skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And 3) If you have a small number of transactions bank transfers should work just fine.
It is surprising that there's no good data on it. Someone with a scientific mindset in a remote location who's good at restarting a stopped engine in flight should run a couple of tests.
> Available evidence strongly suggests Trump and his campaign coordinated with representatives of Russian government interests that involved both significant lawbreaking and a targeted media campaign that resulted in a victory for Trump that would not have occurred otherwise. Whether that's semantically equivalent to "colluded with Putin to cheat in the election" I don't know.

The Mueller report disagrees. What available evidence exactly do you have which the special council investigation did not? Cite your sources please.

> What you're saying, is itself an example of propaganda, in the sense that it's a simplification that while technically true leads a reader to reach a different conclusion that what actually occurred. And it's easy to do, because reality is complicated while disinformation can be simple.

No it's not, what I am saying is almost verbatim from the Mueller report. No evidence was found implicating Trump or his campaign of colluding (conspiring) with Russians. I can dig out quotes from it verbatim or cite page numbers for you if you have not read it or disagree. EDIT: I have done so in another reply, if you are interested.

> No, Donald Trump did not sit down in a hotel or pick up a phone and directly conspire with Vladimir Putin to scheme about how to change vote totals.

Strawman, that is not what was being argued against.

> Here's what is known to have happened:

> Trump publicly asked Russia for help https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/donald-trump-calls-...

Firstly, Rachel Maddow has a very poor and biased record on the whole Russia story. Part of the propaganda, I would say. So no need for that opinion piece, we can link direct to the actual video of the event.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kxG8uJUsWU

This is not evidence that Trump colluded with Putin to hack the election. It's clearly a joke that is typical of his jokes during his campaign rallies. Does it not ring any alarm bells with you that this is the keystone "evidence" that gets wheeled out by people who claim they have proof Trump colluded with Putin?

What we actually know is that there was never any evidence that Trump colluded with Putin, the alleged evidence that was the foundation of the wire tapping and investigation was fabricated https://nypost.com/2021/11/09/ex-state-dept-spox-slams-schif... and prominent politicians on intelligence committees lied to the public about what evidence they had https://www.wsj.com/articles/all-the-adam-schiff-transcripts....
That’s nearly impossible to do though because the bigger the company the more resources they have to figure out loopholes and then to exploit them. And the more profitable exploiting those loopholes becomes thus the more tempting it is to act first then beg for forgiveness later.

It’s not even as if anti-competition laws have much effect these days. There’s a real culture in the US of acting dishonourably and then asking for forgiveness later. And more often than not, the punishment for breaking the law is significantly less than the profit earned from those unlawful acts. So they’re incentivised to be unlawful.

This is why you need clear rules that equivalent regardless of income so everyone is clear where the line is drawn; but penalties that are weighted so that rule breaking cannot be gamified.
Yes, they leaned too much on the design side to look pretty, but this isn't some photo book you put on your desk in the living room.
AMP for Email
Can you elaborate on the jail part?
Try some file sharing website like sendbig .com

Peer to peer (P2P) file sharing allows users to access media files using a P2P software program that searches for other connected computers on a P2P network to locate sought files
Nix OS
I think what I saw was older since "ret32-maker.c" was last updated in 2008.
Yeah, this is a creative work. Think of marketing agency. I’m not sure if a process is patenteable. In any case, the music industry changes at a very fast pace, even faster than IT. What I am offering to musicians is that they take care of music and I take care of their marketing, watching for the changes in the industry and responding to it for them. Just being agile. But that’s definitely something to consider. IffI manage to put a patent application together, I’ll definitely go for it. Thank for your time replying to my struggle. I really appreciate it! Cheers
I've run every one of my companies with some form of everyone participating at a user level regularly. Either through support or using the product. Each type of role gets something out of it. A k8s engineer can achieve more understanding of their mission and connection to how their seemingly siloed activity has a real world impact while more directly product focused roles might gain actual product insight. In my experience employees who genuinely care about what the company is seeking to achieve do gain something from the experience.
Ask HN: Has anyone tried whole genome sequencing?
Wondering if anyone has tried a service like Nebula.org that claims to offer 100% genome sequencing and reports?

Did you find it to be more insightful than partial sequencing like 23&Me? What did you learn?
just in case someone didn’t see this masterpiece https://youtu.be/vvDK8tMyCic
Web 1: static sites

Web 2: dynamic sites, e.g. commenting

Web 3: sites are hosted from a pen drive
I am not an experienced professional skydiver so I really cannot speak to that. :-/

I think he should still follow the procedure far further than showed in video (where he doesn't follow ANY), and I still feel he should have tried far harder to find a landing spot - cessna 152 has 11 to 1 glide ratio, which means for every foot of altitude you can travel 11 feet of distance. I imagine his airplane has roughly comparable gliding distance so given his original height, he had a LOT of time and options he seemed to have immediately squandered. At best, assuming reality, that feels like a yahoo parachuter rather than methodical pilot, and not advice / approach to follow.
How you complement something doesn't matter if the total capacity isn't there and if multiple countries are all consuming their energy, which is currently happening (this driving prices waaay up), you're looking at potential grid shutdowns due to networks not being able to maintain their frequency. Also, if you go below or too high in frequency, which can happen often in the summer with renewables (like in Germany, you got paid to use the electricity), you're unable to export it because, again, the frequency won't match the other countries grid.

