skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ubuntu's numbering scheme is year.month, not major.minor. FreeBSD's major releases are branches of CURRENT. Minor releases are branches from the stable branch.

This chart attempts to draw the relationship in ASCII: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/main/share/misc/...
The barrier to entry got much lower over the past 20 years. And the corporate climate got a lot worse. Poor pay for slave jobs. All part of the plan.
In my experience, a lot of very semantically reasonable and readable code end up with very penalizing SQL at the end, and it's a real challenge to then rewrite the whole into decent queries.

There can be part of an app where a very bad query here and there is not important, but more often than not it creeps up in key parts of the user experience, and it becomes very hard to untangle when it becomes something important enough to thoroughly optimize, but also complex enough that the existent tests only cover a tiny portion of the important use cases (if you're reusing a bunch of query bits, you're probably working with a wide combination of input/outputs). I've seen literally weeks spent on trying to optimize ORM chained subqueries.
Militarized Dolphins Protect Almost a Quarter of the US Nuclear Stockpile
In xcode if you put your mouse over a function it highlights the function, and puts a tooltip with its name next to your mouse. It's sometimes useful to quickly see what a given class contains and see how complicated it is (based on lines of code and number of indentations).

You could argue it's highly situational, but IMO it's nice to always be able to see how complicated your codebase is getting, tech debt is no joke
I wonder if FreeBSD would benefit from some documentation or packaging to make this more of a covered area?

Personally, the times I upgraded a FreeBSD box the process felt very smooth. To the point that I’m trying to understand @rsyncs point and seem to be missing something critical.
On mobile and no time, but I’ll say this now: I agree we should look at death, as that’s not subject to sampling bias.

I disagree we should look at Covid death exclusively - that IS subject to attribution bias. I look (and have, in the last two years) only at all cause mortality.

Israel and the US have both experienced increase in all cause death in 2021 that is not attributed to either Covid or vaccines. What is it then? No one seems to know (cdc classifies it under “not sure”). Very significant excess (40% or so) in young ages in Israel, only in 2021, at times that correlate to big vaccine drives with a 1-2 months shift. No cause data yet.

The RCT was not powered enough to show safety or extreme lack of it. The celebrated safety paper (based on biased Israeli data), Balicer, Lifsitz et al is statistical garbage with a predetermined result (lumps 16-60 age group when it was already known 16-24 myocarditis risk is 1:4000 and at 50 assumed to be 1:100000, for example)

My interpretation is that the rushed approval missed some safety issues. The vaccine is likely worth it for >60 or people with comorbidities. For young healthy people …. The data doesn’t say that, and does say “something is weird”
But while the intelligence flights have transited German airspace—the most direct route between Britain and Ukraine—the weapons flights have been making detours around Germany. Britain’s Defense Ministry played down the detours, confirming that it didn’t seek overflight permission. But that’s the point: Britain didn’t ask because that would have forced Germany to grant or reject the request. Britain believed the decision would be difficult for Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s new government.

Which is interesting because despite the Red-Green "opposition" to the 2003 invasion of Iraq - they gave a full green light to the U.S. to uses its air bases in their country (most principally the EUCOM headquarters in Stuttgart) to conduct all manor of offensive operations in the course of that overtly aggressive and basically criminal undertaking.

On top of a long history of selling arms to any number of despotic regimes (most notably Egypt, Qaddafi's Libya), or regimes slightly less despotic but engaged in long-term offensive operations against their own citizenry (Turkey), sometimes in violation of its own regulations against such transfers.

