skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This book is definitely an example where judging a book by its cover leads to very wrong conclusions. The cover looks silly and implies amateurly written dreck. But it's actually very well written. Interesting premise and gripping plot with compelling characters. Even a few surprises. It's a great book and one of the best of the genre, IMO. I highly recommend reading it.
It's going to be hard for the market to correct while (1) rates stay low, (2) housing demand > housing supply, (3) wages stay high enough to support buying.

It's hard to see any of those collapsing in the near term. Especially (2).
By "space", I meant not from Earth. Extra-terrestrial might have been a better choice. Clearly, I wasn't propsing hoovering up parts of the atmo or from the vacuum of space itself (do the Brits call it the hoover of space???).

>Of course, if you mess up and hit the Earth instead, you will cause a nice extinction event down there...

Why does it need to be in Earth's orbit. If we have the ability to capture a comet and place it in a more friendly orbit, we'd surely have the ability to park it in the moon's orbit negating a SimCity-esque ELE.
Octi puts the metaverse in your pocket
We've all taken that risk at some point. Glad you found a solution!
An issue in the duplicated approach is keeping track of the different blocks once they diverge enough.

In the best case scenario they all slighty change over time without forcing complexity on each other. But it becomes a problem as changes that should be breaking only break part of the code, and the rest can go unfixed as nobody remembers all the linked bits.

It would be critical for instance if the duplicated bits were involved in invoicing procedures, and one in five remained unchanged while the other got updated.
I remember thinking the same thing back in 2006 when I bought a home. The house lost 30% of it's value after two years. Turned out 2009 would have been a better time to buy.
I'm shocked that from all discussion nobody noted the root of all evil:

"It was already late at night (I got carried away). I checked in my refactoring to master and went to bed, proud of how I untangled my colleague’s messy code."

No PR, no code review, no CI. Just a cowboy pushing to the master..
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I will add my own: cryptocurrencies are useless without a legal framework, which requires a central entity with power ensuring that there is fairness, i.e. the government. Change my mind.

P.S. Banking will also still be needed.

In any case, these are social issues and Decentralized Woo Hoo is a great name for it, as decentralization does not solve any of these issues. There is value to "digital cash", but not in the capacity that all these projects claim.
When honest articles draw ire, it is a tell-tale sign.

Like Walter from The Big Lebowski, crypto fans claim "Calmer than you" while internally seething at The Dude's honest callout of their inconsistencies.

Maybe rather than coming at the author from every possible angle to somehow discredit his observations, stop and consider he's making an extremely valid analogy: all of us have encountered at least one "quantium woo" acolyte in our lifetime, and realizing that you might be that person but with a different woo is upsetting, but important.

The most potent statement of the article: "There is no meme that you won’t find an answer for because how someone sees decentralization is like a Rorschach for their fears and tragic flaws."
Curious how the US didn’t deny its involvement in this one.
The pitfall there - and I myself am guilty of this - is that you only apply it halfway, so instead of fixing the problem (if there even is one), you're left with two different approaches to the same problem, meaning you added a second problem as well as a lot of overhead because you're not maintaining two different solutions.
Even still, I don't agree that IP became a standard for arbitrary reasons. For the most part, IP did not "compete" with other protocols; it encapsulates and bridges other protocols, from ethernet to IPX to what-have-you. TCP is properly understood as a layer above IP, the connection-oriented stream protocol to match with the UDP, the packet-oriented protocol. Both are encapsulated in IP packets. IP was specifically designed to bridge heterogenous networks and thus its name inter-network protocol.
Good luck. It seems most tech companies are following a similar framework.

You can try to find tech work in sectors that are more likely to oppose vaccine mandates, like conservative political organizations (GOP/libertarian candidates/PACs/etc), publications (newpapers/magazines), or industries (guns/oil/etc). You can also check for remote work from companies that are in conservative states where mandates are not popular. In general, most remote companies shouldn't be requiring it, but some are.
last week i got attacked here on HN for suggesting it is not bad to stick to one language and get BETTER over time rather than screwing around with new languages and fads every year. i think this sort of project illustrates what i meant.
Completely agree. Office 2000 and Windows 2000 are probably my favorite Microsoft software of all time. They performed well on mid-range hardware (I ran them on Pentium II and III), were the best they’ve looked (imho), and let you get things done. For a long time I installed Windows 2000 in VMs for running older games and software, even into the Vista days.

I would accept arguments that Office peaked between Word 6 and ‘98, but everything after Windows and Office 2000 were worse. XP’s Luna was an ugly reaction to OS X’s Aqua. Things kept getting slower and larger for no obvious addition of functionality.

