skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Start at your local government, figure out what they can and can't do to help. Go to the next level, figure out what can and can't be done at that level. Keep going.
Fair points. I'd still register GPS as more generally useful and usable.
The USDA ARS is the body responsible for the rice research center.
What do you mean by interactive blogs? And what do you need that isn't solved by Wordpress? (Not a blogger, just know that most blogs use Wordpress or similar and curious what you're looking for.)
Installing spyware on people's computers is not enough for you? I guess I am done here if I am being hyper cynical. Dqmn, we have apologists for everything
Hotpatch for Apache Log4j – CVE-2021-44228
Flutter for Web is doing exactly that. For some webapps, this might be a great way to go.
Riiiiight.

I'm sure it has nothing to do with a complete lack of competition (cf. how in communities where Google Fiber showed up, the incumbents were suddenly quite capable of getting gigabit fiber to households, and for a price that was competitive with Google Fiber, and a fraction of the price they were charging for inferior service before Google Fiber's arrival).

I'm sure it also has nothing to do with the billions upon billions of subsidies AT&T and Verizon have received to build out broadband and make it available everywhere, which they pocketed and then didn't deliver on. Cf. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-book-of-broken-promis_b_5...

If you really want to blame it on government, do it the right way: the government has not been keeping AT&T and the other giant telcos accountable for effectively stealing all those subsidies, and it has not enforced competition at the local level. Regulatory capture, and all that.
Technology Connections[0] did an episode where he talked through some of the science behind why lead acid batteries work poorly for the task. He used a marine deep cycle battery as a compromise solution.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q4dUt1yK0g
Weather reports will callout serious weather conditions predicted in the next 48-24 hours.

There are Tornado Watches that are issued when conditions are favorable for tornados to form. That will cover a several hour period where you should be aware and alert for threat notices.

Then there are Tornado Alerts. These are issues when either someone has reported seeing a funnel cloud or the radar systems show a funnel type formation. These alerts usually cover a county sized area.

When you see an alert you should seek shelter. This means ideally underground like a basement or storm shelter. Otherwise the most secure part of a building. Bathrooms are good because they are small with lots of walls but if the building comes down they offer limited protection. A large structure like a warehouse should have a designated storm shelter where extra protection is built into an area. This may be an office or bathroom with concrete or metal cladding that is securely anchored in the ground.
- Read 3 pages and Balaji was mentioned 6 times

- Top 10 crypto people to watch is mostly VCs, ok

- Links to some big claims are direct links to tweets

- "It’s inaccurate to call Tether a fraud."

- TIL: Balaji backed Worldcoin (Worldcoin is the retina-scaning dystopia Sam Altman crypto startup)

- They call OHM an unpegged stablecoin, but it's actually a ponzi: "However, judging by the number of forks it has spawned, OlympusDAO may be the year’s most important new project, and non-pegged stablecoins may be the best bet this industry has when it comes to de-pegging from the US dollar." Wow, let's see how that statement will age...

- Have I mentioned that Balaji is cool?

Actually, it's pretty entertaining to read.
France Paris 11/12/2021
That’s fine but why not just stick with open source PuTTY instead of switching to some commercial proprietary software.
Yeah, I reduced their file sizes in their examples by just setting jpeg compression levels to 7% and had actual grayscale
How elite can they be if they didn’t even try to recruit me?

This is how I recommend that we all feel. Just ignore Yale and do something useful with your life.
Worst part is that the person that made the decision to remove that feature was promoted. And now indirectly controls GitHub.
Deepfakes might not even be relevant soon.
Cropping the photo changes the subject. What a stupid criteria.
There are no latency numbers to be seen anywhere unless I missed them. If the difference in latency between RAM/disk isn't noticeable in these workloads because you have enough slack in the system, the distinction doesn't really matter, you can use whatever (case in point, the linked article uses cost-of-egress as the sole motivation, it doesn't even mention latency or QPS at all.)

Memcached also has a mechanism for storing values (but not keys) on disk for larger-than-memory datasets which works well on big parallel flash drives.

EDIT: The website seems down but I was able to find a graph on archive.org via https://web.archive.org/web/20210721201604/https://ssdb.io/ but without latency, only QPS in some simple benchmarks. It's not slow, but if you're pushing high QPS-per-core or low latency, there's no indication it will serve as well as alternatives, and that can have a bigger impact on ROI than just the cost of disk-vs-memory for your servers.
Absolutely.

There's a huge amount of tiny chores with web development, that if you hadn't learnt how to do them in 1.5 seconds 5 years ago, would take you 2-3 days to figure out.

There are a hundred small chores that must be done to build and launch software on the web that you have to learn before you get it going.

