skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like this when I spend too much time in front of a screen. I just go outside and walk. Even 15 minutes helps. After two weeks, I miss going outside if I don't do it. These days, I walk closer to 60-75 minutes daily.
Is anyone aware of any studies which looked into the impact/correlation of global poverty as a result of moving to fiat currency away from a gold standard?

I know even bringing this up is unpopular but I can't think of a bigger elephant in the room, if there is one I'd like to know.
Yes! Apart from the standard "fastest" and "shortest" options and your suggestion, I'd also love:

* Scenic routes (i.e. navigate as far away from buildings and as close as possible to water, forest)

* Least polluting routes (i.e. least amount of traffic lights, most time spent in the optimal "speed vs. pollution" of your car)
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IMF asks El Salvador to drop Bitcoin, more countries clamp down
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> In the old times, you could only host content if you were really good with the technology. The people who had websites were people who knew how to set up and run a web server, and to compose the HTML content that was being served.

I don't see what's particularly difficult with hosting a static or mostly-static site, and why you'd have to be really good with it (many early content creators weren't). With Apache shared hosting (where your domain, certificates/acme, and basic htaccess are setup for you), this is a matter of putting a couple of HTML and optional CSS files into your document root via ftp/sftp back in the day, or scp, or WebDAV. And HTML is really not that complex a format (or at least used to be before responsive/mobile web), being based on SGML which was designed as structured text format that can be created with a plain text editor in a way that's being taught in secondary school for decades now, and tips available in magazines etc.
I'm not sure that ruling really has the impact you say it does here. That ruling held that of the 8,000 plaintiffs in the class action suit, only 1,853 had standing because their incorrect credit reports were actually sent to businesses. The remaining 6,332 did not have standing because although their files were incorrect, this incorrect information was never transmitted to anyone (I am getting this from scotusblog coverage). I wouldn't call this a very, very high bar to clear.
of course i meant 'not see'
Improved air quality in first lockdown saved 800 lives in Europe, says study
Is anyone else considering using DyanmoDB for event sourcing instead of Kafka? We have a project at work where we store events into an event table. We then had a stream that invokes a distributor lambda. The distributor lambda lookups subscribers to a given event type. For each subscriber for a given event, we place a copy of the event to a SQS queue for the event subscriber. Each subscriber lambda can process events from its own queue. If processing fails, each subscriber will retry processing a configured number of times before moving the failed event to a dead letter queue.

This approach has been working well for us without the need of Kafka with our serverless apps. I was curious if anyone is doing something similar.
the atmosphere of the game was incredible
> don't waste a second of your life or you'll fall behind

I never said that. And I agree with what you're saying; I do not have the mentality you described.
I love systemd both for it's actually functionality and the fact that it's almost like the flagship of a whole movement to make Linux more consistent and integrated and less of a pile o scripts.

But for some reason, the authors occasionally say something that feels completely out of place for the project. They fix important stuff eventually, but sometimes it gets confusing to watch them discuss it.

The "Invalid username runs a service as root" bug is a good example of something that they didn't seem to take seriously. But it's fixed now.

Also, PulseAudio. Pulse is good. It's not that great and was deployed before it's ready on some distros. The whole Pulse/Jack split that is only just now being fixed was annoying.

Some people might still judge Poettering based on 10yo bugs in Pulse rollout?
«bad flu» -> «swine flu»
Bring yourself to do something first, then the energy and motivation comes.

As for what, something novel. Go someplace you haven't been, read something you haven't read, do something you haven't done.
Text based job interviews?

How does this industry continue to come up with such innovative new ways to deeply suck at recruiting?

The “text based interview” is one of the worst ideas I’ve ever heard.

Of course everyone has some grand justification for their bad ideas so I wonder how this terrible idea is justified.

Maybe it’s April 1?

If a company proposes a “text based interview”, id suggest typing “I’m not interested in your company thanks”, and moving on.
Nope. I'll vote how I feel like voting. You may do likewise :)

If a single downvote matters, it doesn't matter
Lots of good advise here, one more thing: Check your Vitamin D level.

A friend of mine did try to get herself out. Then a psychiatrist. She checked the Vitamin D. Vitamin D was added. "Rut" was solved after about 2 weeks.
Just a fun question: is there a comparison that compares how well a simple PostgreSQL-based queue[0] fares against these specialized solutions?

[0] https://blog.crunchydata.com/blog/message-queuing-using-nati...
Just install a window and some valves for easy replacement. Maybe you could even hot swap pig hearts.
True, but many of the answers this time are compelling, interesting, and unique to this thread and moment.
> I simply got sick of people incessantly asking "is this still up to date?"

