skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alaska is by far a "nominally" independent state. They rely on massive federal spending. It's besides the point that a secessionist movement is very possible in the near future in the United States - I just fail to see how it is at all relevant to this conversation. At least my scenario is confined to the region.
Please don't get personal about this. It can only land as a personal attack and make things worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Disagreement is a property of values, not a property of universalism. Kant just assumes universalism, but assumption is not an argument.

Some people have a strong opinion on pineapple pizza. I have a strong opinion that wine and tobacco have bad taste.
>40 years old.
[Hardware] tech all my life.
Slacked off, lazy.
Never thought I could program.
Started programming 3 years ago.
Knocked on doors until I got programming spot at a Uni.
Going back to school for free.
1 class per semester.
Will graduate in 2029 maybe.
Remembering to have gratitude for all things in life.
ALL things.
Have discovered that attitude and aims are important.
I'm not a fan of Bootstrap components. I really only like bootstrap for consistency and the ease of use - it saves me writing a lot of CSS, which breaks often. None of the Bootstrap components do anything for me, at all.

Do you have any particular UI component libraries you like? I'd like something a bit more... flashy.
Plus the US has the same capabilities. It's the digital age equivalent of mutually assured destruction.
That leads to (and comes from?) unethical behavior.
Same with Scott Adams...
It's even worse. She would have likely had much less than a week to decide. You don't want to make a major medical decision with getting a second opinion from a doctor who had not been involved up to that point.

She'd have a week to find a new doctor to confirm the diagnosis, and then if confirmed and she instantly decided to abort, schedule an abortion and have it performed--all this during an active pandemic which was slowing medical things down in general.

And let us not forget that the clock does not stop for weekends, so that's two days lost if they can't find an abortion provider that works weekends.

Also, Indiana has an 18 hour waiting period. You must make an in-person visit to the abortion place at least 18 hours before the procedure to receive state mandated information, so that's another day lost (although if they get lucky they might be able to overlap this with a weekend).
I misread your comment as "Bunny" being a GCP service competing with AWS CloudFront.

Is Bunny Optimizer (bunny.net) [1] what you are referring to?

[1]: https://bunny.net/optimizer/#pricing-details
I assume they're suggesting some sort of peer to peer system.
No deadline. I just have a tendency towards obsession when I'm working on a project I'm very interested in. I tend to get into a kind of manic phase where I can't sleep even if I wanted to. There's no real telling when that phase will end. So I end up coding for an unhealthy amount of time. I don't recommend it to anyone.
High Blood Sugar
High blood sugar is a modern day metabolic disorder. There are over 33 million people with diabetes and over 80 million diagnosed with prediabetes in the USA alone. One of the biggest frustrations diabetics and pre-diabetics are facing is the intolerance of blood sugar meds such as Metformin or Avandia.
Two things killed it:

1. The simultaneous emergence of walled gardens

2. The concepts were too challenging for most developers to fully grasp and too distant to inspire common interest.

You have to remember the web prior to 2005. Nobody had heard of Facebook and Twitter did not exist. Google was just a search engine and data auction. Most of the web displayed static content dynamically generated by either ASP, PHP, or TCL. Most of the people on here have probably never even heard of TCL.

Back then all the value of online businesses were some form of payment processing, think ecommerce, or application processing like data mining. The idea that the data itself had value aside from the products and services it represented was known but not fully realized. This wasn't even deliberate.

Emerging online services needed to generate revenue to repay their investors and in most cases the only thing that stuck was online advertising. You can show ads to anybody, but the more precisely targeted those ads became and the more they followed users across third party sites the more valuable they became. You have to understand that in most cases these are high quantity but nearly worthless transactions so anything that could raise the value of a transaction is a really big deal. This is how the walled gardens happened.
I have two wishes for git:

1. A consistent cross-language API for reading and writing from a bare/remote git repo in ways that would make sense to an average programmer. Something like `git.stat("/file.txt", commit=...)`, `git.open("/file.txt", branch=...)` `git.list_commits(since=...)`, `git.create_commit(parrent_commits=[], branch="", ...)`

2. A good story, better than LFS, for storing large binaries over time.

For #2 I want to reproducibly build a debian image from vendored packages or recompile gcc from source so I need to check in a pre-built compiler. etc
> What is the real advantage to Toyota pushing petrol?

