never slept as well as I have under the tree by the river.

If covid has taken anything from me, it is the opportunity to go do that. The river is by an archaeological site, so it is cordoned off most of the time. I want to return to see the tree, and the river, and to sleep by it. I don't know when I'll be able to do so.
"He said the next stage of the Web is about making data accessible for artificial intelligence to locate and analyze."

Meanwhile, in reality: "F* it, we'll do it live!" with a bit of "hmm what it we add more layers"
To put in context, France is pretty small, approximatively fitting a 1 000 x 1 000 km box.

Delivering goods produced in France to French people isn't as complex as shipping stuff worldwide, and local players do under 2 days delivery for a while now, with ~3h delivery if you're willing to go to a nearby shop of the franchise.

Also, local delivery services can suck, and your 1 day delivery just ends up being a trip to a random post office 1 week later as they close during your work hours.

All in all, Amazon's advantage is on product variety and consistent customer experience. For best-seller books, that's a lot less of an edge.
The federal reserve exists at the pleasure of Congress, and Congress can abolish the fed if it chooses to.
How does this differ from Google Scholar's search index, or JSTOR's? Is it that it's open?
Not really. A ground-source heat pump uses the thermally stable ground below a house to heat in the winter and cool in the summer, while a geothermal power plant pumps cool water down a well and then gets hot steam out another connected well to drive turbines.
Absolutely. Not that any organization should really default to getting the benefit of the doubt, but an executive from Google? Anything they do is about increasing company profits, and if there are any benefits to anybody else it is purely coincidental.

This is the first thing I thought of too. Improving organization of data would lower the barrier of entry for competitors and so be a threat to Google. Malicious and incompetent actors have to be dealt with anyway so he inserts a sneaky little non-sequitur there by implying that not having this metadata would somehow avoid that problem.
At the time I read it, I found myself hating the book and its characters, yet unable to put it down. It wasn't until long after I had finished the book that I realized that there were no novels that had ever made me actually feel such strong emotions before, and that's precisely what makes it a masterpiece. I ended up reading the rest of his major works, and to this day I don't think any other author I've read can compare in terms of getting inside your head.
How did you set-up the ssh system? Where a new vm is spawned on ssh ?
There's funding and then there's research. I'd share headline credit about initiative to the person as well.
Dispersing the classics results in no longer having a classics department

which implies the destruction of the classics department

what do you think are the implications of the destruction of a department dedicated to a particular subject on the teaching of that subject?
You're assuming miners are sellers.

They could very well be HODLErs buying at a huge discount.
This is not new. I guess the math™ is , but I guess there is still debate on the subject sooo just click bait
Data art is anti-dada.
stay safe, friend! remember that the first roads with motorized vehicles on them were private, and exclusively used by their tycoon financiers :)
Article is a poorly edited Mommy-blog style post, with high-view "love yourself first" philosophy sprinkled over anecdotes of one-sided conversations with a child.
Corrupt governments and central banks can be pushed to change the rules with methods like "voting" or "mass protests".
Corrupt states have a monopoly on violence. There is no such similar force ensuring people have to use the crypto made available to them. The Bitcoin network operates by balancing the economic incentives of each party, and at any point, any party is free to walk away.

__Developers:__

* Profit motive: Paid salaries / bounties / donations by users, business that build off the Blockchain, miners, and appreciation from their BTC holdings

* The consequence of all the core developers going rogue would be the price of BTC collapsing, salaries or donations no longer getting paid by either or all of the above groups

__Miners:__

* Profit motive: Appreciation of BTC holdings, income derrived from doing their job by validating transactions and appending them to the blockchain for the block reward and transaction fees

* Rogue miners can't exert much force on the system until they get close to 50% of the hashing power.

* A collective of miners (e.g. a mining pool) can negatively impact the ecosystem by buying developers, or messing with transactions. This would result in a large cost by way of their holdings losing value and no longer being able to derrive as much income from mining.

__Users:__

* Profit motive: Transacting and speculating with BTC gives it value. If a significant group of users dislike a developer's proposed changes or feels they are corrupt, they can make their voice heard which can force the miners and other developers to weigh in resolve the issue. If this does not happen, then the loss of confidence in Bitcoin can result in a fork (the troublemakers leaving the chain, or the majority / active users moving to a new coin and leaving the troublemakers behind).

No one party in the above can force any issue on the other two stakeholders, and doing so against all economic incentives will typically cause enough damage that none of the other actors would likely go along with such an act.

