skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>In Romania thousands of unarmed people stormed the seat of government and that led to the overthrow of the government.

Wikipedia says[0] it was "the only violent overthrow of a communist government". Violent does not sound unarmed to me, since punches and kicks only take you so far.

"As anti-government protesters demonstrated in Timișoara in December 1989, he perceived the demonstrations as a political threat and ordered military forces to open fire on 17 December, causing many deaths and injuries. The revelation that Ceaușescu was responsible resulted in a massive spread of rioting and civil unrest across the country.[3] The demonstrations, which reached Bucharest, became known as the Romanian Revolution—the only violent overthrow of a communist government in the course of the Revolutions of 1989"

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_Ceau%C8%99escu

>The U.S. is not the most militarized government in the world.

https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2021/07/the-united-states-spends-m...

>It’s fascinating that you think Republicans jurors are not a thing in D.C.

It is a thing. It's also a thing that an average Republican in Texas and an average Republican in NY or DC are not quite the same. Even if we put forward the very unlikely premise that they are super MAGA Republican, peer pressure is a thing. Simply going by the numbers, chances are a significant chunk of their friends and family are Democrats, and it's not like an average person can easily hide they were on a jury. Also, consider how many juries there would be for that many defendants, will no one be convicted?
I have received conflicting advice from various respected sources on ideal team size. During my time at Amazon, frugality and the inability to acquire and retain talent kept my team small with open reqs the entire time I was there. On the opposite end, I was in charge of product of a Hollywood studio backed venture that went seeking additional capital from Sand Hill Road VCs. A combination of clout and curiosity got us meetings with a lot of top names. At a meeting with Khosla Ventures, Vinod Khosla asked if our whole team was the meeting. Around the table was myself, our COO, our CTO, the very famous head of the studio, our CFO, our head of cloud and a couple of engineers. Our COO proudly said "Why no, there are 35 more employees back in Los Angeles. Vinod told him that our head count was about 35 too many and went on to explain his reasoning. I received some very good wisdom, but sadly the advice wasn't taken and the discussion on the private jet back to LA was about why our actual head count was too small and why Khosla was wrong. The company was eventually acquired by Yahoo, which perhaps was a fitting fate for not taking some good advice.
I thought you were being serious until I got to this bit: "please contact our billing department by fax"
I left python around the times of 2/3 drama, are nonlocal and global not there anymore?
I Switched from Firefox to Brave After 21 Years
If you're just looking for a single column, then as zamfi mentioned, cut does the job:

$ paste <(printf "a\nb\nc\n") <(printf "1\n2\n3\n") | cut -f2
1
2
3

It makes sense that "cut" and "paste" would be inverse operations, but too bad that GUIs repurposed these words for clipboard operations.

But awk can do both, and does so in a single pass:

$ paste <(printf "a\nb\nc\n") <(printf "1\n2\n3\n") | awk '{ print $1 > "letters"; print $2 > "numbers" }'
$ cat letters
a
b
c
$ cat numbers
1
2
3
It also seems chronologically wrong since a woman who is middle-aged today would have been in the prime age group for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
> SerpAPI: Scrape Google and other search engines from our fast, easy, and complete API.

Does anyone know how this works behind the scenes at scale? How do they get around Google trying to stop their scraping attempts? Just lots of proxies and some way around captcha challenges?
The Many Sockets of via CPUs
> What is the benefit to the average user of running their own server?

All the server-side use cases you can't do with a client alone. I think you misunderstood my comment; I'm not saying that running your own email server is easy, nor that it's hard but still worth it; I'm saying that the fact that it's too hard to be worth doing is a statement about the software that exists today, not some sort of immutable feature of the universe.

Anyway, that's the wrong question. The right one is: what new software would we make if everyone had their own server? The answer is, I dunno, but the hardware is good enough to find out; a cheap virtual server costs about as much as a streaming service, and quite a bit less than a mobile plan. It's well within reach for everyone in America to have their own VPS running their own email server. They don't, because Gmail is way easier, but that would cease to be true if we had better software. And, once there were a few server-side apps that were actually good, we'd probably make more (just as the advent of smartphones led to a lot of new use cases that would've been difficult to imagine before they were commonplace).
> This might suggest that decentralization itself is not actually of immediate practical or pressing importance to the majority of people downstream

This is exactly what I've heard from lay investors in crypto (vs the techno utopians pushing crypto as the world's decentralized medium of exchange).

The lay investors welcome the centralization and the regulation of off ramps as they feel it will bring more traditional financial instruments trust and relative stability to crypto, thereby bringing in even more common investors. They see its value as a gold replacement and inflation hedge.