Which makes its newly discovered vigilance and sense of "principle" in regard to transfers to Ukraine seem quite suspect.
Is that with CX7 and Dual Socket AMD CPU you mentioned awhile ago? ( I remember it was lost in delivery or some supply chain issues )

Or is that Single CPU? Because I thought you try to avoid the complexity of NUMA. Which I remember it was causing issues with first gen Zen.
Did you ever find the Black Spathi Squadron?
It can be very useful when the work you're doing requires jumping between 2-3 different parts of a file. Yes, you can probably do the same with ctrl-f, but for many people it's more intuitive to have the visual representation.
You're thinking of https://hey.com/
Airports are a beautiful supply chain
If one thinks about it, airports are really the most sophisticated supply chain considering the throughput is often emotional, easily confused, and frequently changing. None of these are qualities of product or resource based supply chains
With my workflows, I really don't need that inch of my editor. The minimap is useful because it lets me instantly go anywhere in the file using visual cues. Some minimaps show you details when you hover or click and drag. Anyway, I have a hard time being productive without it.
They'll need midge proof rockets.
Root against scammers on web[0-9], don't root against the tech.
The Gmail app on Android also replaces all the links in your emails with Google tracking links which is not okay.
Why not try starting a company? Here's a good primer: How to spin your scientific research out of a university and into a startup[0]

[0] - https://blog.ycombinator.com/how-to-spin-your-scientific-res...
This is probably worth reading too: https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/aws-compensation-explaine...
when you need money in college, you need money in college :)
mfw its free
> the outcomes of this incentive structure are clear

Yes, I think the incentive argument is certainly the more interesting piece than the notion that there is any sort of coordinated conspiracy, which seems far-fetched.

> At a more macro scale, this means that YC will fade

I'm not sure that this follows. This argument doesn't really apply to new approaches, it only applies to direct competitors of market-dominant darlings, not fresh approaches within a vertical.
Should we cut off people below certain h-index?

What’s yours?
It's an attachment defense response: if your culture is a favored child, and some other culture is mean to it, you must defend your culture however you can. But - crucially - the other culture doesn't have to be mean or actually do anything. Instead it can be a scapegoat for a failing of the child: "We are good and pure here, therefore they are to blame for our troubles." This manifests in incoherent narratives where the enemy is monstrous yet pathetic, strong yet weak, devious yet dumb. Thus, as you see problems pile up with your favored son, you become increasingly infuriated at the outsiders who are to blame, and seek justice against these obvious evils.

Swap culture for race, creed, wealth, sexuality and so on and you get all the -isms and -phobias in the world. People who are at ease with the status quo can disengage with their phobias, even if they still lurk in the background. We all have a few, and our emotions try very hard not to let us see our bias up close.

As well, the parent-child roles are flexible but recurring, and scale up and down in strange ways: if we beg our government to do more for us, we are the children. If you observe a celebrity being childish on Twitter, the defenders of that celebrity are acting as parents.

For a deeper dive philosophical investigation, see Heather Marsh: The Creation of Me, Them and Us.
Their ecosystem seems very web-centric.
I work like you, and my advice would be to not get super attached to a particular idea, or it can cause tunnel vision and frustration at how slow the world is to adopt your insight, be patient.

Good ideas are relatively common, what is less common is an environment where you can change the world with an idea, that is what you are searching for now.

Apply for work at some corporate research lab for the job security and leverage your new insights to solve some cool problems.
From dbplyr experience, folks want to be able to do stuff like `across(which(is.numeric), mean)`, which you can't do currently because dplyr doesn't know the column types (although it does maintain a list of the column names).
The building that REI occupies in SoHo has some of the nicest penthouses on top. It's also a gorgeous building that costs a pretty penny. REI, like a lot of others in that area, use the store as a billboard to keep it top of mind. They won't last much longer there, and their employees efforts would be better spent looking for work elsewhere.

Link - https://www.6sqft.com/two-puck-building-penthouses-list-for-...
There is a crucial difference between decentralized and equitable. A decentralized blockchain needs some mechanism to guarantee perpetual operation in a trustless environment, like requiring expensive computations (proof of work) or showing you have "skin in the game" (proof of stake) in order to add transactions to the shared ledger. If you don't have such a mechanism, there's no way to tell valid from invalid transactions, and the blockchain falls apart at the seams.

