skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think this also shows how inefficient modern website hosting is.

I suspect it's the opposite. Hosting a static site like this on a service designed for it is going to use less power than using dedicated hardware. Single server can host hundred to thousands of static sites. The power use per site is going to be much lower.
No, this is a workaround for people who don't have IPv4. If you have IPv4 you don't need this. It's for people on broken IPv6-only networks (i.e. basically nobody).
So...Windows developers shouldn't make tools that improve their productivity?
What people want are to only play games with other people running this anti-cheat software, and are more than willing to run it themselves to achieve that. Seems really like missing the point to argue that running or not running anti-cheat is a personal choice that doesn't impact anyone else. It totally impacts other people. In fact, that's precisely why folks want it!
Screen size, battery life, easier to read, I can make notes on it with the stylus, and my phone is a distraction whereas my reader has all network connectivity, sound and notifications disabled.
>... excluding women and people of color

This is not
Except not every developer is a founder. Some developers simply work in the environment they're given, and tools like this make their life easier. On top of that, I know several non-developers who would likely jump on this tool.

Database administrators, network architects, and systems administrators to name a few are all technically savvy power users who may be more at home in a Linux environment.
Our new tool for enumerating hidden Log4Shell-affected hosts
About 3e11 combinations are possible, about 10 billions different antibodies will be generated by a human body (numbers I just sourced from Wikipedia).

The shuffling is done by recombination, which means joining segments of DNA in a random fashion (a similar recombination process is actually used for DNA repair, though with somewhat less randomness!)

There's a lot more to say about all of this, but I don't know how much immunology I can usefully describe in a few HN comments =]
Do you know how many unintended consequences that criminalizing cheating in video games are going to have? Many, many things can be defined as though it is a "game" or even a "video game".

This is such a terrible policy decision, that I very much hope that no old fart in the US house or Senate ever has this idea. I worry every time that AOC plays league because she may run into the xearth scripter who causes here to have this very same "insight".
I think there are three arguments to be made for PC being overall cheaper

1) XBox Gamepass offers a huge library of often new games for a cheap rate. That service is also available on Xbox consoles but those are much less popular than their competition.

2) Epic Games offers a bunch of games for free to entice people into switching over from steam, not sure about the current situation though.

3) Steam often offers very deep discounts on games and due to the relative ease you can buy keys from resellers you can get games for super cheap.

As an annectode I was able to get my girlfriend 250€ worth of expansions for sims for less than 40€, discounts this deep are hard to get on console.
It really isn't when you're forced to install the anticheat software to play the game. The corresponding phone analogy would be saying that it's "your choice" to have your pictures scanned for CSAM, because you made the choice to buy apple instead of a pinephone or whatever.
I think he is talking about badly written JS code serving the APIs and the overhead of it.

Of course it's hard to debate whether JS, Java or PHP is most inefficient in that regard.
> But then if you cheat in a tournament where there are hundreds of thousands of $$$ at stake, jail time might be appropriate.

Please no. I mean athletes are not thrown in jail for doping in most places. If cheating are to be illegal, it needs gambling regulation and supervision, even if just for pros. And I don't think that would end well.
Agreed. HN should be one of those few online vestiges that is above this kind of anti-intellectual, often disingenuous, tactic.
The only thing of substance in the parent was "opinions aren't dangerous".

Since that isn't accurate (lobbying can be dangerous) there wasn't anything substantial to respond to.
CA uses nearly unpaid prison labor for firefighting, making the huge salary for paid firefighters even stranger.
Agreed that it is important to understand things on a systems level, but at what point are we not talking about Chesterton's Fence but The Divine Right of Kings/Mandate of Heaven.
/r/TheMotte is probably the closest you will find - it's the spin-off subreddit of the SlateStarCodex "Culture War" discussion threads.
What's your opinion about bootstrap? Unfashionable I get it, but doesn't it serve the purpose?
Thanks, this explains why I don't encounter these opportunities--I'm not much for networking or consulting or much of any other social/non-technical activity. Perhaps the role I imagine requires that level of social/networking if I'm committed to finding them.
> And, yes, you need to exercise to stay healthy, but you shouldn’t expect to see big changes on the bathroom scale with that.

Anecdotally and n=1, but I highly doubt this assertion. I lost significant weight without a diet change going from little exercise to swimming 2km 5 times per week.

