skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is an advantage, but merely AN advantage. No different from the various advantages anyone has anywhere.

Just as their huge disadvantage, selectively overlooked in order to weave this tale of woe, was merely A disadvantage, no different from the various disadvantages anyone has anywhere.

This "cannot compete" pity party is pathetic. "They work harder than me and figured out something I didn't. It's so unfair!"

Even just the "on cost" part is invalid. Cost is just one variable of many, and may be offset or leveraged by many others. But even aside from that, just considering cost itself, income is just as context sensitive as cost. If you live somewhere where the developer has to be paid more, the customer is good for more in the same place.
Reagan wasn't popular by default. He was popular because he was a master at debate, charming people, and framing himself as President.

For example, Jimmy Carter never looked Presidential. For one, he encouraged people to call him "Jimmy" rather than "James". For another, he'd wear a sweater when giving speeches to the public.

People liked that Reagan wore a sharp suit and acted (yes, acted) the role of President.
If you want to hate on crypto, that's your prerogative but stop using the old, tired, false argument about money laundering. It is easier to launder money through the legacy financial system than through cryptocurrency. In fact, financial institutions and businesses do it all the time.
Unless you are touching something like threads or exceptions, you probably won't use classes unless it expresses your data best.

So yes, perfectly usable without OOP or classes.
Also, consider just using the filesystem with binary encoding. Serialize / deserialize directly from / to data structures. It is faster and simpler than any database you'll ever use, assuming you don't need the functionality a database provides.
Until they make it easy to bridge decentralized DNS queries with regular DNS even on mobile phones (without using a middleman) but apps that run and do this for users, then no web3 is not bringing decentralized email. Also, email providers would need to bridge decentralized DNS and it is in their interests not to. So Gmail, Outlook, etc which most companies have migrated to will not support it.
I'm certainly not going to argue that taking steroids makes one healthy. My point is health cannot be determined by measuring height and weight.
Applies to me - leaving enterprise infrastructure for crypto. I think the tech is mostly useless, but the hype is real, the VC dollars are real. I want to try to capitalize on this.
I used two steppers to turn the aperture and the focal length rings of the lens independently. Then, you can set the aperture ring to 1.4, 2.8, 5.6, 8, or 16 and then focus the image with the other ring/belt. Both rings or belts move independently. In the beginning, I used a calibration routine to identify the maximal or minimal position of the rings. Both limits are detected by moving the rings in both directions and measuring the stepper currents. When the stepper reaches a limit, a current peak is measured, and that gives me the minimal o maximal angle.
This guy sounds like he's fishing for attention, the phrase "I didn't think I would have the courage to share..." is something 10-year-olds think up for attention. It drips vanity and a covered ego the size of the Hindenburg.
Snopes have made lot of dubious and misleading claims on lab leak. Reality is the whole Acitvist Industrial Complex and many elites, who have financial ties w/ China including HN favorites like Apple and Amazon [3][4], are trying to regain control of the narrative they lost because of internet.

[1] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cruz-wuhan-tweet/

[2] https://www.snopes.com/news/2021/07/16/lab-leak-evidence/

[3] https://www.macrumors.com/2021/12/07/apple-ceo-tim-cook-secr...

[4] https://www.reuters.com/world/china/amazon-partnered-with-ch...
I deliberately post against the consensus on HN, and what you see is the result. I invite you to email Dang as I have, but I will not post the transcript of what began as a private conversation.
> The database will probably be redundant MSSQL and Oracle (just in case one technology is fundamentally broken)

Only one technology?
worked for me on Chrome / macOS Big Sur
In my experience, some progressives are authoritarian-ish, but the same can be said of conservatives. I don't think it's a property of the political belief itself as much as some people have an innate character trait that makes them very all or nothing and probably not just about politics. Those kind of people are probably fairly intolerable to begin with, but the last few years we (both liberals and conservatives) have given a pass to people with nightmarish personalities for some reason.
> In the German system, if your Ministry of Education is performing poorly, how would you effect change? Vote for a national party and hope that they have the will and political capital to fight an entrenched bureaucracy that will delay and fillibuster any attempt at reform?

You'd vote in the state elections which are every four to five years. As for the bureaucracy - if there is one thing we Germans are famous for, it's the neutrality of our apparatus. With the exception of the police and military (which tend to be more on the authoritarian right scale), it does not matter who is in government - there is no "deep state". All the people in the administration are not employees, they are state servants ("Beamte") who have sworn an oath on the Constitution and to observe political neutrality while carrying out their duties.

As for home schooling, this is actively distrusted in Germany because our education system is decently funded and the only ones actually wanting to homeschool are religious nutjobs.
> "adtech in everything"

Meaning what? This is technology to deliver advertising.