For example, the main active developers could get bought off and push out a client with 10GB transaction blocks. Assuming the miners also get bought off, the users can choose not to use such cyrpto and sell their coins while they can still get a decent value for them. The miners and developers would be king of their fiefdom, which means very little. This is only possible though if you treat the miners and developers each as a single entity. This is far from the case though.
I'm going to date myself, and I'm not even "that old". When I was a kid, I used to call BBSs and find other numbers on those BBSs to also call. I downloaded ANSI animations, "anarchist cookbooks", strange and interesting posts by local aeronautical engineers and assembly workers, libertarian propaganda, programming tutorials, and probably what was considered the first of "blogs". As dialup faded away in the late 90s, we briefly had telnet to reach our beloved BBSs, then it was onto personal websites.

Today, personal websites are still by far the most interesting finds. They exist, they're just difficult to filter through the noise of social media. When using the search engines, shy away from anything on a major social media site and tend towards the modern tucows/geocities equivelants.
Do you mean something like:
https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/2018/100-must-read-classi...
Humans Are Terrible at Navigating Cities, Study Shows
95% of all papers I have read have sucked. Maybe they just weren’t what I was looking for but a lot of them I couldn’t believe got published as anything novel
Geothermal can be used for just heat too, eg district heating. eg https://www.euroheat.org/knowledge-hub/district-energy-icela...
A few years ago, in the context of justifying automatic license plate readers, the LAPD told a court that all cars in Los Angeles are under investigation:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7434448
Something something JFK's head blown off.
"better alternative in every way" is overstating things a bit, but my experience when I've sporadically done side-by-side comparisons is that Wikivoyage tends to be more up to date and complete. However, there have definitely been a few articles where Wikitravel was considerably better. Neither is very good for business listings (out of date, spammy, badly sampled). WV tends to be better with practical information, like transportation options from the airport, and how to use public transit.

I think the general idea is that power users on travel community sites mostly choose to use WV at this point, but WT tends to rank higher in searches, so it may get more edits from other people.
I'm in the libertarian lion's den . . . and I only read the abstract.

What I see from a historical standpoint, pre-cloud, mobile phone/computer, personal encryption etc is that anything stored be it something on paper, something in your house, safety deposit box, whatever was available to law enforcement with controls via the courts or other mechanism. It was available when there was a legal matter. Is there disagreement that legal matters should allow for full disclosure whether criminal or civil?

Is the problem that law enforcement and other state institutions through legislative channels and courts getting just too much access without legal justification?

Notional idea: could you have a key vault? Only with court order the keys are released and your devices get opened up? Even if not implementable would that work for most people?

I do get the government mass surveillance aspect and think that needs way more scrutiny and people should be vicious in their defense of themselves and society. But it also smells like we lost that battle as private companies are doing pretty well at surveilling individuals and communities.
I think that is meant to be parsed as: Just like you can't check if the fridge light is on without opening the door (which of course turns it on), it's hard to know if a system is resilient to failure without having one. It just might be that there hasn't been a situation that would cause a failure.
> I know there's 0% chance that my wife and I will get divorced

You share this mindset with every divorced guy I know, including myself. Men just don't see it coming.
One need not write lit fic to examine the human condition. An author with worthwhile insights and observations will find ways to convey them regardless of genre. Litfic, or modernist realism, is just another genre.
Except corrupt governments and central banks do not care for either. Central bank policies are not subject to voting by people. Did any of us vote for bailouts, QE?. corrupt governments also know how to suppress "mass protests". If these are the only ways to hold them to account how would that work.
s/stable/static/
> The idea of fate means there’s no free will.

Determinism is quite cheerfully compatible with free will.

> “Say you traveled back in time, to stop COVID-19’s patient zero from being exposed to the virus. However, if you stopped that individual from becoming infected — that would eliminate the motivation for you to go back and stop the pandemic in the first place.

That's a cherry-picked example of negative feedback stability; it takes little imagination to see that it doesn't have to go that way; feedback can be unstable.
I know the jargon. (But explaining it doesn't hurt.)

The 'perfect competition' model is indeed not applicable here. But that's not a problem: we know empirically that markets work (and work better the freer they are). The theory just gives us the intellectual tools to investigate why that is so.

What you are describing is still not a proper externality. In the same sense that eg having a competitor is not described as an externality.

(Or similarly, given your logic, the existence of shops where people have to pay for stuff would be an externality, because now they have to make sure that they are not in a 'shop' where everything is free first. The example is admittedly a bit silly, but if you substitute 'hospital' for 'shop', it's somewhat applicable to the UK.)

