skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do wonder if there will be a similar trajectory to crypto as happened to the web in the 90's.

It started as this niche academic/techno subculture thing and slowly grew over the next few years though still in relative obscurity. Then over only a few short years it exploded into the common consciousness but still most people did not use it nor have access to it. Some even ridiculed it (see Krugman & Letterman).

As we know the hype grew each year then each month and then each week. And before we knew it there were enormous amounts of money being pumped into building ludicrous businesses without a clear plan, product or use case. This was still at a time where internet access and daily usage did not exist for most people, not even in the western world.

This all came to head in the Dot Com bubble at the beginning of the new century.

And ever since we have seen mostly level headed investment and buildup of capabilities on the web. While it never went away, the type of hype cycle that was seen in the 90's never materialized to the same degree. Utility and more level headed thinking took over.

Rational (buisness) decisions have mostly been made ever since, rather than those more tending to give way to emotion and bro selling (selling a product/tech/idea without really understanding and coming to terms with the fundamentals and limitations of it).

Now, in my perspective there is some utility in crypto. I am not sure the utility is as much as has been reported, nor do I believe the nations on this planet will allow it to go as far as some believe it might simply for the fact that our societies run on taxes. And I am absolutely for any kind of restriction on any kind of crypto that relies of PoW with its enormous energy usage (we have better things to use it for).

But I do hope there will be a crash akin to the dot com bubble which will clean out the clutter a bit and leave room for the more mature and levelheaded inventors to grow out from the ashes.
How does this law benefit or protect the people of Texas?
> in 10 years [...] will they all still work?

Most likely no. This is why Rust has its own repository of immutable packages on crates.io. Depending directly on Github is indeed a terrible idea.
There's a difference between "Jews" and "Israel"

If you can't see that before spewing out your hot take we can't help you
Shellcheck is still incredibly handy to re-check your work for simple mistakes, but man do I ever end up using a lot of shellcheck ignore statements.
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Not controversial at all!

Most linux distributions come with python installed. Anything more than invoking a binary and redirecting the output? Just write it in (pure) python I say!

Edit: by pure Python, I mean don’t require any `pip install`s
I hope he wins his case because this ban is absolutley ridiculous. But I noticed that this is a sensitive topic, it will probably be flagged off here on HN
While the points made by the author are still true of some cryptocurrencies (including Bitcoin, and Ethereum which are still unsuitable for fast, cheap and efficient payments), it is yet another cryptocurrency rant which bundles only Bitcoin and Ethereum as having the same characteristics and faults in all cryptocurrencies.

Many cryptocurrencies will not survive new regulations once introduced, but it seems that Stellar has a great chance of surviving given that it is making the interesting case for CBDCs [0] [1] and being used by money transfer companies and also powering stable-coins. [2]

So, some cryptocurrencies are more useful than others.

[0] https://stellar.org/blog/the-case-for-cbdcs-on-stellar

[1] https://resources.stellar.org/stellar-for-cbdcs

[2] https://ir.moneygram.com/news-releases/news-release-details/...
While there are a lot of items on that list that range from obvious corruption to concerning, the list does itself no favours by including a bunch of stupid stuff.

The 2nd item is "Voted against a binding code of conduct designed to ensure politicians act with integrity" - that isn't corruption. The list author just doesn't like their decision. Honestly, none of the top 6 dot points really look concerning and it is arguable if they represent corruption. Some are probably politically motivated ... but most things politicians do are politically motivated.
This man is free to protest and boycott (freedom of speech) whomever he likes, that does not entitle him to government contracts (not freedom from consequence). You don't have a constitutional right to government contracts.

I don't like the ban but the argument is silly.

EDIT: I'm being rate limited on replies for some reason, I'd like to respond to some comments on here but I cannot. Mayhaps I will try again in a few hours.
Israel does spend a lot of money on American goods though. In fact it spends a lot of American money on American goods[0] in the form of "foreign aid" which is earmarked for US military hardware. It would be a shame to upset that relationship. /s

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/57170576
How is protesting a nation’s policies similar to discrimination?
1. Has an actual path to adoption (because people have keys and have a motivation to try hard to retain their keys because they have crypto assets)

2. Once smart contract wallets properly gain adoption, you'll be able to do recovery (see: https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/01/11/recovery.html )

3. Lots of built-in anti-sybil techniques (eg. verifying that the address has nonzero balance is a pretty simple and effective one)
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I’m not seeing similarities between what this article is talking about and whatever you are talking about. Please elaborate?
If the crux of the argument is it "would be a shame for America to miss out on giving money to Israel to give back to America" you can kind of short-circuit that and just have America give the money to America, maybe in some sort of big infrastructure bill with a fancy name like Build Back Bigly, or something like that, idk.
> FAQs are a relic from the old days when websites

FAQs are a relic of an older time than that. They date from Usenet groups & mailing lists and similar back when connectivity and storage were expensive and content would expire unless you archived it locally, so you might not know your question has been answered many many times. So FAQ posts appeared and were reposted periodically (even if there were no new updates) so new users would catch them and users that have been away for a while can easily catch up if their have been recent major changes.

