skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always find the inconsistencies and hypocrisy around free speech to be almost absurd comedy. Conservatives bemoan and attack "liberal" cancel culture. Yet they do the same like this Texan ban. Both sides want to censor and cancel.

And yet both conservatives and liberals attack China and other alleged culprits for being censorious and not being "free" . This muzzling of alternative voices is not even specific to the US. A British professor was canceled/fired from Bristol University for remarks deemed critical of Israel:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-bristol-58765052
"Better" for whom? It was a long time ago that I surveyed the ORM landscape but I remember thinking at the time I was much happier using an active record style ORM.

I guess I'm saying I'm always suspicious when I see "better" with no qualification. Everything has tradeoffs.
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If you have these with actual traces some companies will call you up to warn you that your board is useless.[1]

1: personal experience
I'd really like to discuss arguments against blockchain as I view some very valid (especially long-term deflation concerns) others not so much (Tether, PoW), but sadly not here (or reddit for that matter). I wonder if just stating my views around Tether (eg. not a problem, not relevant, not really a scam) will be enough to trigger knee-jerk reaction.

Sad that it has to be like that, I view HN as the #1 place where engineers, technologists, geeks and nerds meet. Looks like they all enjoy some blockchain bashing.
Just to preempt the usual HN misconceptions.

There are lots of crypto projects who have never been hacked - Compound, Balancer, AAVE - etc.

Banks need top grade security, and making a bank in crypto is hard. Because of the absence of regulation, what you’re getting right now is a lot of DeFi projects that are poorly secured. You take the risk you’re willing to take really.
> competitors just put a random number that looked nice

Is this even legal? It seems this is used to mislead the customer.
I on the other hand would prefer that all the commercial websites were honest about what they charge instead of trying to profit off manipulating me into spending money elsewhere.

The idea that there would be no open content on the web without ads is ridiculuous. Most content on the web, like the comments in this discussion, is "user"-generated and the users generating it are typically not paid at all. While less visible in search engines, there are still many websites - personal or otherwise - that have no profit motive and are provided without any charge or ads. Its not uncommon for them to get posted here.

And even for content that you'd want to pay for, ads are a bad way to pay for it because the cost to you (or the average person) is much greater than what the content creator gets out of the deal. Meanwhile, the incentives for ad-supported content creators and users are not really aligned payment is based entirely on engagement rather than any judgement of what value the user gets out of the content. There is so much spam that provides no value to the web (e.g. because the content is literally copied from elsewhere) but still exists because some people may land on the page and end up viewing ads. So many user-hostile features designed to keep users spending as much time as possible on ad-laden website.

Now back to spiegel.de you say you frequented it a lot. Does that not mean that you got any value out of it that you are willing to pay for? If not, is not being able to use it anymore really such a problem?
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It's not legal for domestic political parties to blatantly fund themselves in that way. It IS legal for the department of state to enforce laws around international commerce.
>If you don't understand why these new systems are so important, please read up about the 2008 crash before deriding trustless settlement.

That is literally just a symptom of not having a land value tax. Any reduction of the interest rate, for whatever reason (justified or not), makes the speculators go wild. The big difference between housing and stocks is that housing is a basic need and excluding people from being able to meet their basic needs has been a common source of unrest.

People already figured this crap out centuries ago. They always demand the same things. "Free the land, forgive the debts"

Freicoin was an interesting experiment but it also showed that there is nothing of substance in the cryptocurrency space. Almost nobody wants to actually run an economy on cryptocurrencies if they have a good enough fiat currency offered by their government. Everyone is in it for the speculation but I personally don't care as long as it doesn't become legal tender in my country.
I have the same question about Etsy listings.
Texas isn't really a republican stronghold state and hasn't been since pretty much ever (anything before the "southern strategy" is political prehistory at this point IMO). Texas has always had more of a "moralizing authoritarian" bent to its government (comparable to say, the caronlinas, which usually get saddled with that reputation) at least for the past century. There are other states that are far better at being small government (and they aren't generally considered republican strongholds either) The reason Texas has a small government reputation is because most people analyzing it can look out their overton window and see CA and NY.
How are they supposed to make a profit on delinquency fees and high interest rates if you're capable enough to generate your own revenue? ;)
This is very silly. Sanskrit is of great historical linguistic importance. Research on PIE cognates between Sanskrit, Latin and Ancient Greek helped me in my own education. And the language is also useful if you want to read text written in Sanskrit.

But the idea of Sanskrit as a divine language or suited to science/NASA/NLP is just a favorite concept of a certain genre of Indian chauvinist.

The idea of Sanskrit as a programming language is absurd, of course.
Erm, it's a link to tor gitlab sign-in, how is this relevant to title?
I didn't say that. I am not referring to the congress, where probably industrial military complex considerations are the main driver of the decisions.

