skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Btw, that's not an externality. That's just a regular cost.

It can be either or both. Information discovery can simply be a cost of transaction, sure, fine. Find out about the stuff you're thinking of buying. Regular transaction cost.

Where there are markets and methods of transacting in those markets where one can assume the product that was being sold previously with a given name is precisely similar to the one being sold when you want to buy it there is some information acquired without additional cost. If it becomes more popular for some market participants to start messing with that such that everyone has to double check everything all the damn time even when purchasing from people who would not tolerate selling like that because of the uncertainty that is now in the marketplace. That is clearly a cost imposed on people not involved in those messed up transactions. The honest sellers have an additional cost to demonstrate they aren't crooks. The buyers have an additional cost to find that out. The sensible buyer buys from the honest seller with an additional transaction cost that has nothing to do with a change in policy or behavior of either party, it's a result of some other transaction they were not party to and had no control over. That's an externality. One usually enforced via social norms first ("I've come back because you lied to me!" - we've all seen someone, somewhere taking out their fury like that) and regulation second (because yelling at shop attendants is a rubbish thing to do).

Pretty sure such externality, while undesirable in itself, does not render useless all the benefits of a marketplace. The idealised form of the microeconomic model known as "perfect competition" has perfect information as an assumption. As soon as you apply the model to a real market that assumption has to be somewhat relaxed. The relaxation may make little difference (eg there's not much to know, it doesn't change much and we all basically know it) or an immense difference (eg insider trading on the stock exchange). Such models are for positive economics (describing what is happening) rather than being prescriptive about what should happen (normative economics).

I hope explaining the jargon doesn't come off as being a condescending idiot here. The jargon is used for gatekeeping in many of these discussions and it bothers me that this is how it works.
You could be inspired by the link reference syntax from markdown, and use the following where subs are possible:

add @acid{1%tsp} to @milk{1%cup} to create acidulated milk

[acid]{lemon juice|apple cider vinegar}

Anyway great spec and language!
Apple and its locked down appstore with fees are parasites, too.
This one: https://www.complex.com/life/new-jersey-deli-valued-at-100-m...
I fully understand that for many, this is not an acceptable security risk. It may have technical compromises.

For me, Whatsapp is used by my non-technical in-laws for the simple reason of "because everybody uses it". I find whatsapp extremely impractical (I communicate better via large ergonomic keyboard on my computer, vs via 1.5"-wide screen; to each their own), so anything that makes Whatsapp and other proliferation of incompatible annoying chat services easier... yes, yes, please yes :)
Electronic warfare isn't unbeatable - good operating practice, flexibility, and persistence can still allow communications to get through in a contested spectrum.
+1
I started using this to keep track of university assignments. 8 years later it's still my go to for personal things. It serves a different purpose then a calendar but the two together solve everything I need
https://archive.md/55yiI
It does get by the "Please wait..." that you get in Preview or Chrome but Firefox 93.0 doesn't actually load the form properly (e.g. it's 6 pages in Acrobat but only 3 pages in Firefox and those 3 pages aren't even rendered properly).
That is a little scary - a bit into the territory of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls
I find it odd that you exalt democracy and the idea of limiting individual freedom in the same paragraph. Zuckerberg isn't a government unto himself and answers to shareholders and board members; one of which served as Chief of staff for the National Economic Council in the Obama administration. You seem to think that our government and large corporations are separate and isolated organizations, but the people that work within them often slip between the two. Taking Zuckerberg out of the equation will certainly not change the game.
Well, not entirely true, because sginal has sent random images out to wrong contacts before.
People on the extremist fringes, whether it's far left or far right, tend to prefer authoritarianism and thus want to curtail freedom of speech because it is harmful to their political ideology. The more brazen ones seek to curtail freedom of speech while claiming to protect or even increase it.
Exactly what I was thinking about:

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/17207/sr-71s-r2-d2-cou...

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/41287/r2-d2-spotted-on...
I won't use it for signal indeed, for whatsapp though... can't wait to throw it of my phone!!

I didn't dive into it, but can you also self-host this? Looking forward to some docker-compose snippets in that case :)
I wonder how much a comparable desktop monitor would add to that.

On the other hand I really want to give the keyboard a shot before I pull the trigger, after 3 years of Thinkpad I think that will be the real pain point...
I use couch and pouch frequently. For replication mostly.

I’ve copied airtable data to it in the past.

Recently I implemented an event store CQRS system designed to be usable offline. I considered syncing events to the client via sockets but I needed to implement diffs. So I use couch and pouch as read only side of CQRS with an append only event CouchDB. The actual data is in Postgres.

Authorization is tricky. I do not recommend trying to do document level access control. I simply added an express endpoint that allows only reads and checks the session user for which table they can access. Then pass the request to couch.