I strongly doubt desktop doesn't have the exact same volume of inane things as webdev.
Thats totally false. Moderns OS have a chain of trust, on windows, the drivers starts and all drivers know the other loaded drivers, and they whitelist the drivers.
It might be worth reviewing this essay from aaronsw: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/theoryofchange

Mainly because calls to action are often about whipping up passion about an issue, without often doing the work to identify the actions that would actually be productive.
And the two most popular ways to encrypt DNS queries rely on TLS (DNS over TLS and DNS over HTTPS).
Very similar arguments can be made about gold. And have been! And the fact they have been wrong until now is not necessarily a good predictor of the future.

In any case, there is one key thing which differentiates gold from crypto - there's only one kind of gold, and there's only a very small number of metals with similar properties to gold - perhaps 8 in total, all of which have been valuable since mankind figured out how to extract and work them, and none of which are exact substitutes for gold. Gold and gold-like metals are scarce!

Crypto is not scarce. Any one coin can be, but even if we, as a society, decided that, say, shiba inu themed crypto coins are our core store of value, there are multiple shiba inu themed coins already extant, and it is trivial to make infinite more. Even if we pick a single coin like Bitcoin (and why would we?), there are currently something like 45 currently active forks, all claiming to be the one true best Bitcoin.

Gold is valuable because it is unique and differentiable. (That is, if you want something like gold, you need to buy some gold, because nothing else is quite like it.) Litecoin is valuable because...?
That their comments are marked [dead], not [flagged][dead].
Can you please clarify which "field" is that and how do you "work" in it?
agree - most sstables use memory looking on disk if needed. ssds do not have the bandwidth or low latency RAM has apart from the additional I/O path to get it onto or out of disk. Now, not to say memory+ssd can't rock ... but ssd!=DDRAM.
Use your boring stack.
I agree with the original poster - if you say no transaction fees it should mean no transaction fees.

What Stripe charges you is your expense/cost. If you want to pass that on to the customer, then that's fine, but that is you charging a transaction fee to cover the cost (not Stripe - because it is you billing it to the subscriber).
Java rate-limiting library based on the token-bucket algorithm
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Putty would keep running even if the maintainer disappeared. You can build it yourself. You can find somebody to maintain it for you. What's fragile about that?
What was home ownership like in the US prior to the 1900's? Rural areas were farms that people owned and maintained, and repaired, if possible, with the help of neighbors. In urban areas only the wealthy owned homes, and it was very much landlords and boarding houses. It wasn't until post WW2 when freeways appeared and the suburban boom + baby boom that people actually started owning houses en-masse. I fear that we are boomeranging back to the urban landlord / renter model because now all of the suburbs have been bought up as investments. (A couple I'm friends with owns 13 houses; they've been buying them since the 1990's, fixing them up, and renting them. It's crazy, fortunately they are nice people.)

So to answer your question, there was a brief period in American history for about 50 years where housing was affordable (1945-1995) then shit just went sideways. But it required massive investment from the government (freeways & GI bill). To return to this would require massive, complicated legislation; or some simple push that collapses the housing market as an investment strategy. Maybe higher interest rates. Maybe killing the mortgage deduction. Maybe an inheritance tax with teeth.
In the same way that Corollas, Applebee's, and Walmart brand jeans are unfashionable, yes.
The Roosevelts on lynching:

> Eleanor Roosevelt, however, lent the NAACP her open support and consulted regularly with Walter White about strategies in the Capital. She urged her husband and his White House advisers to back the cause, but the administration gave only tacit encouragement rather than offend southern Democrats who largely controlled both houses of Congress through committee chairmanships. The NAACP bill passed the House in 1937 and in 1940, but the customary alliance of northern conservative Republicans and southern segregationist Democrats stopped its progress in the Senate.

https://www.encyclopedia.com/economics/encyclopedias-almanac...

Truman on lynching:

> A specific Federal measure is needed to deal with the crime of lynching—against which I cannot speak too strongly. It is a principle of our democracy, written into our Constitution, that every person accused of an offense against the law shall have a fair, orderly trial in an impartial court. We have made great progress toward this end, but I regret to say that lynching has not yet finally disappeared from our land. So long as one person walks in fear of lynching, we shall not have achieved equal justice under law. I call upon the Congress to take decisive action against this crime.

https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/1948-harr...

Your name is basically synonymous with bullshit to me on HN. Every now and then I bother to check.
Sony Corporation’s Mismanagement as Decline Factor Case Study
Just as a thought, that might be pretty cheap to have extended to your house.