Where ads are placed has nothing to do with this story, and hasn't changed because of it.
Corporations build only things people want. Nothing less, nothing more. So if you want to fault somebody, sorry - it’s back to the people.
The flaw right now is that you guys believe that all online identity needs to be decoupled from the online identity. There are a couple things you guys dismiss or don't think about:

1. Contrary to systems such as the German one this identity system actually has a working upgrade and revokation path. The German one was is assuming that it's safe by design and the identity being fixed. The German ID keys don't have a revokation system and they don't expire either.

2. The baltic system has expiry's on these private keys. They are authenticated against your physical government issued ID with background checks being done by the current existing police/interpol infrastructure.

These private keys are not isolated from your identity. You receive them from government institutions that use the exist physical identity infrastructure.

The problem with people here is that they want the digital identity to be completely self contained. I get that sentiment and I don't disagree with it, but it's a completely different goal from what is being solved here.

This solves - in a much better fashion - what a lot of "crypto" fanatics want governments to use.
Cave's role was just bizarre. As the movie starts you hear an Australian voice reading out a letter, so I wondered who the Australian connection in Wain's life was. Then much later you see Nick Cave reading out the letter, looking and sounding like Nick Cave, but evidently supposed to be HG Wells. Very weird casting, even in a movie mostly about madness. It just didn't work at all, I thought. That was the one thing in the movie that stuck out as strange/bad. I've no idea what they were thinking.
Thanks for confirming. Sorry for the crudeness.
Thank you! global-map did the trick for me, though I seem to have tried it a few years ago without success: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29726398#29731027
You overestimate what AI means in terms of marketing. If a site owner doesn't markup their site properly, then that could also be the cause of issues like this. Do you really expect Alexa to be "smart" enough to understand human logic like an actual human, or do you not see that AI can basically mean Alexa goes to the web, does a search and parses markup from a website to the best of its ability and they call it AI? Some people care about the technicalities and others just want it to work perfectly, but I think the people that care about the technicalities are more realistic than just wanting something to be the way they think it should be.
To err requires a computer. To really foul things up requires ansible.
> The media largely only showed the video of George Floyd being knelt on, not him freaking out about not being able to breathe before that happened.

Are you implying that restricting someone's breathing by kneeling on them would somehow be less bad if that person was already complaining of breathing difficulty?
youtube demonetizes videos that use language that advertisers do not wish to be associated with.

so, arguably less about offending viewers and more about keeping the advertising revenues flowing
I think it's just the sad state of the corporate structure at the moment. If a manager requested and got a budget to fix said bug to his superiors, it's his ass that's on the line if things don't work as planned. If same manager said "it's not our fault things don't work" nothing happens to him. Hopefully when the current generation of managers gets replaced they'll be replaced by those that actually understand FOSS and can incentivize fixing these issues. But as it stands everyone, including the shareholders of these big companies, suffer from poorly designed corporate incentives that let FOSS projects stay unmaintained.
I've found a good strategy is to focus on the game, not the engine. That is, don't go in hoping to write the be-all and end-all of game engines. Instead, sketch out a game that you would like to play and build as much engine as you need to support just that game.

It's easy to build an engine and then spend an eternity bikeshedding it to accommodate all sorts of games, while not actually writing any games. What you should be doing is focusing on getting a game out there, and letting the engine serve this goal and only this goal. Any engine work that doesn't directly contribute to a specific game reaching completion should be postponed or cancelled altogether.

I know because I used to be That Guy, the one who was going to write the awesomest game engine ever and use it to build awesome games. But the engine code seemed to get in the way of building games, and changing it took up a lot of time. So I pivoted to just writing a damn game, from scratch, and that so much better that the engine I wrote to run this one game was even awesomer than my universal engine.
> Flickr was perfectly fine for years after the Yahoo! buyout that really made no change besides mandating the usage of a Yahoo! account to log in
> The real damage came later.

That was the real damage: once Yahoo! bought them, things stagnated except for when they made it worse. The rest of the market didn't stand still while they were by all accounts fighting internal political battles.
It's highly desirable for -7/2 to equal -4, since this lets integer division by powers of two be exactly equivalent to a two's complement arithmetic right shift. In a C mindset, rounding toward zero is pretty much an objectively wrong holdover from before we knew better.
Some of the largest software companies have always been adtech companies. Google getting into cloud computing is similar to Microsoft expanding into advertising. Software/hardware/internet services all collide into similar end offerings for these megacaps.
My guess is that Cray/HPE does not want to set a precedent where they actually PAY the developers. They want to cheaply "work with" the community to get things done.
Isn't the issue here that they're declining to sell extra? And energy companies normally contract for about half their customers need and buy the rest on the spot or near spot market?
> I bet most people in Marin County rarely see a black person and certainly never poor people.

