skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They write what their partners ask them to.

If you get a report from them on how the pitfals of setting Oracle's Spatial, it's probably good. If you get a cost benefit comparison of Oracle and Postgres, it's certainly trash. (Who am I kidding? They still insist Postgres doesn't exist.)

That said, none of the documents are worth the price you pay and the hassle of interacting with them.
I find the paper a bit ironic, but I think the problem isn't identity beliefs per say, the problem is more innate than that. And the innate problem is merely a conflict in individual wills as Thomas Hobbes argues in his state of nature. Or put more simply, politics is entirely just a conflict in personal wants, and the problem is that other people don't always share the same wants as you do.

To demonstrate Hobbes point: imagine living on a desert island, alone by yourself. You can do whatever you desire, as there is no one to stop you from doing it. No law, no opposition whatsoever. If you want to burn everything on the island, no one to stop you! There is no politics to be had!

Now, imagine you're on an island, and suddenly there's another person on that island. And all that's on the island is a stack of resources, just enough to either build a boat to safely transport one person off the island, or enough to build a hut to shelter one person so they can live on the island. You want to build a boat to get off the island, however the other person wants to use the resources to build a hut to live on the island. Notice what you want and what the other person wants, is at conflict with another! How do you resolve this conflict in wills? If you compromise, and share the resources, there won't be enough for either of you to get the outcome you want. Additionally, who is righteous to say whichever outcome happens is just/fair? Is it what you both agree on? Well that's both what you will isn't it?

Anyhow, being against "anything that undermines democratic norms" is a will of itself. So is the desire to "prevent extreme polarization...", which is really just a roundabout way of saying "Preventing the opposition from doing what it is I want."
Also put an example in the first pageful. I almost lost hope while scrolling through the wall of format spec when I finally saw the first example.
If two NFTs point at the same underlying asset, how do I go about deciding which one is authoritative without relying on exactly the same sorts of trust and authority relationships that I'd use in the absence of a blockchain?
Extended attributes aren't limited just to Solaris. A variety of *nix file systems have generally supported forks/multiple data streams for some time. FreeBSD has support for arbitrary-sized extended attributes in UFS/ZFS, for example, and implements its access control with them. Linux probably has the most limited form, where the xattr are capped at 4 or 64 kilobytes depending on the underlying FS.

I think the big issue for uptake is that it just doesn't fit into the UNIX world. Nothing else is aware of xattrs/forks. The basic file utilities will blindly strip them so you can't just cp or tar such a file, for example. If cp transparently breaks all your files, that's pretty much a show-stopper as anyone who remembers the classic Mac to OS X transition will know.
These studies from The International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration go into new next IPCC assessments.

Massive localized events resulting from geographic features are not part of current IPCC models.
Show HN: I wrote a lightweight markup language
I write a lot of documentation for my development projects. I was a big markdown user but grew unhappy with it. I love it's simplicity and it was great for the simple things but for anything more it was a PITA (even for some very common things): cannot add a simple comment or a simple style etc. And the rules are overly complicated-why is `*a*` ok but not `* a*`?

I tried to solve this by creating a familiar language that has fewer and simpler rules and is extensible. It comes with a default set of elements which are "portable" and cover 80% of use cases. But if you or your team need some other more specific element, you can easily add it via a JSON config. No need to use inline HTML or switch to yet another markdown flavor.

I created a simple online playground where you can play with it: http://touchlabs.io/play

Would love to hear your thoughts, thanks!
Something to consider in the future is implementing RFC9102[0] which is an experimental TLS extension for embedding the DNSSEC chain this should significantly improve TTFB. It'll still need to request the DS record/trust anchor from the p2p client.

[0] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9102.html
In a vacuum, nothing. But it's generally good to disclose to others when the investment advice you're offering will also materially benefit you.

