skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not the original poster, but economies work in cycles... so eventually money won't be free, and funding won't be so easy.

When that happens, lots of VC-fueled companies will shut down.

In other words, I think it ends with a return to a funding climate similar to 2015-2016 where money was available, but money also wasn't free. And financing rounds were smaller.
Besides Halo, are there any great videogames or VR experiences that allow you to explore toroidal space colonies like this?
No-code seems strange to me. I see a lot of hype around it but can’t figure out why everyone is so bullish

I tried building on webflow and bubble but it too cringe

Why did you think that this will actually work in the first place?
Best of both worlds of capacity and fuel economy is a station wagon.

With the Golf Sportwagen (EU name Golf Variant) off the market in North America now, it leaves Volvos and Subarus as the only option.

I predict that in the next decade, station wagons will get rediscovered as manufacturers try to maximize range and reduce battery volume as electrification marches on.

Edit: forgot about Subarus
Grind Leetcode (in Python) and build a small full-stack project with his son. Django is written in Python so they could build a functioning web app with that. I recommend paying for Leetcode Premium - $35 a month - because it'll teach data structures/algorithms and have problems from big high paying companies.
Maybe it was even more terrible, because it tried to be "smart".
Simple Course Authoring on a Budget
This whole thinkpiece feels like a cryptocurrency advocate pretending to write as if they were a skeptic:

> I regret to inform you that it's totally legit and crypto/blockchain networks really might be technologically, economically, and politically transformative. Ugh

The author seems more interested in convincing the reader that they should ignore their doubts because the doubters are probably just jealous they’re not getting insufferably wealthy like the crypto bros (that is, you only hate crypto because you’re not rich like all the crypto bros, right?):

> The urge to rationalize tuning out is surely amplified by the fact that laser-eyed online crypto bros are insufferable dicks. But it’s not simply that they’re insufferable. It’s also that a bunch of them are getting ridiculously rich

There’s very little actual argument to be found in this piece, other than a lot of appeals to the idea that decentralization will inherently solve a lot of social problems.
Named pipes are fast when the database is on the same box, but slower than a normal tcp connection when the database is remote. Something to do with PeekNamedPipe calls having to prepend reads.
How about MS stealing executables and running them on their own servers on the default config of win10?

If you had a build of your own application with hardcoded keys in the binary, there is a high chance MS has it now.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21180019
My issue with feedback is three folds:

1. It’s often given as part of performance review, and as such is shared with others (not just for you) and can negatively affect your career / promotions. Also, due to that, people game the feedback system and it becomes more of a reflection of how many allies you made.

2. In the US, with employment at will, feedback can be seen as a gateway to getting fired

3. It supports a culture of “you always have to improve yourself”, which rubs me wrong.

I do believe that feedback does improve people though, but I wish there was a system in place where feedback was 1:1 and not part of a broader performance review process.
There simply is no way to run humanity at-large without these laws and norms. What's the alternative? Anarchy? At what point are laws "good enough" yet we still have a functioning society?

It's *so easy* to say "we don't want to be told what to do" but then expect all the comforts of modern society. It's such a nieve take.
> Replicating everything AWS or Azure or Google Cloud can do on a blockchain isn’t redundant because the decentralized collective “ownership” and governance of blockchain networks supports security, privacy, stability, and scalability features that Web 2.0 applications running on centralized corporate clouds can’t replicate because they are centralized and control is concentrated.

Author seems to be equating blockchain/crypto to "decentralized". Just because something isn't crypto doesn't mean that it need be centralized.
Yes, I agree the people who build the robots should share in the wealth of the things they create. I said nothing about seizing or violence. I said democratic ownership. That would be a process of everyone coming together and agreeing on how things work.
Oh, yes — definitely saw those. My favorite were the ones in the pre-WKWebView era where the app was basically the website, except slower because it didn't have the JavaScript JIT enabled.
I think it's F9 only on Windows; it's Ctrl+Alt+R elsewhere.
So looking at a document, you'd not be able to know what typewriter it was written from, no.