I don't know what or where 'your stuff' is - but isn't that a fair question for a lot of topics? Writing about data structures or political protests might be valid for decades but a lot of technical writing about languages, platforms, even products and companies can age very quickly and unlike news or culture might be of less interest to people in the future.

Many people find technical writings whilst searching google for a solution to a problem. I love the articles that have a date and version of whatever platform something is relevant for (even better when someone adds a "this was written for version X.Y things have changed in version X.Z see the doc at..." etc)
To be fair if the devices bricked themselves people would start to value update lufetime even more and sales of devices with short support would drop like a rock.
I treat Redis a bit like I treat PostgreSQL.

It's what I use when I don't know what I should use.

(In fact these days I might even be tempted to start with a simple PostgreSQL based queue and only swap to Redis later if it becomes clear that's what's needed).

I guess a better approach might be to carefully analyse requirements up front but if those requirements aren't known at the time you start the project it's useful just to get you going.
Could you share an example of a YouTube video that does not have an upload date?

I watch quite a lot of YouTube and very frequently look up the date that videos were uploaded. I've never found this information to be missing.
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There are 40 billion billions of Black Holes in the Universe
"systems are tested in realistic environments and failures are rigorously studied and the results are fed back into the design of the next iteration of the system. This is not incompatible with formal verification, but it’s also not a point of view that comes out very often in the verification literature."

Yes, indeed. Life is infinite like the Sierpiński triangle, and at some point we deem the risks so small to fall within engineering tolerances. If only the code review engineers checking each change were as forgiving as the auditors.

Startups know this (business SWOT analysis). Hacker News knows this (karma). Some people like Elon Musk know this very well, so much that SpaceX is proud of their failures.

Humility is the source of integrity.
The thing that annoys me about most routing solutions is that they do not allow me to choose between fastest and most economical routes and they don't allow me to disallow classes of road.

For instance Tesla's in car routing is pretty good for getting somewhere quickly so long as all the roads alog the way are of good quality. But if there is a single lane country road that cuts a few minutes off a journey it will quite happily send me down it regardless of how suitable it is for a larger than average car with only 13 cm of ground clearance (Model S).

I can tell it not to use motorways (perhaps because I want a scenic route?) and ferries (because they are expensive) but I can't tell it to avoid unmetalled roads.

Most of the others that I have tried aren't much better.
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Vitamin D Affects Every Organ and Tissue
I dont understand why almost nobody wants to understand the difference between message brokers and a distributed log and its implications.
Punish how? The problem is that there are no alternatives to those services.
Yes, and even worse; I have a strong suspicion some websites (automatically) update the date in titles and other places.

Especially "best [product] in [year]" articles and lists, they somehow always are about the current year, even in early January, and even if they are only about outdated things..

The crap dirty tricks SEO content does seem to work quite well atm. It's probably pretty hard to determine whether something is relevant or not.
Good question.

Maybe I've found some good services or products on Hacker News I wouldn't have found otherwise.

But there is a lot of noise for not very much good stuff.

Even though the internet is 20+ years old now, I still find it incredibly bad a recommending stuff I'm actually interested in.
Regulations should be transparent, with link to original cases and deduction process documented. We are not telepaths.
Twitter reports record number of takedown requests from governments
I appreciate that they have made globally deploying a rails app, Postgresdb, cdn, network routing fast and easy. There is always lot of finicky configuration issues and it takes a lot of time to get this all set up right. Like lots of IaaS, they are making something hard easier. They are not, though, removing the need to build your app to this paradigm. The conventions and restrictions you need to follow to realize the benefits remain and are similar to what you’d have to do yourself. So they’ve cleaned up lots of application and deployment gunk, but the app engineering work remains. This is progress. Very nice.
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The downside to this is that mass homeownership wasn't a thing at all.

There was a huge class divide between the property owners who could accumulate wealth and those renting houses or tenement flats who were unlikely to ever be able to purchase their own property.

Sadly, the insane UK housing market is causing such a divide to return.
I've used DDG as my primary search engine for a couple of years but after a promising start it became just as useless as Google.

I still used it since I liked their stance on privacy but after discovering Kagi I have abandoned both of them.

(And even on Kagi I have to use doublequotes all the time because it defaults to second guessing me all the time. Still unlike the others it works with enough fiddling.)
Why do they always go for the eyes?!
What I want to say, there is poverty and poverty.

It is very different being poor in functioning community of similarly poor people, where people barther among themselves and being poor in developed country, where you are isolated from wide society or living in society with widespread drug/alcohol/mental illness problems in debt and no way out.