Their agenda is quite at odds with the original anarcho-capitalist vision of cryptocurrency, as they aren't interested undermining existing institutional structures (which they are themselves reliant on).
>> At the risk of displaying my ignorance and lack of knowledge about this area, one part I found very familiar in this article is that the action interactions in his apps didn't actually interact with the blockchain, but essentially with two centralized services.

Absolutely correct. Extremely flawed reasoning regarding blockchains and web3 on Moxie's part. He actually created more confusion than enlightenment.
The lounge-suit example is so much more specific than the topic at hand, that's just a farcical comparison. Any sort of broad logic will break down if you try and stretch it 1:1 to more narrow situations.
Unity (the popular game engine) use C# as the programming language. Search “unity tutorials” and you will find a wealth of info about not just unity but game development in general.
Our first idea was to help homeowners create lifelong revenue streams by building ADUs

If I recall correctly quite a few HN commenters pointed out how dystopian it was to turn middle class people into landlords by building poverty shacks in their back yards. Very happy to see the company has pivoted to a business model that's less depressing.
There's a great quote in the XP book that boils down to, "Never follow any rule or practice thoughtlessly. The important thing is understanding WHY you pair program, or TDD, or use CI/CD." If you have a Jenkins pipeline but are getting none of the benefits of CI, then there's really no point in having it. Same goes for any practice or tool.
How to Select a Cloud Vendor
I've inadvertently made captchas worse for myself (in the interest of privacy). My current method of simply not visiting the site has been working well enough. I'm certainly not going to pay for an extension to solve them for me. That sounds crazy. "Am I a robot? Yes, I am."

Anyways, my post was actually less about captchas and more about Cloudflare's silent consolidation of internet traffic.
Which is the best she'll, fish or zsh?//
Average age is in South Africa is 28 vs US 38 and SA still has higher excess mortality: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-...

Not an expert but comparing countries is hard, especially now that there are other factors such as how many people are vaccinated, boosted etc. I don’t think it’s obvious from one country how another will fare.
Just an extra thought - what would you guess is the overlap between the remaining 30% and the set that need or heed advice like this?
I would be fuming if I were an engineer depending on that, but obviously in a public communication like that, where you are explaining to clients why you charged them erroneously, just pointing a finger and acting mad makes you look like you don't have control of your own software.
Antennas are super fun, they still feel like magic to me every time I see one. In college I took a microwaves theory course where we had to design antennas for some problem sets, and we gave them to some dude in a basement lab who then fabbed them in like an hour for us to test. Kind of mind boggling that with a few tools and handiwork you could produce real electronics with reasonable characteristics!
Can't it be both? I'd certainly expect both things to happen, rather than one or the other.
You need to know what NFT you have, it's all about the contract.

e.g. the EtherFreakers contract is immutable and contains a git commit hash (line 83: https://etherscan.io/address/0x3a275655586a049fe860be867d10c...), so you can prove you have the code which generates your freaker.
Are cars and GPUs not hard to come by in Germany?

For stuff like cream cheese, I really think the news stories are overblown. It's around, there was plenty in the grocery store yesterday.
>The -mabs are often denied because they really are expensive to make.

Source? According to the HHS via Washington Post[1], many doses of monoclonal antibodies have already been made, but only 20% of those distributed have been used, with 80% sitting on a shelf. The article suggests a few reasons for the lack of use, but it does not mention cost to make them.

[1]https://archive.fo/IHK4J
> Good luck telling a 22-year old that they must prioritize spending time with their parents because life's too short. They'll just dismiss you in seconds.

Reason number 100 I’m glad I watched the film Ikiru in my 20s! Helped me realize what’s actually valuable
"which to me makes intuitive sense"

Your intuition is either very good or complete bollocks, or at least worryingly odd 8)

Monty Hall is a really clever problem and worth studying in some depth. Whenever I've encountered it, the rules are always given without ambiguity. Even so, it is very hard to get to the bottom of the probabilities. You can reason your way through it and possibly get to the right answer, unaided. In which case you are far brighter than the followers of a maths column that introduced this problem back in the day. Ah, let's get to the canonical source of knowledge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem (para 1)

Years (>30) ago I ran a sort of Monte Carlo simulation on this thing. It took a while to encode the rules in GWBASIC and luckily I had a copy of Peitgen's (both Beauty and Science of Fractals) and I was able to get roughly or reasonably random numbers to do the simulation by following his algorithm for generating them! After a while of running on my 286 I got a result. Then I spent a few hours fixing bugs. It took a few more iterations until I got an answer that looked right or at least was between 0 and 1 and didn't end up in syntax error 8)

Dr Ian Stewart gives a great description of the problem in one of his books too.
I think by breaking out of loops they meant breaking out of nested loops.
Somebody still needs to pick that trim kit (has to match the other fixtures) and buy it and get it to the location. You can't install mismatching parts in a new $1.5M home like you can doing a repair in your old house. What GP says makes perfect sense to me.
The EU Water Framework directive is organised around watersheds. Unfortunately it gets mired in lovpcal politics and seems to have a hard time making the impact that was intended. https://water.europa.eu/freshwater/europe-freshwater/water-f...
Thank you so much. This is hilarious. It really is in the same vain of being at whit's end of fundamental truths of space and time.