I’ve long since left Windows behind, but still have found memories of Microsoft circa 2000.
So the first was for water damage, but the last two times were just for screen and surrounding areas. I have wondered a few times if water damage could be messing with something or maybe the screen was never properly fixed. I go back and forth because it didn't do this until recently, so could it really be water damage? Should I just buy a new phone? And if this post isn't a poster a child for right to repair, I don't know what is!
Want to be great? Know a lot
I found math depends on location as well. I moved around in the 90's during my University years; what was billed as exactly the same 3rd year networking course:

* University of Toronto, ON, Canada: HEAVY math; queuing theory; no computer lab, no mention on any specific stack or technology

* University of Athabasca, AB, Canada: No math; discussion on OSI Layers, TCIP/IP, SMTP, Ethernet; gateways routers switches, virtualization; lots of fun computer labs. Not technology specific - it wasn't doing Cisco certs or anything. But good working understanding of what's happening in networking world.

I always felt one university taught working software engineers; other university taught the dozen people worldwide who need to create next IPv8 :D
Every web project ought to have a hosted demo, but I couldn't find one here.
Assuming you can objectively measure someone like this, either by LoC or delivery times, this is the wrong way to approach any project.

Having a 10x engineer(or even worse, a 500x engineer in this alleged case) is a huge risk for the company, should the engineer want to leave or if they are incapacitated in a tragic event, the company is severely handicapped, ideally a so-called 500x engineer should spend less time writing the actual code and instead mentoring/managing others to scale up their knowledge, should the company do this right, they might not deliver on time, but they'll have a much wider array of experts when something breaks or for the next projects, reduces overall company risk and it's more profitable in the long run.
Some IDE's and external tools have duplication detection; I mean it probably won't be enough for people to go 'if I fix it here, I should fix it there' if it applies to both locations, but still.
congrats on your hard work. why did you choose C89 instead of writing this in C++11 or 17? just curious, no criticism.
Awesome solution addressing something very relevant!
I find it really interesting how the US government can constantly solves very tricky real world problems that impact our lives, yet people have close to zero trust in it. Which isn’t to say you’re wrong here.

I think it’s because when stuff works it looks simple. There isn’t an obvious difference between a mound of dirt piled up in days and one that’s carefully compacted as it’s constructed. At least until you want to build something on top that actually lasts for 50 years. Build stuff to last takes time and nobody is around to see you succeed.

Back to your point actually fixing the underlying issues with IOT security is worth it long term even if it hypothetically takes 20 years to get it correct. At the same time moving quickly and patching one of 100,000 problems can still be useful.
The problem you will find is that HA is a more progressive/pro-vaccine crowd and I would guess that most here are for mandatory vaccination
Threads use stacks. Being 1:1 to OS threads or M:N doesn't change that.
> decentralized here doesn't mean "decentralized" in the slightest.

That's a bit much. There is a bunch of weird crypto hype surrounding web3, but when I can use a website without having to create a login, and my data that its showing doesn't exist on their servers, that's fundamentally a different Internet than the one we've come to know.
Reading between the lines of enumerous blog posts, I think him and his yes man were also responsible for torpedoing Longhorn and replacing all .NET ideas with COM.

So now we have to "enjoy" that since then all new APIs are COM based.

It is going to take decades to undo this, if until then we don't move all into "Azure OS" and it stops being relevant.
Way, way back in the day, one of the best applications I've ever written had no tests. That application is probably in use today, in fact, even though its life is measured in decades. My takeaway is that tests are important, but good code is still more important.
Office will use whatever fonts you have installed. Calibri is already dated, it hasn’t aged too well.
I'd imagine its improved since then, especially with Steam touting a Linux handheld.

I need to find a spare SSD and time/energy so I can dual boot and try it out on a "regular" system.
I wasn't fired, just... the threat was raised. That original dev left soon after (in no way related to that - he'd been looking around for a while from what I heard). It was a strange situation because in the group of... 8 or 9 of us, I was the last one in, and got along OK with everyone, except him.
I think "well-known" is pretty relative, don't you? It's great if some people have a twitter presence or something like that but if they are not well-known within a certain project then it's not going to help much. I don't think it's useful to assume that everybody knows a person, even within our industry. Or if they do know of the person, they may not know what it's like to work with them, etc. So you have to approach it one step at a time like any relationship.

To use macOS in the same way you would probably turn the screen scaling up to get a similar amount of screen real estate :) And to me at least, the global menu in macOS causes other accessibility issues, I've seen hamburger menus done right and they aren't so bad. But the application has to be designed to use them correctly.
A $1 million loan on a 30 year term at 3% interest ($4200/mo) is totally different from say 5% (5300/mo) or 8% (7300/mo) interest.

