skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of misinformation here with no sources.

> I know programmers on HN could just work remote and code their way through the whole pandemic without an issue -- but for the majority of regular folks, COVID represented an overall wealth cut of some amount (even despite some folks getting some minor extra unemployment).

From WSJ [0]:

>> The coronavirus pandemic plunged Americans into recession. Instead of emerging poorer, many came out ahead. U.S. households added $13.5 trillion in wealth last year, according to the Federal Reserve, the biggest increase in records going back three decades. Many Americans of all stripes paid off credit-card debt, saved more and refinanced into cheaper mortgages. That challenged the conventions of previous economic downturns. In 2008, for example, U.S. households lost $8 trillion.

> Because there's an approximately 0% chance it's the cause. This "everyone is lazy now because the government helped them slightly once" excuse is a conservative talking point, not a real thing that actually happens.

Really? 0%? I never made a case that anyone was lazy. You're throwing politics into it for no reason.

> Well, there's also almost a million extra dead people from COVID, not all of whom are retired seniors, some of whom presumably held some kind of job. There's also a lot of people who were forced to live for the past two years on severely reduced or unpredictable income, now realizing they don't have to take a shit deal from their employers.

Median incomes were down from 2020, but above 2019 levels [1]

> The vast, vast majority of that money went straight into wealthy peoples hands (via things like PPP giveaways for businesses only). Actual regular humans got only a tiny portion of that cash. That's also why asset prices are sky high, workers generally can't afford to buy assets at all, wealthy people buy assets, to hoard their money. Assets are high because wealthy people got a huge injection of cash they've never needed, and are trying to retain it ASAP.

Take a look at where the money really went [2]. I agree a lot (too much) went to businesses, but a large portion went directly to workers. This includes 835bn paycheck protection program, 717bn for unemployment, and 869bn for direct payments (3 stimulus checks).

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/during-covid-19-most-americans-...

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N/

[2] https://www.covidmoneytracker.org/
That's really just a failure of input sanitation or not properly escaping special characters or putting the comment in CDATA when constructing the XHTML. Basically that blog allowed an injection attack. Not XHTML's fault, the same software would have allowed any comment to do god knows what in HTML.
There is no clear definition with universal agreement. It's a hype-y term applied with... varying levels of rigor.

However, roughly speaking, "serverless" rolls together 3 features:

1. Fine grained pay-per-use (e.g. pay for a query by the number of rows scanned)

2. The pricing dial goes down to zero when usage is small enough.

3. You generally don't control VM/instance-level scaling but something closer to the abstraction level of the product being claimed as "serverless". For example in planetscale you get no control over how many mysql instances actually run your queries. This is great for reducing operational complexity but not so great for controlling performance. Performance tends to be quite opaque -- for example there's nothing I can find in Planetscale's docs about latency and throughput. The operational benefits are real, though. It's a tradeoff.
Can't wait for the day when crypto becomes a footnote in history and the Deepak Chopras of this world are resigned to obscurity where they belong.
> “ Mesters says it’s good for people to be cautious, but open banking is really just a new way to share data. He adds open banking can only work with consent and APIs are safer than sharing banking passwords. ”

This is such a weak reason because it’s completely ridiculous to share your banking password with anyone in the first place.

You only need to look at mobile app stores to see that it is very common for apps to ask for more privileges than they actually need. Sometimes this is even justified to “improve” the customer experience. Why would open banking be any different? Imagine you had to grant access to your entire banking statement history in order to purchase a flight. That’s just forced “consent” and we do it every time we visit a web page.

Nobody in open banking appears to be able to adequately answer the following question: “What is preventing you from taking a copy of my data and storing it for later use?”

No, in the golden age of mass automated surveillance advertising, open banking is for trusting suckers I’m afraid.
> All of this without any arbitrary restrictions imposed by governments or companies

Is that true? Is gambling now legal in jurisdictions where it wasn't before because it's being facilitated by unlicensed entities? Can I do an end-run against money-lending regulations in my country because I'm doing it online?

To me it simply seems that enforcement hasn't (yet) caught up.
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Why charging phones is such a complex business: Anker CEO Steven Yang
What about Obsidian and Cherrytree?
Yes, this makes sense. Compatibility also plays a part in here.
Sure they are, I'm arguing that their force multiplier has to be taken with the context they are in, and that the change of the context can reduce the multiplier.
I've had that book on my shelf for so long, I really do need to shift it higher in my reading list

Glad to see I'm not the only one...
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And yet, at least for the quoted part, he is right.

It requires some massive balls to deploy code to production while not even seeing if it works for any case.