I think what give people the impression of exercise not affecting the scale is that a little exercise won’t show. If you do yoga once per week, you might have the mindset of “I’m active, I do yoga, why aren’t I losing weight?” But it’s just not that much when you calculate the calories. Even at 10km of swimming a week, it’s not like I was shredding the weight instantly. I was maybe losing a bit more than 500g per week, which isn’t even significant enough to show if you aren’t consistent about weighing at the same hydration level, but over a couple of months and staying at that level it definitely shows. Now in comparison most others I know who casually swim would do maybe 400m once a week at a comfortable pace. That’s enough that you answer in a question are that “yes, I’m active, I swim each week” but not enough that you’ll significantly change your weight from it.

I think the saying shouldn’t be “you can’t outrun a bad diet” should really just be “you have to run a hell of a lot more than you think to outrun a bad diet”
Ask HN: Need Help with Pricing Model
We currently run a marketing automation solution and charge by the number of unique users a message is sent to in the month irrespective of the number of profiles in the account. So a customer may have 5,000 profiles but they only pay for 50 if that’s the number of customers they send a campaign or automation to in the month.

The challenge with this is it makes price estimation difficult (we currently can’t even do annual pricing) and we incur costs on total number of profiles in the account and not only the ones engaged. (We have to do customer segmentation for every user profile).

We are considering profile-based charging (everyone does this) and the biggest challenge for us is the price difference this will cause for some existing customers. Some customers actively use us for just transactional email analytics and do not send messages so we charge them just for the data events. The new pricing model could mean charging them up to 15x which is unreasonable. I am also trying to avoid creating a separate pricing for just the transactional email analytics. Products with multiple pricing models can be confusing.

I'd appreciate suggestions on how to deal with this? Also, what grace period should we be looking at for migrating customers?

(More context is available here: https://obem.be/2021/12/12/rethinking-our-pricing-model.html)
For the user's benefit, or for the dev's?
>It is especially ridiculous in the context of industry where not upgrading is seen as irresponsible.

Upgrading without due diligence, and without reason is as irresponsible an not upgrading when the need to becomes manifest.

Running "unsafe" versions of software in conditions where their unsafe nature is not open to exploitation is a completely legitmate action. If you upgrade just because there's a later version available, you're rolling the dice as needlessly as the fellow that'll get around to it once he has time to read the code.

Note: I'm aware of, and also cherish the no warranties explicit or implied clause. However, In real life, where social relationships do matter, I don't see this escape clause standing the test of time as society catches up the technology.
Judgement or specialty.

Oddly, my first specialty was performance optimization. A predisposition met a trouble project and I spent half my time finding ways to speed up code without making it offensive. Then later projects had problems but no mandate, so I got pushback. I got really good at crypto-optimization - changes that improve performance but look like something else (cleanup, bug fixes, feature requests), and found there’s a whole quadrant of code changes that answer both
legibility and speed.

There is very little magic or intuition based about any of this. It could be in a book. If anyone knows of a book that covers this, I’d love to gift it to people, because as far as I’m aware I’m seen as a weird (semiretired) street preacher on this subject. But I’m just tweaking existing recipes as it were, adding common ingredients in uncommon ways.
Shelters no, at least not in my experience (lived in Illinois). But knowing of a more safe place in the building. For example, my high school had us go into the inner hallways and sit down against the walls.
High cost of housing is caused by high saries, in a supply constrained environment.
> It started off excluding women and people of color...

While true, this is irrelevant - because that was the general condition back then - and only deludes the argument.
It abstracts windows desktop interaction into vim key binds
I'm trying to imagine a large unexpected home repair >$3000 that isn't covered by typical planning or insurance and nothing comes to mind. Emergency roof replacement is managed by insurance (you're paying for it). And a scheduled, expensive, non-emergency, usually involves months of planning and permit pulling.

Except for a bail money, how many high-ticket items aren't covered by insurance?
The steps are simpler because you know what you're doing, The guide from Microsoft told me to download 5 different products and download the Windows App SDK as an independent component. That was 20GB plus other MBs for the SDK. When I hit F5, it downloaded so many dependencies. It took minutes and the App was using a constant 56mb of memory while doing absolutely nothing (no events, no background threads nada) might as well use Electron.

It is important to note that I was trying to create a WinUI3 app.
This isn't about saving 10ms in latency. In the case of a dropped packet, TCP can wait multiple seconds for a retransmission which blocks the whole stream. You aren't going to client-side-predict your way out of that.

QUIC in theory can support this kind of lossy transport but it's not really exposed to browsers AFAIK. WebRTC is somewhat complicated to use but can support lossy streams.
Except dithering is not great for modern compression algorithms, making the endeavour mostly performative.
It's a spectacular experience if you're lucky enough to see it at the zoo!
I may be wrong, but I believe South Korea has a centralized identity system that game companies use so this kind of thing can be tracked and enforced. I wouldn't be against a similar system being used in the USA.
> How do you keep out the YT commenters, Fox News or r/politics commenters, etc?