By the California Poverty Measure, Marin has fairly similar poverty rate to the state overall: https://www.ppic.org/publication/poverty-in-california/

Even by the FPL, which doesn't take into account for local or even regional CoL, Marin has twice as many poor people as black people (which it has about half as large a share as the state as a whole), so even if no one ever left their home county, you’d have your insults backwards.
> It's a ponzi-scheme if there's no value behind the hype

But what's the value ?

I am still after a few years now trying to understand what it actually is.
> in this case

In which case, Web3? If so, I don't think the market is prepped at all, I don't really see people using it for what proponents say it'll be used for. If some other case, please elucidate me, I'm not sure what you're referring to otherwise.
Show HN: Sish – Tunnels to localhost using SSH
After never being totally happy with Ubuntu or Pop!_OS and flip-flopping between them and Windows 10, I eventually decided to try Fedora. It has been great, and I have no interest in trying anything else.
Thank you. People are so full of shit, thinking they can spot anything as being fake.. or knowing his intentions. There just isn't enough information yet.
a good point there! ;) No, it doesn't.
BTW, Obama, Trump, and Biden all were very careful to present themselves while campaigning as Presidential. They all wore sharp, well tailored suits, and took pains to stand up straight. I bet they all got coaching in body language.
no, those are not analogous at all. knowability is literally a subset of all knowledge, which pushes into a void that expands faster than we can enumerate. it's hubris to think otherwise.
Seems useless given the existing clauses with the disclaimer of warranty and limitation of liability.
I like how the melodic line is the backing track to you. This instrument would be the backing track of the music.
NFTs, Net Neutrality, & Emotional Reactions to Technology
o Why did he hike to the crash site to where all the GoPro memory cards were, and where all the flight controls were still set to where they were when he baile---Ooooh.

Yeah. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO.
You can use Aurora store to download and install almost any play store app.
It's funny in the abstract. It's not so funny when the implication/connotation is to light a fire under the ass of FOSS maintainers.

That's how I read it at least.
This is a common tactic of left wing media. They use rhetorical tricks to mislead the audiences. Lab leak has been tarred as conspiracy theory because of political and financial gains through very dubious rhetorical tricks.

[1] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cruz-wuhan-tweet/

[2] https://www.snopes.com/news/2021/07/16/lab-leak-evidence/
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The strongest tell for me was that he hiked first to the crashed plane. The broken plane isn't going to save him, ergo, by going there first he suggests he knows he knows that he does not need saving. The second tell is he didn't show the part where he declared a mayday to air traffic control, or radio anybody. Either it didn't happen, or the exchange explains why he knew he needed to hike rather than wait. The third is where he encounters the driver at the end and buries the lede-- plane crash-- instead making it sound at first like an emergency landing.
Sure, not all of the output of the "fact checker" article mill has been awful. I think Trump was a bad guy who lied a lot (and Obama, and Bush, and on and on).

I find it really obnoxious when these articles are really quite ideological and opinionated, but still use the verbage of "checking the facts". The thing I most take issue with is if something is "mostly false" because a public figure looked at an issue in a way that you don't think is the best way for society to look at an issue. That is an opinion, and to call it "fact checking" is pure ideology.

And that is not to say that opinions are trivial or personal observations, less important than facts. There's a lot of bullshit in politics, and you'd be absolutely right and doing a service to call it all out as bullshit, and give your reasoning.
I know you're referring to the tendency of many Youtubers to not shut up, but every streamer I've seen has invariably had as part of their setup the "massive drink" in large part because incessant talking requires heavy liquid consumption. So I actually imagine most YouTubers are actually aware that talking is not the wisest idea in a dehydration scenario...
BMI is for measuring normal humans, not rocks
> users who are ok with an outage and data loss

It depends on how you couch it. Working with large fleets of cloud servers has jaded us (well, me) into forgetting just how high you can get the uptime of a single server or well-managed VM if you're careful.

Sure, power cords get tripped over and hardware fails sometimes, but I'd imagine a lot of users who do care about reliability are making totally reasonable judgements that single points of failure in their systems are acceptable if the SPOFs are hardened and the oh-shit plan (restoring from a VM snapshot in this example) is something that they have confidence in.

Heck, given the availability issues that arise from the complexity of redundant/HA systems, I think there are probably plenty of seasoned enterprise customers who prefer hardened SPOFs managed by experts over distributed systems, especially once the dimension of cost enters into the discussion.
do_stuff(bar) if condition
Foo.do_something unless qux.empty?

This stuff is pretty common in ruby if it's short & clear.
The Collatz Conjecture: Finding Structure in the Randomness
Are there people using bots to play this? I played in one of the 100 player matches and the top players were just ridiculous.
"I see OOP as a heresy in general"

Rndm_access, I know everyone is entitled to their opinion, but can I probe a bit on this?