They are a bit less relevant for web hosted content, where a frequently asked question implies your content needs an update or a rearrange because the information wasn't easily findable elsewhere.

Also, they have evolved from their original form and are often no longer questions that have been asked on that site but common questions that come up elsewhere, or questions that the author otherwise expects people to ask, at which point the definitely should be worked into other documentation instead IMO. Having said that, a FAQ is easier to put together, can perhaps be done by someone who doesn't have direct write access to the main documentation, and if the information is the sort of thing people should know that you don't want to waste space with to keep other information concise. In this way they can be a useful “background primer” for the relatively uninitiated without padding the main information, but that isn't _really_ a FAQ apart from the name (the name sticks because some people will look for a FAQ before looking for, for instance, a tutorial).
You have to punch in your pin number and answer a security question before you can talk to anyone. As is standard for phone banking.
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Use whatever tool works best for you. I use node.js for "shell scripting" on my own systems because that's what I use anyway for other stuff.
This might be true, but I would be sceptical if you haven't read the primary sources. There's a website called Atheist History Blog which questions claims of there being a historical conflict between science and religion. Many stories of "martyrs for science" are often not as straightforward as they seem (e.g. Galileo, Giordano Bruno, Hypatia for some *@%$ing reason, etc.). Also, accounts of such a conflict usually blame the Catholic church: See the largely made up story around Christopher Columbus (written in largely protestant America circa 1800) for an example of this.

I think the lesson here is to be as sceptical on matters of history as on mathematics and science.
You are extremely trained or she deserves much harder.
I had a Cherry MX Brown for a couple of years. It's nice, but I honestly feel that Apple's keyboards feel better for coding.

Also, an important point is that I stopped using it because my wife found the noise very annoying.
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>When an error occurs, operations can just redeploy

Unless there was data corruption or changes caused by the first issue.

>When a disaster occurs, operations can just deploy in another region

Except all the data that is in the old region in databases, ecr repos, s3, etc, etc.

>Operations can quickly return to a previous state

Unless something like a database migration was done.
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Consumers value a product viewed online more if they see it virtually touched
CNN said we're all gonna die if we dont give our freedon to Klaus Schwab.
What scientific term or concept ought to be more widely known? (2017)
Lot of interesting concepts and fallacies. My favourites are Ashby's Law of Requisite Variety and costly signalling.
How can a government contract have a "discrimination" clause in it?

What next? How about a MAGA state saying "You have to acknowledge that Trump won the 2020 elections to work with us"?

Wow, the comments in here are really opening my eyes to what HN actually is instead of what I thought it was.
If getting into a major journal is a priority, then do you not become journal-centric (and subject to the whim of publishers)?
The tildeverse is amazing! So many creative folks in there and many of them can be found on irc.tilde.chat which is still widely used.

In some way, i find tilde servers to be some kind of hosting coop where users can tailor to their own needs and contribute more services to the shared infra. For example, thunix.net and fr.tild3.org both have public ansible recipes where users can submit patches.

With fellow people from ~fr, we published an article a few months back arguing how tilde servers change the power balance on the network during lockdowns: https://fr.tild3.org/en/blog/2021/may-first/
Don’t know about you, but use this thing called Google, does a really good job of landing me on the correct .gov.uk page almost every time, because the content of those pages is clear and simple enough that you can easily Google what you need.

No duplication, no stupid FAQs that link to thing i actually want. Just one page with the right content at the top of the Google search results.
Crappy email support - I mean really bad. Don’t invert layers properly. No electrical test. Drill accuracy problems.

Nope. JLC every time here. Never a problem.
We went all in on FastAPI with my team, but we're hit the issue that the projects of Tiangolo (FastAPI, SQLModel, Typer) seem to be turning pretty much unmaintained : https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/discussions/3970

We've already been hit by multiple bugs with fixing PR opened, but left to rot, and missing documentation : the 'tutorial' documentation is great, but if you want a reference you have to go read the code.

I guess that's the issue when you pick projects maintained by one person, so for my next projects I might get back to something built on stronger grounds, like Django.