About 'perfect competition' about real world competition: you might like to have a look at https://econfaculty.gmu.edu/bcaplan/compet
sounds interesting! we’ve seen the same pattern across dozens of customers and are building a business on top of it. would love to chat if you’re down: juan [at] sayprimer.com
DDR4 would require a significantly larger and more complex memory controller, and wouldn't improve performance. (This isn't exactly a high-performance SoC -- while no clock speed is listed, I suspect it's in the sub-GHz range.)
Yeah the halvings slow it. Every four years the rate halves. We’re 2.5-3 years away from next one.

Then 450, 225, 112.25 etc
Julia is not interpreted.
Motorcycles are barely used in the US compared to many of the SE Asian nations. We’ll know electric motorcycles have made it big when we see them used preferentially in Vietnam. Also, that might make an actual “green” difference: billions of riders replacing older, more polluting bikes than typically being ridden by a few million ppl in the US.
A tiny bit off topic... but I semi-randomly look up W articles on a topic that comes to mind out of the blue. I’ve found great stuff this way. One that comes to mind is the page on the band Bachman Turner Overdrive. Insanely random luck led to their success. Often there’s a back story to so much that affects our lives

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachman–Turner_Overdrive
Is it actually a corporate initiative? The project is hosted on Sam's personal GitHub[1].

[1]: https://github.com/colesbury/nogil
Users have the money. If there's a fork, users can value one side higher than the other and then developers and miners will follow the money.
I don't think 100s of engineers working on a massive next.js application would be any easier. At scale everything is complex.
Other networks still have some of that feeling of exploration. I2P feels like the 90s web in a good way
Roy Fielding's Misappropriated REST Dissertation (2020)
Consider writing for Wikipedia
Try "Chief executives and legislators"
Nobody Cares About Your Programming Experience
VSCode has an auto-load feature, it will refresh any unmodified buffer where the file has changed on disk. Why not just use that and save yourself the bother of making a whole fake VSCode. You can even do some work at the same time!

I guess people who use VSCode aren't necessarily familiar with the UNIX way.
It's precisely about volume, because that shows us that ~$1B/day of new money buying into bitcoin is already happening (actually $36/BN a day since for every seller - which includes miners btw - there is a buyer). Since the price has been going up, that means demand has been even exceeding supply lately.
> Makes me sorta want to see a breakdown by sex. aka "male software developer has a 6% chance of marrying a software developer

But this data is specifically "among married couples". The male software developer's chances of marrying a software developer are much, much higher if we just assume he's married in the first place.
The second doesn't (necessarily) have to scale.

It has to handle the projected load, with some safety margin.

"projected until when?" you ask?

Well, your projections will be wrong. And, your needs will change, which means that you're going to be changing the system anyway.

That's where judgment comes in.

Suppose that each customer is worth $10/month and that the "not scalable" version can handle 1M customers. That's at least $5M MRR when the system is at 50%.

If the scalable version takes significantly longer to develop, you might choose to put it off until you have more money/resources, especially since there will probably be other changes. (And, you don't know where the actual bottlenecks are.)
The landing page needs a rationale. Why does this product exist? i.e. what problem(s) does it try to solve?

For me, I internalize all my recipes after I've made them a few times. The main problems I face are related to scaling and unit conversions.

So ideally I'd like to publish an interactive web recipe that lets me input the amount of ingredient X I have (or amount of servings I want) and match the ingredient stochiometry in whatever units I choose.
But why do we need a new rails? That's what I don't get. Just because we want to use JavaScript?
HPy – A better C API for Python
They do specify which parts to read. Focusing on excerpts would be typical for a survey -- seems fine to me.
Where are you getting myspace out of that comment? The author seemed to be talking about regular static or semi-static sites with hand-crafted HTML and CSS, perhaps driven by a bit of Perl or PHP.

Yeah, myspace was terrible, but it was the facebook of the time. Very popular with teens and some adults. Not so much with those of us who had been denizens of the net (not just the web) for a decade prior.
I bet the same people who agreed on Virginia’s “Keep parents out of school” movement
Dipping into this, most of the books listed are very short, especially in year one. 2.5 weeks for Hamlet, for example, is quite generous. Likewise for two chapters of Gibbon.
Unless you are an actual 10x developer. Then, this is a goldmine.
A photographer and artist walk into a fake news factory
> Anyone can create IP. It's not something only the wealthy can do.

No. First you need privileged access to humanity’s techno-scientific inheritance. New discoveries and their negative research are increasingly being monopolized through trade secret protection (which, unlike patents, means that some discoveries can be forever monopolized).

https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2019/02/19/dont-fooled-patent-pur...