Can you tell us about the largest code base you feel productive in?
How about the largest code base you love?

How many lines of code are they? How many active developers do those code bases have (i.e. developers with weekly commits)?

Do you have trouble staffing new engineers?

Thanks for any reply given.
You mean someone gives you $8k in exchange for $9k? Still not fraud. A bad deal you’d be stupid to take, but what is fraudulent about it?

I’m not sure you understand what the word fraud means.
No need to constrain yourself to FOL! Why not use some weird non-classical logic? ;-) Joking aside, rules engines typically use some form of defeasible reasoning, i.e., some not fully formalized non-monotonic logic, and it seems to be a pointless task to formalize everything. Still, I think that even from a practical perspective, looking at them through a formal lens can potentially help improve them, see this paper for an example: http://www.inf.unibz.it/~calvanese/papers/calv-etal-IS-2018.....
True, but LineageOS is my choice...
You send it via courier company and after 2001 you can bet they are tracking and recording it.
ShareX fits the bill. Also a fantastic screenshot tool. And will auto upload to tons of different online services, your own services, or just store locally.
I'm putting together a paper to better explain some of my findings around the Collatz Conjecture. Would love to get some thoughts around the approach. Note that this is a work in progress, but I think that we may be able to find a formula to generate the binary tree I mention in this paper!

My goal is to present a well thought out explanation as to why I believe there is a strong connection between the order of the odd integers within collatz sequences.

Also, I created a discord for discussion around the Collatz Conjecture. Feel free to join up!

https://discord.gg/k2ZCsayGaj
My parents have a Samsung "smart" TV and it's hilariously bad - everything from the abysmal interface, the appalling control mechanisms right down to the input lag. Half the apps they want to watch stuff on aren't available on their TV because it's 3 years old. I bought them an Apple TV for xmas (mainly so they can watch Ted Lasso) and they were blown away - even at the simple fact that the home screen keeps track of what you're watching and new episodes show up there automatically. It's lightyears ahead of any "smart" TV I've ever seen.
Both. A lot of people are on HN. There's also a big demographic overlap between pilots and HN readers. So, lots of pilots on HN. Source: pilot turned software engineer in San Francisco.
unrelated to the topic, but it's always amazed me that Zimbardo made his career on an unethical study that would never pass a review board now (the Stanford Prison experiment)
I believe Ruby and OCaml have both anonymous positional arguments and keyword arguments with punning (i.e. `f ~arg` expands to `f ~arg:arg` in OCaml).
I'm not a pilot so I have no clue what is or isn't understandable. But based upon what other pilots are saying, it appears to not be a reasonable reaction in this case.

Beyond that, if you're flying an airplane, I think you have some responsibility to not jump out at the first sign of trouble.
Ah, I disagree. Saying "F2018 conformance will be fixed" implies that the GCC acknowledges "F2018 conformance" is a thing that needs to worked be on and not just a ruse by Bill to get free work done.

The maintainers responded well: they ignored Bill's weird framing and countered his entitlement politely.
The Rittenhouse trial. A section of media was successful in making it all about racism.
Startup Idea: A radio replacement based on podcasts
You act like people that struggle with reading aren't capable of making a decision between usually only two candidates. Seriously, a 6th grade has enough brain capacity to vote in American politics. Also, schools do teach literacy but a lot of funding gets sent to private schools and suburbs while large inner city schools get underfunded. There are also racial issues, where people of other races have continued to be impacted economically from past issues with race and so they end up being sent to schools in low-income areas where literacy rates are worse. I don't think the issue is soley on teachers, but I can tell you firsthand that many teachers just stopped trying with COVID-19 and didn't follow up to ensure kids were progressing.
There's certain things in life, that it makes sense to 'consume' or 'own' outright... cellphones, tv, computers.

Then there's things that dumbfound me why we 'own' them... Power drills, tools, and a plethora of other things that take up space in our homes.

Imagine if every street in America had a warehouse w/ an employeed caretaker in charge of basically renting out power tools, ATVs, Jetski's, camping supplies, and they were networked w/ other warehouses to find items that are needed when they're out of stock locally.

Houses could be built smaller because you don't need to store so much wasteful shit.

i'd like to build this myself on a homestead-like intentional community/eco-village near Zion National Park someday when have the $$ for the land. (if anyone wants to donate - emails' in profile).

We definitely can tackle some consumerism, a lot we can't. People are greedy, not everyone is gonna sacrifice - making it easier TO sacrifice though can definitely help. Easier to share, recycle, etc...

Think of all the things in storage facilities across America that are things that people use infrequently that could be rented out, or loaned out, and actually utilized so somebody else doesn't need to buy it and require additional manufacturing of a product thus wasting resources...
Reversible vs. Irreversible Decisions