skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Willful missing of the point. Also not implying that the outcome is anything approaching a good outcome, just a grim Darwinian one, where thinking responding to covid in any way to improve life expectancies is just some sign of weakness. Our further atomization and slide towards a individualist society will leave us living shorter, less collaborative lives where we will try and treat cancer with a juice fast or some nonsense, instead of transforming our fundamental relationship to healthcare away from a not-for-profit one. But one is something a consumer can do, the other requires collective action, and that's only for the hysterical weaklings to dream of, so instead we will just virtue-signal our way towards dying at 30 on a bowflex machine after taking unregulated gym substances or whatever in a failed attempt to steel ourselves against our lack of societal fabric and collective ability to combat anything.
From everything I've read it seems like NixOS would really take off if they had great docs like Rust (both api docs and compiler error messages). Well, that and debugging.
I think that was part of the point. Google made Go and then when OP wanted to use Go, their bosses said “use Java” (and took a month to do something that could be done in a few days)
I guess they care how much they currently care. I don't see why that's relevant when talking about the benefits of decentralization.

"People are too stupid/naive so let's not make anything better for anyone" is essentially what I'm hearing.
Definitely. The amount of telegram spam on Reddit is insane, entire subs are being overrun by them.

Even of the telegram itsself in almost all groups i've been in there is telegram spammers.
One of my kids dug a copy of Pandemic out of the games closet recently and we played a couple of games. I remember wondering why we didn't play it more often when we were done. It's just a really well built game. It's a shame the publisher has started delisting the app version (https://www.pcgamer.com/digital-board-game-pandemic-has-been...).
That's a very disgusting generalization of the average crypto user. So since I've been using cryptocurrency for 11 years now, I am definitely a criminal or drug dealer...
This is probably true in the states where it is insanely cheap to rent cars, but not necessarily everywhere. And even there...

... I run a junker. That is to say a car that will go the dump as soon as it requires any significant expenditure, and the combination saving of not having to finance it, and most years minimal or no repairs, and only needing third party insurance makes it significantly cheaper than renting.
You have rights also; the right to file for bankruptcy.

I had a family member get seriously ill and we racked up a ton of medical debt. There was no way in hell we could have paid it off and continued to live on one salary.

Filed for bankruptcy, and two years later started off with a clean slate. Honestly credit was back into the 700's, bought a new car and a new home two years later.
OVH ?
Textpattern 4.8.8 released: PHP 8.1 support, security fix, and more
Sale in the context I am referring to is comparing to previous prices and future (expected) prices.
The Casteism I See in America
Web3 depends on "crypto" (blockchains). "Crypto" does not depend on Web3.
I like University Challenge but it makes me feel like I'm an idiot. Or maybe it just reveals the fact that I am actually an idiot. I get 4 or 5 answers per show at most. My partner sits and answers about 20% of the questions correctly. She's far cleverer than me. But I'm better at video games so it all evens out.
How do you reconcile the fact that most of Web3 is built on Ethereum which only works because miners ("soon to be" stakers) are rewarded for running the blockchain?
> The ER visit ultimately cost $38.92.

The ER visit ultimately cost $38.92, after:

1. He tried to negotiate the bill: "Dhaval Bhatt made numerous attempts to get the hospital to reduce the charges. He also appealed to UnitedHealthcare to review the charges."

2. The hospital refused: "His efforts failed....the hospital would not adjust the bill."

3. The hospital sent his bill to collections: "While Bhatt was trying to reach the patient advocate by phone, his bill was sent to Medicredit, a collection agency, which began sending him notices and calling him."

4. The hospital forgave the bill due to bad PR: "After KHN [Kaiser Health News] contacted SSM Health, Bhatt received a call from someone who worked on "patient financial experience" issues at the hospital. The hospital agreed to forgive the $820 facility fee."

> The system worked out exactly as it should have.

Could you clarify?
>What problem does web3 or decentralization fix?

