skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not computer game, but this happened to me with Audible. I don’t have that many gmail addresses (2), and neither of them apparently own any books, even though I once had 20+ books.

I’m not getting that sh*t again.
Last time I used a check was about 15 years ago. And that was after moving to the UK in 2000 and having roughly the reaction above to even being given a checkbook. I'd never had a checking account before as that had stopped being a thing most people had back in the 1980s in Norway. When I got my first "adult" bank account in the 90s my bank didn't offer it even as an option to personal customers any more.

Just to give you an idea how quaint it seems to many of us to hear about checks.
Yes you can use your card at the pump. Just look up what people do in the US with credit cards from your country. It's going to be something like 00000, or another number in your address, or the numbers in your postal code plus extra digits.

Plus you can pay inside, as others said, or do contactless at the pump with your saved card in the phone and you won't get asked.

Sorry you had a bad experience, but this is google-able...
That's exactly what they are doing. Sending money to their own wallets to make it seem more genuine. I did see some analysis being performed on those wallets in the past years.
Microsoft Edge is the top downloaded package on macOS Homebrew
"Dave, this conversation can serve no purpose any more. Goodbye."
Not the parent, but evidence was pretty easy to find[0]. fastapi comes in around 250-300th place in most of the benchmarks. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[0] https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks
In smaller companies (where C-level doesn't exist) this works similarly where directors/owners just have to deal with stuff outside of normal hours because somebody has to. Just because they do and have skin in the game, doesn't mean they expect the employees to respond to anything.

Slack helped a lot by making scheduling messages for the next day really simple and not notifying out of hours by default. Outlook could really improve its UX around that functionality - you can schedule messages right now, but it's pretty much hidden.
> There’s nothing selfish about not wearing a mask if vaccines are safe and effective.

If you really want to parrot that line, the very least you need to do is get informed about the issue you're trying to discuss.

Vaccines are safe and effective in training your immune system to handle a COVID-19 infection. That's how vaccines work. They are not, nor they ever were, a silver bullet that stops everyone from catching the disease and transmitting it to everyone the come across.

To put it very clearly and unambiguously to you, vaccines don't stop the virus from spreading, they only improve your chances of not dying from it.

Also, it's disingenuous to pretend that the current generation of vaccines, which was developed for the original Wuhan strain, also have the same effectiveness against subsequent strains such as the Delta and now Omicron strains.

Your blend of vocal ignorance is tiring. It feels like you're arguing in bad faith. A brief one-minute read on the topic is enough to clear up any possible misconception regarding the topic. Is that too much to ask?
Sadly the data from my city does not include everything (even their own GIS system is missing heaps of stuff or even has wrong or ambigious data) so importing from the city still leaves quite a lot of gaps that has to be filled in other ways. One example is my home city. My city's GIS data has no idea of houses just sections. So you may have a property that has been divided up into several sub sections with their own houses. In many cases the city data only has data for the parent property and assigns all the relevant data e.g. house numbers to one location. This results in one large property having multiple street numbers assigned to one fixed location (usually in the middle of the whole lot). I've had to fix this (by splitting up the street numbers so they are each correctly mapped to each house) quite a few times in OSM because of bad city data. This issue is also present in the city's own GIS map so that's how I know it's the city at fault—it's actually not always possible to determine the correct house number using their own data. I can see why may actually be more efficient to just skip the city data and get better data via other means.
> I'm guessing he didn't reserve it

perhaps, although he said "booked" 3 times.
> .a language x written in language y cannot by definition be faster than language y

That's not true - ITYM "A byte-code interpreted runtime X written in language Y cannot be faster than Y"[1]

[1] Although some would say that that is wrong too.
I've heard one semi plausible theory so far.. but take it with a huge grain of salt because of the theorists reputation.

Peter McCullough in his recent Joe Rogan interview suggested it may be due to the mRNA vaccines nano lipids. He said the heart, brain, and reproductive organs are "sponges" for the nano lipids. Thus these organs are getting exposed to more spike proteins than else where in the body. The damage from spike proteins is otherwise well documented.

2 questions we can use to vet this: 1. are there significant cardiovascular differences between genders, and 2. Do we see significantly more myocarditis in Pfizer vs astrazeneca.

Other than that I don't have enough medical knowledge to dispute it, but no one seems to have picked up on it in the medical community.

If it's not something that can be quickly dismissed on first principles then I think it would an interesting area to study.
Ask HN: Question from self-taugh developer, my app is slow. What do I do now?
I built a web app. To be precise, it is a web app inside Wechat ( I am in China).

Every day there is around 200 users, and it generates me some ramen profit.

Users report that my web app is sometimes slow.

I know that there are many plausible causes. But before I jump into the rabbit hole, I want to ask for your kind advice.