All the fantasy of cotagecore, simple life, #vanlife, home steading is basically trying to get into former type of being poor: not being stressed by work that much, having little societal asspiration, living with other similary minded people (even if that means watching each other posts on social media) and such.
By contrast, another Springer journal, Scientific Reports, charges about $2000 per article… and publishes about 23,000 articles per year. So it’s not all down to high fixed costs. It’s rent-seeking.
That is really awesome code that you wrote there. Thank you for sharing.
Sure, but if the employee brings along the architecture documents or the source code, that's theft. What's alleged here is that a CHinese company is exfiltrating actual PCB designs via PnP machine malware.
I think the thing is, for most people they won't need to do the global distribution that Fly.io is pioneering, what they want is a better cheaper Heroku. Fly.io is already exactly that too.

For the 1% of people who do need that global distribution, what Fly.io have built is incredible.

I currently host on Heroku and plan to switch to Fly.io once they have an equivalent to Heroku Postgres's WAL point in time restore.
I believe google maps now automatically factors in carbon footprint when suggesting routes now [0]

Time will always be a nice easy to quantify way of comparing routes but as someone who generally doesn't have to get places quickly I'll usually prioritise a more pleasant journey over the shortest one - so many (personal) ways to define that and not so easy to quantify!

Personally I've had some great drives where google maps has a 'x mins longer' route show up that I can see goes down some twisty country road vs the boring main road.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/oct/06/google-ma...
Google has a pretty big recency bias. From a content producer-perspective it makes sense, if you put up new content you want to see traffic to that content. From a consumer perspective it's questionable at best. Given the Lindy-effect, odds are the quality of old content is higher than average.

I also do kinda think we should be thinking more about what legacy we leave than we presently do. HTML has some serious problems with that regard, especially in terms of link rot, and especially now that we treat it as a way to build platforms. Archive.org is great and all, but is it enough? How will SPAs fare when the backend server is down in 30 years? How much value will be lost?
HN has been a net positive for me, as it does keep me informed of new trends in our industry. It does come with a startup bias, but as long as you don't take the culture here as representative of the entire industry, there is good information and discussion.

That being said, it is possible that it can be addictive for a specific person. My usage of HN is a daily reading session each morning, maybe add a comment or two, and maybe glance again later when taking a break from other things. If you find yourself on this site all day, or fretting over how your comments are doing, there could be a problem.
There issues if you run with mirroring. It's advised that you use quorum queues here:

https://www.cloudamqp.com/blog/reasons-you-should-switch-to-...

However many people using Rabbit are using it with Celery which doesn't work with quorum queues - so people learn to expect performance issues.
What do they do with them? Are there criminal or civil cases with those watermarks? In the US courts I believe those secret watermarks would be made public at trial, so what’s the point?
It's a way to potentially prolong a terminally ill patients life with an experimental technique, potentially advancing medical science in doing so. I fail to see why this should be cast in a negative light.
Especially if you want one-to-many connections, exactly once delivery and push/ pull consumers, it is worth checking out nats [0, 1]. It is very performant. There are clients for Javascript, Python, Rust and Go [2].
(I am not affiliated with them)

[0] https://nats.io/
[1] https://github.com/nats-io/nats-server
[2] https://nats.io/download/#nats-clients
It's a valid question, you don't have to respond to them but at least if the date is there the user themselves can have a fighting chance at looking up what's changed since then.

It's entirely possible a tutorial made for software 3 months ago or something might have outdated information if there was a new, backwards incompatible release, or that a news article might be missing information that was revealed only a few days ago, etc.
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Even more frustrating than this are the sites which automatically append the current year to their article titles.

"Best CMS frameworks (2022)", for example, and yet the content is out of date.
And yesterday the NY Times had an article about the developed world hiring away all the nurses from the developing world. There one must feel for the administrators, but I have a hard time blaming the nurses.
To verify that a watermark removal method works:

1. Download the content with N accounts, preferably from different networks.

2. Run your watermark removal tool on each downloaded data independently.

3. Check if the processed outputs are bit-for-bit identical.

Have fun writing watermark removal tools.
I thought he got $80 mio in Uber shares some years ago. In Ho Chi Minh City - the capital of his home country - you can buy a good freshly cooked lunch like Com Suon Op La (steak with egg, rice and fresh vegetables) for $0.50

So for everyday living, $80mio in Vietnam is going to feel like $8bio in the US (because steak in a restaurant is $50 instead of $0.5 for a 100x multiplier in living costs).
I just can’t take it seriously when the author presents such falsehoods as Western “vaccine greed”.

(Both Moderna and Pfizer’s have made vaccines available at cost and promised not to go after parent infringement for the duration of the pandemic. It of course also ignores vaccines from other countries such as the Russian Sputnik vaccine.)