If the answer to "how do you know it works?" is "trust my judgement bro" then I will not, in fact, trust their judgement.

I do agree he has a finger in the zealotry and he should probably have modulated how he expressed himself.
> The EU example has shown that you can simply require banks

Through regulation sure, but that wasn't the parent's point. Without regulation there is virtually no incentive for banks to play ball.
The distros devs live in their own world, they don't have to work on a fast api service connected to a sap db that must run on windows with no admin rights for dev but must be deployed on centos 7.
I fondly remember Office 2000 as the last version that didn't require product activation.
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Work Sample Tests: The tradeoff between inclusivity and predictive value
I would guess the sheer size of it.

For instance, I can't take a derivative without the rules in front of me, though the concept of derivatives is simple.
In this case the abstraction should be designed so as to invite/welcome custom functionality. The domain/entity repo should extend a generic crud repo--as they usually do in my experience.
Alternative: Admin network and security magazine. Good admin articles.
I'm not making a moral judgement. When you look at broad economic trends you need to consider the aggregate. Some people are worse off, but on the aggregate people had more disposable income which I believe is driving up asset prices and now consumer prices
This is a wonderful idea. I know it’s a joke, but we need to start thinning the numbers of js trash packages. There won’t be a software industry if 1 in X deps installs ransomware, rats, infostealers and miners.
This is hard to convince developers to reduce the number of direct (and indirect) dependencies. I already try to reduce dependencies of Ava - a JavaScript test runner. However, I encountered obstacles such as [1]. I gave up and switched to a by-design zero-dependency test runner named oletus [2].

[1] https://github.com/tarruda/has/pull/16
[2] https://github.com/bearror/oletus
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Show HN: Web Quest Online, an Open Asset Library
Hello hacker news! When I was a kid I was obsessed with this small, web based MMORPG game “Fallen Sword”, and more specifically, the items within the game. I joined guilds and made a ton of connections just to get my hands on rare items. I loved the lore, silliness, and look of the items. I started a little project to make my own assets that look similar to Fallen Sword items, but with a modern twist that doesn’t have any limits as far as backstory is concerned.

It’s a small project but I accept submissions, and the eventual goal is to have a place where artists (or non artists like myself) can put together sets of items to promote themselves, or even mint their own NFTs (I understand NFTs as a concept but have little technical knowledge about them, so I wouldn’t explore this territory unless specific artists wanted their own NFTs).

People I’ve shown this to so far have no idea what it’s about or why it exists, which actually doesn’t bother me! I understand if the idea is a bit out there, or seems useless. The fact is I enjoy the process of making new sets of items, and a space where you can be limitlessly creative but within a certain amount of pixel dimensions. I’d love to have some more eyes on it, and maybe to even get some submissions!

Thanks!
This was pretty much the idea of back then Ecuador's president Rafael Correa with the Yasuni project.

Most of the rest of the world said "we won't pay".
You can already chat async on a page pretty well with Notion in comments.
The scary thing is that this fraction is substantial.
It's possible for a source to praise someone you disagree with without needing to dismiss that source entirely. Plenty of channels give fulsome praise to controversial figures like Shaun King or Rachel Maddow but that wouldn't stop me from hearing out what they have to say.
Should Russell and Whitehead count as well, in terms of this path which seems focused on the formal logic aspect?
Historic landmarks are not relevant at all. If a people wants to join a different nation - while shouldn't they?
Nations are the nautilus shells of the hermit crabs that are people.

In Recognition of the soon the posted argument of the:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kievan_Rus%27

Russia failed to attract its potential citizens, to offer a cooler, more vital society other people wanted to join
Fun fact, if you type "python" in a cmd in windows 10 but no command is found, it opens the windows store and prompt you to install python from there.
Can we have something like github on top of bit-torrent?
I have a ~1930s Griswold, it's very nice, but my Field Skillet https://fieldcompany.com/ is better in every way. I use it every single day.
Other than a very very niche usecase, I really don’t see how eating 300 MB of RAM is so problematic when we quite literally have servers with terabytes of RAM. Yeah java can be configured to run GC all the time and target <100M of ram, but it rather runs the GC only seldom (jvm is actually one of the most energy efficient runtimed languages out there!) and trades memory usage to throughput.
That is a function of time in company and continuity of team more than skill of manager.
As far as I've understood so far, back when calculus was invented people would think about it using infinitesimals. But nowadays it is taught without mentioning them; in short, caluclus is now taught emphasizing the ability to use the techniques and that's it.

I think that during the 19th century when it (along with logic) was being formalized they decided to throw away the old original ways to think about it. This ends up making it really hard to understand in exchange for making it "formally sound" and "user friendly".
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Thanks, that looks pretty useful.

