skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably, with enough planning? The economics of it probably wouldn't make any sense though.
My brother in hated of USPS being an unnatural monopoly! https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=GhettoComputers&next...

Its incredible how many people support this horrible service and think selling stamps makes it profitable.
This is wrong. Inexperienced devs should ignore this.

One of my products heavily uses jsonb fields for storing JSON strings from external systems. We have partners that store data as JSON, so we store it as JSON as a kind of untouched log (ELT instead of ETL, I suppose).

If you store a schema somewhere (in, say, JSON Schema format), then your jsonb isn't schema-less when you parse it. Postgres may not understand the schema, but not all of your data transformation is going to happen in Postgres anyway.

Jsonb is also good for caching and logging things like REST request/response bodies if you ever need to query those later.

So in short: if the I/O format is JSON, then jsonb is appropriate.
You can’t pull a rug out from under your own feet
Apple’s iPhone Successor Comes into Focus
If they open source it, that’s no longer their problem, and the community can pick it up if/when there is a need.
Nobody could make up words like Frankie Smith (may he RIP 2019) in the middle of Double Dutch Bus https://youtu.be/fK9hK82r-AM
Bitcoin is also not principled. Plenty of people are just speculating and trying to not be the bagholder.
The success of a wide variety of messaging and discussion apps demonstrates that the network effects of email are not necessarily a high barrier.
What these products have lacked, which email has, is an open protocol. (XMPP had early success, but never addressed the main use cases of email, and has major design flaws.)

A handful of credible alternative protocols are now in development:

DIME - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Mail_Alliance

Math Mesh - https://mathmesh.com

TMTP - https://mnmnotmail.org (my work)

Email was designed in the 1970s & 80s for an Internet whose population and topology have dramatically changed since.
We no longer need a messaging system that allows anyone, claiming any identity (i.e. "real name"), to send you any content, without limits. Federation was necessary for the topology of the early Internet, but today it is a drawback --
making email by far the most effective method to initiate cyberattacks.
> I'm in favour of UBI, but note that it'd require extremely strict immigration policy as well as good enforcement of it

What do you mean by “strict” and why is this inaginee5 to be necessary? Note that UBI is usually envisioned with a defined population but the absence of means or behavior testing within that population, either “citizens” or “citizens and LPRs” or “citizens and aliens with work authorization” or “citizens and aliens with satisfactory immigration status in a specific set of visa categories based on basis and duration” would all be valid populations, with wildly different impacts on the viability of UBI with any given immigration policy.

> I'm in favour of UBI, but note that it'd require extremely strict immigration policy as well as good enforcement of it,

COVID aid isn't like UBI, critically, key parts of it (enhanced unemployment) are conditioned on absence of work or reduction of it below pre-benefits levels, and thus forces people to choose between benefits and work. This is the kind of incentive with means tested benefits that UBI is intended to fix.
Parties (generally, at least in the modern era) can only nominate people who run, and people run based on their estimation of the odds, the competition, and their estimation of their ability to wait until the next cycle.

Somewhat famously, in the 1992 cycle the Democrats were going up against an incumbent president who had just overseen a successful war, and was enjoying 89%(!) approval ratings. Some of the highest profile candidates (such as Mario Cuomo) sat it out, leaving the field to minor players including the then little-known governor of Arkansas, Bill Clinton. In the event, Bush crumbled and Clinton won, in large part due to a very brief recession. July 1990 marked the end of the longest peacetime expansion in US history, and by March 1991 the recession officially ended...but when voters went to the polls in 1992, they still punished the incumbent.

(I'm just old enough to remember a political joke from back then. It went something like: President Bush is walking along a beach when he finds an old lamp. He picks it up, rubs it, and a genie comes out and grants him three wishes. Bush asks for the Persian Gulf conflict to be a smashing success, the economy to recover, and some other policy success I can't quite recall after all these years. The genie agrees and vanishes. One of his advisors looks worried. "Are you sure you shouldn't have wished to win the election?" Bush confidently replies "Are you kidding? After all those successes, how could I lose?")

1996 was, again, a race against an incumbent, but consider: Clinton was vastly less popular than Bush had been, and he had some obvious weaknesses as a candidate. It was by no means absurd to think a respected, straight shooting war hero could come out ahead against the tarnished, draft dodging Bill Clinton. And of course, as with 1992, there was every chance that by the time people went to vote, the situation might look very different.

So...I think Dole (and the many others who competed for the nomination) did so because they thought they could win, and they weren't wrong. The immediately prior election was proof of that! That being said, it was always going to be a challenge, and I think some strong candidates did decide to wait for the hopefully friendlier 2020 cycle. On the other hand, Dole was running out of time. So was Dole running because he thought he could win, or because he thought this was his last chance? Both, probably. And then he was nominated as the strongest candidate running. (It's not like a party is ever going to survey the field and decide just not to contest a presidential election, regardless of the odds.)
Not in America. It’s not illegal and it seems you still get junk mail.
Are our only options to worship someone or erase them?
Definitely not a fake word. Coal, for instance, is a minable resource.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/minable
Try.