I am talking about the culture, the people at large. I can't see no other segment of civil society more vocal and passionate about Israels defense than some groups of evangelical christians, and this Texas law is just an example of that.
This is one of the most common mistakes in software development: not appreciating that the true value of code is the knowledge embodied in it over time.
Genuinely curious how you happened to choose FastAPI over something more in the middle, like Flask?

I tried a few tools in FastAPI, and it's fantastic for those, but I think I'd still stick with Flask for something more well rounded (not just as an API server).
Virgil Griffith, possibly the dumbest smart man alive. Asks the state department if he can go to North Korea to talk about cryptocurrency, gets told "no, of course not", somehow decides to go anyway, talks about evading sanctions with cryptocurrencies, and is finally greatly surprised when he gets arrested.
This is one of those bugs that really should never happen, and one wonders how Microsoft could have missed it and failed to take it seriously.

This isn't a particularly sophisticated or novel attack vector, difficult as it was to find; it's the sort of injection attack caused by string interpolation that should have been caught long before anything was shipped.
Good Post.

I'll just put my back-of-the envelope calculation here to insert some optimism. While the energy emitted is immense, since the event was so far away (1.6e9 lt-yr), then if we plug in the solid angle subtended by the detector (~4000m4000m) I'm only seeing about ~2 kJ of energy passing through LIGO.

Caveats:

I assume the gravitational wave pattern is spherical; probably wrong but I'm not sure what the radiation pattern looks like for these event and in where we lay in relation to it.
Equal treatment under the law is a key tenet of freedom. If you are bidding on a government contract, your bid should be equally considered along with everyone else’s on its merits, irrespective of whatever your personal beliefs on unrelated matters might be.
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v = dx/dt

If you are driving 5 miles across town (dx), and you average 25 mph (v), it will take you roughly 5/25 hours, or 12 minutes (dt) to get there. By driving 50 miles per hour, you get there in 6 minutes. Is it worth the risk to yourself and others (bikers and pedestrians) to save 6 minutes?

If you are driving to work and it normally takes you 30 minutes to get there by going 60 mph (30 miles), then if you go 80 mph by frequently changing lanes and tailgating the guy in front of you you will save around 8 minutes getting to work.

dt = 30/60 = 30 min
dt = 30/80 = 22.5 min

Is it worth the risk to yourself and others to save 8 minutes?

Drive safely with the appreciation of v = dx/dt!
I think time with a partner is better spent on cheerful things than revolving around their disease. I would feel uncomfortable at some point if everything in my life is now about the disease.
I'd rather pay $0.99 for your app than ever deal with ads
I wonder if it is still true. C++ compilers have come a long way. (as have C compilers). C++ is 99% a superset of C, I'm not sure how much of that last is used in the kernel, so it might be too much effort, but C++ is in a few cases stricter than C in ways that compilers can use to optimize. Many C programs run faster when compiled in C++ these days.

If there is a difference (either way) I'd expect it to be something you can measure, but not something you would notice in the real world on one computer. (though at google scale it probably shows up)
Did you read the article?

> Technical issues always get solved.

There are deeper issues with crypto than just technical. Even if it wasn't.

Crypto is like every anarchistic idea implemented in reality.
In essence, they are burning the wheel, only to reinvent it again. Badly.
We only talk about the third attack on Pearl Harbor
https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/financial-sanctions/...

> Can U.S. persons do business with entities in North Korea?

> No. Unless authorized pursuant to a general or specific license from OFAC and/or BIS, Executive Order (E.O.) 13722 prohibits new investment in North Korea by a U.S. person and the exportation or reexportation, from the United States, or by a U.S. person, of any goods, services, or technology to North Korea. E.O. 13810 (“Imposing Additional Sanctions with Respect to North Korea”) does not modify any of those prohibitions.

It's quite clear a) that national origin is a protected class and b) that a) does not mean it's illegal to target a nation-state.
SWIFT banking transactions being done by XRP blockchain. Settlement takes place in minutes vs 1-2 weeks. Is just one.

I don’t have the time to do your research for you. If you want to ignore the paradigm disruption that is happening. That’s on you.

Accounting 101…

Eliminating the need for a centralized party, one must trust, in the middle of transactions. Enabling triple entry accounting.

Eliminating fraud between counter parties. Eliminating the middle man.

So many industries rely on a trusted central party/authority. What happens when they get disrupted. Peer to peer is happening.

Defi is currently paying 19.5% interest on stable coins. And loans are at 1% interest. Financial services are being turned into software contracts.

