skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agrees, MySQL is full of crap while Postgres kept too few craps. But the majority of the internet (especially in China) is built on top of a crap database, just like most of the websites nowadays are powered by crappy scriping languages (JS, Python, PHP). Whoever got it quick (and dirty most of the case) wins the market.

That's where Worse is better idiom [1], again, unfortunately shines: The world is not built on top of elegancy, but by brutality (in the same sense as brtualism architecture, not bloodlust) and rapidness.

[1]: https://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html
You could ask Paul Craig Murray about legal standards. Except he's in prison for reporting on a criminal trial about judges and politicians.
Is this worth an article? I think a lot of people use objects as parameters when the parameter list gets long. It seems more of a style preference.
"70-80% market correction for 2-3 years" is a contradiction. A correction brings asset prices back in line with their true values. That a coinbase exec thinks the cryptocurrency is 3-5x overvalued is wild, but if that is true I don't see any particular reason to expect the prices to go back within a few years.
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I'd describe my skill profile as "city-skyline shaped". I'm a generalist who's willing to dive as far down into the tech stack (and preferably source code) as needed… or out of it, into design, project management, or leadership. While not an expert, I have an eye towards security. I enjoy both refactoring and building features for users— I'm at my best when I'm solving problems for people, whether teammates or customers.

Things that will catch my eye: Open Source, functional programming, diverse teams (particularly age), non-exploitative business models (not interested in working on ad/surveillance technology).
You have a valid point, and to some extent government should continue to be people centric. But there is value in replacing a some of the system in place by code.

IMO, a lot of ambiguous laws and polices create different outcomes for similar inputs, and that should not be the case of legal systems and institutions. Money is perhaps the first of the government aspects to be easier to express in decentralized code, but I won't be surprised to see this as only the beginning of a trend. Think autonomous cars replacing drivers and other interesting similar developments.
> Since you asked, yes. I do. To me, it's like asking if a beehive will always have a queen. It's in our DNA.

Not the asker, but thank you for answering this--it goes a long way toward understanding where your arguments are coming from.
Seriously speaking, the point of using identity markers as admission criterion not to be fair or coherent. Good luck telling the hiring manager that race is self-declarative after they rejected you without disclosing the motives.
I believe we need more details. Even though you may not be able to disclose the n*k sources, at least you can estimate the volume per min/hour/day as well as the analysis requirements (real-time or delayed)? Also what kind of "processing" should we expect? There is a lot of difference between a simple transform against some data science algos.
Are Craigslist vacation rentals always a scam?
Another important resource for developers looking for alternatives to MongoDB itself is Percona Server for MongoDB (https://www.percona.com/software/mongodb/percona-server-for-...), which is based on the MongoDB community edition (and is therefore still bound to the licensing issues with it) but adds almost all of the features found in MongoDB Enterprise for free, with costs paid by support licensing similar to Percona's other offerings.
After several years of BASIC, I saved up and bought Watcom C++. At IIRC $600 (1995 dollars), it was literally the single largest purchase I’d ever made to date. As it turned out, I made a zillion-fold return on that particular investment, at least.

The first thing I did with it was port one of my simple 3D graphics demos from BASIC to C. My god the feeling of disbelief and raw power when it ran at like 1000 FPS.
The reason it hasn't collapsed already is that all the exchanges are in on it. It's crypto's equivalent of "too big to fail."

Individuals will be told they're not customers by Tether (this happened on Twitter a while back, someone set out to prove you could and Tether stonewalled them, so he deleted his account). They're offered a piddly USDT:USD market pair on a few exchanges, like Coinbase and Kraken, as a distraction. There, they can sell their USDT to folks trying to buy it (for instance, to fund a DeFi position) or the exchange obo Tether, Inc. to keep the charade going.

Only institutional parties like exchanges, Alameda and Cumberland are "deemed customers" and they'll never redeem because they know they can't.

Everyone's in on this. I think only a court-ordered exchange liquidation could possibly end the game, like a Binance collapse for instance.
Access to water must be why TSMC is building a $12 billion facility in Phoenix — keep the strategic importance of Taiwan up when the Colorado River dries up.
Building quadcopter from scratch (ish?) using an arduino as the flight controller.