I was always the smart kid. Got A-Bs without effort. I regret being lazy and not learning how to learn and work, and I wonder where I would be had I not goofed around so much.
There are some other stablecoins, like USDC (about half the size of Tether. Why would Tether need to be closed down while USC not? Or do you think all of them should be shut down?

Tether is just an IOU note. I don't have problems with IOU notes, unless someone forces me to use them. Personally I haven't used tether and probably never will, however I don't have any problem if someone else wants to use it.
I’m not arguing one way or the other, but how does a window teach history?

If we’re comparing it to statues what do they teach? What do they symbolize?

Are we required to keep them forever?

Under what circumstances is it acceptable to change, replace or remove them?
Have you tried peanut butter and cheese sandwiches?

My mum used to pack peanut butter and honey sandwiches for my school lunches. As a five-year-old, my dentist suggested peanut butter and cheese. Still eating them to this day. Though it has to be crunchy peanut butter.
Nice to have money
Conspiracy theory says all birds are drones
>Beyond the fraud allegations, the idea that an organisation can just print extra money as they see fit, doesn’t that go against the principles of crypto finance?

or maybe the crypto community isn't a monolith, and all the cryptoanarchists aren't the people who hold/support tether?
Taking advantage of your friends doesn't make you a "hyper-optimising machine", it makes you an ass in the short term and a loner with no friends in the long term. Being a sociopath is not an innovation.
Classic Wolfram then?

edit: watching it.. SMP, Wolfram, computational language, he did all of that for past 40 years of course, he even managed to put himself in the same sentence as John McCarthy, they invented notebooks and then he's showcasing Mathematica/notebook.. I actually quite like Wolfram, but sometimes he's just a tad too much.
Indie Hacker Interviews an AI startup that allows you to translate code
> You'd think the "decentralized finance" people would have figured out a way to separate those functions by now. But no.

But yes. I'm not sure how you've heard the term "decentralised finance" but haven't heard of decentralised exchanges, both traditional Ethereum DEXs and more novel cross chain ones. They successfully separate out:

- User funds by self custody

- protocol rules that are publicly verifiable.

- build/bring your own front end

- market making- AMM, order relayers + others

- lending and borrowing including the above stack in completely separate but composable protocols
Apologies, I wasn't sure what to title the submission; I linked to this specific URL because it's served as a pop-up (and is automatically blocked by most browsers) on LG's bootloader unlocking page[0], which details that process specifically.

I appreciate the heads up, and I'll keep in mind the "level playing field" next time I post.

[0] https://developer.lge.com/resource/mobile/RetrieveBootloader...
I think "LG disables unlocking of phones on Dec 31 as it stops producing them" would have helped with this.

This one about who read past the title is definitely orthogonal, but quite a simple to figure out if someone "did read"/"didn't read", so I'd really love to see someone collate the results: it is useful information to have, to at least compare HN users to the general public (which there already are studies on title-reading on, which drives all the tabloid out-of-context titles approach already).
Holy cow, this is incredible. How have I not heard of this concept before?? Guess I'm one of today's lucky 10,000
I used to work in a facility with the highest rating of care required for Alzheimer’s and dementia like conditions and typically if well looked after they are not suffering. Yes some do get scared and confused but with medication and skilled workers you can minimize that type of suffering. What ends up often happening is family feels guilty placing their loved ones in such a facility and instead struggle and eventually burn out. At that point they may already be short with the person and yes they truly are suffering. But a well trained staff can really help reduce such interaction through distraction and conversation or music and medications. There are even now in the world dementia villages where people don’t actually know they are in a facility and they can wonder around because the entire thing is fenced off but looks normal with shops and places they can go to. Usually the person who is suffering is the family who can no longer manage the 24/7 care required. And that is not a poor reflection on them it takes a lot of mental drain to deal with a person ask you the same thing 300 times a day.
The US knows how to win battles and knows how to win wars. It is willing to go to great lengths and expense for the former, but only the expense part for the latter. Something to do with election cycles, a fickle public & and lousy communications strategies when it comes to expectation setting. So, I sorta agree? None of this has anything to do with why my 22 year old nephew (most recent example) is going to Wall Street instead of DARPA.
Huh? Do you think welfare transfer payments cause inflation?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ebauer/2020/04/14/post-office-p...