In some cases you can align incentives differently than with traditional solutions. For example with DEXs you can spread the profit and work (such as providing liquidity) to participants rather than a central operator.

It's also easier to prove what mechanism of the operation can and cannot be changed as the code is right there and if you are trading you only have to trust them for just the one function call rather than for holding your funds in their hands longer like with traditional exchanges.
I don’t understand the downvotes. It’s obvious that the each party represents differing corporate interests and those interests take precedence over everything. How much did Wall Street suffer for its malfeasance when Obama was President?
They get away with it because people have internalized that right-wing meme about "most litigious" to make it seem like the problem is greedy individuals abusing the system, when it's the opposite: greedy organizations are abusing the system and using right-wing memes to foreclose the legal remedies of individuals (such as via malpractice award limits).
If your complaint about UFS is the lack of journalling, you might be interested in https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/gjournal-desktop/
My hindsight pretty clearly shows I know my stuff!
> Many FreeBSD devs praise launchd, well... systemd is a clone of launchd.

No they are not. Systemd has a way bigger scope then launchd. It's like saying a truck is the same thing as a family car because they both solve the mobility problem.

> FreeBSD jail are sub-optimal compared to systemd-nspawn.

systemd-nspawn isn't a container. For example it doesn't manage resources such as CPU or IO. Again, the scope is way different and in this case there is a whole slew of things systemd-nspawn isn't going to manage for you.

BTW launchd doesn't have a feature like 'systemd-nspawn'.

> Lack of security modules (such as SELinux) -- Edit: I should have written "Lack of good security module"

And how is SELinux a good security module? SELinux with it's design fell in the same pitfall dozens of security systems did before it; ACL-Hell, Role-hell and now with SELinux we also have Label-hell.
But then jury is out on whether there will ever be a bear market (or in other words will the central banks ever allow one). Also whether anything else (real estate, stocks or other assets) can survive it.
I have come to not view a given hospital as an entity. Rather, a hospital is a place (not just in spacetime, but in regulation, and in "the market") where numerous agents are at work in an opaque manner. Some are frantically billing anything that moves. Other agents are losing money on patients who will not or cannot pay and are looking for ways to balance those books so that they can continue to survive (consider the hospitals closing along the border as the "undocumented" end up in the ER). You have ambulance services struggling as people "cleverly" use them as taxis. Pharma slithers in and out, hoping to recoup their costs on nineteen failing drugs with wild sales of the twentieth. All of this occurs in the hospital "zone," and what patients see is a series of bills emitted, like push notifications out of an API.

Making all of this predictable, transparent, and detangled is only step one. Hitting people -- actual humans -- with fraud charges is also a grand idea.
Feel free to hide under a rock avoiding covid while ignoring all the other risks you take everyday.

Hospitals hit capacity during flu seasons - did you wear a mask everyone, keep your kids home, work from home and cancel all travel plans? I’ll bet you didn’t even know they were at capacity.

I’m vaccined, I’m moving on with life.
Sentiment in online chatter correlates with price movement. It becomes a feedback loop. Maybe the criticism is finally overwhelming people's risk functions.
I believe crypto is a great way to decentralize fundraising for startups/growing companies. Removes the middleman's cut from the equation, and you have no terms to agree to.
I've been running a SaaS on Render for about a year now. In past lives, I managed ~$50k/mo of AWS spend for one company and $1k/mo of Heroku spend for another.

Render's great for letting us just focus on the app. There are things I want them to improve, but I'm confident they'll get there eventually.
Can lawyers be replaced with apps?
With the technological development, more and more processes, documents and contracts are being filled using online methods. Do you think this can replace traditional immigration lawyers?
A refreshing and fascinating new perspective. I will set my mind to the questions you have put forth.
Hetzner has a presence in the US (for their Cloud offerings) but not for Dedicated or Colo.