Pretty interesting/challenging if you haven't done anything too complicated with hardware.

http://www.brokking.net/ymfc-al_main.html
I am beginning to work on a handheld input device to solve these problems. Email me if interested. nasharp@outlook.com
Squid is the new GME.
There are still holding costs for it, though - the guards at the New York Federal Reserve don't work for free - so doesn't it have a similar "value continuously leaving the system" dynamic that suggests that it's negative-sum? Maybe the answer is that the quanta of value leaving is so minimal compared the the amount invested in the stock of bullion that "ever so slightly negative-sum" and "zero-sum" are the same to a first approximation.
Been working sporadically on a project to convert a Mazda RX-8 to electric. Gradually expanding my modular synthesizer. (I'd recommend AI Synthesis to anyone looking for some well-designed modules to assemble.)
Building a cigar-box style 8-string nylon Kite Guitar [1] (It's a 41-EDO guitar with only half the notes available on each string, so physically it's basically a 20.5-EDO guitar.)

[1] https://kiteguitar.com/
Woah, a lot has happened with QML on the web!

But ... dude. Why does this reverse my scrolling direction?
Your analysis is good.

Be careful with your proposed solution. No matter what you do, the powerful and wealthy will always find a way to capture the system. I think the real problem is the sheer amount of wealth and power in a few hands.
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It doesn’t have to be this way many small cities have great police departments. It’s just that large cities and especially liberal cities like Seattle and SF have failed police departments that can’t be salvaged
Oh, we are such a bunch of over-rationalizing social unfits. The way things work in practice is more akin to the small kids in this adorable video: https://twitter.com/Kolamide/status/1453655850447515648

Good luck having them admit they flunked you because of your race. You were just insufficiently qualified for that specific position and a poor fit at the moment.
I moved 600 miles and started a Ph.D. in January of 2020. On paper it was a great decision as: I had worked with my boss (a great boss) for several years prior, I was comfortable with and excited about the subject matter, and I knew I would keep a remote internship through my graduate degree. What an ambitious 22 year-old me didn't see was that: long distance relationships are hard, not every university works the same way, and undergraduate research is not the same as graduate level research. I'm halfway through and all I can say is that I have not thrived here - and it's not for lack of trying. Every day is a 14-hour burnout and the older I get, the less often I can push that further. I wake up every day wondering who I will disappoint and for too long have put myself and my health last. Of course it's not practical to quit, nor is it practical to fire such a low-wage worker.
At least one of the professors has indicated they requested and denied from doing the testimony pro bono by by Gray Wimsett, Assistant Vice President of Conflicts of Interest.

https://twitter.com/ElectProject/status/1454526638578880516
In theory if large scale quantum computing becomes practical then it might become possible to decrypt traffic encrypted using certain public key algorithms. Basically by using Shor's algorithm to factor large numbers. But there's no guarantee that will ever work in practice, and even if it does there are alternative encryption algorithms which are resistant to quantum computing attacks. It's also not easy to identify and exfiltrate high bandwidth data streams even if you compromise a piece of network equipment.

If Chinese intelligence services want information on a certain politician or business leader they're more likely to skip the decryption nonsense and just recruit one of the target's associates as a spy.
Yeah. Mid to late 90s, thousands is high. Mea culpa. It's one of those things where the exact date matters because the prices dropped quickly. In 1982, I bought a 5MB hard drive for my company for $5K. (I didn't personally have one at the time.) At some point I bought a 40MB or so drive but don't remember when or what it cost.)

Machrone's Law was that the computer you want always costs $5,000 (in then dollars) which held pretty well for a long time. So, yeah, most of us probably spent $3-4K at a given point in time, modulo being able to bring older parts forward.
> MongoDB is a life-changing technology for many Developers

Are there any legitimate citations for this claim?
"Life-changing"? Please.
This reminds me of a post by another Indian student visiting the US. The observation that that person made which stuck with me the most was his realization that rich people dressed in a manner that wasn't very different from folks in other social strata -- it was much harder to tell at a glance how much money someone had. I think this is broadly true.
Looking back, were there any warning signs about burnout that you noticed, and is there anything you would have done differently in hindsight?
Broccoli is another fractal food.
The issue with these sorts of HashCash schemes is that legitimate users need to PoW their messages on a battery powered phone with a basic CPU and GPU. Spammers can use big, mains-powered GPUs, or better yet, botnets full of stolen CPU-time from mains-powered desktops/servers/etc.
Doing MongoDB ExpressJS React and Node projects (MERNN).

Kinda new too it.
This is Fading Affect Bias in action: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fading_affect_bias
Thank you for the kinds words!

I had not seen fabulous before. It looks really cool! Gives me a sense of validation that others have thought of this.

I tried writing an iOS app in the past (hence the inspiration for the project). If I ever try again, fabulous will be my first choice.
Love the thread!

Been building a bio and neuro feedback controlled "Temple Run" like game that runs entirely in the browser (Web Bluetooth to hook into a Muse EEG and a heart rate monitor, 4 channels running FFTs, WebGL, etc).

I really wanted a fun way to get me to use EEG training for focus and managing anxiety/stress. So... here we are.