They've absolutely perfected their vehicles as-is, comparatively speaking.
https://archive.md/B97v0
Is there any evidence that the use of OKRs correlates with better results versus not using OKRs?
When you really love working on something, sometimes you just can't sleep.

It's the most productive you can ever be imho.
The high level idea reminds me of Pharo:

https://pharo.org/

The idea to put the program and runtime together in one unit was core to Smalltalk of course but with Pharo you can get also the "IDE part" bundled.

Once in a time there were even whole computers build on this concept: LISP-machines! Everything running on a LISP-machine is reachable and modifiable by the user (at runtime!) and you would have a build in IDE-like editing facility.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genera_(operating_system)

> There is little protection against changing the operating system. The whole system is fully accessible and changeable.

DevTools in Browsers are today the closest thing to something like that I guess. But you can only edit a webpage. It's not going down to the level of the OS of course.
If you're strategy as a general is to "win the war", then I suppose you can say your tactics are to "kill the enemy and avoid being killed".

But I don't think it'll work.
Skiff, Decentralized
https://archive.md/D9r2o
What is an assault rifle?
As a French Belgian that's what I use too. "US International with AltGr dead keys" Find it easier for programming. Haven't got much success in converting others though.
I feel personally attacked that you are lumping Ed Sheeran in with the Beatles or Beach Boys.
Did you start your education in Canada? If so, are you still in Canada? (You mention university in the initial post, and I don't hear that from Americans very often. Though, you may be outside of North America too.)
Yep and Intel is doing great with their incompetent management. These management tools can only work when there is a mission, common sense, competence, team work, respect for each other, and many more attributes rarely seen in corporate America. As the author and Warren Buffet said: “I try to invest in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will.”
> Sounds like pontification / FUD.

Sounds like you didn't fully grasp what the grandparent was writing about.

>> Eventually, it will be obvious that running shared workloads on a single piece of physical hardware has fundamentally unremediatable security implications

> I have server application capable of utilizing many threads and thousands requests/s. You think I will deploy it on tiny 2 core CPU? No thank you, it currently runs on powerful dedicated server from Hetzner where I control everything.

Your use case isn't covered here, you're neither a cloud nor VPS customer.

There will always be individuals and companies looking for dedicated hosting solutions, or just hosting it themselves.

However, for the rest of the world that wants to run their stuff in the cloud that's where Amazon's and other companies investments in ARM come into play. That's where we'll see disruption, the extinction the grandparent was talking about.
But a Result<foo*, error> is clearer than foo*, error. I think that's the point the parent is making.
It's hilarious how some people are always saying everything is some conspiracy. You work at any of these companies (YouTube, Twitter, Meta, Snap) and the amount of internal outages is so frequent your eyes glaze over. Not to say that the outages necessarily affect users, but so much so that I just assume all of this stuff is just the result of automation gone wrong.

The bar for conspiracy I think needs to be pretty high.

Perfect example of this is "X." X is some highly mainstream, controversial thing happening right now. "X" has a lot of videos. YouTube starts removing videos of "X". People start to say YouTube is censoring. Maybe they are. However it's more likely that the increased traffic to "X" and the fact that it's controversial results in more people (in aggregate) using built in tools such as commenting, flagging , etc. to highlight the video. Some criterion might be met and high activity videos that are "controversial" might be removed or throttled.