The Colo looks cheap because it does not include any power usage. But by German standards (and at this time) the price Hetzner charges for power consumption can be considered economical.
It first appeared in 2014 but it never gained traction.
Someone of course marketed the term into public discourse last year, maybe it was a51z. It's not like web 2.0 just organically appeared either.
"Every generation thinks they invented sex"
I've run FreeBSD in Hyper-V and VirtualBox with no issues, are you starting from the virtual machine images or the installer images? If you haven't tried the virtual machine images, they're linked from release notes, and 13.0 is available here: https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/VM-IMAGES/13.0-REL...

I set up Hyper-V for the first time last summer, and I seem to recall it just working.
Yes, of course. Sorry. It is an asymptotic result, so the meaning of "distance" is very blurry in my statement.

I was replying to the previous comment which seemed to imply that knowledge.
European and UK Deepfake Regulation Proposals Are Surprisingly Limited
Maybe it's just me but the only time I see "web 3" is when people/articles on HN are complaining about it.
Copyright is a completely seperate part of the constitution than the first amendment. The one legal concept has nothing to do with the other.
> Portable

You immediately notice that the code uses local which POSIX mentions in a table of reserved commands that all produce unspecified results. You can't have local in a POSIX-confirming script even if you write your own function by that name.

While that could still be portable to a few shells, the $'...' Bash extension makes it less so.

If those things are acceptable, why not assume that the shell has Korn-shell-style arrays.
Supreme Court to Take Up Harvard, UNC Affirmative Action Case
They are _objective_ -- I think you're advocating _subjective_ criteria; and, you've shifted the criteria from race to socioeconomic status and geography.

It's one thing to account for socioeconomic differences, as they're not based on immutable, inherent traits. Using race, though, is simply and purely racist.

You won't solve perceived "systemic racism" by instituting actual systemic racism.
Minecraft DDoS Attack
...and then comes BA2.

I'm not very optimistic about that one.
Articles like this are a somber reminder to me that the anatomy I was meant to have was cut off shortly after birth without my consent. Regardless of what the contemporary justifications are, the cutting of which I speak has, throughout history, been justified as pleasure reduction so that men focus more on God or to mark one as a slave. I rue and lament the fact that I miss out on having tissue that is a result of about 100 million years of evolution for reasons entirely out of my control.

Edit: Yes, I have 'confronted' my parents about this and it was devastating to learn that they didn't think twice about what the procedure really entails and had no reason other than "that's what people do". For additional angst, my parents are staunchly against docking the ears of dogs for ethical reasons, asserting that the hygiene 'benefits' are insignificant and that it is wrong to do it because people think it looks better cosmetically.
I highly recommend Dan Olsen's documentary mentioned in the article. You'll have far more situational awareness after watching it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g
Currency is actually a core part of it. The point of web3 is software that can natively move money around. That "money" does not need to be ETH or BTC though, can be tokens pegged to the dollar or gold or oil etc.
Teaching a DC Servo Motor to Act Like a Stepper
https://i.imgur.com/BVoYAo6.png was this a prolonged bear market?
Guix configuration is in Lisp, a well-established language (60 years and still strong). Moreover, Guix package code is written in a clear, declarative style. Nix package definitions, on the other hand, typically embed shell scripts in them.
I think of it this way: If you interpret "rolling stones gather no moss" to mean you've always got to keep pushing forward or you'll become obsolete, choose Linux. If you venerate moss as proof of the stability granted by doing the same thing simply and perfectly, you're probably already using FreeBSD.

After CentOS Stable was cancelled, I migrated a number of our platforms to FreeBSD because it met our needs and I enjoyed working on it. No surprises, nothing breaking, and most importantly, no drama.
That's not money laundering.
Well, then they are also related to a file checksum. I believe some ideas were around ledgers providing a means to authentication, which I don't like at all.