However, looking at a document, you may be able to tell the make and model of the typewriter, due to different typefaces and known mechanical differences across the make/model. That, coupled with a location or list of suspects, would allow you to examine specific typewriters. You may be able to determine a letter was written from a -given- typewriter, as machining differences in the keys, and differences in wear and tear over time can lead to minute differences in how the ink adheres. If you also have a letter written by a specific suspect, the variation in typing (how hard they hit the keys, common typing mistakes, etc) can lead to greater certainty of the author.
THANKS! I was literally about to format my entire computer and hard-reset my router. I freaked out badly. I really shouldn't be snorting DMT all day like this while browsing. You saved me.
Typically, they paid for it. Hubris was sin, you know, and the myths were didactic.
It was all the cocaine!
Exactly. Many reusable starships flights would be needed to ferry up all the trappings of a working station, while returning reusable elements like the engines from the now mothballed fuel tanker ships.

I just meant to point out that a stripped down starship would consist of 30+ tons of easily weldable steel pre-fabricated into a reinforced pressure vessel. Spacex's interplanetary goals would benefit from treating the tanker starships as expendable, and if someone was inclined to start building habitations similar to those depicted in the link, they could buy up the building-blocks for a song.
After I enabled scripts to allow the dynamic content to load, I was presented with a blank screen for about 10 seconds, I was thinking, "what a waste of time so far", but then it finally loaded some animated content that says nothing.

Bad start in my humble opinion. Animated websites without real content are the bane of the Internetz existence.
Counterpoint: Flatpak doesn't really solve anything, and I have no reason to use a Flatpak'd version of a software when there's a native version in my system repos. A lot of people feel this way: they see it when Flatpak doesn't adopt their native system theme, they see it when they try opening a filepicker and it starts in some esoteric location, they see it when they want to edit files of a Flatpak'd app and need to spend the afternoon locating it's binary. There are so many papercuts, bugs, regressions and failures on Flatpak's behalf that I don't think anyone would really want to adopt it unless they were forced to.

I speak only for myself, but I will never enable Flatpak on any of my devices. A lot of other Linux users share the sentiment.
The former Coinbase CTO's appearance on Sam Harris' podcast a few months ago gave me a clearer understanding of why crypto isn't bs and where it likely will provide value in the future (beyond a store of value like gold).
We use Agile/Scrum with Sprints. Each sprint is made up of the work that needs to be done for that sprint, basically a todo list. It gives you an end goal to work towards and a sense of accomplishment at the end of each sprint. One of the goals of the sprint is for the team to take on only the amount of work they can reasonably complete in the time given based on historic data and team input. It also makes it transparent to stakeholders what is being worked on and when it will be completed.
I quitted high paying job as a Software Engineer to peruse my dream of FREEDOM lifestyle.

For me it went very well in terms of overall exposure, experience but in terms of finance it was not that good.

But I never regretted it.

During, journey I failed in 4 business attempts, but I never stop learning and exploring new opportunities.

Fast forward, after 9 months of break, I again joined full time and I have been running a digital side hustle along with the job.

During those 9 months of break I learned so many things and developed new high income Digital skills like Blogging, Content Writing, SEO, Marketing, Web Development, Graphics design, etc.

I have noted my entire journey of side hustle here in this job free life post: https://www.growthfunda.com/job-free-life/

Feel free to read and share you thoughts. And Here are my closing thoughts: If anyone of you planning to quit job then don't quit it without any backup (backup as in backup plan, finances) I would rather recommend one should parallely start side hustle.
It's accurate about tech-savvy people that listen to a lot of music. It's not accurate about music listening by all users everywhere. I'd wager most people use streaming platforms nowadays over downloading music locally.
The MilkyTracker homepage's Downloads section has some links to sample archives in torrent form that I looked at last time I played with trackers.

https://milkytracker.org/downloads/
The Guide to Data Versioning
Pipelines lower costs. To the extent that that's bad, it's because it makes fuel less expensive, so people buy less efficient vehicles that use more fuel. It's the same reason why a carbon tax is a means to reduce CO2.