What is your mental framework to deal with such a problem?

FYI, my app:

- is built with NodeJS

- ran on a cloud server with 2 core CPU, 2G Ram, and 1M bandwidth

- is a CRUD app

I have learned about building apps from the web, mostly from Udemy and Youtube. Someone has told me to not worry about performance. `Make it work, then make it better`.

Now that I have learned how to make it work, how can I learn how to make it better? Do you have any links or materials to share?

Thanks a lot.
But you can.
I don't think a lot of it exists yet, to be honest. Python 3.10's been a game changer when it comes to new patterns and idioms, and I don't think the dust has settled yet.
verification signatures don't use the blockchain, this is just public private key cryptography the same as PGP. the blockchain, for this purpose, just helped proliferate a standard application of that in a few years, where PGP failed at that for 25 years and counting as it has stayed very niche. many Web3 services use this for determining a user, or even accepting terms and conditions, while logging them in.

the client and the server would be checking nearest nodes for the latest block height. so any mismatch would prevent the user from keeping a snapshot of an old blockchain state as the max height would be too different.

it is also easy to disconnect a user if the assets moved when reading the current blockheight. many web3 applications just keep a websocket open to several nodes, this is boilerplate code at this point. reading from a blockchain is free. many services already check for onchain tokens to enable or disable access, for several years now. you can try gaming them to trick for access and see if you find anything.
Web browsers are one of the most poorly designed applications in existence. It's not surprising that such complex applications trying to do everything possible have vulnerabilities. But in no way that should serve as a benchmark for C as being inherently unsafe when far more important systems like databases, operating systems, system libraries are written in c just fine. Most of the common vulnerabilities in general are due to unnecessary complexity of systems that lend themselves to poor programming practices, configuration errors, low calibre programmers, etc (OWASP list for example). Memory safety vulnerabilities tend to just get more attention since they are in critical parts of a system, hard to exploit and so attracts highly sophisticated exploits that affect us at a nation state or industry level. If these systems were written in high languages by those high level developers, I'd go nowhere near any computer system.
This is new to me. But even if it's true, it still requires a lot of energy to produce the chip and then apply the waste management you mention.

The best waste is the one that does not exist.
It cost me almost half a million dollars over 6 years to defend myself against a lawsuit that would have otherwise been dismissed had it genuinely been the case that non-competes were unenforceable by statute.

The commencement of the lawsuit:

https://www.so-co-it.com/post/222748/orbixa-technologies-sui...

The settlement:

https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/jitneytrade-inc-announ...

For the most part that settlement happened because the company suing me went bankrupt and its successor didn't feel like continuing to pay legal fees for a case they knew they would lose. Ordinarily I'd be able to recoup legal fees, but I was advised that recouping fees from a bankrupt entity is all but impossible.
>Maybe neural nets will become the data compressors of tomorrow?

Long a topic of research, with many interesting ramifications: https://ai.googleblog.com/2016/09/image-compression-with-neu... In analogy to standard compression techniques, you can think of the neural net as a very large "dictionary".

For text compression, there is of course the famous Hutter Prize, launched in 2006: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutter_Prize ("Prediction is the golden key that opens all locks". Compressing each byte of wikipedia text is equivalent to predicting it-- to compactly represent its knowledge is to understand it.)
Oh man, I hope something like this hits New York soon.

One of my biggest frustrations when working at Apple was how awful and draconian their non-compete was. California law protects Californians a bit in this regard, but I was working out of New York, and as a result those protections didn’t apply to me.
The Lucira test is in my opinion a bit more interesting:

https://aseq.substack.com/p/inside-the-lucira-check-it-covid

They include an STM32, but the instrument is performing an Isothermal PCR molecular test which makes the inclusion of a microcontroller a requirement.

Obviously throwing out electronics like this seems quite wasteful. But overall our society is fairly wasteful when it comes to disposable electronics.
Yes, it can be. I am lucky and very fortunate in that I have found places to live where I can be myself and am around people who value that even though they may not understand me or the way I live.
Receipts aren't proof of ownership in a world where re-selling or trade-ins are possible (as IMO they should be, as they are with physical items).
People would have separate accounts for each game to prevent losing everything.

It becomes a long serial number that anyone who knows can transfer to another account.

But it wouldn't make sense to pay to transfer it over ($60-$300 gas fees) on an under $60 game.

I can see some real issues with your approach.

NFTs can't be used for products under a few hundred if you want to leverage the value as insurance.
Great point regarding Africa vs hypervaccinated Israel. However I am unfamiliar with what you mean by OAS.
Yeah I found the fact that Apple removed Tumblr for explicit content and not Reddit or Twitter to be completely arbitrary.