Germany shutting down 10GW of nuclear in 2022 is going the an interesting experiment in how bad it can go when you don't have enough planable electricity any more. [0] https://eike-klima-energie.eu/2021/09/05/deutschlands-beinah...

Not sure why the 2017 figure matters, if it's 1% of capacity it's still a fraction of total capacity if it's 2x or 5x more.
Startup Boards by Brad Feld – Has much changed since 2014?
Reading Brad Feld's "Startup Boards", which I am guessing most have read on HN. Noticed it was written or last updated in 2014. That's getting a bit long in the tooth. I assume much of the content is still applicable, but wondering if some takeaways have changed?
All the traffic between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv was via highway one, for quite some time. I was once told, that the rail network was neglected, out of fear that it would be vulnerable to terrorist attacks.
decentralized social networks already exist. no need to keep using the big mammoth stuck in book burning era.
Buried waste sequesters carbon, burned waste doesn’t. From a global warming standpoint replacing a low efficiency wasting burning power plant with a much higher efficiency natural gas power plant is a net gain for the environment. Not just is it less CO2 in the atmosphere it’s also less lead, arsenic, etc.
Its easier to shoot stuff out of the solar system than to shoot it into the sun.
> Fly. Find. Fix.

Also known as A, B, C (Airspeed, Best landing field, Checks).

Can add D, E (Declare emergency, prepare Exit).
I wonder just _who_ were those people making those awful, awful plans. Were they being poisoned by lead? How do they live with themselves.
At least for the steel industry stuff quoted in OP the electricity consumption is mostly to produce hydrogen gas. The gas will then be stored in giant underground chambers and after that used in the steel production. This works extremely nicely with wind power since the electrolysis decouples the electricity consumption from the steel production. This means that the steel plants will act as stabilizers and modulators of the electricity prices in the whole region to a certain extent (together with the hydro plants and batteries presumably).
Not sure what's your definition of "vanilla JavaScript", but https://dirtylittlesql.com/separators.js is clearly produced by a bundler, bundling a bunch of npm packages like events, buffer, etc. I would be pretty alarmed if someone wrote a single 7659-line vanilla JavaScript file by hand in 2021.

And of course the SQLite part is wasm.
Thanks, very thoughtful of you.

I was saying almost the same thing as your last line to a colleague, taking many responsibilities in parallel before waiting for full closure, can lead to failing something that you would normally be able to do, just because you were stressed out by the other things you had to do in parallel.
Wait, are you saying metaculus admins are spamming their own site or their tiny competitor’s site?
Yes, unfortunately. You also have many people who believe Trump said Nazis are very fine people. You have many people who believe Trump told his supporters to drink bleach in other to fight coronavirus.
I second this thought, open source is all about figuring things out yourself and promoting individual independence. Designing documentation as if a group of engineers are suddenly required to give their time to some "newb 'customer' who doesn't have the patience to RTFM" is hurtful both to veterans (wasted time) and new users (deprives them of experiencing reality). They will have to stand on their own feet and giving out wheelchairs does not promote a great community, it treats the arch community as a business which has some requirement to actively participate in someone's personal life/project in order to uphold an artificial guarantee of "success" as defined by that person. Success is earned by your labor, not guaranteed by the set of tools used.
Whether it's bullshit depends on what you mean by bullshit, and I think it's less useful to argue about ambiguous definitions than to more clearly state a position. Knowing MBTI lets you make guesses about someone's personality that are a lot better than chance, as opposed to knowing their star sign or blood type.
Ask HN: Fraudulent use of the Right to be Forgotten?
Hi HN,

A friend of mine is a semi-successful researcher with a semi-common German name. Over the past few months, citations of his work have dwindled and this seems to coincide with a large reduction in visitors to his website from Google Search.

Initially he assumed that this was due to a misconfiguration and asked me to check things over, ensure his server hadn't been compromised, and so on. This was a dead end - everything seems to be in order and the Google Search Console reports no issues.

However, I have noticed that when I search his for name or phrases from his site, Google informs me that "some results may have been removed due to data protection law in Europe". Links to his website do still show up sometimes, but only if very specific search terms are used.