To me, this means that planetscale (and vitess) immediately become less useful for a large class of applications: existing apps that use an RDBMS that you want to scale. Because most existing apps will expect FKs. I haven't tested my employer's application (which has FKs) to see what will happen, but I doubt it will be smooth sailing.

But there's probably plenty of greenfield development where teams would prefer to stick with standards like SQL rather than a proprietary noSQL language, and that seems like a great fit for this solution.
I'd go a bit further and say they usually accomplished the same thing with shoddier tools, but for a less spiky usage/volume pattern. And less reproducible, but even that only partially.

The only real difference I see is that nowadays they're writing more "software" and less "scripts", fwiw. But the amount of pessimistic thinking about what will break next is the same :)
Basically I understand the idea of serverless in this context as abstracting away everything related to managing & maintaining the database - i.e. anything like VMs, containers, OS, DB processes etc.

So you can set up a PlanetScale MySQL DB and use it just like a normal instance of MySQL, but also keep adding data from one small set of records all the way up until you have gigantic petabyte volumes of data without having to do anything beyond sending the data through your MySQL connector.

In theory it should just keep working in a performant way from 100 user records for your new startup to the scale of running parts of Slack. No choosing bigger and bigger AWS RDS instances as you scale, no need for autoscale strategies in case of traffic surges or worrying about replicas for perf etc. etc.

As someone who is honestly quite resistant to parts of the serverless paradigm this offering actually appeals to me. I prefer running my own fleet of VMs and traditional PHP/Nginx type stack but have already moved to AWS RDS to abstract away some of the replication complexity required to achieve high availability DB with minimum hassle. This seems like the logical next step and despite being allergic to kind of hype you mention finding this is something I'd definitely try out before moving other parts of my infrastructure onto anything like Lambda.
> (I do find go's repository-based approach quite frustrating to work with when forking dependencies but at least it's straight-forward)

If I understand your point correctly, then that's a non-issue since modules are here.

In the go.mod file you have the current module name, and all imports of yourself will use the current repository, instead of calling the original.

So you fork the repository, but keep the original name in the go.mod file, then you don't have to modify any imports.
>just happened to be the same
>MUST be the same

This difference is something important to stress.
You know, they sent people to the moon using software written before the unit test paradigm.
The joke is obviously on the author. Nobody in so called far-flung lands would have confused the January 6 riots for an attempted coup. And the US press would never have used language like that for such a riot, which featured so little weaponry and organization (up against the global military superpower). Putin has been protested against many times, the US press doesn't call the protests attempted coup attempts. People in far-flung nations can tell the difference between a riot - where, for example, the rioters were recorded on video being intentionally let into the government building in question - and an actual coup attempt. It's only domestically where a small group of politically motivated people are so wildly irrational or ignorant that they don't know the difference.
That's fair, but I will say that my experience with cable news is that every time I see it, not only does it feel extremely manipulative and emotion-based, but it's like, "oh - we're all still obsessing over this one court case instead of literally anything else that happened yesterday". Every time I look at world news, it seems to at least be covering a much greater variety of things that don't seem so predictable and click-baity and that do seem like they're actually of consequence to a larger selection of the population.

edit: Some of this unavoidable - you have to make judgments on what to cover and what makes the front page, and you're never going to eliminate people's biases or agendas completely. Not that it makes that acceptable, but I don't read World News and feel like the whole institution is beyond recovery and worthless. Cable news in the US? Yeah - I do feel that way.
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>What if offices suddenly have 50 EVs charging at the same time?

They do. No problems so far.

>Will this not lead to a capacity constraint?

No. Batteries and rooftop solar.

>If you broaden the horizon, can this not lead to a localised collapse of the grid due to a demand surge?

Not with batteries and rooftop solar, no. We good?

>It would also lead to a huge surge in power

It's not a "huge surge." Many other appliances are off at night. The grid has excess power at night. The larger problems are in the day, caused by things like massive use of AC, which problems will be ameliorated by installation of more rooftop solar. Win win.

>at the times when solar output is literally zero.

Batteries.

And, sometimes, when needed, you also, wait for it… use fossil fuels or other non-solar sources! We can cut fossil fuel use drastically and cut carbon emissions, but still use them when needed, and everything will be OK!
> As soon as you involve auth, things get boring and annoying.

No, JWT is easy enough to implement.
I wrote a generic loader that’s compatible with old school scripts, amd, node, and es imports that does just that. It’s zero config and would be fully automated except given a local npm/yarn env, I just need some way of going from “fookpg” in “import foo from foopkg” to node_modules/foopkg/entrypoint.JS

How can you resolve a module name to its path without external dependencies?
> This is all simply speculation until you find evidence of planes shot down by the US that aren't listed on Wikipedia.