Have clear written criteria for what constitutes virtuous and unvirtuous conduct, and make it clear that commenters can be banned for the sort of angry, low-quality discourse that's the norm on those platforms. Then enforce it, with temporary bans at first and permabans for repeated or particularly egregious offenses. Most people won't want to be mods, but hopefully enough will.

I'm not speaking hypothetically here; I'm describing how moderation works on /r/TheMotte. I won't comment on any of the opinions expressed there since that's not the point: the point is that it can be done. It's existence proof that you can have a large discussion forum talking about controversial topics without it turning into an ideological monoculture or a cesspool.
I invite you to try AlterClass and make your own opinion about it. AlterClass is free for 14 days (no cc required). I'd really appreciate your feedback.
They can cause structural damage and their urine and feces are a human health hazard.
This and paulgb's reply are both good points, but I think that we can do a very simple analysis to explain most of what is going on.

Suppose that miners only mine and stakers only stake. Maybe we could justify why that is the case, but for simplicity we can start with a model where that's just taken as given.

Also suppose that participants do only two things with their mining and staking rewards. They take profit by selling, or reinvest.

Miner's reinvest by selling the token and buying more equipment or funding operations.
Stakers reinvest by staking more token without selling.

All else being equal between the two except for the fact that one is mining and the other staking, the miners will sell more of the currency.

Under this simple model, it's easy to see why miners are more sensitive to price in the short term and are more likely to sell. Of course this model isn't perfect, but I think it's close enough to explain the structure of the debate.
A lot of comments are talking about cheating, but there are so many "free" games that have launchers that auto start at boot.

Several of my friends recommended genshin impact. It registered a background service that starts at boot and runs as Administrator. This is a PvE game! Uninstalled quickly.

It's to the point that I will _only_ install games from steam, however that even that is not solid as it used to be with many games installing their launcher service at first run (origin, epic, etc)

Android games also regularly install services well, the games are always running _something_ in the background.

Free games, even those with many in game purchases, seem to not care at all about running their software even when you are not playing their game.
I mean, inflation is a thing, I haven’t graphed how this is tracking the inflation curve, but the $60 figure has been the norm for what, 15-20 years now?
Been doing this for ~ 1.5 decades with no issues:

1. build DLL in visual C that does whatever your business logic is.

2. build ui in visual basic by dragging around some controls and hooking them up to a few lines of code

3. tell VB to import your DLL

4. hook it up with a few more lines
No.

Although the argument could be made that heavy manipulation of public discourse (by a few) is why flame-war inducing topics even exist in the first place, and that if one wanted to block progress/discussion on a particular topic one could just turn the topic into a flame-war at every opportunity.

Also, any posts about the Python programming language should be flagged as well because Python is pure garbage.
> study on the consequences for their own patients of either having received a given vaccination decades previous or not, no?

No! If you think its possible to pin point exactly what is the source of the problem with decade of various stressors piling up on anybody you should think again. It basically has infinite confounding variables.

> those few poisoned bottles of aspirin did anything to increase the non-contingent risk profile of taking aspirin.

Please educate more about this - do you know that ibuprofen is result of long time search to replace aspirin due to its toxicity (such as stomach bleeding that you will get sooner or later).

Its insane that people outsource medicine. One should strive to know as much as possible about it, with focus on prevention.
Could you please reach out to me from the chat on AlterClass.io so that I can help you with that matter? Thanks.
Why is it so controversial to say that it's not fair for someone with a male body to compete against those with female bodies? I sympathize with trans women on most issues except this one. It's not fair to the young women who got up early every morning for years and put in the time practicing to lose this way. I would just quit and do something else. This doesn't bode well for women's sports.
What can we learn from an autistic person?
(You can see me in the audience, in the coral-colored baseball cap.)
I'll also add that you lose most of the benefits of a native app and most of the benefits of a web app.
I imagine the hacker was somewhat upset by the fact that the victim seems unlikely to be able to pay up and people are about to start dying soon. Having blood on your hands is not only a different matter ethically, but changes the likelihood of law enforcement actually doing something against you.
You're most likely right, but my argument has been misinterpreted in a classic fashion. I never implied that they should have used open source at all. I said that they used a bunch of open source software that I doubt they had ever paid for (even donating).
> I get tired of trying to have a deep conversation about subjects I have expertise on here about only to be armchair responded to by an amateur who has a casual understanding of the topic.