Overall works really well. I recently turned off live sync for web and react native and loop over all of my databases on a set timeout interval. I had trouble with many connections at once.
What a bunch of hyperbole. Sequoia, like the rest of the industry, is playing catch-up to the model that SoftBank mastered. That record profit earlier this year was insane.

Masa-son is a lot smarter than the press makes him out to be; you really gotta wonder if he would be treated the same way if he wasn’t a Korean guy from Japan. Just imagine if he was some born-on-third-base blue-blood who wore blue button-downs and chinos and walked to work from his Professorville home in Palo Alto...
It’s not that gig a difference.

These numbers are slightly outdated, but in terms of app review iOS is 155B vs 80B for android which clearly favors iOS but Android is still very relevant. Assuming that ratio stays the same and thus dropping iOS advertising revenue in half it’s roughly a drop from 50b to 36b. Which is significant sure but hardly destroyed the industry.
CouchDB docs have you covered: https://docs.couchdb.org/en/stable/replication/intro.html
To be fair, even if I'm reading on my Kindle, my phone is still doing all that. I can DND my phone, but then it would have the same effect if I'm reading on the phone.
Sure, but this defeats the entire point of Signal. You don't use it to get the maximum amount of reach to other contacts, you use it because you're confident that what you send ISN'T being MITMed... that's the entire value of the app! So unfortunately if this takes off, you never know if the reason you're even using the application is just being violated. It destroys the entire purpose. That said, I love Matrix more than Signal and enjoy its E2EE capabilities.... but I also wish this doesn't take off.
I think it may be hard to see technology changes in the moment, but over the last decade alone I think we've had a number of large changes that are starting to be taken for granted.

We have the proliferation of electric vehicles and (at least in the US) a large charging network. There is also a massive difference in the wearable markets. The watches are getting so good that health monitoring and early warning signs are either already here or on the horizon. Cell phones are significantly better. A decade ago a video call would be a novelty and now it is done without a second thought. We finally have the futuristic edge to edge screens and foldables are now on the market.

There are others but they may not fall into the technology that we interact with daily. Things such as the drug technology used to make the covid vaccine. There are also changes in ML with the significant improvements in deep learning and model training.

I'm not sure if any of those count as an incredible leap, I think each one was developed incrementally, but when looking over the course of a decade it feels like a large leap to me.
> TL;DR: if you don’t trust Element with your Signal conversations for whatever reason, don’t hook up Signal to your Element One account :)

AFAIU GP’s point was that even if I don’t bridge, the recipient of the message might, thereby diluting the trust all users have in E2E on Signal, since you can’t know who’s bridging and who isn’t.
Why would you need to bugout when core services are down? Wouldn't a well stocked pantry and / or cold cellar be more appropriate? You don't have to leave your home with a backpack just because the supermarket is empty.
Yeah although the docs claim to support things like regex-based searches, it's so horrendously slow it shouldn't even be listed as a feature.
Not even which country, which sub-entity within your country. Here in America it's going to vary on a state by state basis.
> Only losers will provide their real retinas.

Have you seen who they are going after?

> In order to test this model and technology, we have onboarded twenty-five Operators that run more than thirty devices in twelve countries across four continents (Africa, South America, Europe and Asia).

> To illustrate the success and potential of these Operators, we will dive deeper into the operations from the following five countries: Chile, Kenya, Indonesia, Sudan and France.

This is sickening.
Or maybe they weren’t and you’re just making an appeal to antiquity out of misplaced nostalgia and recollections about some amorphous Golden Age that never quite existed as you remember.
My guess is that the shitcoin is a distraction; the real project is to make a better iris scanner. I can see nothing even slightly attractive about this shitcoin, but you can patent and sell a better iris scanner.
And ever changing - drift is quite visible over a decade or so, and using old maps can cause real problems if you’re only using magnetic when you get even as far north as Seattle.
You're depending on Apple not tampering with or receiving a tampered CSAM hash list. The same company that opened Chinese iCloud to the ccp, took down a voting app when asked by Russia and generally blows around like a leaf on the ask of authoritarian governments.

Gatekeeper and app notarization went from something you could bypass to now a hard block on distributing your own software on MacOS without approval from Apple.
Exactly - someone could be running a (the?) third-party Signal client, or they could be intercepting the Google push notifications that Signal sends using one of those Play Services compatibility layers, or they could do one of the low-tech things of showing their device with your messages on it to someone else in-person.

Although, to be fair, all of those things are far more difficult than using Element One, so there's an argument to be made about reasonable expectations and the actual likelihood of your messages being private...
> "lock-free algorithms" is a misnomer, you still have synchronization,

Lock-free doesn't mean that there is no synchronization. It is a way to synchronize memory access between threads from the start. It means that there is no additional locking to protect access to the shared resource - all read access is valid, from any number of simultaneous write accesses at least one succeeds (which is not true for some other algorithms like network exponential backoff).