How is Django this day with modern Python constructs like typing in general and Pydantic models integration ?
Nice, he’ll start a blog at last.
This is what I came here to say. I think FAQs for edge cases or very specific questions are very useful.

FAQs can also be a good way to address negative stuff and especially naysayers of a technology or concept - it's difficult to do that directly in content without it getting messy.

For example, a project I'm working on stores data in DNS [0] and some of the feedback we get from technical folks (including HN) is "you can't use other people's infrastructure to do this!" [1]

Addressing this in the spec or content is difficult but having a really clear question of "Is it ok to use other people's infrastructure to serve data?" and having a detailed exploration of that question – far more than you might be able to do in the general content – has real value in my opinion.

0. https://www.num.uk

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27632195
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> you don't have a constitutional right to government contracts

You do have a First Amendment right to not having your freedom of speech abridged by the government. Since 1925, that restriction has been incorporated, i.e. it applies to states like Texas. Government contracts, like laws, are restricted by the Constitution.
I tend to agree. Python's style of documentation was always hard to parse for me. In comparison I really liked the Ruby core documentation.
Short description with common use case examples followed by a structured list of all implemented functions and a sidebar linking to all relevant interfaces/superclasses. E.g. the Hash class document : https://ruby-doc.org/core-3.0.3/Hash.html
My static tilde page is still there; this will be my canary for community vs. company persistence.
This seems like a practical move. I'm surprised to find this isn't already the case. I suppose I'm a bit naive about cultural norms in muslim countries. I do find it interesting that the official work week includes half a day on a traditional holy day. To me, a holy day, regardless of religion, should intuitively be a whole day off. It also would have been cool to see a developed country officially have a 4 day work week. 4.5 days isn't quite the same.
But if I build an ASIC computer for $100 and sell it to some miner for $120, have I (the ASIC company in China) not created $20 in value?

If Bitcoin goes to zero I still made my $20.
I mean, I don't find Lisp hard to read, the parens disappear in my mind and it looks almost like Python-esque white-spaced code if you space things correctly albeit with weird function names. But it is at a lower level than Ruby/Python if you don't use macros, to make it "higher level" you use macros, but at that point you're in DSL territory, you can always just add more abstractions to any language really and write DSLs in plenty of languages (something like Rails which uses a bunch of metaprogramming could almost be called a DSL). Lisp IMO is in a strange spot where idiomatic enterprise-y Common Lisp is between Java and Ruby/Python, Lisp + Macros or something like Clojure is higher level. I think Ruby/Python are winning almost just because of their usage of readable and common sense English words.
This is the best take I've seen on HN. It's unfair to judge tech by its scummiest users, just as it is unfair to present future potential as if it's already here. There is remarkable amount of technological innovation being created, if you care to dig deep.

I think Web3 will be a thing… we just don't know what and how exactly. It's like going to a very misty field, hoping to find something there. We'll find _something_.
Compilers can clone functions (so there are two variants with different calling conventions) or even create alternate entry points.
When opposing a state on such topics you can refer to the Constitution, freedom of opinion and speech.

I am afraid of large powerful private companies - now and even more in future. They can fire you, reject providing services that are essential to function in a modern society - if your position on some topics is different from theirs. Now you cannot refer to the freedom of opinion - it is a private entity and they are free to decide whether they want to cancel or fire you.
That was actually the country I had in mind with the second part of my comment because the emigrants I’ve known always made it sound like the problem was squandering productivity rather than innate laziness — if your boss is corrupt and incompetent, and you don’t work harder because you know there will be no benefit from doing so, “lazy” doesn’t seem accurate.

A similar story revolves around the American South. Southerners used to be stereotyped as lazy until indoor plumbing & antiparasitic drugs eradicated hookworm and air conditioning mitigated the climate’s impact on office productivity. “Lazy” was, well, a lazy way to characterize a more complicated situation.
Says more about U.K. covid guidelines than GDS. I’m pretty certain our government has created deliberately ambiguous guidance so they can’t get called out for accidentally punishing people if fall into an extreme edge case.
Nobody is abridging his First Amendment right. He is free to go and boycott Israel and talk about all of their atrocities as much as he pleases. Doing business with the government is not covered by the First Amendment - he is not being threatened for boycotting Isreal, he just can't sell to them - just like I would be free to not do business with him for the same reason.
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How did that worked out ergonomically ? Does it work with other devices (still need to login into a windows machine to connect to linux work machine) ?
Thank you, this thread really hinges on what basket of behaviors and ethics are considered “professional” in the first place.
Nah, Django makes you sad: async support is not full, migrations engine is pretty poor, not all database features are present, any kind of typing is hacky, very slow and so on
Maybe because I’m also a maker I don’t expect my tools to do everything… what’s wrong with using vim for what it does very well, and then Sublime (geany, kate) when a gui is just easier?
Sorry, tens of billions of dollars, not trillions, my mistake. They are currently adding 1 billion a day at times, where does that money come from?