My theory is that one of the people who share his name (which includes another researcher and an author) has filed a fraudulent Right to Be Forgotten request in order to bump themselves up the search results, but neither of us have any way of proving this or even finding out what that notification actually refers to.

He is understandably upset by this, and I'd like to help him so I'm asking HN: Short of changing his name, is there anything he can do?
As a writer, having the Webster's 1913 accessible in the macos app so I can quickly search for a word using an Alfred workflow has proven a super valuable resource for me. I do this several times a day.

There's also a nice little ios app of the same dictionary:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/websters-writers-dictionary/id...
I use it alongside Terminology (made by the excellent 'Drafts' dev):
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/terminology-dictionary/id68779...
Steve Litchfield: “The End... Thanks to all viewers over 16 years.”
Oklahoma lawmaker introduces book-banning bill with $10k-a-day penalty
> Decentralization doesn't have inherent value

I think that when building the internet and the web, decentralization was assumed to have a lot of value, do you disagree with that?
Good suggestions for improvement.

The latest Ruby version works as described in the «keyword arguments can be omitted» link.

The dream language is gradually static typed. Like TS, but the type system and inference would ideally be more like OCaml or ReScript. Hopefully avoiding some of the complexity of TS, and gaining more soundness.
Robert W Malone is one of the inventors of mRNA vaccines, according to wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Malone

His last tweets: "Pfizer, Moderna Vaccines ‘Dramatically Increase’ Heart Attack Risk, Renowned Cardiologist Warns"

Also: "A U.S. Navy warship has paused its deployment to South America due to a COVID-19 outbreak among its “100 percent immunized” crew, the Navy announced on Christmas Eve."

https://web.archive.org/web/20211227081911/https://twitter.c...
Nope, sorry, i read only the first part. Thanks for addressing that
Indeed, at my workplace we use Gmail and it's been a lifesaver for sorting email. Now of course it would not be necessary if only Google implemented sieve or at least proper header and substring search in the backend filters; but some functionality such as tagging and untagging entire threads is very useful.

I also use Apps Script at home to send me email if the home network goes offline (a script at home updates a cell in a worksheet every 10 minutes, one on the cloud checks that it's been updated recently). It has saved my frozen goods at least once.
One of the most frustrating trends for me is single player games requiring online accounts and Internet connectivity to play (Hitman, Ubisoft games...). AAA games from Steam always seem to come with string attached.

That is why I always prefer buying from GoG.
> They would continuesly lie about their implementation

Really? Could you give more examples?
SSO Is Not a Good Web3 Use Case
I agree. Especially the macOS version generally prompts you for permission to access the screen, or certain folders/file groups. Though I don't get why some things get a yes/no, and for others it tells you to look it up in the security settings yourself, if you want to enable it. But that's more of a usability complaint. Then again we are so accustomed to just say yes, if a dialog asks us, whether we want to do something, I doubt most people would secure their device much better, if this became the norm.
Heck, did you see the recent Linus Tech Tips video on using Linux as a mainline system, including for gaming. Linus deinstalled his entire UI, despite the fact that he had to literally type "I am sure that is what I want to do, although core system elements are being uninstalled" in order to approve it, and he is a fucking techy, leagues above your average user.
I think for many people using a device that is more restrictive and doesn't allow everything is sadly necessary.
Potentially far earlier.

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...
What would be cool is integrating this with OpenAI Codex - the natural language to SQL transformations were impressive when I played around with them.

This could then be pitched to non-techie folk who want to simply ask questions from their data on flat file.
The ‘near’ east used to refer to the eastern reaches of the (former) Roman Empire: Syria, Palestine and Egypt. It is a little bit obsolete.
> The expansion of function definitions inline, on demand, is a capability that only a LISP IDE has had, afaik.

That is a great idea. Take the definition, splice it into the call site, rename local variables to match the caller. Interesting take on step into while running a debugger too.
My wish-list for my ideal (non-system) programming language:

- first class tables and named tuples as the primary datastructure. Includes the full set of relational operations, and transaction support. Optional persistence. Everything is not a table though. Tables are great but pragmatism trumps dogmatism.

- structural typing (ties neatly with the above) and support for row polymorphism

- shared nothing, distributed, multiprocessing, except for explicitly shared tables as transactions allow for safe controlled mutation of shared tables. Messages are just named tuples and row polymorphism should allow for protocol evolution. Message queues and stream can be abstracted as one pass tables.

- Async as in Cilk not JS. No red/green functions. Multiprocessing can be cheap, just spawn an user thread. The compiler will use whatever compilation strategy is the best (cactus stacks, full CPS transform, whatever).

- seamless job management, pipelines, graphs. Ideally this language should be a perfectly fine shell replacement. But with transparent support for running processes on multiple machines. And better error management.

A bit more nebulous and needs more thoughts:

- exceptions, error codes and optional/variant results are all faces of the same medal and can look the same with the right syntactic sugar.