For me it was about decentralized platforms to emancipate people from large social media moguls that have enough info on user behavior that they can influence behavior. Interconnectedness would ensure that the draw of peers using the same network would vanish. At least theoretically.
Not sure how I feel about this. Should a university be more interested in potential ability, or actual present ability? Should a university have accommodations for rehabilitating someone from a bad school system? I'm all for fixing that bad school system somehow, I just don't see that it's the university's responsibility to lower their standards or offer remedial courses. If the student couldn't achieve a good SAT score because of something lacking in their education, what is the university supposed to do to make up for whatever it is that's lacking? Just let them in and if they fail out then too bad?
I didn't say anything about testing. I've never heard of anyone doing emissions testing on tractors after it leaves the factory. I said that the EPA will get mad if someone changes the emissions. The EPA has already hinted that making it possible for random people to violate emissions by changes the software will be a bad thing. Not sure how this will turn out in court and laws, but it is a factor.

When I press people on what parts of their tractors they can't do now it generally comes down to something that would make the tractor not pass emissions if it was tested. Parts and computer test equipment is readily available.
OVH Montreal (Beauharnois) is about 8ms RTT to NYC.
> I don’t need a keyword just to tell me that a variable isn’t modified during its lifetime.

I agree that this isn't very well argued, and variable re-use is a common source of bugs – especially variables that are used several times in a single function for different purposes.

On a similar point, Java has `final` instead of `const` and it does apply to local variables, including to guarantee that a variable is not only not modified, but set exactly once. Something like this:

final String foo;
if (condition) {
foo = someValue();
} else {
foo = otherValue();
}

Omitting any of the assignments leads to a compilation error. It works with complex if conditions with multiple branches, and even with `switch`. If a branch throws an exception, that's also acceptable as the variable is guaranteed not to be used below.

I find it pretty useful; doesn't C++ provide a similar construct?
In practice, everything is indirectly tied to making more money 100x your "investment" in a blink of an eye.

If the entire crypto/defi/nft/gamefi/play2earn etc marketcap was 0 then nobody would even bother with interacting/developing with web3.

In-fact, nobody would even be interested in blockchain tech.
It would be a very non-hacker-y thing to do.
Web3 is distributed DNS. You own a pointer to an asset, and you can sell that pointer to other people.

The DNS was a pretty big deal. There are some people who think that web3 is a pretty big deal as well.
No one has to pay your debts if you die (other than your own estate, of course).

It's important, however, that your heirs understand this and don't say or do anything that can later be construed as having accepted the debt.
Eh I think the adjustment is fair. It’s kind of a pay loophole to negotiate a salary based on one market, then move to a different one. It’s reasonable that companies pay market salaries, rather than having this weird thing where the Googler who moves to Montana makes double what the new hire from Montana is offered.
Most highly valued assets have intrinsic value. The jury isn’t out on real estate surviving a bear market at all.

Currently it’s unknown if crypto has intrinsic value. It certainly has extrinsic value, though.
Every company I worked at (before systemd was mainstream) was running most of their services under supervisord[1] which was started by initv.

I'm not sure initv "worked okay".

[1] http://supervisord.org/
>It's also easier to prove what mechanism of the operation can and cannot be changed as the code is right there.

Prove might be too strong a word to use in this instance.
It’s worth keeping in mind that the old Linux rc scripts where quite mediocre compared to their BSD counterparts. They didn’t even have a dependency mechanism. So, it’s fine to compare sysv Linux scripts to systemd, but please don’t extrapolate that to other systems.
How does one buy an NFT with cash?
Ended up falling back on my old standby of instant mi goreng with bok choy and fried egg on top. Tastier than anything you can make in 15 minutes has any right to be.
doesn't efficiency decrease as you add more rotors?
Simply the space it would naively take in memory, ie. the sum of the sizes of the elements. Which is the same thing as the length of all the elements concatenated.
The problem is that adam smith meant “free from economic rents” when he used the phrase “free market” but now it means “free to charge economic rent”.