The fact that the pipelines are in the future makes them less effective at reducing CO2. You want people to buy hybrids and electric cars right now, not wait until years from now. Lowering the present day price of gas is the worst thing to do.

If people are struggling then cut some of the pork and send more stimulus checks instead. Heck, do a carbon tax and refund all the money -- the average person comes out ahead because some of the tax gets paid by corporations and all the money goes to individuals.
The issue is your decisions not only affect YOU. That's the entire point. If you're spreading COVID, it affects all of us.

If your actions only affected you, nobody would care at all.
Did that happen when washing machines became available?

Everyone owns washing machines now - people just move on to do other things
I like the link to Spotify profile, seems a much better way to get to know someone.
Aren't all words just made up?
Nailing Your Pitch Deck (hint: It should feel like a movie trailer) – Written
It's more about people vanishing or losing their marbles.
That's pretty uncharitable. Celery juice is used specifically because it's confusing and misleading - you shouldn't have to have a scientific degree to decode a nutrition label, but here we are.
I was a wire puller in a factory another lifetime ago and my manager gave me an excellent performance review, but at the end he said "I rated you low in 'knowledge of using hand tools' because I have to be able to show improvement in your next review. You're fine though.' "

That wasn't particularly motivating but I did appreciate the honesty.
HAProxy 2.5
According to AAA:

Regular unleaded average price in NY state: $3.566/gal yesterday, $2.218/gal a year ago for a 61% annual increase[1].

If this temporary blip could cause prices to go down by 10% (during a time where demand for other uses for oil are also going up), then prices would be up only 45% from a year ago.

Assuming Biden is releasing the sweet variety that can be readily used to make gasoline, this first step is going to deplete about 20% of the SPR.

How many of those shots does he have?

People who think they can command and control the economy, regardless of the ideological banner they choose for themselves, have caused more misery, poverty, death, and destruction than anyone else. True to form, he is continuing with that.

For NY, this page[2] has figures going back a decade. These are nominal prices. Still, whether inflation adjusted or not, last year was an anomaly. Last October, prices were down 20% from the previous year in line with the depressed economy.

So, if you compare October 2021 with October 2019, nominal gas prices are 30% higher and real prices are 20% higher. On the other hand, in October 2012, gas prices were 43% higher in real terms, so there is that.

Except, in this case, consumers are facing a widespread sustained increase in all prices. 50 cents more for a latte may not mean much to a single person, but 100% increase in the price of fresh produce and almost 80% increase in the prices of meat & poultry have significant effects for a lot of families. And these are the predictable effects we are seeing. It is only going to get worse from here. In terms of historical reference, we are in the mid-60s. We have a long ways to go before we reach the mid-90s.

[1]: https://gasprices.aaa.com/?state=NY

[2]: https://www.nyserda.ny.gov/researchers-and-policymakers/ener...
Hey, thanks for sharing
I used no-code for a long time with different projects but these tools didn't let me to create something that I can actually release on the market. They were not complex enough.
How are you dealing with some complex projects, including blockchain technology or data science?
A utopia that was once common across America.
The efficiency of outsourcing
It monomorphizes generic functions and methods. Type erasure happens to the actual values.

So, for example, at run time an Option<i32> ends up just storing one word for indicating whether it's Some or None, and another for the value when it's Some, but doesn't store any information to indicate that those 8 bytes represent an Option<T> of any kind, let alone exactly what kind of value is being stored in it. None of that is needed at run time, because the compiler was able to statically verify that no function is going to try to read them as a u64 instead.
What a bizarre comment, are you just upset that I said your region is not competitive in tech (it's not) and reaching for anything you can?