In Germany, Telekom (the formerly-government-owned provider and largest player afaik) offers to dig fiber for you for a "nice" price. But if it's literally about 5 meters it might actually be worth it.
They didn't add ldap support explicitly though, AFAICT. They added JNDI support, using a fairly small patch the guy who filed the request wrote for them. JNDI is a standard Java thing, so I'd guess they didn't think too deeply about all of the things it could do (not criticizing them, I'd probably have done the same thing).
I would build out more of it and list it for free (I've dropped in a lot of TODO sections), I'm not sure if "progressive release" is possible, if it's not, we wouldn't want to release it as is. I have a lot of team members who I have to teach this type of build system, and the material online isn't very opinionated so I end up seeing a lot of incompatible configurations.
Nice! I love local bookshops and anything that supports them over Amazon is great.
I plan on getting “Evicted” and and “Streetfight” based on your recommendations too, thanks for making this site!
> And being a nix guy I don’t get much need for PuTTY in my day to day.

It actually works on unix, which is usually uninteresting but I used it once when I needed a serial console client and wanted a friendly GUI. So it can* be useful:)
Start your own business. That's the most competitive and intimidating job for a software engineer.
That single-file app is a zip archive with exe and those dlls
Or someone else would fork the code, most users would eventually migrate to the new project, and life goes on.
There’s capitalist solutions. Current Australian policy incentivises rent seeking, so simply stopping that would alleviate the problem slightly.
Cool, thanks for the tip. I do have a baofeng that I use for channel surfing here and there.
"physically moving the mouse/controller".
Yes you can do that.
It cause 2 issues:
In competition, cheating will be impractical (cheating would imply bringing it's own hardware).
Cheating will be harder, because you need to buy physical hardware (and will be far easier to stop).
It will cause the amount of cheater to drop signifiquantly.
Really nice at first sight.

I'm getting melancholic vibes of AutoHotKey reading the docs, which was arguably my first entry into professional programming. Knowing nothing about coding, I built a service desk automation back then — with (network file-) shared hotkeys and a real GUI, all in one single file... good times.

Anyway, ever since switching to MacOS more than a decade ago, I've always been searching for an AHK analog for those simple keystroke automations, text-based, with just enough of a glue language to hold it all together — Automator never quite cut it for me, after wielding the full power of AHK, it always felt too limited, rigid and clicky-colory.

Even though I don't have immediate use cases for it anymore, it makes me very happy that I know where to go back now!
Now you have an N of one.

I found it highly pleasurable.
Though topical thought, the Uk NHS site is text and blue hyperlinks. Its still collapsing tonight because the prime minister just announced booster jabs available for everyone. (Guess what I'm spending my evening doing). So you can't always win.
Meh, these guys are still stuck in the uncanny valley.

Objects are often absolutely beautiful and realistic, but interactions between objects are ridiculous. Some of this is probably just "not enough processing power", but it is also due to where the rendering bumps up against the primitive controls. For example, you have a very realistic human. But then the human walks against an object, and she does this standard video game 0 mph duck-walk. Part of the problem here is that real humans don't bash into walls. So how do you realistically represent that, when in fact it's just Johnny pressing forward on his controller?
Unrelated, too afraid too ask. But regarding house prices. I think housing prices are just the way it is? Or I am just not understanding a few things.

More people want to live more in cities (due to access to society’s benefits and jobs) then housing prices will rise. This seems normal to me? I.e more people means more competition means price will rise.

If someone wants cheap house, they can just move far to the suburbs and work there or commute to the city.

Am I mistaken to think that there is no inherent problem in rising house prices? It is just the way it is and it happens everywhere even in 3rd world countries.
Just finished giving it a read, thanks for sharing. Maybe some day I'll have done enough interesting things with programming to write a similar tale.
Some people like the interface/extra features of an app. I tried going from google maps to open street maps, and came back in 5 minutes flat.
I would be fine with more Tcl as well, really.
My thought is that your claim that setting salaries is a complicated process and we shouldn't rashly come to judgement, while not untrue, is also in effect saying "ours is not to wonder why" and that because high salaries exists therefore they are legitimate a la Divine Right of Kings.
Mainly, I gather, when users of their software start demanding support/bug fixes/enhancements.
Because financial costs don’t matter and have nothing to do with real resource need?

This is all ephemeral narrative building now. Humans will do economic activity to survive regardless of what bean keeping system we use to discuss it.

“Meritocracy” is just another way of saying “caste system” to those who are born away too far from the network nodes for strong signal to reach them, and realize too late.
Just knowing I'd have guaranteed food and housing would make my life less miserable than it is now. Oh, and I love McDonald's.
I read through the replies here, and as expected, none of them have an actual solution to this problem; which is to be expected, since this is a geek website where none of these people understand markets or economics, (and only half understand computers), so you're asking the wrong crowd.