People usually don’t like governments picking winners and losers, and so they shouldn’t like companies doing so.
In what sense? In many popular languages (Perl/Python/Ruby/...) all code loading is dynamic. Java does have more of a built in RMI framework than most languages, but it's rarely used in modern code.
Thanks for the hint. I found this:

Twitch VOD Track – Exclude Music from your Twitch VODs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwnD3tjhPO4
Getting injected/exposed/transfected with the vaccine.
I’m not a…rustafarian?…but we didn’t get as cross when C# was mentioned above, in a thread about Java and C. In fact it’s top comment at my time of reading.
None of that is going to be used the way you want it to.

You know what NFTs are REALLY gonna be used for in the gaming space? Digital property ownership of in-game assets that remit value back to the publisher whenever these fake goods get traded.

People are pretending that all these good things are gonna come out of smart contracts and tokens, when the reality is that the most useful thing to come out of them is going to be rent-seeking by digital creators.

Ubisoft isn't going to throw your ownership of a video game on the blockchain, and even if they did, their license and their service governs whether you have access to the game, not a token.
Back when I worked in SF and would end up frequently drinking to excess socially I took NAC+Thiamin for hangover mitigation.

It worked surprisingly well for that, and I didn't notice any negatives.
I really appreciate that the article has a "Different" section for things that are different from, but not necessarily better or worse than, other programming languages.

This is also a very good summary, and tracks with my own experience getting into Lua for Neovim scripting.
In the Lucira test is a bit more justifiable it's a full molecular test, with built in controls, better accuracy than lateral flow. The optics is pretty neat too:

https://aseq.substack.com/p/inside-the-lucira-check-it-covid
Thank you, I’m quite interested, I read as much as I can about it as obviously if it is real it’s quite serious.

The first graph in the first link exemplifies the problems I have with CC evidence, the data presented goes back a long time but not far enough to when we know CO2 was higher.

While it does not outright lie it tailors the data to create the impression that it hasn’t been higher. It’s like when graphs don’t have the axis at zero to exaggerate the differences.

For such a serious topic I would expect less disengenous presentation of the data.

Overall, not your links, but the totality of what I’ve read over the years, I get the feeling of being asked to make a decision based on reading advocacy pieces rather than a summary of the available information regardless of what conclusion it points to.

edit: upon re checking the first link I see the graph is also not centered on zero, again to exaggerate the differences between pre-industrial Revolution and now.
This makes a good case for decentralization no? Imagine all those items in the blockchain, you can leave for years knowing you can retrieve them anytime. The only con at the point is if you lose your keys.

Reminds me of some friends who had Bitcoin and “forgot” about it and only to come back with massive profits.
$5000 for 3 days in minivan? Was Uber XL not an option?
Evidence: asyncio based DB bindings are rare and not well supported.
Are you using fcc approved modules with the csr chips or the bare chips? I'd be interested in a really cheap bluetooth capable microcontroller. I plan to use the nrf52805 for my next product due to the low cost.
There was a massive spike in rental prices this year since the rental companies in the US sold a good portion of their fleets when covid hit and travel disappeared. When travel started to come back, the rental companies discovered that they couldn't buy new cars due to supply chain issues. The result were prices in the $100-$500+ range in popular destinations. It's gotten a bit more reasonable recently.
The age of dynasties is over; the 1990s tech billionaires will achieve immortality and in 150 years, the very same people will own everything.
Right. Taking it a step further, maybe the users could actually transfer the assets to unique addresses that are their friends, and send it back when a different friend wants to play. Would only take a few seconds, or a few minutes. Like assuming there are session checking that already exists, the friends could would have their unique id due to their unique address, but have the same gear or game access.

A unique mitigation could be to raise the barrier of sharing, like not only could you check for NFT ownership, you could look for a purchase transaction on an NFT marketplace. So now the friends would need capital to wash trade that, and they'd have to beat the bots looking for low value bids, and they would have to unnecessarily pay for transaction fees.

Not advocating for that, but oh well the idea is out there now.
Django itself.

Really, django is the framework to read if you are into Python.
$750k of coverage is crazy good. Most auto insurance isn't that good (e.g. my insurance is good and covers up to $300k per incident, $100k per person.) If you're not making national news, you're not accumulating $750k of liability. I'd be surprised if you had that coverage for your day-to-day driving without buying a supplemental umbrella policy.

Turo actually charges a hefty premium for the $750k policy: https://support.turo.com/hc/en-us/articles/203991150-Summary...

Most Turo renters are going to pay for one of the cheaper plans, which are 25-40% the cost of the $750k policy and only cover the state minimums. You can read the state minimums here to see how much smaller they are than $750k. https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/insurance/minimum-car-ins...
As it happens, My neighbor in my apartment building is literally a social worker who drives a BMW.
> I would disagree that there is a side that doesn’t believe in American values.

As an outsider, one of the US's core values is democracy and the democratic process.