Does anyone really believe 78,423,306,967 USD are currently invested in Tether?
> The System V i386 ABI passes parameters through the stack.

No. The C/C++ ABI is quite uniform across architectures. The first 1..N (N is ISA dependant) parameters that can fit into a CPU register are passed via registers. The first input parameter that _can't_ fit into a register (e.g. a structure passed by value) is pushed onto the stack, with every other following parameter being pushed onto the stack as well. N+1… parameters are always passed through the stack.
I have memories of being stuck behind those guys in Highway 1 in Central California and wondering how they managed to buy gas without a disaster.
I use a loud mechanical keyboard at home since the start of the pandemic. If I ever have to go back to the office I plan to bring it there to convince my boss to let me work from home indefinitely.
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This is basic freedom of speech. The government does not get to dictate what your opinions are allowed to be. Not even if you sell things to the government. Texas needs to repeal this law asap.
You too should be outraged by cancel culture because this is a prime example of it. Freedom is a two way street.
Absolutely, you are always in the flow. With the new machines with the finger print sensors the experience is even smoother no need for typing the password as well.
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Cloudflare spectrum was what it was, has to dig up the emails. They wanted me to sign a 1 year contract with commit levels which is kinda hard with a growing product I was working on. I wasn’t even able to predict 1 month out let-alone 12.
The clause sounds more like an anti-discrimination clause ie. he isn't allowed to discriminate against a nation while receiving government contracts. No one's stopping him from simply not buying Israeli goods and not saying anything.
That sounds like a troubleshooting section.
Sounds like a weird PR stunt. I'm really curious who is behind those CT scans, is it a CT manufacturer, a metrology lab or a 3d viz software company?
Tufte is a waste of time unless you’re interested in history of dataviz. While he makes excellent points on the graphics of the time, he makes at least an equal portion of questionable points. He's a bit of a luddite when discussing the utility of computers and takes a dogmatic approach to minimalism and design that doesn't have room for differing opinions. His opinions also do not hold in light of recent research into how humans interpret visual information. For example, he often recommends tables over bar charts when it's now been shown that bar charts are processed faster and easier.

Better Data Visualizations by Jonathan Schwabish is the best. He combines all the insight from recent data biz books like Storytelling with Data or Cairos series into a comprehensive guide. Even has a practical section on visualizing qualitative data, which I never see.
How is it a cancel culture? He just can stop his boycot. By the way seems that he brought his anger to the us, don't see anything good in it.

PS: Since I got downvoted one more remark. Germany labels BDS as antisemitic [1]. So I think the goverment has any right to act. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/17/world/europe/germany-bds-...
Might work in the US, but it's not always that easy. Some people do not like to talk over the phone in general. Also, if booking a stay abroad, the owner might not speak English.
>E.G: Nantes is a city famous for chaining roundabouts, to the point they sometimes have double-roundabouts, which are awkward even after years driving around them. I hate those with a passion.

Get on Swindon's level:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Roundabout_(Swindon)
Freedom is precisely freedom from consequences. Consider the prototypical privilege of driving an automobile. You are not free to drive (without a license) precisely because there are consequence if you get caught doing so. If you exclude consequences from your reckoning of freedom, everyone is free to drive and you can say everyone has a freedom to drive (but they don't have the freedom to be free of consequences of driving). Being left alone is precisely what freedom implies otherwise you are just talking about ability.
I also have quite a few bad experiences with them, including some surprises with the actual hotel room, however I have had worse ones with other services, so I keep using them.
> I'm not going to argue that many of Apples products aren't well built but MBPs have had their share of problems too

Yep Apples stuff definitely has a lot of build problems as well. You can also watch one of Louis Rossman's rants for perpetual internal design issues that cause machines to be more fragile than they need to be.

Although the one thing speaking in favor of buying Apple despite this is that they sell so many of the same machines that when one of these major design issues pop up, it's likely to build up enough steam and bad publicity that they fix it/implement an extended warranty repair program, whereas there's never a critical mass of people buying and complaining about the "Samsung Galaxy Book Pro" for Samsung to respond.
> Funny how the Republicans are so outraged about cancel culture, but not about this.

Republicans always like whatever keeps the war machine rolling.