It’s strange to me that the principal of the loan is the basis for the policy rather than the monthly payments. If interest rates hit a 30 year high to match our 30 year high in inflation, the share of Americans who can afford a million dollar loan will be a tiny tiny fraction of what it is now.
You won’t be doing that unless it’s a blackout.
The amount of extra cycles that would put on your battery wouldn’t be worth it. Considering the vast majority of the cost of a EV is your battery, the cost savings just don’t add up when you add the damage to your vehicles range and worth.
Write 5x more but write 5x less (2020)
nitpicky: sets aren't immutable. frozensets are.
(Disclaimer: I work on Notion)

It looks like desktop software built with Flutter. Their editor is based on https://github.com/singerdmx/flutter-quill which also has a web version, so maybe they’ll be able to target web in the future. For now I don’t think they support multi-user sharing or collaboration yet, and I didn’t see web features listed on their roadmap either.
I -- along with many other mail server operators -- block dynamic IP space. Which is almost the same as blocking home users, but not quite -- I have a static /29 on my residential package and ran my mail server from the slow side of an ADSL connection for several years.
I could not downvote this faster.

Ridiculous and wrong. Shameful advice. I be curious know your age, income, and net worth to see how out of touch you are.

Do not take this advice and debt at this ratio.

- take home is gross income not net like taxes or health insurance. It also doesn’t factor in retirement even

- mortgage estimate is wrong

- does not factor property taxes

- Just open an affordability calculator or mortgage estimator. It would put you probably in high 500s

- doesn’t include debts

- If you only make 140k you probably don’t have 200k for a down payment or comment doesn’t include PMI
IMHO, the bad nature of much of the UX we see around us is in the gray area between incompetence and malice. It's hard to sincerely concern oneself with usability when the main objective is to manufacture consent, manipulate the user into doing something you want, and use novelty or gamification to engage or convert. The poor design, flashy animations and other such cruft are a byproduct of this mentality - they may not always be inherently malicious in themselves but they are the result of a mindset which doesn't truly prioritize the user's interests.
> Russia's military is hundred of times smaller than NATO's.

Not really, depends what you compare. Perhaps hundred of times smaller budget wise, but capability it's not.

> If NATO ever decides to attack Russia, Russia's military will be easily wiped out.

Russia can easily block their own airspace to foreign fighters. They can also wipe out satellites as shown here. After that it becomes land warfare where they have superior numbers and wouldn't have issues repelling attack.

> There are anti-missile shields near to Russia's borders (in Romania).

Sure, this prevents nuclear strikes hopefully... but would be overwhelmed fast by amount of rockets Russia can throw. Plus Russia has hyper-sonic missiles that hug the ground... and this would be a priority target...
I maintain a github repo where I implement a feature identical polyglot persistent microservice in various programming languages and tech stacks then I put each implementation through the same load test lab where I collect then analyze the performance results and draw comparatives. I blog about my findings here.

https://glennengstrand.info/blog/
It’s interesting to note that the cofounder of YT Jawed Karim thinks removing the visibility of dislikes is a “stupid idea”.
And using clean code wrong. Clean code is not a panacea. If people use it as such and without the correct agile rites, they should do it at their own peril, but blaming it on clean code is at the very least naive (and somewhat dishonest)
It's being solved from both ends, on one side fast-charging is getting faster and on the other end the range is increasing. If the range is 600+ miles, you probably wouldn't mind a 30 minutes charging time because you want to stop to eat anyway.

On the other hand fast charging still has issues with capacity. If several cars want to fast-charge at the same time, there either aren't enough spots or when there are the charging rate is decreased because there isn't enough power available to fast-charge many cars. And this is with a minority of cars being electric, if everyone switches to EVs this problem becomes much bigger.

There is a lot of work to do on the grid and maybe some form of local storage of energy at larger highway charging stops.
The media are like day traders. They can ride a topic up, and ride a topic down. They rode Trump up, and rode Trump down.
Yup, because if shit hits the fan and you're up against a tyrannical government you have a lot more problems to worry about than exchanging goods for money via a physical crypto wallet (because they'll have already blocked communications by the time they're after you on the ground).
This opinion piece casually makes the very bold claim that the Steele Dossier has been disproven now, though the only evidence they seem to provide is that one of the informants has been arrested for lying to the FBI. I have not heard of any evidence that has directly contradicted the dossier, and in fact, I've seen a handful of news stories where other internet commenters have noticed that the timelines discovered from current investigations have matched up with pieces of the dossier.

What parts have been disproven, exactly?
How is it terrifying? It's pretty nice to be able to share your screen in an online meeting. It has the same kind of permission prompt, of course.
those are implementation details around the particular batteries. which is fine. nothing I said is absolving us of physical requirements. my point was entirely the system itself as a whole.

there are a number of ways to pluck the chicken. smaller more numerous cells -> same power, faster charging due to concurrency.

point was if your cable can't supply the power the entire point is irrelevant.
I Turned a Furby into an Amazon Echo
It would still be a good idea to have backend check for this.