Makes it hard to discuss because people use the same phrase to mean completely opposite things.
I think there's something pathological in the I/O subsystems on Linux that make it a bad experience - I've experienced horrible U/I latencies on desktop and server settings with Linux when there was any kind of I/O load, and found FreeBSD to always be a breath of fresh and quick air in this regard.
The MGU-H that is being removed from F1 is based on entirely different technology, and has a much higher grade of waste heat to work with (being that it works with ICE exhaust gases. It's being removed mostly because of cost, though I would be unsurprised to find that it returns in a few years, if F1 stays ICE powered, simply because it is a really good thing for a hybrid car (minimized turbo lag, and it can recover extra electrical power).
Interesting overlap with human experience -- we are homo sapien sapien who knows we'll perish
> The article is paywalled so I can't tell if it's reliable or not. My prior expectation is that it's not reliable, because:

It's reliable, unless you're willing to go so far as to say the NYT would lie about Chinese government procurement documents: "The documents, which were part of a request for bids from contractors, offer a rare glimpse into how China’s vast bureaucracy works to spread propaganda and to sculpt opinion on global social media. They were taken offline after The Times contacted the Chinese government about them."

> a. The NYT has been a prime pusher of conspiracy theories about Russian foreign influence on US elections, none of which turned out to be reliable. Claims of Chinese foreign influence are very similar.

What outlets, specifically, do you think are more reliable on that and other topics?

> b. The media have published a great number of stories on supposed Russian/foreign conspiracies to use "social bots" and on investigation they are invariably relying on third party research of the sort that this paper shows aren't reliable.

On what basis can you personally judge the relative merits of research papers in this area?
Taking this one step further: buy tools to make things that enable experiences.
Bitcoin has "crashed" every year. This is nothing new to the crypto market.
I’ve never met Fred but I’ve read his articles, particularly the Ives
mba series ones multiple times.

Like any intellectual, they push to grow their knowledge and sometimes venture outside their area of competence. They don’t realize they’re living in a relatively healthy area of society surrounded by people with easy access to medical care and without comorbidities.

omnicron is less lethal than the other variants but it still threatens significant lives, takes icu beds and takes an enormous toll on the nurses working with a still steady stream of dying patients.

We all want to move on, and Omnicron looks to be peaking soon— the nature of the beast is omnicron has only affected half the people it will.

I guess I agree there’s reason to be optimistic. But I don’t think now is the time we stop talking about it.
Crypto has famously gone through several bear markets though and a bunch of 80% corrections.
> I've grown to love systemd.

I think I’ve grown to appreciate it, but not love it. It feels like both systems are at opposite ends of a pendulum.

The RC/unit system was very approachable for me. You could explain it easily, and you could get inside of it and mess around very easily. That affordance/discoverability was awesome.

With systemd, simple things are nicely templated. I can find an example and tweak it to achieve what I want. Complicated things get complicated real fast.
The relentless number of anti-crypto and anti-web3 articles on HN is tiring. Nobody is forcing anyone to partake in this new technology. Skepticism is healthy, but criticism without being constructive is not.

There are clearly _some_ novel ideas in the crypto space, even if you think the state of the community today is not healthy. Thousands of teams are exploring ideas on many different fronts (e.g. L1s, L2s, NFTs). Most of them will fail and be forgotten, but there is a chance that _some_ of them will create genuinely novel and interesting products. Isn't that what Hacker News should be about?
> The unwinding of the Covid trade doesn't necessarily correlate with that, but it's a reasonable proposition.

It's certainly an interesting thought, but why would it be true?
Show HN: Mathle – Wordle for Math People
Web2 will still exist if it's so great. I guess we'll see who is right in the end.

I for one just like the progression and the technology, and the empowerment it gives users vs operators. I guess that's lost here.
Every year I travel to the east coast for Christmas and every year except this year I've gotten sick during travel. I'm happy to normalize masks cause I want to wear them on planes to avoid feeling miserable the whole time.