> It may be difficult if you can’t trust anything and the entire concept of happiness is a lie designed by unseen overlords of endless deceptive power.
>Medication that causes type-2 diabetes is news to me.

I believe in the ballpark of 5 to 6 million patients take this kind of medication in the US. If they all eventually got diabetes, it might be up to 15% of cases. However, not everybody lives long enough.
I would say network effects. It’s where the users and devs are.
want to team up? I've got a team (mostly laravel devs idling -- i got distracted unironcally w/ the holidays)...

I'm maybe close to finishing a project of my own for once that's basically a beefed up version of laravel/jetstream that essentially makes it multi-tenant, with a better dashboard, and a built in low-code designer (take any existing partial/component and drag and drop and create new ones from it) ...essentially build custom views from existing building blocks -ones we provide, or your own, or 3rd party...

What I've got currently is jetstream with livewire extended to have a dashboard, with a datatable (laravel-powergrid repurposed) component, a bunch of form components (blade-ui repurposed), and daisyui (tailwindcss themes so you can basically easily retheme/recolor the entire interface nicely).

The goal is maybe make an OS version, and then have a marketplace for 3rd party designer components that can be used, maybe a netflix like subscription. $19.99/month and then maybe 70% is split based on consumed resources...i.e. everytime someone downloads your code to integrate in the drag/drop ui/ux creator you'd get a share in the monthly pool...

Once this is done... obviously make MRR from it, but then use it to build an ERP system for co-ops. I've started so many projects and get stuck w/ when I get to the dashboard design phase, if the dashboard design part was super simple, and just almost WYSIWYG I could focus more on the architecture/backend stuff less on ui, and my ADHD wouldn't destroy me before I launch something...that's the idea anyways....

My emails in my profile if you want to team up...
Interesting. I've hit this bug before, but not often in Python as far as I can remember. I guess if I need a huge list of something, I'm more likely to look to a dict than use a list with normal indexes.
I agree - you get code reviews reviewed by the other team, design documents, and other artifacts. What I was saying was that there’s no formal interview loop like the one when you join the company. You’re not going to grow through LP questions and white boarding code.
The US, UK and Germany all did this,I believe? With Cuba not far behind (theirs was approved July 2019).
History has shown that "defined contribution" scales and works, and "defined benefit" bankrupts institutions. Public school systems in the US all currently work on "defined benefit" funding, under which municipalities are held hostage to pay out more and more in tax funds to school districts. This money would be much better off invested, on a per-student basis, in a quality fund and pay out portable dividends that students could then take to any school district.

I envision that this would solve a lot of problems that currently plague public education in the US. More desirable school districts could maintain their quality by charging more for instruction, so that only the most motivated students would want to invest their time and funds there. Districts could offer more "electives" like art or music by charging for them a la carte, requiring students to "budget" their education funds wisely. Do I want to get through with minimum fuss by taking only the required courses, or do I want to spend more money on fun, but ultimately unremunerative detours?
It's worth making a distinction between running a server and managing it. People don't want the hassle of managing all the complexity of server infrastructure, but they appreciate the benefits of owning your data, and the hardware it is stored on. It's just that right now the centralized solutions that store data centrally are the only ones available for web-scale applications.

However, that doesn't have to be the case. If you look at consumer appliances and mobile computing, you can build managed environments that are physically distributed but partially or fully managed, with the actual code and data as close to the user as possible.
It's because the developers don't want to deal with apples b****.
I found you text very confusing, and then figured out your typo.

> There is a 20% chance that in 7 coin flips there will be >5 heads. By symmetry, 40% chance that there are >=5 heads or >=5 tails.

Your first example should say >=5 heads. (Also, your site says almost 23%, making it just over 45% for either via symmetry)
Thank you for replying. How often do you have a poor night of sleep? Do you ever wake up before it's time to get up and just lay in bed until it's time to get up?
While I agree that he only touched on NFTs and not really anything beyond that, his core point, "decentralized architecture is slower to iterate on, therefore centralized tools will outpace decentralized ones, therefore the market will trend towards use of centralized services" is hard to disagree with. He is only using the NFT market as an example to demonstrate this point.