It's funny that cryptocurrency proponents will often lambast the traditional banking system for being corrupt and self-serving but then ask a question like this. Is cryptocurrency supposed to be a more fair way to invest/bank/move money or not?
Specifically, it's illegal in Florida, where the offenses allegedly occurred. Florida is what's called a "two-party consent" state, meaning that it's illegal to record any non-public conversation (phone call, in-person, Zoom, etc.) without explicit consent from all parties involved. Other states allow single-party consent in some or all circumstances.
No, they were promoted as drastically reducing the chance of severe symptoms and hospitalizations.
This isn't super clearcut. Typescript has lots of footguns and famously says that soundness is not one of their driving factors. There are lots of ways to devolve to accidental implicit any's (even with the no implicit any strict rule turned on).

Of course, Go makes zero attempt to enforce nullability (nilability?) in its type system... so... win some, lose some I guess.
Because crypto is for morons
What good are “studies” when a majority of government seems to be ruling by the seat of their pants?
That's not a bad thing. Proprietary software tends to lead by implementing new features first, and then FOSS alternatives catch up over time. As the software category matures and innovation slows down, the FOSS solutions become strong enough to overtake the proprietary solutions in popularity. At that point, the software category is commoditized.

It's a gradual release of intellectual property into the commons, similar to the expiration of patents and copyrights, but at a pace determined by market forces instead of government regulation.
> this seems like a lot of effort for 4k a year

Is this Hacker News or Get Rich Quick News?
There is a non-zero risk of aerosolizing bacteria/mold etc if you don't maintain an ultra-sonic humidifier properly, which doesn't exist with other methods. Of course with a boiling humidifier, you've got a container of scalding hot water laying around.
Not necessarily. Eg the Netherlands has ~77% vaccination rate, which is pretty close to the quoted 84%.
There is just one: “GPL”. I’m not aware of any other viral licenses. But I suspect you’ve meant copyleft instead, which is something different from virality - there are plenty of copyleft licenses, eg MPL, which are not viral.
Fundamental fact of corrosion: it's 100% "battery" electrochemistry; without exception. That "battery" can be enhance by chemicals in the environment e.g. rust on cars from salt on roads or it happens naturally as the "device" was manufactured (e.g. dissimilar metals in plumbing such as copper and galvanized steel piping).
I didn't mean to come across like this is a bad thing. I was just pointing out that the world has changed and not everybody has realized it yet.
Check your Coinbase account, my balance is 600M
something went haywire in crypto space
> We have halved the price of our products on this new model and hope that it will allow more users to access the software.

I love the gall they have to say this.

When I saw the headline, I thought that a subscription model might provide more amenable pricing than the USD$1800 for IDAPro, and actually give access to more users. At this pricing, they've absolutely ensured that I never pay again. IDAPro is already a product that's diminishing in comparison to the competition year after year.
Is it https://www.intellique.com?
In my experience the difference between Intel laptop parts and xeons isn't that much, atleast it is for AVX512 which would be a good analog for the situation with SVE.
Right? Basically, imagine the post-scarcity Star Trek utopia except that everyone has to input a digital wallet code to use the replicator and everything it makes has a different price.
> Only using some centralized and opaque/corrupt additions to the blockchain some rights can be maybe transferred

Hmmm... centralized and opaque/corrupt. So like a traditional bank?
Analysis of rocks (like stones, not the rolling ones) for audiophiles: http://www.adventuresinhifiaudio.com/26/01/2018/audiophile-r...

"This wasn't a subtle improvement and yet I did a fair few Volcano on, Volcano off comparisons before I could really accept what I was hearing. In all honesty despite hearing the positive effects the Vibradome Blue star had made to my other system I was still shocked and surprised this item could make such a difference by just sitting on the amps case. Its not heavy enough to damp it and yet it was making a difference and a positive one; frankly I don't know how."
And crimes rates should be 0. We should also have infinite food and drink. People shouldn't get ill. Etc. Etc. Most people would rather deal with reality then criticize from an impossible dream world standard.
I'm not presenting this as a realistic option (most of us aren't cool enough to walk around with freedesktop computers running), but there is the excellent JACK Timemachine[1], a long long long longstanding app which is just a big green button. Hit the button & it saves the last n (ex: 5) seconds of audio to file & continues recording until you hit the button again.