The actual answer is: do nothing at all. Simply sit back and wait for one year. I promise you, the problem will solve itself.

It's called a Housing Market Bubble, and the thing about bubbles is, they pop--taking down millions of smug, clueless 'investors' with them. Happens on a regular cycle, like clockwork. Nobody ever learns anything.

This bubble is a particularly nasty one that will wipe out tons of idiots, both the deserving and nondeserving kind, sadly.

Oh, I did forget one small preparation you can make: load up on popcorn. Lots of popcorn.

This is the final, definitive answer. Print it and hang it on your fridge.

Sincerely, your worthless (according to HN) hillbilly friend in Alabama.
1. Removing senescent cells extends life by 30-40% with huge quality of life improvements in the last 25% of the life (relative to control), in mice. This isn't an elimination of all aging, but quite a valuable thing regardless. Eventually, other causes of aging would kick in and still cause death, without a single senescent cell in your body (e.g. DNA methylation).

2. I believe all governments should create Warpspeed for this approach. At the depths of covid lockdowns, GDP was down 20%. Imagine the massive GDP creation from making every 65+ year old feel 40 again. They'd work, consume, and generally flourish. Even if it's only 10 more years of quality life, this is the greatest good that could be done for humanity. To avoid another 10 years of my parents death is something I'd do a lot for. Economically and ethically, we should prioritize this research above most else.

3. This approach is scientifically sound. Certain aspects of aging cures are approaching engineering levels of work rather than pure science. We simply know that many diseases are caused or amplified by senescent cells. And we have ample evidence that elimination of these cells reverses diseases in complex mammals, as long as you don't remove too many, too quickly. The rest, is the engineering problem of how to remove the right cells at the right cadence.

4. This is the kind of thing biohackers should hack on. Find an aging part of your skin, and attempt to convince your body to kill the senescent cells. If you succeed, you will have benefited humanity, become beautiful, become wealthy, and be remembered forever (is there any other fundamental need humans have, not covered)?

Let the race begin!
The haters are invested in your failure, their success depends on being able to gaslight the world to maintain status quo.

Whatever you do, don't ever fucking give up. Give them hell.
In a nutshell: Because Borland, more than anyone else, had hugely superior development tools (compilers and IDEs) for Windows.
It's not exactly the same but cutting shapes out of pieces of material in ways that waste as little as possible is surely related. The paper industry is very interested in a specialised subset of this kind of thing. So are factories that make transformer cores. The cores are made by stacking many (sometimes hundreds) of thin sheets of steel cut from rolls. Good quality core steel is expensive so it is important to waste as little as possible by making the cuts in the proper places.
I completely agree. My choice of words was not not right.
As I understand it,

- Car was sold to original owner, who enabled the features

- Car was sold back to dealer/Tesla (presumably a trade-in?)

- Car was sold to second owner, with information that it did not include the features

- Turns out the car had the features enabled (they mistakenly forgot to turn them off)

- Features remotely disabled

There's nothing inherently wrong with Tesla charging both the original and second buyer for the features, as those features make the car worth more. Conceptually, its the same as paying more for a car with a better entertainment system, then the person who buys it next (from the dealer after you trade it in) pays more for it than they would for one without that system.
> Could this be a way to make those improvements public by this replacing memcached over time?

Those who wish to share their contributions will, regardless of license. Those who do not, will stick to code with BSD-style licenses.
Just so.

(And it's a bit ironic to see crypto enthusiasts place so much weight on the opinion of the largest players in the traditional financial system!)
I thought about learning to play violin when reading this article, a teacher might explain you everything but it's impossible to understand as it's something so unnatural and driven by feel and experience. In fact you start playing with not great technique for a few years until you develop the ability to start working on the finer details and so on
Where merit is dictated by how much time you spend ogling others output and expectations.

Amazing.

I’m sure all those folks have extensive time spent curing cancer and not just writing web apps for profit too.

I’m really looking forward to the day 80% of digital experience is just generated on demand by well known algorithms and filling dependency files just so for a machine (source files included as constraints on memory and cpu behavior, just like which deps to allow) is obsoleted dumb work
Can someone elucidate how astronomers know this galaxy has no dark matter?
Wow, is that an official option for mods?
Most EVs don't use LiFePO4 although some are moving to it. There are also hundreds or thousands of small cells in most EV packs. With that volume you'll get more variation between the best and worst cells. You also need it to be foolproof and require no maintenance.

My average discharge rate is much lower than 1C which does help. The max is around 0.9C but that is pretty uncommon.