I mean let's start with the irrelevant anti-China ranting.. where did I say we should stop trading with Europe?! Did you just feel a need to shoehorn China into the conversation because they're the other major power in tech?

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And then the weird commentary about why I feel I have a right to judge their policies...

You mean their policies as they affect American companies that dominate the space?

Forget that for a second even, as if I don't live in a country I can't have an opinion on their actions?

Like if you have something meaningful to say, try again, and maybe say something on topic.
I find it interesting that so many people claim spinning stuff up to create artificial gravity in space is "not too hard to do" and yet it has never been attempted, for a series of pretty compelling reasons. Everything is hard in space!
Yeah, genuine prosciutto is just salt and time.
Every time I get a flashy new modern design pop up, I'll just assume it will be gone in a year or so I just close the tab and try to move on to the next one..

Sometimes I'd get some bootstrappy looking website.. I assume not even half the buttons on that page work, don't even bother trying anymore, and move on..

I assume most modern web is defunct.
The author thought the answer was yes: "For now, I’m sold. I think there’s a there there. I honestly think blockchain can change the world — and for the better. Which, I’m sorry to say, makes it pretty hard to shut up about it. My sincerest apologies to all for whom the entire subject is “coated in oil of tedium,” especially my beloved and longsuffering wife."

My personal opinion: currently overvalued, but cryptocurrencies have some merit in medium-large p2p payments, online gaming, and digital asset trading
>To be blunt, I wouldn't vote for a politician that told me I need to reduce my quality of life

Interesting that you interpreted what @spodek said that way, they talked about improving quality of life and you read the complete opposite.
This is off on a tangent but that dudes writing style is almost impossible for me to grok.
I don't really care what's going on here with a relaunch and flashy/bloated site (Winamp 5.8 works fine/great), but the in the footer playing the classic "whips" sound is a nice touch.
The true price of a PS5 or GPU, November 2021 edition
I think this is a core issue with the current "web3" movement; folks are equating decentralization with blockchains too strongly for my taste. I'm particularly worried this focus is draining resources and mind share from any non-blockchain forays into a distributed future web, though I don't know what those other projects are.
But: The Innovator's Solution to the Innovator's Dilemma is well-understood at this point. Incumbents know well to not ignore upstarts. Knowing (Intel v ARM [0]) and reacting are two different things, of course.

[0] ref "red teaming at Intel", https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21095977
Less Code: using Baserow to power a pre-launch landing page
I'm not convinced, and even disagree with some of it; but I very much enjoyed reading this, which is a refreshing change for cryptocurrency advocacy.

The potential is so beguiling but the actuality is so lacking. I fear this current "crypto rush" is worse than a tulip mania, its like selling everyone multi-kilowatt radio transmitters back when the accessible spectrum ran up to 2Khz. The scorched wreckage and cultural no man's land resulting from the market implosion that seems imminent and inevitable are going to smother the actual potentialities for generations.

Of course I cant say what a "true revolution" that isn't founding on simple scams might look like. I just don't see enough non-scam foundation in the current cryptocurrency market to trust it, certainly not to the level that some of the advocacy sells.
Does 'Betteridge's Law of Headlines' lead to truth?
highly dependent on who you're asking
The crypto space is making me understand why the SEC regulates stocks. Projects sell their tokens and people invest because they believe the project will take off so they expect their token will rise in value accordingly. (which is a strange assumption, tokens are not stocks)

Many of these projects are marketing-driven and frankly dumb. Prices fall and creators always say "We're focusing on building a great project, we're not focused on the token price."... Yet they're taking millions in investor money. The crypto space needs something like fiduciary duty towards token holders.
Unless they’re really fucking up hard, there’s two consequences of not giving the bad feedback which I find acceptable:

- does it matter if they don’t improve fast enough in this dimension?

- they will improve by themselves over time. Encouragements are better than finding issues with someone.
The bullshit part is assuming that minimal use cases today will turn into extraordinary change in the future, because the internet took a similar path.