From the outside it looks like a conspiracy. I'd love for someone to post conclusive evidence of YouTube engaged in some conspiracy around these livestreams.
Cold Welding
GitHub’s commitment to NPM ecosystem security
Galileo Project
Recently I talked to Genius bar about how my iPhone has problems setting up the wake up alarm (sometimes it doesn't set or clears itself) and how this issue has persisted across iPhones and iOS updates. Their answer was that I'd have to wipe and restart as new (essentially deleting my backup).

More insidious issues are the non-cloud alternatives to Apple features such as local sync and backup, which seem to be getting neglected as they try to push users to increasing expensive cloud storage and cloud offerings. Syncing photos and doing backups to a computer has been super buggy, but also severely lacking in basic functionality such as choosing an alternate disk for iPhone backups... Most people don't have 512 gb of free space on their primary computer drive and if they don't they cannot backup their iphone to an external storage.
How to Build Your Own Scara Robot Arm
Sounds like the bus is capable of driving one to the brink of insanity. Good thing you ground all that leetcode so you could spend 20 hours a week doing this.
What is the official reference implementation written in? (I hope a purely functional language like Haskell.)
You are disgusted that people have different opinions?
I think that would be really hard to measure because it would be impossible to set up a scenario where all else is equal.
I'm not sure I see how arguing for goodness as an overarching quality promotes more discussion than arguing for goodness of various qualities. Perhaps you get more disagreement, as people who may agree about each individual quality will argue about the value of each quality, but the comments about the art itself will be unchanged - it's merely the discussion about the relative value of each quality that flourishes when we feel we can measure goodness as a whole.

Now, perhaps this is the discussion you would like to see survive. If you feel that making arguments for things like why novelty is more valuable than technique is important, then I can understand your perspective and agree that we lose those conversations if we use a multi-axis approach. But if you care about articulating why a technique is impressive, or why a piece speaks to you, then I don't think we need to be able to rank all art on a single axis to have those discussions.
> The fact is most people don't want to know about things that conflict with their world view. I don't think what the media is doing is intentionally malicious, they just need to perpetuate a specific world view to keep their viewers.

If your viewers demand malice and being malicious is the only way to keep your viewers, that doesn't mean you're not being malicious; it means you're being malicious for money.
The right way to approach this is to move to a single-payer healthcare system. The administrative overhead of all of these insurance companies is STAGGERING.

I consulted for a franchisee of Blue Cross Blue Shield 15 years ago. They were a "non-profit" org...the CEO made 2.1m/year. That's in a rust-belt city with ~1m metro area population.

edit: They had a 200 person IT department that could have easily been run with 100 competent folks. For illustration, they had 20 people working full time managing the source of truth of their healthcare plans (to feed their claims processing system.) The source of truth was Excel spreadsheets on a shared drive. You can't make this crap up.
> It is almost time. You know it. That is why you are posting this.
Please don't use a single word in a title as a launchpad for a generic tangent, and especially not a generic ideological tangent. Those mostly consist of people repeating things that have been said before, usually in predictable (and often increasingly nasty) ways. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. The antidote to this is to respond to something specific (not generic) and interesting in the article.

This is doubly important when the thread is fresh, because threads are so sensitive to initial conditions. If you post something like this when a thread is new, odds are it will end up choking out the more interesting and specific responses, which take longer to appear.
That’s the deal here in Germany (taxes pay for parental leave), and I was ok with it, in a high-minded “it’s good for the children” way despite looking like I was just going to be on the paying-for-it side.

Fast forward to a rather late “happy accident”, and I thank whatever compelled me to move here soon after college.

Would I have saved more than the 18k EUR in parental leave pay had I been on even a non-SV US tech salary with US-only taxes? Yes.