Even on x86 the most common instruction you use is LOCK cmpxchg.
This sounds like a game I would play. It remains me of browser based games like Urban dead and Nexuswars where you spent 50AP and you are done for the day.
Exactly, that's why I'm confused by their comment. Does Mastodon really offload that to the server of the blockee?
Really really really sad that HN is impressed by this emperor has no clothes moment. This is the equivalent of listening to records at the wrong RPM and you applaud.
After searching for a good note-taking system I have settled on Notepad (on my employer’s Windows system) and TextEdit (on my Macs at home.) This with files and folders gets me all the organization I need. Even a fancier text editor doesn’t give much benefit.

Similarly a ton of my professional work involves emails. Though they’re in Outlook the editor might as well be Pico: very seldom do I even use the bold font or any other accoutrement.

He’s definitely on to something. Word processors are really a kind of Wysiwyg typesetter. They just don’t add much for the actual writing process that a simple text editor doesn’t already give you. Typesetting is a different process.
there are rumors about mobile devices as well
I think they may have been joking since INS - is inertial navigation.
Yes, there is massive downside to not maximizing for money to some extent. It can make the difference between being able to retire while one still has some fragment of youth or not, as well as determine whether you’re just keeping your head above water month to month or are solidly in the black. If you have kids and a significant other, this becomes even more true as you then want to ensure their comfort and wellbeing as well.

It’s less that morality isn’t taught in college and more that the system is structured such that those who don’t do the song and dance lose out big time. No that’s not great, but it’s no fault of the majority of individuals. The system itself needs to be changed. Make sure that people don’t have to work the majority of their waking lives just to have a chance of getting ahead and morality will become a more practical consideration.
Good comments, too!

// Wow. I had no idea JavaScript keyCodes differ from ASCII.
// They ignore case (both 'A' and 'a' will return 65)
// but differentiate between regular number and numeric keypad!
Interesting. So basically the large airlines are skirting the poisoning issue by essentially passing it off to tiny training companies? Kind of like how we "recycle" our electronics by shipping them to a poor country.
No, Joule is not among the SI base units.
There are lots of stories about writers who are very productive using an old method:

--This dune story,

--Game of thrones (asoif) written on wordstar

--And of course dozens of writers who still use pen and paper

This is what these environments have in common: no or minimal internet to distract you
There were problems with homebrew finding a fortran compiler for this platform, there were not problems with fortran on macos/arm64 itself. fortran for macos/arm64 has existed since the platform was available. OpenBLAS has worked fine as far as I can tell with `make FC=gfortran`. The only problems have been with package managers.
I'm curious about this as someone who is interested in making DIY smart home products as well as their recently announced Zigbee radio module.

But genuine question, is Rust ever going to catch on in the mainstream? It seems to have a bunch of nice to have features and great optimization. But the pick up, from what I've seen, has been less than stellar.
most resistive heaters will convert 100% of electrical energy into heat. No fuel can reach that number. How can you - in good faith - make the claim that electrical heating is wasteful or expensive, even accounting for edge cases?

If anything, it is the opposite when compared to burning any fuel for heating, particularly if you are living off-grid in a rural environment. If one considers the situation in the original link - exorbitant utility fees - it makes absolute economic sense to run heating and cooling off electricity, especially if you generate that electricity.
Ask HN: What tool(s) do you use to enforce organization IaC standards?
I assume IaC compliance is more popular in large enterprises, but I'm curious how widespread this is and how people are going about selecting whichever tool they use.

For example, a couple companies that seem to do this are Fugue[1] and Prancer[2]. McKinsey Cloud also seems to have purchased a company called Candid Cloud, which had a similar product called the Matter Compliance Engine[3], but McKinsey seems to have tried to obliterate all traces of them from the web and unfortunately the site the old URL redirects to really doesn't provide any concrete product information.

[1]: https://www.fugue.co/

[2]: https://www.prancer.io/

[3]: https://matter.cloud/
Show HN: Vesper – Better white noise app for Mac and iPhone
This seems just like an argument about who Github Issues are for. Are they a community support forum, or a workflow tool for maintainers? Surely in both cases, it's the maintainer's choice.