On the one hand it is true that we cannot fully predict exactly what new use cases of crypto will exist 10 years from now.

On the other hand, Magic Leap had a similar pitch for how world changing their technology was going to be in the future.

Another thing that is bullshit is the Web3 crowd taking credit for things that have existed for many years. Just look at DAOs. Co-Ops, LLCs, Non-Profits have existed forever and have provided very useful governance, Just because DAOs can also provide useful governance, doesn't mean that they invented the concept of shared governance.
"NASA's follow-on instrument to the wildly successful Hubble Space Telescope was originally due to launch about a decade ago"

I don't think anything else could better express just how bad the government is at deploying capital than the sentence above. Say what you will above SpaceX, but what they've been able to achieve in the time that this launch has been DELAYED is astounding.
Remove all automation we already have and civilization goes to zero immediately. We already have a ton of automation. And yet, the jobless rate is at record lows, despite the pandemic.
So, it is sugar consumption per turn, rather than per time.
Because of the simplicity, flexibility and power of the hypermedia programming model.

- simplicity: e.g. something like active search can be implemented with a few attributes: https://htmx.org/examples/active-search/

- flexibility: e.g. because of the uniform interface, versioning is much less of an issue

- power: e.g. deep linking is trivial

Additionally, there is increasing awareness[1] that Application APIs and Data APIs have different needs and "shapes", and, once you have split them up, reconsidering using hypermedia for your application API[2] is a reasonable thing to do

[1] - https://max.engineer/server-informed-ui

[2] -https://htmx.org/essays/splitting-your-apis/
This helped me discover https://gingkowriter.com/
Yes. You give ids to elements and the html indicates which id to replace with which content. You can even replace ids in other sections (might get complex quickly, but it works).

https://htmx.org/attributes/hx-swap-oob/

Source: I used this to implement my https://fromzerotofullstack.com website.
You Overtrust Your Printer [pdf]
That's the plot of "Red Sky-Ceiling", where one person infiltrates a space-habitat with a lethal virus and everybody needs to go into self-isolation. Cool thing though, they could tint red their sky to signal bio-hazard.

By the way, I've done the math, and a habitat like the one in that book would need to fuse 18 metric tons of Deuterium per day to produce "solar light" for an area equals to Virginia state's. Pumping heat out of that thing must be a similarly hairy challenge.
To be fair, I've had to argue with a lot of managers prior to The Cloud about how the QA team was given shit hardware instead of identical hardware. The IT manager even had a concrete use case for identical hardware that I thought was for sure going to win me that argument but it didn't.

If you don't have enough identical hardware for pre-prod, then you probably don't have spare servers for production either. If you get a flash traffic due to a news article, or one of your machines develops a hardware fault, then you have to order replacements. At best you might be able to pull off an overnight Fedex, but only if the problem happens in the morning.

If, however, you have identical QA hardware, you can order the new hardware and cannibalize QA. Re-image the machine and plop it into production. QA will be degraded for a couple of days but that's better than prod having an issue.

With the Cloud, the hardware is somewhat fungible, so you can generally pick identical hardware for preprod and prepare an apology if anyone even notices you've done it. If the nascent private cloud computing vendors manage to take off, they'll have to address that phenomenon or lose a lot of potential supporters at customer sites.
Worth pointing out that HTML is more ubiquitous than you're making it out to be: just plop a WebView in your native app, and you're done. I know, for example, that the Uber app does webviews in some places; you probably wouldn't even be able to figure out where just from looking at it as a user.

Another case in point: is your dev team going to support PSP devices[0]?

[0] https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01/the-unreasonable-effectiven...
UiPath, while founded in Romania, is officially headquartered in the US (NYC) and is counted in US / NYC funding amounts. 80% of the team is not in Europe either, with the entire management team in the US. So they aren't usually included in any Europe VC roundups, despite the origin of the company.