Would I have had a whole work and regulatory culture around me that guaranteed that I could take that year, and come back to my choice of part-time schedule for the same type of work? No.
Vigilantism is execrable. It leads to redundant punishments of the very famous, no justice for most crimes, and a lot of false positives.
This wasn't just any space debris. This debris was created when Russia blew up one of their own satellites earlier today!

https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/15/22782946/russia-asat-tes...
Microsoft Feedback Portal
Getting Started with Random Forest
> Isn't it illegal for 17 year olds to carry assault rifles

It was perfectly legal for Rittenhouse to carry rifle at the time. The weapon charge has been dropped.
Briar is actually built on a library called Bramble that can be used for offline-first p2p data syncing. There was recently a good talk by a Briar Dev going deeper into the Bramble protocol: https://nico.dorfbrunnen.eu/posts/2021/diving-at-xmpp/
Germanium diodes
This comment is disrespectful of the dead and should be removed.
Not so fast there! I don't buy the "no good taste implies no good art" argument. If there is an objective standard of how good a piece of art is, that's fine, but his proposed experiment doesn't make sense. What if someone simply knows this objective standard and can thus simply evaluate how good each piece of art is? Is that anything like what we consider to be "taste"? I wouldn't say that someone has good taste in prime numbers if they can be shown a large number and can compute whether it's prime. I'd say their mental arithmetic abilities are good, but I wouldn't think to describe that as "taste."
C++

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin
I also don't buy this one. Modern pop is not meant to be tuned out. It's super loud and aggressive and in your face.

If anything it feels engineered (and I use that term literally) to break your attention and make you focus on it. There tend to be lots of weird and drastic pitch and key changes that are designed to grab interest.

There is tons of music that is better background music than modern pop.
It’s callous to not give people free money, that you took from other people?

Is it callous to throw criminals in jail? Is it callous to expect people to save money?

Maybe principles, morality, and justice are callous.
F-Droid can also share APKs peer-to-peer.

If both parties have F-Droid installed prior to the internet going away or being censored or whatever, other apps can be shared locally from a single device that has the app, to any other F-Droid user:

https://f-droid.org/en/tutorials/swap/
Because in America we change words like socks for fear that yesterday's word has become a term of opprobrium in the common vernacular. We change to a new word, wait until someone feels offended at new word, and change that. Descriptions of "hearing" and "sighted" will eventually be passe too for not being inclusive enough. Being hip to the change serves as a social signal in the US about how "in touch" (sorry, congruent?) you are with the non-abled demographic, and/or a surrogate to some for advertising intelligence. Gotta keep up!
Make sense, cheers from an American scientist ! I purchased the hard copy despite it being from Amazon, although I understand the logistics at play there.

J'étais à Polytechnique à Paris pendant deux ans, j'aimerais que les Américains soient aussi au logiciel "Open Source" que les Français
It failed to win hearts and minds, yes. Imagine a world where instead of HTML we were creating/consuming direct representations of our <blog posts / product listings / social media followers / etc>. Right now those direct representations exist, but only in the database schemata of their FAANG owners. We can infer what fields are in a Tweet, but we don't know. We can deduce the commonalities between Amazon product listings, and Ebay product listings, but those aren't formally codified.

The closest we have are things like schema.org, which are really just translation layers that people run their own proprietary data models through in order to produce something interoperable. But we're certainly not using the interoperable representations everywhere; only when Google or some other big company has the financial incentive (and monopoly power) to mandate it.

If, instead of a big inscrutable blob of HTML/JS/CSS, Amazon gave me the same shaped data for a product listing as Ebay does, then as a user I would have a lot more power over how my browser represents any generic product listing, across the entire internet.
The reason why PC gamers have this attitude is very clear from OP's comment: it used to be that PC was the primary platform, and thus e.g. keyboard/mouse controls would be designed properly at least. When that changed to worse, it was glaringly obvious.
Ah yeah, sorry. I should have elaborated. Bunny is a CDN provider. They charge half a cent per gigabyte for their Limited Points of Presence tier and 1 cent (or higher depending on the region) for their Many Points of Presence tier https://bunny.net/pricing

Plus, as you found, $10 for unlimited image processing :)

I look forward to the day they have a key value store along with functions at edge. I expect their pricing model to be simply irresistible.
Well the knew there was a non-zero risk of space debris. But were they expecting the Russian government to deliberately endanger even their own cosmonauts as part of a weapons test? Probably not.
Shouts to the ios marketing team for redirecting the feature availability link to the ios 15 announcement page.
NFL (and college football) players already have electronics in their gear- the quarterback has a radio in his helmet, the players have RFID trackers in their pads, and there is one in the ball. Some teams also use wearable GPS athlete monitoring devices like the STATSports Apex [0]. They seem to work.