Because English Wikipedia is the most conclusive and authoritative collection of such incidents?

> Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, provide it or quit this speculative bullshit.

So we know about two instances, one of them very well established, the other one being a "maybe", yet a third one would suddenly be "extraordinary"? In what context exactly?
this guy automatically associates for me with crypto-fudster and of course the very next post of his i see is more "criticism" of crypto.

not that there's nothing to criticize crypto projects for, but this particular argument is very meh. projects that advertise as being decentralized but aren't will eventually collapse. projects that advertise as decentralized and do attempt to be decentralized - are solving some truly hard problems, both technically and socially. something to learn from, not dismiss hand-wavingly.
Yes, I think it had that typo. Usually I chalk my phone typing random stuff to voice recognition despite, turning off everything in my power, but I was just laying in bed reading HN quite as can be when it happen so it really freaked me out.
That's not your decision to make. Maybe they only go out once a year and actually tow or go off road. It doesn't matter. If I'm going to spend $40k on a vehicle I get what I want. What I and a lot of people want is a vehicle that can do more than grocery store trips in some big urban center.

If you're talking about a secondary vehicle I'm all in but a lot of people aren't able to afford a $40k+ secondary EV.
Dang! He got me!
they may not be 'on that project' any more, and if the burden of support is on you at that point, and you're the one dealing with the code, and they're not, them saying "meh, it was good enough" doesn't really help. I've hit that before, and mgrs have said "devX said it's good enough, they wrote it before, don't try to change stuff". Well.. they wrote it 2 years ago when there were 300 customer records, not the 14200 today, and they're not fielding support issues from people complaining about delays now.

There's plenty of reasons to not engage with someone. There's also plenty of reasons why it may make sense, and I think it's highly context dependent. For me, it's about 50/50. And... in the cases where I reach out, it's about 50/50 as to whether they have any time/inclination/memory/ability to help anyway.
A point the article also alludes to: often people are only “unicorns” due to the specific context they’re working on. Move them to a different project, and your high value person may be a net negative. And it’s not possible for people who aren’t familiar with a person’s work to anticipate how making that person switch projects will affect the quality or quantity of their output.
So much for the US being considered right wing. US residential mortgages represent one of the largest examples of socialism in action anywhere with nary a complaint from either US party.
"built on top of the only open source database proven at hyper scale, Vitess."

Vitess is a sharding layer. Furthermore, I'm sure Cassandra (for all it's flaws) would beg to differ, Netflix had a huge C* deployment.

Is hyperscale larger than webscale? Hmm...
Some context: fraudulent call problem in Canada is bad. It is industrial scale fraud usually run from outside of Canada, when callers pose as Canadian border agency or tax agency officials claiming you have an “arrest warrant” for unpaid taxes or duties, trying to get you do a direct transfer to a numbered account. Almost 100% of my calls are fraud. If I do not see or recognize caller ID I do not even pick up the phone anymore.
Yeah, games get more brutal the further we go back.
Never had microtransactions in my day, bah! I say spending a lot of my childhood money in Arcade machines haha. Which are equally brutal in giving you maybe 1 minute of game play for your coin
> a boon for borrowers

No, it's a boon for owners.
The invoice I bill with is from an Office 97 template. Thursday will be it's 25th birthday.
You mailed the original developer, he didn't answer. And you were fired for doing your job right. What you must conclude is that they don't care about quality but about ego. They have a philosophy that don't favor quality. You should be glad they fired you.
I think that there was at least one Buk SAM complex coming from Russia at the time in this area, as well as multiple Ukrainian Buk complexes. I do not know who fired the shot which downed the airliner. Neither side has any motivation to do so in a good faith.

I don't think there exists a court whose sentence about this case I would accept, given that everybody has a skin in this game and everyone is very good at lying, but the court which does investigate this case did not come up with any sentence yet.

Are you seriously questioning me about my mental gymnastics in the absense of court ruling? What's with yours? How can you ever come up with something else than "we don't know yet"?
Switch from Puppeteer to Playwright
Gnome on WSL
that relationship arguably deserves to be poisoned, it's a relationship between toddlers instead of engineers.
If you're referring to the underlying rigorous analysis / set theory / foundations of math, it's arguably still easier to understand now that those things have been developed. Before these theories existed, your only way of truly "understanding" calculus to a similar level of detail would have been to actually develop the foundations of math, which would be impossibly hard for most people.
In the EU you don't need to share your password