What it sounds like you are suggesting is that cryptocurrencies should be equitable: everyone should have the same rights to own part of the blockchain. This isn't necessary for a decentralized, trustless, distributed transaction ledger, nor is it likely ideal. What would be the value or utility of a ledger which absolutely anyone could add to at anytime for any reason? You would need to solve 2 problems: 1) distributing the tokens fairly and evenly among every person living and yet to live, and 2) distributing henceforth unfathomably performant supercomputers to all of these token-holders-jus-sanguinis. Any analysis of either of these would very quickly approach insurmountable problems.

There are fundamental constraints to computers and computer networks that have to be addressed in order for these technologies to exist. They preclude any sort of utopian currency of heaven where everyone wins, just by the nature of our physical universe and today's understanding of computation.
Sorry I should have explained that statement more -- that's the extreme case of the you-must-be-your-own-sysadmin, basically it represents an increase in ramp up time/time cost for everyone who is NOT in an organization. I was going with a bit of a universalist stance there, but it's overblown, you're right.

That said, even having everyone on the ops team (let's say it's 1 or 2 people) be good sysadmins is still non-trivial effort. It takes time and more likely some misconfigurations and mistakes -- and that talent must be paid for (people are usually more expensive than servers).

I do want to make it clear that I agree with all your points, I immensely enjoy learning it as well! For many companies it seems like it's still reasonable to pay $xxxx a month early on while finding product market fit (often offset by free credits), and lean in to all the dev talent that already knows how to do simple stuff on AWS. Much more a VC style playbook, but it'll probably be what people do till it gets prohibitively expensive.
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> The reality… if you stand in their way, they will do more than compete with you head on. Flushed face They will use every power move imaginable. Blocking you from capital, media, talent. And funding competitors just to get back at you.

Pretty sure this is how business is done. I don't really get people getting into business and then complaining when it gets real. You think Stripe got to be a billion-dollar company by the power of rainbows and unicorns?

The idea that you need to reach top of HN to be relevant in SV is also a bit silly. Hell, my blog has reached top-10 a handful of times and I've never seen these "millions of views."
Material UI markup code generator
I've been building a material UI code generator. Essentially you upload a design from something like figma, and then the output is the react markup. I'm wondering who would use this, and if we need to add input support for sketches, and also wireframes, opposed to just high fidelity designs. TIA any feedback is appreciated.
Covid alarmists seem to be on some kind of vaccine vendetta.

They took the vaccine, so must everyone else, science be damned, seems to be their logic.

Some even post their vaccination cards, as if it’s some kind of scientific evidence. Absolutely crazy.
I really have a hard time seeing semantic HTML catching on outside of big business where it’s audited and required for purchases.

First modern CSS destroyed semantic styling. Selectors are written using mostly class names and there is not consistency between article or header from one site to the next. Even buttons are different. Even on a single page there are probably instances where styling by element is undesirable.

Second, while there are plenty of tools out there to tell you that you have a11y errors, few developers see direct benefit to using semantic elements. Screen readers are difficult to use if you have spent a lifetime as a visual user and keyboard shortcuts still don’t seem to be there. Screen reader provide all sorts of nav options based on semantics, but visual mode users are usually stuck with Tab and maybe Arrows. Until visual users can clearly benefit from semantics, it will always be second class.