Pretty close to Show HN ready. Thinking I might post one if anyone thinks it sounds interesting.
The entire case hinged on Windows including Explorer for free.

> red Ferrari

Selective enforcement is a real thing, and why the offense written on the ticket is not always the real offense.
This is has been the pattern for a long time. I’ve lived in SF for 20 years and the cops don’t go after small time thieves.
MaxMind is a Latacora client -- anyone in that prodsec position will end up working closely with us to help secure MaxMind :)

If you're like me, you probably know MaxMind from the GeoIP database. That's important, but only half the picture: MaxMind has also transmuted a lot of that knowledge into MinFraud, which is one of the easiest to integrate APIs for fraud detection around. I mean it: I'd guesstimate that the median MinFraud customer is already preventing fraudulent transactions by the time the fancy ML science project attempters have their conda install working. (There's room in the world for the fancy ML stuff, of course! But man, talk about a premature optimization rabbit hole.)

Contact details in bio as usual.
Please don't take HN threads on religious tangents. It's off topic and just leads to religious flamewars.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29068477.
There seems to be a bug in the example code - which somehow demonstrates that this verbose style of writing also has its pitfalls, even for advocates of that style apparently.
I quit a job one time because mongodb was heavily used there and it was constantly falling over. I can say my life was changed because of it.
You could ask the same thing of ICEs though... it's not all about 0-60.
Really close to https://youtu.be/CS9ptA3Ya9E (satire from Mitchell and Webb)
Holy shit game changer. Finally time to dust off that ham license. Any tips on how to setup this ? Ideally I want a cheap handheld system I can send apfrs messages.
Barclays CEO quits after investigation into links with Jeffrey Epstein
Can't fix that in the context of HAM radio
hah, I zip the code and send it to the other devs via email
Seconding this. Thanks!
I want to be hired, but I’m starting a homestead. Bought old farm, cleaning it up, and looking to build an off grid house and buy cattle in the next 6-12 months
Monopolistic behavior is not the same as having a monopoly.
Those are all nouns -- makes a bit more sense...
Using TypeScript solves all of those problems at compile time with full IDE support.

Descriptive names are not a solution when the data types are the same. It’s just as easy to mix up the parameters of the same type.
Chinese produce quantum computer 10B times faster than fastest competitor
Is it possible by now, to assign custom shortcuts in chrome or edge dev tools? Then you could be even faster for your regular commands with keyboard navigation.

It was discussed endlessly in chrome and I stopped following.

I ended up tweaking dev tools by hand (you can just open dev tools for chrome dev tools) - but stopped doing so, because of breaking update changes.
Don’t think this is novel, but I’ve mentioned on an HN thread before that my friend and I were building (and have now built) a tiny house. We’d been complaining for years that housing was too expensive and so after doing a house flip and stops and starts on trying to build a spec house we decided to try a tiny house to see if we could build something move-in ready that looks (somewhat) nice and also is inexpensive.

Just started marketing it for sale a couple of weeks back. And we figure if we can’t sell it then we’ll rent it so that either way someone gets a roof over their heads for a price that’s just not really available in most locations these days.

https://www.weshelterpeople.com
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J2ME Gaming
Is oforth still being developed?
Another big difference for me was the lack of people around and how empty US was.

I came to University of Illinois (UIUC) in the middle of winter (was starting grad school in spring). Granted UIUC is in a small town but still it was a campus town and yet I probably saw 50 people in the first week. Saw as in not said hi but just "saw".

Was the biggest shock coming from India. In India, walk into any market and you will see 100s if not thousands of folks.
Around a decade ago, before frameworks ate the frontend, something close to this was on its way to becoming an informal standard in libraries, I suspect due to influence from jquery: Required arguments (such as an ID or DOM element) were the first positional arguments (typically only one, rarely a second), then the last argument was anything optional in an object (most often configuration).

For example:

createCarousel(dom_element, { delay: 10, circular: true});
var spinner = createSpinner(dom_element, { spokes: 5 });
spinner.remove();

And, if you were okay with all the defaults, the object was completely optional:

createSpinner(dom_element);

And a jquery example of the pattern:

jquery.post(url, { foo: 1, bar: 2 });
Totally agree that on boarding is easy. Text chat is very easy to jump into but is very noisy in large communities. I think its the VOIP category that struggles most. I've been in large discords where one or two channels had a total of 4 people between them. Its just hard to insert yourself into someone else's conversation. I'm trying to fix that aspect of it.
Some of the things listed are very specific to recently built up wealthy suburbs in the DMV area.