This is basically the problem with political topics (or one of them), for the most part its to easy to have an opinion. But its based on weak information or some intuition but it feels right. So these discussions don't include facts, they get emotional because the basis of people's side is emotional and feelings.
If you're a healthy adult you do not need the flu vaccine. It's only 50% effective anyway. Additionally, there is little to no social pressure to get them. On the other hand, there is IMMENSE social pressure to get the covid shot. I don't want to live in a world where I am required to get two shots a year to remain employed and free to enter grocery stores. Especially since pharmaceutical companies are reliably known to manipulate governments and populations into taking more and more drugs of dubious value.
Ah, sorry - yes, a Board of Alders is an elected legislative body. We have the Mayor of the city as the executive while the BoA makes laws and such.

I also agree that students should be able to vote where they live, by the way!

> It's very difficult for a resident population of 140,000 to resist the will of an institution with massively more wealth and more income than the residents

At about 134,000 residents (and I believe this includes ~30,000 Yale students, faulty and staff), this statement does resonate with me.
Outside of SV and NYC I can assure you the majority of tech is not high six figures. Most are barely high five figures.
Crrrrap, It happened to me as well. Most of my day just flew by. It was... great.
>But imagine if someone built purpose-built software for causing traffic jams, and a large community of regular users make traffic jams 5 times more common than they used to be.

What's the difference between that and someone who simply drives bad/slow? Do they get a pass because it doesn't have "purpose-built software"? Or is it because they're not acting as a group? If cheaters are not acting in a coordinated way, do they get a free pass as well?
Reddit itself censors opinions they don’t like. I do not trust them as a place to have meaningful political debate.
As some others mentioned, use Lazarus[0], it'd be the easiest way and you get a single exe file with no external dependencies.

It has been a long time since i made this video, but here is one[1] where i make a 2D tilemap editor in Lazarus from scratch - it starts with installing Lazarus (note that the video is old and some things have changed but 99% of it would be the same anyway).

Lazarus is crossplatform so here is another one where i make a small puzzle game under Linux/XFCE. Also starts with installing (which is a tiny bit more complicated because i need to build it from source - still a minute or so and strictly speaking you can get it running from your repository but chances are it will be broken and you avoid several potential issues if you build it from source on Linux).

I might make a new video at some point though as i'm back on Linux as my main OS nowadays and Window Maker as my window manager, it'd be the farthest from how things would look on Windows :-P. Though i might capture it in a VM if possible (the two videos i linked at were from a VM).

[0] https://www.lazarus-ide.org/

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3JgeIUo1X0

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_01Xhd2EJM
This is a very helpful start for me, thank you
The bullshit assymetry principle explains why such people have a significant impact on the public discussion of the topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law
> The Texas abortion law basically deputizes anyone in the state to be an "abortion tattler"...

Actually, I don't think they are required to be in the state of Texas. At least, all the descriptions of the bill I have seen have not mentioned that requirement.

Example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Heartbeat_Act
The rebellion already exists, it's called Bitcoin. Flagrant asset inflation (especially of real-estate, but also other assets) is caused, by-and-large, by central bank money-printing and asset inflation (not to be confused with regular consumer price inflation).

You can fight this by buying bitcoin and encouraging others to do the same.
Show me agood guide and I'll follow it instead.

The one I used was from Microsoft.
> It's already fairly trivial for a talented SWE to make UBI-level income working 10 hours a week by picking up software contracts here and there.

What about less talented ones that can still contribute, but need to work 20 hours a week? Or 30 hours a week? Or gasp 40 hours a week?

> Eng already have access to the levels of income that UBI would provide, with plenty of time left over

No. There isn't plenty of time left over. Moreover, why wouldn't I want to work on something full time, and not in my "left over time"?

> Plenty of engineers

Which means: not even the majority of engineers.

> I don't see what UBI would materially contribute to this dynamic.

"I don't see how giving all engineers, and not some percent of engineers, the option to pursue projects they like would materially contribute to this dynamic".

Do also read this short article, "Software below the poverty line", https://staltz.com/software-below-the-poverty-line.html
Unless you don't have the space there's no reason to go smaller than a 100W panel. You can find them used for $50 or less. For smaller panels the cost per watt goes up enough that it ends up costing the same for less output.
Thanks a lot Chase for mentioning Appsmith.

Btw, here's a tutorial for hooking up Supabase, n8n and Appsmith together: https://www.appsmith.com/blog/the-modern-stack-to-build-inte...

Plausible is pretty awesome too, we use it and are very happy!
People spend their lives in misery and then go out of their way to try and artificially prolong it. :)
The problem of other minds is very much a serious problem in philosophy, cf. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/other-minds/
I keep wondering if future generations will assume we had a special worship for mice considering how many diseases we tried to cure in mice :p