- custom table representation. You can optionally decide how your table should be physically represented in memory or disk. Explicit pointers to speed up joins. Nested representation for naturally hierarchical data. Denormalized

- first class graphs. Graphs and relational tables are dual. And with the above point it should be possible to represent them efficiently. What operations we need?

- capabilities. All dependencies are passed to each function, no global data and code. You can tell if your function does IO or allocates by looking at its signature. Subsumes dependency injection. Implicit parameters and other syntactic sugar should make this bearable.

- staged compilation via partial evaluation. This should subsume macros. Variables are a tuple of (value, type), where type is a dictionary of operation-name->operation-implementation. First stage is a fully dynamic language, but by fixing the shape of the dictionary you get interfaces/traits/protocol with dynamic dispatch, by fixing the implementation you get static dispatch. Again, significant sugar is needed to make this workable.

edit:

missed an important element:
- transparent remote code execution: run your code where your data is. Capabilities are pretty much a requirement for security.
Names are just whatever you call something. For inanimate objects the objects can't care what you call them, so at the very most you're privileging one person's opinion over another if you choose to call it the same thing. For ideas even more so. Ordinarily the most important purpose of the name is to ensure you're talking about the same thing.

Calling it "Ayers Rock" privileges some guy from the 19th century, calling it "Uluru" privileges a bunch of people who lived near it for longer than that, the rock itself has no opinion (and also doesn't believe anything about ritual magic, property law, gender based taboos, or the tourist industry)

Now, John Carmack is a little different because John is a person and it is rude to use names people don't like. But it isn't impossible, it's just rude. Calling the previous President of the United States of America "Tangerine Palpatine" works just fine - we both know who I meant. In fact it's a little weird that our culture has parents assign to their children full legal names, only kinda-sorta making it possible for them to choose for themselves later, the Culture's habit of allowing children to pick one of their names as part of growing up seems better.
Nordic countries have had a really advanced electricity trading market for a long time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord_Pool

There are custom ERP:s for example that are developed for power companies.
Luckily we can find it on our favorite online library that goes by the name of a 2015 terminator movie.
Vector Supercomputers
If you are doing IO in a non-atomic manner (seems probable), it’s a matter of time before something happens and a file gets messed up. The frequency of that occurring is certainly a function of scale, but I would argue it’s always a bad idea to deal with your persistent state non-atomically.

Additionally, having a schema (even if it’s trivial) protects you from other software problems. It’s much easier to reason about upgrades. And more importantly, if your application complexity suddenly breaches the data complexity threshold where JSON files become a lot more difficult, you already have all the tools you could need at your disposal with SQLite.
In this tweet Steve shared link to "The Phones Show 436 (The End...)", probably the last his video[0]:

> A personal message for everyone who has watched my Phones Show over the last 16 years. Thanks all![0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMcbRDquTwQ
Fwiw I also received this email, even though I deleted my account (faced with the now infamous error message "something went wrong: A").

I did not receive a confirmation that my account was deleted, the only evidence of that is that I can't log in anymore.
You can also say this of software in general including operating systems.

Sure, the hardware and network are a miracle.

My 2 cents is that there is so much software to be written that most programmers are mediocre at what they do and/or their working environment makes it even more difficult to create efficient software systems.

Similar correlations to Government.
Twitter is an “online tech community”? I think we have different definitions of the term.

To elaborate, I think there’s too much non-tech people on social media for you to say that it’s a better representation of the “tech community” than HN. HN has at least some self-selection towards people who are interested in tech, whereas Twitter/FB/etc has way too much noise from non-tech uninformed crypto fetishists to say it’s representative of the “tech community”.

(That is not to say that non-tech people’s opinions don’t matter, or that twitter/FB/etc are not good places in general, but the subject of this thread of discussion is “what the tech community thinks of crypto/web3” and I don’t think “everyone on twitter” is great to use as a counter-example.)
So the 25yo with a wife and child finishes a book, signs with a publisher, and dies.

The book sells a million copies and the publisher refuses to pay the widow and child anything because the work is now in the public domain. Justice has been done?

I think a simple period of time, like 7 or 14 years, or even 50, makes more sense.
For Germany that boat has sailed. I personally would have preferred to shut down coal before nuclear, but now nobody is going to touch nuclear with a ten foot pole. There is simply no discussion. For any party a demand to build new nuclear plants is political suicide (even on the right wing).

It is hard to get any unbiased information on cost, but to me it seems that even today renewable + storage is cheaper than building nuclear (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levelized_cost_of_energy#/medi... ).

So there is neither the political option nor an economic case for nuclear. Other countries will be subsidizing nuclear and make different decisions. It will be interesting to watch, if France will be able to build nuclear reactors in time and on budget and if Germany will be able to keep the grid stable. Both approaches carry some risks.