This gives you the ability to keep a mic running while dumping most of the audio, & but still be able to save things that have just happened on need.

It's an app I've wanted to make use of a bunch. A lot of company's I've worked at will try to quote noteable/funny/intersting things people say, & this would be a neat version. Same sort of idea would work in other places, like a gaming guild; we have one dude build a whole web soundboard with various things people had said anyone could pull up, well over a decade ago now; making that board would have been way easier with JACK-TM. Or, like, sometimes if there's a cute quote in a show or movie I'm watching, it'd be fun to be able to easily pull the sample. Or just, if I missed what someone said, this would be a possible tool to go re-review. Or, alas, if being harassed, being able to grab that recent clip. This is some old as dirt software; always seemed interesting.

I am not a lawyer, I have no official legal advice to give. States like Florida with two-party consent laws make trying to record offenses against yourself, make recording legal & safety issues enormously complicated (See ACLU Florida's page on recording the police[2] for some specific treatment of the matter, showing it's complexity). But JACK-Timemachine feels like a sensible middle-ground. There's some buffering in ephemeral memory, but no recording, until one hits the button. That one can record after the fact, if one's suffering illegal/discriminatory/harassing treatment, feels like a necessary defense one certainly ought be allowed. Let me re-iterate that as far as I know there's no basis in law that actually makes it clear JACK-Timemachine is legal for use in two-party consent states (but it feels like it necessarily ought to be to me).

[1] http://plugin.org.uk/timemachine/

[2] https://www.aclufl.org/en/know-your-rights/right-record-poli...
I'm calling BS on that.

If it's not BS, let's hear your mechanism.
>I wonder if it will end up like that eventually. Women will be the ones to pursue the encounter because males will be too afraid of crossing a line

No there will always be men willing to tread the line; some will fail and other will succeed. Food for thought from Zizek:

>A tension between rights and prohibitions determines heterosexual seduction in our politically correct times.
Or, to put it differently, there is no seduction which cannot at some point be construed as intrusion or harassment because there will always be a point when one has to expose oneself and ‘make a pass’. But, of course, seduction doesn’t involve incorrect harassment throughout. When you make a pass, you expose yourself to the Other (the potential partner), and her reaction will determine whether what you just did was harassment or a successful act of seduction.
There is no way to tell in advance what her response will be (which is why assertive women often despise ‘weak’ men, who fear to take the necessary risk). This holds even more in our pc times: the pc prohibitions are rules which, in one way or another, are to be violated in the seduction process.
Isn’t the seducer’s art to accomplish the violation in such a way that, afterwards, by its acceptance, any suggestion of harassment has disappeared?
It's a cloud offering, so the machines are located near each other. Using it with other cloud services is a fair comparison to running it in the same box on-prem.

The offering is similarity search, not a search engine. They offer image to image as another comparison point.
This is rather pessimistic, trivializes the argument and assumes that it’s directed only at individuals.

Doing less doesn’t have to mean it’s only an individual’s responsibility. Applying this more broadly, doing less is a category of potential solutions to much bigger problems.

Relying on individuals will never move the needle very far.
It is composed of the relatively small number of the high profile developers that occasionally pop up on HN. Most are blogs I found of less known developers which I bumped into when searching other stuff or when casually browsing Github/Twitter/StackOverflow. I try to add new feeds wherever I find them.

Would have shared RSS subscription list if was easily possible, however I use the newsboat [1] program and read the aggregate in the terminal. It's stored locally.

[1] https://newsboat.org/
Someday we will invent a transmission medium which preserves the fidelity of satire
Home also only comes with the x64 "cloud" decompiler, at least if you buy the x86 version.