Personally, I find stale bots are refreshing in their honesty about what people actually have capacity and willingness to chase down and solve. They definitely can improve life for maintainers by turning an issues list into a manageable workflow.
It's still a chat app and if I can't reach enough people it's useless.
Linux from scratch won't really help you. I'd say start by looking into writing drivers for Linux and looking at tiny OS examples for microcontrollers that can be run in emulators or cheap boards. Bare-metal projects are available for pi and beaglebone. You will absolutely have to do something like that at a minimum, so it's good to apply what you learned in your OS class to that stuff.
Strongly agree. In fact, I suspect the accident rate, even unadjusted for work done, is higher with manual tools. All modern power tools have very well thought-out safety features included. This is particularly true for some of the more dangerous tools, such as chainsaws and table saws( see SawStop ).

To add to the anecdata: I've never hurt myself with a power tool. Meanwhile, I have a permanently damaged big toe from a sledgehammer and a huge scar in my calf from a pickaxe.
Nitrogen is an example of a nutrient which is present in air, but which is available through soil for the majority of all plants.

Again: nitrogen fixation is exceedingly energy intensive, and few organisms can achieve this on their own.

Where nitrogen is removed from soil faster than it is replenished, it becomes a critical, growth-determining, nutrient.

Carbon is available in the air, but also comprises a major constituent of topsoils. Though soil carbon itself isn't a plant nutrient, it provides a vital role in supporting plant life in its role in supporting symbiotic life, in managing alkalinity, and in moderating water and nutrient flows.

In many agricultural areas, soil carbon is being depleted at roughly 10x the rate at which it is formed, leading some to term such farming as "topsoil mining". Accumulations over a period of 10,000 years (since the previous ice age) are being degraded over a period of centuries.

Presence in the atmosphere != availability from the atmosphere.
Both. Though I am not sure but I think you have to ingest it but having it invisibly sprayed all over your skin makes that very much likely.
For the 2 people I know who are addicted to heroin, the drug addiction is not the cause of their problems, it's a consequence of a trauma of the past.

They relive this trauma every damn minute. In the beginning of taking drugs, it seemed for them a way to escape reality for some time; to feel in peace.

So yeah, saying "just don't do drugs" to a drug addict is as stupid as saying "just forget your life is a living hell".

Of course, I'm not encouraging drug consumption in any way, but we should have some empathy with them. Most of the time, it's not as simple as it appears.
Why do you assume the politicians or their parties didn't already know most of what is going even if unofficially? Politicians are around for a while usually and political parties stick around even longer. They also often want to ensure they get a nice cushy post-retirement gig somewhere. Damning yourself is generally not a good move.
Element CEO here, why won't anybody think of the children?!
Your previous comments are dead so I have to respond to multiple posts at once here. Sorry.

> He wasn't taken. He took himself. Exercise: Everytime you remove agency, reintroduce it.

I used the term "taken" as a rhetorical thing to ask a deeper question about cosmic unfairness. It makes no claims of level of responsibility and I feel like you knew this and just wanted to make a bizarre ramble about something you read in a bad self-help book.

> "I am depressed". No, you are depressing yourself. "I am helpless". No, you are making yourself helpless. These are active processes. Let's get more controversial: "I am being bullied". No, you are letting people bully you.

The hell does this have to do with my post exactly? I told a story about my cousin dying from a heroin overdose and you go off on (not even) a tangent about bullying or something.

Also, that's a pretty ridiculous thing to begin with. How are bullied people "letting themselves" be bullied? A kid that's bigger than them decides to physically hurt a kid smaller/weaker than them. What exactly is the smaller kid supposed to do? This isn't the god damn Karate Kid, life isn't a cheesy eighties movie, most of the time the kid just has to be bullied. It's not fair, it sucks, and victim blaming is not helping anything.

> Let's say depression is a purely biological problem, the chemical imbalance (it isn't), take a pill and be be healed! Right?

Depression is a blanket term for a lot of things, and is somewhat overloaded. Sometimes people just feel sad, and maybe telling them to get over it will work, but for people like myself with manic depression, it really isn't that simple. You can do any amount of exercise or dieting trying to suck it up, and everything will still feel hopeless, you'll still blame yourself for everything, you'll still catastrophize everything, you'll still yell at people who don't deserve it, and you'll still have to talk yourself out of bed every morning [1]. When that's the case, what exactly are you supposed to do? Are you disputing that those people exist?

Also, your hypothetical is completely absurd, there are plenty of things that have physiological causes that we can't just take a pill and be healed with. Do you think cancer is just an attitude problem? How about amputees? Are they just so stupid that they don't take a pill and be healed? What a strange and completely misinformed take.

I honestly feel bad for you. Whatever sequence of events led to this strange pseudo-edgelord hardass chud persona must have been tough.

[1] Not all depressed people and not all manic depressives. Describing my symptoms.
The many moods of radio frequency identification
CouchDB is a lot more scalable than SQL databases because it has a distributed scaling model built in (just add nodes), no need to mess with read-replicate and finicky hot-failover, it all just works out of the box (Dynamo style).