It is interesting, because shouldn't the expectation be that a pension be funded as the benefits accrue? That seems like the safe sustainable way to run things.
He wasn’t being worshipped and hasn’t been erased, so I’d say no.
US citizens don’t benefit from forced spam, or bad service from from USPS either. They could go paperless for most official documents but they need to give these spammers a reason to stay afloat: “official documents”.
Ask someone in Berkeley if they would be open for developing defense capabilities and taking up a job at one of the defense contractors. You'll be unfriended, shamed, mocked, ridiculed and thrown out of the society. But, ask the same group of people what they think about China - "Man, they're really impressive." - this is a verbatim quote from a PI at UC Berkeley. Something is terribly wrong with these people.

When the will of the people is weak, mangled, broken, dismembered, and destroyed by the political affiliation, I have no hope for the west to have any spirit to defend, let alone assert dominance.
> writers of the legendary "red book".

If you mean the manning book "Functional Programming in Scala", I don't even use Scala, yet I feel I got so much out of that book. It's the best functional programming book I've read.

It would recommend the book to anyone that wants to learn FP, regardless if you will be using Scala.
Automated Time Series Processing and Forecasting
Lol, are you demanding people prove collateral doesn't exist, after the other collaterals they lied about became so clear with time?

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"Or is the "out of thin air" part just means normal minting?"

There is no normal minting with a coin that claims to be verifiably one to one backed by hard assets.
The question here is about who gets a literal stained-glass window in their honor. If not having a stained-glass window means you're erased, then we'd better start making a whole lot more stained-glass windows.
A project's mere existence say nothing about how useful it is. Your argument would be a lot more convincing if you just picked one or two projects and showed evidence of their widespread use as something other than a speculative instrument.
Empowering farmers with fresh water sources
Thieves are using Apple AirTags to track and steal cars in York Region of Canada
I'm perfectly fine with my own history. I'm not apologising for anything I did not partake in, nor will I take any responsibility for them.
How was the phone accessed? Don't Pixels enforce passwords and an encrypted drive?
Unofficial sanctions and boycotts have been hallmarks of EU and US trade policy and selective abuse of anti-dumping measures and “national security” exceptions and carve outs. I expect more of this to now emanate from China as it becomes a bigger importer of finished goods as opposed to importing mainly raw materials, componentry and supply chain goods.
I also worked for a company with an objectionable IP clause, and because of their general state of disorganisation I didn't actually receive a copy of the contract until after I had been working there for a few weeks.

While discussing my options with friends and colleagues, I was given the ridiculous advice that I was already bound by the contract just by showing up and that signing it wouldn't make a difference.

Fortunately I disregarded that advice and asked for the clause to be renegotiated, which delayed things by another week, and I received advice (from someone more knowledgeable) that as I'd then worked there for a month, there was an implicit contract, but it bound the company, not me, meaning that I couldn't be fired without cause, which put me in a stronger negotiating position.

Anyway, they ended up accepting a rewording of the clause which meant that only work I produced (in or out of hours) which was relevant to the business could be claimed by them.
People complaing about the military too.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_assault_in_the_United...

Everyone who works anywhere is not "fundamentally opposed to how it works".
Is this right:

The problem with tether is a lot of crypto use it as sort of an "on-chain peg" and some people trade "real value crypto" (bitcoin) for tether. It's not a problem until the actual tether holders can't cash out to fiat.

The secondary effect is that tether may be pumping the price of all crypto everywhere because it's so ubiquitous.

Do I have this right? I'm mostly stuck on the "value" of tether beyond some sort of "accounting" or "tax avoidance" (no judgement here, trying to figure out why ppl would have tether's instead of "actual crypto".
We are familiar with honeycomb and we also have a honeycomb->axiom multiplexer, so you can use their great tools, to forward to use and compare side by side.

https://github.com/axiomhq/axiom-honeycomb-proxy
It's called proxy but its actually a multiplexer ;)

Some things where we are different:

* We don't sample if you push to us directly.

* Our pricing is different (https://www.axiom.co/pricing#calculator)

* We are younger but we built it a bit differently, with object storage being our only storage.

* We have a Kusto(-ish) language (https://play.axiom.co/axiom-play-qf1k/explorer?qid=uqXTzFSTv...)

* We provide a streaming view https://play.axiom.co/axiom-play-qf1k/stream/github-issue-co...
Wait until everyone realizes that money, food, and land aren’t scarce either.
> Still, it needs to happen. Keeping Tether alive is the worst thing that can happen to crypto.

Exactly. The next big crypto crash is waiting to happen. Will probably come from the debt ceiling crisis with the US then cracking down on Tether afterwards with the US government also collecting unrealised capital gains taxes; enough to scare the hands out of lots of investors.

Tether knows they are a scam. So they are getting out while they can.
Yeah. But when ports are jammed I could see them doing ridiculous things to keep the spice flowing.
Market Cap != Liquidity

70% of the crypto volume is in USDT.