Having paid for a home license last year (mostly for the ability to run Python scripts) and discovering the home version has a sabotaged python implementation (can only run scripts individually from the GUI instead of running them from the command line, and you don't get the toolkit to develop scripts/plugins), it seems kind of hilarious that the free version is so close in feature set to Home. What's the difference even? They're both for "non-commercial use only", is the (limited) python script interface the only reason to pay $365 a year now? That, Lumina, and email support?
"Audiophile" products get me so mad, I don't even want to look at them to mock them. It's blatant anti-science, willful ignorance. To the chagrin of people's urge to keep optimizing, digital audio has been solved decades ago: CD audio can perfectly represent audio containing tones up to 22kHz, with a 96dB signal to noise ratio. Those are both figures that seem to exceed the hearing of even the best listener on earth.

For studio use, 24 bits offer some benefits for editing, but not because it sounds better, because we cannot hear better. Instead, if you mix audio it's useful to have some headroom over the dynamic range of your music (headroom you cannot hear), before you mix it back down to 16 bits for listening. Think about pasting pictures into a bigger canvas before cutting it back down.

Things like 96kHz or even 192kHz audio can actually be harmful for listening: Not because you can fundamentally hear a difference (you can't), but because if you have any nonlinearities in your audio playback chain, those inaudible frequencies above ~20kHz will cause intermodulation distortion in your audible range. Congrats, you've taken some useless crap over your hearing range and reflected it back as ugly crap into your hearing range.

Anyone who has invested time into understanding Fourier transforms and digital sampling on a fundamental mathematical level realizes that, and just gets angry at the lies. The Fourier transform and the sampling theorem don't know what an "open sound stage" or an "airier voice" is, if you think changes in sample rates and jitter translate into such human concepts instead of plain noise, you live in some phantasy non-physical world.

What is not solved is speakers and room acoustics. That remains notoriously hard, because a room easily can (and most often does) reflect parts of the spectrum such that it cancels itself out. No amount of equalizing can fix that (it's mathematically impossible), you need to change your room or speaker arrangement.

If you want to optimize audio, nerd out about that. Or if you absolute must, argue about lossy encoding formats (e.g. AAC vs. MP3) and bitrate. There is much less hard math in your way there, as they strongly rely on psychoacoustics. But anyone who claims that they hear a difference with 192kHz (on a provably linear audio chain) or an "audiophile Ethernet switch" shows that they're talking bullshit to begin with, so why would I trust their opinion on some potential real difference.
After all the shenanigans they pulled with SMR disk drives, the only idea I have for the boss of Western Digital, I can't say on hacker news.
https://flywaydb.org/ is another contender in this space, that also allows for migrations written in Java if needed.
That’s “a particular directory structure” that conflicts with many already-existing projects. What if I have a mostly-java project that has a couple bits of go code buried in it that I want to use as modules? Break it up into multiple repos for no good reason? No single tool should be acting like it owns the root directory of my repo.
Any links to any marketing material "selling" the vaccine as the tool to end the pandemic?
Runtime Revolution is not discontinued, it is alive and well, it just rebranded to https://www.livecode.com many years ago.
You might want to look at https://flywaydb.org/download.
1. This is a redgate product
2. They do have a community edition (no money option.)
Mhh, seems to be a culture thing. Out of curiosity what work scheduler do you use at that HPC center?
"Handshake leverages a blockchain based on unspent transaction output (UTXO) and proof-of-work (PoW) similar to Bitcoin for naming capabilities." This means it intentionally wastes energy by design, which means its environmental impact is not acceptable, no matter what their FAQ says.

Saying that you can mine proof-of-work tokens with green energy is a red herring, since:

- Some miners are clearly re-establishing previously closed fossil fuel power plants to meet their energy needs: https://www.bostonherald.com/2021/10/17/bitcoin-miners-resur... We can argue about the frequency of this, but it is undeniably happening.