Eliminating physical infrastructure, employees, overhead. With costs so low, rates are better.
Very woke, great threads about investigations into technical curiosities (example: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54025997), has been known, if I recall correctly, to delete threads when they're linked on this site.
No, but people with a lower sex drive are probably taking less Viagra. The main users of Viagra are likely those with both a sex drive and ED.
I don't need them to solder the critical parts, I need them to solder the numerous parts. I don't mind soldering one MCU, but I do mind soldering twenty 0805 resistors (or 3456 LEDs).
For a moment, I thought it was yet another research from the people at Positive Technologies (ptsecurity.com), the company that had sanctions from USG. I'm not sure if intentional but you must have gotten that a few times over the last year ? I'm not sure it's the best idea to compete on brand, in the same domain, as a ~1000 people, 20 years old company.
I think it's more accurate to say we traded tuberculosis for cancer and heart disease.
I remember reading the suggestion that one possible interpretation of Dirac's equations was that "empty" space is actually a sea of negative energy.
I guess criticising journalism is hack at this point, but these little examples still flabbergast me.

It's a long article, but it's mostly an article about the person. Almost no information about the actual issue at hand. Where is the journalistic curiosity. How does the clause work? How many contracts is it in? Are there other boilerplate clauses that work like this? What about other states? What about other lawsuits. I assume a lone Houston businessman isn't the only affected party taking legal action.

It's terrible that reading articles on a topic doesn't actually inform you about it.
I think the point is to let the banks tank instead of buying them out with taxpayer money.
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> SWIFT banking transactions being done by XRP blockchain.

A classical solution, not an extant classical solution. Check out ISO 20022.

Obviously a SWIFT message takes a few milliseconds to make its way to a correspondent bank. The extra time is AML/KYC. Avoiding that is what we call regulatory arbitrage. Yes, if you pretend regulations don't exist you can do things faster - sometimes cheaper! For instance, you can just dump carcinogens in the local river.

> I don’t have the time to do your research for you.

Ah yes the classic refrain of the coiner in a corner.

> Eliminating fraud between counter parties.

Yes crypto is a famously fraud-free space. [1]

> So many industries rely on a trusted central party/authority. What happens when they get disrupted. Peer to peer is happening.

Yeah bud middle men exist because they create value. If they didn't people would, and this is true, disintermediate them. Say what you will about capitalism, it's famously good at removing waste.

> Defi is currently paying 19.5% interest on stable coins. And loans are at 1% interest.

Yes we call this a failure to price in risk. Again, see [1]. This sounds like the refrain of those advocating for mortgage-backed securities in 2007.

> With costs so low, rates are better.

Again, no, this is a failure to price risk. This is "FrEe TenDies" a-la the legend of 1r0nyman and his box spreads. To quote the legend himself, "literally can't go tits up." [2]

[1] https://rekt.news

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/ahy7dy/the_...
At my previous job, we used Webex Teams. It was fine when it worked, but it always had annoying bugs. There was a new release every month or so, and while the annoying bugs often went away, they were inevitably replaced by new annoying bugs.

At my new job, they use Microsoft Teams. While I haven't experienced most of the problems being described here, I'm not particularly impressed. I did have to spend about 15 minutes one day trying to get a call to work with a coworker, because it kept totally locking up. I finally solved the problem by disconnecting my microphone, even though I had used it successfully earlier that day. Teams working again with my Samson mic, but who knows when it will poop the bed again.
For everyone reading this, let me translate:

> One of the largest IT Company on this planet, with software running on billions of devices, even in critical infrastructure, would like you to sell exploits to their programs to the open market instead of their bug bounty program.
How do you know "It wasn't"?

Did it achieve its purpose?

Did it make more than it cost?
The platforms have a cheat code
So they’re someone who tweets and people link them here. I think the ‘who?’ question still stands.
I wish they also did the second generation AirPods (also from 2019). Would love to see how they compare to the gen 1 and gen 3.
Cryptocurrencies don't represent even 1% of global energy consumption. Whatever pollution it's responsible for pales in comparison to the lifestyle of developed nations.
How much did it earn after being put in place? Was it more than it cost?
That's mostly correct, but a new record isn't always propagated down the chain when there is a cache miss. Other resolvers may not yet have the updated record.
For anyone wondering who Foone is, here it is:

https://www.patreon.com/foone

https://threadreaderapp.com/user/Foone

Most of their content was on Twitter, so if you don't know who foone is, you're out of luck at the moment.
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Would love Zig if it had RAII.
Another gem of a tip from that fine article:

> during sex ... consider keeping contact information for your partner(s) so that
> you can reach them if one of you develops symptoms.
What are/is the security and benefits of traditional employment?
Valueless Article. Please stop posting these sort of articles which have no information content.