Third, it’s confusing. Webdev is already a pile of gotchas and obtuse footguns. Semantic HTML is another set of knowledge that developers need to memorize and only get feedback about when using analysis plugins. You can test when a button does or does not work, but it’s harder to test if your semantic HTML is correct.
I came across it somewhat later in my life (early 20s maybe, when it was just the commercial version of Star Control II?) and enjoyed the hell out of it then, and replayed it again 7-10 years later and still enjoyed it. I started a replay of it a year or so ago (late 30s). I still haven't finished that playthrough, but still think it's a great game, and will certainly get back to it when I have some more time on my hands.
I don't really have an opinion on this but as a 2x YC founder, two assumptions are wrong

1. There are dozens of Stripe competitors funded by YC and new ones get accepted every batch from what I've seen.

2. VCs will ghost you last minute no matter who you are.

Edit: You can see public YC companies here https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/?industry=Payments
I am not intimately familiar with the staking terms on Coinbase, but from what I recall, you should be able to withdraw your ETH at any time and receive it in at most a few days. If it has a lockup period, those terms would be very clearly stated, and you would eventually get your original investment back plus rewards according to the terms.
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Same, the Makapu‘u lighthouse on Oahu, Hawaii, seems to be missing.
If you want to believe my opinion is something other than the one I'm explicitly stating, that is a very strange decision.

For the record: I'm not sure how much more clear I can be, but I do not feel that it takes away from his achievements whatsoever. I made my statement in reply to another poster who seemed to have the impression that this level of opportunity was the norm in America. That was the full extent of my "purpose."
> The printing press changed the world but it was huge expensive hardware and if you had one it meant you were a major industry player and therefore an easy target for copyright enforcement.

I do suspect you are thinking about the industrial revolution, which came centuries later. Like 1760+

The Gutenberg press was something that relatively poor could produce, over time, in pieces with basic carpentry and blacksmithing (if you had the money), in the mid 1400s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLctAw4JZXE

You could make it even cheaper with purely wooden components (no double sided, sorry), which would require routine repair and was generally inefficient. Paper had been around since before the Egyptians but started becoming commonly understood and circulated in Germany around this time. It was difficult to obtain and make. Interestingly enough, you could use cloth/leather or another material instead. Gutenberg was relatively well funded once he started kicking out Bibles so he didn't think about these things, as he really just wanted nice Bibles produced. Innovative stop-gaps were part of how it's notoriety spread so rapidly. That left the traditional oil-based ink which could reasonably be made of anything (oil, sap, soot, filth, etc) with effort and a suitable substrate.

Printing was manual before, which was slow and expensive. Within a century of "the press", the ability to read was nearly ubiquitous. This jump-started the Enlightenment period.
I have underlying concerns about forks in that it can be easy to fork and then hard to maintain - primarily because the level of knowledge required to fork a project is (or can be) much lower than that required to actually improve it, or fix it, or evolve it.

- What have they changed to keep fees lower? Is it just a factor of fewer users (Ethereum's gas fees are a result of the adoption of Ethereum, essentially it's a victim of its own success)

- Is it remaining proof of work? Will it also eventually need to transition to PoS if and when it reaches Ethereum-level popularity / congestion?

- Is it implementing sharding?

- How will it compete with Ethereum's fairly significant decentralisation? (one of the aspects of Ethereum that makes it an unlikely target of the SEC)

Fundamentally, how intimately do Pulsechain's developers understand Ethereum in order to make a better version?

(I've heard the 'scam' and Hex used together frequently, although admittedly that's on Reddit and Youtube, and in the cryptocurrency-sphere pretty much every project gets used together frequently with the word 'scam' - to such an extent that "assume scam" is probably sage advice).
Agora/Daily/Twilio video calling is too expensive for B2C software
Hey HN, some college friends and I spent the last couple of years building hyperbeam.com, and found that audio/video calling SDKs like Agora/Daily/Twilio are outrageously pricey for products with tons of users e.g. much of B2C software.

About a year ago we decided to add video calling to Hyperbeam, but even with “volume discounts” from Agora/Daily/Twilio we still needed to pay >$50k a month based on our expected audio/video calling volume (~150k monthly active users). So we threw together a simple full-mesh P2P chat which we use to this day, although it’s far from ideal.

At this point, we’re seriously considering just building our own audio/video calling API tailored for B2C, and giving it to companies that face the same issue for a fraction of what Agora charges. I threw together this Webflow landing page in a day to gauge interest.