From 2020 (should still hold): https://coingape.com/tether-dominates-exchange-trading-with-...

If Tether collapses, so does USDT. If exchanges have majority of their volume in USDT pairs, then the market liquidity dries up and the whole thing collapse. Remember that those coins need to be cashed out for actual USD. But if that USD does not actually exist, what will you sell into?
They won't be going back when done with education. Why would they? They can immigrate elsewhere at the blink of an eye with a degree in civil engineering from any random European accredited University
Are you talking about the US/nato coalition?

I think the definition of what winning is has been the #1 issue the past 20 years and that has been demoralizing in some ways.

Winning was sold as a bunch of different moving targets, often farcically unbelievable like the taliban participating in Democracy. So yeah we lost on that one. Never stood a chance of winning if that's what winning is.

I don't think there's any question in these lopsided conflicts us/nato could have absolutely decimated the other side. But that didn't seem to be what winning was pitched as.

To me that's why it feels like we lost.

I'm more confident - though still worried - about an actual big conflict against CCP/totalitarian alliance. Our reliance on tech scares me the most.
Removing the navigation and sign in was a bold choice.
I’ve been using https://www.vpsbenchmarks.com/ but haven’t done much in the way of independently confirming their rankings.
Can we expect the Church of the Fonz to be putting in a significant bid?

Let us Ayyy!
Besides the sibling replies, Solaris on SPARC ADI is one of the few OSes that has tamed C, given that it makes use of hardware memory tagging for the complete OS.
You can bing :) that phrase and see other resources, e.g. https://blogs.berkeley.edu/2016/02/11/why-dont-refugees-fly/
> If that quantity of Tether (1/75 of the float) were dumped into the open market for USD, you'd expect to see the USD change rate fall.

Not if the small amount of people who want to redeem their Tethers for USD or vice versa are able to. Everyone else will happily trade at that rate as long as they feel confident what they own is equivalent to a dollar. The problem is if everyone suddenly wants their money back and it turns out it doesn't exist.
I would have taken more loans and spent more on entertainment.

I went through college very frugally and passed up many opportunities for trips, recreation, and novel experiences. I still did a lot, but did it on a DIY/ shoestring approach that naturally precluded many things.

In retrospect, time and opportunity are scarce, and money is replaceable. Having spent several thousand on activities would have literally no negative impact on my life.
This is the real reason why aliens have decided to not visit us for at least another 1000 years.
This is a big ongoing joke, like flat earth, right?
No, those aren't the only two options.

They removed the stain glass window worshiping him. Did you read the article? What do you think erasing means?
Sure this very well could be my wishful thinking but let's wait a decade to prove me wrong :)
> So any time I read something like this, it means there’s some sort of invisible popularity for some product I don’t know about. Interesting idea.

The problem with your theory is that it implies you should have also been investing into Twitter Fleets and WeWork. Hackernews tends to be cynical about most things in my experience. It's tricky to use it as a signal about anything.
I tend to think what you’re reacting to is just history moving forward. Unfortunately not everyone will be remembered forever.
Show HN: Sea Level Rise AR Visualizer
I was a lead developer for this fun project. The USGS flew a drone with a LIDAR over a national park in Hawaii to create a Digital Elevation Model (DEM) of the park and I used different GIS tools to convert and show the DEM as a 3D model in Unity3D. The sea level rise scenarios are based on NOAAs scenarios and local factors (more details in the app).

Conveying the urgency and the real risk posed to coastal communities due to sea level rise is immensely
important, not only to climate researchers but to laypersons and general population directly affected by
the effects of climate change. Standard scientific materials and tools for depicting sea level rise
projections, such as time series or static maps, often fail to communicate the immediacy and the real
threat posed to local communities and infrastructure. So the main goal of the app is to help general public conceptualize the threat imposed by sea level rise.

In future, the method could be scaled to be used at any coastal location (as long as we have the necessary data). If there is interest, I will go into more details on the data workflow of how the app was made. Android version should be live soon (under review).

One of the feature that this is missing is a plain 3D viewer (without the need for camera and augmented reality). And maybe a screenshot option to take a photo of the terrain and the impact. Probably going to be available in the next version.

Feel free to ask any questions.
Sure, that would be ideal. For some reason, phone manufacturers have started requiring registration to get an unlock code.

So while I'd be ecstatic for us to get you-own-the-hardware-device-you-bought legislation, at this point in time, I'd be happy with your-device-needs-not-go-in-the-trash-once-we-stop-giving-you-security-updates at least.

In a sense, we should push for both, but we don't have to push for both with the same initiative.
This is negotiating. Take it or leave it represents a choice. Where I live, which is obviously privileged (California) the workers have a huge advantage currently with this choice.