I imagine that a hockey puck is subjected to much harder acceleration than a football, never mind a player, due to the nature of its collisions with the wall.

[0] https://pro.statsports.com/football/
Just a quick shoutout to Ruckzuck (https://ruckzuck.tools/)

I like it far more than Ninite and it is a good way to find some open source software that you may not have heard about or used before, quickly install the programs, and keep them up to date with only a few clicks.
I'm using NiceHash on Windows, since it automatically switches between mining the most profitable cryptos. It always seems to just mine Ethereum for the most part though.

The reason I mine this way (instead of with ASICs or dedicated hardware) is because this is all equipment that I would have bought anyways for gaming and/or programming work. I do a lot of gaming in 4K at 120 fps, and the RTX 3090 is pretty much the only video card that can actually pull that off.

Being able to toggle the gaming rig into mining mode whenever I'm not actively using it means that the equipment pays for itself. It's a lot easier to justify spending $6,000 on a gaming rig when that same gaming rig earns you over $100 a month worth of passive income!
it sounds like you avoid a lot of twitter too. good job! way healthier for you.
* Apples and oranges: Clickhouse is a query engine while Databricks is a SaaS product/company. Apache Spark could be compared to Clickhouse, Databricks to clickhouse.com/company. The latter is barely a couple months old.

* Databricks pivoted from analytics to ML and it's not just marketing. Clickhouse is all about OLAP use cases.

* Clickhouse competes with Druid/Pinot/Timescale, Spark competes with Flink.
Firewalls can do two things, mainly. Block inbound connections, block outbound connections. The macOS firewall is mainly intended for the former. Many folks want to prevent the latter (e.g. blocking phone home connections).
"People" don't. This is what "manufactured consent" is for.
>This is exactly the type of thing we dreamed about when we were first creating the internet.

Yeah, remember this one? "The net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." How far we have come...
Microsoft to Block Windows 11 Browser Workarounds - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29201027 - Nov 2021 (105 comments)

You can no longer bypass microsoft-edge:// links using apps like EdgeDeflector - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29191244 - Nov 2021 (171 comments)
Sailing Yacht A – 143m Nobiskrug
The problem isn't player killing here, it's that you get repeatedly killed by the same person immediately when you respawn. That's just broken game design.
It taking up space instead of being perhaps a USB type-A is a
bummer. USB-C docks that take the SD form factor still exist, of course.
I considered using leveldb initially, but that would require a C++ compiler and it also requires linking to libstdc++. So at that point, you might as well just write the project in C++, which defeats the point of this project.

Mako uses LMDB. Aside from Berkeley DB, it's pretty much the only key-value store in town if you want a pure C project.

In the end, it worked out well because I really like LMDB. It has a very intuitive API, and it's very small, which sort of matches the spirit of this project.

The zero-copy on reads feature is also amazing. When reading a UTXO from the database, we do no copying and no allocation whatsoever. The UTXO is simply parsed from the pointer LMDB returns. This is something LevelDB cannot do at all.
Where's the data? This is all anecdote. Even in this comment thread it's all just individual anecdotes. Not sure what the value is in this post.
You can't really make such a promise in good faith. You're going to need some form of uniform tax, but current premiums are not uniform. Even if we assume the system is less expensive in aggregate, there will be some (probably many) cases where it is more expensive in specific and promising otherwise sets wrong expectations.