There's plenty of fat grumpy people living in un-air-conditioned apartments with doorbells, curtains, tile floors and single handle faucets.
Joseph "Fed Guy" Wang was on the Odd Lots podcast semi-recently:

* https://player.fm/series/series-1504378/here-are-the-biggest...

* https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/here-are-the-biggest-p...

The also had the president of the Dallas Fed, Rob Kaplan, as well:

* https://player.fm/series/series-1504378/dallas-fed-president...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Steven_Kaplan

And Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari last year:

* https://player.fm/series/series-1504378/minneapolis-fed-pres...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neel_Kashkari

Over the past year they've also had good episodes on the the US logistics systems (trucking, rail, ports, etc).

Odd Lots is probably one of the better finance-y / business-y podcasts out there. Worth subscribing to just to see what their next topic will be. (Recently had one with a former US Mint president on how a $1 Trillion coin would done.)

* https://www.bloomberg.com/oddlots
Well, it’s not that you need higher energies to invent a new theory (even though you do, on a personal level), the problem is that it takes a discovery of a new particle to see which of these theories may be correct (and which of them aren’t), and new particles are only expected to be found as products of an interaction between particles at higher and higher energies.
Crypto-oriented startups and their investor backers are spending time and money on lobbying, that probably has at least a small effect in terms of slowing any regulatory momentum. i.e. https://www.wsj.com/articles/bitcoin-fans-are-suddenly-a-pol...
thanks for intro to that car review channel. really good stuff
If you don’t have strong checks in place to address fraud, lack of transparency and instability, you are essentially forcing regulators to get involved.
Would be awesome! For fun, I built something similar where you could control fire in an open world. Basically learning to control powers.

Would love a show HN!

We also tried a Kickstarter for some more personal help stuff.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/synaptitude/thinksuite-...

Question — how (if anything) do you correct for head movement? That’s the big challenge I’ve seen with accuracy, we had some algorithm developed on it (happy to share, if interested).
Use the right tool for the job. You can use both and it doesn't make the code any more or less readable. Using one only certainly does limit your abilities to write clean code and in the case of this pattern encourages some nasty shit.

Parameter count denotes logical branches like an if statement.

If you're passing in more than two to three Params a parameter object quickly becomes desireable.

Forcing parameter objects for one or two parameter functions seems.. stupid to say the least.

Boolean parameters are extremely rare if you're code is clean. They're essentially a code smell that indicate someone has dropped a hack in the middle of your function and handed in a parameter to toggle the behavior on in their one case against all others.

You're much better off writing a new function that triggers the new behavior and wraps a call to the old one.

Similar story for object returns, if you need to return an object that's fine but to be honest destructuring an object straight away makes code pretty hard to read in a lot of cases (not all).

For returning two parameters I'm pretty confused about the code, it's likely breaking single responsibility and signalling sideeffects.
Im working on this. https://teslatracker.com/ Testing charging $50/year. Its like HN but for a niche topic. Work in progress trying to find product market fit and paying customers. Grinding it to the bone.
TCP is a bidirectional stream so ignoring some of the edge cases you can just proxy it across any stream transport. in the case of TOR it sets up a bidirectional stream across its network and then bytes come into the exit node over the TOR stream and then the exit node just writes them out using the normal operating system write() method. bytes then come from the normal operating system read() method on the exit node and the TOR exit node just sends them back over the TOR stream. on the client node setting up the stream over the TOR network and receiving/sending is exposed as a SOCKS proxy but i guess you could also have something fancy which intercepted traffic transparently (https://gitlab.torproject.org/legacy/trac/-/wikis/doc/Transp...). i haven't looked at the TOR project for a while but it looks like they are heavily pushing the TOR browser which I guess means the user is not exposed to any proxy setup and can't accidentally misconfigure things in a way that would break their anonymity.
I like that you compared the actions of black criminals to that of white police officers in response to my comment. Your equation is striking and lays bare your ideology.
Me too. And at the same time it sets a "non-us" cookie, so maybe it's some sort of geolocation silliness.

Anyway, here's an archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20211102003457/https://www.nbcne...
Yes, but in free markets. They are both dirty fuels, so this shouldn't be a free market decision. This is something we have to do collectively that the market participants won't choose to do on their own.
I don't remember this happening, but it's been a while since I visited the site.
At what point in human evolution did we flip from hunter-vs-hunted on the savannah to sublime docility because we now have _the system_ to _ensure safety?_
Abusive partners exerting control by restricting access to important documents is a very real problem for many women, and men for that matter. Also this is something abusive parents and human traffickers do. It should not be minimized and trivialized as “my dog ate my voter id”.
As I recall, Infocom text adventures were priced at about the same price as the graphical games of the period. (But I was a beta tester and got them for free :-))