Even if you don't consider it natural market forces, and you say "people are building their infrastructure on centralized services so as to place themselves in a rent seeking position", you now wind up having to explain how you intend to stop these "bad actors" from not doing the "right thing" and designing their infrastructure against their own interest. How do you align incentives to ensure a decentralized future in this way? Seems like a glaring hole in the entire plan that results in centralized services being in wider use, only bolting on top of a decentralized database that in the end doesn't really matter.

I'm a big fan of cryptocurrency and these decentralized incentive networks. I'd love to see a future where everyone doesn't rely on these centralized services and the UX is low friction. I think it can be done. I like to know that I can use decentralized uncensorable money, and other asset types, and I like the fact that these options are available today, right now, to me and anyone else who values them. But the web3 concept as it's sold by the cryptocurrency enthusiasts doesn't appear to be going that direction, and at this point I think moxie is probably right.
Cool. Nice story. Was expecting something completely different from what I read in the title. To be honest, I expected something weird and awkward. And I got some of it. A random lady game in which she gets tired from reading a long boring book? And then you enter into a weird lucid dream with creatures? sounds fun!

will probably check out the game.
Ohhh!

That's almost as good as typing "wargames" on the BSD command line.

Shall we play a game?
Here is a great opportunity for you to show all of us an alternative way to do it instead of just criticising the article.
Waaay back, early in my career, I was categorically told never to read patents.

IMNAL, but per my understanding, there is a major difference between patent infringement and willful patent infringement. Which is why a soft engg should never read patents, at least not in the areas one may work at some point in their career.
Semantic Versioning does not mean you can update without reading the changelog. Blame here remains with the developer who updated without reading the changelog.
(2016), previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19708982
Not so much DSLs, it's probably something as banal and ancient as

usage = (
'usage: foo [options] filenames...\n'
' -f force concatenation\n'
' -c for convenience\n'
)
print usage

Edit: forgot to add parentheses
Good luck. Unless held hostage in their ecosystem, nobody wants their stablecoin if their fiat services are such a horrorshow of arbitrary behaviour.
Cancer exists too, and it's effective at what it does.
> After refunding everyone, we manually double checked the billing state of each account one by one and sent emails to apologize to each customer one by one; all 475 of them.
Hey replied to someone else in more detail if you want to team up... I'm mostly a laravel dev, but I like vue, remix, golang, etc.... open to new techs too... it's just what i'm familiar with....

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29846766
A day in a entrepreneurs virtual co-working space
>'Woke' _primarily_ means roused from sleep.

>Every other usage is metaphoric drift from that.

The global cultural influence of African Americans is massive, possibly bigger than any other single group in the US, even after centuries of gatekeeping. A notable style trait of Ebonics is purposely butchering English grammar.

Are you claiming you would use the past tense of 'wake' as the present tense (as in 'stay woke') without African Americans popularizing it? This may be the strangest claim I've heard recently.

BTW, redefining established civil rights concepts to undermine the people and movements tied to them is extremely racist...
Aside from being more modern than to suggest a fax, that seems to be exactly what they did?
The value to the average user is the possibility of self-hosting under unusual circumstances. It's like insurance. In a walled garden, when you get canceled there's nothing you can do. In an open Internet when you get canceled you can self-host. 99% of people will never need it but the option is valuable.
For whatever reason I can never remember the syntax of <(command) and end up "rediscovering" it every year. It's seldom used but when it's needed it's rather elegant.

Another somewhat related useful bash feature is using this form:

wc <<< 'a b c'

instead of:

echo 'a b c' | wc
It's a matter of framing. We have different standards for what the null hypothesis should be. My perspective is to assume human behavior as a relatively broad constant until proven otherwise.
They emit very little co2 up front. So little that they trivially reach carbon-negative with a small amount of carbon offsets.
There is a real parallel between this mistake and the or() mistake. As a native English speaker I glossed over both of them at the first reading.
> If you want to talk about compensation like a "fair market" and that there's only 1 Tim Cook so per the rules of supply/demand he can charge a ton for his services

Yes, I agree with this.

> The market to acquire those skills is unfair

So far so good. I agree with this. This is why I try to vote for people who support expanding access to education, for example.

> You cannot base a fair market on the output of an unfair one, they are both unfair. Tim Cook's compensation is unfair.

This is where you lose me. You can't connect the two like that. The unfair path to get to the position of CEO is a separate conversation to what that compensation should be to be considered fair.
Good on you for making an effort and saving a life.

It's incredibly dangerous to try to save drowning people without equipment
The vaccines caused myocarditis at roughly the rate of ~1 in 100,000 in young males. The DoD isn't large enough to have thousands of people with myocarditis at that occurrence rate, even assuming every single case results in "crippled ... (possibly for life)" (which it doesn't).