- If javascript breaks, (or get blocked by extensions) there should be a check for contradictory answers.
- If on future iterations on the UI (more often than backend) logic breaks, backend help improve how to debug the UI update

Just to mention a few reasons.
XP's luna didn't run very deep though. XP was very similar in appearance to 2000 with a couple of minor settings tweaks
Yet another private discussions platform with anonymity in mind
zkRollups, (specifically Loopring!), should replace our COBOL banking systems, and WILL replace our stock exchange.
Certainly in the EU so far the "killer use case" for PSD2 things hasn't happened/it has not lived up to its hype. So beyond needing regulation to make things happen, there might also be a lack of use cases for most people.
I agree Agile steers a team towards hastily bodged together code.
Right, new owners who just bet N times their yearly salary that the music won't stop in the next 15-30 years.

The demographic pyramid is inverting, interest rates have been falling but are now hitting 0, and the asset-owning bloc is falling below 50% of the electorate. Any one of these could stop the music, but all three are happening.
I have lots of ideas... but no one has an open API I can use.
> However some people interested in and working on blockchain and related technologies are pursuing ambitious goals that could reshape the economy and politics in ways that makes them more open to participation

I hear this all of the time, but the people and projects “reshaping the economy and politics” are rarely ever named. When it comes to blockchain and cryptocurrency, we’re supposed to believe the “good ones” are out there, somewhere, while ignoring the fact that the blockchain/crypto space is absolutely drowning in meme tokens and obvious cash grabs.

The superiority of blockchain solutions seems to be assumed for many believers, so it’s natural to assume that superior solutions will eventually arise from this superior blockchain technology.

But the superiority of blockchain isn’t obvious for most problems. Moreover, if someone does build a superior solution on top of a blockchain, what’s stopping a centralized player from duplicating the benefits of that superior solution at a lower cost in a centralized platform?

This is the conundrum of blockchain and token projects: For them to be superior to the consumer they must eventually have lower fees and costs. Yet blockchain is inherently more expensive than equivalent centralized solutions and, even worse, the token investors expect astronomical (to the moon) returns on their investments, which necessitates extracting a lot of money from the users after the speculative frenzy has died off. At least currently, most blockchain/crypto/token schemes are built with the assumption that the consumer is the person they will sell the tokens to as a speculative investment, not the person who will actually use the service itself.

Decentralized solutions actually have a lot of problems that proponents avoid talking about. For example, DAOs are promoted as ways of decentralizing ownership, but we're supposed to ignore the fact that a well-capitalized player could simply spend their way into controlling a DAO by purchasing up enough tokens. And unlike with real-world companies, the ownership can be purchased anonymously in a way that makes it appear to come from a lot of organic traction. A well-funded company could simply spend their way into controlling a DAO and neither regulators, users, nor consumers would even know. We're supposed to believe this model is a boon for decentralization, but it's a dream come true for surreptitious takeovers.
esbuild is the gold standard. Its creator has done a phenomenal job (and it's still early in its lifecycle). It's the first time I used a JS build tool and didn't scream at the monitor when dealing with nonsensical APIs and error output.

Re-implemented a complex setup using it in an afternoon with very few hiccups: https://github.com/cheatcode/joystick/blob/master/cli/src/fu....
Also, build several prototypes of every important part of the product in order to learn how long they will take to be made and how each variant will perform, so when you make estimations they are as effective as possible; and then, make integration tests on the selected variants so you can reduce estimation risks due to integration. Just as in every other engineering discipline.
It's unofficial, but https://github.com/kchristensen/udm-le lets you provision LetsEncrypt certificates for Ubiquiti kit.
This is what frustrates me about Microsoft sometimes. They try to stick to backwards compatibility as much as possible, then once in a while they decide to change something, usually do it not great (Windows 8), then they have to have a goodwill recovery period where they can’t break anything anymore. I think the backlash to 11’s changes means we’re probably stuck with the Windows 95 printer pane for another ten years.

With the advent of high speed virtualization, it’s okay to break stuff (shoot, they tried it with XP Mode in 7, don’t know why they haven’t tried it again). I don’t know if we still need 20 years of compatibility.
So is this not on the chrome web store because he anticipates Google banning it or for another reason?
agree with raw_tx etc.
Germany suspends approval of Russian pipeline, sending gas prices soaring
> Calibri is already dated, it hasn’t aged too well.

I think it looks great. Maybe I'm dated! It's certainly a lot better than Arial, which proceeded it, and I don't commonly come across something that's so much better that I wished I wasn't using Calibri. Did you have something specific in mind?

The primary serif font, Cambria, is fine but I much prefer Palatino (which was originally released more than 70 years ago so if you feel that fonts "age" then you certainly won't like that one!)