As for western countries buying five dosages for every citizen?

THAT IS THE WHOLE POINT OF GOVERNMENT IN GENERAL: To look after your citizens.

Likewise the emotional but intellectually vapid mentioning of food surplus in the US.

What exactly is the alternative? Ship food we’re about to throw out to the third world? How is it supposed to survive a 3 week trip on a container ship? What would the effect be on agriculture in the receiving countries? (Spoiler: Not good!)

Or are Americans perhaps supposed to hand out food for free in other countries? (Oh wait! That’s already being done! Even to hostile countries like North Korea)

Likewise the emotional argument about empty apartments in NYC, that completely ignores that homelessness is a complex problem, that often involves addiction, mental illness, antisocial behavior and is only rarely solved by just handing out free apartments.
I am slowly starting to consider that on the internet NOTHING is relevant, and EVERYTHING is manipulated.
I don’t think there is any scheme that works against all steganography, outside of maybe rewriting the whole document “in your own words.”
why would you submit a link with tracking parameter?
See my answer next to your.

My experience too is that DDG is slightly different but just as useless as Google.

Use Kagi (or even marginalia although that might take some getting used to if you didn't use engines before Google.)

Use quoted strings for what you want exact matches for. Terminate quotes before terms you are usure about and maybe even remove them - in particular if it is local variable names, dates, folder paths etc.

Sometimes this work in DDG to but do yourself a favour and test out Kagi.

(No, I'm not paid to write this but I can admit I have been heavily encouraged by Google over the last decade and Ddg over the last three years to write about how painfully broken they are.)
"Procrastination driven development" maybe?
I often use before:YYYY-MM-DD and after:YYYY-MM-DD keywords in google search, and some websites mess with that data so that their content looks like it was created today when it obviously wasn't.
Assuming your goal is actually to publish your written words online and not to play with new tech:

Option #1: put your previous blog back online. Colocated hosting is as cheap as it has always been and what you had is very likely to still work (modulo 10 years of security upgrades ;-)).

Option #2: unless you already have a long backlog, a bit of HTML and CSS is _really_ all you need to get your first handful of posts out.
Trickbot now try to crash researcher PCs to stop reverse engineering attempts
It’s very clear Google has censorship and biases. If you search for some subjects you will get vague unrelated results, but legitimate results from say Bing. An example of this is anything related to the sex industry.

I find this with coronavirus as well.
National identity predicts support for public health measures during pandemic
It's never "proven science," the theory just has more experimental support.
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Clearly not in Europe or India or China. First world problems, I guess.
Could someone explain, all hardware based around FIDO2 and U2F standards is equally compatible with software right? Put another way, Yubikey, Solokeys and others based on those standard should be equally compatible with gmail, SSH, VeraCrypt, sudo etc. and so interchangeable, is that correct?

It all appears to be pretty far from being plug and play, often seeming to require a lot of additional software/modules to get specific things working. Is this because the standards don't go far enough or am I just way off the mark?
I agree with you that most westerners who travel to SE Asia will still be considered as "expats" by the locals.

What I meant to say is that those people who the locals consider not "expat" anymore, but "backpacker" instead, must really have fallen low.
cycle.travel seems lovely!
Is that a recent push? I used to work for a company producing a diagnostic test, and it was being regulated as you said.

But what is the issue with that? Failures in diagnosis kill people very regularly. It should be regulated.
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Doesn't the T420 lack USB 3 though? I had a T430 and even with the "good" 900p screen it wasn't very good with awful viewing angles. I did recently pick up a cheap W520, same keyboard as the T420, USB 3, an actually decent 1080p screen and a quad core CPU plus a 32GB RAM ceiling. It is a chonker though.
Those 6250 samples were mostly from 2020, and the positive samples were almost entirely late 2020. Only one of the positives was from December 2019.
Fly is compelling enough to use without all the global deployment options they offer[1] but it's assuring to know if you ever do need to deploy globally, they can support that better than most.

[1] - https://github.com/superfly/fly-ruby
I think that a lot of people don't do global distribution by default, and thus miss out of many customers from countries that aren't close to one of their datacentres. But they don't realise this (how can they - they have no data on what might be) and thus think that they don't "need" global distribution because in their current world, they're fine.
When I write, I put a great deal of thought into how to arrange sentences for maximum clarity or effectiveness. I would not appreciate an eBook service messing with that, even if the meaning was unchanged.

In the most extreme case, imagine if this was a book of poetry.
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That's extremely US-centric. Nearly everyone in Europe gets 20+ paid days a year, including minimum wage workers and it's common to use at least two of those weeks to go somewhere that's not in the region that you live in.