Yes I agree this isn’t the best source so if you have a good source that explains it better, please share?
Not the first time posted here, but I decided to remind people for the project because of the nogil developments around python.
It would be much worst if they would switch to proof of stake... because a few tend to hold all the wealth.
> You're assuming miners are sellers.

Actually, I’m not. If a Bitcoin is worth $60,000, then in an efficient market miners will spend just under $60,000 to get it.

Will some choose to keep the Bitcoin? Certainly. But, they still have to pay the bills. To do so they have a few options:

* Raise money from private investors or on the public markets. RIOT and MARA have done this. They pay their bills by selling shares.

* Loans. There are many ways for miners to put the Bitcoin up as collateral and get a loan, keeping the bitcoin

It turns out it doesn’t matter if the miners sell or not: both methods above involve getting an influx of money, either from equity or from lenders. All that matters for the analysis above is whether the market is efficient.

If the market isn’t efficient, and Bitcoin costs $20,000-$30,000 to mine, then my analysis falls apart. And you and I should start bitcoin mining companies to boot.

> They could very well be HODLErs buying at a huge discount.

See comment about efficient market above. There’s no discount. You could work a job, earn $60,000 and buy 1 bitcoin.

Or, you could take the $60,000, buy $60,000 worth of ASIC and coal and burn through it to mine 1 Bitcoin on average.

It works out the same, if market efficient
https://theriveter.co/voice/its-time-to-banish-the-western-c... This is on the first page of Google results, so it's at least a sample.
They're not assuming anything about what miners do with the coins once they mine them. They're just assuming mining is efficient — that the cost (inclusive of capital, energy, etc.) of mining is roughly equal to the benefit of mining, which is equal to the market price of bitcoin times the number of coins mined.

(If you're planning to hodl, you can hodl either by mining or by buying on the open market, so an efficient market should ensure the cost of each is roughly equal.)
Show HN: I curated my first color system do you find it useful?
I find it funny that for "Software quality assurance analysts and testers" by far most common partner is "Software developer". However "Software quality assurance analysts and tester" isn't even in the list for "Software developers"
Perhaps my phrasing was incorrect.

Let's say I choose a country, United States, and then I'll be able to see a 24-hour clock showing Circadian Rhythms.

Perhaps, using precise location via ip address is better.
Lawyers use very short abbreviations for everything. I love that about them. (This does relate to what you said; be patient!)

"pros" = "patent prosecution" that's what you're talking about. Writing the patent & getting it through the PTO.

"lit" - "litigation" A lit lawyer is quite different from a pros. They can switch back & forth, but it's a big switch.

"crim" - "criminal". You hear this one on the TV series "Billions" ("I want to be the head of Crim!")

"3L" - a third-year law student

Probably a lot of others I don't know.

One of the pros lawyers that Oracle used was a total copy-paste douchebag, like you said. At Packeteer we had an awesome guy, whom I brought in once a quarter to brainstorm our 2-3 filings that quarter (we did not have a big budget). I don't think he's doing pros anymore; it gets repetitive.

Most big companies want to use big law firms, regardless of whether their people are any good. As an independent lawyer you have to be really good to compete for that business.
tables are a pain in wikitext though.
Don’t get me wrong, Iliad has great scenes that are super exciting. But if you start from the beginning and expect to read to the end, alone, it will be a slog. I was harsh, but I do think it is a terrible way to start reading the classics.

Republic is to be avoided for the same reasons. There is great stuff in there, but maaaan. Will check out your recs!
I feel like you forgot SQLite, and for really small scale you could just use whatever storage/serialization solution comes built in to your favorite language.
It is not unheard of for large caches of documents to be vetted by multiple new outlets who coordinate which stories they will cover. For example, the Panama Papers were handled by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), who in turn helped coordinate reporters from The Guardian, Le Monde, Süddeutsche Zeitung, and more. https://panamapapers.sueddeutsche.de/articles/56febff0a1bb8d...

For the pandora papers, ICIJ coordinated and worked with journalists from 91 outlets, including The Washington Post, Frontline, The Guardian, Le Monde, Süddeutsche Zeitung, and more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora_Papers#Participating_m...
Let’s say you have a friend (def not me) who chose to use mongo instead of Postgres and is now stuck with mongo. Does mongo have an equivalent?
Yep! While yeah I am selling IP for some small bonus, it's way, way easier and a guaranteed return on my investment vs. creating a startup or trying to get someone to license a patent. I've done a few patents now at my current job, and it's literally about 4 hours of investment from me for each one to get the summary written up, talk to the lawyers, and then review their patent draft.

Also, the patent lawyers I worked with had so much domain experience (ML) that it was kinda scary.