- It will be hard to establish the true amount of fossil fuels used, since miners steal power when they can: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/may/28/police-fi... See also the attacks on CI platforms to steal CPU cycles: https://drewdevault.com/2021/04/26/Cryptocurrency-is-a-disas...

- Installing green energy itself causes emissions: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/04/how-sustainable-is... That means there's a hard limit to how much green energy you can install without causing catastrophic warming. Well before that hard limit, you reach a point where the additional emissions created by installing green energy sources are more than they can pay off before deadlines like 2030 or 2050, which means they are serving as carbon sources rather than carbon sinks in the relevant timeframe. In other words, they are accelerating the climate crisis rather than slowing it down.

- Total energy use may matter more than the percentage of renewable energy, since if the absolute amount of fossil fuels increases the emissions from burning fossil fuels will increase: https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2009/11/renewable-energy-is-...

- The internet as currently designed may use too much energy, so switching to a system that uses even more energy by design is probably a bad idea: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/10/can-the-internet-r...

Yes I am obsessed with Low-Tech Magazine, but they have lots of citations and I could easily find less nerdy sources.
We’re at 80% vaccination in Spain… I think we can surpass 84%.
This is why "polishing the silver" was a routine and repeated task for servants from the 19th century back. Imagine how much silver was last and discarded by doing this!
Shannon be damned! The only way I can surely transmit the highest quality 1 and 0 over a noisy channel isn't through clever encoding and parity checking... its only with high quality copper. Otherwise my 1's and 0's will certainly degrade into 1.1's 0.2's and even negative values!
> But if you want to understand the market and offerings for large commercial/gov enterprise customers, they are a great resource.

They are pretty shitty for that too. They only get anything passable if you are after the offerings of the specific companies that pay them for the publicity.
And that's because of the high geothermal activity underneath the glacier. [0]

Nothing to do with cLiMaTe ChAnGe.

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-021-00242-3 - "High geothermal heat flow beneath Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica inferred from aeromagnetic data" - 17-Aug-2021
Not to belittle the impact, but I don't think this is "doom". If even 5 feet over normal high tide makes a difference with where you are on the coast, then you are experiencing frequent seasonal flooding, and are almost certainly getting completely devistated every 20-50 years. Coastal people, that near to the waterline, understand that they're on borrowed time. The time between being leveled will definitely decrease, but it's in the cultural memory in these places. It's not going to be doom, because it's not going to be some unforeseen transient in their experience. They're not going to have structures they expect to be there next winter within 4ft of sea level. It'll be more frequent devastation, with a slow, eventual, loss of will to put up with it. But, it will be slow. A 2ft transient isn't going to destroy anything, except areas that get destroyed multiple times a year already.
No. The nomenclature criticism on Show HN submissions is usually a stretch. A beacon helps you navigate or locate things, and that’s intuitive enough.
No, that would be a parsing ambiguity with arrays. And the consistency of type parameter lists with normal parameter lists where types are mandatory is an additional benefit.
Looking at Compound since it's DeFi [1] the rate is 2.6%

CeFi platforms like Celsius or BlockFi can offer more, but they are just as risky as any unregulated sub-prime lender in a third-world country (eg micro-lending institutions can offer those sorts of yields too).

The reason DeFi loans are much lower yield than CeFi loans is precisely because the risk is on-chain in the former case, so deposits can't be stolen.

Not sure where you see 20-30% on USD? Those rates are an indication of a rug-pull scam or a ponzi imho.

[1] https://compound.finance/markets/USDC
The town I grew up in got hit by a pretty bad one in 2002. I was in elementary school at the time and saw how it affected the kids who lost their homes or their folks’ place of business.

During tornado warnings we’d be taken in the basements beneath the schools for shelter. I remember kids who had trauma from the experience having mental breaks and screaming and crying down there while the sirens blared. Poor kids :( Most of the kids handled it better through middle school but I remember a few still having problems with it in high school
Makes it much less likely someone will accidentally define a type as "any".
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