I’d love to know if any of you have found an affordable solution for audio/video calling, or if you decided to build everything in-house. If we did build this out, would any of you be interested?

Thanks!
It's a bit pricey.
> Pretty sure this is how business is done.

FYI - It's illegal to do what Bolt founder tweeted. Companies are allowed to create and be at a monopoly but not kick others trying to break it.

Not sure how this ever gets proven..
My favorite part of all this is that Giamatti’s character actually loves Merlot, it’s just that he’s adverse to drinking it because it reminds him of his ex-Wife. The Chateau Petrus that the two had saved (that he ultimately drinks out of a fast food cup at the end) is a 100% Merlot wine. Your average movie-goer and wine-drinker doesn’t know that context, and so all they remember is “I am not drinking any f*cking Merlot!”

[Edit: others were kind enough to remind me that the saved wine is actually Cheval Blanc, a 55-40-5 Cab Franc, Merlot, and Cab Sauv blend. It’s been awhile since I’ve thought out talked about this movie.]
> It's not a renaming

The title of the post is literally "The great renaming: what happened to Eth2?"

I get what's happening, my question was about the success of the renaming process.
I'll say it for you: It's a scam.
Agreed. Either that poster lives in an extremely rural area, where cheap land and homes are bountiful, or he/she is full of shit.
I mean, I'm familiar with the Booker T. Washington vs. W.E.B. DuBois thing; I'm just saying, the electoral college didn't help Black people just because Democrats benefited from it when they held more racist rural states. The Democratic part of the 1940s and 50s isn't the Democratic party of today. The point here seems pretty simple?
I played it at age 38 and it was great because of how it used every science fiction trope and voice acting effect that it could, to characterize all the aliens. All the plot twists and hints made sense and I don't think I ever consulted a guide.
I can't make sense of this. Is it simply government and pharma teaming up to grab as much money and power as possible before the show is over?

Covid is clearly coming to an end.

The UK and Ireland just lifted all restrictions. [0] [1]

The East Coast is over the hump. [2]

School kids are probably last on the long list of cohorts that should be getting a vaccine mandate. [3]

Further, the vaccine isn't sterilizing. It's 2 strains behind. How does this mandate parse with an open ended definition of "fully vaccinated"?

> Under the bill, the California Department of Public Health could mandate vaccines in the future without requiring the state to offer personal belief exemptions, a move that would make it easier to add COVID-19 boosters or other immunizations for students without a lengthy legislative process.

This is flat out absurd.

[0] https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/uk-lifts-covid-restr...

[1] https://consent.yahoo.com/v2/collectConsent?sessionId=1_cc-s...

[2] https://www.mwra.com/biobot/biobotdata.htm

[3] https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Provisional-COVID-19-Deaths-by-Sex...
>And doing 400Gb/s of encrypted streaming from one box is quite an accomplishment.

It is amazing. I keep following their work from 100Gbps, 200Gbps, 400Gbps and now looks like 700Gb/s [1]...... woah

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30061718
Not the commenter but companies like Digital Ocean has a veritable treasure trove of material that's well put together:

- https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials

- https://community.hetzner.com/tutorials

For example:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/ufw-essenti...

Learning how all these things fit together, when to use what, etc is much harder of course. Wisdom like that often requires time, effort and persistence.
(2021)

Lots of discussion a year ago with input from the creator:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25820533
The site is missing lighthouses all up and down the eastern US seaboard, but perhaps they'll take a few pull requests.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_St._George_Light

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Simons_Island_Light

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lighthouses_in_Florida
> Companies are allowed to create and be at a monopoly but not kick others trying to break it.

Claiming that Stripe is a monopoly is pure fiction. Breslow himself admits there are competitors. We're also conveniently forgetting that Bolt just raised $355M at an $11B valuation, who am I supposed to feel sorry for again?
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