The article is merely a rant because the author doesn't have much of an idea of how C++ actually works. Merely knowing the syntax doesn't make one a "C++ programmer" and this is even more true when you are messing around in the Kernel. The article contains no specifics only general statements making me think this was put up to just be a "hit piece".
Ask HN: Biggest pain point/problem in your job search recently?
Hi HN,

I am a founder (https://profilehunt.net/p/prithvi). I recently built and launched a job application tracker for helping people with job search. It has been a few months and I think this not a problem for a lot of people.
Before I pivot to something else (a resume builder/ or a professional profile creator)
I wanted to ask you what was/is your biggest pain point/ problem while searching for jobs recently.

Anything app/website solution that you wish had existed. Maybe either someone on HN or I could build something to help you with it.

Please state your experience level with your problem. It would help in creating a solution.

Thanks!
When you state "in this country", please specify what country that is. Despite the use of English as the lingua franca here we're amongst a geographically diverse group. I'm going to assume you mean the US. If that's a correct guess, as a European the US work standards frighten me. Health insurance so tightly coupled to work that if you get into an accident shortly after being laid off and don't have (expensive) private insurance you could be bankrupted by it. Two weeks vacation per year seems to be common and I've repeatedly heard that employees are being pressured to not actually use their full paid time off. Maybe I've just been too coddled by the working conditions here in Belgium but I simply can't imagine working in the US without going completely mad or sinking into a depression. I know that I pay incredibly high taxes, but a higher income at the cost of living in such a cutthroat environment simply doesn't seem worth it to me. And to be honest I consider my standard of living to be very high and comfortable, both in spite of and thanks to taxes.
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Django has allowed me to enjoy some side entrepreneurship. I have released three products as a solo part time dev that I would never have been able to do in a reasonable time using Java/Spring (my strongest stack). My first project went nowhere, but the second generated 1k+ a month and sold for 50k, and the third one is following a similar trajectory.

My advice - keep it simple

- function based views

- centralize access to the ORM (avoid fat models, use a service layer)

- responsive bootstrap template with crispy forms

- minimal js

- 12 factor type setup - django-environ or similar

- be aware of n+1 select problem (I use django debug toolbar but looking into django-zen-queries)

- plop it on heroku, AWS lightsail, Digital Ocean or if containerizing use AWS Fargate

- avoid celery unless you are at a scale you need it - use django-cron, django-db-queue or similar

- use a managed database and managed email service

I have had zero scalability problems. People say Django is slow but it handled 10k active users on a small EC2 instance without any issues (static stuff served via cloudfront)
Texas has a specific law targeting BDS, HB 89. The clause is likely quite specific to this.

https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/85R/billtext/html/HB00089I...
This isn't true.
All sort of people - even the most incentivized to find out a specific information - benefit from a sort of short summary in the form of a FAQ section.

Sure, some can see FAQ as a patch, but I don't see how they can't be a valuable addition even to a well laid out website where information is easily accessible.
The two things aren't mutually exclusive.
We simply need ways to use the heat generated by miners for useful purposes. That way the power used to generate that heat will not be wasted.
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One architect said so and there is a ticket about it, no one questions things when it comes to implementation.
The question was how much does the financial system in your country use. So I picked a country to show an example. You then changed the question

> but BTC is global

So what? It supports fewer transactions per second, by a factor of almost 100, than NZ's system uses, it doesn't provide anywhere near the range of services, financial or otherwise, and it burns more power. It's a great comparison as it is. BTC is power-hungry and comparatively low-capability.
Why would it be specifically regarding boycotts of Israel? How does doing business with a company that boycotts Israel force others to boycott Israel?
Foone is kind of a retrohacker.

http://floppy.foone.org/w/Main_Page.

Full of arcane knowledge, insatatiable curiosity and a weird sense of humor.

And by the way i read somewhere that ending on hacker news front page is not of his/her/they? liking.
How on earth is something that can and does drop up to 80% be a “store of value” you mad yin. Mental
Crypto is for morons
Why was that the case?
Oh, but there's. One can make a chip, that would only work when provided with a proof of ownership from some blockchain.
If it’s a boycott ban then it’s not really freedom of speech and is more about freedom of association. (Which is still pretty well protected by US jurisprudence.)
IMO immutability is a byproduct of adopting Terraform--it doesn't manage day 2 stuff like patching, so the solution in some people's mind is "immutability" instead of bringing in another tool to manage the day 2 stuff.

I personally see immutability as a sign of organizational immaturity around system administration, if you're concerned about drift on production systems you don't have the right config management and RBAC in place. It's never more efficient to replace a fleet vs patching it in place, especially from a time standpoint.
> doesn’t mention that ethereum is in the process

It's been in process for years. This is a meme in itself.