Given the current push to undermine it, and the recent coup attempt intended to overthrow a democratically elected representative to install an authoritarian despot, and given the current level of support given to this dictatorial push, I have to say that from an outsider's perspective one side of America's political establishment clearly does not believe in American values.
'Heating or eating' – Why more Brits are turning to food banks
These articles always describe the arithmetic of compound interest; I would be very interested if instead they read “I made 2 million dollars over time. Here is what my childhood, personality, family and friends were like.”. I think the mere fact of how someone -identifies- and prioritizes things at a young age account for 95% of these outcomes, and the arithmetic of investing maybe 5.
There are "tourists," well-off people who "slum" as social workers or on projects.

Managers can also do well.

And then there are the fraudsters.
I bought my current car second-hand from a dealer. The best interest rate I could get by far was the line-of-credit loan I already had for my house. I bought the car on my credit card and eventually paid for it with the loan. Automatically done by the bank, of course. Even handling cash feels slightly old-fashioned to me.
You might try Great Big War Game on mobile. It's simple, but fun.

Also, did you ever get into Tank War style games? I used to love Worms.
Liability for medical costs or other costs combined with renting out an expensive supercar? People are putting ferraris, lamborghinis, and similar cars on Turo and a write off on one of those cars can easily hit 300-400k.
Do you mouse with your left hand?
tl;dr: do you put your mouse on the left, regardless of your 'handedness'?

I'm right handed [note 1] but have put the mouse on the left for more years than I want to say.

When mousen were new, my gripe was, "now I need to flop back and forth from the mouse to the Enter/Arrow/etc" cluster, and that's <whine>Just Too Hard</whine>". Then I found that if the mouse is left of the keyboard, under the left hand, here we go!

Never looked back.

Upside: Two-handed driving: (example) websites: bigscale navigation with the mouse, fine tuning with the arrows, and no need to switch hands.

Downside: (example) On Other People's Machines, fancy mousen that are RH-specific don't work when playing "pass the keyboard (and mouse) [note 2]".

Not sure: "It feels natural": So many years that it's only anecdotal.

I seem to see (or used to, pre-Covid!) that left-mousing (regardless of other aspects of 'handedness') is a minority preference.

So, the question: if you have explored this, what has been your experience?

Notes:

[note 1]
I have parents and siblings who are left-handed, but I am "right-handed" based on Intertubes(tm) questionnaires, and day-to-day preferences (knife&fork, etc). I guess that there could be some flexibility from that genetic inheritance.

[note 2]
I don't use a 'left handed' mouse (it's a vanilla symmetric thing, and cheap!), and I don't swap the buttons (so, all I need to do at the library/kiosk is pull the cable to the other side). I see this as important: maintain 'lowest common denominator' compatibility.
I think in this scenario it's totally germane to mention Rust because the problem described in the linked post is exactly the problem that Rust was designed to solve: providing sufficiently precise control over low-level runtime behavior that you never hit a "sorry, it's not possible to do that optimization in this language" situation, while still (arguably? hopefully?) qualifying as a "higher-level language" in the relevant sense. In particular, every problem with Java that the post describes has a straightforward solution in Rust, and this kind of thing is why Rust exists instead of, e.g., Mozilla just rewriting Firefox in an existing managed language with a garbage collector.

That being said, GP seems to imply that Rust should be the default choice for basically every problem, which goes way too far. Not every application needs this kind of low-level control. Maybe even most don't (although I look forward to a future where it's easy to drop into Rust from a managed language when you hit a performance wall; I think this has been mostly achieved for Python, but not yet for other languages). But some do, and it sure sounds like Git's one of them.
Could have sworn I saw this submission 4 days ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Svetlitski

The timestamps next to the two oldest replies make it seem like they were more recently submitted, too. But I think they are 4 days old.

Seems like the title should be "Lua: Good, Different, Bad and Ugly Parts" as there is a fourth section, preceding "Bad", in the blog post called "Different".

Language wonks can endlessly dismiss Lua as a programming language, but it continues to be "embdedded in", i.e., used to extend, useful network applications, e.g., dnsdist, haproxy, nmap. To learn to use the application to its fullest, one has to learn some Lua.
I don't think that's correct. If you disconnect your xbox from the net, the game will still be installed (from the disc), and you'll be able to play it. Everything will still work after the Xbox store shuts down. You just won't get any updates or DLC.
“Does my C compiler generate better code than HotSpot?” is a different question than “could I conceivably write a better code generator from scratch, in any language?”
If everyone could become a doctor then doctors would simply be poor.

Of course, the number of new doctors per year is capped, so not everyone can be a doctor.
Jupyter notebooks does it the way I prefer the most.l: It renders italics, bolds headings and whatnot as you edit but keeps showing the tags.